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REG Kermode, chief executive and chairman of Cabcharge, made his views of the two-strike system clear, as the company received its second strike against its executive remuneration report at Wednesday's annual meeting.
More than 38 per cent of shares voted against adoption of the report, triggering a vote to spill the board.
But shareholders overwhelmingly voted against the spill, with more than 86 per cent voting down the resolution.
''That's not democracy,'' Mr Kermode said of the two-strike system. ''And it's not in the interest of any companies in this country.
''Shareholder democracy is always about the majority, and not the loudest voice. That is the problem with the strike system, all it measures is [the] minority.''
A board spill has to be called if more than 25 per cent of shareholders vote against the remuneration report two years in a row.
A representative from the Australian Shareholders' Association, Allan Goldin, voted against executive remuneration but was not in favour of a board spill.
''We worry about the effect [the legislation] has on the company and the reputations of the directors. It is not something that is taken lightly,'' he said.
Mr Kermode also addressed concern over recent Reserve Bank criticism of its 10 per cent surcharge on taxi fares paid by card.
''Suggestions that our industry could survive on 5 per cent because of some as-yet-unaccepted draft report to the Victorian government on the Victorian taxi industry are not realistic and are likely to be met with significant resistance,'' he said.
Research compiled by Deutsche Bank pointed to a possible bright side for Cabcharge if it were to be forced to reduce its surcharge.
''A 5 per cent cap would affect smaller competitors disproportionately. We believe that this will see some players forced out of the industry and the consolidation of market share among the larger players.''
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Brewers ride strengths, surprises to NLCS
Some defy expectations, while others perform predictably
By Mike Bauman / MLB.com
A 3-2, 10-inning thriller Friday over the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 5 of this Division Series put the Brewers into the NLCS. Part of this victory was built on elements that were predictable parts of Brewer victories. But part of this victory stemmed from occurrences that qualified as far from the norm.
Looking at their Game 5 matchup, optimism reigned because the Brewers were playing at Miller Park, and because their ace, Yovani Gallardo, was starting for them.
This season, the Brewers were the Major Leagues' best team at home at 57-24. And now they're 3-0 at home in the postseason. That part worked.
Gallardo, too, was successful. He did not have the kind of precise command he had in Game 1, when he dominated the D-backs. But here, he battled and made pitches when he had to, holding Arizona to one run in six innings and leaving with a 2-1 lead.
The Brewers had taken that lead in the sixth inning on a single by shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt. Now we have clearly moved into the unexpected category.
Further down that same road, the Brewers took that 2-1 lead into the ninth, which meant that this was time for John Axford to record his 45th consecutive save. You could chalk it up. Except that you couldn't.
Axford gave up a run. The game was tied. Some clubs, seeing their automatic closer turn human, might have taken a serious emotional downturn. The Brewers did not.
"It's the same thing with our club, they fought this way all year long," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said. "They don't quit. They keep getting after it. And it has a lot to do with the makeup of the club. They're a bunch of guys that are dedicated to win at all costs, and I think you saw that in the game today."
Axford regrouped and pitched a spotless 10th. With one out in the Brewers' 10th, Carlos Gomez singled sharply. He had come into the game in the eighth as a defensive replacement in center, with Nyjer Morgan moving to right, a fairly typical move for Roenicke with a late-inning lead. So "Gomey," as he is known on this club, comes in for defense. Then he provides vital offense.
"Gomey, you're right, we put him in for defense, and he ends up offensively helping you," Roenicke said with a smile.
Gomez stole second, just like you knew he would. His speed cannot be overstated. Then Morgan delivered the game-winning, series-winning, walk-off single to center, as Gomez raced home from second at the outside limits of human speed.
The Morgan contribution was not surprising. He, and his alter egos, have become staples of the Milwaukee club, in the clubhouse and on the field. Yes, he offers a seemingly inexhaustible supply of energy. But there is also the matter of his tangible contribution. When he hit the game-winner, he was Tony Plush, although there was sentiment elsewhere for Tony Clutch.
"That was T. Plush, man, that was T. Plush all the way," Morgan said. "Just doing a little tickling to the outfield."
This might have been a surprise to some of Morgan's former employers, who perceived him to be more trouble than he was worth. But anybody who has watched him play this season in Milwaukee gets the picture. He can play. He can help.
"All my haters, I just wanted to show them that I can play this game," Morgan said. "Even though I've got a fun, bubbly personality and everything like that, I still come to win. And I'm a winner."
Earlier in the season, Morgan's rise looked like Gomez's demise. With an unacceptably low on-base percentage, all of Gomez's tools had become secondary. He wasn't getting it done. His role on the club dwindled as Morgan moved into a regular role in center. When Gomez began to get it together in a part-time role, he fractured his left clavicle making a diving catch on July 20, at Arizona, ironically enough.
When Gomez returned, Roenicke found a role for him, starting in center against left-handers and as a late-inning defensive replacement. Roenicke considers Gomez to be as good defensively as any center fielder in the game. Gomez has responded by playing exactly that way. He wants to be a starting center fielder. His impressive skills indicate that if he ever formed a complete knowledge of the strike zone and became a more selective hitter, he could be that and more. But here, he has settled successfully into a secondary role.
Friday, that secondary role turned into a starring role.
"I'm the kind of guy, I like to win -- I love winning, I don't like [losing]," Gomez said. "I [didn't] feel comfortable with myself, because I got an opportunity to play every day and I started the season really struggling. Nyj did a really good job against righties and [had] some time to play, and he [kept] playing, and I play against lefties. And I take it that way and come here every day today like I'm going to start a game.
"I do a great job against lefties, and Nyj does a great job against righties. And that's my job. And that makes the team stronger."
And so the Brewers won a postseason series for the first time in 29 years. We're a long way from that 1982 American League pennant-winning group. There were stars aplenty on the club, including four future Hall of Famers -- Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, Don Sutton and Rollie Fingers, although Fingers was out for the postseason with an injury.
When the Brewers won this 2011 NLDS, the big guys at the end for Milwaukee were "Gomey" and "Tony Plush." Not exactly Robin and Paulie in the annals of the game, but the current pair has carved out a spacious place in the hearts of Brewers fans.
Mike Bauman is a national columnist for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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As amazing as it may seem, it's happened before at New York's Madison Square Garden. Take a moment and dare to dream with us.
Now that the long-awaited line-up for the 2013 edition of the wildly popular Coachella music festival has been revealed, ticket holders are wondering what will be this year's "Tupac Hologram moment."
Coachella 2012 will forever be remembered as the year that Sunday night headliners Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg shocked the world by performing with an eerily life-like hologram of legendary deceased rapper, Tupac Shakur.
While some fans have questioned French alternative band Phoenix scoring a coveted headlining slot for Coachella 2013, the act's long history with fellow Frenchmen and Coachella favorites Daft Punk could very well be setting the stage for a high-profile cameo appearance from the beloved robot duo.
Lending credence to our seemingly impossible dream is Phoenix's 2010 headlining performance at New York's Madison Square Garden, where Daft Punk thrilled the audience by appearing onstage unannounced to perform versions of their hits "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" and "Around the World" as well as Phoenix's own song "1901," much to the delight of the audience.
The connection between the two acts goes back years, with Phoenix guitarist Laurent Brancowitz once playing in a band called Darlin' with Daft Punk members Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Daft Punk allegedly turned down "a gigantic sum of money" to headline this year's Coachella festival, which doesn't necessarily rule out a cameo appearance during Phoenix's set. The same story adds that the band has signed to Columbia Records to release their mysterious new studio album this spring, featuring reported collaborations with such music icons as Giorgio Moroder, Nile Rogers and Paul Williams.
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AN ARSON investigation has been launched after an explosion at a flat in Town Moor, Doncaster, at the weekend.
Police last night charged a 43-year-old man with attempted murder and arson with intent to endanger life after he was arrested on Saturday. Fire crews were called to a house in Windsor Road which has been converted into bedsits after some of the residents reported an explosion about 10pm on Friday.
They evacuated the premises and firefighters broke into the flat where the bang had emanated.
There was no-one inside and they found the gas cooker had been left turned on and there were two other seats of fire.
The kitchen had suffered extensive damage.
A fire service spokesman said the flat had been emptied of other property before the explosion.


