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Pretend Play: 5 Ideas for DIY Dress Up
When I was a kid, I had an enormous chest of my mom's old prom dresses that I used for dress up. With two boys of my own, I don't really have a lot of hand-me-down clothes that I can give them for pretend play. Over the years I've been collecting various items: hats, capes, arm bands, and pieces of Halloween costumes. But I decided to fill up their dress up bin, so I need to get creative and pull together some things on my own. Here's a round up of 5 cute ideas I found that can help you supplement—or even begin—your dress up collection.
1. Star Wars X-wing fighter pilot's helmet at Filth Wizardry. Why didn't I have one of these as a child?! You won't believe how Lindsey put this together with a bike helmet and paper plates.
2. Dress-Up Crowns at We Wilsons. These simple crowns are sturdy and infinitely customizable for a boy or a girl.
3. Dress-Up Tails at Vixen Made. Make a tail for a dinosaur, a real animal, or something totally imaginative.
4. DIY Pretend Spy Kit at Inner Child Fun. While not technically dress-up clothes, this kit will outfit your child for any CSI-style adventure she wants.
5. Scientist Dress-Up at Real Simple. If you are about to embark on some experiments, your kid might want to dress the part.
Do you have any homemade dress-up clothes? Let us know how you did it in the comments.
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Another terrible idea I thought of...Darth Maul is also of right now in SW Canon alive again...ugh
She was sorta forcey in the Thrawn Trilogy but I don't recall her using a saber. I could see it though. I'd be fine with Luke passing it on.I don't think kids are even necessary... I think force sensitives would continue to be born and Luke could begin training any number of them. At least that's how EU lays it out, but it stands to reason I think.
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Relationships established along the way
A good friend of mine, Truman State head football coach Gregg Nesbitt, once said he believed that coaching was the best relationship business there is. The friendships formed there will be able to last a lifetime, he said.
I've never coached, but I completely understand what he was talking about. Even though the late nights and the long hours in covering games got to be a grind at times, I took solace in knowing that there is somebody at the game that I could connect with, someone who took the time to commend me on a story in which I mentioned a relative of theirs -- whether it would be a son, daughter, grandson or granddaughter. Sports is a great way for folks to come together.
Many times I would not know the person who congratulated me on doing the story, but they would later explain to me who they are and I'd be flattered that they would still remember me and greet me when we met in a non-athletic setting. The ability to interact with people is what makes the world go around, I think.
When I went to college at what is now Truman State, I was fortunate enough to hook up with the football and basketball players on campus and they showed an awfully lot of patience in letting me hang around them. One of the most enjoyable times I've had in recent years has been when my brother hosted a golf outing in the summer and a lot of the "Old Bulldogs" returned for it. It was a good group of fellows that made up the Bulldog basketball team back then and man, the stories we would tell. I take great pride in the fact that we all still keep in touch to this day.
Games come and go at an alarming rate at times, but the people who play them remain. That fact makes me think that coach Nesbitt knew what he was talking about when discussing the benefits of being involved in athletics.


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Dell and Google to Help Developers and Businesses thrive in a Cloud-Based, Mobile-Driven World
- The collaboration builds on core strengths, making innovative cloud solutions easily accessible for companies of all types and sizes
- Dell and Google's cloud expertise will help organizations capitalize on the immense business value of cloud computing
Dell today announced its intention to offer the Google Cloud Platform and its compute, storage and application services to developers and businesses worldwide through the Dell Cloud Partner Program next year. Dell and Google will push cloud innovations into the market, making highly-scalable cloud solutions easier for customers of all sizes, across all industries to obtain and consume.
"Putting the power of cloud in our customers' hands – and giving them the choice and flexibility to pursue the right cloud for their unique needs – will not only help individual businesses thrive, but collectively it will drive the whole technology industry forward to a new era of innovation," said Nnamdi Orakwue, vice president, Dell Software Strategy, Operations and Cloud.
"Combining over 15 years of technical innovation and datacenter expertise at Google with Dell's business and integration solutions will enable new ways for customers to take advantage of the benefits of cloud," said Shailesh Rao, Head of Google Cloud Platform, Google.
Google Cloud Platform gives developers the flexibility to architect applications with both managed and unmanaged services that run on Google's infrastructure. With access to Google Compute Engine (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), App Engine (Platform-as-a-Service), storage and APIs, developers and business can easily deploy applications into a highly-scalable public cloud environment for their specific needs.
The Dell Cloud Partner Program combines Dell's end-to-end open, scalable infrastructure, software and services with the added benefit of having Dell serve as the single-source supplier. Businesses can expect centralized solution integration, control and support from Dell as well as the following Dell services and solutions:
- Expert guidance in helping assess, build and operate cloud environments with Dell Cloud Consulting and Application Services, whether customers are just starting in cloud, already have significant cloud investments, or are somewhere in between;
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The Dell Cloud Partner Program gives customers more choice and flexibility to select the public cloud partner, platform and model appropriate for their business needs. The Program complements Dell's cloud focus areas of enabling private cloud, delivering multi-cloud management and supplying cloud builders.
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RESOLVED, that the proper city officials are hereby authorized to execute a supplemental agreement with the city of Duluth Confidential bargaining unit represented by Unite-Here Local 150, which is on file in the office of the city clerk as Public Document No. _____________, which, beginning October 1, 2007, modifies the 2007-2009 collective bargaining agreement language to encourage the utilization of generic prescriptions to provide a cost savings to the group health fund.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: This resolution authorizes the amendment of the 2007-2009 labor agreement with the confidential bargaining unit, which has been ratified by the union. It requires the group health plan participant to be responsible for an increased drug co-pay for non-preferred brand name prescriptions, while reducing the drug co-pay for generic prescriptions and prescribed over the counter medications to zero.
This drug co-pay structure is recommended by the prescription drug sub-committee of the labor management insurance committee as a means to increase cost savings to the group health fund in two specific areas.
First, the supplemental agreement is designed to increase generic drug utilization whenever possible. Generic drugs are far less costly to the plan than name brand prescriptions. Based on actual prescription drug claims paid in 2006, the city would have realized a projected net savings of $642,200 by moving from a $5 generic co-pay to a $0 generic co-pay at the industry-wide goal of 65% utilization, or approximately 17% of the 2006 prescription drug expenditures.
Second, the supplemental agreement shifts the co-pay benefit design from a drug make up design to a formulary based design, which encourages generic utilization while also managing the use of brand name drugs. The formulary based design creates three tiers where the participant pays an increased co-pay if they choose a brand name prescription over a generic equivalent.
The financial savings to this approach to formulary management, not including generic utilization covered above, includes a slight increase in co-pays received and availability of prescribed over the counter medications. Based on total actual prescription drug claims paid in 2006, the city would have realized a projected net savings of $437,857 or approximately 11% of the 2006 prescription drug expenditures.
If the supplemental agreement had been applied, based on the city's 2006 prescription drug expenditures, a projected total savings of $1,080,057 or approximately 28% would have been realized.


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Henry V Monologue Analysis Essay
The following paper topics are designed to test your understanding of the play as a whole and to analyze important themes and literary devices. Following each question is a sample outline to help get you started.
Topic #1
Henry V is in most respects a model of the ideal king—wise, just, courageous, and kind. Yet there are a number of moments when less praiseworthy qualities seem apparent. It would be an overstatement to say he is a villain, but neither is he as perfect as his surface behavior would indicate. Write an essay showing how the positive qualities in him are to an extent counterbalanced by negative tendencies.
I. Thesis Statement: Although Henry V exhibits the virtues of an ideal English king throughout the play, certain details suggest that some aspects of his nature are less than admirable—indeed, that there are elements of the villain, as well as the hero, in him.
