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Candy- Spray
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I have chosen the word spray and making it into a skate brand,ill be targeting teenagers,who skate old school styles.
Gender:MALE 15-19
Directed At: Generation Y
Style: rough and ruged street dirty styles
Logo: Either A spray Can with drips,or a Spray can Cap,or a paint drip.
Insperation: The 70's,Punk,Old School,Roughness,Dogtown.
Colours:nothing to bright and colourfull,simple shades,black and whites.
Directed At: Generation Y
Style: rough and ruged street dirty styles
Logo: Either A spray Can with drips,or a Spray can Cap,or a paint drip.
Insperation: The 70's,Punk,Old School,Roughness,Dogtown.
Colours:nothing to bright and colourfull,simple shades,black and whites.
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Saturday, May 1, 2010
ANTACID Extreme sports snowboaring brand
Antacid Is an extreme sports snow boarding brand. We are a bunch of adrenalin junkies who love to get out into nature and have loads of fun. We have a great respect and love for the world we live and play in and seek to push ourselves to new limits in our sport without damaging or causing destruction in any way to the environment as we go.
As the sport of snow boarding has grown in popularity in recent years we have been saddened to see that boarding is often stereotyped as a rebellious and thoughtless subculture. We have noticed a growing disrespect by young people towards the environment, other skiers and boarders and increase in 'slope rage' (intimidation and bullying on the slopes). We have also noted that this modeling by older snowboarders is having a negative effect on young upcoming snow boarders.
With all this in mind the team at ANTACID have decided to release a new range of snow boarding gear targeted at 8-13 year old boys and girls. The banding of this new rang will be fun and light hearted but also have an educational component attached to it. The values of fun, love and respect for the environment and each other will be the focus of this educational component.
Target Market
8-13 year old Boys and girls.
Focus on winter clothing but also clothing such as t-shirts and shorts that can be worn in all seasons
Sub culture
Young Snowboarders
Environmental issues
Global warming, littering, saving heritage areas
Snow/ Snow flakes
Colour Pallet
Colour rang varies depending on clothing item
Political or social awareness issues to address:
Antacid means 'a substance that exerts some cause or effect'. The idea behind this is working together we can cause and effect change in our world and make a difference. Also ants are small but together they do big things. Together we can make a difference in the world around us.
Fair trade and enviro friendly fibres etc
Style Influences/Inspiring themes:
Pictoplasma/ Manga animation
Interactive Web site with games characters and info about the environment etc
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I just saw my first ever LIVE PBA game ever. And it was awesome! Thanks to my friend, Lanie, for giving me free tickets.
After watching Petron team lose, we headed over to Dillingers to cap off the work week.
I saw people I haven't seen for quite some time and some of them, it was my first time to talk to them even though I've met them before.
Lanie, Peachy and I ended the night at Whistlestop.
Day four: He starts to text and then He falls asleep. Repeat. I think that action of his is on loop. And then he messaged me on Facebook, sending a link about quarter-life crisis.
Just please stop.

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I had my night cut out for me since both the Tigers and the Bears had big projects planned tonight.
Thank goodness I have Kelsea to help me out! She is a very good Den Mother.
And here they are with their bird houses:
They also made pine cone bird feeders.
The Bear Den:
The coolest part of Cub Scouts is watching the boys work so hard and accomplish big tasks.


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I saw Kate on my way back to our Plus hostel. We went and got coffee together, where I just sobbed.
Later Elizabeth gave me advil to get rid of the physical sickness I'd accumulated with this emotion. We all got some food which helped a bit as an anecdote as well.
I knew it was going to be hard having a light spirit, but I didn't want to not see the beautiful Florence just because I didn't have a camera. At noon we wondered again through the thief market just to find ourselves standing at the feet of th emassive and towering Duoma, Campanille, and Baptistry of all baptistries. These three historics combine to make the most eye opening green and white achitecture.
We circled this then sat down for lunch. Then we paraded through town to Santa Maria Novella. We paid 2€50 for admission. I found an empty pew on the second row and sat admiring the church while Kate and Elizabeth explored every inch as if they might find Santa Maria herself.
Although is was only 2:00 when we backtracked to our hostel, I was exhausted. The emotional drainage within the past 24 hours was really starting to take its toll. We all hung out at the hostel for the rest of the night occupying our time by surfing the internet, sweating in the sona, breathing in the mint steam in the Turkish bath, and of course, back in our room playing around 50 games of gin.


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text: Is no one watching it? Safin down 2 sets. Safin broke Federer today. Impressive. But I don't get the game on TV because they were televising Paes(Indian)/Damm game. Now it's Sania Mirza's doubles match. I'd much rather watch Federer. As Veloz said, it's being discussed in the 2007 ATP thread


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It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to. - Bilbo Baggins
Examples of the Threshold
Samwise Gamgee, in Peter Jackson's LOTR movies says to Frodo, "If I take one more step, it'll be the furthest from home I've ever been." There is not really a threshold guardian present (though one could say, symbolically, the scarecrow in the background fills the roll as a silent sentinel), but they do have their very first close encounter with the Nazgul shortly beyond that point. At least one commentator suggests that the Hobbits' encounter with Old Man Willow - where they first come to harm (albeit minor) and must be rescued by Tom Bombadil - is the true threshold experience for the protagonist(s).
Luke Skywalker trades the known dangers of the Tatooine wasteland for the unknown dangers of the Mos Eisley spaceport, particularly the rough-and-tumble cantina, where his adventure is very nearly cut short before it ever gets off the ground (pardon the pun). At the time of Luke's arrival, it is being patrolled by Stormtroopers, who attempt to apprehend the group.
In Stardust (another Gaiman creation), there is a very clear demarcation in the old stone wall that borders the protagonist's village. An opening in the wall allows one to pass into the world of faerie, but it is stubbornly guarded by old man who takes his position as the keeper of the opening very seriously.
The scientists who managed to get the Stargate working (in the original movie of the same name) had no clue what - if anything - lay on the otherside of the shimmering, undulating portal.
Dorothy crosses two thresholds in the Wizard of Oz. First there is the passage from consciousness into unconsciousness by way of the twister; shortly thereafter, she literally crosses the threshold of her mundane black-and-white existence into the color- and magic-filled realm of Oz.
The Threshold as a DM Tool
For a DM, crossing the threshold may impact a game on several different levels. The first and most obvious being a threshold guardian that must be defeated, either by wits or brute force, before the party can continue their adventure. Second, achieving a new level or tier acknowledges that the PC's have grown in some way and now have access to new powers and abilities with which to face the challenges ahead - which have also grown in difficulty. While the first two examples are fairly straightforward and go hand-in-hand with the basic mechanics of almost every role-playing system, a third instance - that of the symbolic threshold - is a bit more abstract and hard to define. And yet, I would suggest that it holds the greatest potential of the three for creating a meaningful experience.
Monsters and puzzles are external conflicts and often represent forces outside of a person to be overcome. These situations might be cast, rather simplistically, as Man vs. Nature, and Man vs. Man. What is left? Man vs. Himself. The internal battles against doubts, fear, insecurity, and any number of personal shortcomings that we allow to tie us down and prevent us from achieving what Maslow referred to as 'self-actualization' are often some of the toughest battles a person will face in his or her lifetime. Compounding the issue is our inability to objectively handle and shape those feelings and understandings that shape our perception of the world around us. In the real world, that is. In the role-playing world, an able DM can construct situations that threaten from within, though doing so will require some preparation.
Depending on how much information a DM requires of their PC's at the start of an adventure, and the player's willingness and/or ability to 'put on' their characters and truly role play their strengths and weaknesses, these threshold experiences contain a great deal of potential for the characters' - and possibly even their player's - personal growth. Consider a player who is deathly afraid of spiders (a common fear) who must descend into a lair full of them to save a child. Or a PC consumed with revenge who attempts to convince a king to forgive a slight, lest war claim thousands of innocent lives. Perhaps there is an accomplished thief who has something precious stolen from him. These are not thresholds in a physical sense, but can serve as symbolic threshold experiences that, once overcome, empower the PC in some personal way.
Rewards for overcoming or passing a threshold may be many and varied, ranging from a simple bonus to skill checks or attacks vs. a certain type of creature, or a better understanding of the skills, powers and abilities one possesses. What if, though, by overcoming a threshold challenge, a player arrives at a deeper understanding of her own motivations or behaviors? A bit far-fetched, perhaps, but not outside the realm of possibility.
Pondering the Threshold
- What, if any, personal obstacles have your PC's had to overcome?
- Do you think overcoming a physical threshold guardian can be as meaningful a overcoming a symbolic one? Why or why not?
- Is it possible for PC's to have a meaningful threshold experience as a group? Why or why not?
- Do you ever include elements from your players' real lives into your adventure/campaign? What forms or roles do these real-world elements take in the game?
- Have you ever had your real-world perceptions altered by a work of fiction? Do you think that your adventure/campaign holds the same potential? Why or why not?


