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The Vikings waived Berrian in October 2011, midway into his fourth year with the team.


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HARARE, Zimbabwe – President Robert Mugabe arrived home from Asia on Thursday morning as his party denied reports he had suffered a health emergency.
Mugabe, 88, was met at the main Harare airport by party leaders and military chiefs under normal protocol. He did not speak to waiting reporters.
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Original post made by A Close Neighbor, Amador Valley High School, on Sep 18, 2008
Comments (20)
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on Sep 18, 2008 at 11:43 am
There's a real example of "Building on the past . . .Planning for the future"
Didn't Cavemen exhibit that same type of behavior?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 18, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Oh blah, blah. First of all, how do adults commemorate tragedies? Food. They eat. Someone die in your family? What do you do? You all get together for a gathering (dare I say 'party'?) and eat. Lots.
How do we commemorate the genocide and cultural slaughter of the Native Americans? We stuff ourselves with food.
To counter death, we eat. Thus, the Amador students followed their parents example, except instead of stuffing ALL that food down their gullets, they threw some around. Haven't these children parents made the food fight in Animal House a classic
American movie scene?
By the way, how are the students suppose to learn responsibility from parents who drive gas-guzzling trucks while kids die in Iraq, consider it critical to talk on the phone while driving knowing that it impairs reaction time, scream at their boys to 'wake up!' and stop playing 'like a girl!' when they're doing their best at soccer, speed on roads that border schools at dismissal time, value their children's grades more than actual learning to the point where they PAY them for grades, etc. Who exactly are these kids supposed to be learning RESPONSIBILITY from?
a resident of Amador Estates
on Sep 18, 2008 at 2:18 pm
What a rediculous article. So some kids had a food fight that coincidentally ended up on the anniversary of 9/11. Why didn't the school teachers & staff plan some kind of memorial for that day? I have a child that goes to Amador and my child was quite upset that the school did nothing to remember the victims of 9/11. Don't blame the students, blame the school staff.
PS - I did hear that the school had some kind of moment of silence in response to some homosexual issue. It's just great that the school staff organized a moment of silence for homosexuality (sarcasm).
a resident of Downtown
on Sep 18, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Have you sat through classes at Amador? A typical day there is an exercise in tedium for the students. The teachers do not create an environment of active, involved children. What you will see is kids sitting in hard chairs for 7 hours listening to adults who love the sound of their own voices droning on and on and on....It's like the 7 hour meeting from hell.
Imagine if you went to work and had to immediately sit down and endure 7 hours of boring speakers. Complete passivity is required or you're fired. Do that for 170 days and see if a food fight starts looking appealing.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 18, 2008 at 2:44 pm
BTW, I'm aware that girls rock at soccer. I've watched them play and they're amazing. I did, however, hear the mother of a boy playing soccer try to emasculate the boys by accusing them of 'playing like girls.' It is, of course, a compliment.
I've noticed the parents at girl's soccer games are quiet, but the parents at the boy's games groan and yell criticisms at the children when they make mistakes. It's awful. Winning is all that matters. Their children's feelings don't. If you're actually upset when a little kid misses the ball during a children's game, see a therapist.
a resident of Rosepointe
on Sep 18, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Lynda, are you prejudiced against homosexual people?
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Sep 18, 2008 at 3:10 pm
"Community of Character" is just a feel-good slogan for hypocritical people to hide behind.
a resident of Livermore
on Sep 18, 2008 at 4:03 pm
I think that Lynda is a pim_! That, or the DEVIL!
Try taking the High Road Lynda, you might feel better about yourself...maybe not?
(Comment partially removed by Pleasanton Weekly Online staff) (sarcasm)
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on Sep 18, 2008 at 4:03 pm
It sure seems like anytime something goes less than perfect there is someone out there mocking the community of character objective. It is an objective, an ideal, obviously not 100% of the time a reality. BTW Stacey your comment in and of itself dosen't show much character either. Simply piling on to what someone else barfed on this website.
If anyone thinks a food fight was organized specifically on 9/11 your foolish. Also, with 2500+ students I'm sure nowhere close to all of them participated, and yet the entire student body is held responsible.
I'll bet "a close neighbor" is the same person who purchased a home next to the school and then constantly complains about the noise it produces. You would have to be at the school to know that a food fight had occured in any event right?
a resident of Livermore
on Sep 18, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Not Again = Bottom Feeder
a resident of Livermore
on Sep 18, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Not Again Correction: 2nd paragraph, 1st line - you're and not your.
Youse Welcome!
signed, an immigrant!
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Sep 18, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Correction: "Community of Characters"
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Sep 18, 2008 at 8:49 pm
The "Community of Character" concept deserves to be mocked. What does it do other than become a source of hypocrisy? I've tended to find that people who really are honest, responsible, have integrity, or compassion, etc., don't need a fancy label to wear on their sleeves proclaiming they are such while those that aren't like to say they are.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Sep 18, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Kids don't learn these values by someone putting them out as a slogan or educational program. It is just another bitter pill society tries to force down their throats. Kids learn by example from those that they respect.
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on Sep 18, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Not again,
You obviously are not a regular visitor...I live close, and think those who purchased homes close to the campus are ridiculous in their complaints. They bought homes knowing there was a school there...live with it.
That said...I'm always suprised at the varied responses here. I'm not stupid enough to think that the kids specifically planned this to happen on 9/11, the point was that they did it without a thought of what the day was.
Also a typical, and silly, response...blame the adults. How predictible. At the HS level, activities at the school are initiated by and for the students. My intent in posting this was hopefully not to prove the simeon nature of our students (Another Gatetree...get over it you live next to the school), to blame the school AGAIN (Lynda...let's FINALLY make pleasanton kids responsible for what they do, and don't do), to mis-interpret and bash tradition (Violet...a bit of pshcho-babble), or to totally misrepresent what a good school we actually have in our community (Theresa...seriously...sounds like a personal problem to me...school phobia), my point was to get the adults, parents, and kids in this community to have a conversation about what their community is all about. If their energies that they use for destructive behavior were used for constructive things, how much better off would we be. When my kid comes home laughing about this event, comments about how cool he thought it was, and is spreading word about administrators getting hit with food and laughing about that...what has my kid learned from me if I ignore their comments, roll my eyes, and say "kids will be kids". Instead, I made sure to have a long and honest conversation with my kid, helping them to mature and hopefully come to their own conclusion about the immaturity of the situation. Mabye you all should do the same.
a resident of Pleasanton Village
on Sep 19, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Maybe all our kids aren't like yours. But glad you're talking to yours.
P.S. It's 'simian'.
a resident of Walnut Grove Elementary School
