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Messy: Occasionally I can't connect it with my HDMI. Even when I change/share screens from "1366x768" (my laptop res.) it's not seamless, whereas win7/catalyst manages quite well, adapts as per the display in question.
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I don't see why as I put the theme folders into the directory as root the same way I've always done and never had an issue before.satya164 wrote:May be you have permission issues?
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The 2012 San Diego Business Journal list of Wealth Management Firms includes different types of companies who are in the broadly defined category of wealth management. Among the various types are financial planners, financial advisers, investment advisory firms, large multinational full-service brokerages, money managers, and independent registered investment advisors.
The criterion for ranking the list is the total assets managed in San Diego County as of fiscal year end 2011; the assets under management total $108.5 billion for the 33 firms participating.
Brandes Investment Partners LP, No. 1 on the list, is an investment advisory firm, managing equity and fixed income assets for institutional and private clients worldwide, according to the company website. Founded in 1974 by Charles Brandes, the firm's success is attributed to the value investing approach to security selection. This approach was pioneered by Benjamin Graham, known as the "father of value investing" and author of the seminal book on the subject "Security Analysis," co-authored with David Dodd — also known as the Graham and Dodd approach to investing. Warren Buffett, one of the most well-known investors in the world, is among Graham's protégés.
Brandes has $33 billion in assets under management in San Diego County with 28 portfolio managers or investment advisers. Worldwide, the firm has 407 employees.
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Wells Fargo Private Bank, ranked No. 3, is new to the list this year. Wells has 66 local portfolio managers or investment advisers in San Diego County. Total assets under management in the county for fiscal year end 2011 reported by Wells were $10 billion, up 18 percent from $8.5 billion in 2010.
Also new to the list is Morgan Stanley Smith Barney – The Bentley Group at No. 15 with five local portfolio managers. The group reported an impressive 30 percent increase in assets under management locally from $250 million in 2010 to $325 million in 2011.
The Bentley Group is a partnership of financial advisers within Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, formed by Russell M. Hall, senior vice president and Michael F. Souza, vice president, Michael A. Tedesco, first vice president and financial advisor corporate client group director, and Bryan C. Gould, financial adviser.
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The Obama Administration's decision to refer Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the International Criminal Court for alleged human-rights abuses suggests that U.S. policy toward his government is finally shifting. The Damascus regime's radical violence against its own people seems to have disabused the White House of the notion that the Syrian president is a reform-minded and Westernized Arab leader with whom they can do business. With the death toll mounting and thousands of Syrian refugees crossing the border into Turkey for fear of reprisals from Assad's security forces, the White House finally seems to have concluded that a humanitarian crisis is unfolding, one for which Assad, his brother Maher, and their clique are responsible.
For more than 20 years—through both Republican and Democratic administrations—bolstering the Assad regime and securing a peace deal with Israel have been important goals of both American and Israeli policy. In the decades-old fantasy that Washington policymakers now appear to be abandoning, Bashar, like his father Hafez before him, was seen as a pragmatist who would forgo his alliance with Iran and Hezbollah in exchange for Israel returning the Golan Heights. So what if Israel was giving up a strategic plateau that the Syrians could use to rain down fire on the villages of the northern Galillee as they had before 1967, went the thinking—there was going to be peace with Syria.
Unlike the Palestinian track of Middle East peace negotiation—which was beset by competing factions and the meddling of Arab neighbors—the Syrian track, managed by one Arab strongman who can make and enforce decisions, was seen as the easy peace. Israelis would finally get to have hummus in Damascus! Negotiations advanced far, under both Prime Minister Ehud Barak and other Israeli leaders.
But over the last three months, the premises on which this joint American-Israeli policy were based have been shown to be insane. Assad's actions—the torture, mutilation, and murder of teenagers, using tanks and artillery to lay siege to towns, and now the use of helicopter gunships against unarmed civilians—are a public repudiation of every one of the premises of what has been the dominant school of thought in Israel-Syria relations. And yet almost no one has said anything about these ideas being wrong—a silence that means that regardless of who ends up ruling Syria, the Golan is going to be on the table again, and American and Israeli officials are going to be pushing Israel to make a peace deal with Damascus.
Among the few pundits who have admitted they were wrong is Israeli columnist Sever Plocker of Yediot Ahronoth. Long a believer that "Israel can achieve peace with Assad's regime in exchange for willingness to withdraw from the Golan Heights," as he wrote in April, Plocker now admits he was mistaken. His error, he says, was that he "did not take into account the Damascus regime's tyrannical character."