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Fall of a media moralist
By Ravi Shankar | Published: 24th November 2013 07:15 AM |
Last Updated: 24th November 2013 08:07 AM | A+A A- |
The small parking lot in front of the M-Block of Greater Kailash Part-II where Tehelka magazine's offices is crowded with journalists hunting another journalist. OB vans jostle for space, and hacks wait restlessly for a byte or a bite of the biggest scandal that has engulfed the Indian media—the sexual molestation of a young colleague by Tehelka's founder-editor Tarun Tejpal. The parking boys are making a killing, charging Rs.1,000 as fees instead of the usual Rs. 10. The wolf pack with mikes aren't complaining, as they wait for Tehelka's managing editor and long time Tejpal associate Shoma Chaudhury to emerge like a modern Antigone in a sordid saga of admission, acquiescence and blatant defiance. The man who the Western newspapers had crowned as India's biggest crusader of truth after his spy cams claimed significant scalps is now hiding from the cameras.
Says an art curator who had attended the Think fest where the molestation happened, "He is a victim of hubris, he genuinely believed in the infallible myth of himself." It was his Shakespearean flaw; creating a formidable brand with indomitable will and 'lacerating' it with at costly "bad lapse of judgment, an awful misreading of the situation," as his email to Chaudhury said.
At Think, the audience booed him for making a long speech on Amitabh Bachchan, who they were more keen to hear. "Clearly he has no sense of propriety, referring to Amitabh Bachchan as Amitabh," said a Goa resident present at the jamboree. "At a formal event, you call him Mr Bachchan." But Tejpal couldn't care less. The writer who would cultivate publishers sycophantically but tore up the manuscript of his first novel which was rejected by Penguin Books, would later claim he was the one who introduced Sir V S Naipaul to Indian society by throwing a big bash for him at the ITC Maurya's Nandiya Gardens after he won the Nobel Prize. By the time it was the second decade of the Noughties, Tejpal had become an international name, listed by Asiaweek as one of Asia's 50 most powerful communicators; by The Guardian as among the 20 who constitute India's new elite and as one of India's 50 most powerful people by Businessweek. His novels were published to international acclaim. The Sunday Times (UK) hailed The Alchemy of Desire as "an impressive and memorable debut". Le Figaro called it a "masterpiece" and Sir. Naipaul raved, "At last! A new and brilliantly original novel from India." In France, it won the Prix Millepages and was the finalist for the prestigious Prix Femina.
Also read:
Tejpal's kin visits woman journo's mother; victim alleges pressure, intimidation
The victim's letter to Shoma Chaudhuri
Police take custody of emails in Tehelka matter
Tejpal FIR also mentions Robert De Niro
Tejpal's kin visits woman journo's mother house
Pressure, intimidation on me to protect Tejpal: woman journo


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Petrol price cut by Rs.3, diesel to cost 50 paise more
Petrol price was today cut by Rs 3.05 per litre, the first reduction in rates in over five months and the steepest in over five years, while diesel prices were raised by 50 paise a litre.
Petrol will cost Rs.3.05 less a litre, excluding state taxes, and diesel will be expensive by 50 paise per litre from midnight Monday, state-run Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) announced.
The IOC said the decrease in petrol price was due to appreciation in the rupee value and reduction in international motor spirit (MS) prices.
"Decrease in petrol price has now become feasible because of reduction of MS prices and appreciation of rupee against the US dollar. Both these factors have resulted in the reduction of MS prices which is being passed on to the consumer," IOC said in a statement.
The IOC also effected an increase in diesel price. The government has asked IOC to do so every month.
"Even after the current increase, under recovery on retail diesel shall stand at Rs.10.52 per litre," the statement added.
The three state-owned oil marketing companies had last raised prices of petrol by Rs.1.63 per litre on Sep 14, 2013. Diesel prices were hiked by 50 paise a litre Sep 1.
In Delhi, the petrol price would decrease to Rs.72.40 per litre. In Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata, petrol would now be priced at Rs.79.49, Rs.79.51 and Rs.75.68 per litre.
Diesel prices in Delhi will be increased to Rs.52.54 per litre. In Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata, petrol would now be priced at Rs. Rs.59.46, Rs.56.90 and Rs.56.01 per litre respectively.
The government had deregulated petrol prices in June, 2010. However, it subsidies the retail selling prices of diesel, kerosene and cooking gas to insulate domestic users from the impact of a rise in international oil prices and to contain inflationary conditions.
The state-run OMC is expected to incur under-recoveries worth Rs.73,500 crore on sale of the three sensitive products, while the three OMCs combined are predicted to incur Rs.139,600 crore of under-recoveries this fiscal.
IOC added that it is closely monitoring international oil prices and rupee-dollar exchange rate, the outcome of both will be reflected in future price changes.


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Its was hard to determine where this post belonged, so I put it here...
I have been playing with two versions of a 'hello, world' program, in order to see the differences produced by declaring main as returning an int, and declaring main as not returning anything. When I declare main to return an int, and return 0, everything goes as expected, and when I check the exit status code it is indeed 0. But when I do a void main version of the program, I get an exit status of 13. So I have done a fair bit of searching, and the best I can come up with is that the 13 I get on my machine is something left over in the register eax. (When I ran the program in gdb, and checked eax, sure enough it was 13 stored there) Anyway, I am not strong with assembly, and so I am not sure of how eax ends up holding the value 13, and I was wondering if someone could shed some light on the matter for me. Here is the code I am using:
C version
And the assembly output from gccCode:test $ cat hello1.c #include <stdio.h> void main(void) { printf("hello, world\n"); }
I am not interested in using void main, but simply am trying to discover some of the inner workings of things.Code:test $ cat hello1.s .file "hello1.c" .section .rodata .LC0: .string "hello, world\n" .text .align 2 .globl main .type main,@function main: pushl %ebp movl %esp, %ebp subl $8, %esp andl $-16, %esp movl $0, %eax subl %eax, %esp subl $12, %esp pushl $.LC0 call printf addl $16, %esp leave ret


text: Probably for reasons of pacing -- Robert Wise went in and basically fine-tuned the cut to within an inch of its life for the Director's Edition, and this included making many, many trims to scenes that were already rather short in the theatrical cut (the Kirk's quarters argument among them). This resulted in several rather inexplicable snips to existing scenes, such as Kirk's second, waspish, "Viewer off!!" in the crew Rec-deck scene, McCoy's "...Or a crew of a thousand, ten miles tall!" during the entry to V'Ger, etc. All of these small moments added teaspoons of actual character to the movie, and for a film often criticized as being desperately in need of every drop of characterization it can get, these trims are utterly baffling, except perhaps if Wise was trying to make Kirk look like less of an asshole in that scene. But I'd still rather have Asshole Kirk™ in that moment, honestly.


