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Cowboys | Matt Eberflus turned down DC offer
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Dallas Cowboys assistant coach Matt Eberflus turned down an offer to become the team's defensive coordinator in 2018, according to ESPN's Todd Archer. In that scenario, current defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli would've been promoted to an assistant head coach role. Eberflus, whose contract expired after the season, is expected to join the staff of current New England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels assuming the latter accepts a head coaching role this offseason.
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My dad turned 80 last month and I struggled to think of an appropriate gift for the occasion. (If you regularly read my blog, you might know I like to come up with unique gift ideas like a salvage yard find for my husband's 50th birthday.)
Needing inspiration, I Googled "ideas for 80th birthday gift for man" but wasn't thrilled with the suggestions. There were the "Kiss Me, I'm 80" T-shirts and the "I'm 18 with 62 years experience" coffee mugs. Nah. What about a "Yoga for the Elderly" DVD, "Car Caddy" to help him get out of his vehicle or Superman bath robe? I don't think so. (OK, I kinda liked the robe.)
When I started my 47 and fearless project, I compiled a list of lifetime experiences—things I've already crossed off my bucket list. It was fun to be reminded of things I've done, especially at a time when I felt it had been a long while since I had moved outside my comfort zone to do anything adventurous.
My dad is active and in good health, but I thought maybe he'd like to be reminded of the cool things he has done in his 80 years. So I decided to make a "bucket book" for him—a scrapbook of things he has already crossed off his bucket list (a list he didn't know he had.)
With help from my mom and siblings, I came up with a list of milestones in his life, places he has traveled, outdoor activities he has enjoyed, etc. I printed out the list and placed one item to a page, adding family photos when possible and supplementing with generic pictures as needed to create the scrapbook.
Before his birthday celebration, I bought several black buckets at the dollar store. I put the scrapbook and a DVD of "The Bucket List" movie into one bucket for him to unwrap. I used the remaining buckets to hold other gifts—items that would help him complete other items on a typical bucket list. For example, one bucket included two tattoo sleeves and temporary tattoos so he could cross off "get a tattoo" from his list. Another was "celebrate 80th birthday" and included the Dr. Seuss book "You're Only Old Once! A Book for Obsolete Children" and silly gifts like an Over the Hill Decision Spinner (spin it to decide whether to take a nap or drive really slow. Ahh, choices, choices…) A third bucket held six cans of silly string that he could use with his grandkids to "have a silly string fight."
Dad enjoyed paging through the scrapbook and got into the spirit of the gifts, wearing the tattoo sleeves to pose for a photo at my request. I hope the silly string fight will occur the next time he gets together with the grandkids. Who knows what other items we can add to the book in the years to come? But don't suggest skydiving. He's already declined my invitation.


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The 2008 PWA Colgate World Cup, Sylt – Day Six
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An unpredictable day of rain storms, gales and eerie windless calms sees inroads made into slaloms third race.
After a morning that featured everything from monsoon like rain to bright sunshine, Westerland beach was finally treated to a solid 10-15 knot onshore breeze, allowing seven heats to be run before the wind died back to nothing.
After waiting patiently on standby, the slalom fleet was summoned to the water to kick off round one of race three. The first heat saw Bjorn Dunkerbeck (North) on dominant form; flawless execution of the four gybe course left him nearly an entire reach ahead of his rivals when he crossed the finish line to take victory.
Other highlights included heat four, where Ross Williams (Tabou, Gaastra) had to sail without a harness after tearing one of the straps before the race. Starting fast, fatigue soon kicked in and left Williams the challenge of qualifying before his arms gave up on him. Luckily, many of his rivals had fallen at the second mark, leaving him a drag race to the finish line with Oliver-Tom Schliemann (Severne, Starboard) before he muscled into third place.
After the seventh heat was completed (the most heats completed in a row thus far in Sylt), the wind backed off, placing competition back on standby,
An hour passed before a 25 knot breeze prompted the race committee to start heat 8 in some of the best conditions seen so far. However, no one could have predicted that the moment the sailors crossed the start line, the wind would, like clockwork, drop to absolutely zero.
This left the race crew the bizarre task of rescuing numerous windsurfers, as they were literally unable to sail back to the beach. The winds dramatic exit marked the end of competitions sixth day, as it firmly refused to return.
Be sure to tune back into pwaworldtour.com tomorrow, to follow all the action from day seven of the 2008 PWA Colgate World Cup, Sylt, starting with the wave/slalom/freestyle skippers meetings at 10.00am.


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Luxembourg Sukuk Bill passes into Law
On the 9th of July 2014, the Luxembourg Parliament has approved the draft law 6631 on a sale and buy-back transaction of real estate assets necessary to issue an Islamic finance bond. By obtaining parliamentary approval, the Ministry of Finance has now paved the way to the issuance of the "Sukuk" transaction which is a milestone in the continuous development of Islamic finance in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg.
This approval in Parliament underlines the political will to diversify and develop alternative markets within the financial services industry and to consolidate the Grand-Duchy as an integrative and diversified world class financial services hub.
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Medical literature suggests the revision otoplasty rate has a wide variance, from 0.6 percent to 11 percent. Nevertheless, most patients who need it only require minor corrections involving asymmetry (i.e., "noticeable" difference in the projection between the two sides), under-correction, and scarring.
However, there are various ways to achieve long-lasting and more predictable results from otoplasty and thus minimize the revision otoplasty rate.
Leading Los Angeles plastic surgeon Dr. Tarick Smiley has explained his techniques that help him achieve high patient satisfaction.
- Remove the "offending" cartilage
Some surgeons simply excise some skin and rely heavily on internal sutures to pin back the ears. Dr. Smiley says this "approach" may not provide long-lasting results because the cartilage—a firm but flexible tissue that holds and determines the ear shape—has a rather "strong memory."
To achieve results that can persist long term, Dr. Smiley highlights the importance of removing and/or "weakening" a small amount of cartilage, in addition to the use of correct suturing techniques.
- Wait until ear growth is near complete
While otoplasty can be performed as early as two years of age, waiting until the patient reaches five offers some unique advantages since during this period ear growth is near complete (about 90 percent). This makes it easier for surgeons to assess the ideal projection of the ear, and deliver results that will most likely last a lifetime.
- Importance of scar placement and wound closure
The incision must lie precisely at the ear-scalp junction for optimal scar concealment. Furthermore, it should be closed in several layers so the skin surface will receive no or very little tension, leading to more "favorable" scarring.
Medical literature suggests that a good number of patients seeking revision otoplasty want to hide or at least improve the appearance of their scars.
