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The 49ers tendered scheduled restricted free agents guard David Baas and outside linebacker Ahmad Brooks, while deciding to allow cornerback Marcus Hudson to test the market as an unrestricted free agent.
The 49ers assigned an upgraded tender to Brooks, who started to see significant playing time in the final six weeks of the season. Brooks tied for second on the 49ers with six sacks, five of which he recorded in the final five games.
With a contract tender of $1.759 million to Brooks, the 49ers have protected themselves against a team that might want to sign him to a multi-year contract. If a team signs Brooks to an offer sheet, the 49ers have the right to match the terms of the contract to retain his services. If the 49ers declined to match, the club would receive a second-round pick as compensation.
Brooks was originally third-round pick of the Bengals in the 2006 supplemental draft. The 49ers claimed Brooks off waivers on Aug. 31, 2008.
The 49ers placed an original-round tender on Baas, who was the first pick of the second round in 2005. Baas was tendered at $1.226 million for 2010. The 49ers also have the right to match any offer sheet, and would receive a second-round pick as compensation if Baas switches teams.
The NFL free-agent signing period begins Thursday at 9
Many league insiders at the NFL Scouting Combine believed most — if not all — restricted free agents would delay signing their tenders until training camp. The tender is not a guaranteed contract.
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Since 1968, Larry has demonstrated the ability to communicate effectively in all his voice-over endeavors, including those for radio and television, industrial narrations, critical terminology for the medical industry, the law profession, high-energy sales promotions, and many more - wherever good communication skills are needed.
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How to set time lag for the subtitles in Classic Media player?
When I watch movies using my Classic Media Player, I usually load a subtitle file. Sometimes I need to adjust the timing of the subtitles so that they appear in sync with the movie. I can't seem to find an option to do so in Media Player. Please help.
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Windows 7 Ultimate
As far as I know there isn't an option to do that. You will have to use a third party app to do that. I use subtitle workshop to sync my subtitles.
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Subtitle workshop does the job - thanks a lot!
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Congressman Randy Neugebauer announced Thursday that the House Agriculture Committee will hold its Texas Farm Bill field hearing in San Angelo on Tuesday, May 9.
Over the past few months, Neugebauer had been working with the Committee and his fellow colleagues in the West Texas congressional delegation to hold one of the hearings in the region. The exact time and location of the San Angelo hearing remain undetermined.
Neugebauer noted that it makes sense for the Committee to visit West Texas. "West Texas is the heart of Texas agriculture so I am pleased that the Lone Star state's Farm Bill field hearing will be held in a West Texas city," Neugebauer said.
Similar field hearings have already been held in North Carolina, Alabama, California, Nebraska, and Georgia.
"As I have been attending these hearings across the country, the Committee has been receiving valuable input from producers on what the future of federal agriculture policy should look like," Neugebauer said. "This hearing will give West Texas agriculture the opportunity to have its views heard."
The San Angelo hearing will be the second opportunity for West Texas producers to express their views on the 2007 farm bill in person with the nation's top agriculture officials. In October 2005, Neugebauer hosted U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns at a public forum in Lubbock.


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Resistance Headquarters was the base of operations for the Resistance and held the top leaders of the Resistance against Skynet.
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Previously Resistance Headquarters was likely Kansas Bunker due to John Connor's presence there.
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In 2018, Resistance Headquarters is located on board the USS Wilmington, a Los Angeles class nuclear submarine that survived the Judgment Day that had been refitted with extra communication antenna to facilitate long distance communication.
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Stories you heard from your grandparents were gifts you treasured
Share that gift with your child today
- Books in general help in building Cognition and Imagination. Studies indicate that reading makes you smarter through a larger vocabulary and more world knowledge in addition to the abstract reasoning skills."
Scholastic calls reading "a gift for time-challenged parents who may feel guilty about missing special moments with their kids"
Early readers tend to be armed with the vocabulary necessary to communicate to their peers, teachers, and parents.
Based on an old Indian folk lore, the story is a familiar one for grown ups while retold in the current context , making it relevant to children even today
Rich colours, bright imagery and even a flight with the crow- appeal to the eye and unleash the imagination. Personalizing it will add to the attraction.
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The Crow- Long been a subject of ridicule and contempt for its look and voice, wishes to be someone else. In a word that demands children to aspire for superficial "mores"- more rich, more thin, more pretty, more tall, the crow flies our children to a page where freedom of worth a lot more than the beauty it seeks.
We are not heroes everyday, not on most days or even on any day of our lives. Let our books be what we are and the celebrate our satisfaction (even in misplaced....).


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The closing price for CGI's common shares at March 31, 2014 was $18.00, resulting in year-to-date and 12-month share price returns, with dividends reinvested, of -1.5% and 17.7%, respectively.
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Meet the Team
Craig Squires: Director & MC
Craig has been working in events for 14 years and started The Events Factory almost 5 years ago. Craig left school at 16 to become a full-time professional magician. After a few successful years of working at events, he decided he wanted to pursue a career in creating memorable events for both private and corporate clients and The Events Factory was born. In the last five years The Events Factory has created over 500 events from London to Arizona USA.
Darren Ruback: Events Director & DJ
Darren has been Djing for over 10 years and has a wide passion for music. Darren regularly DJ's in Glasgow and Switzerland and for the last 6 years, has worked full time in PR and Marketing but has recently joined The Events Factory to use his experience in taking the company to the next level.
Adam Stone: DJ/MC/Friendly Policeman
Adam has been working in events management since the age of 18. Adam regularly DJ's and MC's for our private and corporate clients including the rich and famous. For the last 7 years Adam has worked very closely with children as operational director for a leading indoor and outdoor children's centre.
Jonny Slap: Juggler
Johnny is a self taught entertainer who honed his skills on the streets of Britain & Europe and has been working constantly for the last 25 years in all fields of the entertainment industry. From corporate to cabaret, street festivals to private engagements, Johnny's act is a must for your event.
Martyn Rowland: Mindreader/Magician
Martyn is one of the country's most experienced performers. He performs a mixture of close-up magic and mind reading, both close-up and on stage, at private parties, corporate events and weddings.
Nick Einhorn – Magician
Nicholas is a "Gold Star" member of The Inner Magic Circle with over 17 years of professional performing experience. He has been voted "The Magic Circle Close-up Magician of the Year" twice and was the first magician in history to be honoured with the prestigious title "The Magic Circle Centenary Close-up Magician" during their 100th birthday celebrations. With a unique style and charm he has entertained audiences from London to Sydney and many places in between
James Freedman
James has built an unrivalled reputation as a stage pickpocket and magician. He has appeared before royalty, heads-of-state and celebrities throughout the world, earning himself the title "The Man of Steal'. James combines his incredible pickpocket skills with magic and humour in a unique performance that keeps audiences enthralled. Members of the audience who assist James on stage become the real stars of the show as watches, wallets and other valuables disappear and reappear from their pockets.
Vicky Burt & Becky Hanks
Vicky trained at Performers College for 3 years leaving with a diploma. Upon leaving she has worked continually as a professional dancer for 10 years in various musicals including Fame, Footloose, Oh! What a night performing both in West End and UK tours. Vicky has also worked with artists such as Kanye West at the Brits, Kylie Minogue and has been on tour in Japan with Sweetbox. She enjoys corporate work doing bar/bat mitzvahs which she has many years of experience in.
Becky trained as a scholarship student at Laine Theatre Arts. She has appeared in shows such as 42nd Street, Fame, Grease and Oh What a Night performing in the West End, UK Tours, Japan, Monte Carlo, Lisbon and Paris. Becky is also a dancer in Take That's Shine Video and performed with the band numerous times including The Concert for Diana, Dancing on Ice and The Brit Awards. She also travelled to Germany, Italy and Monte Carlo with the band. Becky has also danced at bar/bat mitzvahs for many years as well


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Beautiful and cozy 6 ½ in the heart of the Plateau Mont-Royal, one of the most beautiful neighbourhoods in North America.
Everything your modern comfort requires is included, from a master bedroom with a Queen-sized bed and a walk-in closet to a fully equipped kitchen. Washer-dryer, dishwasher, microwave, high-speed internet, cable TV, video, DVD, it's all in here! You can enjoy life on the beautiful private terrasse on sunny days, cook up a storm, stay in and watch a movie, do whatever you like with style and panache in this home away from home that can accommodate up to 6 guests. Size is 960 sq. ft., or 90 sq. meters. Everything is included like in a hotel, but you have a kitchen, a living room, privacy like in your own home.
