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text: Hello all I thought I would post my first blog on this site to sort of introduce myself and hopefully get to a point that I can post my robot project. I am currently working on a couple of robots the first is a bot that will navigate around the house or outside I would like to eventually create a database back end to help drive the bot's logic. The second bot, I am currently just starting on is a flying bot I would like to have the bot fly as high into the air as possible and snap pictures of the surrounding landscape.

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It is possible that the main title of the report Ear, Patella, Short Stature Syndrome is not the name you expected. Please check the synonyms listing to find the alternate name(s) and disorder subdivision(s) covered by this report.
Ear-patella-short stature syndrome (EPS), also known as Meier-Gorlin syndrome, is a rare genetic disorder characterized by small ears (microtia), absent or small knee caps (patellae), and short stature. Additional findings may include various skeletal abnormalities, early feeding difficulties, and poor weight gain. In addition, characteristic features of the head and face may be present including a small mouth (microstomia), with full lips, small circumference of the head (microcephaly), and/or underdevelopment (hypoplasia) of the upper (maxillary) and/or lower (mandibular) jaw bones (micrognathia). EPS is thought to be inherited as an autosomal recessive genetic disorder.
Human Growth Foundation
997 Glen Cove Avenue
Suite 5
Glen Head, NY 11545
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Little People of America, Inc.
250 El Camino Real
Suite 201
Tustin, CA 92780
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Better Hearing Institute
1444 I Street NW
Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20005
United States
Tel: (202)449-1100
Fax: (703)684-6048
Tel: (800)327-9355
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Ear Anomalies Reconstructed: Atresia/Microtia Support Group
72 Durand Road
Maplewood, NJ 07040
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The first speaker is Andy Atkins Krüger from Web Certain.
He begins by saying that search has always been there – although it used to be out hunting and later with a phonebook.
He presents a slide showing the search engine layout with Google presented as a kingly figure in the middle. Search as a whole seems to be polarising around a small number of big players.
Google vs Twitter. Firstly, they're not the same. Twitter Search is still in its infancy and does not have such a good algorithm. But Twitter is far more human than Google's automated system. Therefore personal and local.
What would happen if they merged? Google standard results with personal local twists and ratings. Interesting for the future.
Next onstage is Adam Lasnik from Google. They do not yet have Google Voice available in Iceland – be he says it is coming.
He also likes Google Earth and Google Docs as amazing Google developments.
But on the Google search results, the development has been towards tailoring results and allowing signed in users to say what sites should be at the top of their personal searches.
They are also giving more control to webmasters all the time – more tools and more control to help customise how your website appears in the index.
The future of Google is more local with a focus on the local. Like if you search 'café', you will increasingly be given the nearest cafés to your current location.
Google have seen a great increase in hacking and malware and they have been warning webmasters and users, but they are working on ways to target those people better to help them stop the viruses.
Implicit balanced with explicit – we know your preferences, and here's what we think you'd like. The other side is the user saying 'no', this is what I want. Balancing the two without getting mixed up in people's private and embarrassing searches is the challenge.
We are all part of the future of search whether we like it or not. So we might as well be proactive about making it suitable for us as individuals.
He would like us to visit google.is/webmasters to interact with him and his team!
Rand Fiskin from SEOmoz is next up. What is SEM? Users go to search engines to find their needs. SEM is steering those people to your website. Organic results and PPC are both useful.
Search is very powerful for sales, and also for influence.
The structure is tht many companies have in house marketers – both huge companies and little ones. There are independent webmasters and then there are the agencies.
He explains the SEO pyramid – which you can see by Googling Matt McGee SEO pyramid.
In the PPC side of it there are in house webmasters and independent ones, but unlike SEO, thee aare also tool providers, which Rand would like to start including them in SEO too.
How to apply SEM to your company?
Create a strategy first and foremost. What are your strengths? Content, quality, the product, reputation….?
In SEO, content is key, although a lot of people also think link building is key. The key is having the great content to make others want to link to you.
However you go about it, be sure to employ analytics to make sure you're doing it right. Similarly, and intelligent search strategy cannot be built without an intelligent search strategy team. Building expertise in house is important in that….and this is coming from the agency guy! Basically, have the expert to be able to use your agency well.
Finally, keep paying attention. Great strategies become poor ones extremely quickly. And remember that PPC and SEO are not risk free. It is all too easy to get kicked off the search engines – sometimes with horrible effect. So be careful.


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No. 8 Florida State routs No. 25 Maryland 63-0
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Things couldn't have gone much worse for the Maryland Terrapins on Saturday. Their quarterback suffered a concussion and missed half the game and Maryland suffered a historic loss.
Eighth-ranked Florida State beat No. 25 Maryland 63-0 and the Terps tied for the most lopsided loss by a Top 25 team in FBS history. No. 11 Texas lost 66-3 to UCLA in 1997.
"Not really much to say today," Maryland coach Randy Edsall said. "We weren't very good. ... I take full responsibility for this. We didn't play well offensively, defensively, special teams.
"I know the guys in the locker room. I know who they are and I know the resolve that we have and we will go back and we will look at this and get better."
Maryland (4-1, 0-1) hoped to make its last scheduled trip to Tallahassee, Fla. a good one by upsetting the reigning ACC champion. The school moves to the Big Ten in 2014, so Saturday was the last scheduled meeting between programs that have played every year since 1992.
The Terrapins entered as the No. 2 offense in the conference with quarterback C.J. Brown as the individual leader in total offense.
Brown went down late in the second quarter with the Terrapins trailing 14-0. Brown released a pass downfield just before Christian Jones hit him around the waist and Jaccobi McDaniel followed with a blow to the chest. Brown lay on the turf for several minutes before heading to the locker room with a member of the medical staff.
Edsall said Brown suffered a concussion and will be evaluated Sunday.
"I'd rather make no comment on that at this point in time," Edsall said. "I know what I was told by our coaches, but I have not seen it myself on film and I probably won't have any comment after that because all of these things are in the hands of the conference."
The Terrapins were held to 121 first-half yards. Maryland punted on its first three possessions of the game, a Florida State first this season. The Terps converted just 1-of-7 third downs in the first 30 minutes and 2-of-15 all game.
The Maryland offense was held to 234 yards and 33 yards rushing on 25 attempts.
Brown completed 6-of-14 passes for 82 yards. Backup Caleb Rowe was 9-for-17 with 119 yards passing. Receiver Deon Long caught three passes for 77 yards.
Punter Nathan Renfro had a busy day with 11 punts.
All of this came days after Maryland moved into the rankings for the first time since 2010. It was the worst loss since 1993 when the Terps were routed at home by Penn State 70-7.
"They have great athletes. They always do," Rowe said. "They were good, but we also could have taken advantage of a few things and we didn't do that."
Florida State (5-0, 3-0) scored on its first drive, a Karlos Williams 1-yard touchdown run, and then punted on the next three consecutive drives. That's when the Jameis Winston show began.
The Seminoles scored touchdowns on their next eight consecutive possessions as the redshirt freshman quarterback reaffirmed his Heisman Trophy candidacy.
Winston completed 23-of-32 passes for a career-high 393 yards and a career-high five touchdowns. The weekly highlight came late in the third quarter when the pocket collapsed and Maryland linebacker Yannik Cudjoe-Virgil jumped on Winston's back. The quarterback ducked and slid out of the sack, rolled right and threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to tight end Nick O'Leary.
The 63 points were the second-most scored during the Jimbo Fisher era. The Seminoles beat Murray State 69-3 in 2012.
O'Leary had four receptions for 55 yards and two touchdowns. Receiver Kelvin Benjamin had five receptions for 60 yards and two touchdowns. Receiver Rashad Greene had 108 yards receiving, but saw his streak of five games with a touchdown come to an end. Williams added another touchdown from 17 yards out in the fourth quarter and backup quarterback Jacob Coker ran for a 24-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter.
"As good as the offense played today, I thought the defense played better," Fisher said. "The defense, I thought, was the story of the day. They really took the show."
Florida State has a bye week before it travels to No. 3 Clemson on Oct. 19.
Maryland hosts Virginia next week.


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Welcome to the HEREDUC website on heritage education
What is
Heritage education?
4th HEREDUC COURSE
in FRANCE
Recently, heritage in all its forms has received a lot of attention across Europe and both primary and secondary education have used it in developing many fascinating outcomes. This is because heritage lends itself very well to new pedagogical approaches, such as cross-curricular collaboration and project work.
Untill recently, no new training manual full of concrete materials and examples of good practice had been written. HEREDUC has tried to fill this gap.
HEREDUC refers to HERitage EDUCation and the project is part of the Comenius 2.1 scheme, working within the Socrates programme of the European Union. The project has developed a guidebook for teachers wich you can download from this site. The guidebook contains approaches to heritage in Europe and concentrates on how teachers might integrate heritage education in lessons, in primary as well as secondary schools. The text is written with practical application in mind.
The website and the guidebook will be used in Comenius in-service training courses, which the project coordinator will organise regularly at several European locations, alternating in focus between primary and secondary education. The fourth HEREDUC course will be held in France from 7 untill 13 February 2011. Have a look at the course flyer or click here for more information.


