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Hey guys. David Daniel Gravely here,
My friend helped me figure out the name. And no we didn't use each other to exploit the game. But, has it ever been fun! I put a lot of work into creating the perfect house design, and the Grand Canyon Labyrinth was born! I set out, built it, and proceeded to wait to see how long it lasted.
Well, the results are in, and after surviving a couple days as the top house in the game, someone finally blasted through my masterpiece. After 736 people entered my house, 473 of which died a horrible death, Charles Sean Malloy took the honor of robbing me blind after 612 steps for $478,936! I have had so much fun playing this game, but I think I am finally good for now. SO! I am going to share the whole process with you guys. Yep, I am going to divulge all my precious secrets that I poured so much effort into. I will explain how I designed my house, and all the thought that went into planning each piece. I will also go through a few of the robbery attempts, as well as, of course, the one that finally ended it all. Maybe you'll learn something, and maybe you already know it all. But I hope you enjoy exploring this work of art that, I will admit, I can truly stand behind, and say I am proud.
I will start off with a shot of the completed house in all of its secret glory. Bask in it:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B74SDlt … VlZR1Y4YVk
As you can see, there are three main sections. The top left quarter is the noob quadrant. Unless the correct magical dog dancing is performed, each of the electric floors in the first 3 hallways will light up as soon as they are stepped on, providing instant death. Entrance from the left or the right does not matter. The results are the same. The idea here is that no one ever sees the electric floors on, no matter how many times they go back and forth as long as they don't cause the dog to turn around between the switches. They only see them turn on as they take their last step, ever. That first powered door with the electric floors behind it was partially meant to deter people from going in there so that they didn't just aggravate that dog (placed just out of vision range), and have it chase them out to safety. You were in no danger if you actually went in there. Once you avoided that first powered door, and traveled all the way to the second one(which is closed), you aggravate the dog at the top, and turning around at that point will place you an even number of steps away from it, requiring a gun (or meat) to dispose of. At that point, if you tried to exit through the door down and to the left, the electric floors will get you, and if you tried exiting through the door directly south of that second powered door, the previously angered dog would kill you instantly. This doggy door took more lives than any other trap in the house. By far. Honestly 99% of people never made it out of this area. In the early stages, my safe was located in the little nook 10 columns from the left, and 9 rows from the top.
Then there is the top right quadrant. This is the cat herding 8 bit combination lock protected by the Grand Canyon. In order to properly input the combination, I must first close all of the doors on the left side of the canyon. If this is not done, you are unable to gain a separate line of sight for each cat (placed just within the edge of your vision range), scaring them all away at once, and making it impossible to properly input the combination. In order to power these doors, you must do a magical dog dance with the 2 window pups from the entrance. I'm sure you can figure it out now that you can see it. Powering these doors also opens that second powered door, and powers the first one at the top, as well as the electric floors behind it. After completing the circuit to do that during a self-test, I can safely aggravate the top dog, and fry it on the electric floors leaving me a way out in case I accidently screw up. At any point during a self-test, I have the option to turn around, and safely leave. Once the doors on the left side of the canyon are closed, you can make contact with each cat individually, and herd it onto the proper switches. You will notice that the top right of the combination area has an enclosed area free from switches to collect the fleeing cats, and make sure they don't accidently travel onto an errant switch later on. I was really hoping that the person who eventually broke me would have done it by laddering across the canyon to get the combo. Then leave. Return. Ladder across the canyon again. Hit all the switches, and then cut power to the ones that needed to be off. Sadly though, this was not case. But, I did plan for this, and I made it very difficult to be able to do this in one go without permanently cutting power to all the lower trap doors.
