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The Deseret Bookshelf version is enhanced with video.
To completely engage the reader and enhance the learning process, the book features a blend of print, media and online resources. For example, at the end of each chapter, readers are invited to ask questions, ponder and apply the principles being taught. The margins of the book are extra-wide and there are blank pages for jotting down notes.
"The overarching purpose of Heavenly Father's great plan of happiness is to provide His spirit children with opportunities to learn," writes Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. But how can we best learn the things we need to know and do?
Elder Bednar emphasizes concepts, patterns, and processes that invite each of us to act and learn fundamental truths for ourselves. Declaring that answers to our questions always are found in the doctrines and principles of the restored gospel, he provides a framework in this book for learning those doctrines and understanding with our hearts.
This new interactive book will help you acquire one of the most important skills you'll ever
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Learn how to get the answers you need for yourself!
The teachings in this book are so inspired. He writes in a way that is simple, direct, and powerful. His discussion on Doctrine/Principles/Applications and Knowledge/Understanding/Intelligence were particularly poignant in my studies. I've read through his 3-part series twice now, and will continue to revisit these chapters throughout my life!
This book greatly emphasizes on how important it is for individuals to make spiritual patterns in their lives in order to obtain their own revelation and answers. I love how Elder Bednar clearly explains the importance of learning throughout your life and promises us that we will be greatly blessed as we strive to "seek learning, even by faith." Reading this book was very enjoyable and I feel like I greatly benefited from it. The inclusion of many writings and talks really helped me gain greater insights into what Bednar was saying. One of my favorite parts of the book was when Bednar explains that knowledge and intelligence mean diligence and obedience. Bednar explains that knowledge is obtained through diligent study and intelligence is gained through faithful obedience. What fascinated me about this insight Bednar gave is that he was able to gather those insights from only two verses of scripture. This made me realize that many wonderful truths can be found in even the smallest of verses of scripture. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is seeking for a greater light concerning the importance of learning.
Exceeded my expectations. Awesome, modern format with one to four minute videos of Bednar explaining concepts along the way. Well worth the investment of money and time.
This book has been an extremely helpful book and guide for gospel and all literature learning. I will keep this book as a constant companion to read and reread again and again. It is simple, strait forward and powerful. This is a must read for all the saints of God.
Now I am trying to apply the increased learning that I did! I watched the first segment but decided that it wasn't quite what I had hoped for. It seemed to be scripted. BUT I did take notes in my book - nice margins - and I appreciated the summary at the end of each chapter that I could think about what I had learned and form some personal questions of my own. The back-up talks were helpful, one of them happened to be a General Conference favorite.
What a divine book! I use the word divine in every sense of the word. The ability to give words, which seem to come from heaven above, is one that never fails whenever an apostle of the Lord, such as Elder David A. Bednar, speaks. This book is no different. Elder Bednar puts us all in the same setting of needing to seek learning out of everything we can in life. I like how he puts us all on the same level; indicating that learning is not only for those who are young and haven't lived all of life yet. This book is most definitely worth every penny you spend, buying it. The lessons you can learn from this book is so much more worth any material thing in existence right now. If you enjoy applying the principles from something you read to real life, you will enjoy this book quite thoroughly. Faith is definitely something that is not fully utilized by the world today. This book helps with understanding just how much faith has to do with us learning anything in today's world. This is one of those books that you don't only read, but feel at the same time. You can feel the power behind the words Elder Bednar uses. Elder Bednar does a very good job at laying out the steps of learning and anything else.
One of the most enlightening texts relative to the responsibility of learning while in this mortal sojourn, as well as teaching the doctrines and principles of learning by the Spirit in such a way as to empower the reader to act as an agent in obtaining the knowledge and understanding necessary to wade through the travails of life. I highly recommend this book to anyone. True doctrine understood changes attitudes and behavior than a study of behavior changes behavior. We all need to rise up and live our lives as the Master would have us and break the shackles of idleness and despondency that plaque society.
Increase In Learning is such a wonderful book. We all know it is our responsibility to learn while we are here on this earth, but the actual process of doing that is harder than it sounds. This book illustrates what we can do to become better learners and teachers. Increase In Learning teaches us "how we can best learn the things we need to know and do". Elder Bednar has such a skilled writing technique. He includes many quotes and sources so it is not just a book of opinions. He includes different ideas from different people and general authorities and authors. Bednar is a very clear writer; he presents things in a way that people of any age or circumstance can understand. I also appreciated the way he had paragraph titles, it really organized the writing in an easy to read format. I know I have been seeking answers to questions that have been on my mind for a while and after reading this book I feel like a have a better idea of how to find those answers. This book presents "Spiritual patterns for obtaining your own answers". This book is truly inspired and I will use the teachings I have learned for the rest of my life. I would recommend this book to everyone!
As a reader who looks for uplifting books, I found "Increase In Learning" to be one of the best books on increasing the Spirit in everyday life, on the market.
This book is a great tool to access the readers life and motivate him/her to reach for a higher standard.
This book is a great tool for each family member to study and write personal thoughts on each page. The pages have space on the right side to add plenty of notes for easy viewing at a later date or just for writing thoughts as they come to mind.
Give yourself plenty of time to read this book because it is very thought provoking.
I loved this book and ended up purchasing one for each of us so we could keep it with our journals.
Transforming. Makes you reevaluate the way in which you live the gospel. You feel like a new member of the church doubling down on the methods you've always used but with dramatic new results.
The iPad version with videos was rewarding. Elder Bednar's teaching style is highly effective. I've added this book to my daily gospel study for the benefit of reinforcing his teachings.
This is a great book--I highly recommend it to everyone. I downloaded the book for my iPad through Deseret Bookshelf.
The only reason I didn't give it 5 start is because the embedded videos require an Internet connection to access them on YouTube. My iPad only has wireless, so I can't always watch the videos. Also, YouTube is blocked at all Church buildings.
I've passed my concerns to the folks at Deseret Book using their live chat. Perhaps that will help resolve the issue in future ebooks.
Probably the best gospel tretis on finding answers for yourself. A must buy for any and all members of the church!
I love this book and am beginning my second read - this time a more in-depth study. I appreciate Elder Bednar's constant reminder that the Holy Ghost is the teacher and the answers are in the doctrine and principles. He clearly points the way, but places the responsibility for learning squarely where it belongs - on each of us individually. Highly recommended.
This book has been a thrilling way to learn. I have read it half way through and am excited to finish. Thank you Elder Bednar!!
I've been charged for this eBook, but have not yet received it. I clicked on Sync eBooks and nothing has happened. How do I get my book?
This book is amazing and very powerful! It has made me think about areas in my life differently. I know now that I must act and then my faith will keep me going. Then the Lord will be able to communicate and bless my life more.
I was prompted to write this review because through Elder Bednar's teachings, especially in the video segments, I recognized the pattern the Lord has used to teach and work with me all my life! I shared this with my wife, Becci, who with joy, also recognized this pattern in her life. This has been very affirming and has helped us to see Heavenly Father's hand in our lives more clearly and has increased our love and appreciation for Him immeasurably. My wife and I can testify that his teachings to give greater emphasis to "doctrines and principles" instead of just "applications" is true. Our parenting philosophy stemmed from what Joseph Smith explained, that he taught "correct principles and the people governed themselves." Our family is happier because of it. You can know for yourself the Gospel truths and stand independent as a witness for the Savior.
Love Elder Bednar's perspective. There is something to using more of your senses to learn--Love the embedded videos! As another reviewer mentioned, I hope to see more books done this way.
This book is amazing. I love that the extra video content is right in the text of the ebook. I hope Deseret Book has more interactive ebooks to follow. Elder Bednar is such a great teacher!


