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譯者:agou 人道義工 夏之耘
潤稿:agou 動保員NO.2
People who are tormented by the dog and cat overpopulation crisis sometimes try to help by keeping large numbers of animals in their homes or in so-called "no-kill shelters." However, all too often, though these people may begin with the best of intentions, many quickly find themselves overwhelmed with both work and expenses, and the situation for the animals they have taken in deteriorates, sometimes to a horrific degree.
For example, New York state investigators called to the Animals Farm Home found hundreds of starving, mange-infested dogs crowded into dark, unventilated barns. Fed only moldy bread and water, the dogs were cannibalizing each other out of hunger. More than 175 of the animals were too ill to be saved, and more than 200 required emergency veterinary care.
There are countless cases of collectors keeping hundreds of animals in miserable conditions in the belief that the animals are better off alive (in even the most hellish conditions) than euthanized. But dogs and cats who live in small, filthy pens or cages without socialization suffer the same depression, loneliness, and abject misery as animals in laboratories. They are living proof that there really are fates worse than death.
There are countless cases of collectors keeping hundreds of animals in miserable conditions in the belief that the animals are better off alive (in even the most hellish conditions) than euthanized.
Quantity Over Quality 數量超過質量
Collectors may feel that they "love" animals, but they can be blind to the fact that they are not caring for them responsibly even in the face of starvation and death. Collectors are usually unable to bear the thought of euthanasia, but vast numbers of animals are "saved" only to languish in a squalid, crowded environment where they suffer from malnourishment, illness, inactivity, poor ventilation, and lack of human companionship. PETA has found dogs and cats kept in cages, crates, hutches, and even kitchen cabinets, some even being allowed to breed. Collectors usually can't afford to pay for all the spaying and neutering (not to mention the routine veterinary care) the animals need, so their collection grows until the filth, stench, and noise attract the attention of neighbors or health, sanitation, or humane officials.
PETA investigators found one woman living in a filthy trailer with close to 100 cats and dogs. Others were kept in pens outside. The temperature inside the trailer was in the 90s, and its floors were caked with excrement. Food and water bowls were contaminated with waste and cat litter. Some animals were hiding in cupboards, with trash for bedding. Most were emaciated and ill, some so weak they couldn't stand. There were 11 barely breathing kittens whose eyes were swollen shut with pus. Investigators described the scene as "a sea of miserable animals."
In another case, investigators found a New York couple living in a trailer with 100 emaciated, dehydrated cats. The cats were severely infested with fleas, ear mites, and other parasites and suffered from advanced stages of upper respiratory infections. Many were near death. The floor of the trailer had rotted from urine. The couple had started their collection by feeding, but not spaying or neutering, stray cats. What had begun as a bad situation for a few animals was made into a hellhole for many.
在另外一個案例裡,善待動物調查人員發現一對住在紐約的夫婦和一百隻瘦弱脫水的貓咪住在一輛拖車裡,貓身上感染了嚴重的跳蚤、耳蟎 等寄生蟲和嚴重的上呼吸道感染,甚至許多貓已經瀕臨死亡狀態。地板到處都是尿液並且已經造成腐爛情況。
Isolation and Illness 隔離和疾病
Many collectors allow animals to take over their homes and lives so completely that they lose contact with friends and family. Collectors often find themselves isolated and psychologically dependent on their animals, and they need and cling to them to the animals' detriment.Some suffer from mental illness. Without psychiatric help, even collectors convicted of cruelty to animals almost always revert to collecting.
Veterinarian Karen Kemper, who has studied animal addicts extensively, has found that their behavior parallels that of substance abusers. She lists the following traits collectors share with substance addicts: preoccupation with the addiction; repetition of the addictive behavior; alibis for their behavior; neglect of personal, physical, and environmental conditions; claims of persecution; presence of enablers who assist financially; denial that the addiction exists; isolation from the rest of society except for those who also deal in the addiction; and abuse of animals through neglect.
美國獸醫師卡倫Karen Kemper,曾經研究過這些動物收藏者的案例,他們與物質濫用者有同樣的心理以及行為的相似之處。
Dangerous Denial 危險否認
Collectors also commonly display an abnormal fear of death and a denial of death as a natural part of life. A PETA investigator found dead cats in one collector's freezer. Another collector, also unable to accept the death of her cats, eviscerated their bodies and dried them on her fire escape, keeping their dried remains in cupboards. (6) Many collectors see themselves as the only person who can help animals, and they distrust other individuals or groups who offer assistance. When outsiders intervene, collectors may refuse to part with any of their animals, even through adoption or veterinary care for the sick. When one collector's dogs were seized, she fought to keep them from receiving heartworm treatment.
Unwitting Accomplices 不知情的幫兇
Unfortunately, the public often supports collectors' addictions with sympathy, money, and more animals, because it sounds ideal to "save" animals from being killed. The collector may become known as the neighborhood "cat person" or "dog person," collecting strays and taking in "drop-offs." Some have acquired nonprofit, tax-exempt status and call themselves shelters. (8)
Collectors' claims that they are "saving" animals often result in heartwarming news stories that stand in stark contrast to the negligent treatment the animals actually receive. If a cruelty investigation is undertaken, collectors attract sympathy from a public unaware that the "care" being provided is, in reality, unspeakable neglect and cruelty.
What You Can Do 您該怎麼辦
Alert humane officials if animals are being neglected or abused by their caretakers; even those who are well-intentioned.
Promote legislation that requires licensing, inspection, and strict regulation of private and public animal shelters.
In a case where a humane society is confiscating a collector's animals, offer to help the shelter by walking or playing with the animals.
Investigate before you turn an animal over to any shelter, humane group, or "rescuer." Tour the facility yourself and accept no excuses for not being allowed inside. Ask lots of questions about animal care and adoption policies. You do not want to turn a vulnerable animal over to someone who collects a minor fee or none at all and then hands that animal over to anyone who comes through the door. These kinds of people are ideal prey for those seeking "bait" animals for fighting dogs, cats and dogs to sell to laboratories, or guard dogs to chain up and neglect. For more information, contact PETA's Literature Department for our free brochure "Finding the Right Home for Your Companion Animal."


