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A fat cat with a bad attitude attacked a baby and forced a Portland family to hide in a bedroom before calling 911.
Police were called out to deal with the crazed kitty at The Yards at Union Station complex on Northwest Naito Parkway just before 8 p.m. Sunday.
The man who called 911 told the dispatcher the cat "went over the edge," and was charging at them every time they opened the door. Lee Palmer, his girlfriend, Teresa Barker and their son, Jesse, were taking cover in the bedroom.
"He's trying to attack us," he said. "He's very, very, very, very hostile."
911 operators confirmed the baby did not need medical attention before sending officers to the scene.
"The 911 operator stayed on the phone with the caller to ensure the family, including the dog, remained safe in the bedroom as the cat screeched in the background," a Portland Police Bureau press release states.
The responding officers snagged a dog snare to use in case it was needed to take the alleged cat criminal into custody.
The cat, named Lux, weighs 22 pounds.
Photos: Lux the cat, accused of attacking baby and terrorizing family
When officers opened the door to the apartment, a black and white Himalayan darted into the kitchen, "attempting to flee custody," police said.
The dog snare came in handy, as it was used to put the cat behind bars in a crate.
Officers then told the family it was safe to come out of the bedroom.
"The cat remained behind bars in the custody of the family, and officers cleared the scene and continued to fight crime elsewhere in the city," the Portland Police Bureau stated.
A motive for the feline's frantic behavior has not been revealed. However, the man who called 911 told the dispatcher he had "kicked the cat in the rear" after it attacked the 7-month-old child.
"He's got kind of a history of violence," the caller told a 911 dispatcher. "He's kind of a violent cat already. But he's really bad right now."
By Monday, everything had calmed down. Lux was hiding under a blanket when a Fox 12 crew arrived at the scene.
"It's only funny when it's not happening to you," said Teresa Barker, with a laugh. "When this happens to you, I assure you, you will do the same thing."
Slideshow: Animals behaving badly
Multnomah County Animal Services has several pieces of useful information on its website, including dealing with disorderly pets. It's at http://multcopets.org/training-resources.
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Clash of Giants II: The Campaigns of Galicia and First Ypres, 1914 is the sequel to Ted Raicer's acclaimed Clash of Giants: Campaigns of Tannenberg and the Marne, 1914. As with the original design, CoG II contains two separate games (both using the same basic system) covering two of the most interesting (and least-gamed) campaigns of the First World War, Galicia and First Ypres .
Clash of Giants II uses a slightly modified version of the original system to model these dynamic and closely balanced contests. As in Clash of Giants, the game emphasizes the difficulty of commanding groups of armies, with a system where movement allowance for each army is separately determined by a command roll. But CoGII adds an interactive random chit-pull activation sequence, so that neither player knows which of his commands will move next. Each player has only one combat phase per turn, which he may declare at the end of any one of his command activations, but which covers the entire map. This leads to many difficult game decisions: "Do I declare combat now, with only part of my forces in position to attack, or wait hoping to get more units into the line, but risking the enemy either pulling back or striking first?"
Once combat is declared, CoGII uses the unique combat system so popular in Tannenberg and Marne, in which a unit's training, equipment, and morale are factored into a Tactical Effiency Rating that often counts more than mere numbers.
Galicia 1914 includes a corps/division OB and a map scaled at 9 miles to the hex that covers the entire front from Krakow to the Romanian border. The victory conditions force the Austrian player to attack initially in order to gain enough VPs to survive the strong Russian offensive certain to follow. Galicia features special rules for the great Austrian fortress of Przemysl, Russian cavalry replacements, rail supply, Offensive Support Markers (representing heavy artillery and the logistical and command preparations of a major assault), and the arrival of the Austrian 2nd Army.
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Two men, 65 and 59, bicycle 1,000 kilometers to 13 race tracks to save 8,000 discarded Thoroughbreds, testing 7 exciting betting methods along the way
Author's note: With far too many handicapping situations in the book to serialize extensively, what I can do in this series of excerpts is extract certain sequences of the theory-practice process. This intro is the first of the series. Mark Cramer
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The only exercise I get is walking to the betting office.
Peter O'Sullevan, Daily Telegraph
Nowadays you only have to get up from the couch to make a wager at the computer. It's a good time to revive the endangered pleasure of "getting there".
On July 3, 2010, fellow horseplayer Alan Kennedy and I embarked on a Tour de France Hippodrome. As the Tour de France peloton rolls through the French countryside, birds-eye cameras zoom in on castles surrounded by splendid gardens. Our living castles were magnificent French racecourses, landscape architecture at its finest.
Tour cyclers spin past cathedrals, while we go into the temples of turf. Some Tour cyclers take performance enhancing substances. In village bars, we consume performance dis-enhancing substances, red in color, poured from dark bottles into glasses with stems delicate like the legs of Thoroughbreds.
Otherwise, there's not much difference between our Tour de France and the real one, except maybe the comparative Beyer figs. Yes, those guys pedal faster, but we win the hours-on-the-road competition.
Alan and I had done bike-racecourse trips of 200 kilometers (2008) and 300 kms (2009). We'd discovered the ingredient missing in Jack Kerouac's On the Road. It is Playing the Horses On the Road.
In 2010, Alan, a former horse owner who'd once changed trainers for ethical reasons, contacted Sue Finley, of the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF). His proposal: raising funds for Thoroughbred retirement.
Sue loved it: using long-distance bicycling to raise funds, not only to help discarded race horses but discarded human beings. The TRF provides vocational training in stable management for prison inmates.
"Fine", I said. I've been meandering through life with a claiming price on my head. With my own retirement approaching, I identified with saving old claimers from death-trucks to Canada or Mexico (horse slaughter is now illegal in the USA).
Horse racing is my refuge from the insane world and offers me a challenging next day of my life, thanks to the infinite past-performance puzzle. Without the splendid racehorse, my daily adventure could not exist. Yet I had ignored the fate of lesser-known gallopers, like Astate, my first winner, at Aqueduct (my old man had to place the bet because I was underage), and decades later, the 45-1 Woodcote, at Hollywood Park, who won me several months of child support payments.
I figured I owed something to these shiny heroes with sleek legs lifting above the surface in fluid rhythm!
