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Moberg Dale | Aug 5, 2009 8:39 am | .odt |
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David RR Webber (XML) | Aug 6, 2009 7:45 am | |
Moberg Dale | Aug 6, 2009 8:50 am | |
Charles Kilkenny | Aug 6, 2009 9:23 am | |
David RR Webber (XML) | Aug 6, 2009 9:36 am | |
Charles Kilkenny | Aug 6, 2009 9:49 am | |
Pim van der Eijk | Aug 7, 2009 12:19 am | |
Adrian Mueller | Aug 10, 2009 3:29 am | |
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Moberg Dale | Aug 11, 2009 8:02 am | |
Adrian Mueller | Aug 12, 2009 6:31 am | |
Moberg Dale | Aug 13, 2009 10:15 am |
Subject: | RE: [ebxml-dev] <PartyId type="?SWIFT BIC?">BBBBCCLL123<\PartyId> | |
From: | Pim van der Eijk (lis...@sonnenglanz.net) | |
Date: | Aug 5, 2009 12:10:51 pm | |
List: | org.ebxml.lists.ebxml-dev |
Dale and others,
There was some discussion on this recently on UBL-DEV: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-dev/200907/msg00012.html
For SWIFT, something like:
would work.
From: Moberg Dale [mailto:dmob...@axway.com] Sent: 05 August 2009 17:40 To: char...@actuare.com; ebxm...@lists.ebxml.org Cc: Pim van der Eijk Subject: RE: [ebxml-dev] <PartyId type="?SWIFT BIC?">BBBBCCLL123<\PartyId>
Thanks for pointing out the broken link. I will ask OASIS whether they can fix it. The ebCore TC now is charged with maintenance of CPPA versions.
The version 3 of CPPA is progressing slowly and will have the approved party id identifier material included whenever we are able to finish the editorial work.
Meanwhile the material from version 3, section 4.3.1 (subject to change) that should also be at the link is attached to this reply. It is in the open office open document format. (There may be some variation from the material at the link but I cannot be certain until I get OASIS to fix the link.)
[Also the text is short enough to insert after discussion of the SWIFT value.]
Now for Swift from ISO 6523 Data interchange- Structure for the identification of organizations, I find
Name of coding system: SOCIETY FOR WORLDWIDE INTERBANK FINANCIAL
Name & address : SOCIETY FOR WORLDWIDE INTERBANK FINANCIAL
of issuing TELECOMMUNICATION S.W.I.F.T.
organization Avenue Adele,1
B - 1310 La Hulpe
Tel: +32 2 6553111
Fax: +32 2 6553226
Structure of : 1) ICD 4 Digits
code Organization code upto 11 characters
Organization name upto 250 characters
2) None
Display : None
Description of : Bank's identifiers for financial transfer on the
organizations S.W.I.F.T. Network.
covered by
coding system
Notes on use : To be used for assignment of object identifiers
of code (ISO 8824/8825)
Sponsoring : S.W.I.F.T.
Date of issue : September 1990
of ICD
Additional : None
Unfortunately an explicit abbreviated name entry is not provided, although S.W.I.F.T is apparently intended.
This would mean that the method (approved by the old CPPA TC) currently yields within the approved errata for version 2, either
urn:oasis:names:tc:ebxml-cppa:partyid-type:SocietyForWorldwideInterbankFinan cialTelecommunicationS.W.I.F.T.:0021
I like the shorter one. Both of these are the party-id type values. Explicit values for banks would presumably be defined by SWIFT and these would be the actual party id values, as your subject line shows.
Also, I should mention that, for version 3, I must check whether the above two options are the only options -- with Pim van der Eijk, as it seems to me that an additional shortening of uuid has been under discussion for version 3. It apparently has not made its way into the current working draft for version 3.
PartyId Element
The PartyID element provides an identifier that SHALL be used to logically identify the Party. The value of the PartyID element is an non-empty string that provides an identifier. This is the convention used, for example, within a CPP or CPA when leveraged with ebMS.
The PartyId element has a single attribute: type that has an anyURI [XMLSCHEMA-2] value. In a CPP or CPA, the type value of the type attribute SHOULD be a URN [RFC2141] that defines a namespace for the value or content of the PartyId element. Typically, the URN would be registered in a well-known directory of organization identifiers.
For a CPP or CPA, if the type attribute is not present, the value or content of the PartyId element MUST be a URI that conforms to [RFC2396].
While an identifier may be understood by both Parties in a CPA, messaging protocols such as ebMS recommend the use of URIs. Within ebMS, the value or content of the PartyId MUST be a URI that conforms to [RFC2396].
Additional PartyId elements MAY be present under the same PartyInfo element so as to provide for alternative logical identifiers for the Party. In a CPP, if the Party has preferences as to which logical identifier is used, the PartyId elements SHOULD be listed in order of preference starting with the most-preferred identifier.
In a CPP that contains multiple PartyInfo elements, different PartyInfo elements MAY contain PartyId elements that define different logical identifiers. This permits a large organization, for example, to have different identifiers for different business or other technical purposes.
If multiple PartyId elements occur under the same PartyInfo element in the CPA, all of those PartyInfo elements MUST be included in the Message Header. This applies, for example, when protocol bindings such as ebMS v2 are used.
The value of the PartyId element is any string that provides a unique identifier. The identifier MAY be understood by both Parties to a CPA. Several schemes exist for naming identifier domains. [ISO6523] enumerates values for many domains: the domain is identified by a four-digit numeric sequence. For example, the ISO 6523 ICD 0060 identifies the Dun & Bradstreet domain. Typically, the identifier would be listed in well-known directories such as DUNS (Dun and Bradstreet) or in any naming system specified by [ISO6523].
Alternatively, the code list for ISO 9735 (UN/EDIFACT syntax) D.3 Service simple data element 0007 (routing Identification Code qualifier) can be used to name identifier domains [ISO9735]. ANSI ASC [X12] Data Element I05 (Interchange ID Qualifier) element, used in the ISA Interchange Control Header segment, also provides a list of code values for naming domains.
These three serve as "catalogues" of schemes for naming identifier domains; processes exist by which additional domains can be identified through the Registration Authorities (RA):
* the British Standards Institute (BSI): ISO 6523
* ISO/TC154-UN/CEFACT Joint Syntax Working Group (JSWG): [ISO9735] D.E Service simple data element 0007
* ANSI ASC X12: X12 Data Element I05
The following example shows how URNs are used for the type attribute and for the PartyId element value.
<PartyInfo partyName="CompanyA" defaultMshChannelId="asyncChannelA1"
<PartyId type="urn:oasis:names:tc:ebxml-cppa:partyid-type:duns">123456789</PartyId>.. .
The first example indicates the Party's DUNS number for the organization using a type attribute with a URN value. The value of the PartyId element itself is the DUNS number of the organization, which is a string of digits assigned by the agency. The second example shows an arbitrary URN as a PartyId value. No type is indicated, but the value might be a URN that the Party has registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority [IANA] (http://www.iana.org) to identify itself directly.
When these naming conventions are used, values are generated for the type attribute from information items using a well-known directory of organization identifiers such as ISO6523. A method to standardize URNs used as PartyId@type values using ISO6523 is described. This method adheres to the rules, requirements and recommendations of a CPP or CPA, or ebMS.
An implementation SHOULD provide support, and be able to accommodate, the usage of the type values standardized herein (See four bullets that follow).
* If an abbreviated name is described in the item titled "Name of Coding System" within the ICD list, a type attribute can be constructed by prepending: "urn:oasis:names:tc:ebxml-cppa:partyid-type:" to the abbreviated name and appending a colon ":" followed by the ICD value. For example, using the abbreviated name D-U-N-S Number:
Abbreviated Name: "D-U-N-S Number"
Upper-camel-case resultant string: "D-U-N-SNumber"
tp:type=" urn:oasis:names:tc:ebxml-cppa:partyid-type:D-U-N-SNumber:0060"
Note: "0060" is the ICD value of D-U-N-S Number.
To be consistent with v2 CPP/A, the value that follows remains a valid type attribute value or content for the PartyId element: "urn:oasis:names:tc:ebxml-cppa:partyid-type:duns".
* Because an abbreviated name may be omitted from the ICD list, the type attribute can always contain the string derived from "Name of Coding System" expressed in upper-camel-case. A value can always be constructed by pre-pending "urn:oasis:names:tc:ebxml-cppa:partyid-type:" to the upper-camel-case name and appending a colon ":" followed by the ICD value. For example, using the formal name of the Name of Coding System: "Data Universal Numbering System":
Transformed Camel-case: "DataUniversalNumberingSystem"
tp:type=" urn:oasis:names:tc:ebxml-cppa:partyid-type:DataUniversalNumberingSystem:0060 "
* Punctuation marks in these formal names (such as, "/", "-" or "'" ) should be included unless they are not allowed in URNs [RFC2141]. If the punctuation characters are not allowed in URNs, then the hexadecimal escaping convention explained in [RFC2141] should be followed for characters not allowed in URNs. However, spaces are not allowed in URNs and should be consumed during the production of an upper-camel-case string, rather than preserved in an escaped form. Words in names that are all upper-case should remain so when converted to an upper-camel-case string.
* The ICD value should be appended as the last field of the URN so that any collision between formal or abbreviated names is avoided.
From: char...@actuare.com [mailto:char...@actuare.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 7:38 AM To: ebxm...@lists.ebxml.org; char...@actuare.com Subject: [ebxml-dev] <PartyId type="?SWIFT BIC?">BBBBCCLL123<\PartyId>
The link at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-cppa/documents/PartyID_Types.shtm l referenced in the ebcpp-2[1].1-april-5-2005-draft.doc document appears to be broken.
I've searched and searched, and sorry if these questions have already been asked ... does anybody know where the list of ebMS PartyId type URNs are maintained? Does anybody know the URN for a SWIFT BIC (ISO-9362)? I would guess "urn:swift" would be insufficient and it is not clear whether the URN is ISO or SWIFT. Also, ISO 6523 only gives the code "0021" and not the URN. RFC 3615 doesn't help either.