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It was just business, one slice from a multibillion dollar piracy industry. In 2008, Somali pirates hijacked a Danish cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden and demanded a ransom of $7 million for the return of the ship and its crew. The ship's owner countered with an offer of a few hundred thousand. Thus began a tense negotiation spanning weeks, then months, with the pirates' morally conflicted negotiator in the middle.
Thymaya Payne's wobbly but intriguing documentary, now in a week-long run at Facets Cinematheque, is two docs in one. Once the hostage situation is established, and the days start adding up in the negotiations between Danish CEO Per Gullestrup and Somali middleman Ishmael Ali, "Stolen Seas" steps back and takes time, too much time, to PowerPoint and talking-head its way through a presentation on economic forces in famine-ridden Somalia and how corrupt and venal government and indifferent or bungling international politics helped stoke the piracy crime wave. In the film's middle section you cannot help but wonder: Yes, but how's the hostage crisis going?
Payne and screenwriter Mark Monroe, who shaped the outline of the film, succeed admirably when they focus on Ali, whose ambiguous place in his own story becomes the way into all the other stories. Payne's cliched cinematics are less helpful: He's a sucker for phony-looking "dramatic re-enactment" footage accompanying (legit) recorded phone conversations. Also, the music is terrible — thundering, pounding, false.
And yet it's a strong subject, worth a look if only for Payne's determined debunking of the worldwide piratical cultural allure. Jack Sparrow, you're fired.
'Stolen Seas' -- 2 1/2 stars
No MPAA rating (language, violence).
Running time: 1:28; in English and subtitled Somali, Italian, Russian, Tagalog and German.
Plays: Friday-Thursday at Facets Cinematheque.


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Then again, every series has its "weak" moments.
I've just watched a bunch of other series in a row (like Chuunibyou) and got a bit spoiled with some very nice stories. "Hayate" right now is a bit stale with a slower pace and happy-go-lucky plot. A few chapters back when Hata tried to push the whole bet thing as a serious matter, it just didn't work for me. Now that he is turning it back to "slapstick comedy" (as in the latest chapter), I think the story could turn a bit more enjoyable.
But, to be honest, the current arc is one of my least favorite ones...
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I like the mangaka arc when it's actually moving. The problem is that Hata decided upfront that he was going to do an arc that would take at least 3 months in story to complete, and he wasn't going to skip over any of that time. That was not a good decision.
At least it's heading to a conclusion now. The whole thing should be wrapped up in a few months at most.
I'm a little burnt out on HnG at the moment compared to a year or so ago, but even so I almost always enjoy the chapters a great deal when I read them, and really there's nothing wrong with that. I've been reading HnG for over three years now, it's inevitably going to be less exciting then it was when it was fresh.
(Imagine the people who've been reading for almost nine years...)
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Join Date: May 2012
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So the development team was given 1 billion Yen and the thought that blowing their entire budget on graphics was a bad idea didn't even cross their minds until after they had finished wasting all that money? Seriously? On graphics no less, not even gameplay where it could get by with average-at best graphics. I feel bad for the guy that has to foot the bill. And even worse for Nagi since she's going to have to tell him that the dev team screwed up and he may end up completely and utterly fucked. On the bright side though, this does count as an interesting experience so it could end up as good material for her manga.
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I disagree with you all.
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Loved the chapter personally, just because most of the fourth wall skewering was dead on.
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the only think I find funny about this chapter is the no-tits character, since she represent what Nagi think of Hina.
if that the manga then I'm guessing some weird stuff happen in the competition.
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Also, you're crazy. The top 3 in every poll has been exactly the same:
1. Hina
2. Currently popular character (Maria, Athena, maybe Ruka this time.)
3. Nagi.
The only character that Nagi has never polled higher then is Hina. Nagi and Hina have the most stable fanbase of all the characters in HnG, imo.
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Mini Blue Cheese Rolls
* 1/4 cup butter, cubed
* 1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese
* 1 tube (11 ounces) refrigerated breadsticks
* In a large saucepan, melt butter and blue cheese over low heat. Unroll dough. Separate into six sections. Cut each double breadstick into six pieces; place in a foil-lined 11-in. x 7-in. baking pan. Pour cheese mixture over dough.
* Bake at 400° for 20 minutes or until butter is absorbed and rolls are lightly browned. Carefully lift foil out of pan; transfer rolls to a serving plate. Serve warm. Yield: 4-6 servings.


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The Krueppel-associated box (KRAB) is a domain of around 75 amino acids that is found in the N-terminal part of about one third of eukaryotic Krueppel-type C2H2 zinc finger proteins (ZFPs) [(PUBMED:14519192)]. It is enriched in charged amino acids and can be divided into subregions A and B, which are predicted to fold into two amphipathic alpha-helices. The KRAB A and B boxes can be separated by variable spacer segments and many KRAB proteins contain only the A box [(PUBMED:2023909)].
The functions currently known for members of the KRAB-containing protein family include transcriptional repression of RNA polymerase I, II, and III promoters, binding and splicing of RNA, and control of nucleolus function. The KRAB domain functions as a transcriptional repressor when tethered to the template DNA by a DNA-binding domain. A sequence of 45 amino acids in the KRAB A subdomain has been shown to be necessary and sufficient for transcriptional repression. The B box does not repress by itself but does potentiate the repression exerted by the KRAB A subdomain [(PUBMED:8183939), (PUBMED:8183940)]. Gene silencing requires the binding of the KRAB domain to the RING-B box-coiled coil (RBCC) domain of the KAP-1/TIF1-beta corepressor. As KAP-1 binds to the heterochromatin proteins HP1, it has been proposed that the KRAB-ZFP-bound target gene could be silenced following recruitment to heterochromatin [(PUBMED:10653693), (PUBMED:10748030)].
KRAB-ZFPs probably constitute the single largest class of transcription factors within the human genome [(PUBMED:10360839)]. Although the function of KRAB-ZFPs is largely unknown, they appear to play important roles during cell differentiation and development. The KRAB domain is generally encoded by two exons. The regions coded by the two exons are known as KRAB-A and KRAB-B.
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There are 21029 KRAB domains in 20179 proteins in SMART's nrdb database.
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text: Our impersonators are look-a-likes and act-a-like performers that simulate your favorite (and least favorite) personalities!Want Elvis to drop in on the party? Marilyn Monroe? Bill and Monica? Our look-alike performers are such dead ringers they'll have guests wondering if they're the real thing! And the act-alike performers have routines that will leave them rolling in the aisles. We also have Lucille Ball, Austin Powers, Frank Sinatra, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Donald Trump, Brittany Spears, and Dolly Parton just to name a few!


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Obama on Holocaust: Never again
JERUSALEM — President Barack Obama on Friday pledged that with the "survival" of Israel, "the Holocaust will never happen again."
"Here on your ancient land, let it be said for all the world to hear," Obama said at a service held at Israel's Holocaust memorial and museum, Yad Vashem. "The state of Israel does not exist because of the Holocaust, but in the survival of a strong Jewish state of Israel the Holocaust will never happen again."
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Obama's third day of his trip to Israel got off to a solemn start on Friday with the Yad Vashem trip as well as trips to gravesites of Israeli heroes.
The trip to Yad Vashem included a memorial service, during which Obama donned a light-colored yarmulke. As a children's choir sang, Obama, who was accompanied on Friday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli President Shimon Peres, rekindled the flame at the museum's memorial site, dedicated to the 1.5 million children who died in the Holocaust. The flame burns next to a slab of white stone, under which are placed ashes from some of the concentration camps, according to the media pool report.
"Our sons and daughters are not born to hate," the president said in remarks delivered there, according to pool reports. "They are taught to hate. Let us fill their young hearts with the same understanding and compassion that we hope others have for us."
Obama said he has seen concentration camps and the Warsaw ghetto, but "nothing equals the wrenching power of this sacred place, where the totality of the Shoah" — the Hebrew term for the Holocaust — "is told. We could come here a thousand times, and each time our hearts would break."
Obama began the day by paying his respects at the gravesite of Theodore Herzl, a founder of modern Zionism. Joined by Netanyahu and Peres, he stood with clasped hands before the granite slab memorializing Herzl.
"By laying a wreath at Herzl's grave just now — an act that other foreign leaders have refused to do — President Obama was reaffirming Zionism and the idea of a Jewish state," Amb. Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, told Ha'aretz.
A pool report said that according to an Israeli official, the trip to Herzl's grave was "the first thing the Israelis asked for as the trip was being planned."
"It is humbling and inspiring to visit and remember the visionary who began the remarkable establishment of the State of Israel," Obama wrote in a guest book at the gravesite, according to the Times of Israel. "May our two countries possess the same vision and will to secure peace and prosperity for future generations."
Next, he visited the grave of Yitzhak Rabin, the prime minister who was assassinated in the early 1990s just as a peace deal with Palestinians seemed to be in reach.
"[A] remarkable man," Obama told Dalya Rabin-Pellosof, Rabin's daughter as he shook hands and talked with Rabin's children, grandchildren and other family members. The Times of Israel reported "laughter, hugs and handshakes" unfolding during that conversation.
Obama laid stones, as is Jewish custom, at the graves of both Herzl and Rabin. For Rabin's grave, the stone came from the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial in Washington, the reports said.
Obama had a private lunch with Netanyahu at the King David Hotel before heading to Bethlehem. He traveled to the West Bank town in a motorcade, rather than on Marine One due to weather. The AFP reported that Jerusalem was hit by a "fierce sandstorm" that derailed the original travel plans, citing Israeli police.


