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"AereoKiller," on the other hand, has been losing badly, such that the service is currently barred in most of the western US. Now the networks figure they might as well go in for the kill and have sued David's AereoKiller yet again, this time in the DC Circuit, to try to get a similar ruling on the east coast. The networks could have sued Aereo itself -- as they've been threatening -- but it seems clear they realize that the case against David is much stronger (perhaps, in part, because David himself seems like a goofball who doesn't take any of this seriously, but also because of the company's own actions).
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The Commerce Department raised its estimate of fourth-quarter gross domestic product, though the increase was less than economists had forecast.
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April crude had been trading modestly higher, then turned lower as the ICE dollar index DXY, +0.15% gained more ground. The index was at 81.927, above late Wednesday's level of 81.552.
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The Energy Information Administration reported a fall of 171 billion cubic feet for the week ended Feb. 22. Analysts polled by Platts forecast a decline between 166 billion and 170 billion cubic feet. See: Natural-gas prices stay higher after EIA data.
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Skip to comments.Why the Chinese Demand US Gun Control
Posted on 12/20/2012 7:19:26 AM PST by IbJensen
The official Chinese government news agency, Xinhua, has demanded the US immediately adopt stricter gun control measures to reduce the number of firearms the US populace is permitted to possess. The Chinese state-controlled media's statement, titled "Innocent Blood Demands No Delay for US Gun Control," is primarily focused on the Newtown tragedy in which 26 Americans were killed by a mad gunman. Twenty of the victims were young children. The Chinese government stated, "Their blood and tears demand no delay for the U.S. gun control." Breitbart
Dominant Social Theme: The Chinese are rightfully concerned with US violence.
Free-Market Analysis: The Chinese have weighed in ... Breitbart is reporting that the Chinese government is concerned about US gun violence (see above excerpt). This is notable because it tends to support certain dominant social themes we have noted before.
We do believe that the Chinese, like the Russians and the rest of the BRICs, are part of an effort to create global governance. The British the City of London being an integral part of this larger effort virtually ran China and India once upon a time.
While British influence has eroded among the civilian population, chances are the power elite behind past depredations remains quite influential with the political and military class.
There are suppositions that Western powers wanted communism to come to China in the form of Mao because that helped crush China's unique culture and set the stage for the current quasi-capitalism that now engulfs China.
And as we have pointed out recently, both China and the US are converging on a new kind of sociopolitical and economic system that may mimic Germany's National Socialism more than any other political paradigm.
For this reason, we're not surprised top Chinese officials are calling for more gun control in the US. This suits the Chinese system, which is intended, we have no doubt, to more closely merge with European and North American systems over time.
The availability of guns is an impediment to totalitarian, fascism or whatever else the power elite has in mind. Here's more from the Breitbart article:
The Chinese government states:
"The past six months have seen enough shooting rampages in the United States. Just three days ago, three people were shot dead at a shopping mall in Oregon. Two weeks ago, a football player shot his girlfriend dead and then committed suicide. Five months ago, 12 people were killed and 58 wounded in a shooting spree at a midnight screening of a Batman film in Colorado."
The government went on to express a strong dislike of the National Rifle Association while also attacking the Republican Party as somehow complicit in the violence. Conversely, the article heaps praise on the Democratic Party ...
The current Chinese government, the communist People's Republic of China, was established in a revolution led by Mao Zedong, who killed an estimated 40-70 million people with starvation, executions, and re-education camps.
This last point is a very good one. If you are interested in the results of an unarmed populace, look no further than China's Great Leap Forward under Mao.
Whether it is Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia, an unarmed population always invites the retaliation of tyrants. And we can also see that gun control does little to reduce violence statistically. Australian officials have been busy disarming their populace but violence is not down appreciably, as it is only law-abiding citizens that allow themselves to be disarmed. Criminals remain armed.
For those who believe as we do in directed history, the specter of aggressive efforts at gun confiscation is not a good sign. Those who are engaged in the promotion of world government are providing us with clear illustrations that they are willing to shed blood to attain it. These individuals and their surrogates practice the philosophy of "the end justifies the means."
But just as importantly, if not more so, the opinion of Chinese officials regarding the positives of US gun control provide us with an insight as to how closely aligned US and Chinese leaders really are when it comes to sociopolitical and economic policies.
The world is being prepared for global government, in our view. The US is being brought down while other countries like the BRICs are being brought up.
The idea that China poses an existential threat to the West is no more convincing, in our view, than the idea that Islam is implacably opposed to Christianity and that a religious war is in the offing.
Conclusion: These are memes of the elite. They are phantasmagoria designed to distract us from the truth that is both more mundane and perhaps more dangerous.
Well, why not. They hold the deed to our nation.
Thanks to our knuckle-dragging excuse for a Congress our nation is overgoverned to the point of creating mental disease in many of America's citizens that goes unheaded as we're wasting money and manpower doing other useless things.
It isn't too hard to understand the neanderthal carrying the biggest stick, not wanting anyone else to have a stick. To forcibly strip anyone of their ability to defend themselves is treasonous indeed.
Every time these atrocities happen, firearm and ammunition sales and concealed carry permits soar, and Gov opening its mouth only dumps a tanker load of fuel on the fire. Thank goodness for the sanity of responsible citizens pushing back against the insanity.
They want to remove "A rifle behind every blade of grass". Well FU little chicom pukes.
One word, "Norenco", they are still exporting small arms to us.
Are they going to institute knife control?