Plocker's confession is heartfelt, but he's still wrong. Who did he think was responsible for killing tens of thousands of Syrians at Hama in 1982 if not then-President Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's father? Plocker could not see the nature of the regime because he was afflicted with the same vanity that has corrupted Israeli and American policymakers who have sought for decades to arrange for the lamb to lie down with the lion, and be crowned as peacemakers: an obsession with peace, which blinded them to the character of a regime that murders its own citizens with conscience. He is still wrong because he thinks the problem is simply that Israel should not make peace with such a regime, when the reality is that peace is not in Israel's power to make. Jerusalem cannot make a deal because the Syrians are incapable of cutting such a deal. The reasons for this are strategic, historical, and existential.
The strategic reasons have been obvious for years, even as many U.S. and Israeli officials have chosen to ignore them. It is only Damascus' proxy war with Israel, through its alliance with Iran and support for Hezbollah, that has earned this state sponsor of terror the prestige that U.S. engagement has afforded this mid-sized Arab state with very limited natural resources. The regime's self-image requires it, as Assad said in a speech Monday, to demand respect according to its historical size, not its geographical size. For U.S. diplomats, a peace deal means that they get to take Syria off their to-do list and move on to other problems. But for Assad it means that he has cashed in the only chips he had and is no longer able to project regional or international power.
Some argue that knocking Syria down to size would leave it resembling something like Jordan: a second-tier Arab power without oil. The difference is that unlike Jordan's Sunni Hashemite royalty, Syria's ruling family is drawn from its Alawite minority, and it is received wisdom in the region that minority regimes can't cut a deal with Israel. Only the Sunnis, the regional majority, have the final say over such major decisions in the Middle East.
For centuries, the Sunnis have had it in for the Alawites, whom they consider heretics. Prior to Syrian independence, a group of Alawite notables petitioned the French mandate authorities for their own state so that they would not have to live with the Sunnis. "The spirit of hatred and fanaticism embedded in the hearts of the Arab Muslims against everything that is non-Muslim has been perpetually nurtured by the Islamic religion," read the letter—one of whose signatories was Suleiman al-Assad, said to be Bashar's great-grandfather.
Eventually, the Alawite accommodation with their countrymen was to out-Sunni the Sunnis regarding Israel. After Hafez al-Assad lost the Golan to Israel twice, first as defense minister and next as president, he turned to resistance, a trend amplified by his son. While Assad warns that he'd be replaced by the much more dangerous Muslim Brotherhood or other Islamist factions should his regime be toppled, the current ruling structure is the exaggerated cartoon version of a radical Sunni regime, which is to say that if Assad falls, there's nothing worse that will follow.
In fact, some argue that a Sunni regime might represent the best chance for a peace deal, as Israel's two peace treaties are with Sunni powers: Egypt and Jordan. And yet some analysts seem to have misunderstood the significance of the opposition's chant, "No Iran, no Hezbollah. We want a Muslim who fears God." To be sure, the Sunni-majority opposition is against the Shia-led resistance bloc, but not because they favor living in comity with their Jewish neighbors in Israel. It simply means they despise the Shia and their allies, like their own Alawite regime, as well as Israel.
Syria is not a state in the Western sense but rather is an interlocking network of tribal and sectarian systems. At present, the clique around Assad, including the security services and paramilitary forces, represents the most powerful gathering. They have spilled rivers of blood in tribal areas like Daraa not because they do not understand that their murders and mutilations have incurred blood debts against them that will last generations, but to show that they are powerful enough not to care. In other words, any peace treaty signed by Syria's ruler would not be between states, but between confessional sects and tribes. The Alawites can't cut a deal with the Jews, because they don't have a deal with the Sunnis.
The Assad regime is the culmination of many hundreds of years of intra-Arab civil war. Before Syria's ruling establishment is capable of making peace with Israel, it will have to preside over a peace process between Syrians themselves. And before that can happen, Syrians are going to have to get tired of shedding each other's blood. That's some way off yet. In the meantime, there's no point in leading the Israelis to slaughter as well.


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Bobby Valentine says he felt undermined by Red Sox coaches
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Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine's job was safe for at least one final game.
General manager Ben Cherington would not discuss the status of the Red Sox's beleaguered first-year manager before Boston's season finale against the New York Yankees on Wednesday night.
"I'm not going to talk about it," Cherington said. "We have a game tonight. We've said many times, Bobby's the manager of the team until the end of the year, and we'll talk about it after the season. That's what we'll do."
Valentine has had a trying first year with the Red Sox, 69-92 entering Wednesday. He was signed to a two-year deal to help revive an organization that was eliminated from playoff contention on the last day of the season in 2011 after a September collapse. Instead, because of injuries, a lack of pitching depth and underperformance, Boston has lost its most games since 1965 and finished last in the AL East for the first time since 1992.
On Wednesday, Valentine told Boston radio station WEEI that some of his coaches were not loyal to him and undermined him at times this season, his first as a major league manager since 2002.
He did tell reporters before the game at Yankee Stadium he thought the friction with the coaches had little to do with the team's struggles.
