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ICRC Hails Iran's Help
What to Say or Not to Say in Islam
Cigarette Taxes, Bans to Save Millions of Lives
Foreign Workers Worried In Saudi Arabia
India Home to 40% of World's Malnourished People
Rio's Poor Too Busy to Protest
American Workplace Stressful
ICRC Hails Iran's Help
By Farzam Vanaki
When we look at a map, we can see that Iran is a country at peace located at the center of a region where the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is conducting its most important humanitarian operations, said ICRC's former chief.
Speaking in his farewell ceremony that coincided with ICRC's 150th anniversary, Pierre Ryter said fours years spent in this beautiful country have taught me a lot.
"When it comes to humanitarian issues, I can now better understand the importance of geography and history," he said.
During this ceremony which was held in Tehran on Sunday, ICRC's Olivier Martin, the new ICRC's head of mission in Tehran, was also introduced.
A photo exhibition was also held on the sidelines of the ceremony to commemorate ICRC's 150-year history of providing humanitarian assistance and protection for people suffering the effects of armed conflict or other violence.
In this ceremony, the new book of Professor Mohammad Reza Ziaee Bigdeli on international humanitarian law was also unveiled.
In an interview with Iran Daily, Ryter talked about his experiences in Iran and Iran's cooperation with ICRC. Excerpts follow:
IRAN DAILY: With regard to humanitarian issues and activities, what particular aspects did you notice about Iran during your four-year mission in this country?
PIERRE RYTER: In Iran, we have quite a number of partners. Therefore, we are not doing much on our own. We are mainly working in partnership with other organizations. This is a privilege because our partners in Iran have a high motivation for doing activities related with humanitarian issues.
Tonight, some of ICRC's partners have attended this ceremony. It is really a privilege to see that in Iran actually we don't have much to do. We just have to sometimes follow the partners and help them in certain fields. In many other fields, they are helping us.
How do you evaluate Iran's cooperation with ICRC?
I think Iran is cooperating a lot with ICRC at different levels. In particular, our cooperation with the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has taken a very impressive dimension. I think we can do more in the future because clearly, there exist important needs in this regard around Iran.
We want to benefit from IRCS's experiences and expertise to address those needs. We can also expand our cooperation with the Iranian authorities. We are doing a lot in relation with the consequences of the Iraqi-imposed war.
I hope that consequently the sorrows of all the families, who still do not have any news from their relatives lost or imprisoned during the war, will be over. However, there are other fields where we can do more.
Iran has always given advice to an organization like the ICRC. We are ready to listen to Iran's advice to better understand the situation of not only Iran but the region as a whole.
Any concluding remarks?
My final word is "thank you". We are guests in this country. Iran is a very hospitable country. Most Iranians really show high levels of hospitability which I think as foreigners we can only appreciate.
What to Say or Not to Say in Islam
Islam prohibits sinful speech that intends to cause harm to other human beings. It also prohibits excessive laughter or extreme humor.
People in general do not think twice about what they are saying; they forget that every word they utter is being recorded and will have to be accounted for on the Last Day, MuslimVillage reported.
This attitude is the opposite of that required of a believer, which is described in the following narrative:
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: "Whoever believes in Allah and the last day should either speak what is good or remain silent."
There are many forms of sinful speech, the most common of which is gossip. Gossip can be of two types: Backbiting, which means talking negatively about a person who is absent, even if what is being discussed is true.
The second type is slandering, which means lying while speaking negatively about others. This category includes suspicion without evidence, mockery and looking for faults in others.
Allah has prohibited all of the above in the following verse: "O you who have believed, avoid much (negative) assumption. Indeed, some assumption is sin. And do not spy or backbite each other. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his brother when dead? You would detest it. And fear Allah; indeed, Allah is accepting of repentance and Merciful" (Qur'an, 49: 12)
These sins of the tongue, which people treat lightly, are actually the root causes of disunity among Muslims. If we are constantly thinking negatively about, looking for faults in, and spreading rumors about our fellow Muslims, how can we ever expect our hearts to be united?
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) has forbidden us from joking too much because it deadens the heart.
Thus, moderation is required even in humor. It is also vital to understand that there is a time for laughter and humor, and a time for seriousness and sobriety. The reason for this prohibition is that excessive laughter makes people take life less seriously and they begin to see humor in everything.
It also makes them so accustomed to humor that they are unable to sit through any serious speech. Such people find lectures boring and do not attend anything beneficial simply because they do not find it funny.
It should also be noted that jokes that mock or degrade any demographic group or individual are completely prohibited, as are fabricated stories that make people laugh, unless the audience knows that they are not true. Of course, the best jokes are the ones based on true, daily-life anecdotes.
There is no harm in narrating such incidents to others to share a laugh.
Regarding mockery and degradation, Allah has informed us: "O you who believe, let not a people ridicule (another) people; perhaps they may be better than them; nor let women ridicule (other) women; perhaps they may be better than them. And do not insult one another and do not call each other by (offensive) nicknames. Wretched is the name (that is, mention) of disobedience after (one's) faith. And whoever does not repent--then it is those who are the wrongdoers." (Qur'an, 49: 11).
Islam brings about the perfect balance of actions and anything in excess is surely harmful.
Cigarette Taxes, Bans to Save Millions of Lives
Anti-smoking measures, including higher taxes on tobacco products, bans on adverts and controls on lighting up in public places, can prevent tens of millions of premature deaths across the world, researchers said on Monday.
Similar steps taken by Turkey, Romania and 39 other countries between 2007 and 2010 were already saving lives, the independent study published by the World Health Organization (WHO) said, Reuters reported.
"If the progress attained by these...countries were extended globally, tens of millions of smoking-related deaths could be averted," Professor David Levy, the study's lead author from Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, said in the WHO's monthly bulletin.
"The wider use of the controls could also lead to lower healthcare costs and higher birth weights for babies," he added.
Tobacco-control measures already introduced in the 41 countries, that also included Pakistan, Argentina and Italy, were on track to persuade an estimated 15 million people not to smoke, the study said. That would prevent around 7.4 million smoking-related deaths by 2050, it added.
The researchers found the most effective measures were increasing taxes and banning smoking in offices, restaurants and other public places. The first method would prevent 3.5 million smoking-attributable deaths, while the second would prevent 2.5 million, they said.
"If anything, it is an underestimate," said Dr. Douglas Bettcher, director of WHO's Department of Noncommunicable Diseases.
"It is a win-win situation for health and finance ministries to generate revenues that have a major impact on improving health and productivity."
Bettcher said Turkey's steps led to a sharp drop in smoking rates to 41.5 percent among men in 2012 from 47.9 percent in 2008.
Six million people die every year from smoking and the toll is projected to rise to eight million by 2030, according to the WHO, a United Nations agency waging war on "Big Tobacco".
The WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which came into force in 2005, lays down measures to curb smoking and tobacco use. About 175 countries have ratified the pact, shunned by others that are home to large tobacco companies, including the United States, Switzerland and Indonesia.
Measures include raising taxes on tobacco products to 75 percent of the final retail price, smoke-free air policies, warnings on cigarette packages, bans on advertising, promotion and sponsorship, and offering treatments to kick the habit.
Foreign Workers Worried In Saudi Arabia
Illegal foreign workers in Saudi Arabia, mostly Asians, are in a race against time to take advantage of an amnesty ending Wednesday that would allow them to stay or return home without prosecution.
King Abdullah announced the amnesty on April 3, granting foreign workers three months to regularize their residency or leave the oil-rich Persian Gulf monarchy to avoid being blacklisted or jailed and fined, AFP reported.
More than 1.5 million illegal foreign workers came forward during the first two months of the amnesty, the labor ministry said.
It did not say how many illegal foreign workers currently live in the kingdom, but the number is reported to be around two million.
Of these, some 180,000 have left in addition to more than 200,000 unregistered workers expelled at the start of the year under new regulations to stamp out illegal immigration.
Many workers are still queuing outside their embassies to obtain documents to either leave Saudi Arabia or legalize their status before Wednesday.
In Jeddah, the commercial capital, Indonesian worker Ali Rahman stood outside Jakarta's Consulate, desperately waiting to finalize his documents.
"I've lost hope unless the amnesty is extended to after July 3," he said.
"There are still hundreds of us waiting here for consular formalities. And once completed, the paperwork has to go to the immigration authorities and the labor ministr."
It is a worrying time for the workers, most of whom are from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia, but with some from Yemen and Egypt too.
They are fearful of the campaign of arrests promised by authorities once the amnesty expires.
Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, is a goldmine for millions of people from poor Asian and Arab countries where unemployment is high.
According to official statistics, eight million expatriates work in the kingdom.
India Home to 40% of World's Malnourished People
India comprises 40 percent of the world's malnourished population and the highest rate of underweight children due to the improper implementation of government policies, a global health expert said.
"Despite being an emerging economy, Indian conditions are bad in terms of health and nutrition compared to other countries like Brazil, Nepal, Bangladesh and China," said M G Venkatesh Mannar, president of Canada-based NGO, Micronutrient Initiative, PTI reported.
"India has the highest rates of stunted growth, underweight and anemia in children. And the most ironic part is that India has all the programs and policies required to handle the problem, but then there is no proper implementation."
Mannar, who is one of the co-authors of the 2013 Lancet series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition, said, "Here it cuts across many ministries like the Ministry of Health, Women and Child Development, Education and Rural Development. Thus, there are no champions of this problem and also no proper accountability."
According to the World Children Report 2013 prepared by the UNICEF, India ranks 49th in the under-5 mortality rate whereas China, Brazil, Nepal and Bangladesh stand at 115, 107, 57 and 60 respectively.
India infant mortality rate has reduced from 81 per 1,000 lives to 47 per 1,000 between 1990 and 2011 whereas it has reduced from 49 to 14 per 1,000 lives in Brazil during the same period.
Rio's Poor Too Busy to Protest
More than 1.5 million people have taken to the streets across Brazil during the Confederations Cup to protest poor public services as well as the cost of staging this event and next year's World Cup.
But some of the poorest citizens of all, those who live in the favelas or slum regions of big cities such as Rio, say they just cannot spare the time, Globalpost.com reported.
They agree Brazil needs better hospitals and schools.
But even if they would like to join the protests, earning a living is the overriding priority. Starting early and finishing late, their day is spent struggling to survive.
Earlier this week, around a thousand residents of Rocinha marched on the Rio governor's house down by the beach in the smart Copacabana district to protest their lot.
Raimundo do Nascimento, who has spent 17 of his 40 years in Rocinha, would have liked to join the protests. So would Robson de Souza Cristina but they did not have the time.
"Come wind, come weather," they are working away: Raimundo at the little hardware store he runs and Robson at a store selling sandals.
"Rocinha needs health services--there are a lot of things which need doing," said Raimundo.
"But I cannot down tools to go and demonstrate," the father of three explained. Robson agreed. "I would go if I could--but I need to work," he said.
"People say Brazil is apathetic but that is not so," said Robson. "The people have woken up and are demanding everything that is missing."
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Discussion in 'Science Fiction & Fantasy' started by JacksonArcher, Oct 27, 2010.
BUT! He never said anything about Nightwing!
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Robin doesn't have to be young but he does need to be written and acted well. Neither of these were to be found in "Batman Forever" or "Batman Forever".
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Well, yes. Though, I'll defend "Batman Forever", it certainty has it's very weak parts. Though I think the set-up and introduction of Dick was handled very well. However, the follow-through was shoddy.
And in "Batman Forever" (), the conflict that Robin and Batman have is, again, nicely set-up, but the follow-through execution was incredibly lackluster.
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Its kind of who he is. No point in using the character otherwise.
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I liked "Batman Forever" despite it's flaws. "Batman and Robin" though just ramped up the camp to another level.
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Yes, Forever is a solid summer action flick. Batman & Robin is just an exercise in wtf?!
That being said, I love Batman & Robin because it is so awesomely terrible. When and if I upgrade to Blu-Ray, B&R will be one of my first purchases!
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My brother and I watch occasionally because of Alica Silverstone. I still find it amusing that they decided to change Babs character and make her Alfred's niece. Probably because they came to the conclusion that the Pat Hingle Gordon wouldn't have any family lol. I never viewed him as a family man. My favorite scene in "Batman and Robin" is when Barbara discovers who Bruce is. It's just so over the top and ridiculous. Why on Earth would a computer project a green light show practically announcing to anyone in the room that they're Batman and Robin!!!
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Well, in fairness, Gordon was never a major player in that series. Also, since one of the themes of that movie was the notion of family, recasting Babs as a relative of Alfred helped tighten that theme to bring it home a little bit more.
It is kinda like in Batman Returns when the Bat Signal shined several spotlights (as mini Bat Symbols) shine in practically every room in Wayne Manor. Good thing Bruce wasn't having a charity event!
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^ Yep.
I thought he was in pre-production for Dark Shadows with... yep... Johnny Depp.
"Alice in Wonderland" also had Depp and Carter I believe. "Dark Shadows" is in pre-production and I thought Depp wasn't a lock for that?
He's pretty much the reason they're making it...
There was some casting news on Deadline Hollywood. Jack Earl Haley might be in it.
I so hated Alice in Wonderland... ugh.
Tim Burton USED to be inventive...
I hated "Alice in Wonderland" as well. Burton wrecked a wonderful script with tons of potential to be a really special film. Ah well.
IMDB mentions a movie called Frankenweenie.
Yeah, he has Frankenweenie in production as a stop motion animated feature. Then he's making Dark Shadows.
He's remaking Frankenweenie?
Yeah, and expanding it into a full-length feature using stop motion animation.
One for the 'take with a large pinch of salt' column - might Robin appear in this movie?
The idea that they're scouting for locations for a Robin hideout makes me yell bullshit on this one.
When has AICN ever been wrong?
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Blaze guts townhome near Galleria
Updated 6:32 pm, Monday, October 29, 2012
A fire gutted a townhouse near the Galleria on Monday after the homeowner tried to start a car parked in the attached garage, Houston Fire Department officials said.
The fire started about 3:15 p.m. in the garage of the home in the 4900 block of Post Oak Timber as the owner tried to start his 1978 Cadillac.
"When he turned the key, there was a loud boom. He said there was fire underneath the car," Fire Department spokesman Jay Evans said.
The homeowner was the only person at home and emerged unscathed.
Lana Hirtz was at home across the street and went out to look when she saw garbage collectors standing outside.
"I looked up and I saw the smoke pouring out of the garage. They (the garbage collectors) were telling me to call 911," Hirtz said.
The fast-moving smoke and flames raced up the walls of the home and quickly reached the roof.
The 2-alarm fire was under control within an hour. Officials said the flames apparently didn't spread to other units.
Chronicle photojournalist Nick de la Torre contributed to this report.