It makes the point much better than we have been able to:
When your enemy wants to make sure private citizens don't have access to assault weapons...
... it couldn't make the point any STRONGER that private citizens do NEED access to assault weapons.
They want to remove A rifle behind every blade of grass.
Ding, ding, ding, ding!
We have a winner...
Understand the Chinese desires....after all...when we need to give them California to pay off our debt....they want as little as resistance as possible....
Am deeply, deeply impressed with my recently acquired little Norenco "non-assualt" SKS folder, a truly indestructible, low-tech, simple and functional thing-of-beauty that should outlast every more fancy weapon by centuries.
Thanks China! I'll give you a demo when you come for it.
Thank you Jack... Merry Christams.
Thank you Jack... Merry Christmas.
When they come looking behind the 'blade of grass' they will find they will learn 'bout the 'dangers of boats' and all the boating accidents across over nation! Epic numbers of accidents everywhere.
I've heard this theory before, but when the time-frame for evolution is so long that no one who would have hatched the plan is still alive to take advantage of the results, it becomes suspect.
Soviet agents in positions of influence in the US government worked hard to make sure Communism came to power in China - for them, at the time, that was reward enough.
That said, and in keeping with the author's point, the middle class lifestyle and consumer culture in today's China are far more similar to what we have the United States than most of the other Asian nations are - even our allies like Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. If aliens landed tomorrow, they probably would have a hard time identifying significant differences in our two countries. China is rapidly adopting our economic system, and we are rapidly adopting their official corruption.
China's "unique culture" of bureaucrats ruling over a nation of docile farmers didn't change much under Communism...but is certainly changing fast now, and becoming just like the equally quasi-capitalist United States. Chinese are free to shop on the Internet, drive minivans, and take family vacations - but they do not dare evade taxes, own guns, or support religions that don't have official government approval. Sound familiar?
F U Chinamen !
Copy that 5x5! Zippers want it, it must be bad for us.
It would be ironic if I had to shoot commie Chinese invaders with their own crap guns and ammo.
That, and they know from Tiananmen Square that anyone with a firearm is a threat. Easy to round up and disappear people if they can't fight back.
The 'reeducation camps' are already here in the form of public schools and the MSM.
It also makes a totalitarian state with powerless subjects more of the norm. If we fall on this, the whole world does.
It would be ironic if I had to shoot commie Chinese invaders with their own crap guns and ammo.
Indeed it would be an irony squared.
"The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope." Karl Marx
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Pochettino becomes new Spurs boss
Tottenham Hotspur have confirmed the appointment of Southampton manager Mauricio Pochettino as their new head coach.
- Palmer: History not on Pochettino's side under Levy
- Crace: Spurs, Levy must back Pochettino
Pochettino has signed a five-year contract at White Hart Lane, bringing an end to his 16 months in charge at Southampton, with the South Coast club announcing his resignation on Tuesday.
The Argentine, who won 23 of his 60 games in charge of the Saints, told Tottenham's official website: "This is a club with tremendous history and prestige and I am honoured to have been given this opportunity to be its head coach.
"There is an abundance of top-class talent at the club and I am looking forward to starting work with the squad.
"Tottenham Hotspur has a huge following across the world and I have great admiration for the passion the fans show for this team. We are determined to give the supporters the kind of attacking football and success that we are all looking to achieve."
Club statement in full: http://t.co/cHrl8l1LPI pic.twitter.com/PGKzRv9DJp
- Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) May 27, 2014
Former Espanyol coach Pochettino took over at Southampton in January 2013, replacing Nigel Adkins, and made a positive impression during the campaign, leading the club to 14th in the Premier League.
In his most recent season, the Saints received many plaudits for their style of football and the progress of his squad, including Adam Lallana and Luke Shaw, as they finished eighth.
Tottenham, meanwhile, have been seeking a new manager since the departure of Tim Sherwood, who failed to keep his job after succeeding Andre Villas-Boas in December and ending the season in sixth.
Spurs chairman Daniel Levy said: "In Mauricio I believe we have a head coach who, with his high energy, attacking football, will embrace the style of play we associate with our club.
"He has a proven ability to develop each player as an individual, whilst building great team spirit and a winning mentality. We have a talented squad that Mauricio is excited to be coaching next season."
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MIDDLEBURY — It is a homecoming of sorts when Avis Warren Butler dines at her favorite local restaurant.
That's because Butler was born and raised at 26 Seymour St., which happens to be the address of Fire & Ice Restaurant.
Butler, who now lives in Bristol, returned "home" on Aug. 24 for what she thought would be a fairly low-key 90th birthday luncheon.
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RUTHIE EDWARDS necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 62 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a team of passionate business and marketing consultants/mentors helping small and medium enterprises take on the mindset of embracing digital business and marketing and empowering their business accordingly. WE ARE NOT A TECHNICAL COMPANY. Our philosophy is based on getting back to some business basics centred on goals, business philosophy and passion, uniqueness, branding, and taking these in to the world of digital conversation. We make digital conversation SIMPLE.
We take our clients through a 4 part process that ensures their business is centred, driven and consistent in its communications 'offline' before it goes 'online'. Our approach offers clarity and direction, takes the muddle and confusion out of the online information overload so that business can concentrate on what it does best. When a business is remarkable it will find a strong voice and its mojo is there for the world to see! We succeed in making that a reality for our clients and harmonising the offline and online world for them.