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If you are sick of Katniss Everdeen, or have been able to avoid the Hunger Games, then please feel free to ignore this thread. I have just read through the first two books in the series and thought it would an interesting thread idea, or time consumer, to see which current Raptor you would be betting on inside a Hunger Games arena. For those that haven't read or watched the movie, and haven't just skipped over the thread, think of a very large cage match to the death. If you think the topic of current Raps killing each other off is a little twisted, then just think of a Raps practice brawl... who comes out on top?
Lets make the Hunger Games arena for this one the ACC, complete with the "restaurants", but nobody else in the arena but the current Raps team. Weapons would be anything they can find in the arena.
Who are you betting on? How do they win? Who would be the first to go?
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Marshall Amps 50th Anniversary
@ Wembley Arena
22nd September 2012
Review by Ashlinn Nash
Photography by Andre Purvis
Marshall Amplifiers have been the corner stone of many a practise room, live performance, studio and bedroom essential for many musicians over the last fifty years. Ranging from Jimi Hendrix right up to Lemmy Kilmister being well renowned users, the amps have become something of legendary status.
So what better way of celebrating the fact that these fantastic amps have been around for fifty years that showcasing the talent behind the airwaves, with a collage of talent here tonight all playing songs of their own, and many they made their own.
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Watching honest conservatives flail around trying to face the many elephants in their house has been a bit entertaining these last few days. Two such moderates I listen to more than others are Megan McCain of House McCain and Steve Schmidt from MSNBC, they both seem pretty straight forward and accurate. And listening to them and others like David Frum, it struck me, if the GOP does what they collectively suggest, excise the anti-science morons, get rid of abortion-under-no-circumstances as a 100% do or die issue, tamp down on hatred of gays and immigrants, address racial prejudice, all while holding out an olive branch to minorities, and accept that sometimes, taxes might have to go up and down in some brackets, plus try to remove the worst of grifters … what is left that defines a conservative?
I mean … that's pretty much it man. You strip out all that hatred and exploitation, most of the willful ignorance and monolithic, stubborn stupidity out of the GOP, and, well, they'd be democrats or democratic leaning indies. Or maybe just completely non political. Right? Because the entire modern Republican Party is a con job wrapped around giving rich people more money and power, and tricking the rest of the electorate to vote to give rich people more money and power.
That's sad to say, but if we're doing some intra-party soul searching on the heels of a crushing defeat, that's the truth. So yeah, I think the GOP may be way, way more fucked than even McCain or Schmidt realize and it's hard to see how they ever get out of that trap.


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Although there are many different template modules at CPAN, I couldn't find any that would meet my expectations. So I created this one, with following features:
and then goes on to build something that looks like it was stolen partially from Template Toolkit [tt2.org], except without the thousands of manhours of development and usage.
I don't see anything there that couldn't be done trivially with TT2. In fact, you could probably hack a 50-line TT filter, and r
It was probably a good exercise for the author to write it, debug and document it and since he went to all the trouble, isn't it good that he offers it up to others?
Who knows? Maybe this one will find a niche as a TT-lite that runs fast and is easy to extend because of it's simplicity. If it becomes really successful, maybe it will be exten
But, CPAN is kinda anarchic, no? I mean, there's no submission/rejection criteria, right? There's a lot of good reasons not to have that, too, right? What are we to do, except encourage people to be responsible? Maybe CPAN should support a "See Also" link at the top level for related modules.
I guess that's all you're doing with your LART award. Encouraging responsible use of CPAN.


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STAT showing some signs of his old self.
STAT showing some signs of his old self.
coach.. please reward stat with all of jr smiths shots
Stat, blocking!? forcing jump balls? going to the rim with power?! Someone pinch me ..
melo needs to stop looking at the refs and start looking for open team members instead
@Forrest17: don't know if you noticed but he's been doing this for quite some time now.
MeLOwww forcing a bit, Kidd was wide open
****, im getting pissed off watching this
Knicks think they are on holiday? No, Holiday is destroying them.
Halftime report
Felton - Decent Trash
Melo- Decent Trash
Jr- Super trash
Shump - Trash
Kidd- Trash
Chandler - Trash
Novak - Decent trash
Stat- AmaZing
Prigioni- Not bad
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Woodson TAKE JR OUT OF THE GAME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why is JR still in the game? He's chucking away his chances at a nice contract.
JR was looking at a 10 million a year, 5 year deal, EASILY. Two sh!tty years in the playoffs, back-to-back, means he will get half of that, if he's lucky.
I don't know how long the Knicks will keep it close with all these fouls..Hibbert traveled TWICE in one play, no call.West just traveled no call ...JR 1-3 but keeps bricking taking shots away from Cope ..Kidd and Amare in the game why ????
The Refs do what ever they can to help The Pacers..
STAT you weak piece of ****....JUMP motherfu%#er...JUMP!!!!!
SMFH stat and jr
REFS are horrible but christ we are getting KILLED on the boards ....
Box the **** out! Only amare there for the rebound! Wtf
JR should take himself out since Woody's not doing it....Amare at least tryin to penetrate. Get Cope back in the game. Melo...we need you brah!
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Woodson has to go this guy has absolutely NO CLUE who should be in the game ............HIS ROTATIONS SUCK Prig 2-4 rotting on the bench ....Kidd to slow to get to those loose balls...
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Countering a move by Gov. Scott Walker to strangle the project financially, city officials are moving to reduce the amount of utility relocation required for streetcar construction. A pending state budget proposal would force Milwaukee to pay the cost of moving private utilities for the downtown streetcar, currently also an ongoing struggle in Cincinnati.
The $64.6 million project does include federal funding, but state officials seek to obstruct construction by requiring Milwaukee to pay any utility relocation costs. Actual cost estimates will be available later this summer, when engineers submit the 60% design phase of the project, city officials said.
The streetcar, 2.1 miles in length, would link Milwaukee Intermodal Station (served by Amtrak and both local and intercity buses) with downtown and the city's lower east side.
Local media report City Engineer Jeff Polenske submitted an update Wednesday to the Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSC), reporting that adverse impacts to energy provicer We Energies would be reduced 90% on steam tunnels, 75% on gas lines, 30%t on electrical conduits, 50% on electrical manholes, and 70% on access vaults to the steam tunnels.
"This is just with the early conversations we've had and with some of the early options we've devised," Polenske said. "We're not done yet. We're in the middle of coordination efforts."
Milwaukee also will eliminate $10 million in relocation costs to AT&T's communication vaults under North Broadway with a new track alignment, Polenske said. The city plans to move a northbound streetcar track from Broadway to North Milwaukee Street, avoiding the AT&T vaults and relocation costs.
Milwaukee's efforts to launch an initial streetcar line have been stymied for years by officials in the city's namesake county, and more recently at the state level, citing cost issues and concerns that the streetcar would advsersely impact bus ridership. Countering that effort, the Federal Transit Administration issued a "finding of no significant impact" (FONSI) for the proposed route in January 2012.


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"Mark Zamen, an author and longtime Mountain View resident, died Jan. 3 after a 19-year battle with cancer. He was 58."
Zamen's passing is unusual in several ways. For one, he died fairly young, and following a very long struggle with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
And then there was Zamen himself, a Vietnam veteran, man of letters and 35-year resident of Mountain View. Not long before his death, Zamen had approached us about doing a piece on him, especially in light of the 2009 release of his novel, "Broken Saint," about a Vietnam vet struggling with his demons.
A press release he sent us describes the book as a "penetrating, fictionalized account of a real man torn asunder by forces beyond his control." It also notes that "Mark E. Zamen met the man upon whose life this novel is based on their first day in the Army. Mark was inspired to tell Tom's story after witnessing what he has gone through over the course of their nearly four decades-long friendship."
It was not long after he sent ==I Voice== writer Kelsey Mesher an e-mail that Zamen passed away. Here's part of what he wrote:
Dear Ms. Mesher,
Attached is the press release for my recently published biographical novel, "Broken Saint." I noted your [Web Link article on Ms. Reddington's new novel] in the Oct. 30 issue of the ==I Voice== and it naturally occurred to me that you may also find my book of interest, as I too am a Mountain View resident and have been since 1975; I also was vice-chair of the Citizens Communication Committee and wrote numerous pieces for ==I The View==, including the "Crimestoppers" series.
We regret missing the chance to meet Mark Zamen.
To learn more about "Broken Saint" or obtain a copy, visit [Web Link www.eloquentbooks.com/brokensaint.html], or try [Web Link Amazon] or [Web Link Barnes & Noble].