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organizing data files on your Computer's Hard Drive guide
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Matt stays active in his community of New Ashford, Massachusetts, by participating as either member or chairman of school, library, and town committees. He's married, has two children, has earned a B.A. in Political Science, and is Marketing Director of Brodie Mountain Ski Resort where he began as laborer and maintenance worker.
An avid reader, Matt enlightens us with some fascinating facts he has gleaned about a little-known group of vegetarians, the Essenes.
Early Essenes
About 2,000 years ago, much of the Middle East, including Egypt, was inhabited by the Jews. Then, as now, there were many sects in Judaism. One major sect was the peace-loving, vegetarian Essenes. The contemporary historian, Josephus, describing characteristics of the Essenes notes:
In his description, Josephus portrays the Essenes as charitable, devout, totally honest, and trustworthy. They based their decisions on majority consent, pooled their wealth and possessions together, made no wars, were peace-loving, were frugal, were healthier than most others, and lived to a very old age, often over 100 years. Josephus is purported to have been influenced by some of these attributes in his early years.
Evidently, there was then, as there is now, an ongoing debate about the relationship of mankind with the rest of creation, including that with non-human animals. One line of thought looked upon all creation as sacred, and abhorred the use or harm of any animal. Many ancient Greek philosophers, notably Pythagoras, preached vegetarianism and respect for all life, and had a big impact on the thoughts of the ancient world. This same line of thinking was also commonplace in the ancient Jewish world. I'm sure there are many connections. There are examples of this reverence expressed in the books of Daniel, Micah, Hosea, Ecclesiastes, and especially Isaiah.
The Essenes could have certainly been influenced by religions from the East, like Jainism or Buddhism. It is known that the Essenes, with their pacifist tendencies, ate no animal flesh. It is believed by some biblical scholars that the Essenes and the early Christians were one in the same people. Much evidence exists to indicate that Jesus was born into the Essene world and was its most famous member.
Was Jesus Vegetarian? The Essene Gospel of Peace
In 1937, Edmond Bordeaux Szekely, Ph.D., professor, traveler and philologist (among many other things) translated a collection of secret ancient Aramaic manuscripts which he discovered in the secret vaults of the Vatican and in the Royal Archives of the Hapsburgs (now in possession by the Austrian Government). The "Essene Gospel Of Peace," which this collection is called was said to have been written in the 3rd century BCE.
Book One of the Gospel of Peace puts quite an interesting view to our traditional outlook on Christian teachings. Here, there exists a different trinity; The Heavenly Father (to whom we commend our soul/spirit), The Earthly Mother (of whom we are from, and who nurtures our physical bodies) and the Son Of Man, the Master (who has come down to Earth to show us the way). The Master teaches us to embrace the Angels of Air, Water and Sunlight for our bodily health.
The Master (Jesus) teaches us to pray to the Heavenly Father in the familiar Christian prayer we know as the "Our Father," and also teaches us to pray to the Earthly Mother (nature), sustainer of all life with a parallel prayer, the "Our Mother."
In this text, which is noticeably absent from our modern bible, Jesus spells out a lifestyle which resembles that which today we call "Natural Hygiene," including a raw foods diet, water fasting, clearly a vegetarian diet, and an admonition to do no harm to other forms of life. We can see some of the same lifestyle today with the Seventh Day Adventists
The Master emphasizes that cooking "takes the life" out of foods. The plant kingdom abounds with live healing and restorative powers, which we should take use of for optimal health. The body, created by our Earthly Mother, houses the spirit which is destined for our Heavenly Father. Therefore, we need take the utmost care of this holy and sacred vessel, our body.
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947, the position that Jesus was a vegetarian Essene has been even more solidified. Some of the scrolls contain Essene traditional parables and phrases, which pre-dated Jesus by a hundred years, yet read almost verbatim the lines and verses attributed to Jesus in the New Testament. This is thought to show that Jesus was trained in standard Essene philosophy, and these New Testament verses reflect standard Essene teachings.
Much of the Dead Sea Scrolls still remain locked away from our eyes by religious authorities. Both contemporary Christian and Jewish scholars, in conjunction with modern religious authorities, feel that the general population "is not competent enough to interpret" what is in the scrolls. I wonder if these contemporary writings are too challenging to the modern religious dogma, with which most people are familiar?
Modern Essenes
There still is a modern Essene movement in motion. "They possess no one city, but everywhere have large colonies." Modern Essene thought still holds fast to a Natural Hygiene lifestyle, replete with a vegan raw foods diet and regular fasting. With the ability to combat cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and a whole range of common but serious ailments, the raw food diet is one we are hearing more and more about. Maybe this has something to do with Jesus' reputation as a great healer. There are more and more vegetarians experimenting with raw foods, and getting great results!
One of the most prominent Essene spokespersons today is Viktoras Kulvinskas on the web at: http://www.naturalusa.com/viktor/). Viktoras is a guest lecturer at many recent major vegetarian events. Some other Essene/raw food sites to visit are Master Raw Vegan Chef Cherie Soria http://www.rawfoodchef.com, Nomi Shannon http://www.rawgourmet.com, and Living & Raw Foods http://www.rawlivingfoods.com/.
Essene literature, including The Essene Gospel of Peace can be obtained directly from the International Biogenic Society, which was founded in 1928 by Dr. Edmond Bordeaux Szekely and Nobel Prize winning author, Romain Rolland.
I.B.S. can be reached at:
Though not an Essene myself, but merely a student of the world, I find the story of the Essenes quite fascinating. They may have much to offer the modern world. Let's all keep working to spread these same concepts of reverence for life, vegetarianism, peace and brotherhood for a better world.
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Writer and Publisher
John J. Mutter, Jr., writer and publisher, has been published in many newspapers and magazines and has written several books. Born in Racine, Wisconsin in 1943, he spent his childhood there. In 1961, he joined the Navy which took him from Great Lakes, Illinois for boot camp to Patuxent River, Maryland for shore duty to Little Creek, Virginia on amphibious ships. He also participated in the first bomb shelter test. He worked as a merchant seaman on ships headquartered in Oakland, California. A Vietnam War veteran, he began his blue collar life working in a variety of jobs including machine shop attendant, gas station worker, paper mill employee, bartender, construction worker, security guard, car mechanic, bailiff, grave digger, and meat counter attendant in a super market. His last full-time job was 15 years as a power plant operator at a maximum security prison in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
His life-long dream of becoming a writer was fulfilled after he attended a one-week school for creative writing in 1980. Since that time, he has become known as a storyteller, activist, environmentalist, historian, speaker, trophy winning pool player, outdoorsman, biographer and award winning writer.


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Muwahaha!!!! (evil laugh)
I've been so excited for Halloween—Not that I have anywhere to go…Or am dressing up, or anything exciting like that…While I do love to get all decked out in a good costume, this year I've been in a new place and have been just as happy to chill with some spooky books and scary movies on some classic stormy, dark nights.
So, while I've been catching up on some of the classics, and some of my favorites, I've been a little slow in acquiring books the last couple weeks—(that and the Barnes&Noble is still being pretty chintzy with their free ebook specials. I'm certainly grateful for all their previous giveaways, but I'm slightly irked to find that they have a brand-new Nook coming out just 6 months after I bought mine. And of course I bought mine at the original price, not the new lower price…And mine gets wi-fi, but not 3G.)(*DISCLAIMER* I still love my Nook, and I would have been absolutely lost without it the last couple of months; it's without a doubt one of the best investments I've ever made)(not that I wouldn't be absolutely ecstatic for the shiny new version)(sigh)
Not that this week has been a loss, by any means.
First off, I don't think I mentioned, (at least not until yesterday) but in the Halloween spirit, I got a galley of Stephen Rebello's Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. It's to die for! ;)
Also in the Halloween spirit—or at least in the spirit of candy, Tera Lynn Childs released chapter 9 of her sweet sensation—Eye Candy. If you're not reading this, I'm so sad for you. First, because it's free, and secondly, because it's absolutely mouthwateringly gooooood!!!!!
And speaking of sweetness…Halloween ended up coming a little early for me this year. Or at least the trick-or-treating. Ok, it was all treats. Apparently there is a real place called $1 Bookstore. And it is filled with books that are only $1. It's like a Dollar Store, but filled with books. Forget Disneworld, this is the most amazing place on earth. I could have spent forever there. Sigh.
I came away with Meg Cabot's Teen Idol and Tina Ferraro's Top Ten Uses for an Unworn Prom Dress, both of which are new (to me) books that have been on my tbr list for awhile, but hadn't quite made it into my hands until now.
I also picked up a couple of old favorites, just for nostalgia's sake. I read Theodore Taylor's The Cay and Joanna Campbell's Thoroughbred series as a kid, and couldn't resist picking them up to reread.
And lastly, I'm always on the lookout for older books that are kind of off-beat, hence Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints.
Well, that's it for me. Here's hoping your Halloween is all treats and no tricks!!!!
*In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi over at The Story Siren* So head over there if you want to check out what everyone else got, or if you want to find out how to participate!!!