"There's situation during the year I didn't think it was all for one or one for all, whatever it is," Valentine said. "I don't really remember specifically. ... It was just a feeling."
Cherington said he wasn't aware of the problems. But pitching coach Bo McClure was fired in August.
"If he feels that way I'm sorry he feels that way," Cherington said. "I'm not in his office all the time. I'm not in the clubhouse all the time so I don't know what he exactly was referring to. He's got a right to his opinion."
Valentine also said he regrets a few things he did this season, including his management of the bullpen early in the season when closer Andrew Bailey was hurt, one of 27 Red Sox to spend time on the disabled list in 34 stints, the most by any team since at least 1987, according to STATS LLC.
The often outspoken and manipulative Valentine wished he did not make the negative comments about popular infielder Kevin Youkilis during the morning drive in April. He was surprised by the reaction it got.
Looking ahead, Cherington said the team has talked to injured David Ortiz and outfielder Cody Ross, both free agents to be, about returning.
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Recapping our night-by-night look at the fall 2012 schedule, we start on Monday night. ABC is keeping the exact same lineup as Fall 2011 and CBS is close, with only the new comedy Partners at 8:30p, and 2 Broke Girls moving to the tentpole 9pm spot after the Thursday move of Two And A Half Men.
NBC brings The Voice into the Fall, followed by new drama Revolution at 10pm. For NBC's sake, I hope it lasts longer than The Playboy Club did.
We can only hope we'll get a little Revolution fan chatter joining the Castle v. Hawaii Five-0 trash talk on Tuesday mornings.
The CW moves Gossip Girl an hour later than last Fall for its final season (not clear on the episode count) and brings 90210 into the night. The Carrie Diaries is scheduled to enter the night after Gossip Girl is done.
Nothing nearly as newsworthy on the night for Fox as Terra Nova was last Fall, but rookie The Mob Doctor will follow Bones.
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Hi, I am Robert Francis Spurling and I have been fascinated by space ever since I was a little boy. I emersed myself in as much sci-fi stuff as I could. Spent hours watching STAR TREK and other cool sci-fi/fantasy Shows like Battle Star Galactica and Babylon 5. Wanted to learn to fly so I joined the United States, Air Force, where for the first time, went up in a Cessna Air Craft and almost lost my cookies. So much for Space Flight.... more »
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Kelly Nicole Bromund and Joseph Charles Gorzenski exchanged their wedding vows Sept. 7, 2013 at Stony Brook Metro Park. Rev. Danealle Craft officiated at the 5:30 p.m. double-ring ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Jim and Diane Bromund of Alpena. The groom is the son of Tamara Booster of Swartz Creek, and David and Nancy Gorzenski of Gladwin.
Attending the bride as maid of honor was her sister, Heather Bromund. Bridesmaids were Elyse Peterson, cousin of the bride, and Lindsey Dimond and Debi Jo Leatherwood, friends of the bride. Flower girl was Brynn Coletta, niece of the groom.
Attending the groom as best man was his friend, Justin York. Groomsmen were Don Raymond, brother of the groom, and Shawn Lewis and Steve Jeffery, friends of the groom. Serving as usher was the bride's brother, Derek Bromund. Ring bearer was Zane Coletta, nephew of the groom.
Following the ceremony, the newlyweds were honored at a reception at Sunset Terrace in Shelby Township. Pre-nuptial parties included a rehearsal dinner at the Red Ox Tavern in Utica.
Kelly is a graduate of Alpena High School and received her Bachelor of Business Administration Degree in Finance from Eastern Michigan University. She is employed by Dort Federal Credit Union. Joseph is a graduate of Swartz Creek High School and is employed by Gordon Food Service.
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In our last ritual, we removed obstacles that hinder or block our success. We also did work to open ourselves up to receiving opportunities and circumstances that will help us be successful. This time we will work on continuing the flow of positive energy that will lead us to success. We will be creating a tea that will help us receive and continue forward momentum toward our prosperity and the achievement of our goals.
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Welcome to the Moon Circle! This is a FREE online gathering space hosted by Leandra Witchwood where we will discuss a variety of topics related to the Moon. These gatherings are designed for those who follow an Earth-Centered Spiritual/Religious path from Heathenism, to Witchcraft, Wiccan and MORE. Each event is free, candid, and available to you at any time. Time: 7:00pm EST Where: https://www.youtube.com/leandrawitchwood Each Moon Circle will cover a cycle and the many aspects of that phase or moon cycle. The different moon cycles are below for reference. We will spend our time together discussing various topics as we engage in activities from meditations and visualizations to spellwork, and MUCH MORE! Some circles will require the use of specific tools or items. These items will be posted before the event on our Facebook pages/groups and on our websites. Dark Moon: The counter to the Full Moon. This is time to go within. It is a time to reflect and plan. The Dark Moon is a powerful time when psychic revelations often manifest. It is also time to prepare for a new cycle to commence. New Moon: Time to set your intentions for what you want to bring into your life. Start new projects and refresh our commitments to old goals or projects. Waxing Moon: New growth, continued action, results will come about Full Moon: A time to amplify what your intentions. A time to draw closer to you the people, opportunities, and circumstances that will help you succeed. Waning Moon: A time for banishing and removing obstacles. I time for cleansing items, self, and spaces of negative or residual energy that blocks or hinders your progress. If you are ready… Light a candle, get comfortable and let's begin.
