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Lotus pushing hard with new updates for Malaysia
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Lotus will bring experimental bodywork to the second race of the season in Malaysia, but has vowed not to get distracted with updates as it aims for its second win of the year.
Lotus took a convincing victory at the first race in Australia, with Kimi Raikkonen making use of his car's advantage on Pirelli's new tyres. However, technical director James Allison said the team already has some upgrades to try out at the second race in Malaysia as it aims to improve the car's pace.
"We have an experimental exhaust and bodywork combination, and a new front wing to try out," he said. "However, with tyre performance likely to play a critical part in the weekend, we will need to be careful not to get overly distracted trying out new parts at the expense of finding a good setup to make sure that we are using the tyres well. We will be aiming to keep the momentum up and hoping that we can repeat Kimi's fantastic performance again this weekend with both cars."
Allison said all the teams would have a different challenge with the tyres in the heat of Malaysia.
"Albert Park is not an average F1 track. It has a lot of similar, medium speed corners, but not very much from the high and low speed ends of the spectrum. Also, the race was conducted in cooler than expected conditions. When it is cool, tyre wear is dominated by graining. We were able to make the car work in these conditions, but it remains to be seen whether we can do the same when the wear mechanism shifts to traditional high temperature degradation.
"One thing we can be sure of is that Malaysia will deliver high temperature degradation in spades. We haven't seen anything other than good long run pace from the E21 so far, but we will have a much clearer idea of where things stand after second Free Practice on Friday. We feel optimistic but it's still very early and anything can happen."


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Taunton had 28 overdoses, with seven in Brockton last week
BROCKTON – Police in Taunton and Brockton, two cities hit hardest with the number of suspected heroin overdose deaths in recent weeks, say they're still waiting to find out exactly what type of heroin is killing people as the number of overdoses continue to climb.
Taunton saw a total of 28 overdoses in the past week, 12 of which occurred Friday through Sunday. Brockton saw a total of seven overdoses in the past week, police said. None of those overdoses were fatal.
The vast number of overdose calls has emergency responders working nonstop, Taunton Police Chief Edward Walsh said Tuesday.
"It has been a real challenge and has had a direct impact on our operations," Walsh said. "The evening shift Sunday had five overdoses alone. We had been hopeful that the number of overdoses would have stabilized, but that does not seem to have happened."
Heroin has become such a problem in many areas of the nation U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has declared it "an urgent and growing public health crisis" and has urged emergency personnel to carry an anti-overdose drug.
Since Feb. 14, Brockton has seen a total of seven suspected heroin overdose deaths. Since Jan. 1, Taunton has seen seven.
Brockton police officers will be equipped with Narcan in the next few days, Mayor Bill Carpenter said Tuesday.
"But that's just one step," Carpenter said in the city's fight against overdoses.
He said the city is focusing on prevention, intervention and treatment – and getting dealers behind bars.
Brockton police Lt. Kenneth LeGrice expects it will take several weeks for the test results to come back that would give authorities a clearer picture of the heroin suspected in the Brockton deaths.
"There's usually quite a delay on those," LeGrice said Tuesday. "I wouldn't expect them for at least six weeks."
Walsh, Taunton's police chief, said receiving drug test results identifying the source of the fatal overdoses is "still a work in progress."
Fatal heroin overdoses nationwide jumped nearly 55 percent from 1999 to 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The deaths in that period increased from 1,960 a year to 3,036 a year.
Locally, the heroin epidemic is also affecting smaller communities in the greater Brockton and Taunton areas.
In the past week, East Bridgewater firefighters responded to two calls reporting overdoses, on Pond Street on Monday and on Dean Place on March 11, fire officials said.
In Abington, firefighters used Narcan to reverse an overdose on Railroad Street on Sunday, said Abington Fire Chief John Nutall. The town saw one suspected heroin overdose death this year, on Green Street on Jan. 3.
Statewide, there were at least 185 fatal heroin overdoses from November through February. More than one-third of those deaths – 69 deaths – occurred in Plymouth, Bristol and Norfolk counties combined.
State police have cited three possible contributing factors to the recent surge in overdose deaths: a potent strain of heroin flooding the streets, suppliers cutting heroin with a synthetic substance such as the powerful prescription drug fentanyl, or addicts using heroin together with other drugs, such as Percocet.
Maria Papadopoulos may be reached at email@example.com or follow on Twitter @MariaP_ENT.

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I just ordered my first hammock - the camo Jungle Hammock. Can't wait to get it and get off the hard lumpy ground. Thanks everyone for all the info on this forum.
I just ordered my first hammock - the camo Jungle Hammock. Can't wait to get it and get off the hard lumpy ground. Thanks everyone for all the info on this forum.
Good choice.
I see you referred to it as your "first hammock"...you catch on quick.
"I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults". Molly Ivins
I have been sleeping in a Claytor JH more nights than not over the last 4 years, and I do enjoy it. I also like the diamond tarp. Just ordered a WBBB l.7 dbl. I feel disloyal, as though somehow I have betrayed my Claytor.
Perhaps I will return, or at least visit on occasion.
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
― Alan W. Watts
In the same way, my original hammock- HH UL Explorer remains a favorite, but a big reason is because it's all I can use with my HH Super Shelter. And sometimes I just like to go back to my beginnings and use that HHSS. But, still, it is a quite comfy hammock anyway.
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Congratulations! The Claytor was also my first hammock and in my opinion one of the best buys for the money. I just ordered a Switchback which is similar to a Claytor but again in my opinion, greatly improved.
My first hammock too. I love it and even if i tried some other hammocks too (DIY, Clark and a HH) i still use the Claytor. I am quite sure that if its worn out i would buy another.
I like the diamond tarp too but for winter/bad weather i think its a little bit too small. I am thinking about buying such a lovely tarp Shug showed in one of his latest videos. It's just the price what keeps me from ordering...
You'll never sleep on the ground again!!
I slept on the ground over the weekend because my hammock hasn't arrived yet. I'm still sore and stiff and I had a pad and an extra folded blanket under my bag for cushion. I'm ready to elevate
Received my hammock yesterday, it looks great. I couldn't lay in it yet because I only have one big tree in my back yard and I made a tripod with 10 foot bamboo poles for the other end but couldn't get it stable enough. I'll keep trying.


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Spring 1998 — I never imagined I would spend six weeks of my life "wandering around" the seafloor exploring an 11 million year old beach, and it never occurred to me to look for a fossil island. But that's what I did, and that's what we found on two research voyages separated by more than a decade.
But, first, a bit of history: During World War II, Princeton mineralogist Harry Hess convinced US officials to keep Navy ships' echo sounders running as they crisscrossed the Pacific. Hess, a captain and later admiral in the Navy, even managed to have his men bring back rock samples when they returned to the ship after Pacific Island landings. We not only won the war, but also identified the mid-Pacific mountain range now known as the East Pacific Rise—a discovery that proved fundamental to the then developing theory of plate tectonics.