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I just read Bill Condon's note to fans on Twilight's Facebook page. He certainly sounds like he's prepared for the world of Twilight, and excited about working this film. From the sound of his post, whether or not Breaking Dawn is one movie or two, he will be at the helm for the end. Ya'll should read the post.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/the-twili ... 6853605005
I think that filming will not begin until after the June release of Eclipse though. Then he has all the movies to work with. Eclipse is critical to the Breaking Dawn story after all.


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― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:30 (ten years ago) Permalink
― Madchen, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:37 (ten years ago) Permalink
OH! I had that plane!!!
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:38 (ten years ago) Permalink
Looking back, Fisher Price pretty much had a monopoly on toddler toys in the late seventies.
― Madchen, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:39 (ten years ago) Permalink
We should have a separate thread: "at what age did your pyromaniac tendencies take over and you destroyed those forgotten toys w/ fireworks or BB gun"
― kingfish, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:39 (ten years ago) Permalink
I owned more FP little people sets than I remembered. The plane, garage, the city, etc.
Nearly everyone I knew owned the farm.
― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:41 (ten years ago) Permalink
the first x-mas i can consciously remember i got a little people zoo playset with animals and zookeepers and stuff
― latebloomer, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:44 (ten years ago) Permalink
I still have this childhood toy (the submarine):
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:47 (ten years ago) Permalink
at what age did your pyromaniac tendencies take over and you destroyed those forgotten toys w/ fireworks or BB gun
Funny I was just mentioning this yesterday
― Michael White, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:50 (ten years ago) Permalink
there's also a picture of 2-year-old latebloomer with birthday cake all over his face and carrying his brand new little people toy helicopter
― latebloomer, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:53 (ten years ago) Permalink
Anyone remember Sweet Secrets?
Yes! My sister and the neighbor girl were into these, sort of a charm bracelet version of Transformers. Neighbor had the house which was pretty cool. No one else remembers them though. It's funny how you kind of assume the toys you played with must have been the really popular ones of the era, even though it just ends up being what caught your dad's eye at Service Merchandise or whatever. But for a simple twist of fate you would reminisce about entirely different toys that occupied endless weeks of childhood.
For me, it was as much yard-sale Playmobil as could possibly be attained, populating a world of wooden blocks and miscellaneous plastic monsters et cetera. I was talking the other day with some people about this and discovered that to many, this kind of toy integration was considered some sort of sacrilege - to me it was just so natural!
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:02 (ten years ago) Permalink
I had a matchbox car version of that parking ramp thing, folded up into a little suitcase.
― dan selzer, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
do kids still play with toy cars ? i assume they do, so have the toy cars come along in any advanced way like do they have any steering mechanism yet? i always hoped for some kind of pressure sensitive side doors that would control the front wheels.
― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:13 (eight years ago) Permalink
I am too old for the toys in this thread, but the most badass toy I ever owned was probably Horrible Hamilton:
― Aimless, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:57 (eight years ago) Permalink
one of these has passed through like 30 years worth of children in my family.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:42 (eight years ago) Permalink
― erotic war comedy pollster (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 18:40 (five years ago) Permalink
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 18:49 (five years ago) Permalink
Still available actually.
― everything, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:02 (five years ago) Permalink
It's called the "Daddle" now.
― everything, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:03 (five years ago) Permalink
I began to say that I rode my Dad bareback and thought better of it. :/
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:05 (five years ago) Permalink
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:39 (five years ago) Permalink
Dyin' over here...
― Ham House showdown (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:48 (five years ago) Permalink
VG irl lol
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:51 (five years ago) Permalink
So the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread was Creepy Crawlers (and the Creeple People, Fun Flowers etc. variants.) Evidently there's a version of these plastic-molding things still being made.
― Ham House showdown (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:54 (five years ago) Permalink
― thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:59 (five years ago) Permalink


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I was a big NBA (Lakerss, then Nuggets, then Raptors) fan from the early 1970s to early 2000s and probably attended games well before most posters were born.
My dream job when I was teenager was to become a baseball statician. I did not become one but I was involved in a few arbitration cases in the late 80s and early 90s. Sadly, it was not nearly as much fun as I expected. In fact, it was really boring. But I can't complain as it did put me in a chance contact with the woman I married.
As for being a casual fan, I am perfectly fine with the description. I rarely watch games if they don't involve the Raptors or (sometimes) the Timbervolves, but I do like building data model.


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I hestitated on getting this, for no really good reason, so when it came around again, I finally ordered it! It is so unique and all I have to do is add it to one of my many Family pages or projects. Now I want the rest of them!
This is perfect for my ancestry scrapbooking. Good quality and nice size.
Very pretty, very delicate. Will work for several projects.
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Boy Born with No Feet Impresses and Inspires Talent Scouts from Prestigious Soccer Club
11-year-old soccer phenom Gabriel Muniz is just like most Brazilian boys: He enjoys kicking the ball around with his friends, idolizes Lionel Messi, and "loves challenging social norms," according to his gym teacher.
But what sets Gabriel apart from his peers is that fact that his soccer skills recently scored him an invite to a training camp east of Rio run by the prestigious soccer club FC Barcelona.
Oh, and the fact that he was born with no feet.
"The disability only exists inside our heads and he is proving it to everyone," said PE teacher Jose Lopes of the boy who prefers to put away his foot-ankle prosthetics before hitting the soccer pitch. "When he arrived [at the training camp in Saquarema], no one believed in him. But he proved to everyone there, he can go head to head with any other boy."
Gabriel's tenacity and talent have further earned him a trip to the club's academy in Barcelona next month.


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'Here we went ashore to visit the historic whaling station Grytviken and the resting place of the famous Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. One of his early expeditions was on the ship Endurance, which had to be abandoned after it got stuck in sea ice in the Weddell Sea and slowly crushed (January to November 1915). Using lifeboats, the crew finally reached Elephant Island. Then six of the crew reinforced one of the lifeboats and made an incredible journey onward to South Georgia. Upon arriving, they survived a huge storm, and climbed over the mountains to get to a whaling station where they could send word to rescue the remaining men on Elephant Island (May 1916). Shackleton's leadership was largely responsible for getting all of his men to safety.'
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LITTLE FALLS, NJ – The Columbus Crew fell 3-2 in MLS Reserve League play to the New York Red Bulls at Montclair State University Sunday morning. Both sides are now 1-1-0 this season.
Columbus took the lead in the 18th minute. Ethan Finlay made a run with the ball toward the end line and his cross was deflected out toward the penalty spot. An open Konrad Warzycha was there to head it into the back of the net.
New York responded a minute later with a goal of their own. Lloyd Sam swung a cross toward the back post and Marius Obekop tucked it in, as goalkeeper Matt Lampson got a piece of the attempt but could not prevent the ball from crossing the line. The Red Bulls then went up 2-1 in the 29th minute when Ruben Bover's corner kick was headed into the Columbus net by the Crew's Bernardo Anor.
Bover was involved in New York's third goal right before halftime, serving a cross-field ball into Akpan's path. Akpan drove to goal, and was able to shrug off the pressure of a Crew defender and knocked it past Lampson.
Columbus' Shawn Sloan pulled one back for the visiting Crew, shooting it past goalkeeper Santiago Castaño in second half stoppage time.
MLS Reserve League: New York Red Bulls 3, Columbus Crew 2
Sunday, March 31, 2013 – Montclair State University – Little Falls, NJ
Scoring Summary:
CLB: Konrad Warzycha 2 (unassisted) 18'
NY: Marius Obekop 1 (Lloyd Sam 1) 19'
NY: Bernardo Anor (own goal) 29'
NY: Andre Akpan 1 (Ruben Bover 1) 45'
CLB: Shawn Sloan 1 (unassisted) 92'+
Disciplinary Summary:
NY: Lloyd Sam (caution) 42'
NY: Michael Bustamante (caution) 59'
CLB: Matias Sanchez (caution) 71'
NY: Eric Sa (caution) 83'
NY: Alex Muyl (caution) 90'
New York Red Bulls (1-1-0): Santiago Castaño, Brandon Barklage (Michael Bustamante 46'), Digao, Matt Miazga*, Roy Miller, Lloyd Sam (Rafhinha 59') Ruben Bover (Eric Sa* 70'), Ian Christianson, Amando Moreno (Alex Muyl* 74'), Marius Obekop, Andre Akpan (Arun Basuljevic* 79')
Substitutes not used: Kevin Hartman, Angelo Jack*
Columbus Crew (1-1-0): Matt Lampson, Chad Barson, Eric Gehrig, Drew Beckie (Ryan Finley 60'), Bernardo Anor (Shawn Sloan 55'), Matias Sanchez (Kyle Hyland 74'), Konrad Warzycha, Wil Trapp, Kevan George, Ethan Finlay, Aaron Schoenfeld
Substitutes not used: Dan Withrow, Tony Tchani
Referee: Daniel Fitzgerald
Referee's Assistants: Albert Calise, Bartek Cieslak
Fourth Official: Ash Kamel
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The LA Galaxy touched down in the wet and windy Pacific Northwest on Saturday afternoon ahead of Sunday's Western Conference Championship Second Leg against Seattle Sounders FC.
Will have more coverage from the team after their media availability later this afternoon.
As a change of pace, rather than post a photo of the Seattle cityscape, below is a photo from Seattle Times' reporter Joshua Mayers of the reception that Sounders FC received outside their training facility this morning...
Here's what the Sounders saw after practice today, with fans chanting and flags waving... twitter.com/joshuamayers/s…— Joshua Mayers (@joshuamayers) November 17, 2012