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Climate can pose some interesting challenges when it comes to racing. Whether you're going from a hot, dry climate to a cool one or vice versa, you will need to make some adjustments to your fueling and hydration strategy. Help prepare your body with these tips.
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We continue our epic (and growing) conversation with Grant Morrison about his and Frank Quitely's recently concluded run on All-Star Superman. It's ten parts in all – collect all of them, and get the stick of gum!Part One
Luthor's really human and charismatic and hateful all the same time. He's the brilliant, deluded egotist in all of us. The key for me was the idea that he draws his eyebrows on. The weird vanity of that told me everything I needed to know about Luthor.I thought the real key to him was the fact that, brilliant as he is, Luthor is nowhere near as brilliant as he wants to be or thinks he is. For Luthor, no praise, no success, no achievement is ever enough, because there's a big hungry hole in soul. His need for acknowledgement and validation is superhuman in scale. Superman needs no thanks, he does what he does because he's made that way. Luthor constantly rails against his own sense of failure and inadequacy…and Superman's to blame, of course. I've recently been re–thinking Luthor again for a different project, and there's always a new aspect of the character to unearth and develop. NRAMA: This story makes Superman and Lois' relationship seem much more romantic and epic than usual, but this one also makes Superman more of the pursuer. Lois seems like more of an equal, but also more wary of his affections, particularly in the black–and–white sequence in issue #2. She becomes this great beacon of support for him over the course of the series, but there is a sense that she's a bit jaded from years of trickery and uncomfortable with letting him in now that he's being honest. How, overall, do you see the relationship between Superman and Lois? GM: The black-and-white panels shows Lois paranoid and under the influence of an alien chemical, but yes, she's articulating many of her very real concerns in that scene. I wanted her to finally respond to all those years of being tricked and duped and led to believe Superman and Clark Kent were two different people. I wanted her to get her revenge by finally refusing to accept the truth. It also exposed that brilliant central paradox in the Superman/Lois relationship. The perfect man who never tells a lie has to lie to the woman he loves to keep her safe. And he lives with that every day.
It's that little human kink that really drives their relationship.NRAMA: Jimmy Olsen is extremely cool in this series – it's the old "Mr. Action" idea taken to a new level. It's often easy to write Jimmy as a victim or sycophant, but in this series, he comes off as someone worthy of being "Superman's Pal" – he implicitly trusts Superman, and will take any risk to get his story. Do you see this version of Jimmy as sort of a natural evolution of the version often seen in the comics? GM: It was a total rethink based on the aspects of Olsen I liked, and playing down the whole wet–behind–the–ears "cub reporter" thing. I borrowed a little from the "Mr Action" idea of a more daredevil, pro–active Jimmy, added a little bit of Nathan Barley, some Abercrombie & Fitch style, a bit of Tintin, and a cool Quitely haircut. Jimmy was renowned for his "disguises" and bizarre transformations (my favorite is the transvestite Olsen epic "Miss Jimmy Olsen" from Jimmy Olsen #95, which gets a nod on the first page of our Jimmy story we did), so I wanted to take that aspect of his appeal and make it part of his job. I don't like victim Jimmy or dumb Jimmy, because those takes on the character don't make any sense in their context. It seemed more interesting see what a young man would be like who could convincingly be Superman's "pal." Someone whose company a Superman might actually enjoy. That meant making Jimmy a much bigger character: swaggering but disingenuous. Innocent yet worldly. Enthusiastic but not stupid. My favorite Jimmy moment is in issue #7 when he comes up with the way to defeat the Bizarro invasion by using the seas of the Bizarro planet itself as giant mirrors to reflect toxic – to Bizarros – sunlight onto the night side of the Earth. He knows Superman can actually take crazy lateral thinking like this and put it into practice. NRAMA: Perry White has a few small–but–key scenes, particularly his address to his staff in issue #1 and standing up to Luthor in issue #12. I'd like to hear more about your thoughts on this character. GM: As with the others, my feelings are there on the page. Perry is Clark's boss and need only be that and not much more to play his role perfectly well within the stories. He's a good reminder that Superman has a job and a boss, unlike that good–for–nothing work-shy bastard Batman. Perry's another of the series' older male role models of integrity and steadfastness, like Pa Kent. NRAMA: There's a sense in the Daily Planet scenes and with Lois's spotlight issues that everyone knows Clark is Superman, but they play along to humor him. The Clark disguise comes off as very obvious in this story. Do you feel that the Planet staff knows the truth, or are just in a very deep case of denial, like Lex? GM: If I had to say for sure, I think Jimmy Olsen worked it out a long time ago, and simply presumes that if Superman has a good reason for what he's doing, that's good enough for Jimmy. Lois has guessed, but refuses to acknowledge it because it exposes her darkest flaw – she could never love Clark Kent the way she loves Superman. NRAMA: Also, the Planet staff seems awfully nonchalant at Luthor's threats. Are they simply used to being attacked by now? GM: Yes. They're a tough group. They also know that Superman makes a point of looking out for them, so they naturally try to keep