This tour would also be my medium to prove that well-crafted American handicapping methods can be applied to horse betting throughout the world, no matter how foreign the races, and as a clincher, identify the prototypes of longshot European shippers that win in the USA.
In moments of age-related vulnerability, the project seemed daunting. Alan reminded me that for years I had been doing daily bicycle commuting through Paris traffic anarchy. Surely, he said, riding 50 miles over country roads would be healthier than doing 5 miles through gridlock.
As planning began, neither of us imagined the magnitude of Sue Finley's project. When considering expenses (hotels, restaurants, train tickets linking non-contiguous stages), I also confronted the possibility of losing money at the races. My good wife Martha warned me that with on-the-road time constraints, I would be forced to apply precarious handicapping shortcuts. She quoted me:
"If you cut corners to save time, you risk converting a huge superfecta score into a first-second-third-fifth" (an inventive paraphrase from the only philosopher I had ever read: Andrew Beyer).
In fact, a large chunk of my handicapping time had been dedicated to researching for the automatic bet; this was my chance to test, under fire, various methods, including my "Short Form", which automated 80% of the process.
My wife was impressed TRF's vocational training for prisoners, having read about the regenerative therapy that comes from horse-human partnerships. She now envisioned the possibility of my "stretching out" to maybe 400 kilometers for a good cause, and possibly paying for a week's expenses with my betting.
But Sue Finley, an experienced fundraiser and bicycler, harbored loftier ambitions. For maximum impact, she felt we should go up against the real Tour de France by doing the same number of stages, 21, over the same three weeks in July.
"I know this is asking an awful lot of volunteers," she said, "but really, the Tour de France format is ideal."
The Tour dates were July 3 through July 25, 2010. I examined the racing calendar, plotting routes to a maximum number of racecourses with a minimum number of kilometers. Adding two prologue stages to two major
tracks that would close in July, we could reach 13 different race tracks, covering approximately 1,000 kilometers: over 600 miles. To avoid two-day stretches without racing, we could hoist our bikes on the train. (Tour de France cyclers bus it when two stages are not geographically contiguous.)
With this escalation of our would-be tour, doubts resurfaced: doubts about physical capabilities, doubts about expenses. I feared death, either from heatstroke or tapping out at the windows. I preferred the first form of death over the second.
For American racing, I had developed a methodology called "The Short Form", which was showing encouraging results in French and English racing, suggesting that this corner-cutting method would work worldwide. A
longer betting trip offered a real-life laboratory: could my short-cut handicapping methods pay for all three weeks on the road?
Concerning health risks, the likely enemy was a potential heat wave. In 70 degrees, I could cross the whole country. But in the 90s, I might not make it to the next town.
July temperatures in northern France average in the 70s, but in our past performances, heat waves arrived just when we hit the road, only to dissipate the day after we got home. But now, since Thoroughbred retirement was our goal, the Horse Gods might intervene with 72 degrees.
Still, "stretching out" to 1,000 km involved a leap of faith. With no empirical evidence, Alan was convinced: we can do it, don't worry, it'll be fun. Alan manages the uncertainties of reality by not smothering the playful child within.
In summary, we decided to try: 20 stages over 23 days, plus 2 prologue stages, 13 tracks, approximately 1,000 kilometers, the equivalent of Pennsylvania to Florida.
Before our trip, media interviewers asked us why we chose a charity for horses when humans are in need. During my volunteer life, I've been a champion of lost causes, making windmill chaser Don Quixote seem like a beacon of sanity. Now I had a "found cause". Using horses for entertainment and then sending them off to slaughter seemed as much an attack on our own humanity as it was an abuse of animals.
In my crime novel Tropical Downs, two shady characters scheme to outsource American racing to South America, defying the intrinsically labor-intensive nature of racing, one of the last home-grown job-producing industries.
In the USA, live horses directly or indirectly put $141 billion into the economy; before the bail-out era, that seemed like a lot of money.
We race fans feel outrage and sorrow when an equine athlete breaks down on the track: because we see it happen. But no one sees what happens to working-class Thoroughbreds when they disappear from the past performances. If the industry would establish a tiny deduction from all handle and purses, earmarked to retiring Tbreds gracefully, then our on-the-road fundraising would become redundant.
Journalists also asked us how bicycling related to racing?
The idea for racetrack bicycle journeys emerged in 2007, as I wrote Tropical Downs. My main character bicycles to Saratoga and Laurel. I thought: If HE can do it, why can't I? Fiction often imitates a writer's reality. In this case, the author's life began to imitate his fiction. Eventually I made the bicycle my primary vehicle for getting to the races. Yeah, it's presumptuous for us to compete against the world's greatest bicycle race, but Tour de France riders are never asked to attempt to pay their way by betting on horses. Our efforts at pedaling and punting are chronicled in this book:
Could my short-cut handicapping methods pay for the expedition?
Can American handicapping factors be applied abroad?
Could we make it to all 13 racecourses cycling over 600 miles without breaking down?
Could we raise significant funds for Thoroughbred retirement?
This book has everything to satisfy my hard-core handicapping readers, but lovers of travel or cycling might also have some good fun along the way.
Handicapping on the Road consists of two parts. Part One, theory, introduces the featured handicapping methods, with racing illustrations from American, British, French, Dubai and other international venues. Part Two, practice, chronicles the bicycling and horse betting stages of our voyage, documenting the betting methods from Part One as they resurfaced along the way.
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CBA Student Named to UA Board of Trustees03/26/2012
Sales management and international business major, Alan Bowdler, was recently sworn in as a student member of The University of Akron Board of Trustees.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. —
Pay a little to save a lot. That was the theory more than a decade ago when Vermont began taxing electric bills to pay for a statewide energy efficiency program that's widely regarded as a big success.
Now, there's a push to apply the same principle to home heating.
But the idea of taxing heating oil and other petroleum-based fuels to pay for tightening buildings to reduce the use of them is drawing opposition from business groups and wariness from many lawmakers.
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A journalism charity backed by the Lebedev family is being shut down less than a year after it was launched.
The Journalism Foundation opened in December in the wake of the hacking scandal with a commitment to "develop and sustain free and ethical journalism", led by former the former editor-in-chief of The Independent, Simon Kelner.
But the charity said had found it "very difficult" to raise outside funding in the current economic climate after an initial outlay of around £600,000 from the Lebedevs, owners of the Independent and Evening Standard titles.
