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The Telegraph, 28th January 2018 Armed robbers broke into the family home of a city financier turned Bitcoin trader and forced him to transfer the digital currency at gunpoint, in what is believed to be the first heist of its kind in the UK. Four robbers in balaclavas forced their way into the home … Continue reading Britain's first Bitcoin heist as trader forced at gunpoint to transfer cyber currency
Exposed: the man who tried to silence Jacob Rees-Mogg
The Telegraph, 4th February 2018 With just an electioneering banner hiding his modesty, Joshua Connor stripped naked to promote his dedication to honest and open democratic debate when standing in a student election. But, the failed presidential candidate for his Students' Union was last night identified as being at the centre of a scuffle aimed … Continue reading Exposed: the man who tried to silence Jacob Rees-Mogg
Free speech watchdog appoints panel members who campaigned for 'no platforming' policies
The Telegraph, 8th January 2018 A student panel which will advise the new universities watchdog on ensuring free speech is upheld has appointed two members who have campaigned for forms of "no platforming" on campus. The Office for Students (OFS) has announced who will sit on its 13-strong student panel, which it said will play … Continue reading Free speech watchdog appoints panel members who campaigned for 'no platforming' policies
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A news video I produced for Channel 4 News, using Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro. At the time of posting, it has had almost three quarters of a million views. https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/10155513117056939/
New 'buddy' system for Oxford University's working class students
The Telegraph, 30th August 2017 Oxford University has announced a new "buddy" system for working class undergraduates, after the student union said that they were being left to fend for themselves. The Class Act campaign, set up by the student union earlier this year, is inviting freshers to sign up for a "buddy", who will … Continue reading New 'buddy' system for Oxford University's working class students
Can Indian rickshaws survive in a green and Uber-ised world?
CityMetric, August 7th 2017 The three-wheeled auto rickshaw – nicknamed 'tuk tuk' after the judder of its two-stroke engine – has come to be a symbol of modern Indian city life. Around a quarter of a million of them putter about the streets, mostly painted in bright yellow and green and decorated inside, often garishly, … Continue reading Can Indian rickshaws survive in a green and Uber-ised world?
Let students use study drugs and let's sell them at Boots, says Cambridge scientist
The Independent, 24th June 2017 It's safe to say that, from their early beginnings as prescription medication for narcoleptics and the odd productivity booster for enterprising pharmacology students, study drugs have now been integrated fully into modern student life. In fact, a student article for the Bristol Tab says that they've become as much part … Continue reading Let students use study drugs and let's sell them at Boots, says Cambridge scientist
Criminals make a pile with fake recycling depot
Sunday Times, 2nd April 2017 Co-bylined with Jon Ungoed-Thomas, Chief Reporter, Sunday Times Criminal gangs are setting up recycling centres with the intention of abandoning them with huge mounds of waste, warn Environment Agency officials. There is anger among residents about vast piles of rubbish that are left when "recycling" depots are shut. In some … Continue reading Criminals make a pile with fake recycling depot
Cameron is bike crash hero: that's PM's son, 11
Sunday Times, 2nd April 2017 The former prime minister may have riled "remain" supporters by holding the EU referendum but David Cameron's son Elwen has been hailed a hero for his reactions when a cyclist fell from her bike. The 11-year-old boy and three of his friends have been praised for their quick thinking and … Continue reading Cameron is bike crash hero: that's PM's son, 11
MP Carswell 'votes Leave' by walking out on UKIP
Sunday Times, 26th March 2017 Co-bylined with Tim Shipman, Sunday Times Political Editor For a long time it has been a relationship made in hell but yesterday it ended in a quickie divorce. Douglas Carswell announced that his loveless marriage with Ukip was at an end and Tory MPs revealed that moves are afoot to … Continue reading MP Carswell 'votes Leave' by walking out on UKIP


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Samsung Galaxy S II Function Hitting Verizon This July?
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Galaxy S II smartphone in July of this year. According to rumours of the past, the smartphone will be called the Galaxy S II Function and it'll, of course, feature Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" with the Touchwiz UI. This smartphone should be just about everywhere very soon.
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What is Alfanous?¶
see what-is-alfanous.
Why Alfanous?¶
see why-alfanous.
Why we called it Alfanous?¶
Alfanous is an arabic word "الفانوس" that means the Lantern. The name was inspired from a picture that contains a Mushaf, a chronometer and a lantern.
It didnt find the word X while I checked it exists!¶
Alfanous use the exact matching for words as default, so if you look for alzaytoon (الزيتون), you will not find it because it occurs in Quran as wazzaytoon (والزيتون). Yet, you will find it in suggestions or derivations. You can activate fuzzy search to search all close words to searched words.
- Why we use exact match?
- It is better for statistical search.
How you can help?¶
You can help us by:
- Spreading the word
- Following and sharing our social network pages : @Facebook @Twitter @GooglePlus
- Sharing a link to our website via your accounts in Social networks.
- Pointing skilled developers and Quranic researchers to the importance of the project.
- Writing articles about the project in blogs, newspapers.
- Showing a banner on your Blog/Website.
- creating an ad for alfanous links using Google adwords or facebook if you're familiar with that (btw,it needs money)
- Managing and Animating our social network pages with news and daily posts [Arabic, English]: @Facebook @Twitter @GooglePlus
- Translating project interfaces to your language , we are using Launchpad platform for translation, link here.
- Testing the modules and releases, Reporting bugs , see How to report a bug? and How to help by testing? .
- Fixing bugs , Coding new features or Developing new interfaces , See: `How to Contribute?`_ .
- Designing Icons, Logoes , Banners.
- Packaging the project for different systems: Windows, Linux distributions, MacOs.
- Donating/Supporting to the project: We're stuck looking for possible ways for donations/Funding. Any help is appreciated!
For more discussion, you can contact us via the mailing list : firstname.lastname@example.com
How to report a bug?¶
If you have a concrete bug report for Alfanous please go to the Issues Tracker, submit your report and tag it "bug".
How to contribute by translation?¶
- Contact us to confirm the translation need into your language and to request the PO file.
- Use Use Poedit or Virtaal to edit it and complete the translation.
- Send us the update po file so we can include it in the website.
How to contribute by donation?¶
Funding is a critical point for our project. Whereas we're stuck looking for possible ways to get. Donations as far as we tried is so restricted in our home country so Any help in that is appreciated!