II. Examples of positive and negative behavior
A. Treatment of his friends
Positive: He shows mercy toward a drunken soldier who insulted him.
Negative: He broke Falstaff's heart by disavowing their earlier friendship.
B. Unmasking of the conspirators Scroop, Grey, and Cambridge
Positive: He cleverly manipulates them into passing judgment on themselves.
Negative: He deviously entraps them rather than forthrightly charging them with treason.
C. Heroism in battle
Positive: He courageously leads the charge into Harfleur and at Agincourt.
Negative: He threatens monstrous punishments at Harfleur—babies spitted on pikes, etc.—and cruelly orders all French captives killed at Agincourt.
D. Compassion
Positive: He weeps at the deaths of York and Suffolk.
Negative: He callously has Bardolph, a former friend, hanged for a minor theft.
E. Personal honesty
Positive: In wooing Katharine, he speaks from his heart as a "plain soldier."
Negative: He knows she is his by right. The soldier act is false and manipulative.
III. Conclusion: Given the inconsistencies in Henry's behavior, it is impossible to regard him simply as an ideal king.
Topic #2
In the language of the theater, a "foil" is a character who serves as a contrast to another, illuminating that...
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Can I sign up without having a PDGA number yet? It's pending. So pumped to actually play this year!
How long do the rounds usually last each day? I only ask because my wife's birthday is June 4th and I want to know that should I sign up if I will end up on the couch for the rest of the month.
my experience is 3 hours a round, unless you're on big blue or swope gold, then budget 4 hours. rolling tee times rule for big tourneys if there is the staff for it. if your wife can caddy for you, take her out to dinner, buy her a nice ring, and shoot well.
So...has a "official schedule" been set? Have people traveling from out of town and wanting to get time off work put in. Fri-Sat right.......but what courses for divisions and such....couldn't find anything on the KCWO page either.


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Traverse City KOA Adopts New 'Holiday' Brand
August 22, 2013 by RVBusiness Comments Off on Traverse City KOA Adopts New 'Holiday' Brand
David and Cathleen Kuebler, owners of the Traverse City (Mich.) KOA Holiday campground, have a real problem.
"We've been adding more four-person Deluxe Cabins with linens and at this point, we're having trouble keeping them empty," says David. "We have upgraded them with patios, furniture and propane BBQs. People just love them. Right now we have 10 Deluxe Cabins with linens, and we will need to continue adding more due to the demand."
It's that kind of forethought that keeps the Keublers at the forefront of the industry, according to a news release. They've owned the campground for 19 years. For the 14 years they've been with KOA, they've used the KOA Quality Assurance program as their roadmap to keep the property in great shape; earn the Founder's Award, KOA's highest quality recognition, four times; and maintain a Net Promoter Score of an astonishing 87%.
By keeping up with the latest camping trends and best investments – like KOA's Deluxe Cabins – the Kueblers were able to easily meet KOA's criteria for becoming a KOA Holiday campground.
"KOA has not let us down in our many years associated with the brand," says Cathleen.
KOA Holiday Campgrounds, such as the Traverse City KOA Holiday, are great base camps to explore the area, and include family activities and additional amenities to make these KOAs great getaways for short vacations. They will also all feature KOA Deluxe Cabins, which include full bathrooms and may include full kitchens.
"We work toward having a great score for our Quality Assurance and we've read about and have kept up with any changes, so all we have needed to do is tweak a few items to be ready to go as a KOA Holiday," says David.
Because the Kueblers are savvy KOA businesspeople, their main focus is serving their campers. "The campers love concrete patios, cable TV, quality Wi-Fi, paved roads and more. Our motto has always been: Be clean and friendly, provide great service, and give campers something to do."


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(Oct. 8, 2012)– The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries today released a comprehensive report analyzing the 14" minimum length limit for largemouth bass in the Atchafalaya Basin and surrounding waters.
The report examines the effectiveness of the regulation as a management tool. Findings show the Atchafalaya Basin largemouth bass population does not exhibit necessary criteria for which a 14" minimum length limit would produce larger bass. The study indicates that the basin bass population is more heavily influenced by environmental factors than anglers.
"The Atchafalaya Basin bass population will continue to produce the same number of nice size bass, with or without the 14" length limit," explained LDWF Director of Inland Fisheries Mike Wood.
Wood further explains the history behind the regulation as well as provides a detailed description of the study and results in his letter to basin anglers found on the LDWF website at http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/fishing/ldwf-releases-report-14-minimum-length-limit-largemouth-bass-atchafalaya-basin [4]. The link can also be used to access the full technical report.
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is charged with managing and protecting Louisiana's abundant natural resources. For more information, visit us at www.wlf.louisiana.gov [5], on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ldwffb [6]or follow us on Twitter @LDWF.
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In response to increasing demand, Armstrong
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has extended the hours for its concessionaires.
Beginning today, the hours of operation for most food and beverage, and news
and gift providers at Armstrong International will be 5:00 am until 8:00
pm. The operating hours will be phased in throughout the month of July
with most vendors being open from 5:00 am until 8:00 pm by the end of
July. The only exceptions to the plan will be all bars which will open at
10:00 am and on Concourse A where the concessionaires will close at 6:30
"This is one of many steps we'll take in the near future to further
enhance the customer experience at Armstrong International," stated Iftikhar
Ahmad, Director of Aviation at Armstrong International. "The
availability of concessions to the traveling public is an essential part of
meeting the needs of our customers."
The change in hours of operation comes just in time for the surge of visitors
arriving for the annual Essence Music Festival.
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Rangers pull out big win against Jets
New York, NY – Derek Stepan scored twice, including the winner in the third period, to lead the New York Rangers in a 4-2 win over the Winnipeg Jets.
Ryan Callahan had a goal and three assists while Rick Nash added a goal and an assist for the Rangers, who were coming off consecutive shutout losses. Henrik Lundqvist stopped 26 shots in the win.
The victory gives the Rangers 37 points and they are tied with the Islanders for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, but the Rangers have a game in hand.
Zach Bogosian and Nik Antropov scored for the Jets, who have dropped their past three games. Ondrej Pavelec gave up all four goals on 35 shots in the loss.
"We just couldn't keep playing the way we did to start the game," said Winnipeg forward Olli Jokinen. "They just kept pressing and pressing and we didn't respond to it."
Winnipeg still holds a four-point lead over Carolina for the top spot in the Southeast Division.
With the score tied in the third, the Blueshirts took a 3-2 lead at the 5:46 mark as Anton Stralman's left point shot was stopped, but the rebound popped out to the left and Stepan buried it for his 12th of the year.
Nash put the game away with 6:53 to play as he grabbed the puck in the neutral zone, danced down the right wing and buried a wrister into the left corner for his 13th of the season.
The Rangers came into the game having been blanked by Ottawa and Montreal, but scored just 19 seconds into this one when Stepan got one into the net from in front off a feed from Nash.
Winnipeg got the goal back just 56 seconds later when Kyle Wellwood threw a pass from the right side that hit off a Ranger before getting to Antropov, who snapped it in for his fifth of the year.
The Jets took a 2-1 lead with 7:06 to play in the first as Bogosian's slap shot from the high point hit off a Rangers and went into the net.
Winnipeg had an early 5-on-3 in the second period, but it was the Rangers that took advantage shortly after the first penalty expired.
Ryan McDonagh cleared the puck as Mats Zuccarello was coming out of the box. That created a 2-on-1 break that saw Callahan grab the puck, skate down the right wing and cut to the front before out-waiting the goaltender and lifting a backhand in from the left side to tie the game at the 3:11 mark.
"They fought real hard in the first and kept coming at us really strong in the second and third periods," said Lundqvist. "The really big thing for us tonight was the penalty kill and that shorthanded goal was huge."