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CHARACTERISTICS OF WEB TYPOGRAPHY Although the basic principles of good typography in print also apply to the web, these principles often have to be reinterpreted due to the ways in which type on the web varies from how type appears in print. Type on the web differs in appearance, behavior and application, all of which must be understood in order to create good web typography, and thus, a strong and effective website.
The primary difference between the two mediums is that the appearance of type on the web is not fixed, predictable and controllable, as it is in print; to the contrary, the appearance and characteristics of type on the web vary from user to user based on the viewer's operating system, browser, installed fonts and screen resolution. These are the primary factors that vary and need to be taken into consideration when designing a website:
Font style Think you have total control over what font viewers see when they look at a site? Think again! In order for the fonts used on a website to be viewed by every visitor, they have to be installed on the viewer's computer; if they aren't, the font will default to something else on the user's system—which can have unexpected and often undesirable results. For this reason, it is best to stick to web-safe fonts in order to maintain better control over what your viewers see. These are fonts that are found on most computers. Some have been designed specifically for the screen.
This quote displayed on the web via Safari, Internet Explorer and Firefox illustrates how type size, as well as line breaks, can vary from browser to browser. Quotation by Mike Davidson.
Type size Although the designer can choose a fixed point size when designing for the web, what the viewer actually sees varies from computer to computer depending on the following elements: platform and subsequent operating system (Mac or Windows), browser (Safari, Explorer, Firefox, etc.) and resolution. Default screen resolutions and browser point sizes vary from user to user: Although the viewer can change these defaults, the web designer has no control over these settings, making the selection of type size somewhat of a guessing game.
Another factor to take into consideration is that Mac and Windows operating systems can display type differently. In general, type displayed at a given point size on Windows browsers can look 10 to 20 percent larger than on Macs, especially on some older browsers. This is an important consideration when designing for the web, as this difference can have a big impact on your page layout.
Column width/line length When designing a website, column width can be a fixed width in pixels or a variable width in percentage. In either case, a very wide text-column width, especially one that extends across the screen, reduces readability greatly. It's common for designers to control the line length of text by creating HTML tables that are specified in pixels, although purists would argue that you should use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to fix line lengths. And though the actual character count of a line can vary on the web, keep the length in the range of 60 to 70 characters per line (or 350 to 500 pixels) for maximum readability, and avoid type that goes across the total width of the page.
Line breaks Unlike in print, there is no control over where a line will break on the web, due again to the font size and style variances from user to user. Another contributing factor is that current browsers don't support hyphenation. Because of this, the line breaks and resulting column rag are at best unpredictable. Tip: When designing a website, do not make manual breaks with soft returns as one does in print to control the rags, or some users will wind up with very short lines.
Column depth Column depths vary on the web, unlike in print where you have total control over type style and size, column width and line breaks. Because of this, it can be difficult in some layouts to align text to related images in adjacent running columns unless they appear at the top of a column and/or the beginning of the text.
If you are willing to live with possible gaps within the text and between paragraphs above, it is possible to force an alignment in adjacent columns by placing the text and image in neighboring cells in a table. A possible solution is to place images within the flow of the text as in-line elements so the text wraps around them; they can then hold their vertical position in relation to the paragraph.
Color While you might think color is one element you have control over, this is not completely true. Color varies from computer to computer, depending on the viewer's browser, brand and type of monitor, how the monitor is calibrated, and the color profi le selected. While you can adjust some of these options on your monitor, you still can't control what others see. And while you are no longer limited to web-safe colors as with older computers, try to aim for enough contrast between the type and its background color to allow for color variations from viewer to viewer that might reduce readability. This is especially true with longer passages of text at small sizes.
Web-safe fonts The primary limitation of web typography—and probably the most frustrating one—is related to font usage. As noted earlier, if the fonts used on a website are not installed on the viewer's computer, the site will default to another font on the user's system. And after all, you wouldn't want a random font substituted for your chosen font on a printed piece, would you? That is the reason why it is best to stick to web-safe fonts in order to maintain better control over what your viewers see.
The following is a list of reliable, web-safe fonts common to most Mac and PC browsers:
Sans serifs Verdana: Considered the most legible of the five choices, this sans serif was created by Matthew Carter for Microsoft. Carter specifically designed Verdana with a tall x-height, comfortable width and rather open letterspacing to be readable at small sizes onscreen.
Trebuchet MS: This sans serif retains clarity and readability at small sizes on the web. It's slightly narrower than Verdana, allowing more copy to fit in the same space. Its curved-stroke endings and unusual lowercase g give it a bit more personality than Verdana.
Arial: Although not specifically designed for the web, Arial is a fairly readable sans which works in print and on the web. It's similar to Helvetica in both width and spacing, but with slight character modification.
Serifs Georgia: Matthew Carter designed this Times alternative for the web. With its open letterforms and spacing, Georgia is crisp, clean and easy to read on the web, especially at smaller sizes.
Times New Roman: Designed for print, this commonly used typeface is hard to read on the web, especially at smaller sizes. If you like Times, try Georgia instead.
Symbol fonts Although not considered 100-percent web-safe, these symbol fonts are found in most systems, although occasionally with a different name. When a font menu listing in an application is displayed in the actual font, these font names show up as symbols.
Webdings: This symbol font was developed by Microsoft in 1997 and contains 230 symbols, icons and pictograms.
Wingdings: 255 more symbols from Microsoft, released in 1990.
Color can vary from viewer to viewer and browser to browser, as illustrated in this example taken from Internet Explorer (above) and Firefox (below), which happen to be on the same computer—mine! Even slight differences in the colors of the type—as well as the background—can affect contrast and resulting readability.
The differences in all five web-safe fonts are obvious in this quotation by Clement Mok.
SMART PUNCTUATION ON THE WEB In print, the use of typographically correct punctuation, including "smart" quotes and apostrophes (also known as curly or typographer's quotes), as well as en and em dashes, is the accepted practice in professional typography. In web design, these practices are often absent, or just tossed by the wayside—either by web developers with little typographic knowledge or designers who aren't aware these practices can be incorporated into websites. Not only can they be used on the web, they should be, especially for design-related sites, which should strive for the highest typographic standards possible.
The first step to achieving this goal is to make sure your original copy contains typographically correct punctuation. Unlike many page-layout applications that have features to correct 'dumb' typography, web-development tools are not typically type-savvy and need to be fed typographically correct copy to accurately code these Special Characters (as they are known in HTML). When copy is hand-coded, this is even more important and should probably be called out in advance to the webmaster (if it isn't you).
CASCADING STYLE SHEETS The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language is used to define specific characteristics of web documents—including elements such as font style, size, spacing, alignment, emphasis and color. Much like style sheets in page layout software, CSS is a timesaving feature that allows the designer to have more control over the stylistic preferences and appearance of web documents.
With CSS, it is possible to create a set of type specifications and apply them to a block of text or a whole site, and to alter those elements on a global basis. It is a way to keep content and type markup separate, as well as a way to have control over type that hasn't been provided for in basic HTML. CSS was a huge breakthrough in web design when it first appeared, and still is a great, time-saving feature worth learning and using if you are designing a site.
FONT EMBEDDING If you've heard mention of font embedding on the web, you're probably intrigued about what it is and how it is used. Font embedding is a technology most commonly associated with Adobe Flash, a web development tool used for making interactive type and animation. Flash allows you to control many elements, including font, color, size, placement, etc. The fonts used are embedded within that file, eliminating the necessity of using only web-safe fonts. Flash is fairly complicated to learn, and Flash animations take longer to load, so unless you are designing a website where this type of technology is desired, stick with web-safe fonts for best results.
Top: This example shows the use of "dumb" punctuation as it commonly appears on the web. The dumb quotes and an apostrophe shown here are actually prime marks, and a double hyphen is used instead of en and em dashes. These outdated typewriter conventions can and should be replaced with the proper typographic punctuation, as seen in the example at lower left. They need to be properly encoded. Bottom: This website for Rishi Yoga (www.rishiyoga.com), designed by Teri Kahan (www.terikahandesign.com), uses graphics instead of web type to create a dramatic and decorative logo and navigation bar treatment.
Bottom: This website for Rishi Yoga (www.rishiyoga.com), designed by Teri Kahan (www.terikahandesign.com), uses graphics instead of web type to create a dramatic and decorative logo and navigation bar treatment.
TYPE AS GRAPHIC If you want complete freedom to select the fonts you want for a typographic logo, heading or subhead, navigation bar or other font-specific images, the type can be converted into a graphic in the form of a .gif, .jpg or .png file. This gives you unlimited creativity and flexibility, allowing you to combine text with images, textures, patterns and numerous special effects that can be achieved with your software. Most websites have graphics as well as straight text to establish a specific look and identity, and to distinguish them from thousands of other websites.
If graphics are so great, then why not create an entire website from graphic images? Unfortunately, some websites do just that, but there are many reasons why this is not a good idea:
SIDEBARS: Dos and Don'ts Do: Use a line space between paragraphs for better readability, not an indent. Add a space before and after dashes to allow for more linebreak choices. Without spaces, the web will read the entire phrase as one word, which with no hyphenation often results in unsightly deep rags. Use subheads to break up lengthy copy, which can be tiring to read. Choose text and background colors carefully for maximum readability under varying conditions. Check how your web pages look on as many browsers (on both Macs and PCs) as possible. Check the appearance of bolds and italics to make sure they stand out enough, as their appearance and emphasis potential can vary from font to font, size to size and monitor to monitor. Use the smallest file possible that still allows you to maintain sharpness, clarity and color when converting type to image. Don't: Justify type on the web—the lack of hyphenation and variation in type size often creates unsightly rivers and holes in web type. Make manual line breaks or word breaks to adjust a rag as one does in print. Text flow is too unpredictable on the web. Make text columns too wide or too narrow, both of which can greatly reduce readability. Drop small text out of black or a color close in value, both of which can be difficult to read. Set a lot of text in all caps, which reduces readability. Justification Avoid justification (upper), as varying type size and lack of hyphenation on the web often result in huge word spaces and rivers of white space in the text—all of which greatly reduces readability. While a justified setting might look OK on one screen, it can change drastically for a viewer whose computer and browser display the type at a larger size. Stick to flush-left/ragright type (lower) for best readability and predictable results. Web design software Adobe Dreamweaver, Mac & Windows web-development tool: www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver Adobe GoLive, Mac & Windows web-development tool: www.adobe.com/products/golive Microsoft Expression Web, Windows-only web-development tool: www.microsoft.com/Expression/products/overview.aspx Adobe Flash, Mac & Windows interactive and animation authoring tool: www.adobe.com/products/flash Informative & fun URLs www.alistapart.com www.csstype.com typetester.maratz.com webtypography.net ilovetypography.com/2007/09/19/15-excellent-examples-of-web-typography www.informationarchitects.jp/the-web-is-all-about-typography-period webstyleguide.com www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk
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Justification Avoid justification (upper), as varying type size and lack of hyphenation on the web often result in huge word spaces and rivers of white space in the text—all of which greatly reduces readability. While a justified setting might look OK on one screen, it can change drastically for a viewer whose computer and browser display the type at a larger size. Stick to flush-left/ragright type (lower) for best readability and predictable results.
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An important question for you: If you were flying in a bush plane in Alaska, and the plane went down, and you were the sole survivor, and were relatively uninjured, and were three hundred miles from the nearest inhabited place, and it was midsummer, would you be able to survive until help arrived or perhaps trek out to civilization in relatively good health? Let me tell you, I would make it. I'm prepared. I have my survival kit!
In fact, I've had a survival kit of some sort for more than two decades (mostly the same one!). The knife in it is still sharp, and I have enough cord in it to lay a tracer though half of Mammoth Cave and find my way back. I do worry about the alcohol prep pads and the ibuprofen, though. I hear that it might be a good idea to replace those every ten years or so.
So why do I have a survival kit? I have no plans at all to go to Alaska, let alone be in a bush plane heading for the untrammeled wilderness. I've never taken a survival course, but I do have three of the world's best survival books, any of which would be great to have in my kit along with a nice tent and air mattress. I have exactly a dozen knot books; they're perched on my bookshelf next to my Peterson's guides to edible and medicinal wild plants. I even have an Ontario machete-type knife that would let me completely butcher a moose once I killed it with a stone or something. My entire kit would actually fit nicely in a firm old Samsonite suitcase. But the biggest bother is the really long extension cord I need to connect my CPAP machine so I could sleep through the night without apnea.
How nuts! Why in the world do some men (thinking me in particular) just have to have a survival kit? Why do we sometimes spend an hour so before going to sleep fantasizing about all the scenarios that would put us out in the boondocks in need of pocket chainsaw and a couple fishhooks with 30 yards of 15# monofilament line? Why do we watch "Man vs. Wild" and half wish we were out there with Bear eating raw snakes or picking apart stumps to find enough termites to make it through the day? Why do I always stop at Gander Mountain or Cabelas (they're building one only ten miles from me!) to see if there is another survival knife or multi-tool I "need"?
It has to be elemental—perhaps even the Neanderthal gene that somehow never got eliminated from our bloodline. Regardless, I do know that one of my rites of spring is pulling out the old kit to see if it needs just a few more essentials for that inevitable time in my life when I know I am going to need it—all the while keeping in mind that my being 70, that time will have to come fairly soon.
Anyone want to join me on a wilderness trek? Just bring your wonder. I have the kit and a one-pound Leatherman multi-tool and am prepared for all the worst-case scenarios!
I suppose, though, that it might also be wise to bring along a little faith in Jesus' promise:
"I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?" (Matthew 6:25-30).


