text:
Training: Creating Interactive eLearning with Adobe Presenter
Topic: Creating Interactive eLearning with Adobe Presenter
Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to rapidly create an interactive eLearning course from within Microsoft PowerPoint using Adobe Presenter. In this training session, they will show you how to create interactive screens using simple actions in PowerPoint. They will also show you how to ember interactive SWFs in your Adobe Presenter courses.
Recording Link: http://adobe.ly/uTremt


text:
CARTA: Uniquely-Human Features of the Brain: Wolfgang Einard - Exploring the Molecular Basis of Speech
Date: 12/16/2011; 20 minutes
Wolfgang Enard, a junior group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, investigates the genetic and molecular basis of human speech. He uses a mouse model to explore language evolution in humans. (#23226)
related programs

subset: commoncrawl


text: An experienced milf is usually worth three young bimbos. Here at Eroxia you can see some of the most intense and alluring amateur milfs in the world putting their decades of sexual experience in our amazing free amateur hardcore videos. Their blowjob skills are out of this world and their pussies and asses definitely know how to ride every cock they find available! Real milfs are hotter than you can possibly imagine and their perversions will drive you crazy!


text:
See Previous Year TaxACT Products for a list of available Online and Desktop programs for previous years.
If you were a prior year TaxACT Online user and did not finish your prior year return, or if you need to start a new return for a previous tax year, you can still prepare and print your return using our TaxACT Online service.
To access an existing return, you need to know the tax year, username, and password that you set up for your account at the time of registration. Go to Access Prior Year Returns and select the year you wish to access to start a new return or sign-in to an existing return.
If you are trying to gain access to your existing prior year TaxACT Online account after October 31st, there will be a nominal one-time Data Archive Service (DAS) fee the first time you log back in to access your tax return. This fee is included in the charge if you are starting a new TaxACT Online return after October 31st.
Data Archive Service (DAS) allows you to:
Data Archive Service gives you peace of mind, knowing that your prior year tax return is secure and easily accessible to you for up to three years.


text:
The Main Library maintains a reference collection of motorcycle repair manuals that can be requested at the 4th Floor Page Desk. Use this database to search for manuals by make, model, year and engine size. Take the resulting title list to the 4th Floor Page Desk, where staff will retrieve the manuals for in-house use.
- This database does not cover our smaller collection of circulating motorcycle manuals. To find those, search in the online catalog.
- For an overview of all our motor vehicle resources, see our Motor Vehicle Resources page.
I.D. requirements
To take motorcycle repair manuals from the Page Desk to consult or photocopy, you will need to leave a current California I.D, California Driver's license, or military I.D.


text:
Computer Science ColloquiumIm Rahmen des Informatik-Kolloquiums, das von den Instituten des Fachbereichs Informatik, der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Informatik (ÖGI), der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Datenverarbeitung (ADV) sowie der Österreichischen Computergesellschaft (OCG) abgehalten wird, spricht
Susanne Fischer
Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute of Epidemiologyüber das Thema:
Spatial clustering of rabies virus genomes using affinity propagation clusteringZeit: Tue 10.5.2016, 16:30, 60 Minuten
Ort: Room JKU S2-120 in Science Park 2
ZusammenfassungRabies is one of the oldest known zoonosis caused by rabies virus, which is an important species of the genus Lyssavirus. So far, the spread of rabies virus is analyzed on regional levels since a global phylogenetic clustering and classification system is not yet available. Phylogenetic trees of rabies genome sequences calculated by the Maximum Likelihood method suggest a space-dependent clustering. However, these analyses revealed two limitations: (i) The analysis of large datasets results in highly complex dendrograms. (ii) The clustering of phylogenetic trees by visual inspection leads to different results since criteria for cluster definition are still lacking.
My presentation aims at showing how these limitations can be solved by means of affinity propagation clustering. This is a mathematical method that is able to uses the phylogenetic distance matrix to allocate sequences to generic clusters. I will present you how affinity propagation clustering was applied to the distance matrices derived from the RABV full genome sample sets, resulting in a cluster structure which strongly corresponds to the structure of the Maximum Likelihood-based phylogenetic tree. At the end of my presentation I would like to discuss on strategies to implement a workflow based on this method to validate evidence for space-dependent clustering of rabies virus sequences.
VortragenderSusanne Fischer holds a master´s degree in biosystems technologies and bioinformatics from the Technical University of Applied Sciences in Wildau-Germany. In 2013, she worked at BIOCOM AG Berlin as an assistant for database curation. Since 2014, she has been working on her doctoral theses on spatial and temporal distributions of rabies viruses at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute in Greifswald-Isle of Riems. This work is part of the Lyssavirus Research Network and a cooperation with the biomathematical institute of the Ernst-Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald.
Einladender: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sepp Hochreiter, Institute of Bioinformatics
Liste aller Vorträge


text:
- Home
- News
- Sports
- Opinion
- Obituaries
- Features
- Special Sections
- Classifieds
- Public Notices
Sunday was not Tyler Webb's day.
Webb, 26, was driving down Diamond Drive on his 2000 Honda Interceptor motorcycle around 5 p.m., when a Los Alamos Police officer flagged him for going 49 mph in a 35 mph zone.
However, the officer was traveling the opposite direction and could not turn around and pull him over. When another officer traveling the same way as Webb tried to pull him over, Webb sped off. Police did not give pursuit.
"Chasing is very dangerous," LAPD Capt. Randy Foster said. "We only chase someone when the danger outweighs the risk of chasing a suspect. A speeding ticket was definitely not a dangerous situation."
So the LAPD decided to let events run their course. They did not have to wait long.
Webb, allegedly driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs, crashed his motorcycle at the intersection of Jemez and Diamond.
Webb apparently ran a red light at the intersection; narrowly missing a Los Alamos National Laboratory security vehicle traveling through the same intersection on a green light.
But the wipeout did little to deter Webb, who was allegedly attempting to pick his bike up again and make his getaway. When Webb saw an LAPD officer heading his way, he made a run for it and attempted to make it up a hill onto LANL property. The officer successfully prevented him from doing so and arrested him on the spot.
In their report, police noted an open bottle of Smirnoff vodka near his crashed motorcycle. A search of Webb's person turned up a 4.2 gram bag of marijuana, Zig Zag rolling papers and a green pill labeled "TEVA." Webb was then transported to the Los Alamos Medical Center to treat his injuries.
Police later determined the pill was not a controlled substance.
Webb was charged with a list of offenses: aggravated fleeing of a police officer, possession of marijuana, one ounce or less, driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs, (Webb allegedly refused a field sobriety test), possession of drug paraphernalia, driving with a suspended or revoked license, reckless driving, running two traffic lights and speeding.
Once he is released by the LAMC, the LAPD said they will transfer him to the Los Alamos Detention Center.
Add new comment
Read and share your thoughts on this story


text:
Despite what politically-concerned scientists are said to be saying about man-made global warming, the history of the Earth is one of recurring Ice Ages; and, no matter what we do to prevent global warming, the odds are that the Earth will cool on its own as it always has done in the past.
So drive your electric car (or don�t), solar heat your house (or don�t), banish fossil fuels (or don�t) - the Earth will little notice your noble but futile efforts to control nature�s own imperatives.
Antarctic ice cores and tropical ocean sediment cores show that eight Ice Ages have occurred in the past 730,000 years. Cold conditions prevailed for much of the last 400,000 years with warm interglacial periods lasting about 10,000 years each. We are now 13,000 years into the interglacial period that began with what is sometimes called Noah�s Flood, and this warming trend - the Holocene - is what we now think is �normal.� It isn�t. Cold is normal, warm isn�t. So break out your longjohns, it will get colder. Will it get warmer before it gets colder? We will know when it happens; but it is a variable over which we have no control. There is no thermostat on the Sun.
Even during interglacial periods, there are little Ice Ages. Each one has plunged civilization into a dark age. These little Ice Ages do not just cool the Earth; they also disrupt climate patterns that devastate agriculture, on which civilization is built
The Fertile Crescent was anything but during the mini Ice Age of 6200-5800 B.C. Grain prices in Egypt rose 24-fold after 1200 B.C. during the Bronze Age Collapse (1299-700 B.C.). The post-Roman Dark Age was a major setback to civilization, and the Mayan civilization subsequently collapsed in the eighth century A.D. All of these Dark Ages were the result of little Ice Ages. And a new one is looming.
What causes these Ice Ages? There are several climate cycles that interact. It is the interaction - adding and subtracting - that makes their timing erratic. But they represent nature doing what nature does, and man merely reacting to Nature�s inevitability. The Earth wobbles and tilts, the Equinoxes precess, the Earth passes through the spiral arms of the galaxy. These and other processes are at work to confound the certainty that little melting of ice in the Arctic means anything beyond an opportunity to sail in open waters between Europe and Asia - the Northwest Passage, if you will, that Europeans sought 200 years ago. And now they may find it.
Or they may lose it if it gets colder. The thing to do is celebrate global warming and take advantage of it. Crops may now grow in areas that were previously too cold. How is that a bad thing? The warming benefits man, the cooling devastates man. Beware of cooling. Celebrate warming.
The interglacial period known as the Eemian, which preceded our own Holocene, was 5 degrees warmer that now, yet it collapsed into a full scale Ice Age within 10 years. So when might we expect the next Ice Age or little Ice Age? Sometime in this century, possibly starting as early as 2014 with increasing certainty as mid-century approaches.
Total solar irradiance as measured by sunspots reached its lowest point - the Maunder minimum - during the 17th and early 18th centuries, causing a little Ice Age that lasted three centuries. This recurring event will be felt by mid century. Man will have to adjust to colder weather. Nature does what nature does, and man does the best he can.
Shull is a resident of Kings Mountain.