You have the best of both worlds: this house is situated on a beautiful tree-lined residential street, but everything you need is a short walk away. You are 30 seconds away from the Metro Mont-Royal station and the avenue of the same name, as well as St-Denis street, for groceries, specialty stores, shopping, restaurants and clubs.
We couldn't have picked a better place to stay during our week in Montreal. The apartment was clean and spacious. Located close to the Metro and easy walking distance to everything you need. Outside stairs which are characteristic of the area are a bit steep but did not pose any problems for us (I wear a knee brace), but may be something to consider for those with mobility problems. Safe, quiet neighbourhood. We will stay here again on our next visit.
We loved Montreal and this was a great place to base our stay! Well-equipped for our 10-day adventure, it was comfortable and centrally-located, within blocks of everything we could need--coffee, market, Metro, parks and shops. If you come with small children, you should know this street can be noisy at night. Thanks, Eric, for checking in to be sure our stay was nice too!
Nice property with plenty of room for four adults, near many bars, public transportation and a bike rental stop.
My brother and me spent a week in Montreal and stayed in this apartment for all 7 days. The place is clean and neat , the kitchen has all the necessary equipment for the guests who choose to have breakfast and supper inside.
The apartment is located on the second floor and the staircase to it is outside. It is quite steep, so people who have problems going up and down the stairs should know about it in advance. We did not have any problems of this kind so it did not matter. On the whole the location of this place is excellent , it is not a luxurious dwelling and it is a very good choice for active and unspoiled people. The owner is a very polite and quite an attentive person, we find it pleasant to deal with him. On the whole we find this apartment almost excellent, as for one - nothing in the world is ideal, and for two - this area , great for tourists as it is, can be somewhat noisy at times but the nighttime is all right. If we choose to visit Montreal again, we would stay in this place again.
Marina, Vlad.
Appartement spacieux, très bon emplacement, tout près du métro, dans un quartier très agréable, au calme, mais proche des commerces d'alimentation. Le propriétaire nous a fait confiance, nous ne l'avons d'ailleurs jamais rencontré. Notre séjour à Montréal a été réussi.


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Java threading introduction Thread-safety Thread methods Interruption Thread scheduling Context switching Thread priorities sleep() yield() Deadlock Threading with Swing invokeLater() Thread pools CoundDownLatch ThreadPoolExecutor CyclicBarrier
Thread Scheduling (ctd): quanta, switching and scheduling algorithms
This page continues from part 1 our discussion of thread scheduling. On the next page, we'll discuss the Java implications of thread scheduling.
Quanta and clock ticks
Each thread has a quantum, which is effectively how long it is allowed to keep hold of the CPU if:
Thread quanta are generally defined in terms of some number of clock ticks. If it doesn't otherwise cease to be runnable, the scheduler decides whether to preempt the currently running thread every clock tick. As a rough guide:
Because clock ticks aren't such granular units, and because we don't want to waste time making fine-tuned measurements, certain simplifications have to be made in assessing how much time a thread has used. In Windows, for example, it is assumed that a process that enters a wait state mid-way through a clock tick has used 1/3 of a tick during that timeslice. This last point shows that quanta may actually not be calculated in whole numbers of clock ticks, e.g. Windows uses a base unit of a third of a clock tick.
In Windows, a thread's quantum allocation is fairly stable. In Linux, on the other hand, a thread's quantum is dynamically adjusted when it is scheduled, depending partly on heuristics about its recent resource usage and partly on a nice value. (See our discussion of thread priority for illustrations of the relationship between Java thread priority and CPU allocation under Linux.)
Switching and scheduling algorithms
At key moments, the thread scheduler considers whether to switch the thread that is currently running on a CPU. These key moments are usually:
At these decision points, the scheduler's job is essentially to decide, of all the runnable threads, which are the most appropriate to actually be running on the available CPUs. Potentially, this is quite a complex task. But we don't want the scheduler to waste too much time deciding "what to do next". So in practice, a few simple heuristics are used each time the scheduler needs to decide which thread to let run next:
Quantum and priority boosting
Both Windows and Linux (kernel 2.6.8 onwards) implement temporary boosting. Strategic points at which a thread may be given a "boost" include:
In Linux, threads can be given negative boosts or penalties. In either direction, there are generally limits to these temporary boosts.
A general implementational difference is that Windows tends to use yes-no decisions ("has received I/O"), whereas Linux uses slightly more complex heuristics (e.g. quantifying the amount of CPU recently used).
Next: implications for Java
Having seen how thread scheduling generally works under the hood, in the next section we'll look at how thread scheduling affects Java.
Further reading
In this discussion, we've tried to concentrate on the generalities of thread scheduling. If you want to look at even lower-level details for a particular operating system, then the following are recommended as a starting point:
3. There are corner cases where this won't happen. For example, a scheduler will won't
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QPR (1) 4 Crystal Palace (2) 2
Crystal Palace manager Peter Taylor is refusing to rule out promotion after his side, without a win since Sept 23, slipped to 20th in the table.
"There's too many games to go to say that," he said. A superb double from on-loan Chelsea midfielder Jimmy Smith, either side of goals from Steve Lomas and Kevin Gallen, saw off Palace who had twice taken the lead through Tom Soares and Clinton Morrison.
QPR: Royce, Mancienne, Stewart, Rehman, Bignot, Ainsworth, Lomas, Smith (Ward 90), Cook, Gallen (Nygaard 81), Blackstock.
Subs: Paul Jones, Milanese, Rose.
Goals: Smith 34, Lomas 59, Gallen 66 pen, Smith 69.
Booked: Lomas.
Crystal Palace: Flinders, Butterfield (Freedman 69), Cort, Ward, Granville, Soares, Lawrence, Kennedy, McAnuff (Hughes 82), Morrison, Kuqi.
Subs: Kiraly, Fletcher, Green.
Goals: Soares 30, Morrison 43.
Booked: Butterfield.
Referee: P Dowd (Staffordshire).
Wasteful Saints pay price
Southampton (0) 0 Hull City (0) 0
Southampton spurned a plethora of chances as Hull held on for a valuable away point at St Mary's.
Striker Kenwyne Jones missed two chances for the hosts in injury time — mis-hitting a shot from six yards and then seeing a header cleared off the line — while Inigo Idiakez hit the Hull post with a free-kick.
"I felt that if we had got one goal, we would have got another four or five," said the Southampton manager George Burley. "It was a frustrating game because we had total domination."
Southampton: Davis, Makin, Lundekvam, Baird, Bale, Licka, Wright, Idiakez (Dyer 62), Skacel, Wright-Phillips, Jones.
Subs: Miller, Surman, McGoldrick, Viafara.
Booked: Baird.
Hull: Myhill, Ricketts, Coles, Turner, Dawson, Fagan, Delaney, Jarrett, Marney (Welsh 80), Elliott, Parkin.
Subs: Duke, Barmby, Forster, Bridges.
Booked: Dawson, Parkin.
Referee: A Bates (Staffordshire).
Dublin sets the standard
Norwich City (0) 1 Sunderland (0) 0
Peter Grant, the Norwich manager hailed the "colossal" performance of Dion Dublin at the heart of his side's defence in their victory over Sunderland at Carrow Road.
Robert Earnshaw's expertly-despatched goal at the start of the second half proved the difference between the two sides.
"It was a good job Dion was playing, because if he was not, we would have lost the game," said Grant. "I told the boys to learn something from the way he played today."
Norwich: Gallacher, Colin (Eagle 84), Shackell, Dublin, Drury, Etuhu, Safri, Robinson, McVeigh (Hughes 74), Earnshaw, Huckerby.
Subs: Ashdown, Thorne, Spillane.
Goal: Earnshaw 51.
Booked: Gallacher, Huckerby.
Sunderland: Ward, Whitehead, Danny Collins, Caldwell, Nyatanga, Lawrence, Kavanagh (Leadbitter 72), Yorke, Hysen (Murphy 68), Brown, Connolly (Stephen Elliott 77).
Subs: Alnwick, Nosworthy.
Booked: Caldwell, Kavanagh.
Referee: M Riley (W Yorkshire).
Tudgay ends Foxes' run
Sheffield Wednesday (1) 2 Leicester City (0) 1
Marcus Tudgay took his goals tally to five in four games with one in each half to end Leicester's eight-match unbeaten run.
Although Matty Fryatt pulled one back for the visitors with 20 minutes remaining, Wednesday held on for a fourth straight home win.
Scunthorpe manager Brian Laws is reportedly close to being named as Paul Sturrock's permanent successor at Hillsborough.