Game Notes
New York hosts Pittsburgh for the front end of a home-and-home series on Wednesday ... The Jets stay in New York to face the Islanders on Tuesday ... The Jets took two of three from the Rangers this season ... The Jets failed on all five of their power play chances while the Rangers had just one and didn't score.


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Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool and Southampton are hot on the trail of highly-rated Italian striker Domenico Berardi, reports Sky Sports.
The 18-year-old Sassuolo starlet has caught the eye of a number of top European clubs, following a series of impressive performances in Serie B this season.
Berardi has scored three goals in 10 appearances in 2012/13, and according to his agent, Giuseppe Galli, Juventus and Roma have already sent scouts to cast their eye over him this year, while Roberto Mancini has heard promising reports, as he weighs up an attempt to lure him to the Etihad Stadium in January.
"Juventus, Roma and Manchester City seeking Berardi? These are not rumours - this is real interest," Galli told tuttojuve.com.
"During recent weeks these clubs have sent observers to see Sassuolo's matches on many occasions. Manchester City's scouts have often come from England."
However, Sassuolo's general director, Nereo Bonato, insists there has been no contact with any club enquiring about Berardi, but did reveal that Liverpool and Southampton have requested to attend matches.
"We have received accreditation requests to view our games in recent times from English clubs such as Liverpool and Southampton," he told calciomercato.it. "But it is too early to talk about the market so there has been no contact with any club."
Brendan Rodgers is known to be in the market for attacking reinforcements in January, as Luis Suarez is currently the only recognised first-team striker fit at Anfield, following the injury to summer signing Fabio Borini.
But, Liverpool will face serious competition for Berardi's signature, with Red Devils boss Sir Alex Ferguson also credited with an interest in bringing the teenage talent to Old Trafford.
Despite the widespread attention, Bonato is hoping to keep the Manchester United target, with the Serie B club until at least the end of the season, though conceded he could be sold next summer.
"Berardi has important qualities and certainly he deserves attention, but I think the guy has yet to grow and that Sassuolo is the right place for him to do it," he added.
"We would like to keep the whole team until the end of the season, then in June we'll see."


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This is quite similar to the post by fred80.
I am using the Linux install. Have two ubuntu 14.04 LTS machines for document and community servers. In front of them I have an additional nginx reverse proxy because I plan to use one public ip for many sites. I use letsencypt for https on the reverse proxy. My two servers are with default http configuration.
Everything is fine on http. If I use https, the mobile app works but the web app cannot edit documents. I tried all possible combinations of ips and http vs https under Settings->Document Service Location but no luck.


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I don't know if anyone has seen this yet but I about fell out of my chair. crazy insane carded fett auction
I hate eBay, well moreso PayPal. They pulled my auction (which has been promptly relisted). PayPal charges a fee for credit card payments, yet I am not able to charge to make up for their payments. BUT, I can increase the price, and offer a discount to use different forms of payment.
I take PayPal, Money Orders and Cashier's Checks. Absolutely NO Personal Checks, and absolutely NO Credit Card payments through PayPal. I will accept only PayPal Balance Transfers. Any attempt to pay in a different form will immediately be turned down, and I will leave negative feedback. Absolutely no exceptions.
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New jeep owners and those considering purchasing a Jeep product should post here. There are no dumb questions. This area is monitored by senior club members who can answer just about any question you may have.
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Carr spends much of her weekdays volunteering for the Lake City Medical Center.
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After the unexpected death of her husband in 1993, Judith "Judy" Carr launched her own political career that would span a decade, first as the area's state representative, then as the city's mayor and finally as the city's auditor.
But when she overwhelmingly lost her bid in 2004 to retain the city auditor's post, Carr stepped away from politics, retired from her real estate business and eventually moved out of Ohio in 2006.
Carr, now 75, lives in Lake City, Fla., about an hour west of Jacksonville. She said she moved there to be with family. Her sister, nieces and nephews live on her street.
"I love it. I love it," she said, adding that she still visits her children in Alliance at least once every other year. "I don't have to shovel anything. It never snows."
Carr spends much of her weekdays volunteering for the local Lake City Medical Center, where she educates seniors on healthier living. And the former school bookkeeper does the finances for the Lake City Medical Center auxiliary, which runs the gift shop.
When she gets home in the early afternoon, she often reads a book or the Alliance Review online.
"I have to keep up with the (Mount Union Purple) Raiders," she said.
Carr also spends many of her evenings going out to dinner and watching a Lake City Community College musical production.
She recalls some of her days in Alliance politics fondly.
"I think the best job I had was when I was mayor," she said. "I enjoyed that because I enjoyed getting out, meeting the people. ... I had wonderful memories, and I wouldn't give it up for a minute."
In 1993, Carr's husband, Francis Carr, the former mayor of Alliance, died from cancer a few months after beginning his first term as state representative. The Ohio House Democratic caucus appointed Judy Carr to serve the remainder of his term, making her the fourth woman from Stark County to serve in the Ohio General Assembly. Her signature legislative achievement was getting a bill passed into law that prohibits school administrators, teachers and coaches from having sex with students, regardless of the age.
In 1994, Carr lost the seat to Republican Ron Hood, the same candidate her husband had defeated in 1992 to win the state post. She then turned to city politics, defeating Republican Sarah Brown in 1995 to become Alliance's mayor.
Among her most prominent actions as mayor was suspending then-Police Chief James Black, who was suspected of being involved in illegal gambling while thousands of dollars of seized drug proceeds disappeared. Carr also helped establish the Alliance Economic Development Foundation.
In 1999, Carr lost her bid for re-election when Toni Middleton defeated her by a large margin. She also lost in her run for Alliance Municipal Court Clerk to Kevin Ward in 2001.
After serving less than a year as an appointed city auditor, she lost the job in 2003 to Alexander Zumbar.
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Duwayne was with Stephen Lawrence when he was murdered in an unprovoked racist attack. His killers have never been convicted. Duwayne tells his story, and how he was treated by the police.
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Very nice EunJae. I am so encouraged by your success and that my setup is almost the same as yours: 7D and NA-7D, Canon 100, INON 330 & 165s, DP4, Aquavolts and XIT404.
So far I am using the rig 'hand-held' and will try mounting the DP4 on the rear 1" ball on the XIT404 in order to lower the centre of gravity. I mount the Aquavolts on the left and right balls on the XIT404 for the same reason.
Of course, if I were shooting super-macro video, I will need to reconfigure the mounts to be able to use the XIT404 as a tripod mount rather than as it is presently used.
I'm looking forward to seeing more of your great work! Tim
Nice setup, Timmoranuk.
I might try DP4 on rear ball for WA shooting, thanks for the idea.
BTW, I really need more powerful light (like your Aquavolts) even for macro video. SOLA 1200 x 2 was not enough when shooting in shallow & bright condition.
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Home Instead Senior Care, a company specialising in care of the elderly, which has an office in Chesterfield, has been revealed as England's leading homecare provider for the elderly in the latest quarterly report from healthcare information specialist Laing & Buisson.
The report, Care Compliance Monitor, looks at data from Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection reports and includes a league table showing the percentage of inspected branches which are fully compliant with CQC's core standards covering care, safeguarding, staffing, management and respect for clients.
Commenting on the latest report, CEO of Home Instead, Trevor Brocklebank said: "Because we set our standards above those required by CQC, I would expect Home Instead to score highly in the Care Compliance Monitor. Our 97per cent score and consistent performance reflects our high standards and the quality care that we deliver day in day out."
Not-for-profit organisation Mencap secured the overall top score with 98per cent.


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Manual window management is awful. Windows 8 ditched windows in favor of fullscreen apps. Traditional desktop window paradigms are powerful but obsolete.
Windows 9 unifies previous contrasting paradigms, taking design cues from all platforms and recent innovations.
