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MSC and Archives Research Room
(518) 474-8955
New York State Library:
Manuscripts & Special Collections
(518) 474-6282
The Research Room is a facility for using materials belonging to the State Archives and the State Library - Manuscripts & Special Collections. It is located on the eleventh floor.
Researchers must comply with these "Rules of the Research Room." Individuals age 18 or older are allowed to register and enter the research room. Those younger than 18 may do so with permission of staff. U.S. citizenship and New York residency are not required.
Access to materials in the State Library and the State Archives is governed, as applicable, by various state laws, and by federal laws, including the U.S. Copyright Act, and the U.S. Patriot Act.
Rules of the Research Room
A. Researcher Registration
Yearly registration. A researcher must complete the registration form once each calendar year, providing:
- full name
- business or school affiliation (if any)
- U.S. mail address (business, school, or home)
- telephone number(s)
- general purpose of research.
Picture ID required. During registration, a researcher must present at least one form of picture identification:
- driver's license
- government, business, or school ID card
- valid passport
The identification must contain the same postal address or affiliation entered on the registration form. An additional form of identification (such as a recent utility bill containing a home address) may be required. Staff may ask a researcher to produce current identification at any time after initial registration, and may require a new registration if identifying information has changed.
Storage lockers. Secure lockers are provided to researchers who need to store personal belongings. The locker must be emptied and the key must be returned when researcher leaves for the day. The State Library and State Archives are not responsible for lost articles.
B. Items Permitted and Not Permitted in Research Room
Researchers may have the following items in the Research Room:
- pencils (provided)
- loose blank paper (available on request)
- notecards and notes
- spiral notebooks (without pockets) [microforms area only]
- folders (without pockets)
- laptop computer (without case)
- hand-held cameras (without case)
- magnifying glass (available on request)
The following items are not permitted in the Research Room:
- three-ring binders
- folders and spiral notebooks with pockets
- mechanical pencils
- pens
- scanners
- computer and camera cases
- overcoats
- briefcases and suitcases
- handbags and pocketbooks
- backpacks and fanny packs
- food and drink
Reasonable accommodation. A researcher may ask staff about arranging for a reasonable accommodation for a medical need.
C. Entering and Exiting the Research Room
Opening and closing times. The Research Room opens at 9:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday, except state holidays. Notice of closing the Research Room will be given at about 4:00 p.m. The Research Room will close at 4:30 p.m.; at that time all research materials will be collected and equipment will be shut down. Staff will be available for consultation until 5:00 p.m.
Sign-in/out log book. A researcher must sign the log book daily when entering the Research Room and sign out when leaving for the day.
Inspection of items taken from Research Room. Each time a researcher leaves the Research Room, he or she must show staff at one of the reference desks all items taken from the room.
Reserves. Research materials may be placed on reserve for up to two weeks, or longer by special arrangement. Materials not used within the specified time will be returned to storage.
D. Identifying and Requesting Materials for Use in the Research Room
Catalog and finding aids. A researcher may consult the Library-Archives online catalog, Excelsior, the MSC card catalog, finding aids, and reference books in the catalog-consultation area, located near the reference desks. Staff will provide instruction on using the catalog and other reference materials, and will help the researcher identify relevant research materials.
Retrieval schedule. Archives and Library materials stored in the Cultural Education Center are retrieved starting at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., with delivery times usually 30-45 minutes later. Vault items and materials stored outside the CEC should be requested at least one week in advance. Frequently used Archives microfilm and vital records microfiche indexes are stored in the microforms area of the Research Room and may be retrieved anytime.
Retrieval request forms. A researcher must fill out separate retrieval request forms for materials in the State Library (blue forms) and State Archives (green forms). Requests should be submitted to the archivist or librarian on duty at least 15 minutes prior to the scheduled retrieval times.
Internet access. Internet access is provided for collection related research. Public access internet stations and Wi-Fi connectivity are available on the 7th floor.
E. Using Materials in the Research Room
Assigned seats. Each researcher is assigned a reading table or a microform reader. Reading table seats and microfilm reader-printers may be reserved in advance by phone, e-mail, or mail. A microfiche reader may be reserved only in person, on the same day as the planned use.
Time limits. Staff may limit times at a microform reader or reader-printer if there is a waiting list.
Registered researchers only. Only registered researchers may enter the research room. Exceptions may be made for brief consultations with staff.
Room use only. Research materials do not circulate, but many State Archives microfilms are available on interlibrary loan.
One cart/one box/one volume. One cart or truck containing research materials will be delivered to a researcher at a time. A researcher should use one box or one bound volume on a reading table at a time.
F. Photoduplication Services
The State Archives and State Library—Manuscripts & Special Collections do not allow self-service photocopying of original materials. If copies are desired and condition of the materials permits, Library or Archives staff will provide photoduplication request forms, policies, and instructions. Reader-printers are available for self-service copying of Archives microforms (except vital records indexes).
G. Researcher Responsibilities in the Research Room
- Use materials only at your assigned table or microform reader. If you have questions about the materials, ask staff to come to your table.
- Remove one folder or item from a box at a time, making sure to keep the materials in order. Mark the place with a paper tag (provided by staff). Do not rearrange files; report any apparent misfilings to staff.
- Handle research materials carefully. Use a book weight and book cradle (provided by staff) to hold bound materials open.
- Write only on your paper placed on the table top. Do not write on top of research materials.
- Use cotton gloves (provided by staff) when handling photographs or manuscript documents or maps requiring special protection.
- Inform staff when you need more materials delivered to your table or microform reader and/or are finished with materials. (Vital records microfiche indexes are self-service.)
- Flag pages or documents to be copied by using paper slips or plastic clips (provided by staff).
- Be considerate of fellow researchers. For extended conversations, go to the catalog-consultation area, the interview room, or the lobby.
- Do not use cell phones in the research room. Turn off ringers before entering the Research Room.