Sheff Wed: Jones, Bullen, Bougherra, Simek, Hills, Lunt, Folly, Small (Talbot 72), Brunt, Tudgay (MacLean 87), Burton.
Subs: Adamson, Whelan, O'Brien.
Goals: Tudgay 34, 55.
Leicester: Logan, McCarthy, McAuley, Johansson, Stearman, Kenton, Hughes, Johnson (Welsh 58), Tiatto (Sylla 68), Hume, Hammond (Fryatt 46).
Subs: Henderson, Maybury. Goal: Fryatt 72.
Booked: Stearman, Tiatto, McAuley, Hume.
Referee: N Miller (Co Durham).
Clarke answers McCarthy
Wolverhampton (3) 3 Southend United (0) 1
Seven days after questioning striker Leon Clarke's attitude, Mick McCarthy was happy to eat his words as the 21-year-old scored his fourth and fifth goals of the season to help send Southend to the foot of the Championship.
McCarthy said: "If that is Leon saying 'stuff you gaffer' then long may it continue."
Jody Craddock was also on target for Wolves with his first goal since March 2005 before Matt Harrold struck a consolation for Southend.
Wolverhampton: Murray, Edwards, Breen, Craddock, Clapham, Gobern (Potter 78), Henry, Olofinjana, Ricketts (Little 66), Clarke (Bothroyd 64), Cort.
Subs: Ikeme, Johnson.
Goals: Clarke 10, Craddock 12, Clarke 22.
Booked: Olofinjana.
Southend: Flahavan, Hunt, Sodje, Prior, Hammell, Francis (Campbell-Ryce 60), Clarke, Maher, Gower, Harrold, Eastwood.
Subs: Wilson, Guttridge, Lawson, Hooper.
Goal: Harrold 57.
Booked: Clarke, Maher.
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LCCA settling statistical sampling case
One of the biggest skilled nursing whistleblower lawsuits in recent years is being settled out of court, according to documents filed in September.
Life Care Centers of America was accused under the False Claims Act of providing unnecessary therapy services to maximize reimbursement. The government joined the case in 2012 and proposed using a sample of 400 Medicare claims from LCCA facilities to show that the inflated therapy claims occurred throughout the company.
The settlement was expected to be finalized by Oct. 31. It may include a corporate integrity agreement, but other terms were not disclosed.
The deal will end allegations both against Life Care Centers and a related action against CEO Forrest Preston, per court documents.
The American Health Care Association argued against the sampling in a friend of the court brief earlier this year.
"Given the prevalence of attempts to use sampling to prove FCA liability against AHCA's members, and the serious threat of devastating damages, AHCA's interest is acute," the brief says.
LCCA declined to comment on the settlement in early October.


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Wystawiana od 2013-12-28
Języki obce angielski, niemiecki, hiszpański
The unspoiled beaches of Costa de la Luz are reached by car within 20 minutes easy driving. Cities like Vejer de la Frontera, Cádiz or Jerez are within easy reach, which makes the situation of the village Benalup very special and ideal for those who want to be close to the beach but also visit the region. Villa Capuchina is situated in a private Golf resort (Benalup Resort) which hosts a 18 hole golf course and a 5* hotel with very good gastronomy and a fantastic Spa. In addition, our multi-language Service office is situated directely at the resort, so you have a contact partner for all your needs in situ.
Villa Capuchina is kept completely in crisp white. It's bright and natural light floods in. White walls, terracotta tiles, wooden and brick build furniture give an authentic Andalusian flair. The living area is spacious offering 7 doors leading outdoors. It offers a cozy dining table with space for 10 and the lounge area is separated into two, so guests can watch TV (satelite and local channels) or alternately nestle in front of the fireplace.
The kitchen is modern and well equipped, offers a private balcony and a table with 8 stools. The adjoining utility room provides a big fridge and freezer, a washing machine, a tumble dryer and disposes of a separate entrance to the villa. The ground floor offers two bedrooms, both with wooden twin beds that fit perfectly into the bright environment. The bedrooms dispose of outside doors towards the garden, wardrobes and en-suite bathrooms with shower. The master bedroom takes up the entire first floor is very spacious and offers a huge balcony with stunning views over the gardens of the resort. The adjoining bathroom with unique bathtub and separate shower is also kept in white and terracotta. Built-in cupboards leave lots of room to store. Two additional bedrooms are situated in the basement, both with built-in wardrobe and en-suite bathroom with shower. Both count with a door towards a patio that gives access to the garden, so also the basement bedrooms are airy and flooded with light.
The villa also offers a spacious, covered terrace with BBQ; a big, private pool and a lovely garden where grapefruits for breakfast can be picked directly from the tree! The villa is situated at the far end of a quiet private road,and the size of the garden is above average, so the villa and its outside spaces are especially private and quiet. The villa is very popular among families with children since it offers a lot of inside and outside space and due to the situation they do not need to worry about the noise when children are playing.
Cars are allowed within the resort. The car can be parked in the entrance to the house or on a parking space nearby.
The villa is fully equipped, towels (also beachtowels) and linen provided. WIFI gratis in the villa. Airconditioning on the whole ground floor and all five bedrooms. Safety deposit box available. The costs for electricity and water are included in the price.
Resort Villas Andalucia is your contact partner for everything related to your holiday home. Our office is easy to find,on the road towards the entrance of the resort. When arriving, please come by the office. We will welcome you and guide you to the villa. Our aim is to provide an enjoyable holiday to you, so we are at your entire disposal to assist with reservations (tee times for all golf courses of the Cadiz province,dinner reservations,...) recommendations for activities of this region or help if there is something you are not happy with.
Benalup is a very typical Andalusian village. Small and quiet, but there are supermarkets and gas stations around, shops and lots of good bars and excellent restaurants. If you do not feel like taking the car, remember that there is a 5* hotel within the resort, they offer various types of restaurants, bars and not to forget the fantastic Spa and the 18 hole golf course.
Very beautiful beaches are reached in 20 minutes by car. Driving is very easy here since there is almost no traffic. Interesting cities like Vejer, Cadiz, Jerez (Sherrry Bodegas, Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art,..) are close by, so the situation is really perfect for those, who want beach, but also visit the region.
A car is recommended since there is lots to explore here and public transport is not very well developed.
And some aditional information for the villa:
Smoking is only allowed on the terraces. If you travel with a pet, please enquire first, if it is OK.
The resort is very quiet, the internal rules of the resort apply. They do not like loud noises and parties for example.
When new guests arrive on the day of your departure, please leave the villa at 11h; otherwise we try to be very flexible.
The closest airport is Jerez de la Frontera (XRY)-45min. driving, but unfortunately there are not many flights going to this airport. It might be worth checking Malaga airport (APG). It is 170km away, but at the end it is only 2 hours driving and you might find much better deals. Also check out Seville (SVQ) and Gibraltar (GIB).
Master bedroom (first floor) with two beds (90x200)pushed together-private bath with bathtub and separate shower
Bedroom 2-(ground floor) Twin beds (090x200)-private bath with shower
Bedroom 3-(ground floor) Twin beds (090x200)-private bath with shower
Bedroom 4 (basement) Twin beds (090x200)-private bath with shower
Bedroom 5 (basement) Twin beds (090x200) -private bath with shower.
Beautiful beaches and hiking areas at very easy reach, 20km easy driving.
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Millions of Americans struggle with addiction. Most need help to stop. From compulsive gamblers to shopaholics to drug addicts, Intervention profiles people whose dependencies or compulsive behaviors have brought them to a point of personal crisis and estranged them from their friends and loved ones. In Season 3 you'll see addicts on the verge of disaster — a successful musician and crack addict, an alcoholic mother, a woman whose dream of becoming a doctor has been destroyed by bulimia, and a straight A student turned meth addict — go head-on with family, friends and a professional interventionist in a surprise intervention. There the addicts have a choice: go to treatment and get help or face exile and isolation from those who love them most.
|Closed CaptioningVideoLaurie and Jessie
|A look at two women whose lives have spun out of control. At one time, Laurie was a psychotherapist and mother of three. But then an addiction to pain killers and alcohol led to the loss of her job and her family, and now only an Intervention can stop her from losing her life. Jessie is a beautiful young woman who once dreamed of becoming a doctor. But that was before bulimia trapped her in cycle of despair.
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|Lauren has known plenty of success in her life. Growing up, she was a cheerleader, a dancer, a swimmer and a great student. After college, she became a high school health and phys-ed teacher, and the students loved her. But amid all the accomplishments, Lauren was hiding a growing problem: an addiction to heroin. In the past three years, Lauren has lost her job and her apartment. She's living with her mother and her moods swing constantly between volatile and depressed. Her family's only hope is an Intervention.