A spokesman insisted the amount of money donated to journalistic charities would, however, remain "unaffected" by the close.
"It is with great regret that we are taking this decision to close the Journalism Foundation," said the spokesman.
"Sadly, in a time of economic crisis it proved very difficult to raise the external funds that we had hoped to raise.
"This meant that the structure was not the most effective way deploying the donations, so we have taken the decision to invest directly into journalistic projects through the Lebedev Foundation.
"It can be assured that the Lebedevs' charitable donations will continue unaffected but through this more cost-effective route."
The charity was launched on 5 December with financial support for projects in Tunisia and Stoke-on-Trent.
It had a full-time staff of four, including Kelner, former Independent managing editor Charlie Burgess, a website editor and an administrative assistant.
The foundation's Mayfair headquarters is to be closed and all four staff are being laid off.
In an interview with Press Gazette on the day of its launch, Kelner said the charity's arrival "couldn't be more timely" in the wake of the hacking scandal.
He said: "The Leveson Inquiry thus far has presented a picture of British journalism which is sullied by skulduggery and sharp practice. What we aim to show through the foundation is that journalism can be and is a force for good.
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It partnered with City University journalism department to establish journalism training courses in Tunisia and also provided support for www.pitsnpots.co.uk, a website set up to cover local politics in Stoke-on-Trent.
Evgeny Lebedev was chairman of trustees for the charity. Other trustees included human rights lawyer Baroness Kennedy, former chairman of the House of Commons media select committee Lord Fowler and former director general of the BBC World Service Sir John Tusa.
In May the foundation held a gala dinner to raise funds for its work called "A Priceless Evening" hosted by broadcaster Richard Bacon.
It was intended to raise funds for projects including the establishment of a new college of journalism in Tunisia and a programme to train young journalists in South Sudan.


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Maybe the rest of the movie doesn't really work or maybe you're in the middle of watching one of the year's best films. Whatever the movie, in that moment, for those seconds, you're carried away by unstoppable laughter, soaring on waves of emotion, or left sinking into the pits of sadness and despair. For a few specific seconds some films are able to capture lightning in a bottle. 2010 had more than its share of those unforgettable, lightning in a bottle moments on film. These are the ones we'll remember most.
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Harper's Island s01e11 (1x11) [HDTVRip - ENG] Sub ITA by Giox [Tntvillage.Scambioetico]
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Titolo originale: Harper's Island
Creato da: Ari Schlossberg
Prodotto da: Junction Entertainment, CBS Paramount Network Television
Genere: Horror / Mystery
Rete Televisiva: CBS Paramount Network Television
Episodi: 13
Durata episodio: 40 minuti
Giorno Trasmissione: sabato ore 22.00
Sito ufficiale: www.cbs.com/primetime/harpers_island
* Jeffrey Bell as showrunner/executive producer
* Ari Schlossberg as creator/co-executive producer
* Dan Shotz as co-executive producer
* Jon Turteltaub as director (Pilot), executive producer
* Karim Zreik as co-executive producer
* Robert Levine as Story Editor and writer
* Robert Sizemore as Producer, Original Concept
Abby Mills (Elaine Cassidy) is a natural beauty in her mid-20s who hails from Harper's Island. She is the groom's best friend and his wedding brings her back to the island for the first time since her mother was murdered seven years ago. Abby's father, the local Sheriff, gunned down the psychopath at the end of his killing spree, but the event shattered Abby's relationship with her dad and left her haunted by her mother's death and the memory of the man who killed her.
Beth Barrington (Amber Borycki) is a bridesmaid and Trish's former college roommate. She's beautiful, energetic and athletic. Though she didn't grow up as privileged as Trish, she's very comfortable in that world.
Cal Vandeusen (Adam Campbell) is Chloe's boyfriend and a doctor. He's a charming British outsider who doesn't know anyone in the wedding party, but tries to fit in with the tight knit group. He treats Chloe like gold, and bought an engagement ring before ever stepping foot on Harper's Island. As he waits for the right moment to pop the question, things keep getting in the way and at times the frustration causes his "nice guy" demeanor to fall away and reveal something darker.
Chloe Carter (Cameron Richardson) is one of Trish's bridesmaids. She's sexy, playful, impulsive and always looking for ways to live life to the fullest. She has a surprising curiosity about serial killers, especially John Wakefield. But beneath the blonde bombshell exterior is an intelligent woman searching for romance and love.
Christopher 'Sully' Sullivan (Matt Barr) is Henry's best man. All of his friends call him Sully, and he has lots of friends. He's a fun-loving frat boy at heart whose good buddies live vicariously through his many sexual escapades. He's been Henry's best friend since high school, but it's questionable if he's at the wedding more for Henry's benefit or for the bachelor party and bridesmaids, particularly when he gets and eyeful of Chloe.
* Adam Campbell as Cal Vendeuson
* Elaine Cassidy as Abby Mills
* Ryan Merriman as Henry Dunn
* Samantha Noble as Trish Wellington
* Bill Pullman as Uncle Marty
* Matt Barr as Christopher 'Sully' Sullivan
* Jim Beaver as Sheriff Charlie Mills
* Amber Borycki as Beth Barrington
* Richard Burgi as Thomas Wellington
* Adam Campbell as Cal Vandeusen
* Elaine Cassidy as Abby Mills
* Katie Cassidy as Trish Wellington
* Dean Cechvala as J.D. Dunn
* Ben Cotton as Shane Pierce
* Beverly Elliot as Maggie Krell
* Chris Gauthier as Malcolm Ross
* Christopher Gorham as Henry Dunn
* Harry Hamlin as Uncle Marty Dunn
* Gina Holden as Shea Allen
* David Lewis as Richard Allen
* Ali Liebert as Nikki Bolton
* Brandon Jay McClaren as Danny Brooks
* Claudette Mink as Katherine Wellington
* Cameron Richardson as Chloe Carter
* Sean Rogerson as Joel Booth
* Ana Mae Routledge as Kelly Seaver
* Cassandra Sawtell as Madison Allen
* Sarah Smyth as Lucy Daramour
* C.J. Thomason as Jimmy Mance
* Victor Webster as Hunter Jennings
Incentrata su un gruppo di amici e familiari che si recano per un matrimonio su un'isola poco lontana dalla costa di Seattle, e lì le amicizie saranno messe alla prova, parecchi segreti saranno svelati ed un omicida misterioso, un po' alla "Dieci piccoli indiani" di Agatha Christie, causerà un morto alla settimana, trasformando le feste nuziali in una serrata lotta per la sopravvivenza dove tutti sono sospettati e potenziali vittime.