Once the kitty combo is correctly inputted, you proceed to the third area of the house. The Labyrinth! When choosing the main type of security, I considered the fundamentals of what are required to get to your safe in a self-test. Essentially you need a walkable path from the start to finish, and so you want to make this path as long as possible (and hard to cut shortcuts though) and fill it with as many squares that become impassible or deadly if the wrong thing is done. This leaves you the choices of powered doors, trap doors, electric floors, and dogs. Also consider the fact that when brute forcing a house, it is very easy to forcibly cut power from something but impossible to supply power to it if the wiring does not already exist (or is cut). This makes powered doors very vulnerable even though crowbars are expensive since you can just make precise cuts with relatively cheap saws, and cut power to many doors at once. Same with electric floors, except that they also have the added risk of being directly forced with cheap water. This leaves you to choose from dogs and trap doors. Dogs can be difficult to herd, and deadly in a self-test if you misstep. So I wanted to avoid direct contact with dogs during a self-test. Trap doors on the other hand are great since they passively remain deadly. If you cut wiring to them, you still cannot pass them. So, this led me to focus on trap doors and hidden dogs! As you can see the Labyrinth is a bit of a cluster**** of trap doors, wired walls, and some hidden pups to keep you on your toes. However, it is a very carefully planned cluster****. When trying to brute force a line of trap doors, the obvious technique is to follow the line of wired walls next to it since every trap door needs to be next to wire in order for it to work. Also, the lower left and right corners are obvious targets for safes. If you will notice, the line of trap doors actually makes a complete circle around the outside of the maze. Thus, if you simply follow the line, you will come full circle and end up back where you started. It is impossible to get to the safe by following the wired walls next to the trap door path since the doors around the safe are powered from a line coming from the opposite side of the circle. So, if you simply follow the line of trap doors to one of the corners, and find the safe is not there, it will lead you to think it is in the other corner, and then force you to dig all the way to the other side to only find that it is not there either! And the randomness of the maze is meant to disguise the path of traps doors that deviates from the circle and actually goes to the safe. You will notice that this house has nothing but wooden walls. Not a single metal or concrete wall. It was designed so that the limiting factor would be your number of ladders. Maximizing concrete walls in the maze would only make it obvious what line of trap doors to follow since there always MUST be a line of wired wooden walls next to your trap doors. So the maze is carefully planned for all sorts of deception and red herrings. And in the couple of very serious force attempts, all of this maze deception worked perfectly!
And that brings me to the final chapter. How it actually all went down in reality. I put together a few of the security tapes of botched force attempts. I mean people who brought tons of tools, and then got eaten in like 30 steps. You can find it on YouTube:
Then there was another quite interesting attempt by Troy Russell Moore, RIP. He brought the firepower, and he was soo close. But…he ended up making a stupid mistake. Find it here:
And finally, the actual security tape of the man who ended it all:
This guy forced his way through nearly 100 squares, exploring virtually every nook of the maze before he finally reached my safe. He brought $133,300 worth of tools, and used $73,250 of it. I challenge you to build something that can defend against that. Here is a shot of the dismal state he left my house in:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B74SDlt … 2RTLTVKZ2s
No hard feelings though. It was a wild ride, and I had a blast. Thanks to Jason, for bringing us this great game. I welcome any questions, comments, or criticisms you guys may have. Thanks!
Aha! I guess that means I was Troy Russell Moore. The old double-tap-dog-step! It's funny how close I was. It would have been a close call even if I hadn't died.
It's nice to see folks bringing even more tools than I did die without using any of them. Always brick the doors, people!
I should have just bridged Cat Chasm and input the code. Oh well.
Great house. You should make another!
Maybe one day I'll have to relate the story of Charles Sean Molloy's death. It would reveal too much about my house for now though .
Charles Sean Molloy also robbed me yesterday. My name was mat, cheap code lock house. 36 ks worth. You brought around 20k of equipment. Anyways, thanks for taking it down, was very tired of my cheap code locks deaths. Looking forward to hearing about how Molloys died.
Nice to the see the details of Gravely! I like how you had the safe not in a corner. That would make me nervous because it seems easier to brute force but at the same time it's clever because people expect it to be in the corner.
Golden Krone Hotel - a vampire roguelike
Maybe one day I'll have to relate the story of Charles Sean Molloy's death. It would reveal too much about my house for now though .
At least you got him!
Haha, I guess my name was Charles Sean Molloy last night! BlueMadness, that was by far the scariest experience I've had brute forcing a house (and I've taken down 3 or 4 top houses in the past few weeks). I had just robbed a 120k house and put all the money in tools (this was right after breaking Benny's 30k house apparently). I had a good amount of tools––my recipe is at least 50 saws (for tunneling through the wiring), and equal parts torches, explosives, and ladders. I've been avoiding crowbars lately, they're just too expensive and I figure all power doors can be cut around. So when I saw your canyon my heart sunk for a second, thinking that if the doors were totally surrounded by pits and the power was behind them I'd have no way of getting past. But luckily there was a way to cut in, and I was genuinely surprised when the safe wasn't behind them. Then for your maze. As you can see, I went for all the corners first, so great trickery in your safe placement. Circumnavigating the place and finding nothing was nerve-wracking––I was starting to count my ladders. Overall, a genius house, it's always kinda bittersweet to brute-force my way through such clever designs... ...but the rich must fall.