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I am proud
to be serving
a welcoming church.
Oh, many churches
and para church groups
say they offer a welcome to everyone
everyone is welcome.
Second Presbyterian Church
Nashville, Tennessee
offers a radical welcome...
really shouldn't be considered a radical welcome though...
should be the norm for all churches,
for all Christ followers.
A welcome is a welcome.
The only way to fail a welcoming
is for the welcome
to be disingenuous.
I am proud to be serving a church
with a commitment for
a genuine welcome,
a welcome with
More Light.
What is More Light?
A Presbyterian welcome...
an invitation to all children of God,
an expectation for all GLBT children of God
to not only show up
but to fully participate in the life of the church.
More Light...
a commitment to speak and act
when others refuse to do so...
when others hurl
condemnation for doing so.
More Light...
a gift that comes when
we listen and love.
More Light...
an expectation that we never fully know each other
until we listen and love.
More Light...
because lives of very precious people are depending on us...
depending on the church....
to listen and love!
How can we love...
if we won't listen?
How can we choose
not to listen if we say we love?
More Light!
"O Lord, God shed more light on us now
that we might listen and love."
More Light
for the families who are in deep grief
for the loss of their dear and precious children...
for the loss of God's dear and precious children:
Tyler Clemente
Seth Walsh
Justin Aaberg
Raymond Chase
Asher Bron
Billy Lucas
"This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine! This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine! This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. Let it shine! Let it shine! LET IT SHINE!


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Summary of Events
Under the premise that Broh would like to discuss the proposed employment contract with his supervisor, Gern, Jessica and Seph tag along and meet Gern at a Tea House, near the Shifter ghetto, presumably not far from the Pearl Court. There, Jessica meets up with Gern, Broh, Zeth, and Tara. After some protracted discussion and recruitment efforts, Jessica manages to achieve the following:
- Gern, Broh, Zerth, and Tara have all signed the employment contract.
- Jessica promises to draft a contract ensuring that Zeth will be compensated for damages incurred to her ship. (See draft contract below)
- The newly forged part begins to head back to the Pearl Court, but are interrupted by a spot check… DUN DUN DUUUNNN!!!
Draft Contract
Jessica Ondomiel, Ayus Maji First Degree, and her companions (Seph, Zeth, Tara, Gern, and Be'Dawgh) hereafter referred to as "The Party", enter a contract of insurance by signing this document. The document is only valid up on the receiving signatures of all constituent sentients of the Party.
The Party agrees to fully compensate the value of any damages incurred to Zeth's ship (hereafter referred to as the "Ship" ) under the following circumstances:
- The damages occurred while the Party was present on the Ship or within 10 miles of the ship, while it is in port.
- The damages are not result of Natural Disaster, Sabotage from a 3rd party, or any other circumstance that might be considered far beyond the power of the Party to control. Such events are referred to henceforth as "Acts of the gods" and are not covered by this insurance policy.
- The Party is responsible for protecting from damages (or compensating damages) from overt and visible enemies.
Compensation is to be handled in the following way:
The cost of repairs or other such compensation will be determined when it happens. Repair cost estimatees will be verified by at least one independent party, selected by Zeth. The estimated cost will then be divided among all members of the Party. Funds will be collected by Jessica at minimum, one day prior to making payment for the repairs and disbursed to Zeth on the day payment is made.
Should any member of the Party fail to provide adequate funding, this contract ensures that Jessica will provide the remainder to the best of her ability. Should Jessica be unable to provide sufficient funds to cover the difference, this insurance policy is considered "Maximized" and the burden of the remaining repair costs falls on Zeth. Any overage costs that Jessica must cover will be considered as a loan, with 10% interest accrued monthly to the character unable to provide their share of the repair cost. Any damages beyond what this policy can maximally compensate is considered to be profit loss due to business risk and does not obligate the signees of this contract any further.


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I ate waaaay too much of this dough.
All lined up on the cooling rack.
Why did I half the recipe? What the hell was I thinking? When does my family ever just want half of something? The answer is never and I should never ever halve a dessert recipe. 24 hours later and they are all but gone.


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The Stake President had us all in last week to release the bishopric, and they mentioned to us to write down the impressions we get as we look back at the past 6 years. I've actually really recalled a lot of thoughts I've had during our time. I'm not going to post all of them, but I feel they are important.
1- Anytime someone said, "and bless the bishopric and their families" during a prayer, I always noticed. It meant the world to me. It often would bring me to quick, quiet tears because I knew that we were supported by most in the ward. People looked out for me. It helped me feel loved on those long Sundays without a partner at home.
2- This calling for Bill was truly meant to be. He was destined to spend the last 6 years with these men doing what they do. They were amazing. I'm not even bragging. They just were. I believe these men put in more hours than most bishoprics. They are the closest of friends and worked together like nothing I've ever seen. Their desire to serve the ward and love the ward was so evident to all.
|3 day old Macy.....well, Bill and I must have had some time while he was in the bishopric. Macy is a bishopric baby.
3- There were blessings. I guess I always thought when people said that about callings, it was what you said to make people feel better about big callings. But there were blessings. Never immediate and not always the blessings we thought they'd be, but looking back, it's so evident. I have to say in a few situations, it didn't always make situations easier, but I know there were blessings because we got through it. From things like finding a solution to a 1 year old Quinn's major sleeping issues (Li-Li) to finding the right therapy group for Parker to Bill changing jobs twice after 2 bouts of unemployment to bigger and better jobs. We were so very blessed. Not by easiness, but by making it possible.
4- It was beautiful. And it was difficult. My appreciation for single moms was heightened by the many, many hours that I was raising my kids alone, all while running a business. I felt the extreme of emotions. I felt really powerful moments that were a result of Bill's sacrifice and the depths of aloneness and depression when I felt like I couldn't take another minute of dealing with the challenges in our home. It's been an extreme time, which is an understatement.
5- Bill RARELY complained. He loves to serve people and truly has charity for all he meets. I wish I was more like that. I'm super in love with a man that has this desire to be good and serve the Lord.
6-The Lord always found a way. When we were called, our Stake President asked us to really consider if we could manage it with the situation with our children. I was sure we should say no as we left, but later felt we needed the blessings. So we said yes. And then, it all of a sudden felt frantically scary. but the Lord always found a way to get us through.
7- No bishopric in the church had more fun than these guys. They once convinced a new executive secretary that it was tradition to go in costume to our annual Christmas party. Their commitment to this lie was impressive. He came busting into the house telling me I had to change my outfit into an "elf ensemble". It was pretty funny. They also prided themselves in extreme "scare-ing" while closing up the church after their late night meetings in the church. Many of their meetings started at In-n-Out. And of course, there was Trunk or Treat. Why the Stake President didn't release them after the KISS costume, I'll never know. And.....Deep Doctrine. Can't exactly explain that one, but it did become the name of our boat we share with the bishop.
80's style for chaperoning dance....
3 Amigos....there was even a little dance=-)
Blue Man
The Soggy Bottom Boys
And of course, Duck Dynasty
8- This part of "The Incredibles" always played in my head when Bill would show up in his suit to head out to somewhere unexpectedly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2qRDMHbXaM
They were pretty super....
Really, my feelings are mixed after such an experience. I wouldn't change the last few years, but I am so happy to be reunited in a way with Bill. I'm grateful to be married to such a good man.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Hospital Patients Can Now Choose Their Own Visitors
Patients in Medicare- and Medicaid-participating hospitals now have the right to choose their own visitors during a hospital stay and name a person of their choice to make medical decisions on their behalf, regardless of whether or not the person is a family member.
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The flavors and textures of south Indian food are so varied and vast that I have often felt a food map of south India would help people understand the beauty that lies behind the south Indian style of cooking and the exquisite south Indian recipes. I looked around for a few, but nothing seemed to be able to cover the vastness of what south Indian food comprises. Then one day a gentleman asked me if the origin of the Udupi cuisine lies in Tamil Nadu…this is when I decided I needed to take matters into my own hand.
The Science & Art of cooking
My first steps into the Culinary World were as shaky as a toddler's. At age 11 I was introduced to the amazing world of the kitchen where my mother used to hold fort. We were summoned by our father – who looked as lost as we were, to this magical place were mom used to create lip smacking and nutritious food for us 3 times a day, who was now laid up in bed with an accident for the next 6 months.
Over the period of these 6 months I did various chores some interesting and some brain numbing, at the end of which there was a small ember alive somewhere deep within.
Chefs: The Alchemists of today!
If we look beyond the obvious, in today's world, we can safely call the chef an alchemist. Again, imagine, the chef adorning his cooking hat in sparkling white, moving the knives, pots and ladles with an impressive degree of skill and concentration, to create a dish, a dish that is worth remembering for many a life time, a dish that speaks to your heart, one that will make you really happy.