on Sep 19, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Dear A Close Neighbor, If the way you write is the way you approach your child, no wonder he's immature. You're shaming, condemning, superior, critical and attacking. Children learn nothing but how to hide whenever possible from an adult like that. No one is open to learning when they're being attacked.
a resident of Livermore
on Sep 19, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Cholo agrees with Cholo. Yup, Lynda is a pimp! (sarcasm)
a resident of Ironwood
on Sep 19, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Jeez, after that diatribe, no wonder the kid likes to see an adult get a pie in the face.
a resident of Livermore
on Sep 20, 2008 at 11:28 am
did somebody say pie? yum yum...
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Miles White. From Jim Crow to Jay-Z: Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. 163 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03662-0; $22.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07832-3.
Reviewed by Micah Salkind (Brown University)
Published on H-Ethnic (March, 2013)
Commissioned by Amy J. Johnson (Brown University)
Miles White's From Jim Crow to Jay-Z drops squarely into the Bermuda Triangle of critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, and performance studies with useful new approaches to studying rappers as ambivalent cultural exemplars of black masculine performance. White contends that rappers in particular (as opposed to b-boys, producers, DJs, or graffiti writers who remain less visible and infrequently critiqued in scholarly work on hip hop) continue to work from, and self-consciously extend, nineteenth-century minstrel tropes predicated on reductive, decontextualized notions of black masculinity even as they resist racist cultural ghettoization and white supremacy.
Building off Eric Lott's psychoanalytic critique of white audiences in his seminal Love and Theft: Black Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (1995) and W. T. Lhamon Jr.'s Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop (2000), in which the author connects Jim Crow representations to hip hop, White makes an argument about the specific and ambivalent ways that negative affects coalesce around the racially reductive zip coonery of rappers at the turn of the twenty-first century. Critiquing inattention to race and embodiment in the study of masculinity, he shows that interracial consumption of hip hop masculinities shapes contemporary post-racial ideological regimes while fueling ambivalent hypervisibility of black men in global popular cultures.
White elegantly condenses descriptive terms that help make sense of the ways that the affective labors of hardcore rappers are shaped by structural context even as they continually riff on and revise black cultural norms. Understanding the majority of hip hop consumption as involving the circulation of a "commodity without context" and "narrative content constructed in the register of the real" can help scholars to show students that hip hop's commercial mediascape has serious material and psychological consequences (pp. 20, 59). While White's critique will be familiar to scholars following the recent work of E. Patrick Johnson in Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity (2003), Patricia Hill Collins in Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (2004), and Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar in Hip Hop Revolutionaries: The Culture and Politics of Rap (2004), its utility lies more in its focus and evenhanded analytical style than in a paradigm-shifting methodological approach or subject matter.
White's introductory chapters on technology and disembodiment, the political dimensions of racial performance, and the affective and gestural vocabularies of rappers anchor a series of close readings of performances/personas in his concluding ones. He does an excellent job of reading back through the representational regimes of jazz, rock 'n' roll, and the black power movements. This enables him to evaluate highly contingent performances by and public reactions to artists like N. W. A., Jay-Z, Elvis, and Eminem. For example, his attention to genealogies of black masculinity enables him to make a useful distinction between the rebellious, yet ultimately community-minded, "bad man," typified by Muhammad Ali, and the socially destructive "bad nigger," typified by Jack Johnson, whose behavior remained outside the accepted cultural norms of blacks as well as whites (pp. 66-67). By providing competent and grounded connections between hip hop masculinities and culturally specific "badman" and "trickster" tropes, From Jim Crow to Jay-Z adds nuance to arguments about hip hop's resistive potential that do not fail to recognize its participation in the reification of the black male body as an object of white fascination and resentment.
White's penultimate chapter on white rappers is his most deftly executed. By acknowledging the possibility for authenticity in performances by progressive white rappers, like Brother Ali, he leaves the door open for white performers to participate productively in black cultural practices while holding them accountable for the ways they play off of and into ambivalent black masculine representational regimes. His readings of The Beastie Boys, Vanilla Ice, and Eminem as variously problematic vis-a-vis these regimes helps White position white cultural borrowing of black masculine tropes alongside variously problematic black performances. White distinguishes between performances that further cross-racial understanding and those that merely recirculate images of black cultural dysfunction. Even though he is phenotypically white (and albino), Ali's performance of empathy and identification with black life, his deep knowledge of black cultural history, and his embodied political commitment to racial justice align him with what White calls a productive "radical Black subjectivity" (p. 115).
Texts like From Jim Crow to Jay-Z that deal thoughtfully with masculinity and embodiment, as well as with the white artists and consumers overrepresented in the hip hop marketplace, are useful tools for scholars of contemporary black popular culture who teach racially mixed groups of undergraduates. Unfortunately, cross-racial consumption and performance remain oft-unremarked elephants in hip hop classrooms, despite the pained exhortations of luminaries in the field. As Tricia Rose says in her recent book The Hip Hop Wars (2010), hip hop studies needs to move past the uncritical celebratory pose--we must, as White shows us, critique the players while embracing the hip hop game.
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Micah Salkind. Review of White, Miles, From Jim Crow to Jay-Z: Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity.
H-Ethnic, H-Net Reviews.
March, 2013.
URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=37051
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who won global ridicule last year after admitting to having used crack cocaine, registered on Thursday for the October mayoral election, saying he was the best mayor Canada's largest city has ever had and would be re-elected.
Ford, who last year admitted that he smoked crack while in a "drunken stupor," purchased illegal drugs while in office and drove after drinking, said his slogan will be "Ford more years."
He is the first candidate to register for the October 27 election and is expected to be opposed on both sides of the political spectrum.
"My track record speaks for itself," Ford told reporters as he registered for re-election at city hall, according to local media reports. "If you want to get personal, that's fine. I'm sticking to my record, and talk is cheap. You're going to see action like you've never seen before."
Ford, who came to power in 2010 on a platform of cost-cutting and low taxes, has billed himself as a champion of taxpayers and ordinary people. But he has been criticized for public drunkenness and personal attacks on political opponents, the city's police chief and journalists.
The revelations about Ford began in May when two media outlets said they had seen video of him smoking from what appeared to be a crack pipe.
He initially said he did not smoke crack cocaine, before admitting in November that he had done so. The revelation and his decision to remain in office drew ridicule from late-night TV humorists.
Ford was stripped of most of his mayoral duties in November after the Toronto city council voted to transfer most of his powers and budget to the deputy mayor. Supporters and opponents alike have urged him to enter rehab, but Ford has insisted he is not an addict.
A poll in November showed 42 percent of Toronto voters approved of the job he has been doing as mayor and 33 percent said they would vote for him next October.
Ford won the last election with 47 percent of the vote. His support is strongest in the suburbs, where many backed his pledge to curb spending and limit taxes.