Our own passion lies with helping business close the gap between making and achieving goals, finding its 'voice' and identity. Without these fundamentals in place business is in a weaker position to be heard in the conversations online via internet marketing and social media. To embrace this business needs to adopt a mindset based on strategic and creative thinking. This helps dispel the fear of interacting online and creates motivation.
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15 Fabulous Pitcher Drinks for a Party
What's a party without a cocktail? But shaking them to order just isn't practical when there are guests to enjoy and dinner to finish. Two words for you: pitcher drinks. These cocktails are full of fresh flavors and ingredients, but they can be made in big batches, refrigerated, and pulled out right when the first guests arrive. Let's start with strawberry margaritas, and move on to Hurricanes. The party's just getting started.
Blueberry Lavender Vodka Spritzer
This round-up of cocktails start with the best of the spring season and will carry you right into summer back yard parties. Right now, a tumbler of the honey-bourbon Gold Rush or a grapefruit mimosa sounds perfect. When the strawberries start showing up in markets, that Strawberry-Basil Margarita should be at the top of your list, hands down.
Do you have a favorite large-batch cocktail for serving at parties? Please share!
- 1 Strawberry Basil Margaritas
- 2 Blueberry Lavender Vodka Spritzer
- 3 The Gold Rush
- 4 Non-Alcoholic Rosemary Citrus Spritzer
- 5 Sparkling Watermelon Sangria
- 6 Non-Alcoholic Sangria
- 7 The Original Hurricane
- 8 Sparkling White Peach Sangria
- 9 Blood Orange Jalapeno Margaritas
- 10 The Classic Frozen Strawberry Daquiri
- 11 Icy-Cool Green Tea Mojitos
- 12 Grapefruit Mimosas
- 13 Non-Alcoholic Hibiscus Ginger Punch
- 14 El Diablo Tequila Cocktail
- 15 Beer Margaritas
Related: 3 Essentials for Making World-Class Party Cocktails
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U.S. picks up tab to expand China's economy
Obama strategy implements expansion of previous aid program
The Chinese business sector must be in trouble. Why else would President Obama be sending taxpayer dollars there to modernize China's energy grid, hire private-sector consultants to help its Ministry of Environmental Protection and separately help to modify the nation's corporate laws?
The U.S. Trade & Development Agency, or USTDA – technically designated as an "independent" White House agency – is funding these and other initiatives, all of which aid China while simultaneously benefiting U.S. contractors.
While USTDA arguably is a relatively small agency – its FY 2014 budget request is just under $63 million – it consistently undergoes criticism and calls for closure. Former Rep. Ron Paul and free-market think tanks such as the Cato Institute regularly denounce it as among the most duplicative and wasteful of all federal entities.
Despite its relatively small budget, the agency often pays contractors to help foreign-aid recipients to secure financial assistance via other U.S. taxpayer-funded entities, such as the Export-Import Bank of the United States and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
USTDA, Ex-Im Bank and OPIC consequently are among the most egregious examples of "corporate welfare waste," the Cato Institute concluded in a 2005 report. These and similar organizations "should be terminated," contends the report's author, Chris Edwards.
USTDA's most recent foray into China was in a series of U.S.-funded Climate Change Working Group workshops emerging from the Fifth U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
President Obama's special representatives for the recent series of meetings were Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew.
The U.S. consequently will provide a $378,000 grant to hire a contractor to set up Phase III information-sharing workshops to "keep Chinese government and industry community informed of the latest U.S. smart grid technologies."
In a separate endeavor, it will cost U.S. taxpayers $240,000 to plan and execute Phase III of USTDA's Anti-Monopoly Law Program, or AML III, for which a contractor will arrange workshops over the course of 20 months for "key policymakers, regulators and industry representatives from both the U.S. and China."
Four distinct two-day workshops each will accommodate "50-75 Chinese participants."
Key Chinese stakeholders include China's Ministry of Commerce – the "key enforcer of the AML's merger provisions" – and China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce.
Among a lengthy list of key U.S. stakeholders are the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce/American Chamber of Commerce and the U.S.-China Business Council.
The goal of the workshops is to exchange information to implement China's new anti-monopoly law.
The Obama administration says the law is lacking since it exempts "specific Chinese industries and state-owned enterprises from the application of the law," according to a Statement of Work that WND located via routine database research.
As WND additionally reported, as part of a broader global "climate change" program worth hundreds of millions of dollars, China's Ministry of Environmental Protection had asked USTDA to help it with "pollution reduction activities" for which the agency intends to market "U.S. expertise and technology."
USTDA offered a $60,000 China Environmental Sector Opportunities grant to send a "definitional mission" contractor to Beijing and up to three other sites in China for 10 business days "to identify potential project opportunities in air pollution reduction and water quality improvement."
Late last year, the administration agreed initially to award a $378,000 grant so that providers of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," equipment and services can travel to China to further examine such potential opportunities.
USTDA assistance to China had been cut off after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
President Bill Clinton, however, in one of his final acts in office, restored USTDA's ability to assist the Chinese government.
On Jan. 20, 2001, Clinton notified Congress he was lifting the suspension, claiming, among other justifications, that the policy change was warranted as it would help boost U.S. exports.
Clinton also said the move "would reflect our humanitarian concern for the basic human needs of the Chinese people, who suffer from some of the worst pollution in the world."
The focus of the aid initially must center upon energy and the environment, he told Congress.
President George W. Bush, in turn, accelerated the China-assistance programs via USTDA, launching initiatives such as the Shuangdao Bay Petrochemical Complex Project.