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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zynga (Nasdaq:ZNGA), the world's leading provider of social game services, today announced the launch of Oh, What Fun!, an in-game charitable drive benefitting Toys for Tots, bringing the gift of play to less fortunate children across the United States. From November 28, 2012 to December 31, 2012, players will be able to contribute directly through in-game purchases within participating games -- with 100 percent of the purchase price going directly to Toys for Tots. Featured in seven of Zynga's most popular games, including Words With Friends and FarmVille, the campaign marks Toys for Tots' first major digital fundraising program, enabling millions of Zynga players to contribute directly to the cause by playing their favorite Zynga games from their computers, tablets and mobile devices.
"Every child deserves the gift of play during the holidays. Partnering with Zynga for our largest digital fundraising initiative to date, it's now easier than ever for people to help children less fortunate this holiday season," said Bill Grein, retired Marine Corps Major and Vice President of the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation.
The Oh, What Fun! campaign will be rolling out over the next five weeks in the following games: CityVille, CastleVille, Words With Friends, Pioneer Trail, Bubble Safari, Draw Something and FarmVille. For as little as $1, players will be able to purchase holiday-themed goods and power packs, participate in themed quests and contribute through mobile text donations in select games. Special holiday-themed goods include a CityVille Toy Shop where you can craft and wrap toys to be delivered to children, a CastleVille Sparkling Tower to decorate your winter kingdom and a FarmVille Cheer-Ewe-Up Horse, a sheep riding a horse decked for the holidays.
"Zynga and Toys for Tots share a common belief in the positive power of play and we're proud to invite our players to join us in supporting Toys for Tots' mission to deliver hope through the gift of toys," said Ken Weber, Executive Director, Zynga.org. "Together with our players, we're showing that social games really do enrich people's lives."
Oh, What Fun! is the latest campaign that enables Zynga players to easily contribute to causes they care about through Zynga games. Players have made 2.5 million contributions to charitable organizations while playing Zynga games. To date, Zynga.org has raised more than $13 million through 75 in-game social impact campaigns benefiting a range of results-driven nonprofit organizations, from international relief agencies responding to disasters like the Haiti earthquake and Japan tsunami, to organizations working to help those in need around the world.
For details regarding individual game programs and time frames/availability, please visit: blog.zynga.com/toys-for-tots
For Oh, What Fun! campaign images, please visit box link: https://zynga.box.com/s/f8m55g06gdadz4jnpeut
In addition to the in-game Oh, What Fun! campaign, this holiday season, Zynga employees located in offices throughout the United States will be hosting in-office Toys for Tots toy drives to provide holiday gifts for less fortunate children in their local communities.
About the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation
The Marine Toys for Tots Foundation is a not-for-profit organization authorized by the U.S. Marine Corps to provide fundraising and other necessary support for the annual U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program. Now in its 65th year, Toys for Tots provides joy and a message of hope to less fortunate children through the gift of a new toy or book during the Christmas holiday season. To learn more about Toys for Tots, visit: http://www.toysfortots.org
About Zynga.org
Zynga.org's mission is to help make the world a better place through games. Zynga.org works closely with Zynga Inc. and other game makers to promote and facilitate the use of social games for positive social impact. Zynga.org has inspired more than 1 million players to contribute more than $13 million through Zynga games. These funds have supported the work of dozens of results-driven nonprofits worldwide, including partners like Direct Relief International, Save the Children, Habitat for Humanity, KaBOOM!, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Water.org, Wildlife Conservation Society, and World Food Programme. To learn more about Zynga.org, visit http://www.zynga.org.
About Zynga Inc.
Zynga Inc. is the world's leading provider of social game services with approximately 311 million monthly active users playing its games, which include Zynga Poker, Words With Friends, Scramble With Friends, Gems With Friends, Draw Something, FarmVille 2, ChefVille, CityVille, Bubble Safari and Ruby Blast. Zynga's games are available on a number of global platforms, including Facebook, Zynga.com, Google+, Tencent, Apple iOS and Google Android. Zynga is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
The Zynga Inc. logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=11743
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking statements relating to, among other things, Zynga's partnership with Toys for Tots, the launch of the Oh, What Fun! charitable drive, the launch of features and quests in multiple Zynga games, the success of the Oh, What Fun! charitable drive and related features and quests and Zynga's future operational plans for its business. The success of the matters covered by such forward-looking statements involves risks. Actual results could differ materially from those predicted or implied. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, among other things, changes in player interests, our relationship and agreements with Facebook or the Facebook platform and/or our relationship and/or agreements with iOS and or Android platform providers. More information about the risks Zynga faces is included in the quarterly and annual reports filed with the SEC, copies of which may be obtained at http://investor.zynga.com or the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov. Undue reliance should not be placed on the forward-looking statements in this release. Zynga assumes no obligation to update such statements.
CONTACT: Media Contact: Marideth Post Zynga 415.847.3100 firstname.lastname@example.com
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CHIPLEY — The Chipley City Council heard citizens' concerns about speeding vehicles on Fifth Street on Tuesday, and by Wednesday afternoon the street had a fresh set of stripes.
CHIPLEY — The Chipley City Council heard citizens' concerns about speeding vehicles on Fifth Street on Tuesday, and by Wednesday afternoon the street had a fresh set of stripes.
"Fifth Street is nothing more than a speedway for people to avoid the light at Highway 90 and 77," said Chipley resident Thomas Lancaster said. "In the last few months, we've had several accidents, and two of them were very serious, at the intersection of Fifth Street and Wells."
Lancaster asked the council to consider putting a four-way stop at the intersection of Wells and Fifth, and to consider temporary three-way stops at other Fifth Street intersections, including the intersection at Forest and Fifth ßand Harrell and Fifth.
People routinely disregard the 25 mph speed limit on Fifth Street, Lancaster said, even though the street runs alongside Shivers Park. "There are always children and people walking the track in the park," Lancaster said, "and a chain-link fence isn't going to stop a vehicle that's going 50 miles an hour and loses control."
"We've been very fortunate and blessed that no one has been killed on that street," Lancaster said. "If we can slow people down, we could very well be saving lives."
Mayor Linda Cain said that traffic has increased on Fifth Street. "It's a lot worse than it has been," she said. "We had discussed putting stop signs there years ago but for some reason we never did it."
"Traffic calming measures need to be studied," City Administrator Dan Miner said. "We have to look at the traffic flow, the speeds, and a whole lot of factors."
"DOT can do so much more with data gathering than we can," Police Chief Kevin Crews said. "They have the capability to do an traffic study a lot more than we have." Crews said the state Department of Transportation has provided studies of traffic on city streets in the past.
The mayor asked Crews if the city could put stop signs up. "We can put them anywhere we want, but it shouldn't be based on an opinion, but should be based on facts," Crews said.
Stop signs in and of themselves are not speed deterrents, Crews said.
"We just need to do something, folks, to make people aware that they need to slow down," Lancaster said.
Resident Cheryl Gainer McCall reminded the council that she had addressed them about speeding traffic on Fifth Street back in October as well. "The family that had all the children on my street moved in November so it wasn't quite as pressing an issue then," she said. "We still have issues up and down that street."
Resident Stacy Watford said she is a civil engineer, and she looked at the DOT reports and learned that some of the data is estimated instead of actual observations.
"If you ask DOT to do a study, make sure they actually do data collections and not just estimates," she said.
Watford also said that studies show that streets with lanes clearly marked give drivers the illusion of narrower lanes, resulting in slower traffic. "If the centerline and the sides of the road are painted, it makes the road seem smaller and causes drivers to slow down," Watford said.
Miner said on Thursday that it was luck of the draw that the contractor was able to stripe Fifth Street so quickly. "We called them and they said they just happened to have a slack week," Miner said.
The city does not have the equipment to stripe roadways, Miner said.
"Hopefully the striping will help with the speeding," Miner said. "When we look at the accidents we've been having, they mainly are the result of people blowing through stop signs. We hope striping the road will make them slow down."


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Cervical Conization
Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
What is cervical conization? How serious is it when the doctor recommends conization? How is conization performed? Why do the doctors do this?
Christina S. Chu, MD, Assistant Professor of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, responds:
Conization, or cone biopsy, of the cervix is a technique to remove a cone shaped piece of tissue from the cervix. This can be performed as a small day surgery procedure in the operating room under anesthesia, or sometimes a physician may opt to perform a LEEP (loop electrocautery excision procedure) in the office under local anesthesia.
Cone biopsies are performed to diagnose or to treat abnormal cells of the cervix. Usually, this process starts with an abnormal Pap test. If the Pap abnormality warrants further investigation, your gynecologist will perform office colposcopic examination with endocervical curettage and directed biopsies of any abnormal areas on your cervix. A cone biopsy may be performed to help clarify a diagnosis and to preclude invasive cancer in the following situations: an inadequate colposcopic examination, high grade dysplasia on the endocervical curettage, adenocarcinoma in situ, a significant discrepancy between pap smear and biopsy findings, or a colposcopic examination concerning for invasive cancer (even if biopsies show only carcinoma in situ). Once adequate diagnosis has been made, dysplastic lesions of the cervix can be treated by cone biopsy as well.
If a conization has been recommended, this does not necessarily mean that you have cervical cancer. Cone biopsy may be adequate treatment for precancerous lesions. You should certainly discuss with your physician the specific reason he or she is recommending you undergo this procedure.


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Report by Andy Moore Round 3 of the BRCA national championships took place at the huge fast and flowing Halifax track a few weeks ago. Due to other international race commitments I was unable to test at this venue prior to the race weekend so although I was clearing pushing for the win I knew a top 3 would be a solid points hall for the overall championship.
Tyre strategy plays a big part at this track as fresh rubber gives you a real big advantage. I chose to try and only use 1 set of tyres for the 5 rounds of qualifying and take 2 sets into the triple A mains. This worked out pretty good and despite everyone else around me on the grid using up 2 of their 3 allowed sets I would still line up 4th on the grid. Final 1 had a good start from 4th on the grid and during a fight for the lead the cars in front came together. I almost squeezed by but got tangled in there accident and ended up finishing 2nd. Final 2 had another good start and was straight up to 2nd again but during to second lap had a very strange spin on the long double left infield section which put me in the grass and out of the running. Final 3 everyone pulled away in quali order and it stayed like this until around the 4 min mark where I made a pass for 2nd but unfortunately ran out of time to catch Chris Grainger who had lead from the start. With 2 x 2nd I finished up 3rd overall.