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50 fundamental tools to get your bass right.
The Bass Toolbox EZmix Pack comes with a wide variety of presets custom-made solely for bass guitar. You'll find anything from amp and cab simulation settings to signal chains for amp and DI combos as well as inserts applicable on any type of source bass guitar audio.
"The idea was to compile something that would cater to a broad use, regardless of genre. A collection that covered the whole gamut of fundamental tools you'd need to get your bass right in a mix scenario", says Toontrack sound designer Ulf Edlund.
A bass guitar in a mix situation is seldom just a plain and simple instrument signal. It often involves a long chain of effects such as compression, EQ, tape simulator and various types of distortion. Most mix engineers would even agree to bass being one of the hardest instruments to have sit well in a production. That's why Toontrack put together an all-star team of engineers to design this collection of go-to settings for mixing and recording bass guitar: Randy Staub (Metallica, Avril Lavigne), Neil Dorfsman (Bruce Springsteen, Dire Straits), Pelle Henricsson (Refused, Meshuggah) as well as the Toontrack sound design team.
This pack will provide anything from warm and muffled to edgy, modern and distorted tones – all the way from upright and acoustic to vintage, classic and modern. It's a toolbox for bass guitar. Easy.
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Etiquette, expectations, entitlement...@autoexec_bin | #magiclantern | Discord | Reddit | Server issues
where the display is frozen with vertical stripes but it shows a slow preview while recording.
Levas, could you build one with 30 and 60 Hz modes please?
I use 30/60 because computer monitors run at 60Hz and TV's play 30/60 just fine here in England.
What about light flickering? It is 50Hz in England.
I'd reflash the firmware but I cant find 116 anywhere the link on the nightly build page is broken: http://pel.hu/down/eos6d-v116-win.zip
That, unfortunately, won't work.Different camera's need different Magic lantern build.Simple said, Magic Lantern code is basicaly the same, but you need to know specific properties of the camera and all the addresses/locations of the interesting parts in the firmware of the camera.I've no experience in this, here is a topic about it:https://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=19737.msg185811#msg185811
I asked because I know someone who put the 5D ML software on their 6D and it works perfectly fine.
More people had the same error on different camera's. There we're some instructions on how to fix this, can't find it back.But you had to search for the address where ISO was changed in camera (done in ADTG override in Debug menu). ...
Dual ISO is broken all of a sudden it displays ISOless LV err 3...
1) the cause for this variation is unknown; are these two really the only possible addresses?2) Canon firmware startup is non-deterministic; maybe it's that; maybe the startup mode or Canon settings will make a difference, no idea3) if outside LV, the error can be probably reproduced in QEMU; if so, that can be used to solve the mystery.
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Florence Hotel Golf · Palazzo PittiWhile a guest at Hotel Golf, a sure sight to see while visiting Florence is the Pitti Palace. Its origin dates back to the second half of the 15th century, when Filippo Brunelleschi was summoned by the banker Luca Bonaccorso Pitti to design the Palace but the artist's plan did not initiate until after his death some 10 years later. It is situated in the first great square that the Florentines call "Diladdarno" or "beyond the Arno" at the foot of Boboli.
The Palace has seen a history of accomplishments throughout four centuries.
The present version of Palazzo Pitti is larger than its original smaller body dimensions, which consisted of two floors, covered with rustic stone ashlars. The Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders all helped to enrich this architectural Renaissance style of austere and balance.
In 1550, the Palazzo was purchased by Cosimo of the Medici family with intentions of making it his new residence, and in 1558 he commissioned Bartholomew Ammannati to do work on refining aspects which also included the addition of large windows to the facade and the creation of the courtyard.
The creation and construction of the Great Garden Boboli, named for by the homonymous hill, was commissioned out to Niccol Tribolo. The addition of a vast corridor for the family, to be able to walk from the Palazzo to the Piazza Signoria protected from the dangers of an attack, was built in 1565 by Vasari.
In 1618, under the direction of Giulio da Paragi, work continued. The Palazzo was extended with an addition of two other buildings with two floors each. The Palazzo's present length is due to the adjustments done by Alfonso da Parigi in 1640.
The halls of entertainment in the summertime residence on the ground floor were decorated during the period of Grand Duke Ferdinando II. Also for the event of his wedding to Vittoria della Rovere, which was to take place in his winter residence, the first floor was also decorated.
Great artists such as Giovanni da Sangiovanni and Pietro da Cortona were summoned to render the palace breathtakingly royal with their extraordinary works.
At the end of the 18th century, the final addition of the Palazzina della Meridiana, requested by Pietro Leopoldi, was made to the building, done neo-classical style by Gaspare Maria Paoletti and Pasquale Poccianti.
Through time, Palazzo Pitti has assumed different functions. Today the seat of important museums with expositions of Silver, Chinaware, Costumes, Carriages, a Modern Art Gallery and the Garden of Boboli, it is possible to visit the splendour of a long ago epoch which has managed to stay alive through history for us to admire today.


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So here's the storm happening right now over Boston:
Also watching lightning strikes on Lightning Finder, as well as out my window, before I go outside for a better view.
Check out FlightAware's view of KBOS (Logan airport) flight activity map:
You can see flights avoiding the storm as it approaches the airport, which is just above the "BO" in KBOS.
It's just a summer thunderstorm. Nothing exceptional. It's just fun to watch it online in all these places as well as from a chair on my front porch.
… And now, a few minutes later, the sun is out and we have rainbows in Cambridge. Meanwhile, flights are taking off from Logan, while inbound flights circle in the sky to the east:
By the way, also at FlightAware, there's this notice: "Boston Logan Intl (KBOS) is currently experiencing inbound flights delayed at their origin an average of 1 hour 33 minutes due to thunderstorms." So if you're coming here for the weekend, good luck.