Thus began modern marine geology and geophysics. Prompted by Hess's discoveries, when peace returned, American scientists initiated a systematic study of this little known region. One of the first results was the discovery that the ocean crust appeared to present a consistent, layered seismic structure composed of sediments (layer 1 at the seafloor) followed by two layers with rapidly increasing sound velocity, and then a reflector, dubbed the Moho after the its discoverer, a Czechoslovakian seismologist named Andrija Mohorovicic. What surprised scientists was the Moho was found at a very shallow, nearly constant depth of 6 to 7 kilometers, and that seismic layers 2 and 3 above also appeared uniform in the oceans, whereas this boundary ranges from 35 to 60 kilometers deep beneath continents.
This led to a great debate about the nature of the Moho beneath the oceans and the composition of the layers above it. Hess proposed in his now famous 1962 paper The History of the Ocean Basins * that the Moho was an alteration front created by hydrothermal solutions converting the earth's mantle to a lighter rock known as serpentine. Serpentine forms by hydration of the primary mantle rock peridotite, which is named for the gem stone peridote (the most common mineral, known to scientists as olivine). The uniform depth of the Moho, then, represented the upper temperature and pressure limit of peridotite and olivine as stable elements beneath the ocean ridges. Hess thought Layer 2 was the volcanic carapace formed as lavas erupted above the hydrothermally altered mantle rock.
This theory was rejected, however, because laboratory experiments on serpentine failed to produce the exact acoustic velocity characteristics inferred for seismic layer 3. Instead a model where the Moho was the crust-mantle boundary, with layer 3 composed of the rock known as gabbro overlying the unaltered mantle peridotite has become the generally accepted paradigm. Gabbro is a coarse grained rock similar in composition to the basaltic lava that erupts from submarine volcanoes. This rock is found exposed on land where deep layers of the earth have been uplifted onto mountain ranges and exposed by faulting and erosion. It is believed to represent the frozen remains of magma chambers where lava rising out of the earth's interior pooled deep in the crust. Gabbro is also found in "ophiolite" complexes, bits of fossil ocean crust and mantle commonly found on land in tectonic plate collision zones and in island arcs (see map in Peter Kelemen article). There it underlies extrusive pillow lava and sheeted dikes and overlies mantle peridotite; it is also believed to represent the remains of magma chambers. The ophiolite sequence of pillow lavas–dikes–gabbros–periodite provides a convincing match to the seismic layering.
However, ophiolite crust is generally much thinner than the seismic crust in the oceans, and the lavas there often have quite different chemical compositions than those on the seafloor. Do ophiolites represent broader ocean crust characteristics? Hess and geophysicist Walter Munk (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego) cooked up the idea of drilling a hole into the earth's mantle and sold it to a group of their colleagues, known as the "American Miscellaneous Society," who in turn sold it to Washington: Drill a hole into the mantle all the way through the ocean crust. Dubbed "Project Mohole," the idea eventually foundered on the rocks of the congressional budget office in cost overruns and ballooning budgets. It was later reborn, however, as the successful Deep Sea Drilling Project and its successor, the Ocean Drilling Program. (See Oceanus, Vol. 36, No. 4 for "An Abridged History of Deep Ocean Drilling.") These programs have incrementally sought to drill deeper, first through the sediments, then through layer 2, which proved to be, as thought, pillow basalts and sheeted dikes, the remains of the lava that erupted onto the seafloor and its feeder channels. But there the drilling stopped. The material being recovered was too brittle, too broken, and it seemed too difficult to go deeper.
In 1984 my colleague Jim Natland (Scripps) and I proposed using tectonic windows in the ocean crust to get to the deeper rocks. Simply go someplace where Mother Earth had done a lot of work for us by tectonically stripping off the shallow layers, and start deep. In 1986, we surveyed the seafloor south of the island of Mauritius at a great oceanic transform fault named Atlantis II Fracture Zone, looking for a place to drill. The survey produced a map of a 200-kilometer long, mid-sea mountain range flanking the fault. In the middle of these mountains was a remarkable flat-topped peak rising up some 5 kilometers from the seafloor. On the walls of Atlantis Bank, as we named the feature, we sampled gabbro and peridotite, proof that drilling here should be productive.
Then, in 1987, Jim and I returned to Atlantis Bank aboard the drill ship JOIDES Resolution along with several WHOI colleagues including co-chief scientist Dick Von Herzen, who had backed the project from the beginning. Over 16 days of drilling we recovered 437 meters of gabbro from a 500 meter hole, making Hole 735B the most successful hard rock hole ever drilled in the oceans. Although we expected to find gabbro in the lower ocean crust, these rocks still produced a lot of surprises. Scientists had long debated whether the lower crust was crystallized from one great steady-state magma chamber many kilometers across lying beneath the ocean ridge. There was no proof for that here—rather there were many small intrusions, hundreds of meters in dimension, not kilometers. Crystallization here was ephemeral and short-lived. And, a great surprise—the magmas deep in the earth were moved around as the rocks deformed when the ocean crust stretched and ripped apart during seafloor spreading. The crust simply looked a lot different than we expected.
The Indian Ocean is a tough place to get to. It took 10 years to get back. Finally, Jim (now at the University of Miami) and I returned last fall aboard JOIDES Resolution as co-chief scientists and started drilling again to deepen Hole 735B. We drilled another kilometer, and surprise—everything changed again.
After careful study, the results showed that the deep ocean crust is compositionally zoned. Its upper layers are enriched in iron and titanium. In the lefthand figure on page 30, this is reflected in a change in the amounts of different rock types. Many large gabbro intrusions on land are also compositionally layered, but not this way. In this piece of ocean crust, the layers are created as tectonic forces drive the last liquid, with iron and titanium in solution, out of numerous small magma intrusions when they solidify—pushing it from the lowermost layers upward to "freeze" at the top of the section. Our discovery of this "synekinematic igneous differentiation" reveals a whole new process never before dreamed of—unique to ocean ridges.
In the 10 years we had been absent, British colleagues led by Tim Minshull (Cambridge University) had been by to conduct a seismic experiment, which showed that the Moho beneath Atlantis Bank was some 5 to 6 kilometers down. This was much deeper than expected or seemed reasonable in an area where the ocean crust was believed considerably thinner than the usual 6 or 7 kilometers, and where shallow seismic layer 2 (1.5 to 2 kilometers) was already gone.
Well, where was the mantle here anyway? If it were on the walls of Atlantis Bank, then the Moho beneath wasn't the crust-mantle boundary. That's what we set out to find in spring 1998. To do this, Paul Robinson (Dalhousie University), Chris MacLeod (Cardiff University), Simon Allerton (University of Edinburgh), and I organized an international expedition on the British Antarctic Survey ship James Clark Ross. Using British Geologic Survey rock drills and the Canadian remotely operated vehicle ROPOS (Remotely Operated Platform for Ocean Science), we went back to see if we could find the crust-mantle boundary on the wall of the transform, and to map out the great gabbro massif through which we were attempting to drill. What we found was more surprises. We did find the crust-mantle boundary—outcropping on the side of Atlantis Bank—only a few hundred meters deeper than where we stopped drilling. So it appears the Moho is an alteration front, as Harry Hess once supposed, at least in this one spot in the ocean. And we did, with our British and Canadian colleagues, map out an enormous block of gabbro over the top of the bank—proving that the crust here is relatively intact and not a great tectonic jumble. But we also found a fossil island.