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A deer is fed a bottle of beer at a resort in Weihai, northern China's Shandong province. According to Zhang Xiangxi, who works as a waitress at the resort's restaurant, she discovered the deer's unusual tastes last November when she was cleaning up after some customers. She says: "I saw a bottle of beer was still half full so I playfully passed it to the deer. Unexpectedly it bit the bottle and raised its head and drank all the beer in one shot." Since then, says Zhang, whenever there is any leftover beer she takes it to feed to the deer. She comments: "It has a growing addiction to beer. To begin with it was half a bottle but now it is several big bottles in a row. Her daily feed is around two bottles of beer." Zhang adds: "I don't know what her maximum appetite for beers is though we once tried giving her four bottles of beer and she drank them all"
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(Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) February 15, 2013 — After meeting with young people in the bateys near Buyaguana, I attended a two day conference here entitled "The Right to a Nationality and the Rule of Law in the Dominican Republic: Perspectives and Challenges."
Throughout the first day, participants met in closed sessions with different configurations of affected persons, experts, and decision-makers. The next day, we all gathered together for a series of panels in which academics, advocates, lawyers, affected people and government officials discussed the many aspects of nationality in the Dominican Republic.
Through their presentations, and the rich discussions that followed, it became clear that Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent really face two barriers in accessing documentation, citizenship, and Dominican society in general. The first is a network of unjust laws, but the second is the even more discriminatory execution of those laws.
For example, ever since the Constitution was reformed in 2010, the law says that anyone born of two undocumented persons within the Dominican Republic is not automatically granted citizenship. But in practice, young people with even one undocumented parent are having trouble accessing their documentation.
Similarly, in my earlier article, I wrote that there was no way for children born of undocumented mothers to be declared, because there was no way for men to register as single fathers. It turns out that, while the young people who told me this were speaking the truth of their lived experience, this is technically false. According to the law, both mothers and fathers can register their children. However, in practice, only mothers are allowed to register children and fathers are turned away.
This gap between the actual law and the implementation of the law can also been seen the vulnerability of young undocumented women to gender-based violence, especially as domestic workers and sex workers. Of course, sexual violence against these women is illegal. But in practice, there are few consequences for those who perpetrate gender-based violence against undocumented women, be they Haitians or Dominicans of Haitian ancestry.
Tahira Vargas, a social anthropologist, told the story of one of the young women she interviewed, who was raped by the son of her employers. When she told her mother what had happened, her mother told her that she had to stay quiet or else her employers would denounce her and she would be deported. As was related by others, this is likely true. Without protections that provide legal pathways for victims of crimes, undocumented women often must choose between denouncing their abusers and being deported to a country they've never known.
While these realities are distressing, much about the conference was encouraging. In 2011, Jesuit Refugee Service/USA helped host a conference in Washington, D.C., focused on statelessness. The conference that I attended last week is, in many ways, the second chapter of the 2011 conference. Though the legal status of far too many young people remains unchanged, some progress is evident.
While the conversation in 2011 was among advocates, NGO staff, and academics—all trying to understand what was going on, and to plan together a strategy to move forward—this conference incorporated important parts of the Dominican government. Included among the participants were Congress people, judges and two members of the Central Electoral Board, the controversial board that administers the civil registry and is at the epicenter of the documentation crisis.
While there is still significant disagreement about what the problem is and how to solve it, the fact that decision-makers came face-to-face with affected people and said "yes, we must look for solutions" is a new step in the process of securing the right to a nationality for all Dominicans.
By Mary Small, Jesuit Refugee Service/USA Assistant Director for Policy, currently in the Dominican Republic. Related stories from this trip: "Facing the Reality of Statelessness," can be read here and "Accompanying Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic" can be read here.
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Here are the blogs that have taken the dare for today:
Sadly, today is the final Day of Dare to Dresden Blog Hop. I have enjoyed seeing all the wonderful Dresdens out there in blogland! Many, many inspiring dresden quilts! Thank you everyone for sharing your creativity. Thank you Mdm Samm and Christine for hostessing!
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Ken Livingstone is now almost neck and neck with Boris Johnson as the most likely winner of the 2012 Mayoral election.
The latest odds at Ladbrokes show that Ken has surged to 5/4 just a short distance from Boris at 11/10.
Oona meanwhile has slipped down to just 9/1
To put those figures in perspective, a successful £10 bet on Ken would give you a return of £22.50 whereas one on Boris would give you £21.
Oona meanwhile would get you a whopping £90.
Of course it's just betting odds and we haven't seen a poll for a very long time, but as Boris wrote in the run up to the general election:
"Here you are looking at the predictions that people are willing to defend with their own money... The reason I trust the punters of Betfair more than I trust a poll in a Sunday paper is that the punters have thought it through with the care of those investing their own money."
So come on Boris put your money where your mouth is and tell us finally whether you're going to run again in 2012.