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The problem I am running into is I don't believe the USARTs on the Due can run the Dynamixels at their full buss speed of 1000000.That is, if I understand the baud rates on the Due, when I ask for a baud rate of 1000000, the actually generated baud rate is: 84000000/(n*16). Best fit n=5, so actual baud rate is: 1050000 so off by about 5%, which is not close enough. I believe the spec for the servos is it can handle a delta of up to 3%
I am using the Mega to control two MX-64T servos. I see no reason why it cannot be used on the Due in the same fashion.Here is how it's done. First, the AX-12 library didn't work. You can still #include it to get the #defines. However, I just copied the #define block and changed the compliance constants to the PID values in the correct registers. Next, copy the AX routines for register read8, write8, and write16 to appropriately name functions in your sketch. Once you have these written, you can create other functions by just writing to the appropriate registers. You won't need that many.On the hardware side, the Mega serial1 port is used with the baud set to 57,600, the servos default. You can go much higher but I had no need to do so, therefore, have no idea where the upper limit lies. The servos have a specific set of baud values set by a series of constants. The match is not perfect but within the tolerance of RS232.There was also a strange problem in the wiring of the half-duplex line. Fortunately, it can be fixed with a single 1K resistor. I found that I could talk to the servos but not receive any data back. The problem is that the sender in the servo cannot overcome the pullup effect of the Mega TX1 line. This can be solved with a 1K resistor between the Mega TX1 and RX1 pins. The 1K is then in series with the TX1 line going out but the input impedance of the servo receiver is high so no net effect. On receive, the 1K resistor is a pullup which the servo can overcome.My application is a stable platform for aerial photography so I need only two servos, roll and pitch. The tilt signal comes from an ADXL345 accelerometer breakout board on I2C. The two servos are daisy chained and fed through a single cable. I like the Dynamixel servos due to their high torque, absolute position sensing, high angular resolution, and digital communication.

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CANBERRA, Australia, July 26 (UPI) -- Ocean waves could supply as much as 11 percent of Australia's electricity by 2050, a government research study released Wednesday found.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization study found that Australia's ocean energy resources could power a city the size of Melbourne by 2050.
Ian Cresswell, director CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship, said The CSIRO study aimed to understand the potential of the clean and sustainable energy source, Ian Cresswell, director CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship, said.
"Assessing the opportunities and challenges from resource to the market is a first for ocean renewable energy in Australia," he said in a CSIRO release.
Areas that could benefit from wave energy technology include Perth, the southern coastline and to a lesser extent the east coast of Australia, the report said, while tidal technology could supply niche areas such as northeast Tasmania and the Kimberley region in Western Australia.
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text: I have a question that I am hoping maybe someone can answer. I started using that Easy GPS software to download the waypoints for my 60csx on my GPS and I began with selecting my GPS, the 60csx and then to edit>>preferences>>my GPS Recievers>>Geocaching and then on the comment area in the middle, I choose Geocache Hint Decrypt, which should leave the hint decrypt as a note on my GPS, right? But it does not. I am hoping this is making sense to you of what I am asking. I would really appriciate any help/advice. I like having the hint and it should do it automatically in the note box on the GPS, since I selected it, but it is not, so I am missing something somewhere, I think... How do I go about doing it the way I am talking about?


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A Louisiana mother whose family rescued her from an alleged stabbing attack at the hand of a man suspected of holding her prisoner knew that her family would come for her, her uncle said.
Bethany Arceneaux, 29, of Duson, La., is recovering at a relative's home after her family came to her rescue Friday, tracking her down and killing the father of her child in an abandoned house where she was allegedly being held against her will.
"We can finally go to sleep at night," Arceneaux's uncle Marcus Arceneaux told ABC News Lafayette affiliate KATC-TV. "We felt we did what we had to do. It was a situation where her life was at hand. The guy was out to kill her and we weren't going to wait for it to happen."
READ: Family of Kidnapped Louisiana Woman Kills Abductor in Daring Rescue
Marcus Arceneaux was photographed carrying his bloody and distressed niece to safety after the family rescued her.
Arceneaux was abducted in the parking lot of a day care where she was picking up her 2-year-old at about 5 p.m. Wednesday, Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Department Captain Kip Judice told ABCNews.com.
Witnesses saw the suspect, Scott Thomas, allegedly force Arceneaux into his white Buick LeSabre before driving off, Lafayette Police Department spokesman Paul Mouton told ABCNews.com.
Thomas, 29, of Leonville, La., is the father of Arceneaux's child, Judice said. The woman had a restraining order against Thomas, but Judice said he did not know when it was filed.
The child was left behind in the woman's car and was later taken into custody by the woman's mother, Mouton said.
Later that evening, law enforcement officials found Thomas' car near an abandoned sugarcane field in a rural area of Lafayette Parish, Judice said. Authorities searched the field Wednesday and Thursday to no avail.
Arceneaux's family members conducted their own search in the same area Friday morning and came upon a secluded, abandoned house behind a cluster of trees. A relative heard her scream.
"She just hollered like her life was in danger and when they heard her, they said a chill went through their body," Marcus Arceneaux told KATC.
"He told her, 'As soon as they kick the door in, I'm going to kill you,'" Arceneaux said his niece told him. "He stabbed her a few times and once they got closer, he stabbed her again. That's why she hollered. He started stabbing her as they got close."
Arceneaux's cousin approached the home, kicked in the door in and entered, Judice said. Inside, he found Thomas with the woman. Thomas then began stabbing Arceneaux, and a confrontation ensued.
"The cousin, who was armed, began firing several shots at Thomas," Judice said. "After a couple of shots, [Arceneaux] was able to get free of him and they escorted her out of the house."
"She's strong and she tried fighting. She said she tried fighting, but there was nothing she could do," Arceneaux said.
"When I saw her come around the house on that four wheeler full of blood, I was like, 'She's alive.' She said, 'My family came and got me,'" Arceneaux said his niece told him. "She said she knew we were coming and looking for her."
Bethany Arceneaux suffered several stab wounds and was taken by ambulance to Lafayette General Medical Center, Judice said. She was released to her family Sunday.
When officers entered the house, they found Thomas' lifeless body on the ground. He had sustained several gunshot wounds, police said.
Thomas' cause of death is not known, Judice said. An autopsy on the body will be conducted by Lafayette Parish Coroner Ken Odinet, but it is not known when it will take place.
No charges have been filed against the man who shot Thomas, and it is unlikely that the man will be charged, Judice said.
"In the state of Louisiana, you have a right to protect yourself and others from imminent bodily harm," he said. "We believe at this point, based on evidence and statements collected, that this guy was acting in defense of Ms. Arceneaux and thus, was within the state law."
The Arceneaux family said they wished the ordeal had ended differently, but they believed they did what they had to do to save their loved one.
"I hate that it happened like this because I don't feel like anyone should lose their life," Arceneaux said. "My prayers go out to the Thomas family and I'm sorry for their loss, but we had to save our niece."