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|From the outside, Ryan and his family look picture perfect. They live in a beautiful house in an upscale northern California neighborhood. But inside, their world is falling apart. Ryan, once a talented drummer who was awarded a music scholarship to the state university, is addicted to opiates. He injects OxyContin up to 15 times a day. His moods swing wildly from needy to hostile. And his family no longer knows how to deal with him or help him. Their only hope is an Intervention.
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|By day, Jacob, 25, is a banker. But most nights, Jacob is drinking, driving and often engaged in barroom brawls. He recently overdosed on alcohol and prescription drugs. His heart stopped and he had to be revived with paddles. Jacob blames his mother -- a drug user and former dealer -- for his addiction. But will he be able to hear her when she pleads for him to get help?
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|Kim is a beautiful 34-year-old make-up artist who grew up a cheerleader and popular. But fearing her good looks and slim figure were deteriorating, Kim turned to bulimia and anorexia. Now Kim's weight issues have taken over her life. She is entrenched in a divorce with her high school sweetheart, who she still loves dearly. She's moved in with her mother and stepfather, with whom she can't get along. Kim's needs have taken over the household and no one believes it can get better unless Kim agrees to get help.
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|Closed CaptioningVideoAnthony
|Anthony has been working at the pizzerias owned by his family since he was a kid. A good athlete, colleges offered him baseball scholarships. But at 14, everything changed. His sister died of a heroin overdose and his mother fell into an emotional black hole. Anthony found comfort in cocaine, and today he needs methadone to get him through the day until he can shoot coke at night. His family is not ready to let him hit rock bottom, but Anthony won't get better until his entire family embraces change.
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|Closed CaptioningVideoTrent
|Trent, 33, is a four-star chef who's served U.S. presidents and Hollywood stars. But as the child of alcoholics, Trent's formative years were marked with violence and abuse. He ultimately turned to drugs to cope, and today he is homeless, sick, battling freezing temperatures, and has an insatiable heroin addiction. His friends and family fear he won't make it through the winter on the streets, but will Trent be willing to listen to the family he feels deserted him?
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|Closed CaptioningVideoJessica and Hubert
|Jessica, 21, comes from a tight-knit family. Her father, mother, sister and grandfather all work at the family-owned gas station. But Jessica's not allowed to work there any more. Ever since Jessica became addicted to heroin at 17, her family cannot trust her. And even worse--her addiction is straining family relationships. Everyone wants to see her go to treatment, however just organizing the Intervention is tearing them apart. Growing up, Hubert, now 50, never felt truly loved by his stepfather. And his stepfather admits giving more love and attention to his three biological children. Meanwhile, Hubert protected his brother and sisters from hearing and seeing their parents screaming and hitting one another. Forty years later, it's Hubert's siblings' turn to help him overcome a horrible alcohol addiction that has left him living on the streets of Los Angeles for the past six months.
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|Closed CaptioningVideoLaney
|Laney is an outgoing, intelligent 36-year-old woman who used to have the kind of life other people dream of: a handsome, loving husband, plenty of money and the opportunity to travel the world. Unfortunately, all the wealth and status in the world could not help Laney escape alcoholism. She lost her husband, her health and is quickly spending what's left of her sizable divorce settlement on endless bottles of rum. Her organs are deteriorating fast and Laney is too weak to take care of herself. She is so dependent on attention from her frustrated family that Laney will attempt suicide in an effort to win back their love. But will her damaged body survive yet another trip to the ICU?
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|Growing up, Ashley, 20, was always considered the wild child. While her younger sister was quick to follow the rules and be active in the church, Ashley tended to reject her parents' strong Christian values. The more her parents tried to guide her, the more she pulled away. By her teenage years, Ashley became a chronic runaway and drug addict. Her family sees an Intervention as her only hope. But will Ashley take their efforts as a sign of love or another chance to run away?
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|Closed CaptioningVideoAndrea and Ricky
|Not long ago, Andrea, 31, decided to follow in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother and become a nurse. It was a field in which she excelled and was revered by colleagues and friends. But all the while, Andrea was hiding a dark secret a growing crack addiction. Now she's lost her job and relies on several male friends to buy her drugs. Her family is terrified that she may never recover. Their only hope is an Intervention. Growing up, Ricky seemed to be on a path to greatness. He was a straight-A student, a star athlete and named one of the three brightest students in school. He joined the Marines, where he served as a police officer. But what started as experimentation with drugs has turned into an out-of-control heroin addiction. Ricky's friends and family fear for the worst but hope an Intervention will be his best chance for getting his life back.
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|Closed CaptioningVideoLeslie
|Meet Leslie, a Sunday school teacher, PTA member, soccer mom of three and a raging alcoholic. When she can't get her hands on vodka or wine, Leslie resorts to economy size bottles of mouthwash. After countless arrests and DUI's, her husband is hoping to find help for the mother of his children before it¹s too late. It's time for Leslie to choose: her alcohol or her family.
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|Closed CaptioningVideoColey
|As a timber cutter, Coley has one of the most dangerous jobs in America. But instead of taking serious precautions, he increases his risks every day by snorting crystal meth. Because of his addiction, Coley's business is falling apart. His wife can barely stand to talk to him any more and his reationship with his three young children is deteriorating. They all believe his only hope is rehab, but will he be willing to go before it's too late?
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|Closed CaptioningVideoCaylee
|As a child, Caylee was an over-achiever from an affluent family. But despite her myriad successes, her mother, Christy, was never satisfied with her. Christy, herself was sexually-abused as a girl, and believes that she has managed her own trauma well. Except she has hidden her bulimia from her family for 35-years. When Caylee was in grade school, Christy began to teach her daughter to count her calories. In high school, Caylee became a bulimic and began drinking. Now, she is 23 and college drop-out, a bulimic, and a heroin addict. She is 80 lbs, and goes to her 50 year-old "boyfriend" for drugs and money. The family wants to help both mother and daughter, if they can find a way to have the mother present for Caylee's Intervention, and then approach Christy about her bulimia.
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|Closed CaptioningVideoJill
|As a middle child in a large family, Jill always wanted to stand out from the crowd. A natural performer, she excelled at all kinds of dance and quickly became a star performer at school events. Life was good for Jill until, at the age of 15, her parents seemingly happy marriage ended in divorce. Transformed by puberty into a 6ft blonde with a Victoria's Secret body, Jill turned to boyfriends to get the attention she was no longer getting from her absent father. Jill's world fell apart when one boyfriend betrayed her trust by secretly making and distributing a tape of them having sex. Branded a slut and a porn star by all her former friends and her dance team members, Jill turned to drugs and alcohol to numb the pain. Five years later, the formerly graceful dancer is now a falling-down drunk. Her family's last hope is that an Intervention will stop Jill's downward spiral towards death.
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|Closed CaptioningVideoDawn and Fabian
|Dawn, 49, was once a model, but today she's homeless and wanders around town using meth and suffering from the effects of Meth Psychosis. Fabian, 37, was once a successful entertainment entrepreneur, but his escalating addiction has cost him everything. We watch as Fabian's family and Dawn's sons ask interventionists to help save their loved ones.
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The TRUE reality show..Depression, Hopelessness..ADDICTION!
Depression, Hopelessness..ADDICTION. All masterfully displayed on A&E's reality hit show Interventions. Join average, every day looking people with their struggle with alcohol, controlled substances and mental illness. The first time you watch this show you will chill back with disbelief with the destructive, saddening and real results which come from a life under the control of addiction. Jugdement may even leave your thoughts as you are made aware of how traumatic experiences in these individual's lives, have shaped their various relief systems. The show Interventions comes to a refreshing turn as you see the individual faced with a choice: Life or Death. You later follow "the now turned patient" into the stage of recovery. The close of the show sometimes ends with amazing clips of the patient free from the pulls of their pass addiction.
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Daylight Uses the Oculus Rift to Scare and Unsettle Players
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Daylight is an upcoming survival-horror game for the PlayStation 4 and PC. Zombie Studios is developing the horror title using Unreal Engine 4 with Atlus publishing the game in early 2014. Orginally, Zombie Studios announced Daylight earlier this year in February as a horror title utilizing the latest Unreal Engine. After that the game made showings at PAX East and GDC, then in June, Atlus announced it would be publishing Daylight. The Daylight announcement came from Atlus on GT.TV's pre-E3 episode. Before the episode, it was clear that the announcement would be Daylight with Jared Gerritzen, studio director at Zombie Studios, welcoming the partnership on his twitter.