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4 Best Bet JACK-tivities for this Weekend
fun. Isn't Breaking Up, They're Just Not 'Inspired' to Work Together Right NowDon't believe the rumors. That's at least what the three members of fun.—Andrew Dost, Nate Ruess and Jack Antonoff—are saying in a new message to fans.
Brian Wilson's New Album to Feature Zooey Deschanel, Kacey Musgraves, fun.'s Nate RuessLana Del Rey, previously announced to be part of the album, is not listed as one of the guests.
Lena Dunham Engaged? Not Until Gay Marriage Is Legal in Every StateLooks like church bells won't be ringing just yet for 'Girls' creator Lena Dunham and her boyfriend of 2-1/2 years, Jack Antonoff. Here's why.
fun. Get 'One Night' Photo Exhibit
fun. Cast Suitcase As Star In New Video
Katy Perry & John Mayer Wear Matching White To Clive Davis' Pre-GRAMMY Party
Everyone Thinks fun. Will Sweep The GRAMMYs
Lifehouse Predict GRAMMY Wins For fun. & Mumford & Sons
Inside The Album Of The Year: fun. 'Some Nights'
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[Verse 1]
I talk jewels and spit diamonds: all cherry
Like a hymen, when I'm rhyming with remarkable timing
Caviar and silk dreams, my voice is linen
Spitting venom up in the minds of young women
Mink thoughts to think thoughts type similar
Might you remember, my shit is cold like December
Smoother than Persian rugs, the cashmere
Chromosomes make a nigga Jigga - Jay-Z, lethal drugs
18-carat gold pen, when it hits the sheets
Words worth a million like I'm rapping them through platinum teeth
I got the Grey Poupon, you been warned
Cause all beef return well done filet mignon
The Don, smell of Dom on my breath as I
Yawn, (slow) when you hoes try to con a pro
As if you didn't know, Jay's about getting dough
Spitting flow like fine wines down your earlobe
I'm smooth but deadly like a pearl handled pistol
Honeys hum in melody when I rub it like crystal
The proper etiquette, when I drop the subject verb
Then the predicate, with this rich nigga rhetoric
I'm solid gold, I rap like a mink stole
I stick pearl tongues your world will never know
From New York to Paris, the vocal style vary
From nice to deadly like a bad bag of D, Now
Notice the child swift like a Lotus
Focus on the loc' I be the greatest nigga that wrote it
Return of the Jedi, from Rio De Janeiro on the red eye
Yet I still feel the need to be fly
I did die when I'm rapping then slide like satin
You know the black I white china in the brain cabinet
I never cry if I did I'd cry ice
From my nigga Sauce, I hit you with this advice
Life's short, so play hard and stick hard
And the only time you love them is when your dick hard
[Verse 2]
Ghetto's Errol Flynn, hot like heroin
Young pimps is sterile when I pimp through your borough and
I gotta keep your tricks intact
Cause I walk like a pimp, talk like a mack, man
The star player, the golden bar layer
The sweet Ms. Fine Thing player, sure you're right
I'm game tight, so watch it'll change the night
Go tell your peeps dog I'm lethal until it ain't right
I pimp hard on a trick: look
Fuck if your leg broke bitch, hop up on your good foot
Produced by Clark Kent, and samples "Save Their Souls" by Hamilton Bohannon.
Jay-Z was awarded The Source magazine's** Hip-Hop Quotable for verse 1.
DJ Clark Kent revealed in Kareem "Biggs" Burke's "RD20" documentary that "Cashmere Thoughts" was supposed to be the first track from a collaboration album between Hov, Sauce Money and Jaz-O. The theme of the track was simply meant to be "three pimps talking pimp talk."
It's a double entendre. Clark Kent revealed it was Jay's "pimp name and alias." It's also an expensive type of wool, used in the manufacture of luxury clothing. Jay's "cashmere thoughts" are then thoughts about opulence and luxury.
Clark told Complex:
'Cashmere Thoughts' was almost like a joke. You hear the way we're talking back and forth on that record? That's me and him talking pimp shit, because we did that all the time. 'Cashmere Thoughts' is from the name Cashmere Jones, which was Jay's pimp name and alias. We were just bugging.
Clark Kent explained that it's basically a conversation between himself and Jay's alias "Cashmere Jones."
It was just one verse. So when he comes back in and goes 'The ghetto's, Errol Flynn…' it's because I was like, 'Yo, give me some more. Let's make this a whole song.' He was like, 'For what?' I said, 'Because it's crazy, that's why! It screams that you have to do the next verse.'


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Tigers, A's both win replay challenges
By Rick Eymer / Special to MLB.com
OAKLAND -- Tigers manager Brad Ausmus successfully challenged an out call by first-base umpire Paul Emmel in the top of the second inning of Wednesday's game against the Oakland Athletics.
J.D. Martinez was originally ruled out on the back end of a double play that would have ended the inning. After a replay of a minute and 49 seconds, the call was overturned as it was determined that Martinez was safe, and the inning continued with Alex Avila grounding out to second base.
The A's were on the winning end of a replay challenge themselves in the top of the ninth inning after Miguel Cabrera was ruled safe at second in his attempt to stretch a hit into a double. A's manager Bob Melvin challenged the call, and replay review overturned the call, ruling Cabrera out to end the inning.
Rick Eymer is contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


text: Ok, I have tried everything I can think of. I have several HD DVRs. All of the content on these show up in the GenieGo except the content on my HR44-700. Rebooted the Genie - Check, Rebooted and set the Geniego back to factory - Check, Rebooted the Router - check. Reset up the network on the HR-44 -check, Set the network back to defaults on the HR44- check, started network services on the HR44 check. There is nothing more that I can think of to do. The DVR shows up in the Geniego configuration as being connected, but none of it's content show up in the playlist. I am connected to my home network with a wired CCK.