Seeing all your tools and cash in my totally empty house was hilarious too––1100 water bottles? I stocked up to take down the next top house (50 of all the major tools), but still had 200k left over. So I build a massive dog cage for my wife, then wrote FREE! in steel wall and put the safe as the exclamation point. I want to hear from the first guy who walked into my house and made the easiest 150k ever.
Thanks a lot for posting the videos and explanations, love being able to watch my own run and see the others that came so close...
Maybe one day I'll have to relate the story of Charles Sean Molloy's death. It would reveal too much about my house for now though .
Your secret is safe with me.
Oh and sorry about your wife...
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Maybe one day I'll have to relate the story of Charles Sean Molloy's death. It would reveal too much about my house for now though .
Your secret is safe with me.
Oh and sorry about your wife...
Lmao... xD
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Frederick's is a family-run restaurant in Angel, established since 1969. Somewhat changed over the past forty-seven years, Frederick's is a light, airy restaurant and bar with multiple spaces for dining, snacks, drinking, private parties and events. The restaurant is open throughout the day from noon to midnight with different menus available, on Saturdays we serve brunch from 10.30am.
The Club Room, recently opened, expands the bar in the evenings, and is available for light lunches and has proved very popular for private hire, whether for weddings, parties or corporate events.
Our team, many of whom have been with Frederick's for a long time, put a lot of thought into all aspects of the restaurant; menus, wine list and the ambience to name a few. Do feel free to get in touch with your feedback or idea, it will be valued, and may get implemented.

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text: Waddell out-Waddells himself in the honeyed department with this story of a young girl's rescue of an abandoned kitten. "I'd like my story again," Charlotte says to her mother, and her mother tells her the story, with liberal editorial comment from the little girl. Returning home from a party on a stormy night, young Charlotte sees something dart through the dark streets of her port town. Her mother bundles Charlotte into the house before she can go after whatever it is. Late that night, her mother finds her at a bay window searching the rainy night for evidence of whatever she had seen earlier. Charlotte knows there is something down by the sea: "Her mommy didn't believe there was. But she thought for a minute and said, 'We'll take a look to make sure.' " Out they troop and just before they are about to abandon the search, they discover a frail white kitten at the end of a breakwater. Saved. This is pretty flimsy stuff, as either a favorite story or as a testament to family storytelling, but few can rival Waddell when it comes to embalming a story in coziness or draping it with nostalgia, even this storm-wracked night and doubting mother. Here he has been aided and abetted by the soft-focus chalk pastel artwork, which emits beatitude and patience like radioactive substances, and cat lovers everywhere will swoon. (Picture book 3-6)


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Optimizing the Performance of a Dielectric Resonator Antenna
Thomas Forrister September 13, 2018
With the rise of 5G and other wireless millimeter-wave applications, there has been an increase in front-end antenna solutions that depend on monopole, dipole, and patch antennas. In these devices, the radiation efficiency tends to suffer due to the effect of lossy silicon substrate materials. Enter the dielectric resonator: Antennas using these resonators (made of nonmetallic materials) have a higher radiation efficiency. To increase directivity and gain at high frequencies, engineers can optimize dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) designs with simulation.Read More
Temesgen Kindo September 11, 2018
In the first part of this blog series, we discussed how to solve variational problems with simple boundary conditions. Next, we proceeded to more sophisticated constraints and used Lagrange multipliers to set up equivalent unconstrained problems. Today, we focus on the numerical aspects of constraint enforcement. The method of Lagrange multipliers is theoretically exact, yet its use in numerical solutions poses some challenges. We will go over these challenges and show two mitigation strategies: the penalty and augmented Lagrangian methods.Read More
Bridget Paulus September 10, 2018
Schottky diodes are one of the oldest semiconductor components, but they are still found in many modern applications, including computers and radar systems. To ensure that a Schottky diode performs well, it's important for engineers to accurately analyze factors like current density and barrier height in the design. As a benchmark model demonstrates, the COMSOL Multiphysics® software and add-on Semiconductor Module are well suited for this type of analysis.Read More
Temesgen Kindo September 7, 2018
In the first part of this blog series, we discussed variational problems and demonstrated how to solve them using the COMSOL Multiphysics® software. In that case, we used simple built-in boundary conditions. Today, we will discuss more general boundary conditions and constraints. We will also show how to implement these boundary conditions and constraints in the COMSOL® software using the same variational problem from Part 1: (the soap film) — and just as much math.Read More