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On May 10, pitcher Micah Owings bought the Reds a shot at extra innings with a pinch hit home run. This brings up the perpetual question: Is Micah Owings best utilized as a hitter or a pitcher?
We should begin by talking a common language; it's possible to compare hitters to hitters and pitchers to pitchers with metrics like OPS and ERA respectively (albeit with the recognition that there are better alternatives to those as well). But to compare apples to oranges we need a pan-fruit metric. As longtime readers might expect, my metric of choice for this purpose is Wins Above Replacement. For those who aren't longtime readers, WAR is essentially an expression of how many wins a player is worth compared to the generally available replacements available, such as minor-league journeymen or free agents willing to work for the league minimum.
[For a longer discussion of WAR, see my previous series "How to measure a player's value," parts one, two and three.]
So let's look at Micah Owings in two parts: the pitcher who is and the position player who could be.
Owings the pitcher
There are other good hitting pitchers in the league, like Carlos Zambrano, Jake Peavy and Yovani Gallardo. This doesn't ignite controversy the same way that Micah Owings does when he swings the stick. This is because they have all established themselves as pitchers. Owings hasn't.
Owings owns a career 4.89 ERA and a career 4.80 FIP. These are not spectacular numbers, but they aren't terrible. Going into this season, Owings had accumulated 2.6 WAR in 250 innings, according to Fangraphs. The average baseball player (hitter or pitcher) will accumulate 2.25 WAR in a full season (about 120 innings for a starting pitcher).
Again courtesy of Fangraphs, his projected FIP-ERA going forward is 4.59; that works out to almost five runs per game. In a league where the average runs per game is 4.65, and in a hitter's park like the Great American Ballpark, that works out to a projected 1.33 WAR in 120 innings for Owings. (Probably a little better than that, since he would still accumulate some value from his hitting even as a pitcher.) So a below average pitcher, to be sure, but it's possible that the Reds don't have a better starting pitcher than Owings available.
Owings seems to be comfortably nested in the grey area where he's neither a great asset or a great liability as a pitcher. But what about as a hitter?
Owings the hitter
The short answer here is that we don't know how well he'd perform as a hitter. For the sake of intellectual curiosity, we can go ahead and step through some calculations that seem reasonable and should at least put us in the ballpark, but I want to start off right here with the caveat that the error bars on what we're doing here are huge.
Or to be more plain, this is basically a wild guess. An educated wild guess, maybe—is there such a thing? Anyway, if there is an educated wild guess, this is one.
And let's start off with the first of the two big, unsubstantiated assumptions that are required to make this guesstimate work out. Projection systems are largely based upon the premise of regression to the mean, which is that over time, extreme observations become less extreme. Given a small number of observations, we would assume that a guy who has hit poorly will hit better than he has so far, and a guy who has hit well will hit worse than he has so far. The more observations we have, the more we can have confidence in a player being above or below average as a matter of true talent, rather than it simply being due to random chance.
The issue with regression to the mean here is determining the mean. For the majority of pitchers, regressing their hitting performance to the mean results in simply laughable numbers, because pitcher hitting is really a separate thing from position player hitting, and that almost every pitcher is a well below average hitter. So simply feeding a pitcher's batting line into the typical projection system will not provide usable results.
What we are going to assume here is that, if Owings were to devote himself to being a hitter full-time, that he would regress to the league mean of position players hitting, not the mean of pitchers hitting. This has the benefit of making sense, at least. But it's a really unvalidated assumption, with few data points to go off of (outside of Babe Ruth and Rick Ankiel there's not a lot of evidence to go around, and those two are both special cases indeed). If I had a giant robot following me around helping me perform sabermetrics, he would be flashing warning lights and screaming "DANGER COLIN WYERS, DANGER!" But it's the best guess I have for the time being.
Using Sal Baxamusa's Marcels spreadsheet and Owings' career hitting stats thusfar, we get a forecasted batting line of .285/.343/.478, or about a .350 wOBA. That works out to roughly six runs (or a half-win) above average with the bat in 650 plate appearances.
Now, as it just so happens, the positional adjustment for a corner outfield spot in 650 plate appearances is right around seven runs. So if we're correct, Micah Owings could be about a league average player in the outfield, assuming he plays defense about as well as a typical corner outfielder. Can he do that?
Honestly, this is even more of a guess than his hitting projection. He's a young guy and apparently athletic (and he obviously has the arm to play somewhere like right field). So he could be. Or he could not be. I know I'm being vague here, but that's all I can be with the data at hand.
So, using a set of favorable assumptions, it looks like we could make a case for Micah Owings being a league-average player in the outfield. Again, very large error bars surround this entire endeavor and it's possible that he's an utter trainwreck as an outfielder and hits like a utility infielder. We really don't know for sure. But let's assume for a second that this WAG is essentially correct. Should the Reds try to convert him to an outfielder right now?
Transactional costs
There are real costs to trying to convert Owings to a full-time position player, such as figuring out who to displace from the outfield to make room for him and figuring out who to take his innings in the rotation. There's a lot of chaining going on here, and a lot of things to figure for the Reds.
There's also a lot of risk here. It's real easy to run some numbers and come up with "about 2-2.5 WAR," and another thing entirely to teach a pitcher to play the outfield, to have him abandon his craft and devote himself to something else entirely. There's the chance that in taking Micah the pitcher and making him Micah the hitter you're left with neither Micah at all.
And the Reds just moved into a three-way tie for first place in the NL Central this evening, which says they're probably not in a mood to take those kinds of risks right now. So Owings will probably stay in the rotation, and probably should stay in the rotation.
But boy, it's fun to dream about, isn't it.
References & Resources
Jeremy Greenhouse has been asking much the same questions, and has a lot of pretty graphs to look at.
The title is taken from the King James translation of the Book of Micah.
Clarification: The league average was expressed in terms of runs per game, not ERA. This has been clarified now. Sorry for any confusion this caused.