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Round Reflections: Circular Wall Mirrors
When it comes to the geometry of interior design, rectangles are king. Perhaps that is why I love the look of round mirrors so much. Circular mirrors provide a striking contrast against the sharp angles of a desk, table or fireplace.
What's not to love about the circle? After all, it's the first shape we recognize as newborns. There is a natural and organic feel to round mirrors. But at the same time, the round mirror is a bold visual stamp on the wall, less like a window and more like an eye. A rectangular mirror fits into a room: A circular mirror punctuates it.
1. Lonny via DC Design Coop.
2. Desire to Inspire.
3. Johnelle & Brian's Rejuvenated Treasures Home.
4. Everything Fab.
5. High Street Market.
6. Moss Eclectic.
7. Greige.
8. Mihn & Ted's Lovingly Renovated Home.
9. Mix and Chic.
10. Domino via Alicia B. Designs.
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A large amount of bioinformatic software is available at MIT. This page is meant to summarize some of the most common requests we have. The BioMicro Center collaborates with the Koch Institute Bioinformatics Computing Core and the MIT Libraries to support different packages
Desktop Software
Desktop software is available from our Download Page. Access may be limited to MIT users only. Below is a list of the software available:
- Agilent 2100 Expert This software package is used to control the Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer and to perform analysis of the output, including microfluidic and electrophoretic assays for RNA, DNA and proteins, as well as two-color flow cytometry. The software can be installed on your desktop to allow users to do additional analyses.
- SSH This software is what we recommend for UNIX access to rous and for downloading files form our servers
- Spotfire is a widely used data analysis and visualization tool. It can handle a number of clustering functions and statistical tests and has very robust graphical capabilities. The BioMicro Center operates a Spotfire server that is available to anyone at MIT. Licenses for Spotfire are available through the BioMicro Center on a yearly basis.ew
- MATLAB A mathematical programming language used for mathematical modeling, as well as analyzing and visualizing data. Contact Stephen Goldman for access.
- Wafergen Software Software for analyzing your Wafergen data.
- Roche LC480 Software for the Roche LightCyclers.
- Tecan EvoWare Standard This software is available as part of our robotics service. Identical to the software used on the Tecan EVO 150s, the software contains a simulator that can be used to design your robotics experiments at your bench. Note that this software is on a different server.
- COMSOL Multiphysics This software package creates a simulation environment that facilitates all steps in the modeling process.
- MacVector a comprehensive Macintosh application that provides sequence editing, primer design, internet database searching, protein analysis, sequence confirmation, multiple sequence alignment, phylogenetic reconstruction, coding region analysis, and a wide variety of other functions.
- Lasergene v8.0 A software package that provides sequence assembly including next-generation sequence analysis; simplified primer design, and expanded SNP reporting and management.
Galaxy is a bioinformatics platform that is designed to bring complicated informatics tools to bench scientists. Galaxy allows you to do analyses you cannot do anywhere else without the need to install or download anything. You can analyze multiple alignemnts, compare genomic annotations, profile metagenomic samples and much much more. For many users, the public Galaxy instance at Penn State can provide a very robust tool.
To make things even easier we have created a galaxy server here at MIT. The Galaxy Server acts as a separate head node for ROUS. Users are required to have data storage space on Rowley or BMC-PUB and may be required to purchase a queue on ROUS.
Additional Resources
Software from MIT Libraries
- BioBASE The BIOBASE Knowledge Library (BKL) contains comprehensive sets of protein databases such as HumanPSD, WormPD, GPGR-PD, PombePD, and MycopathPD in addition to analysis tools such as TRANSFAC, TRANSPATH, and ExPlain. BKL brings together curated data, analysis tools, and gene-centered information. BKL is one of the best ways to quickly assess a vast set of protein properties for a given protein or set of proteins.
- GeneGO Metacore GeneGo is a leading provider of data mining & analysis solutions in systems biology. MetaCore, GeneGo's flapship product, is an integrated software suite for functional analysis of experimental data. MetaCore is based on a curated database of human protein-protein, protein-DNA interactions, transcription factors, signaling and metabolic pathways, disease and toxicity, and the effects of bioactive molecules.
- INGENUITY PATHWAY ANALYSIS software that helps researchers model, analyze, and understand complex biological and chemical systems relevant to their experimental data. Researchers can search the scientific literature and find insights most relevant to their experimental data; analyze and build pathway models related to thier experimental data;and share and collaborate with colleagues. IPA is currently licensed through June 2012.
A large amount of software is installed on our cluster server. Please look at the ROUS page.
BMC/BMC Pipeline
The pipeline processes flowcell directories as they are generated by the Illumina sequencer software and postprocesses the output for use in downstream biological analyses. It is intended to be used by core facilities who own and/or operate Illumina sequencers for automation and consistency of processing Illumina data. The pipeline is a collection of command line utilities written primarily in the Python programming language. The commands are tied together using the ruffus pipelining package.
- Release Notes 0.9 (10/18/2011)
Implemented all core functionality:
- setting up and converting qseq files
- qseq to fastq
- fastqc and tag count statistics on flowcell-level sequences
- splitting of barcoded samples into individual directories
- individual fastqc
- genome alignment using bowtie plus statistics
- contamination qc checking
- tag counts
- conversion of alignments from SAM to BAM
- production of bigWig files from SAM alignments
- publishing user data to web directories


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Bruce Chen picked up Kansas City's beleaguered starters with seven solid innings and the Royals defeated the Detroit Tigers 5-2 Sunday.
Bruce Chen picked up Kansas City's beleaguered starters with seven solid innings and the Royals defeated the Detroit Tigers 5-2 Sunday.
Chen (7-2), who moved into the rotation on July 12 after 19 relief appearances, limited the Tigers to five hits and two runs over seven innings, earning the first victory for a starter on the Royals' seven-game homestand. The starters entered the game with an 8.00 ERA in the first six games, allowing 24 runs on 41 hits and 16 walks in 27 innings.
Eric Hosmer, who had three hits for his 53rd multi-hit game, blasted a three-run homer with two outs in the fifth inning and the Royals took the final two games of this series from the division-leading Tigers after losing 16-2 Friday.
Hosmer hit Doug Fister's 2-2 pitch out to center after Alex Gordon and Emilo Bonifacio singled with two outs.
Fister (12-8) allowed five runs on eight hits in 6 1-3 innings.
Greg Holland allowed Prince Fielder's double with two out in the ninth, but collected his 40th save in 43 chances.
Jose Iglesias, who had not played since leaving the game Wednesday with shin splints, homered in the third inning after Alex Avila had singled, giving the Tigers a 2-0 lead.
It was Iglesias' second home run since the Tigers acquired him in a July 30 trade with Boston.
The Royals got a run in the fourth when Billy Butler's ground ball single to left scored Bonifacio, who walked to lead off the inning.
Jarrod Dyson led off the Royals' seventh with a triple into the left-field corner and scored when Gordon dunked a fly ball into shallow right over a drawn in Tigers infield.
Chen pitched out of trouble in the sixth. After Austin Jackson led off with a double, Chen struck out Torii Hunter to bring up Miguel Cabrera, who had five career home runs off Chen in 36 at-bats. This time Cabrera hit a comebacker and Chen threw out Jackson at third. Chen fell behind 3-0 to Fielder, who then looked at the next three pitches - all strikes.
NOTES: Fielder played in his 486th consecutive game, the longest active streak in the majors. . C Salvador Perez, who hit a two-run homer Saturday night, was not in the Royals lineup Sunday. Manager Ned Yost said he decided to rest Perez with temperatures reaching 100 degrees and the Royals in a stretch of 44 games in 44 days. . Tigers manager Jim Leyland said OF Nick Castellanos would start again Monday after making his first major league start Saturday. "He's got a feel for hitting," Leyland said. "He's a confident kid in the batter's box. He looks natural in the batter's box."


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Summary: Generic functions for comparing two values in different ways.
The fundamental function here is compare, a function that returns the Ordering of two values (less than, equal to, or greater than). It uses the same lexicographical ordering as deriving Ord (e.g. left alternative of a sum is less than the right alternative, the first component of a product is compared first while the second is only compared if the first is equal, etc.).
All of the remaining functions are simply derived (in the most obvious way) from compare. All of these functions are equivalent to methods in the Eq and Ord type classes. The difference with using this approach vs. deriving (Eq, Ord) is that you can write ad-hoc cases for certain datatypes while most of the functionality is handled generically.
|compare is equivalent to the function of the same name when deriving Ord. All other comparison functions in this module are derived from compare.
|Compare two values and return an Ordering (i.e. LT, GT, or EQ). This is implemented exactly as if the datatype was deriving Ord.
|Equality, inequality
|These functions are equivalent to (==) and (/=) when deriving Eq.
|Equal to. Returns x == y.
|Not equal to. Returns x /= y.
|Less than, greater than
|These functions are equivalent to (<), (<=), (>), and (>=) when deriving Ord.
|Less than. Returns x < y.
|Less than or equal to. Returns x <= y.
|Greater than. Returns x > y.
|Greater than or equal to. Returns x >= y.
|Minimum and maximum
|These functions are equivalent to functions of the same name when deriving Ord.
|The minimum of two values.
|The maximum of two values.
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29 U.S. Code § 219 - Separability
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If any provision of this chapter or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this chapter and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
(June 25, 1938, ch. 676, § 19, 52 Stat. 1069.)
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OT - BP Ad Slogan
It's really unfortunate seeing whats going on with the oil spill down here in Louisiana. I worked on a fishing boat in south Louisiana a few summers ago and its sad seeing people like the captain I worked for be out of work.
My brother sent me this, he says it was a BP ad slogan in the 90s. Not sure if thats true but it is a little humor on an unfortunate event.