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It's That Time of Year: Kid-Friendly Flannel Bedding
The heat in our apartment building kicked on for the first time yesterday - a seasonal rite of passage. Another, for many folks, is taking out the flannel bedding. Last year at this time, I rounded up some cute, kid-friendly flannels and I've done the legwork again to see what's out there this year.
Solid flannel sheets and duvets are easy to find, but you have to turn some rocks over to find patterns. Time to get toasty!
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Smartphones aren't just for business executives anymore. As Droids, iPhones, and BlackBerries have saturated the mainstream market, hundreds of thousands of applications (apps) have emerged, running the gamut from productivity trackers to calorie counters to an app that shows you all the constellations in the night sky based on the direction you're pointing your phone. Among the thousands of useful — and some not so useful — apps are more than 8,700 health-related applications, according to The Wall Street Journal.
A few standouts can help make the task of caregiving easier by simplifying medication management, keeping tabs on an aging loved one, and more. Here's a look at just a few of the top caregiver apps.
1. Tell My Geo (for the Android phone, $9.95 per month): This app is an excellent tool for caregivers of Alzheimer's patients which allows caregivers to easily track an elderly loved one who may have wandered through a GPS-tracker. The caregiver must also have the app downloaded in order to be able to track another person. Of course, the app is useless if the wanderer does not have the phone on his person.
2. Personal Caregiver (free for iPhone users): This app allows caregivers to track the medications of up to three people. Recall alerts from the FDA and detailed medication information is available with the premium edition, $9.99 per month.
3. Pain Care (free for Android, iPhone, and available soon for the BlackBerry): My personal favorite, which solves an age-old dilemma: determining the pain level of a patient who cannot communicate verbally. Medical staff are trained in interpreting non-verbal cues, but this app makes it easier for aging loved ones to clearly convey how they're feeling by identifying an image that most closely matches how they feel, including location, duration, and mood. This app won a Project HealthDesign Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the California HealthCare Foundation.
A recent study conducted by AARP found that 79% of people age 50 and over report owning a mobile phone, and about half of respondents say they're interested in using mobile technology to support and manage their health. As interest in mobile health technology flourishes, applications that simplify the role of caregiving will continue to emerge.
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After Deportation, Stuck in Tijuana
Porfirio Pérez lived a relatively normal life in Escondido, California, installing marble homes.
He lived that life, under the radar for the most part, for the better part of 15 years.
That was until a February traffic stop when he couldn't provide a driver's license. He was subsequently deported.
Now the 42-year-old just tries to survive in Tijuana, 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from his birthplace of Puebla in central Mexico.
He is among hundreds of deportees who are stuck in the sprawling industrial border city, which sits across from San Diego, California, because they don't have the Mexican documents required and need permanent addresses to get them. He and about 350 others live in and around the Rio Tijuana canal that separates the two cities.
"I'm looking for work here but I can't get any because I don't have papers or a voter ID," Pérez said. "It's a real awful change, you know. There, when I was hungry I'd go to a restaurant. Here, you eat if you can get it. You walk back and forth, looking out for the police."
During the day the deportees look for work, wash cars at intersections or flee Mexican police who will jail them for not having papers, just like in the U.S. At night they take refuge in drainage tunnels feeding the canal, beneath bridges or in shacks made of wood, cloth and plastic a few feet from the rusty barrier that separates the country of their birth from the country where they worked years for a better life.
The Padre Chava soup kitchen in Tijuana has offered 900 free breakfasts a day for the last 12 years, along with haircuts and medical services. About 80 percent of the people it serves have been repatriated from the United States.
"Society has to turn to the reality that deportees and migrants are a part of our city," said the Rev. Ernesto Hernández Ruiz, kitchen director. "We can't consider them a plague ... they're human beings in a difficult situation who need a hand."
An average of 254 migrants were deported to Tijuana every day from the United States in the first half of this year, according to Mexico's National Migration Institute. That's down from 2010, when an average of 366 people were deported every day over the same period.
During the 2 1/2 years of President Barack Obama's administration, the U.S. has deported a million people, almost of all them Mexican, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"Deportations are going to increase because the economic situation in the United States has not stabilized yet," says Jorge Bustamante, the U.N. special investigator on migrants' human rights.
Most repatriated Mexicans find a way to return to their homes. But others like Pérez are forced to stay, disoriented, without money or contacts. Many left Mexico as children or adolescents and don't have social security numbers or a voter registration card, the document Mexicans use as their general identification, much like driver's licenses in the U.S.
Getting copies of their birth certificates is complicated and expensive.
Some are drug addicts who rob their fellow camp members.
Arturo Macias, 41, says he has lived in the river bed with about 50 people the last 2 1/2 years. The camp has the stench of decaying food that no one seems to notice and is littered with used syringes.
"Here on the border we hustle every day to see who can give us something to eat and (money) for drugs. Why am I going to lie?" said Macias, who is addicted to heroin. "I'm tired of this life, but the main thing is to get up in the morning with the gang and see how you are going to get something to buy food or drugs."
An accord signed by U.S. and Mexican authorities covering deportations from the San Diego area in 2008 guarantees a "safe, dignified and orderly" arrangement for deportees that safeguards human rights. It pledges not to separate families, to ensure deportations occur between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. for children, women and the elderly. Convicted criminals from three border-area California prisons should be sent back only on weekdays, when government offices are open and authorities can be notified.
But Vicki Gaubeca, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Regional Center for Border Rights, said the agreement is often violated and it provides no protection to keep a deportee from being left alone in an unfamiliar region without papers, money, friends or relatives.
"We are aware, for example, of repatriations of women at midnight (along the border) ... There is also a committee that is supposed to meet to oversee these agreements, but to date we do not know a single member," she said.
ICE in San Diego follows that agreement, said Robert Culley, director of deportations and removals in San Diego.
But other offices in Los Angeles, Seattle or San Francisco could be deporting outside those hours, Culley said. Each region has its own arrangement.
Mexico's National Institute of Migration has run a program for three years whose objective is to pay the full costs for repatriated migrants to return to their hometowns and work with their home state to find them employment.
But that program is not adequately funded and requires a birth certificate or ID card to participate, said the labor department representative in Baja California, Mónica Garcia. Most deportees arrive with only a deportation notice.
Just 397 migrants participated in the program in the first half of 2011.
Agustín Baños lives with his wife in a shack by the canal, far closer to the Los Angeles textile factory where he worked as a tailor for two years than to his hometown of Acapulco, the Pacific resort whose poor neighborhoods are often bloodied by drug violence.
The couple takes turns looking out for police in the afternoons and night. In the mornings he heads to a local market to clean vegetables and wash cars, but it's not enough to afford the seven pesos (59 U.S. cents) to use a pay toilet down the street.
"We're going to try to cross again, maybe tomorrow or the day after," he said. "We're going alone, that's our only choice. Sometimes one wants to finish what he's started."