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[1] Many forms of improper influence upon a tribunal are proscribed by criminal law. Others are specified in the ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct, with which an advocate should be familiar. A lawyer is required to avoid contributing to a violation of such provisions.
[2] During a proceeding a lawyer may not communicate ex parte with persons serving in an official capacity in the proceeding, such as judges, masters or jurors, unless authorized to do so by law or court order.
[3] A lawyer may on occasion want to communicate with a juror or prospective juror after the jury has been discharged. The lawyer may do so unless the communication is prohibited by law or a court order but must respect the desire of the juror not to talk with the lawyer. The lawyer may not engage in improper conduct during the communication.
[4] The advocate's function is to present evidence and argument so that the cause may be decided according to law. Refraining from abusive or obstreperous conduct is a corollary of the advocate's right to speak on behalf of litigants. A lawyer may stand firm against abuse by a judge but should avoid reciprocation; the judge's default is no justification for similar dereliction by an advocate. An advocate can present the cause, protect the record for subsequent review and preserve professional integrity by patient firmness no less effectively than by belligerence or theatrics.
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Anyway bigger more well-known games get plenty of coverage so it's easy for the lesser-known variety to get overshadowed so I thought it'd great to have a thread to discuss all the great, smaller RPGs that are out there.
Hopefully this thread can be a place to discuss such games and introduce players to new games.
I'll start with some of my current favorite games.
1. Burning Wheel
It's got an awesome mechanic called Duel of Wits which is the only well-done social conflict mechanic I've come across.
There are some cool mechanics for player authorization. There are Wises which allow players to state facts of the world and Circles which allow players to create NPCs on the fly.
Burning Wheel also taught me that failure should NEVER be a roadblock. There should be a twist or complication so that the game doesn't stop flat and, instead, heads off in a new, interesting direction.
The #1 driving force behind Burning Wheel are "BITs": Beliefs, Instincts Traits. Beliefs have a few different sides. They are an actual belief, but they're also a goal, and a flag for the GM. For example: "My brother is a traitor to the family name. I'll stop at nothing to reveal his crimes." Aside from what's obviously stated, you're also telling the GM you want to be challenged here. An obvious way to challenge it might be that the character needs something that only the brother can provide. Even better if you tie it in to other Beliefs the character has.
Instincts are sort of macros that your character always performs and can never be denied you. They might give you an opportunity for a test when you otherwise wouldn't have one or allow you to accomplish an action before other people. A basic Instinct might be "Always draw my sword at the first sign of trouble." Bam, it happens. The fun part comes in getting into trouble because of the instinct. Say you're in a situation where it would be very inappropriate to draw the sword. As the player you can choose to ignore your instinct (boring) or choose to follow it (exciting!); doing so earns you rewards.
Lastly are Traits which are 1) descriptions of the character in someway that sometimes have 2) mechanical effects on the game. A Trait could be something like maimed, alert, or cold-blooded killer.
All wrapped together BITs create very interested, dynamic, and conflicted characters.
Also the online community for BW is awesome. Luke Crane (the designer) is very active on the boards as well as loads of other people with lots of experience. There's a ton of great advice to be gleaned there.
Okay, I'll stop there. I could go on a lot longer about the game (I'm a bit of a BW fan boy).
2. Misspent Youth
Anyhow it works great as a short-term game. Maybe 4-6 sessions, which includes one session for character/world creation. In the game the players play teenage protagonists that are fighting against some Authority. The specific Authority is decided by the group. It could be some huge evil corporation, a corrupt government, a powerful cult, or even just a single individual.
The game focuses on the relationships between the characters (called Youthful Offenders, or YOs) as well as their struggle against the Authority.
As the game progresses, to win, the YOs will eventually have to start becoming more Authority-like if they want any hope of victory. In the game, this is called selling out. So for instance there's a trait called 'tough'. If it sells out in the course of play it becomes vicious. One of my favorite parts of selling out is that, as GM, when someone sells out something, I physically take their character sheet and redact the trait that sold out. It doesn't seem like much, but it's actually a pretty visceral feeling watching someone take a sharpie to your character sheet (or in the case of a guy at GenCon, he actually cut a small square of the character sheet.
Anyhow, by the end of the game things turn dark as the YOs sell out more and more of their traits. In the game I just finished someone had sold-out Intimidation to become Terrorism, which ended up getting used to blow up an orphanage and framing it on the authority. Hot stuff!
The game was really a lot of fun and it's a great exercise for story telling. There's a scene structure that I had a little trouble with at first but that I think does work it just took me some time to get my head around it.
If anyone's interested in reading some actual play reports and other commentary I did write-ups on all our sessions over at story games: http://www.story-games.com/forums/comme ... onID=10405
3. Mouse Guard
One thing that's great is that MG is even more explicit than Burning Wheel about failure results not being roadblocks. It explicitly states there are only two possible results of failure: 1) Condition or 2) A twist.
So, for example, say you're making a test to blaze a new trail between settlements. The question isn't whether the trail will be blazed, but whether you'll come away unscathed. So, on a failed roll a condition might mean that you've blazed the new trail, but you become Tired from all the travel. A twist might mean that while blazing a trail you happen upon a hungry badger's nest; and once the badger is dealt with one way or another you continue on.
It's also a pretty good game for kids. I've seen a number of people report on playing it with their children with a fair bit of success. Older ones grasp most of the concepts and parents of younger kids just gloss over some things and focus on what interests them: mice with swords!