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Welcome to the new Archbishop
The appointment of Justin Welby as Archbishop of Canterbury marks the ascendency of bold, socially engaged evangelical faith within the Church of England. In some ways Justin Welby has the background that has marked many primates of the Church before him. He studied at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge and is related to a former prime minister. But Justin Welby is a different kind of educated gentleman from those of a previous generation. His faith is rooted in Christ who came to serve, not to rule, and while his background has opened doors, his ambitions have been for the growth of God's kingdom, not for personal aggrandisement.
Welby's previous experience in the oil business and in the world of high finance has marked him out as the man for the job, but it is his worldly-wise gospel commitment that continues to encourage many in the Christian community. What has been mentioned less often is Welby's international role as a peacemaker – particularly in central Nigeria where he was a major factor in the successful peace negotiations between fighting factions. And don't forget that the Church of Nigeria is now second only to the Church of England in the size of its membership of the worldwide Anglican Communion of which the Archbishop of Canterbury is the head.
Justin Welby's appointment also marks the rise and rise of the influence of the Alpha Course. When he worked in London, Welby was a member of Holy Trinity Brompton, and is still close friends with Nicky Gumbel, whose work leading and promoting the Alpha Course has made such a mark on British Christianity. The faith that arises from Alpha is unashamedly evangelical, founded on a belief in the Bible. It is also charismatic, depending on the Holy Spirit's works and gifts. It is at the same time socially engaged, taking seriously the material needs of the world and the place of Christian faith in the political and economic structures of society.
Welby lives by what he calls a "confidence in the gospel". The gospel he bears is the gospel of personal salvation and the gospel of the continuing work of the Holy Spirit and the gospel that can speak into the problems of the whole of society.
Welby prefers words to music, but the music he does enjoy demonstrates the breadth of his experience and spirituality, from Handel to Wesley to Matt Redman and Stuart Townend.
Another reason that Justin Welby is the right man for the job is his ecumenical experience. His strong working relationship with Roman Catholics in Europe and in Liverpool will encourage those who want to see the Church of England retain its ties with Rome even as it sets itself apart with the appointment of women as bishops.
On a personal level, Welby has a knack of relating to everyone at their own level, a skill he has found very useful in Durham and one he will need to draw upon as Archbishop. He has recently become a grandfather and is "acquainted with grief", as the first of his six children was killed in car crash in 1983.
Twelve months ago, when he became Bishop of Durham, Justin Welby said that his first priority in the new role was "to listen", and then to encourage the work of the church in its worship of God and in its growth in numbers. As Archbishop of Canterbury he will need to raise his sights again to a wider role in the nation, but it is likely that he will be more interested in leading the church to growth and working behind the scenes, and will feature less in the media that his predecessor has done.
Welby's appointment will not please everyone in the Church. He represents a move to an open evangelical position that some at the liberal end of the Church will not be delighted about. Neither will he please the most conservative of evangelicals. But he stands in a strong place to represent mainline evangelical opinion in the Church and may just be the man to hold the Church of England and the whole Anglican Communion together.
Christians of all denominations and none should now get on their knees and pray for Justin Welby – pray that the job won't squeeze him into its own mould, and that he will have the strength to be the Lord's man for this calling and for such a time as this.


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Next Three Days, The (US - BD RA)
Gabe plans an elaborate escape from watching another mediocre thriller...
When his wife Lara Brennan (Elizabeth Banks) is accused of murder and sentenced to hard time in a Pittsburg penitentiary, John Brennan (Russell Crowe) finds he can't deal with the pain. Now a single father, John begins to obsess over means to free his wife from her bondage. When the legal system fails, John begins to explore more violent and illegal options.
What's up with Paul Haggis? After scoring a best picture offer with his generally stupid white guilt festival Crash only a year after scripting the previous best picture winner, the generally stupid boxing movie via morality play Million Dollar Baby, Haggis went on to work on other critical successes like Casino Royale and Letter to Iwo Jima. Even I've grown to appreciate his screenwriting skills, despite kind of hating his Oscar winning work. So what does he do with all this good will? He makes The Next Three Days, a STV B-movie masquerading as a socially important work of cinema. Oh wait, I mean a remake of an STV B-movie masquerading as a socially important work of cinema. Well, that's not fair, I've never actually seen Pour Elle. If it had been made in the mid-90s I'd be less surprised by the mopey, cool-headed, slow moving nature of the film, and probably would be more willing to give it a pass as a struggling director's early work. But this is the work of an established and popular talent, and he should know better.
The plotting is pretty lame (hours of escape planning prove moot, and several minutes of hardship could've been avoided had John just read a damn party invitation thoroughly), and the characters are all painfully obvious, and often under-defined (especially the cops, which I believe we, as an audience, are supposed to like), but I do have to give Haggis some credit for the dialogue here. People speak in natural ways, and their interactions are spiked with genuinely funny bits of levity. His editing approach, and use of over dubbed dialogue, is heavy-handed and derivative, but it really does keep the overlong production moving at times. If only he'd been convinced to entirely delete a handful of extraneous sequences. As a director Haggis continues his good work with actors, and overall the cast is strong without too much overstated screaming and yelling. The quality of the cast certainly helps (it's fun to pick out the musician cameos), though it would be nice to see Russell Crowe and Liam Neeson making great movies again someday soon. On the more superficial side the PG-13 rating hinders the suspense and tone of the film's darker moments, which feature no real threat thanks to a promise of family friendly levels of violence. Overall, The Next Three Days may be the most boring prison break/fugitive movie I've ever seen.
The Next Three Days isn't the most beautiful or stylistically impressive movie, but it's clean, natural, and reasonably colourful enough to look great in 1080p. Black purity and contrast levels are the most important elements to this particular transfer, and I can find very little fault with either. Even in utter darkness basic elements can be easily discerned, and the black levels are deep and consistent. Haggis and DP Stephane Fontaine use a relatively shallow focus, and avoid a lot of huge close-ups, so facial and costume textures aren't a huge factor. The consistent darkness (is Pittsburg really this consistently overcast?) keep wide angle details from being overly intricate as well, but there's enough diversity to make the lack of compression worth the upgrade. The overall colour scheme is a little on the warm side, and there aren't very many super-vibrant hues. Grain is present, but thin, and offers nice texture, while compression artefacts are reduced to minor edge haloes.
The Next Three Days comes to Blu-ray in the Lionsgate usual DTS-HD Master Audio mix, this time in a more spacious 7.1 presentation. The track is disappointing, specifically in terms of volume levels. Most of the film is dialogue and music heavy rather than effects heavy, and for the most part even these simple elements sound compressed to me. In fact, I have standard Dolby Digital discs that sound more impressive. Perhaps it's my lack of the additional two channels (I only have a 5.1 receiver), but I seriously doubt it. There are a few reasonably impressive bits of naturalistic surround sound throughout, such as street noise, bar music, and roaring motorcycles, and the LFE gets a punch from heavy bullet hits. The track's big bummer is Danny Elfman's dull, derivative musical score. The score is the driving force behind the surround sound mix, but I find it pretty depressing that this is the best the former master can muster.
Extras begin with a commentary featuring writer/director Paul Haggis, producer Michael Nozik and editor Jo Francis. Haggis is the rather quiet track's main voice, though Nozik speaks up relatively often. Francis seems to leave the room for long periods of time. Humorously, a lot of the discussion revolves around the deleted scenes, so apparently Haggis was forced to tighten the film quite a bit already. Too bad he couldn't be convinced to cut it further. Overall the commentary is informative enough, but spends too much time patting cast and crew on the back, and not enough time finding something genuinely interesting to talk about. It's usually a relief when someone breaks their train of thought to discuss something personal, even if it's irrelevant.
'Making The Next Three Days' (18:30, HD) is a relatively informative behind the scenes featurette that makes it okay to skip the commentary track entirely. Discussion begins with the original film, Pour Elle, which based on the crew's description is the film The Next Three Days should've been. From there, things move to the location scouting, the scripting, Elizabeth Banks' prison prep time, filming in Pittsburg, and Elfman's music. 'The Men of The Next Three Days' (6:50, HD) continues threads from the previous featurette, covering the casting of Russell Crowe, Brian Dennehy and Liam Neeson. 'True Escapes for Love' (7:40, HD) has the potential to be the collection's best extra, but it's just not meaty enough to really satisfy. The featurette covers a few real life stories of lovers participating in jail breaks. These stories zip by without ever really connecting. Things are wrapped up with a blooper reel (2:30, HD), eight deleted scenes, three extended scenes, and trailers.
There's something about The Next Three Days that tells me it could've been a good movie given a tighter script and more editing, but only fans of the lead actors really need to bother seeing this one. Even then, I suggest waiting for the movie to find its way to television, as that's about the best it deserves. I suggest watching The Fugitive again instead. This Blu-ray looks and sounds about average, and features promising but ultimately pretty empty extras.
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loved the score. sucker for the texture sounding stuff. a full blown orchestral wonder is great, but stuff like this once in a while is also neat.
I liked this one much better than the overrated Crash
Probably won't give this one a chance. I don't even like Haggis when he's getting good reviews.
I jus remember seeing Crowe in a gun shop in one of the trailers saying "Just show me where to put the bullets."
Who doesn't know how to load a gun these days? I've never held a real gun in my hands and even I know where the damn bullets go!
Who doesn't know how to load a gun these days? I've never held a real gun in my hands and even I know where the damn bullets go!
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Disc Details
Release Date: 8th March 2011
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French
Subtitles: English SDH and Spanish
Extras: Filmmakers Commentary, Making The Next Three Days, The Men of The Next Three Days, True Escapes for Love, Cast Moments, Deleted Scenes, Extended Scenes, Trailers, DVD Copy, Digital Copy
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Director: Paul Haggis
Cast: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Brian Denehy, Olivia Wilde, Liam Neeson
Genre: Action and Drama
Length: 133 minutes
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Campus Hosting Special Olympics Tournamentby Jacob Burnett '15 • February 1, 2012 Share:
Wabash's Sigma Chi will take the lead in organizing this weekend's Special Olympics basketball tournament. The Saturday tournament runs all day and is made possible by many campus volunteers.
This event has been a tradition with the Sigma Chi house.
"The Special Olympics has worked with Sigma Chi for all the events for about the past 10 years" junior Sigma Chi Victor Wagner said. "We were not able to host the event my sophomore year due to scheduling conflicts. The philanthropy chair heads up the event and works with Russ Switzer, the representative from the Special Olympics, by reserving the Allen Center and getting equipment."
The tournament planning starts in the summer preceding. "It was a really cool experience (my freshman year) to be a volunteer for a big event." Wagner said. "The participants may have disabilities but they probably can play basketball better than half the campus right now. It's enjoyable watching someone else have a good time, and it is the payback you get for helping these kids for just one day."
The participants also have a very rewarding experience through playing basketball.
"They have a real love for basketball." Wagner said. "Some of the participants have playing at the high school level and others just want to have fun. I remember a girl who had a great time just because she got to bounce the ball. They have a great time."
Helping with the Special Olympics gives Wabash an opportunity to give back to the community on a much larger scale. It benefits not only Crawfordsville, but it also grants Wabash the opportunity to give back to a large part of Indiana. The Special Olympics is one of many ways in which the college accomplishes its goal of living humanely.
There are time slots for volunteers from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on hourly shifts, and you can sign up for more than one. There are three positions: timing, scoring, and refereeing positions. If you are interested in spending an hour or two of your Saturday before Super Bowl XLVI helping others, Wagner will be visiting living units around campus or you can e-mail him at email@example.com.