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I've been studying like crazy for the GREs, applying to grad schools and going on lots of job interviews. I also don't have a working computer in my apartment so I've been hitting up the Arlington library and stealing The Hoff's whenever I can.
My life just feels so chaotic lately because I have no clue what I'm doing with myself a few months from now. I could be in Richmond for grad school or still be in D.C. working. The only thing certain is that I will NOT be going back to my job.
I know I've somewhat alluded to it, but at the end of January I was called into my supervisor's office and told that I had been grouchy that week and that they had smelled alcohol twice.
I don't think I've ever been that shocked/mortified/appalled in my life. The first thing I did was vehemently deny being an alcoholic or ever drinking during work hours. I may enjoy my apple martinis, chianti and coors light, but I'm not stupid enough to jeopardize a job or my reputation. That's why happy hours were invented, after all - for the working girl to drink away her work problems cheaply AFTER 5 p.m.
Needless to say, I had a series of panic attacks and have been on leave since. The thought of going back is enough to make me feel like my chest is being crushed by a boa constrictor.
Anyway, the point of all this is to say I miss you, blogging world. In the words of Renee Zellweger, "You complete me." My professional life may be in shambles, but you have never failed me. And I promise to not be neglectful like I have been the past two months.


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Nipawin in Motion
On December 11 a conference was held at the Generations Event Center in Nipawin to discuss opportunities on improving accessibility of physical activities for local youths and their families.
Marni Sinclair with Saskatchewan in Motion led the conference, with help from the department of parks & recreation, members of the Kelsey Trail Health Region, and local community members putting their ideas forward. To build a profile on Nipawin based on what is already available and what the community needs.
A symposium with community leaders will be held in the near future to outline a strategy for this improvement. As a shared responsibility, the goal is to not only increase options for family physical activities but to increase time spent being active while reducing screen time.
The average youth spends 6 to 7 hours a day in front of a screen, imagine the health benefits of exchanging some of that time for 30 minutes of activity at home, 30 minutes at school, and 30 minutes within the community.
As Saskatchewan in Motion looks at the vision statement of communities to help make physical activities more available to youths and their families, Nipawin is already off to a great start as it states ' We are a full service community that is focused on creating a sense of place, fostering a healthy community and preparing for our economic growth.'
For more information visit http://www.saskatchewaninmotion.ca


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Neither, sadly, does this. I mentioned I'd been following the Quora Healthcare IT questions. Well, here's a pretty depressing answer:
Which healthcare software has the best user-experience?
None. Repeat: NONE.
There is not a single major healthcare software company that genuinely cares about its end user experience, despite the fact that poor implementations have, amongst other things, been associated with increased patient death. The particular publication I'm thinking of is actually more reminiscent of a frustrated rant than a calm scientific explication[1].
And more along that vein. Maybe I'd better step it up.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The Treasury Department sold $35 billion in 5-year notes TMUBMUSD05Y, +0.12% Wednesday at a yield of 1.029%, the lowest on record. Bidders offered to buy 2.71 times the amount of debt sold, compared to an average of 2.8 times at the last four auctions of 5-year notes, all for the same amount. Indirect bidders, a group which includes foreign central banks, purchased 42.1%, versus an average of 40.3% of recent sales. Direct bidders - which includes domestic money managers -- bought another 13.9%, up from 11.2% on average. The broader bond market pared losses slightly after the second of three major auctions this week. Yields on 10-year notes TMUBMUSD10Y, -0.06% which move inversely to prices, rose 7 basis points to 2.23%.
Bonds stay down after auction at record-low yield
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A game like "Mercenaries" has more long-term investment than a game like "Soviet Strike", because not only does that game involve chopper-based missions but as well as ground-based and vehicle-based. You can exit a game at any time by clicking the X on the box. The Playstation Store has three main regions to accommodate to: Europe, Japan and North America.
Cry of Fear puts you in the view point of a hoodie-clad teen named Simon. Once a console has lived out its lifespan and the only alternative is to buy it again to play on another console (which will again be replaced in about 3-5 years), what are you supposed to do.
As impressive as it is, there's a faint whiff of gimmickry around the 3D visuals, and developers will have to work hard to avoid the 3D becoming a novelty that wears off, rather than a game-changing feature. The install for the ps1 emulatorkey ps1 emulator USB loader is going to be 100% Solderless as well, that's great news for those not handy with a soldering iron but aren't too worried about taking their console apart. However, be advised that not all music CD's are formatted as MP3's. So now I had everything plugged in, connected to the internet, and ready to go. For example, in Samurai Shodown, the Japanese version has blood.
I had hope for WWE '12, but it's just a dumbed down Smackdown vs Raw game and still suffers from the same issues as past Smackdown games of ten years ago. v – NES is produced by a company called Vampent, and all additional information on the emulator can be found on their official site; it can also be purchased there as well. Holding down ALT and SHIFT, grab the top of your free transform box and pull your raindrop into a more elongated shape, like I've done. As an entertainment 'toy', however, the magic of the 3D and Nintendo's usual fabulous build quality and playful software mark it out as something special. Pricing Issues Out of the 20 "PS one Classics" titles on the Playstation Store, only 2 are published by someone other than Sony.
In this day and age when downloadable titles offer so much bang for little buck, it's hard to justify the pricing of some of these games even with all the added features. – In 1999, we had NFL Blitz, NFL Xtreme, NFL 2K, NFL Quarterback Club, and Madden NFL. Search the android market for any of the old consoles, you can even find the old atari if you want to go way back.
One other thing Sony announced this morning was the cross-platform software framework called Play – Station Suite. The ps1 emulator and PS Vita already use Sony's internal emulator, but the platform holder wants to be able to run older games on the ps1 emulator in native HD resolution, which should be a step up from the blurry upscaling with the ps1 emulator for older games.
It's like a car manufacturer making a GPS unit standard in the car you want to buy, then charging you $3,000 for it, when you could go to Best Buy and buy one for $500. You keep the other two educational CDs, free digital camera, which includes the offer. The admissions committee wants to ensure they admit applicants with great on-the-fly problem solving and excellent communication skills. Second, you need, of course, the program and the games. Even before my trouble of plugging the OUYA into my television began, the first big challenge that had to be overcome was finding out how to put the two AA batteries into the controller.


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An online timeline of the building of our dream home a Jefferson model through Ryan Homes In Pittsburgh,PA
Monday, April 2, 2012
Guardian Meeting
I felt he put a lot of preasure on us to but all kind of packages and upgrades and when my wife and I asked for a copy of the price list he did not provide us with one and told us that he would email us a a cost sheet based on the options that we spoke with him about at our meeting. Lisa and I prefer to take information home and have to time to look over and do research.
My biggest question is what are the majority of you opting to purchase? I thought that the surround sound was very expensive especially when I can purchase a quality wired or wireless system from Best Buy. We asked about that intercom system and I thought that was pretty pricey as well. I'm thinking about purchasing cable outlets for all the bedrooms, 2 hardwire internets connections one for my wife's office in the study and one for the bonus room which will be my office. On the issue of phone jacks two or three at the most being that we currently have four cordless telephones in our home but only one plugs into a phone jack. Would love to hear some comments
Thank you
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I'm sure we are the exception, but we only added one cable jack to the phone and cable jacks that were included. We also only have one phone that actually requires a jack and by the time the kids are allowed to have tvs in their rooms, everything will be wireless. We will do security (wireless option) ourselves and surround sound after the fact. I don't like the placement of the surround sound speakers in some of the homes.ReplyDelete
I was also disappointed that they did not provide a price list, but when we met and told the Guardian rep that we were only interested in the basics, he did not try to sell us anything. It was very low pressure. Sorry you got an overzealous salesman.
I feel like Guardian is a little expensive too. He didn't give us a list of prices so I just sat there and asked him about every little thing and how much it cost. We got the networking package. We also got the smoke and CO2 detecters that are tied into the security system. The smoke detectors that Ryan provides don't help much if you aren't home and your house is on fire. You would have to wait for someone else to notice and call 911. We didn't pay for extra phone jacks. Our house comes with 7 already and we don't even use a landline. We don't use cable either. We watch everything through the internet on our tv (hulu and netflix) but we still got cable lines in every bedroom, the great room, the finished basement, and even the kitchen. I feel like these were included in our networking package because we only put one in the kitchen because there was nowhere else to put it. We put them where we thought potential buyers would want them for resale value --- even though I plan on living in this house forever! We even got the wireless internet thingy (can't remember what it's called) since our house is so big and we rely on the internet a lot. We also got the audio system. We have a pair of speakers in the ceiling on the first floor and a pair on the second. This is so we can listen to music throughout the house -- I love listening to music when I clean.ReplyDelete
There are things we got that I don't think we should have spent the money on but they are things you can't really add later without tearing out walls and ceilings. I'm just worried about the products failing. If you got surround sound from Best Buy, and it broke, you could always replace it. What do you do if it fails and it's built into your house?
Ok...so this is the longest response EVER! Can you tell I love talking about this stuff? :)
I DO NOT LIKE GUARDIAN. Hopefully this is clear, haha. I have two reasons. 1) they are too expensive for what you get imo. and B) When we went, the sales rep didn't know how to use any of the equipment, but was trying to sell me a speaker system. The package included 3 cable and 1 phone jack. We added a couple more cable only. Besides that, we ignored guardian.ReplyDelete
Here are some thoughts.
-if you are getting a finished basement, pre-wire your family room yourself (or run PVC pipe in the walls if your PM is against running wire. To make it even easier, run a string from one end to the other when you install. So after move in, you just tie off to the string and pull. Too easy.
If you are not getting a finished basement, the installers (or you) can fish wires up the wall for in wall speakers.
If you think you want built in speakers, run PVC pipe to the locations and run the wire yourself after move in (don't forget the string). I ran a flexible smurf tube from the attic to the basement allowing me to snake the attic antenna coax down. I also installed low voltage boxes in the family room with smurf tube punching down into the basement (pre-drywall of coarse). This allowed me to A-run my rear speaker wire UNDER the floor and back up behind where the couch would go. and 2) I fished the antenna coax back up through said box and hooked directly to the tv. There are all kinds of easy tips to do all this yourself.
-every security company in the US will give you the system for free with a monitoring package. So if you want security, research and buy what you WANT. Me, I chose the hang gun and guard dog route for home defense.
-Guardians speaker package comes with a smaller gauge speaker wire then what most "home theater" gurus would prefer/use. Which is something to consider/verify if you choose to go with guardian.
hope this helps a bit.
Thanks everyone for the feedback we have decided to add some network jacks, two telephone jacks and enough cable jacks for all the bedrooms and for the three tv's we plan on mounting on the wall. I intend to purchase a good quality surround sound system from Best buy or off the internet at a later point. Being that I am an existing Guardian security customer and I am happy with that service we are going to do the monitoring for the included security sytem with maybe a couple of extra contacts for some windows and I think I will had two of the Guardian smoke detectors because they are always monitored.ReplyDelete
Your choices are solid and probably the max I would (and did) go with.ReplyDelete
I know that everyone is so attracted to going mobile only trying to attract some savings, but without a real landline phone, if your nearest cell tower goes out youre done. If your power goes out, your cordless phones are worthless. Real tel cable is buried underground and is self powered, so as long as you have an analog phone attached to it (like the ones our moms had) it will always work.
Sgt Rich's idea for the PVC run in the dead space is an excellent idea, one that I just executed this weekend. You can see it here: http://ravennaroad.blogspot.com/, its to the left of the duct work and will save you much pain later on.