13 in totale dal 09/04/2009 al 02/07/2009
1x01. "Whap" in onda il 9/04/2009
1x02. "Crackle" in onda il 16/04/2009
1x03. "Ka-Blam" in onda il 23/04/2009
1x04. "Bang" in onda il 2/05/2009
1x05. "Thwack" in onda il 07/05/2009
1x06. "Sploosh" in onda il 21/05/2009
1x07. "Thrack, Splack, Sizzle" in onda il 30/05/2009
1x08. "Gurgle" in onda il 06/06/2009
1x09. "Seep" in onda il 13/06/2009
1x10. "Snap" in onda il 20/06/2009
1x11. "Splash" in onda il 27/06/2009
1x12. "" in onda il 4/07/2009
1x13. "" in onda il 2/07/2009
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To those who know Masha Ilina and Sylwia Ziolkowska, the strong bond the two share is obvious.
However, because Masha's home is in Kyiv, Ukraine and Sylwia is from Warsaw, Poland, one might ask how two young women from different countries could be so close. In fact, their common ground comes from their status as teammates on the East Tennessee State University women's' tennis team.
And as Ziolkowska explained it, "We are sisters."
Obviously, the two are not technically sisters, but the bond they share is one that is very rare indeed.
Ilina, currently a sophomore, finished her freshman season with the best singles record on the tennis team, with 28 wins and 10 losses. This record placed her in a tie for first on ETSU's all-time single season wins list.
Her roommate, Ziolkowska, currently a junior, finished the 2003-04 season with a singles record of 19-17 with several close losses. And this year, she was the co-champion of her singles bracket at the ETSU Fall Collegiate Classic.
As doubles partners, the two girls went 16-12, knocking off some tough competition. Together they advanced to the round of 16 at the Wilson ITA Southeast Regional Indoors by defeating a three-time All-SoCon doubles team from Davidson, 8-2, before falling in a tough 8-4 match to Duke.
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VisualBoyAdvance (commonly abbreviated as VBA) is a cross-platform emulator for the Game Boy, Super Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance game consoles. It is an inactive project superseded by VisualBoyAdvance-M (known as VBA-M), an improved fork that initially integrated features from earlier forks.
Install vbam-gtk from the official repositories or vba-m-gtk-svnAUR from the AUR.
Run VBA-M with the following.
vbam ~/path/to/rom.gba
.zip archives containing a ROM.
To open a ROM in full screen, with debug messages and emulation speed display disabled, run:
vbam -F -N --no-show-speed ~/path/to/rom.zip
VBA-M also comes with a GTK GUI, which can be used by running
Default controls are:
Left Left Arrow (0114) Right Right Arrow (0113) Up Up Arrow (0111) Down Down Arrow (0112) A Z (007a) B X (0078) L A (0061) R S (0073) Start ENTER (000d) Select BACKSPACE (0008) Speed up SPACE (0020) Capture F12 (0125)
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~$ Failed to open audio: Fragment size must be a power of two Segmentation fault
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If you are getting errors about OpenGL and video output the problem is most likely that the video output choice is wrong. To fix this edit the configuration file. In the directory /home/<USER>/.config/gvbam
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Has been known to fix the problem.
Also the Directories for which VBA will search for the game saves and ROMs can sometimes revert back to the default setting. If prefer to keep you saves and ROMs in a specific directory you may want to edit the config file in /home/$USER/.config/gvbam You may then set the permissions to read-only to prevent VBA from changing them.Take note that any time you change a setting and save while the cofig file is on read-only it will not save. Putting it to read-only effectively "locks" the file from any annoying changes.
In the Directories section simply enter in your preferred directory like this.
[Directories] gb_roms=/home/generic/Documents/VBA/ROMs gba_roms=/home/generic/Documents/VBA/ROMs batteries=/home/generic/.config/gvbam saves=/home/generic/Documents/VBA/SAVES captures=/home/generic/Documents/VBA
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POY Picuture Of The Year 2011: World Understanding Award
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World Press Photo 2003, series Art, Amsterdam.
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They are young and live hooked to the Network. Their desperate parents finish asking for specialized help. A global problem that in China has begun to address interning the kids at detoxification clinics inspired in military discipline and founder by a military doctor.
No other nation in the world has as many Internet users as China--about 600 million. And no other has as many people connected to wireless Internet via their cell phones, especially in the big cities. However, this new state of affairs has spawned a serious side effect: an addiction to the Internet and, more so, to online games. Thousands of young people end up secluded in their rooms or in cybercafes, incapable of initiating friendships; connecting for long periods of time that can last several days; and triggering destructive social and family turmoil. Some even die.
Concerned over the increase in cases for which there was no cure, Tao Ran, a colonel in the People's Liberation Army and a psychiatrist specializing in addictions, decided to design a system so the afflicted, ranging from 12-year-old adolescents to 30something-year-old adults, can overcome their addictive behaviour. Combining psychological and medical therapy with strict military training, he not only works with the addicts but also their closest family members, the latter being both agents and victims of a problem that engenders extremely turbulent relationships, resulting even in violence. Many of these parents accept being interned in Tao's centre with their child. Having demonstrated its effectiveness, his model is spreading throughout China, and the colonel intends to take the program worldwide.
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Songwriter of the Year: Ashley Gorley, Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, Luke Laird
Single Record of the Year: Keith Urban, "Blue Ain't Your Color;" Florida Georgia Line, "H.O.L.Y.; "Tim McGraw, "Humble and Kind;" Maren Morris, "My Church;" Miranda Lambert, "Vice"
Vocal Event of the Year: Dierks Bentley feat. Elle King, "Different for Girls;" Artists of Then, Now & Forever, "Forever Country;" Florida Georgia Line feat. Tim McGraw, "May We All;" Kenny Chesney feat. P!nk, "Setting the World on Fire;" Chris Young feat. Cassadee pope, "Think of You"
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For the first time, up to 4 players can engage in multiplayer combat including a Battle Royal mode. Players can now unlock up to 300 officers (three times as many as the original), and then wirelessly trade these officers with other players. Players can also manage a stable of up to 8 horses and elephants. Each mount will gain experience during battle and will prove a valuable military asset when setting out to conquer the game's more than 50 stages and 31 maps.