4. Burning Empires
I've only played in a demo of this at GenCon and I'm currently reading the rulebook, but my group is about to start it soon.
Pretty much all of what I said about Burning Wheel plus some new things. The game centers on the conflict between the Iron Empires and an alien race, the Naiven. There's an over-arching mechanic called Infection that tracks how well the humans are keeping them at bay or how well the Naiven are subverting a planet.
There's also really cool rules for creating your own technology on the fly. Most technology is just color until a conflict arises. So, yeah, being a Lord Pilot means you have your own ship (fleet of ships, probably), so making use of that is no problem. But if you need to scan something, then you can come up with sensors for your ship on the fly so they can be tested. This goes for just about any kind of technology, whether it's vehicles/spacecraft, weapons, enhancements to those, or something else.
There's also a really tense physical conflict mechanic called Firefight that scales really well whether it's a small conflict between two characters or a big conflict between armies on the ground or ships in space. It's chaotic and brutal.
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Clifton Park, N.Y. - The Skyline Conference released the ninth Cross Country report for the 2009 season this afternoon, including Player of the Week, Rookie of the Week, Honor Roll and Conference statistics.
Sophomore Sean Tiernan (Staten Island, N.Y./Tottenville) was named to the Skyline Conference Honor Roll. Tiernan placed second in a time of 28:04.10 on the 8K course at the Skyline Conference Championship. He finished four seconds out of first place, earning First-Team All-Skyline Conference honors while leading the Rams to their first ever Conference Championship title.
Sophomore Sean Daly (Lindenhurst, N.Y./Lindenhurst) was named to the Skyline Conference Honor Roll this week for men's cross country. Daly took third place (28:33.40) out of 76 runners at the Skyline Championship, finishing 18 seconds behind teammate Sean Tiernan. He was named to the All-Skyline First-Team and helped the Rams capture the team title by a decisive 13 points over runner-up Maritime.
Junior Tim Flynn (Smithtown, N.Y./St. Anthony's) was the third Farmingdale State runner named to the Skyline Conference Honor Roll for men's cross county this week. Flynn finished in fourth place individually at the Skyline Conference Championship, in a time of 28:33.40. Flynn was named First-Team All-Skyline Conference for his performance on the 8K course.
Freshman Melissa Bonilla (Massapequa Park, N.Y./Farmingdale) was named to the conference Honor Roll this week for women's cross country. Bonilla placed 7th individually (21:38.90) out of 76 runners on the 5K course at the Skyline Conference Championship. She was named First-Team All-Skyline with her finish.
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1. In the 1929 game, Cal All-American Roy Riegels picked up a fumble by Georgia Tech's Jack "Stumpy" Thomason and was 30 yards away from returning it for a touchdown when he was shoved, bounced off a tackler, lost his bearings — and ran 69 yards in the opposite direction. Teammate Benny Lom finally caught Riegels at the 3-yard line trying to turn him around, but a swarm of Yellow Jackets tackled him at the 1-yard line. Cal decided to punt, but had it blocked for a safety, and Tech led, 2-0.
2. Did Charles White score that touchdown in the 1979 Rose Bowl win over Michigan? White ran three yards for a touchdown in the second quarter on a play the umpire signaled he lost on a fumble, but the call was reversed by the head linesman after a conference with his fellow officials. The Trojans went on to win 17-10.
3. At halftime of the 1961 Rose Bowl between Washington and Minnesota, a card stunt with the fans in the stands went haywire. A display of a giant Husky face looked a lot like a Beaver – the mascot for nearby Caltech. The next set of cards spelled "HUSKIES" backward. Then came the letters "CALTECH." The band stopped playing. Mel Allen and Chick Hearn, broadcasting the game on NBC, were silent as the cameras picked up the stunt, then broke into laughter.
4. At the 1984 Rose Bowl, Caltech pulled off another prank. As UCLA took a 38-9 lead over Illinois in the third quarter, a group of students hacked into the electronic scoreboard and, from a remote location, changed the team names to read "Caltech 38, MIT 9." The Rose Bowl officials cut the power to the scoreboard before it was able to read "Caltech 2 Rose Bowl 0." Time and score were kept on the field spoken over the public address system to finish the game.
5. Just before the 1970 Rose Bowl, Michigan first-year coach Bo Schembechler had a heart attack. He spent the day in the hospital as defensive coordinator Jim Young assumed the coaching responsibilities. The Wolverines could manage just a second-quarter field goal in a 10-3 loss to USC. Michigan saw fourth quarter drives stall at the Trojan 13, 9 , and finally the 38-yard line as time ran out. It was Michigan's first-ever post-season loss.
6. As Michigan quarterback Brian Griese led his team to a 21-16 victory over Washington State to cap an 11-0 season in the 1998 Rose Bowl, Griese's father, Bob, was in the ABC booth calling the game. Brian Griese completed 18-of-30 passes for 251 yards and three touchdowns to be named player of the game. The moment was very emotional for both as they mentioned Brian's mother and Bob's wife, Judi, who had died 10 years earlier from breast cancer. It was also 31 years after the day that quarterback Bob Griese guided Purdue to a 14-13 Rose Bowl win over USC.
7. In the 1941 Rose Bowl, Stanford drove from its own 23-yard line to the Nebraska 1-yard line and had four shots at getting into the end zone. But the Cornhuskers held them each time. It is considered one of the most valiant goal-line stands in the game's history. With the ball now on its own 1, Nebraska decided to punt on first down. Stanford's Pete Kmetovic took the punt at the Nebraska 40 and darted into the end zone to give Stanford a 21-13 lead that it would hold onto.
8. After Washington running back Jacque Robinson gained 142 yards on 20 carries and set up or scored three of the Huskies' four touchdowns in a 28-0 victory over Iowa in 1982, he became the first freshman to win Player of the Game honors.
9. Minnesota quarterback Sandy Stephens was named the player of the game for scoring two rushing TDs in the Gophers' 21-3 win over UCLA in the 1962 game. That made Stephens the first African-American player to win the award.
10. When Stanford won the 2013 Rose Bowl over Wisconsin, David Shaw became the first African‐American head coach to win not just a Rose Bowl, but also a BCS game.