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-v3 «CV- i 'i r . ^'".'5 2[& _ Servinti Celumbus, "CentraF and^Southwestern Ohio \^A\I Vol. 47, No. 18 Uiat, THtURSDAY, MAY 1,1969 - 13 AVAR American Support of Elp-Fatah Observed Dn«tt4 (ff AMtrltw i>4 Jtahli Unit WASHINGTON (WNS) — The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith charged ^hat the El Fatah Arab Terrorist or- gaidzatim was i;(eceivuig financial, moral and political sup¬ port f^om extremist^oups in the United States and had had "considerable success in mobilizing extremist support ^ here." <<jr While the bulk of the groupTs monfey comes from Arab Govermnents, El Fatah has been able to raise fkmds in the U.S. Arnold Foster, ADL general counsel, said it was debatable whether contribu- ti(His to such a paramUitary ' force would be a violation of US. neutrality laws. "Ifthe Fatah is pi-etending it is'us- . Ing money to help war-torn areas and hungry kids, you'd have to accept that the dona¬ tions are legal," he said. MB. FOSTER noted that "although the pro-Fatah Arab groups often assert that they are against Zion¬ ists, not the Jewishpeople," theiy do not hesitate to seek and accept support from "traditional anti-Semites on the American scene." The ADL said" that since ed its U.S."7ictIi^tles fr'cHn" hBadqMarters maintained at 801 Second Avenue in New York City, financial, politic¬ al and propaganda support fOr the Arab terrorists have come from the 10,000-mem- ber Organization of Arab Students, groups ofthe Com¬ munist "old lett," New Left radicals and such black ex¬ tremist groups as the Black Panthers and the Black Mus¬ lim movement. NEW LEFT and revolu¬ tionary organizati(His sup¬ porting the guerriUa group included the Youth Against War and Fascism, youth arm of the pro-Peking Workers World Pariy, the U.S. Com¬ mittee to Aid the National. Liberation Front, apro-Viet Cong group, the Committee to Support Middle East Lib¬ eration, the pro-Peking Pro¬ gressive Labor Party, form¬ ed by Communist Party dis¬ sidents, and the Trotshyite Socialist Workers Party. Mr. Foster,added' that .^tte^cp^w^a^jnddeqce^indicatj:,', Ing thatHhe Students for a Oemoct^c Society (BDS>, strongest of the student New Left groups, was inoving to¬ ward "acceptance of dd-line anti-Zionist Arab propa¬ ganda, overlaid with support for the' Third World versus colonialism line of Arab re¬ volutionaries — and toward a pro-EI Fatah positicai." P ¦ ¦roRAH DISTRIBimON Dr. Moses Rosen, right. Chief Rabbi of Rumania, presents a Torah Scroll to Louis D. Horwitz, Direc¬ tor-General of the Joint Distribution Committee, in recognition of the role played by JDC in transferring some 3,000 Torah Scrolls from Rumania to Israel. Mr. Horwitz,.In turn, presented tho Scroll tothe rabbi of one of the Tel Aviv synagogues. In this latest dis¬ tribution some 100 Sift-ei Torah were presented to 25 synagogues located in the greater Tel Ayjy area. iiiliSiiiliiiii WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The WashlngtOT Evening Star reported this week that the Big Four are discussing a ban on arms shipments to the Middle East, a develop¬ ment thiri: could lead to the suspension ofthe shipment of 50 F-4 Phantom, jet supetsonic fighter-bombers whichthe UnitedStates has agreed to sell lisraeLThe Sttu^is UN correspoitdent,' WUliam H. Frye, said "Moscow's wiUingness to include arms coiAroI onthe Big Four Mideast agenda was regarded by Western diplomats as a sigrtflcantstepforward." But "whether : any pr(^ess has been made toward agreement onthis point in tiie highly secret talks is not known," Mr. Frye wrote. ; . WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Former Vice.President Hu¬ bert H; Humphr^ sharply criticized the Nixon Ad- ' ministration this week in the areas of mUitary ex- ' penditures, cuU)acks of anti-poverty funds and the^ enforcement of antiTdiscriminationlaws.Buthetoldaw^ audience of B'nai B'lrith'members that he went along with the President's decision to join in Four Power talks on the Middle East ieven though he had doubts ° about what the conference ndght achieve. Mr. Humph¬ rey said at thef etih annual meeting ofthe B'nai B'rith 'Anti-Defamation League that he thought the Middle East was a 'fcauIdron''jmd that if the Big Powers Insisted on an end to'beUigerency, they might promote, a '¦< climate of restraint" and that possibUities might develop for bUateral negotiations and settlement in other areas. ^ WASHINGTON, (JTA)—President Nixon said in an Independence iDay message to President Shazar that like "so many peace-lovingmenandwomenthroughout .:'the worId,?''M''**i^''-'^epiy-'€listiirbed andsaddenedby the coi<flict th4 has marredthegreat success you hdve attained." President Nixon'metPresidentShazarwhen the latter attended the ftmeral of former President Eisenhower. • , , ' «& NEW YORK, (JTA)—A long term low interest lOah of $1744 miUjoii has been made by the New York State Housing Finance Agency to help buUd the Jewish bistitute for Geriatric Care, it wasj aiinounced this week by the jiome and Hospital of ihe Daughters of Israel, which is;sponsoring the institute. ADL Reports On American Anti-Semitism . WASHINGTON (WNS) — A four-year study on American attitudes toward Jews financed by the Anti-Defamation League of B^nEd B'rith has disclosed that a majority of Americans either subscribe to anti-Semitic beliefs or are indifferent to the problem's of antl-Semitisin. The study, conducted by the Survey Research Center of the University of CJalifomia, found ttat oifly.16 percent qf the population was totally NEW YORK, (JTA) — Four4housand persons attending an Israel Independence Day celebration at Madison Square Garden heard a message firom Premier Golda Meir specially taped for the occasion.^ told tte anniversary fete, spon¬ sored! by the American Zionist CouiicU, that "even our ftiends" cannot sit down with other powers to "decide our &ite for us." Referring to the current Four Power talks on Mideast peace, Mrs. Meir b' tree of anti-Semitic stereo^ typic views andi warranted the description of "consis¬ tent Opponent qf aiiti-Semit¬ ism." ¦; fe ' THE SURVEYfwas J?ased on 2,000 intei^ews reprO- senting a na^pnal cross- section of the population, the research center report stsnted. I ADL n at ioT^aI chairman Dory Schary 4aiji]]the study 'constituted k "danger sig¬ nal" to Jews and to aU Am- ericans. He 'warned that apathy was mjg^ dangerous than bve.rt anti-Semitic practice/ which the study found was low. THE STUDY showed that the acceptance of anti-Sem¬ itic stereotpyes was "firm¬ ly anchored in a whole sys¬ tem Of generally unenlight¬ ened beliefs and weak-com¬ mitments to democracy.'* It was most pervasive among the least educated, among the older parts of the popu¬ lation and in the, rural South and Midwest. WhUe educar tion "can be' the priinary countervaUing influence," aspects of anti-Semitic at¬ titudes Was found among persons 'with high education and occupational status Blocid Drive C I, is May 14 T he V Jev)jish Community. Blood Drive wiU be held Wednesday, May 14, 12:30-, 6:30 at the Jewish Center., The purpose of the drive is to insure the country's Je¬ wish community of free blood at any time and anywhere when heeded. Officers of the Jewish Blood Donor CouncU are San¬ ford Fishman, president and Gordon Zeldman, chairman. Transportation and baby¬ sitting on "B-day" wiU be provided for anyone needing the'services. said, "At this time the gov¬ ernment of Israel and the peoide of Israel are involv¬ ed, not in a struggle with our friendsi but in a veiy serious dialogue anddiscus- sion with, our best friends! And we hope that evenhiallj^ they wlU understand that the pdicy of the Israel govern¬ ment is one of search for peace between us and our neighbors." Sen. Charles GoodeU,New York Republican, another speaker at the gs^ring de¬ clared that the course pur¬ eed in the meetings ofthe U.S., Briton, Franoe and Soviet Russia "can (xiy be effective if they lead to Arab and IsraeU sitting down to¬ gether atthe table and .Iron¬ ing out their own differences ty force of argument rather than by force of arms. IN ALBANY, N.Y., Gov. RockefeUer, proclaimed the week of April 20 "Israel Independence Week" in New York State. The Governor's proclamation haUed.thepeo-. pie of Israel who "won their freedom in the face of ob¬ stacles which most people believed to be insurmount¬ able." In a telephone caU to Mayor Teddy KoUek of Jeru¬ salem, Mayor John V. Lind¬ say of New York conveyed anniversary greetings and expressed the hope of New Yorkers for a strong and secure Israel tliat would live hi peace and prosperity. In PhUadelphia, Mayor James EJ. Tate proclaimed Israel Independence Day in that city at a ceremony in mdepend- ende HalL He received from C ons'ul-General Yissakhar Ben-Yaakov a gdden medal struck at the Franklin Mint in honor of the occasic^. tt syinboUzed a sister-cities relatlqnship with Tel Aviv. He said that PhUadelphia would name a street or square in Tel Aviv's honor and Mr. Ben-Yaacov an¬ nounced that Tel Aviv would reciprocate. The Board of Deputies of British Jews held a special meeting in London to mark Israel's anniversary. One speaker. Sir Henry Davig-. dor-Gddsmic^ decried at¬ tempts to' create a breach:- side lowers cannot have a (Middle East) agreement at our ^cpense however noble their intentions." "^ THE OFFICIALLY Oopl relations of. Israel and Fnmce were reflected intiie faUure of'the Israel Em¬ bassy to hdd its traditional ^dependence Day reception in Paris, for high ranking French Government offic¬ ials, an event that has been a diplomatic highlight here since Israel was est^Ushed. ,,'i-"^-' Egyp* Decries UNLhe UNITED NATIONS, RY., (JTA)—The Egyptian regime stepped up its'pressure on lisrael and the western powers this wedc by declar¬ ing that Egypt no longer ac¬ cepted the United Nations sponsored cease-fire along the.Suez Canal demarcation line. The statement imme¬ diately evoked reactions by israel and the United States. State Department spake8->v man Robert McCioskey' de¬ clared the United States was. concerned by "this and other previous reports indicating that Egypt does not consider ttself bound" bx the cease- ' fire, agreements. He called the statement "retrogres¬ sive" and certain to increase tensiois. Attiie UN, Am¬ bassador Yosef Tekoahasked' the UN to toisist that Egypt observe the cease-fire. The --^ appeal was:^ made in letters '¦ to Secretary General UThant: and to the current SecurUy ;';!i CouncU president. The^Se- " curity Council head was- urged to use his influence with President Nasser* sgov*- ernment to get such com¬ pliance. The letter s^d It was Israel's poUcy to abide h^ the agreements and that it expected Egypt to do like- • wise. THE ENVOY also charged m between Israel and Wasporif; EHrpt'^h "deliberate as Jewry. He said,*'Today antir^'Smflts'l insteliing.i^^^^ Semitism is a mark of: sham^ but to be anti-Israel is merelytoexpress an opin¬ ion. Israel is no longer an underdog and we are proud that she can stand on her own feet." Joseph Saidiir, Israel Minister without port- fOUo, tdd tiie annual British Mizrachi Independence day dinner in London that "out- on Israel's side of the Oanal where morethan^0UN'ini- Utary observers are station¬ ed to' maintain the (!ease- Qre. Thant had expressed concern for the safety of the observers. Several UN ob¬ servation posts haive been hit .^by Egyptian shellflre and an Irish Army captain wais in¬ jured in one. shelling attack^"^ i
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 2nd Jun 2012 02:21 UTC, submitted by rohan_p
Good interview with Steven Solie - this bit stood out to me: "Although Hyperion has been using serial numbers for copies of AmigaOS since 4.0, it won't reveal sales numbers. Solie's 'personal guess' is that the system has 2000-5000 users. 'If you include all the various Amiga clones and emulators we would probably be talking about around 10000 users [in] total,' he adds, 'it is really difficult to judge because a majority of the users are rather quiet.'" Fascinating number - lower than I anticipated.
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RE: Just wonder...
by earksiinni on Sat 2nd Jun 2012 08:04 UTC in reply to "Just wonder..."
RE[2]: Just wonder...
by Neolander on Sat 2nd Jun 2012 13:16 in reply to "RE: Just wonder..."
I just hope we will never have to find out.
Like that at some point, when people start to actually get hit by the side effects of today's massive hardware lockdown wave, the European commission will finally beat up Microsoft for a good reason, deal with the secure boot issue themselves, and introduce an EU-wide ban on locked bootloaders for all personal computer OEMs as a side effect. Best possible outcome, IMO.
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Johnny's, the fifth restaurant from Baltimore restaurateurs Tony Foreman and Cindy Wolf, is scheduled to open Tuesday morning in Roland Park. They're not fooling around either. Johnny's goes straight into a seven-day, three-meal schedule.
• Get a sneak peek: Johnny's in Roland Park [Pictures]
If you show up for breakfast at Johnny's on opening day, here's what's in store for you.
For starters, there's a super geeked-out coffee program, supervised by Lindsay DiFabbio. The brewed coffee is made, for one, two- or four people, in Chemex coffee makers. And espresso drinks are made with "double ristretto shots," which takes all the fun out of ordering a double ristretto shot.
There is Alpine muesli, served with either yogurt or heavy cream, Irish steel-cut oatmeal with fruit and almonds and a gravlox platter.
There are pancake stacks, either buttermilk with maple syrup or local fruit preserve, or red velvet with toasted pine nuts and caramelized honey butter. The Big Dipper is brioche toast with a fried egg in the center and choice of a side dish.
Egg-based options include farm frittatas with daily changing ingredients, omelets, and an egg torta, a Spanish-style omelet with potato, pumpkin and sage.
The house's breakfast sandwich is The Chicken and the Egg, chicken sausage and a fried egg with pepper relish and roasted tomato on sweet potato bread.
A two-egg order comes with two sides, which include potato pancakes, biscuits, maple-sage sausage and chicken sausage, smoked bacon, or toast with preserves.
And, finally, there's a steak and eggs platter with hanger steak and potato cake.
Johnny's will serve breakfast 7-11 a.m. on weekdays and 7 a.m.-3 p.m. on weekends, lunch daily from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., and dinner 4-10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 4-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
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groovycreative necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 107 diseños de 35 diseñadores freelance.
We need a logo for Boom Boom Media. A new media and marketing consulting company. I will comment a lot on the designs and if possible, contact designers that I like for future work for clients. We need a smart, cool, clever, clean and awesome logo that we can show proudly!
Boom Boom Media
We want a logo that is unique and reflects our name (Boom Boom Media) and our style. To give you some ideas of how we think, a few of the slogans we came up with to go with the name were: "be more than seen, be heard"; "explode your market share!"; "our clients say we're a blast!; "more bang for your buck". These are not necessary slogans that will appear next to the brand logo, but just ideas. Nothing is set on stone, these are just samples that go with the word "boom" and the "boom" we want to express to our potential clients.The logo should have something that reflects on the word "boom", as in maybe a round bomb, or a blast or something of that matter.
I would like to keep the color scheme fairly simple. If you go to boomboommedia.com you can see some white text on red. I like contrast like that. And we like reds and oranges (not together obviously, but with a black or white).
I am planning on running this contest for a week and looking for a quick turnaround. Winner will be paid the prize promptly, and I expect the winner to deliver the TTF font files used, and a vector version and color palette for the final logo.
- Logo with good typography
- nice icon that reflects the business name
- Look like a unique, high quality brand
- Thinking of a two-color business card (maybe red background/white logo), so logo must look good in mono color
- The icon can be a bomb or something of that matter that goes with the word Boom!
- Don't want too many colors
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The Rigalite focuses on the People who lived in Marina...
The boy and the seagull
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- Updated: 7 Dec 2015
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The story tells of a young coble fisherman Tom Lawson who is also a coxswain on the life boat Pegasus in Cullercoats. His father drowned saving the life of a little girl and he wants to follow in his father's footsteps. the story is set in the early fifties a time of sexual revolution and rock and roll. Tom meets Eva a girl who wants the best- brought up on Howdon road she dreams of a better life. She works as a packer at Tyne Brand on North Shields Fish Quay- Tom the handsome Teddy boy with his drapes and crepe shoes charms the young Eva - they end up getting married but things don't run smoothly for the couple who have a son together but he is be-felled with a fever which leaves him unable to hear. This is a story of love-of heartache-and triumph over adversity. This is a story to warm your heart and one i'm sure that you will enjoy.
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Content Amount: This site has everything going for it, except for a high tally to the porn. With only 40+ sets offered at this time, it doesn't seem as if updates are done quickly, but with the right attention and growth, this would hold enough material to be worthy.