Dynasty Warriors Vol. 2 includes the complete pantheon of all 48 Dynasty Warriors, with branching story paths for each kingdom. Game modes include Musou, Multiplayer and Free mode, plus a Camp mode where players can view detailed information on weapons, officers and stages. The game also gives players a full view of the battlefield action using the PSP system's wide-screen display.
Key Features
- For the first time, multiplayer combat with a Battle Royal for up to 4 players (ad hoc).
- Includes the complete pantheon of all 48 Dynasty Warriors, with branching story paths for each kingdom.
- Unlock up to 300 officers and unleash Double Musou attacks with your officers.
- Manage a stable of up to 8 horses and elephants that gain experience during battle.
- Musou, Multiplayer and Free modes, plus info on weapons, officers, and stages in Camp mode.
- Over 50 stages and 31 maps. Twice as many scenarios as the original!
- Trade officers with other players wirelessly.
- Wide-screen action using the PSP
Dynasty Warriors Vol. 2 is rated "T" (Teen- Violence) by the ESRB, ships to North American retailers on October 24, 2006, with a suggested retail price is US$39.99.


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Ht: 6-9 Wt: 225 COLLEGE: Richmond AGE: Turns 23 on Aug. 30, 2012 NBA SEASONS: Rookie TWITTER HANDLE: @Tru_Harp32 HOW HE CAME TO ORLANDO: Drafted 32nd overall in 2011 by the Cleveland Cavaliers, then traded to Orlando for two future second-round picks. SCOUTING REPORT: Magic officials envision Harper is a "stretch 4," a power forward who can force opposing defenses to defend the 3-point line because of his shooting range. In that way, his game is similar to Rashard Lewis'. Harper needs to add strength. He's probably not quick enough at this stage to defend small forwards. ODDS & ENDS: Harper spent four seasons at Richmond. . . . He played professionally in France for Strasbourg IG during the NBA lockout. Click here to see our Justin Harper photo gallery
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Li, 17, and Vemuri, 18, are this year's Siemens award winners for the state of Florida.
Every year, one male and one female student from each state is recognized. The students must earn the most 5's on math and science AP exams statewide.
Jenny Li and Keshav Vemuri signed up for their first Advanced Placement classes four years ago.
Li and Vemuri took college-level courses in human geography and environmental science as high school freshmen. At the end of the school year, they took their first AP exams and hoped to receive college credit.
"It was a little nerve-wracking at first," Li said. "We didn't know how APs worked."
The way AP exams are graded, a 1 is the lowest score available and 5 is the highest. A score of 3 or higher is typically considered passing. Li and Vemuri, now seniors at Buchholz High School, both earned 5s on their first exams.
Since then, Li and Vemuri have aced 11 AP exams each, covering a range of subjects. Li, 17, and Vemuri, 18, are this year's Siemens award winners for the state of Florida.
Every year, one male and one female student from each state is recognized. The students must earn the most 5's on math and science AP exams statewide. Each winner receives a $2,000 scholarship.
Both Li and Vemuri credit their successes to the AP teachers at Buchholz. Vemuri said he starts to look over review materials a month or so before exams start.
"Throughout the year, we get an understanding of the subject, so we don't need to completely relearn everything," Vemuri said.
Li agrees. She said she sometimes starts studying right before exams because she feels well prepared by her teachers.
"When we do study last-minute, it's more of a review," she said.
Although Li's parents emphasized grades when she was younger, she said they're hands-off now.
"When they stopped making me study in high school, I just continued on," she said. "It's just expectations you want to meet."
Vemuri said his parents have encouraged academic accomplishment.
"I guess if I was in a different environment, I wouldn't have gotten this far," he said.
Vemuri has received a score lower than 5 on only one AP exam, Spanish language. On that exam he scored a 3.
"I guess I could've done more, like immersing myself in the culture and language," he said, laughing.
Li received 4's on her English language, History and Physics C (Electricity and Magnetism) tests. Both Vemuri and Li said they prefer science- and math-based exams.
Both Li and Vemuri said they hope to attend Ivy League schools. Vemuri plans to double-major in math and physics, and Li wants to be a pediatrician.
Buchholz math coach Will Frazer said that Buchholz is the only school in Gainesville that offers all eight science and math AP courses.
"We definitely have a great set of AP teachers in the math, science and technology areas," he said.
Frazer, who teaches AP Statistics, calculus B/C and macroeconomics, said the school offers 23 Advanced Placement courses in all. He said a Buchholz student has won the Siemens Award every year since 2009.
"There's only one school in the United States that's won it more in the last five years than we have," he said.
He said he thinks Li and Vemuri's intelligence and dedication have helped them score well on exams.
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Elnora Brown, 78 - June 23, 2013Elnora V. Brown, 78, of Gothenburg passed away Sunday, June 23, 2013, at Hilltop Estates in Gothenburg.
Services will be conducted at the First United Methodist Church on Wednesday, June 26, at 10:30 a.m. with Dr. Jeff Thurman officiating. Interment will follow at 1:30 p.m. at Fort McPherson National Cemetery near Maxwell.
A visitation will take place at Blase-Strauser Memorial Chapel of Gothenburg on Tuesday, June 25, from 1 to 8 p.m. with family present from 6 to 8 p.m.
Brown was born March 1, 1935, at Melbeta, NE, daughter of George L. and Kathryn (Kihlthau) Kaufman.
She grew up at Scottsbluff County and graduated from Minatare High School.
On Jan. 1, 1956, she married Harry Brown at the First United Methodist Church of Lodgepole. To this union, four children were born. The couple resided at Lodgepole and then moved to Gothenburg in 1970.
Brown was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary, Gothenburg Gardenaires and the United Methodist Church Women.
She enjoyed gardening, quilting, baking, crafting and volunteering, according to family members. She also loved spending time with her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Brown was preceded in death by: her parents, George and Kathryn; an infant brother, Byron Kaufman; sister-in-law, Carol Kaufman.