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Filthy Beast – 1966 – The First Gigs
Although formed in 1964 when the lads were all 13-14 years old they only became proficient enough (just!) to perform in public by 1966.
1st Gig
19th February 1966
Note how the local paper (The Andover Advertiser) got the name wrong.
On Saturday 19th February 1966 the band played their first gig at the SJAB Valentines Party at Kelly's Hall, Weyhill Road Andover. The booking was secured by Peter's uncle Jim (Pym) Poore who worked at Kelly's (a local printer) at the time and put in a word for them.
To take on even a gig like this with the pitiful equipment they had at the time was optimistic to say the least. Mike Parkins had a very small amplifier for his guitar, Peter's guitar had it's solitary pick-up held on by chewing gum, and in place of an amplifier he used his reel-to-reel tape recorder in which his father had fitted a jack socket to utilise the amplifier and the very small speakers built-in to the tape recorder. The single microphone was plugged into a spare socket on Mike's amplifier. Terry's Drum kit comprised a snare drum, a high-hat cymbal and another single cymbal. Nevertheless it was a reasonably successful debut.
Halfway through the evening they asked one of their mates how they sounded and he said it was okay but something was not quite right, were the guitars in tune? It was only then that they realised that they had to be in tune with each other, so Mike and Peter went off to the dressing room (the gents toilets) complete with guitars and carefully tuned them together for the first time. The second half of the evening was greatly improved.
For the debut gig they received £2 between them.
From a contact made at the party the band later found a regular place to practice - Wildhern Youth Club.
2nd Gig
2nd July 1966
At least this time the Andover Advertiser got the name right.
The Rejected were supporting the "Melody Makers" a dance orchestra. The Grand Carnival Dance was organised by Taskers Sports and Social Club at the Fiesta Hall, Andover. Admission was 6 shillings (30p) per head, and the Rejected were paid 10 guineas (£10.50) for the evening.
This was an important night for, the first time The Rejected were performing "for real" in front of a fairly large audience which included some of their parents, close relatives and friends. Undaunted, but perhaps slightly embarrassed they carried on and enjoyed the evening.
Ticket for the 1966 Andover Carnival Dance
Advertisement in 1966 Andover Carnival Program
3rd Gig Top
8th October 1966
This was a wedding reception at Saint Ann's Hall, Andover. The band, renamed as "The Syn", played for two hours 30 minutes (7:00 to 8:00, then 8:30 to 10:00) for a fee of £6.00.
4th Gig
14th December 1966
Andover Grammar School Christmas party. The band's name was back to the Rejected. No memories or notes recall exactly how this one went apart from being told to "turn it down" several times throughout the evening by various masters.
5th Gig
31st December 1966
Their very first gig secured through an agency, the new years eve dance at the Sergeants Mess RAF Middle Wallop was a milestone for the band. Their biggest payday to date earning £20 for the night's work, less 10% comission to Lance Barrett Agencies Limited, netted them £18. Taking inflation into account this is equivalent to over £200 in 2008.
Thus ended their first year as a working band
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Friday, December 22, 2006
Animation Mentor Class 3 progress reel
Yeah, I know, I didn't blog at all. But, at least, I give you the latest AM progress reel.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you!
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Christie, The Bridge, Corruption. Full Circle New Jersey Hustle?
"What did he know and when did he know it?" has apparently now taken second place to "Why did they do it?" For sure there was no bona fide "traffic study". All else is inference. While the leading speculation has been that the lane closings were related to the current Fort Lee Mayor's failure to endorse Christie, articles in the New York Times and elsewhere now report that a knowledgeable New Jersey legislator has splashed cold water on the retribution-for-non-endorsement theory; the punishment seems not to fit the crime. Instead, he suggests the lane closings are related to a real estate development immediately adjacent to the traffic lanes at the Fort Lee terminus of the bridge--a billion dollar project favored by the current Fort Lee Mayor.
This real estate development has a dramatic history: it was first proposed in the early seventies, and quickly morphed into a saga involving reputed mafia figures, noted real estate moguls, the former mayor of Fort Lee, two of Christie's predecessors in the U.S. Attorney's office, a Long Island shopping center developer, and a large cast of attorneys, including me. In all, a non-comic drama that might reasonably be called "New Jersey Hustle."
Here is that story.
In 1973, a successful Long Island shopping center developer named Nathan Serota came to see me. He had just been indicted by a New Jersey federal grand jury on three counts of conspiracy to bribe Fort Lee's Mayor Burt Ross, in order to secure the necessary permits to build a 47 story building at site of the current bridge parcel project. Also indicted along with Nat were prominent real estate mogul Norman Dansker, two of his colleagues, his real estate development company Investors Funding Corporation, a New Jersey electrical contractor Valentine Electric, and its representative, one Joey Diaco. (Valentine Electric had earlier been accused of being headed by a mafia boss. The accuser was one Frederick Lacey, then the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey.)
Serota's story was simple, and before he met me, he told it to the prosecutor who indicted him. Indeed, the facts, as to Serota, were never contested by the prosecutor: Nat and his family lived in a condominium apartment in a Fort Lee high rise with a sensational view of the New York skyline. The real estate project proposed by Dansker et al, would have inserted an ugly blot on Serota's skyline view, and the years-long construction would destroy his family's tranquility. So he did what so many others do all the time: "NIMBY—not in my back yard,"said Serota, and he campaigned vigorously against the project, gave money to groups opposing it, and, accompanied by his real estate lawyer, attended local hearings where he voiced his opposition. The project was voted down, but the proponents came up with a slightly amended plan, and Serota's battle was renewed—at least until Nat was visited at home by Valentine Electric's Joey Diaco. Joey made Nat an offer he couldn't refuse: If Serota would cease his opposition to the project, the promoters would buy his apartment for twice its market value. Nat accepted. After all, he could care less about the view from an apartment in which he no longer lived, and Vivian wanted to move to New York City anyway.
Did Nat accept money for advocating, or changing his advocacy, of a political position? Sure. Was that a crime? Yes, argued Mr. Jonathan Goldstein, the US Attorney. His view was that under New Jersey law, anyone who took money to advocate or modify a political position was a criminal—a notion that totally ignores something called the First Amendment, and which, if applied by the prosecutor's terms, arguably might criminalize all lobbying activity. Ridiculous, you say? Yet the prosecutor went forward with his case. To bolster his accusation, he argued that because Nat was an unpaid member of the Fort Lee Parking Authority--, the group that oversaw the collection of quarters from municipal parking meters—Nat was a "public official." The prosecutor conceded that this honorary position had nothing whatever to do with the real estate project in question, but he could not resist the opportunity to hang the "public official" label on Serota as if it had some relevance. And the District Judge to whom the case was assigned (yup, Goldstein's predecessor, the former US Attorney, Frederick Lacey), sustained that view.
But what Nat did not know when he agreed to sell his apartment was there was another drama being played out on an adjacent stage: Diaco, representing Valentine Electric, (which had been promised the electrical contract for the project) had also visited a real public official, Burt Ross, the Mayor of Fort Lee. Joey offered the mayor $500,000 if he would approve the project. Ross reported the encounter to the FBI and agreed to wear a wire. Diaco and his boss were in the soup when Joey delivered a suitcase with a $25,000 cash down payment to Ross at a Fort Lee diner. The mayor took the suitcase to the bathroom, counted the cash, and entertained his FBI listeners with his version of the hit song from the Broadway production of Annie, "We're in the money, we're in the money,…."
The Trial:
The wire transcriptions of the bribe offer to the mayor were, as you might expect, devastating to defendants Diaco and Valentine Electric. And a cooperating witness connected to the developer accepted a misdemeanor plea and testified against the Dansker team to tie them into the plot.
At no time was there any evidence Nat Serota had anything to do with the Burt Ross bribery effort, or even that he had any knowledge of it before the indictment was published, but the prosecutor nevertheless insisted on charging him with a conspiracy to bribe the mayor, and, at least during the trial, Nat was a fly stuck in the prosecution's web.
At the end of the prosecution case lawyers for all the parties moved to dismiss the three-count indictment. While lawyers almost always do this, they rarely expect to win. I thought otherwise: any fair-minded judge would surely see that there was no evidence Nat Serota was involved in the scheme to bribe Ross, and Serota's sale of his apartment and consequent withdrawal from the political scene was clearly innocent, legally protected behavior.
Hah. District Judge Lacy denied all the motions instantly. All of them, and we went to court the next day prepared to put on the defendant's case. But before we entered the courtroom, Lacey's deputy approached me and said the judge wanted me to reargue my motion. Nobody else but me. A ray of sunshine! I did so, and Lacey threw out the Ross bribery charges against Serota, agreeing there was not a shred of evidence tying Serota to the conspiracy to bribe Ross. But the judge left in the flawed charge that Serota was the recipient of a bribe by reason of his written agreement to sell his apartment at a premium and cease his opposition to the development.
That created what proved to be an impossible hurdle to a fair trial for Nat. Why? We argued that the jury could not reasonably be expected to differentiate between the damning evidence against Dansker and Diaco, et al, and the dramatically different story of the sale of Serota's apartment. They were now two different bribery cases, two different bribes, two different bribees, (Ross and Serota) and it was now clear Serota had nothing to do with the Ross bribery attempt. But former prosecutor Lacey, a very bright guy, had nevertheless gone as far as he was willing to go, and he kept Serota in the case on one count-- that Serota accepted a bribe by agreeing to sell his apartment and to cease his campaign against the bridge parcel project.
As we predicted, Lacey's decision generated a pile-up of error and confusion when it came to summations. At our request, the judge instructed Goldstein that in his summation he must differentiate the evidence of the two conspiracies. In other words, when he talked about the evidence of the Ross bribery, he had to make clear this evidence could not be used in their deliberations of Serota's guilt or innocence with respect to the one count remaining against him, the so-called apartment sale in which Serota was the alleged bribee.
Summation procedures differ. In New Jersey, the defense went first, then the prosecutor. That's it. No rebuttal. My summation was short, uncomplicated. I reminded the jury Serota had now been cleared of the Ross bribery allegations, knew nothing about that claim, and as to the sale of his apartment, he did what anyone else what do in his circumstance. He took the "NIMBY" not in my backyard approach to the construction project: No secrets. The contract to sell his apartment was a lawyer-drafted document. No harm, no foul.
Goldstein did not object to one word I said. But when his turn came, it was a different story. I think he did try to obey the judge's admonition to separate the two bribe cases in his marshalling of the evidence, but the task was impossible: after all, though Serota had nothing to do with the Ross bribery, Diaco et al were accused of bribing both Ross and Serota, so evidence of both "bribes" were admissible against all defendants except Serota . Again and again, Goldstein failed to separate out the evidence--the eggs were already scrambled. The result was each time he lumped "the defendants" to a piece of evidence, I objected and insisted he differentiate between the Ross bribery counts and the Serota bribery count. Over and over again. The judge agreed each time I objected, but after a while, he just said something like, "yes, the jury is so instructed." Confusion reigned. On the Friday before the Easter weekend, the prosecutor summed up in the morning, the judge charged the jury, deliberations began at 1 P.M. and the verdict came in three hours later: All defendants guilty on all counts.
Three trial anecdotes worth repeating, one humorous, the other two not:
1. At a recess after the summations, and before the judge charged the jury, a short grey-haired woman of a certain age, wearing a fur coat, angrily approached me in the corridor. I had seen her in the courtroom but had no idea who she was. "Mr. London," she said, " I am Jonathan Goldstein's mother and I am furious at your behavior. I am calling your partner Simon Rifkind and complaining about you. My son never interrupted your summation. Not once. But you interrupted him 12 times! I know Rifkind and am calling him at once!" I apologized to Mrs. Goldstein.
2. Before the trial, some of the defendants had moved for Judge Lacey to recuse himself because of his earlier statements tying Valentine Electric's owner to the mafia, but Lacey's denial of the motion was sustained on appeal. But some of us saw plenty of anti-defendant leanings at the trial. The most notable and unique, in my experience, was Lacey's charge to the jury. Of course, we asked him to remind the jury of the legal standard that if they found any reasonable doubt about guilt, they were obliged to acquit, and we submitted language to that effect—standard language that had been approved by higher courts. The judge agreed to, and did read our language to the jury. But while the rest of the charge was delivered at a normal pace, when it came to the reasonable doubt section, Lacey raced through as if he were trying to win a speed-reading contest. His words were barely discernible to us, and we had submitted them! We were shocked. None of us had ever seen anything like that.
When he was finished, the judge sent jury out, and asked counsel if they had any objection to his charge. I turned to my colleague Max Gitter, who had the responsibility for preparing and submitting our requested charge language, poked him hard in the ribs, and said "Max, you gotta object!" Max whispered, "What should I say?" I responded in a stage whisper that I am sure Lacey heard, "Tell him to say it once more, with feeling."
Max did object to the speed reading and the judge reacted with fury. His face reddened, he raised his voice, said this was a personal attack, (duh, after all, he was the one who did it) and he refused our request.
At the next recess, there was a knock on our counsel room door, and in came the court reporter. He said, "Mr. London, I have been a court reporter in this courtroom for 12 years and I have never heard such speed-reading of a portion of a charge. I can prove what he did. In order to produce daily copy of the transcript, as the judge reads his charge, he puts finished pages up on the ledge, where the revolving reporters take it back and use the judge's script to input and correct the words on their stenograph machines. In order to maintain order, each batch of the judge's script is marked by the pick-up reporter with the time of his pick-up. Those time notations show that the reasonable doubt charge portion of the charge was read at 2-3 times the speed of the rest of the charge. If you need it, Mr. London, I can supply the evidence for your appeal!". Yikes.
3. Sentencing: The maximum sentence for each count was 5 years. He could give less, but not more. And where multiple counts were involved, it was within the judge's discretion to say whether the individual sentences be served concurrently, (in effect, so that all sentences would be served at the same time and the duration of jail-time is the same as if convicted on only a single count) or consecutively, so three five year sentences would yield fifteen years in prison. Lacey gave the other defendants maximum consecutive sentences, i.e., fifteen years. Serota, of course, was found guilty of only one count, and the good judge indicated he would have preferred to give Nat the full fifteen, but alas, could not do so! At least that's the way we all heard it. He sentenced Serota to the max; five years in federal prison.
4. All lawyers hate to lose. All. But losing a criminal case when you know in your gut that your client did nothing wrong, and the case was a total miscarriage of justice that you let happen, is simply the worst. When the verdict came in that Friday afternoon I was bereft. How could I have failed to protect an innocent client? I was full of "shoulda's". I shoulda done this, I shoulda done that, whatever. Sleep evaded me Friday night. No amount of red wine put me under.
But Saturday morning, at 11 ayem, I got a call from Nat. "Get up, shower, shave, and dress! Vivian and I are picking you up in the Rolls, and we are going for a champagne lunch!" I said, "Nat, what are you smoking? You just got convicted at trial and for sure that guy is going to give you five years!" Nat, bless him, responded, "Fuck em, Marty. I did nothing wrong, and you're gonna get me off! We'll be at your door in hour." I get goose bumps writing this.
The Appeal
I argued Nat's appeal In February, 1976, and June of that year found me in New York's Hospital for Special Surgery, in traction with a herniated disk. I was miserable. It is tough to sleep with those sandbags pulling on your ankles. One night, at 10 PM, long after visiting hours had expired, I heard a commotion in the normally quiet corridor outside my room. I thought I heard Nat Serota arguing with a nurse, telling her he needed to speak to me at once, I was his lawyer, and this was an emergency. Over the nurse's strident objections, Nat and Vivian barged into my room carrying a shopping bag. We all cried and kissed, Nat pulled a champagne bottle and stemware out of the shopping bag, and we celebrated his appellate victory. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals had that morning unanimously reversed Nat's conviction. It found that Lacey had erred in accepting the prosecution's overbroad theory that would have dramatically expanded criminalization of First Amendment freedoms, and that Nat's membership on the Parking Meter board was totally irrelevant. The Court did not use the words "red herring" but that was substance of the holding. Bottom line, Nat did nothing wrong.
Most criminal convictions are affirmed on appeal, and while there are some reversals, they usually end up with a direction for a new trial. Not this time: The result of the Third Circuit opinion was that the District Court was required to enter a judgment of acquittal of Nathan Serota.
Because we were able to knock out the Serota count, two of the three counts against the other defendants fell by the wayside, and their sentences were reduced to five years. Subsequent legal motions then further reduced those sentences drastically.
Small world sequillae:
Thirty years later, when I retired, the real estate broker produced a buyer for our vacation home; a nephew of Norman Dansker bought the house.
The Bridge parcel was thereafter acquired by a former client of mine, Leona Helmsley, and she sold it to a predecessor of the current developers.
Burt Ross wrote a book about his experience. We found something else in common in 2008 when it was revealed we were both victims of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme.
Nat Serota, who was my dear friend for almost forty years, died at home in his New York City apartment at the age of 90, in 2010. When he learned I had been stung by Bernie Madoff, Nat immediately called me and me asked if I was alright, and did I need money. Happily the answer was "No", but I nevertheless treasure that call.
Judge Lacey left the bench in 1986. Years later we chatted once or twice at legal functions. We did not discuss the trial. He was not jocular.
Ten years after the trial, Jonathan Goldstein and I encountered each other at Newark Airport when our kids were on the same plane to a summer trip. We had a pleasant chat. We did not discuss the trial. He is, as far as I know, working the other side of the street as a defense lawyer.
I have not yet discovered a personal connection to Chris Christie. But it ain't over till it's over. And for sure, this ain't over.
A bientot.
A bientot.