A direct beneficiary of the $700,000 grant was the Dalian Shide Group – a multinational company jointly owned by the Saudi Arabian government and a Chinese conglomerate.
More recent USTDA projects in China include the hiring of a former agency staffer to conduct a "desk study" for the China Green Data Center Demo Project.
No further information is available aside from a $7,000 contract-award given to Doug Shuster, proprietor of Emerging Markets Infrastructure LLC, a Northern Virginia private consulting firm.
According to Shuster's LinkedIn page as well as USTDA annual reports, he formerly worked as the agency's manager for business development in Sub-Saharan Africa and as director of the regional Sub-Saharan Africa office, based in Johannesburg.
Since leaving USTDA in October 2008, Shuster has been paid to perform numerous other studies for his former employer, based on a review of agency annual reports as well as the FedBizOpps contractor database.
That same year, the agency paid him $123,174 to provide "technical assistance" in a regional Sub-Saharan Africa project for which no further information is available.
Neither through a search of FedBizOpps nor a search of the USTDA online document library was anything found specific to contracts awarded to Shuster or to his company in any 2008 endeavors.
The next USTDA project for which Shuster secured a contract was a $60,000 award the agency granted him in 2011 for a definitional mission to Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, where he evaluated a proposed "gas utilization and coal bed methane" project.
He also earned an additional $2,000 that year to perform a desk study of an Angola electricity distribution-modernization project. In 2012, Shuster earned $5,000 and $3,000 for separate desk studies of an information and communications technology project for the National Bank of Rwanda.
USTDA listed the contract awards to Shuster in its annual report but via FedBizOpps only published the initial solicitation for bids on the Rwandan endeavor.


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DSpeech 1.51
DSpeech is a TTS (Text To Speech) program with functionality of ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) integrated.
It is able to to read aloud the written text and choose the sentences to be pronounced upon the vocal answers of the user. It is specifically designed to provide quickly and directly the functions of better practical usefulness that are requested to this kind of programs. In the meantime the invasivity and the spent of resources are minimal. (DSpeech does not install itself, is very light, it starts in a second and doesn't write anything on the register). The capital features of DSpeech are:
1. It allows to save the output as a Wav or Mp3 file. 2. It allows to select quickly different voices and to combine them between themselves, in order to create dialogues between some voices. 3. It integrates a vocal recognition system that, through a simple script language, allows to create interactive dialogues with the user. 4. It allows to configure the voices in an independent way. 5. Thanks to apposite TAGs, it allows to change dinamically the features of the voices during the reproduction (speed, volume and frequency), to insert pauses, to emphasize some words or to spell. 6. It allows to capture and reproduce the content of the ClipBoard. 7. It's compatible with all modern vocal engines SAPI4 or 5 compliant.
On Windows XP you don't have need to install anything. On Windows NT4/2000 you must install MS-SAPI, you can download them here: http://aldostools.mysite4now.com/sapi51.msi http://www.mbsoft.biz/download/sapi51.exe http://www.arlington.com.au/sapi51.msi Similarly, on NT4/2000, if you want use the Speech Recognition features, you must install the MS-Recognition Engine too, download from here: http://clans.gameclubcentral.com/shoot/SR.zip
DSpeech uses the vocal engines installed on system, by default Windows XP has only Microsoft SAM. However, the better vocal engines come from Acapela, Cepstral, Loquendo, RealSpeak and VoiceWare.


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Consensus Report
Mitigating Shore Erosion along Sheltered Coasts (2007)Ocean Studies Board
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
Sheltered coastal areas, such as those along bays and estuaries, experience land loss from erosion and sea level rise much like ocean beaches. Owners of property along sheltered coasts often reinforce their shoreline with bulkheads and other structures to prevent erosion; however, this construction alters the coastal ecosystem, causing changes that threaten landscapes, public access, recreational opportunities, natural habitats, and fish populations. At the request of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology, this report examines the impacts of shoreline management on sheltered coasts and calls for a regional management approach that considers the environmental impacts that could accumulate if hard structures are permitted on a site by site basis. In addition, this report recommends changing the current permitting system to remove the default preference for bulkheads and similar structures and to allow more flexibility to encourage use of more ecologically beneficial erosion-control methods, such as planting of marshes.
Key Messages
- Implementation of a regional plan will require a new commitment for coordination among local, state, and federal programs, including a regional general permit.
- Although loss of small parcels of shoreline habitat from hardening may not have a large impact on the ecosystem, the cumulative impact of the loss of many small parcels will at some point alter the properties, composition, and values of the ecosystem. In addition, the economic, recreational, and aesthetic properties of the shoreline will be altered, with potential loss of public use, access, and scenic values.
- Cumulative effects of shoreline hardening projects are rarely assessed and hence are generally unknown. However, an appreciation of the potential cumulative effects will be necessary to prevent an underestimation of the impacts of individual projects.
- Currently there is no national mandate to document erosion processes on sheltered coasts or to develop regional scale plans. No federal agency has been assigned to provide that scale of planning, although some states have become more proactive in shoreline management.
- In most areas, the scope and accessibility of information regarding the causes of erosion at specific sites and the overall patterns of erosion, accretion, and inundation in the broader region (estuary, lagoon, littoral cell) is insufficient to support the development of an integrated plan for managing shore erosion.
- Many decision-makers, particularly homeowners but also some state and federal regulators, are not sufficiently informed about the mitigation options available to them or the short and long term impacts of their choices.
- Regional plans facilitate the assessment of cumulative impacts but require credible monitoring of project performance within and without the region of interest.