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cisco-ocs – Backtrack 5 – Vulnerability Assessment – Network Assessment – Cisco Tools – cisco-ocs
The cisco-ocs application available in the Backtrack menu ( Backtrack > Vulnerability Assessment > Network Assessment > Cisco Tools ) is also known as cisco-ocs Mass Scanner. This tool provides a single function which is to scan large ranges of IP's looking for Cisco devices or really any device listening on TCP port 23, attempts to login using telnet with a password of cisco, then passes the enable command to the Cisco router if its able to login via telnet, uses cisco again for the enable password, and finally reports a success if its able to get to the enable prompt using these exact steps. Unfortunately this is the only function of the tool as you cannot specify a wordlist of passwords to attempt or for that matter you cannot set anything accept for the range of IP addresses to scan. Below we should a couple examples of the Cisco-OCS Mass Scanner working on Backtrack 5 R3.


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April 2000
The Neem tree was in legal dispute between India, where it grows, and an American company that claimed a patent on one of the tree's compounds, azadirachtin. Photo: Neem tree flowers by Oksana Hlodan.
Note: Because some of the information in this article may be outdated, it has been archived.
Genes for sale
Cells from a human spleen … mice that are genetically predisposed to get cancer … bacteria that can digest oil … an extract from a tree native to India … There are at least two features that these all have in common:
- they are derived from living organisms
- they all have been patented as "human inventions"
Rapid developments in biotechnology during the last decade have enabled corporations and scientists to alter nature's handiwork for commercial profit. A major strategy for private exploitation in this area is to obtain the patent rights to an organism or its component parts. As these developments affect all of society, we need to decide whether any corporation, institution, or individual should have the right to private ownership of life.
Why patent?
Patents were historically developed to insure that inventors could share in the financial returns and benefits deriving from the use of their inventions. With the development of the modern corporation, patent rights were always assigned to the company rather than an individual. This gives the patent holder a form of monopoly control for 20 years from the filing of the patent, and creates a legal means of limiting competition. Private investors generally regard such monopolies as favorable to their interests, so in many industries patents aid in the development of new products.
The first patents on life
For over two hundred years living organisms have been excluded from patent laws; life forms were considered a "product of nature" and not a human invention. The non-patentable status of living organisms changed with the 1980 landmark Supreme Court case Diamond v. Chakrabarty. The court decided in a narrow 5-4 decision that a strain of bacteria that had been modified by the insertion of new genes was patentable because it was not naturally occurring. The foreign genes gave the bacteria the ability to break down hydrocarbons, and its "inventors" hoped it might be useful for cleaning up oil spills.
Industrial societies have always permitted ownership of individual animals. However, until recently no corporation, institution or individual could own the rights to an entire strain or species of organism, nor could they patent components of organisms such as cells, genes or proteins. All of these are part of our global living heritage. The granting of patents on microorganisms and increased pressure from the biotechnology industries began a "slippery slope" progression towards the patenting of more complex life forms.
Patents on life
- Patents on animal life: In 1988, a Harvard University biologist was granted a patent for a mouse that had been engineered for increased susceptibility to cancer. The "Harvard Oncomouse" became the first animal to be considered an invention by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. It established a precedent within patent procedures for patenting genetically modified animals. Although this research was intended to benefit human health, the question remains about the ethics of patenting complex living beings. The U.S. Congress has never explicitly addressed the question of whether animal genes and cells can be corporate property.
- Patents on human life: A most alarming aspect of patenting life is the patenting of human genes, cell lines and tissues. Corporate patent attorneys have lobbied the Patent office that these "products of nature" are patentable once they have been isolated to produce a form not found outside of a laboratory. For example, in 1976 a leukemia patient named John Moore had surgery at the University of California to remove his cancerous spleen. The University was later granted a patent for a cell line called "Mo," removed from the spleen, which could be used for producing valuable proteins. The long term commercial value of the cell line was estimated at over one billion dollars. Mr. Moore demanded the return of the cells and control over his body parts, but the California Supreme Court decided that he was not entitled to any rights to his own cells after they had been removed from his body.
- Patents on food crops: American farmers and consumers throughout this century have fought against the inclusion of food crops under the patent laws. Corporate control over plant varieties themselves has been regarded as contrary to the interests of the general population. Patenting plant life will also intensify the inequality between the developing and industrialized nations. The open exchange of seeds and plant material over the centuries has given the U.S. and Europe potatoes and tomatoes from Latin America, soybeans from China, and wheat, rye and barley from the Middle East, to name but a few. The developing world has never received compensation or recognition for these intellectual and technological contributions. Patenting plant life will exacerbate this inequality. While centuries of innovation by indigenous farmers have created most of the food crops grown today, the tinkering by agribusiness entitles them to claim a plant as their own invention, and receive all profits from its use. This "biocolonialism" will continue the pattern of a few transnational corporations profiting at the expense of large numbers of indigenous farmers.
The hunt for new genes to exploit for profit is regarded as a vast new frontier in science and industry. "Bioprospectors" are mining the rich genetic resources of the Third World for pharmaceutical compounds and other products, often using indigenous knowledge as their guide. As a result, indigenous communities could end up paying royalties for products based on plants and knowledge that they have been using for centuries.
Searching the world over
As new DNA sequences on our chromosomes are being identified, entrepreneurial scientists are applying for patents in order to claim exclusive rights to research and profits from thousands of such gene sequences. The Human Genome Organization (HUGO) is an international membership organization of individual scientists dedicated to coordinating efforts in genome research. HUGO recently released a statement in favor of the right of those who have determined the biological functions or products of the genes to patent their work. Patents are necessary, they claim, to provide financial incentive for scientists to do meaningful research. Does the research of molecular biologists give them the right to own genes?
A project associated with HUGO is the Human Genome Diversity Project. Designated by critics as the "Vampire Project," it aims to collect blood, hair and cell samples from up to 700 indigenous communities throughout the world. The stated goal is to gather genetic information from "vanishing" indigenous communities before these people disappear as a result of increasing industrialization and political repression. Many indigenous groups are outraged that researchers might patent genes without the consent of the communities of origin. All of the targeted groups agree that the goal of cultural preservation could be achieved by better methods than merely keeping their genes frozen away in a laboratory tissue museum. As Chief Leon Shenandoah of the Onondaga Council of Chiefs wrote in a letter to the National Science Foundation, "If there is a concern for our demise, then help us survive on our terms."
Gandhi's tree: a case of biopiracy
The neem tree, a native of the Indian subcontinent, has a myriad of applications in traditional Indian Ayurvedic and Tibetan medicine, agriculture, and household use, as well as being symbolic as "Gandhi's favorite tree." Its usefulness is known throughout India. The Latin name, Azadirachta indica, is derived from the Persian for "free tree," as even the poorest families have access to its beneficial properties.
However, it is possible that Indian citizens will soon be required to pay royalties on the products produced from the neem, since a patent has been granted to the U.S. company W.R. Grace on a compound in the tree (azadirachtin) for the production of a biopesticide. In 1993, over five hundred thousand South Indian farmers rallied to protest foreign patents on plants such as the neem, and launched a nation-wide resistance movement. Under free trade agreements such as GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade), countries of the developing world will feel strong pressures to implement U.S.-style patent systems. Multi-national corporations can make large profits on their "discoveries," while depriving the communities which have fostered this knowledge for centuries of the choice of how they would like to use their own knowledge and native species.
The CRG opposes all forms of patenting life
No individual, institution or corporation should be able to claim ownership over species or varieties of living organisms. Nor should they be able to hold patents on organs, cells, genes or proteins, whether naturally occurring, genetically altered or otherwise modified. Our reasons are:
Patents make important products more expensive and less accessible. The biotech industry claims that patents are necessary so that innovative, life-saving technologies will be developed. In actuality, patents enable companies to create a monopoly on a product, permitting artificially high pricing. As a result, products such as drugs are often priced out of reach for many of those who need them.
Patents in science promote secrecy and hinder the exchange of information. By patenting products of research, the free flow of ideas and information necessary for cooperative scientific efforts is reduced. Scientific materials required for research will become more expensive and difficult to purchase if one corporation owns the rights to the material.
Patents exploit taxpayer-funded research. The development of biotechnology rests on 50 years of federally funded biomedical research. Corporations can make profits on their patented products by charging high prices to the citizens whose tax dollars supported the research and development of the products. Citizens are unfairly being asked to pay twice for medicines and other products.
Patents promote unsustainable and inequitable agricultural policies. A disastrous decline in genetic diversity could be the result of patenting of crop species. The genetic diversity inherent in living systems makes patent claims difficult to defend. The development of genetically uniform organisms would make it easier for corporations to maintain their patent claims. Biotech companies holding broad spectrum patents on food crops will lure farmers to grow modified varieties with promises of greater yields and disease resistance. However, numerous examples worldwide show the "improved" crops have failed to hold up to corporate promises, and led to the loss of the rich diversity of traditional crop varieties.
First World patenting of Third World genetic resources represents theft of community resources. Patents held by the industrialized world on resources from the developing world will serve as a tool for the North to accumulate more wealth from the already economically impoverished South. Microorganisms, plants, animals and even the genes of indigenous people have been patented for the production of pharmaceuticals and other products. Requiring developing nations to pay royalties to the wealthy industrial nations for products derived from their own natural resources and innovation is robbery.
- Patents on living organisms are morally objectionable to many. Patenting organisms and their DNA promotes the concept that life is a commodity and the view that living beings are "gene machines" to be exploited for profit. If it is possible to consider a modified animal an invention, are patents and marketing of human reproductive cells far behind? Patents derive from concepts of individual innovation and ownership, which may be foreign to cultures which emphasize the sharing of community resources and the free exchange of seeds and knowledge.
Editor's Note (6/02): The number of patents on living organisms and their parts continues to grow. The international group ActionAid's 2002 research revealed that six agrochemical companies hold over 900 patents on varieties of the world's five major staple food crops.1 The year before, the U.S. Patent Office awarded 20,000 gene patents and another 25,000 were pending.2
- Charnas, R. 2002. "No patents on life: Working group update." GeneWatch, 15:3.
- Albright, M., 2002. "The end of the revolution." GeneWatch, 15:3.
© April 2000, Council for Responsible Genetics. CRG position paper reprinted with permission. See reprint policy.