Any way you can:
- Pay our web hosting monthly bills directly, we create an account for you in the host to do that.
- Lead an advertising compaign for the project website through Google adwords or Facebook.
- Incubate the whole project in another country.
How to contribute by coding?¶
If you are a coder, and want to participate in actively developing Alfanous :
- Learning Git is essential, read about Set up Git and you can also try it online here!
- Browse a milestone and choose an open issue (or more) that fits your skills.
- To get more information about any issue you can contact us on mailing list: or leave a comment on the issue.
- Start with forking the repository and preparing your development environment, see How to prepare your development environment to contribute?.
- Prepare your changes, test them and then make a pull request to alfanous-team when you think your code is ready.
- The project is not well documented but you may find helpful information in Readme files:
See also How you can help?
How to help by testing?¶
If you want to help us testing the project modules, just follow these steps and Sooner as you encounter a problem, stop testing and submit it as an issue in our issue tracker and then send about it to the mailing list (firstname.lastname@example.com):
Get the code source:
- clone the git repo from github: $ git clone https://github.com/Alfanous-team/alfanous.git
- or download it as a zipfile
Run the build:
Install all building dependencies: pyparsing, pyside, epydoc, sphinx, Babel.
Go to the root path of the code source and execute this command
$ make build
Possible Problems:
/bin/sh: python2: not found : if you dont have the command "python2", create one using a symbolic link
$ python --version Python 2.7.4 $ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python2
ImportError: No module named pyparsing : you need to install pyparsing python library
$ sudo pip pyparsing
Install the API:
Also in the root path of the code source, execute the command
$ make install_api_no_arguments
Test the console interface, it provides results in Json format:
$ alfanous-console -h $ alfanous-console -a search -q qawol $ alfanous-console -a search -q الصلاة+الزكاة $ ...
Test the basic script:
$ cd src/alfanous-tests $ python sample.py
Test the desktop interface:
$ cd src/alfanous-desktop $ python Gui.py
Test the installation of alfanous-desktop as a library
$ sudo python setup.py install $ alfanous-desktop
Test the json output system II
install it in apache as a cgi script
# Install apache2 first $ sudo make install_jos2
test it in browser by checking those links
- http://alfanous.local/cgi-bin/alfanous_json2.py
- http://alfanous.local/cgi-bin/alfanous_json2.py?action=search&query=qawol
- http://alfanous.local/cgi-bin/alfanous_json2.py?action=suggest&query=مءصدة
- http://alfanous.local/cgi-bin/alfanous_json2.py?action=search&query=%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AB%D8%B1&sortedby=mushaf&page=1&word_info=true&highlight=css&script=standard&prev_aya=true&next_aya=true&sura_info=true&aya_position_info=true&aya_theme_info=true&aya_stat_info=true&aya_sajda_info=true&annotation_word=true&annotation_aya=true&recitation=1
- ...
Test Django app (don't forget to install django)
run the server
$ cd src/alfanous-django $ python manage.py runserver
test it in browser by checking this link
Test Firefox toolbar
package it
$ make dist_xpi
use it, you'll find the package in output folder with the extension .xpi
Test Ubuntu/Sabily package
run the command of packaging
$ make dist_deb
Add sabily repository and test the package
Test Windows Installer script (later)
Test MacOs package (later)
Test PyCorpus (later)
See also How you can help?
How to prepare your development environment to contribute?¶
Best OS for that is Ubuntu (>11.10).
First at all, create an account in Github and make your own fork of alfanous-team/alfanous (Fork button is top-right).
Secondly, install git-scm and then clone locally your fork :
git clone LINK_OF_GITHUB_FORK.
then run in the root of your local repo:
$ make build
then run also in the same path:
$ sudo make install_api_no_arguments
test the installation with this command:
$ alfanous-console -h
Forth, prepare your dev tool :
- if you want work on web tasks, install aptana with pydev plugin (install apache2 also for local tests).
- else install eclipse with pydev plugin.
- or you can just use a simple text editor.
You can also use git with eclipse, by installing EGit.
How API works?¶


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About Us
Left: Aleksandra Lesevic, designer&founder. On the right: Danijela Sindelic, designer&creative director and mother of Aleksandra.
Designer and founder of Dna Creations Aleksandra Lesevic from Zurich started to design clothes for her and her mother in 2015. " My grandmother used to make clothes for me and her when i was a child and that's how it all started". The story continues 2015 when Aleksandra goes off to study at the University of the Arts / London College of Fashion. "My big inspiration was my mother and my grandmother with their classy and unique styles so it was always an idea to create a collection for mother and daughter and a collection that can be worn by young women and by mature ladies". Our style is classic and elegant. Our goal is to make every woman feel stylish. When worn our clothes give a feeling of comfort and elegance, they feel very light and soft on the skin. Our clothes are made of the highest grade of silk and velvet there is. Our latest collection is very much inspired by the classy era of the 40's and by the old Hollywood glam actresses of that era.


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The film-maker says he has "become even wilder" now; admits that he's not a "friendly person" because he finds friends boring.bollywood Updated: Apr 25, 2016 12:29 IST
It wouldn't be wrong to say that Ram Gopal Varma gave gangster films a new lease of life in Bollywood. Whether it was the character of Bhiku Mhatre in Satya (1998), Subhash Nagre in Sarkar (2006), or Chandu in Company (2002) — the eccentric film-maker has a knack for creating memorable characters in the grittiest films. This drama often finds its way into Varma's off-screen life too; this reflects in his posts, or controversies, on social media and even in his work space in Andheri (W). But the film-maker is rarely perturbed. He wasn't bothered when critics wrote him off a few years ago, and he certainly isn't bothered now, about what people might think of him and his acidic remarks.
"I am being buried for many years now. The media has proliferated so much that, today, everything gets amplified. But the basic sentiment of me being dead or finished or gone has been around for many years. Bi****ing only gets creative with time, and why shouldn't it? Otherwise, we will all die of boredom," says Varma.
.Read: 'Dumb' Rajinikanth fans can't tell I complimented him: Ram Gopal Varma
In 2013, after the release of Satya 2, Varma took a break from B-Town, but continued making films in several south Indian film industries. "I didn't want to do Hindi films for some time, as I wanted to give another look at the kinds of films I was making. I am very impulsive by nature. That's why I make my films very fast. But people feel I make too many films, and I make them too fast, so I make flops. Nonetheless, I would like to believe that I know what the cause of my failure is. I spent the most amount of money and time on Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag (2007) and Department (2012), and both the films are the biggest flops of my career. So, I know that failure comes when you choose the wrong material, and any director is as good as the material he handles," he says.