text:
- Home
- News
- Sports
- Opinion
- Obituaries
- Features
- Special Sections
- Classifieds
- Public Notices
RALEIGH, N.C. – With North Carolina's first West Nile death of the year in Wayne County recently mosquito bite prevention is top of mind.
The recent wet weather across North and South Carolina is only stoking the flames of the growing mosquito population.
Mosquitoes have been around for 170 million years and there are more than 175 known species in the U.S.
These pesky summertime pests clearly aren't going to disappear any time soon.
First, we need to know more about our enemy to learn better ways to combat them.
If you currently subscribe or have subscribed in the past to the The Lancaster News, then simply find your account number on your mailing label and enter it below.
Click the question mark below to see where your account ID appears on your mailing label.
|ZIP Code:


text:
Kim Ode of the Star Tribune posted last week that vinegar rids salt stains from suede boots. And that got me thinking: vinegar is kind of a cheap, green cleaning wunderkind.
Using vinegar to clean is certainly nothing new, but perhaps you haven't yet tried one of my ideas.
Cleaning uses for vinegar
1. Rinse aid – I've recently blogged about the benefits of a regular vinegar cycle (using vinegar to clean your dishwasher), but I've also heard of using vinegar as a dishwasher rinse aid substitute.
There's really no harm in using vinegar in your dishwasher, but I suggest only using it in lieu of rinse aid between trips to the store. Rinse aid should be called drying aid, and modern dishwashers need it to properly dry dishes.
2. Microwave cleaner – Heat a microwave-safe cup of vinegar in your microwave and let it boil, so the steam can loosen up all the stuck-on splatters for a minute or so. Wipe down the interior immediately, while it's still moist inside — no scrubbing necessary!
3. Clothes washer cleaner – Just like your dishwasher, your washing machine benefits from a regular vinegar cleaning. Run a cup through an empty cycle using the hottest setting.
4. All-purpose surface cleaner – Equal parts vinegar and water work well for cleaning windows or glass. Also try the solution for an all-natural way to clean the inside of a refrigerator. I hear you can use it to clean stainless steel as well, though, I recommend using a stainless steel cleaner for a shiny, polished finish.
5. Coffee maker cleaner – This tip, learned from my mom, is among my favorites. I try to run a full coffee pot of vinegar through my coffee maker (remove any coffee or filter, obviously) every few months. It's satisfying to watch all the grime flake off into the pot, and you'll be amazed how much faster your coffee brews without all the sediment slowing it down!
6. Stove top and oven cleaner – I've already blogged about using a paste of vinegar and baking soda for oven cleaning, but that same paste can be applied to your stove top to scrub out those stubborn brownish discolorations and food splatters.
Have you ever tried cleaning with vinegar?
What other household cleaning remedies have you tried?


text:
Latest media releases
Eurogate in its current form not viable for UBS.
The signing of the sale contract between UBS, Eurogate Zürich AG and the project owner ARGE Eurogate will not take place today as planned. A number of preconditions, including obtaining planning permission, could not be fulfilled within the time-limit stipulated in the conditional contract. The project in its current form would have required construction work on the Eurogate complex at Zurich's main railway station to begin onsite by mid-June 2001.
On 8 May 2000, UBS, Eurogate Zürich AG and the project owner ARGE Eurogate signed a conditional sale contract based on a declaration of intent dating from April 2000. Under this contract, all rights and duties arising in connection with the Eurogate project would have been transferred to UBS subject to certain conditions being fulfilled. Given the need for close co-ordination with Rail 2000+ (a project of the Swiss Federal Railways SBB), the planned time window for construction to begin on the project was mid-June 2001.
Planning permission blocked
The planning permission essential for the project is blocked following objections lodged by the Zürich section of the Verkehrs-Club der Schweiz (VCS). Negotiations have failed to produce an acceptable solution. As a result, construction work could no longer begin in mid-June 2001, a necessary precondition for co-ordination with Rail 2000+. Implementing the conditional sale contract as planned is thus no longer feasible for UBS.
Unforeseen project alterations
At the same time, alterations to Zurich's second through station and the fact that the launch date for Rail 2000+ has been brought forward have added considerably to the project's complexity. As recently as January 2001, UBS provided additional funds in the double-digit millions for the further development of the project and to finance preliminary construction work. In the present situation, further up-front financial commitments are not justifiable, especially since objections have already also been raised to the planned through station, which indirectly block Eurogate as well.
UBS thanks all the parties involved, especially the City of Zurich, for their commitment to the project. UBS regrets the fact that the development of the Eurogate complex in the present circumstances will not go ahead. The decision not to proceed with Eurogate in its present form does not signify that the development of a complex at Zurich's main railway station is not a feasible proposition under more favourable conditions. A great deal of professional groundwork has gone into the project over the last year with the result that Eurogate has now reached a level of maturity from which both Eurogate Zürich AG and ARGE Eurogate can benefit. UBS would be willing to consider participation in future plans for Eurogate.
Zurich/Basel, 30 April 2001


text:
Christie 'straight talk' grates on right
For several minutes this week, Chris Christie was a party of one.
A day after House GOP leadership unexpectedly tabled a bill that would provide $60 billion in post- Hurricane Sandy aid to New York and New Jersey, Christie stood at a press conference in the Trenton statehouse and decried the "selfishness" and "duplicity" at play, adding: "There's only one group to blame for the continued suffering. The House majority and their speaker, John Boehner."
Story Continued Below
( Also on POLITICO: House, Senate pass first Sandy aid bill)
It was vintage Christie — and then some — as he recounted how his calls to Boehner went unanswered, and it articulated clearly a frustration with a dysfunctional Washington system that polls show most Americans share. But it laid stark just how divergent the needs of his reelection bid in New Jersey are from the realities of a potential presidential run in a party that's tacked hard right not just on social issues but on spending and deficit reduction.
Local media and elected officials, along with some national pundits, heaped praise on the governor, who spoke with characteristic bluntness (and the first leg of the bill passed the House overwhelmingly on Friday). Still, Christie hit some headwinds nationally from conservatives — including Christie fans — who thought he may have gone overboard hitting an already-diminished national Republican brand. On the party's right flank, some telegraphed a clear sentiment that Christie's straight-talking truth teller act had worn on them.
"The Speaker was right to pull the bill," conservative Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol, who has spoken glowingly about Christie in the past, told Fox News.
( Also on POLITICO: Governator jabs at Christie)
"The money is already spent for people who are, you know, sadly out of their homes or need immediate relief. You know what the state budget in New Jersey is? Thirty billion dollars. So, according to Gov. Christie, the House of Representatives are supposed to pass this bill, no amendments, no taking a look at it and no deciding, this part should be prioritized over that part?"
The Wall Street Journal editorial page writers, who typically swoon over the bombastic governor, warned him Friday against competing to become "the next Charlie Crist."
Christie, who has strong national name recognition, media and donor appeal, could play the role of Republican modernizer in the coming years — someone to help a party damaged among swaths of the changing electorate. But he would have to survive a primary first, and despite all the talk of change, the GOP is so far showing few signs of making transformations after 2012.
( Also on POLITICO: Conservatives rebel against Boehner)
The mere topic of Hurricane Sandy has remained a raw nerve for some Republican donors and activists, some of whom recall bitterly Christie's praise for President Barack Obama's performance after the devastating storm, which made landfall the final week before Election Day (among those bothered by Christie's embrace of the president was WSJ owner Rupert Murdoch).
"This is the second time now," said one prominent national Republican, echoing a sentiment of others. "The first time was when the nominee had a head of steam."
"I think everything that he has done since Hurricane Sandy has helped his reelection effort, but at the same time damaged his appeal to the people who determine who the Republican nominee will be in 2016 — Republican activists," said former Iowa Republican Party Executive Director Craig Robinson.


text:
If you purchase an item from us and find the identical item elsewhere in stock for less money within 30 days of placing your order, and we verify that price, we will credit you the difference. No hassles, no questions, no fine print.
You work hard for your money. Get as much for it as possible from the direct source.
Buy direct from the source with confidence. We're famous for our quick service, quality products and customer support.
Candles4less's Unbeatable Price Guarantee does not apply to services, nor does it apply to special offers or promotions, including rebates, mail-in offers, free-with-purchase offers, limited quantity offers, bundled promotions and special financing.


text:
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Employees at Texas Roadhouse, Inc. (Nasdaq: TXRH) have spoken loudly. According to Glassdoor, a popular career search website, Texas Roadhouse employees voted the company as one of the nation's Top 50 Best Places to Work.
The Louisville-based company, which ranked #47 on the list, is the only casual dining chain ranked and the only Kentuckycompany to make the list. Other companies that made the list are Apple, Disney, Facebook, Google, Nike, Twitter, Southwest Airlines, and Starbucks.
Also known as Glassdoor's Employees' Choice Awards, the list is based entirely on employee surveys. Winners are determined using feedback employees have voiced on Glassdoor throughout the year.
An anonymous company review survey captures employees' overall job and company satisfaction, sentiment toward career opportunities, compensation & benefits, work-life balance, and senior leadership.
"Any company can claim they have a great culture, or buy their way onto some bogus list, but where the rubber meets the road is whether employees feel it and enjoy their jobs. This ranking is a testament to the folks in our restaurants who make Texas Roadhouse the best place to work," said
Kent Taylor
, founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse.
Based in Louisville, Kentucky, with more than 420 locations in 48 states and three foreign countries, Texas Roadhouse opened its doors in 1993. The Louisville, KY based company is famous for hand-cut steaks, made-from-scratch sides, fresh-baked bread, and its lively atmosphere. In 2012 Texas Roadhouse was named Top Steakhouse in the Nation's Restaurant News' Consumer Picks survey, in 2007 and 2008 Forbes magazine ranked the company as one of the 200 Best Small Companies and in 2009 the company was ranked "Best Value" by readers of Consumer Reports magazine. For more information, visit www.texasroadhouse.com.
Texas Roadhouse, Inc. Travis Doster
, 502-638-5457
Source: Texas Roadhouse, Inc.
News Provided by Acquire Media