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How to secure your new iPhone
The iPhone fingerprint sensor is flashy, but might not be the best new security feature
Last week, Apple took the wraps off its latest iPhone models — the 5S and 5C. The 5C is a budget model with a plastic case; the 5S is the upgrade with a faster processor, some improvements to the camera, and better battery life.
The "oh, wow," feature, or what the late Steve Jobs would have introduced with "There's just one more thing…" at the end of his talk, is a fingerprint sensor. Behind the familiar "home" button is a scanner that allows users to unlock the phone with their fingertip, without entering a passcode. Laptop and some desktop computers have had fingerprint readers for years. This is the first one on a smartphone.
Securing an iPhone
iPhones and other smartphones can be secured with a passcode, but most people don't use them. The passcode has to be entered every time the phone is turned on, and people get tired of doing that. Most of the people who do use the passcode feature have it set to accept the minimum four characters. A thief can often determine the passcode by holding the display up to the light at an angle and seeing what portions have the most wear or smudges.
Cops' phones are especially vulnerable, if for no other reason than there are more people who would like to mess with your life than might be the case for the typical private citizen. The thief who gets your smartphone has many of the keys to your kingdom. Depending on how you use the phone and what you have installed on it, he has your contacts list, your Facebook and Twitter accounts, your calendar, your website history, your text messages, your family photos — the list goes on.
The improved security of fingerprint identification is nice, but some privacy advocates are claiming that this technology provides Apple, and whomever Apple decides to share with, all their users' fingerprints. It could be the first step in creation of a truly universal fingerprint database.
The concerns are probably unfounded, even given Apple's history of collecting information about their customers that the customers didn't necessarily want to give them. A few years back, an application developer found that iPads and iPhones stored a file called consolidated.db that contained the location data of everywhere that device had been, and when it had been there, for at least ten months.
The data got transmitted to Apple every 12 hours if there were a Wi-Fi connection available. Apple said it was encrypted and anonymized so that the data couldn't be connected with specific users. Not everyone bought that last part.
Not a Fingerprint Registry
Apple says that the fingerprint pattern data used for the passcode feature is stored only on the device, and not transmitted to Apple or anywhere else. Further, it does not store the entire fingerprint image, but only the image of the tip of the finger, where the user would typically touch the sensor to operate the phone.
This makes sense, given the way most fingerprint scanners used for security access function. When the user "enrolls" a finger into the passcode database, only fairly coarse data about the fingerprint pattern is recorded. Extraction of this data and an attempt to reverse-engineer a standard fingerprint image out of it might give you enough data to exclude someone as the owner of that print, but not enough to positively identify the person it belonged to.
Fingerprint scanners of this type are relatively easy to circumvent, although it takes a little time and effort. If the interloper can get a clear print of the enrolled finger, he can use silicone compound to cast a "gummy finger" replica good enough to make the sensor believe it's the real thing. The iPhone sensor could probably be similarly spoofed, although the devices are too new for someone to have tried it yet.
Unless the iPhone thief has gone to the trouble to capture a fingerprint good enough to make a "gummy finger," he's probably not going to get past that security barrier.
Apple has placed some additional safeguards on the fingerprint sensor. Before a user can enroll a finger into the fingerprint reader database, he must first create a backup passcode. If the phone hasn't been unlocked for 48 hours, or if it has been rebooted, the fingerprint sensor won't work. The user has to input the passcode to unlock the phone.
The "Find My Phone" App
One security feature Apple hasn't included, but I've seen suggested on some tech sites, is that a fingerprint scan or passcode be required to turn the phone off. This could be a valuable anti-theft measure. Many, if not most, iPhone users have the free "Find My Phone" app installed on their phones.
A user with the appropriate logon credentials can go to the Find My Phone website and get a real-time map of where the phone is located — if the phone is powered on. A thief can make the app useless by just powering down the phone. If a passcode was required to turn the phone off, the phone would be trackable as long as the battery lasted and it could communicate with the network.
I have a lot of data stored on my phone, and have always used a basic passcode to get access. Not long ago, it occurred to me that the basic four-digit passcode was pretty superficial protection, and I changed it to an eight-digit passcode. I'm thinking of changing it again to one that uses a combination of letters and numbers, to make it even more difficult to guess. It's inconvenient to have to do that, but not as inconvenient as having a thief have access to all the data stored there.
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Eritrea's a Terrible Place for Journalists, Too
In your gloomy Thursday media column: Eritrea is the pits (of journalism), Erin Burnett is unpopular, the WSJ Europe circulation scandal continues, The Guardian U.S. is optimistic, and Michael Miner is an OG (of journalism).
- Eritrea is the lowest ranked country in the world for press freedom. The detain and imprison journalists. It would be nice if they didn't. "Dawit Isaak, the founder of Eritrea's first independent newspaper...has been in prison in Eritrea for the past nine years without charge or trial." It's unknown whether Isaak is even alive today. Anyone who cares about journalistic freedom could register their displeasure with the Eritrean Embassy, were they so inclined.
- Who's watching Erin Burnett's new CNN show? No one. And rightly so.
- Day two of the WSJ Europe circulation scandal, in which the WSJ confirms many of the scandalous details originally published by The Guardian. Here's to hoping it gets salacious-er!
- Can The Guardian really make a go of it as a US publication, considering the fact that Americans hate all things British, and also are mostly illiterate? The editor of The Guardian believes so.
- Michael Miner has been a working press critic for 40 god damn years. Put that in your pipes and smoke it, media world. Read all about him here.
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Chris Dahlen on Dark Souls and, in particular, how it uses "difficulty" not as "a club the designers bash you with, but the palette with which they paint the experience.":
In music, film, and literature, difficult works provoke the same kind of response. We talk about them in terms of whether we can deal with them: War and Peace is too long, Ulysses is too opaque, Lars Von Trier's films are too disturbing. Audiences may balk at a work because it's unfamiliar, complicated, opaque, taboo, exhausting, unpleasant to the senses, and so on—but in every case, the audience has to think about that barrier and make sure they're ready to cross it. We wonder, are we the problem? Or is the work failing us? Is it challenging because the challenge is key to the form, the message, and the experience—or is it challenging because the artist is a jerk? If the artist has a message to send us—well, to paraphrase Samuel Goldwyn, why couldn't they just send us a telegram?
Games shed new light on this old debate, because here, challenge is understood from the get-go as being integral to the experience. All games test their players, and the players accept that they are taking a test and they will be graded. By comparison, if you read a great short story, your failure to respond to it happens in the privacy of your mind.
The primary language of Dark Souls is difficulty. The game paces and varies that difficulty with the same craft that goes into its character builds, sound effects, and environmental design, and with the same purpose: to explore distinct, exquisitely-realized variations on one unified experience. What starts as a dare is revealed to be the reward.
Too long a quote to go into Pinboard, so onto the blog it goes in full. And do read the whole article; it's thoughtful and as with all Chris' stuff, well-written.