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I suppose there are many who have been waiting for something to happen in this month of June - it is traditionally a month were "things happen".
Things such as Graduations - many many high school and college students have been waiting for this month for years and years - I wish them all well in with their futures whatever path they have chosen in life.
June is "THE" month to be a bride... I imagine there are many "June brides" who have been waiting for this month with excitement the likes of which they may never feel in their lives again. I wish them all happy futures - may they have happy marriages and wonderful lives with the men they have chosen as their life partners.
While I can certainly be happy for these exciting June events, for me the waiting is a bit more basic.
When I start to think about what I might be waiting for - I believe my wait is for more elemental occurrences. Like - lettuce to be ready to eat - tomatoes on the vine, fruit to pick, beans to snap, potatoes to dig, and although I might get lucky with the lettuce, the rest will have to wait for another month.
I am however, enjoying the ever changing rotation of blossoms in my yard. It seems just when I think I cannot possibly be more wowed by the loveliness of a particular flower, a new one unfolds, and wows me anew.
I cannot take credit for the placement nor the variety of much that is growing in my yard - someone long before me planted many of the species that grow here. I don't know if they had a plan, or a favourite plant; I don't know where they got their plants from - but I do know that much of what is growing in my flower beds this year, is considered a wild flower by the experts.
That in itself is exciting to me - I was starting to introduce wild varieties into my garden in the city - but they were not responding with nearly the gusto that they show here. Might be they feel at home in the country?
When we moved here last July, I had a visual quite different than the one I see now. Last year I missed the months of May and June - with it the spring varieties that live in the soil on my property. This year I have seen it all -
Or have I? Perhaps this is what I wait for after all...
. . .
Remember the flocks and daisies of a few weeks ago? Well the flocks are done now to be replaced with these beautiful Mullein Pinks...
Both the daisies and the pinks are a wildflower variety...
And one variety of Roses that are growing on the south side of my house... aren't they beautiful?