The 54-year-old admits that his "arrogance" was also responsible for his failure. "I just wanted to stop, zoom out, and check what's happening before I came back [to Bollywood]. In the past two years, I have readied six scripts that can go into production any day. So, I have come back with gun, grenades and revolvers in my pocket to attack (laughs)," he says.
Read: RGV Talkies will never make films on sports or God: Ram Gopal Varma
Varma insists that he has "become even wilder" now. "I am like a wild horse. Having said that, I have tried to add some method to my madness, which will hopefully produce a result," says the film-maker, adding that "intensity attracts" him. "I don't like family dramas or rom-coms. I never saw Rangeela (1995) as a rom-com. It could be light-hearted due to the music, humour and basic emotions, but it had a lot of intensity. I especially don't like sex comedies, because I take sex very seriously. I am most attracted to larger-than-life characters," he says.
What has the director excited currently is his new film, Veerappan, which is based on the life and killing of one of India's most notorious bandits. "Right from my debut film, Shiva (1991), I was always interested in the dark side of people. Veerappan always fascinated me. I first heard about him in 1995 or 1996 when a reward was announced to capture him," he says. At that time, Varma had planned to produce a film called Let's Catch Veerappan, with Shimit Amin as the director. "It was about three guys wanting to help the police [catch Veerappan] for the reward money. But the day we started shooting, Veerappan was killed, so I junked the idea. Then, a few years back, I met some men who were part of Operation Cocoon, which was responsible for killing Veerappan. That intelligence operation caught my attention, since no one knows what happened behind the scenes of Veerappan's killing," he says.
Ask him what draws him to the lives of offenders and lawbreakers, and he says, "I think people will be much more interested in the story of a man who killed many people than in the story of Mother Theresa who helped many people. People have an inherent curiosity about people who live violent lives. People are attracted to anything that is highly dramatic."
Watch: Trailer of RGV's Veerappan
Is that why on the other hand, talking about his outspoken nature, Varma says he has never understood "the meaning of being politically incorrect". "I will say what I feel is correct. If someone gets offended by my tweets, they he or she can unfollow me. And outsiders, be it the media or anyone else, have no business peeking into my Twitter handle. Also, saying politically correct things like, 'Hello, how are you?' or 'You are a very nice guy' is really boring," he says.
In fact, at a time when Bollywood is increasingly being perceived as a friendly space, Varma unabashedly calls himself an "unfriendly person". "The problem with friends is that you help them once, and they will come back again for help. I will never go to someone for help. It doesn't make sense both ways. Also, I don't give anyone that much importance [in my life]," he says.
On his expletives-laden tweet for Big B
When I said something about him, everyone went berserk. They didn't understand that it was a compliment. He, who should have been most offended, understood. It proves that people are not seeing the point I was trying to make.
On his comment on Rajinikanth
We always thought a superstar is tall, good-looking, and has a six-pack. He is none of that, and is still a superstar. He defies that entire definition. What's wrong with that? It's the highest compliment he can get. His fans thought I was being offensive, but that's their dumbness; I am being smart.
On Anurag Kashyap
I really like Gangs Of Wasseypur 1 (2012), but I am not a fan of his kind of films. I haven't seen many of his films. So, I don't know how to describe them. I like him as a person and a dialogue writer. There's something uniquely independent about his thinking and writing, which I might not connect with, but he is original. If he has made disparaging comments about me, it's fine.
On Karan Johar
I used to think that Karan makes false films, but after attending Abhishek's (Bachchan) wedding, I realised that his films are more real than my films, like Satya, because I never attend wedding ceremonies. Everyone has their own sensibilities. I have always complimented him. When I said his films are like horror films, I said it looking at the scale of his success. Any dumb person will know it's a compliment. So, I respect the way he has built himself or his films, but I will never be able to watch them, as they aren't my kind of movies.
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Learn about your baby, your body, childbirth and parenting.
Join other expectant moms to discuss pregnancy issues and solutions.
Track your baby's growth and your own pregnancy progress.
Group prenatal care is used in many settings across the United States, primarily through a program called CenteringPregnancy. Group prenatal care allows you to meet with other women who share similar due dates and combines prenatal care with a discussion and support group.
We love group prenatal care because it means we have the opportunity to spend more time getting to know you before the birth of your baby. Many pregnant women enjoy sharing their experiences and ideas with others who are pregnant. We base our format for group prenatal care on the CenteringPregnancy model and then adapt it to fit our clients needs.
Group prenatal care allows women to:
- Gain power and confidence throughout pregnancy.
- Receive in-depth health education (beyond what is possible in a traditional model of care).
- Strengthen their community networks during their transition to motherhood.
- Be more knowledgeable as health care consumers.
Women who have participated in group prenatal care have been found to have:
- Higher levels of satisfaction with prenatal care.
- Lower numbers of inductions and medication use in labor.
- Higher levels of pregnancy knowledge.
- Fewer emergency room visits during the pregnancy.
Heres How it Works
During your first visit with the nurse, she will review your history and get you started with your care by ordering lab tests or ultrasounds as needed.
At the next appointment, you will meet with the nurse-midwife for 45 minutes. Your physical exam will be completed and any specific concerns you may have will be addressed.
Group prenatal care will begin at about 16-20 weeks. You and 8-10 other women, all due around the same time, will meet at our office. After checking in at the front desk, you will go to the meeting room immediately (no waiting for your appointment!).
When you arrive, a nurse will greet you. There will be time to weigh yourself, take your blood pressure and record this information on your record. Youll have time to socialize with the other women and read about various health topics.
The midwife will measure your abdomen and listen to the babys heartbeat in a semi-private corner of the room. Any personal concerns will then be addressed.
Once everyone is assembled, the group session will begin. It will last about an hour. The nurse-midwife and nurse will sit with you and guide a conversation on a variety of topics about pregnancy, labor, birth and parenting.
Your entire session will last two hours. The schedule for visits is arranged before the first class. This allows you to have all of your prenatal visits booked well in advance.
In general, your group will meet every month for a few months and then every two weeks until the end of your pregnancy. Your midwife, nurse and group of women will be the same throughout your pregnancy. As you can imagine, some groups of women choose to continue to get together on their own after the babies are born.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. Do women feel uncomfortable being examined in the same room as the group meeting?