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Hi. I'm pretty much set on buying a GTX 680 or 690 for my new system.
Buuutttt, the 680 and 690 only drive 4 monitors concurrently, and I would like to explore any options I might have for graphic cards that could drive up to 6 separate monitors simultaneously. I want to use 3 monitors in the main working position (front-and-center), but my little studio has two workstation areas where a 19-22" monitor would be perfect for displaying mixers, or VST effect/instrument UI windows. The main "front 3" would be IPS 24" or 27" monitors, and the two side monitors could be positioned over my music instruments and keyboards, where I would also be able to set down a wireless mouse and keyboard for pseudo remote work. The two side monitors would never have to run in "eyefinity"; only the main three need that capability.
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Who would have though Al-Farouq Aminu and Byron Mullens would give CC 85 combined Fantasy Points along with Greg Monroe going ham.
However my ace in the hole is back and I'm hoping he picks up where he left off
metro I have delivered an enticing offer to your door on the eve of our showdown. Are you man enough to roll the dice?
Cousins and Green for Turner, Beal and Gibson... What a bizarre trade...
Who proposed that trade?
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Bouncy beef gives Dwill Nash and Drummond for Harden George Hickson.
Solid trade for both teams, helmets strengthening their wing and soupastars fixing their gaping PG hole.
Was very hard to deal Drummond for Hickson
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How did you pick your screen name?
When I saw the Eclipse movie, I wore a shirt that says "Be careful what you say, it'll probably remind me of Twilight." Everyone I know said that was perfect for me…since I am constantly making Twilight references. I had to cut it a few letters short when I registered though, so it's "EverythingRemindsMeOfTwili" instead of the makes a little more sense, "EverythingRemindsMeOfTwilight".
How did you come to read Twilight and which book is your favorite?
I was a stay-at-home Mom with 2 young kids and I hadn't read a book in years. I was desperate to read something that I'd never read before and everyone kept talking about this Twilight book, so I bought the first to give it a try and couldn't put it down. My kids were sick, so I sent my husband out for the next 3 and finished them all in 5 days (which considering the cooties and chaos was rather remarkable…totally could have had them done sooner otherwise). My favorite book is Eclipse.
Who do you like best: Edward, Bella, or Jacob?
Ummm….is this a loaded question? I really don't know that I could pick just one that I could say I like the "best" because they're all such different people. It would feel like someone asking me which of my daughters I liked best. They're such highly individualized entities and there's something awesome and loveable about all of them. I, personally, relate so much to Edward's freaking out and overprotective-ness, and "old-fashioned" ways and his frustration trying to read Bella's mind; and I also relate to Bella's not fitting in anywhere that's "normal" and being self-conscious and never wearing makeup (I know that may seem silly but growing up in L.A., it's a big deal) and her bravery and self-sacrifice and trying to take care of everyone else first; but again I also relate to Jake—he's honest, he's funny, he's sarcastic, he's protective of the people he loves and he stumbles trying to do things well. Do I have to pick just one? …..if I ABSOLUTELY had to, then maybe it might be Bella---because let's face it, I'm a woman and her point of view, I REALLY understand.
Who is your favorite minor character?
Let's see…Carlisle, Alice, Jasper, Emmett, Esme, Rosalie, Charlie, Seth, Renesmee….how do I pick just one?
What are your hobbies?
Mostly talking to my mom and sisters—a LOT! Little kids don't leave time for a lot of hobbies but I do like to read (obviously), crotchet and cross stitch some, I'd play World of Warcraft if I had more time...
Where are you from (general area like Montana, not exact town!)
How old are you? (In general, like teen, 20's, 30's, 40's etc)
Early 30's
Looking forward to discussing all things Twilight with all of you!!