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Kenya tunayoijua yenye amani ilishapotea siku ile walipotia mguu kule Somalia...
Just because presidents screws around, it doesn't make a president for screwing around..
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About Chang-hon Pattern Set
The original Chang-hon Taekwondo pattern set was developed by General Choi Hong Hi, founder of the International Taekwondo Federation (ITF). The set contains 24 patterns, each named for a significant person or event in Korean history. The total of 24 patterns represents the number of hours in a day. Choi originally had developed only 20 patterns, but later he dropped Ko-Dang and added Eui-Am, Moon-moo, Ju-che, So-san, and Yon-gae. Ju-che is very difficult to perform so some organizations either do not use it or allow a substitution for older students.
This pattern set is one of the most difficult for new students since it uses intricate footwork and jumping kicks for color belt rank patterns (most schools using this pattern set use the first nine patterns for color belts). The black belt patterns are long (Yu-sin has 68 movements) with numerous jumping, spinning kicks, which make them physical and mentally demanding, especially during testing and competition.
The pattern set has been around for over 60 years and, due to the many different organizations and instructors that have used it, minor changes have been introduced into some of the patterns. Some of the changes may have been deliberate, but some we just mistakes that have been pasted down from instructor to instructor. The same may be said for where a kiyup is to be used; different organizations use them at different points.
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"Do you feel it?"
"Feel what?"
"Feel... well, never mind, I'm just not feeling well"
So you want to rub a lamp, do you? Here are many mighty Genies, beings of great magic who might turn out to be your greatest boon or your greatest bane.
"A little bit of the arcane, hidden within the mundane."
-Victroinox, Archmage of the Circle of Masters
"I saw him! The Sorcerer! His skin cracked and glowed like it was smoldering beneath. His eyes burned like Sol and Radia. He spoke with a voice like a legion of hellspawn, in a strange tongue that parted the skies and reigned fire down upon the earth."
-Excerpt from Mycenae's Dissertation on Sorcerers.
When a life is snuffed out through a cause other than old age and natural ailments, the spirit lingers in the Mortal Realm rather than immediately entering the Spiritual World, as is its due. The incorporeal form attached to such a being is what is commonly referred to as a Ghost.
They say you give up a few things, chasing a dream. In those mists that's the literal truth, for every dream of yours that comes true, a piece of yourself, mind, body, or soul, gets taken by the mist. Worst part is, you won't even know what the cost of your dreams are until you go to leave, and by then you might not even have a mind left to change...
A fragment of the mists of creation, drawn to those desperate to make their dreams come true. Suitable for any magical fantasy setting.
The Red-Wind Rag; Trappings of a Bloody Death; A Malevolent Sheet of Scarlet and Ichor.
The poor boy.. Man, I mean. I tend to forget his age, given his appearance...
have made thee as no other. All the treasures of the earth shall lie between thy eyes. Thou shalt cast thy enemies between thy hooves, but thou shalt carry my friends upon they back. Thy saddle shall be the seat of prayers to me. And thou fly without any wings, and conquer without any sword.
The Koran
The leftover remnants of Mind can sometimes cling to existence when the Body fails and the Spirit departs…
You see a glowing figure, four feel tall, it looks like it has been waiting for you. Suddenly, it flies right through you, and it looks like its coming around for another pass…
Behold, the Harbinger of ill-tidings, the blizzard rider, the thief of winter, the Stamagast.
It is the tortured and imperfect souls who most often cannot find a clear path to the afterlife. Weighted down by sins unforgiven, sins for whose forgiveness they never ask, sins they never regretted.
To be added to Remaking Undead when finished
"They come with the mist, and fight to protect us. Protecting their people meant so much to them that they kept fighting for us after they fell. Count yourselves blessed that the Company of Stars watches over us."
- Mylnes, Ethalani Elder
Too many are the spirits of the Spirit World, these are only a few better known types.
Page 589, cat. Air Elementals, sub. Stalkers
Placing wards of cow tongues and sheep blood around doors and windows is said to scare off the proddingâ??s of stalkers. Many tales and childrenâ??s stories tell of the silent stalker that enters the cracked window or unlocked door in the dead of night to steal the breath from a sleeping child. Crib deaths are often blamed on this silent stalker even though it is not true.
-Essay on elementals, subsection Stalkers.
"The Welcoming Ones" are the first contact many people will have with the spirit world. Actually, for many they are the first creatures they meet after death.