- The RSM approach provides a model and framework that could be adapted to address sheltered shoreline erosion problems within a regional context.
- The current permitting system fosters a reactive response to the problem of erosion on sheltered coasts. Decision-making is usually parcel-by parcel and based on little or no physical or ecological information.
- The current regulatory framework for sheltered coasts contains disincentives to the development and implementation of erosion control measures that preserve more of the natural features of shorelines, mainly as a result of the combined lack of knowledge, vision, and planning.


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Southern France, Toulouse or Avignon, 13th century
Bound illuminated manuscript in Latin; brown morocco binding; ink, tempera and gold on vellum; 533 leaves, Closed: 35.6 x 24.2 cm (14 x 9 1/2 in.). John L. Severance Fund 2008.2
Biblical manuscripts were highly prized and important possessions of churches, monasteries, cathedral schools, and universities throughout medieval Europe. The biblical texts were known as the vulgate, the translations made by Saint Jerome in the fourth century from Hebrew and Greek into Latin, which became the definitive and official Latin version of the Roman Church. In the 13th century, the bible was, for the first time, produced as a single volume with an officially sanctioned sequence to its books and chapters as illustrated by this example. The very extensive decoration of this bible is arranged hierarchically to indicate the relative importance of the various texts so that full or almost full-page initials mark the openings of the first prologue, Genesis, and the first Gospel; historiated initials mark the beginning of each book and illuminated initials mark the Prologues.
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New Year's resolutions for business
It is the time of year when many people are making resolutions — lose a few pounds, quit smoking, learn a new language — but, the new year is also the perfect time to look back on your business' progress over the past year and plan for the future.
Here are three things to get you started on planning and setting goals for the new year and every year.
1) Update Your Business Plan
Keeping your business plan up to date gives you the chance to see where your business currently stands, and can help you develop a strategy for growth. It is important to revisit your plan regularly, and to update it to include any new goals or changes in the market. Leave yourself room to grow and be flexible as your business grows and changes with your chosen market. To learn more about business planning, you can visit the planning, section of our website.
2) Create/Update a Succession Plan
Creating a succession plan is one of the most important things you can do for the life of your business. A succession plan can help you provide financial security for your family and stakeholders, and guarantee the continuity of service for your customers. You can also experience a smoother transition when you are ready to hand over your business. To learn more about creating a succession plan, you can visit our Succession planning guide.
3) Make Your Business Accessible
One of the biggest changes for Ontario business owners in 2012 will be ensuring that their businesses are accessible to people with disabilities. Making your business accessible can involve more than making sure your physical location is accessible. It also involves ensuring that your website and staff are welcoming to customers and employees with disabilities. To learn more about accessibility and your business, visit the Access ON website.
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Department of Revenue News Release
March 03, 2011Bowling Green License Office Gets New Agent & Location
JEFFERSON CITY - Koester & Koester will be the new agent for the Bowling Green Motor Vehicle and License Office. The winning proposal was chosen as part of a competitive bidding process that is used for all of Missouri's local license offices.
The winning bid was one of five submitted for the office. Koester & Koester is affiliated with David Koester, Sr. and David Koester, Jr., both of Bowling Green. The Koesters have been the agents for the Mexico and Fulton License Offices since 2009.
The Bowling Green License Office will be moving to a new location. The office will be located at 1420 S. Business Highway 61.
The management contract for the office became open in December when the state canceled the contract with the previous office agent.
The opening day and any changes in office hours or other operations of the license office will be announced by the new agent.
According to figures from Fiscal Year 2010, there were an estimated 18,394 transactions conducted at the Bowling Green office, and it generated about $62,584 in agent processing fees.
Bidders have the option of returning part of the office revenues to the state. Koester & Koester's winning bid included a 3 percent ($1,877) return to state. About $1 million is estimated to be returned to the state during the first contract year from all 183 local license offices.
Although the Missouri Department of Revenue implemented the new bidding system in January of 2009 after being authorized to do so by Gov. Jay Nixon, it didn't become part of state law until legislation was signed by the Governor in the summer of 2009. The new law was overwhelmingly approved by both Republican and Democratic members of the Missouri Legislature.
Alana M. Barragán-Scott, director of the Missouri Department of Revenue, said she was pleased the new office will be opening soon.
"I'm confident that the new office will be run efficiently and provide excellent service to the citizens in the Pike County area," she said.
During the interim period before the new Bowling Green License Office opens, there are several other area license offices where Pike County customers can go to conduct transactions. The offices, their addresses, phone numbers, and operating hours are:
Louisiana - 202 S. Third St., Suite 113, (573) 754-6864, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Last Saturday of the month, 9 a.m. to Noon; Closed for lunch (Monday through Friday), 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Vandalia - 200 E. Park St., (573) 594-3131, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
New London - 112 E. Fourth St., (573) 985-3560, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Closed for lunch (Monday through Friday), Noon to 1 p.m.
Elsberry - 106 N. Third St., Suite B, (573) 898-2213, Weekdays (except Wednesday), 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Second and fourth Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Closed for lunch (Monday through Friday), Noon to 1 p.m.
Troy - 850 E. Cherry, Suite D, (636) 528-6533, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturdays (except last Saturday of month), 9 a.m. to Noon; Last Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to Noon.
A list of all license offices is available at http://dor.mo.gov/offloc/.
Many Pike County citizens can also renew their motor vehicle registrations (license plates) online at www.plates.mo.gov.