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WESTLAND, Mich. - A charity fund is available for anyone who wants to donate to the family of fallen Westland firefighter Brian Woehlke.
Numerous donations have already been collected. Larry Ulmerik dropped off a donation Thursday. He says he felt compelled to donate because his son is a Farmington Hills police officer.
"I saw the fire yesterday and, being the father of a policeman, thoughts are with you everyday," says Ulmerik. "I helped a family out."
Woehlke was killed Wednesday battling a fire that consumed a portion of a strip mall on Wayne Road. He died from smoke inhalation, soot inhalation and thermal injuries, according to the Wayne County Morgue.
At 9:30 a.m., the 29-year-old Woehlke sent out a distress call. He was crushed when the roof of the building collapsed.
His body was later found in the debris.
He leaves behind a wife and 1-year-old daughter, Ava.
Woehlke was also the first firefighter to be lost in the line of duty in the Wayne-Westland Fire Department's 47-year history.
Donate online: Fallen Firefighter Brian Woehlke Charity Fund
Or, checks can be made out to:
Westland Firefighters Charity
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Westland, MI 48185
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LEADERS: Azerane Bam BinkyBunny JerseyGirl LBJ10 LittlePuffyTail LongEaredLions RabbitPam
To stop everyone before they start.... NOT HOUSING THEM TOGETHER!!!!
So I've been trying to adopt a rabbit to bond with my spayed female lop mix. There aren't many males in the area to adopt and I'm striking out at the places that do have males. I'm going to try adopting at another place near my parents house but if that fails, I'm thinking a guinea or two.
Has anyone had experience with this? My rabbit isn't aggressive and likes attention. Since they would be housed separately, I feel like I should get two guineas so that the guineas have company in their cage. My bunny is free roam so they could interact while I supervise the guineas being out of the cage. Also, anyone that may have experience, how much do the guineas add to odor? I manage the rabbit odor pretty well with changing litter. If I keep up with the guinea litter should it be too much worse?
Still hoping an adoption can happen for another bunny but, need to research plan b.
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B8711-001: Turnaround Management
R - Full Term, 02:15PM to 05:30PM
Location: URI 330
Instructor: Laura Resnikoff
Prerequisite(s): B6013: Accounting I, B6301: Corporate Finance
Corequisite(s): B6302: Capital Markets & Investments
This course provides students with a perspective on identifying and remedying turnaround business situations, that is, established businesses experiencing operational, financial and managerial difficulties. Students learn from the standpoint of a general manager how to distinguish between "troubled" and "crisis" companies and how to use qualitative and quantitative tools to effect solutions. The course integrates the functional disciplines of the core curriculum. Building upon a basic understanding of accounting and corporate finance, the course engages with these core restructuring concepts: cash flow and going concern projections; debt restructuring and liquidation analysis; creditor relationships, managerial and governance perspectives. Assignments are team-oriented projects culminating in a final team analysis of a turnaround situation.


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skoehler wrote:matze42 wrote:skoehler wrote:matze42 wrote:Found the problem. I was on firmware 1.04H for getting the Edimax WLAN Dongle to work.
I resetted my brick to V1.03H and that did the trick.
Do I understand correctly? After changing the Lego firmware to 1.04H, leJOS doesn't boot anymore?
With firmware 1.04H the first installation process did not start according to the WIKI entry for creation of a bootable SD card. Meaning the formatting of the sd card etc.
I have not switched back to firmware 1.04H to check if leJOS would boot or not.
If that would be of any help I could try it out and report the result.
Well, it's bad enough that leJOS wouldn't install. Are you sure, the SD card you used was the same both times? I'm pretty surprised that changing the Lego firmware affects whether the leJOS installation process works or not.
100% sure. I even tried a second sd card from a different manufacturer with the same result. I formlatted both cards as fat 32 and i even tried the sd500.img approach. Nothing worked and i was desperate. Then it occured to me that i might have a different fw than everybody else. Bingo. I am also very much surprised, but i believe this should turn out to be a repeatable behaviour. As i said before, i am willing to explore more if there is some value in it. Just give me a hint.


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A British man who went on a four-year odyssey has become the first person to travel to all 201 sovereign states in the world without flying, the Christian Science Monitor reported.
Graham Hughes, 33, arrived in South Sudan early Monday, capping off his 1,426-day journey. A Liverpool native, Hughes traveled 160,000 miles using only buses, boats, taxis, trains and his own two feet, the Monitor said. He also managed the trip on less than $100 a week.
Hughes told the Monitor he decided to attempt the trip without flying to "see if this could be done by one person traveling on a shoestring."
Some highlights included: swimming in a lake of jellyfish in the Pacific archipelago of Palau, seeing a NASA space shuttle launch, dancing with the jungle tribes of Papua New Guinea.
The challenges: traveling home to be with family after his older sister's death midway through the trip, being jailed for six days in the Democratic Republic of the Congo because officials suspected he was a spy, and navigating island countries amidst pirate threats.
Hughes' experiences were filmed as part of a documentary.
Hughes will stay in South Sudan until Wednesday before beginning his trek home to Liverpool. In an effort to "keep in the spirit of adventure," he will not be flying, the Monitor said.


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Anyway the thing is that there's one, let's call it, "solution" which is VERY easy to use when you're a noob.
This solution goes like this:
Just add his PPA and install this driver, reboot, and you're done.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:acasagrande/xf86-video-sismedia
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-sismedia
Here's the link:
https://launchpad.net/~acasagrande/+arc ... o-sismedia
How cool is that?
I've done it and it just works (at least on Linux Mint 12), no need to sudo-edit anything. Oh please, stop asking for 3D support... there's not such a thing for SiS 671 / 771 in the Linux cosmos.
You should keep in touch with that thread, my suggestion.


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Last year I was very disappointed when Clotilde and Pascale and their foodie fans decided to visit the Salon de Saveurs on a week day as I had to work. Why didn't I simply take a day off work? Well, because I'm stupid. Also, I didn't realize what delightful people they would all be or I'm sure I would have called in sick if necessary. (Note to any of my colleagues who might be reading this: OF COURSE I WOULD NEVER BE THAT DISHONEST; I ONLY CALL IN SICK WHEN I AM AT DEATH'S DOOR...)
The Salon de Saveurs is a strangely unpublicized event. Unless you happen to be in Paris when it is taking place and happen to notice one of the posters you wouldn't known about it. I've tried in vain to find a web site about it. If you think about it, though, this is a good thing. Producers know about it but it doesn't attract the same volume of visitors as some of the bigger events such as the Foire de Paris. It's perfect foodie heaven.
Alisa and I met up with Clotilde at the Espace Champerret, where this salon takes place twice each year. Unfortunately, Pascale wasn't able to join us as she'd had a last-minute call from Télérama (the main French TV guide) for a photo shoot - congratulations, Pascale!! I was sorry to miss out on seeing Pascale but definitely profited from the wisdom of seasoned veterans Clotilde and Alisa. On Alisa's suggestion we proceeded in an orderly fashion, systematically covering each lane. On Clotilde's suggestion, we went through the entire salon once before going back to the stands we liked best. I have to say that this is the most intelligent suggestion I've heard in a long time. I used to go to the Foire de Paris, which is a trade fair on a grander scale, every year. And I would go wild at the food and wine section, buying willy-nilly and then not having the money to buy or the energy to carry really interesting stuff I found an hour later. It doesn't actually take that much longer to go through the whole thing once and then go back and buy at the best places. You don't end up carrying stuff around for as long, you make more informed choices and, quite often, when it comes down to it you decide that some of the products that seemed absolutely essential to your kitchen...are not so important after all.
That said, there were very few duds in the exposants of the salon. We agreed not to buy preserved garlic from a Spanish stand after realizing that the couple behind the counter couldn't even tell us where any of the products hailed from. But that was the exception. We tasted Corsican cakes and olive oils and a most delicious lamb and made more than a few purchases. Despite our wise decision to do our hunting first and our gathering after we came away with arms laden.
The hands down favorite for myself (and Alisa, I think) had to be 1001 Huiles. My goodness they did seem to live up to their name (1001 oils). I tasted a nutty spread made from a North African nut I've never heard of before, argan. It was so good I bought two little pots - one mixed with almonds and honey and one with hazelnuts and honey. I intended to save one as a gift for some good foodie friend but I'm not sure I'll follow through on that thought!
And the item I bought that figures in the photo at the start of this post also came from the stand: a wonderful sweet, savoury balsamic vinegar reduction. To show off this star, I steamed some asparagus with slivers of new garlic, drizzled some of the balsamic reduction over the spears and sprinkled them with grated Parmesan. It was my first taste of asparagus this year and I think I found the perfect compliment for it. Our friend Tony, who was over for dinner that night, complimented me on the great sauce and I had to sadly admit that I was merely a good chooser of a great sauce, not the great sauce maker. I may be dishonest, but I'm not THAT dishonest!