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India's top investigative agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation, said Monday that it has registered a case against former federal minister Dayanidhi Maran, in connection with ongoing investigations into alleged scams in the Ministry of Communications.
The CBI said it conducted raids Monday in nine places in Delhi and Chennai. The case has been filed against Maran and some business executives under the country's Prevention of Corruption Act.
The CBI had been investigating Maran for some time on charges that he coerced the promoter of mobile operator Aircel to sell his stake to Maxis Communications in Malaysia by delaying clearances of spectrum to Aircel.
Maran, India's telecom minister between 2004 and 2007, is the second former minister of communications to be investigated. His successor, A. Raja, has been under arrest since February after the CBI charged him with involvement in an alleged out-of-turn allotment of 2G licenses and spectrum in 2008. Maran and Raja both belong to the Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam, a coalition partner of the ruling Congress party in the federal government.
At the instruction of the country's Supreme Court, the CBI broadened its investigation to include not only the 2008 allocations, but also the allotment of licenses and policy changes by the telecom ministry from 2001.
The Monday raids by the CBI came a few hours before the current communications minister, Kapil Sibal, was due to announce a new draft telecom policy for the country that is expected to plug loopholes in earlier rules.
The irregular allocations of 2G licenses and spectrum to some Indian operators in 2008, without an auction, may have cost the country about US$39 billion, according to a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). The report alleged that a "first come, first served" rule was manipulated to favor some companies.
The case filed Monday by the CBI against Maran may reveal that there were irregularities in the telecom ministry even before the 2008 scam.
John Ribeiro covers outsourcing and general technology breaking news from India for The IDG News Service. Follow John on Twitter at @Johnribeiro. John's e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com


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Mumble is a great program, but that is no reason to stop polishing it. There are numerous areas where the development team needs help, and if you feel like contributing, then any of the below is for you.
The Wiki documents are more or less up to date. It would be very helpfull if someone went through them all and made them completely up to date.
Someone that is not a development team member needs to maintain the article at Wikipedia. At the moment it's missing references; try to find some. (This requires more work than just googling).
Mumble is currently actively translated in German and Spanish. We have many other translations, but they may be out of date. If you wish to do a translation, get in contact with the dev team through the forums.
For a tutorial, see Language Translation.
Get the word out. This means more than writing about it on your blog ;) There are many providers of free murmur servers; coordinate with one of them and start promoting Mumble as the voicechat of choice for your favorite game.
Create a new skin for Mumble. Mumble supports extensive skinning, but so far this feature hasn't been used much.
For a tutorial, see Skinning.
Management suite
Since Mumble only supports a very limited set of administrative capabilities from the client itself, we are in need of additional Management solutions for the Murmur server. These could be written in any language supported by our the Ice based RPC Interface (there is also DBus but it does not receive updates anymore and might get removed completely in the future). You could start your own project or link up with an already existing one (an incomplete list of existing Interfaces can be found here. To get an idea about how interaction with murmur might look like you can take a look at the example scripts in out git repositories script folder.
Ice authenticators
We currently ship with an dbus authenticator that works with phpBB3. It would be a real bonus if we had more authenticators for our current RPC protocol of choice, Ice. These could be for other bb software, blogs, anything you can think of. Sample authenticators can be found in our repositories script folder.
Mumble itself
We are always looking for helping hands willing to contribute to mumble. You'll need a good understanding of C++ and previous knowledge in Qt is definitely helpfull. The best way to get into mumble development is to link up with us on IRC (#mumble on freenode), there is always small stuff to do to get you started.


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Countless Pros have tried every conceivable "Card to Wallet" out there and almost always end up using The Mullica Wallet. It's just hard to improve on perfection.
You don't even need a deck! With Paul Harris' routine, you just borrow an ID card, and a moment later it's inside the zipped compartment of your back-pocket wallet!
Our new sleek black leather worker's edition includes credit card slots, clear ID window and paper money section. It also features a special touch from Tommy Wonder: A gleaming gold zipper on the black leather that focuses all attention on the unzipped moment of astonishment. Even Paul Harris' video guy, Joe Russell, keeps a hip pocket Mullica in his back pocket.
"Of all the cool magic I've shot for Paul, this is my absolute favorite. I've put all my normal wallet stuff into the Mullica and use it as my everyday wallet."
Super easy to do. No palming!
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The art of Balearic blown glass dates back to the 2nd century BC. C. and consists of introducing an iron tube (the canya) in a quantity of molten glass. The opposite end is then blown and the glass is inflated like a balloon. To work this "balloon", the tube is rotated in both directions and the blower shapes it with the help of wet newspaper, molds, different instruments, even freehand. When the part is finished, it is separated from the tube. The puntill is what remains of that union between cane and object, and can be seen at its base.
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Suicidal man closes North Spokane Corridor for eight hours
A man threatening to jump from the Wandermere Bridge kept the North Spokane Corridor closed for about eight hours Friday morning.
Washington State Patrol troopers and Spokane County sheriff's deputies responded to a report of a man on top of the bridge around 10:30 p.m. Thursday.Suicidal man closes North Spokane Corridor For 8 Hours
Troopers blocked the area from traffic throughout the night. Traffic was blocked in both directions on the corridor from Highway 395 to Highway 2. The southbound Division Street on-ramp on Highway 395 was also closed.
Sheriff's deputies and Spokane police tried to talk with the 19-year-old, in hopes of getting him down to safety.
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All of these were taken at the same beach - Robert Moses State Park Field 5. Living so close to the ocean is an amazing gift & I go there often. To relax, to regenerate, to breathe. It never ceases to amaze me how much of an impact the aroma of briny seaweed and crystalline air along with the rhythmic sound of crashing waves can have on the mind and soul. It even amazes me more though, how different the very same beach can look at any given time, even within minutes. This gallery's all about the light and the water...Read More


