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Stronger Kingdom Fund
The Council of the Purse welcomes submissions for assistance under the Stronger Kingdom Fund. Submisisons may be made throughout the year and will each be considered on a case by case basis.
The concept is to help bring expert visitors from other groups, to harness their energy and expertise.
The kingdom will fund up to $500 towards the travel costs of bringing a visiting expert to the group. Furthermore, regular (annual) events will generally only be eligible for a maximum of $250. It is understood that actual travel costs may be higher than the funding can match; any further funding should be done by the group either through attendance charges for the event or other fund-raising. It could also be worthwhile asking Rowany for assistance from their Fighter Auction Fund, applying to the Laurels for 'Laurel Freedom Bus' funding, or seeking contributions from other SCA groups in your region.
By "experts", we mean members of the peerages (knights, laurels, pelicans) or the polling orders (archers, fencers). If your real need is a herald or an equestrian who is not a peer, write in with your case and the Council may consider your proposal anyway.
Your submission should fit on one A4 page, in MS Word or OpenOffice, and should include a description of your need, then how your proposed solution will address this. The submission can be generic ("seeking funds for 3 laurels covering costuming, brewing and thaumaturgy") or specific ("for Sir Cumfrance and his armouring trailer").
The fund's guidelines are that there is a planned Kingdom expenditure of $1500 per calendar year. Once this budget has been allocated in a calendar year, then subsequent applications on the fund will be unlikely to be granted.
There may be more groups seeking assistance than the funds available, so it's helpful if you can demonstrate value for money. For instance, if you hire a minibus, it may be possible to bring extra peers and perhaps some laurel apprentices or squires to help. It may be that one Laurel can offer several sessions to address more than one need. Or you could get letters of support (email fine) from nearby groups to demonstrate that they will attend and maximise the benefit.
Once assistance under the fund has been approved, reimbursement can be made to the group upon presentation of receipts up to the maximum value awarded.
This policy is subject to review at any time.
Please send submissions to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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Katy Perry Texted Kristen Stewart to Crush Those Robert Pattinson Rumors
Katy Perry clearly has enough fireworks in her love life -- as she took great care not to ignite anger and jealousy from Kristen Stewart over her relationship with Robert Pattinson, letting K Stew know that Katy's relationship with R Pattz was strictly platonic. And she used everyone's favorite tool to keep conflict at a safe distance -- text messaging!
After the tortured 'Twilight' lovers finally split for good in May, Robert was spotted in public on several occasions alongside Katy, who was then off-again with beau John Mayer. Immediately, tongues began wagging that they were healing their respective broken hearts in each other's arms -- and even that Robert was ready to introduce the pop singer to his parents! Understandably, Kristen was said to be miserable over the gossip.
Katy squelched Kristen's fears with a reassuring text, telling her that she was only just friends with the actor. "I sent her a text message saying: 'I know you've seen all this stuff but you know I would never disrespect you. I'm not that person,'" Katy says in an interview with Elle UK. "'I'm just trying to be a friend to him but it is unfortunate that I do have a set of tits.'"
While we don't know if the text convinced Kristen that Katy had no designs on Robert, we're betting that Perry's reignited romance with Mayer has done the trick!

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Freeloader Pico Solar Charger
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Being a monkey, Timmy the ThinkGeek monkey is all too familiar with life in the wilderness, swinging from trees, flinging poo on unsuspecting ground-dwellers, eating bananas. But things have changed. Back in the day, you had to write a message on a leaf and send it from monkey to monkey across the jungle. Today, there are smartphones and netbooks and laptops - oh my! And do you know what? There's nowhere to charge your electronics in the woods.
That's right - in the wilderness, there's nobody to hear your low battery beep.
Enter a life-changing device for the electronics-savvy yet outdoorsy monkey like yourself - the Freeloader Pico, a compact and lightweight solar charger that will charge up your most vital electronic devices while you're far away from an outlet. That's right, you can freeload off the Sun! The premium quality crystalline solar cells will soak in the Sun's rays by day, and when night falls, you can plug your phone or GPS into the Freeloader Pico and charge it up in just a half hour! When you trek through the wilderness, do it with peace of mind knowing your vital devices will stay charged in case of emergency.
- Compact and lightweight solar charger for small electronic devices
- Advanced solar cell and lithium ion battery technology
- Solar panels will charge its internal battery in as little as 10 hours
- If you're lazy or pressed for time, you can charge the Pico's internal battery via USB
- Delivers its charge to your cell phone, iPod, or GPS in just 30 minutes
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- Connects to virtually any device supplied with a USB charge or sync cable
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Extend Your Java Studio Creator Options with JSTL
This article covers the use of JSTL within Creator: How to set it up and make use of the JSTL, and how to deploy a JSTL-enabled Web app to Sun App Server PE 8 or another App Server.
What is the JSTL?
The JSP Standard Template Library (JSTL for short) is a tag library for creating dynamic JSP Web pages. It defines a number of useful tags that allow conditionals, iterations, and other common operations on data. If you are familiar with struts, you will notice a lot of similarities within the JSTL to the struts bean and logic tags in particular.
Why use the JSTL in Creator?
Clearly within Java Studio Creator, the emphasis is on component controls and data binding. This allows you to put data-bound pages together very quickly. It is very successful; however, data binding does limit you in some ways. For example, when binding a data grid, you need to know the number of columns ahead of time and provide header information for them. Now, suppose that you have data that you want to display in a grid for a time period that you do not know ahead of time, or maybe you simply have a very large number of columns to display and don't want to create large numbers of pre-defined column details for a grid.