Chandan Kumar September 5, 2018
To characterize hyperelastic materials, we need experimental data from a variety of tests, including subjection to uniaxial tension and compression, biaxial tension and compression, and torsion. Here, we show how to model the compression of a sphere made of an elastic foam using tension and compression test data obtained via uniaxial and equibiaxial tests. We demonstrate the use of the compressible Storakers hyperelastic material model for computation as well as how force-versus-stretch relationships are calculated for uniaxial and equibiaxial tests.Read More
Temesgen Kindo September 4, 2018
What do soap films, catenary cables, and light beams have in common? They behave in ways that minimize certain quantities. Such problems are prevalent in science and engineering fields such as biology, economics, elasticity theory, material science, and image processing. You can simulate many such problems using the built-in physics interfaces in the COMSOL Multiphysics® software, but in this blog series, we will show you how to solve variational problems using the equation-based modeling features.Read More
Thomas Forrister August 31, 2018
Hermann von Helmholtz was a German scientist, doctor, and philosopher who made advances in many scientific fields, including electrodynamics, optics, and thermodynamics. He invented several devices, such as the ophthalmoscope and the polyphonic siren, and is also known for the Helmholtz coil. By exploring the philosophy of science, Helmholtz made accurate connections about the laws of nature, perception, and empiricism.Read More
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In 1880, Alexander Graham Bell wrote a letter to his father, saying: "I have heard articulate speech by sunlight! I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing!" He was talking about his latest success, the photophone, which he called his "greatest invention" shortly before his death. The photophone did not revolutionize the field of imaging, but an unintended effect Bell noticed while developing it did…Read More
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Falling into Autumn
It's hard to believe that autumn is already here. The strange weather that hit our country made it seem like we hardly had a summer at all. I guess we'll hope for a picture perfect fall season instead. Sunny days, cool nights and brilliant colours would be nice.
If you find the onset of cool weather depressing, we're hoping to cheer you up with our latest features. Not only does our new Wild About Gardening site have a fresh look, but we bring new articles each season for your reading pleasure.
Start by checking out our feature plant – the serviceberry. Not only are these trees and shrubs great for wildlife, but they are a beautiful addition to any garden. Their beautiful flowers in spring, summer fruit and vibrant fall colour add year round interest. Plus, because of their limited size they are a great choice for even the smallest gardens.
Autumn can be wonderful for spending time at the cottage. With the number of people dying down, some peace and quiet will give you a better experience of the local wildlife. If you can't get to a cottage or you are interested in learning how you can improve your shoreline property, visit our feature garden – a beautiful shoreline property near Algonquin Park in Ontario.
Our feature creature this season will introduce you to the smooth green snake. Though fairly widespread, its effective camouflage means that this may be the only way you get to spot this very beneficial reptile.
Fall is a great time to visit nurseries. This season we profile a wonderful nursery in the Nanaimo area of British Columbia. Started as a plant rescue and restoration effort, its great success lead to the birth of the Natural Abundance Native Plant Nursery.
So check out our wonderful new look and articles and then get outside and enjoy the show that nature has put together.


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Date Lab: Two fun people have a fun time talking about how they have fun
7:30 p.m., Matchbox, Penn Quarter
Alison: I wasn't really sure what to expect [from dinner]. I had read Date Labs, and a lot of them were big disasters. When I got to the restaurant, Jonathan was waiting behind the hostess stand. I was pleased he wasn't awful-looking. My expectations were pretty bad, so he exceeded what I was expecting.
Jonathan: She was very pretty. I really liked her hair, and she had great eyes. She looked like she'd be a fun person.
Alison: [The hostess] was trying to find a, quote, romantic spot for us to sit. I was like, It can be any table. I don't care. But she went the extra mile. I'm kind of a picky wine person, so Jonathan let me pick a bottle I liked.
Jonathan: We were talking a little bit about where we grew up. She was an Army brat, so she traveled around a lot, and I'm from D.C. She's really into sports, as am I. We were talking about the Redskins and the fact that I work in sports.
Alison: I was really interested in what he did. He used to work with a hotel chain, and I'm an events planner, so I work a lot with hotels. So we had that in common. Then we started talking about what we do when we go out. It's funny, we happen to go to a lot of the same places.