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Sapphire HD6790 Review
Are you looking to upgrade your current graphics card solution? Maybe you are still running a card that only supports Microsoft's DirectX 10 or maybe you are not getting the FPS in your favorite game that you are looking for. Heck you may be one of those people like myself that likes to have the latest and greatest components in their system. Whatever your reason for wanting to upgrade your graphics card, Sapphire has just released a new addition to their current lineup, the Sapphire HD6790 graphics card. This card is going to come with support for DX 11, AMD Eyefinity, and AMD HD3D. I am curious to see exactly how well the Sapphire HD6790 is going to compare to the other cards that are currently on the market as well as to see exactly how well this card is going to be able to overclock.
Closer Look:
The packaging for the Sapphire HD6790 is a little bit different than some of the other packages that I have seen in the past. There is an image of a woman in a quite revealing warror suit as usually you are going to see an image of a large man in battle gear. This image change is giving me the impression that not only is the card ready for battle with the other cards that are on the market, but it is also going to look good doing it. The top left hand corner of the front is where you are going to find the Sapphire logo printed, there is a 1GB GDDR5 badge in the top right hand corner of the package as well to let you know what kind of memory solution Sapphire decided to give the HD6790. Along the bottom edge of the package is where you are going to find all of the badges letting you know what kind of features the card has; such as Full DirectX 11 Support, AMD Eyefinity, DisplayPort Version 1.2, HDMI, and AMD HD3D Technology. When you take a look at the back of the packaging, you will find a more detailed list of the different features and a nice little description of each of them.
When you get the packaging opened up, you will find a brown cardboard box that is going to house not only the Sapphire HD6790 card itself but all of the documentation, drivers CD, as well as the accessories that the card is going to come with. You are going to get a Sapphire Case Badge to proudly display on your chassis if you choose to and you are going to get a Sapphire Select Club card in the packaging. This club is going to give you the ability to receive automatic RMA services as well as free promotions. There is a DVI to analog display dongle as well as two four pin molex to six pin PCIE power adapters as well.
Now that we know what the packaging looks like for the Sapphire HD6790 and what is included inside, it is time to take a look at the graphics card itself.


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When thinking of almsgiving, what comes to mind? Serving the poor. Caring for the sick. Tithing. Going outside of our day-to-day lives, experiences and people — these are all very good. But what about those closest to us? With hectic schedules and countless ways to be involved in one's community, family and friends don't always get the love.
Lent can be a time to reach out to a brother, sister, cousin or friend. Take some time to call a close friend or family member, especially those geographically far away. Feel too busy? As a priest said in a recent homily, we all have the same 24 hours in a day. As he encouraged, "Make the time."
Each week during Lent I am sharing a quick tip on each of the three disciplines of the season: prayer, fasting and almsgiving. So tune in throughout the coming weeks for more ideas! Have a blessed first week of Lent!
Jennifer Rey is the web editor of Our Sunday Visitor Publishing.
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South Dakota State Will Hold Open Workout in Sioux Falls
The on-again, off-again spring football schedule is back on Saturday in Sioux Falls, where the Jackrabbits will practice and scrimmage at Bob Young Field.
Saturday was supposed to be the day of the annual spring game in Brookings, but wet conditions at Coughlin-Alumni Stadium forced the cancellation of the game.
Instead, the Jacks will use Bob Young Field, at the University of Sioux Falls/Sanford Sports Complex, at 69th Street and South Cliff Avenue. The team will practice from 10:45am to 12:30pm, with a scrimmage scheduled from 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Both workouts are open to the public.
Of the 12 workouts so far this wintry spring, SDSU has been outside eight times, with indoor sessions at the Fifth Street Gym and Swiftel Center in Brookings, as well as the Sanford Fieldhouse in Sioux Falls.
Saturday was supposed to be the 15th and final workout of the spring, but the Jacks will still have two more workouts to get in before the spring semester ends the final week in April.


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ASCUS follow up
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
My doctor has performed three Colposcopies in the past three years and now wants to do a fourth. I feel this is excessive I have never had pre-cancerous cells or dysplasia. The Paps show inflammation and ASCUS. I feel that I should have more frequent Paps as opposed to yet another colposcopy. Any suggestions?
Christina S. Chu, MD Assistant Professor of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System responds:
Persistent ASCUS is a frustrating problem. ASCUS stands for "atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance" and denotes an abnormality that exceeds the usual changes of an inflammatory process, but is not severe enough to qualify for dysplasia (precancerous changes). While the ASCUS diagnosis on a Pap test is only rarely associated with an invasive cancer, dysplasia may eventually be detected in up to 20% of patients. A single diagnosis of ASCUS on Pap usually warrants a repeat Pap in 3-6 months. If the diagnosis of ASCUS persists, colposcopy is warranted.
In your case, frequent pap smears (at least every 6 months) are certainly indicated. If the ASCUS diagnosis persists, your gynecologist should perform periodic colposcopy to make sure a more serious problem is not present. An interval of every one to two years for colposcopy would seem reasonable. Also, if inflammation is present, your gynecologist may want to check for treatable infections that may cause the inflammation.