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MC.Visser necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 39 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
WASH FOR LIFE is an independent consultancy 'firm' (ZZP in Dutch), soon to be launched (besides the logo, a website will need to be developed)
WASH for life stands for the fact that the simple act of washing hands with water and soap will reduce global diarrhoea incidence by one-third. Diarrhoea still accounts for 2 million deaths a year, of which 80% children under five!
WASH is also the acronym for water supply, sanitation and hygiene.
WASH FOR LIFE will offer the following services:
- WASH project, programme and policy development;
- Development, organisation and facilitation of WASH training (modules) and workshops;
- Coaching and training of national and expat WASH staff. Before or during assignment;
- Assessment, planning, monitoring and evaluation assignments.
WASH FOR LIFE offers its services to INGO's (international non-governmental organisations); organisations acting in the humanitarian sector, development aid/co-operation and/or emergency/relief aid.
E.g. Oxfam, CARE, Doctors without borders.
But also agencies like USAID, UNICEF, WHO etc.
I'd like a logo that links water supply, sanitation and hygiene with (public) health. It needs reference to water, but not necesarily a drop (that's a bit too easy to my opinion)
Other things to consider:
- something with handwashing;
- (third world) children;
- (third world) woman/women;
- emergency relief
- possibly using 4 instead of "for" (re. Dance4life), WASH should be in capitals though: WASH4life
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I was highly surprised when the owner of this beautiful home informed me that some neighbours described her house as "the fixer-upper."
The proprietor felt that the porch area was lacking presence, probably because it was disproportioned compared to the ample dimension of the facade. For starters, the flat overhang needs to be elongated almost all the way to the garage. The width of the L-shape planks near the big door will determine where the roof should end. This new structure would also reveal an angular roof with the same pitch as the main one and covered with matching shingles. The post should be moved to the right outer corner and would serve as one of the sides of the new giant louvre trellis.
The gap on the right part of the floor will be framed, filled with alkaline soil and a generous layer of black mulch to keep the roots of the climbing white blooming Clematis cool. This beauty is one of the few varieties that doesn't require pruning.
If exterior furniture is showcased in front of a home, it should reflect elegance and good taste. I suggest investing in a well designed and enduring modern piece in charcoal or black.
Inspired by red stones from the chimney and the Japanese maple, an earthy red door is a natural choice. A couple of black contemporary style tubular light fixtures introduced on both sides of the entrance door with another above the garage would result in a more inviting spot.
The small maple will now reside in a separate circular island and could share its seclusion with three different size boulders and a carpet of dark mulch. Some kind of divider is necessary around the shape.
The muted palette of the facade is acceptable, but maybe a bit washed out. I favour a slightly deeper tone of very warm grey taupe in a matte finish for the stucco, the soffits, the fascias and eavestroughs. This also goes for the raised wooden frames near the six windows on the left and the trellis.
A darker shade in the same family of colours could be painted over the three rectangles and side strip of wall. The right side of the house, from the surface of the porch wall, all the way to the vertical thick frame as well as the contouring bands under the soffits should also be darker.
A more substantial and deeper flower box, in the same stronger hue, will be constructed so as to hold more soil, thus providing a better environment for thriving annuals. This container ought to be secured lower to prevent the vegetation from encroaching over the window openings.
A new, better scaled walkway, as deep as it is wide, will bring dimension to the otherwise small area. Ample square or rectangular slabs will translate into a richer feel relative to the opulence of the residence.
In the photo, three different bushes and a blue fir tree are placed in line. This positioning looks awkward. Placing shrubs in a linear fashion is fine, as long as they are identical.
The Weigela florida Carnival hedge near the foundation and the Hydrangea Pinky Winky on stem will amaze any admirer who notices a pinch of white, pink and red tint on the same shrub. Some colours from this mixture are repeated in the cascading annuals in the flower container, the climbing clematis, the hedge of red to pink foliage of the Berberis. The white border of persistent leaves of the euonymus will turn to pink in colder temperatures.
Concerning this '50s architecture, quiet sophistication combined with punchy colours and adequate scaling were welcome ingredients for a successful recipe to improve curb appeal.
- Owner's Japanese maple (red)
- Weigela florida Carnival (shrubs, white, pink and red, foundation)
- Euonymus fortunei Emerald Gaiety (persistent shrubs, green and white leaves, pathway)
- Berberis thunbergii Rose Glow (shrubs, burgundy, pink tips, pathway)
- Hydrangea paniculata Pinky Winky (shrub on stem, white to almost red)
- Clematis Henryi (climbing, white, trellis)
- Pelargonium (annuals, white, flower box)
- Begonia Dragon Wing (cascading annuals, pink, flower box)
This is a column in which designer Suzanne Rowe selects homes that could benefit from a little inexpensive help in increasing their curb appeal. After examining photographs, she then proceeds to sketch out an artist's rendering of what they could look like with a few minor changes. We hope you enjoy the results.
Most homes can use a little bit of help when it comes to warming up their curb appeal. If you would like some inexpensive ideas on how to improve the appearance of your home, send a clear photo of your house with your commentary to: Suzanne Rowe, Designer, firstname.lastname@example.com