- Avoid infection
Poor scarring from otoplasty is sometimes linked to infection, which can be avoided by taking antibiotics, performing proper wound care, avoiding tobacco products and aspirin (and other blood thinners), and reaching one's optimal health prior to surgery.Read More


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Raidmax Quantum Review
Closer Look
The front of the case is mesh from top to bottom. From the looks of it, there is a foam backing behind each drive bay cover. This is a nice feature, considering it blocks out a small amount of sound, but more importantly they act as a filter for the two 120mm intake fans behind them. The front of the case does not have any buttons, as the I/O and control panel is located on the top of the case. A large majority of case manufacturers are catching on to this trend, as it makes the cases a little bit easier to use for those who have their computers on the ground. It doesn't force the users to bend all of the way out of their chair to turn the computer on or plug in a USB flash drive. The left side of the case has a small Plexiglass window that is tinted blue. The window itself is an odd shape, which is kind of like a backwards "C". Smaller windows usually make it easier to hide any extra wires that could be seen from the outside, which technically aids in wire management, at least visually. There is no side intake fan on this case.
The rear of the case shows an upper 120mm exhaust fan with blue blades. The amount of restriction on the case for the fan looks minimal, which is good to see. I was surprised to see that the actual expansion slot covers were painted black in the same finish the the rest of the rear of the case has on it, but I then realized that they are tear-outs and part of the way the case was stamped. It is smooth and pretty tough against scratches and doesn't seem like it would chip. I didn't mention it above, but the side panels are painted with a little bit more texture. The rivets on the back are painted to match the case as well, which in turn make the unpainted screws that hold the 120mm fan in place stand out quite a bit. To the right of the expansion slots, there are large perforations (my caliper says 5mm in diameter, which is the same as the holes on the exhaust fan port) that allows heat to passively escape. The motherboard I/O panel has a tear-out plate there, complete with openings for a parallel port, serial ports, and a game port. I'm not sure why they decided to put this there, as most cases just leave a hole. Nevertheless, it only reminded me that I'm getting older, since I can tell what ports they are just by looking at their shape. Anyway, the power supply mounts on the bottom and has raised support dimples beneath it, which alleviates some of the weight from the mounting screws holding it in, especially for the heavy monsters on the market today. The placement of the power supply does allow for about 3/8th of an inch beneath it, in case the orientation of the power supply means the fan would be on the bottom. There isn't much to be said about the right side of the case, besides the fact that it looks just like the left side, minus the window.
The top of the case shows the I/O port, the power and reset buttons, and the two fans on the top. The exhaust fans are placed below the same type of mesh that appears on the front drive bay covers, just without the foam. Besides noise blocking, there is no need for foam here since the fans are blowing air out. The fans on top have blue blades just like the exhaust in the back, so I'm sure at this point they are going to have the same ratings. The bottom side of the case has four gray plastic feet, which stand over a half an inch tall.
A frustration with this case that I discovered is removing the front bezel. While it isn't 100% necessary to do this, it can make the process of installing optical drives (at least as far as removing the drive bay covers goes) and hard drives much easier. I will be demonstrating the hard drive installation process on the next page once I get inside the case. In order to remove the front bezel, six screws behind it have to be removed. Screws are no problem, unless they're hard to reach such as the ones in about three of the six locations. The case implements a tool-less system, that kind of got in the way of some of the screws. Luckily, the individual components of the tool-less system can actually be removed, and made it a little easier to remove these screws. Upon removing the front panel, I discovered that one of the wires that power the LEDs in the four corners of the front was hanging loose, not connected to anything. I did happen to find where I believe it goes - there was heat-shrink around one wire that looks like there is room for another. There is a 2-pin header that belongs to these wires, which plugs into a supplied adapter with a 4-pin Molex on the end. To make removing the front panel easier later on, I only put two screws back in the easiest location, the middle on either side.
With the exterior of the case evaluated, I will be diving into the inside of the case to see what things it has to offer the user, as well as how the tool-less system in this case works.


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You never know when you will need it. It fits in your pocket. You can use several times. Then throw it away without any guilt because it is made of an environmentally-friendly material and it costs only $5.90.
No, it's not for your protection but the one of your bike. Chance of rain? You don't carry your full bike cover with you, right? Bike Condom is a new type of cover that protects the top half of motorcycles or scooters from sun, rain, snow, dirt, dust. It's a single size designed to fit on most bikes (of course with a different fit on bikes with windshield or fairing). Comes in a re-closeable package and is produced and sold by a serious motorcycle covers manufacturer. Bike Condom is a winner in the Kickstart New Product Contest at the 2010 Dealer Expo. There is a long waiting list to get this baby. The name must have something to do with it! Bike Condoms And Motorcycle Covers.


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With multiple news outlets reporting that several people have been poisoned by Death Cap mushrooms in recent weeks and the proliferation of other toxic wild mushrooms, the ASPCA has put out a nice article on the subject. Recognizing the symptoms of mushroom poisoning in pets is important. The varieties mentioned in the article are prevalent throughout the country and can be found in your own yard, parks, hiking trails and other outdoor venues. See link below.
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Bringing together the knowledge of leading pottery and porcelain experts, Antique Trader Pottery & Porcelain Ceramics Price Guide covers, in detail, all the major collecting categories of American, English, European and Asian ceramics from the 18th century through the late 20th century. Learn more at shop.collect.com.
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Bruce and Vicki Waasdorp have just completed their annual fall pottery auction. The sale consisted almost exclusively of American decorated stoneware and redware. But this auction had a surprising twist as the top lot in the sale was a Canadian piece. It was a miniature "plow" flower decorated butter churn complete with dasher and guide, standing only 5 inches tall.
It was impressed with the Canadian potter's mark, JOHN O'HARA PICTON. The price realized of $34,650 is thought to be an auction record for a piece of Canadian decorated stoneware. Collectors of miniature stoneware in the States bid competitively against an enthusiastic Canadian contingent. The winning bid came from a prominent Canadian collector who was happy to see the piece returned to the country of origin. (All prices reflect a 10 percent buyer's premium.)
There were a few other Canadian pieces in the sale that also fared well. Two vendor jugs attributed to the Welding Brantford pottery and a one gallon Hamilton jug were offered. The one gallon Hamilton realized a price of $300. The two gallon jug from Gault Ontario realized $300 and the one from St. Thomas realized $360.
The top American stoneware lot in the sale was a highly sought after, classic folk art design. A three gallon cream pot marked LYONS with a signature star face design realized a price of $10,725.
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Brett Williams is a co-founder of IronNet Cybersecurity, Inc. His division is responsible for the design and development of security operations centers that leverage the IronNet cybersecurity solution. His division provides a variety of managed security services and client security assessments as well as training, testing and certification for network security personnel. Brett is also responsible for product, enterprise and physical security at IronNet. IronNet achieved series A funding of $32.5M in late 2015.