Based on reporting by The Associated Press.
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Antec DF-85 Review
When a computer enthusiast hears the name Antec, the first thing that comes to mind is its computer cases. Antec has been in business for almost 25 years, longer than personal computers were a common item in a household. Antec is said to be the "global leader in high-performance computer components and accessories for the gaming, PC upgrade and Do-It-Yourself markets" (Antec's website), which probably does not come as a surprise to any above average PC user. Antec has been a pioneer in the market of computer cases, cooling solutions, and power supplies, all of which are of high quality and would be rare to leave their owners unsatisfied. In the spotlight today is the Antec DF-85. The DF-85 is a massive full tower case that offers hot swappable drive bays, loads of room, and plenty of airflow, while having an aggressive, yet attractive, look. In this review, I will provide a complete exploration and evaluation of the Antec DF-85 from unboxing, outer and inner components, installation, manufacturer specifications and features, and more importantly, testing and results.
Closer Look:
The packaging that houses the DF-85 is a red, yellow, and black box that doesn't seem to have an identifiable front. The large sides (typically front and rear) contain information on the case, such as features and specifications, with one that would be like a "cover page". One narrow side of the box has a list of additional features, and opposite of this side is the Antec logo with a quarter angle of the case with the lights on, as well as the model number and the product line - "Dark Fleet". The main package was shipped in another cardboard box around it, protecting it from scratches and other damage during shipping. The DF-85 made it to my residence unharmed, in good condition.
Just like any other case, the DF-85 is secured between two large blocks of fitted styrofoam and wrapped in a plastic protective bag. Sitting on top of the case upon opening the box is the user's manual inside a ziploc bag, which also contains a bag of several types of screws, motherboard standoffs, wire ties, and paper washers.
The size of the DF-85 is unforgettable. From top to bottom, I believe this is the tallest case that I have ever reviewed. From the looks of just the outside and reading the packaging, there is going to be a lot to talk about! Hopefully, with all these features, Antec also put plenty of thought into the performance of the case. Later in this review, I will be exploring this as well.


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1. Apply the rule of proportion. Use small patterns for small living rooms and bedrooms while medium-sized to large patterns are suitable for large spaces.
2. Mix and match geometric patterns to achieve a fun, interesting look. For example, mix stripes with polka dots, plaids and checks but always apply restraint lest the entire window dressing or wall looks tacky and trashy.
3. Match the size of the curtains and bedding to the patterns. For example, medium-sized patterns look best on accent pieces like the cornices and valances and single beds, while large patterns are best for full-sized curtains and double duvet covers.
4. The large floral blooms which were all the rage last year have been replaced with repeat patterns of trailing flowers, which are perfect for drawing the eye upwards and making windows appear taller.
5. Use pattern to introduce a new colour into a room. This is a great way of getting yourself acquainted with the colour before introducing more – likewise if you decide that a specific colour isn't for you then the merest hints incorporated within a pattern is much more liveable, if only for the short-term.
Pattern places a large part of interior design whether by intention or default. To use it successfully means you have to pay attention and make choices which suit the style of the room and your home. Today patterned curtains, fabrics, bedding and soft furnishings are widely available to enhance the look of your home. You don't have to introduce a new colour just because you're introducing pattern. Neutrals and off-whites can still be used if they all have slightly different patterns they'll easily add the 'wow' factor to a room.
We must forget texture, the feel of the fabrics is important as the pattern and colour. This aspect isn't as important as getting the scale and the colours of the patterns right, but texture shouldn't be ignored completely. Mixing silk and satins with cottons and velvets is a great way to add depth and character to your rooms.
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In his first public appearance since being traded to the Bears, Brandon Marshall naturally thanked the McCaskeys, coach Lovie Smith, former Dolphins coach Tony Sparano, former Dolphins teammates, his agent, his attorney, his wife and Marsha Linehan.
Marsha Linehan?
"She's one of the pioneers for the therapies for borderline personality disorder (BPD) known as dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) that allows individuals to understand their emotions to control themselves as far as regulating them,'' Marshall said.
Without the treatment Linehan developed and Marshall underwent in the summer after being diagnosed with BPD at McLean Hospital outside Boston, he doubts he could face the future optimistically.
"I very much admire him for what he's doing and wish him well,'' said Linehan, a therapist and researcher at the University of Washington who also has been diagnosed with BPD. "Brandon is such a good role model. It is powerful and wonderful he's doing it. The most important thing he's standing up and telling people, 'I can change, so can you.' ''
Linehan, 68, explained what she called "the gold standard of treatment.''
"The reason it's called dialectical is it brings the synthesis of opposites,'' she said. "It primarily synthesizes the concept of radical acceptance with change. If you radically accept things you can also change them. It is a skill, like emotion regulation and mindfulness. Stress tolerance has two sets: How do you get through a crisis without making things worse and how do you radically accept a situation that isn't what you want?''
A Chicago connection: Linehan earned her bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees from Loyola, where she made a transformational breakthrough in the area of radical acceptance. Marshall's grasp of terminology and methodology suggested to Linehan that he got the most out of his time at the McLean Hospital.
"Learning new behavior is no different than learning football drills they do,'' Linehan said. "You practice, practice, practice and I'm sure that's what he did because I know the DBT program at McLean.''
Can a patient with Marshall's troubled past really alter his behavior in the midst of professional upheaval?
"Change could be difficult for him," she said. "However, change with a lot of support and validation and serious work on doing his skills ought to get him through it. Whatever set off anger in the past probably will set it off in the future, but now he is skillful at dealing with it. I would say he's going to avoid it in the future because he has new skills.''


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Authors: Muzzy, J. Henry
Date: March 3, 1857
J. Henry Muzzy wrote from Lawrence, Kansas Territory to Eli Thayer in Worcester, Massachusetts. Muzzy informed Thayer that free state supporters in Kansas were not, as Thayer had predicted, discouraged by James Buchanan's election as president in November 1856. He observed that the territory had been quiet during the winter of 1856-1857, but warned that the "ruffians" likely would engage in efforts during the spring of 1857 to discourage eastern emigration to Kansas. Muzzy also commented on the dilemma that free staters faced in deciding whether to pay the taxes levied by the proslavery "bogus legislature." He and his fellow free state supporters were not inclined to pay taxes imposed by a "foreign power," but they also realized that if Governor Geary called in U.S. troops to enforce the law they would have no choice but to pay. Muzzy concluded by stating that he was thankful for the end of the "reign of Frank Pierce," contending that "any change at Washington can hardly be for the worse."
Keywords: Bogus legislature; Buchanan, James, 1791-1868; Douglas County, Kansas Territory; Free state perspective; Geary, John White, 1819-1873; Lawrence, Kansas Territory; Muzzy, J. Henry; Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869; Relief; Taxation; Thayer, Eli, 1819-1899


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Recently, Nueva Vida reached 200 members and is slowly regaining her lost NS. While expanding our cities to make space for the vast influx of new members, we found this in one of the excavation sites.