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Japanese games group to ban twisted 'sex torture' sims
About time
One of Japan's two software rating organisations will no longer support the sale of sick rape games in the country.
The decision follows protests from civil rights campaigners in the US who have been demanding titles like RapePlay be made illegal in Japan. In February, they successfully persuaded Amazon's Japanese operation to stop selling the so-called game.
RapeLay allows depraved players to stalk and sexually assault young women - and score points for doing so.
It's not the only product of its kind, and Japan's Ethics Organisation of Computer Software (EoCS) this week said it would ban all "sexual torture software", part of a plan to control content that "deviates extremely from social norms", newsagency Associated Press reports, citing an organisation spokesman.
RapeLay developer Illusion maintains its twisted offering is legal under Japanese law.
Unlike the UK's British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), which vets games before they can be sold in Britain, the Japanese organisation's ratings are not legally enforceable. However, most retailers abide by its judgements, and will not offer uncertified titles.
EoCS primarily focuses on PC sofware. Its counterpart, the Computer Entertainment Rating Organisation, rates console titles. ®
Oh great...
Those statistics aren't even viable. Considering how Japan's society differs from UK, I could put my finger in reported crimes higher. Since most Japanese are shy, they are rarely to go about reporting it with the fact that if they had their pictures shown to the public, it could defile there status. It is just how Japan runs these days and age. I say the radiation did it but whose to know? All in all, it is better to have a game where people can take there fetishes out on than on real people. It is NOT good however to have parents buying such games for their children. Knowing how many parents seem to not care for 17+/M games for kids around the age of 13 or having a sibling do the purchasing at that. All in all, if they didn't like it, they already did ban it from Amazon.com. Leave the wierd stuff in Japan, stay in Japan. In the sense that aslong as it was just only being sold in Japan, I don't see the issue here unless there were a horde of hungry raping US perps looking for some new skills oO;;
More on murder simulators
Just to clarify my post on games where you murder innocents.
In Thief innocents include cooks, maids, wives etc who if they see you (in which case you suck and shouldn't be playing Thief but never mind that) will run and either call a guard or sound the alarm. Thief 1 and 2 have expert mode challenges of "Don't kill anyone" but Thief 3 doesn't. In fact, in Thief 2 many players who read a love letter after killing its writer voluntarily chose to avoid killing in future because that is far more potent than any game mechanic preventing you.
In Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, you frequently meet prisoners, receptionists etc who beg you to let them go. Also you often meet people being mugged who stop and thank you if you fight off the muggers. You can kill either group where they stand in order to make Force Lightning cheaper to cast. You also get to condemn a family to a slow starvation by taking all they have of value. The list goes on. If you want to play a caster type character you will be pretty weak on the light side so all these murders and other atrocities are required of you.
Might and Magic 7 includes a mission to murder someone's ex. The mission involves no fighting to get to her since unless you go in invisible you don't have a chance. Rather you infiltrate the town where she lives, cast one high-damage spell on her and teleport out before the guards have time to do anything. She dies quickly since she's non-combatant.
World of Warcraft has a mission where you have to murder farmers and collect their skulls as souveniers (actually the skull collecting is a second mission you can do at the same time, for someone who is depressed that he doesn't get to go out and murder people anymore) - the farmers aren't very tough as long as you keep away from the guards dotted around the place.
Warcraft 3 has a mission where a demon is trying to consume the life energy population of a city. The logical answer to the hero is to kill everyone before he can. Nice. Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne has a mission where you must kill all the refugees from a previous campaign. Women, children, don't let anyone escape.
Star Trek: Birth of the Federation cannot be won without orbital bombardment.
In Max Payne 2 you get treated to a rant about the evils of videogames if you make it through one level without gunning down the two old ladies and the sleeping man. Otherwise you get a rebuke for letting bystanders die instead.
This is just from memory. It occurs to me I never tried to murder Humpty Dumpty in Alice. Anyone know?
The problem is that people that support these kinds of measures are under the delusion that certain fantasies lead to real world results.
They do this whilst blindly denying that other kinds of fantasies do not lead to results.
e.g. supporters of this move believe rape games make people rape (if they don't believe this then what is the problem?)
However at the same time a large number do not believe that violent games where you kill people lead people to want to kill people (whether that's by murdering people on the street or joining the army to murder them for some political ideal)
end of examples.
This "interesting" belief is no different to the extreme porn law foundings, that have less than zero evidence (any evidence in support is easily disclaimed - the only support coming from common sense narrative and prisoner survey) whilst the evidence against is convincing.) Or the notion that strip clubs increased crime (while statistics showed crime decreased in areas of London.) This can be extended to the lolicon debate with zero effort.
This is quite overtly a case of moral outrage against something people view as abhorent, whilst serving no purpose other then to punish the few to inflate a handful of egos.
As to crime rates in Japan all measures (quantative and qualitiative) point to secual offence being far less of a problem in Japan that it is in other modern nations - including my personal experiance of talking to Japanese woman.
Interestingly over the course of today I've decided Japan is an increadibly interesting nation to direct further studies, so once I finish my degree I feel it's a place that has many an interetsting social phenomena to study.
@Tony Smith
This is absolutely, incredibly chilling. And I'm talking about your rabid, kneejerk, ill-thought-out pro-censorship rant. Neutrality? Thoughtfulness? Evidence of any semiconscious consideration of policy and personal freedom? I wish any single one of those had been present in your screed, but all were absent.
That one single article has, for me, dramatically blackened the Reg's reputation. And the fact that nobody else from your organization stopped that drivel from being posted says very little for your entire staff and editorial policy.
@Greg - a collector of banned things
Don't forget to visit your local bookseller and stock up on all the current banned books. That way you'll have a nice collection of good literature in no time and plenty of material when 451 day comes.