During his time as an Air Force General Officer, Brett served in four senior executive leadership positions. As the Director of Operations (J3) at U.S. Cyber Command, he led a team of 400 people responsible for the global operations and defense of all DOD networks as well as the planning and execution of authorized offensive operations. Prior to this position, he served as Director of Operations (A3O), U.S. Air Force, where he led the largest Air Staff directorate consisting of more than 1,300 airmen and civilians stationed world-wide. In this role, he developed and justified the operations component of the annual $120B Air Force budget. General Williams also served as the Director of Communications (J6) for U.S. Pacific Command. His 150-person directorate executed an annual budget of $57M and was responsible for the design, implementation and operation of all command and control networks supporting DOD's largest geographic warfighting command. Finally, as the Inspector General for Air Combat Command, he led the inspection, audit and compliance process for all U.S based combat flying organizations.
Operationally, General Williams led a variety of large, complex organizations ranging in size from 300 to over 9,000 personnel. In his most significant leadership position as 18th Wing Commander in Okinawa, Japan, he led the largest combat wing in the Air Force. General Williams was responsible for relationships with Japanese political and business leaders in a highly volatile community environment. He executed an annual budget in excess of $100M to support a community of over 25,000 U.S. service members, their families and Japanese employees. In this significant leadership role, he delivered success across a wide variety of mission areas to include aircraft operations, aircraft maintenance, logistics, civil engineering, security and policing, community support, human resources, financial management and medical services. Brett is an F-15C fighter pilot with over 28 years of flying experience, including more than 100 combat missions.
Brett serves on the Government Advisory Board for Ciena Government Solutions Inc. He is the chairman of the Advisory Board for the Duke University School of Nursing and a member of the Duke Health Board of Visitors. He is a faculty member with the National Association of Corporate Directors Board Advisory Services and a member of the Washington Speakers Bureau and the Keppler Speakers Bureau. Brett holds a BS in Computer Science from Duke University and three graduate degrees in management and national security studies.


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My Parenting Skills
Hello and I'm home sick today. I was yesterday. And yesterday I was worried about the acceptance of my illness by my boss. Today - I'm feeling a little more energy - and I am motivated to succeed in my business again. Different focus.
However, this episode of illness has served to remind me of one of my key drivers for choosing my Digital Skills career.
You can teach an old dog new tricks, if that old dog is open to taking on the learning. I am open.
I am building my Digital Marketing Specialist business and I am going to have my time back and I am going to have my flexibility back.
You see, a big part of my life so far has been focussed on learning to be the best parent that I can. In doing that, I learnt that I need to be the best person that I can be. And to me, that means being emotionally intune with myself. Being aware of my inner world. Being emotionally literate. Being emotionally regulated. And all that comes with that.
Because by being that, I teach my children that.
I had great roll model parents - for my era. They gave me all that I needed - a safe home, a good education and a stong sense of belonging to my tribe. What they didn't have the skills to give me is the emotional relm that is a part of this life also. That is what I have been learning for myself through my adult life.
It is that part that makes me want to be able to take my teenage boys to school in the morning, and be here when they come home. I can work before that. I've been up working since 4am this morning (jet lag still having a hold on me). I can work after that - there's not much worth watching on TV at night so why not work?
THIS is what my Digital Marketing Specialist business gives me that my traditional job can't. The flexibility to be the type of person that I want to be - not the type of person that an antiquated work environment is forcing me to be.
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Honda Makes GROOVY MUSIC
A stretch of musical road in Lancaster is grooved to play,"The William Tell
Overture" when cars pass over it. The musical pavement, designed as an
advertising gimmick, has annoyed some of its neighbors.
If you're cruising down an open desert road this weekend and you hear the
theme to "The Lone Ranger," the hot sun isn't playing tricks with your mind.
You're grooving on the Civic Musical Road - a quarter-mile stretch of
asphalt in Lancaster that's been altered - rhythmically - to produce The
William Tell Overture when a car passes over it.
Part of a promotional campaign for the Honda Civic, it's one of only four in
the world - and the only such road in the United States.
"I hear it every day. It's kind of cool to be part of history," said David
Gilroy, 43, a carpenter who lives near the noteworthy
The grooves on a Lancaster road sound like "The Lone Ranger" when the
traffic is right. They play "The William Tell Overture" in a concept similar
to a needle playing an LP. Some motorists pass through the stretch several
times to hear the sound effect, made by specially cut grooves in the asphalt
that emit different sounds as the tires pass over them.
The concept is similar to a record player needle gliding across a vinyl LP.
The grooves were configured to create the music at 55 mph, the posted speed
The road, about six miles west of downtown Lancaster on Avenue K between
62nd and 70th streets west, has attracted curiosity seekers who have seen
YouTube videos of the phenomenon.
Lancaster resident P.J. Walker on Friday snapped a picture of her silver
2002 Honda Civic parked next to the sign marking the start of "The Civic
Musical Road."
"It would be fun if they did it in different places all over with different
songs," Walker said. "Something from the Beatles maybe, like `Yesterday,"'
she mused as she started humming the first notes of the Lennon and McCartney
But the road has not been music to some residents' ears. In fact, complaints
have been so vociferous, city officials plan to pave it over on Tuesday.
Detractors say it sounds nothing like the classic symphony by Gioachino
Rossini, but an unrecognizable screech. "I think it's terrible because it
keeps me awake at night," said Donna Martin, a 53-year-old retired budget
analyst who lives about a quarter-mile from the road. "It's all I hear night
and day, and it's not a pretty sound.
"You can kind of tell it's music, but it's not any tune or notes. It's a
scratchy sound, a high-pitch drone."
Brian Robin, who lives about a half-mile away, said it sounds like an
orchestra that's constantly out of tune.
"When you hear it late at night, it will wake you up from a sound sleep.
It's awakened my wife three or four times a night," Robin said.
Llano resident Peggy Hager said it sounded like a "high-pitched whine." She
couldn't identify the score, but knew it was a tune because it had a beat
and rhythm.
"I think it's kind of cool," Hager said. "When you are driving out on Avenue
K, you're going out to the middle of nowhere. It's kind of a nice surprise
to come across this thing."
Similar "melody" or "singing" roads have also been built in Japan, South
Korea and Holland.
The ad agency for Torrance-based American Honda, RPA of Santa Monica,
decided to incorporate the peculiar music-making method into a Civic
commercial that will air nationally in late September.
"Honda is an advanced engineering company, and we thought it would be fun to
connect that to the Civic marketing campaign," said Gary Paticoff, RPA's
senior vice president and executive producer.
Pauline East, Antelope Valley Film Office's liaison, said the location was
picked after Honda said it wanted a sense of community and city lights from
one angle, and a feeling of openness from the other. The city approved the
project as part of its overall effort to encourage more film and television
Half-inch-deep, 1-inch-wide grooves were notched into the road at specific
intervals so that a vehicle traveling over them produces tones, said Ray
Hunt, Lancaster's capital engineering manager.
"It's similar to the rumble strips along center medians," Hunt said. "They
did test strips to identify the spacing needed to create the sound they
Honda spokesman Chris Martin said the singing road was designed to be heard
optimally in a Honda Civic. "It's engineered for the Civic, for that type of
tires and length of vehicle," Martin said.