Luthor talking. They know he loves to talk about himself and about Superman. In that scene, he's almost forgotten he even has powers, he's so busy arguing and making points. He keeps doing ordinary things instead of extraordinary things. NRAMA: The running gag of Clark subtly using his powers to protect unknowing people is well done, but I have to admit I was confused by the sequence near the end of issue #1. Was that an el–train, and if so, why was it so close to the ground? GM: It's a MagLev hover–train. Look again, and you'll see it's not supported by anything. Hover–trains help ease congestion in busy city streets! Metropolis is the City of Tomorrow, after all. NRAMA: And there's the death of Pa Kent. Why do you feel it's particularly important to have Pa and not both of the Kents pass away? GM: I imagined they had both passed away fairly early in Superman's career, but Ma went a few years after Pa. Also, because the book was about men or man, it seemed important to stress the father/son relationships. That circle of life, the king is dead, long live the king thing that Superman is ultimately too big and too timeless to succumb to. NRAMA: There is a real touch of Elliott S! Maggin's novels in your depiction of Luthor – someone who is just so obsessive–compulsive about showing up Superman that he accomplishes nothing in his own life. He comes across as a showman, from his rehearsed speech in issue #1 to his garish costume in the last two issues, and it becomes painfully apparent that he wants to ursurp Superman because he just can"t be happy with himself. What defeats him is actually a beautiful gift, getting to see the world as Superman does, and finally understanding his enemy. That's all a lead–in to: What previous stories that defined Luthor for you, and how did you define his character? What appeals to you about writing him? GM: The Marks Waid and Millar were big fans of the Maggin books, and may have persuaded me to read at least the first one but I'm ashamed to say can't remember anything about it, other than the vague recollection of a very humane, humanist take on Superman that seemed in general accord with the pacifist, hedonistic, between–the–wars spirit of the '90s when I read it. It was the '90s; I had other things on my mind and in my mind. I like Maggin's "Must There Be A Superman?" from Superman #247, which ultimately poses questions traditional superhero comic books are not equipped to answer and is one of the first paving stones in the Yellow Brick Road that leads to Watchmen and beyond, to The Authority, The Ultimates etc. Everyone still awake, still reading this, should make themselves familiar with "Must There Be A Superman?" – it's a milestone in the development of the superhero concept. However, the story that most defines Luthor for me turns out to be, as usual, a Len Wein piece with Curt Swan/Murphy Anderson– Superman #248. This blew me away when I was a kid. Lex Luthor cares about humanity? He's sorry we all got blown up? The villain loves us too? It's only Superman he really hates? Genius. Big, cool adult stuff. The divine Len makes Lex almost too human, but it was amazing to see this kind of depth in a character I'd taken for granted as a music hall villain. I also love the brutish Satanic, Crowley–esque, Golden Age Luthor in the brilliant "Powerstone" Action Comics #47 (the opening of All Star #11 is a shameless lift from "Powerstone", as I soon realised when I went back to look. Blame my…er….photographic memory….cough). And I like the Silver Age Luthor who only hates Superman because he thinks it's Superboy's fault he went bald. That was the most genuinely human motivation for Luthor's career of villainy of all; it was Superman's fault he went bald! I can get behind that. In the Silver Age, baldness, like obesity, old age and poverty, was seen quite rightly as a crippling disease and a challenge which Superman and his supporting cast would be compelled to overcome at every opportunity! Suburban "50s America versus Communist degeneracy? You tell me. I like elements of the Marv Wolfman/John Byrne ultra–cruel and rapacious businessman, although he somewhat lacks the human dimension (ultimately there's something brilliant about Luthor being a failed inventor, a product of Smallville/Dullsville – the genius who went unnoticed in his lifetime, and resorted to death robots in chilly basements and cellars. Luthor as geek versus world). I thought Alan Moore's ruthlessly self–assured "consultant" Luthor in Swamp Thing was an inspired take on the character as was Mark Waid's rage–driven prodigy from Birthright. I tried to fold them all into one portrayal. I see him as a very human character – Superman is us at our best, Luthor is us when we're being mean, vindictive, petty, deluded and angry. Among other things. It's like a bipolar manic/depressive personality – with optimistic, loving Superman smiling at one end of the scale and paranoid, petty Luthor cringing on the other. I think any writer of Superman has to love these two enemies equally. We have to recognize them both as potentials within ourselves. I think it's important to find yourself agreeing with Luthor a bit about Superman's "smug superiority" – we all of us, except for Superman, know what it's like to have mean–spirited thoughts like that about someone else's happiness. It's essential to find yourself rooting for Lex, at least a little bit, when he goes up against a man–god armed only with his bloody–minded arrogance and cleverness. Even if you just wish you could just give him a hug and help him channel his energies in the right direction, Luthor speaks for something in all of us, I like to think. However, he's played, Luthor is the male power fantasy gone wrong and turned sour. You've got everything you want but it's not enough because someone has more, someone is better, someone is cleverer or more handsome. Next: Morrison discusses some of the themes in his series, and the power of fiction.