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McDonald's is the biggest fast food chain in the world and has an elite brand, but it also has a trump card that's helping it maintain its big lead over the competition.
Aisling Balfe, a retail analyst with Planet Retail, told QSR Magazine that McDonald's dominates the sector because of its "crucial first mover status" and "staying ahead of the curve with new product innovation."
And it's a good thing that it has been so dominant, because breakfast is a very important business for McDonald's, reports the Trefis team at Forbes.
The average number of annual customers at McDonald's locations keeps increasing because it's able to grab customers in nontraditional time slots, like late night and early morning.
But the other brands are catching up — or at least they're trying to.
Dunkin' Donuts is the number two player, and it has been expanding its offerings. Wendy's is also trying to be a big player in the breakfast segment, and even Taco Bell has come up with a menu— called "First Meal" — for folks in the morning.
It just makes sense for these brands to offer breakfast, explains Trefis. From its report at Forbes:
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It's not a "lifesaver" in that it doesn't save me time, but I wanted to say that I still just LOVE the "my day snapshot" here on WIM. It's such a great way to stay motivated, and then go back later and see little snippets of my life as a working mom. LOVE IT.by el-e-e on 13th October 20113754Vote!
When my husband makes a smoothie in the morning, I have him double up and then pour the extra into popsicle makers. Later, when the kids want a snack, they think they're getting a popsicle treat, whereas I know it's actually healthy!by Jen Klein on 7th July 20112988Vote!
My teething baby always tries to bite my finger when I am applying teething gel. So instead, I put the gel on her toothbrush and let her chew away!by raisin4cookies on 7th July 20112175Vote!
Post-its!! I keep packs of them in the van so when we are running around town or out to dinner the kids can use them. I tell them to count how many times they see a red car or stop sign ect.... at dinner i tell them to write as many things down that they see that starts with a certain letter or has a certain color in it! Even if they get bored the end up playing tic tac toe or drawing.by candi on 1st July 20112104Vote!
Plastic drink cups! I bought a package of them for less than $1, and handed each of my two youngest kids15 cups. They happily stacked them into pyramids, collapsed them into piles, "decorated" them with action figures, and had tons of fun (while I was able to get dinner on the table with no fuss). It's a cheap investment, and perfect for long waits at the doctor's office or restaurants.by Lylah M. Alphonse on 23rd June 20112094Vote!
To juggle work and family the Main thing I have is my organizer......and a Mini van..:-) ...Still its not fool proof but working on it for sure!!!! Quick stress reducer is giving myself a time out (when possible) or sitting in the rocking chair on my front porch just to catch my breath! Me time....still far in betweeen.....Will def take advice on this one.by Stacey on 10th May 20112208Vote!
Pretty much the only "me time" I get is my lunch 1/2 hour at work. Take that lunch break! You deserve it (and hey, it's legally mandated!) I turn off my "oh, I have SO much work to do" state of mind and grab my book and sit at starbucks or in the parking lot in my car and read/eat. It's really the only time I get to myself until around 10 pm (and that's if the baby goes to bed on time!)by MamaSara on 7th May 20112140Vote!
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Dear all, I would like to share a little lifesaver with you. My daugther Sonia wakes up very early and usualy comes to wake me up is the morning. So I started to leave in the evening on the kitchen some sandviches and drinks. Also I learned her how to turn on the audiosystem and have bought her children CDs. So now she is not coming on 8 am, she can entertains herself when I get get some Saturdaysleep!by Annaznam on 19th March 20112244Vote!


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LIFE helps older adults continue living in their homes with comprehensive and coordinated services to address a range of needs that often accompany the aging process. LIFE also makes life easier for families and friends currently providing caregiving by partnering with them to manage all of the complex medical, functional, and social needs for their loved one.
LIFE medical management and socialization services include the following:
- An interdisciplinary team including a physician, nurse practitioner, nurses, social workers, dietician, recreational coordinator and rehabilitation therapists
- An on-call nurse and physician available 24 hours a day, seven days a week
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Services can be provided at the LIFE Center, at home, through outpatient and specialty services and inpatient settings when necessary. Even if a participant requires hospital or nursing care, LIFE manages, arranges and monitors the individual's plan of care.
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What a week! Life is moving so fast for us right now, and I know I've promised an update…
Like the proverbial dieter, I will make this promise: Monday.
Today, I'm taking five minutes to join up with others in Lisa-Jo's community to write about joy. This week's prompt is a tribute to Sara, and her commitment to choose joy whatever the circumstances.
Ready, set…
A few years ago I started running. It was part of this boot camp thing I was doing. Before the sun peeped through the smog, a bunch of Orange County housewives would meet at a local elementary school to be beaten into swimsuit readiness. It was grueling.
Part of the routine was our weekly run. Each Wednesday we would head to a park, instead of the school. and there we would have five miles ahead of us. Some, who had been doing the boot camp for much longer than me, ran the entire way. I was lucky if I could jog for more than a minute or two.
Then somewhere around week three, I noticed a change. I was enjoying it, this running thing (or what I called running).
Much of my morning exercise was spent on my own. With earbuds plugged in, Queen serenading me with rock ballads, and a steady rhythm under my feet…I found joy.
Months earlier, if someone had told me that I could have found pleasure in running through a park at 5:30 AM, I would have laughed at them. Even today, I laugh at the idea. It seems ludicrous
Which is exactly how I feel when James tells me to consider it a bonus when I encounter trials. Joy…in trial?! Someone drank a little too much of the kool-aid.
I don't think it's the trial that we're supposed to find joy in. Rather, I think it's the endurance we build up, the strength we didn't know we had, the toning of our spiritual muscles.
It's been awhile since I ran regularly. My muscles have returned to their non-toned status and once again the idea of running for fun seems absurd. Maybe it's time for me to push myself again, to find joy in the trial.
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The Dictionary of Love
Harper Collins, Oct 19, 2010 - Humor - 320 pages
In its more than three hundred pages, The Dictionary of Love gets to the heart of the matter:To rusticate is to get out of town with one's lover.
A ballabust is a controlling wife or girlfriend.
Bob Hope had the longest Hollywood marriage.
Kinkalicious is your girlfriend in a teddy.
Tahiti is an island where lovers do the 'upa'upa.
From "afterglow" to "zipper," "Ikea" to "Twister," The Dictionary of Love is chockablock with everything you ever wanted to know about love but couldn't find in your Funk & Wagnalls. The book draws from all areas of life: love songs, poems, history, law books, sex manuals, medical and psychology texts, folklore, modern science, cookbooks, classical literature, Internet dating sites, TV shows, and today's slang.
What famous people best define love? According to The Dictionary of Love, they include Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Bill Clinton, Casanova, Lana Turner, Nefertiti, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Don Quixote, Ben & Jerry—even Flipper and Lassie!
Included, too, are charts, graphs, and illustrations, plus a G-spot directional map for women to give their boyfriend or lover. An indispensable tool for anyone who is composing a love sonnet, breaking up over e-mail, writing a romance novel, planning a romantic getaway, or just looking for something juicy to whisper in their lover's ear, The Dictionary of Love is a first-of-its-kind compendium of all things amorous.


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This is my first question here, so i'll make it short and to the point.
When Writing unit tests, should you write them before or after you have made the underlying framework for them? This came up in a discussion between my CEO and President, and I wanted your opinion on this.
Personally, I have always wrote the code first, then wrote the unit tests, but what about you?


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Autographed ceramic mug commemorates the US Figure Skating Champions Nicole Bobek, Michelle Kwan and Tara Lipinski. Each 'Souper Stars on Ice' mug is 4" in diameter and 2 1/2" high and holds about a cup. Made by Westwood in China in 1998.


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text: Jesus promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against his church. That doesn't mean we won't occasionally be in for a bumpy ride. James Emery White, a pastor in suburban Charlotte, North Carolina, offers a "whirlwind tour" of 25 "realities" convulsing modern society and causing turbulence for God's people. White keeps us sober and on guard as we await the day when, in the words of a fine hymn, "the great church victorious shall be the church at rest."1


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Last week, the company behind the ever so popular social media app "Snapchat", announced a new form of eye wear. The glasses that they are calling Spectacles, have a built in camera that allows you to record snaps quickly and easily. They wirelessly connect to your phone to upload the ...Read More »
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Along with the usual bug fixes, Opera's team claims a 50 percent performance boost in JavaScript, CSS, and other page loading dynamics. We haven't had the time to put Opera 10.6 alpha through our usual tests, but the Download Squad blog's benchmarks put Opera 10.6 over even Chrome's bleeding-edge Dev version.
Taskbar tab previews have been disabled by default in this release, as Windows 7 users with lots of tabs open were seeing serious slowdown. The look and feel of the menu button, Speed Dial, and in-browser tab previews were also updated, and a few other items of note round out this early release. You can grab it for Windows, Mac, or Linux systems, and if you do, we want to know what you think in the comments.