The roadwork was completed Sept. 5. Soon after that, people started
The city had been told at the beginning that only motorists inside their
cars would experience the sound, but the noise carried farther than
expected, city officials said.
"Was it historic? Yes. Maybe the wrong location? Obviously," East said. "We
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Air France KLM Case Study
Air France-KLM, Europe's largest airline group, merges strong revenue with customer satisfaction and sustainable development. Every year, Air France-KLM transports more than 77 million people and 1.4 million tons of cargo across 243 locations in 103 countries around the world.
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As I've mentioned before, I learned a lot during my summer as an assistant to a wedding planner. Among the things I learned is the fact that most women cannot pull off the sleeveless look. There is a very specific ratio of shoulder to arm to chest to rest of body that is necessary to not look well, kind of creepy really. Few women can actually do this.
Michelle Obama? Is one of these women. However, the media has decided that apparently, her arms are the only thing worth talking about her. As this kind of awesome video highlights, there are plenty of other things about her that can be commented on. But she has awesome arms, so who cares about her Ivy League education or professional history. It's far more important that the First Lady appear Lady-like than actually act as a First Lady.
Of course, after the invention and popularization of television, the president also has to look presidential. That's part of the reason Kennedy "won" the debates back in 1960, after all. Those who only heard the Kennedy v. Nixon speech had thought that Nixon won. However, those who had watched it – a far larger population – thought that Kennedy, the better looking candidate, had won.


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The Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau in conjunction with the organization, Agri-Culture, will again host the National Agriculture Day Spring Luncheon. The luncheon will be held on Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 11:30am-1:30pm at the Heritage Hall located at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds. Tickets are $45 per person. Reservations and sponsorships for the luncheon are available on www.eventbrite.com or call (831) 724-1356.
One of the highlights of the National Agriculture Day Luncheon will be the presentation of the Al Smith Friend of Agriculture Award. Al Smith was the founder of Orchard Supply Hardware and donated 3,000 acres (Swanton Pacific Ranch) in the north coast to Cal Poly. The ranch has row crops, timber and even a one-third-scale railroad, which was Al's hobby. The award is presented annually to an individual, business or organization not involved in production agriculture but one who has done much for the industry. This year's award will be presented by last year's honoree, Ted Burke.
Farm Bureau and Agri-Culture co-sponsor a poster contest (grades K-6) and poetry contest (grades 7-12) in Santa Cruz County and Pajaro Valley schools. The winning entries will be displayed during the luncheon and a placemat featuring the 2017 poster contest winner, Daisy Mendoza, 6th grader from E.A. Hall Middle School in Watsonville will be used on the tables. Also on the placemat will be the 2017 poetry contest winning entry by Alyssa Burchell, 7th grader from Creekside School in Santa Cruz. Approximately 20,000 placemats will be distributed to restaurants throughout Santa Cruz County. This year's contest winners will be introduced at the luncheon.
Another feature of the National Agriculture Day Spring Luncheon is the presentation of the Jimmie Cox Memorial Scholarship. American AgCredit has teamed up with the Jimmie Cox Memorial Scholarship to double the award. It is now a $4,000 scholarship for a student entering or currently enrolled in college and majoring in agriculture.
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A spa may seem the antithesis to sustainability. Luxury intrinsically means indulgence. Paul Schmidt and thousands of other spa workers and owners involved in the Green Spa Network (GSN) know otherwise: theirs is a Wellness Warrior-style mission of finding ways to create regenerative experiences for spa goers and our planet.
Recently we caught up with Paul, GSN's new Executive Director—a "big picture" thinker with a background in massage, the healing arts, and spa management. During the course of our interview we learned how the "green spa" experience is a microcosm of living the "prevent and protect" life—a proactive way to assuring natural health and wellness without resorting to cure-alls, and without plundering the planet of resources.
What inspired you to lead Green Spa Network (GSN)?
Personally, my venture into and through the spa industry is rooted in sustainability. I am fascinated with change, transformation, and paradigm shift, which is something I see GSN facilitating in the health and wellness community. I see a big interest in the spa community to become an even larger part of the healing process not just for people, but also for communities, culture, and even humanity at large. Given my background in massage and healing, as well as my experience in the environmental field, I am excited to be part of an organization that is acting as a voice for this movement. Right now leading GSN really feels like the right place and the right time for me.
Tell us a little more about your personal experience in wellness businesses, healing modalities and the environmental field before GSN.
My degree at University of Vermont was in environmental studies, and my thesis project was compiling and publishing a directory for holistic practitioners. I created the directory by design to allow myself to interview the work place and the market of holistic health. And it worked. My book ended up with over 300 people representing 97 modalities of work—M.D.s, chiropractors, psychics, massage therapist, energy workers, etc… It was a community of people who were doing similar work, yet they hadn't ever been connected. One of my life goals is to be a bridge – to help people connect.
That's a wide range of practitioners. Was there resistance from the traditional side of medicine, or vice versa, to being in the same guide?
I resisted using the word "alternative" for some of these practices. I don't like that word. It breeds conflict: one alternative is mutually exclusive to another. I say I'm all about building connections, but for me it's really just reminding people about the connections that already exist. So a term like "complementary medicine" is much more comfortable to me.
What excites you most about healing, nurturing, protecting health?
Throughout my college years I had a number of experiences with healing, therapy, massage, and conscious breath work. I had been exposed to energy work through a course that I took at the Omega Institute with Rosalyn Bruyere. My dad actually gave me the course as a graduation present from high school. Through that I found that I had a gift for laying-on of hands. So that is where my healing career started.
Can you give us an example of healing via laying-on of hands?
My first paying client was someone with terminal pancreatic cancer given three months to live, according to his doctor. We worked together for six months, and afterward I kept in touch with him for years—he didn't die as most in the medical community said he would. To be honest, through working with Larry, I experienced some things that were really uncomfortable for me. I could see that my gifts and abilities provided me the opportunity to become a leader, or at least someone who could make a difference with this work. That actually scared me. At that age, I wasn't emotionally capable of having that kind of influence and standing in that type of role with clarity. So, I kind of shied away from it. Yet I needed a job. Going out and advertising energy work and then taking money from people for it didn't sit well with me. So, I got training in massage therapy because that seemed more accessible to me. It also gave me a license to touch people, which you need in today's world.
How did you learn to balance a business career with a passion for the healing arts?
I built my initial private practice in Vermont while founding The Healing Center with five friends. I also extended my publishing and graphic design interests through directory updates and a quarterly free publication called Conscious Times. I then moved to Utah and joined the massage team at the Cliff Spa at Snowbird, one of the more advanced ski areas in the country. The people who come there like to ski hard and they hurt. I got really good at therapeutic and deep tissue massage.