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- Chris TrimmerUnited States
2006 was my first ever trip to the WBC. And only my second con ever (BGG 2005 was the first). I had missed the opportunity to play in the 2005 WBC when I had a business trip to Philly the week before. So I was ready this year. I had a flight credit from an earlier cancelled 2006 trip, so that sealed the deal.Recommend
So here's my list of games played, won, bought, hoped to play, and more. Enjoy!
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A Nebraska man was busted for listing more than references on his job application.
Jason Dornhoff was arrested after allegedly writing a bomb threat on the back of a job application for a restaurant in Kearney, Omaha.com reported.
"I have no money, a hung bomb in my truck, and a syringe of bleach that will kill you instantly. If you be quiet and help me, you won't die," he allegedly wrote.
After an employee called police, the man admitted using meth earlier that day, police said in an arrest report.
Dornhoff's vehicle was searched but did not contain any of the items outlined in the note. He was charged with making terroristic threats and threatening the use of explosives, Omaha.com reported.


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Although YouTube rang in 2007 with a virtual New Year's Eve
festival complete with a performance from Warner Music, live performances and
participation from hordes of online members, the company failed to meet its
self-imposed deadline to implement
anti-piracy protection on its site. In an agreement with Warner Music
Group, YouTube promised in September to have an anti-piracy system in place
that would feature an "advanced content identification and royalty
reporting system."
The anti-piracy system to be in place by the end of 2006
was a part of a deal which allowed
Google to distribute Warner music videos, artist interviews and other
music-related content. When Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion USD in
October, it was widely expected that Google's deeper pockets would give YouTube
the financial backing to implement such anti-piracy measures.
Missing the year-end deadline could be seen as a virtual
pothole on the road to a more controlled distribution channel, but YouTube still
can save face by getting the system live within the opening weeks of 2007.
"It is hugely important, especially from the rights holders' perspective,
that the best efforts are being made to corral the stuff flowing through
YouTube," said Michael McGuire of Gartner Research. "Rights holders
are making specific bets on paths of distribution and are expecting serious
effort to make uncontrolled distribution difficult for most folks to do."
For now, YouTube is leaving the ball in the user's court
when it comes to copyrighted music by telling users that uploading content
"shall be at your sole risk."