Just an unofficial design concept, but damn, this is sexy. This is exactly what Windows needs - a combination of the old and new, leading to something seemingly far more usable than the monstrosity that is Metro in Windows 8.
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This is why I said the best thing that could happen to MSFT is they break it up...I mean look at that crap, lets cut the bull, okay? YOU know what its about, I know what its about, we ALL know this is about shoving tablet and cellphone onto the desktop because nobody wants the WinPhone!
This is nothing but a repeat of WinCE, where they jammed an itty bitty desktop onto the cellphone for years, didn't work then, not gonna work now. if they don't split up the company (preferably while putting Sinofsky who was fired for saying sticking a cellphone on the desktop was dumb head of Windows and Office) and instead just put in elop and go full moron ahead? sell your stock, look into alternatives, they are dead, over,done, the fat lasy will be down the street eating a sammich!
I can tell you all the little shops in my area have stopped even carrying win 8 systems, nobody wants 'em. you go to many of the websites and you'll see "Not ready to switch? we have Win 7!!" in bold letters. You can't force a set of handlebars on a pickup and call it "innovation" because its dumb, and you can't take a UI designed for low res devices that sit in your lap and stick it on a 30 inch non touch widescreen because that too its dumb. And sticking a touchscreen on a desktop or laptop IS REATRDED, trying holding your arm straight for a half hour...hurts don't it? tablets are held like a book, its natural, its comfortable, laptops and desktops have VERTICAL screens so it is NOT in any way pleasant!
Sorry about the rant but its gotten bad enough i'm praying valve figures out how to fix the Linux driver mess, as MSFT seems bound and determined to burn the company to the ground.


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With the recent changes in Maine's turkey-hunting regulations (essentially, anyone who applied for a permit this year may participate and, next year, anyone who wants to hunt wild turkeys may simply purchase a license and have at it without all the permit-application rigmarole), the dilemma has already come up regarding how best to spend these precious days of May: Should I go turkey hunting, which is prime right now, or go fishing, which is also prime right now?
Maine hunters already spend have the fall months trying to juggle a dozen different appealing outdoor options, and, in truth, there's no way you can do it all and truly enjoy any of it. I've hit the ground running in October and November checking traps before dawn, hunting woodcock and ducks at sunrise, chasing partridges all day and trying to be in a tree stand at dusk for archery deer . . . and then there's skinning the day's catch and dealing with whatever game was taken. Makes for a long day!
There's too much going on and most of the best of it takes place at dawn and dusk, so traditional hunters are often stuck making some tough choices.
But, having a spring turkey-hunting season in May is not going to disrupt any angler's plans. In fact, you couldn't have come up with a better scenario from a time management point of view.
In the first place, you won't kill a turkey every time you go out, but when you do get a shot, odds are the action (finding a roosted bird, calling him in and taking the shot) will take place well before 8 a. m. In fact, I have shot many a lust-crazed gobbler before 7 a.m., and I know a number of hunters who were already heading home to pluck their bird before "one-half hour before sunrise" was over!
I'll be the last one to suggest that you can go out and shoot a turkey and be to work on time every morning, but it does occur from time to time. Anything can happen (and usually does) when it comes to turkey hunting, and the odds are that you'll spend more than a few hours playing this game before you start to believe you know what you're doing (and that's when they teach you a whole new set of tricks).
There are no guarantees, as you'll soon find out, but, (and I'm sure you've seen the implication here already), on a good day you may well have your bird in hand before the sun is over the tree tops, which also happens to be the perfect time to be on the water for trout and salmon! How convenient is that?
A normal turkey hunt ends around 10 a.m., when the birds mysteriously "shut off," quit gobbling and don't respond to your calls. You may encounter a turkey at any time, of course, so this is not a law, only a general observation, and in general the most exciting action takes place early in the morning. You may have a shot at dawn or at noon - the birds are in charge of their own destinies. But, when things go as planned (and we know how often that can be!), you'll be heaving a big boss tom over your shoulder just as the water temperature hits that magical 55 degree mark (when trout and salmon start to feed with vigor).
By the way, according to Ken Warner, a long-time Maine fisheries biologist, the optimum water temperature for landlocked salmon is a surprisingly high 70 degrees! In early May, it's tough to find water temperatures that high at any time of the day, but the late-morning, early-afternoon periods are when you'll find the water temperatures more to a salmonid's liking.
This just bolsters the theory that an early morning turkey hunt is the perfect diversion for anglers waiting to get some time in with the long rod, because it takes time (and sunshine) get stream water temperatures up enough to trigger a feeding response from trout or salmon.
For example, I remember one trip I made to the Sebec River in Sebec Village. I went mid-week to avoid the crowds, got to the river early and fished hard while a cold fog hung over the water and not one ray of sunlight made it through the trees to the water. I was quite disappointed to have spent more than two hours patiently probing each pool and run without a bite. I was sitting on a rock near the first bend, staring into the crystal-clear river bemoaning my bad luck (and lost time from work), when I noticed that the sun had finally hit the water and the fog was beginning to lift. As the last of the mist dissipated I heard a splash, then another and another, and suddenly the pool before me was practically churning with the slurps and gulps of voraciously feeding fish!
What amazed me was that I had just fished that pool with all the lures and flies I had with me and never had as much as a bump. Now, with the sun well up and my initial eagerness quelled, I was able to wade back in, fish with focus, and proceeded to have one of the best days ever on that particular stretch.
This event took place many years ago, long before the first turkeys were stocked in Maine, but that would have been the day to spend the early morning hours chasing longbeards on the ridge tops. I would certainly have had more luck with the turkeys and then even better luck with the trout!
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Apple doesn't make big acquisitions, but they do make small, important purchasesPosted: July 31, 2011 Filed under: Main | Tags: A4, A5, acquisitions, Adobe, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Intrinsity, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Lala, mergers, NeXT, PA Semi, Sony Leave a comment
Every time you hear that Apple is rumored to make a big acquisition of a company like Barnes & Noble or AMD or Sony or Adobe or whatever other huge company, just read this story about all the companies that Apple was rumored to purchase but never did:
For years, Apple has confounded the rest of us by not buying things that it should clearly be buying. Not purchasing other well-known companies is so core to Apple's strategy that it must have a whole department devoted to non-mergers and un-acquisitions.
Apple does purchases companies and many of them have been key acquisitions for Apple. These acquisitions, however, are rarely big name, and they aren't the kinds of acquisitions that Wall Street analysts or glib tech columnists predict. These are purchases or smaller companies that have specific skills and talents that can help Apple improve products or create new ones.
But let's get back to the ridiculousness of many of these takeover rumors: Why would Apple want to buy Sony, a company that wants to be like Apple, but consistently can't execute or get any of the details right? Sony has become a third-rate Apple wannabee with no direction. Apple buying Sony would be like one of those movies where the attractive, popular jock goes out with an artsy, homely girl as some sort of penance or charity thing or something (not one of those hot artsy, geek ladies).
Apple was once rumored to buy Adobe, markers of Steve Jobs's most hated product, Flash. That tells you how silly these rumors are. I can only assume that these rumors have two origins:
- Uninformed tech columnists trolling for pageviews and discussion. These people care more about stirring up trouble than sound analysis, and they seem to have very little understanding of Apple's historical purchases.
- Trouble makers on Wall Street looking to drum up the value of the company that Apple is rumored to be purchasing, so that a few wealthy clients can make a bunch of money off of false rumors and hope.
Apple makes small, targeted purchases that help them bring new products on line or bolster existing products. Take a look at a few key acquisitions by Apple:
- Apple purchased NeXT in 1996. NeXT was Steve Jobs's old company, and while the software and hardware of NeXT was advanced beyond Mac OS or Windows, NeXT was not a successful company. NeXT's OS became the foundation of OS X. It took five years for OS X to hit the market, and it wasn't until late 2001 that OS X was ready for primetime (and this version was still very early and not near the caliber of OS X today).