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Launch of 4-Year Project on Strengthening the Reform Agenda in Ethiopia
The Hague Institute will lead a new 4-year project that aims to help reduce some of the gaps in governance and economic development within the Oromia regional state in Ethiopia. The project, Strengthening the Reform Agenda: Enhancing Economic Opportunities and Inclusive Patterns of Regional Governance, is carried out in partnership with Leiden University and the Oromia regional government, with funding and support from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs through its embassy in Addis Ababa. Comprising joint research programs and roundtable conferences, the project will help the Oromo Peoples' Democratic Organisation (OPDO) and the regional government to develop a systematic, research-led, implementable reform agenda.News BriefRead more


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Besides, with most software being single-threaded I don't know if a consumer will immediately need more than 4 cores for a while. I can still see software companies trying to come up with ways to keep all 80 cores busy..."Well, they need at least 20 anti-virus processes, 10 genuine advantage monitors, and we'll install 100 shareware application with cute little icons in the task bar by default. There, that should keep all the cores nice and warm and busy -- our job is done!".
But in all seriousness, I would expect some extremely realistic environmental physical simulations (realtime large n-body interactions and perhaps realtime computational fluid dynamics)...now that's something to look forward to!
It's very likely you can get one at Best Buy before they have worked out how to program with it. The fact is, current programming paradigms simply aren't suited to fine-grained parallelism - and in saying that, I don't mean to imply that such a paradigm can definitely exist. Sure there are many parallel research languages, but whether those could be adopted by mainstream programmers and used to achieve anywhere near linear speedup on mainstream applications is an open issue. Even the PS3, which is oriented to media applications which are relatively easy to parallelize, is getting little benefit from its measly half dozen computational units.Sure would be nice to have a play with it once they have worked out how to program it...
But with single-thread performance growth at a virtual standstill, Moore's law is going to result in exponential growth in the number of cores, whether or not we're ready to write software for them.
I wonder if we won't move towards a more "biological" paradigm - massive parallelism, but with massive redundancy and therefore inefficiency from a computational standpoint, but also robustness to hardware and software bugs.
FORTRAN is the language of Powerful Computers. -- Steven Feiner