text:
Michael Marcus turned a $30,000 investment into $80 million.
He loves the technique I'm about to share with you.
And he's not alone.
Bruce Kovner manages a $4 billion fund. He swears by this, too.
So does Kenneth Tropin, who earned $120 million in 2008.
Do they all invest in the same type of stocks or commodities? Do they share a secret investing trick known only to the ultra-rich? Well, the answer to both guesses is no.
If you haven't already guessed, the investing tactic I'm talking about is called trend following.
What Is Trend Following?
This is an investing method that takes advantage of long-term moves in stocks and commodities. It can be used effectively on the long and short side of any market or instrument. Think of buy and hold, but with rules on when to buy and sell.
Trend followers wait for a distinct uptrend or downtrend to appear on the price chart, then they enter in the direction of the trend. An uptrend is defined as a series of consecutively higher highs and higher lows. Whereas a downtrend is defined by a series of lower highs and lower lows on a price chart. In most cases, trend followers use a daily price chart and either buy into an uptrend or short into a downtrend. New highs or new lows are often the trigger to enter the investment.
But other investors (including myself) prefer to wait for a pullback from the highs to enter in the same direction of the longer-term trend. The reasoning is that the lower price of a strong stock will attract institutional buying interest. Trend followers believe that the price momentum will continue either higher or lower after a breakout or pullback.
The Key To Protecting Profits
The old saying "the trend is your friend until it bends in the end" is apropos for trend following.
The facts are that even the most skilled and knowledgeable trend-following investors don't know whether the trend will continue after the investment is entered. The trend could end immediately after you buy or short. The short-term pullback from the strong upward trend could, in fact, be the start of a new downtrend rather than a short-term pullback.
This unknown is why stop orders are a must when trend following. Unlike buy and hold investing -- which trend followers call "buy and hope" -- trend following requires the use of stop orders to prevent excessive losses. Where the stop orders are placed is a personal choice. Placement is a function of your personal risk tolerance. In other words, how much of a loss will you accept before closing the position and trying again?
I like setting stops very close to the entry level. Then, if I'm stopped out, I try as many as three times to catch the trend before looking at other opportunities. The big-time trend followers do this across a variety of stocks, commodities and currencies at any one time. Basically, they enter positions, close the ones that do not profit, and let the profitable ones move higher or lower depending on the position being long or short.
Many profitable trend followers use trailing stops to protect profits as they accumulate. A trailing stop automatically remains a certain distance behind the advancing price and will close the position should the price change direction, in an effort to protect the profits.
This is just a brief introduction to the trend-following investing method. I recommend Michael Covel's best-selling book "Trend Following" for a comprehensive explanation of this investing method.
Here are three stocks in strong upward trends, along with illustrations of how a trend-following investor would likely enter the position.
1. Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO)
2. LinkedIn Corp. (NYSE: LNKD)
3. PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund (NYSE Arca: UUP)
Risks to Consider: Although a proven and highly effective investing method, trend following can also be frustrating and risky. Buying on breakouts can easily fail, as no one knows how long a trend will last. In addition, buying pullbacks from a trend also has risk since the pullback may be the start of a new trend.
Action to Take --> Locating strongly trending stocks and buying on breakouts or pullbacks is the core of trend following. Always use stops and be ready to close out a position if it goes against you. Remember, sometimes it takes several entries at a level to catch the move.


text:
After about a year of work and a month of waiting, the book I wrote with Ted Krueger (Blog | @Onpnt) is finally out and available on Amazon.com. When I first considered putting a book together, I thought about the books out there and wondered why I hadn't seen anything on just indexing. There are books on performance tuning, database design, and query writing. But nothing that took the time to do a deep dive into indexing. So to fix that, Ted and I put this little tome together.
What you can expect from the book is the following:
Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012 is a deep dive into perhaps the single-most important facet of good performance: indexes, and how to best use them. The book begins in the shallow waters with explanations of the types of indexes and how they are stored in databases. Moving deeper into the topic, and further into the book, you will look at the statistics that are accumulated both by indexes and on indexes. All of this will help you progress towards properly achieving your database performance goals.
What you'll learn from Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012 will help you understand what indexes are doing in the database and what can be done to mitigate and improve their effects on performance. The final destination is a guided tour through a number of real-world scenarios and approaches that can be taken to investigate, mitigate, and improve the performance of your database.
- Defines indexes and provides an understanding of their role
- Uncovers and explains the statistics that are kept in indexes
- Teaches strategies and approaches for indexing databases
The e-book isn't out quite yet, but should be out by later this week. If you want to dig into indexing, I think we put together something good here. For those that get a chance to read it, leave me a comment or send me an e-mail to let me know what you think of it.
In Other News
In other news, I was also re-awarded the MVP for SQL Server on July 1st. This is my fourth award and it continues to be an honor to be recognized by Microsoft for my contribution to the SQL Server community. It's a great pat on the back for writing here on the blog and in publications, like the book. And for the time spent going out and presenting at the PASS Summit and SQL Saturdays. Of course, if people didn't care what I was doing, then there would be no community that I'd be helping, so for those that do frequent this blog and pay attention to me on twitter and in presentations, thank you.
Also, July 1st marked my run as an Idera ACE. It's a great program that they have going to help promote community speakers. For the next year, I'll have an opportunity to engage more with their community of users. You'll see me present a few times in their webcasts and likely see me hanging around their booth at some more SQL Saturdays. One of the perks is that they'll be providing travel and lodging to a few SQL Saturdays while I am an ACE. Can't wait to get out more.
Oh, and the next two or three posts in the Lost in Translation series will be late. I have another book chapter to wrap up before I can get back to those.
Original article: Book: Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012
©2012 Strate SQL. All Rights Reserved.
Related posts:
- Book Status #1: Indexing for Performance
- What Are Your Indexing Strategies?
- Free SQL Server Security Book


text:
Woman, 65, stabbed while watching fireworks
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Police say a 65-year-old woman was stabbed by an unknown assailant while watching fireworks in a shopping center parking lot in the Falls Church area.
The stabbing occurred around 10:25 p.m. on July Fourth. Fairfax County police say the woman was sitting with a group of friends when a young man approached her from behind and stabbed her in the upper body. A witness tried to chase the assailant but couldn't locate him.
The woman was taken to a hospital for treatment of serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Police say they're hoping other witnesses will come forward with information they can use to identify a suspect.
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


text:
Signs and symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of depression in children and teens.
Use this control to limit the display of threads to those newer than the specified time frame.
Allows you to choose the data by which the thread list will be sorted.
Order threads in...
Note: when sorting by date, 'descending order' will show the newest results first.
Forum Rules


text:
When I was growing up in Stockholm I had never heard of the word 'sustainability, or its Swedish equivalent 'hållbarhet' - a not entirely literal translation coming from the idea of 'hålla', to hold, to maintain. In Swedish, it's also a word that applies to objects or products meaning to last a long time, to keep, as in longevity, before a food stuff may go off. It is a practical, hygienic term in keeping with the Swedish preference for clear unambiguous communication.
Somersaulting back to English such clarity around sustainability eludes me. Indeed the very concept of sustainability I sense is in need of replacing, implying as it does the need to hold onto something, to maintain, when it is our holding on to our current lifestyles and consumption patterns that is at the root of the problem. Many people have already questioned the term, its meaning and usefulness. Robert Engelman concludes in State of the World that what he calls, sustainababble has a high cost. "Through overuse, the words sustainable and sustainability lose meaning and impact. Worse, frequent and inappropriate use lulls us into dreamy belief that all of us—and everything we do, everything we buy, everything we use—are now able to go on forever." We are holding onto what Charles Eisenstein calls, the "Story of the People, in which humanity was destined to create a perfect world through science, reason, and technology: to conquer nature, transcend our animal origins, and engineer a rational society."
Whilst agonising about vocabulary (a common affliction for migrants who have tried to master the English language) I'm nevertheless here now with B and D to discuss sustainability, leadership and societal change as part of my Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainability Leadership at IFLAS. I'm interested in the tension between provoking change from within 'the system' - meaning the corporate world, and outside, through the actions and voices of those who have rejected participation in institutions and organisations more explicitly through what may be called 'alternative' lifestyles. There are more subtle perspectives. Bendell in his research on the corporate responsibility movement references the idea of the 'tempered radical' as an 'outsider within' able to effect change which may be at odds with corporate aims. It may be an oversimplification therefore to have selected two people representing two quite different systemic positions; one a phd student and director of a large telecommunications company; the other an artist, small business owner, community activist and home educator of her three children. Both fulfil the criteria set in my brief to choose people I consider to be 'more senior and influential' than ourselves.
In choosing my interviewees, I'm playing at the tension between such apparently disparate lifestyles and possibly viewpoints. Can we set up a temporary slack line between two previously unconnected points, test common ground, create possibilities for dialogue, galvanise action however wobbly? I had asked my participants to discuss what sustainability meant to them personally and in their roles in the community, professionally, and family. Do they consciously try to influence others and if so, does this constitute a form of leadership?
Yet in hindsight, there was a deeper question to both of them. Help me make sense of this; I don't know where or how to sustain enough anger and energy that goes with that illusory creature - the leader change agent.
In less than two hours we had covered a range of loosely associated topics. Many sources of change and examples were mentioned, from the Cafe Gratitude D had visited on holiday, to the necessity of consciously adopting what Brian Eno coined as The Long Now, to counter our addiction to novelty where everything has to be "exciting, fast, current, and temporary".
There was disappointment in lacking access to the scale and type of multi-generational community where we can co-exist without the rules of hierarchy "I feel like I'm living life in permanent protest, part conscientious objector, part victim-martyr " said B. How much potential to influence and lead are we missing out on through making it so damned hard to participate and have a voice, without conforming to overly controlling structures and institutions such as education? There was a sense in which provoking and participating in change towards sustainability is in itself contingent on a level of security to "thrive, not just neurotically survive" which is easier to leverage with a firm foothold inside an organisation. Freedom to reject and challenge, to thrive and participate on modest financial means is challenging even in our so called developed country, yet these are the qualities which are surely essential to deal with the now unstoppable consequences of climate change. (Any residual scepticism about this fact can quickly be dispelled by skimming through the introduction to Naom Klein's This Changes Everything) D is more outwardly content, perhaps more economical with his change agent energy, perhaps more willing to make compromises.
Running through our discussion was an unconsciousness ease with which sustainability and its intrinsic value to us in whatever role we operate, does not need to be justified or explained. I discovered that we are all finding means of expressing ourselves within our particular environment and context; of carving out roles and fields of activity where we can explore and innovate; B through numerous community forums and ad hoc debating societies together with her one-woman crusade on facebook for the Citizens Income initiative, D through setting up a technology Forum for young entrepreneurs to promote sustainability and global consciousness.
'Personal leadership comes first; be the change you want to see' they told me, by way of concluding wisdom.
In the abstract, both sustainability and leadership are terms that seem diluted to the point of meaninglessness, victims to semantic bleaching. If we can't connect emotionally with these terms, we are left with what John Berger describes as "such dead "word-mongering" that wipes out memory and breeds a ruthless complacency." At heart, sustainability, like leadership, only becomes meaningful in the context of human exchange and interaction. It's been comforting and hopeful to enjoy what B calls 'an outbreak of conviviality' and this, surely, is worth holding onto.
The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Cumbria or any other organisation.
The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Cumbria or any other organisation.
|Paula Lernelius