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The Legacy Summits
While the College Football Playoff national championship game moves from city to city, the cities who have played host in previous years still have an opportunity to continue their involvement with the Extra Yard for Teachers initiative by hosting Legacy Summits.
The Legacy Summits are licensed through the CFP Foundation but are organized locally by the communities who have previously participated in the Extra Yard for Teachers initiatives.
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RRCC Faculty Brenda Forland Honored with Wartgow Award Designation recognizes innovation of 'Teaching with Technology'
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RRCC Faculty Brenda Forland Honored with Wartgow Award
Designation recognizes innovation of 'Teaching with Technology'
Lakewood, CO – Red Rocks Community College Math Faculty Brenda Forland was honored recently with the Jerome Wartgow Teaching with Technology Award. This award recognizes a full-time faculty for excellence in using educational technologies as an effective tool to stimulate, enhance and meaningfully improve teaching and learning within the Colorado Community College System.
Brenda was nominated by Red Rocks Community College leadership and was selected among nominees across the entire system. As the recipient of this award, she received $500 cash, as well as recognition at the CCCS Faculty of the Year Ceremonies last week at the Community College of Aurora.
According to her nominators, Brenda embodied the spirit of the award with her innovative use of Open Educational Resources (OER) technology. She has been a leader in the Red Rocks math department by implementing OER, working with the college's Information Technology department to install, setup and manage WeBWorK on a locally hosted Linux server. WeBWorK is a low-cost technology solution for providing a web-based interactive system designed to make homework in mathematics and the sciences more effective and efficient. Brenda manages WeBWorK and provides support for faculty and instructors implementing the technology into face-to-face and online courses. She is also programming new questions to be added to the WeBWorK Open Problem Library, which are available to all math faculty and instructors.
Brenda has also been a strong supporter of OpenStax textbooks and is currently using the OER textbook, Algebra and Trigonometry in her face-to-face college algebra courses. In combination with the free textbook to students, she incorporates free instructional videos developed by a departmental colleague. The culmination of these OER resources provide Red Rocks math students a dynamic, interactive and low-cost alternative to traditional publishers.
Brenda has also been a leader in online learning at the college and actively participated in the development and implementation of the Red Rocks Online Course Quality Guidelines.
"Brenda's passion to support quality online courses is reflected by her instrumental role in the development of a new Red Rocks committee to continually support and build on these guidelines," said Jon Johnson, Director of Instructional Technology at RRCC. "At any institution, Brenda's performance, dedication and commitment to life-long learning would be notable. But when one factors in her commitment to learning, OER, and academic excellence it becomes all the more impressive."
Brenda received her Master's Degree in Mathematics at Montana State University in 2010. After spending time in the National Security Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, she came to Red Rocks Community College in the Fall of 2013.
About Red Rocks Community College
Established in 1969, Red Rocks Community College delivers high-quality, affordable education programs leading to two-year degrees or professional certificates. The college serves over 12,000 students per year online and at campus locations in Lakewood and Arvada.


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My Computer
This is a blog documenting my progress on my computer. There have been some good purchases, bad purchases, and even a fire. Creep with me, as I cruise in my Beemer All the kids in the ghetto call me Don Cartagena.
Saturday, February 6, 2016
It's been a while!
It's been over 2 years since my last post. Not much going on but I figured I'd share my new rig.
Current specs are
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Current specs are
- Intel Core i7-5960X 4.6GHz
- ASUS Rampage V Extreme
- Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB DDR4 2800
- ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti STRIX
- 4x Raid0 SAMSUNG 850 PRO 256GB SSD
- 2x WD Red 1TB NAS Desktop Hard Disk Drive
- Corsair Carbide Series Air 540
Here is my Raid0 craziness with the 4 SSD
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
ROG Realbench w/ 4770k Maximus VI Hero
I went into the BIOS and set up the AUTO profile for 4.6GHz. This was the easiest OC I've done.
Monday, June 24, 2013
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Overclocking on the Rampage IV Extreme is so easy it's stupid
After spending months getting my FX8350 stable at 5.0GHz with CFVZ and then aiming for 4.5GHz with the Gigabyte x79-UP7 with the 3930K, I went and bought a Rampage IV Extreme. With the two previous setups I must have spent at least 100 hours overclocking and testing.
With the RIVE I set it to the gamer OC profile of 4.7GHz and set my RAM to their recommended settings. I ran Prime 95 overnight and BOOM!! Temps never went over 50C and I'm done. In some very strange way I almost feel cheated? Great job ROG team!
Friday, April 19, 2013
My New GPU
Well, I returned one of the 7970's and my original one I had to RMA. The crossfire wasn't working out too well with games and I got sick of troubleshooting. I also got a set of CORSAIR Dominator Platinum 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 Desktop Memory Model CMD16GX3M4A2133C9. The problem is, is i cant get a stable OC on the RAM at 2133 and anything on my 3930K over 4.0. It could be the Gigabyte X79 UP4 or my lack of knowledge with a Gigabyte board.
Here is my now with a MSI 5450
Here is my now with a MSI 5450
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
I'm having much more fun with new setup.
After doing some bench marking I've realized that water cooling doesn't pay. The H100i is perfect and cheap. I'm running my 3930K at 4.5Ghz and never pass 50C. Instead of cooling my 7970 I picked up another 7970 that was refurbished. It was cheaper then the Komodo block and the Alphacool pump. Don't forget about the money for the radiators and all the fittings. My analysis is, only build a custom wc setup if you want it to look cool or you are maxed out on hardware. If you can still buy a better CPU or another GPU you should do that instead.
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To answer this question we must look at three different periods in his life: his youth, his life in London, and his married/family life. In this episode I talk to our guests about the different properties we know Shakespeare lived in, which ones he owned and when he bought them, and we also look at what life would have been like living in these very different properties, both for Shakespeare and his housemates.
Image: Shakespeare's Birthplace before restoration, 1769.
This week's guests are:
- Professor Stanley Wells, Honorary President of the SBT
- Professor Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute
- Dr Elizabeth Dollimore, Outreach and Primary Learning Manager at the SBT
- Dr Tara Hamling, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern history at Birmingham University
- Dr Paul Edmondson, Head of Research and Knowledge at the SBT
In this podcast we also talk briefly about the exciting project the SBT is undertaking to re imagine the site of New Place, Shakespeare's final home. You can keep abreast of the developments and news from that project over on the blog.
If you want to get in touch, you can tweet us on @ShakespeareBT or using the hashtag #talkshakespeare
Related posts on our Finding Shakespeare blog:
- Barnum and the Birthplace
- The Story of the Purchase of Shakespeare's Birthplace
- On the trail of Mary Hornby
- Visualising Shakespeare's New Place
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Suggesting an Iranian spin on "Romeo and Juliet," but with the notion of tragic, unconditional love replaced by world-weariness and cynicism, director Rassul Sadr Ameli's "The Girl in the Sneakers" makes for a highly enjoyable addition to the burgeoning canon of exciting new films from the Middle East. Neither as contemplatively naturalistic as Abbas Kiarostami's Koker trilogy nor as impressionistic as Majid Majidi's series of children's adventures, pic has a directness that well suits both its outspoken title character and its setting amid the hustle-bustle of contemporary Tehran. With proper niche handling targeted at Persian filmgoers, pic, which opens July 14 on one screen in Santa Monica, could become a word-of-mouth success in specialized venues.
Pic opens on a teenage couple — Aideen (Majid Hajizadeh) and Tadai (Pegah Ahangarani) — strolling through a Tehran park. Though they have met only recently, they are of a piece in their wistful daydreaming. He admits to having his life changed by reading the literary adventures of Don Juan; she, at only 15, fancifully yearns for an adult world she imagines herself to be more than ready for. Together, they seek a way of literalizing their reveries, until reality catches up with them in the form of a police officer who arrests Aideen on suspicion that he has deflowered Tadai.
It's a false alarm, of course, but one that serves as a subtly potent reminder of the conservative modes of social discourse that make Middle Eastern cultures enigmatic to most Americans. That Tadai should even be seen in a public place, with a young man her own age to whom she is not related, outrages her parents. They demand disciplinary action be taken against Aideen and forbid Tadai from seeing him again.
Distraught and dejected in the best spirit of rebellious adolescent movie protagonists, Tadai quickly decides that she cannot live without seeing Aideen once more. She runs away from home, setting off on a 24-hour journey through Tehran while she waits to be reunited with her love. Hers is an odyssey through the lives of merchants and servants, passers-by and full-time street dwellers, like the put-upon gypsy woman (Akram Mohammadi) to whose aid Tadai comes, and who later returns the favor.
Tadai's adventures are constructed as an intricate series of reversals of fortunes. Ameli relates the pic's action in a series of long, entrancing takes, and co-writers Peyman Qasemkhani and Fereydoun Farhudi's dialogue is exceptionally sly and perceptive on matters of pubescent arrogance and discontent. But the film's real strength is that, underneath its familiar rebellious-youth-picture veneer, the filmmakers have crafted a pungent satire on the foolhardiness of youth and the cruelty of a dog-eat-dog world in which no one, not even a kindly gypsy beggar, is to be taken at face value.
Pic's true setting is that tentative space between carefree adolescence and responsible adulthood, and its poetic quality largely derives from the way Ameli neither condemns teenage idealism nor embraces the ordinariness of the grownup world. Tadai's journey ultimately amounts to her trying adulthood on for size, finding it an ill fit and, for the time being, throwing it back on the rack. And in that way, Ameli's film adopts the fable-like quality of the best-known recent Iranian movies.
Tadai's impetus for running away in the first place and subjecting herself to harsh street conditions never feels fully formed here, and it would be easy to fault "The Girl in the Sneakers" for that. But as Ameli makes clear, the film is meant to suggest that the idleness of youth frequently leads to high drama and a skewed view of reality. Pic also makes a couple of misguided forays into a less organic, more broadly slapstick style of comedy.
There's impressive depth of feeling in Ahangarani's extraordinary lead performance. Her wide-eyed, quick-tongued precociousness is irresistible, and her presence easily carries the film over its rougher spots.