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McMICKEN, ALEXANDER, businessman, secret service agent, politician, and magistrate; b. 27 Aug. 1837 in Queenston, Upper Canada, son of Gilbert McMicken* and Ann Theresa Duff; m. 1 Sept. 1859 Margaret Sarah Johnston in Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada; d. 29 July 1916 in Winnipeg.
After he completed his education in local public schools and the Toronto Academy, Alexander McMicken was appointed postmaster and collector of customs at Clifton (Niagara Falls), Upper Canada, but he remained there only until 1860. That year he moved to Windsor, where he engaged in the grain trade. In 1864 his father was placed in charge of Canada's first secret service, to counter the threat of raids from Confederate soldiers and later from Fenians; Alexander was responsible for the western division of this service. According to a newspaper account, "By his daring and skill in handling strategic positions he came to the attention of the Dominion government."
Alexander arrived in Manitoba in 1871 soon after his father, whose ability and loyalty to the Conservative government had earned him numerous posts in the new province. At first he assisted his father in the operation of the Government Savings Bank. On 4 Jan. 1872 he opened his own private bank, in a log house adjoining the frame building that contained his father's office and a smithy.
McMicken's Bank had the distinction of issuing what was probably the first cheque written and cashed in the North-West Territories. Business thrived, making larger quarters necessary, and on 24 Nov. 1873 McMicken relocated to a new brick-veneer building – the first such structure in the west – which served as both his residence and his place of business. In 1875, however, he sold out to the Ontario Bank and afterwards applied himself to other interests.
He had played an active role in local politics, almost from the moment of his arrival in the settlement, vigorously promoting the incorporation of the city of Winnipeg; it was achieved in 1873. In 1875 and again in 1881 he was elected to the Winnipeg City Council and in December 1882 he was elected mayor for the following year.
McMicken's tenure as mayor was marked by sharp controversy. Winnipeg's prospects had been dazzling in 1881, following the decision of the Canadian Pacific Railway to build its main line through the city and to locate its western shops, freight sheds, and offices there. The railway's decision assured that Winnipeg would be the gateway to the Canadian prairie and that it would become the dominant metropolis. The economic expansion envisaged for the city resulted in a demand for commercial, industrial, and residential sites which set off a speculative frenzy in 1881. Land prices soared. The real estate boom ended abruptly in April 1882, when a flooding Red River covered much of the land on which the urban expansion was supposed to occur. Expectations were chilled and real estate values began to collapse. Confident, however, that the set-back was only temporary, in December the city council overwhelmingly approved a by-law to borrow $1,250,000 for major civic improvements, such as police and fire stations, a new bridge, and a city hall of the size and grandeur that would be warranted in an important urban centre [see Charles Arnold Barber]. McMicken, as mayor elect, journeyed to New York to sell the city's bond issue. He obtained what were declared to be very favourable terms, far better than those realized for a previous issue.
Work on the new civic structures, notably the city hall, progressed to such a degree that the proceeds of the bond issue were overspent, moving city council to propose the borrowing of another $500,000 to cover expenditures already made. By this time, however, it had become painfully evident that the inflated real estate values of the boom would not soon return. The interest charges entailed in the city's heavy debt would constitute oppressive burdens on a much reduced assessment base. Angry property owners formed an association in 1883 to oppose extravagance and its candidate, Alexander Logan*, decisively defeated McMicken in the mayoralty election of late 1883.
After selling his bank McMicken had been involved in a variety of business ventures. He had engaged in land speculation during the boom of 1881–82 – with mixed success, he ruefully acknowledged years later. "Like a great many others I survived the boom after sharing its disasters." With a partner he built a footbridge over the Assiniboine, partly for his own convenience, since his home was across the river from the established community; the partners sold the structure to the city in 1882. He was involved in the laying out of two tracks for horse-racing, one just west of the city and the other about 12 miles to the north. In the 15 years following his defeat in the election for mayor he was listed in local directories as an insurance agent, a broker, and a agent for a water filter company. In 1900 he was appointed provincial police magistrate, in which office he established a reputation for releasing young offenders on their honour, so that they would be spared a prison record. As a magistrate, he was apparently quite irascible; according to a report, he once descended from the bench and engaged a lawyer appearing before him in a fist-fight.
His interests and entrepreneurial drive extended beyond the arenas of business and politics: he was a member of the first congregation of Augustine Presbyterian Church, established the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in the province, was a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Orange lodge, was an excellent marksman, arranged for the first balloon to be brought to Winnipeg, helped to set up Winnipeg's first cricket club, and was in 1879 a founding member of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba. Because of failing health and advancing years McMicken retired as magistrate in 1913; his death occurred three years later.
AO, RG 80-27-2, 33: 16. Manitoba Free Press, 31 July 1916, 18 Nov. 1927. Winnipeg Tribune, 17 Aug. 1908, 27 Aug. 1910, 6 April 1965. A. F. J. Artibise, Winnipeg: a social history of urban growth, 1874–1914 (Montreal and London, 1975). R. [C.] Bellan, Winnipeg first century: an economic history (Winnipeg, 1978). George Bryce, A history of Manitoba; its resources and people (Toronto and Montreal, 1906). W. L. Morton, Manitoba: a history (Toronto, 1957). Pioneers of Man. (Morley et al.).
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Recently I've beel listening to an audiobook by a teacher who's left Zen. One idea of his that I found intriguing was to sit with an inquiry.
I remember when I've had the clearest realizations, I was often intently asking 'What is this?' I think Lin Chi's "What at this very moment is missing?" is also a good proxy, although maybe too wordy. Sometimes, I just 'look, look, look'. There's just a probing 'what?' or 'Hmmm'. English doesn't have a word for the pure interrogative, but I think Japanese does.