JSTL allows you to build up an HTML table completely dynamically. By nesting a couple of iterations inside one another, you can make an HTML table to display data of variable dimensions in both X and Y axes. This will form the example that you examine in this article. There are numerous other reasons I can think of to use JSTL in Creator (conditionals on what to display, and so forth), but there are also a lot of reasons that I cannot think of but that you will probably hit at some time or other. Either way, knowing you have a backup to the strict data-binding model only increases your options when creating dynamic Web apps in Creator.
About this Article
Unlike previous articles, I have chosen to make this one a descriptive one rather than a follow-along article. Full sources are available in the accompanying zip file: JSTLDemo.zip.
Getting Started
Using the Source View
JSTL has no GUI support in Creator. This means it is necessary to switch to the source view of the JSP page (use the tab at the bottom of the JSP window). It is possible to mix and match JSF and JSTL, and for the JSF parts of the page, you can use the GUI view and drag and drop. I recommend using a group panel to hold the JSTL code you are going to use because it makes an easy handle to move and lay out the JSTL part on the page in the GUI view.
Quick JSTL Primer
The JSTL is a JSP tag library; that is, after importing, it defines a set of new tags that can be used in a JSP page. The tags are typically imported into the JSP using the namespace c: so the tags look like this: <c:if>, <c:forEach>, <c:choose>, <c:out>, and so on.
This article is not intended to be a tutorial on JSTL. For that, I recommend the following links:
- http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/JSTL3.html#wp72409: The Sun-provided J2EE 1.4 tutorial documentation about JSTL
- http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jstl0211.html?dwzone=java: Although this is a JSTL 1.0 tutorial, it is still one of the better tutorials for JSTL and still relevant for the JSTL 1.1 included with Creator.
- I also recommend the O'Reilly book JavaServer Pages (3rd Edition) from which I drew in this article and in the project upon which this article is based. The book covers other topics as well as JSTL, but has strong chapters on JSTL, and a guide to the JSTL Expression Language (EL) at the end in the appendixes also.
You may also notice that there are more namespaces included with JSTL than the c: namespace. For example, there is an x: namespace for XML operations, and a sql: namespace for SQL queries and manipulations of DBs. Although this article does not cover these other JSTL namespaces, the techniques used here can be employed to harness those in Creator in the same way.
About the Sample Project
The sample project accompanying this article is a simplification of a solution to a real-world problem I faced in the my latest project at NewEnergy Associates.
The requirements for the display of hourly schedule data went beyond what could be accomplished easily (or even at all) in the Creator Grid component. These included (in no particular order) 96 quarter-hourly interval values (I could have created a bound grid with over 100 columns in it, but I really didn't have the patience). Also, the data was not organized into a readily bindable grid, but rather into a fairly sophisticated set of nested beans. Finally, user requirements stated that a mismatched row should be highlighted in some way (colored to draw the user's attention).
From my knowledge of Struts in previous projects, it became apparent that an HTML table constructed using iterators over the nested data beans would be far easier than trying to force the model into a grid with over 100 columns.
For the accompanying example project used in this article, I reduced the number of interval values to 24 hourly intervals instead of 96 quarter-hourly ones. Also, some of the more arbitrary logic is ommitted for brevity. However, it shows the potential value of a JSTL solution in this case.
A JSTL Example
Setup Steps for the Example Project
Download the zip file referenced at the top of the article, unzip it, and then open it using Creator. Feel free to look around the project. The layout is simple. There is a package called jstldemo.bean with three classes in it.
The Schedule class is a simple Schedule bean that is used to hold some basic details about the Schedule (name, in party, out party, and the like) and also in and out time series with 24 hourly values in each time series.
TimeSeries is the object that holds the hourly values. It also holds a name for the time series and a status to show whether the time series is matched to its partner.
DataSetup is just a very simple class with static methods to set up some random demo data in the two data beans above.
This is only a demo data set. The structure of the beans made more sense when it was part of the larger system I was working on. Don't get too bogged down in the way this data is structured; it is sufficient to demonstrate the use of JSTL, which is the point of this article.
The clever stuff is all in Page1.jsp. Page1.java simply gets the demo data and puts it into a TreeMap in the page so that the JSTL in the jsp page can access it.
Once you have examined the project, run it to see the resulting grid. You will dig into how this was achieved below.
Using JSTL in a Creator Page
There are several steps necessary to use JSTL inside a Creator Page. First, the JSTL tags must be included in the page. You must do this from the source code view of the page, and also the JSTL tags can only be added and manipulated in the page source view.
It is also recommended to put a group panel in the page to hold the JSTL code. This makes it easier to lay out the page and move the JSTL part of the page around (this is a useful trick in Creator for handling any component or code that Creator cannot render in WYSIWYG mode).
Add Group Panel to hold the JSTL Grid
Creating a group panel to hold the JSTL code (a table in this case) means that it is easy to lay out the page around the otherwise invisible JSTL-generated part. It also lets you move around the container position on the page.
When the group is created, name it something sensible. Then, look in the code and you should see something like the following:
<h:panelGroup binding="#{Page1.jstlTablePanel}" id="jstlTablePanel" style="height: 444px; left: 24px; top: 36px; position: absolute; width: 720px"/>
To place JSTL code inside the panel, change it to look as follows:
<h:panelGroup binding="#{Page1.jstlTablePanel}" id="jstlTablePanel" style="height: 444px; left: 24px; top: 36px; position: absolute; width: 720px"> ....Insert JSTL Code Here.... </h:panelGroup>
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Generous Boy Who Found $20 Bill Pays It Forward by Giving Money to Soldier [VIDEO]
You're excused if you get a lump in your throat after watching this video. Talk about heartbreaking and inspiring at the same time!