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Pooris are one of Lil Angels favorite dishes.And when it is paired with Masal, she is on her own to finish off the breakfast.It is not possible to make this everyday and so I prepare various types of pooris at least once a week for her.
This week it was this pretty pink poori which she loves.Will share her other favorites in the coming posts. I use beetroot to color the pooris.Initially when I watched Lil one savor these pooris I thought they would be sweet from the beets I used but it was not exactly so.Since I used a small quantity, it imparted its color and not its flavor.
|Beetroot Poori
I used:
Whole wheat flour – 3 cups
Beetroot – 1 small
Ajwain seeds -1 teaspoon
Salt to taste
Oil for deep frying
- Peel and roughly chop the beetroot.Pressure cook it with a little water.
- Cool and puree the boiled beetroot without adding water.
- In a large bowl, put in wheat flour, salt, ajwain and mix well.
- Add the puree little by little and make a stiff dough.[If you have extra puree use that and the water used to cook the beetroot to make beetroot soup.]
- Pinch out a ball of dough and roll it into a sheet.
- Use a round cookie cutter or a bottle cap to make small circles
- Heat oil for frying and when it is hot, lower the flame and deep fry the small poori's .
- Drain on absorbent paper.
- Repeat for the remaining dough.
- Serve with masal or any other side dish of your choice.
|Beetroot Poori with Potato Masal
- Since Lil Angel loves this, I made mini pooris for her.If you are preparing this for adults, roll out into regular sized pooris.
- If you feel they are sweet, add chilli flakes / chilli powder while making the dough
- You can increase or decrease the quantity of beetroot to suit your taste
Sending this to B is for Breakfast event
Toddler breakfast ideas event.
Meeta's Monthly Mingle with the theme Think Pink
Apart from the regular Poori, you can also try Buckwheat Poori or Masala Poori.For a change why not prepare the famous Sindi breakfast – Dal pakwan….
Today is the second day of blogging marathon and here are my friends who are running it along with me.
30 Minutes Meals: Gayathri Anand
Baked Goods: Monika,
For On Going Events: Gayathri Kumar, Usha
Kids Friendly: PJ, Savitha, Smitha, Srivalli, Veena AravindRice Varieties: Champa, Divya, Padma
2010 – I went overboard this day last year .I prepared and posted three Moroccon dishes for an event…
Moroccan Spiced Coffee , Harira -Moroccan Lentil- Tomato soup and Moroccan Spaghetti
2009 – Announced the theme for AWED event – Let's travel to Korea
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We are emulating an old MMORPG and we are looking for 3d modeler.
Hello First of all, I would like to talk about the game we are trying to design. It can be considered as Platform-MMORPG type. You can use them, which are the characters and animations, on a game engine where you prefer to. The characters and animations which are designed as 2.5d or 3d. The game we want to design is planned to be as follows. 4 people
Project Immortal Studios is an Indie game studio. Our goal is to provide a quality custom built 2d mmorpg built by our team.
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I'm looking for someone to create a mafia MMORPG (similar to infamousgangsters, essentially a script very much alike). I want it kept basic in terms of formatting and such - more details will be provided upon finding a suitable offer.
Having issues with in game purchases.
...result), a full set of .slk files, a similar program on C++source code with identical algorithm and a small direction guide. Files language are mixed English and Chinese. Game mmorpg related. Image of the .dat files : [login to view URL] I have uploaded both of the dat file. Please have a check on the dat that I have uploaded before consider
I'm currently making an MMORPG. I'm a single man team, so development is slow but progressing. It's got to the stage where I'd like to start thinking about 3D modelling. I hope to find a modelling expert which I can continually go back to for further work. So rest assured, future work is possible! I hope to build up a working relationship. First
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Necesito contratar a un developer que tenga: - Files premium del juego de rol Cabal OnLine episodios 21 o 22. - Herramientas administrativas. - Web responsive c/panel para el player.
...posts must contain a lot of images of the topic we're talking about. For example, if the topic is "Top 10 MMORPGS of 2018", you must include the game image of each of the MMORPG you are mentioning. This is a long-term project but the selected writer must have the following qualities: 1) Love for gaming 2) Knowledge of latest games, what's hot, what
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I need a simple-to-use converter/importer program that does two functions. This program should analy...most texts are readable but numbers are all unreadable. As for structure, it is messy and unknown. It is GBK encoded. Files language are mixed English and Chinese. Game mmorpg related. Image of the .dat files : [login to view URL]
I have a big mmorpg project built using C++ but since It's code is pretty old, It's actually using visual studio 2005 and some old libraries, I want someone with a good C++ knowledge able to upgrade this code from VS2005 to a newer version of visual studio through teamviewer.
ive started a mmorpg game need some one who is willing to help code maybe on same level off me btw i dont know much but someone who has alot of experience in php and css could share the donations 50/50 this is more a hobby for me atm so not looking for someone to just steal my hosting and scripts
Auto action to dynamic character in mmorpg mabinogi developed by dev cat studio.
...you are the better. The logo doesnt have to be 3D it's just as an example but if you want to do 3D thats fine too So I am working on developing a website and It's for a MMORPG I want the background to be something hot, like a fiery forge Background: [login to view URL] And have a anvil as the logo inside, something like this Anvil:
I want to build up an app used to remind people who across some areas before they like it and put it in their favorite and its shows them again while just they visit the same place again... like restaurants, gardens and play zone area.
I need a logo designed!
I'm looking for someone who can write an custom interface for the MMORPG World of Warcraft. LUA and some graphic skills are needed. Merge the Setting from ElvUI and DuffedUI and add some small other things. Please someone who knows the game :)
We are a team of 3 People and currently looking for two more members. We are working on an MMORPG. We need a Game Developer. We won't be-able to pay you but you will be a partner and will get 25% in total profit.
Hello. I am Oliver. THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE A APP, THIS IS GOING TO BE A COMPUTER GAME. I am wanting to build a Online Multiplayer Canine and Feline MMORPG game. Aka where you can hang out with friends and the player models are a choice between a Canine or a Feline. The first thing we need done are the maps (areas) I have alot of suggestions for maps
...packets. The desired outcome is to rework the existing project and achieve the following. -Smooth and versatile movement, control and animation, as expected in any modern MMORPG. -Combat system. Melee, ranged and spells. Versus players or monsters. -Inventory system, preferably InventoryPro from UMA repository at github. Essential requirements. -Use
The game shall be 3D I want to make a canine / lion mmorpg game, in a way based on Lion King. I want a online chatbox (the game should be online.) Canine 3d player model and the same for the lion. I want different maps that people can run through and explore. I want people to be able to equip items and be able to hunt for items. I want people to be
I'm in need of a freelancer to port a directdraw sprite based MMORPG game client into openGL in C/C++ and make it cross platform for Windows/Mac/Linux.
[EN] Important: we work on enthusiasm, the payment will be after the release of the game and on an ongoing basis. What we have already done: 1) The client part 2) Server-side protocol + Cryptographic part At the moment we are working on the protocol protocol for the server part, after the Send / Recv function is completed, we can implement the Alpha test game. Wanted programmers: C ++, C, Lua A...
I want a website based on wordpress for a mmorpg portal, so it should have some kind of slide in the middle to switch between games so the user can click it and go directly to the game real website.
I'm looking for someone who can write an interface for the MMORPG World of Warcraft. LUA and some graphic skills are needed. something similar to elvui, tukui or duffedui. Please someone who knows the game :)
I'm looking for someone who can write an interface for the MMORPG World of Warcraft. LUA and some graphic skills are needed. something similar to elvui, tukui or duffedui. Please someone who knows the game :)
Need a seamstress to help me make copies of my favorite shirt- at the very least I'll need someone to create a pattern for me to create and sew myself, or if you're able to make them too that would be great! Just a simple tank top.
Hello , i saw you writing legends and scenario for mmorpg , im making game and interested in your Services Pm me if you still doing that
I'm looking for someone who can write an interface for the MMORPG World of Warcraft. LUA and some graphic skills are needed. something similar to elvui, tukui or duffedui. Please someone who knows the game :)
Hey! I'm looking for people to help me get silver in a video game and am willing to pay 2-3USD an hour Must have decent pc with good internet connection. Willing to grind in MMORPG for 6hour shifts at least 4 per week The rate is per loot earned but translates to 2-3$USD/hour based on experience & luck. To contact me either email me at silverfarmers@gmail
Hi all, I would like an MMORPG Mafia game/script to be built. Similar to some already on the web. I only need the framework coded, I can style it myself. Must be written in PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Java/JS. Would need roughly 50-75 pages coding. More details on request but would be usual - Profile Users Online Crimes GTA Group Crime Bullet Factory
Hello, We are a mmorpg developer and publisher company and we would need a website that can allow users to create accounts for their games, with a payment methods and some other custom stuff.
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makeing mmorpg game on pc and mobile
We're looking for a good web developer who can enhance our free to play game website. It's a MMORPG and it needs to be written from the recent source we have. Hit us up if you can do great work for us. HTML, CCS, PHP, SQL
Criação de um jogo estilo MMORPG.
You will be paid a monthly/weekly wage for playing a MMORPG (Runescape). You will be playing the game on multiple accounts to train the skills and stats.
We are developing our second MMORPG game. The first one was www.dinastyao.com. Now, we are working in www.TALESOFARKUN.com. As you can see, is a MMORPG in 2D based on a fantasy world. The game programming is almost finished. We just need the graphic part. That is because our graphic designer left the proyect, so we need someone who can design new
I need an Android app. I would like it designed and built.
Posiadam szczegółowy projekt gry MMORPG inspirowanej po części Tibią. Poszukuję wykonwacy dla tego projektu. Po więcej szczegółów zapraszam do kontaktu.
Hello, looking for a custom GUI for my game(medieval fantasy mmorpg) couple custom buttons and a background picture with game title, must be saved as .bmp unless you can save as .pak see the uploads for the template on where buttons must be placed, client for testing will be sent upon request
1) O joga deverá ter conexão com a internet, O jogo será multiplayer. 1.a - O jogo será 3d Cartoon, será apenas um desenvolvedor e um "júnior para correções de bug". 1.b - O jogo será open wolrd, mais detalhes por email. 2) O desenvolvedor escolhido, terá um design ao seu lado para colaborar com seu trabalho e...
Hello freelancers, I'm looking for nice GFX UI designs for our game webstore(product boxes) & our downloading game page. The design look of our website: [login to view URL]
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posted by Thom Holwerda on Thu 4th Oct 2012 17:37 UTC
"Microsoft has started sending out invites to a special 'Surface Reception' event on October 25th. Alongside a Windows 8 introduction, the software giant will launch its highly anticipated tablet at midnight on October 26th - according to a company spokesperson. Some of Microsoft's holiday pop-up stores will open for the Surface launch at midnight, with other Microsoft Stores selling the tablet on October 26th." Very curious about pricing. That's going to be the key.