The game takes place in an abandoned hospital with a sketchy past. Players take control of a young woman who wakes up with no memory of how she arrived at this inhospitable location. The young woman has no access to weapons, she cannot fight back and the only tool she has at her disposal is her cellphone. The cellphone acts as the woman's lifeline. It is her sole light source, but it serves another purpose as a compass, which will be invaluable when navigating the game. It is a little thing, but having the protagonist use a smartphone as her main means of progress is an extremely smart move. It adds a sense of modernity without becoming Scream 4 with distracting iPhone everywhere like a weird slasher Apple commercial parody. While the story, to its own benefit, uses horror tropes to create a recognizable scenario for players, much like other horror games recently, Daylight smartly takes a no combat approach to blunt the opportunities to border on well worn territory by creating an uneasy atmosphere.
Where most horror games have lost their edge due to everyone in them becoming walking killing machines replete with an attache case that can hold RPGs and chainsaws, the current idea to preserve the horror genre is to take combat away. It is the right move because it creates stakes for the player the story. Many recent horror games have taken the no combat approach, but Daylight adds another element to make things more unsettling and potentially terrifying by using procedural generated levels. The procedural generated element gives the game a greater sense of uncertainty because all players will be able to count on is that they have a cellphone and their wits to get through the game.
Recently, at Indiecade 2013, Zombie Studios showed off Daylight's Oculus Rift support. Playing through a level using the Rift is an interesting experience. With the Oculus Rift, there is a feeling of immersion and sensory deprivation that heightens everything when playing a game. The Rift creates a sense of being in a way that a controller alone cannot. When playing Daylight with the Rift, players will feel a more immediate connection between the young woman carrying a cellphone staggering through a disconcertingly abandoned hospital.
Daylight uses lighting extremely well, so when the various janky light sources illuminate furniture they create dramatic shadows. That coupled with the great sound design create moments of anxiety and tension as the player explores dark hallways and stairwells armed only with a cellphone. The combination of these two elements make the task of moving through a hospital hallway and stairwell seem incredibly daunting. What is really a cause for concern and what is the lighting and sound playing tricks on the mind?
While the sounds may seem like obvious misdirects, the game gives the player a reason as to why it may not. The way to move through a locked door is to find a key somewhere in the level. This involves traversing the level hoping that something scary in the dark does not lunge out at the player, but toughing it out, the player eventually finds a room with the key. Except the room is off it is covered in weird runic symbols that glow blue with a scary doll floating ominously in the middle of the room. This is where the Oculus Rift support work extremely well, the runes appeared to be floating in a three dimensional space giving an amazing effect as they glowed dully in the dark. The weird blue hue and the depth of the doll floating made for a creepy experience. Despite the clearly supernatural and disconcerting vibe of the room, grabbing the doll did not produce any immediate consequences. With key in hand, it was simply about backtracking to the locked door and unlocking it. A simple enough task, but using whatever bizarre magic the doll had to unlock the door lead to a ghastly specter flying out ending the demo.
[adsense250itp]The Oculus Rift support was intriguing because it showed how the exciting yet unproven technology can be incorporated in a meaningful way when developers decide to dive into developing for it. It created a unique gameplay experience in Daylight. The Rift added to the intended tenants of gameplay by giving a sense of being in this harrowing and creepy situation. What makes the Rift work well though is not necessarily creating an experience that can only be enjoyed with the Rift alone, but by enhancing the core experience when used. Daylight with a controller and headphones in 2D is going to be scary on its own, and it is a game that will likely be enjoyable on its own merit (for potential PS4 purchasers, it has to be), but the Oculus Rift lends something unique to the experience. One that might justify the eventual purchase of an Oculus Rift if other developers take to the tech to create an interesting experience like how Zombie Studios has done so far with Daylight.
Daylight is extremely promising. It is doing some interesting work with lighting and sound design that should create for some tense psychological horror prospects. There seems to be a good balance between atmosphere and outright creepy supernatural stuff occurring in the background. The procedural generated level element is the most exciting aspect because it might add a huge well of replayability to the game. It is a good time to be a horror fan because there is no shortage of terrifying games coming out. Next year will see the release of Daylight on both the PC and PS4. It will be joined by the recently announced Soma from Amnesia creators (PS4 and PC) and the PS4 release of Outlast. In early 2014, horror fans will be able to experience what Daylight has to offer.
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NHIAA announces Hall of Fame inductions
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Five coaches, one administrator, one official and one athlete will be inducted into the 2017 NHIAA Hall of Fame, set for Sunday, Nov. 12 at the Courtyard Marriott in Concord.
The banquet will start at 11:30 a.m.
Coaches honored this year are Art Demers of Nashua (track), Jack Amero of Manchester (softball), Deb Beach of Lebanon (field hockey), John Eastman of Souhegan of Amherst (track) and the late Bob Burns of Kennett (baseball).
Football official Bert Lawlor of Concord, administrator Mike Ackerman of Woodsville and soccer/basketball/tennis athlete Courtney Banghart of Souhegan, currently women's basketball head coach at Princeton University, will be inducted by the NHIAA.
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Transport and Parking
Transport and parking
The Women's College is situated less than four kilometres from Sydney's city centre in the grounds of the University of Sydney. The University campus is bordered by two major arterial roads, Parramatta Road (Great Western Highway) and City Road.
The College lies on the City Road side of the campus, off Carillon Avenue, Newtown (between City and Missenden Roads).
By air
Sydney's domestic and international terminals are 20-30 minutes drive from the College depending on traffic. Regular coaches and trains connect the airport to the city.
By rail
The nearest railway station to the College is Redfern Station – approximately 20 minutes walk from College. Central Railway Station, servicing both suburban and country trains, is a short bus or taxi ride away.
By taxi
The street address of College is 15 Carillon Avenue, Newtown, New South Wales
By bus from the city
Take buses 422, 423, 426 & 428 along Castlereagh Street or in front of Central Station. Prepaid Opal Card or MyBus ticket required.
Parking is available at the University of Sydney Western Avenue car park from 3pm on weekdays and all day during the weekend – pay and display (3 minutes walk from the College). Check the Western Avenue section at University casual parking rates and tickets. During the University of Sydney holidays in summer, limited parking is available at The Women's College.
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Portrait of the week - Young girl in a green dress
This portrait, painted by Tamara de Lempicka, is know both as 'Portrait of a young girl in a green dress' and as 'Young girl with gloves'. It was painted somewhere around 1929.
Lempicka's pictures captured the spirit of the 'Jazz Age' quite exquisitely and this is one of the most famous of them. This is a prime example of the art of the Art Deco period and the end of the roaring 20's - right before the Great Depression.
The girl is dressed in day-wear to be outside - shown by the big hat and the gloves. The frilly, green dress is all over the place and reveals quite a lot of her body, and it hard to say if that is due to a hard wind or if it is an artistic touch to add more life to the motif.
Tamara de Lempicka was born as Tamara Gorska in Poland in 1898. She moved with her husband to Russia, but left at the outbreak at the Revolution and went to study art in Paris. She soon made a name of herself and her way of painting became famous. She mainly did portraits, erotic nude studies - and still lifes of calla lilies. It was all very popular during the 1920's and 1930's. At the outbreak of World War II she moved with her (second) husband to the US where she had a quite successful decade as a painter, and as a figure of gossip - much due to her love affairs with both men and women. But by the 1950's the world was loosing interest in her art. She died in 1980. By then her art work had been revalued and was once again starting to get appreciated.
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Marco Wilme is very talented Italian artist, born in Galliate (Novara) on May 11, 1979. His paintings are unique and really recognizable. He manages to combine the colors softly and smoothly, forming a beautiful and light forms. In his works are often dominated a single color, interspersed with another one or several colors. If you want to decorate your wall, you will certainly find in Marco Wilme's works the one you need that will blend in with the decor and the color scheme of your room.
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HTC Unveils The HTC One X, HTC One S, And HTC One V
HTC has unveiled its new HTC One series of smartphones that represent its most premium mobile experience with a new level of iconic design and amazing camera and authentic sound experience. The HTC One series integrates Android 4.0 (ICS) with HTC Sense 4, the new version of HTC's branded user experience that is introducing HTC ImageSense, a new suite of camera and imaging features that set HTC One apart from other phones. HTC Sense 4 also includes broad enhancements to audio quality and simplifies how people listen to music on their phone.
With ImageSense HTC One rivals traditional digital cameras with improvements to every part of the camera, including the lens, the sensor, the software, and even integrating a new custom HTC ImageChip. These enhancements combine to deliver their fastest image capture, best image quality under adverse conditions and easiest interface that enables quick access to capturing stills and videos with side-by-side photo and video capture buttons.