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The Retail Sales Department at Emirates General Petroleum Corporation "Emarat" recently organized a badminton championship for the employees at its service stations. The championship aimed to encourage the spirit of competition among the employees and to give them a day of entertainment away from the job's routine and pressures.
Mr. Abdulla Hassan Al Noman, Manager, Retail Sales Operations at Emarat, said that such activities contribute to a great extent in increasing and improving the communication levels between the employees, and strengthens the ties of familiarity, friendship and cooperation.
Mr. Abdulla added that the different social events that are organized by the Corporation help in rejuvenating the employees and enhancing their capabilities. He further said that the Retail Sales Department is always clearly present in such events.
The event was full of fun and competition, as each team worked hard to beat their opponent.


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φιλεῖ δὲ τίκτειν Ὕβρις
μὲν παλαιὰ νεά-
ζουσαν ἐν κακοῖς βροτῶν
an old outrage wants to give
birth to a new outrage
amidst the sufferings of mortals
Αἴγισθ', ὑβρίζειν ἐν κακοῖσιν οὐ σέβω
I do not respect/approve of insolence
amidst the sufferings [of others]
The infinitive at ὑβρίζειν at 1612 is emended to an accusative participle by several editors who find fault with the syntax of the mss. but note LSJ and Cooper[1]
LSJ ὑβρίζειν ἐν κακοῖσιν οὐ σέβω, i.e. τὸ ὑβρίζειν, I do not respect, approve it, A.Ag.1612;
Cooper[1] calls this an objective complement of the main verb σέβω, φιλεῖ. I have problems with the metalanguage here; complement has a very flexible meaning in grammar books and linguistics. If 763-64 is an example of an objective complement then the rendering of 1612 in LSJ appears to be wrong. It would be something like Sommerstein's "I'm not in the habit of being insolent at a time of trouble."
I am wondering why LSJ appears(?) to disagree with Cooper, R-T, D-P, and others in regard to ὑβρίζειν ... σέβω. It looks like LSJ construes the infinitive as the direct object. On the other hand a functional direct object is a subset of complement in the broad sense of the word.
EDIT: I just scanned the b-greek archives for objective complement and it appears that it is a second accusative which complements the accusative direct object. In the citations from A.Ag above there is no accusative direct object for the finite verbs φιλεῖ & σέβω so we either supply one by emendation or fall back on the notion of an "understood" accusative direct object (R-T) to which the infinitive functions as a complement. All of this still doesn't answer the question about the apparent discrepancy between LSJ and the various editors, commentators and translators.
[1] Guy Cooper, Greek Syntax vol 3, p2525, 184.108.40.206.ALSJ ὑβρίζειν ἐν κακοῖσιν οὐ σέβω, i.e. τὸ ὑβρίζειν, I do not respect, approve it, A.Ag.1612;


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How sad that folks are still using economic bullying to punish people with whom they do not agree.
There is ample research demonstrating that western communities' economic health is enhanced by nearby wild lands, national parks and monuments. This evidence may not convince everyone. It does, however, prove that differing beliefs about whether or not a new Canyonlands National Monument is in our long-term best interest are a matter on which honest people can disagree.
It does not serve our community or our future to treat those with whom we disagree as the enemy, even when we think them dead wrong. Efforts to make local businesses less successful cannot be good for our future.
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bufferout needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 64 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
CushyCMS will be a new software product that is essentially a Content Management System that is made very easy to use.
Content management made easy (optional)
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Go nuts!
Desired Style:
"Web 2.0" (optional)
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff); Probably prefer vector where possible
Please combine these two themes in your design:
- Content Management (e.g. pages, pencil, clipboard, book, files, etc)
- Easy/friendly (e.g. couch, beanbag, ?, etc)
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RPMH offers free cholesterol screening
February is American Heart Month, to observe this occasion Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital will be at the Sweetwater-Nolan County Health Department (SNCHD), located at 301 E. 12th, on Thursday, Feb. 27, from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. to offer free cholesterol screening. There will be pamphlets and information available on cholesterol. The health department will be closed on Monday, Feb. 17, for President's Day.Immunization clinics are held every Wednesday from 8-11:30 a.m. and 1-4:30 p.m. and the second Wednesday of each month until 6 p.m. The Health Department is continuing to give flu vaccine on a walk-in basis. The cost is $20. Adults with no insurance can be vaccinated with Td or Tdap, Hep B and MMR. The cost is $10 through the Adult Safety Net.Family Planning services are available through several funding sources. Services include pap smears, breast exams, pregnancy testing, methods of birth control and screening and testing for sexually transmitted diseases. For an appointment call 235-2869.For more information about the Health Department's services, visit the web site at www.nolancountyhealth.com.The Sweetwater-Nolan County Health Department does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability or age.