text:
Craig Parry takes us behind the lens of the world of professional surf photography.
- Print page
- Email this
- Permalink
At any major surf event there's always a line-up of professional photographers bobbing in the water waiting to get the perfect shot.
Craig Parry, from Lennox head on the New South Wales north coast, is one of them.
There's little needed to do his job: some flippers, goggles... and a state of the art camera with water housing.
He began dabbling with photography when his dad gave him a camera at the age of eight, and he began filming in the surf at the age of 19.
"I just wanted to film my mates surfing."
The 34-year-old may have been photographing the ocean now for several years, but adrenalin pumps through his body and the anticipation still builds each time he heads out to a shoot.
Now working with major Australian surf magazines, Parry says the pinnacle of his career so far was spending an hour photographing Kelly Slater while he was in Kirra for the Quiksilver Pro.
"I can tick that one off my bucket list."
Getting the right composition in the surf largely comes down to the photographer correctly positioning themself in the line-up, something Parry says comes with experience.
But it's the pursuit of the next 'magic shot' that keeps Parry going.
On a recent trip to Hawaii, he found an abundance of them.
The combination of the light, rainbows, giant waves and mountains was like nothing he'd photographed before.
But it also served as an eye-opener.
Parry recalls heading out into giant surf despite being cautioned by a Hawaiian friend who regularly surfed Pipeline.
He admits it was the one moment in his career that he feared for his life.
"It was a bit of a mission, but I got out and then I looked at the horizon and there were these massive walls of water coming towards me.
"They were breaking on the outer reefs and when it does that they call it third reef, and when it breaks at third reef the waves are over 14 to 15 feet high. Then all of a sudden the current started sucking me back into the beach and that's where the reef is."
After diving under three waves, he admits his legs started cramping up.
"I was swimming as hard as I could with one arm and my flippers and I went down under the first one, grabbed onto the reef, and as I look up I can see the white water just screaming above my head.
"The funny thing is about Pipeline in Hawaii, you've got to actually swim into the impact zone to get in on the beach, otherwise you'll get sucked out."
The power of the Hawaiian waves taught him a lesson, but that power was also projected into each frame he captured.
"I had an afternoon with magic light and there was a rainbow on the land and out to sea the sun was coming in through the wave so it backlit the wave up.
"I've actually found photos that have given me that buzzing feeling weeks after my trip, so for that to happen I knew I had something special there."
Craig Parry's Hawaiian images are the subject of a new exhibition at his gallery in Lennox Head from April 20.


text:
The SPAWS project has produced:
- A SPAWS Java Library for sharing paradata, building on LRJavaLib
- Some documentation on how to use it
- Contributed code back to LRJavaLib
- A set of Paradata Recipes for paradata relevant to the usecase
- A load of blog posts
- Integration of SPAWS into Edukapp, used for both the OU and SURFNet web app stores
- Demonstrated the integration works and published screen captures
- A SPAWS servlet for integration into non-Java stores
All of which were in the original project plan.
Some things we didn't do:
- We didn't use CAM for the recipes, as it isn't really suitable. Its more for individual learning analytics than the kind of data we're concerned with


text:
At the monthly meeting of the Fairfax Genealogical Society at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 27, 2011, Diane Giannini, CG, will deliver a presentation on "Researching at the Library of Congress in Your Jammies!"
The meeting will be held in the Lecture Room of the Kilmer Middle School, 8100 Wolf Trap Road, Vienna, Virginia 22182.
From the monthly newsletter of the Fairfax Genealogical Society:
"One of the best untapped and free online websites for genealogists is the Library of Congress. This session presents the various resources which are available to researchers at the library without leaving the comfort of their home.
"Diane L. Giannini, CG, has been a professional genealogist since 2004 and received her certification in 2008. Diane's specialty is Colonial Maryland Land Records as well as Maryland and Northern Virginia Records. Another area of interest is migration between Virginia and Ohio. She is past president of the Charles County Maryland Genealogical Society and is a member of Fairfax Genealogy Society and an active member of several state and local genealogical societies."
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Diane Giannini to Speak at 27 January 2011 Meeting of Fairfax Genealogical Society
2 comments:
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
Sovoco Marketing is an Ottawa Promotional Products listing. Please mention that you found
their Promotional Products listing on OttawaKiosk.com.
If you would like to modify this Ottawa Promotional Products listing, please contact us.
Salient Marketing is an Ottawa based Internet marketing firm specializing in online marketing for Ottawa businesses to drive leads and sales. Our Experience? We has experience in a variety of industries: public sector, retail, telecommunications, e-business, legal, high tech, real estate, travel and associations; and have worked on the development of marketing initiatives for national and multi-national organizations.
We offer our clients a comprehensive, world-class suite of promotional merchandise and
creative services. We call it our Signature Collection - a collection of promotional items that meet our strict criteria for outstanding quality and value from both a price and marketing perspective. In addition, our services include graphic design, merchandising programs, embroidery, warehousing and fulfillment.
Advertise with us, send us Suggestions and find more about Ottawakiosk.com


text:
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The system of so-called "shadow banking" blamed for aggravating the global financial crisis grew to $67 trillion globally last year, a new high, amid calls from the world's top policymakers for greater control of the sector.
A report by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) on Sunday appeared to confirm fears among policy makers that shadow banking is set to thrive, beyond the reach of a regulatory net tightening around traditional banks and their activities.
Officials at the European Commission in Brussels see closer control of the sector as important in preventing a repeat of the financial crisis that toppled banks over the past five years and rocked the euro zone.
The study by the FSB, set up by the world's top economies (G20) to police global finance, said shadow banking around the world more than doubled to £62 trillion in the five years to 2007 before the crisis struck.
But the size of the total system had risen to $67 trillion in 2011, more than the total economic output of all the countries in the study.
The multi-trillion dollar activities of hedge funds and private equity companies are often cited as examples of shadow banking.
But the term also covers investment funds, money-market funds and even cash-rich firms that lend government bonds to banks, and which in turn use them as security when taking credit from the European Central Bank
Even the man credited with coining the term, former investment executive Paul McCulley, gave a catch-all definition.
McCulley said he understood shadow banking to mean "the whole alphabet soup of levered up non-bank investment conduits, vehicles and structures", such as the special investment vehicles that many blamed for the financial crisis.
The United States had the largest shadow banking system, said the FSB, with assets of $23 trillion in 2011, followed by the euro area - with $22 trillion - and the United Kingdom - at $9 trillion.
The U.S. share of the global shadow banking system has declined in recent years, the FSB said, while the shares of the United Kingdom and the euro area have increased.
The FSB warned that tighter rules that force banks to hoard more capital reserves to cover losses could bolster shadow banking.
It advocates better controls, although cautions that shadow banking reforms should be dealt with carefully because the sector can also be a source of credit for business and consumers.
Forms of shadow banking can include securitization, which can transform bank loans into a tradeable instrument that can then be used to refinance credit, making it easier to lend.
In the run-up to the crisis, however, banks such as Germany's IKB stored billions of euros of such instruments in off-balance sheet vehicles, which later unraveled.
Another example is a repurchasing agreement, or repo, where a player such as a hedge fund could sell government bonds it owns to a bank, agreeing to repurchase them later.
The bank may then lend those bonds onto another hedge fund, taking a position on the government debt. Such agreements are used by banks to lend and borrow. A risk could arise if one of the parties in the chain collapses.
The European Commission is expected to propose EU-wide rules for shadow banking next year.
Reporting By John O'Donnell; Editing by David Cowell


text: Home»Certificate»Change Management Certification Online Change Management Certification Online By godong On 14 December 2018 In Certificate | No Comments Other Collections of Change Management Certification Online Share This: tweet You may also like Cnc Certification Online Free Cnc Certification Online Free – Pleasant in order to my website, within this period I will explain to you about Cnc Certification Online Free . And from now on, this is actually the primary image. Why don't you consider graphic above? is in which incredible???. if you're more dedicated so, I'l l explain to ... VIEW DETAIL Electrician Certification Online Electrician Certification Online – Pleasant in order to my own weblog, within this occasion I am going to explain to you with regards to Electrician Certification Online . And today, this can be a initial impression. What about graphic above? can be which wonderful???. if you feel thus, I'l d teach you a number ... VIEW DETAIL « PREVIOUS Previous post link Graduate Certificate In Legal Studies Online NEXT »How to Find Death Certificates Online Next post link Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment Name * Email * Website


text:
Guest Service Team Member - Cart Attendant
As a Cart Attendant, you are responsible for keeping shopping carts and baskets full and available for the guest throughout the store. Ensure first impressions, including the parking lot and restrooms, are clean and clutter free. Assist with guest needs including back-up cashier and carry outs. Deliver an exceptional guest experience by engaging the guest and prioritizing the guest's needs over task.