- In early 2008 Apple acquired fabless chipmaker PA Semi, which had been working on creating powerful, low power computer chips. PA Semi helped give Apple engineering talent that would help Apple create its own line of powerful and low power chips.
- Apple purchased streaming music service Lala in late 2009. At the time this purchase was largely assumed to be for engineering talent to help Apple setup its own streaming music service. That may or may not still be in the works, but it seems safe to say that Lala's engineering expertise and cloud experience will be a big help for Apple with its upcoming iCloud efforts. I believe what we are seeing with iCloud this Fall is just the beginning of what will become of iCloud.
- Apple purchased fabless chip maker Intrinsit early in 2010, a company that developed technology to accelerate ARM chips. Apple has used ARM chips in the iPhone since the beginning, but Intrinsity's engineering helped them create the A4 and A5, which have helped Apple distinguish their products from other ARM licensees (ARM chips power all smartphones and modern tablets, but there are different variants of these chips based on ARM's reference designs). PA Semi and Intrinsity were both smaller fabless firms that have helped give Apple the ability to create ARM-based chips that are unique from what other phone and tablet makers use. Almost all other phone and tablet makers use Nvidia's Tegra lines, Samsungs Snapdragon lines or Texas Instrument's OMAP lines of ARM-based processors. Apple's chips have stripped out everything that Apple has deemed not necessary (and helped save power and space) and have also focused heavily on 3D performance for video games and other applications. While Nvidia is a 3D graphics manufcatuer by trade, Apple's A5 is about twice as powerful as the Tegra 2 when it comes it 3D performance.
- Apple purchased personal assistant app Siri in early 2010. Siri is a voice-controlled app that finds stuff on the Internet for users. Users can use natural commands such as, "send a taxi to my house" and Siri will help complete that task. It's really cool technology that could help take iOS, particularly on the iPhone, to the next level. Siri's technology is most likely being rolled into iOS and will help Apple create better voice command features (perhaps the biggest weakness of iOS) and help Apple compete better with some of the strengths of Android.
The biggest purchase Apple ever made was NeXT for under $500 million. I severely doubt Apple will be looking to make a huge blockbuster purchase of a strong established brand anytime soon. How do I know? Apple has never done it before, and they have been wildly successful by making small, targeted acquisitions.
Look for Apple to make more purchases of companies like Intrinsity and PA Semi. As Apple goes deeper into producing its own unique processors that fit Apple's specific needs, they'll need more engineering talent and R&D. Apple has gained a clear advantage in the mobile processor space by creating chips that do exactly what Apple wants it products to do, rather than building products around what other company's processors can or cannot do.
Also look for Apple to make more targeted acquisitions of companies and products that will help them build out iCloud and iOS features. These small acquisitions add up and helped Apple deliver better products.
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Review & Free Screening of Who Takes Away the Sins...: Witnesses to Clergy Abuse
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Free Screening at Boston College 7PM 5/02/13 with Q&A after with the victims and other participants in the documentary.
Source: Alexa MacPherson, attached movie poster
Before we get to the review of the documentary, I would like to post a quote about the free screening and Q&A after the film by one of the victims that is featured in the film, Alexa MacPherson.
I bet a lot of you are wondering why a review about a documentary about sexual abuse and it's cover up by both the Church and State is on a site that mainly covers super hero news. Quite frankly it takes the fortitude of heroes to speak truth to power, especially after having the most degrading and vile acts done to them. For every horrible villain we read about in comic books, there are more dreadful ones in the real world. Like Norman Osborn and Lex Luthor, they found that the best way to hide is in plain sight in positions of power. Though there are acts of evil that even those guys won't do and wouldn't cover up. It is finally becoming more well known that pedophiles have found sanctuary in the Catholic Church and other institutions. Though that is more or less restricted to the headlines and a few minutes on the news. The Documentary Who Takes Away the Sins...: Witnesses to Clergy Abuse shows the deep extent of what the Church has done to cover up the crimes. It also lets some of the victims tell their stories of not just the battles with their abusers, but the war that would last for years to come to try and see justice done. It's not only the Church they had to fight. Prosecutors and Police Officers looking the other way. Even Judges sighting the Constitution's separation of Church and State as a reason not to move forward with a case. Due to outdated grandfathered statuette of limitations laws, most of the victims in the film can't get justice for themselves, but continue the fight to seek justice for other victims. Hopefully help prevent other children from becoming victims of predators in power.
Analyzing the film as a film for a second, it is more successful than others like it in a few ways. The documentary doesn't try to over sensationalize or go into graphic details of the abuse. Not for lack of the victims telling their stories during filming. I saw part of an early cut of the film and it was brutal. I almost didn't go to the premier of the film because the details of what these priest did to the children were so disgusting. Thankfully, the producers and editors recut the film so that it focused more on how the attacks effected the victims lives. Both at the time of their abuse and going forward through their lives. The film also focuses on people that knew about the abuse and refused to look the other way when ordered to do so. Reporters and editors at the Boston Globe that questioned why they were allowed to go after judges and mob bosses, but the Catholic Church was off limits. Priest and Nuns that would rather do what is right by their followers than protect the reputation of the church. Lawyers that were willing to fight the long battles for what their clients needed rather than take a quiet and easy settlement to quickly line their pockets. It also does a good job balancing the stories of male and female victims. Thus making it known that this is a problem due to pedos and doesn't try to paint the problem as "gay" as the church likes to spin the stories. The documentary also has a short running time so that it gets it's point across without overwhelming the viewer.
So maybe instead of seeing Ironman 3 tonight, go see a free screening of Who Takes Away the Sins...: Witnesses to Clergy Abuse. More details in the flyer below.
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by prozacman » Fri May 03, 2013 5:30 amAny one make it to the free screening?
by habitual » Fri May 03, 2013 5:40 amAfter having witnessed the local preacher in Los Gatos get the shit kicked out of him for stuff he did about 25 years ago I have no interest in seeing this.
I would like to hear reviews though.
by Garofani Spruzzo » Fri May 03, 2013 5:53 am
I hope you're not expecting any sympathy on his behalf.
by habitual » Fri May 03, 2013 5:57 am
Quit being stupid.
by Garofani Spruzzo » Fri May 03, 2013 6:24 amIt's your post that raises the question if by saying "over 25 years ago" you're trying to mitigate his culpability with the passage of time (while it's covered up). This is not uncommon. "Look at all the good things he's done over the years since we caught him raping all those children!" That kind of thing.
If he's guilty (as you imply), it's a shame it took 25 years and all he got was a beating!
You "witnessed" it. eh? Inside the Jesuit center where it happened? I just read the testimony, I assume as a witness you were called to court then? I understand by "shit getting kicked out of him" you mean a victim blinded with rage might have landed one blow on him and was found not guilty?
by habitual » Fri May 03, 2013 6:40 am
You were/are being stupid.
So just fucking stop it.
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Too Much Drama: Sucker Punches Female In The Face After She Gives Him The Boot. She Then Calls Her Ex Boyfriend To Put A Hurting On That Man! (50 Sec Footage Of Ex Whooping On Him For Hitting His Girl)
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Lenten reflection: Week 4
By Rev. Kelly Demo, CFCA preacher
Lent, as we know, is a time of preparation and self-reflection. It is a time set aside to examine our relationship with God and our need for healing in our own lives. Scripture shows us time and again that God is greatly concerned with our wholeness, in mind, body and spirit. In fact, ìwholenessî and ìholinessî come from the same word that means ìcompleteness.î
In 2 Kings, Chapter 4, we hear a strange and wonderful story of Elisha bringing a family back to wellness and wholeness. Like Sarah before her, God promised a Shunammite woman a son in her old age. God kept that promise but years later the young boy died. However, God would not forget his promise and, through Elisha, brought the boy back to life, restoring the faith of the mother.