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Grief is so much more than death, separation or divorce and there are so many people living a limited life because they are carrying around old, unresolved grief. These unresolved issues could be anything from moving, changing schools or losing a beloved pet to loss of trust, loss of self worth or loss of your physical body through illness or abuse. It's just that we haven't been taught that these issues, and many more, needs to be taken care of and resolved so that the person can move on in life. It's so easy to be stuck with old memories and wrongdoings. We get reminded of them from time to time and all of a sudden we find ourselves experiencing the whole emotional trauma over and over again!
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Baqai Medical University is located in Super Highway, Toll Plaza, Gadap suburb of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. This is very famous university of Pakistan. Every year thousand of students get admission in this university. This university have complete admission procedure and all students get admission on merit. It was founded in 1988 and is ranked number 13 in the HEC rankings for medical universities in Pakistan. Mostly students of Pakistan have wish to get admission in this university. Courses are in medicine, health management sciences, dentistry, pharmaceutical sciences, and veterinary science and there are interdisciplinary courses.
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- Candidate must have minimum secure 2nd division or 55% marks
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- Those whose application form is completed and received before till the last date
- Candidates having foreign degree must have to provide NOC issued by IBCC Islamabad
Baqai Medical University Admission 2018
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|Application form available at main campuses.Baqai medical university Near toll plaza, Karachi.City Campus Building BIIT Behind Baqai Hospital Karachi. from 09 AM to 03 PM
Document Required
- 3 recent passport size photographs with back ground blue
- High School Provisional Certificate
- High School Mark Sheet / Certificate
- Higher Secondary School Mark Sheet / HEC-I Admit Card
- 2nd year Admit Card photocopy to be emotionally involved if Mark piece is awaited. Submit F.Sc.-II, Mark sheet as soon as it is received otherwise your case will not be processed
- Higher Secondary School/College Provisional Certificate
- Equivalence Certificate of "A" & "O" level/Grade 12/other equal examination
- Domicile Certificate or PRC or Father domicile certificate or receiving of domicile application
- Extra Curricular activities certificates, if any
1) Form Submission fees Rs. 1500/-
2) Form Issue fees Rs. 2000/-.
3) By Payorder / Courier fees Rs. 4000/-
Programs Offered
- Diploma in Psychological Medicine
- Diploma in Clinical Pathology (DCP)
- Diploma in Laboratory Hematology and Blood Transfusion
- BSc Medical Technology
- Diploma in Child Health
- BBA (Hons)
- BS Software Engineering
- BDS Dental Surgery
- BS Bioinformatics
- BSc Technology
- BSc Nursing
- DPT Doctor of Physical Therapy
- MSc Technology
- MBA Health Human Resource Management
- MBA Pharmaceutical Marketing
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- MSc Hematology
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- MS Surgery
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- MPhil Anatomy
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- MPhil Pharmacognosy
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- PhD Biochemistry
- PhD Microbiology
- PhD Hematology
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- Baqai Dental College
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Contact Detail
- Address : 51, Deh Tor, Gadap Road, Near Toll Plaza, Super Highway P.O Box No 2407, Karachi – 74600, Pakistan
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As Venture Café has grown from Cambridge to St. Louis, Miami and Rotterdam, a new parent organization has been formed to overview the expansion of the mission worldwide. The global headquarters is located in St. Louis.
The birthplace of the 'Venture Café' model, Boston-area innovation activities are operated by The Venture Café Foundation located inside CIC at 1 Broadway in Cambridge, MA. Café Nights take place weekly at Venture Café Kendall, monthly at Roxbury Innovation Center and quarterly at District Hall.
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Encouragingly, respondents did not consider the pace of reforms as a major problem now, buoyed by a slew of reform measures initiated by the government in recent months. In fact, most (38.9 per cent) of the respondents felt that reform measures announced by the government would have a positive impact on investments, even though the impact on output may take some time to take effect. Therefore, despite the reform measures, the majority of firms expect the GDP growth in the current fiscal to remain subdued in the range of 5.5-6.0 per cent.
The survey also indicates continuing elevated trend in inflation and fiscal deficit in the remaining period of the current fiscal. Majority of the respondents expect WPI-based inflation for the current fiscal to end up as high as 7.0-8.0 per cent, much higher than RBI's comfort level. Regarding the fiscal deficit, the largest proportion of firms (54.8 per cent) expected it to lie in the range of 5.5-6.0 per cent of GDP, way higher than the revised government target of 5.3 per cent for 2012-13.
Most of the respondents in the CII survey did not see any change in their value of production and employment in the third-quarter of 2012-13, even though they did see overall sales and new orders to pick up, which could mainly be linked to the rise in demand owing to the festival season in the quarter under consideration.
Indicating that firms are now using the existing capacity rigorously rather than going for expansion, the largest proportion (41.2 per cent) of the firms saw their capacity utilization in the range of 75-100 per cent in the third quarter, moving up from 50-75 per cent in the previous quarter.
Bulk of the respondents (51.5 per cent) in the survey saw the domestic investments of their firms to register either a decline or no change in the Oct-Dec 2012 quarter. This is a worrying sign, and underlines the need for pro-active measures to restart the investment cycle.
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Laboratory of Optical Diagnoses and Imaging
LABORATOry of optical Diagnoses and Imaging
The LODI group's research was chosen to lead the École Polytechnique publicity campaign "Talent contagieux à Polytechnique."
The stars: Prof. Boudoux and Nadir Goulamhoussen.
The Laboratory of Optical Diagnoses and Imagery (LODI) was created during the summer of 2008 by Professor Caroline Boudoux. The laboratory is affiliated to the departments of physical and biomedical engineering.
In addition to being a professor, Caroline Boudoux is a researcher at the Centre de Recherche du CHU Sainte-Justine. Her work in engineering physics is at the leading edge of microscopy and endoscopy, using new fibreoptic components with less invasive and more precise instruments to allow the observation of internal organs in 3D through a simple needle. Her work has already attracted Univalor's interest in finding applications for this technology in the fields of orthopedics and otolaryngology. These technological advances will bring significant benefits to public health and to the quality of healthcare available.
The mission of this laboratory is to conceive new biomedical imaging technologies based on photonics, such as endoscopic confocal microscopy and optical coherence tomography (OCT). Our researches cover theoretical concepts and implementation of new biomedical technologies for clinical diagnosis.
The LODI is currently home to one post-doc, one research associate, two students doing their Masters and seven undergraduates. The LODI is currently looking for talented and motivated students for end of Bacc projects, masters or doctorate. Consult the Job Opening section for more information.
Kathy Beaudette, a Masters student at the LODI, has won a SPIE Scholarship. She was honored at a ceremony held during Photonics West 2012 in San Francisco at the beginning of the year. The key criterion in evaluation and ranking applications is the "prospect for long-term contribution that the granting of an award will make to the field of optics, photonics or related field." Congratulations Kathy!
Two members of the LODI were chosen to take part in the 2012 promotional campaign of École Polytechnique. Pr. Boudoux and Nadir Goulamhoussen found themselves not only on you tube, but also on ads in Montreal's subway....
October 6th, 2011 - Tonight, the Palais des congrès de Montréal Recognition Award Gala takes place, where the partners of the Rendez-vous du Savoir will have the pleasure of announcing the winners of the second "Ça mérite d'être reconnu!" competition. Polytechnique Montréal is proud to announce that Caroline Boudoux, assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Physics and at the Biomedical Engineering Institute at Polytechnique, was selected from among a large number of candidates.