Jonathan: We've probably run into each other a million times before but didn't realize it.
Alison: It was nice to meet somebody who is the guy version of me. We both seriously just like to go out and have a good time regardless of who we're with or what we're doing. His stories were really funny. He told me about going to Vegas and how he got on this VIP list, and he had no idea who it was or anything, but he just went and had a good time. We just laughed about how that happens in Vegas.
Jonathan: We got through dinner and realized we hadn't taken many photos. So we ordered another drink and just sat there talking and taking some fun pictures. We were probably at Matchbox 21/2 hours.
Alison: He seemed really nice, and he was a gentleman, too. He overtipped the waiter with his personal money. We had talked that we like to go to Rocket Bar, so we went there for probably about 30 minutes. He bought [the] drinks, and we played shuffleboard. Then I started to get really tired. I had just flown in from Phoenix at 1 o'clock that morning. So he walked me to my car and said, "I had a good time; can I call you sometime?" We put each other's numbers in our cellphones.
Jonathan: I'd say [on a scale of 1 to 5, the date was] a 4. We had a great time. There's definitely a possibility [of romance]: our similar interests, being able to sit there and talk so long, she's very attractive, I'm assuming she thought I was somewhat attractive. But that was more like the undertone than the main tone.
Alison: I would say it was a 4. There was no romantic undercurrent for me, though I'm not really surprised [he felt one]. I get that a lot, initially. He's like a lot of guy friends I have. Then when they realize that I'm not feeling it the same, we become good friends. Most of my friends are guys.
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Update: The two were in touch, but no second date.


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Cycling Specific Prescription Sunglasses
I have been wearing prescription glasses for 30 years now, and for whatever reason have never previously owned a pair of cycling specific prescription eye wear.
Having taken delivery just over a week ago, of a pair of Rudy Project Horus frames, (Picture Right.) with fully progressive bi-focal lenses, I am now wondering why on earth I didn't do this sooner.
I can only put it down to ignorance, and never taking the time to research what was available. I have always made do with my regular prescription glasses with clip-on sunglasses. That seemed to be my only option when I went to my local eye wear provider.
Last month I discovered Sport RX, a company in San Diego who specialize in sport eyewear and sunglasses. It had never occurred to me that the wrap-around style of lens that cycling sunglasses have could be easily made up with prescription lenses just like any other glasses. So I ordered a pair.
I spoke on the phone with Rob Tavakoli who went over my options. They had a wide range of frames available including Oakley, Nike, and all the other popular models. I chose the Rudy Project Horus frames in Grey and Anthracite. I liked the shape of these made in Italy frames. They were available in other colors, but I felt the more conservative grey was more my style.
I explained to Rob that most of my riding in South Carolina was done in extremely bright sunlight. He suggested what he called their "Win, win" lenses. So called because they are silver coated outside and so block out a lot of glare and harmful rays, but at the same time looking from the inside, out, there a lot of color contrast and clear visibility.
Above: Win Win Lenses in Oakley Flak Jacket XLJ
This is achieved with a rose/copper tint to the lens. Rob explained that with some grey or green tints, shadows blend in with the grey asphalt, and it is not so easy to pick out wet and dry patches, and bumps and potholes in the road for example.
With these lenses the colors pop, and on many of my summertime rides, because of the heat, I set out early around 6 am. just before sunrise. With these glasses I can still see clearly even in the low light.
Rob offered to send me frames to try on, but I didn't feel this was necessary, as I gave him my helmet size, and my head measurement. The glasses fit perfectly. With my regular glasses that I have always worn, there was a lot of glare coming in all around, especially from the side.
My previous regular glasses tended to slip down my nose, especially when I started sweating, and I end up peering over the top of the frames. These glasses being cycling specific fit firmly but comfortably on my head and don't move.
Although the frames are quite thick and go all around the lens, because they are curved and fit closer to the face, the frames are not in my line of vision if I look up, down or sideways.
One of the biggest safety aspects I have found, with my regular glasses, when I turned my head to look behind, the edge of the glasses and the frames were always right in my line of vision.
With these new glasses, when I turn my head I am looking through the lens, where it appears the corrective prescription works right around the curve to the edge. Plus there is no glare coming in the sides.
The reason I had the glasses made in no-line progressive bi-focal lenses, is because I may occasionally need to read something, or fix a flat, or make some minor adjustment to the bike. With these being bi-focal there is no need to carry a separate pair of reading glasses.