A young boy from Ohio who found a $20 bill had visions of what to do with his newfound fortune, including buying a video game -- that was until he saw a soldier in uniform. You see, his father -- who was a soldier -- was killed when he was just an infant. The boy has no memories of his father, just stories that others have told him.
He wrapped the $20.00 bill in a letter and gave it to an officer in uniform in Cracker Barrel. Then he wanted to go talk to his dad. So his mom took him to the cemetery and snapped this photo.
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text: Joanne, we put about 30 mLs of our regular staining eosin in our first 100% alcohol. We used less, but my embedders thought it was too light still. Joe Nocito, BS, HT(ASCP) QIHC Histology Manager Pathology Reference Lab San Antonio, TX -----Original Message----- From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu]On Behalf Of Joanne Mauger Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 11:06 AM To: ctsblack <@t> capeheart.uct.ac.za; histonet <@t> pathology.swmed.edu Subject: [Histonet] eosin in 95% Dear list, Those of you who use eosin in your 95% etoh on the processor-what exactly do you use? The ready to stain eosin, or more concentrated? I remember someone writing that they put it in the first 95,correct? We need to stain our tiny gi bxs to better see them when embedding and cutting. Any tips are appreciated. Jo >>> "Melanie Black" <ctsblack <@t> capeheart.uct.ac.za> 10/21/04 02:28AM >>> >I have also had rod-like crystals in my Alk phos/NBT system. I have >shown them to the company rep, who has no idea what they might be. >With so much written about it here...I think DAKO should sit up and >take a look. Melanie Black > >Thanks all for the cat scratch advice. I am trying it with HRP- AEC. >Will report result. >Jo > > >>>> "C.M. van der Loos" <c.m.vanderloos <@t> amc.uva.nl> 10/17/04 02:20PM >>> >Dear Joanne, > >Usually, AP staining doesn't show up in a crystal-like precipitate, >but I have seen it a couple of times. Never found out what was the >cause of it. Be sure that after your IHC procedure and before the AP >visualization, the sections are washed at with a Tris-HCl pH8.5 >buffer. Phosphate ions from PBS will inhibit your AP reaction. You >also may mix the Permanent Red components first and than press >immediately through a syringe-filter to remove all bigger particles >in the AP solution. >Have you viewed your slides under a fluorescence microscope? A small >amount of Permanent Red reaction product also gives a bright red >fluorescence signal when using the rhodamine filter pack (green >light). >Good suggestion by Richard to use a tonsil as a negative control. >But, how about running the good old control blanc slide without any >primary antibody? >Hope this helps. > >Chris van der Loos, PhD >Dept. of Pathology >Academical Medical Center >Amsterdam - The Netherlands > >----- Original Message ----- >>From "Joanne Mauger" <MAUGER <@t> email.chop.edu> >Date Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:45:05 -0400 >To histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu, jkiernan <@t> uwo.ca >Subject Re: [Histonet] IHC withquantum dots >Hi group, >Can anyone help me with suggestions-I am working up the monoclonal >Ab (H2A10) to cat scratch disease. Ab from Novus Biologicus. I have >a purchased control from Newcomer Supply. I am using permanent red >chromagen from Dako., with alk phos link also from Dako. I am >getting a nice specific staining of what looks like specs vs tiny >rods or spirochetes, but the control tissue does , by Warthin >Starry, look much more spirochete-ish. Can I trust this result? I >have also stained several suspected + cases and see the same dust >like + staining,but I am afraid it is teeny bits of precipitate. >Does this ring a bell? >Please help. >Thanks, >Jo > >----- Original Message ----- >>From "Richard Cartun" <Rcartun <@t> harthosp.org> >Date Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:45:57 -0400 >To <MAUGER <@t> email.chop.edu>,<histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu>, ><jkiernan <@t> uwo.ca> >Subject Re: [Histonet] IHC withquantum dots >Have you tried staining a section of tonsil to see if you get the >same pattern of staining. I have found "precipitation" to be a >problem with alkaline phosphatase (PA) detection, although I am by >no means an expert when it comes to AP IHC. I use HRP/AEC for most >of my infectious disease studies including Bartonella henselae. >Don't forget that you may not see the normal morphology of the >bacterium with IHC. You are labeling epitopes on the surface of the >organism; you are not staining the entire cell wall. I have found >B. henselae to be one of the most difficult organisms to label (and >interpret) with IHC. Good luck! > >Richard > > >Richard W. Cartun, Ph.D. >Director, Immunopathology & Histology >Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology >Hartford Hospital >80 Seymour Street >Hartford, CT 06102 > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Histonet mailing list >Histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu >http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet -- Cardiovascular Research Unit Div. of Cardiothoracic Surgery Chris Barnard Building University of Cape Town Anzio Road Observatory 7925 Republic of South Africa Tel +27 21 406-6589 Cel +27 82 469-3352 Fax +27 21 448-5935 _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet


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PARK RIDGE, N.J. -- Park Ridge police will be among fewer than three dozen law enforcement agencies and officers from New Jersey who will be honored next week for "outstanding achievements and innovation in community policing throughout the state," officials said Thursday.
Attorney General Christopher Porrino said he will present the 2017 Attorney General's Community Policing Awards to three Bergen County recipients -- Emerson, Midland Park and Park Ridge police -- at a ceremony Monday in the Rutgers University Livingston Campus Student Center in Piscataway.
The ceremony "will feature presentations from agencies showcasing their initiatives, and a panel discussion among leaders in the field," said Porrino, who will be joined by state Criminal Justice Director Elie Honig, the State Association of Chiefs of Police and community and faith-based leaders in honoring the local officers.