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Volume 17 Issue 32 Dec. 31, 2004 - Jan. 6, 2005
koch on film
Million Dollar Baby (-)
I always enjoy films that Clint Eastwood directs or stars in, and I have been a fan of his since he played the role of Ramrod in the television series Rawhide. Other critics gave this film favorable reviews, so I was expecting to enjoy it as well. Sorry to say, I did not.
Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) runs a gym and trains boxers in Los Angeles. His friend Scrap (Morgan Freeman) was once trained by Frankie but is now blind in one eye and disabled. Scrap works at the gym as the handyman and also acts as a one-man Greek chorus laying out what is currently happening and what will take place in the future.
Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) wants to learn to box. She views herself as trailer trash with a hillbilly family and a mother she describes as weighing 330 pounds. Frankie at first refuses to train her but ultimately takes her on as a client, and she boxes her way to the top. During her last bout, she suffers a severe spinal injury. As a result, she is on a ventilator and asks Frankie to help her die.
When I left the theater, several women leaving at the same time were in tears. I was not moved by the story. The acting is excellent, but I found the film boring and watching it tired me out. I believe boxing between men is savagery and should be outlawed. Boxing between women is worse, and those wanting to watch it are truly trash.
The Sea Inside (+)
This film will cause you to weep and also provide you with enormous pleasure.
The script is based on the true story of artist and poet Ramon Sampedro (Javier Bardem). In his 20s, he broke his neck in a diving accident off the coast of Galicia, Spain, and became a quadriplegic. Year after year he sought the right to die with dignity, seeking the assistance of his physician and friends. But assisted suicide is forbidden in Spain, and his accomplices would have been subject to criminal prosecution.
One particularly interesting and comedic scene involves a paralyzed Catholic priest who visits Ramon in his home to engage him in a philosophical discussion on why he should give up thoughts of suicide and live until God takes him.
Oregon is the only state in the United States that allows doctor-assisted suicide, subject to restrictions, e.g., length of residency, pain, lack of ability to make a decision, etc. I personally believe that the Oregon law is a good one, and I would like to see New York State adopt a similar one. But that wont happen for a very long time, if ever.
Javier Bardem is one of the worlds great actors. If you are not familiar with his work, I encourage you to rent films that he has starred in such as The Dancer Upstairs, Before Night Falls and Che. In a strange way, he reminds me of both Laurence Olivier and Johnny Depp, who, for me, are the consummate actors. Olivier, who died in 1989, was willing, like Depp, to take chances by appearing in offbeat films and acting in offbeat roles.
The supporting cast in The Sea Inside is very talented as well. It includes Manuela (Mabel Rivera), the wife of Ramons brother who attends to his every need, and Julia (Belen Rueda), a lawyer suffering from a degenerative disease who assists Ramon with his pursuit of right-to-die legislation. She reminds me in appearance and beauty of a middle-aged Catherine Deneuve, before the latter gained weight. If you have never seen Deneuve in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, rent it immediately. Other cast members include Ramons nephew, Javi (Tamar Novas), his brother, Jose (Celso Bugallo), who opposes the right of assisted suicide, and Rosa (Lola Duenas), who falls in love with Ramon and proposes marriage. Each actor is perfect in his/her role.
I saw this film at the Landmarks Sunshine Cinema on E. Houston St., which has stadium seating, and I was surprised that on a Saturday night it was only about 75 percent full. You should not miss this movie.
- Ed Koch
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Pro .NET Oracle Programming
This book never loses sight of its instructional mission: to effectively utilize the Oracle database from the .NET environment. Though Visual Studio and Oracle form a popular and powerful duo, there is a noticeable lack of written material in this area. The result: projects that often turn out with less-than-optimal solutions, due to lack of "synergy" between the application developer and the database.
The primary code in the book will be C#, but the code download will also be available in VB.NET (with an appendix describing terms of use). Hence, this book provides a one-stop reference for any VS.NET programmer using Oracle. The author maintains solid focus on databases - emphasizing the use of specific features from a Visual Studio application. The text also includes crucial aspects of developing Oracle-based applications. Assumably, you are already comfortable with the VS.NET environment, and with the aid of this book, you will come to work effectively with the Oracle database as well.
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Birthdays are special days � especially when it is your own.
But what if you were born Feb. 29 and the big day only comes around once every four years?
The Sun recently asked three former leap-year babies who call South Walton home how they celebrate when the calendar doesn�t go their way.
Valerie Lofton, photographer and mother of three, takes the less is more approach.
"In my youth, I would celebrate all week long � just as long as my friends wanted to go out and continue celebrating. All that week, when I went out, I would tell people, 'It's my birthday!' " said Lofton.
But now that she is older and a mother of three, Lofton said she doesn't celebrate her birthday any more except when leap year comes around.
"In the off years, my daughters will come over around that time and bring a gift or a card, but that's about it," she said.
So, Lofton has nothing planned this year for her birthday, and she said her husband doesn't think about such things.
"We might go out to dinner, but that is all," she said.
Does she wish she had been born on a different day? No way, she says. If her son wasn�t born seven days early, he would have shared a similar February fate. Initially, Lofton hoped he would be born on Feb. 29 as it would have given them something in common to share. But she got over that pretty quickly.
"At this time in my life, I would much rather celebrate my kids' birthdays," she said.
Ann Morrell is another South Walton lady who was able to take advantage of the odd birth date as a youth.
"My dad celebrated it on the 28th and mom celebrated it on March 1," she says with a chuckle.
And, no, her parents were not divorced.
"So, they gave me two days instead of one since I felt bad when my birthday didn't come around," said Morrell.
And, when her actual day did roll around, it also worked in her favor.
"My first real birthday was when I turned 4 and I got a big party on that day � and every time it came around, which included my sweet 16th," she said.
These days, however, no big deal is made of it, and she expects her hubby might take her out to dinner on the 28th. Last year, which was leap year, she got dinner plus a shopping spree.
The main thing Morrell celebrates on her birthday these days is the granddaughter, who shares her birthday. She will turn 13 this year.
"I taught school for 30 years," said Morrell, "and in all those years of teaching school, I never came across a child that had my birthday. I thought that was strange. Even when I moved here and substituted at Butler, I never saw a child with my birthday. And when my daughter was pregnant and Feb. 29 neared, most of the other expecting mothers who were due to deliver, opted to be induced so their child wouldn't have the stigma of being born on that day. But, my daughter delivered my granddaughter on that day and we enjoy being different."
Alice Pauls, another leap year baby, also celebrates her birthday on the 28th � always � by going out to eat with her hubby and kids � if they aren't so busy that they forget.
"The calendar gets full," said Pauls, who added they don't make a big deal of it, whether it falls on the 28th or the 29th.


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Even with a solid health record and good safety performance, there is always room for improvement when it comes to the safety of Pfizer colleagues. At Pfizer, ergonomic injuries continue to be the leading injury type in manufacturing and R&D. To improve our lost-time and total injury and illness rates, we have been focused on improving and prioritizing education efforts.
In particular, we aim to:
- Maintain effective management of inherently high-risk operations.
- Ensure the health and wellness of colleagues by carefully managing workplace exposure.
- Have rigorous procedures and controls to protect employees from exposure to chemicals.
Notable actions we are taking to ensure occupational safety include:
- Mandating implementation of company-wide safety standards that focus on higher risk areas – many of our products begin with the formulation and processing of hazardous materials such as flammable solvents and combustible powders. Our scientists and engineers look for opportunities to eliminate the use of these materials through our green chemistry and green technology initiatives. Where substitution or elimination is not an option, we assess the safety of process and designs, develop maintenance strategies, and share hazard information and control strategies across Pfizer.
- Tailoring standards specific to business operations – we have documented standards that address specific risk to safety in our offices, with our contractor base, in our external supply, and at our laboratories.
- Managing chemical and biologic exposure – we have rigorous controls in place to protect colleagues. By applying scientific risk assessment technologies to chemicals and biologicals in the workplace, we help ensure the highest level of colleague safety at every stage of development from discovery and manufacture to use and disposal.
- Focusing on ergonomics and behavior change – musculoskeletal and repetitive strain injuries are some of the leading causes of time away from work. Good workplace and job design helps colleagues to do their jobs effectively while reducing the risk of musculoskeletal injuries. Ergonomics principles, if applied properly, can reduce injuries, as well as work performance errors and lost time.