A. The physical components of the prenatal exam (measuring the belly, listening to the baby) are conducted in a screened-off separate space away from the main group. Others are busy weighing themselves, looking over resource information, preparing for the group session and getting settled in. Because each woman values her own time with the midwife, other women respect your individual time as well.
Q. What if I need a private exam?
A. You can discuss this with the midwife. If needed, you can be examined in a private room after class.
Q. Can my partner come to the sessions?
A. Yes, we welcome your partner at these sessions. Your partner will be asked to sign a confidentiality statement. If you choose to bring someone, we ask that you try to bring the same person each time. Children are not included in these sessions for reasons of privacy and disruption.
Q. Will my insurance cover this type of care?
A. CenteringPregnancy falls under routine prenatal care, so there will be no difference in how you are billed.
Q. I understand that the same midwife and nurse work with the group each session. How will I meet the other midwives?
A. At various sessions, guest midwives from our practice may join us. We also have a monthly Meet-the-Midwives event in our office. This is a meet-and-greet session followed by a tour of our facility. Registration is required and available through our website.


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Kegs Now Available Through Eebria
25 April
We're really happy to announce that kegs of Clean Water Lager are now available through Eebria Trade.
Eebria Trade offers UK wide delivery of the country's best beers, sent direct from the breweries themselves. This gives us access to a load of new bars across the country - and gives them access to our freshest beer directly from the Brewdog brewery in Ellon.
Any new partnership like this is amazing for the #DrinkBeerGiveWater mission. It means our beer is easier to get, cements our place in the industry and allows us a new outlet to shout about the amazing things people are doing, just by drinking great beer.
If you're interested in ordering head to Eebria Trade and check us out.
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The Speakers
Maria Carolina Tranberg Brühl
Maria Carolina Tranberg Brühl, Colombia, is an Astronomer with studies in Quantum and Relativist Physics. Maria Carolina Tranberg Brühl is the first woman to lead an Astronomical Observatory in Latin America. She is a member of one of the leading Astronomy Associations; Association of Astronomy of Colombia (ASASAC). She is a writer and an Public Speaker with 20 years of experience. As such, she is devoted to spreading the understanding of science and astronomy in a popular science context to a larger audience.
Jörgen Tranberg has a Naturopathic Medical Doctor (N. M. D., N.D.) degree from the US and has been active as a Complementary Medicine Therapist for over 30 years. During this time he has inspired people worldwide with his knowledge how the body has its own Universe. Jörgen with his wife, Astronomer built science bridges between the micro and macro perspective. He has also trained over thousand of Doctors, Osteopaths, Chiropractors, etc in osteopathic medicine.
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Our ally World Bicycle Relief thinks so! The organization works to provide bikes to people around the world so that they can gain access to independence and livelihood. We are proud to have donated bikes to World Bicycle Relief's program in Zambia!
Hear more about the organization's incredible work in this recent radio story here.
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Dosimetry of weakly penetrating radiationProject ID: FI4P960037
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Dosimetry of weakly penetrating radiation
Gesamtkosten:Nicht verfügbar
EU-Beitrag:Nicht verfügbar
Koordiniert in:Germany
Thema(en):040205 - Monitoring of external irradiation
Finanzierungsprogramm:CSC - Cost-sharing contracts
Deficiencies in the dosimetry of weakly penetrating radiation in radiation protection have been identified which are obstacles to the acceptance of the Commissions guidance given in its radiation protection recommendations. The deficiencies will be eliminated by the proposed project with the joint effort of the most experienced experts in this field within the EU. About one million workers are occupationally monitored with personal dosemeters within the EU, and the reliable and accurate measurement of their radiation exposure is an extremely important requirement. Up to now, however, there is no agreement on the measuring quantities for individual monitoring which are the same for all radiation types, are fail safe for the effective dose equivalent, and are relatable to an appropriate phantom. The recent report EUR 14852 EN fills this gap by recommending new operational quantities, in particular the personal dose equivalent quantities, and the implementation of these quantites is therefore of global interest for radiation protection practice within the EU.
The application of the air kerma-to-dose-conversion coefficients, as recommended in the EUR report, for determining the personal dose equivalent at 10 mm depth for the calibration and type testing of personal dosemeters has a number of practical difficulties which impede the introduction of the quantity when photons of lower energies are involved. The development of an ionisation chamber for measuring the personal dose equivalent at 10 mm depth directly and not determining this operational quantity via conversion coefficients (which needs detailed spectral information) is expected to overcome these problems. Such a personal dose equivalent chamber does not yet exist.
The exposure to beta radiation in particular has played an important role in the Chernobyl and other radiation accidents. Operational beta dosimetry of surface contamination and hot particles after accidents and in workplaces is an import task and has been neglected so far by established techniques. Therefore, a portable and rugged active beta dosemeter-spectrometer combination with semiconductor detectors is proposed to be developed which enables the immediate measurement of the doses and energies of the beta particles even in the presence of photon radiation. Such an instrument does not yet exist. In the case of hot particles, due to their highly non-uniform spatial dose distribution, measurements with this instrument will be supplemented by other techniques (extrapolation chamber, radiochromic dye, thermoluminescence and optically stimulated luminescence foil measurements) and Monte Carlo and semi empirical calculations previously developed for this specific problem (CEC and EURADOS projects).
The experimental and calculational methods in this work will be collated, validated and documented in a form suitable for QA applications, with emphasis on extrapolation chambers. Special, well characterized sources will be produced and used for an in-vitro transformation experiment (sub-contract) to clarify inconsistencies reported about hazards posed by hot particles. Summing up, the project serves to develop adequate instrumentation and calculational methods for implementing updated radiation protection recommendations of the Commission for occupational exposure and to substantially improve the level of operational beta dosimetry (in compliance with programme areas D.2.4, D.2.5, Dl.l and E.1.3). Two instruments (personal dose equivalent chamber and beta dosemeter-spectrometer combination) will be developed to an advanced stage. Further development would produce marketable products.
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The next time Pope John Paul II coach Daryl Thomas sees Kendall Bussey, Newman's star running back will be playing on Saturdays.
Which is just fine with Thomas and the rest of the Jaguars.
Bussey and the Greenies made short work of PJP on Friday, scoring four touchdowns before the midpoint of the second quarter in a 47-6 nondistrict victory at Lester Latino Field.