CFCAís benefits are structured to follow this guideline of concern for the whole person and the family. We do not simply feed children. Nor do we just educate them or see to their medical concerns. We are concerned for the whole person and we walk with them and bring others along to do the same.
Take, for instance, a widow in Guatemala whose son was sponsored through CFCA. The woman was suffering from depression and because of her†illness she was unable to move forward in her life. She was unable even to address the health concerns of her son. He began to have trouble in school, and it was believed to be because of hearing loss.
CFCA was helping this family financially, but it was not until we brought in another CFCA mother to minister to the little boyís mother that changes started happening. It took more than just the CFCA staff to help this woman back to health in mind, body and spirit. It took God working through someone who was not that different from her, to help heal her.
God, as the ultimate and perfect parent, is deeply concerned for the wholeness of each of his†6-billion-plus children. We need only open ourselves to the Spirit and to our fellow travelers through whom the Spirit works.
Reflection questions:
1. Where do you need healing in your life in mind, body or spirit?
2. Who might God be placing in your path who needs the gifts you have to offer for their healing?


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She was one of the best singers in the world of country music. She really, really had talent.
If you were looking for "nice comments" about Mindy McCready's suicide, and glanced down at what was posted on the website for any of the tabloid newspapers on February 17th, you got:
"So long Mindy! Don't let the door hit you on your way out! Crackhead!" "Never heard of her. Who cares?" "Roger Clemens is a pig for tapping a 15 year-old!"
Yeah, there were a few "So sorry for her kids!" and "R.I.P." and "She's an angel now…" But there were a lot of variations on this remark:
"Didn't we all see this coming a mile away?"
To be honest, yes, the woman had a serious disease, physical and mental, revolving around substance abuse (mostly prescription drugs). Name somebody you know who broke your heart with an alcohol or drug problem.
Who? Who had you walking away because you couldn't do anything more to help? Who left you shaking you head, still feeling the pain? Who is the one you feel sorry for as much as resent for not being in your life anymore?
Yeah. I thought you could name somebody. That's why you weren't one of the assholes who had to, for whatever reason, snap a comment and kick dirt on the woman's face not 24 hours after she put a bullet in her head.
What separated Mindy from your average alcoholic waitress or pill-happy office good-time girl, or an ignorant meth hillbilly with too many boyfriends is that the woman could sing. "Blessed with a golden voice," Leonard Cohen might say. If only Mindy had refuge in Leonard's "Tower of Song," gated against temptation and with no more harmful danger than a crooked manager taking away some profits (as one of Cohen's did). This is a woman who parlayed a simple karaoke tape into a record deal, and had a #1 on her first album. 1996 was her big year of success and a promising future.
The last year of Mindy's life? Though overweight, not a viable artist to be booked on tour, and several years from a download-only comeback album that few heard of, she had a relationship going with a guy named David Wilson and they had a young son. She even did some press interviews to try and present a new image of health and optimism. Home was now a humble house in Heber, Arkansas. Still, there were rumors…about how long she could go without pills, and what strains a baby in the house and limited career prospects were causing. Some whispered that the couple was fighting.
On January 13th, Wilson died of a gunshot wound. Mindy was the one to call 911, and watched the life ebb out of him on the front porch. The report was suicide, but some had doubts. He'd bought a new truck a few weeks earlier, and was only a few days away from getting a six figure inheritance from his mother's estate. So, surely, depression and anger couldn't triumph over a new car and money, right?
In yet another questionable decision, not long after the shocking death, Mindy allowed "The Today Show" to come calling. She gamely told her earnest interviewer that getting through a terrible trauma can only make you stronger. So can answering tactless questions? The interviewer asked Mindy if David was having an affair.
Mindy said no. She said David was her soul mate. Next: "Did YOU kill him?"
"Oh God no…no…"
The camera got what it wanted…a very shaken, tearful mourner now reduced to raw nerves. Another question: was it suicide or could it have been murder!
"I don't know…" said Mindy, totally decimated. Where could she go from here? A rehab center. But not for long. With no traces of drugs or alcohol in her system she was cleared for release.
Billy McKnight, father of her older son, did a television interview of his own: "Perhaps staying in there and grieving around people that could help her over the death of her fiancé could've calmed her down, but the demons that she hasn't beaten were there, and until she was going to face them, something was going to happen and everyone who knows her personally knew that….as sad as it is, it didn't come as a major shock because she's just been battling demons for so long and, of course, I was around her when she attempted suicide twice and I knew it was in her." He also nearly beat her to death one time.
And so it was, that Mindy McCready, no longer in rehab, and with nobody to call and nothing to say to any friend or relative, sat alone on that same porch where her "soul mate" (her words) died from his gunshot wound. That's where they found her, and for the first time, the general public knew her name.
Well…a few of the tabloids headlined her as the woman who had an affair with Roger Clemens. A few opened with a tease about a #1 Hit Record C&W Star suicide, then revealed the name. The "delicious schadenfreude," as the Kenneth Anger-type gossip writers would call it, of a suicide mirroring one that happened less than a month earlier, also pushed the story as a lead on the TV news. There were sudden tributes from C&W stars who hadn't let Mindy open for them or shunned her (in a "let go, let God" way, which one does with people mired in problems that require professional help). The late Mindy McCready, 37, who hadn't had a hit in 15 years, and not one song that was known beyond the world of country music, was now a superstar. CDs that weren't selling on eBay for 99 cents were being snatched, and eBayers with access to a computer print-out, were cashing in with $10 reprint photos for sale, and some were making R.I.P. souvenirs with tin button-making kits.
The details of Mindy's decline after her 1996-1998 platinum and gold albums was duly noted. So was her last superstar relationship (Dean Cain in 1998), her sparse output of albums (one in 1999 and one in 2002) and the increasingly regular incidents of out-of-control behavior: 2004 prescription drug arrest, 2005 beat-down by McKnight, 2005 drug overdose, 2006 kidnap by Mindy of her son from the protective care of her own mother, 2007 in jail, 2008 suicide attempt, 2009 appearance on "Celebrity Rehab" (her death is the fifth among alumni of that show), and a leaked porn tape that she ended up signing a contract on so it could be officially released. The most cringeworthy part of that video isn't the energetic sex from the buxom blond, but the unhealthy pride she shows in the interview segment that pads it out to an hour on DVD. Fittingly enough, Mindy talks in a noisy diner, alternately amused and disdainful of the eager questions about what her celebrity lovers were like.
Since you probably never heard of McCready before (unless you are a faithful reader of this blog…this is the third time for her), the song you should try first is "The Fine Art of Holding a Woman." At her best, Mindy could not only sing with power and clarity, but with emotion. She could sing heartache with the skills of a traditional artist (Patsy Cline) or a commercial crossover queen (Gogi "Wayward Wind" Grant or Crystal Gayle). In her prime, she also had the look of a star. She sent out the mixed message of come hither and back off…of "I'm easy" and "I'm hard." She was another of the Frances Farmer or Barbara Payton variety…someone wild, rebellious, restless, wanting someone strong but always being stronger, and if you said she was heavenly her reply would probably be "what the hell…"
"I was your sunlight, but now I'm just shade. I was your blue sky, now I'm jut the rain. I was your favorite song, but now I'm overplayed. If tomorrow's gonna be the same, I'll see you yesterday."