Another formative and early-on work experience was being around the founding of the Utah School of Massage Therapy, which is now the Steiner Education Group with 15 locations. I taught polarity massage at the school with my wife as the school was getting started. Around this time, we also founded The Living Energy Center, which was an urban oasis for well-being with a dozen practitioners bringing a diverse range of bodywork, Kripalu Yoga, lifestyle education and two of the first Rolfers to the people of Salt Lake City. At that time, massage and healing centers were virtually unheard of in Utah, and we did a lot of work with the community to get people on board. From the Utah Jazz and NBA, Salt Lake City Ballet to the Vice Squad of the Police Department, which regulated businesses that offered massage at the time, we brought together so many different partners to make our community center work and thrive.
How did your awareness of environmental issues keep pace with your interest in the healing arts?
I spent a summer in Switzerland working for the International Academy of the Environment as Director of Reporting. The Academy had organized a number of weeklong pilot workshops designed to help countries expedite environmental solutions by facilitating communication between relevant stakeholders. I directed a staff in creating reports in multiple languages for each meeting. For example, one seminar included scientists, educators, and policy makers from what is now the country of Ukraine, which at the time was going through some serious shifts due to the ousting of Gorbachev and needed a lot of help with environmental challenges including energy, pollution, water, and public health. Another seminar included activists and policy makers from Brazil trying to make inroads on rainforest deforestation. Yet another was a group from Scandinavia attempting to solve issues with the paper and pulp industry. Each seminar had such a different feel, such different goals and such different outcomes. That summer was a rich and eye-opening experience. I could get lost telling you stories about traipsing around Europe with the KGB, but we probably don't have time for that.
So you apply the principles of "spa" and healing to the work that you do at GSN?
I think that everyone should have access to the type of healing that is offered through the spa experience. I learned through my experiences with healing and massage that I could make a difference one hour at a time. I think that we are all capable of healing the world one hour at a time.
One of the things I learned working with energy and transformation is that you can't push: it is much more effective, in my opinion, to lead people toward insights of their own ... creating a safe space for people to discover whatever is next for them.
I find the same sort of principals at work in the environmental movement. The mission of creating a sustainable future is compelling and seductive, but its grandiose nature is capable of resulting in mission drift in environmental organizations. There can be too many great ideas. The risk is leaving a wake of those ideas unfinished.
So, I think that success takes a measured approach. Sustainability, the concept of it, and the attempt to put it into practice, really brings up all kinds of energy for people. It is more emotional than you might expect. Patience is something that I've brought to my work. The value of being present and grounded when communicating, and not being afraid to embrace my own change. This is what I see GSN doing as well. I think that GSN is here to help facilitate that process of growth and change in the spa industry.
What is the meaning of "Green" in the Green Spa Network?
I don't know if I will always think this, but right now, for me, green means new. That's one quality of sustainability that I think is often lost on people. Sustainability is not the kind of conversation that you can grasp fully and understand completely in any one moment: it is an ever-changing and ever-evolving [new] conversation.
Green is one those terms like "spa" and "wellness" that is mushy. Back in the early 2000s "green washing" was rampant. And that's because it was effective. All you had to do was have a statement that said, "I believe in the planet" and print it on recycled paper with soy-based ink, and you were good to go. It's not like that anymore. It's not just about changing to energy-efficient light bulbs. And I fight against the unspoken assumption that sustainability comes with sacrifice.
My personal vision of sustainability is one of abundance: constant movement and evolution and growth. It is one where community is a living breathing being rather than disjointed or separated. One of my college professors, Ian Worley, in an environmental philosophy course that I took did something that really hit home for me. He drew these concentric circles, with our body, mind and spirit, which, of course, is a cliché in the spa industry. But he then went on to expand it out even further to family community, society, and planet. He proposed the idea that there is no separation between any of that stuff. . we just make those separations to understand it and talk about things. So, that level of taking down barriers and embracing the whole of things and getting to abundance – to me that is what sustainability is about.
How is GSN creating a more sustainable spa industry?
GSN has two very distinct aspects to its mission. One is the basic "greening of the industry:" providing tools like the Sustainability Assessment Tool that help people "green" their business and have a smaller carbon footprint. The other piece of our mission involves anything that allows our spas to have a bigger healing footprint. For me—and GSN members—personal wellbeing and planetary wellbeing can be the same thing. You can be the healthiest person in the world, but if the planet is dying, who cares?
I am with GSN to help reconnect spa with those values. Spas are places where people go for transformation. Whether consciously or unconsciously, people go to spas for help. They need a place to help them feel better, to shed old ways and pick up new ways. The spa experience is not a religious experience, but there is a spiritual component to it that I think is very valuable.
It is one thing to help businesses be greener, but it is another to reach through those businesses to millions of people and green the planet. GSN exists because a greater energy of wellbeing exists in the spa industry and calls it forward. We are not making something happen that doesn't already want to happen; we are just trying to facilitate it.
It all goes back to the healing thing; as with bodywork, you don't actually cause someone's muscle to relax, you just help it get into a situation where the body/mind feels comfortable and safe enough and the muscle let's go returning to balance with a simple grace. Ultimately, for me, that's the core of my vision for GSN: To bring the great people who make up this industry to a threshold where embracing a new meaning of 'spa' in the light of a sustainable future becomes our next great challenge and together we cause the transformation for people and planet we all hope for.


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Joseph Stalin married twice. His first wife, Ekaterina Svanidze, died in December 1907, aged 22, from typhus. His second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, died, having shot herself, on 9 November 1932, aged 31.
As a two-year-old, Nadezhda, or Nadya, Alliluyeva was reputedly saved from drowning by the visiting 25-year-old Stalin. When staying in St Petersburg (later Petrograd), Stalin often lodged with the Alliluyev family. He may have had an affair with Olga Alliluyeva, Nadya's mother and his future mother-in-law.
In March 1917, Stalin returned to Petrograd from exile to join the unrest following the February Revolution and the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II. By then Nadya was 16 and she fell for the romantic revolutionary with his sweep of jet-black hair.
Mr and Mrs Stalin
Following the October Revolution of 1917, Nadya became Stalin's personal assistant as he embarked on his job as the People's Commissar for Nationalities and joined him in the city of Tsaritsyn during the Russian Civil War. They married in 1919 and had two children: Vasily, born 1921, and Svetlana, born 1926. (In 1967, Svetlana was to defect to the US, became known as Lana Peters and died in Wisconsin on 22 November 2011).
Nadya found life in the Kremlin suffocating. Her husband, whom she once saw as the archetypal Soviet 'new man', turned out to be a quarrelsome bore, often drunk and flirtatious with his colleague's wives. A manic-depressive and prone to violent mood swings, Stalin's colleagues thought her 'mad'.
Chemistry student
In 1929, bored of being cooped up in the Kremlin, Nadya enrolled on a course in chemistry. She diligently went to university each morning by public transport, shunning the official limousine. Her new-found student friends, not realising who she was, told her horrific stories concerning Stalin's collectivization policy. When she confronted her husband, accusing him of 'butchering the people', he reacted angrily and had her friends arrested.
Days before her death, according to her daughter, Nadya confided to a friend that 'nothing made her happy', least of all her children.