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Sparta Prague's 2-1 defeat against Mlada Boleslav in the Czech Republic Cup on Wednesday night was marred by a horrific leg-breaking tackle by Leonard Kweuke on Radek Dosoudil.
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Dosoudil's reaction made it immediately clear that the Czechoslovakian was in great distress, after Kweuke's follow through on the shin of the defender caused a double fracture of the tibia and fibula.
He is expected to be out of action for around 12 months as he begins his recovery and rehabilitation from injury.
Meanwhile, Kweuke has been slapped with an unprecedented 12-game ban following the incident, which is the longest suspension handed out by the Disciplinary Committee of the Czech Federation (FACR) since the country's independence in 1993.
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Whether you use heating oil, natural gas or electricity, you are likely to pay more — potentially a lot more — than last winter.
Whether you use heating oil, natural gas or electricity, you are likely to pay more — potentially a lot more — than last winter.
The main reason has to do with the weather.
Last winter was practically balmy, which was especially good for oil users. It meant they were spared the full brunt of record-high oil prices.
But it looks as if they won't be so lucky this time around, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Oil prices remain high, and weather forecasters do not expect another reprieve from Mother Nature.
With normal winter weather, oil users can expect to pay 19 percent more to heat their homes this winter, according to the EIA. And if the average temperature turns out to be 10 percent lower than normal, they can expect to pay 32 percent more.
"Ridiculous" — that's the word Tony Malandra, president of Yeager's Fuel in Allentown, used to describe the price of oil, which last week was about $3.70 a gallon at local full-service dealers.
He blamed Wall Street commodities traders who, he said, are driving up the price of oil despite ample supply.
"We're waiting for prices to pull back," he said. "These things are cyclical."
Also affecting the price of oil are growing demand in Asia, instability in the oil-rich Middle East and production disruptions by extreme weather, such as Hurricane Sandy.
Malandra has good reason to hope for a market correction. Yeager's and other oil dealers do not profit from high prices. To the contrary, they take a hit, since they make their money on small surcharges and service fees, which they collect less of as their customers conserve more.
"They are turning their thermostats down, putting their sweaters on," he said.
Natural gas users, meanwhile, can expect to pay 15 percent more this winter, and 28 percent more if the average temperature is 10 percent lower than normal.
Of course, natural gas users have a lot less to worry about than oil users, because they have a much smaller expense to begin with.
The typical heating oil customer who lives in the Northeast is expected to spend $2,526 on fuel this winter, up 67 percent from the 2006-07 winter, according to the EIA.
But at $1,024, the projected expense for the natural gas customer is virtually unchanged over the same six-year period — and less than half that of oil.
The growing differential between the two fuels is largely the result of new technology that has led to increased domestic gas production, including along Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale formation.
Donald Caldwell is among those switching heat sources. Crews were busy at his Bethlehem rental property running gas lines that will heat the home. He rents the house to college students, and is worried they won't be able to afford heating oil.
Also, he thinks converting to natural gas will make the property more valuable if he tries to sell it. He expects monthly heat bills to drop in half with a gas conversion.
He's not alone.
A total of 11,316 UGI customers converted their home heat source to natural gas in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, up more than 50 percent from the previous year and a record for the utility, UGI spokesman Joe Swope said.
Most of those converting previously had oil heat, he said.
The decline in natural gas prices is also benefiting those who heat their homes with electricity.
In a quirk of how electricity generation rates are determined, the price of natural gas has disproportionate influence. So it follows that electricity rates track natural gas, and that those rates have fallen with the increase in gas extraction.
PPL Electric Utilities announced its new "price to compare" — 7.54 cents a kilowatt-hour for the three-month period starting Dec. 1, down from the current 7.91 cents.
In January 2010, PPL's first month of deregulated rates, the "price to compare" was 10.45 cents a kilowatt-hour.
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when making a starter for a mead, will it affect the flavor much if i use XLDME for my 1 quart starter? should i just use honey instead?
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It is just a guess on my part as I didn't use a starter when I made my mead some five years ago. But that is before I learned the importance of a yeast starter. I would follow the same steps/ quantity of DME that I would for a batch of beer as your yeast starter wort will be a lower OG and shouldn't affect the flavor in the least. You should use yeast energizer in the batch to assist in the fermentation.
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Former TV weatherman Rob Lopicola's hope for a full acquittal faded Thursday when a Palm Beach County jury convicted him on two out of three sex charges involving a former Boca Raton teenager.
The six jurors returned a split verdict, acquitting Lopicola of a charge of having oral sex with a 15-year-old, but finding him guilty of using text messages to solicit sex from the teen. The jury also convicted him on one count of computer pornography and child exploitation.
Judge Barry Cohen set sentencing for Dec. 6. Lopicola, 43, faces a maximum of 20 years in prison or as little as 34 months. He will remain in custody at Palm Beach County Jail.
He also continues to be charged with unlawful sexual activity with a minor, in a separate case involving a 17-year-old victim. A hearing is scheduled for Monday.
Lopicola, who worked at WPTV-Ch. 5 in West Palm Beach until his sudden exit in 2006, testified Thursday he never met his teen accuser and was humiliated by the allegations and media attention on his case.
He said being back before the cameras in these circumstances was "a terrible feeling."
"I'm on trial," said Lopicola, a Wilton Manors resident at the time of his July 2012 arrest. "My entire future is on the line right now."
He denied meeting his accuser for oral sex in October 2010, and explained hundreds of sexually explicit text messages he sent to the boy in the following months were just "fantasy fun" and not real — "that's like my fetish."
But state prosecutor Michael Kugler blasted Lopicola's nearly two-hour appearance on the stand, telling the jurors Lopicola leaned on his skilled on-air experience to woo them: "He really tried to schmooze you."
"He had the gall to get up on the stand and tell you it's all harmless," Kugler said during his rebuttal to the defense's praise of Lopicola's "genuine" testimony. "This is a defendant who is absolutely reckless."
Prosecutors Kugler and Jessica Kahn say Lopicola knew the teen he met through a Craigslist classified ad was underage and not 18 as advertised, but even if he didn't know, it's a crime.
"Whether he knew he was 15 or not, he's guilty," Kahn said in her closing argument.
But the defense argued there's no evidence linking the pair to any sexual activity, and Lopicola's young accuser set him up by encouraging Lopicola's sexting.
Assistant Public Defender Kristy Militello said the teen lied during his testimony on Wednesday and emphasized her client was "in a fantasy world" with all of his texts. And the texting wasn't a crime because Lopicola thought the accuser was 18, she said.
Lopicola "thinks it's role playing, it's fake," Militello said, criticizing the teen for deleting all of the suggestive texts he sent to Lopicola.
The Sun Sentinel is not identifying the teen because of his age during the incidents and the nature of the charges.
Lopicola testified extensively about his preference for dating much younger men, his frequent use of texting for sexual gratification, and his recovery from an alcohol addiction.
"I do like young guys," he said. "I like them slim, lean. I'm gay."
But Lopicola insisted that he never saw the alleged victim in person until he walked into the courtroom. He said he believed the accuser was simply pretending to be younger than 18 in the text messages for the purposes of a pretend relationship.