- Superfast Capture – HTC One dramatically reduces the time it takes to capture those key moments. In just 0.7 seconds you're able to take a shot, and with a new superfast 0.2-seconds autofocus, continue to take nearly unlimited continuous shots simply by holding the shutter button.
- Video Pic (Concurrent Video/Still Capture) – With Video Pic you capture a photo and shoot video at the same time. Now, while you're shooting HD video, all you have to do is tap the shutter button and it snaps a high-resolution still photo while the video continues to shoot. You are also able to capture a photo frame from a previously recorded video.
- Dropbox integrated with HTC Sense – HTC One gives you an easy way to save and share your photos and videos. HTC has integrated Dropbox into HTC Sense 4 enabling HTC One customers to get 25 gigabytes of free Dropbox space for two years.
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Horticulture with an emphasis in Urban Food Systems
Program Overview
The Master of Science in Horticulture with an emphasis in Urban Food Systems at K-State Olathe focuses on sustainable agriculture, food systems project management, grant writing, horticultural science, and safe food production in an urban environment. Additionally, students will gain a solid foundation in horticultural science and food crop production while studying how the urban food system impacts economic development and provides a source of nutritious, safe food grown locally/regionally.
What kinds of careers can a graduate of this degree pursue?
This specialization will prepare professionals for management positions in not-for-profit/ for-profit organizations, greenhouse manager, university extension agents, city/county community gardens manager, urban farming, farmers markets, or farm-to-school programs.
How flexible is the Horticulture program at K-State, and can I work full-time?
Students will be able to work full-time while enrolled in the Horticulture program and have the option to pursue two different tracks, the thesis or professional track. Each track gives students a significant amount of electives to pursue research in their interest areas. Moreover, students will able to attend classes at K-State Olathe, as well as hybrid classes in conjunction with the Manhattan campus students.
How long will it take to complete this degree?
The majority of full-time students will complete this degree in about 2 years. A minimum of 30 semester hours of credit is required to complete the Thesis Track and 36 hours to complete the Professional Track.
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My journey with God began in 1999. I was at a very low point in my life; everything I valued and treasured had been taken away from me. My home, my children, my job, my freedom, all my earthly treasures, absolutely everything had been taken from me. I was debating if life was even worth living. As I was thinking about living or not living I suddenly realized that existence in any form, whether physically alive, or in the spirit, had meaning, no reason, no point, unless God was love, and that he truly loved us as I had been told, but had never seen. It did not matter whether I was physically alive, or my soul existed in eternity, neither one had any worth without God and his love. It was then that I bowed before Almighty God and told him that I was not sure that his love was real, but I had heard that he loved but I have never seen it so I was not sure it existed, but if it did I needed it, I needed God, I needed HIM. He would have to show me his love was real, because I had never seen it. I was willing to believe on a very basic level that God loved simply because his scriptures say so. However I would need him to show me his love. This was the beginning of my relationship with God, and the ending of my simply following a religion.
It was then that my life began to change. I began to experience Almighty God working and moving in my life. The more I listened to God and followed him the more he brought peace, joy, acceptance, love, etc., into my life. It created within me a desire to know Him more and to know His love more. To know what HIS truth is. I had grown up with religion, and it had never satisfied. I had been to many different churches, new many different beliefs, many of which contradicted each other, and I didn't know which ones, if any, were real truths. The love and acceptance I found in every church was conditional, If I was enough like THEM I was accepted.. if I did not "fit in" I was rejected.
I began to go directly to God and ask him what his truth was. I knew with all the different beliefs out there, there was no way I alone could pick which ones were true and which ones were false. Only by going to God and asking him could I ever know what was true according to him. I no longer cared what the truth was; I didn't care if it was the same as what I had grown up believing or if it was something different. All I cared about was to know what God's truth really was.
After about five years of seeking God's truth, God and asked me if I was willing to give up everything I knew in order to have his truth. This was no easy thing for me to do, I had always been fairly smart and I knew quite a bit by human standards. I wrestled over this for a couple weeks before finally deciding that I wanted God's truth more than I wanted what I knew. I finally told that it yes I would give up what I knew so I could have his truth. I began to take everything before God, everything I have been told and believed all my life went before God with only one question "is this Your truth or not". I would not try to figure it out on my own, I would simply wait until God told me or showed me what his truth was and is. Now everything I know, I learned from God. If God did not tell me or show me then I do not know. But one thing is sure. When God says it is truth it is truth. God does not lie, God is not mistaken, man and religion can be wrong, but Almighty God, Creator of heaven and earth, it is always true and right. Even today, everything I hear or read is taken before God with the same question "is this YOUR truth". I believe nothing unless God proves it. Around the same time, maybe a couple months later, it was the spring of 2008, I was listening to a teaching a pastor was giving. He told the story of a man in a Chinese prison for 20 years, who went through all sorts of torture and abuse. When he was finally released from his prison after 20 years, he was asked how he endured all that he went through. He said it was a twenty-year honeymoon with God. To this day I cannot tell you what the lesson was about, or what this story was supposed to illustrate. I was absolutely caught up in the "twenty-year honeymoon with God". I heard this story about 10 o'clock in the morning, and it is all I could think about all day. When my husband came home from work I told him about it and for the rest of the evening it was still all I could think about. I had been through a fair amount of abuse throughout my life, I could not imagine going through torture and calling it a honeymoon with God. I knew that God loved me, but I also knew I did not know his love on this deep of a level and I wanted it more than anything. We went to bed that night around 11 or midnight and my husband began to fall asleep. I cannot stop thinking about twenty-year honeymoon.


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Our goal for the next year is to increase engagement throughout our YPFP Brussels online presence. Creating content is one way to jumpstart debate and discussion.
YPFP Brussels is looking for a motivated individual who is interested in developing their digital and written communication skills. The successful candidate will work closely with different members of the Communications & Marketing team to help devise and implement a content strategy geared towards increasing Brussels thought-leadership on our website.
Please note: YPFP Brussels is looking for motivated volunteers to join its team in a range of positions. All YPFP staff are professional volunteers. Volunteering is both a responsibility and an opportunity. YPFP offers skills development and training to its entire staff starting with an induction and regular, externally led staff training sessions.
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Create, develop and manage of YPFP Brussels web presence;
Work alongside YPFP Brussels staff and members to brainstorm ideas on such content;
Analyse data generated, and report findings to the Communications & Marketing Director;
Brainstorm and collaborate on a future multimedia journal;
Contribute new ideas on how to increase the profile of YPFP in Brussels;
Contribute to ad-hoc projects in the Communications & Marketing team;
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It's late March of 2001, and Houston, Texas is abuzz with the sound of motorcycles. For the first time ever, a four-stroke is leading the 125cc Western Regional Supercross series at the hands of Ernesto Fonseca, but that's not what is significant about this particular night. Blue smoke fills the air as the gate drops for the main event, and the usual suspects are up front. But by the time the white flag comes out, there is a new contender in the lead. South African transplant by way of a FIM 125cc World Championship, KTM's Grant Langston is out front and ready to take the checkers. Just one thing to do before completing the final lap: celebrate. Over a small double, Langston decides to do a little fist pump, Jersey-style. The pump is beautifully executed; the landing, not so much. Doh! The win would have been a first for both Grant and the Austrian manufacturer. Double doh!
Then the Fast by Ferracci Husqvarna CR125 of Travis Preston comes screaming by and he claims the first ever win for the Swedish-designed Italian motorcycle company instead. Bonus! Was the win a fluke? Pretty much. Not for Preston (he went on to win the championship the following year), but for Husky since any other time their bikes were seen that year, they were usually being pushed off the track. Would Langston's win have been a fluke if he'd made it to the finish line? Again, not so much for GL, but for KTM, whose machines were not quite considered SX worthy at that time.
Well, times they are a changing. Last Saturday marked a milestone for the boys in orange when Ryan Dungey captured KTM's first ever premier class win, at the second round of the Monster Energy Supercross Series in Phoenix. Why is this so significant? Because it is the first time in...I'll be honest, I have no idea (ask Motocross Action's Jody Weisel, he would know), but I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's been at least 30 years since anything other than a Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, or Yamaha won a Supercross race in the premier class.