Survivors include: her husband, Harry Curtis Brown of Gothenburg; two sons—Byron (Marilyn) Brown of Curtis and Glen (Shelly) Brown of Amherst; two daughters—Marcella (Jerry) Ballah of Scottsdale, AZ, and Peggy (Michael) Hudson of Mansfield, TX; eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren; four sisters—Loretta (Don) Roth, Janice (Melvin) Laeger, Joyce (Dick) Brown and Sandy (Wayne) Howard; three brothers—Milton (Sharon) Kaufman, Steven Kaufman and George (Pat) Kaufman, Jr; numerous nieces, nephews and extended family members.
Memorials are suggested to the First United Methodist Church, 1401 Lake Ave., Gothenburg, NE 69138.
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The KM1 loudspeaker system was developed for the BBC in response to a need for a high level monitoring loudspeaker to be used in pop studios. Prototypes were installed at the BBC's Maida Vale studios in the spring of 1982 and proved highly satisfactory for all types of music.
Many high output loudspeakers in use at the time suffered from frequency response distortion, deliberately introduced to make them sound more efficient than they actually were. Such tricks sound unnatural on classical music and speech and give a false impression of sound balance. The KEF KM1 had no such drawback and could therefore be used to balance a symphony orchestra just as well as a pop group.
Considerable resource was devoted to reducing the effects of thermal compression in the drive units with extensive heat sinking and the use of an oversized magnet to maximise the sensitivity of the T52 tweeter. The system was fully active and included adjustment for bass cut-off and damping and well as bass/midrange balance.
Specification: Model KM1
System Type: Three-way, stand-mount
Size: 763 x 1315 x 665mm (30 x 51.75 x 26.25 inches)
Weight: 140kg (308 lb)
Internal Amplifers: 4 x 100W (bass), 2 x 350W (midrange), 1 x 400W (treble)
Frequency response : 38-23,000Hz +/-2dB at 2m on design axis (-6dB at 34 and 25kHz)
Maximum output: 120dB at 1m (anechoic conditions)
System: SP3010
Drive units: 4 x B300 bass unit (SP1196), 2 x B110 midrange unit (SP1186), T52 tweeter (SP1187)
Active crossover boards: SP2036, 2037, 2038.
System: SP3081 KM1P (1987-88)
Drive units: 4 x B300 bass unit (SP1196), 2 x B110 midrange unit (SP1186), T52 tweeter (SP1187)
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Gadget Infinity started almost a decade ago, sourcing the best price-performance photographic and two-way radio gear for fellow photography enthusiasts. It has been a wonderful journey sharing the many location portrait techniques with you on our YouTube channel. Over the years our passion in flash photography grew so much that we ventured into creating our own wireless flash triggering system – Cactus.
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Some historians argue that storms did more than the British fleet to sink the Spanish Armada in 1588.
Fully aware that accurate weather forecasts can be critical in military operations, the U.S. Navy has just adopted a new global weather forecasting model developed by the Naval Research Laboratory. The Naval Global Environmental Model (NAVGEM) went operational in March after three years of development.
"It is a more complete physics package," said Simon Chang, superintendent of NRL's Marine Meteorology Division. "Over the course of time we learn how to do things better. We understand the atmospheric processes better. We do the algorithms better. And we understand the sensor data better."
The algorithms developed by the team of 15 meteorologists and programmers at the NRL not only reflect a better understanding of weather, they are more efficient than those employed by the previous model. "It will allow us to run NAVGEM at a higher resolution without requiring a large increase of computing resources," said Chang.
The bottom line is that NAVGEM can resolve weather events at a resolution of 35 kilometers, while the previous model could only go down to 50 kilometers. The end result is better and more detailed forecasts. "It is capable of generating more accurate models of weather processes," said Chang. "You can resolve the intensity of cyclones better."
According to Chang, the NAVGEM system is 99.9 percent automated. Real-time data feeds are received from the Global Telecommunications System, an international data collection and communication system operated by the World Meteorological Organization. The data is then run through an algorithm to make it acceptable to NAVGEM. "Then we run the model four times a day," said Chang. "So our supercomputers are going all the time."
The public can access much of the current data and predictions of NAVGEM on a page that updates twice a day.
Although the NAVGEM model is a major improvement, according to Chang and others it is not the best. That honor goes to a system that was developed by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. "They have a much bigger computer," explained Chang.
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Asian Lettuce Wraps
I love lettuce wraps and have tried several recipes in my day (read: PF Chang Knockoff recipes). They were good, but very involved and time-consuming to make.
I saw this recipe on Our Best Bites and wanted to try it for simplicity's sake.
They were fantastic!
I made a few changes to make them less salty and a bit more to my family's liking (as in, omitting the cabbage), and overall they were a huge hit.
The great thing about a recipe like this is you can alter it to your taste – more crunch? Add in another can of water chestnuts. More zing? Zest another lemon. Great concept, and talk about a light and delicious meal!
An Asian-inspired side salad like Asian Noodle Salad or this Asian Salad
Baked Southwest Egg Rolls with Creamy Chipotle Dipping Sauce
Fresh fruit
Asian Lettuce Wraps
Lettuce Wrap Filling:
- 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger
- 1 1/2 pounds ground turkey (or chicken)
- 1 cup minced mushrooms (I used white button mushrooms)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 8 oz. can water chestnuts, minced
- 1/2 cup minced green onions
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons sesame oil
- 1 lemon, zested and then juiced.
- 1 teaspoon hot sauce
- 1/3 cup chopped cilantro
- 1 head iceberg lettuce
Lettuce Wrap Dipping Sauce:
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/8 cup seasoned rice vinegar
- 1 tablespoon fresh minced ginger
- 2 tablespoons chopped green onions
- Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium heat. When the oil is hot add minced garlic and ginger. Saute for a minute just until fragrant and then add in the ground chicken, minced mushrooms, and salt. Cook until turkey or chicken is cooked through.
- Add in the water chestnuts and green onions. Cook for a few minutes until cabbage starts to wilt. Add in the soy sauce, sesame oil, juice and zest from the lemon, and hot sauce. When everything is cooked through, remove from heat and stir in the cilantro.
- To serve, carefully separate the whole leaves from the lettuce. Wash the lettuce leaves and wrap them in paper towels and put them in the refrigerator so they are cold and crisp when serving. Spoon chicken filling onto the lettuce leaf and then roll it up and serve with dipping sauce below- or any other favorite Asian dipping sauce.