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NHTV honours and pre-master's programme
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The NHTV academic Pre-master's Programme SBM grants direct access to scientific master's programmes.
The NHTV academic pre-master's programme SBM is a fourth-year graduation track worth 75 ECTS, taught in English, for all third-year students (or fast trackers) of NHTV or other (foreign) institutes. It is a scientific transfer- or bridging programme towards academic master's programmes of science at several academic universities. SBM also facilitates access and compensations in different other scientific pre-master's programmes of several universities.
In addition to the regular NHTV professional bachelor diploma, you receive a certificate granting direct access to several business-related Master of Science programmes at a number of scientific universities (Brussels, Maastricht, Tilburg, Twente, Amsterdam). In other words, you will be awarded a double degree. Next to that, you have direct access to NHTV's Master of Science Leisure Studies.
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Special equipment: food mill, 6 (1 1/2 cup) ceramic ramekins
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
In a medium skillet melt the butter over medium high heat, saute the potatoes, onions, leeks, carrots, and garlic until golden. Add the white wine and simmer for 1 minute. Add the chicken stock and simmer for 20 minutes until the vegetables are tender. Mix the flour and milk until smooth and add to the vegetables, and cook until thickened. Season, to taste, with salt and pepper. Season the chicken with salt and pepper. In a large skillet heat the oil over high heat and sear the chicken until golden. Cut seared chicken into 1/2 inch chunks and add it, the thyme, and parsley to the vegetables and set side.
For the topping: Put the potatoes in a large pot and cover with water, season with salt.
Over high heat bring to a boil and simmer until tender. Drain the potatoes and let them sit for 5 minutes to steam dry. Put the potatoes through a food mill. Warm the cream and stir into the potatoes. Mix in the butter. Season, to taste.
To assemble the pot pies fill 6 ramekins with 1 cup of filling each and top with the mashed potatoes. Bake for 30 minutes.
Place the chicken bones in a stock pot and cover with the cold water. Bring to a boil, skimming the fat and foam from the surface of the stock. Add the carrots, onions, celery, leek, parsley, thyme, bay leaves, black peppercorns, and garlic. Reduce the heat to medium low and simmer for 2 hours. Strain the stock into a container. Cool and refrigerate. Store in a tightly covered container for 5 days in the refrigerator or freeze for 1 month.
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Some of you may recall my problem with wrinkles a couple of weeks ago. Just a few small wrinkles and the magic of a toilet plunger… Since then, during one night we received over 5 inches of rain. I went out to the pool the next morning and about had a heart attack. HUGE 10ft monster wrinkles all over the pool in the shallow end. I had horrific visions of paying money, draining water, pulling liner, etc… Then I happened to talk with an old guy in our town who services pools. He was swamped with calls just like mine… wrinkles everywhere. His next available appointment was more than a week out. He also mentioned that if I didn't take care of it fairly quickly the wrinkles would set and be that much harder to get out. He offered to come and explain what he does to fix the problem. I said sure. He came out, told me what I needed to do… and it worked perfectly. I'm just passing along the love.
This worked great for me… don't know if it will work for you so attempt at your own risk. Anyway, I have a big 50,000 gallon vinyl lined pool with a liner that's a couple of years old. These are pictures I took Saturday morning.
Unfasten about 6 or so inches of the liner wedgy-thing that secures it in place. Sorry about the lack of the proper technical term. The white spline thing. Carefully insert a hose between the liner and the backer board and fill it up with water.
You need to put a lot of water behind the liner. It will cause the liner to eventually "float" so you can work the wrinkles out. It took be about 4 hours worth of pumping water in before parts of the bottom began to equalize with the water pressure in the pool. I kept the water going while I got in the pool and started carefully grabbing liner and moving in the direction of the wall I thought it came from. After about 2 hours of maneuvering liner with my very sore finger tips, a push broom, and a plunger… yes, you must always utilize the plunger, all the slack that had created the wrinkles was back into the corners of the pool.
I then unpackaged the new transfer pump I bought… between $70 and $90 at Ace Hardware.
I used electrical tape to attach the water side hose of the pump to a broom handle just shy from the end of the broom handle and carefully threaded this between the liner and the backer board. Place it all the way to the bottom. Place the end of the discharge hose either out into your yard, or even back into your pull. You're going to suck some of the water out from behind the liner. I did this for about 20 minutes and found that most of the water had settled out of reach of the hose. I pulled the apparatus out and wedged the liner back in place. These are the after pictures.
It was an all day project but it worked!
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text: Planar cell polarity (PCP) is the coordinated polarization of a field of cells in the plane of an epithelium. PCP is manifested in different biological systems, such as the oriented arrangement of hairs and bristles in insects, feathers in birds and fur in mammals. The core Frizzled (Fz)/PCP factors is evolutionary conserved and is required not only to establish the planar polarity in epithelia, but also it is required to regulate convergent extension of mesenchymal cells in vertebrates. The Fz/PCP core consists of two molecular complexes associated with the plasma membrane, which interact antagonistically to establish the polarity of the cell: the Fz complex and the Strabismus (Stbm) complex. The downstream effects of Fz/PCP signaling are different depending on the tissue, ranging from cell-fate specification in the eye, to the orientation of cytoskeletal elements and cell division in the wing and thorax, respectively. Although many regulators and effectors of the pathway had been discovered, there are many unknown factors required for the pathway activation, the interaction between components of both complexes and with other signaling pathways. In order to find new regulators and downstream effectors of the Fz/PCP signaling we are carrying out a genome-wide genetic screening for modifiers of Fz/PCP signaling in the Drosophila eye. In brief, the screening approach is based in dominant genetic interactions between mild Fz or Stbm gain of function genotypes and large molecularly mapped chromosome deletions. I have identified three candidates loci based on this criteria and which suppress the gain of function phenotype of dishevelled, a major component of the Fz/PCP pathway. Currently, I am mapping the genes associated with the genetic interactions and characterizing the role of two additional genes in PCP establishment.