In the United States, KTM became a respected bike and team within the small-bore ranks several years ago. I'm walking out onto another limb here (this tree is beginning to feel unstable) by saying Langston actually helped get the ball rolling later in 2001 during the AMA Pro Motocross Nationals, when he became the first rider in the U.S. to vie for a national championship aboard a 125SX (yum, tastes like redemption). But KTM has long struggled to find a foothold among big-bore pro racers, and therefore, the trust of the American market. Lance Smail gave it his best effort back in 1997 aboard his KTM LC4 540SX, but that didn't convince too many buyers or racers. Heck, that bike looked down right scary. For a while, KTM didn't even field a premier class factory effort. Even hiring the likes of Mike Alessi to race the 450SX in 2007 and the 350SX in 2010 didn't do it. Mike did have some success, but it was entirely outdoors. No, they needed somebody who came with championship credentials and could take the bike indoors. More over, they needed a person to help guide the proper development of a potentially championship winning package. Enter Ryan Dungey and Roger De Coster.
The duo, more or less, kicked butt during their time together at factory Suzuki. As team manager, De Coster plucked Dungey out of the amateur ranks in 2006 and by 2009, Ryan began to deliver championships. The Minnesotan was pretty much unstoppable for two straight years, but when De Coster jumped ship to KTM for 2011, Dungey's titles ran dry. There was only one thing to do: pair up again.
Dungey's decision to go orange a few months ago seemed to shock the motocross community. But after Ryan's 2011 disappointments, a change of scenery and moving back in with The Man only made sense. On KTM's side, I have rarely heard of a company so focused on winning.
KTM has long been a go-to machine in the World MXGP's where they have numerous titles in all of the professional classes. But GP's are much different than Supercross, as are the riders competing, so the writing has long been on the wall that Katoom needed an all-new machine for the American market. Within the span of a few short months, the Austrian OEM designed, developed, raced, and is now manufacturing a brand new machine. What's more, the bike already has a professional AMA Supercross win to its credit. That is commitment.
On Dungey's end, his testing days are the stuff of legend, as he has been busting out 200-plus laps per day (that's more than 10 main event races) to ensure all of the "K's" are, umm, K'ed, "T's" crossed, and "M's" mmmm'ed. De Coster knew what he was getting by hiring Ryan, and his beliefs have already begun to pay off. The new Factory Edition 450 SX-F is a purpose built Supercross machine, and aside from the fact that KTM has an unprecedented four big-bore motocross machines available for 2012 (250 SX, 350 SX-F, 450 SX-F, and 450 SX-F FE), the new machine could very well prove to be Team Orange's ticket to the American public. Whether or not the production version will be a hit or not, there is no question about KTM's intentions: they want to become a household name in the States.
Can Dungey repeat this weekend? Not that he had it easy in Phoenix, but the likelihood of a similar scenario where James Stewart, Chad Reed, and Ryan Villopoto either get bad starts or crash is pretty low. Villopoto, especially, has been very quick and his ride in Arizona showed just how much he wants to go for Supercross Championship numero dos. One thing is for certain, though. Unlike Husqvarna 10 years ago (Preston's win remains their one and only in AMA Supercross), Dungey and KTM have proven they can put up a fight, and they're ready for a repeat.


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Younger spellers can easily use the software and improve their spelling efficiency through a wide range of games and spelling activities.
New York City, NY (PRWEB) January 27, 2014
Ultimate Spelling™, one of the e-learning products developed by eReflect, has been reviewed by the homeschooling mother and teacher Amy Maze. This review of Ultimate Spelling™ assesses the software thoroughly, looking at its features and examining its ability to help students improve their spelling efficiency.
The spelling software review just released points out that part of the success of this software is due to the fact that the comprehensive, dictionary-like word database (over 140,000 words) forms the basis for all activities, games, and exercises. The sheer size of the word database in Ultimate Spelling™ ensures that users, whether beginners or advanced, will have plenty of material to draw from and create their own spelling word lists so as to further improve their spelling skills.
The review emphasizes the user-friendliness of the software, reporting that its video tutorials and its clear instructions make first-time practice with the software easy and enjoyable. Ms. Maze highlights the fact that Ultimate Spelling™ is so easy to use that no tutor, parent, or any other supervisor is necessary even when younger students practice with it. Younger spellers can easily use the software and improve their spelling efficiency through a wide range of games and spelling activities. The review also remarks that eReflect's spelling improvement software offers an inclusive learning experience for the user as it doesn't solely focus on a word's orthography but offers in-depth knowledge for each word, allowing the student to also learn its meaning, its synonyms, and much more.
Another feature of the software Ms. Maze writes about is the integrated progress tracking technology that is a hallmark of Ultimate Spelling™. The software allows the user to monitor their learning by looking at easy-to-understand graphs that chart their spelling efficiency progress. As the review notes, this is especially useful for homeschooling parents, who only need to look at the charts to be able to supervise their child's spelling studies.
The review emphasizes the appropriateness of the spelling software for learners of all ages and professions thanks to its ability to be easily integrated in various learning environments, from homeschooling 3rd graders to senior students preparing for university.
For more information about how Ultimate Spelling software can improve spelling performance for you and your family, please visit the official website at http://www.ultimatespelling.com.
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Ultimate Spelling provides a modern and easy to use spelling software that has been designed with one goal in mind – making children want to learn.
It is a fast and easy way to master even the most complicated spelling, without the need to write long lists or complete boring tests.
In fact, Ultimate Spelling provides more than just spelling help. It is a complete educational resource that boosts all level of a child's literacy.
Containing a personal computer tutor, Ultimate Spelling is the most realistic step-by-step guide to flawless spelling ability.


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September 16, 2009 07:00 ET
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 16, 2009) - Centurion Minerals Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:CTN) ("Centurion" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has executed a Memorandum of Agreement ("MOA") to acquire a 77% interest in PT Tambang Mas Sable ("PT TMS"), a private company which holds a Contract of Work ("COW") on the Sable gold project in Aceh Province, Northern Sumatra, Indonesia.
The Sable project is approximately 23,500 hectares in size and is located approximately 5 kilometres west of the East Asia Minerals Corporation ("East Asia") Miwah epithermal gold project. The Sable Project has been subject to previous historical exploration consisting of rock chip and soil geochemical sampling, as well as drilling of 19 diamond holes ranging from 150 to 250 metres in depth. The company is currently reviewing the historical data. The historical programs have been conducted mainly in the southern part of the project, in areas referred to as the "Saddle Hill" and "Sequenten" prospects. However, the northern region of the Sable project, referred to as the "Geupoh" prospect, which is west of, and potentially on strike to Miwah, has not been actively explored to date.
East Asia has recently reported consistently strong results at Miwah, including 100 metres (m) of 2.11 grams per tonne (g/t) gold, and 142 m of 2.25g/t gold and have announced expansion of the current diamond drill program to include diamond drilling to support the estimation of gold resources compliant with NI 43-101 (see East Asia news releases dated September 10, 2009 and September 11, 2009). Pursuant to the East Asia website, "Mineralization at Miwah consists of two components; a large 1,200 metre long, 300 to 400 metre wide, approximately 200 metre thick tabular zone and vertical diatreme breccia feeder zones that are beneath and cut through the tabular zone. The Miwah Property is in a very similar volcanic setting to the Martabe gold-silver deposit, also located in North Sumatra. The alteration systems at Miwah and Martabe are of comparable size. Furthermore, according to the East Asia Website "Miwah exhibits a likeness to the size, style and geometry of the alteration system developed at the Pierina gold deposit in Peru.
"We are excited with the prospects of the Sable project. Two of our directors, Alfred Lenarciak and Joe Del Campo, have many years of experience in Indonesia as well as a historical working relationship with the current President of PT TMS, and holder of the Sable Contract of Work Ahmad Yani, which has enabled the Company to progress to its current stage," said David Tafel, Chief Executive Officer.
Centurion will be responsible for assisting and funding the reactivation of the COW (US$60,000) and funding 100% of exploration costs to feasibility stage of the Sable project. Upon the reactivation of the COW, Centurion is to make staged payments totaling $100,000 and issue 400,000 common shares and 100,000 common share options. The MOA is subject to completion of due diligence and definitive agreements as well as regulatory and Board of Director approvals.
Upon completion of due diligence and definitive agreements, Centurion intends to commence an active exploration program on the Sable project.
The content of this release has been read and approved by Jamie Lavigne, P. Geo and Qualified Person for the Company as defined in National Instrument 43-101.
Centurion is a Canadian-based company focused on the procurement, exploration and development of gold and other precious metal projects.
On Behalf of the Board,
David G. Tafel, President and CEO
This news release may contain forward looking statements concerning future operations of Centurion Minerals Ltd. (the "Company"). All forward looking statements concerning the Company's future plans and operations, including management's assessment of the Company's project expectations or beliefs may be subject to certain assumptions, risks and uncertainties beyond the Company's control. Investors are cautioned that any such statements are not guarantees of future performance and that actual performance and exploration and financial results may differ materially from any estimates or projections.