All local license offices provide services that are overseen by the Department of Revenue, but each office is operated by an independent agent.
The Missouri Department of Revenue is now on Twitter! To follow the Department on Twitter, go to http://twitter.com/MoRevenue.


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Miley Cyrus Wears Supersexy Mini On Red Carpet With Liam Hemsworth
Miley revealed quite a bit of her upper body while walking the red carpet with Liam on June 27 — their first red carpet appearance since announcing their engagement! Find out all the details and see a photo of Miley's risque look!
Miley Cyrus continued her theme of revealing attire as she attended the Australians In Film Awards & Benefit Dinner at InterContinental Hotel in Century City on Wednesday June 27 alongside fiance Liam Hemsworth!
Miley, 19, wore a black mini-dress, featuring well placed cut-outs. But the ensemble made Miley look as though she was wearing a bra to the star-studded event! It was the first official event the pair attended as an engaged couple!
Miley finished the look with high platform shoes and her newly dyed hair, which was straightened for the event.
Liam looks to be a fan of Miley's racy fashion choices as he proudly put his arm around his wife-to-be while the two lovebirds walked down the carpet together!
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Is Miley's look too racy?
— Chris Rogers
More on Miley:
- Miley Cyrus Shows Off Her Sexy Abs In Crop Top
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Washington Post: Mahatma Gandhi, Mormon?
Minneapolis, MN (March 1, 2012) - As a regularly featured blogger on the Washington Post/Newsweek's "On Faith" blog, Dr. Aseem Shukla, member of HAF's Board of Directors, has the opportunity to provide a Hindu viewpoint on various issues. Below is Dr. Shukla's latest blog. Please post your comments directly on the "On Faith" site by clicking here.
Is Mahatma Gandhi in heaven or hell? Where will the Dalai Lama sojourn in the afterlife? Will two thirds of the world's seven billion people who non-Christians go on to overpopulate hell for never accepting Jesus Christ as their savior? We hear hell is hot now...how much worse could it get with billions more denizens!
Such questions animate some Christians in various ways. For some, it creates an sense of urgency for evangelization and proselytizing. Spread the Gospel as far and as rapidly as possible out of compassion to save those heathen lost souls, they exhort their adherents. And while there will be earnest and eager wide-eyed wannabe saviors knocking on doors, goading and encouraging others to follow their ways, there are too many predatory proselytizers looking to harvest souls by coercion or by predicating medical care, education, or jobs to religious conversion.
But the Gandhian existential dilemma was solved in another "act of compassion" reportedly by a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mormons have long engaged in these proxy-baptisms of departed Jews, Hindus, and others to offer them the chance to "choose" since they were not reached--or convinced--while they lived. Indeed, according to media reports, Gandhi joined Anne Frank and many others in the ranks of the posthumously baptized.(The Mormon church condemned Frank's unsanctioned baptism and officially abandoned the practice of baptizing Holocaust victims and survivors in a 1995 agreement.)
I do believe that the path laid out in Hindu scripture is uniquely attuned to accomplishing life's spiritual goals, but the Dharma traditions allow for plurality. I have no imperative to convince others to follow my path, since Hindus believe that any life lived in self-realization, performing good karma without attachments to the fruits of one's actions, will necessarily escape the cycles of reincarnation and attain Moksha or Nirvana.
And that is why the posthumous baptism of Gandhi, or any other person, demonstrates insularity, condescension, and is, yes, insulting. What astounding gall to assume the need to "save" a person who lived a life of selfless dedication, service and love! In an era when Hindus are standing with Mormons to decry the false sanctimony of politicians that would presume to flog Gov. Romney for his religion, such snippets of news only reinforce American culture's ludicrous alienation of Dharma traditions.
Perhaps the greatest irony is that it was the Mahatma himself who spoke so eloquently against aggressive proselytizing of the living--an exploitation of the poor, he maintained. One may infer very well what he would say to the do-gooder who presumed to offer him options in his afterlife:
"I believe that there is no such thing as conversion from one faith to another in the accepted sense of the word. It is a highly personal matter for the individual and his God. I may not have any design upon my neighbor as to his faith which I must honor even as I honor my own. Having reverently studied the scriptures of the world I could no more think of asking a Christian or a Musalman, or a Parsi or a Jew to change his faith than I would think of changing my own." (source: Mahatma Gandhi, Harijan: September 9, 1935)


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In general v8 installs on BGEE v2.3.
A few observations for those considering the mod:
Dirgesinger song radius as mentioned several years ago still very very small.
The two biggest bugs are with the gypsy (my favorite kit if it worked properly)
Gypsy Curse casts Bless on enemies instead of curse(at least that is the descriptor given on screen feedback.
Gypsy Charm song only charms the same types of creatures as mentioned by the charm person spell. On screen however the effect looks to be trying to charm all creatures (like the Cloak of Algernon can do, well, other than undead) but does nothing other than make the 'other' creatures flash colors.
Any fix for this?


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Zach Levine found out that Delino DeShields had a rough night, getting busted for DUI. As if that's not enough, he's 18, so there's the whole "minor in possession" issue, as well.
"It's a police matter," says Ed Wade.
Brutal. And stupid.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
DeShields popped for DUI
2 comments:
- Andrew said...
I think I saw somewhere that it was his fathers birthday over the weekend, dont know if the two were related.
Also, he released a statement this morning on his Facebook.
- January 17, 2011 at 11:33 AM
- Kathy Amen said...