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The fourth-year point guard hit his first four shots and was 8-for-9 from the field in the first half, which ended when Holiday drove the lane for a buzzer-beating layup after coach Doug Collins called timeout to set up the play. He finished with 27, and the 76ers defeated the Orlando Magic, 102-95, thanks to Nick Young scoring 12 of his 22 points in the fourth quarter.


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That scene had an extra dimension of meaning on the island, says Chavez. "Caligula doesn't let anyone talk, he cuts them off, so in Cuba, where there is no freedom of speech, people got all excited," he says.
Scipio's departure has a poignant implication for a country that has seen generations of its people go into exile. "In Cuba if you say someone is leaving, they're leaving forever," Chavez says. "They cannot come back."
Staging and costumes underline the contemporary connections. At one point actors march waving red flags and chanting Caligula's name. Helikon wears tall black boots and a braid-encrusted uniform. One of Cuba's leading actors, Broselianda Hernandez, plays Scipio, the male poet who inflames Caligula's desire — a gender-bending twist that adds to the disorientation of Caligula's world.
By telling the story of an insular society torn apart by the crazed exercise of absolute power, Caligula held up a mirror to Cuba that showed citizens chafing at the island's system that they were neither crazy nor alone.
"In a society where people cannot talk freely about what is happening and surrounding them, when they watch a play that tells them about their reality in a non-obvious way, through the art — people went crazy," Chavez says.
And yet Diaz insists that Caligula's meaning extends far beyond Cuba.
"The story has points of connection with all the eras of humanity," he says. "It goes through all the ways of power in the history of humanity.
"It would be very reductive, to think of ourselves and nothing else. … We want to amplify the reality that sometimes power is not used well."
Chavez agrees with his former colleague.
"Carlos Diaz always said that if you reduced Camus' play to the Cuban situation you reduce the play," he says. "There are many readings. And people will draw their own conclusions."


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Fresh Google move to meet EU concerns
GOOGLE HAS submitted a revised package of concessions to address the concerns of Europe's top competition authority, bringing the talks to settle the EU antitrust investigation to a critical juncture.
Joaquín Almunia, the EU's competition commissioner, recently spoke to Google chairman Eric Schmidt and requested that the US group clarify some elements of its informal offer submitted two weeks ago.
The initial Google proposal came after Mr Almunia delivered an ultimatum to the internet search group to change its business practices or face formal antitrust charges, a protracted legal dispute and the threat of multibillion-dollar fines.
Mr Almunia's demand for clarifications suggests Google's first offer was not on its own sufficient to be accepted as a "serious and credible" overture to cease its allegedly anti-competitive behaviour. However, the bargaining under way – which Mr Schmidt recently described as a "back and forth" with the regulator – indicates that Google put enough on the table to make serious follow-up worthwhile.
Mr Almunia's team will now analyse the updated proposal, which sets the parameters for any final settlement. Within the next fortnight, he will decide whether to serve Google with formal charges or open the next phase of talks to agree technical details of a settlement.
The decision is finely balanced. Both Mr Almunia and Google are keen to reach a speedy deal and avoid a decade of wrangling through the courts. Mr Almunia however said that Google's offer must address all his concerns. – Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2012