"Great athlete and good guy," Thomas said of Bussey. "I know the family pretty well, and he's going to have an outstanding career. There's only so much you can do to try to contain him. We stopped him a couple of times, and that's all you can really ask for."
Bussey, a Nebraska commitment who this week received a offer from Notre Dame — with one expected to come next week from Southern California — scored on runs of 6, 19, 21 and 8 yards as Newman (3-0) rolled to a 34-0 halftime lead.
But, as Thomas pointed out, his other three carries netted minus-3 yards, a stop for a loss by Bobby Delaney drawing the largest cheer from the home crowd until Chanse Caire's 1-yard run with 4:37 left allowed PJP II (0-3) to avoid the shutout.
That left Bussey with only seven carries for 51 yards, far below the 147.5 he had averaged in the Greenies' first two games.
But he wasn't miffed.
"I'm not disappointed at all," Bussey said. "We came to hit 'em early, which is what we did. And then that let a lot of the other guys get to play. They work hard, too."
Among them was Newman sophomore quarterback Miles Lapeyre, who drew the start because of a hand injury suffered last week by Jay Tyler. Lapeyre came through with 11 completions in 13 attempts for 146 yards and two touchdowns, plus a 39-yard scramble for Newman's final TD with 4:11 left in the third quarter.
"I was a little bit nervous but not too much," Lapeyre said. "I was confident because we have a good system and our receivers were getting open. Everybody wants Jay back, and he might play a little bit of receiver next week if he can't grip the ball. I'll be ready if that happens."
Bussey's low yardage total came in part because the Greenies were usually starting in Jaguars territory — either via a partially blocked punt, a Bussey punt return or a fumble recovery.
The Newman defense, led by linebacker Jack Miller, kept PJP on its own end of the field until the final play of the half, which ended with the visitors leading 34-0.
"Miles came out and really took command of the offense, and Kendall's so excellent in all parts of his game," Newman coach Nelson Stewart said. "We took care of business and wound up with a good, clean win against a program we respect deeply."


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The overall performance is simply quite excellent in all respects. Choral and vocal passages are very numerous here. The audio quality is particularly full, rich and seemingly close-up while revealing a great deal of detail. Many of the Blu-ray discs I have reviewed seem to not reveal the cymbals clearly or fully; that problem is not apparent for the most part here. It is easy to give this huge production a top recommendation and of very possible interest to newcomers to classical music also. © 2012 Positive Feedback Online Read complete review
MAHLER, G.: Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" (Chailly) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) ACC-10238
MAHLER, G.: Symphony No. 8 (Chailly) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) ACC-10222
The present DVDs preserve the opening and closing nights of the Leipzig's high-powered, multi-orchestra International Mahler Festival held last May. …the clarity, range and depth of sound, allied to the exceptional quality of the singing and playing, are certain to impress.
Interpretatively speaking, Chailly's Resurrection is unashamedly mainstream, more straightforward than Bernstein's, sunnier and more muscular than Abbado's, with forthright contributions from harp and percussion. …the excellent Sarah Connolly provides a lovely, intimate reading of the 'Urlicht' and there is no lack of tension as the epic finale crashes in.
The performance of the Eighth…has real weight and it is fair to say that the sonic impact of the work's stupefying final pages has never been more faithfully conveyed on disc. The hushed choral singing, with crucial entries always perfectly calibrated, is a marvel in itself…these renditions must go right to the top of the list on technical grounds, irrespective of sound carrier.
Strongly recommended. © 2012 Gramophone Read complete review on Gramophone
MAHLER, G.: Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" (Chailly) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) ACC-10238
MAHLER, G.: Symphony No. 8 (Chailly) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) ACC-10222
The performances on these two Accentus Blu-ray DVDs are highly detailed in excellent sound and with splendid singing, and are competitive with most of the better efforts…the sound on both recordings is vivid, and the camera work is excellent. © 2011 Classical Net Read complete review
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...the Mahler Symphony No. 8 is generally considered to be the high water mark in the Mahlerian catalog. This is, to my knowledge, the premier BD entry in the field and, as such, has the inherent advantages of high definition sight and sound not available to its DVD competitors. Conductor Chailly and his stalwart band of musicians turn in a powerful statement of this difficult work. The solo vocal efforts range from competent with tenor Gould sounding a bit stressed in comparison with his colleagues, to sublime, soprano Christiane Oelze. The mixed choruses turn in commendable performances. For those acquainted with this work, the BD will provide a moving experience, while newcomers will get the equivalent of a musical shot to the solar plexus from final section with all assembled forces performing at once. If not the last word on this piece, and perhaps there will never be one, this Mahler Symphony No. 8 provides a welcome addition to the classical BD library. Read complete review
MAHLER, G.: Symphony No. 8 (Chailly) (NTSC) ACC-20222
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Just Add WaterI'm a nighttime shower person. I shower to end my day rather than to begin my day.
You might be wondering why I've shared this random piece of information with you. It's because my evening showering routine has become an important part of my writing routine.
Up until the beginning of this year, I didn't really have a writing routine. I'd write when I had the time, often going days (or even weeks) without finding time to sit down at the keyboard. When asked, I'd say I get most of my writing done in the summer because I don't work then. But it had gotten way too easy to skimp on that when other summer activities (vacation, travel, pool, beach…) called my name. When I did write, I would keep track of pages as a way to monitor my progress.
That all changed in January. I wanted to submit a holiday story to my publisher, and since I had to actually get something done on a deadline, I needed a better way to make progress and to keep track of progress. I decided I would set aside a specific time each day to write. And instead of tracking my page count, I'd track my word count.
The time of day I set aside was right after my shower, but before my hubby and I curled up on the couch to catch up on tv shows on the DVR. Setting up an actual routine worked for me. While the water flowed in the shower, so did the ideas. Each night I was able to sit down at my computer and increase my word count. I didn't set a specific word count goal for each writing session, but I kept a running total, and I also kept track of how many new words I added each night. Switching from page counting to word counting was also inspirational. Those words add up faster than pages, which made me really feel like I was making progress.
With my new writing routine, I was able to finish and submit my Christmas story. It's being released next month as the first book in my Holidays at The Corral Series. I tried the routine again this summer and wrote and just contracted the second book about Valentine's Day. Right now I'm knee deep in the routine again and am just about finished with the Fourth of July book.