Having the very bottom edge of the lens made for close up reading, does not affect the distance vision of the rest of the lens. Riding my bike, I am leaning forward, looking up anyway.
As I started out saying, I cannot understand why I didn't treat myself to a pair of these glasses before. Like many other cyclists, I spend money on all the right equipment. Clothes too, shoes, helmet, my comfort is important.
And yet all these years I have neglected the vision part, which is important for my eyes, my safety, and is just one more thing to make my cycling experience just that much better.
Like many aspects in life, ignorance is bliss, and I never knew what I was missing until I tried something that is a vast improvement.
Thank you Rob, and all at SportRx.


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Blame Shakespeare. Blame Dostoevsky. Blame every writer, every great mind, every mother, father, grandparent and pastor who convinced us that a guilty conscience is a never-ending torment.
"There is no witness so terrible -- no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us." That's what Sophocles, the writer of ancient Greek tragedies said on the subject. And according to a popular proverb, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow.
But the theory that looking oneself in the eye or getting a good night's sleep is made impossible by gnawing guilt has been challenged by our police officers who confess to participating in atrocities and going about their daily activities as if they'd done nothing wrong.
Last week, former New Orleans police officer Michael Hunter was sentenced to eight years in federal prison for his involvement in a bloodbath on Danziger Bridge the Sunday after Katrina, Sept. 4, 2005. Federal prosecutors say the people killed and shot were unarmed and that the police attacked them without reason.
Hunter pleaded guilty in April to a conspiracy charge following the killings of Ronald Madison and James Brissette and the shootings of Jose Holmes, Susan Bartholomew, Leonard Bartholomew and Leisha Bartholomew. Hunter fired his weapon on the bridge but claims not to have hit anybody. In addition to the conspiracy charge, he also pleaded guilty to keeping quiet about the felonies that his colleagues had committed.
After Ronald Madison's sister read a victim's impact statement in court Wednesday, Hunter stood before U.S. District Judge Sarah Vance and said he was sorry for "not having the courage" to come forward sooner. Reportedly, his voice quavered. He told the Madisons that he knew his apology wasn't sufficient and that "hopefully, time and God" would help them heal. He asked Judge Vance for mercy, not for himself, he claimed, but for his family -- as if there is some way Vance could show mercy on them and he not be a beneficiary of it.
Judge Vance gave him eight years in prison, the maximum sentence for the conspiracy and misprision charges he admitted to. His sentence will likely be reduced if he helps prosecutors make a case against the other officers charged in the case, but, for now, Vance gave all the years she could.
"It is hard to imagine a more profound breach of public trust than what happened here," the judge said. She described the "appalling perversion" and shocking "savagery" of the police officers involved in the Danziger Bridge shooting and the subsequent cover-up.
While Hunter eventually did the right thing by admitting his own crimes and assisting prosecutors, Vance was not impressed at the amount of time it took for him to come around and do right.
None of us should be. Not only did Hunter continue working as a police officer, thereby implying that he was fit for the job, but he also let others celebrate him as a hero.
Former District Attorney Eddie Jordan secured indictments against Hunter and the other officers in state court in December 2006, and when the accused were summoned to court to enter their pleas, Hunter was one of the officers cheered, applauded and slapped on the back.
In a Shakespearean tragedy, Hunter would have walked through that cheering throng of supporters trying to scrub invisible blood from his hands. Sophocles might have had Hunter crack under the pressure and even harm himself for his failure to live honorably.
Instead, at Tulane and Broad, Hunter pleaded his innocence and maintained it until the case was thrown out for prosecutorial bungling. We can imagine Hunter breathing a sigh of relief at the idea that he wouldn't be held to account for his crimes.
Nothing Hunter has said or done suggests that he would have voluntarily come forward and admitted his guilt. To the contrary. His plea seems to be more about cornering some of that mercy he begged the judge for than a repentant spirit's desire to pay for what he did.
How does a police officer go to work every day if he knows he's participated in an atrocity? How does he live with himself if he knows he's preyed on the weak and vulnerable? How does he let himself be called a hero when he knows he's a villain? The conscience doesn't appear to be as terrible a witness as the ancient Greek playwright believed. At least, it isn't so powerful for some of us.
Jarvis DeBerry is an editorial writer. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 504.826.3355. Follow him at http://connect.nola.com/user/jdeberry/index.html and at twitter.com/jarvisdeberrytp.