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Jim Ottaway's comment on News Corp. appearing to win Dow Jones.
It's a bad thing for Dow Jones and American journalism that the Bancroft Family could not resist Rupert Murdoch's generous offer.
It's a sad thing that the 105-year family tradition of protecting Dow Jones independence as a public trust will end.
I hope Rupert Murdoch, and whoever follows him at News Corp., will keep his promises to protect and invest in the unique quality and integrity of The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and all the Dow Jones electronic news services.
And I hope the Bancroft family, which has been torn apart by Murdoch's poison pill offer, will enjoy family peace after so many years of patient and caring support for Dow Jones and its people.
At this global information age, it is outrageous that anyone should have to pay an estimated $30 million to outside advisors. It is ironic indeed for the Bancroft family to have to pay 30 shekels of silver to their investment bankers, and 30 shekels of gold to their corporate lawyers, for scaring some of them into betraying their 105-year family loyalty to Dow Jones independence.


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An East Rogers Park woman was killed overnight after a fire broke out in her apartment.
The Cook County medical examiner's office identified her as Patricia Allen, and said she was in her 50s.
Firefighters responded to the four-story apartment building at 6830 N. Sheridan at 12:30 a.m. The fire chief said the fire was limited to a single apartment on the second floor, where Allen's body was found.
"There was very little fire at all. Our guys did a good job, did the best they could, but she was already dead," Chicago Fire Chief James Thompson said at the scene. "We're still investigating the cause, but we did find smoking materials around where she was, and that may have something to do with it," he said.


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A man has been arrested after he shot another man in the foot during a quarrel on the South Side, police said.
Mario Hallom, 28, was arguing with another person about 1 p.m. Saturday when he shot the person, police said. The shooting happened in the 300 block of West 118th Street, the same block where Hallom lives, police said.
He was charged Sunday night with one count of aggravated battery with a firearm, unlawful use of a weapon and possession of a firearm.


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SOURCE: Amsterdam Marriott Hotel
June 09, 2015 16:06 ET
Hotel Marks Occasion by Unveiling Plans for New Guest Rooms From Dutch Firm Studio Piet Boon
Hotel Marks Occasion by Unveiling Plans for New Guest Rooms From Dutch Firm Studio Piet Boon
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS--(Marketwired - Jun 9, 2015) - The Amsterdam Marriott Hotel is no stranger to being first. It was the first company's first hotel in Europe when it opened in 1975, and in 2013 was the first in Europe to introduce the brand's Next Generation Meeting Spaces. As it celebrated its 40th anniversary at the start of June, the Amsterdam city centre hotel unveiled plans for its new guest room design, once again putting it at the forefront of creativity and innovation.
The new guest rooms, designed by Dutch powerhouse Studio Piet Boon, are inspired by the 'brutalism' movement, which originates from the French béton brut, or 'raw concrete.' The new rooms will optimise the space whilst creating a warm, contemporary atmosphere that balances architectural elements, refined raw materials, thoughtful details and smart space solutions. In keeping with the simple design, neutral decor will play off a soft colour palette of white and grey tones.
"The collaboration with Piet Boon adds a compelling new dimension to the guest experience," Peter Schickling, the hotel's general manager, says. "The inspiring and cutting-edge design will impress and revitalise guests whilst also providing comfort and the latest technology."
All 396 guest rooms and suites at the Amsterdam hotel will be renovated, with completion set for early 2016. In the meantime, the hotel has been at the forefront of the recent innovations introduced by Marriott's signature brand, including the Greatroom, a versatile space where guests can meet and collaborate for work or relaxation. The Amsterdam hotel, near RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre, also offers Marriott's creative digital solutions, including Red Coat Direct, which enables meeting organisers to edit meeting requests with a touch of a button, and mobile requests, which allows guests to request extra services and amenities, such as towels and pillows, through Marriott's mobile app.
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Marriott's first European hotel is also among its most ground breaking. Incorporating the brand's latest innovations, the Amsterdam Marriott Hotel offers a modern stay in a city rich with history. Located in the city centre, just across from Leidseplein, the museum quarter hotel is a 5-minute walk from the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum, and is surrounded by dining, entertainment and shopping. Other nearby attractions include the Holland Casino and Vondelpark. Guests can select from a variety of room types, including executive suites and family accommodation, all of which include 24-hour in-room dining, air-conditioning, cosy bedding, Wi-Fi, a desk and marble bathroom. Executive rooms and suites include lounge access with complimentary dining and beverages throughout the day. The location, amenities and facilities make the Amsterdam Marriott Hotel a top choice for meetings and corporate events. The first hotel with Marriott's Future of Meetings concept offers 12 event spaces, the largest of which can host up to 470 people, inspiring event menus and digital tools including Red Coat Direct, which allows meeting organisers to make instant requests through their mobile device. Guests can stay active with the hotel fitness centre, or do as the locals do and bike around the city (bike rentals are available).
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We all know that children are impressionable and lack the wisdom to make educated choices in certain aspects of life. For example, most of us know that if we drink and party, our kids watch and learn. And as a teenager when presented with a similar situation, their behavior will emulate or even exaggerate what they saw us doing for the years before that very moment. And we know that they are not old and wise enough to handle these situations intelligently in most cases- heck, neither are most of us and we're adults!
The truth is that this applies even to our eating and fitness lifestyles. Our children watch us eating and exercising and they are having one of two likely reactions to it:


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Mistwalker's second foray into the RPG genre is every bit as ambitious as their first. We loved Blue Dragon, and we're happy to report Mistwalker and Feel Plus (another subsidiary if Microsoft) have pulled out all the stops to bring us an experience to remember.
The setting for Lost Odyssey is a steampunk-type civilization, a world where magic and machinery co-exist, and the story revolves around a man who has literally seen and done it all… many times over. After initially being dumped into the middle of a raging battle which gives you a taste of the action to come, tutorials are drip-fed as required, allowing you to become acquainted with the controls and game play over a comfortable period of time.
The plot is not entirely unpredictable (hardly any of 'em are these days), but it is extremely well written and moves at a pace guaranteed to maintain your interest.
Burdened with both immortality and some serious memory loss, mercenary Kaim Argonar steps forth from the ruins of yet another battlefield – although this particular battle provides a dramatic starting point for the events to follow. As the game progresses, Kaim finds himself thrown together with characters both mortal and immortal, as he quests across a sizable map.
With any RPG it takes a bit of time to be drawn into the plot and to warm to the main characters. This 'getting to know you' phase usually involves a game of 'spot the stereotype' and as far as these are concerned, the gang's all here: brooding heroes – not all of them noble; scantily clad, 'kick-butt' heroines; cutesy kids, dastardly villains and comic relief in the form of a hedonistic rake. There's a good mix of colourful personalities and the high standard of voice acting makes for some entertaining character interaction.
Kaim's forgotten memories are gradually revealed in a series of dreams in text format entitled A Thousand Years of Dreams. These are unlocked at certain points in the game and take the form of short stories penned by award-winning author Kiyoshi Shigemaru and set against a backdrop of accompanying images and music. Of course, if reading just ain't your thang you can skip the dreams, but why deprive yourself of one of Lost Odyssey's standout highlights? Not only are we treated to some poignant narrative offering insight into Kaim's past; the dreams are welcome interludes from the repetitive business of fighting your way across the map.
Combat is turn-based and very traditional in its execution, in that you give party members their instructions at the beginning of each round then sit back to watch the carnage unfold. In typical JRPG fashion the commands used in battle are fairly straightforward and of limited scope, however there are some noteworthy features which set Lost Odyssey apart from the others. These include the introduction of a damage-enhancing Aim Ring System – the effectiveness of which depends entirely on the player's aptitude with the right-hand trigger, and removal of the standard combat grid. While they don't quite blur the line between turn-based and real-time combat, they do ensure the sequence of events flow smoothly and at a cracking pace.


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Nic Bezemer
Spring 2005: First Guest in the Studio House in the Sitterwerk
Nic Bezemer is known in Holland above all for his extensive wall drawings. He develops his forms from observations of the world, «as we find it» come upon and understand it. Abstracted into contours filled in with black, four marrowbones laugh hollow-eyed from the wall. The cracks in a panel of wood dried in the sun, its traces of natural aging, radiate dematerialized in the space as a generous energy field. The motifs at the same time remain wholly themselves but can also be read surprisingly otherwise. They change «with deliberately reduced means» when viewed into something new. Contributing to this are also the slide projections used for the transmission of images with their altered scale.
On the banks of the Sitter River, Bezemer photographed a series of «Floating Stones», for example, and also draws and paints. For a public presentation, he is planning a large floor work: a school of fish in an vortex.
Nic Bezemer was invited to work in peace in the Sitterwerk, as well as to support the development of the guest program with his advice. He was involved over several years in setting up studio houses in the harbor district in Rotterdam. Along with other producers of art, he built an industrial hall named after the star «Kaus australis» near to the airport in 1996/97. Four of the eleven studios there are reserved for domestic and foreign guests.


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Sony Suspends PSN User for Sharing a Watch Dogs 2 Image Featuring Nudity (Update)
Update: In a statement to Game Informer, Ubisoft said they're aware of the issue, will update the NPD model in a patch this week, and will work with Sony to allow players to share all Watch Dogs 2 content without getting suspended:
We're aware that one of the NPC models in Watch Dogs 2 is rendered in a way that is particularly explicit. While Watch Dogs 2 is a mature-rated game, we apologize and will update this NPC model to make it more consistent with other NPC models in the game in a patch to be released this week. We also are working with our first-party partners to ensure that players can continue to play and share all content from the game within the bounds of the first parties' respective codes of conduct.
Original Story: On NeoGAF, user Goron2000 revealed that their PlayStation Network account was suspended by Sony for posting an image from Watch Dogs 2 featuring full frontal nudity (you can see the image over here on Twitter, but keep in mind that it's NSFW).
Goron2000 received a copy of Watch Dogs 2 early thanks to a mistake on Amazon Prime Now. On Sunday, Goron2000 accidentally blew up a few women in a back alley with a gas pipe "and then I saw it." They continued, "Someone at Ubisoft had rendered a full vagina on one (or maybe more) of the females in the game."
After capturing and sharing the image on Twitter and in one of the Watch Dogs threads on NeoGAF, Goron2000 realized access to the PlayStation Network was removed and their PSN account was suspended. Sony sent this email explaining why:
We're writing to inform you that your Sony Entertainment Network account has been temporarily suspended.
We've made this decision based on your online activity in Live from PlayStation on 14-11-2016.
Content of an adult or sexual nature is against our Code of Conduct.
The suspension will last 1 week and will be lifted on 21-11-2016. You won't be able to access online multiplayer, PlayStation Store and other network features until the suspension is over.
We take the decision to suspend an account very seriously, and we only do so after one of our moderators has carefully analysed the situation. PlayStation Support therefore cannot overturn this moderation decision.
We ask all our players to act decently, respectfully and with consideration for us and other players while using PlayStation Network. To make sure you understand the behaviour we expect from our community, please review the Code of Conduct here before returning to PlayStation Network. Please be aware that any further breaches of the Code of Conduct may result in a longer suspension or even a permanent ban.
Yours sincerely,
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Although the first email said the suspension was for one week, Sony sent Goron2000 a new email saying the suspension is now extended to a full month. Goron2000 said, "I got an email 30 minutes ago telling me that my ban is now 1 month because of a violation today. Bare in mind that I was banned yesterday and have not been able to make any new uploads since the ban and the only thing I'd uploaded in months was the single image this thread is about."
The reason for Goron2000's suspension comes from the PlayStation Network's Terms of Service, which says the following is prohibited:
You may not take any action, or upload, post, stream, or otherwise transmit any content, language, images or sounds in any forum, communication, public profile, or other publicly viewable areas or in the creation of any Online ID that SIENA or its affiliates, in their sole discretion, find offensive, hateful, or vulgar. This includes any content or communication that SIENA or its affiliates deem racially, ethnically, religiously or sexually offensive, libelous, defaming, threatening, bullying or stalking.
As Eurogamer notes, Watch Dogs 2 features lots of nudity and the official PEGI rating states, "The content of this game is suitable for persons aged 18 years and over only. It contains: multiple, motiveless killing, graphic sexual activity showing genitalia, strong language."
The ESRB rating adds, "The game contains some sexual material: a man selling child pornography over the phone (no sexual acts or nudity depicted); a strip club depicting pole dancers and topless women; brief instances of male and female full-frontal nudity (e.g., a woman in body paint; a man standing with a woman outdoors)."
Eurogamer contacted Ubisoft and Sony about the suspension and Ubisoft said they were aware.
[Source: NeoGAF (1), (2), PlayStation, Eurogamer, ESRB]


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