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If the Knicks get to ten games over .500 in games played without him
... 5 games over .500 in games played without him
... get to .500 in games played without him
No matter how much they win or lose they're already better.
Just coincidence/bad luck that its happened for the 4th time in his career, should change his #to 13
Pfft you know nothing about basketball, he is and always will be Starbury so **** all you haters.
dirint the team vote on Marbury not 2 play after he left them in Phoenix
I think that is what some of us are trying to get across. As you said -Marbury is not the ONLY problem, so it gets me upset when people are ready to detract him for ALL the knicks woes. We have seen history repeat itself over and over and yet knick fans never learn -
Are we a better team now that a hobbled Patrick is gone from the team?? Trust me his baby fadeaway J and D on one leg is better than what curry could ever provide.
Are we a better team now that H2O's mega contract and arthritic knees are off the team?
No - we are not and we could use a lights out shooter like him right about now.
People always placed ALL the blame on them - unjustifiably so - just are they are doing to Marbury now.
There are a slew of problems that need to be addressed in order for the knicks to become relevant again... and in most corporations the cancer begins at the top and spreads its way all the way down. Isiah must be the first to go.
Where there is hope, there can be faith
Where there is faith, miracles can occur
I don't think anyone is saying that Steph is the only problem. But when you are the highest paid player, 4th highest paid player in the NBA, and declare yourself the best PG in the league during the off-season, you will receive the lions-share of the blame when things go wrong.
Stephon Marbury isn't a PROBLEM, you guys really need to find something else new to do then come in here and repeat yourselves with the same repetitive bull**** and finding personal things to take a hit at Marbury. Many of you have been proven wrong many times and its really a dead topic especially since Marbury is not playing. No one here is proclaiming Marbury as the solution to our problems, but you have to be a blind hating idiot to believe Marbury is one of the biggest problems when this team is under the control of Crawford/Curry/Randolph led by Isiah.
Basically if you're against Marbury, you're with Isiah.
I sided more with Marbury because he isn't standing for the bull**** thats going on New York, Marbury wanted to be a Knick his whole life; but not under this disgrace that Isiah/Dolan are running. Marbury basically said **** it and I don't blame him, nor should you if you're against what Isiah/Dolan are doing. So keep whining about stuff no one wants to read anymore, what a waste of post.
The poll results are conclusive. Majority rules. The Knicks are better without Marbury. Can we please end this ridiculous debate now?!?


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text: On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Don Morton wrote: >I seem to come from an older school where we used NQS on Cray T3E's >to run ANY parallel job, whether it was written in PVM, MPICH, EPCC >MPI, PGI HPF, etc. In fact, Cray's "mpprun" command seemed to >abstract away the details of dealing with various parallel libraries. >You launched a job from a shell node - you could run an interactive job >for maybe 30 minutes, and the allocation of those nodes would be >coordinated with NQS. Anything longer required a batch NQS job >and, again, you could use the same submission paradigm whether you >were using PGI HPF, MPICH, etc. > >Has anybody worked on this in the realm of clusters? My guess is that >most of these issues can be resolved through high-level scripts, but >I know it ain't easy. If someone has explored this, I'd love >to hear about it. If not, I'll put a student or two to work on it. >In my opinion, you just can't make clusters accessible to the general >scientific public without such mechanisms. :) I think PBS has all the basic functionaity, but you probably have to write your own PBS scheduler. You just have to tell the queuing system that you need N nodes. But maybe someone on the list has done it already and is willing to share their code. If you are going to do it yourself (and are willing to share your code), then do it in C please... It shouldn't be that hard, except for the bit that you recall about automaticaly going from interactive to batch. Correct me if I'm wrong. Groeten, David. ________________________________________________________________________ Dr. David van der Spoel Biomedical center, Dept. of Biochemistry s-mail: Husargatan 3, Box 576, 75123 Uppsala, Sweden e-mail: spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se www: http://zorn.bmc.uu.se/~spoel phone: 46 18 471 4205 fax: 46 18 511 755 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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Second three goal lead blown in the third this season. Tampa back in January. There may have been others. The game is 60 minutes, sheesh.
Anyway, bottom line is a W in regulation. First Florida sweep in almost 12 years.
I hope they figured out how to win at home now. Tough three games coming up.


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Would be great if someone can confirm / identify these, all taken in Dorset.
I think this one is a silver washed fritillary, taken mid July
Next 3 were taken end of July.
Not sure but these might by small blues?
I think this a common blue, and would you know what the red things on the front are, and if they are dangerous for the butterfly?
and last but not least I think this may be a type of heath?
Thanks for posting these interesting photos.
I think you're right with your initial ids that:
1 is a silver washed frit,
2 are small blues (I don't think they're holly blues because the base colour changes whereas holy blues tend to be purely light blue),
3 is most likely to be a 'blue' female common blue - most females have brown upper forewings, but some come up blue and I think yours is one of those. The red things are probably mites. As far as I know they just hitch a ride between flowers and don't cause butterflies any harm, but I'm dredging that up from the back of my memory and wouldn't be surprised if someone else knew otherwise
4 looks like a small heath.
Best, Mark
Thanks Mark, good to hear that the mites dont harm them. There were a lot at one particular site.
This identification stuff is not easy at all, particularly with blues when you can only see their underside wing. Only just started taking butterflies in anger this summer so a lot of the species are new to me. I have a Collins field book at moment, but think I need to invest in something better.
Thanks and I did some research. Looking on the UK Butterfly site a High Brown has an indented 3rd spot so I would think that this is more likely the silverwashed
Link here http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/species.php?vernacular_name=High%20Brown%20Fritillary
Photo 4 looks like a small heath butterfly to me.


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Colourful greetings in the winter night
So, you thought winter in Swedish Lapland was in black and white. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In fact, the polar night is alive with light and colour. The Northern Lights, Aurora Borealis, appear in a clear night sky as swirling rivers of greenish-blue light. They move and dance unpredictably; sometimes barely perceptible, then suddenly growing vivid. In simple terms, the auroras can be explained as an interaction of the solar wind and the Earth's magnetic field. The solar wind consists of charged particles emanating from the Sun. These are captured by the Earth's magnetic field and drawn towards the poles at very high speed.
The phenomenon occurs when the particles collide with atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere, transforming kinetic energy into visible light. Their colour is most often greenish blue. Sometimes, the Northern Lights can be red or purple. The different colours depend on the types of atoms, their speed and charge. The most intensive auroras occur at a height of about 100 km and can be 10 to 30 km high, although they can extend, with diminishing light intensity, several hundred kilometres upwards to, at most, 1000 km.
Normally, the Northern Lights can be seen on virtually every clear night at high latitudes in the northern hemisphere, under the so-called north polar auroral oval. In Sweden, the polar auroral oval is most often above Kiruna's latitude. It must be dark for the auroras to be visible, and they are best viewed from open spaces away from peripheral light.
As a winter visitor to ICEHOTEL, in the polar night you stand a very good chance of receiving a cold and colourful winter greeting from the Sun, the Northern Lights.
Light – always welcome when it returns in spring to the regions north of the Arctic Circle. Slowly, nature awakes as the snow melts away. Bubbling and trickling can be heard from every ditch, mountain stream and glade. All living things rush towards summer with open arms.
North of the Arctic Circle, the period from early-June until late-July is like a single, long day. At this latitude and time of year, the Midnight Sun never dips below the horizon. Sleep seems irrelevant, and energy virtually inexhaustible. Take advantage of it. Experience nature at night, when everything exciting happens.