I've also renamed the things I want to do as 'attempts' instead of 'goals'. I'm doing the same thing...writing a book...but the change in vocabulary seems to make it less intimidating. Sometimes something simple as a fresh perspective is all you need to get motivated again. A set deadline from my publisher helps, too, which is why I've been working on these holiday stories. In order for them to be released at the proper time of year, they need to be submitted, edited, approved, etc. at specific times. I can't afford to be open-ended and lax and get to writing when I get to it. I definitely find working toward a hard deadline keeps me on track.
My point is this. A writing routine is vital for success. It works, but you need to find what works for you. Your routine may be nothing like anyone else's, and that's okay. Start with some basics:
- When you'll write.
- Where you'll write.
- How long will a session be?
- How will you track your progress?
Good luck! And along the way, be sure to enjoy the process!
Christmas at The Corral is the first book I wrote using my 'just add water' routine. It will be released on November 4 from The Wild Rose Press.
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Debra St. John has been reading and writing romance since high school. She always dreamed about publishing a romance novel some day. Her dream came true when she started writing sultry contemporary romance with sexy heroes and spunky heroines for The Wild Rose Press. Although she's a country gal at heart, she lives in a suburb of Chicago with her husband, who is her real life hero.
She is the author of The Corral Series, which includes her debut release, This Time for Always, a Champagne Rose and Rosebud bestseller at The Wild Rose Press. This Can't Be Love and This Feels Like Home complete the series. Her holiday stories are A Christmas to Remember, An Unexpected Blessing (Thanksgiving), and The Vampire and the Vixen for Halloween. One Great Night, Family Secrets, and Wild Wedding Weekend round out her bookshelf.
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As a divorce lawyer, Van Rawlings has seen the ugly side of marriage too many times to believe in love. But having gotten off on the wrong foot with Maggie, and genuinely contrite over his faux pas, he offers to help her with an upcoming Christmas charity dinner. The more time they spend together, the more he realizes he's never met anyone like Maggie, who gives so generously of her time.
Can Maggie and the magic of the season help Van believe again? In Christmas and in love.


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For while all three are capable of elevating their political discussion to a theoretical plane, they are also all in the midst of their own very real campaigns for public office: Kimbrough is a congressional candidate, hoping to unseat Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Lomita), Smoller has his sights set on Assemblyman John R. Lewis (R-Orange), and Mathews is challenging Assemblywoman Doris Allen (R-Cypress).
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I love those colors. Both separately and together. I finally picked up FLY after months of admiring in in the stores. I still haven't used it yet, it was part of a haul I made earlier this month.
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I've opened up both Lars Högman's Dragon's Lair board game and my own Swords of the Silver Throne to open playtest. Since I can't seem to enable commenting directly on the P-n-P pages, use this post for comments on these playtest editions.
I've opened up both Lars Högman's Dragon's Lair board game and my own Swords of the Silver Throne to open playtest. Since I can't seem to enable commenting directly on the P-n-P pages, use this post for comments on these playtest editions.
Some years ago, my wife visited England and went to Fountains Abbey. When she returned, she had a collection of awesome photographs and a brochure that explained the history of the abbey. Monks growing grain, tending flocks of sheep, running a quarry and mining the upper stretches of the river for metals? That's not history, that's a Euro! Seriously, as with a lot of designer games, the history directly inspired the game, but initially too much history and an attempt to model events too closely to that history kept this game in the idea file only. Continue reading
It's been a busy time but I've been working with the artist to refine our style for Who's for Dinner? Here's an even dozen of the new cards:
I'm really happy with the faux woodcut look he's developed for the cards, and the overall fun feel of them. In fact, it seems like the flavor text (like on Fork & Knife and Clean Hands) seems redundant now. Anybody got any thoughts on that?
While the Kickstarter drive is over, remember you can always preorder the game here.
There are those that say that Kickstarter will destroy the traditional Publisher-Distributor-FLGS model and there are those who say that Kickstarter will destroy the online stores instead. There are a few who say that Kickstarter will not destroy but create… create a new market for small independent games that could never make the shortlist for publishers or for a distributor, or even for your FLGS. On a good day, I believe the last. On a bad day, I hope that the last is true. I get a lot of use out of my FLGSs and I don't want them to go away.
So I had final demo decks of Who's for Dinner? ready and I felt confident that I had a game sufficiently developed for presentation on Kickstarter. I applied to start a project and waited nervously for approval.* It came in a few days… I should mention that when I submitted the project, I already had a website that had been up for a while, a dedicated email address and plenty of images of the prototype game pieces, both on my website and here. I've heard some horror stories from folks that have been denied and told their project was not sufficiently advanced to be posted on the site.
I was approved to start my project and I began building out the KS page. I had to record a video… I did one of myself talking about the history and development of the game, since I knew that Tom would be doing a preview video of the gameplay. I then worked on my backer levels, trying to come up with fun names for each of the levels and figure out rewards that would engage people. I put a lot of the stuff in the video onto the page itself… I knew I wasn't going to be able to generate a super-high quality video, so duplicating important information for those who didn't watch all the way through to the end was important.
Once I got all my rewards, story and video sorted out, I had to get Kickstarter to approve the project again. They were changing policies at the time, I don't think a new project would go through that. I know it caught some people, like the Fleet guys off guard though.
I had made arrangements with Tom Vasel to have a preview video made, and I had also securing a shout-out on The D6 Generation. I didn't know the exact timing of when these would come out, so I started the project a little earlier than I might have otherwise. However, Tom had some personal stuff trip him up a little bit and Craig went to New Zealand. Turns out I shouldn't haven been in a rush, but it all worked out in the end. I decided to do a soft open for my campaign.
I had an idea about trying to get a viral thing going… I knew I would be offering at least one special promo card to those folks who sent me a code. I sent out a series of messages to different interest groups and sets of social networks, each with a different code. I also put up flyers in my local FLGS, each with their own identifying code as well. Early backers got personal codes as well. The viral thing never really caught on, I get codes from Tom's video and from The D6G; but have received few of the FLGS codes and none so far of the personal codes.
My soft open did allow me to analyze each pledge as it came in, I learned that I was getting the majority of my pledges from folks discovering the project on Kickstarter… I got relatively few hits on my direct messaging, until I posted on the Geek and other news sites. Eric Martin kind of spoiled my announcement here… he mentioned it in his Friday newspost, and I had been waiting till Monday to make the first post here. Again, it all worked out in the end.