The award recognizes "innovative and successful approaches to fostering relationships of collaboration, trust, and understanding between police departments and community groups," the attorney general said.
The event begins at 10:30 am. at the student center at 84 Joyce Kilmer Avenue.
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Supermarket giant Tesco is to create 20,000 jobs in the UK over the next two years through "significant investment" in customer service, refreshing existing stores and opening new ones.
The firm said it will invest in additional staff hours and training and improve hundreds of stores.
It said it expects to focus on giving opportunities to young unemployed people.
The 20,000 jobs include full-time and part-time roles, including some apprenticeship placements.
In addition, a number of existing staff we will invited to do apprenticeship placements as part of their current roles, but a spokeswoman could not say exactly how many people this was - or how many of the 20,000 jobs were full time or part time.
Tesco was targeted by Right to Work activists last month over the Government's work experience scheme, leading the retailer to offer to pay youngsters on the programme.
Prime Minister David Cameron said: "This is a massive confidence boost for the UK economy. Tesco is one of the world's leading companies and the biggest private sector employer in this country. Their commitment to creating jobs and opportunities for young people at what is a difficult time for the economy is fantastic news for the UK as a whole and for those people they will help into work."
Tesco chief executive Richard Brasher said: "In unprecedented economic conditions like these, major businesses have a big responsibility to step forward, invest and create jobs. Today's announcement is a huge shot in the arm for the UK economy.
"At the core of this investment is our determination to deliver the best shopping experience for our customers, bar none. We will invest in more staff on the sales floor at busy times, greater expertise and help in the crucial areas of fresh food, and enhanced quality and service across our stores at all times.
"To deliver this we're going to strengthen our customer service team: 20,000 more staff across our stores over the next two years."
Tesco is the country's largest private sector employer with over 290,000 staff, a quarter under the age of 25.
More than a million 16-24 year olds are unemployed.
The Government last week announced changes to its work experience scheme so that youngsters would not lose their benefits if they left early, following criticism of the sanctions attached to the programme.
Youngsters on the scheme are not paid wages but still receive their benefits.
Ministers say it has been a success, with around half those on work experience coming off benefits.
But the Right to Work campaign is continuing to hold protests against firms taking part, warning it will target restaurant chain McDonald's later this week.
Tesco's recruitment drive comes as it seeks to turn around its performance in the UK by increasing its levels of customer service, the standards of its stores and its pricing.
The supermarket giant saw nearly £5 billion wiped from its value in a single day recently after it revealed dire Christmas trading as a £500m price cut campaign failed to bring in enough customers.
It has been losing market share in recent months as it is bruised by a price war with its rivals that has seen Sainsbury's introduce its Brand Match scheme and Asda to offer a guarantee to be 10 per cent cheaper than rivals.
It reported a "disappointing" 2.3 per cent decline in like-for-like sales excluding VAT and petrol in the six weeks to January 7, which came in below its own expectations.
It is thought that Tesco's campaign failed to strike a chord with customers because it is funded by a reduction in Clubcard points and one-off promotions.
As well as putting on more special offers to drum up sales, a key part of its strategy is take on more staff to improve customer service levels.


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Hans: "My trusty cape is not enough, I seek wings like these feathered beasts to make a truely valiant and heroic ascent
William snatches the wings from one of the birds and presents them to Hans: "Here, may in death, they spare your life"
The birds begin to circle Hans, slowly lifting him, singing "twee twee twee tweeter"
The cat may be cursed and speaks in lyrical verse but now the question remains will he ever be the same?
Cat: "However, should a bird Tweet at the doorway of thou, I shall endeavour to make it its last tweet a long and hollow sound for thou."
[ASPIRING TOREADOR makes grandiose entrance, trips on cape, falls off stage, and dies.]
William: "The wind separates our voices. Our cry's set sail absently, to weigh anchor untold. What was spoken lay wistful, longing for home"
...meanwhile back at the lab The Woman With No Name sings soulful aria of conflict and desire...
"Come hither light upon my skin, follow me into the darkness of love and transcendence, sing me a song of truth & light enduring"
chorus of magical birds chirp along: we are here to help you tweet,tweet,tweets are all we ask ...
The Woman With No Name aka ibis <mezzo sop> "I love the one who loves the other, I do what I must to help my brother..."<William is her brother!>
"What when the birds would stop tweeting at this blue sky? We would sing on our own why could that happen, why, why?"
[ASPIRING TOREADOR returns from dead, demonstrates swordplay to ill effect.]
Cat: Yet will I be a lion too/Roaring through this fray and flutter/Courage 'o courage I muster/Words 'o words I utter
Hans: Oh where, oh where is my trusted sword. I will look beyond the portal to seek it.
Ginger cat: "Come hither all you birds up high and create a living cape to fly him to the sky."
[ASPIRING TOREADOR returns in an unfortunate attempt to sing.]
Cat: Could I startle the birds to trick them? Would they fly upwards and catch Hans as he jumps from his window?
Hans throws himself off the tower and lands on trampoline carried by passing itinerant circus.
Circus sword swallower sings: A sword? You seek a sword? So do I. Let me tell you all about it...
Circus Sword Swallower: When I were abroad, I swallowed a sword, the finest one in all the land...
But I can't afford a similar sword now that I've joined this itinerant band...
The birds begin to lift William but are distracted by reappearance of ASPIRING TOREADOR, and their claws begin to slip
William falls upon ASPIRING TOREADOR, crushing him to death and sparing him the embarrassment of singing.
Birds: "With cat-like tread or black crow stealth, William might soar to freedom & wealth"
"But in his way stood walls thick and strong, too tall to be conquered by hope or with song"
[ASPIRING TOREADOR returns to life at the sound of a line that rhymes! Joy!]