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September 1782 | Fort Henry, Virginia
Betty Zane and her brothers and a bunch of other women and children were in a fort in Fort Henry, Virginia. The British and indians came and told them to either surrender or be killed. The colonists said "No." Soon the colonists were running low on gun powder. They were trying to figure out which man should go. Betty said she would go and when they finally let her she strolled out in front of the British and the indians, who looked surprised. She quickly walked to the cabin containing the gunpowder. she dumped the gunpowder in a table cloth and carried it like a bag. she new that the enemy would be expecting her so they would shoot at her. She took off her skirt and ran in just her petticoats. She ran as fast as she could and could see and feel all of the bullets trying to catch her but not one could get her. She made it into the wall and the powder got them trough the night. In the morning the British and indians turned tail and ran away. HUZZAH! for Betty Zane.
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The above Elizabeth Zane (Grant) Stanley was born in 1855, so she was not the Betty Zane at Fort Henry in 1782.
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You may want to think twice about becoming an intern for the Clintons. We know what became of Monica Lewinsky, but apparently Hillary Clinton also had a notorious intern. The star of such porno hits as "White Bubble Butts #4″, Sammie Spades once dreamed of a career in politics. In the summer of 2006, she managed to land an internship in Hillary Clinton's Buffalo office. I guess it didn't go so well considering that Sammie went from sporting power suits to sporting lamé bikinis in just a few short years. So what happened? Sammie says she learned that "having sex on tape was the best way to pay the bills." Words of wisdom if I ever heard them. Hillary must be kvelling. [TMZ]
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PRESS COMMUNIQUE. PRAGUE, May 26 The Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia, supported by Lithuania, on Monday strongly rebutted a Russian parliamentarians report accusing them of mistreating the sizeable Russian communities living in their respective countries. |
Most of these accusations are simply absurd, Sven Mikser, Estonias representative, told a meeting of NATO parliamentarians. This paper is full of untruths and half truths. The allegations were contained in a special report presented to a meeting of the NATO Parliamentary Association by Ljubov Sliska, a deputy speaker of Russias State Duma. Sliska said many Russians were being treated as second-class citizens and denied linguistic and democratic rights. Latvias representative, Guntis Berzins, said the report was biased and misleading and aimed to create a misleading impression of Latvia which had made huge progress towards establishing democracy and the rule of law since obtaining independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991 after what he termed a brutal 50-year occupation. He said several international organizations, including the European Union, the United Nations, OSCE, and the Council of Europe, had given Latvia which has over 500,000 Russians living on its territory a clean bill of health. Russia has just not reconciled itself to the loss of the Baltic States, he said. Sliska said it was unacceptable that Russians, who account for some 40 percent of Latvias total population of 2.3 million, were not naturalized more swiftly and left in a limbo situation of non-citizenship. The meeting took place within the framework of the NATO Assemblys spring session which is being currently held in the Municipal House in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic. The NATO Parliamentary Assembly, founded in 1955, brings together 214 national parliamentarians from the 19 NATO countries. Associate delegations from 20 other nations, including Russia, also take part in most Assembly activities and meetings. Latvia and Estonia are not yet members of NATO, but have been invited to join the alliance. In Estonia, an estimated 172,000 Russians out of a population of 1.3 million, were classed as non-citizens in 2002. Lithuania, although not targeted in the report, rallied behind its fellow Baltic states, describing the report as unhelpful and untrue. For more information: Jonathan Clayton, NATO PA spokesperson. Tel: (+420) 222 002 264 Mobile: (+420) 736 230 687 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com |


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OddsShark Staff - The Siena Saints will try to pay off for their supporters on Monday when they play host to the Fairfield Stags at Times Union Center in NCAA basketball action.
The Saints currently sports a 6-16 record overall in NCAAB action, and have posted a corresponding betting slate of 6-12 ATS. The Stags are 13-10 and 8-12-2 ATS. Betting totals have seen the Saints produce a 7-7 OVER/UNDER record on the season, while the Stags have gone 8-9 against the number.


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NEWS BLOG (WSAU) We're getting a fascinating lesson on how government works, or doesn't work, over the last 48 hours in Washington.
The Asian Carp is already in the Mississippi River. These fish are non-native species and cause damage to the aquatic eco-system. They are tremendous eaters, and crowd out native fish like walleye. Sport and recreational fishing is at risk.
Debate has centered on Chicago's shipping and sanitary canals. If a canal lock in Chicag is closed, the Carp might be kept out of the Great Lakes. It's not a perfect solution. The locks were not intended to be fish-barriers. Chicago wants to keep them open for shipping and economic concerns. The other Great Lakes states want the canals closed.
The White House held a 'Carp Summit' yesterday. There are congressional hearings today.
Governor Doyle held a teleconference with reporters yesterday. By all accounts, our Governor will not get what he wants. But he told reporters yesterday how happy he was with the outcome of the meeting. The federal government unveiled a 48-page invasive species control study, backed by some $70-million dollars worth of funding. The issue has been raised with President Obama and his top science advisors. But the locks on the Chicago canal will stay open. The city already has a court order backing its position.
This is what constitutes a success in Washington. A study. Spending money. Making an issue "higher profile" with the powers that be. But none of those things will solve the problem. As long as the locks are open, the lakes are at risk. Is there anyone who doubts that we'll study the problem, spend the money, and the Great Lakes will still be infested?
This is an insignificant issue for the overall federal government… barely a blip on the radar screen compared to health care, jobs, the budget, the deficit. But it's a microcosm of what's wrong. We are far better at spending money than solving problems. I know what the outcome will be. The only question is how much we'll spend before we fail.
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YOHAN CABAYE insists Newcastle owner Mike Ashley must resist any temptation to cash in on Demba Ba.
The Senegal striker hit 16 goals to fire Toon into fifth place last term.
But French star Cabaye says it is vital Ashley builds on that success.
He said: "Demba scored many goals for us so it's going to be important to keep him — and keep all the big players.
"I hope the board are going to do the right things to keep them.
"I don't know if we can go higher than last season, but we have to keep doing the right thing."


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When humanities professors plan their courses, writes Michael P. Ryan, they should ask students what they would like to see on the syllabus.
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The Open Source Forum at CeBIT 2011 is seeking speakers. Potential speakers have until January 9, 2011 to submit their topic papers for consideration.
The Open Source Forum for the CeBIT 2011 Conference, scheduled for March 1-5, 2011 in Hannover, Germany, has issued the Call for Papers. The deadline for speaker submissions is January 9, 2011.
The call for papers is open to open source individual users, organizations, and developers. Open Source Forum is especially targeting presentation topics about cloud computing, virtualization, security, mobile open source solutions, and desktop. However, presentations from individuals who can talk about their practical experience in deploying free software in companies and organizations, as well as, speakers who can demonstrate new open source or free software technologies, specialties, or new innovative products are sought after as well. Also encouraged to submit presentation proposals are speakers who can discuss new open source projects.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
They Didn't, Then They Did (Love Us, That Is)
Liam Finn was the opener, he had Eliza Jane Barnes (Jimmy Barnes' daughter) with him. Finn plays with sound loops, a lot, and bashes the drums hard. It was an energetic set from the son of one of my favorite musicians.
Before we arrived at Mershon, my wife asked me if Wilco provided any banter, if they interacted with the audience or if they just played without talking to the crowd. I assured her that yes, there was banter.
For over a half an hour I felt ignored. They were on stage, playing as though it was a sound check, a rehearsal. All of them standing around, admiring each other. And I had made this promise to my wife!
Sometime in the midst of Impossible Germany, during Nels Cline's incredible solo, it all changed and they seemed to realize a crowd was out there and all became right with the show.
The energy level kicked up. I'm not sure if the kicked up energy came from the older material. My wife was happy they did California Stars.
They also did a kick ass Monday and brought it home with a killer Hoodoo Voodoo. It was an impressive and satisfying ending. Still, I can't think that Tweedy and company are coasting, and have been for the last three records. Maybe it was all the travel we had been through, and the lack of sleep that had me worn out. Live though, the band is a force.
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- marybindc said...
I was wondering if Liam Finn was good, or if he was just riding on his dad and uncle's coattails. Glad to hear a positive review!
- October 14, 2009 at 7:58 AM
- Someone Said said...
He's not riding on anyone's coat tails, but his voice is very reminicent of his Dad's. Family genes are not always a bad thing to inherit. I'm not keen on the looping, but they were having a good time out there.
- October 14, 2009 at 8:00 AM
- gooner71 said...
Good for you bigging up Liam Finn. Second Chance from I'll Be Lightning was one of my favorite songs from 2008 and it made my best of mix tape that Bob and I exchange every year.
Seeing him with Wilco? Must have been special. - October 18, 2009 at 11:57 AM
- Someone Said said...
His looping techniques bore me after awhile, but his enthusiasm onstage is quite endearing. I'll be looking for more from him.
I do a mix every year, the link will be here when the time comes. - October 18, 2009 at 5:27 PM