The Banquet
On the evening of 8 November 1932, Stalin and Nadya hosted a banquet to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the October Revolution. They often argued and this party was no different with Nadya accusing Stalin of being inconsiderate towards her. His response was to humiliate her in front of their guests by flicking cigarettes at her and addressing her 'hey, you!' Molotov's wife chased after her and together they walked round the Kremlin grounds until Nadya calmed down and retired for bed.
The following morning, servants found Nadya dead – she had shot herself with a pistol given to her by her brother, Pavel Alliluyev, as a present from Berlin. (Pavel, who was there that morning and comforted his grieving brother-in-law, would die in suspicious circumstances six years later, aged 44. Most of the Alliluyev clan would suffer early deaths on the orders of Stalin. His daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, wondered whether Stalin would eventually have had her own mother arrested).
Reproach and accusations
Nadya had left a note for Stalin which, according to Svetlana, was both personal and 'partly political'. Although she never saw it, Svetlana described it as being 'full of reproach and accusations'. Stalin certainly took his Nadya's death badly, believing that she had taken her own life to punish him. His anger and grief seemed genuine and he was unable to bring himself to attend her funeral or, later, visit her grave.
The public were told that Nadya Alliluyeva had died from appendicitis – as was her daughter, then aged 6. It wouldn't have been good for Stalin's image to have had a wife who had committed suicide. Svetlana found out the truth quite by accident a decade later.
On the day of her State funeral, Stalin muttered, 'She went away as an enemy'.
Learn more about Joseph Stalin in Stalin: History In An Hour by Rupert Colley, published by Harper Press and available in various digital formats.
See also The Russian Revolution: History In An Hour. Both are available also as downloadable audio.
Rupert Colley's novella, My Brother the Enemy, set during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, is now available.


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Is it possible to have an bluetooth A2DP (audio stream) sink to be routed to FMOD as an input stream? As you can have line in as input stream?
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Original response, incorrectly assuming Android…
Unfortunately I don't have a good answer for you, it may be possible
but generally we avoid Bluetooth on Android due to latency issues.
Currently we simply open the input stream exposed to OpenSLES, if
there is a way through NDK / Java to make the Bluetooth the default
input then it should "just work" however I am not aware of such a
For Linux we have two available sound card interfaces, ALSA and PulseAudio. Assuming PulseAudio a quick Google reveals you probably need to install the PulseAudio Bluetooth module. Once that's running FMOD should discover it along with all the other PulseAudio devices.
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I do not want to use Bluetooth with Android but with the raspberry pi. So I have access to most tools, every linux system has. I want to use FMOD as my primary audio library but the ability to get the bluetooth stream is a must have for me.
- Sebastian Bischlager answered 2 years ago
Apologies, I saw Bluetooth and assumed Android. I'll correct my above answer.
Thank you very much. I will try that
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A new TV commercial for giant candy conglomerate Lotte's new Acuo chewing gum is attracting attention amongst fans of 2D for its striking premise – the gum makes one's breath so fresh that it transforms pedestrian, everyday Japanese women into 2D beauties such as Haruhi and Mikuru, or even a trio of stray cats into a harem of nekomimi Nagato.
The date and time of the first details of the CM appeared on March 31st at Oricon, making some question whether or not it might be a early April Fool's gag, but the full 15-second commercial appeared during a news report along with an announced broadcast date of April 5.
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Following the CM, the news report takes over and helpfully identifies the girls for the program's non-otaku audience as "popular characters of the iconic Haruhi Suzumiya series."
In case you might not be familiar with Japanese male idols, the handsome fellow happens to be celebrity talent 生田斗真 / Toma Ikuta, employed to Johhny's, the mega-talent agency responsible for several of Japan's male idol acts such as SMAP or V6.
To preserve the images for posterity, below is nearly every key frame of the CM with the 2D Haruhi cast present:
What the 3D girls are saying isn't of much importance, but Mikuru's cute phrase goes:
"You have such wonderful breath!"
The Haruhi segment comes next.
The newly transformed Haruhi here exclaims:
"You're really great, aren't ya?!"
Their voices are perfect, and since a TV CM essentially has to be fully licensed by all concerned rights-holders, it should be easy to assume that the seiyuu trio of Gotou, Hirano and Chihara were involved.
Making the above portion of the CM with Mikuru and Haruhi inside a store might have been a mistake, given how much better the outdoors shot with Nagato further below looks in comparison, as shown below.
A question that most otaku would be hard-pressed to answer is exactly why Ikuta is so intent on running away from all these wonders…
An update describing the CM is available at the official Haruhi site, Lotte's Acuo product page is viewable here.


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In April 2008, GCN ran an article, "The return of Ada," about how the 1970s programming language commissioned by the Defense Department never really caught on, but never really went away either. Ada is still used in aviation software and other circles, where developers tout its security and reliability. But it never saw widespread use because of its difficulty.
The article was posted on Reddit over the weekend, where it drew a lively discussion about Ada and how it compares to other languages, from C and C++ to Haskell, Lisp and Erlang. If coding is your cup of tea, you might want to check it out.
A comment on the story to GCN, meanwhile, disputes the idea that a language can be inherently secure. "Programmers do write bad code in any language," he writes, although he does say Ada can be used to "generate quite robust, cross-platform reliable code." Ultimately, though, the degree of difficulty can come into play, apparently. "I'm glad Ada isn't gone," he concludes, "but I'm glad I'm retired."
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My daughter has been known to write several letters to Santa Claus in the lead up to Christmas, with the first one usually in September. This year, she hasn't shown any signs of writing even one...which makes me sad :( On the plus side, it will be nice for Mummy and Daddy to finally get credit for all the presents under the tree haha!
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Ah yes, sleeping problems. I have become prone to the Sudden Jerk. No, that's not a man who arrives unexpectedly in the middle of the night, behaving badly and waking me up.
|Behave as badly as you want, Johnny. You are welcome any time...
And I have, inadvertently, hit upon a cure. Well, no, not a cure, the only thing that will absolutely cure the Brain-Race problem would be enough money to, you know, actually pay for things and no worries about kids, dogs, health, strange noises downstairs, family, that odd smell of burning.. So it's less of a cure and more of a preventative. Do you want to know what it is, people?
Books. Audio books, to be exact. My own, to be even more exact.
Yes. I am in the fortunate position of having just about all my books (even the early ones) available as audio books. In fact (prepare yourselves for a gratuitous plug here, people) my most recent release from Choc Lit, the incomparably-titled Vampire State of Mind has just become available too! Look here
See? Anyway, just in case you've made it this far and aren't still dribbling over the picture of Johnny (join the queue, just bear in mind that I am at least three in front of you), here is what I do. I take my own audio book, transfer it to ITunes, and leave it playing on my computer during the night! It's like being read to by myself! I have to say that I use my own books not for reasons of gratuitous self-aggrandisement, but for the simple reason that I already know how it ends, and therefore do not have to stay awake to, for example, find out whodunnit.