text:
Add vehicles to compare. You can compare up to 3 vehicles at a time.
Prices do not include government fees and taxes, any finance charges, any dealer document processing charge, any electronic filing charge and any emission testing charge. Tax, title, license (unless itemized above) are extra. Not available with special finance, lease and some other offers.
F.H. Dailey Chevrolet is The Preferred Chevrolet Dealer in San Leandro, Hayward, Oakland & the Bay Area
Looking for a certified vehicle? Browse our cars, trucks and SUVs for sale at F.H. Dailey Chevrolet. Check out our expansive showroom to find the right fit for you. Our knowledgeable sales staff can also help find your pre-owned vehicle needs. F.H. Dailey Chevrolet's certified service center has a friendly staff that can help you with any future regular maintenance your vehicle may need. From oil changes and tire rotations to more serious car service, our Chevrolet service staff has got your covered. We also have a variety of dealer specials and financing options available to make sure you leave our dealership with the exact Chevrolet car you want. Come down and see what drivers from Bay Area and Hayward are talking about.


text:
Halloween Blocks Digital Download SVG & Pdf
Digital Download Zip File. Includes SVG and Pdf Files.
This is a digital download. A Zip file will be available upon download. Just hit print and use!
You get 6 zipped files that include: an SVG file for cutting machines, a PDF file that includes colored images you can print and cut out by hand, and a black lined pattern that you can print on colored paper/cardstock and cut out by hand, and a jpg image of the finished file. Hand cut finished size Frankenstein 4.5" x 3.5", Bat 8.25″ x 4″, Ghost 3.5″ x 4.5″, Pumpkin 3.5″ x 4.5″, Spider 7.5″ x 3.5″ , and Witch 5″ x 8″.
Important information: You will not be mailed any physical items. Color may vary depending on monitors and printers. All digital sales are final - no refunds.
This design is available for personal use only and may NOT be used commercially or resold under any circumstances. Please Contact Pebbles in my Pocket at email@example.com for information about obtaining a limited commercial license.


text:
|Thread Tools
|Display Modes
The sections of The Power Of Self-coaching I can't understand
Hello, Dr.Joe, it's me again =), thanks for all your reply, hope this time I can make myself clear, please see details below.
About Happiness and unleashing
- happiness is a natural, spontaneous human potential. (L32, P31, The Power Of Self-coaching)
a) When read this sentence, I think its meaning is that our body and heart knows what can make ourselves feel comfortable and joyful, but I'm not sure whether what I've learnt from this sentence is what you want to tell us.
b) Now, this natural human potential of mine is really weak, it's hard to me to know what can make me happy.
- Defining Personal Happiness: Unleashing (P32 - P34, The Power Of Self-coaching)
I think I also know the meaning of this section, but I really can't unleash myself completely, when I want to do something, I will think like this "Whether doing this is good for my whole lifetime/future or not, if not, I won't do it; and,no matter what I want to do I always have or need a standard of right or wrong to make judgement, these standards of right or wrong are my grandma asked me to follow or I learned them from books or something/someone else, until now I've got a lot of mental problems, then I realize the biggest mistake is that I didn't follow the natural, spontaneous human potential of mine, but how can I make right decisions in my life?
Thank you!
Sometimes trying to think too hard about something can wind up tripping you up. It's like walking down steps, if you think too much about it (rather than just trusting and allowing your reflexes to handle it) you're apt to trip. I think, rather than focusing so much on how to release, you would be better of recognizing that eliminating insecurity-driven thinking is the key. Think of a beach ball being held under water. If you press down on the ball you can keep it submerged. If you remove your hands, what happens? The ball naturally shoots up and out of the water! Insecurity is what keeps our natural potential (the beach ball shooting out of the water) submerged. Release the insecurity-driven thinking and living and what happens? Your natural inclination for well-being can surface. You don't have figure out how to release, you need to chip away at what prevents this (i.e., the doubts, fears and negatives that feed insecurity).
Hope this helps,
Dr. Joe
Disclaimer: The diagnosis of clinical anxiety or depressive disorders requires a physician or other qualified mental health professional. The information provided is intended for informational purposes only. Please understand that the opinions shared with you are meant to be general reference information, and are not intended as a diagnosis or substitute for counseling with your physician or other qualified mental health professional.
Self-Coaching.net provides access to resources and other information as a public service. Although reasonable efforts have been made to ensure that all electronic information made available is current, complete and accurate, Joseph J. Luciani, Ph.D. (Dr. Joe) does not warrant or represent that this information is current, complete and accurate. All information is subject to change on a regular basis, without notice.
Joseph J. Luciani, Ph.D., assumes no responsibility for any errors in the information provided, nor assumes any liability for any damages incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, of the use and application of any of the contents of the Self-Coaching.net Website.
Any electronic information or inquiries that Self-Coaching.net receives from visitors shall not be considered as, or treated as, confidential. The inclusion of, or linking to, other Website URLs does not imply my endorsement of, nor responsibility for, those Websites, but has been done as a convenience to my website visitors.
|happiness, unleashing
|Thread Tools
|Display Modes
Linear Mode


text:
HARRISBURG - On few issues are the battle lines being more sharply drawn here than the privatization of the Pennsylvania Lottery.
The issue after all involves the future of a program that has provided $22 billion in revenue during the past 40 years to programs providing seniors with property tax and rent rebates, transit rides, subsidized prescription drugs and long-term living services.
The Corbett administration recently took a major step on the way to privatization by seeking bids from private firms interested in managing the lottery. Democratic lawmakers are vociferous in their opposition to the idea.
Camelot Global Services, the firm that runs the British lottery, has submitted a bid to manage the lottery for 20 years and pledges to produce more than $34 billion in profits during that period.
Gov. Tom Corbett said the goal is to generate more and predictable revenue for programs that benefit a senior population that is growing dramatically.
"Let's see if we cannot bring more income for the seniors of Pennsylvania," said Corbett last week at the Pennsylvania Press Club. "We want to see if we can increase the rate of growth of the lottery."
Demographics are at work here with the numbers of Pennsylvanians age 65 and older expected to increase nearly 27 percent by the end of this decade, according to a new analysis by the state Independent Fiscal Office.
Democratic lawmakers question why the effort to fix what isn't broken.
"Why would we privatize a state-run operation that is the gold standard of how to run a lottery?" asked Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski, D-Wilkes-Barre, a member of the House Aging and Older Adult Services Committee.
He said the costs of running the lottery are under 2 percent.
"The Pennsylvania Lottery just had its best financial year ever and lottery revenue has been more reliable and predictable over the years than almost any other revenue source in state government," said House Minority Leader Frank Dermody, D-Allegheny County.
The state Revenue Department has announced the key terms involving any private management agreement. These include a 20-year contract and requirement for $150 million in up-front cash collateral. A management firm would be expected to find ways to boost sales, possibly by adding keno or online games. The state would retain ownership of the lottery.
A multi-agency team is exploring the private management option.
"This is a careful ⦠process where each decision impacts the next step, and there are a number of 'next steps' to consider in coming weeks, including contractually mandated dialogue with the union representing lottery employees," said Revenue Secretary Dan Meuser.
Robert Swift is Harrisburg bureau chief for Times-Shamrock Communications newspapers. He can be reached at email@example.com.


text:
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Cool x 2!
Jessica of Jessica's Genejournal and Kay of Kay B's Place have been kind enough to give my blog the One Lovely Blog Award. Thank you both so much; it means a lot to receive it from people whose blogs I enjoy so much.
In turn I would like to nominate the following 7 blogs for the award:
Ernie's Journeys
Blind Pig and the Acorn
Destination: Austin Family
Family Stories
The Baca/Douglas Genealogy and Family History Blog
Apple's Tree
3 comments:
Greta-congrats on your award(s)!! And thank you for passing it along to me-makes my day to know you enjoy my blog!!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much. I'm very surprised and flattered.
I am way late in getting my thank you notes out! Thanks so much for the award!
Thomas MacEntee
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
Peter Dekom on The Reality Of Creator/Distributor/Audience Relationship/
Collen Nystedt of MovieSet pointed this lecture (2/7) out to me via Facebook. It's not a pretty picture. You have to skip the 4min corny intro, but amidst the doom mongering, Peter Dekom puts an interesting position out there. He describes the current industry situation as the "antichrist of independent filmmaking" (end of pt.3). Unfortunately he's not referencing Lars VT either. Dekom doesn't put much stock on the long tail, but illustrates how the industry is built around movies that do well theatrically (pt.4). Without theatrical success, there's not much else that can happen from a business perspective with a film these days, he says. So much for the hope of a VOD salvation...
The main thrust is that our industry is in a serious disconnect from our audiences. It is clear that the model consumers like least is pay per use -- yet Hollywood is still dedicated to this. Dekom argues that we have to wake up both our business models and our copyright laws (and I wish he explored this latter part more) to adjust how people actually behave. Embrace reality! Wake up and smell the instant coffee!!
Along the way, Dekom takes the time to make a few keypoints to make sure we understand how we got here.
- He explains we're not a world practicing multi-tasking -- but rapid focus shifting. It's not multiple things we are doing, but one thing after another and then back and forth;
- He de-emphasizes our industry's need to focus on distribution solutions; for Dekom the real film biz comes down to creativity, deal-making, and marketing. That may not be ground shaking news, but it does call attention to how much time everyone spends on the question -- and perhaps how misguided we are at times just worrying about if we are going to get it up and out.
- He encourages us to recognize we live in a world of hyper accelerating change. And to ask ourselves what does that do to us as consumers of entertainment? We are living in the world of The What's Next Generation. People are no longer interested in What Is (and thus why the Star System is over - pt2). Audiences have moved on.
- For Dekom there are four key components of mass-entertainment movies these days : ride, moments, character, story. Very few Indie films can offer ride (thrills), but we can certainly offer moments (think YouTube). And we can always do better by thinking earlier what those moments are going to be, what we will want to put in the trailer.
- Since 9/15/08 when the economy tanked, people over 30 have gone to the movies 46% less whereas kids have gone 24% more.
Dekom makes a lot of points.
H makes it clear that there is no traditional indie market to build a business plan on -- then or now.
Film subsidies help develop artists, but don't develop markets traditionally.
Dekom puts some hope on the use of psycho-graphic focus and metadata to help market films (pt.4). Granted this stuff is very personal ... and private data -- and, in my opinion, should stay that way . But he does spell out how none of this is truly private anymore (pt.5). Once again: wake up to reality.
Dekom does recognize the marketing benefits of piracy and probably could have spoken up more about piracy's ability to deliver to neglected markets.
He criticizes how the film industry knows less about it's audience than any other field. If this doesn't change, we are doomed.
He points how library value has completely eroded (this is the foundation of most studios) and you can't borrow against it.
Dekom explains that it NOW comes down to the primary event for all entertainment industries. After that, there is just "the other", no ancillary. Indie business has, unfortunately, been built on "the other" and only the old "other". And there now is no "other" -- in Dekom's vision. The primary event is very much big screen theatrical now -- just like it was in the '50's. Without theatrical, where is the business? There's been a lot of good discussion on what people are willing to pay for, and we need more of it.
The hope, in Dekom's vision, is to learn how to listen to the audience. We need to focus on finding the audience, determining who the audience is, and how to reach them. Each film (unless it is a sequel) is a brand new product line worthy of the same creativity in the marketing that gave rise to the film in the first place.
Check out all seven clips. People pay this man a great deal to have him speak. He's worth your time.