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Love Acceptance Community
With admirers ranging from Harvey Milk and Huey Newton to Warren Buffett, Maya Angelou, and Dianne Feinstein, Glide Memorial Methodist Church in San Francisco has been inspiring, infuriating, welcoming, and changing the world for fifty years.
Now in Beyond the Possible, the two founders, Reverend Cecil Williams and Janice Mirikitani, show how Glide transformed a dwindling all-white congregation into a diverse and energetic community of the poor, the disenfranchised, the homeless, the addicted, the mentally ill, the newly immigrated, and the politically passionate.
A vivid storyteller, Cecil describes removing the trappings of conventional religion to make way for a new spirituality--one that embraces gay rights, jazz in the sanctuary, the antiwar movement, and Celebrations that fill the church to this day. In prose as gripping as her acclaimed poetry, Janice recalls starting out at Glide as a nonbeliever in the 1960s who found herself drawn to Cecil's vision for social justice.
Soon we see how Cecil's charismatic power, combined with Janice's organizing genius, created a model for wraparound health care, a million free meals a year, apartments for the homeless, and a stand-up pride that confronted police brutality, riots, racism, and institutional bigotry. And we discover that Glide's insistence on inviting rather than avoiding controversy has revolutionized approaches to drug addiction, racial conflict, and domestic violence.
Both a personal love story and a riveting view of American history, Beyond the Possible demonstrates what is truly possible for all of us. Here is Obamacare with a human face. Here is Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of "the beloved community" come to life at last. And here is a courageous couple facing impossible odds--and discovering the power of unconditional love time and time again.


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Last House on the Left (US - BD RA)
Gabe revisits one of the most important not good movies in horror film history...
Wes Craven's original Last House on the Left is an extremely important film, one that had similar cinematic influence to Herschell Gordon Lewis' Blood Feast and Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider. And just like those films, and so many more artistically and thematically thematic films, it isn't, objectively speaking, a very good movie. Viewers with less film experience will likely find themselves confused as to why such a jittery, unkempt, inconsistent movie is considered a 'classic' in so many circles (Roger Ebert's love for the film never fails to amaze me, especially considering his utter disdain for I Spit on Your Grave). As in the cases of Blood Feast and Easy Rider the period context must be taken into account, along with the lack of similar productions before the film's release, unless, of course, you account for the fact that Craven's script is a rather unimaginative re-imagining of Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring. In The Virgin Spring a good Christian man's secretly Pagan daughter goes innocently out into the world, where she is raped and murdered by three strangers. Later those strangers coincidentally end up at the man's house, where he enacts bloody revenge. In Last House on the Left a good American family girl, Mari (Sandra Cassel), leaves home to celebrates her 17th Birthday with her friend Phyllis Stone (Lucy Grantham). The friends end up in the psychotic hands of Krug Stillo (David A. Hess), Sadie (Jeramie Rain), Fred "Weasel" Podowski (Fred Lincoln) and Krug's son Junior (Marc Sheffler), are dragged into the woods where they are raped and murdered. Later Krug and his gang coincidentally find themselves at Mari's house, where her parents (Richard Towers and Cynthia Carr) enact bloody revenge.
Craven was raised in a strict Baptist household that didn't allow for film entertainment, and didn't really discover motion pictures until he was working as a college professor in the late '60s and early '70s. It's no coincidence that such an otherwise docile man would make his feature directorial debut in such a vicious fashion, as this era was a time of turbulent change. The change was first reflected in horror films when George Romero released Night of the Living Dead on unsuspecting drive-in audiences the nation over, but in terms of popular American cinema the next film to really cut to the quick of the angst terrorizing the nation was Last House on the Left. Along with his next film, The Hills Have Eyes, Craven exploited fears of violation, and turned the late '60s peace and love ideals back on a generation by posing rough questions pertaining to the deep seeded subject of raw, visceral revenge. At the same time, his 'eye for an eye' nose rubbing featured subversive reminders of the death of the Baby Boomer's American dream—namely the Vietnam War, Watergate, and the Manson Family murders (clearly represented by Krug's gang). Tobe Hooper and George Romero came out of the box with expertly crafted terror tales, and created original nightmare worlds with perfectly aped documentarian's reality. Craven also manages a too real for comfort cinéma vérité style, but his rank amateurism plays an important role in his achievement. The slapdash production serves the film's more unnerving elements well, and the rape and torture sequences are genuinely chilling to this day, more so than most features from the era.
On the other hand, the misplaced comedy, weak characterizations, and ugly photography damage the rest of the film's overall effectiveness. The rape/torture/murder sequences are really the only cinematically notable parts of the film. The themes do have resonance, but the third act doesn't feature the same unrelenting realism. When Mari finally dies it's almost a relief. The clumsy movie surrounding this found footage snuff film returns, and the audience is relieved to re-enter the realms of more mainstream entertainment. At the same time the audience is exhausted, and everything after the climactic murder feels like an extended coda. The last 30-plus minutes drag, cutting between scenes of Mari's parents taking too long to piece together what happened to their daughter, Krug's gang bickering, and an idiotic Keystone cop subplot. The bloody vengeance bits turn the film back in the right direction, but never ascend to the same levels of brutal realism. During the forest scenes David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln and Jeramie Rain inspire an almost unbearable degree of disturbance, as if Craven just pulled two real sadistic murderers off the streets. But later, when trying to establish post-murder tension and drama, even the best intensions are flattened by heavy-handed histrionics, and decidedly unrealistic performances. Setting Hess' wildly inappropriate music beneath some of the horror is effective, but otherwise every break in tone or clumsy juxtaposition falls flat on its face, specifically the out of place, and painfully unfunny comic relief.
Many of you are probably asking why the hell anyone would bother updating their already plenty adequate DVD of Last House on the Left with a 1080p Blu-ray release. Frankly speaking, I don't have an answer for that question, but can verify that this release is a slight upgrade in terms of colour quality, vibrancy, and detail levels. The best thing I can say for this transfer is that it's consistent, a little more consistent that the DVD release, which features more obvious print damage at some points. The most obvious damage here appears on the gutting scene that has been commonly cut over the years. Last House was shot on Super 16mm, which doesn't survive the HD blow-up any better than it survived the 35mm blow-up when it was first released, so details are never going to be particularly sharp, no matter how many times you run it through state of the art computers. This is, of course, part of the film's 'charm'. The heavy grain inherit in nearly 40 year old 16mm film is generally finer here than the more mushy DVD versions, but fine textures are still soft, and background details are still a wash. There are very few signs of DNR tinkering, but the more vibrant colours and lack of details do produce similar smoothing artefacts, and attempts at sharpening produce some edge doubling. The biggest difference between this and the previous DVD releases is an overall redder tint (both DVD releases are more yellow and orange tinted), which helps create some poppy bright red elements, and lush forest greens, but don't do the skin tones any favours.
Last House on the Left is a low-fidelity, simplistic, and rough sounding film, and it always will be. The producers of this Blu-ray release decided not to mess with, uh, 'perfection', and do little more than clean up the masters a bit. The sound is presented in the form of an uncompressed DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 mono (there have been awkward 5.1 tracks released on DVD in the past), and is about as clear as I've ever heard the film, which still isn't saying much. The problems here have always been problems, at least since I first saw the film on VHS tape. Quite often the dialogue doesn't match the mouths speaking it, the musical elements overwhelm the dialogue, sound effects slide into shots they aren't meant for, but there aren't many noticeable pops or cracks, and only the highest volume levels feature much in the way of distortion. David Hess' music is basically CD quality, and features some decent roundness in the bassiest elements.