Trust me, it works. Mind you, the last person I said that to still can't stand upright during electrical storms so, you know, your mileage may vary. But I recommend it thoroughly, because now, when I wake during the night, I find myself listening to the story and therefore being distracted by whatever woes may currently be uppermost in my highly-trained mind. Of course, I sleep alone.
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TAYLORSVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Pictures of alleged animal abuse in Spencer County are making the rounds on the internet. But county officials are standing by their decision not to charge the owner.
The photos show dogs chained up outside in frigid temperatures, kennel floors covered in ice and water dishes frozen over.
The images have gained so much attention, an online petition to shut the breeder down has nearly 3,000 signatures in only a few days.
But the person those thousands are trying to convince -- Spencer County Judge Executive Bill Karrer -- says the breeder has done nothing wrong.
"I don't see any animals up there whose lives seem to be in danger," said Karrer. "I did not see the filthiness that people were trying to portray, it just wasn't there."
Karrer says he visited breeder Laura Pope last week, and again Monday, and believes the photos are some what disingenuous.
"Here's this frozen dish, yeah but right next to that dish was a dish of heated water that wasn't frozen. So that was unfair to be singled out that way."
He also said although adult dogs were kept outside, they all appeared to have access to shelter and puppies were kept in heated kennels.
"Puppies are in igloos with heat lamps--and in some cases even have heat pads."
The petition describes dogs "in filth and soaked in urine, their own feces, and even blood from fights."
It also vividly describes the scene as you enter Pope's property.
"Dogs upon dogs line both the left and right side of the gravel road. Big dogs chained with heavy metal chains, poor constructed shelters made from wooden pallets, tin roofing on some, and buckets of solid frozen water. It's not hard to tell the dogs have been here for quite some time. Giant wear marks in the ground recount the dog's footsteps as they have paced back and forth, back and forth. No grass beneath their feet. Only mud, snow, and ice."
But animal control says, from what they see, Pope isn't breaking any laws.
"Myself, I think there are too many dogs," said Nolan Bryant with K-9 Rescue and Enforcement. "But there is nothing the county says that she can't have that many dogs."
And Pope is no stranger to the law. According to court records, she was convicted on one count of animal cruelty in 2004. The conviction came after a judge allowed Pope to take an Alford plea on 95 charges of animal cruelty in the second degree.
Because of that, Bryant said he put a pending kennel license on hold once complaints started rolling in.
"Once all this came up, with the issue that happened ten years ago, we wanted to proceed with caution, make sure what we were doing was correct," said Bryant.
He has yet to cash her check for the kennel license, and said they will continue to investigate. But at this time, it is likely she will get her license renewed because county officials don't believe she is in violation of county ordinance.
"What it boils down to for us, is not what I think or like, but what's legal," said Karrer.
Current Spencer County ordinances do not put a limit on the number of dogs one can possess.
Although it does rule against tying dogs up for over ten hours a day, Karrer admitted that ordinance is almost impossible to enforce.
"For me to know that, I would have to monitor it for 24 hours or better. And that becomes unenforceable," said Karrer.
Karrer added that the city continues to watch the situation closely.
"It's not a dead issue, we will continue to monitor and investigate the situation," said Karrer.
Spencer County officials aren't the only ones "okay" with Pope's breeding practices. Just this past September, the American Kennel Club found her in compliance with organization standards.
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Portable Restorator 2007 U2|ShiChuang(x86/x64)|rar|15.3 mb
Restorator is an award-winning utility to edit ShiChuang resources in applications and their components, e.g. files with .exe, .dll, .res, .rc, .dcr, extension (see PE files and RES files).
Change, add, remove resources such as text, images, icons, sounds, videos, version, dialogs and menus in almost all programs. Restorator is used for translation/localization, customization, design improvement and development. This resource editor comes with an intuitive user-interface, complete documentation with many examples and prompt user support in the discussion forums or via email.
Restorator Features
Here is a selection of Restorator's most important features. [version history] [supported file formats]
View and edit Resources
Browse through your resources and edit them either in Restorator itself, or using applications you can integrate into Restorator's tool menu. [list of supported resource types]
Edit dialogs WYSIWYG
You can edit dialogs with your mouse on the screen. Move the dialog elements, resize and re-label them with immediate results and full control. Essential feature for translating applications. [screenshot] [tutorial]
Add multi-language support to your applications
You can add several languages to one single application. Your application will automatically start with the correct language, i.e. the default ShiChuang language. Multi language support can be added just using Restorator. You can not only translate applications, but also add languages! [screenshot] [tutorial]
Release automated modifications-ResPatcher *)
Using ResPatcher you can create a small executable that will re-do your changes. That enables you to customize any application and share it with others. You can customize applications like Internet Explorer and AOL Instant Messenger and share the modifications with your friends. [screenshot] [tutorial]
Grab resources in PE files anywhere on your hard drive *)
Grab for resources on your hard drive. This tool will find resources wherever they hide, e.g. look for all cursors on your drive and you save a lot of manual work. [screenshot] [tutorial]
Locating elements in resources
You are looking for a specific resource in a program? Not a problem-the resource finder will do it! [screenshot] [tutorial]
Edit and update resource files that are in use.
Restorator can cause files to be replaced at system boot time, allowing you to modify resources within files used by ShiChuang. [screenshot]
Link Resource editing tools
Define your own tools to edit sounds images and other resources. Easy launching of your favorite image editor to edit a BMP image
Resource View Modes
View the resources in different modes. In the Default Mode, you can listen to audio, look at images and find all resources that need translation. In Hexdump Mode, you get access to the raw data. In the RC Resource Mode, you see the resource entry in standard RC format.
Adding Resources
Insert resources in exe or res files. Added resources are particularly useful for your created .res or .dcr files, or if you want to add custom resources to your own projects. This feature also allows adding formats/resolutions to icons and cursors. [screenshot]
Deleting Resources
Your compiler creates useless resources? Want to strip debug information from the resources? Want to shrink the size of the executable file? Then you got the solution: remove resources with Restorator!
UPX support
Open upx-compressed files seamlessly in Restorator: upon loading, the file is automatically uncompressed.
Command line Support
With the command line parameters, you can execute Restorator conveniently from a batch program, for automated execution. It is also possible to incorporate Restorator or a ResPatch into installation programs (like InstallShield) to automate resource patching during installation. [parameter list]
Extract all Resources
You can extract all resources of an application to your hard drive and work on them. Later you place all resources back in a single step. This can make translation easy with your favorite tools.
How would you like it you could change the whole layout of your applications, or even graphics from ShiChuang interface? With Restorator 2007 this is actually possible. This incredibly useful program allows you to get into the inner parts of ShiChuang resources and components of programs, known as PE files. The most common extensions from those PE files are .exe, .dll, .rc, .res and .dcr. Altering these files means that you can change text, images, sounds and other kinds of data in applications.