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PALATINE, IL--(Marketwire - Nov 20, 2012) - Acura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (
NEXAFED is a 30 mg immediate-release next generation pseudoephedrine tablet, which combines effective nasal-congestion relief with Acura's unique IMPEDE technology that disrupts the conversion of pseudoephedrine into the dangerous drug, methamphetamine.
"It is important that our IMPEDE technology used in NEXAFED does not compromise the effectiveness of the active ingredient, and the results of our clinical study demonstrate this," said Bob Jones, President and Chief Executive Officer of Acura Pharmaceuticals. "We remain on track for a national launch of NEXAFED later this year."
About Acura Pharmaceuticals
Acura Pharmaceuticals is a specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in the research, development and commercialization of product candidates intended to address medication abuse and misuse, utilizing its proprietary AVERSION® and IMPEDE™ technologies. In June 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved OXECTA® which incorporates the AVERSION® technology. The Company has a development pipeline of additional AVERSION® technology products including other opioids and its IMPEDE™ technology for pseudoephedrine hydrochloride products.
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Cobra Starship Get Sassy in New 'Middle Finger' Video Feat. Mac Miller
Cobra Starship is honoring a beloved hand gesture in their latest video for 'Middle Finger,' featuring their chart-topping rapper friend Mac Miller.
Miller kicks off the kiss-off video, setting the tone for what's in store. He raps: "Got my middle finger up and it's pointed to the ground / Rollin' in with my whole entourage, too many of us to count."
The clip features each Cobra Starship member in various situations where their "I don't care" attitude causes store clerks, kids, an old lady and even a homeless guy to give them the bird. The band takes it all in stride, though, just as the song's chorus denotes: "Throw your cups in the air / We so fly / Middle finger up to the sky…"
In an 2011 interview with MTV, frontman Gabe Saporta said there would be none of the classic hand gesture in their music video, and to an extent, that's true. The fingers are all blurred out of the clip. He added, "I think the video is going to be like you'd expect the whole thing to be like: an 'eff you' to everyone, but really it's about us trying to turn a new leaf and become Good Samaritans."
'Middle Finger' featuring Mac Miller appears on Cobra Starship's latest LP, 'Night Shades.'
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10 Guidelines to Greenify Your Grilling This Summer
10 Guidelines to Greenify Your Grilling This Summer
During my celebration over the long weekend, I fondly recalled the fact that over 150 million hot dogs — roughly one frank for every two people in the United States — are consumed on the Fourth. Yet at the same time, I couldn't help but imagine all the flames that burned under those dogs, and the ecological impact that must have on our planet.
In response, I did a little research on ways to make barbecuing more environmentally friendly. Here are 10 green grilling tips to carry you through this year's season, and many others to come.


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Dita Von Teese never ceases to amaze us with her beauty skills (she's even writing a how-to book). And while her signature style usually includes matte red lips, creamy-white skin, black winged-out liner, and old-school waves, there are times she goes even more dramatic with an impressively intricate 'do. Throughout this year alone, Dita's donned everything from a roughed-up pompadour to an elaborately twisted updo. Be sure to check out five of her best looks now.


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PEC's Board of Directors represents all of our nine counties. In 2013, PEC welcomed new Co-Chairs.
Co-Chair, George Ohrstrom
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Secretary, Alton Keel
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I am working on simulation middleware which is applicable for game engine implementations.
What I would like to do is to make it freely available for use for all non-commercial purposes, while at the same time imposing some percentage of royalty on revenue (above a certain threshold) that is derived from my work. Something very similar to Epic's UDK licensing model.
To facilitate the use of my software, I plan to offer binaries (static libs) for several platforms, as well as obfuscated source code which I will freely distribute, in addition to documentation of the API. I simply want to impose the restriction that if you try to make money from it, I get a cut eventually.