This new Blu-ray release features most of the extras available on various DVD releases over the years, starting with an audio commentary from director Wes Craven and producer Sean S. Cunningham, which was featured on the first US DVD release, but not the more recent collector's edition release. This track is full of awkward attempts at levity from two very uncomfortable participants, both of whom have all but disowned the film over the years. Craven does manage a few stabs at intelligent discussion, but the track mostly works thanks to the bare facts. The disc also includes a commentary with actors David Hess, Marc Sheffler and Fred Lincoln, which was featured on the later collector's edition release, along with the early R2 UK release. This track is all over the place, but entertaining in that none of these guys care about offending anyone on the production, and are actually quite critical of the film. Well, they're the most critical when they're not on screen, but they make plenty of good points about pacing and tonal shifts, between shifts of laying claim everything good about the movie. Informative, but also quite obnoxious.
'Still Standing: The Legacy of Last House on the Left' (15:00, SD) is a retrospective interview with Craven, which was originally available on the CE DVD. Craven discusses the inspiration behind the film, his original intensions for the film, the original reaction to the film, his thoughts on the violence of human nature, and the remake (which was new news at the time). 'Celluloid Crime of the Century' (39:40, SD) is a brief, but well-rounded retrospective featurette that was first seen on the UK DVD release. It features interviews with Craven, Cunningham, actors Fred Lincoln (who gets more chance to lay claim to the good stuff in the film), Jeramie Rain (who married Richard Dreyfuss!), Marc Sheffler, Martin Kove, and David Hess, and includes footage from Craven and Cunningham's first production together, period photos, stills from The Virgin Spring, pages from the original script, and plenty of behind the scenes stills. 'It's Only a Movie' (29:00, SD) covers much of the same ground, including the same interview subjects, plus actress Lucy Grantand was found on the original US DVD release. 'Scoring Last House'(9:40, SD), another piece originally found on the UK release, is a discussion with David Hess on his work on the film's musical soundtrack.
The disc also features footage from an unfinished short Craven directed for a horror anthology called Tales That'll Tear Your Heart Out (11:30, SD, no audio), a deleted scene featuring Mari naming her killers as she dies (1:00, HD), a reel of unused footage, included some of the deleted sex and violence from the rumoured longer cut of the film (5:40, SD, no audio), outtakes and dailies with more deleted gore (14:00, SD, no audio), 'Forbidden Footage' interview featurette about censorship (8:20, SD), and the original trailer.
So once again, Last House on the Left isn't an objectively good movie, but it's an important movie, and a movie that still holds some genuine power in its bleak violence. Folks that already own the film on DVD aren't going to get too much out of this Blu-ray presentation, but the video quality is a bit better and more vibrant, the sound is fine, and almost all previously available special features from three different releases are present in one place.
*Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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djblack1313 wrote: i hated the original but i loved the remake. just sayin'.
I feel both the original and remake had their strong/weak points, therefore I think none is better/worse than the others.
-has a more gritty/raw feel
-way more brutal in terms of no happy ending for the girls
-very outdated/feels kind of cheesy in some parts
-Acting is very shabby
-more realistic, feels so modern it can happen to anyone
-very good acting/direction
-fails to capture the original's gritty feel
-they make the one girl live, leaving the film with a commercial feel
Well, both are like a 7/10 for me. But if I HAD, absolutely HAD to pick one, it'd be the original just because of the atmosphere, but both are good on their own merits.
I feel both the original and remake had their strong/weak points, therefore I think none is better/worse than the others.
-has a more gritty/raw feel
-way more brutal in terms of no happy ending for the girls
-very outdated/feels kind of cheesy in some parts
-Acting is very shabby
-more realistic, feels so modern it can happen to anyone
-very good acting/direction
-fails to capture the original's gritty feel
-they make the one girl live, leaving the film with a commercial feel
Well, both are like a 7/10 for me. But if I HAD, absolutely HAD to pick one, it'd be the original just because of the atmosphere, but both are good on their own merits.
I still haven't seen this or its remake, but The Virgin Spring is excellent. Oh, also: awesome review, Captain Powers.
If you read the review then you would likely know what I'm talking about. I, of course, can't prove otherwise, but your comment read a lot like it was a response to the headline.
I did read your review. I do agree with some points and respect your opinion... but I just don't agree.
I'm not saying that the film doesn't have its issues by any means. That being said, what is this the grammar police?
I'm not saying that the film doesn't have its issues by any means. That being said, what is this the grammar police?
Way to read the review Gerald. And great argument too, not to mention use of punctuation.
djblack1313 wrote: i hated the original but i loved the remake. just sayin'.
The original may have it's own issues, but we're surprised that theatrical prints of the remake didn't have perforations between each frame so people could do what we personally wouldn't do with it. Just sayin'.
The Wilson Bros
The original may have it's own issues, but we're surprised that theatrical prints of the remake didn't have perforations between each frame so people could do what we personally wouldn't do with it. Just sayin'.
The Wilson Bros
No offense but what are you talking about, not only is it a horror classic but its a great movie.
i hated the original but i loved the remake. just sayin'.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 13th September 2011
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Director and Producer Commentary, Actors Commentary, Still Standing: The Legacy of Last House on the Left, Celluloid Crime of the Century, Scoring Last House on the Left, Tales That'll Tear Your Heart Out Unfinished Short, Deleted Scene, Never Before Seen Footage, It's Only a Movie Featurette, Outtakes and Dailies, Forbidden Footage, Trailer
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln, Jeramie Rain
Length: 84 minutes
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China's Railway Ministry exaggerated the speed that a showcase rail link between Beijing and Shanghai is capable of operating at, a report said Wednesday, citing a retired top engineer.
Zhou Yimin, a deputy chief engineer at the ministry, told the financial magazine Caijing that the trains' maximum operating speed should be 300 kph (185 mph) rather than the originally targeted 350 kph (216 mph).
Railways Minister Liu Zhijun, who was dismissed this spring amid an investigation into unspecified alleged corruption charges, insisted on claiming the world's best technology for all aspects of the showcase high-speed rail program, Zhou told Caijing.
Liu demanded higher speeds for the 215 billion yuan ($32.5 billion) Beijing-Shanghai railway to 380 kph (235 mph) despite knowing that the contracts for the foreign-designed cars being used called for a maximum of 300 kph, he said.
"What he wanted was buying a train with a top speed designed at 300 kph but making it run at a speed of 350 kph," Zhou said.
Liu was the public face of the high-speed rail program. No details have been released about the allegations against him, but news reports say accusations include kickbacks, bribes, illegal contracts and sexual liaisons.
As the ruling Communist Party approaches the 90th anniversary of its founding, on July 1, it is seeking to burnish its image for graft-busting.
Liu's case shows that "any corrupt member, whoever he is, will be held accountable," the Communist Party's vice chairman for discipline, Wu Yuliang, told reporters in Beijing on Wednesday.
Trial operations of the 1,318-kilometer (813 mile) Beijing-Shanghai railway began May 11. Its formal inauguration is expected next week.
The Railways Ministry recently specified that the trains will operate at a maximum 300 kph instead of 350 kph, for the sake of efficiency. Ministry officials insist that decision was not based on safety considerations.
"He retired too early to know what is going on," Wang Bin, a ministry spokesman, said of Zhou's comments.
While Zhou did not report severe safety problems or accidents, his criticism is unusually outspoken given the railway's status as a showcase project on a par with Beijing's space program. China is aggressively marketing its expertise and competing for overseas projects, sometimes to the chagrin of foreign partners.
Although they balk at speaking out publicly out of fears of jeopardizing their own business prospects, some working in the industry have criticized China's claims of leading the world in the high-speed rail sector, saying that its achievements are mainly based on foreign knowhow.
Zhou concurred with that assessment, saying China has made significant progress but still lacks core research and development.
The rush to be first has prompted officials to push ahead despite safety glitches, he said.
"In fact, glitches are common in several of our high-speed lines. Some may seem small but actually aren't, and all of them are being kept secret," Caijing quoted him as saying.
Zhou said a high-speed line between Beijing and the northeastern city of Shenyang has been halted several times due to malfunctions, and an engine casing had flown off a train on another line.
Despite questions over whether the costly lines are best suited to China's needs, Beijing aims to have 8,000 miles (13,000 kilometers) of high-speed rail in place by the year's end and twice that length by 2020.