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How To Validate An Idea
Most startups build products that no one needs. Product validation is a way to avoid this fate, but what exactly does "validation" mean?
Most startups build products that no one needs. Product validation is a way to avoid this fate, but what exactly does "validation" mean?
This article outlines the issues new business startups face and sets out to provide some solutions that will help overcome these issues.
There are so many various kind of franchise models to choose from. Getting it right can be tricky.
Have you contemplated shifting your business? Maybe you should give this a read first.
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Should your startup be based on your passion? This is the million-dollar question for budding entrepreneurs ready to take the plunge.
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Beyond Malala: Progress for Pakistan's Women
With news reports focusing on acts of terrorism (i.e. suicide bombings and drone attacks) and the forced repression of women (i.e. the story of Malala Yousafzai), it often seems like the media has written Pakistan off as a lost cause. Yet WLNA 2013 delegate Anja Manuel points out that, all too often, the media overlooks Pakistan's more hopeful story about the progress that Pakistan's women have made in the political arena. In fact, more than 200 women are running for National Assembly seats in Pakistan's May 11 elections, and more than 500 are running for Provincial Assembly seats–these are incremental but important gains for Pakistani women!
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Cablevision filed an antitrust lawsuit against Viacom on Tuesday, alleging that the media giant has forced the cable provider to carry 14 little-watched Viacom networks in order to carry the more popular Viacom networks.
The suit, filed in federal court in Manhattan, contends that Viacom abused its market power to compel Cablevision to carry ancillary networks such as MTV Hits, CMT, Nick Jr., VH1 Classic and Logo if they wanted to also carry the company's core networks, including MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1 and Comedy Central.
Also read: Viacom Earnings: Revenue, Profits Slide With Fewer Movies
Cablevision also claims that it was coerced with the threat of massive financial penalties unless it agreed to Viacom's terms.
The suit alleges that Viacom has impaired competition by forcing Cablevision to carry networks that many of its subscribers have no interest in, while excluding other networks from distribution. The result, Cablevision says, is that it can't differentiate its services, and that its subscribers are being harmed.
Also read: Viacom Under Fire for Pulling Online Video After DirecTV Blackout
According to the suit, Viacom's actions amount to a "per se" illegal tying arrangement and unlawful "block booking," which makes the sale of a package of rights conditional on the purchaser's taking of other rights. Cablevision alleges that Viacom has violated both federal antitrust laws and New York's Donnelly Act, which parallels the federal antitrust laws.
"The manner in which Viacom sells its programming is illegal, anti-consumer, and wrong," Cablevision said in a statement. "Viacom effectively forces Cablevision's customers to pay for and receive little-watched channels in order to get the channels they actually want. Viacom's abuse of its market power is not only illegal, but also prevents Cablevision from delivering the programming that its customers want and that competes with Viacom's less popular channels."
Viacom, meanwhile, contends that its practices are well within the law, and common within the cable industry.
"At the request of distributors, Viacom and other programmers have long offered discounts to those who agree to provide additional network distribution. Many distributors take advantage of these win-win and pro-consumer arrangements," the company told TheWrap in a statement Tuesday. "Reflecting the highly competitive cable programming business, these arrangements have been upheld by a number of federal courts and on appeal."
Cablevision, which according to the National Cable & Telecommunications Association ranks as the ninth largest multichannel video programming distributor, entered a carriage deal with Viacom in December. The suit is seeking to void that an agreement — a move that Viacom calls a "transparent attempt by Cablevision to use the courts to renegotiate our existing two month old agreement."
Cablevision is also seeking a permanent injunction against Viacom preventing the company from making carriage of its core networks dependent on carriage of its ancillary networks, along with a requirement "that Viacom permit Cablevision to carry the Core networks and ancillary products on terms pending negotiation of a new, lawful agreement." The company also wants treble damages and legal fees from the suit.


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Last fall, as some of you might remember, I did a little tiny bit of book-touring from November through mid-December and then February through March of this year, just like 28 cities or so in total of us hanging out, no big deal. Okay, it was kind of a big deal, and so many cool things happened over the course of those trips, I never got around to telling you about them maybe because the whole thing was so surreal to me it didn't seem easily digested in 500-word snippets?
Nevertheless, I really owe you a story about the day I was in Boston and was invited to visit the America's Test Kitchen/Cook's Illustrated offices and kitchens, which are exactly as awesome as you'd imagine them, and yet cozier. The whole place feels like a giant house on different floors and people are incredibly friendly and warm. Did you know that CI has the largest privately owned cookbook collection in the world? Just 4,000 or so — who wants to move in there with me? The kitchens are amazing as you'd expect, busy with clusters of cooks testing out different recipes. When a recipe needs to be tested, a call is placed over the speaker that pipes through the offices and people are encouraged to stop what they're doing and take part in blind tastings, because obviously this is the best place to work in the whole world. While I was there, we were encouraged to try steamed fish, and I really was about to, I was, but then over in the corner, I spied someone testing picnic fried chicken and the next thing I knew, I was maybe-possibly begging for my own personal unscheduled tasting and no doubt ensuring that I'll never be invited back again. It was totally worth it. That stuff was amazing, and while the cook was emphatic in telling me they were just getting started with the testing, that it wasn't ready yet, I snuck another piece. I'm not sorry.
What does this have to do with pretzels? Having witnessed even a particle-sized segment of how serious they take their recipe testing, it should be no surprise that the way to figure out how to make pretzel-shaped cookies that actually taste excellent was to turn to CI. The recipe is from an old article about perfecting the French butter cookie known as a sable. They found that two things helped them nail the hallmark sandiness of the cookie, dialing back the butter a bit, and using an egg yolk that had already been hard-cookied. I went one step further in tweaking this; I have an ongoing fixation with Swedish rye cookies and couldn't resist replacing one-third of the flour with rye flour. The resulting cookie looks straight out of one of those Danish butter cookie tins, you know, if they were made with whole-grain flours and real vanilla, and they're really fun to make with a truck-aproned assistant.
Cookie Week! This week is all about the cookies. Yesterday, we talked about Cigarettes Russes (Piroulines). Stay tuned for more as the week goes on.
More Cookies: There are over 85 cookie recipes in the archives. My favorite holiday-ish ones, as in, get these away from me or I'll eat them all, are Austrian Raspberry Shortbread, Crescent Jam and Cheese Cookies, Grasshopper Brownies, Seven-Layer Cookies, Tiny Pecan Sandies, Nutmeg-Maple Butter Cookies and Peanut Butter Cookies. For a cookie ideal for gingerbread men, "ninja"-bread men or gingerbread
tenements houses, try these Spicy Gingerbread Cookies. [All The Smitten Kitchen Cookies]
Signed Smitten Kitchen Cookbooks: I have an ongoing arrangement with the wonderful independent bookstore in Soho, McNally-Jackson, in which copies of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook can be ordered with custom inscriptions — i.e. not just the usual signature but anything you'd like, be it Merry Christmas! or Congratulations on your engagement! (Now bake me some cookies.) or No matter what anyone else tells you, you're my favorite reader. No seriously. It's you. all of which have happened because you guys really are that funny and awesome. This year, we have a hard deadline for Christmas shipping (i.e. you'd pay standard and not rushed shipping and the book will reach you by Christmas) of this Saturday, December 14th. Thank you! [Order Custom Inscribed Smitten Kitchen Cookbooks from McNally Jackson]
Sugared Pretzel Cookies
Adapted, barely, from Cook's Illustrated
I love the rye flour in here; it gives the cookies an earthier flavor and depth, while the hard-boiled egg yolk gives the cookies a perfect sandiness that holds up even days later. You can use an equal amount of all-purpose flour (1/2 cup) if you don't wish to make these with rye flour.
80, eh, in hindsight, I think this estimate from CI is too high (and commenters agree), I'd say 48 tops and 36 safely. Apologies for any trouble.
1 large egg, hard-boiled and cooled
10 tablespoons (140 grams or 1 1/4 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon (80 grams) granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon table salt
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract (this is halved from the original)
1 cup (125 grams) unbleached all-purpose flour
1/2 cup (45 grams) rye flour (medium or white will work)
1 large egg white, lightly beaten with 1 teaspoon water
4 teaspoons turbinado or clear sanding sugar
Place butter, sugar and salt in the bowl of stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment. Crack egg and peel shell. Separate yolk from white; add white to your next sandwich or egg salad. Press yolk through fine-mesh strainer and into mixer bowl with other ingredients. Beat mixture on medium speed until light and fluffy, scraping down sides of bowl and beater with spatula as needed. Add vanilla, mix until combined. Add flours and mix at low speed until just combined. Using rubber spatula or your hands, reach into bowl and knead dough a few times into a cohesive mass.
Divide dough in half; place each half on a square of parchment paper. Form each into a log about 6 inches long (it will be about 1 3/4 inches in diameter) and wrap tightly with parchment, twisting ends to seal. Chill logs for 30 minutes, until semi-firm. (If you chill them longer, you'll want to warm them up a bit or it's difficult to work them into pretzel shapes.)
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
Slice 1/4-inch off first chilled log and roll slice into a ball in the palm of your hands; this softens the dough. On a counter, roll ball into a 6-inch rope. Pick up each end of rope and fold turn it into the center, pressing it into a pretzel shape. Transfer to baking sheet. Repeat with remaining dough, placing cookies one inch apart on prepared sheets.
Brush each pretzel cookie with egg white wash, then sprinkle with coarse sugar. Bake cookies until they have golden brown edges, about 13 to 15 minutes. Remove from oven but let firm up on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring cookies to cooling racks.
Do ahead: Cookies stored in an airtight container between sheets of waxed or parchment paper will keep for at least one week.