Those were the lyrics on the last song Mindy recorded. She was working with David Wilson on it; aside from being the boyfriend and father to her child, he was also her music producer. According to a friend of hers, Danno Hanks, the "perfect storm" that led to Mindy's suicide probably started here. The guy who had produced a comeback song, one she believed in, didn't have the optimism to stay alive. After his death, she fretted about getting the song to radio stations and, in the ultimate humiliation, having it posted free to YouTube. Said Hanks: "This was her suicide video. She wanted it out there because she knew that the video would get more play after she committed her suicide. She wanted the world at the end to know how she had been treated and mistreated and all the stuff that she had gone through."
Wilson's suicide may not have been fatal to McCready except for the chain of events that happened in its wake. She got a report from children's services that Billy McKnight was once again seeking custody of their son, and that at best, the agency was going to take both boys away to Florida to once again be placed in the care of her mother. She was an unfit mother. Then there was the court-ordered drug and alcohol tests. And following "The Today Show" interview, even more intense speculation that she had killed Wilson. The police did nothing to combat the rumor, even though Mindy had been instantly tested for gunpowder residue and cleared of Wilson's death.
"Saturday was a very bad day for her," Hanks told CNN. Her call to him mentioned the situation with her kids being taken away, but he had no idea how close to the edge she actually was. In retrospect, he wondered why the authorities hadn't kept her under observation rather than clear her for release from the drug and alcohol treatment center: "What (were they) doing was sending home someone who is now made even more distraught by having her children taken away and sending her home to a house that just had lots of guns because David was a gun nut...If she had known how many fans that she had out there and how many supporters she truly did have, she might have had the courage to go on. But I think she just felt she was alone, that nobody cared about what was happening to her."
The fine art of holding on. Aside from "The Fine Art of Holding a Woman," also below is a track from her last album, and a musical reminder from the late great Phil Ochs, "There But for Fortune." No, it's not a case of "don't play the chords of fame." It wasn't really fame that doomed Phil or Mindy, which is something you understand, and internet trolls don't. Emotional problems and substance dependency happen with or without fame. The trolls, the obscure and mediocre who rant their venom on anyone famous, even in an obit, somehow survive. If Phil's suicide had come during this age of anonymous Internet freedom the trolls would've happily typed: "Ochs? Never heard of him!" or "Kurt Cobain is somebody you should care about instead!" The cover version of Phil's song is the audio soundtrack from a TV appearance by Marianne Faithful from the 60's. Mr. Troll would probably type: "Marianne WHO? Never heard of her! I'd tap Taylor Swift. That would be sweet! I got pix of her that make me fap."
Let's give the last word to Wynona Judd. Hearing about Mindy McCready, she said: "Addiction is a disease and not a character flaw."
MINDY MCREADY The Fine Art of Holding a Woman
From the last MINDY MCREADY album, 2010: I'm Still Here
MARIANNE FAITHFUL TV soundtrack recording…performing "THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE" by Phil Ochs


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The Daily Plant : Friday, March 1, 2002
Over 115 people attended the 8th Annual Bronx Parks Speak Up held at Lehman College on Saturday, February 23. This year's Speak Up was planned by the Bronx Coalition for Parks and Green Spaces, a grass roots coalition made up of over 50 groups that Partnerships for Parks has been supporting in their efforts to advocate for the boros parks and green spaces. The first Bronx Parks Speak Up grew out of the Bronx Council for Environmental Quality (BCEQ) winter meeting. Each year the Speak Up has continued to grow in attendance as Partnerships has helped to bring in new organizations. Last year's Speak Up launched the Bronx Coaliton, which has now taken on the role of organizing the event. As Dart Westphal, BCEQ President and Speak Up founder, emphasized in his welcoming remarks, that with this new energy the Speak Up can tackle issues not receiving proper attention, capitalizing on the success of all prior Speak Ups.
This year's Speak Up, called "Resources for Parks and Green Spaces," focused on grass roots organizing. In her key note address entitled "Strengthening the Root in Grass Roots," Karen Argenti, Founding Member of the Friends of Jerome Park Reservoir and the Jerome Park Conservancy, used the history of the Friends of Jerome Park Reservoir to outline key steps to grass roots action. Ms. Argenti stressed the importance of building alliance, identifying the issue, and offering solutions to avoid the "not in my backyard" (NIMBY) attitude. Pat Logan, Director of Policy & Planning for the Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation, and Keith Fairey, Community Development Manager for Mount Hope Housing Company, Inc. gave a Power Point presentation illustrating why green spaces are essential to the revitalization of a neighborhood and how housing corporations can partner with Parks to achieve their goals. Jen St. John, the Government Liaison for the Prospect Park Alliance, and Dick Dadey, the Director for New Yorker for Parks, summarized their efforts to affect the City Budget.
An important feature of the Speak Up is the concurrent Break-Out sessions. This year, Speak Up attendees chose between three sessions. Mark Caserta, Director of the New York League of Conservation Voters, led "How to Impact the City Budget." The group developed a list of priorities that included continuing the fight for 1% of the city budget and reminding elected officials of the Coalition's platform. Edie Stone, Director of Green Thumb, led "Where to Go when You Need Things Done," which focused on learning about resources available to help organizations work with city agencies. Finally, Charlotte Kaiser, Partnership for Parks' Technical Assistant and Grant Coordinator, led the workshop on "Where to Find Additional Resources." Ms. Kaiser presented the group with a list of Do's and Don'ts when requesting funding and gave a list of places that give grants and in-kind donations.
Many elected officials and Parkies attended the Speak Up, including Commissioner Adrian Benepe and Bronx Borough Commissioner Dottie Lewandowski. Adolpho Carrion, Jr., the Bronx Borough President, who spoke of his plan to develop the land along the Harlem River into a waterfront park. Majority Leader of the City Council, Council Member Joel Rivera of the 15th Council District, promised to fight in the Council for parks and pledged 80% of his capital budget to rehabilitating and creating new parks in his district.
By Shelagh Patterson
Anthony Modafferi
Anthony Modafferi has been working in Parks since December 9, 1963. Among his many positions, he served as acting Principal Park Supervisor of District #1 which included City Hall Park, Battery Park, and Washington Square Park. A noteworthy accomplishment during that time was the enormous cleanup of lower Manhattan during the Bicentennial of 1976, which included the landing of Queen Elizabeth at Battery Park right after the event. Tony has fond memories of City Hall Park particularly during the Koch administration. He also remembers Marijuana Day in Washington Square Park, held on the first Saturday in May, and the extreme amount of garbage produced on that particular day each year. He was proud of the team effort to restore these parks after these major events. In 1993, Tony assumed his current position as Director of Staten Island Forestry.
Tony is a devoted son, a husband to Jacqueline for 36 years, and a proud father of two children, Karen and Victor. He thanks his supervisors for teaching him two crucial lessons- always get to work before your staff and treat everyone with respect and people will respect you in return. Because of Tony's long career in Parks and his knowledge of Parks, Commissioner Paulo has appointed him Staten Island's Park Historian.
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While the Mets and Yankees sweat themselves into shape in the Grapefruit League, Parks Stadia unit is also hard at work preparing Yankee and Shea stadia for the 1989 baseball season.
Private contractors and regular and seasonal stadia crews are now refurbishing the two City-owned stadia. Workers from Bronx and Queens parks and crews from Five-Borough Shops are participating in the preparation, which includes restripping parking lots, various painting projects, repairing seats and the electrical, air conditioning, lighting and plumbing systems.
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Huawei has produce its first Huawei Android based smartwatch and has not only produce a smartphone in watch but has also added beauty and style to this wearable.
The Huawei Watch has 1.4-inch AMOLED display and is the first Android watch comes with a sapphire glass which is the strongest protection of display in such devices and gives durability against rough handling. The display of the smartwatch bears the 400x400 pixels resolution which provides 286ppi density which is the highest display resolution in Android smart watches. There is very tough race among the rivals to launch their wearable devices the earliest and before their competitors. However there is no firm date of its release.