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Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II (UK - DVD R2)
Marcus returns to the toy box to see what Robot Chicken will make them do this time.
Robot Chicken lays another Star Wars egg on our laps and as per usual we get their humours spins on all things from the galaxy far, far away played out with little toys.
I won't get too specific here as the sketches don't exactly add up to a story but the highlights for me are all things Palpatine (who gets a lot of screen time this time out) especially his realisation that Mace may have deformed his face after their face off and his growing frustration with the Stormtroopers waving to him on the escalators. Yarael Poof's complaining makes me chuckle lots and of course anything with Boba Fett never fails to amuse, after all he is "the most interesting bounty hunter in the galaxy".
As always I enjoyed Robot Chicken's take on the Star Wars Saga, though I have to say this one felt a little more miss than hit on this, my second viewing. There are some classics in here, like cocky drunk Boba Fett "Back form the dead bitches!!" and Luke trying to avoid the now one armed Wampa at the gas station, but some of the smaller, flatter gags felt a little too played out in this volume and when a joke you don't find funny is beaten to death in front of you it's never enjoyable.
The transfer has high and low points. The highs come with the textures of the clothing, fabrics and the miniature sets. Everything feels packed full of detail and there's a real sense of the weight and feel of materials used. The lows come with edge halos and the odd bit of digital noise in the wider shots and a random increase of grain in the odd scenes.
The best thing here are the colours which are very strong, Yoda's green and Shaak Ti's red and white markings all look great and the black costumes are sometime quite striking within the well-lit sets. Once again knowing that this is all acted out with action figures and models is celebrated thoroughly and the low-fi nature of the stop motion is still packed full of charm with every joint and paper mouth looks good within this presentation.
With a simple 2.0 track, there's not a lot of depth to the track but it's still quite a pleasing bit of audio. The dialogue is clear and it is the strongest part of the mix, while the Star Wars music hangs back a little behind the vocals. The Star Wars sound effects all sound great (but hey when don't they?) and there's the odd peak with lightsabers and such but when compared to the to the actual Saga or The Clone Wars this is slumming it for sure.
'Chicken Nuggets' brings up the chicken icon for you to select and this cuts us away to short scene specific chats from writer's Tom Root, Zeb Wells and Mike Falso.
The featurettes starts with 'For the Love of the Toys' (04:47) where the creators talk about their Star Wars collections growing up and now. I love this sort of stuff as I share many a fond memory of my Star Wars toys. 'For the Love of Star Wars' (03:50) is more of the same but this one is about the movies rather than the toys (again always enjoyable stuff). 'For the love of Filmmaking' (05:18) goes more into the love of how Star Wars was made and the appreciation of what George Lucas inspired in them all, which in itself is an insight into how the show achieves its look. 'Behind the Scenes: Writing' (03:45) has the writers reading through their ideas intercut with some storyboards and lastly 'Behind the Scenes: Voice Acting' (05:13) has the voice actors including Lando himself Billy Dee Williams and Zach Efron (as Anakin) doing their stuff with the microphones. I love seeing Ahmed Best sticking to Jar Jar in these Robot Chickens too.
'Robot Chicken Skate Tour '09' (25:58) is a look at a tour the guys did for their skate parties. All filled out with cosplay Star Wars fans, iffy roller skating and plenty of Robot Chicken promotion dotted about. This is a good insight into the show's offbeat promotion and is full of abstract little nuggets of goodness.
The 'deleted scenes and animatics' (30:01) is a batch of unused, slightly different or early sketched ideas packed with more laughs and more plays on the saga.
The 'Skywalker Ranch Premiere' (04:56) has the gang rolling up to the ranch to premiere their work (lucky swines).
The 'Star Wars Celebration V Robot Chicken Panels' (09:05) has the writers answering Star Wars fans' questions. The 'Gag Reel' (03:50) is outtakes and funny bits not used in the rest of the features. The trailers section has two for the show and one is a Robot Chicken specially made ad for The Force Unleashed II.
The 'Animation Reference' (09:43) features the videos of Seth Green acting out the characters for the animators to use as reference.
'Sunday in The Boardroom with George Lucas' (10:03) is pretty much a reason to buy the disc in itself. It's just George Lucas in a boardroom with Seth Green and some of the Robot Chicken guys asking Lucas to clarify details about small things from the saga. Lucas is totally playing along and it's absolute feel good fun. George asks is he "destroyed their childhood" and it was great and even as the jokes get dirtier Lucas still plays along and often drops in a gag to compete. Uncle George kicking off about NOT creating Mara Jade and kicking a writer out of the room is fantastic and his approach to writing and creating character names is brilliant. Seriously this is golden and sort of like seeing a bunch of fanboy's dreams come true. I can only hope the upcoming Star Wars Saga on Blu-ray features some extras this enjoyable.
Lastly, and as with the other release, one of the biggest highlights here are the commentary tracks. 'Track one: Actors' features Abraham Benrubi, Ahmed Best, Keith Ferguson, Seth Green, Matthew Senreich and Billy Dee Williams. 'Track 2: Actors' features Bob Bergen, Donald Faison, Seth Green, Breckin Meyerand Matthew Senreich 'Track 3: Writers' has Matthew Beans, Mike Falsolo, Dan Milano, Tom Root, Hugh Sterbakov and Zeb Well and lastly Track 4 features some of the crew. All of the tracks are upbeat, genuinely fun and packed full of chuckles. There is a bit of insight into the musical choices, homages, favourite characters features and the process of making Robot Chicken but generally it's the participants enjoying making fun of everything and having plenty of laughs. The stand out for me was the first actors track with Billy Dee Williams and Ahmed Best. Billy Dee cracks loads of great gags and obviously enjoys mucking about but every one of the tracks is just as enjoyable.
Robot Chicken Episode III serves up more great Star Wars laughs and once again has a disc packed full of extras for fans of the show and Star Wars to lap up. I would have loved to check out the US Blu-ray version to see if the upgrade made any difference but this DVD release is just about as strong as the previous releases even if the gags are getting a bit thinner three episodes in.
Review by Marcus Doidge
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I really enjoyed the segment with Lucas. It showed a side of him that you never get to see publicly. He's actually quite a funny bloke with a dark sense of humour. Then again, I suppose he'd need to be!
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The Robot Chicken Star Wars stuff is annoyingly schizophrenic - for every clever and engaging spoof, you get two skits that consist of having a Star Wars character beating up another one whilst speaking in contemporary "yoof" slang.
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Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 4th July 2011
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.33:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Stereo 2.0
Subtitles: English
Extras: s, In The Baordroom with George Lucas, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Various
Cast: Billy Dee Williams, Seth Green, Zach Efron, Donald Glover, Ahmed Best.
Genre: Comedy and Sci-Fi
Length: 54 minutes
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(AP) British government challenges Abu Qatada ruling
The British government is challenging a court ruling that it cannot deport to Jordan the radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada, who has been described by prosecutors as a key al-Qaida operative in Europe.
Britain's High Court blocked extradition last month, saying it was not convinced the cleric would receive a fair trial in Jordan.
The Home Office said Monday it is appealing the court's decision, but gave no details.
Britain has attempted since 2001 to remove Abu Qatada, who was convicted in his absence in Jordan over terror plots in 1999 and 2000, but has been repeatedly thwarted by European and British courts.
The cleric, whose real name is Omar Mahmoud Mohammed Othman, was freed after nearly a decade in prison following the ruling.


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Kolkata: Three of the best international percussionists are set to jam in the city to celebrate drums and rhythms with the "Mighty Trio on Drums" concert at the picturesque Rabindra Sarobar here Dec 1.
The live open air event will see American drummer and percussionist Greg Ellis, English percussionist and recording artist Pete Lockett and Indian tabla player and percussionist Bickram Ghosh.
"The drum or the beat is the closest to our life because life begins with a heartbeat, it begins with a pulse. Therefore, rhythms and beats are important in our life. This is what we will celebrate," Ghosh told the media Thursday.
As many as 100 drums of different types, including acoustic and electric, will be accompanying the trio at the concert organised by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) in partnership with the Calcutta Classical Guitar Society (CCGS).
The line up will also include a performance by renowned American contemporary danseuse Doris Martel.
"The aim is to bring the best of the three continents. This is one of the most important music festival in Kolkata in the last 25 years," said Vivek Bharadwaj, CEO, KMDA.
"Most of the big concerts in India give Kolkata a slip for some reason or the other. But this one we are not going to miss. We wanted bring two of the best percussion artists of the world and give the city a taste of what a big show can be and also to give the venue a boost," said Bickram Ghosh.
Greg Ellis, associated with Hollywood hits like The Matrix trilogy, and Pete Lockett, known as the `Bond` rhythm man for his contribution to the James Bond movie franchise, will also conduct workshops in the city prior to the concert for drumming enthusiasts.