Young guys can be stupid. I seem to remember something similar happening to one Craig Biggio when he was even older than DeShields is. And he turned out ok. Hope this kid has learned a lesson here, too.
- January 17, 2011 at 2:43 PM
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During your life as PHP developer, quite possibly you'll have learned some useful approaches to improve the overall performance of object-based web applications. From using content/XHTML caching mechanisms and compressing web page outputs, to implementing a rational usage of the objects utilized by a given application, options are numerous. Logically, the best of this variety of possible improvements rests on the point that many of the methods I mentioned can be used in conjunction with applications that have been written using a procedural methodology.
Nevertheless, when it comes to working solely with object-oriented programs in PHP, it's possible to create applications that present a carefully-planned utilization of their different objects. One of the simplest approaches, implemented to avoid the duplication of costly objects, involves using the popular references in PHP 4 instead of working with multiples copies of the objects in question.
However, if you're looking for new techniques aimed at improving the performance of object-based PHP applications as a whole, I must say that there's more good news on the horizon: in the huge terrain of creational design patterns, there's one that can be used successfully for implementing a rational usage of objects. In this case, I'm referring specially to the proxy pattern, which offers many interesting features that can help to reduce significantly the overhead of an application.
But I'm sure you're wondering how this pattern works. Well, in short, in the proxy pattern, one object is created by another only when the functionality of the first one is required. This avoids unnecessary class instantiation. For this pattern in particular, the object called "proxy" is responsible for handling all the accesses to another class, something that looks very similar to the behavior of different proxy servers. Now, are you feeling more familiar with the functionality of this useful pattern? I'm sure you are.
Having introduced the basic definition of proxy objects in PHP, in this two-part series, I'm going to walk you through the key points of how to use this pattern with PHP 5, as well as how to apply it in different real-world situations.
With the preliminaries out of our way, let's start learning more about this handy design pattern. Let's go!
{mospagebreak title=Developing an expandable XML processor class}
Proxy objects can be easily created by defining a simple class that works as an intermediate entity for another one (this resembles the concept of proxy servers). In this case, the proxy is responsible for accessing a class in particular, which will be instantiated only when its functionality is required.
Actually, the above definition seems rather hard to grasp, so let me show you an illustrative example where a proxy class is created to access a generic XML processor only when this object is needed by a specific application.
Having said that, here is the initial signature that corresponds to the mentioned proxy class, which not surprisingly I called "ProxyXMLProcessor." Have a look at the definition for this new class, please:
// define 'ProxyXMLProcessor' class (proxy class for XMLProcessor) class ProxyXMLProcessor{ private $XMLProcessor=NULL; private $xmlstr; // XMLProcessor is not created here by the constructor public function __construct($xmlstr){ $this->xmlstr=$xmlstr; } // display nodes public function displayNodes($node){ // XMLProcessor object is only instantiated when any
of its methods is called if($this->XMLProcessor==NULL){ $this->createXMLProcessor(); } return $this->XMLProcessor->displayNodes
($node); } // fetch nodes as array of objects public function fetchNodesAsObjects(){ if($this->XMLProcessor==NULL){ $this->createXMLProcessor(); } return $this->XMLProcessor->fetchNodesAsObjects(); } }
If you take some time and examine the class shown above, then you'll realize that undoubtedly there are some interesting aspects concerning its definition. First, the referenced proxy class really behaves as an intermediate entity for an XML processor object, since all the methods that belong to it are accessed via the proxy. This concept is simple, right?
In addition, you can see that the previous "ProxyXMLProcessor" class also offers a couple of straightforward methods for fetching and displaying the nodes of an inputted XML string. However, one thing that surely caught your attention is the fact that these methods will instantiate the corresponding XML processor object via the respective "createXMLProcessor()" method only when its functionality is required. Period.
Now, do you see why this pattern is aimed at avoiding the unnecessary instantiation of different objects? I hope you do!
Now that you hopefully grasped the logic that stands behind the proxy pattern, let me go one step further and show you how to improve the "ProxyXMLProcessor" class by expanding its existing functionality, in addition to implementing its still undefined "createXMLProcessor" method.
As you might have guessed, all these tasks will be discussed in the following section, thus click on the link below and keep reading.
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As I stated in the section that you just read, my main purpose here is to extend the functionality of the already familiar proxy class, in addition to implementing its "createXMLProcessor()" method. Of course, the method will be responsible for the instantiation of XML processor objects only when its presence will be required, in this way sticking to the definition of the proxy pattern.
Having said that, below I listed an improved version of the prior proxy class, this time including some additional methods for counting the number of nodes of an input XML string. This new incarnation of this class looks like this:
// define 'ProxyXMLProcessor' class (proxy class for XMLProcessor) class ProxyXMLProcessor{ private $XMLProcessor=NULL; private $xmlstr; // XMLProcessor is not created here by the constructor public function __construct($xmlstr){ $this->xmlstr=$xmlstr; } // display nodes public function displayNodes($node){ // XMLProcessor object is only instantiated when any
of its methods is called if($this->XMLProcessor==NULL){ $this->createXMLProcessor(); } return $this->XMLProcessor->displayNodes($node); } // fetch nodes as array of objects public function fetchNodesAsObjects(){ if($this->XMLProcessor==NULL){ $this->createXMLProcessor(); } return $this->XMLProcessor->fetchNodesAsObjects(); } // count number of nodes contained into XML string public function countNodes(){ if($this->XMLProcessor==NULL){ $this->createXMLProcessor(); } return $this->XMLProcessor->countNodes(); } // instantiate XMLProcessor object private function createXMLProcessor(){ $xmlObj=new XMLProcessor($this->xmlstr); $this->XMLProcessor=$xmlObj->getXMLProcessor(); } }
Aside from implementing a new method for counting the nodes of a given XML string, the above class also exposes a private method called "createXMLProcessor." In this case, the method in question is tasked with instantiating an XML processor object when this condition is demanded. That was pretty simple, wasn't it?