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PHP is beginning to compete with Java, according to speakers at a PHP conference. "We think PHP is ready for enterprise use," said Ken Jacobs, Oracle's vice president of product strategy.
Eclipse Foundation director Mike Milinkovich was more circumspect: "Java and PHP compete at some level and I think it's great." It should serve as a reminder within the Java community to "get over itself", he added.
PHP is also having an impact in the C language community. There have been many C extensions written for PHP, said Andi Gutmans, Zend vice president of technology. There also PHP extensions for Microsoft's .Net Framework, according to Zend. Some 50,000 sites are using PHP, Zend CEO Doron Gerstel said.
Yahoo has standardized on the open-source scripting language, which has helped change its perception, said Zend CTO Zeev Suraski. "It was no longer considered a nice toy and a nice language for simple stuff. It was evident that we could support one of the largest Internet sites in the world," he said.
Responding to the question of whether PHP can scale, panelists at the conference tried to refute the notion that it does not.
"I think that any technology can be made to scale if you work at it hard enough and any technology can be made to fail if you don't give it the attention that it deserves," said George Schlossnagle, vice president of engineering at OmiTI, which develops e-mail infrastructure solutions and has been using PHP since 1999. A tremendous amount of Web traffic is being run at PHP sites, Schlossnagle added.
An ADP official agreed. "So far, PHP has certainly scaled and I know from an architectural standpoint, we'll have the capability of getting around any bumps in the road that we see," said Mark Rankin, director of application architecture and infrastructure.
"We're rebuilding our website at Eclipse.org and we're using PHP," rather than Java, Milinkovich said, noting Eclipse has a high-volume site.
Upcoming versions of PHP include version 5.1, planned for early next month, and PHP 6, expected in 2006. Version 5.1 will feature a faster engine as well as improvements in data integration, including PHP data objects support as well as PHP service data objects, for interfacing with databases and XML. Version 6 is to feature internationalisation.
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Mexico head to Russia with one aim: 'to win'
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Mexico head to the World Cup in Russia with a clear objective, to reach the final and win it, defender Hector Moreno said on Friday.
"We are going to play the World Cup to win it," the Real Sociedad defender said as Mexico prepared to face Wales on Monday at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. "For me the important thing is to get home and not have any regrets.
"We know that we are not favourites. We know that no one thinks that Mexico will win. I think the Mexican team is ready."
Moreno, 30, is part of the 28-player preliminary World Cup squad named by coach Juan Carlos Osorio this month.
He's aiming to play in a third World Cup after South Africa in 2010 and Brazil 2014.
Osorio was also bullish on the chances that Mexico, who have fallen in the last 16 in the last six World Cups, can surprise in Russia.
"We believe that we can go to the final.s As athletes and human beings it's our right to believe, because we work hard for it," Osorio said. "We have a team that will always play to win."
Mexico, drawn in Group F with Germany, South Korea and Sweden, will debut against reigning champions Germany.
"Mexico, against the giants, always tends to lift itself," Moreno said.
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Saturday, March 26, 2011
foam photography magazine feature
i'm honored to be featured in the newest issue of foam international photography magazine, and i even snagged the cover! if you're interested in buying, click here, or if you're interested in just reading, click here. thanks again to foam, and everyone who supports me. y'all r gr8.
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Congratulations! I work at a photo org in Amsterdam that has ties with Foam, but I actually hail from Oregon, which is how I have heard about your work. I love the rare occasions when my two homes come together. And what a great publication to have your photography in! Good luck with your work in the future...carlyReplyDelete
I bought the magazine in FOAM this morning in Amsterdam and I was very happy to see your work there. Congrats.ReplyDelete
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These pics are divinely awesome!
They are like an art, kind of abstract in some, full of colour and texture. Love your talent!
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Land Rover Discovery 4 Price and Features
Land Rover Discovery 4 Review
Land Rover Discovery 4 is the perfect combination of luxury, power and also rich in features. Its elegant look enhanced by the 4.8m length, 2.17m width and 1.83m height, unique rear and front bumpers, day time running, LED lights, square shaped headlights,major front lamp unit, Exterior rear view mirrors with a memory function etc. Available in single variant with so many attractive color choices to select. It is priced at Rs. 98.79 lakhS (Ex-showroom, Delhi).Read more about Land Rover Discovery 4 below.