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Secret Men's Business of the Cruising Yacht Club of South Australia (CYCSA) has taken out the Line Honours victory in the 2013 Lexus Adelaide to Port Lincoln Yacht Race in dominating fashion.
Skipper Geoff Boettcher and his crew of 12 other men sailed a strategically sound race in light and testing conditions to come out victors two and a half hours ahead of second place boat Scarlet Runner of the Sandringham Yacht Club (SYC) in Victoria.
Scarlet Runner who has won the race the last three years in a row was not able to continue their winning streak against a star studded Secret Men's Business crew.
The light and variable conditions provided a level playing field between the two favourites and it became clear that a race record was going to be near impossible.
Geoff Boettcher, skipper of Secret Men's Business explained how with such light and difficult conditions forecasted, the race would be fought for more strategically.
'The conditions provided a level playing field between us and Scarlett Runner, and the race was always going to be won or lost tactically.
'We were more dominant tactically, getting on the right side of a couple wind shifts early in the race and ended up with a strong lead that we carried through to the end', Boettcher said this morning after the race.
Boettcher continued to explain that although Scarlet Runner had been successful in the previous three Adelaide to Port Lincoln races, he believed that after an unsuccessful Sydney to Hobart race last year they were determined to get back in the winners circle.
'We suffered a broken rudder in the Hobart race, and only just got it repaired this week.
'Along with an excellent bunch of guys on board I felt confident that we would be able to win the race', Boettcher said.
Secret Men's Business was fortunate enough to have four members of the 1987 South Australian America's Cup Team on board for this years race.
Port Lincoln locals Steve Kemp and Andy Dyer who regularly sail on Secret Men's Business as well as Julian Freeman and New Zealander Richard Bouzaird who was the team sail maker in '87 all sailed on board Secret Men's Business and skipper Boettcher expressed his appraisal of these men.
'The knowledge on board for this race kept driving the boat to it's maximum potential', Boettcher said.
'Secret Men's Business' off the start line on Friday Feb 15th - 2013 Lexus Adelaide to Port Lincoln Yacht Race - Harry Fisher
With only two boats finished the race well in to the Saturday afternoon, it will be interesting to see how many more make there way in to Port Lincoln, as the conditions become more difficult, and what boats are able to fight it out for IRC and handicap honours.
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Featured Artist
Cottonwood Art Festival is pleased to present Michelle Mardis as the featured artist for the spring 2013 event. Learn more about her and work on our Featured Artist page.
Emerging Artists
New this year, we are adding a People's Choice Award so that Cottonwood fans and patrons can vote for their favorite Emerging Artists! To place your vote, take a look at the artists or check out their exhibits at the Eisemann Center's Green Mezzanine Gallery during April. Then head over to our Facebook page and select your favorite! Voting closes April 17.General Info
The festival is Saturday, May 4, 10 AM to 7 PM, and Sunday, May 5, 10 AM to 6 PM. Cottonwood Park is located at 1321 W. Belt Line Road, one block east of Coit Road in Richardson, TX. Parking and admission are free. The artists works are available for purchase, as are food and beverages, and some childrens events require a fee.
Now in its 44th year, the bi-annual Cottonwood Art Festival is a juried show. Jurors have selected over 240 artists from 1,400 submissions to exhibit their museum-quality work at the festival. The artists compete in 14 categories: 2D Mixed Media, 3D Mixed Media, Ceramics, Digital, Drawings/Pastels, Fiber, Glass, Jewelry, Leather, Metalwork, Painting, Photography, Sculpture and Wood. Rated as one of the top art festivals in the United States, the prestigious show is the premier fine art event in North Texas.
Cottonwood Art Festival is more than just the art. The festival also features top local bands performing the best in rock, country, jazz, blues, swing and folk. Check out the courtyard, sit in the shade by the lake, relax and enjoy the music. Food and spirits are also available in the courtyard.


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Hi Pretty!
I am on the way back home to Brooklyn. Current location: Jacksonville, Florida on good ole I-95. Yes, we are driving back from Florida since we have our little pup, Otis, with us. And I am married!!!! Oh, what a crazy thing that is to say. Still doesn't feel real, but I am loving the idea of being a mrs. (just lower case for now. Upper case sounds old).
How lovely is this?
Kate Spade Say Yes "mrs" necklace - $78
(My girlfriend, Hilary, has this necklace and it's adorable!)
I've missed you all and I've spent a good part of my drive, catching up on all the latest posts that Julia has written and LOVING them! It's like reading someone else's blog right now! And omg, I'm so happy she shared a few photos she snapped of our wedding (Julia, i heart you) because it's going to take a little time before I can post the amazing photographs my photographer and friend, Alex Wasilewski, took. I got a sneak peek last night and wow . . . just wow. Such a special, perfect, and surreal night.
Thank you all so so much for your lovely comments and all the advice and well-wishes I've received over these past months of planning. You've all been there right with me, through it all. I am here to return the favor if any of you lovely brides-to-be out there need items to rent (my parents and I still own all the decor you eventually will see) or if you just need some wedding-planning advice and ideas.
Next up: Honeymoon photos! It really is good to get back to real life and start a new chapter in my, i mean our lives. Yip!
See you soon, New York City!
Florida, you've been real good to us.


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The Thermo Scientific* Ezy-Cal Count Precision Size Standards are easy-to-use liquid particle count controls at 2000 particles per mL.
The Ezy-Cal* product line meets all of the unique and demanding requirements of the contamination control laboratory in modern industries. The product is designed for regular use in liquid particle counters to verify instrument calibration before each use. This assures reproducibility of the particle counter by permitting a continuous record of its performance using a NIST traceable microsphere suspension with a precise concentration.


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From left to right (sitting) Lisa Kenney, Tom Dietz, Jennifer Kelly, (standing) John Clements, Molly Tamulevich, Cam Whitley, Maya Fishhoff, Victoria Campbell-Arvai, and Rachel Kelly. Some members are missing, for a complete list please visit the people link at the left.
December 10, 2010
Graduate students from Sociology, Fisheries and Wildlife, and Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability joined Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Prize Winner in Economic Sciences and political science professor at Indiana University, in a forumn on Friday, December 10, 2010 prior to her Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture.
From left to right: (front) Elise Benveniste, Jessica King, Cam Whitley, Jennifer Kelly, Elinor Ostrom, Wei Liu (back) David Bidwell, Rachel Anderson, Lisa Kenney, Neil Carter and Yu (Chris) Li.
May 14, 2010
Group alumni Amy Fitzgerald (Ph.D. Sociology) recently received press coverage for her work on slaughterhouses and violence in surrounding communities.
Recent Books: Looking at Animals in Human History The Animals Reader reviews A Cultural History of Animals, Six Volume Series (Kalof edited Volume 1 on Animals in Antiquity)
New Graduate Specialization Animal Studies: Social Science & Humanities Perspectives The graduate specialization in Animal Studies: Social Science & Humanities Perspectives is designed for doctoral and master's students to explore the historical and contemporary social dimensions of the human-animal relationship from an interdisciplinary perspective.