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Mohammed Seisay is having fun.
The 6-2, 200-pound former Memphis star redshirt freshman made the move to Eastern Arizona College in Thatcher, Ariz., after earning freshman all-conference honors at Memphis. Seisay's plan was to see what else was out there for him at the Division I college level.
He didn't get to go through a big recruiting process with a bevy of colleges offering scholarships out of high school or during one year at Fork Union Military Academy.
That's all changed this fall.
After piling up a long list of scholarship offers from top programs all around the country, the talented defensive back - who graduates later this month - has it down to two programs Arkansas and Nebraska.
With new Facebook and Twitter accounts he just recently started to keep everyone updated on his recruitment and career, Seisay is getting the opportunity to enjoy recruiting - something he didn't get to do out of high school.
"I just want to have fun with the situation," Seisay said. "Then again, I do my research, my brother does his research, we still sit down and I'm not playing around with it, I do like those two schools. I'm just enjoying my time with it."
Thursday, Nebraska coach Corey Raymond dropped by to spend time with the top Husker target. That meant a lot for Seisay in more ways than one.
"It went very well," Seisay said about Raymond's visit. "Nothing crazy, nothing intense, we just kicked it. We didn't talk about recruiting that much or football. We just talked about life. We had a fall sports banquet, so he had a chance to see that. We just went to the coaches' offices and chilled.
"We talked about my family, how everybody is doing back home and how I'm doing in my classes. He did say how much they need me, but we really just talked about school work. Those are important things right there. They don't pressure me into committing. We talk about things other than football. They'll mention it, but they don't pressure. The whole meeting isn't about that."
The bond between Raymond and Seisay has continued to build since the recruiting process began with Nebraska.
"With coach Raymond It's different, I guess," Seisay said. "Other schools, some schools I haven't even talked to the defensive coaches. I'll have a bond the recruiting coordinator or head coach. This bond with coach Raymond, it's my position coach. It's important that me and him are close. I have respect for the guy, coming out all the way over here, to middle of nowhere Arizona, late at night.
"He doesn't have to do that at all. That just shows that he's here for me with whatever decision I make. We'll still have a great relationship."
Another reason the Huskers have made an impression has to do with the fact that head coach Bo Pelini went to visit Seisay's family in Springfield, Va., in the last two weeks.
"My parents told me that they felt he had a strong presence and they believe in him and trust in what he had to say," Seisay said. "He answered all the questions perfectly. They had a great visit. They broke it down like that. My family, they trust him, so that must be a big thumbs up right there."
Arkansas head coach Bobby Petrino was by to Seisay the first week that in-home/in-school visits were allowed. Assistant coach Chris Klenakis has also been by to see the top corner as well.
The visit with Petrino was also a meaningful face-to-face meeting with a head coach.
"It was great," he said. "He came down and basically said the same thing everybody else is saying. He needs that guy at corner to shut down the SEC receivers. To build a great defense, he needs that shut down corner. He talks about coming in and play early and winning that championship."
Seisay talked about how he got from so many college choices down to the Huskers and the Razorbacks.
"Like I said, it's about having a relationship, that bond and knowing that I can come in there I can compete for a starting job," he said. "Also [it's about] going to a good program, a winning program with steady coaching. I don't want to have to worry about coaches making moves and stuff like that."
"What I like about Nebraska, it's that tradition, that defense, the Blackshirts. I'm a defensive guy, I want to go that school that has a nasty defensive swag about themselves. I'm going into a situation, with Prince Amukamara who was a first round pick, Alfonzo Dennard as possible a first round pack. They need that next person to fill those shoes and I might be that guy.
"With Arkansas, it's that SEC, one of the most competitive conferences in America. It's like playing in the [NFL] league basically. It's a great conference, and I'm not saying the Big Ten isn't a great conference either. Arkansas is on the rise. They're not far on that team from getting to that championship."
The decision date is still set for Dec. 20. That will follow what looks to be his final official visit, to Arkansas, on Dec. 16. He officially visited Nebraska on the weekend of Nov. 5.
His brother, Allieu Seisay who played at East Carolina, is the one most active in helping Mohammed with the recruiting process.
Seisay explained his older brother doesn't have a favorite school where he thinks Mohammed should sign with - well for the most part.
"Not really," Seisay explained. "I will tell you one thing, his favorite color is red [laugh]."
Though Seisay is well aware of the great defensive backs that have come from Arkansas, Nebraska and other programs that were once under consideration, he wants to be his own player - at whichever program he chooses.
"just want to be the best I can be," he said. "I don't like comparing myself. I want to start my legacy. The Mo Seisay legacy. Whatever school I come to, I'm going to bring my great work ethic and leadership. You need that leader on defense and in that secondary. Everybody in the Division I level can run and tackle, but that leadership ability - you have to be born with it."


text: I was just compairing Kirk and Picard in another thread when I realized that Kirk's actions as Captain needs to be seen in light of the era TOS was filmed. It was the 1960s and it was the decade of when youth began confronting authority and I think that had a great influence on the scripts and how Kirk played his role as Captain. He too would go against authority when he thought it was the right thing to do.