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Any one else been in Forum withdrawal the last few days?
Any one else been in Forum withdrawal the last few days?
Martin. BMW MOA Ambassador.17748
BMW MOA Charter, Life member.
Valley BMW Riders. British Columbia.
Yes I must admit I have been checking constantly when today I discovered this:
If you go here: http://www.bmwmoa.org you still get the "down for maintenance" message.
But if you here: http://forums.forums.bmwmoa.org.php the new site is slowly coming back to life!
No Flea Market yet but much other interesting functionality. Like links that are auto recognized finally!
MJM - BeeCeeBeemers Motorcycle Club Vancouver B.C.
N-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-nope. J-j-j-j-j-j-j-j-j-j-j-ust f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-ine.
Ed Miller, Calgary, AB
I can't wait to retire and have a fixed income. The one I have now is always broke.
Is the Flea market still "down"?
& it cost me coin being down.... is this a marketing ploy?
Is there some kind of BMW conspiracy going on? I cannot log on to the Yankee Beemers either.Can't seem to contact them to try and figure it out.
John Simonds
2016 Honda CRF 250L 2008 R 1200 GSA
1975 Norton Commando 850 Roadster Mk 3
If it ain't broke, fix it 'till it is.
Up and running as of last night.
And yes - missed it.
I use it for information and opinions, reference my monthly ON column at times.
Right now - trying to ID whomever goes by "BenDiem?'
Thanks to efforts at MOA HQ - my understanding is Jeff is now in the Witness Protection Program!
Kevin Greenwald - MSF Lead RiderCoach # 121656 (BRC,SBRC,IS,IME,SMARTrainer)
Nationally Certified Law Enforcement Motor Officer (Ret.) / IBA Member #34281
Motorcycle/High Performance/Teen/Winter/ATV Driving Instructor - ROAD AMERICA Track
I am not sure, whether the downtime was worth it. It may be a matter of getting used to it, but so far, I absolutely hate the buttons. Red and blue envelopes. Both open or closed. Takes me a while to figure out where new posts are.....
It's good to have it back up. Now I just have to figure out what these blue and red envelopes mean.
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"When you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there."
disrupted my daily routine. I am a creature of habbit I am happy that the forum has been restored with what appears to be a good upgrade...likely the one talked about over the last few months.
Edit: In the same thread I mentioned, Omega Man said this is the new setup.
Here's the thread. http://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread....-Forum-Blocked
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I have been quite angry and disappointed recently at a decision coming out of City Hall. Against the recommendations of the Ocean City Planning and Zoning Commission, the powers that be on 3rd Street designated the vacant field on 25th Street and Philadelphia Avenue as a shuttle bus stop for the Dew Tour.
For two years, this property has been allowed to operate as a parking lot on all the busy holiday and special event weekends. The owners have not been required to make any of the improvements that are imposed on other lots in town, such as landscaping, car stops, lines and adequate traffic patterns. They cut down the weeds and open the gates.
For the Dew Tour, the owners of the property were allowed to erect two bright yellow signs advertising the shuttle stop and the town obliged them by providing a "Bus Stop" sign where only a "No Stopping At Any Time" sign existed just a few days before.
The Ocean City Communications Manager was recently quoted in the newspaper as saying that the special shuttle, running only to 33rd Street, would stop at regular bus stops. Why was this bus stop created just for this lot? Why were they given such a convenience to their patrons? Providing a municipal bus to service a private lot, that never had a bus stop before, smacks of favoritism to me. I realize that demand for parking during the Dew Tour was expected to be great and that the town fathers wanted to move people as efficiently as possible but all private enterprises should be dealt with equitably, with no bias. Maybe the Town of Ocean City doesn't see this as an endorsement on their part, but I do.
Because my place of business, also a parking lot, is only two blocks away on 23rd Street, Mario's Parking, I have been directly affected by this issue. I do believe that competition is healthy, but not when one establishment is given advantages over others. We all need to play by the same rules and enjoy the same benefits.
Whatever happened to fairness? Have we lost that in our quests for bigger, better, more powerful whatever? Have ethics gone out the window? We are all here for the same reasons — to be good citizens, pay our taxes, make a decent living and enjoy life as we go along. When situations like this arise, I lose faith in people. I lose faith in government. That's not good.
Lastly, I would like to thank the Ocean City Planning and Zoning Commission for standing its ground on this matter. It's nice to know that some people still realize the difference between right and wrong.
Jacqueline DeGroft
Ocean City
Experience Disappoints
Having spent the majority of my life in Ocean City, I visited the Boardwalk on Thursday for the opening events of the Dew Tour. Using a motorized scooter from Joe's Bikes, I traveled the boards to the event. It has been a long time since I have been on the boards and disappointment was my first reaction.
I cannot get over how it looks like a slum. Buildings are faded, junk in front of all of the stores and things falling off of the buildings. So much clutter that it is mind boggling. These stores sell their merchandise all summer, yet it appears that they do not reinvest any money into their buildings. It is not up to the town to fix these problems; it is up to the owners. It appears that they simply take the money and run.
Another item that I noticed was the attire on the boards. As a family resort, we know that people will wear just about anything, no matter what they look like. Why do they think we want to look at them? It is not inappropriate for people to put on a cover up when walking down the boards or on the streets of our family resort. I find it amazing that some of the apparel has not fallen off when women move or that men have not lost their suits. Just exactly what is holding them up? I am by no means a prude, but some sights need to be covered and left to the imagination.
Mimi G. Peuser
Donations Appreciated
The Ocean Pines Anglers Club had a successful Kids Fishing event Saturday and wants to thank the following organizations for their financial, material and participatory support: Ocean City & Berlin Optimists Club, The Maryland Saltwater Sportsfisherman Association, John Henry Tackle Shop on Rt. 611, Pines Communications Inc., John Burke, Pines Point Provisions & Seafood Company, Oyster Bay Tackle Ocean City, McDonalds Restaurant, WQMR 101.1, Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Ocean Pines Volunteer Fire Department and the Ocean Pines Association.
The DNR stocked 200 blue gill fish, which helped 85 kids catch over 160 fish, despite the very hot weather.
Walt Boge
Ocean Pines
Council Did Right Thing
I am one of the many senior citizen full-time residents who has gained a new lease in life through the Art League of Ocean City. So I am thrilled that the Ocean City Council did the right thing by agreeing to build a sorely needed building for the Art League.
Along with so many other volunteers, I gladly give my time in helping the Art League. I've seen it grow and contribute so strongly to this community. I've seen the out-of-town people who take classes there and spend their money in Ocean City. I've seen the happy children and teenagers who participate in the number of programs that the Art League provides for them free of charge. I've seen the numerous city and county organizations who call on the Art League to contribute their time and creativity to help those organizations in their causes.
I would have a hard time finding any single organization in this area that contributes so strongly to the community in such a diverse manner, and one that also draws more revenue into the city at the same time. A city without its culture is lifeless and soulless. So hurrah to the Art League of Ocean City and hurrah to the City Council for recognizing this gem in their midst.
Helen H.
Ocean City
Skate Free One Day?
What a great weekend in Ocean City.
The Dew Tour in Ocean City … these words made me so proud and the sights were beautiful. Phone calls came in from all parts of the U.S.A. acknowledging how lucky we are to live in such a beautiful part of the world. We know that.
Living in north Ocean City and having grandchildren visit (they are local, and attend school here), I have tried to explain that the rules are no skating on Ocean City streets or property. They have been stopped by police and made to carry their boards while traveling to visit the parks. This has been explained that the police only enforce the laws, not make them.
They do not have the means to take the bus and pay to skate at the bowl in south Ocean City. This is a lot of money for a group of 13-year-olds. The long boards are a great way of traveling in Ocean City. Are they just as damaging?
All skateboarders don't fit the image of a few. Perhaps, this can be resolved in a manner which the skaters could have one day a week, to skate the bowl free. I hope some ideas come from this letter.
Beverly Kerns
Ocean City
Congrats On Event
Yesterday I had the wonderful pleasure of participating in the "Artists Paint OC" art contest and sale of the weekends' Plein Air pieces created by displaying artists.
Somerset Street itself has become a niche "artsy" area in the downtown and a unique "area" of the OC downtown to visit. Kudos to the Art League of Ocean City and the Ocean City Development Corporation for sponsoring this event.
Passersby enjoyed it as well as those who came to view the work knowing about the event. May there be many more in the future. Thank you for a wonderful Sunday. And, being an artist participant, for the pleasure it was to locate and create a piece around the theme of Ocean City.
Mary Ellen Carroll
Ocean City
Empty Rhetoric
When a person writes to the editor, they shouldn't start their letter by doing exactly what they are accusing someone else of doing. A recent letter to the editor opens up with "Mike McDermott confuses me. He seems to choose facts that support his opinions, not the facts that represent the real world of those who sign the fronts of the paychecks — for example, Maryland is among the nation's wealthiest states."
Talk about choosing facts (or in this case hiding the facts) that support his opinion, the writer conveniently fails to mention that it is not the Maryland economy that is the reason that "Maryland is among the nation's wealthiest states", it is the economy of the federal bureaucracy that employs those Maryland residents who live in the affluent areas surrounding Washington DC.
In other words, Maryland is "wealthy" because of the generous salaries and benefits that are paid by your tax money, not because the private sector is booming. (It is not, Maryland is ranked either dead last or close to it in private sector job creation.)
This country and this state are in big trouble; for the first time in history our children and grandchildren will not have a quality of life that is superior to that of the generation before. The fact that Delegate McDermott is alarmed by that fact doesn't mean "his glass is always half empty". And the fact that a liberal ideologue would demonize the delegate through empty rhetoric is not half surprising.
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A chronology of the highs and lows during the three-year Tommy Tuberville era at Texas Tech:
■ Jan. 9, 2010: Tommy Tuberville is hired as the 14th head football coach at Texas Tech. He replaced Mike Leach, who was fired shortly before the Alamo Bowl the previous December due to allegations of players mistreatment and insubordination. Tuberville took the position at a time when the Tech fan base was extremely fractured because of the Leach firing.
■ Dec, 4, 2010: Tuberville denies rumors that he is interested in or has talked with the University of Miami regarding its head coaching position, which opened after Randy Shannon was fired the previous month. Tuberville was an assistant at Miami from 1986 to 1993, but said in regard to the speculation, "I'm happy to be here. We just got this thing started."
■ Dec. 23, 2010: Texas Tech announces that defensive coordinator James Willis is leaving the program "to pursue other career opportunities" after just one season with the Red Raiders. It was later discovered that Willis had talked to the University of Florida about an open position, and that Tech found out through a third party. Both the university and Willis agreed it would be best if he left. Later, it was revealed Willis was involved in a domestic dispute at a residence in Wolfforth prior to him leaving, but Tech insisted it was not a factor in his departure.
■ Jan. 1, 2011: Texas Tech defeats Northwestern 45-38 in the Ticket City Bowl at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, making Tuberville the first Tech coach to win a bowl game in his first season since DeWitt Weaver's 1951 team beat Pacific 25-14 in the Sun Bowl. It would be the only bowl win for Tuberville with the Red Raiders.
■ Jan. 18, 2011: Tuberville received a one-year contract extension through 2015, increasing his base salary to $300,000 per year. It also set his guaranteed outside income at $1.7 million for the 2011-12 school year, with increases of $100,000 per year to $2.1 million for 2015-16.
■ Jan. 21, 2011: Tech hires 39-year-old TCU safeties coach Chad Glasgow as the new defensive coordinator. Glasgow brings a fiery, high-energy presence to the practice fields and sidelines. He replaces James Willis, becoming Tech's third defensive coordinator in as many years.
■ Oct. 22, 2011: Tech shocks the Big 12, and the rest of college football, by racing out to a big lead and holding on for a 41-38 victory at Oklahoma to improve to 5-2 on the season. The Sooners were ranked No. 3 in The Associated Press Top 25 and No. 1 in the coaches' poll. It is one of the biggest upsets in college football that season and is Tuberville's fourth career win over a Top 5 team.
■ Nov. 1, 2011: Suzanne Tuberville, the wife of Tommy Tuberville, is involved in a traffic accident with two elderly people. According to reports, Suzanne Tuberville ran a red light at the intersection and hit the car driven by Nelda Purdy as it turned on to Slide Road from 57th Street. Ira Purdy, 87, a passenger in the car, suffered a head injury, broken leg and broken ribs, and died four months later. As of February, the investigation was still ongoing and no charges had been filed.
■ Nov. 12, 2011: Texas Tech is humiliated in front of a home crowd as Oklahoma State routs the Red Raiders 66-6 at Jones AT&T Stadium. The 66 points is a record for most points allowed in a single game by a Tech team. Two weeks later, Baylor hung the same number on Tech, winning 66-42 and capping a season-ending five-game losing streak for the Red Raiders. Tech didn't win another game after upsetting Oklahoma, finishing 5-7 and posting its first losing season since 1992.
■ Dec. 29, 2011: Tech and defensive coordinator Chad Glasgow reach a separation agreement after a bizarre 10-day chain of events. Rumblings began when junior-college defensive back Kass Everett initially announced plans to sign with Tech on Dec. 21 but four hours later faxed his paperwork to Oklahoma, claiming he couldn't reach Glasgow because Glasgow's cell phone had been disconnected. E-mails later obtained by the Avalanche-Journal show that in a letter dated Dec. 22 from athletic director Kirby Hocutt, Glasgow told Hocutt he had cleaned out his office and was resigning as defensive coordinator, which he also expressed to other Tech officials. But Glasgow insisted he was still the defensive coordinator as of Dec. 23 and asserts via e-mails the next several days that he is still on staff. An agreement was reached on Dec. 29 for Glasgow's departure. Under Glasgow, Tech's defense ranked last in the nation (120 teams) in rushing defense, 113th in pass efficiency defense, 115th in total defense and 117th in scoring defense.
■ Jan. 9, 2012: Tuberville hires Art Kaufman as Tech's fourth defensive coordinator in four years. Kaufman, 54, had been on the North Carolina staff for three seasons, and had been Tuberville's defensive coordinator at Mississippi.
■ Feb. 24, 2012: Seven people file a lawsuit in Alabama, claiming John David Stroud and his business partner, Tommy Tuberville, bilked customers of their investment firm out of about $1.7 million. Tuberville was a managing partner of the firm when he coached at Auburn. He denies any wrongdoing and, a month later, seeks dismissal of the case against him.
■ May 7, 2012: Tuberville is not charged in a 21-count criminal indictment against former business partner John David Stroud. However, he could still face a civil lawsuit by the seven plaintiffs who claimed they were defrauded out of about $1.7 million in investments.
■ Oct. 13, 2012: Tuberville earns his fifth career win against a Top 5 team as the Red Raiders stun a potent West Virginia team in a 49-14 shocker at Jones AT&T Stadium. The Red Raiders rack up 676 yards against former assistant coach Dana Holgorsen and hold then-Heisman Trophy candidate Geno Smith to 275 passing yards and one touchdown.
■ Oct. 20, 2012: The Red Raiders exact a measure of revenge against Glasgow, who returned to TCU as safeties coach, by winning a 56-53 triple-overtime thriller over the Horned Frogs at Amon G. Carter Stadium. Just like the previous year, however, the Red Raiders would slide to a finish, losing four of their last five and allowing the grumbling from the fans to grow louder.
■ Nov. 10, 2012: The Red Raiders struggle to get past lowly Kansas, winning in overtime 41-34 at Jones AT&T Stadium. But no one really wanted to talk about the game, but what happened during the game. In the third quarter, Tuberville is seen on national television angrily reacting to personnel confusion on the sidelines, and appears to take a swipe at graduate assistant coach Kevin Oliver, yanking Oliver's headset and cap off his head in a violent motion before berating him for several seconds. Tuberville initially dismisses the incident, saying he was trying to get people off the field after being penalized for an illegal formation due to personnel confusion between the offense and the punt team. But as video of the incident on the internet went viral, Tuberville apologized to Oliver on Sunday and publicly on Monday. He was reprimanded by the Big 12 Conference, but Tech has not announced any further action.
■ Dec. 2, 2012: After finishing the season 7-5, Texas Tech accepts a bid to face Minnesota in the Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas at Reliant Stadium in Houston. It would have been the second bowl appearance for a Tech team in three seasons under Tuberville. Alas ...
■ Dec. 8, 2012: Tuberville shocks the college football world by resigning as head coach of Texas Tech to become the head coach at Cincinnati, a process that began with a phone call around 9 a.m. Saturday morning and ended with Tuberville's resignation two hours later. Hocutt expressed surprise, saying Tuberville "looked me in the eye and gave me his commitment and dedication to Texas Tech football" just the day before.
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Media Advisory
Homeless Veterans To Get A 'Hand Up' In Newark
WHO/WHAT: The New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, North New Jersey Stand Down Committee, Inc., and various other federal, state, public and private support agencies will co-host Northern New Jersey Stand Down 2012.
WHEN: Saturday, Oct. 13 /8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: John F. Kennedy Pool & Recreation Center, 211 West Kinney Street, Newark, New Jersey
DETAILS: Stand Down is an outreach program designed to provide homeless veterans and their family members with access to healthcare, medical screening, counseling on veterans' benefits, substance abuse counseling, legal and employment services, social services, vocational rehabilitation services, religious counseling, a hot meal, a haircut, and winter clothing. The goal of the program is to bring a wide range of resources together in one location so the veteran can access the various available services and be able to recognize that the community is concerned and committed to bring these services to them.
"Stand Down" derives its name from the military term referring to the temporary removal of exhausted combat troops from the battlefield to a safe place, behind the lines, for rest and recovery. Stand Down's are grass roots, community-based intervention programs to give homeless veterans a 'hand up … not a hand out'.
Homeless Veterans or their families can call the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs toll free number at 1-888-8NJ VETS (1-888-865-8387) for more information on available entitlements.