Okay, at this stage, I'm pretty certain that you understand how the previous proxy class does its business. However, I have to admit that there's still a missing piece in this puzzle that remains undefined, since you don't know how the corresponding "XMLProcessor" class looks.
In order to address this issue and dissipate any possible doubts, in the next few lines I'm going to show you the respective signature for this XML processing class. Go ahead and read the next section.
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In consonance with the concepts related to the proxy pattern that you learned before, it's necessary to define the signature of the corresponding "XMLProcessor" class. This will help you understand how a potential proxy object can access the methods that belong to different XML processors.
This being said, below I included the signature for the pertinent "XMLProcessor" class. You'll quickly realize that it performs some useful tasks on a given XML string. Therefore, have a look at this brand new class, please:
// define 'XMLProcessor' class class XMLProcessor{ private $sxmle; public function __construct($xmlstr){ if(!$this->sxmle=new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr)){ throw new Exception('Error reading XLML
string'); } } // display values of a given node public function displayNodes($node){ $nodes=''; foreach($this->sxmle as $obj){ $nodes.='Value of '.$node.' node is the
following : '.$obj->$node.'<br />'; } return $nodes; } // fetch all nodes as array of objects public function fetchNodesAsObjects(){ $nodes=array(); foreach($this->sxmle as $node){ $nodes[]=$node; } return $nodes; } // count number of nodes contained into XML string public function countNodes(){ $nodeCounter=0; foreach($this->sxmle as $node){ $nodeCounter++; } return $nodeCounter; } // get 'SimpleXMLElement' object public function getXMLProcessor(){ return $this; } }
As shown above, the "XMLProcessor" class has been provided with a wealth of handy methods which can be used for counting and displaying the different nodes of a specified XML string, in addition to fetching the complete set of XML data as an array of objects. Though all the methods that I just described play an important role in the context of the XML processing class in question, I'd like you to focus your attention on the definition of the "getXMLProccessor()" method.
As you can see, the only task assigned to the referenced method consists of simply returning to calling code an instance of the corresponding XMLProcessor" class. Logically, this condition allows a proxy class to access all the methods that belong to the respective XML processor, something that perfectly suits the requirements established by the proxy pattern.
All right, at this level I hope that you grasped the key points on how the previous XML processing class does its thing, since its signature is indeed pretty straightforward. Thus, bearing this condition in mind, the only thing that remains undone is developing an illustrative example that will show you how the XML proxy class and its respective target object can work in tandem to process a simple XML string.
Naturally, the example will be shown in the following section, thus to see how it will be created, please click on the link that appears below and keep reading.
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In accordance with the concepts that I deployed in the prior section, the simplest way to understand how the corresponding "ProxyXMLProcessor" class works to access all the methods of a potential XML processor object rests on setting up a comprehensive example. In this example, a simple XML string will be processed by using the proxy pattern.
For this specific case, say you have the following sample XML string in a file called "xmlstr.php:"
<?php $xmlstr=<<<XML <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <users> <user> <name>John Doe</name> <location>Location 1</location> <email>firstname.lastname@example.com</email> </user> <user> <name>Mary Shelley</name> <location>Location 2</location> <email>firstname.lastname@example.com</email> </user> <user> <name>Peter Parker</name> <location>Location 3</location> <email>email@example.com</email> </user> <user> <name>Susan Norton</name> <location>Location 4</location> <email>email@example.com</email> </user> <user> <name>Steve Powell</name> <location>Location 5</location> <email>firstname.lastname@example.com</email> </user> </users> XML; ?>
Now, after listing the above XML string, it's possible to use the previous XML proxy class in the following way:
try{ // include XML string require_once 'xmlstr.php'; // instantiate 'ProxyXMLProcessor' object $pxmlproc=new ProxyXMLProcessor($xmlstr); // display number of 'email' nodes contained into XML string echo $pxmlproc->displayNodes('email'); /* displays the following: Value of email node is the following : firstname.lastname@example.com Value of email node is the following : firstname.lastname@example.com Value of email node is the following : firstname.lastname@example.com Value of email node is the following : email@example.com Value of email node is the following : email@example.com */ // fetch nodes as array of objects echo $pxmlproc->fetchNodesAsObjects(); /* displays the following: array */ // count number of nodes contained into XML string echo $pxmlproc->countNodes(); /* displays the following: 5 */ } catch(Exception $e){ echo $e->getMessage(); exit(); }
As you can see, the previous example shows clearly how the corresponding "XMLProxyProcessor" can be used to count, display and fetch all the nodes contained in the XML string that you saw before, by using all the methods exposed by an XML processor object.
After studying the above example, you'll agree with me that building proxy classes with PHP 5 is indeed a no-brainer process, right?
Wrapping up
We've come to the end of this first part of the series. Aside from introducing the core concepts for how to implement the proxy pattern with PHP 5, I provided you with some examples that may help you understand more easily how this pattern works.
In the final article of this series, I'll show you how to use this handy pattern to construct a proxy object for the "DirectoryIterator" class that comes bundled with PHP 5. So, stay tuned until the next part!