The design of Huawei is just like Moto 360 and LG G Watch R with a round watch face and a 42mm diameter. The Huawei Smartwatch is made up with the stainless steel and the uni-body of the watch is scratch resistant. On the top slanting towards right there is a power button fixed in shape of a crown and the latches with width as similar to designer watches at 18mm to fix the strap of your choice. The Huawei Smartwatch has a thin bezel which gives the attractive look and the dial of the watch is round in shape which is similar with Moto 360 but thin bezel looks better than that.
The strap of the smartwatch is made up with the leather which is good in quality and the watch it self with is uni body feels great while wearing it on the wrist. It is quite thin but not really very thin. Huawei has concentrated on its look and appearance which is quite stylish and premium and is really something beautiful in the Android wearable devices so far available in the market.
Huawei Watch is fixed with gold, silver and black with a variety of different straps made of either leather or metal, however sizes differ in case of men and women watches.Huawei Smart watch runs Qualcomm APQ8026 1.2GHz processor paired with 512MB RAM + 4GB ROM and energized by 300mAh. This is the good combination of hardware in wearable devices.There is no information about it release date but hopefully in certain regions it will certainly emerged in the market around mid 2015.


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This past week Matt Raible gave a presentation (PDF 1, 2) at ApacheCon comparing Java Web Frameworks. This is a follow up to a presentation he gave a few years ago. The list of Java Web Frameworks covered in the 2 PDFs:
The presentation itself consists of a smackdown between a short list of web frameworks using criteria such as:
Ajax Support: Is it built-in and easy to use?
Bookmark-ability: Can users bookmark pages and return to them easily?
Validation: How easy is it to use and does it support client-side (JavaScript) validation?
Testability: How easy is it to test Controllers out of container?
Community and Support: Can you get questions answered quickly (and respectfully)?
Raible finds stong points as well as weak points in all of the web frameworks. Some statistic are shown pointing to Struts and JSF leading the Job trends, but Raible shows that there are a number of web frameworks making their mark in the job market.
Noting that it is the developers responsibility to choose the right web framework for the project Raible give important factors to take into consideration when choosing a web framework:
What type of Application are you building?
Ease of Development / Is full-stack an option?
Technical Features
As expected Raible's review of web frameworks generated a lively debate. Seam creator Gavin King commented:
What I think is most interesting about this list is simply how different each of these frameworks is from each other. A couple of years ago, any list of the top web frameworks would have featured a bunch of metoo-ish action-style-MVC frameworks, with maybe one or two component-style-MVC frameworks thrown in.
Adobe's James Ward disagreed with Raible's initial assessment of Flex and countered:
Now we could debate these pros and cons all day. But really it depends on what you are building. What I find most interesting is how these frameworks relate to building Rich Internet Applications. That helps narrow it down a bit since very content-centric applications differ greatly from RIAs. But what is a RIA? I've taken a stab at defining RIA.
Based on those characteristics I can tell you more definitively how Flex compares as an RIA framework.
Raible states that the futre is bright because of all of the competition there is in the area of web frameworks. Considering half the web frameworks found in this presentation were not even around when he did in original presentation he is correct.
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Kristof Jozsa
- I seriously miss Ext.JS or [insert your new favourite javascript widget library here] plus DWR combo as a valid future approach
- that pink stuff is horror :)
Otherwise, thanks for your work!
Re: Ext.JS
Matt Raible
My Response to Matt
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What about Spring Web Flow?
Andrew Rapp
Re: What about Spring Web Flow?
Matt Raible
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It is missed.
Re: WingS
Matt Raible
I like how you provide no foundation for this statement. ;-)
Care to elaborate? In particular, please provide an example of where tried another web framework (Struts 1.x doesn't count) and then switched to WingS. Please include specific use cases on why it's better and why the other framework failed.
I would like to see ItsNat included in your list someday...
Jose M. Arranz
Good presentation, good job.
Re: What about Spring Web Flow?
Keith Donald
However, Matt is correct in summarizing Spring Web Flow 1.0's overall position in the market. Spring Web Flow 1.0 is used today within existing web frameworks Spring MVC, Struts, and JSF for handling navigation and state management concerns, typically in web applications with non-trivial view navigation rules. In this capacity, flows run happily alongside "plain" controllers such as stateless MVC Controllers or Struts Actions, freeing you from HTTP Session state management concerns and nasty if/else logic to figure out where you are so you can determine where to go next.
I should add, however, even in this complementary capacity, I do know of organizations that use Spring Web Flow to power the control flow of entire applications, favoring externalized flow definition exclusively. Orbitz Worldwide, for example, uses SWF to power their stateless search/shop site functionality and their linear trip booking processes. They did this because they wanted one consistent way of defining control flow that could scale as their application grew in complexity, and felt the externalized flow definition language offered by Spring Web Flow met that requirement better than anything else they evaluated.
Spring Web Flow 2.0, the next major release of the framework, will formally evolve the project's positioning. There is a desire in our community to have a single MVC framework capable of handling both stateless and stateful control flow--the same desire Orbitz had. The Spring Web Flow runtime is being evolved to provide the ideal foundation for that unified MVC framework. In addition, JavaServerFaces is being integrated as another supported view technology via the Spring Faces project.
Now, this doesn't mean everyone developing Spring web applications will be going off and defining XML flow definitions in the future. The Spring Web Flow 2.0 engine will run Spring 2.5 @Controllers, externalized XML flow definitions, and Java-based @Flows, initially: all using the same runtime underneath (which means one central runtime to hook in security management, exception handling, persistence context management, monitoring, tooling, and other features) The basic idea is this: provide one unified, next-generation MVC runtime with several natural programming models for defining and engineering control flow - from stateless operations on REST resources to stateful conversations - with support for all major view technologies, including JSF. You can read more about this vision here.
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Re: What about Spring Web Flow?
Rod Johnson
As Keith pointed out, the Spring Web Flow and MVC models are converging. Ultimately everything will run on a Web Flow-based runtime under the covers, but the Spring MVC @Controller model will be fully supported, providing a smooth upgrade path.
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I cannot wait. This is one of the show I anticipate. I do have to wonder do they still have more fresh ideas for this season? I hope they ditch Cindy Campbell and her 3 dumb scientists. They were overstaying their welcome in the first season.
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I have insanely high expectations for this. The first season was unbelievably good, with brilliant writing and an extremely lovable and awesome lead character.
I have nothing but good things to say, can't wait!!
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Ika Musume, along with Lucky Star and Nichijou, holds the title of one of the few animes that got me to really laugh. Perfect blend of comedy and cuteness.
However, the art in the new promotional poster doesn't look too good. Hopefully this won't matter.
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The OP will be by Sphere (a pleasant surprise to see them here. Though for once, I don't think any of their VAs are in this series. Yet.) The ED will be by Hisako Kanemoto, so we still have an ED sung by a major character from the show.
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I still amazed every I see it, how can Japan just keep putting anime at 2 AM. On one hand I wish I was born in Japan ( though I guess being born in Taiwan is just as close) on other hand I'm glad I move to U.S. so I don't have to stay up every night watching anime. (just think about the job and school)!!!!
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Man, it's been too long... ;_;
Loved the first series, including (and especially) the Mini-Ika shorts that came out. More of that needs to come in Series 2 methinks... :3
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A weakened Hurricane Arthur churned through New England Friday evening after briefly making landfall overnight in North Carolina, leaving power outages and flooding in its wake but little damage otherwise.
Arthur weakened quickly to a Category 1 hurricane, with 90 mile-per-hour winds, after making landfall Thursday night as a Category 2 storm on the southern end of the Outer Banks. By early Saturday the storm was a posttropical cyclone heading toward Nova Scotia, the National Hurricane Center said....