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At its regular monthly meeting, commissioners were updated on the current situation with the historic trees and took action to move forward with having several trees trimmed.
In May, the commission determined four trees at the cemetery were beginning to die and needed to come down. Before the job could be completed, it was halted at the request of Mayor Bill Eaton. Tree experts came out and determined the trees did were not in danger of dying and needed only to be trimmed.
To complete the trimming work, the original contractor that was hired needs to re-submit a bid for trimming the trees, rather than removing them. Commissioner John Harris said at Tuesday's meeting the contractor met with the arborist several weeks ago, but has not contacted the city since then to submit a new estimate for the work.
The original contract amount to cut down four trees was $11,200. The contractor was paid $5,600 and cut down one tree and part of a second before the work was stopped.
Commissioner and Alderman Garland Steuber made a motion the commission ask the contractor to submit a price to trim the remaining trees on his own, without the arborist. That motion was passed.
In other business, commissioners discussed a request to move two people within a family plot. The estimate for reinterment is $6,000 and must be approved by the City Council, though the Cemetery Commission does have the funds to cover the cost.


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Detroit Area Study, 1991: Collective Memories (ICPSR 2160)
Principal Investigator(s): Schuman, Howard
For this survey, respondents were asked to consider key historical national and world events since 1930 and to describe the impact of these events upon their lives and why these events seemed especially important. The list of events respondents were queried about included the invention of the television, the decline of communism in eastern Europe, the Korean War, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, space exploration, terrorism and hostage-taking, and the threat of nuclear war. Those queried were also asked about events or changes that were especially poignant to them and whether they kept memorabilia from the past, such as items from World War II, the Holocaust, or the Vietnam War. Specific questions on the events of World War II were included in the survey. Respondents also answered questions regarding events or changes related to their own interests, such as religion, sports, music, television, and films. Background information includes religion, marital status, education, employment, political orientation, and income.
Series: Detroit Area Studies Series
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Schuman, Howard. Detroit Area Study, 1991: Collective Memories. ICPSR02160-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2003. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02160.v1
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PHILADELPHIA -- A familiar feeling crept into the heads of the Saint Joseph's players after UMass overcame a big deficit to tie the game in the final minute.
Less than a month earlier, the Minutemen trailed by nine points before rallying to beat St. Joe's. But this time, on their home court, the Hawks didn't allow that to happen again.
Halil Kanacevic scored 18 points and Saint Joseph's broke away from a late tie to beat No. 21 Massachusetts 73-68 Saturday.
"They got us up there when we were feeling like we should have won that game," Kanacevic said. "And it almost happened again tonight. It's a great win."
Led by Chaz Williams, UMass rallied from a 16-point deficit in the second half and made it 68-all in the final minute. But St. Joe's hit five foul shots in the final 30 seconds to secure the win.
Kanacevic added six rebounds and five assists. Ronald Roberts scored 17 and DeAndre Bembry had 13 points and eight rebounds for the Hawks (15-6, 5-2 Atlantic 10), who have won 11 of 13.
Just don't try to call their latest win an upset - even if it was the Hawks' first win over a ranked team in two years.
"Take nothing away from UMass but we played them already and we almost beat them," Kanacevic said. "We feel like we should have beat them. I don't feel like it's an upset."
"I'm delighted we didn't storm the court or anything like that," St. Joe's coach Phil Martelli added. "That's not necessary."
Derrick Gordon scored 21 and Chaz Williams finished with 16 points and 10 assists for the Minutemen (17-4, 4-3). UMass has lost three of four, with all three losses coming on the road.
Williams scored nine points in the last 4:19 and forced a steal and fed Gordon for a game-tying layup with 1:23 left. He made a foul shot to tie it at 68 with 39 seconds left, but missed his second try. UMass failed to convert three straight putback attempts before Chris Wilson corralled the rebound for St. Joe's and got fouled.
"I thought we fought back and were probably a missed layup away from winning that game," UMass coach Derek Kellogg said. "We had two one-footers to go up two and we put them to the free throw line shortly thereafter."
After Wilson made both foul shots, the Hawks forced a turnover and Papa Ndao made two more free throws with 12.6 seconds left to make it 72-68.
UMass didn't get a shot off on the other end and Langston Galloway sealed the win by making one of two free throws with 5.9 seconds left.
Galloway, the Hawks' leading scorer, didn't have a point in the first half. He finished with seven on 2-for-7 shooting.
"I knew we were going to pull it out," Roberts said. "I knew we could do it. You just have to believe in yourselves, trust the coach and go out there and play hard."
The game was tied at 12 before the Hawks outscored the Minuteman 29-13 over the final 13:30 of the half.
UMass, the top-scoring team in the Atlantic 10, shot just 38.5 percent from the field and in the first half and finished with 12 points below its season average.
"I thought we played great basketball for 20 minutes of a 40-minute game and probably the worst half of basketball we could play in the first half," Kellogg said. "From missed layups to just not a lot of energy to different things, you just can't win on the road like that."
Saturday's game marks the end of tough stretch for the Minutemen, who have played five of their last six on the road and will almost certainly drop out of the Top 25 when the next rankings come out.
The Hawks began a three-game homestand against the elite teams of the Atlantic 10. They welcome first-place Saint Louis to Hagan Arena on Wednesday and second-place VCU next Saturday.
"If we want to go far at the end of the season, we have to climb the ladder," Roberts said. "This was a good test and these next two games are a great test. And playing at home is a great advantage."
Before the game, St. Joseph's celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the 2003-04 team that went undefeated in the regular season and advanced to the round of eight in the NCAA tournament. Many players from that team were in attendance.