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Writing, Grammar, Literature, ACT Prep
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Education: M.Ed.,Stanford University
Katie is an enthusiastic teacher who strives to make connections between literature and student's every day lives.
Supporting evidence proves a claim to be true. Supporting evidence can be a summary, paraphrased or a direct quote. Supporting evidence is a crucial part in body paragraphs and it is important to be discerning in the evidence chosen.
Let's talk about supporting evidence, so this is a really crucial part of your body progress. It's really where you prove your point to be true, it's that evidence that supports it. So one thing to remember is that, the only job of your evidence is to prove the claim to be true, so you've got to be really discerning when it comes to selecting the evidence that you choose. And you can choose three different types of evidence, the first is a summary and it's simply a shorten version of a quote that's written in your own words. You can also choose a paraphrase, which is a retelling of a quote in your own words but it's about the same length as the original or you can actually use the direct quote which is word for word from another text.
And here is a kind of my rule of thumb, a summary is good maybe in a research paper where you are trying to take a long description or a long explanation and shorten it up and fit it into your writing in an accessible way, or maybe in a piece of literature, you've got a really long description of something and you can use maybe ellipses and different kind of modes to really shorten it up and put it in your own words. So then you have a paraphrase and I would use paraphrases when what you're taking and what you're trying to quote has a lot of technical language in it. So things that maybe the average person wouldn't understand and that you could easily put in your own words. And then finally I think a direct quotation works really well when it's really well said. Now that being said if you are quoting from literature, you've got different rules of thumbs. When you are quoting from literature, if you got the book in front of you, you always want to go direct quote. If you have the ability to pull one, pull one in. However, I know we do essay tests and different things like that, so that might be an opportunity for summary or paraphrase. If you can remember basically what a character said, go ahead and paraphrase it if you are trying to recreate a quote, just don't put quotation marks around it alright.
And then a summary is good if you are retelling a series of events from literature. So let's take a look at some examples of all of those. If I've got the topic sentence; in the novel 'Lord of the Flies', William Golding uses Jack's character to highlight the flaws in dictatorial government. Here's an example of a summary "That one time when Jack was sitting on his throne like a king, bossing everyone around which led to disaster." Now I don't know if your summary really works here because it's not a series of event, and especially that phrase "that one time," really makes it seem vague, like you're not really sure what happened. It doesn't make you sound like an authority on the book.
Let's take a look at what it would look like in paraphrase form instead, "Jack who was sitting on his throne, painted, being served by others, ignores the question and commands his group to perform the hunting dance that eventually leads to tragedy." Now that sounds like somebody who's actually read the book. So this would be a great retelling if you didn't have the book in front of you. Now if you have the book in front of you go with the original quote "Jack, [painted], rose from the log that was his throne and sauntered to the edge of the grass...do our dance!...Kill the beast, cut her throat, bash her in!" And that is really effective because you've got the actual words that he's saying there. So you can see these three different types and hopefully this will help you discern which one is the best to use in your situation.


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When I first moved to Manchester in the mid 70s a good Boddingtons pub was the holy grail. The beer was cheap, straw coloured and very bitter with a honeyed after taste from the malt. It was a local brewery, based at Strangeways. And then came the corporate takeovers.
First, the brewery was acquired by Whitbread. They began the process of marketing the brand and changing the beer to make an imitation of the original available nationwide. They still kept making the old bitter, though diehard Boddies fans were convinced that it had changed into something more bland. Then, in turn, Whitbread were swallowed by Interbrew and their interest in a Manchester beer was limited. The Strangeways brewery was closed, but the cask conditioned draught bitter continued to be made at Hydes' Moss Side brewery. When Hydes decided to move, Boddingtons real ale died.
Boddingtons was founded in 1778 and this is the irony of the story. Beer has played a central role in British social history and whilst we lament the demise of a small independent brewery, Boddingtons were one of the predatory giants of the early industrial revolution. Before then most pubs brewed their own beer. Production was small scale, casks were racked above the bar; the hand pumped beer engine, worshipped by real ale freaks, that draws beer up from a cool cellar had yet to be invented. Larger industrialised breweries began to put an end to this and carved up the market, developing networks of tied houses where only their beer could be sold.
And by putting the home brew pub out of business, this revolution in beer production contributed to something else, the decline in women's status and economic independence. Brewing was a female job. Sheila Rowbotham has argued that this shift from home production was one of the critical factors that intensified gender inequality in industrial Britain.
And now, they in turn have succumbed to larger corporate interests. The major difference being that this also marks a decline in the quality of the product. But as to my splendid local, all is not bad news. Now they serve Thwaites.