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Souls to Heaven
"Mom, are we almost there?" I asked. I was excited but nervous for my big concert at Carnegie Hall. I had won a competition there, and in several years, I was hoping to take the International Chopin Competition too.
"Almost Charlie. Are you wearing your gloves? You don't want your fingers to be cold, you know," my mother scolded as her stern face looked back at me in the mirror.
"Yes Mother," I sighed. Being a musical genius wasn't always easy, for I had no time for other things. The only thing that I knew of was piano, but I had seen other kids my age laughing and tossing a football. Floating in my daydreams of being a normal kid, I didn't notice someone hovering by my face. I felt a stab of pain as a finger jabbed my secret pressure point that wasn't so secret to my younger cousin, Peter. I winced with pain, wondering what could be worse, for I had no idea that something would happen soon to me that would bring me even greater pain in my body, but especially my soul. "Stop it Peter!" I whirled around and snapped at my giggling cousin who was currently trying to poke me in the head again. Just then, I noticed the squealing sound of tires. I looked up and locked my eyes with the glazed ones of a drunk driver. I screamed and yelled at Peter and my mom as the car got closer until it finally collided with my cousin's door as I sunk into an eternity of pain and darkness.
"Charles," a faraway voice called. "Charles, wake up." The voice was sweet and gentle, but not like anyone's I knew. I struggled to open my eyes, but my eyelids were so heavy that it felt like someone had put rocks on my eyes. I groaned. My whole body was in agony.
"Charles!" a concerned voice stressed. "You must wake up now!"
But I don't want to wake up, I thought as I drifted away again, trying to replay what had happened, but it was all fuzzy. Instead, I found myself looking up at a huge pair of double doors that said one word. Death. Peter appeared next to me.
"Bye Charles," he said. "Keep on playing. I'll be listening from above. It may be hard at first to play, but I know you can do it." And with that, he left me standing on a cloud as he shoved the door open and walked in.
I snapped my eyes open and tried to sit upright, but I couldn't. I tried to use my left hand to prop myself up, but a searing pain shot through my arm, causing me to flop back onto the bed like a fish out of water. I was about to give up and sleep when my eyes opened in horror as I realized why my arm hurt so much. All that was left was a stump where my left hand should have been. I gasped as my eyes rolled back in my head and I was back in the dark, slipping in and out of consciousness.
When I awoke again, I felt a little better, but my head was still throbbing. I spotted a mirror in the corner of the room next to a vase of flowers. Looking at my reflection, I couldn't even tell it was me anymore. My left leg was propped up and in a cast, my left hand was missing, my right arm was in a sling, my neck wa in a brace, and my head was bandaged. Black and purple bruises speckled my body. I was a cripple. At that moment, something dawned upon me.
Mom and Peter, I thought. I didn't even get the worst of it. What happened to them? With concern building up I cried, "Nurse, where is my mom? Where is my cousin? I want to see them now!" Tears were streaming down my cheeks now. "Where is my mom?" I sobbed. The nurse called to someone and they came rushing in. I didn't know who this strange man was. He smelled like sweat and blood.
"Charlie," the man said.
"Don't call me that," I interrupted. "Call me Charles."
"Okay, Charles. About your mom. She's in a coma right now, but she didn't get the worst of it. Peter is ... dead," the man said as his false melancholy appeared.
"Peter is dead?" I said, unbelieving, my voice barely a whisper. The man solemnly nodded his head.
A week later, Peter's funeral was held. I couldn't walk and was in a wheelchair pushed by a hospital employee, but at least I wasn't in a coma like my mom was. My dad had left us in the dust a few years ago, so I couldn't lose her too or else I would be left all alone. I didn't want to live with my self-conceited aunt permanently. I was lost in my thoughts and drowning in my tears when the ceremony ended. I remembered all the times he had annoyed me when he was still down here with me, but now all I remembered were the good times with regret, wishing I had enjoyed them more. Like the saying, you almost never fully appreciate a person until they're gone.
"I want to leave," I commanded. "Take me to see my mom." I couldn't bear to stay in this room cloaked with sorrow, but then again, there was another one waiting for me at the hospital with my mom.
A Promise to Dead Life
My mom looked dead. She was breathing, but she looked dead.
"Mom?" I whispered. "Are you there mom?" No answer. She was definitely dead to the world. "Mom, how can I bring you back?" I whispered more urgently. Then, I remembered something.
"Music is the key to your life, your life and mine. Without it, we would both be nothing," she had always told me. She was nothing right now. Was music the way to make her something again? I was worth a try, but I would have to wait until I got out of the hospital.
"Mom?" I asked as I tried to look for the right words to say my next sentence. "You are dead to me right now, but I promise I'll find a way to get you back. Promise." And with that, I went back to my room.
A Quest of Promise
I finally got out of the wheelchair after what seemed like an eternity. I had to stay with my aunt for now. I longed to hear music again, longed to hear my own music. Unfortunately, there were a couple of problems. First of all, the only instrument I could really play and liked and could be played with one hand at a time was piano, but my aunt didn't have one. Not to mention that all the songs I played required two hands, and I haven't found a song that is complete with only one hand. It would be okay if my mom was alive, but she was dead to me right now. I told myself that after I brought my mom back to life, I could try to become a normal kid, but for now, my duty was to find a way to play music.
I could never sleep at night, twisting and turning in my dreams, replaying the accident in my head again and again. Not to mention the painful stump on my left arm. But one night, I had a different dream. A dream with music I had never heard before. Music pulling me and soothing me. Music from heaven, it seemed. Music I just had to play. Something I could play because the left hand had only one note at a time, but it still sounded complete.
The next morning, I trudged downstairs, logged onto the computer, and recorded myself humming the tune from my dreams. I emailed it to dozens of musicians I knew and asked them if they had heard this tune before. All of them said no.
"That means that this must have never been written down before. Did I compose in my sleep?" I mumbled to myself. "I guess I'll just wait until tonight to see what happens in my dreams this time." That night, I heard another unfamiliar tune, again soothing me and leaving my head in the clouds. And it was the same style as last night's. Again, I emailed a recording of me humming it. They all still said no. That was all I needed to hear. I immediately ran to get some paper and a pen and I tried to recall every detail of the music so I could jot down and capture that sheer bliss so I could share it with everyone, especially my mom.
Several hours later, my masterpiece was done. Sonata in d minor. I could play it in my head. And I would be able to play it on the piano even with my condition. If I only had a piano.
"Aunt Celestia, can you please take me to my house so I can play this piece on our piano?" I asked as I tried to act as nice as possible.
"Absolutely not!" Aunt Celestia snapped. "You are struggling to go up and about, and you are certainly in no condition to go play the piano. Anyway, you're missing your left hand!"
"But Aunt Celestia," I pleaded.
"I mean what I said. Go to your room right now!" she commanded. I slowly walked with my head down back upstairs. But I wasn't going to give up. I formulated a plan in my head. No, I was going to play whether Aunt Celestia liked it or not.
That night, I sneaked out with my music and a tape recorder and crept to my house five blocks away. I prayed that I would find the spare key in its usual place. I staggered around in the dark, only guided by the moonlight. My hand felt a smooth but jagged piece of metal. Got it. I slid the key into the lock and the door swung open. My house had an eerie feel in the dark. It was so empty too. A chill went down my spine.
"I have to do this," I told myself. I stole my way over to the piano. Then, I took out a book light and clipped it to the music stand. I laid the music out and sat down. After turning on the tape recorder, I played. Each note filled me with emotion. I had never felt so joyful and melancholy at the same time in my life. When I finished, my head was in the clouds. I stopped the recorder and closed my eyes. I was still dreaming when the first rays of sunshine peeked through the curtains.
Close Call
"Oh no!" I exclaimed. "I have to get back to the house before Aunt Celestia notices that I'm gone!" I hastily grabbed the music and the tape recorder and rushed out the door, slamming it behind me. I dashed down the block and went through the gate and the garden up to the back door of the house. Luckily, Aunt Celestia must have gone out to run some errands because she wasn't home. I took the key out of my pocket and put the door in the lock. I slipped inside and stuck my music and the tape recorder in a drawer before eating breakfast. Right after I sat down with a bowl of cereal, Aunt Celestia drove up the driveway. She walked over and said,
"Let's go visit your mom after you finish eating, okay?" I just nodded.
Dreamworld to Reality
Aunt Celestia took me to the hospital to see Mom. And this time, I brought the recording. I prayed that it would work, prayed that she would wake up. As we walked down the sterilized hallway, I began to doubt if she would wake up. I would see in just a few moments. I took a deep breath of air that smelled of chemicals and opened the door.
She looked the same as before, but a little paler. Her breathing looked so artificial. She looked so peaceful, a little too peaceful. I went up to the bed and touched her.
"Mom, I promise that if this doesn't work, I'll try something else, but here I go," I murmured as I started the recording. Aunt Celestia gasped and sat down. I smiled nervously and knelt. My mom remained in her vegetative state for a while, but after a few minutes, she stirred. My eyes lit up with joy.
"Mom," I whispered. "Can you hear me? It's Charles." My mom groaned. Then, her eyes snapped open as she listened to the final notes of the dream music. I gazed into her eyes, the ones that told me of her joy. I gazed into her heart, the one that told me of her longing. I gazed into her soul, the one that told me of her love. I embraced her as tears of joy streamed down my cheeks as well as my mom's, unlike the tears I shed before.
My Aunt said she had never heard anything like my music. My mom said she woke up because of something pulling her and calling her to return. Something familiar yet unfamiliar. She was so curious about what it was, so she woke up. As simple as that. My mom saved her own life in a way. If she hadn't told me that music is the key to our lives, I wouldn't have thought of my plan. And if I hadn't thought of my plan, who knows what would have happened to my mom.
Now that she was out of her coma, I could have become normal. But I didn't. I wanted to keep playing. Fate didn't mean for me to be normal. I was meant to be special. Like Peter wanted me to be. Even though other kids may make fun of me, I know I am special and unique, and nothing can ever change that, not even a missing hand.
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Just What Is an Embedded System?
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When did people first start using the term 'embedded system'? What did they take it to mean back then? What does it mean now?
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned my forthcoming trip to ESC Brazil in ESC Brazil 2014: Here I Come! I'm still doing my "Happy Dance" (and this is still not something you wish to see).
Originally, I was invited to present a paper introducing FPGA technologies (devices, tools, and design flows). As I always say, the real trick is to get me to stop talking -- now I'm going to give an additional presentation that I've tentatively titled: "Robot Apocalypse: Trends in Embedded Systems."
Of course, this leads us to the perennial question: "Just what is an embedded system?" Actually, I would like to take this a little further. When did the term "embedded system" come into being and to what did it apply at that time? It would also be interesting to know how what has been understood to be an embedded system has evolved over the years.
I posed the "What is an embedded system?" question to embedded guru Jack Ganssle, who replied:
The usual definition of embedded system (ES) is along the lines of a device with a single bit of functionality. But, that means a cell phone is not one, and one could certainly argue the opposite. Also, this definition would mean a blade sever, which is really just a PC, is an ES.
My definition is one no one likes: An ES is a computer-based system with an extremely high quality bar. PCs can crash, ESs can't.
I've also heard definitions along the lines of an embedded system being one without a screen or keyboard, but that was when people were trying to come up with a definition that excluded things like laptop computers.
Personally, my favorite definition is as follows: "An embedded system is one you don't even know is there... until it stops working." Although this sounds good, however, it really doesn't cover all of the bases.
How about you? What's your definition of what an embedded system is (or isn't)? Also, do you know when people first started using this term, and can you recall how the definitions of things that have been considered to be (or not to be) embedded systems have evolved over the years?
— Max Maxfield, Editor of All Things Fun & Interesting
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