text:
What is a GeoPark?
A geopark is a designated area that allows its visitors to experience geological history firsthand. The purpose of these parks is to convey how landscapes are formed, what types of raw materials and rocks are found underground and how geology affects the respective land use. In addition, these parks are intended to bring the local inhabitants closer to their geological heritage and to enable them to identify with their region.
In conjunction with the joint federal/states committee for soil research (BLA-GEO), the GeoUnion established its own panel of experts. The GeoUnion Alfred-Wegner Foundation awards the title National Geopark and evaluates the applicants based on its own catalog of criteria.
The European Geopark Network awards its own label, according to a catalog of criteria and an on-site visitation by international experts. The prerequisite is prior certification as a National Geopark.
Today, the national geopark initiatives are supported and coordinated by UNESCO through a global network, the Global Geopark Network. The parks benefit from their affiliation with a global network of cooperation and exchange. Under the aegis of Dr. Lutz Möller, the German UNESCO commission is heavily involved in this network.
In particular, these parks advocate the sustainable use of natural resources while at the same time preserving the respect for the environment and the integrity of the landscape.
Currently (as of September 2014) there exist 111 geoparks in 32 countries worldwide, with 15 located in Germany.
In this year, the Global Geopark Network was established in order to promote sustainable tourism.
Since 2002, the UNESCO offers countries support in such efforts. In the same year, due to the growing interest in geoparks, the BLA-GEO – a commission of the Conference of Economics Ministers – and the GeoUnion decided to introduce the national seal of quality "National Geopark" in Germany.
This year saw the establishment of the European Geopark Network, which links and supports its members across all of Europe. Six German parks are members of the European network.
A number of SENCKENBERG scientists are also involved in geoparks, including activities in the following parks:
Overview map
This map shows all geoparks and geopark initiatives that have already been certified as a National Geopark or whose certification is currently pending.
© all image rights remain with GeoUnion


text:
Urban agriculture is becoming a popular trend across the country
This summer Jesse Payne will be digging up lawns in Ottawa to plant vegetable gardens in place of grass. He doesn't actually own the land — owners have willingly handed over their property to his company in exchange for veggies.
"Vegetable Patch is an agri-business that gets people who don't have time to garden to share their backyards. In exchange for the use of their space, homeowners receive baskets of vegetables throughout the growing season," says Payne. "We are starting our fourth year and currently have 12 gardens just outside the downtown region of Ottawa."
Urban agriculture is becoming a popular trend across the country as the vegetable garden is makes a serious comeback. It's been almost 70 years since so many Canadians have willingly tilled the earth. During the Second World War, the Canadian government encouraged people to grow their own food so existing stock could be shipped to troops overseas. "Victory Gardens" spread across the country; by 1943 there were over 200,000 backyard plots.
As we became seduced by easy access to the supermarket, the home garden fell to the wayside. The first gardening revival in the 1980s was all about curb appeal but today's Canadian gardener is after a different kind of victory.
"People are concerned about their health and the price of food. We get most of our food from the States but what happen to supplies when the soil becomes too weak and the weather unpredictable?" said Dan Jason, owner of Salt Spring Seeds.
Jason started his small seed company in 1986 and in the last few years has seen tremendous growth, particularly from homeowners digging up their lawns and converting their sheds into greenhouses.
While it's true the backyard garden can lessen gas consumption by creating a no-mile diet, Canadians are supporting urban agriculture for less altruistic reasons. Compare a tomato fresh off the vine to its supermarket cousin and the real motivation is apparent — flavour.
"People in general are more health conscious but they also want better tasting vegetables. Supermarket varieties don't taste as good as locally grown organic," said Payne.
The UN predicts that by 2036 over 60 per cent of the world will be living in cities. Co-operative urban farms are considered a viable solution to the growing poverty of city dwellers. Gail Vandersteen and Wally Satzewich are pioneers in the urban agriculture movement. For 14 years their company, Wally's Urban Market Garden, has been selling local, city-grown organic produce to Saskatoon residents. Together with U.S.-based farmer Roxanne Christense, they created the SPIN (S-mall P-lot IN-tensive) program to teach people how to become farmers without having the pull up their urban roots.
"I've been surprised with the degree of enthusiastic response, from aspiring farmers, to policy-makers. Spin-farming focuses on the commercial aspects rather than the idealism, which needs to be coupled with revenue in order for urban farming to grow," said Satzewich.
Small animals are also joining the city farm. Bee-keeping has been legal in Vancouver since 2003; recently New York City lifted its ban on keeping bees. The Toronto Beekeeper's Co-operative has 40 members. Despite stringent bee-keeping bylaws, it has enabled such businesses as the Canadian Opera Company and Fairmont Royal York Hotel to install rooftop beehives.
Vancouver also recently amended its bylaw against backyard chickens. Recently, Montreal's Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie — one the city's most densely populated neighbourhoods — started a petition to allow residents to raise laying hens in their backyards. There are similar movements in dozens of other cities including Toronto, Windsor, Kingston, Ottawa, Kamloops and Calgary.
Condo and apartment dwellers are not being left out of this gardening revolution. New York artists Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray created Windowfarms as part of an interactive art show. Designed to use recycled water bottles and to fit into any window, the vertical, indoor hydroponic garden became so popular that Riley opened up a business creating Windowfarm kits.
"Food is such an integral part of our lives that we hit home with the idea that you can grow your own food in winter in an apartment," said Riley. "Canadian sales have been so great that we had look for a Canadian distributor."
Where to start if you're interested in becoming an urban farmer? Both Payne and Jason recommend growing the vegetables you love to eat.
"A lot of people enjoy working in the garden and find it relaxing and meditative. Everyone should know how to grow food," said Payne.


text:
Products and Solutions
Training Programs
PHP Training
Services and Support
Try and Buy
CompanyDownload Now
Modern web applications are rapidly changing in order to address new business requirements driven by the implementation of agile development methodologies. With the emergence of virtualization, maturity of cloud technologies, and proliferation of infrastructure as a service and platform as a service environments, applications are required to become portable, scalable and architected with the agility to support rapid change.
The architecture audit ensures that your application follows established best practices of PHP design through a comprehensive evaluation of the application code and workflows with a focus on scalability, supportability and cloud readiness. The audit is an objective, third party review of the PHP application providing an unbiased expert assessment that significantly reduces the risk of missing or ignoring potentially critical flaws in your application architecture and ensures compliance with PHP and Zend Framework best practices.
Zend's consultants in conjunction with the developers of the PHP runtime and ZendFramework have established a set of standard criteria for evaluating the PHP application code base. Each audit is customized to specifically match the design and implementation requirements of the application and the company's production business goals such as scalability, performance thresholds, portability across environments, cloud readiness and elasticity.
Typical areas of focus in architecture audits may include:


text:
Corporate Events
Kiddie Park is now hosting Company Parties and Corporate Events! A corporate event at Kiddie Park, one of San Antonio's most treasured landmarks, is the perfect way to show your appreciation to clients or employees for their business and hard work by bringing their families together for an event that all ages will enjoy.
Companies can have the park all to themselves any available 2 hour block on Monday's and Tuesday's during our Spring and Summer Hours (March 1st – September 1st). During the rest of the year (our Offseason hours), events can take place at any time Monday thru Thursday. These 2-hour parties start at just $600, or you can host a private "Company Day" at the park for an entire morning, afternoon, or full-day for $300/hour (offer depends on park availability). The park can accommodate 500 or more guests.
The park can accommodate 500+ guests and offers numerous flexibility when it comes to food options and entertainment. Companies can have their event catered, bring in all of their own food/drinks, or have Kiddie Park arrange it all! Stages, bands, and DJs are also all permitted.
For more information, please fill out the form below, email email@example.com, or call 210-824-4351.
You will receive an auto-generated confirmation email within 24 hours after you put the request through. Someone from our staff will contact you as soon as possible to discuss the details and address any questions or concerns you might have. We look forward to helping you host your next Corporate Event at Kiddie Park!