text: Romantic Architecture? 15 Castles Built for Love Posted on Şubat 12, 2012 by lovethesepicture 2 Happy Valentine's Day! If you are a bah-humbug type of person on this holiday of romance, then perhaps you can at least appreciate all this architecture that was constructed for love? As many of us can appreciate beautiful castles, perhaps even saying "I love it" there are some castles that are divinely romantic since they were built by love and to honor love. This is an aerial view of Boldt Castle and some of the Thousand Islands in the Saint Lawrence River, near Alexandria Bay, New York. George Boldt had this five-acre castle estate built out of love for his wife. He planned to give his wife Boldt Castle on Valentine's Day 1905. As you will see in many of these castles built for love, there is a reoccurring theme of tragedy striking at the heart of love. Photo #1 by Teresa Mitchell / Howcheng On the romantic Heart Island, part of the 1000 Islands Region of the St. Lawrence River, remains a monument of George C. Boldt's love for his wife Louise. According to Boldt Castle history, "Beginning in 1900, the Boldt family spent summers in the 1000 Islands at the Boldt Families Wellesley House near Mr. Boldt's Wellesley Island Farms while 300 workers including stonemasons, carpenters, and artists fashioned the six story, 120 room castle, complete with tunnels, a powerhouse, Italian gardens, a drawbridge, alster tower (children's playhouse) and a dove cote. Not a single detail or expense was spared." The plan was to give this medieval and Victorian architectural-styled castle, built as a testimonial of his love, to his wife On Valentine's Day 1905. But the best laid plans, even those built by love, do not always end happily ever after. Photo #2 by A.D.Wheeler Boldt Castle was supposed to be an eleven-building complex, the most grand in the Thousand Islands. But one year before Boldt Castle was completed, Louise died. George was brokenhearted, stopped construction, and never again returned to the island. For 73 years, the castle and other stone buildings were abandoned and abused by harsh winter weather and vandals. In 1977, the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority purchased Heart Island and the nearby yacht house for $1. It has been restored for future generations to enjoy. On the left is the staircase inside Boldt Castle. The upper right photo shows the main gate and Alister Tower. The middle shot is of the Boldt Castle yacht house. On the bottom right, the sunset reflects off the Boldt powerhouse. Photo #3 by kmaraj, #4 by Kiril Strax, #5 by Robert Scott, #6 by A.D.Wheeler Among many amazing architectural landmarks of Boldt Castle, there is the Yacht House, a gigantic playhouse Alster Tower, the Power House, and a 120-room dream-come-true castle modeled after Rhineland Castle. It is the very fairy-tale romantic nature of the castle that continues to draw couples in love to get married here. Photo #7 by Thousand Islands Bridge Authority / Boldt Castle This romantic Neo-Gothic style castle, built in 1912, is the Swallow's Nest Castle in Crimea, Yalta. While the Swallow's Nest was built for love, it was of the hot tryist love flavor which was reflected even in the original name "The Castle of Love" or "Love Castle." Photo #8 by desktop nexus, #9 by Иерей Максим Массалитин, #10 by hdoboi Swallow's Nest, a symbol of Crimea (Ukraine), is one of the best-known romantic castles near Yalta. While this lover's nest may not have been inspired by true love, this Castle of Love suffered a sad fate. An earthquake measuring 6-7 on the Richter scale cracked the 130 ft Aurora Cliff in 1927 and this massive crack closed the castle for the next 40 years. Eventually the cliff and castle were fortified and restored. Tourists swarm the Swallow's Nest Castle to dine in the restaurant inside, or to enjoy the romantic vibes while overlooking Ai–Todor Cape and the Black Sea. Photo #11 by Kirill Simonov, #12 by girlandlovelynotebook The Swallow Nest's at the night. This dark scene seems to reflect and remind us of the shadowy sad past of how the Castle of Love, built for making love, is now more about the love of money as a tourist attraction. Still it is a striking castle that many can now enjoy. Photo #13 by Grigory Gusev This Gothic Revival style castle is Casa Loma in Toronto, Canada. It was built in 1911–1914 after Major-General Sir Henry Mill Pellatt promised his wife Mary a sprawling castle. While Maryhill Castle was considered as a name for this castle built for love, Pellatt decided upon the name Casa Loma, which is Spanish for "House on the Hill." He spared no expense and the castle was considered very modern at the time. This architecture constructed for love cost over $5,000,000 to build and furnish. Today that amount would be equal to about $65 million. They lived for only 10 years in this dreamy love castle, since they fell behind in taxes during the depression that followed WWI. Pellatt was forced to auction off $1.5 million in art and furnishings for only $250,000. Photo #14 by paul (dex) bica, #15 by Steven V. Rose, #16 by SimonP It took 300 workers to construct this built-for-love, 98 room, 3-story castle. Casa Loma was the largest private residence in Canada. It had massive stables and a two-story hunting lodge which was 4,380 sq ft. Inside the very modern castle was "an elevator, an oven large enough to cook an ox, two vertical passages for pipe organs, central vacuum, two secret passages in Sir Henry's ground-floor office and three bowling alleys." After Sir Henry Pellatt and his wife left the castle, it functioned for short periods of time in the 1920s as a luxury hotel and then a popular nightspot. The city seized the castle and it fell to disrepair until there was talk of demolishing Casa Loma. Meanwhile during WWII, Casa Loma was used to conceal research on sonar for U-boat detection. Photo #17 by Jeffrey Vanneste Casa Loma is now a museum and landmark popular with tourists. The exterior has been undergoing restoration for 15 years. Casa Loma has five-acres of lovely gardens. Photo #18 by Casa Loma, #19 by Benson Kua Captain's Castle in Cameron, Oklahoma, may not be the most grand or large, but it makes our list based off the love story behind it. Apparently Captain J.E. Reynolds was a prince among big, dumb jerks prior to the Civil War. In fact, "Reynolds was considered as The 'Original Male Chauvinist' as he had little respect for women and even less respect for women's work." He was wounded several times during the Civil War, "once so seriously that he would have died had it not been for the two daughters of his commanding confederate officer." After they tenderly nursed him back to health, guess what? Prince Scum Sucker changed into Captain Chivalry. Photo #20 by © Oklahoma Historical Society, #21 by Explore Southern History Captain Reynolds married Felicity, a descendant of a prominent Choctaw leader, and settled in a small Oklahoma town. In 1890, he started construction on a castle, built it with love for his love, his wife. Captain's Castle is sometimes also called Reynolds' Castle. Photo #22 by Southern History Taj Mahal from Agra Uttar Pradesh, India. While the Taj Mahal is a 'castle" love constructed, it begins with tragedy and love lost. This is a mausoleum created in memory of "true love" after the death of a "favorite wife." Photo #23 by Ramesh NG Mumtaz Mahal, Emperor Shah Jahan, had this tomb created, wanting it to be the most resplendent monument that a man ever built for a woman. This is the side-view of the Taj Mahal; the mausoleum's dome and four standing minarets are built out of white marble. Photo #24 by 随风轻荡 (Driftwithwind) The inside and outlying buildings are primarily built of red sandstone. The architectural styles of the Taj Mahal include Indian, Islamic and Persian, but the main reason for the entire "castle" is the tomb and repeating mantra of love lost. Photo #25 by Poco a poco, #26 by Airknight, #27 by William Donelson, #28 by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen Kellie's Castle is Malaysia's oldest castle and it was indeed built for love by Scottish planter William Kellie Smith. He made his fortune and returned home to marry his Scottish sweetheart Agnes before bringing her to Malaysia in 1903. The castle did not make Agnes happy, since she was terribly homesick. When she had a son in 1915, Kellie decided to expand the castle. This was when Kellie's Castle became Kellie's Folly. Photo #29 by Matthew Reeve During the additional construction, to celebrate the birth of his son, Kellie wanted to combine three architectural styles – Greco-Roman, Moorish, and Indian. Almost immediately a Spanish flu epidemic killed most of the 70 Indian construction workers, and threatened to scare off the few who survived, so Kellie had a Hindu temple constructed near the castle built for love. This pleased the workers into restarting construction on the creepy and supposedly haunted castle. Photo #30 by Sharqawi Bakar, #31 by Matthew Reeve After construction restarted, Kellie ignored the supposed curse or hauntings and left for England to purchase a crane for the castle tower. He died shortly thereafter from pneumonia. Workers fled and construction on Kellie's Castle was left uncompleted. This location is allegedly haunted and has been visited by many paranormal groups including Ghost Hunters International who investigated the castle ruins. Photo #32 by Mohd Najib, #33 by chee.hong, #34 by chee.hong, #35 by salehi hassan Thornewood Castle was built for love. The bricks were from a dismantled 15th century house which was imported from England to Tacoma, Washington. The love story behind this castle is not like the others, neither built for a new bride nor as a nest for passionate lovers. Instead Chester Thorne had been married to his wife Anna for over 20 years when construction of Thornewood began. You may recognize Thornewood Castle, since it was the set for the Stephen King film Rose Red. The top photo was taken Circa 1910 during construction of 'Rose Red.' The lower left shows the interior living room. The photo on the lower right shows the interior fireplace in the living room and is looking toward the dining hall. Photo #36 by Unknown/Circa 1910, #37 by © Christy R. Hansen, #38 by © Christy R. Hansen Thornewood "castle" gardens are where weddings are often held, but were originally built for Anna. She called the sunken English garden her "Secret Garden." The giant chess set still remains as well in this tribute to romance and to true love. The Thornes lived at Thornewood with their daughter who later married, had children and continued to live at Thornewood. As Margaret Anderson once said, "In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person." This castle built for love is an example of both — with no tragic ending. Photo #39 by © Thornewood Castle, #40 by © Thornewood Castle, #41 by Lara604, #42 by Lara604 Taj Lake Palace in Udaipur: Taj Lake Palace began as a prince's rebellious gesture, but was later turned into one of the most romantic hotels in the world. According to Taj Lake Palace history, "Glowing moonlight. Gentle lakeside breezes. A whole entourage of courtesans. What young prince could resist? Certainly not Maharana Jagat Singh II. Legend has it that the young prince indulged in moonlight picnics with the ladies of the Zenana on the lake island palace of Jag Mandir. A pleasurable pastime – until his father found out. With that option closed to him, there was only one solution. He built his own pleasure palace on a different island in Lake Pichola." Photo #43 by Dennis Jarvis, #44 by Jasvipul Chawla, #45 by Aditichopra7 This luxurious lover's nest was built for love, but the passionate kind. This is the Lily Pond exterior view of Taj Lake Palace, Udaipur. Construction on this "castle," a pleasure palace, began in 1743 and was inaugurated in 1746. It was named Jag Niwas and now Taj Lake Palace, and is on one of four lovely Lake Pichola islands. Photo #46 by Sreejithk2000 This massive castle in northern Italy was built between 1448 – 1460. Pier Maria II Rossi, the count of San Secondo, had the Castle of Torrechiara constructed in honor of his lover Bianca Pellegrini. Torrechiara became her luxurious home. Look familiar? Scenes of the film Ladyhawke were shot at Castle Torrechiara in 1985. Photo #47 by Renaud Camus Even the four towers showed his love for her as one, the "Lily Tower" (Torre del Giglio) carries Bianca Pellegrini's coat of arms. This castle built for love and passion was a wonderful lover's nest. The "Golden Chamber" is one of the most famous erotic chambers in Italy, decorated with — among other things — paintings of a woman searching for her lover. Also in that room are two entwined hearts forever marked with the lovers' initials and joined by a ribbon bearing the motto "Nunc et Semper," which means "now and forever." This is another example where love won instead of a tragic unhappily-ever-after ending. Photo #48 by Silla, #49 by Luigi Alighieri, #50 by Emilio Dellepiane This is Layton Castle in Utah — although the castle does not really have an official name — just officially near Layton, Utah. This is nowhere close to a castle built for true love, but a castle built for spite due to love scorned. According to a Dupon Castle, a man and his wife lived elsewhere before this castle was built. The story goes that "the wife was always being told by her mother that her husband would never amount to anything and that she should leave him and marry someone richer. After a time she did just that and her new husband never amounted to much." She moved to Utah, and built herself a nice home in the valley. But not long after she remarried, her first husband made a great deal of money and became successful. Out of spite…and love (he wanted to be with her), he moved there and built a castle up on the east bench in Layton — almost in her backyard. He could see every house all the way to the Great Salt Lake…including hers. It was his way of watching over her. Every time she stood at her kitchen sink and looked out the window, her ex-husband's beautiful castle was her view. Moral of the story? Sometimes it isn't best to listen to your mother! Photo #51 by © Ben Steiner In the continuing story of Layton Castle in Utah, the castle built for spite after spurned love, there is a different real Cinderella love story behind this castle: Gary Willey (a very charming and handsome man) one day saw a beautiful dark-haired, dark-eyed lady named Lynda Roundy who had also endured a harsh first marriage. It was "love at first sight." They met, courted, and traveled the world, falling even more madly in love, before they were married. A short time later Lynda was diagnosed with breast cancer. During one of the remission periods, Gary vowed to build her the home of her dreams — including a pool, tennis courts and a lovely stable area. Soon after they began to build, Lynda lost her battle with cancer. Although she did not live to see her dream home finished, the love of her life completed construction on the castle just the same. Gary later dedicated the home to his lost love and held tours for a short while. In this sad ending version, Layton Castle was built for love and not spite. Photo #52, #53, #54 & #55 by Homes of the Rich Dobroyd Castle in Todmorden, England, began like something out of a fairy tale. In a booming cotton town, rich industrialist John Fielden fell in love with local weaver Ruth Stansfield. She told him that she would marry him only if he built her a castle. What started as a promise of love and then a honeymoon home, became a place of turmoil and the marriage was increasingly strained during the construction. Eventually Dobroyd Castle, a castle love built, had 66 luxurious rooms, four turrets, a main tower and a stable for 17 horses. Most romantic of all was the testimony of John and Ruth's love, the dozen different places where their initials were engraved, the monograms JFR forever captured and carved into the Devon marble and Caen stone. The bottom photo is of the now-abandoned stables. Photo #56 by Dvprknsn, #57 by Dvprknsn Sadly the reoccurring theme of love and tragedy struck when John decided Ruth was not refined enough for socializing in Dobroyd Castle as he intended to "immortalize the name of Fielden." John sent his beloved wife to finishing school in Switzerland to improve her social etiquette and education. That seemed to kill the love and eventually her, only 8 years after the castle was completed. Although John remarried, he was kicked by a horse and crippled so that he spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Photo #58 by William Warby, #59 by William Warby Did you know there was a castle in Kentucky? This is Castle Post (previously Martin Castle and Versailles Castle) aka Kentucky Castle located on Versailles Road between Lexington and Frankfort. Construction of 50-acre estate and castle began in 1969 with coal boom money, but the money ran out and construction ground to a halt. Dupont Castle tells the tragic tale: The original owner and builder, Rex Martin, and his new bride honeymooned in Europe where she fell in love with castles. He built her this replica of a castle upon their return, but they divorced before it's completion. Inside the turreted wall is a 10,400-square-foot, six-bedroom house complete with a huge library and swimming pool. Add chickens, goats, and peasants and you'd have a medieval village fort. With its dozen turrets, four corner towers and 12-foot walls, the derelict castle was both a forbidding sight and a vision of whimsy. Photo #60 by Christina Ramey, #61 screengrab virtual tour by Castle Post In 2004, a Miami attorney spent almost $2 million to buy the castle, but a fire destroyed it — a fire which was later labeled arson. By 2008, the Kentucky Castle underwent extensive reconstruction. It is now known as Castle Post where tourists can vacation, have a fanciful bed and breakfast, or choose to hold a wedding ceremony. Photo #62 & #63 by Wave3, #64 by Dupont Castle, #65 by Relocation Blog, #66 by Dupont Castle, #67 & #68 by UrbanDaddy, #69 & #70 by Castle Post This is Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria, British Columbia. According to Stronghold 2 Heaven, after Scottish immigrant Robert Dunsmuir made his fortune, he "promised to build a new home for his wife Joan. Dunsmuir commissioned Warren H. Williams and Arthur L. Smith of Portland, Oregon to design the castle in 1887. Williams died four months into the project, but Smith carried on and finished the castle. Robert Dunsmuir died in 1889, one year before the castle's completion. The cost of the Victorian mansion is estimated to have been close to $500,000. The interior woodwork alone filled 5 railway cars from Chicago and cost $32,000." Photo #71 by Christopher Sibley Stronghold 2 Heaven added, "The original grounds of the castle encompassed 28 acres. It takes 87 steps to reach the tower on the top level, but once you've reached it, the view is impressive: Victoria Harbour to the west, the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the south, the Olympic Mountains and the San Juan Islands to the east, as well as the city of Victoria itself. The castle is over 20,000 square feet, spread throughout 39 rooms on 4 ½ floors. It has 17 fireplaces. The exterior is constructed of marble, granite, sandstone, terra cotta, and Vermont slate in the Romanesque/Chateauesque style." It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada and is now owned by the Craigdarroch Castle Historical Museum Society. Besides a 150,000 yearly tourists, Craigdarroch Castle has been used in the movies: Little Women (1994), Spooky House (2000) and Cats & Dogs (2001). Photo #72 by Shayne Kaye, #73 by Hayley E. Lavik, #74 by Fletcher6 This is Larnach Castle which is located on the Otago Peninsula in New Zealand. According to CNN GO, "Construction began on the castle in 1871, when Australian William Larnach broke the turf for his first wife, Eliza Jane Guise. It was completed in 1887, with the final addition of a ballroom as a 21st birthday present for his daughter Katie." Wikipedia notes, "The finished house contained 43 rooms and a ballroom, and required a staff of 46 servants." Larnach called it "The Camp," and although built for love, it "did not ensure his happiness." Photo #75 by Poco a poco Larnach Castle in New Zealand is allegedly haunted by "a very unhappy" presence. In 2008, there were about 30 reported sightings of "cranky spirits," "touches," "pushing" and other "odd occurrences." As rumors of the notorious haunted castle spread, several paranormal teams visited, including investigators from local New Zealand television shows such as Ghost Hunt and Spookers and then Ghost Hunters International. Photo #76 by ~boonie, #77 by robin_waarts, #78 by Dunedin NZ, #79 by Gordon Wrigley This is Leeds Castle near Kent in England. According to InfoBritain, "Leeds Castle was originally a Norman fortification," but the castle has a "stronger association with love than war. One of the most romantic kings in history, Richard II, gave Leeds Castle as a gift to his adored wife Anne of Bohemia. Richard was a sensitive man, who aspired to peace in a warlike age. To escape constant power struggles waged by aggressive nobles, he would spend fleeting dreamy hours at Leeds Castle with Anne. The chronicler Jean Froissart describes how he presented a richly illustrated book to Richard at Leeds Castle in 1395. The king, Froissart wrote, was delighted when told that the book was 'about love.' A first edition of Froissart's Chronicles remains at the castle. It is heartening that a building originally created for war should have slowly turned into a extravagant gift for the ladies." Photo #80 by Marc Evans "Leeds Castle is a feminine castle. Apart from Queen Eleanor and Anne of Bohemia, it was also owned by Edward II's wife Isabella of France and Edward III's wife Margaret of France. Henry V also realised Leeds Castle's romantic qualities, giving it to his wife Catherine de Valois. A bedroom at the castle has been decorated to appear as it would have done when Catherine lived here. There are also displays related to Henry VIII who brought Catherine of Aragon here." InfoBritain adds, Leeds Castle in Kent England is linked to love. The chapel on the lower left was built by Edward I "for the purpose of a daily Mass to be sung for his beloved wife Eleanor who died in 1290. Edward was a ruthless king, but he clearly loved Eleanor. It is fitting that evidence of this affection should be linked with Leeds Castle." On the lower right is the queen's bathroom. Photo #81 by Diliff, #82 by Leeds Castle Foundation, #83 by Richard Croft Reklamlar Share this:TwitterFacebookBunu beğen:Beğen Yükleniyor... İlgili


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