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Of course Anime would win.But if you let someone smart,like Bruce Wayne get a hold of your weakness.The anime characters would be f*cked.His gadgets are unbelievable!
Huge Noctis fan-.-lol even though his game has not come out:D
Anime characters
Reasons why:
1) Light from Death Note can write your name down if he can find your real name that is
2) Lelouch from Code Geass can use geass on you so that you can kill yourself
3) Nagato from Naruto got the Six Pain bodies that will tear you apart
4) Naruto got the Sage Mode plus Kyuubi
5) Ichigo from Bleach got that full hollow mode
6) Tobi from Naruto got the jutsu that anything can go through him. I doubt any DC or Marvel Character can kill him since they go straight through him.
There's more to this since there's a lot of anime out there.
In the end...we are all satisfied...and you are set free.
Im on the anime side but this is interesting.I looked up strongest DC character and out of 50 Supes came in first:
1. Superman
Probably one of the most if not the most popular comic character ever. Superman is the icon of DC. In his most powerful forms he has fantastic feats of power such as moving entire multiple planets using his massive physical strength,and heat vision which he once used to such an extent, that he was able to heat the entire earth. He also possesses super breath which he usually uses to form gale force winds but can use it on such a great level that he could if he wished, destroy an entire solar system just by sneezing. His durability is on such a level that he can fly into the core of a sun and remain completely unharmed and actually get stronger since the main source of his power is solar energy. He can move at speeds so fast that he can transcend the speed of light itself and even keep up with the likes of Flash. He also has many powers and abilities aside from those listed here. Though his power fluctuates (and sometimes greatly) he always retains the powers of super strength,speed, heat vision and usually flight. An example of his fluctuating power is that in his golden age form, his physical strength is only estimated to be in the ten ton range and he loses the ability of flight entirely. But usually he is considered to be one of the strongest of all DC characters.
Huge Noctis fan-.-lol even though his game has not come out:D
Marvel > Anime > DC
Marvel is just far to strong, anime has some characters that can compete with top tiers, but with beings like the living Tribunal, Preretcon Beyonder and Molecular Man, Thanos with HoTU, anime just can't compete. DC is far to inconsistent, its a close match between Anime and DC, but DC lacks a true omnipotent and solid enough top tiers to take down Anime as a whole.
Though this isn't detracting anything away from anime, they have some redicioulsly strong characters themselves. The strongest being in anime is Kami Tenchi, being one of a few true omnipotents in fiction, but he would stalemate with The One Above All, both are true omnipotents so neither can win over the other, the fight would a be a endless paradox and we aren't even able to begin to comprehend it. The next highest beings in Anime are The Lord of Nightmares from Slayers and Elder God Demonbane from Demonbane, these are both incredible strong beings and give Marvel Top Tiers a run for their money, but even so Living Tribunal should be enough to put them down.
Also I am laughing at anyone who thinks the Big 3 or Dragonball are actually making a radiance here, Pre-Crises Superman can just sneeze them all away. The real anime power houses are coming from Tenchi Muyo, Slayers, Demonbane, Noein, and Digimon.
My anime OC of deviantart: Jordan ~Kendall~ Levin is essentially stronger.
With a height of 197cm, and muscular (top-to-bottom). His alliance? Good, during his school years, he was mocked & laughed on. Thanks to the teachers, his classmates (except for Deeks, his friend and nephew) got in major trouble.
I wanna look at it this way, anime, marvel and dc all have omnipotent characters. they all have characters that would undo time or the entire universe so obviously on that level they could all destroy each other. So when I look at it I am going to take it of the god tier and then just start from right below that and I would have to say that in my opinion anime characters would win. Like I said no god characters at all because every groups gods would just erase the others worlds and characters and that's just an exercise in futility. looking at typical characters though i think the reason anime would win besides numbers I'm pretty sure there might be a few more anime characters, would be the diversity in there powers, not only are there a ton of people with super strength, there is all kinds of badass shit like geass, bankai, death note, kamehameha, six paths just to name the ones from the more mainstream anime. literally almost any show can have something completely different and from my experience with comic book heroes, their powers tend to be of the generic qualities i.e strength, speed, size manipulation, and i know anime has those too, but i think they also have a lot more other stuff to give them the edge.
There are exceptions, but generally anime fails in comparison, but thats part of the reason I enjoy and watch anime more often.
Frankly though, I'm not a fan of western art (no offense to MARVEL, DC comics creators). Which my interest for western hero cartoons took a nose dive.
Only those pertaining to asian artists, like japanese artists that do manga, and one time drew scenes of the Christian bible (Manga Bible, on Amazon , Christian bookstores & smartphones).
I think Marvel has the stronger characters, the Hulk and Franklin Richards, just to name two.
Living life in the Far Far West
I'd say anime.
It's never good enough...
anime characters because they have majin buu who can just regenerate his whole body plus he could just absorb them or turn them into candy
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Maybe majin buu.
Never Forget, I miss you all and love you all so much. Thank you
Because I have earned a higher degree in animelogy and I am professor of Opness I can say with 100% certainty that answer to every question is.
Son Gogu Fused with The dragonballs in the end of dragonball GT.
Nuff said.


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I'm actually looking into almost the exact the same thing as this guy.
I want a dedicated machine to serve up Minecraft (via Bukkit), Mumble/Murmur in-game VOIP, and Team Fortress II for my friends and I -- and FTP, VPN, and media streaming services for myself. This would allow me to keep my more power-hungry desktop to sleep when I'm not using it, and provide better quality service for connected users.
I'm having trouble deciding on platform, AMD versus Intel. On the one hand, I live in Wyoming. Energy costs are cheap, so going the AMD route each month might not cost me all that much, and I could get killer performance for a hell of a lot less upfront money than with an Intel-based system. An FX-8320 with 2 x 4 GB DDR3-1600 ECC RAM, along with a 60 GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD and maybe a cheap low-RPM "green" hard drive would get me a great deal of stability and performance for not a lot money. I could conceivably save even more money (but not power) by choosing to go with the severely discounted Phenom II X4 965. On the flip side, it's entirely possible that a decent Core i3 system, with two strong cores and two side "hyperthreads" would handle the workload I'm proposing just fine, and sip power to boot.
On the flip side, I'm told Minecraft Server is not multithreaded except where chunk loading is concerned (which is actually the area I'm most concerned about). I have no information about how multi-threaded Mumble/Murmur is, despite spending the better part of an hour or two searching for that information. I'm unaware of how well Source Dedicated Server multithreads, nor how well Filezilla Server multithreads.


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Earthquakes Change the Earth
The March 11, magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan may have shortened the length of each Earth day and shifted its axis. Using a United States Geological Survey estimate for how the fault responsible for the earthquake slipped, research scientist Richard Gross of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., applied a complex model to perform a preliminary theoretical calculation of how the Japan earthquake-the fifth largest since 1900-affected Earth's rotation. His calculations indicate that by changing the distribution of Earth's mass, the Japanese earthquake should have caused Earth to rotate a bit faster, shortening the length of the day by about 1.8 microseconds (a microsecond is one millionth of a second). There are about 86,400 seconds (86 billion microseconds) in a day, so the impact of the earthquake is quite small. The calculations also show the Japan quake should have shifted the position of Earth's figure axis (the axis about which Earth's mass is balanced) by about 6.5 inches, towards 133 degrees east longitude. The Earth's figure axis is not the same as its north-south axis in space, which it spins around once every day at a speed of about 1,000 mph. The figure axis is the axis around which the Earth's mass is balanced.
In comparison, following last year's magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile, Gross estimated the Chile quake should have shortened the length of day by about 1.26 microseconds and shifted Earth's figure axis by about 3 inches. A similar calculation performed after the 2004 magnitude 9.1 Sumatran earthquake revealed it should have shortened the length of day by 6.8 microseconds and shifted Earth's figure axis by about 7 centimeters, or 2.76 inches. How an individual earthquake affects Earth's rotation depends on its size (magnitude), location and the details of how the fault slipped.
There are many other factors that affect the length of the day. For example tidal friction (caused by the Moon)slowly increases the length of the day over millenia.
Earth's rotation period relative to the Sun (true noon to true noon) is its true solar day or apparent solar day. It depends on the Earth's orbital motion and is thus affected by changes in the eccentricity and inclination of Earth's orbit. Both vary over thousands of years so the annual variation of the true solar day also varies. Generally, it is longer than the mean solar day during two periods of the year and shorter during another two periods.
Gross said that, in theory, anything that redistributes Earth's mass will change Earth's rotation.
"Earth's rotation changes all the time as a result of not only earthquakes, but also the much larger effects of changes in atmospheric winds and oceanic currents," he said. "Over the course of a year, the length of the day increases and decreases by about a millisecond, or about 550 times larger than the change caused by the Japanese earthquake. The position of Earth's figure axis also changes all the time, by about 3.3 feet over the course of a year, or about six times more than the change that should have been caused by the Japan quake."
In some ways the Japan earthquake is part of the more general phenomena known as continental drift which is typically measured in centimeters per year. However, the drift rate varies and the earthquake in Japan is part of the same tectonic process that moves the continents. Some scientists have determined that the temblor's force may have moved parts of eastern Japan as much as 12 feet closer to North America and that Japan may have shifted downward about two feet.
For further information: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-080&rn=news.xml&rst=2938