There is nothing out of the ordinary during setup. The steps are few and the installation process finishes fairly quickly. No 3rd party software is installed either.
Officially, it is stated that the supported operating systems are ShiChuang 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Vista, but the program can run smoothly in any machine running ShiChuang 7.
It's been a while since Restorator's last update was released; therefore it's reasonable that the user interface is not very modern. However, that doesn't mean that it is complicated or hard to use. On the left side is the resource tree, where the components of open files are displayed as collapsible items. The window on the center has two tabs, Resource Viewer and File Browser. In resource viewer you can take a closer look at the resource files and in File Browser you can explore the files located in your hard drive.
Editing PE and RES files can be useful in many ways. For instance, you can translate a program into a different language, as well as export images, translate the containing text and then import them back to the program. Secondly, developers will find this software extremely helpful, as with it they can analyze an application's data as deep as they wish. If in a file you want to delete resources or add your own, you can do that too.
The resource viewing modes are three: the default viewing mode, where you can see all the available data as they should normally appear (for example you can listen to audio or look at images), the hexdump mode, which displays everything in raw data, and finally is the RC Resource Mode to view the resources in standard RC format. You are able to work with the resources directly from the hard drive if you wish by using the extract function.
You can edit files that are already in use, e.g. system files, as Restorator will replace them at next system boot.
ResPatcher is a feature in Restorator which gives you the ability to share the customizations you made with others by creating a small executable and launching it whenever you want the changes to be applied. If in a file you want to delete resources or add your own, you can do that too.
Finding particular resources located in the hard drive is not easy, since you have to go through a lot of files and folders in order to find what you're looking for. That's why Restorator has this feature implemented. You can perform a search in the hard drive (or in specific locations) and set the search criteria, which are not few at all.
Executing Restorator using command line parameters is possible as well.
It's a shame really that it's no longer being updated. It has a lot of potential and could become an exceptional tool for everyone to use.
What's new in this version:
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See command line parameters in the reference manual for more info.
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support for Vista-style icons
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The Boston Red Sox will sign SP Itsuki Shoda to a minor league deal, according to Peter Abraham of The Boston Globe. A source confirmed the deal, saying Shoda was invited to minor league camp and would have to win a job to stay with the organization. The cost to the Red Sox was not disclosed, but sources said it was minimal.
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New Geological Heritage Website Focuses on the Keweenaw
By Marcia Goodrich | Published
Retired Michigan Technological University Professor Bill Rose has unveiled a new website aimed at educating residents of and visitors to the Keweenaw about its geological heritage.
Sites rich in geological heritage, or geoheritage, are geological locations offering significant scientific, cultural or aesthetic value. The Keweenaw has dozens of them, says Rose.
"I taught at Michigan Tech for 43 years, from 1970 to 2012," he said. "I took hundreds of students outside and found many special educational places that teach about how the Earth works. This led to a lot of knowledge of outdoor places, and the Keweenaw and Isle Royale are very rich in geoheritage, a word we use to describe places that communicate between the Earth and people, places where the planet shapes our lives."
Visit the website at "Keweenaw Geoheritage" or by searching for "Keweenaw Geoheritage."
The smartphone-friendly Keweenaw site has GPS locations, maps, video, aerial photos and information on more than 200 locations in the Keweenaw and Isle Royale. It revolves around five main themes: Lavas and the Continental Rift, Red Sediments and Filling of the Hole, The Keweenaw Thrust Fault, Massive Ice Sheets and The Feel and Look of the Lake.
Rose developed the site when he realized that many people never acquired a basic knowledge of Earth science.
"A lack of public understanding of the Earth is a widespread problem—maybe worse in the US than many other places. Issues like global warming, natural hazards, natural resources and energy needs are widely misunderstood by the public and politicians," he said. "This creates unnecessary friction and destructive arguments.
"As geoscientists, it is our fault not to have more broadly explained these things. But we do live with them around us, and if we go outside and look more, understanding will grow. I see my grandchildren spending lots of time with their cellphones and TV, but I want them to go out and look at the world—especially here, where it is so beautiful and illustrative."
He has also designed guided field trips that will debut this summer through the Western UP Center for Science, Mathematics and Environmental Education. More information is on the Keweenaw Geoheritage website.
"Many people know very little about the geosciences. Having resources like this website available to the public can really go a long way in helping people to learn more about the natural and human history of their local area," said Jackie Huntoon, associate provost and dean of the Graduate School at Michigan Tech. "One of my personal goals for the upcoming years is to visit all of the sites, and I encourage others to do the same."
The site is hosted by the Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences at Michigan Tech. "Public outreach about our disciplines is vital and online resources are the most accessible and flexible approaches for sharing information about the local landscape," said John Gierke, interim chair of the department. "Bill Rose created a comprehensive factual resource that is readily accessible with today's smartphone technology, and our department will host the web information for students and the public to access in perpetuity."
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Steel structures of Larisa stadium roof are formed by couples of plane-truss cantilevers.
Distance between the plane-trusses is 4.7m and the step of couples is (9.4m+4.7m) = 14.1m. Each couple of main trusses is internal braced and is connected in the joints of lower layer by transversal posts and diagonals.
Each North/South truss has a global length of about 24m and a cantilever length of about 13.5m. It has the internal support on a steel column (with transversal "X" bracing) and the external support on a concrete structure. The longitudinal distance between supports is about 7m.
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In May 1866, the Ku Klux Klan was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee by six educated, middle-class Confederate army veterans known as the Immortal Six. These six men named their fraternity the Ku Klux Klan. The name was derived from the Greek word, Kuklos meaning, A circle or band (of brothers).
The main ideas were to resist the South's Reconstruction movement and become the voice of the Conservative movement's answer to the North's Union League. No man was accepted into the fraternity without taking an oath, that they had never been members of the Union Army, the Union League, or the Republican Party,( an extremely liberal party at that time).
Late in 1866, the Klan revised its stance, to become the defenders of the Constitution of the United States and become the protector of widows and orphans of the Confederate dead. They also voted to support re-enfranchisement of ex-Confederates and uphold the South's constitutional rights.
In April 1867, during a state wide meeting of Klansmen at the Maxwell House Hotel, in Nashville, Tennessee, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was elected as the Klan's first Grand Wizard.
During the early years of the organization, Klan activity was strongest in Southern and Western Tennessee. From 1867 to 1871, the organization suffered a serious decline and was almost destroyed by President Ulysses S. Grant, the former Union army General. Grant's persecution of the Klan, coupled with his enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, brought about a slowing in growth and activity of the Klan.
In 1915, after nearly fifty years of inactivity, the Klan revived, at Stone Mountain, Georgia, which lead to a new-found interest in the Klan, bringing in the Klan's second era in Southern Tennessee and throughout the U.S.
Today, Tennessee is hard at work, recruiting members for the U.N.S.K. These members are active in their communities and churches. They strive to uphold the Constitution and are working against illegal immigration and many other things that plague this Country. Please join us in the fight!


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