Woman With No Name (aria): "And the birds they twitter, twitter, twitter, but what they say will soon be revealed"
Birds: See, how in the wings and just beyond vision, the director labors in vain. Our will is the whim of myriad minds. Ascend!
Attention! Attention! Attention! Ascend! Attention! Attention! Attention! Ascend!
Only when the Cat has awaken, shall the true meaning of the birds twits be heard
For only then can the cloak of banality of their tweets be destroyed and the truth be revealed.
Birds: There is nothing so important as the sound of who and what we are. Attention! Ascend!
H cries "Is this is all a bet for the Gods"?
cat cont: for onwards I go with this song, until a hairball rises to touch my tonge, then I will cough and hurl,
Birds: Our peregrinations are guided by a wandering star. Attention! Ascend!
cat cont: entangled within shall be a pearl
Birds: The Director consults his book our lines have changed, the story's rooked.
Birds: We move together, loosely bound, our flock's center cannot be found.
An idea, an idea forsaken, an idea mistaken or an idea awakened? You choose my love the path of your own creativity, the road of
Birds: Our eyes, our wings, our splendid beaks, your songs we sing, your dreams we speak.
Bird: I just ate the most delicious sandwich!
Birds: I know! I know!
Bird: This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
Birds: I know! I know!
Bird: I can't stop singing!
Birds: I know! I know!
Birds: Follow me! Follow me! Follow me! Follow me! Ascend!
(the Birds move about the stage randomly, then coalesce, then swarm around all)
Birds: Sing to us your dreams and we'll know! Is there anything more important than the knowledge that we know?
Birds: Though we speak in pidgin context as our compass needle spins, it's true we also listen to the dreams borne on the wind.
Oh to be a bird, to get heard at the Opera House/Oh no not an IT nerd/surfing in a cultural no mans land/BANG BANG BANG BANG
I look onto the sky. the red light scans the world of love. all can be seen from above.
Look out for the birds birds birds biiirrrrds.
"the steps to the key, lie within me". William needs silence from the birds to harness a plan.
The cat looking intently at the birds cannot supress his instincts any longer,majestically crawls towards the feathered fiends.
"And the bluebirds will remain my friends, when I fight you to the death"
"If only the sun didn't burn as much as my desire to find the Sword I could have noticed what was wrong with William!"
Cat sings "I shall silence these birds with one single pounce, I wont need a second bounce mmm delicious flights of fancy"
The light is turned down low, and a single cold spotlight illuminates Cat. "Look at the bird of freedom. Of freedom. Of freedom"
Hans announces that ASPIRING TOREADOR is his evil half brother WOLFGANG and therefore cannot die (gasp: stage left)
The Cat: I'll gather my friends and hiss at the birds. A glimpse of our claws are louder than words. Don't worry, freedom is near
ASPIRING TOREADOR looks confused. But then again, he always does.
whoever you are, wherever you be, we trust that this opera ends soon happily
O Delme (sic), o dolce, what sweet, sweet justice is this...
[the birds' improvised cadenza says:] "We'll BE composing while they're DE-composing!"
To the cat's conspiring soliloquy "Lo, like a Cheshire cat fart our court will grin when we silence birds and quash their din!"
Hans begins to look unwell, could it be that he is allergic to cats?! ASPIRING TOREADOR sneezes.
'This lonely place has played its part in the gentle keeping of time'
Unfortunately for Hans the birds are watching every move he makes.
Your name? But no, I've merely used your Twitter handle, sweet @Esmerelda, don't you recall? . . . "
" . . . For as all know, until the curse is lifted, you are she-who-shall-remain-nameless!"
"Vendetta,vendetta!" the cats cry, angered by the spurning from Hans and ASPIRING TOREADOR. French horns begin.
Cat (coloratura cadenza): "What a catastrophe! I have a sinking feline!"
Birds: "in a lot of ways they fly, to a lot of places they go, the whistles they blow remind me of that dream. Where I was flying also"
And the voices (chorus) warned, "A wet bird never flies at night."
Ceiling- & basement cat sing 2 the birds: This day it is / To show them we are 1 / From Earth and Sky / For them 2 die / ...
Tweet it out / So they can hear / Their game is up / Their end is here / It's LOVE! they say / ...
... And yet we know / It's lust they feel / It's LIES they speak.
the birds die of a puzzling poisoning and they sing "Now we die, now we die, we wanted to save the world" (Chor C-E-Dis-Cluster)
Eight birds fly in, carrying fail-whale; whale sings: "Yiying Lu! Yiying Lu! You are what you tweet".
And Hans says: "Oh, i suoi uccelli, i suoi rapitori rapito l'inesorabile morte" (Choir: "The poisoned birds ate themselves")
Basement cat drank potion which was intended for the birds and fades (slowly) into its death. Ceiling cat (from above):
Oh! Don't cry / Don't give a tear / Don't sigh / Oh! Feel no fear / It is now that you become / It is now that we will be 1
Let me take you from soil and dust / From hunger and fight / Don't fear / Oh! Don't sigh / Let me take you up /
Lift you to the sky / Where you will be free
Birds (chorus) chip in:
Free to soar / Free to fly / Free to roam / Free to fly / Up here we are 1 ---
Basement cat (dying): All is lost. All is won.
Cat sings: Four and twenty blackbirds, feed them up with rye. Catch them at your window, bake them in a pie
[Suddenly, and with great disappointment in humanity, the crowd realizes that this marks the end of an age; cerebrums, all dead.]
Try to do right, flee from evil deed. But yet, we ends far down the human soul's deep pit. Sorrow and shame, and haunting dread!