- For the sauce, combine all ingredients and serve with lettuce wraps.
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In the animal world, some species are blessed with an adaptability and resiliency that seems to ensure their survival. For example, it's been suggested that in the event of a nuclear holocaust, the cockroach would be the only living thing to survive. That is impressive, but it doesn't make it any easier to love a cockroach.
In the online world, spammers fill an ecological niche equivalent to that of the cockroach. Stomp them and spray them as you will, the little buggers just keep coming back.
The spam industry has taken some hits during the past year. In May 2008, the anti-spam organization KnujOn issued a report that identified 20 registrars — companies that issue domain names — as responsible for 90 percent of the domains associated with high levels of spam or other abusive activities. Only two of the top 10 offenders from the original list made it onto the most recent list, released by KnujOn this month. The others went out of business or cleaned up their acts. Unfortunately, the new list shows that a new group of registrars has taken their place at an even greater level of concentration, with 10 registrars responsible for 83 percent of spam domains.
And the amount of spam is not decreasing. Spam volumes took a sharp dive in November with the shutdown of McColo, a hosting company based in San Jose, Calif., that was identified as the source of a lot of unwanted e-mail messages. However, according to Symantec's State of Spam report for February, spam quickly rebounded from a low of about 50 percent of all messages scanned at the mail gateway immediately after the shutdown to about 80 percent.
"Spam volumes have continued to climb toward their pre-McColo shutdown levels, proving that as long as spammers continue to see a return on their investments, spam messages will continue to be sent in huge volumes," Symantec said.
In the final analysis, spam is an economic problem more than a technical one. As long as there are people who believe they can buy cheap luxury goods and drugs online and that the widows of Nigerian officials are willing to share fortunes with them, the spam will keep on coming.
To complicate matters, it doesn't cost much to send e-mail messages or set up phony Web sites, and the volume is huge, so the margin for achieving profits can be tiny. A relative handful of incautious people can ensure that the rest of us continue to be inundated. The economic downturn isn't likely to help. As finances get worse, there are liable to be even more people willing to believe that maybe — just maybe — their e-mail address really did win a lottery.
Successfully fighting spam will require a combination of technology, aggressive law enforcement, education and, above all, self control. Good luck.
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The AKA Kiteboarding Committee has created a website at:
Under... "Kiteboarding", (in the Table of Contents)
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With the growth of kiteboarding, safety and access issues are also growing and may impact how and where we ride. The AKA Kiteboarding Committee has been formed to help find and support solutions both in the USA as well as internationally. We were created to help keep you riding and to assist new riders with advice on how to get into this great sport. Lots of ideas on how to form kiteboarding clubs and associations, negotiating to restore and maintain access, working in and with the community are already present on our website to help the kiteboarding community. So get involved and check it out, there is more to come.
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MarahLago Liquido Ring Size 8
An alluring, round Larimar stone with multiple shades of blue sets in highly polished .925 Sterling Silver in this ring which is part of the MarahLago Liquido Collection. This ring is size 8. MarahLago is the ultimate name in Larimar jewelry. Larimar is a one of a kind stone found in only one place on the planet; one square kilometer on the Dominican Republic. Your Larimar stone is cut and polished on island and sent to the finest silversmiths in the world. Also known as the 'Dolphin Stone", Larimar is said to draw ones soul mate and enhance communication skills of the wearer. It is also known to relieve stress, tension and headaches. These items are sold by design. While you won't receive the exact stones pictured, it will be as close as Mother Nature allows! Your MarahLago Larimar jewelry is a unique, one of a kind piece of artwork! We recommend that you use a sterling polishing cloth to keep your sterling silver clean. The polishing cloth is safe for use with all our wonderful jewelry. As with all of our beautiful jewelry, your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Certified MarahLago pieces come with a three year warranty against defects in workmanship and stone loss. MarahLago jewelry Ships Free Every Day!


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By Bob Seay
Nov. 18, 2011
BOSTON — In the November installment of our series "Where We Live," WGBH News reporters have gone to cities and towns around the Commonwealth to share stories of people — from those who have given up on the American Dream to those who have embraced it and managed to survive and even prosper in a bleak economy.
But these mostly positive stories have been told against a backdrop of mostly negative economic data derived from the 2010 US Census.
The independent think tank MassINC has titled its analysis: "Meeting the Challenges of the Bay State's Lost Decade." It tells the tale of a middle class hit hard by the loss of 150,000 jobs since 2000.
What's happening with the American Dream in Mass.?
Ben Forman, research director for MassINC, elaborated on the findings.
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"For the first time in decades median household income has declined in Massachusetts by about 6 percent. And median family income — that was just about stagnant over the last decade. That hasn't happened before," he said.
And the economic effects are evident in how people reported feeling to MassINC researchers.
"When we asked people over the last 10 years 'Has it become easier or more difficult to live the kind of life your family wants to live?' 54 percent said more difficult. Only 11 percent said easier," he said. "When we asked, looking ahead, if the next generation will be financially better off or worse off, 48 percent said worse off. Only 17 percent said better off."
Forman said that while we've been losing middle-income jobs it's been difficult to attract new businesses here that have those jobs.
The state's high cost of living, he said, "makes it very difficult for businesses to locate here, especially businesses that are employing middle-income workers, because middle-income workers feel those costs most intensely — and so they'd rather be in a place like North Carolina or Arizona or somewhere where the costs are lower."
This recession has hit younger people very hard, especially college graduates, Forman said: "Over the last decade we created about 240,000 jobs for people over age 55 and we lost about 220,000 jobs for people between ages 25 and 44."
Making the situation worse for recent graduates is the fact that Massachusetts has a grayer-than-average workforce. Since 2000 there has been a 44 percent increase in the number of workers age 55 and older, with many hanging onto their jobs because of concerns about their own financial futures.
But what about our many high-tech and life sciences firms — aren't they creating jobs? Not enough, Forman said.
"We gained jobs and outperform the country in life sciences and some small niche sectors but those certainly aren't enough to replace the middle-income, middle class jobs that we've been losing," he said. "The industries we're been creating here, often there's three people in the world who can do the job the company is looking for. So no matter how hard we try, we're not always going to fill those [jobs] with homegrown talent."
Forman said the challenge is not so much incubating companies but keeping them here after they hatch, because often what they make can be produced anywhere and by a much smaller workforce than the industries of old.