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For as big of a deal as the MPAA made about shutting down Megaupload, the trade association is certainly interested in maintaining users' data for some reason. Oh, it's so the MPAA can sue some more people? Right, of course.
Not everybody outside the MPAA is super-stoked about Megaupload shutting down and no one less than Carpathia, MU's server hosts. The Virginia-based firm is currently holding on to 25PB of
evidence user data—at a cost of about $9,000 a day. The company wants to dump the data and recover its sequestered server space, but now the MPAA is requesting it keep on holding millions of users' account information. The MPAA wants the data so that it can sue Megaupload and "various intermediaries" for contributing to copyright infringement after the Feds get their fill.
Don't panic, the MPAA promises that they won't sue end users—though that has never stopped them before. "The reason we did that filing [was] that there is a possibility that litigation might be pursued against Megaupload or various intermediaries involved in Megaupload's operation. We're not talking about individual users," Howard Gantman, a MPAA vice president, told Wired. The court has set a hearing for next month to discuss the matter.
The MPAA's request appears to do nothing but screw the user, unfortunately. Either the data will be erased without the opportunity for them to recover it or it will be saved but likely inaccessible due to the ongoing lawsuits. What I can't understand is why the court wouldn't simply authorize the host to grant users read-only rights—allowing them to download files but not otherwise modify the account—while we're waiting for next month's hearing? [Court files, Wired via Electronista]


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I am currently in the process of migrating The Prosperity Project from it's current home here on Blogger, to a newer and hopefully better home at shirleytwofeathers.com. Here's a link to the new site: The Prosperity Project
As each project is moved, the links in each of the "Project Overview" posts will be updated, and each of the individual posts will also be updated with a link to it's new home. We worked a lot of projects here, so it will take some time to get them all moved.
On New Years Day, I plan to begin a new project to explore the concept of The Violet Flame I AM Decrees. Our countdown widget says that the New Year is almost here. So, if you happen onto this little place in the world wide web, and have an idea that you'd be interested in exploring the Violet Flame or the I AM decrees, be sure to check in on Jan 1. Bright Blessings!


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A young Irish immigrant is fighting for his life in Perth after a weekend stabbing in the western Australian city.
One man has been arrested after 21-year-old Kenny Meyler was stabbed and left in a critical condition.
Local media in Perth have reported that a man has been arrested in connection with the incident.
Wexford native Meyler had emigrated to Australia two years ago and is reported to be in a critical condition in hospital.
Reports say a 32-year-old man has been remanded in custody charged with causing grievous bodily harm.
The Irish Times reports that Meyler was stabbed in the neck with a large knife at a property on Helmsley Street in Scarborough, Perth.
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Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed it is providing consular assistance to his family after mum Melanie arrived in Perth on Tuesday morning.
Joan Ross from the Perth-based Claddagh Association told reporters that that the Meyler family is 'distraught.'
She said: "We have made contact with the young man's family who are going through an awful time. When they arrived in Perth today they went straight to the hospital. They are just distraught.
"They are going to be staying with friends and we will assist them in any way we can. We have also been in touch with the Department of Foreign Affairs and are working with them to help those involved."
A keen boxing enthusiast, Kenny was a well known member of Wexford CBS Boxing Club before he emigrated.
Club trainer Eddie Bolger said: "'It is a shock but hopefully he'll come through. I knew him in the club but he was more into the training end than competitive boxing.
"He would have sparred with all of the top boxers in the club, many of whom would have gone on to provincial and national success."
Meyler family friend Frankie Kelly said: "I know the Meyler family and have known Kenny since he was a little lad. Everyone is just shocked.
"We're just praying now he comes through. And it comes after we lost Nicola Furlong so that's two incidents abroad involving people from Wexford town which is just unbelievable."


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It was only last month that we were talking about Berkeley's famous food lines, and now it seems another one may have come to town. The Melt, a grilled cheese spot that recently opened on Telegraph Avenue, has already attracted a loyal clientele. It probably helped that on the first day of UC Berkeley's semester, The Melt was offering a free sandwich combo meal and drink to Cal students. The Cal Marching Band even headed to The Melt to welcome the restaurant to Berkeley.
As tipped by Berkeleyside in May, the fifth branch of the Bay Area chain opened on August 9 at 2400 Telegraph, just a few steps away from Sproul Plaza. The restaurant serves variations on the classic grilled sandwich, including fontina and provolone on garlic bread and pepper jack with jalapenos on sourdough. It's the brainchild of Jonathan Kaplan, who founded Flip Video.
And the good news for those who don't fancy standing in line? You can avoid it. Customers who order online or via their smart phone, receive a QR code, then scan it in when they get to the restaurant, and move to the front of the line for pick-up.
But something tells us that waiting in line is all part of the fun for many Berkeley foodies. Look no further than the Cheese Board, Ici Ice Cream and the Thai Temple.
The food lines of Berkeley: Nosh worth waiting for [07.09.12]
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On this DVD, you'll meet six performers each with their own unique take on Dr. Daley's vision. While all of them begin with Daley's basic - but very strong - premise of a pair of cards magically changing places with another pair held in a spectator's hand, you'll see different techniques and approaches to accomplish the effect. First off, Bill Malone begins with the version he learned when he was 18 years old and still performs to this day - simple, direct and powerful. Then, Daryl utilizes a card count usually associated with a completely different effect to streamline the handling. Gregory Wilson is next with a two-phase version that masterfully sets up an unsuspecting spectator for the astounding transposition while Dan Harlan leads his audience in a guessing game before moving in for the kill. Finally, Michael Ammar presents the effect in its traditional way with some valuable nuances while Martin Nash disguises the startling transposition in a card game presentation.
When two objects magically change places, it's very surprising. However, when it happens right in the spectator's hands, the reactions are spectacular - and with the great performances and clear explanations on this DVD, you'll always be ready to do the impossible with just four playing cards!
Dr. Daley's Last Trick - Bill Malone
The Last Trick of Dr. Daley - Daryl
Weighted Aces - Gregory Wilson
Intuition - Dan Harlan
The Last Trick of Dr. Daley - Michael Ammar
Dr. Daley's Last Trick - Martin Nash