Chorus to Basement Cat: "Up, up, to the Heaviside Layer / Earthly desires shall pain you no more / ..
Chorus to Basement Cat: "... Quenched is the doom of eternal fire / Blessed reunion awaits on the shore"
A CATastrophe, catastrophe without birds or cats the lovers' fate rests in humanity, in humanity (repeats 3 times)
Basement cat reappears in shining raiment w/ @Ceiling_Cat: "I was cast out, cast down, despised/ I called the Earth my only home/
"But now a new dawn clears my eyes / I never more shall be alone!"
When pigs do fly, these birds will cry, and forever more leave torture to the devil. Bring me a pig!
Hans, looking for the mythical fishsword, is confronted by strong headwinds, fog, blowing leafs, the lot. Suddenly, ...
The woman-with-no-name's voice engulfs him, literally, from all sides. Not in song, however...
"My voice is yours / My heart not mine / The birds have spoken / William will die."
Run to the end of time / Flight for your lovers life / The birds have spoken / The sword is a lie.
Hans! / Hear my cry! / Hans! / No star can guide you / No love give light / The birds have spoken / All there is is night.
Hans is overcome with despair at the loss of his nemesis Basement Cat: "wail!" (x3). William looks on impassively.
William considers the cost such a potion would entail, the loss of his humanity for to understand beasts..one must become a beast
The bestial thought lingered in his mind, and the thoughts of the creatures nearby tormented his soul. He lifted his sad eyes...
...to the bright moon whose luminous glaze lit upon his shifting features and he howled his pain to the night.
Helga's memory faded as he loped into the forest darkness thoughts of love far from his thoughts as the bloodlust took over.
Hans boldly stands and holds his sword aloft: "Away, false voices! I stand undenied."
"This sword is salvation! It shall be my guide!" (swelling Wagner music, and sword bursts into blinding flame)
So should we all then stay in our dreams forever? Everywhere across the world, hundreds of sleeping forms...and no birds singing
The world is warmer, the cats dogs, humans and birds are all sleeping, silent, there is silence (not a good thing for opera)
But! Our hero awakes! Will he, can he awake all the birds, cats and especially the love of his life before they all die, silent?
He sings of rain & clouds never seen anymore in the brittle blue skies, it grows colder there are raindrops, the sleepers awake!
The birds flock to help; they are charmed by Will's plight. The rising of sun sees the taking of flight.
All you have to do is bake the birds into a pie to make sure they cannot fly
Tell them a story said Tobemory or better yet sing them to sleep
So then you can creep up the tower to save your love; but quick! Before the end of the hour signaling the return of the dove
And another flock, so make haste and do not waste time or your love will be at the very top of the tower barred in by a lock
You must run up the tower and use all your power to block the birds out of your way or you may not live to see another day
And with these words Tobymory stalked away, leaving Hans to set out on his way to the tower to battle the birds
well if he trying to get out of the tower he looks to his only superpower his voice, he sings to the rocks and stones
the stones melt and sigh for they are free of a spell put on them by the frog princess
she aware of what has happened awakes; curse you she crys who dares of a voice of hope and velvet when mine is of pain and rust
Hans turns to the Fishsword for guidance as to his next action. The sword is silent and cold. Hans calls to Helga..
onto the wind it blows, while God laughs at our punishment
the potion, the potion, the potion...made with wild jasmine, the birds, they will be hypnotised by its fragrent splendor. Oh Ah!
At the foot of the tower, boy-shadow dust-cloaked & fading, jangling the keys in his pocket, echoes of a journey cut short
Can you organise some flapping birds like the ones they have in the Lion King? I'd volunteer to do the puppetry from the wings
Trying to hold in the entrails of their disemboweled affair but aught can sweeten afresh this love turn'd wihisky belch sour.
If the fishsword is silent and cold, it needs to be energised by plunging it into a lake, to channel its power from the water
((Perhaps for an explosive second scene, you can have her freaking out about how to make said potion.)
But that mountain with the great power had no effect on William! There were greater treasures beyond.
be bold; no fear, no regret.


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World-Recognized Geophysicist Exposes Deep-Earth Secrets, Aug. 11, 2008
By Thomas Guengerich
SOCORRO — Education meets entertainment when world-renowned researcher in geophysics and seismology Dr. Rick Aster hosts a multi-media presentation about the inner workings of our planet.
Aster, a professor of geophysics at New Mexico Tech in Socorro, is the star attraction at a KNME Science Café at 10 a.m. Saturday, August 16, at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.
In addition to being a professor and the Chair of the Earth and Environmental Science Department at New Mexico Tech, Aster also is the principal investigator of the EarthScope Array Operations Facility at the Socorro university. EarthScope is a national project that is deploying a high-tech imaging system designed to uncover significant information about the composition of our planet through deep seismic imaging.
"This talk will be representative of exciting new research into the nature of the deep Earth," Aster said. "We are right now in a spectacular period of discovery regarding the interior of our planet, thanks to the availability of dramatic new data, such as that provided by EarthScope and imaging techniques."
This Science Café is a great opportunity for inquiring minds to learn about cutting-edge geological research. Aster will discuss a variety of geologic questions: How was our state formed geologically? Where are the fault lines and earthquakes in New Mexico? What is the Rio Grande rift? How do processes happening hundreds of miles beneath the Earth's surface produce the beautiful and characteristic landscapes our state?
"EarthScope research uses techniques that are somewhat similar to those exploited by a doctor's medical sonogram," Aster said. "But we are doing this sort of imaging on a vastly larger scale to see inside the body of the Earth. Just as a sonogram allows a doctor to see through inches of the human body, EarthScope instruments and techniques allow us to see hundred or thousands of miles into the solid rock of the Earth."