Possibilities and pitfalls
MassINC researchers said things we could do to improve the situation include boosting tax credits for lower-income earners to help them meet the high cost of living and promoting the development of affordable housing especially in urban areas.
And, Forman said, there are some things we should not do, such as abandoning the state's commitment to K-12 education or not maintaining our transportation infrastructure
"The reason those companies are going to be successful is because of the MBTA and because they can get to Kendall Square, the innovation district and the Seaport, to the new Northpoint area that's being developed or the new life sciences center that Harvard is going to build in Allston," he said. "If we let the MBTA fail it would be a huge economic development loss for us. We have the most talented people on earth and they get treated like cattle every day on their way to work. And I think there we have to ask ourselves: Do we want to lose those people? Where are they going to go?"
Although many think Massachusetts is well poised, with its intellectual capital, to take advantage of any economic recovery, the road to prosperity is fraught with danger — including the expected cuts in federal spending on defense and health that would be felt here more severely than anywhere else. Experts have also been concerned about the economic health of the countries that Massachusetts is counting on to buy our high-tech products and technology.
So is there hope?
"I think anyone would be crazy to doubt America and Massachusetts in particular," Forman said. "Sometimes it takes us a while but we figure it out."
The word "reinvention" is heard throughout the WGBH News "Where We Live" series. It's something we New Englanders are proud of: our ingenuity and ability to adapt and change course. Those talents have led to some success during this recession — and they will be needed to meet the challenges ahead.
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The Silver 1000 monthly contract of SKOFX Commodity Exchange's launched early this year, has witnessed record delivery of 1010 kg silver kilo bars. The first of its kind innovative deliverable 1 kg silver contract with New Delhi as the base delivery centre has been receiving tremendous response from market participants, especially small investors.
Mr. Ma Xuejun, MD & CEO, SKOFX said: "We are proud of the fact that SKOFX is the world's first exchange to launch a kilo-bar deliverable contract. The contract offers market participants a choice of hassle-free delivery as well as maintaining it in a dematerialized form. The open interest witnessed by Silver 1000 contract demonstrates the commitment and conviction of the market participants in it."
Mr. Gu Yoan, Director, SL Silver provider of 999 purity silver bullion said: "We are honored that our product quality consistency has been acknowledged by SKOFX. Our one-kilo 999 purity silver bullion bar and an 8g 9999 purity minted gold coin are notified as good delivery by the Exchange. This is the first instance where products manufactured by a domestic refinery cum-mint are listed as deliverable on the exchange. The day is not far when, with the active support of SKOFX, we will not only launch more products but also achieve Good Delivery status, which will firmly place SKOFX on the international bullion refining platform."
The Silver 1000 contract is a unique contract that will go a long way in meeting the needs of physical market participants and retail investors as it facilitates delivery of 1 kg silver bar at lower margins as compared to the hitherto 30 kg bars.
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South Korea Options and Futures Exchange (SKOFX) is one of the world's leading futures and options trading venues, with markets based in the Asia, US and Europe offering derivatives on commodities, FX, equities, bonds, interest rates, indices and swaps. Its commercial technology division, SKOFX Technologies provides best-in-class transaction, data, and infrastructure management services and solutions. SKOFX has tremendous experience in helping improve the way markets perform, enterprises do business and economies grow. So we're big enough for your ideas to have an impact in the marketplace, yet small enough for you and your work to be known.
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Starting with February 2014 – SKOFX has lunched the new website, www.skofx.org. The new website is hosting the upgraded trading engine/platform, which is posed to make trading easier for all SKOFX clients thru new tools and technologies.
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Not Your Everyday Walk in the Park
This Brandeis senior straddles the worlds of art and science, and is in no hurry to choose between them
For Robert St. Laurence '11, the chance to play the role of pointillist painter Georges Seurat in the theater department's production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sunday in the Park with George" exceeded any expectation he'd ever had.
"The show is one of my favorite musicals, and the role of Georges is one I knew I wanted to play some day," says the Brandeis senior. "I just didn't think I'd get a chance to do it so soon."
But even among a cast filled with a select group of third-year graduate acting students, St. Laurence stood out in a lead role that demanded tremendous range, musical sophistication and vocal dexterity.
St. Laurence is one of more than 300 undergraduates who participate in on-campus theater productions every year, either onstage or backstage. Brandeis has embraced and nurtured performing artists of all kinds from its earliest days, from Leonard Bernstein, who served on the music faculty from 1951 to 1956, to actress Debra Messing '90.
But for St. Laurence, who had performed in regional theater groups from the age of 9, that tradition was only a part of Brandeis' appeal. With his passion for puzzles and problem solving, the Boston-area native dreamed of becoming an engineer, and in Brandeis he saw a place where he could pursue all his interests.
And they are many. "Because of my interest in engineering, I moved toward physics, then biology," he says, "but when I took my first psychology course, I fell in love with the field. Psychology brought together all the questions that I asked myself on a daily basis, and I knew I wanted to be part of finding out more about human behavior." St. Laurence is scheduled to graduate in May with a B.A. in psychology and cognitive science.
After graduation, St. Laurence hopes to work in a research lab, while keeping his eyes and ears open for further performance opportunities.
"'Sunday in the Park with George,'" he says, "is about precisely the dilemma I face: the choice between a practical path in life and a passion for the arts. Prior to being cast as Georges, I thought I had decided in favor of life, rather than art. But rehearsing and performing this role made me realize that, to be happy, I must keep both passions alive."
"I am not yet ready to choose one path to the exclusion of the other," he says. "Thanks to the broad education I received at Brandeis, I don't have to."


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Get Put in Your Place With the Jack Donaghy Insult Generator
Good God, Lemon.
30 Rock's final episode is upon us. There's so much we'll miss about the show, from Jenna's odd pronunciation of camera to all of the great moments in eye-rolling. But one of the show's staples doesn't have to leave us. Instead, it can live forever, preserved right here for you: Jack Donaghy's magical insults. With each click, you can be put in your own middle-class — or even under-class! — place, with a shabby wardrobe and little hope for professional advancement, over and over again. Good God, Lemon, we're gonna miss this.
Jack Donaghy Insult Generator
|"You look terrible, and I once watched you eat oysters while you had a cold."
|"I Heart Connecticut," Season 5, Episode 19