text:
One Great Lady!
Posted by Heather at 8:52:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: scrapbooking, Slice
Look whoooo's in the house!
The new Stampin' Up owl punch is in the house! Lol! This adorable punch was in the new SU! catalog, and I couldn't resist it! All the pieces are in one punch, so it makes it super easy to use. The branch is from the birdie punch that SU! makes. This was Sara's birthday card this year, and I thought the owl was just perfect for her! The patterned paper is from Basic Grey's June Bug line, and I cut the scallop squares from my nesties and Big Shot.
Posted by Heather at 10:14:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: nesties, punch art, Stampin Up
Feeling Witchy
Posted by Heather at 12:32:00 PM 1 comments
Labels: Echo Park Paper, scrapbooking
DC & Long Title
Posted by Heather at 9:39:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: scrapbooking, Unity Stamps
Project 12 July
Posted by Heather at 8:28:00 PM 1 comments
Labels: Big Shot, Project 12, scrapbooking
Project 12 April-June
Posted by Heather at 7:41:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: Project 12, scrapbooking
Sketchbook Inspiration
Posted by Heather at 8:29:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: scrapbooking, Sketchbook2, Studio Calico
Scrap August Update!
Posted by Heather at 1:10:00 PM 1 comments
Labels: Creative Scrappers, Noel Mignon, scrapbooking
Scrap August!!
That's all for today, I'm off to run some errands and then coming home for some scrappy time!
Posted by Heather at 11:26:00 AM 1 comments
Labels: Big Shot, Glimmer Mist, scrapbooking, Sketchbook2, Studio Calico
Color Combo Fun!
Posted by Heather at 7:33:00 PM 1 comments
Labels: Color Combos Galore, nesties, scrapbooking


text:
New folk blog Slowcoustic has compiled a tribute to Long May You Run, J. Tillman, the second album released by the singer-songwriter you now know better as Father John Misty. Among the artists covering songs from the 2006 album are Philly's own Psalmships, the minimal folk outfit of Joshua Britton, taking a stab at the song "Before We Retire." Slowcoustic blogger Sandy Smansmith writes "When [Britton]…sent me the track he indicated that he felt it was possibly a bit haunting. This 7 1/2 minute track creeps into you and haunts you exactly the way it is supposed to." Listen to it and grab a download below.
- Categorized Under:


text:
The Perfumed Cutlass Hunt opens a whole new season of MadPea Monthly Legends. Each month a new legend is discovered and the stories take you on grid-wide adventures.
This is the Story:
There was a female pirate known as the Perfumed Cutlass for her deadly charm and razor wit. She was as much a lover as she was a fighter and because of this, she lost her heart often. However, with each lover she leaves a piece of her heart, a symbol of her most valuable possession. She leaves them also a piece of her treasure map and a promise she will return. Immerse yourself to the story of the Perfumed Cutlass, find her hidden treasure and be rewarded generously.
How to play:
Buy the HUD for 10 Linden and wear it.
|That is the HUD (photo shared from the HuntSL blog)
First you have to find 15 gold coins in the collaborating stores. You will see a grid of Xs... clicking on each X gives you the clue to help you locate the gold coin at each store and also gives you the location of the store.
|This is the coin you are looking for
When you find the gold coin, click it and it will turn the corresponding cell on the grid of the HUD from an X to a piece of the map. When you have found all the coins and the map is complete, the HUD will be primed to open all the treasure chests in the prize cave for you. To get to the prize cave click on the red thumbtack icon. To collect your prizes once you have arrived in the cave, click on the open treasure chest icon. Be prepared for a flood of treasure as your inventory burst to overflowing! If you have any questions, you can click the ? to be linked to the help webpage.
How long will the hunt run?
Opening today, Sept. 7th, 3 PM SLT until 30th
Hunt start location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tupol%20Island/134/176/21
Come and have fun!


text:
Hernandez dominant in win over D-backs
ST. PETERSBURG -- Roberto Hernandez caught the scent of a complete-game shutout on Tuesday night.
Though the veteran right-hander did not get the shutout, he did come away with his first complete game since 2010, which gave the Rays a 5-2 win over the D-backs at Tropicana Field.View Full Game Coverage
ST. PETERSBURG -- Roberto Hernandez caught the scent of a complete-game shutout on Tuesday night.
Though the veteran right-hander did not get the shutout, he did come away with his first complete game since 2010, which gave the Rays a 5-2 win over the D-backs at Tropicana Field.View Full Game Coverage
"Whenever I go to the mound I think I'm going to have a good game," Hernandez said. "Sometimes [it's] bad. Sometimes [it's] good. I can't control that. Today, I threw strikes, kept the ball down and made a lot of ground balls."
The Rays (64-43) are 21-4 in July and have won 11 of their last 13 to remain in first place by a half-game over the Red Sox in the American League East.
With talk of the Rays temporarily moving to a four-man rotation, Hernandez let his pitching respond to the idea he would be the odd-man out.
Hernandez blanked the Diamondbacks through 8 2/3 innings before Eric Chavez hit a two-run homer. Martin Prado grounded out to Evan Longoria at third for the final out, and just like that, the Rays starters were doing their leap on the infield, a maneuver they execute after every complete game.
Hernandez's five-hitter gave the Rays their seventh complete game in July, the most by any team in a calendar month since the Phillies in May 1999, and the most by an AL team since the Yankees in August 1998.
"He was hitting his spots very well, and his changeup was really, really good today," catcher Jose Molina said. "Good command."
Rays manager Joe Maddon said Hernandez was "the sharpest he's been."
"All components," Maddon said. "Fastball. Even the velocity of the fastball he sustained at a high level. Great location. And the slider and the changeup.
"You look at the quality of the swings from the other team, they have a very good ballclub. And actually, they matched up pretty well against him tonight, according to what works. Taking all of that into consideration, you look at the quality of the swings on the other side. His stuff was good."
Hernandez had 15 groundouts on a night when he needed just 102 pitches for 27 outs.
"He kept the ball down, and we hit a ton of ground balls on him," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "Offense was stagnant again tonight. It wasn't a surprise, we had a good idea how he was going to approach us. You had to be patient and try to get the ball up and get the ball up in the air, but he threw a good game. We were just unable to capitalize on anything at all."
Maddon noted the ground balls are what the Rays want from Hernandez.
"He puts the ball on the ground, we have to be in the right spots," Maddon said. "If we're in the right spots, this guy is going to pitch a lot of games like that."
Despite Hernandez's success, Maddon said the performance would not affect the team's decision on whether to go to a four-man rotation.
"We're still thinking different things," Maddon said. "Hopefully by tomorrow we'll be able to give you guys the rotation for the Giants series."
Desmond Jennings set the tone for the Rays' offense in the first, when he turned a single into a hustle double from the leadoff spot. Ben Zobrist singled home Jennings, and James Loney added an RBI double to put the Rays up 2-0.
"When you hit the baseball, you have to be thinking two from Jump Street, and Desmond's got that kind of speed," Maddon said.
Yunel Escobar hit his eighth home run of the season in the fourth, a solo shot, and a sacrifice fly in the sixth, and Zobrist added an RBI double in the eighth to give the Rays a 5-0 lead.
Tampa Bay had 10 hits and seven walks, but still only managed to go 2-for-14 with runners in scoring position.
"We hit some balls hard without much luck, and that could have put a different number on the scoreboard," Maddon said. "And then of course, it's still about runners in scoring position. We have to be a little more efficient there, but overall we have been hitting the ball better.
"We've been hitting the ball hard. Sometimes you're fortunate. Sometimes you're not so fortunate. But up and down the lineup, good offensive performance and once again a good defensive performance."
Tampa Bay is now 10-1 in Interleague Play this season.
"We have played well against the National League so far this year," Maddon said. "I want to see that trend continue. ... It'd be nice to keep this kind of trek intact."
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com.