Funded by the National Science Foundation, EarthScope is a decade-long, geoscience research program that is deploying more than 2,000 seismographs across the United States. The project aims to understand the North American continent and, more broadly, the evolution of the planet. So far, these instruments have been deployed from the Pacific coast to New Mexico. Over the duration of the project, the seismographs will be moved systematically eastward to the East Coast, and then to Alaska.
Seismometers track miniscule movements at the Earth's surface created by earthquakes and other sources, and seismologists use these data to develop an image of our planet. The continental array of seismic sensors could also be compared to a very large array of telescopes that are pointed inward instead of skyward. Aster will display images of the Earth, including cross-sections of the deep interior of the planet beneath New Mexico. These images can be used to infer different temperature zones and materials.
"The very deep structures and processes of the Earth affect our landscapes in New Mexico — from the Four Corners to the plains of West Texas," he said. "I will talk about how these geologic processes affect our geography and how we understand these processes using seismology."
New Mexico Tech is a national leader in seismology and Earth science research. In addition to EarthScope, Tech is home to the nation's largest "lending library" of globally used seismology instruments, the IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center. Tech researchers study the geology and seismology of the Earth on every continent, including annual excursions to Antarctica.
Admission to the Science Café is free, but a reservation is required. To reserve your seat, contact Chris Sanchez at (505) 841-2872 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


text: There is a new way to submit payments for Wendell taxes. This online service is available for the recently released 2018 Motor Vehicle excise tax bills and will be an option for all Motor Vehicle, Real Estate and Personal Property tax bills going forward. Bills will be available for online payment as soon as the paper versions of the bills have been mailed out. The online payment option is only available through the due date.


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VERGENNES — A 34-year-old resident of the John Graham Emergency Homeless Shelter died early Wednesday morning from unknown causes after she tried to rob the nearby Champlain Farms convenience store at knifepoint, Vergennes police said.
Vergennes Police Chief George Merkel identified the woman as Yemalla Sprauve. Merkel in a Wednesday afternoon press release said Sprauve, apparently acting alone, entered the Main Street store sometime shortly after 4 a.m. and "attempted to rob the store clerk" while "wielding a large knife."
Merkel said the woman, who was wearing an article of clothing on her face, possibly a bandanna, apparently threatened and advanced on the clerk with the knife. According to his press release, "a struggle between the clerk and the woman ensued" in which the clerk disarmed Sprauve and wrestled her to the floor, restraining her there until another customer arrived.
The clerk — who Merkel declined to identify, but said was not injured in the struggle — then asked the customer to call 911. Merkel said that call was relayed to his department at about 4:30 a.m., and soon afterward Vergennes police and the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad arrived on the scene.
Merkel said the woman was not stabbed, but police and VARS personnel found Sprauve "to be unresponsive." At this point, Merkel said, it is not clear when exactly she became unresponsive, and that issue remains to be determined during the investigation.
VARS took Sprauve to Porter Hospital, and she was pronounced dead en route. Merkel said an autopsy will determine the cause of death, which will be released only after the completion of the coroner's report and Vergennes police's investigation.
In an interview, Merkel said police believe the clerk — who was not injured — was defending himself, although police are still trying to piece together all the details.
"Initially, that's what it appears to be, that he was acting in self-defense," he said.
Merkel is asking anyone with information related to this incident to call Vergennes police at 877-1152 or 877-2201.
Andy Kirkaldy may be reached at [email protected]


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PatrickO necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 120 diseños de 46 diseñadores freelance.
Activities service provider to the general public and accommodation businesses in Connemara, Ireland. Concentrating on the provision of high quality guided outdoor activities. Providing a full service collection, equip, guide, lunch and drop off service predominantly for walking, hiking, biking and fishing trips.
Surrounded by mountains, rivers, lakes, beaches, islands, megalithic tombs, stunning scenery & amazing history Engagement with people, habitat and culture.
Connemara, Co. Galway Ireland.
"Leave no Trace"; "Exploitation without Footprint". Promoting the concept of a highly personal experience of engagement with the country, habitat and people of Connemara where the visitor can see that they are giving something back, Always displaying a respect for the local landowners, heritage and customs, ExperienceConnemara.com will employ local people and promote a sense of partnership with the local community.
Mission Statement
Add value to the lives of the visitor and the Connemara People by introducing the visitor to the experience that is the people and place of Connemara. Provide our guests with a life experience by helping them to engage on a personal level while guiding them safely through this unique landscape.
Our Services
ExperienceConnemara provides a professional and socially aware total guiding service to the visitor to Connemara. It is our intention that when visiting this unique area you will have engaged with the area on a level that will have added huge value to your stay. We specialise in three areas. Walking / Hiking, Biking and Fly-Fishing.
We will be targeting the guests of the better quality hotels and guest houses who want to access the country more than they could otherwise. These visitors will be on vacation and have a desire to add spiritual value to their lives or share an otherwise unavailable experience with their children. Typically the visitor will have limited time available and want to get the most out of that time. Often they will only use our services for one or two days.
The target audience will have spent time researching their destination online and will then see ExperienceConnemara.com as a service that will ensure that they get maximum value out of their brief visit to this region.
A clean logo that captues the sense of this beautiful landscape and the fact that they will engage with it. It is about the sense of engagement and experience while being cared for. This is an activity service so it has to speak to those that want to get out and hike or fish not just look at the scenery.
Attached some images to show what Connemara is like. I also kind of like the logos for http://www.activenewzealand.com and http://www.hikingnewzealand.com
Good luck!