"It's just crazy, random, dirty, sexual texting," he said. "It's just extreme behaviors."
Lopicola said none of the texting translated into reality. He called it a "pornographic movie in text messages."
The accuser, now 18 and attending school in Georgia, testified Lopicola picked him up and performed oral sex on him inside Lopicola's car on one occasion. The teen also said that after he moved to Michigan in late 2010, he texted Lopicola and the two exchanged hundreds of texts.
"I was just really lonely," the teen said of the "sexting." He denied the defense claim that he wanted to ensnare Lopicola in a "To Catch a Predator"-style investigation like the Dateline NBC program.
A weekend forecaster for nearly eight years, Lopicola covered the region's biggest weather events in the past decade, including hurricanes Frances, Jeanne, and Wilma in 2004 and 2005.
"I have spoken in front of a lot of people when I was a weatherman," Lopicola, whose reasons for resigning from the station were never explained, told the jury. "I'd get a little nervous — but this is a terrible feeling."
He was working at Boardwalk Bar, a gay strip club in Fort Lauderdale, before his arrest on both cases.
The second case involves a former West Palm Beach teenager and alleged oral sex episodes in December 2010 and January 2011. Lopicola testified Thursday that they met through Craigslist.
The young man, now 20, also testified Wednesday — over the defense's objection — about his final encounter with Lopicola in April 2011. The Sun Sentinel is also not identifying this accuser.
The teen, then a high school junior, told police the two traded texts, some of which contained naked photos of Lopicola's chest and genitals, according to a police report. Lopicola said he thought the teen was 19.
They were about to have oral sex in the teen's home when the accuser's mother arrived, discovered Lopicola hiding in her shower, and called police.
"I felt like an idiot," Lopicola said. "I'm a 40-year-old man standing in this guy's shower."
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I've been wondering: five precepts shouldn't be that hard to remember. Compare that to the patimokkha containing 227 (or respectively 331) rules, including some really arcane, such as the ones about travelling with a bikkhuni on a boat: ok when crossing, bad when going downstream, but ok without appointment. Unlike the patimokkha, the difficulty with the five precepts, or rather their traditional phrasing, is that they are somewhat compendious which - although good for easy memorisation- leaves some room for interpretation. This is probably intended, since an overly meticulous phrasing might lead to lengthy text involving paragraphs about bikkhunis on boats, which would be self-defeating. Still, some people such as myself who are a little bit thick, occasionally wish for a more fleshed out version, especially an interprtation that has direct relevance to modern life.
Thich Nath Hanh has attempted this by phrasing the so-called "five mindfulness trainings" that are patterned after the first five precepts. I have reproduced them below. I found Thich Nath Hanh's phrasing immensely helpful, as it provides not only concrete guidelines, but also offers some reflection on the larger ethical context of the precepts. I haven't come across any comparable "exegesis" within the Theravada until now, which may well be due to not looking hard enough. So my question is: did you? Are there any adaptations of the five precepts to modern life that contemporary Theravada schools teach? Comments and suggestions by recognised teachers? I'd be interested in hearing them. Perhaps we can collect them here. Thank you.
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The Five Mindfulness Trainings according to Thich Nath Hanh wrote: -First Training-
Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life.
-Second Training-
Aware of the suffering caused by exploitation, social injustice, stealing, and oppression, I am committed to cultivate loving kindness and learn ways to work for the well-being of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I am committed to practice generosity by sharing my time, energy, and material resources with those who are in real need. I am determined not to steal and not to possess anything that should belong to others. I will respect the property of others, but I will prevent others from profiting from human suffering or the suffering of other species on Earth.
-Third Training-
Aware of the suffering caused by sexual misconduct, I am committed to cultivate responsibility and learn ways to protect the safety and integrity of individuals, couples, families, and society. I am determined not to engage in sexual relations without love and a long-term commitment. To preserve the happiness of myself and others, I am determined to respect my commitments and the commitments of others. I will do everything in my power to protect children from sexual abuse and to prevent couples and families from being broken by sexual misconduct.
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Aware of the suffering caused by unmindful speech and the inability to listen to others, I am committed to cultivate loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering. Knowing that words can create happiness or suffering, I am committed to learn to speak truthfully, with words that inspire self-confidence, joy, and hope. I am determined not to spread news that I do not know to be certain and not to criticise or condemn things of which I am not sure. I will refrain from uttering words that can cause division or discord, or that can cause the family or the community to break. I will make all efforts to reconcile and resolve all conflicts, however small.
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Aware of the suffering caused by unmindful consumption, I am committed to cultivate good health, both physical and mental, for myself, my family, and my society by practising mindful eating, drinking, and consuming. I am committed to ingest only items that preserve peace, well-being, and joy in my body, in my consciousness, and in the collective body and consciousness of my family and society. I am determined not to use alcohol or any other intoxicant or to ingest foods or other items that contain toxins, such as certain TV programs, magazines, books, films, and conversations. I am aware that to damage my body or my consciousness with these poisons is to betray my ancestors, my parents, my society, and future generations. I will work to transform violence, fear, anger, and confusion in myself and in society by practising a diet for myself and for society. I understand that a proper diet is crucial for self-transformation and for the transformation of society.


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Info: Hayate no Gotoku!! (second season of Hayate no Gotoku!) , airs on saturday at 1:23 AM on Tokyo TV.
It means approximately Friday at 5-6 PM in Europe, approximately 9-12 AM in the US.
Keep this as reference for the future
|2009-04-03, 12:31
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I haven't seen the ep yet, but manga fans rejoice! They picked up from where they left the manga track in S1: The sports festival! ^_^ - very Hina-centric to begin with and a necessary prerequisite for the Valentine Day arc.
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Just a note, but the (legal) stream on crunchyroll is available to everyone for free immediately for this episode, so anyone can go ahead and watch it.
Starting next week the non-members will need to wait for a week to see the stream.
The 720p version is actually really nice quality for this show: no interlacing or ghosting artifacts at all.
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The new OP is fine with me. It sounds similar in style to the OPs of the first season and the ED is cute.
As for the episode itself - not bad. A bit surprised that it's being streamed (didn't even know until about five minutes before it aired), but I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth. The fourth wall breaking is still there, Wakamoto is still there. This should turn out nicely.
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The opening is fine, but Elisa's voice doesn't match this song, she sings in a high pitch (not Saori Sakura type of high pitch), Kotoko voice would have suited the song alot better. Ending is adorable, Hina ~
Notmuch is changed, other then J.C Staff are doing the animation. The only thing noticable changed are the colours, they're much brighter. I just hope they would keep the consistancy up, of course the first episode would always be nicer, have it around the quality of Toradora, and I'll be happy. I swear J.C Staff wanted to work with Kugimiya Rie so much, they snatched this anime from Syngery. Now J.C staff cam claim that they animated all tsundere loli centred anime with Kugimiya Rie.
The episode is typical Hayate no Gotoku, if you liked the first season, you shouldn't be disapointed.