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An software security group has found an advanced malware platform that was likely developed with the support of a government involved in cyber espionage.
Researchers from Kaspersky Lab found that the malware dubbed 'ProjectSauron' – 'Remsec' by their colleagues from Symantec – has been operating undetected for five years.
Active since 2011, 'ProjectSauron' has been detected on approximately 30 targets. According to Ars Technica, its invisibility is due to some ingenious coding by its creators.
There is evidence to suggest that malware such as Flame, Duqu Regin and Stuxnet have all been sponsored by nation states. 'ProjectSauron' is so difficult to detect as it was written in Binary Large Objects, a collection of data which is hard to find using antivirus software.
The way 'ProjectSauron' was written means that it leaves traces of itself in 'software artefacts' that are unique to each target. Ars Technica says this uniqueness means that finding infections on other computers is no easier despite having prior knowledge of the virus.
'ProjectSauron' chooses new servers, domain names or IP addresses for pretty much every target unlike other forms of malware.
The virus can obtain data from air-gapped computers by utilising USB storage devices that have a virtual file system prepared – this means it isn't viewable by the Windows operating system. Infected computers see the removable drives as approved devices, but several hundred megabytes are actually reserved for storing data kept on the air-gapped machines. Ars Technica reports that the arrangement works even against computers in which data-loss prevention software blocks the use of unknown USB drives.
The Kaspersky researchers believe that the malware is made of at least 50 modules which can be mixed and matched to all objectives of each infection. They are still unsure of how the USB-enabled exfiltration works.
In a report published yesterday, Kaspersky researchers wrote that "the attackers clearly understand that we as researchers are always looking for patterns.
"Remove the patterns and the operation will be harder to discover. We are aware of more than 30 organizations attacked, but we are sure that this is just a tiny tip of the iceberg."
Symantec said they were aware of seven organisations infected.
In a different blog post, Kaspersky wrote that "once installed, the main Project Sauron modules start working as 'sleeper cells,' displaying no activity of their own and waiting for 'wake-up' commands in the incoming network traffic.
"This method of operation ensures Project Sauron's extended persistence on the servers of targeted organisations."
The researchers said they found the malware last September when a customer at a government organisation hired them to investigate unusual network traffic. They discovered a program library in the memory of one of the customer's domain controller servers, disguised as a Windows password filter.


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Lembongan Harmony Villas
Enjoying stunning views of the Bali mainland, Mt. Agung and the sea from its hill-top position, Lembongan Harmony Villas is a short 5-minute walk from Jungut Batu Beach and Coconuts Beach, and a 2-minute walk from waterfront restaurants and cafes in Lembongan. It also has 1 or 2-bedroom villas with free Wi-Fi and private pool.All the air-conditioned villas come with a living room, a flat-screen TV, DVD player and iPod docking station, and well-equipped kitchen. Villas feature their own private infinity pool. En suite bathrooms are equipped with showers.Lembongan Harmony Villas is a 10-minute walk from Tamarind Beach and a 30-minute walk from Mushroom Beach. It is a 30-minute boat ride to the mainland, and a further 1-hour drive to Ngurah Rai International Airport. Parking is free.Guests can request for a relaxing Balinese massage, or enjoy water sports activities like snorkelling, surfing, diving and fishing. Airport transfers and day trips can be arranged at an extra charge.
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These nice cushions are perfect for babies. In fact, they are one of the most comfortable bed-like cushions for babies and even for the parents, due its portability. Nevertheless, certain incidents have been reported related to baby beanbags and the real question is, are baby beanbags really safe for babies?
It's been said that these cushions have caused incidents and the major victims are under five children. Many cases of shocking and reported death are related to the use of this comfortable item. Insecure and low-quality beanbags manufacturers had to pay consequences in the late 90s. Is spite of this, nowadays beanbags are more secure, but they still present the same risk factors.
Actually, there is an existing hazard for babies when they're using beanbags. First of all, they are filled with polystyrene or PVC beads. Reports indicated that in some cases children liked to open the lining and eat the beads. This caused choking. A study made in 1996, indicated that 35 deaths were registered related to babies and beanbags. They were found lying down asphyxiated because the beanbag was not properly filled. Even if studies indicate that the same deaths could have happened while in bed, it is a true fact. So, there practically are two major risk causes related to beanbags.
Surely. The point has never been to stop using baby beanbags, but alert parents about their use and the possible affections and hazards they might represent for the babies. Nevertheless, after all, the most important prevention for babies is parent's supervision. It's recommendable to:
Not let the baby unattended
Read the labels in order to know the real hazards
Reinforce the importance of a good posture
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Charles Nelson Reilly has again been named the 1985 National Honorary Spokesman for the Angels of the World, heading a fund-raising campaign to benefit the Association for Retarded Citizens.
The ceramic sculptures are designed each year by sculptor Laszlo Ispanky and made by mentally handicapped adults at the T&M Ranch in Indiantown. The sculptures are sold each year at Christmas.
This year`s ornament is Scotty of Scotland and is sold for $5.
There will be a kickoff fund-raiser to benefit the Association for Retarded Citizens at 11 a.m. Monday at the Crystal Tree Plaza in North Palm Beach.
Some stars who will attend the event include Alfie Wise, who has appeared in many of Burt Reynolds` movies and had a starring role last year in the ABC series Trauma Center; Jane Connell, who played Agnes Gooch in the Broadway and movie production of Mame; and Clare Wren, who will be featured in the upcoming ABC comedy special Funny.
A large puppet show featuring ``The Kids on the Block`` also will be part of the festivities.
Reilly and author William Luce are at the Burt Reynolds Institute for Theatre Training where they are watching rehearsals for Luce Women, which will be presented there Sunday and Monday.
The apprentices at the theater will be the first to present Luce`s new script. Following the play, Reilly, Luce, and the cast will present a symposium. For reservations, call 746-8887.
Comedian Pat Paulsen will kick off the holiday season at the Boynton Beach Mall Saturday along with Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters Scooby-Doo and Yogi Bear, as well as a special guest appearance by Santa Claus.
Paulsen, you will recall, ran against Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential election. Need we say who won, and who later resigned? Paulsen still sneers about that.


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The Bigfoot myth is a distinctly baffling and irrational part of our pop culture. While myths about this great cryptid stalking the forests of the Pacific have existed in one form or another for centuries, it's really during the middle of the last century – where portable film cameras allowed us to document our world – that the big guy's mystery seemed to deepen. That's more or less where Bobcat Goldthwait's Willow Creek comes in, offering the latest found footage take on Bigfoot as yet more doomed "truth seekers" find out what's really lurking in the woods.
Well, one truth seeker: the amiable but kind of intense Jim (Bryce Johnson) and his beyond skeptical girlfriend Kelly (Alexie Gilmore). The duo have decided to trek to the titular Bigfoot hotspot, with Jim hoping for a glimpse of Bigfoot (or at least some clue to validate his lifelong obsession with the legend). Of course, this being a found footage film, incredulous and occasionally hostile locals aren't enough to keep him away.
Jim is a true believer and that's where Willow Creek offers some kind of commentary when stacked against the increasingly crowded genre of Bigfoot found footage movies. Kelly – a struggling actress and loyal girlfriend – gets to play the voice of reason and the audience's doubts as Jim becomes increasingly convinced that something hairy is out there and is determined to catch it on camera. He's just the acceptable side of obsessed, taking every "clue" and bit of testimony from the bemused locals as proof of Bigfoot's existence while ignoring anything that doesn't feed his fantasy.
Still, at a compact 80 minutes, Goldwaith's first horror film doesn't have the time to wear out its welcome or allow us to get tired of its two leads (see: nearly every other found footage movie made to date), but Goldthwait keeps the scares confined to the last 15 minutes in a couple of sustained nighttime shots inside of Jim and Kelly's tent, and later, a frantic trek through the woods. This last section feels like Blair Witch compressed, and like that film's notorious final minutes, Willow Creek throws in a couple of images to cast doubt on what we're hearing and seeing, deepening the mystery of the rest of the film.
Goldthwait – whose World's Greatest Dad and Sleeping Dogs Lie – have proven him an astute observer of the human condition, makes these scenes between Jim and Kelly really work. While the final "reveal" feels at once expected but out of nowhere, Willow Creek is a solid look inside the mind of someone obsessed with one of our weird national myths.
Willow Creek is available now via iTunes and VOD.