I'm wondering if there are online forums and such where I am likely to find people who are willing to assist me in terms of learning what sort of things I have to do to get things down on the right kinds of documents. So far a site like this seems to be the most promising.


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Thanks for the comments on yesterday's post, friends. It's a good dialog to be having, so keep your thoughts coming!
Whenever I come home, I tell myself I'll be disciplined about not eating out too often. I've realized that this goal is nearly impossible—for one thing, being home means seeing friends, and since my mom doesn't appreciate me making kitchen messes, this means dining out. For another, there are so many great vegan and raw restaurants here, multiplying every day, that I just can't help myself. So this year, I picked up a few freelance jobs and decided to eat out freely while home, as a Christmas gift to myself, so you can expect a bunch of restaurant recaps in the next few days.
Pure Food and Wine is one of my favorite places in the world. It's the place where my love for raw cuisine was cemented, and I have the most utmost respect for Sarma Melngailis, Pure's passionate, strong-minded, and beautiful founder. My meals at Pure are always memorable, and the restaurant itself is always a sexy, elegant place to eat. This week, I ate at Pure with my dear friend Melissa, with whom I've had many delicious Pure dinners. It was so great to catch up on life, love, and work, and to chat about Melissa's upcoming wedding!
We began with a little amuse bouche courtesy of the house (thanks Sarma!). They were—and I'm sure I'm butchering this—truffled nut cheese tartlets with an incredible apricot sauce. A perfectly delightful bite.
Melissa and I went through the standard Pure dilemma, which is that one wants to order something new and exciting, but is also so drawn toward the classic Pure salads that it's hard to forgo them. Ultimately we both gave into our salad urges (Melissa with the S & M salad, me with a build-my-own that was rather like the S & M salad), but we started with some apps. Melissa got the spicy Thai lettuce wraps (and shared some with me!):
I decided to get the king oyster mushroom scallops in a shitake miso broth. I've had these only once before, and they are pretty awesome. The texture is so close to actual scallops that I wager anyone might be fooled!
(Sorry for the blurry pics—low lighting!)
And finally, a giant salad of dulse, avocado, hemp seeds, beets, carrots, basil, and pumpkinseed and lemon dressing. The photo barely turned out, but the taste was perfect!
It was a wonderful meal, but most of all, it was wonderful to catch up with Melissa. I can't wait till I'm back in New York more often, so that I can spend more time with her!
Also this week, I paid a visit to the lovely Café Blossom—which is right across the street from my old apartment—for dinner. Once again, I had a helping of delicious raw veggie dishes, starting with the autumn sweet potato rolls, which are stuffed with spiralized jicama, green onion, avocado, and young coconut. I've always been a HUGE fan of this dish:
My friend and I split them, and she was just as impressed as I was!
Next up, I ordered the raw beet ravioli, which came served with a sesame, carrot, and sunflower sprout salad.
Beautifully presented. It was almost too much cashew cheese—it kind of overwhelmed the dish—but it was certainly good cashew cheese. My friend got the phyllo "cigar" with root vegetables:
Finally, I ordered the kale salad, massaged with avocado, peppers, and some red onions which were thankfully too teeny for me to balk:
And my friend got the tofu salad with seaweed, curried cashews, carrots, tomatoes, and radicchio:
Both salads were incredibly good!
I can't think of a nicer holiday gift to myself than the chance to explore vegan dining establishments, both old and new. Later this week, I'll introduce you to some new spots I've discovered. In the meantime, I feel mighty grateful for old favorites.


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If you're looking for a little inspiration, take a gander at TEDxGrandRapids.
All of the TED Talks presented at the TEDxGrandRapids conference this spring are now available at the locally run event's website.
Food to frugal innovator
The full-day conference included 14 speakers, all sharing stories of creativity, inspiration and overcoming obstacles to change the world.
The backgrounds of the eclectic lineup of speakers included, business startups, food, education, technology and innovation, as well as titles such as frugal innovator, obstacle remover, game changer, technology artist and genomics expert.
The theme of the 2013 conference was "tag, you're it," and organizers hope that the online TED Talks will continue to serve as a catalyst for conversation and change in the West Michigan community.


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Next to the historic Water Tower and John Hancock Building, Water Tower Place offers six indoor stories of shops and restaurants, including the Chicago Sports Museum and the American Girl Cafe and store, where young girls can customize their own doll, browse her entire wardrobe collection, and even attend a tea party with theatrical reenactments of the associated books.
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Settled in the 1780s, it's possible that Chicago was explored as early as 1679 -- when the first reference to the city was made by Robert de LaSalle, a French explorer who focused on the Great Lakes Region. He wrote about a place called "Checagou" in his memoir, where he claimed the name came from the "quantity of garlic which grows in the forests."