text:
Before the season started, I wrote on here that I believed Ronnie Brewer would be the Knicks best off-season acquisition. I was wrong. That distinction goes to Jason Kidd, who has impacted this team in more ways than what can be measured in a box score. However, Brewer has performed incredibly well in his first 16 games as a Knick. He has started all 16 games this season, starting at both small forward and shooting guard. Brought in as a defensive stalwart, Brewer has been very solid on that end of the floor as expected. Suprisingly, his impact has mostly been felt on the offensive end of the floor.
A career 26% three point shooter, Brewer was not thought of as a guy who would contribute much on the offensive side of things. He was brought in as a defender who would bring a defensive balance alongside more offense oriented players like Carmelo Anthony, Raymond Felton and JR Smith. To the surprise of everybody, including Brewer himself probably, he has been much more than that.
New York has been the second best three point shooting team in the league, hitting 41.8% as a team. With the help of shooting coach Dave Hopla, often referred to as 'Hopla the god' in the world of Knicks twitter, Brewer has been one of the better three point shooters in the league through the first month of the season. Nobody is going to mistaken him for Steve Novak, but Brewer's three point shooting has been very productive. He has taken 36 threes and has hit 15 of them, hitting at a 41.7% clip. Now conventional wisdom would indicate that Brewer is in line for a regression. There is no way he shoots 41.7% from downtown for the rest of the season, especially as a 26% career three point shooter, but the regression may not be as extreme as one would believe. Let me explain.
Of Brewer's 15 made threes, 14 of them have come from the corner three spot of the floor. Of Brewer's 36 three point shots, 32 of them have come from the corners. What does this mean? With the help of Hopla, Brewer clearly is most comfortable shooting threes from the corners. Having shot just 32 of these corner threes in the first 16 games, or 2 per game for those who aren't so good at the maths, Brewer is the anti-2011 JR Smith. Instead of throwing up a bunch of isolation or contested step back threes, Brewer knows his role. He is a floor spacer, not a shot creator. 33 of his 35 three point attempts have come as spot up looks and 14 of his 15 makes have been off spot ups. What these numbers tell us is that Brewer is selective in his three point shooting. Unless the shot clock is running down, Brewer isn't going to force up contested threes. If you go back and look at his shots, most of them are coming off wide open looks. He has excelled when the Knicks run pick and roll sets. Brewer's man often crashes down in help defense, leaving Brewer wide open in the corner. The point guards have done a really good job to get Brewer the ball and he has made opposing defenses pay for leaving him open. Looking ahead to the rest of the season, there really is no reason to believe that Brewer won't continue to get these open looks. His shooting will probably regress slightly, but even a regression down to 36 or 37% shooting from three will still make Brewer an effective offensive floor spacer for the Knicks.
Players who can score without the ball are always valuable to offenses. In addition to his three point shooting, Brewer has also excelled as a cutter this season. While his three point shooting has been great, Brewer's ability to find space moving off the ball may the be most impressive part of his offensive game. Averaging 1 point per possession as a cutter, according to Synergy sports, Brewer has been quite efficient when getting the ball on cuts. Brewer has gotten 20 shot attempts off cuts, hitting 11 of them. Impressively, Brewer finds his way into the teeth of the defense without plays being run for him. I can't recall one time the Knicks have run a play to get Brewer the ball as a cutter. What he does is capitalize on sleeping defenders. Him and Carmelo Anthony seem to have developed a really nice rapport. Many of Brewer's looks as a cutter have come when Anthony draws the attention of the defense. Brewer's defender often focuses on Anthony, usually on one of the elbows, and allows Brewer to sneak behind him to get to the rack. The Knick wing is also good at cutting in pick and roll sets. Not only can he capitalize on collapsing help defenders by hitting open threes, but he has a knack of knowing when to cut to the hoop instead of standing beyond the arc. Again, New York's point guards have done a good job of getting Brewer the ball in those situations. Though the sample size of this early season is somewhat limited, 20 shot attempts as a cutter in 16 games played, it is quite clear that Brewer understands floor spacing and how to hurt defenses without the ball in his hands.
Ronnie Brewer has been a fantastic role player for this Knicks team. He has done what the team has asked of him and he has done it very well. Brewer spaces the floor and makes opposing teams hurt when they leave him wide open, shooting 41.7% from downtown. Very rarely ever having the ball in his hands, he has excelled in getting open looks at the rim by moving off the ball. Brewer's defense has been solid and there have been no off the court hiccups either. Whether he plays 14 minutes or 32 minutes in a game, Brewer plays hard every night. He knows his limits and he knows his role. Ronnie Brewer has been one of the unsung heroes behind the early season success of the 12-4 New York Knicks. I've been incredibly impressed with him in these first 16 games and there is no reason why he cannot continue to do the things he has been doing.
Follow Taylor Armosino on Twitter @tarmosino
Like Meloship of the Ring on Facebook


text:
Wee Hours Consoling
Mario & Sonic match up, but not to Smash (yet)[wii] [ds]
For the first time in the nearly 16 years the two video game icons have battling it out on the sales charts and in the hearts and minds of crazed gamers, Mario and Sonic will match up within one game. Nintendo and Sega today jointly announced that their mascots will appear in the upcoming sports game collection Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, to be developed by Sega and overseen by Nintendo design head Shigeru Miyamoto. It will be licensed by the International Olympic Committee and will bear the branding of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
In the works for Wii and Nintendo DS, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is set to feature numerous Olympic sports including the 100m dash, table tennis, and swimming, set in locations drawn from the upcoming Beijing-hosted event. Other Nintendo and Sega characters confirmed to be playable in the game are Luigi, Yoshi, Tails, and Knuckles. The only media currently available is this piece of artwork.
"Mario and Sonic have been respectful rivals since the early days of video games," said Miyamoto. "In fact, for a long time they have been discussing the possibility of one day competing against each other. Now that they have been given the perfect opportunity to meet at the Olympic Games, we may finally learn who is actually faster, Mario or Sonic?"
Some have taken today's news as further evidence that Sonic is likely to appear in Nintendo's upcoming Wii fighter extravaganza, Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Konami character Solid Snake was one of the first announced fighters to join the previously Nintendo-exclusive roster for Brawl, and when previously asked about Sonic's potential inclusion, Miyamoto has indicated his own personal interest. Sega and Nintendo have grown increasingly close in recent years, with several Sega multiplatform franchises selling particularly well on Nintendo systems, and Sega executives having commented that Nintendo hardware is the most fitting place for Sega's brands since the company's exit from the hardware market.
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is set to ship for Wii and Nintendo DS this holiday season. It will be released by Sega in North America and Europe, and by Nintendo in Japan.
EA still the lord of the Lord of the Rings[ps2] [ps3] [xbox] [xbox360] [gamecube] [wii] [ds] [psp] [gba]
Having held on to the video game rights to Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings adaptation for the past six years, Electronic Arts announced that it has renewed its license with New Line Cinema. The Lord of the Rings movie games will stay the domain of EA through 2008. EA also holds a license from the Saul Zaentz Company via Tolkien Enterprises to develop games based on J.R.R. Tolkien's literary trilogy. Those rights had previously been held by Vivendi Universal until EA acquired them in 2005.
"We have a long history of making great games with EA and are thrilled to extend our longstanding relationship," said David Imhoff of New Line Cinema. "We look forward to working closely with EA to create even more compelling Lord of the Rings adventures in the future."
Along with the renewal announcement, Electronic Arts revealed that it has an "all-new" game based on The Lord of the Rings in development that it plans to ship in 2008. No details were given.
Earlier this year, we reported that EA's ambitious The Lord of the Rings, The White Council had been quietly dissolved, with producer Steve Gray no longer at EA. EA eventually stated that the game was put on indefinite hold, and has yet to release any further information.
Wii Remote charge station available[wii]
Peripheral manufacturer Nyko today released its long awaited Wii Charge Station, allowing two Wii Remotes to be charged via a wall AC outlet using the two included NiMH battery packs. For good measure, the Charge Station also includes two rubberized battery cover grips. It runs $29.99.
Along with the Charge Station, Nyko also released a battery-powered Wireless Sensor Bar for $19.99, an eight foot Wii component cable for $19.99, and a set of two rubberized battery cover grips for $5.99.
Bullet Witch content shoots to XBLM[xbox360]
Following the release of Cavia's Bullet Witch for Xbox 360 last month, publisher Atari this week released additional downloadable content for the game via the Xbox Live Marketplace. Currently available are a new mission entitled Dynamite Beauty, a version of the Clad in Streaming Black mission with "Great Spells" unlocked, and a version of the same level with a higher difficulty setting, each for 20 Microsoft Points ($0.25). A White Witch costume for protagonist Alicia is also available for free.
Artwork pertaining to the costume pack is available here.
PS3 owners to experience F.E.A.R. soon this joke is still funny[ps3]
Publisher Sierra Entertainment sent word today that Day 1 Studios' PlayStation 3 version of Monolith Productions' F.E.A.R., which has previously come to PC and Xbox 360, will ship to North American retail shelves on April 24, 2007. It will feature a newly developed level and weapon not included in prior versions.
Misc. Media/Previews
Artwork: Bullet Witch (X360) downloadable content artwork.
Artwork: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii, NDS) announcement artwork.
Movies: DiRT: Colin McRae (PS3, X360, PC) off-road trailer.
Console Game Of The Evening [Submit Yours!]
Gitaroo-Man for the PlayStation 2. "While very short, this is just one game that you can go back to again and again. Fantastic music!" (submitted by FatBaby)


text:
Service Facilities-- Timetables for Development
The Library District through planning documents processes conducted in 1987-88 and 1992-94 and 1999-2001 established a timetable reflecting development of service facilities.
Facilities timetables are for operation; construction of physical plant or land acquisition may be scheduled for earlier fiscal years. Service locations are approximate. As always, suitability for building, visibility and price are determinants which may modify the exact location for any facility.


text:
Love, Sex, and Women's Rights in the Gilded Age
Love, Sex, and Women's Rights in the Gilded Age
Loosen your girdles and get ready for a little Downton Abbey here in the States! The creator of the popular British drama series, Julian Fellowes, is developing a new NBC show called The Gilded Age, set in 1880s New York.
Known as the American Renaissance, this period following the Civil War (from 1877 to 1893) was a time of economic growth and industrialization, but it wasn't without its problems and setbacks. In fact, the era's moniker was coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their 1873 satirical novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which called out our country's greed and political corruption hidden beneath a thin layer of gold.
For women, the Gilded Age was a transitional mixed bag of Victorian morality, loveless marriages, the birth of the women's rights movement, and the invention of the vibrator. Find out more about the important women of this period, mostly centered in New York, as well as the rules of love, sex, and marriage in the Gilded Age.


text:
Pop Life PK406
|Yep, the smokey-eyed look is from Urban Decay's Naked Palette! =D
|Yep, the smokey-eyed look is from Urban Decay's Naked Palette! =D
hey, bellini looks great on you!
I haven't touched my glosses for the longest time! Both shades look really nice and natural!
Bellini looks like my kind of color too! :D
Ooooh, LOVE Bellini. And you're absolutely right, it complements the dramatic eye quite beautifully. Must try that sometime - although I still can't line my lower lash line without looking like a narcoleptic raccoon. :(
ok this is not related but i like your dragonfly necklace :)
i like the jelly-like shine it gives. and that's a lovely look you did!
Cookie, Nikki & ksuan: Thanks sweets! Find a good neutral CLING TO IT FOR DEAR LIFE
ksuan: That's what you think. Give it a go. And bring makeup removing cotton buds with you to tidy up now and then.
Connie: I do believe it is! You can try it next time we meet.
Eevon: Thanks dear. The necklace is a present and a favourite of mine. =D
Bellini looks great! Love the finish too.