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ETMC in Tyler One of First Responders Dispatched to Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion
More than a dozen ETMC EMS ambulances were dispatched Wednesday night to the deadly fertilizer plant explosion in the town of West, Texas located just north of Waco.
Chad Richey, Communications Manager of ETMC EMS in Tyler, said dispatchers in Tyler received the first call around 745 p.m. and the first ETMC EMS unit arrived on the scene with thirteen minutes followed by an additional 14 EMS ambulances, 12 from Waco and three from nearby Ellis County.
A aotal of 91 patients were transported by ETMC EMS to area hospitals, 14 of whom were critical.
During a briefing with the media Thursday morning, Richey added that reports indicate up to 15 people were killed in the explosion and the number is expected to go higher. Many of the deceased include first responders who were on the scene of the fire before the building exploded. There were no ETMC EMS personnel injured according to Richey.
Here is the 911 call ETMC received after the explosion:
West Incident_Fertilizer Explosion_ETMC EMS_041713


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AMD, NetLogic get together for deep sniffing
Layer 7th heaven
AMD and NetLogic have announced a partnership to target that old corporate bugbear, network security, by combining the two firm's silicon.
The firms will work together on products which Netlogic will pitch to vendors such as Cisco, Juniper and Foundry, according to Investors Business Daily. Their initial production will be a reference board, the NLS1000HDK.
The collaboration will team AMD's Opteron processor family, with NetLogic's NetL7 knowledge-based processor. The NetLogic part handles layer 7 content processing at 10Gbps, and uses a "highly optimized architecture" to hook into the Opteron via Hypertransport.
The upshot, says NetLogic, is quicker time to market for its OEM customers and the opportunity to exploit the IT world's predilection for x86 architectures. Network managers, meanwhile, will be able to deep packet inspect every speck of content crossing their networks at wire speed.®


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Quote from: kidmills on February 28, 2013, 12:40:26 PMis this the "blue" VS "red"It's the black and blue brawl.
is this the "blue" VS "red"
Why is this competition going on? I mean after all, misery ran scared out of the Big 12 to avoid losing to KU again and again and again and again.
EAST SIDE crushed the competition last year, so whatever pipe dream of collegiate sports you are worried about has nothing to do with the dominance of the disc golf prowess of those of claiming the MO as their home state
I'm in.
Can we wear Purple, instead of Blue?
Speaking which. You're shirt size, sir?


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Housing Markets and Planning Policy
Housing Markets and Planning Policy
ISBN: 978-1-405-17520-3 October 2009 Wiley-Blackwell 224 Pages
The challenges of providing affordable housing, while simultaneously addressing the problems of low demand housing in some areas, together with the revitalisation of neighbourhoods in need of renewal, also underline the need for a better understanding of the structure and operation of housing markets at local and neighbourhood level.
This timely contribution to the field addresses the main housing and planning policy challenges in the UK today. It does so by examining the structure and operation of the urban housing system and then exploring both conceptual and empirical analyses of the workings of the market. The authors then consider the lessons for policy makers, discussing the limitations of the policy framework and considering the strategies for integrating market information into the analysis undertaken in practice.
Housing Markets & Planning Policy is an invaluable advanced text for students of land economy, land management, urban planning, housing and urban studies. The authors provide a uniquely detailed analysis of an important policy area that builds on a strong theoretical basis drawn from housing economics. With the challenges posed by the instability of the housing market, it will be of particular interest to academic researchers, policy-makers and housing and planning practitioners.
Table of contents
1 Introduction.
One housing market or many housing markets?
Housing markets and planning policy.
The analytical approach.
Aims and objectives.
The structure of the book.
2 The Housing Problem.
Housing market trends.
Spatial house price trends.
Economics of the house building industry.
Low-demand areas.
Wider planning policy context.
3 Spatial Structure of Housing Markets.
A model of an urban housing market.
The theoretical impact of planning.
Empirical evidence on the impact of planning.
Planning the housing market.
Housing market areas and processes.
Case studies of HMAs.
Implications of HMAs for planning.
4 Understanding Housing Submarkets.
Origins of housing submarket studies.
Theoretical basis for housing submarkets.
Defi ning and identifying housing submarkets.
Temporal dynamics of housing submarkets.
Modelling submarket structures.
Conclusions: submarkets as an analytical framework.
5 Dynamics of the Housing Market.
Choices and constraints.
Migration and spatial house price trends.
New house building, urban form and local housing.
market dynamics.
Intra-urban housing market dynamics.
Neighbourhood dynamics.
Neighbourhood succession.
Neighbourhood revitalisation.
6 Planning for the Housing Market.
Spatial change, planning and housing.
The evolution of planning for housing markets.
Current practice in planning for housing.
The operation of the planning system.
Reconciling the evidence: broader political and policy concerns.
7 Planning Policies and the Market.
Planning policies and the market.
The changing housing policy context.
Provision of affordable housing.
Encouraging social mix.
Sustainable development.
8 Conclusions and the Way Forward.
Current and future housing market context.
The contemporary policy agenda and the housing challenge.
Towards a framework for housing analysis.
Reshaping the system of planning for housing.
Local housing market analysis and panning practice.
The challenge to planning and the way forward.
18 April 2011)
"Overall, Housing Markets & Planning Policy is a contribution worth reading, as it addresses the conundrum many planners and policy-makers face across the globe- how to control sprawl by limiting development while also tackling affordability problems by encouraging new building. This book provides much sophisticated food for thought as we enter the new decade." (International Journal of Housing Policy, September 2010)
- Provides an economic analysis of policy areas and planning instruments
- Deconstructs housing markets to help explain their dynamics
- Reveals the limitations of contemporary UK planning policy
- Shows how policy makers can incorporate market evidence into the planning process