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From superhero comics to satirical cartoons, this book surveys the work of Black comic artists from the early twentieth-century to today.
Classic illustrations from the New Yorker cover artist ('one of the most masterful cartoonists of his generation' Village Voice).
A painful, charming and stunningly illustrated look at the realities of modern relationships.
Design legend Seymour Chwast has delighted audiences with his adaptations of The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales. Now he turns to one of the western world's most celebrated classics.
From the inimitable Martin Rowson, a modern illustrated retelling of Swift's classic, Gulliver's Travels.
New edition of the amazing graphic novel of the bestselling zombie sensation, The Zombie Survival Guide.
Influenced by Arabic calligraphy and Islamic mythology, this long awaited graphic novel is an imaginative filtering of Middle Eastern and Muslim culture through an epic fantasy lens.
A beautifully illustrated four-colour graphic adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's internationally bestselling novel The Kite Runner.
These uplifting vignettes of modern inner-city life come from one of Australia's most exciting comic artists. Full of life, honest, heartfelt and funny, they will work their way into your heart. 'Honest, perceptive and captivating.' Shaun Tan
A consideration of the modern Superhero comic as an expression of spiritual desire, showing what Superheroes can teach about our most essential human needs.
On 5 November 1699, the Merchant Ship Antelope foundered on a rock at the Latitude of 30 degrees 2 minutes south. The only survivor of the crew was the ship's physician, Lemuel Gulliver, who some hours later awoke, bound by hundreds of tiny ropes, lying on a beach in the Empire of Lilliput. On 31 August 1997, Gulliver's direct (although unwitting) descendent was being driven back from a conference in Paris when, travelling through an underpass, his vehicle was struck with great force from behind. Rendered unconscious, he was next aware of being thrown from a helicopter into a shallow sea. On awaking next morning, he found himself bound by hundreds of tiny ropes, lying on a beach and surrounded by tiny figures welcoming him to... a modern Lilliput. This is only the beginning of his adventures, as he finds himself, quite by chance, visiting the same places as his famous forebear, only three centuries later. Jonathan Swift's classic satire about little people, big people, mad scientists and rational horses has not only gripped our imaginations for generations, it is also one of the greatest - yet most compassionate - indictments of humanity ever written. Martin Rowson's caustic and provocative updating of the story is both a homage to the original and an entirely up-to-date indictment of the enduring human idiocies that enraged Swift so magnificently and memorably 300 years ago.
Martin Rowson, born 15 February 1959, is a British cartoonist and novelist. His genre is political satire and his style is scathing and graphic. His work frequently appears in The Guardian and The Independent. He also contributes freelance cartoons to other publications, such as The Daily Mirror and the Morning Star.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A man was killed and a woman was critically injured after a gunman opened fire outside a south Nashville apartment complex.
The couple was returning to the woman's apartment at Prestige Point Apartments on Paragon Mills Road around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday when a gunman approached them from behind and opened fire.
Shorish Faraj, 28, and his girlfriend, Guadalupe Garcia, 46, were shot multiple times, and taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Faraj died from his injuries, and Garcia was listed in stable condition.
Neighbors reported seeing a gray/silver, newer model Chevrolet Impala, with a spoiler, driving slow in the parking lot before the shooting.
Police said a passenger got out of the Impala, and was seen walking toward where the victims were shot. After the shooting, neighbors saw someone running on foot toward the Impala, and leaving the complex.
It was possibly driven by a black man with dreadlocks.
Faraj was one of the men the recent gang injunction filed against alleged members of the Kurdish Pride Gang (KPG).
The motive for the shooting remains under investigation.
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Dear readers,
It has been more than nine months since my job ended in Korea and more than six months since I was last on Korean soil. It�s been kind of nutty. I�m trying to restructure my life, get a handle on my ADHD and teach myself better habits and routines to deal with how it affects my life. My ADHD wasn�t a topic on my blog while blogging from Korea, as I didn�t want my school to discriminate against me.
I have been catching up with family, trying to find places for my things, get rid of clutter, organize, and go through almost three years of photos. I�ve been cooking a lot, taking pictures and not blogging very much at all.
I�d like to keep blogging here – although I haven�t written anything about readjusting to life in America – I think there are things I need to write on that topic.
However, since I am no longer living anywhere near Seoul the blog title really ought to change.
A related (promise!) tangent:
When I was in Jeonju a taxi driver asked me to talk to his middle school daughter on the phone and check her English skills. Usually I would politely refuse, but he was exceptionally nice to me.When he couldn�t find the teashop I wanted to go to – but he stopped his meter, called them and had them meet us at a point he could get to easily and then apologized profusely for the trouble. He told his daughter that a �Miguk Eonni (?? ??)� was on the phone for her (an American older sister). I thought that was a really cute name for me.
Then, when I traveled in Cambodia I met a Korean family. The little boy called me ***-nuna (??) as they were my adopted family for a few days. I later visited them in the Philippines, where they are living as a goose family, and the whole family referred to me as ***-nuna .
Thus, blog will change titles from �Funk Seoul Sister� to �Luna Nuna- Miguk Eonni.�
Furthermore, WordPress will be getting upgraded to a more recent version (hopefully more hacker proof as I�ve been compromised several times now). This means I�ve had to go back and make sure that all my posts with Korean in them will be recoverable. In other words, cut and paste copies of the Korean so it can be fixed after the upgrade. Otherwise all the Korean would be lost and turned into cute little squares.
I was hoping to do all this sooner – but it�s something of an undertaking to make sure none of the posts are overlooked.
Yup. Anyway. ^.^
Lets hear it for a new year! New starts, renewed energy, a new blog title, an updated blog and new posts!
Happy New Year to you all! ?? ? ?? ????!
I hope you had a wonderful holiday season full of warmth and love. May this year be a better one for everyone.


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3 Tech Trends Advisors Need to Understand
Is your business ready to offer mobile services to clients? Already, a quarter of U.S. online adults have an interest in using their mobile devices as a main channel for their personal financial life, said Neesha Hathi, senior vice president of Charles Schwab's Advisor Technology Solutions, at a technology trends panel Wednesday at Schwab's Impact conference.
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There is also the emotional, experiential aspect of the cloud that should not be overlooked. Leveraging the public's addiction to video delivered to tablets and smart phones, advisors can now educate and motivate clients and prospects like never before. This is needs-based selling for the 21st Century. The power of storytelling packaged in an on-demand form that can be taken advantage of wherever there is internet connectivity. Here is a good example:www.amandaportal.com
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Wikipedia explains Cloud computing as sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale similar to a utility over a network. At the foundation of cloud computing is the broader concept of converged infrastructure and shared services. This is exactly what the business's need to understand. How to reach and enter the network of their customers, be just a click away for them with the help of technology. Also the apps in Smart phones are a great way to reach to a wider audience. A lot of companies have started taking technology seriously in order to help develop and market their business.
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Riyl: pentagrams,human sacrifice, demonic possession
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So Elijah from Paint fumes got hit by an Automobile and busted his shit! Sucks. Broken femur = worse than child birth
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Simpson Bay, St. Maarten (March 8, 2011) – The final day of the 31st St. Maarten Heineken Regatta was one to remember, starting early on Sunday morning with a full slate of racing and ending very early Monday morning after a Prize-Giving ceremony on Kim Sha Beach and an epic line-up of musical entertainment headlined by Wyclef Jean, the ex-Fugees front man whose 4-hour performance was simply one for the ages.
Simpson Bay, St. Maarten (March 6, 2011) – On a strange, squally day where it rained early and often—and in many divisions, both skill and luck, sometimes in heavy doses, played a major role in the final results—the 31st running of the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta came to a close this afternoon following a single, extremely taxing point-to-point race from Marigot to Simpson Bay. Every edition of the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta takes on its own personality, and Number 31 in the annual series will be remembered as a largely light-air affair. Ironically, it's been a very windy winter on the idyllic Caribbean isle, but for the most part this weekend, the usually reliable trade winds were fitful and elusive, and racing was conducted in breeze of ten knots or less. In nearly every class, those sailors adept at eking out every last tenth of a knot of boat speed; sniffing out every last zephyr, no matter how gentle or transitory; and capitalizing on the constantly shifting breeze, particularly in the wake of passing squalls, were the ones who topped the podium in their respective divisions.
Marigot, St. Maarten (March 5, 2011) – Racing sailors know it as Moving Day, the midpoint in a regatta when the time has come to make a move, either to solidify your place in the standings or, for boats that have not yet sailed to their potential, to elevate your position in the fleet. And on Day 2 in the 31st running of the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta, with a pair of contests conducted for the CSA racing classes 1-6, the opportunity to move up—or down—was at hand.