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I'm kind of surprised that they're more or less throwing the latter two-thirds of the anime's first season under the bus, but I suppose it works better as a "here's stuff we didn't get to in the first season," type deal than "here's what happened between episode 51 and 52 of the first season," which is what I expected them to do.
Not that it will make much of a difference, since it's unlikely that they'll reanimate anything the first season covered, no matter how out of continuity. We're probably due for some streamlining because of this, with much of the non-integral-to-the-plot chapters in this stretch having an existing animated version under Synergy SP's take.
As for this episode, what can you say? It was a slightly modified to reintroduce more of the cast, but generally very loyal, adaptation of the Sports Festival event, streamlined into one episode. Next episode promises to introduce Sonia, and we're off to the races.
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*shakes head*
I wonder if I should say as expected of JC or what, but that ED made me want to sleep a few days. First, not the main problem, so I'll get it out of the way. The song isn't that good, visuals are not that great either.
The main thing is the clear Hinagiku Hoi hoi... (What is hoi hoi? Use wwwjdic or something and check for yourself). I like Hinagiku too, but the first words that popped in my head were "What the hell is this?".
Like, "Nagi? Who is that? Hinagiku has the most popularity so let's just advertise her to the crowd!" and it was so obvious, dear lord...
Especially when I remember the good EDs in the past that are good visually and song-wise... *tears* I need to go listen to the last ED again... orz
EDIT: Ahh~, yes, this song, this one~
For the episode itself, it was average. The overall pacing of the story and the story itself wasn't that interesting, but it was clear that everything was done to just re-introduce every character... And Ayumu's brother, who I'm pretty sure never appeared until now. Though it was kind of entertaining seeing the characters that have completely lost their existence in the manga.
The character designs are just so different, I couldn't help but notice it all the way through... Especially some of the distant shots of the characters.
OP was good, both visually (did Hinagiku and Ayumu get more focus than Nagi? GJ!) and song BY ITSELF, but the serious atmosphere is dull...
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|2009-04-03, 15:52
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Okay, that's very easy to disagree to. I think that J.C.Staff did an excellent job staying on course with a very truthful conversion of the manga chapters, while adding the reintroduction of basically all characters on top.
These are the good news:
1) We're finally back on the manga track, and exactly where they left it in S1. Since Hayate is fired now, it's very likely that they will not fire off random fluffy fillers, but rather continue the storyline at least till Hayate's rehabilitation. In other words, we'll be treated to alot of very fine stuff
2) Sorry for being rude, but the J.C.Staff whiner crowd can pull my finger. Whoever insists on qualified disagreement should watch any 3 episodes out of S1 40-50 and then come back and talk. No sooner than that.
3) While I'm not too hot on the OP, I'd certainly rate the ED fairly high. Not just because of the Hina content (though I find the cycling through facial expressions adorable), but from the musical aspect.
A very promising start for manga fans. I hope they stay on track
PS: Nagi still had around 2-3x the screentime of any other character not named Hayate. Cry me a river if that's not enough for you, serenade_beta. Sorry.
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You might want to reread your former note?
Sorry if I reacted a bit prickly here, but after the huge annoyance from S1 in which systematically every good later Hina/Hamster episode was _cut out_ and exchanged for random fluff centered around Nagi I'm reacting a bit allergic when suddenly complaints are raised that Nagi wasn't given a prominent enough role in ep1. Simply because it's not true, in addition to the fact that S1 was already hugely tilted in her favor.
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Blanchett: Awards are a team effort
Cate Blanchett has admitted the thrill of winning awards is balanced by managing other people's disappointment as she accepted the best actress gong at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards.
The Australian actress stars alongside Sally Hawkins and Alec Baldwin in Woody Allen's film Blue Jasmine, which earned her the nod, and she insisted it was a team effort.
Cate said of knowing who had won before you came to the ceremony: "These are great events, it's a win-win situation because you can sit back and have a drink.
"But it's managing other people's disappointment... because Woody has made an extraordinary film and there's so many wonderful actors in it and it's great that Sally Hawkins is here tonight - it's a group effort."
Robert Redford scooped best actor for his performance of a man stranded at sea in All Is Lost, and praised director JC Chandor for creating the one-man film.
The 77-year-old actor said: "By removing a lot of elements like dialogue and special effects, many kinds of elements that new technology has brought into the business, by removing all that and creating a more pure cinematic experience, it opened it up for the audience to come closer to the action and the actor, I think that was different.
"I think, taking the dialogue out and letting the audience get close enough to the character that they would literally make that journey with him, I think that was the greatest benefit."
David O Russell's American Hustle was the big winner of the night, scooping best picture, best screenplay and best supporting actress, which Bradley Cooper accepted on behalf of co-star Jennifer Lawrence.
Jared Leto won best supporting actor for his portrayal of a drag queen in The Dallas Buyers Club, and best director went to Steve McQueen for 12 Years A Slave, who was moved to tears by Harry Belafonte's introduction of him.
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Boston Bruins vs. Pittsburgh PenguinsNHL.com @NHLdotcom
GAME: Boston Bruins (0-2-0) at Pittsburgh Penguins (0-1-1).
TIME: Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EDT.
Heralded rookie Sidney Crosby has contributed to Pittsburgh's offense in his first two NHL games. He just hasn't been able to help the Penguins win.
Crosby hopes to make his home debut a successful one as the Penguins continue searching for their first victory against the winless Boston Bruins.
Crosby had an assist in the Penguins' 3-2 shootout loss to the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday, giving him two points in his first two NHL games. The top overall pick in the 2005 draft also had an assist in Pittsburgh's 5-1 season-opening loss to New Jersey on Wednesday.
Crosby's assist Friday came on Ziggy Palffy's game-tying goal with 1:24 left in regulation. However, the 18-year-old prodigy was stopped on his shootout attempt, ensuring Carolina's victory after Palffy and Mario Lemieux were stuffed in the first two rounds.
"The first period was kind of rough, but after that, we started working," Crosby said. "We just needed to play more desperate."
Ryan Malone also scored for the Penguins, who are expected to have one of the NHL's most potent offenses this season.
"The chances are there, it's going to come," said Lemieux, who did not record a point Friday. "One of these games, we are going to explode for a few goals and get our confidence back. I think the guys are a little uptight right now."
The Bruins are also looking for their first win. They lost 4-1 to the Buffalo Sabres on Friday, falling to 0-2 for the first time since 1999-2000, when they started the season 0-9.
"Based on the performance, we weren't ready to play," coach Mike Sullivan said. "I believe we have a good team, and I believe we have talent. We'd better be ready from the drop of the puck, and we weren't."
Glen Murray scored the lone goal for Boston, which opened a six-game road trip. The Bruins have scored just twice in their first two games.
"We have to simplify and get the puck to the net, and try not to make the fancy play," Murray said.
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STANDINGS: Bruins - 0 points, 5th place, 4 PB, Northeast Division. Penguins - 1 point, 4th place, 2 PB, Atlantic Division.
TEAM LEADERS: Bruins - Patrice Bergeron and Murray, 1 goal; four tied with 1 assist; six tied with 1 point; Tom Fitzgerald, 6 PIM. Penguins - Mark Recchi, Malone and Palffy, 1 goal; Crosby, 2 assists and 2 points; Ryan Vandenbussche, 5 PIM.