It's been fairly consistent through the project, I get about 2 backers through Kickstarter for every 1 that come in another way. I think that's about right… Who's for Dinner? is a light game… a lot of heavy users of the big sites like the Geek are looking for something more meaty, and my smaller budget (due to a smaller price point) means I can only afford so much direct advertising.
I think the biggest thing that I've learned throughout this is that once you start a Kickstarter project, you're in a zombie horror movie. YOU HAVE TO KEEP MOVING. If you stop (by not sending out updates, thanking each and every backer as they come onboard, not updating your friends and social networks), you die. I think that at least 50% of the failed boardgame projects are due to this… it's a rare project that can continue to get pledges day after day on it's original information, updates keep the interest up. Of course, too many updates and everyone starts ignoring them…
I had a last minute savior in the sense of a backer (Nick Seal, aka Sir Gamesalot yoda844) who put a lot of effort into making really good suggestions. Most everything that happened in the last couple of weeks was due to his great ideas. More on that next time.
Next time, artwork, non-game rewards, preproduction and the advantages (and disadvantages) of production on demand!
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I really like the idea of Print & Play (PnP) games but despite having better equipment to produce PnP games than the average bear, I find that I don't print or play as many as I want to. Thus one of the core ideas for Mr. W Games was created. I bet that a lot of people were in the same boat… they'd like to support more independent creators but the time and trouble of producing their own copy of the game was prohibitive.
I decided that I would try to offer all of my games as free Print & Play games but that I would also offer a Print-On-Demand edition of the game. Those people who had the werewithal to use the free files could do so, but if you were interested in my game, I would send you a completed produced version, for a modest fee. I think it's a great idea (and was probably an even better idea in 2008 when it first took shape) and I'm working to implement it.
Last year, I took several of my games (Who's for Dinner?, Public Transit and Space Traders) and put them on the Geek, confident I'd get them in a ready shape for release that year. That turned out to be premature… WFD was showing lots of promise, but Space Traders and Public Transit needed more attention and work for external (read paying) customers took priority over all three. Plus the Kickstarter phenomenon offered a slightly different take on the idea. Instead of releasing the game into the wild and then hunting for sales, I could try it out on Kickstarter and (hopefully) get the orders for those who would want the POD version of the game and maybe get some support for those who liked the idea that I would make the game available as a free Print & Play at a later date.
So now I've decided to launch Who's for Dinner? on Kickstarter (coming very soon) and next time I'll explain how I put together the reward structure and plan to promote the Kickstarter campaign.
"The game plays you" is a complaint that seems to come up fairly often and one that I think that comes down to meaningful choices in the game. A game with few meaningful choices will often feel like it's in charge and there's no real choice for you to make. Lack of meaningful choices is usually due to either false distinctions or strictly dominant strategies.
False Distinctions
Consider a game where when you need to make a die roll you can select either a red die or a green die to roll. Both dice are identical and fairly weighted. While you have a choice (which color die to roll), it's really a false distinction since the choice has no impact on gameplay. It's rare to have such a stark example of false distinctions but they often present in games, lurking behind the math of the game system or in thematic elements. Consider a slighly more complex example: say I can make a choice between taking an action that will guarantee me 1 victory point or rolling a six-side die: three results net me 0 VP, the other three give me 2 VP. While it would seem each turn that I have a meaningful choice to make (take the sure thing or take a gamble) over the course of a long game the fact that the expected value of each option is 1 VP means I'll likely feel like I'm not really making a choice.
Strict Domination
The other way choices losing meaning is when there is an obvious example of a strictly dominant strategy. Consider a two-player game with three possible actions: A, B and C. Selecting the same action as your opponent results in a tie. Action A wins against B and loses against C. Action B ties against C, but loses to Action A. Action C wins against A and ties versus B. In this game, Action C would always be the best choice, it ties two-thirds of the time and wins one-third of the time but never loses.
Dominant strategies in games can also be situational… there are some games where once a map area or technology is "unlocked" a certain strategy becomes dominant and there are no more meaningful choices to make. Whoever gets the highest die roll or best card draw will be the first to implement the strategy and come off the winner.
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It might be tempting when you find a dominant strategy in your game design to try to rebalance the game to even ot the strategies but doing that can lead to false distinctions between the strategies. If all strategies have the same expected value then there's really only one strategy just with different names.
I actually think that one of the best ways to ensure meaningful choices is to allow weak domination strategies in games. A weakly dominant strategy is one that is not victorious against all other strategies, but does win against at least one other. In games without perfect information, having multiple weakly dominant strategies can mean choosing a strategy has meaning. Of course, you need to constrain player choices or you'll have players going off into the deep end of analysis paralysis.
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One of the problems that kept rearing its head during the development of Who's for Dinner? was the issue of scoring, or rather the keeping track of player's scores. Initial playtest versions had players either using pen and paper or poker chips to keep track. But it always bothered me and eventually I had to make a rather radical change to the game in order to solve it.
In earlier versions of the game, both a Fire and a Pot gave you points. But because every time a player is eaten they must have a Fire and a Pot, they really added nothing to the score — no-one was going to win because of the points from a Fire in other words. So I reduced their value to zero. Also, the communal spice rack idea was beneficial to the gameplay but divorced the scored points from the cards that gave the points. Since the cards were out of play, I realized everyone could have their own little spice rack (scoring pile). That meant that players simply kept their cards that gave them points in a distinct pile and the was no record keeping needed. This did change Clean Hands and Fork & Knife into one-time benefits instead of an ongoing thing, but that was a small sacrifice to get much cleaner gameplay and no record-keeping.