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May 15. Valley Green at Valley Green Road. Complainant states that an unknown person pulled down plastic window of his 2005 Jeep Wrangler and stole a black leather wallet containing a Connecticut driver's license, various credit cards and money.
May 16. 500 block Telner Street. Between 4 and 5 p.m., an unknown person stole a white 2008 Dodge Caravan, Pennsylvania tag HZF0897.
May 18. 7800 block Germantown Avenue. Complainant states that an unknown person entered an unlocked 1887 Lexus and stole an Android cell phone. Reported at 12:07 p.m.
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Adair, Alastair, McGreal, Stanley and McIlhatton, David (2012) Northern Ireland Quarterly House Price Index for Q3 2012 Report 112. Northern Ireland Housing Executive and Bank of Ireland. University of Ulster. 8 pp. [Research report (external)]
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A North Texas teenager who weighed nearly 400 pounds as a high school junior dropped 180 pounds with the help of his love for basketball.
Kevin Madison's journey first started with another sport. He went to Parkland's Oak West Health Clinic in Dallas to get clearance to try out for his high school football team after coaches expressed interest in him.
But pediatrician Dr. Jules Greif took one look at Madison and said absolutely not.
"Kevin was morbidly obese and having breathing problems and, at that time, there was no way that I was going to offer him that clearance to play football," Greif said.
The experience was a wake-up call for Madison, who had been putting on weight since middle school.
"It felt bad, it really felt bad, knowing that you have friends always ask you to join a game and they get tired of the same answer -- 'no,'" he said.
A nutritionist helped Madison learn portion control and healthy eating. But the exercise plan really changed things for him.
"We were just making, you know, small changes as far as walking -- maybe every other day for 30 minutes and then in a few months, add other activities that he liked to do," registered dietitian Sharon Cox said.
After a few months of dieting and exercise, Madison hit the basketball court. And his family noticed a difference.
"We used to go to the court every time, and they noticed a change," he said. "I was more active and more running, and I was able to handle a whole entire game without stopping or quitting, and it made me feel really good."
After a year and countless games, he had dropped 180 pounds. Madison, who was at his goal weight, visited Greif.
"I couldn't believe it," Greif said. "I was in total amazement."
Madison is still playing basketball two and a half years later. He is starting his adult life at a healthy weight and hopes his love of basketball will help him keep it off for good.
"It's incredible," he said. "You know, I actually found something that I enjoy doing without me even knowing that I'm losing weight."
NBC 5's Lindsay Wilcox contributed to this report.


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A very very hot day indeed for all athletes on the course today. The men's top placings really only changed for 2nd and 3rd a few times, but Terenzo Bozzone lead the run from T2 to the finish line. As did Melissa Hauschildt.
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Tenth Ounce Uncirculated American Gold Eagles
(1/10) One Tenth Ounce American Gold Eagles represent the US entry into fractional Gold Bullion investing. Beginning in 1986 through the current date, this series is the most popular Gold Bullion product in the United States. We are happy to offer the tenth ounce series, including some of the tougher to find rare dates. The 1/10 ounce size is recognized by most precious metals IRA accounts and is directly tied to the spot price of gold. The US Mint offers the bullion issue each year and offers the coin to the public only through it's network of recognized distributors. A great way to buy gold from the United States of America.


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I am trying to install 12.04 alongside my existing install of Windows 7 on my Lenovo IdeaPad laptop. I decided to go for the 64-bit version since I have 6 GB of RAM.
I've followed this guide to make sure everything worked properly and to use the Windows 7 bootloader. However, even after following the guide all the way through, I am not able to start Ubuntu in any way. When I choose Ubuntu from the startup menu, I get to a command line version of grub (if using EasyBCD default settings) or an error (if manually setting EasyBCD).
I tried reinstalling Ubuntu in any possible way: I shrank the Windows partition with the Win7 utility; I tried letting the Ubuntu installer create the partition or creating them manually as the guide specifies. Nothing works and in no way I am able to start Ubuntu.
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Date: December 13, 2006
Counterfeit Cashier's Checks of First National Bank of Shelby, Shelby, NC
To: Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks; All State Banking Authorities; Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Director, Office of Thrift Supervision; Conference of State Bank Supervisors; Deputy Comptrollers (districts); Assistant Deputy Comptrollers; District Counsel; and All Examining Personnel
The above-named bank has reported that counterfeit cashier's checks issued in the bank's name and using a correct routing number of 053101684 are being presented for payment both locally and nationwide in connection with a variety of lottery scams.
Counterfeit items have a strong resemblance to the authentic items; however, counterfeit items may be identified by the following traits: the checks may be tan in color and contain the following statement along the top border of the instrument: "THE FACE OF THIS DOCUMENT HAS A COLORED BACKGROUND ON WHITE PAPER AND ORIGINAL DOCUMENT SECURITY SCREEN ON BACK WITH PADLOCK SECURITY ICON."
Items presented to date have been made payable in the amounts of either $3,880 or $4,950 and contain a remitter name of either Peter Murphy or Alexander Hutchingson. Due to the possibility of future appearance variations, it is suggested that First National Bank of Shelby be contacted to verify authenticity of their official items.
Correspondence accompanying the counterfeit items presented to date have contained three separate letterheads: "STARLUCK CASINO, 1300 Ranch Estates Place, Calgary, Alberta T3G 1M3, 403-399-8562," "Win-For-Me International Sweepstakes, 145 Yonge St, Suite 330, Toronto, ON M3H 5S7, 905-920-9723," and "Gamebookers Financial Trust Inc., 300 Anjo Insurance Building, Lower Long Street, St. John's, Antigua & Barbuda, 902-412-8907." Recipients are informed of their winning status in the specified sweepstakes and asked to contact the claim representative to arrange payment of their processing fees, insurance, and/or taxes so that the remainder of the winnings may be released. Contact names presented in the letters include: Cynthia Jones, Busman Oliver, Peter Murphy, and Dr. Alexander Hutchingson. Note that all telephone numbers provided in the correspondence are of Canadian origin.
For additional information and guidance and to verify the authenticity of First National Bank of Shelby's cashier's checks, please contact the bank's call center via telephone at (704) 484-6200 or via fax at (704) 484-6279.
Additional information concerning this matter that you believe should be brought to the attention of the OCC may be forwarded to:
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Mail: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Special Supervision Division, MS 6-4
250 E Street, SW, Washington, DC 20219
Fax: (202) 874-5214
Internet: https://www.occ.gov
For additional information regarding other types of financial fraud, please visit the OCC's anti-fraud resource at: https://www.occ.gov/topics/consumer-protection/fraud-resources/index-fraud-resources.html.
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