SPECIAL TEAMS (through Oct. 6): Bruins - Power play: 0 percent (0 for 3), 22nd (tied) in NHL. Penalty killing: 80 percent (4 for 5), 20th. Penguins - Power play: 9 percent (1 for 11), 20th (tied). Penalty killing: 75 percent (6 for 8), 24th (tied).
GOALTENDERS: Bruins - Andrew Raycroft (0-2-0, 3.00 GAA); Hannu Toivonen (no record). Penguins - Jocelyn Thibault (0-1-0, 5.00); Sebastien Caron (0-0-1, 1.85); Marc-Andre Fleury (no record);
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Finally.... I get to show this. This thing is huge. Its half the size of my brickcon project which took 9 months to build. I have been working on this furiously for the past 6 weeks. I am sure I could have gotten another half dozen builds done in lieu of this, but I am happy with how this turned out.
I really had to fight the urge to change the design of the Castle as I wanted to stick to the basic design of the castle as much as possible even though from a style perspective is relatively plain. This castle has a very rich history which started shortly after William the Conqueror and was the main defense in Southeastern England until if fell into desrepair in the 16th century.
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Alexander Dubé
As Executive Director of Career Transition For Dancers, Mr. Alexander J. Dubé has the responsibility for all day-to-day management issues of the organization, including all program planning and implementation, human resource management, financial management, fundraising, board relations, and Executive Producer of the organization's annual gala fundraiser. Mr. Dubé has had an extensive career in management, including executive positions with Tiffany & Company, Hurok Concerts, Dubé Zakin Management and, most recently, as the first Dance Administrator for the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA). After retiring from AGMA in 1998, Mr. Dubé concentrated on his volunteer role as treasurer of the Board of Directors at Career Transition For Dancers. He came out of retirement in 2001 to take on the position of Executive Director of the organization. A lifelong dance aficionado, Mr. Dubé is an expert on ballet and modern dance, including history, choreography, and schools, as well as the design and construction of dance floors. In addition to his work with Career Transition For Dancers, Mr. Dubé was co-founder and treasurer of the Performing Arts Center for Health (PACH) in New York.


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GRAHAM � A proposed change to the county�s watershed protection ordinance is designed to protect an emergency water source for the city of Greensboro.
A public hearing will be held during the Alamance County Board of Commissioners meeting on Monday to discuss the change, which County Planning Director Jason Martin said is designed to protect the newly designated Upper Haw River Watershed in the northwest part of the county.
The state reclassified the Upper Haw River Watershed after Greensboro developed an emergency water intake at the Haw River after 2002. Greensboro used the intake from Oct. 2007 to April 2008 during a drought. Martin said the proposed amendment, if approved, would protect this water source for future use and is being required by the state.
The amendment would restrict from the Upper Haw River Watershed discharging landfills, sites for land application of residuals or petroleum contaminated soils, and storage of hazardous materials unless a spill containment plan is implemented.
The amendment, if approved, would impact future single-family residential, multi-family residential and non-residential development. No lot shall be less than one-half acre per dwelling unit or non-residential development use when more than one unit or use is to be sited on a lot, according to the amendment.
The amendment requires that multi-family and non-residential developed lots not have more than 24 percent of impervious surface areas, which includes sidewalks, parking lots, pavement, or brick. Martin said this restriction is designed to prevent storm water run off from easily reaching the watershed area. The more natural vegetation that is allowed in an area helps prevent pollutants from reaching a potential water source.
�All new lots to be used for multi-family structures, community business or industrial purposes shall be required to obtain a watershed permit from the County�s Watershed Administrator before any building permits may be issued,� the amendment states.
For single-family residential, development shall not exceed one dwelling unit per one-half acre on a project by project basis. No residential lot shall be less than one-half acre, except within an approved cluster of development whose overall project density is no greater than one dwelling unit per one-half acre.
According to the amendment, multi-family residential development is subject to health department approval and requires a minimum area of one-half acre for each unit located on a lot. The total project area will include total acreage in the tract on which the project is to be developed.
Non-residential development will require health department approval. Martin said that the proposed amendment is the least restrictive among the ordinances used for designated watersheds.
The current county watershed protection ordinance has been in place since 1987. The current minimum lot size for the Upper Haw River Watershed is 30,000 square feet or about 0.69 acres based on the county�s subdivision ordinance and there are no impervious or built-upon restrictions.
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Back when Swine Flu was first making the news, the French press dubbed it "grippe porcine." I chose, mainly for my own amusement, to translate it as "pork fever," which sounds like something much more fun to come down with.* So when Nick came home with an entire kilo of chunky ground pork from the Chinese butcher** up the street, I had to figure out what to do with the 800+ grams he didn't use in his breakfast scramble.
We've been talking about breakfast sausages lately, Nick and I, and I realized that that might just be the perfect use for this hand-ground pork. So I Googled "breakfast sausage recipe" and clicked on the first result, a tasty-sounding recipe from Alton Brown. Scanning the list of ingredients, I was pleased to note that I had everything he called for – fresh sage, thyme, and rosemary (check, and from my windowbox, no less!), fresh nutmeg (I don't use any other kind), and even some of the more oddball (for France) items like red pepper flakes and brown sugar were covered. Now, his recipe calls for grinding the pork yourself, which I'm sure would be even more awesome, but I figured the pork I had was the right texture and fat content, so I went with it. As suggested, I combined the pork and seasonings (plus some minced onion, because I felt like it) and let them sit overnight to get acquainted. I cross-referenced Brown's recipe with Michael Ruhlman's sausage Ratio, and the differences are minimal.
The next morning, I pulled the bowl of seasoned pork mixture (which already smelled fabulous) from the fridge and began shaping patties.
1. Making Sausages 1, 2. Making Sausages 2, 3. Making Sausages 3, 4. Making Sausages 4
See? You can make sausage at home, too! No complicated and awkward casings necessary, just a little patience for patty-making. We fried up four of them that morning, and ate them with fried eggs and breakfast potatoes. The rest I froze and then threw into a ziplock bag for future breakfasts and bouts of pork fever.
* Now, of course, it has much more banal names: H1N1 or grippe A.
** There are no less than twelve butchers on my street. Two are Chinese, three are French, and the rest are Arab. What this means is that even with a glut of butchers, I can buy pork at less than half of them.
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Pre-order page reveals Sony Ericsson Android arrival date
SIM-free model confirmed?
Sony Ericsson has created an advance order page for its first Android smartphone and it reveals that the phone will launch in the UK on 10 February 2010.
Sony Ericsson's Xperia X10 will land in February 2010
SE had until now only been willing to say that the X10 – codenamed 'Rachael' – would be available during "the first half of 2010".
The page's "I'm interested in this phone on..." field also hints that an untethered version of the phone will be released, because "Handset Only (Sim Free)" is one of the drop-down options.
The X10's sample shot isn't that great
To spur interest in the X10, SE has also published on its offical blog a handful of images taken using the phone's 8Mp camera.
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