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word of mouth food & wine reviewed by Ali Cocksedge Eat Caribbean has got me intrigued. Apparently you shouldn't ask for cho-cho (chokoe or christophene) anywhere but Jamaica because it means something else in Spanish. So I've sent emails to all my Spanish-speaking friends to find out what it does mean! The most irritating part of this book is looking at glori- ous pictures of Caribbean beaches on a shivery Sydney winter evening. It's bright, it's colourful and by-and-large these are recipes you want to eat outdoors on balmy days. I've been imagining myself serving the Pomegranate & Rosewater Sorbet at the end of a dinner party and thinking I was pretty dar n special. And I think if I also plan to make Grapefruit & Angostura Bitters Sorbet I'll be able to justify buying an icecream maker this summer. I'm also feeling vindicated – having been told at one point that my guacamole is inauthentic because it was nothing like their Chilean friend's recipe, I can now say 'Mine is a Caribbean version'. The best thing about this book is that it has a recipe for a Supreme Jerk Burger for when you really want to tell your partner what you think of him. It's delicious too! And having made a batch of Jerk Seasoning for the burg- ers, I followed up with Jerk Chicken Salad the next night and have plans for Jerk Pork this weekend. I know it's a traditional Jamaican seasoning, but it's still fun to say! And eventually I may get away from the various forms of Jerk (hee hee) and try some of the other recipes! Ihaven't really had time to do Tastes of North Africa justice. I get stuck on page 6, looking at a beautiful photograph of a woman in a mosaic hallway sipping mint tea and drift off into fantasies of the Alhambra Gardens. But I have noticed that there are excellent explanations of the movement of the North African flavours across to Spain with the Moors and how the various fla- vours are used. I have tried a warm carrot salad from the book. I decided I needed a vegetable dish with the overly-spiced slow- cooked lamb and thought the cinnamon flavouring with the sweet carrots would work well. It was an excellent part- nering and the salad is a really delicious, delicate dish in its own right! Idon't know if anyone else grew up on Richard Scarry books, but Nick Sandler and Johnny Acton's book Preserved makes me feel like Brave Pierre Bear, when he surveys his cupboard contain- ing 13 jars of minced moose meat.These guys, who I don't think are frontiersmen, clearly have cupboards stocked to withstand being snowed in for the winter! Preserved begins with a recipe for biltong and goes through all the preserving methods from drying and salting to pickling and crystallizing. While I can't really see myself drying my own shrimp for pad thai, the book con- tains some very good recipes for things to do with your preserved stuff once you've got it.The pea and smoked pancetta soup will be making an appearance (using frozen peas and bought pancetta) sometime soon.While mak- ing the slow-cooked lamb with preserved lemons (using my aunt's preserved lemons) I made a pretty basic error and didn't read the recipe through. So I blended all the seasonings to a paste before discovering that I was supposed to remove the chillies and lemon at the end of the cooking.Tasted good, but much more highly seasoned than the recipe intended, I suspect! Tastes of North Africa: mouthwatering recipes from Morocco and the Mediterranean Sarah Woodward | ★★★ Kyle Cathie $34.95 Preserved Nick Sandler & Johnny Acton | ★★ Kyle Cathie $39.95 Eat Caribbean Virginia Burke | ★★★★ Simon & Schuster $45.00
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My shape bothers me. I have nbpel of 6", but girth is what I hate. It starts at 4.85 bg and tapers to 4.33. Is 1.5 inches of average girth enough to satisfy a woman? Also, is there anyway to correct a taper?
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Firstly: average is a bad notion to use. All penises are good and satisfying, as long as you know how to use it. Secondly there is: through jelqing. My penis' base was thinner than the mid shaft and then it would be thinner behind the gland and now, with some time of jelqing, it's girth is more even. You could try and do JP's https://www.pegym.com/forums/beginne...r-routine.html
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You might try a penis pump. Mine seems to be evening out my three
measurements--at the base, mid-shaft, and at the glans.Going411by7 (I was a grower; now I'm a shower).
Oct. '03: BPEL 7.75" x 5" Flaccid 4" x 4"
Feb. '04: BPEL 10.5" x 7" Flaccid 4" x 4"
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Mine tapers as well, I don't have a problem with it. Each stroke is progressive pleasure
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I think the taper might be cool considering my piece is essentially uniform in girth the entire length of the shaft but the glans is at least .25" thicker (Irish influence I think). Embrace your taper my man.
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Special Interest Groups
Special Interest Groups (SIGs): Special Interest Groups can be suggested by staff from member institutions, and the NC Directors' Group will consider giving its support. Once a group has been established, it may formulate an action plan, which in turn might lead to the formation of a project strand and specific end-result.
Our current SIGS are:
- Content group
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- Archives & Special Collections group
- Value & Impact group
- **New** - User Experience group to be formed - read more here
Each special interest group has a partner from the NC Steering Group. Partners and groups are listed below:
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(CBS) – Last Friday, Jacksonville mother Marissa Alexander was sentenced by a Florida judge to 20 years in prison for firing what she says was a "warning shot" into the wall after a physical altercation with her husband, Rico Gray. The case has set off yet another controversy involving the state's "stand your ground" law, … Continue reading
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By Jeff Coen and Bob Secter, Chicago Tribune reportersDecember 8, 2011 A contrite former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison, capping one of the state's worst political scandals and humbling a controversial and defiant figure who rode into office as a champion of reform. The sentence handed Blagojevich was … Continue reading
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Former Pennsylvania juvenile court judge, Mark Ciavarella, has been sentenced to 28 years in prison. Ciavarella was found guilty of trading convictions for cash, and unjustly sentencing youth to to detention centers whose owners paid him millions in bribe money. A federal judge tossed a plea deal that would have limited the sentence to 87 … Continue reading
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United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today the sentencing of Dr. Allison Hargrave, 40, of Lafayette, La., a former counselor at Ascension Episcopal School in Lafayette. U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik sentenced Hargrave to 30years in prison followed by 20 years supervised release for attempting to entice a minor to engage in criminal … Continue reading
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Budgeting Essentials
The course takes you through a structured method for handling funding from different donors. It is the financial blueprint and plan for a company interested in monetary and quantitative terms. Budgeting is used as a device for organizing the use of company's scarce financial resources. You will learn how to plan, report and monitor against your budget. It basically gives you an overview of scores of budgeting activities in a company and explains how to manage these activities. Furthermore, you will be introduced to the master budget and the components demonstrating how departmental budgets are organized in it. Knowledge with the basics of budgeting is expected at every level in a company.5 HoursOnline self studyBeginner$ 134 Enquire Now
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Capital Budgeting Essentials
Capital budgeting is a systematic process used to determine how capital is best allocated to projects that maximize the value of the organization. This course provides extensive training on capital budgeting process and focuses on the three stages in that process: project identification and screening, quantitative assessment, and capital allocation and rationing. Candidates are assessed on various concepts and tools like Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Profitability Index (PI), Discounted Payback Period (DPBP) and other related areas.4.8 HoursOnline self studyIntermediate$ 135 Enquire Now
Locations: Noida , Delhi , Gurgaon , Chandigarh , Bangalore , Hyderabad , Chennai , ErnakulamCourse Selling Partner
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