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WATERFORD, Conn. – Resting some of its top runners, in advance of some upcoming championship meets, the MIT men's cross country team traveled to Connecticut College to compete with some of the top squads in New England, as well as the New York and New Jersey area. The Engineers, who are ranked No. 7 in New England, finished ninth overall and fifth among Division III teams with 253 points.
Andrew Erickson and Logan Trimble performed well for Tech, finishing in 37th and 39th place respectively. Erickson navigated the eight kilometer course in 26:45 while Trimble was just one second behind. Joseph Christopher's time of 27:07 was good for 58th and earned 53 points for the Cardinal and Gray. Matthew Weaver maintained a 5:30 pace for a time of 27:16 and a 71st-place standing. Jay McKenna rounded out the scoring for MIT with his 75th-place finish, coming through in 27:20.
The University of Connecticut and Tufts University shared the team title with 59 points. The other Division III squads to finish ahead of the Engineers included the College of New Jersey, the host team and Cortland State.
Tech will take next weekend off before returning to action at the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Championship on October 30 at Moore State Park in Paxton, Mass.


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1. This is the question that pops up on most people's minds: do you and your artists make enough money? You are giving away the (good-enough for most people) 128 kbps mp3 afterall.
John Buckman: 1 in 42 people who visit Magnatune buy. That's among the best visitor-to-customer ratios I've ever seen. The 128k has a spoken credit on the mp3, immediately pass the song. You can legally remove the spoken credit (the mp3 is Creative Commons license and allows a derivative use) but why bother when you can buy the album for just $5. Besides, even when we didn't have the spoken ending, we had a great purchaser ration, because I believe that people are willing to pay for music if they are buying something like like, which means a) good music for them b) no DRM, fair rights c) a company they don't despise (for a change) and d) supporting the artist
2. Some audiophiles don't listen to enough free music because they believe that the quality of the tracks is not as well-crafted or produced as on major label's work is. What do you reply to that?
John Buckman: That's why we only accept 2% to 3% of what we get submitted, because we want the best stuff, and we only release things that we think compete with major label sound quality, but in my experience the music and musicianship is at least as good, if not better, since we're willing to give artistic freedom and a don't committee-manage the release process like majors do.
3. How is Magnatune decides if you are going to sign an artist or not? Is there a procedure?
John Buckman: You send the music in (email to a URL, ftp or CD) and if we like it, we sign you up (and exchange of faxed, signed agreements). What we sign is what blows our mind, what we would ourselves buy if we heard on the radio.
4. What is your policy regarding playing the distributed 128 kbps mp3 versions of your music in coffee shops and bars? Do these public places need a license before they can play your artist's music for the 128 kbps versions too?
John Buckman: Those would be commercial spaces and thus not under the Creative Commons license we use. They'd either have to pay ASCAP/BMI (evil) or get a very low cost public space license from us.
5. Let's say that a kid buys one of your albums and shares it with 3 friends at school (as it's allowed by your terms and conditions). Can that kid also share that album with his immediate family members (e.g. siblings, parents), or the 3-friend rule includes the family members?
John Buckman: Hey, no-one's counting, if you want to share it with 5 people, fine, great, you introduced more people to Magnatune. The point is not to put the files up on your web site as a torrent for the world to take.
6. Are there any plans to offer statistics on individual songs, or maybe even just sell individual songs instead of full albums?
John Buckman: For now, we just sell albums because $1 songs are hard to sell on a visa card, given the $0.50 fee per charge we have to pay. We personally like albums, so that's what we sell, and since you can pay as little as $5 or get a compilation, there are ways to get the music if you like it.
7. Do you have any plans to offer to your artists more than just a way to sell music or merchadise? For example, if you recognize that a certain artist is a rare but raw talent, would you try to find him a good producer?
John Buckman: Yes, we've done that before, for example pairing producer Victor Stone (who wrote and manages CC Mixter, BTW) up with C. Layne. C. Layne's first album was brilliant songwriting, but poor audio quality, his 2nd sounds amazing. We also did this with Lisa DeBenedictis, who now has the tech chops to produce herself at a much higher level. She also knows all about CC now and is one of the top remixed artists on CC Mixter, and she participates avidly in it, as well as speaking at Creative Commons panels.
8. Do you think that the major labels will eventually "see the light" and release at least 64kbps mp3s of their artist's albums for free, or do you think that they are in such legal and contract maggling trouble that such idea would never fly for them?
John Buckman: I doubt they'll ever release control. If they release free music, it'll be DRMed. They'll DRM til they destroy their market share and other labels become the new majors.
9. What is your opinion on RIAA sueing music sharers? Are they justified to do so or over the top?
John Buckman: I love it, there's no better way to create an audience for Magnatune than to have the majors destroy any good feelings in their audience and to be so thoroughly disgusted with the majors that people will do anything not to give them any money. It's gotten so bad the major labels can't even buy a Senator, they're that despised.
10. Have any of your artists gone on to sign with other labels? Would you discourage that or do you think it is like 'graduating' from your label into something more mainstream?
John Buckman: A few have, but mostly we pay so much more than indie labels do (which is typically zero) a musician getting $4000 a year from us is very unlikely to do any better with an exclusive deal, except off an advance from a major indie or major label. And frankly, Magnatune is radical enough that people who want to sign up with it want nothing to do with the traditional evil music business.
11. It's obvious that your website does a good job at distributing music to people who visit, but what types of services do you offer to help promote artists (outside of your website)?
John Buckman: Check this out.
12. There are sites out there, like this, that feature free download links of independent artists on a daily basis. Do you have any sort of affiliation program that might exchange revenue for mindhare in the blogosphere?
John Buckman: I'm not really into affiliate networks, I find that people who are paid to recommend music don't really do an honest job. I much prefer bloggers and podcasters, and we have very generous podcasting terms (allowing, for example, commercial but poor podcasters to play our music, in addition to all the noncommercial use)
13. Finally, the 1 million dollar question: why no WMA?
John Buckman: Because no-one wants it. With highest-quality VBR, WAVs and FLAC files, why would you want to have a device limited, proprietary sound format?


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A Sadhu or Hindu holy man leans against a closed door at the Nandagram Temple famous for Lord Krishna during Lathmar Holi festival in Nandgaon, India, March 10, 2014.
According to tradition, which has its roots in Hindu mythology, men from Barsana arrive at the temple where they are soaked in colored water by men from Nandgaon, believed to be Lord Krishna's village, and then beaten by the women of the village with wooden sticks as they depart the town.
Credit: Altaf Qadri/AP
An Indian laborer sifts colored powder, known as "gulal," to be used during the forthcoming spring festival of Holi, inside a factory at Fulbari village, on the outskirts of Siliguri, March 9, 2014.
Holi, the popular Hindu spring festival of colors is observed in India at the end of the winter season on the last full moon of the lunar month and will be celebrated on March 16 this year.
Credit: Diptendu Dutta/AFP/Getty Images


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Service Dogs are specialized in their training for use in many services in modern society. Dog training is an extensive area and is used by wide array of government and social services. Even though there are many training programs the basic procedure can be done at home. Dogs are capable of understanding a large number of commands if taught from an early age. It is imperative to find a system which helps relay the owner's intentions clearly otherwise the dog may suffer from distress and become bored. Dog training is undertaken to teach the dog obedience and discipline. In the event of successful training dogs will come to realize who their master is. Dogs that have not been through obedience training can become difficult to handle and even aggressive towards strangers.
There are multiple types of training. Some training schemes revolve around using toys, treats and affection as rewards. When a dog has completed a task it is rewarded. If it is unable to carry out the task it is made clear it will not receive a reward. Many trainers use clickers and verbal commands to communicate with their pets. It is vitally important to be clear and strict when issuing commands.
Teaching your dog tricks is entertaining for both the owner and dog. Giving the dog a treat for tricks is common and helps keep it from getting bored. Punishment can be done by removing a toy or ignoring the dog. The use of a dog training collar, if used properly, can also product amazing results.
Outdoor exercising is another form of training harnesses and collars are used for this part of the training. These items can be adjusted to accommodate dogs of all sizes. Collars and harnesses restrict the shoulders and front legs therefore allowing the owner to limit the force their dog uses.
Vets and pet stores have many training groups which allow dogs of all age to participate. These centers are ideal for puppies and young dogs. These groups also promote social interaction between dogs. Playing with other dogs of similar ages helps build social interactions. Training such as this promotes friendly behavior.
Obedience training makes the dog understand the authority of its master and becomes a bonding session. It is important that an owner have a close relationship with their pet. Trust is vital factor between a dog and its master.


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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
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Acquiring this particular mission will require you to head to one of Tony's clubs, the one called Hercules, located on Galveston Avenue in Algonquin. When you arrive there, you'll find Luis dishing back and forth with one of the doormen, an artist who isn't content working the door of a club. After Luis puts him in his place, Tony shows up with a girl named Gracie. After doing some complaining, Tony orders Luis to come with he and Gracie. So, get in the car, and we'll be on our way.
Your first order of business is to bring Tony and Gracie back to Gracie's place, which is located in Alderney. More specifically, it's located on the main thoroughfare known as Babbage Drive. Getting there is simple enough with your GPS -- you'll be forced to use the Booth Tunnel to get over to Alderney, where you can go south from there to reach her house. All the while, you'll hear Gracie, Luis and Tony talk about all sorts of stuff, but the conversation will ultimately deviate back to the blogger that's been talking smack about Tony. Tony wants something done about him, and Luis obliges. You can undertake this next leg of the mission as soon as Tony and Gracie have been dropped off.
The end of the mission is easy. Once you've dropped your passengers off, all you have to do is head to the nearby internet cafe, located off of Vitullo Avenue on the western end of the borough. Your GPS (of course) will provide you with the quickest route there. Once you've arrived, head on inside and sit at any computer. Logon to the internet and use the link from the first page you encounter to reach The Celebinator's page. You'll find a few stories about Luis and Tony on there, but it's the one at the very top of the page that's key. Read what it says, and then click to leave a comment. Luis will write a little something, and you can post it. Then, leave the internet cafe. Luis will call Tony, which will end this brief mission.
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