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Japanese art: Yuzo Saeki and "At Eternity's Gate" by Van Gogh
Japanese art: Yuzo Saeki and "At Eternity's Gate" by Van Gogh
Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
Shortly before Van Gogh died he painted "At Eternity's Gate" in 1890 after doing the same image as a lithograph eight years before. The image is extremely powerful and the meaning can be transformed to mean many things. However, the initial impression during the first few moments of seeing this image conjures up thoughts related to despair, alienation, abandonment, and a person who is at the end of their rope.
This reality connects the tragic end of Yuzo Saeki but perhaps without an "Eternity's Gate?" After all, Yuzo Saeki died in a strange land, isolated, confused, and with his mind wandering from the desire to paint more before "the gates of death" would take him from this world.
Yuzo Saeki, just like Van Gogh during his lifetime, experienced severe mental health problems during his final months on this earth. Therefore, this gifted artist from Japan died at the age of 30 because of multiple factors. This applies to having a nervous breakdown, tuberculosis which was eating away at his health, massive overwork, poverty, alienation from reality, and other factors which took away his life.
In this sense, "At Eternity's Gate" by Van Gogh connects these two extremely gifted individuals because if you replace the image with a 30 year old man, in a room more sinister and frightening and coughing up blood; then an image into the last moments of Yuzo Saeki can be seen. However, even more disturbing is that Yuzo Saeki died in France where cultural differences in this period were enormous and when institutions were "more dark and foreboding."
Therefore, Yuzo Saeki gradually slipped away from this world by being isolated, alienated, in destitution, and with little care from others in Paris if he died or lived. At home, he had a family which was deeply concerned but his reality in the last few months must have been like Dante's hell.
Van Gogh died at the age of 37 in 1890 while Yuzo Saeki was born eight years later in 1898. If "a tortured soul of a genius" could migrate and transcend itself into an equally "troubled soul" in the final year of his life, then it certainly entered Yuzo Saeki. Of course, many individuals reject heaven and hell and the transmigration of the soul. However, the utter despair of Yuzo Saeki during his remaining period on this earth in 1928 does mirror aspects of the painting "At Eternity's Gate" by Van Gogh. The same also applies to the troubled mind of Van Gogh when "the demons of life" entered his world.
Michael Brenson stated in the New York Times in an article called "When Japan's Art Opened to Western Winds," that "When European art began to question its own traditions, however, as it did increasingly during and after World War I, there was a potential for trouble. Artists could find themselves with neither a European tradition to learn from nor a Japanese tradition to hold onto. When Saeki Yuzo, who is perceived in his country as a tragic hero, the Japanese van Gogh, died at the age of 30 in an insane asylum in Paris in 1928 – perhaps a suicide – he had been trying to paint in this void. Saeki continues to be an example to Japanese artists abroad of the difficulties in reconciling East and West."
Further down in the same article Michael Brenson comments that "His cafe windows and stores are filled with signs, some illegible. In his "Snowy Landscape," figures are on the verge of illegibility. His signs seem like scars of an internal pressure to resolve a conflict between the independence and picturesque subject matter of Paris and a dependence upon his native calligraphic and woodcut tradition."
Striking aspects of the comments by Michael Brenson applies to "died at the age of 30 in an insane asylum in Paris – perhaps a suicide," "his café windows and stores are filled with signs, some illegible" and"His signs seem like scars of an internal pressure."
Therefore, according to Michael Brenson not even the death of Yuzo Saeki is one hundred per cent known and this applies to what caused his death or if he killed himself. This fact brings back the image of "At Eternity's Gate" by Van Gogh but with the backdrop being more sinister and perhaps with Yuzo Saeki being shriveled up in the corner of a cold and dark room. After all, it appears that nobody in Paris really cared about how he died in the final moments of his life – and this is indeed sad.
Also, the image of "At Eternity's Gate" shows an individual in despair and Yuzo Saeki certainly felt the same pains and abandonment. Not only this, were the signs illegible in some of the art work by Yuzo Saeki because he felt alienated, rejected, and because he feared about upsetting local people? Or was it a natural sign that he felt trapped between two worlds, a natural aspect of his art, the fact that he could feel "the gates of death," or did it signify his growing inward feeling that he didn't belong?
In an earlier article I wrote about Yuzo Saeki I comment that "…despite all the artistic, political and cultural convulsions which befell Yuzo Saeki, along with suffering from tuberculosis, he still produced some truly amazing art. Therefore, the real tragedy of the life of Yuzo Saeki is that he didn't have enough time to escape the trappings of two cultures which were pulling away at his artistic soul."
Van Gogh also had an intense struggle between religion and rejection in several areas of his life which led to emotional instability. Given this, Van Gogh and Yuzo Saeki share internal convulsions because of different factors and both fully understood poverty, feeling of alienation, rejection, and the darkness of asylum institutions.
Therefore, the image of "At Eternity's Gate" by Van Gogh enables people to enter "a small glimpse" into the world of two extremely talented individuals.
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