Top Technical Specifications
- 2993 cc, V6 Turbo Diesel engine
- 245 bhp @ 4000 RPM power
- 6-speed, Automatic gearbox AWD
- 600 Nm @ 2000 RPM torque
- 6 automatic Gears
- 11.8kmpl mileage in highway
- Electronic air suspension
- Disc brakes in front and rear
- hydraulic power assisted steering
- 5.9 metres Turning Radius
Engine performance and Mileage
Land Rover Discovery 4 is powered by a 2993 cc, V6 Turbo Diesel engine which churns out 245 bhp @ 4000 RPM power. Engine mated with 6-speed, Automatic gearbox allows AWD. The engine can produce 600 Nm @ 2000 RPM torque. Engine mated with 6 automatic Gears and this vehicle have a 7 Person Seating Capacity. Electronic air suspension, Disc brakes in front and rear, hydraulic power assisted steering, 5.9 metres Turning Radius all these gives you safe and stable drive. 215kmph is the attainable top speed. You will get 11.8kmpl mileage in highway and 7.7kmpl in city ride from the engine.
Other Top Technical Specifications
- 215kmph top speed
- 7 person seating capacity
- 235/70 R19 Tyre Size
- 2718.00 kgs Kerb Weight
- 82.30ltrs Fuel Tank
- 2885 mm Wheelbase
- 8 airbags, ABS, EBD
- AC, rear wiper, rear defogger
- Alloys, power windows and steering
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Land Rover Discovery 4 fitted with safety and comfort features like 235/70 R19 Tyre Size, 2718.00 kgs Kerb Weight,82.30ltrs Fuel Tank, 2885 mm Wheelbase, 8 airbags, ABS, EBD, AC, rear wiper, rear defogger, Alloys, power windows and steering, Dual-Stage Airbags, Brake Assist, Electronic Stability Program, Traction Control System, Engine immobilizer, Child Safety Lock, Automatic Climate Control, Rear Parking Sensors, Leather seats, Leather-wrapped Steering Wheel, Rear Defogger, Rear Wiper, Automatic Head Lamps, Fog Lamp, Integrated (in-dash) Music System, Touch-screen Display, Tubeless Tyres etc.
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- Bournville
- Fuji White
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- Galway Green
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- Stornoway Grey
- Nara Bronze
- Marmaris Teal
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Land Rover Discovery 4 Price in India
- Land Rover Discovery 4 TDV6 Diesel Rs 72,26,225
- Land Rover Discovery 4 SE Diesel Rs 1,28,50,750
- Land Rover Discovery 4 HSE Diesel Rs 1,40,18,750


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77 Energy, Freedom Pay and Kindred Healthcare share SD-WAN case studies with PacketPushers (ONUG 2016)
Live From New York at ONUG Fall 2016
Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks in a live recording with:
- Kindred Healthcare: Kyle Alexander, Sr. Network Engineer and Eric Murray, Network Engineer
- 77 Energy: Gant Estes, Network Architect & Jarin Dykstra, Sr. Networking Manager
- Freedom Pay: Nick Phelps, Consulting Engineer
SD-WAN technology has matured to reach large-scale deployments in multiple industries. During the ONUG conference in fall 2016, multiple Viptela customers came together to discuss their SD-WAN strategy and solution execution. The analyst duo, Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks, of Packet Pushers had an in-depth discussion with three enterprises to understand their technical and business reasons for the migration. They also uncovered the operational due diligence needed for migrating from MPLS to SD-WAN.
Topics Covered:
- Feature requirements for an Enterprise Grade SD-WAN
- Addressing Healthcare with a comprehensive security framework
- Achieving SLAs on critical traffic with a hybrid infrastructure
- Traffic engineering based on traffic type and link quality
- Seamless LTE integration with MPLS and Broadband
- Global policy enforcement with centralized management
- Utilizing End to end network segmentation reducing network attack surface
- Service chaining for flexible security and policy
Ethan Banks has been managing enterprise networks since 1995. He co-hosts the Packet Pushers Weekly, Datanauts, and Citizens of Tech podcasts and co-chairs Interop's Infrastructure track. He hearts community, open networking, SDN, and mountains.
Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, a wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies.


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Jim Sinur, columnist, is a VP and Research Fellow at Aragon Research. As a distinguished Thought Leader, Jim covers Digital Transformation, the Digital Business Platform (DBP), the Internet of Things(IoT), Cognitive Delivery, and the Intelligent Workplace. Prior to joining Aragon, Jim spent 20 years at Gartner, where he was critical in creating the first Hype Cycle and Maturity Model, which have become a hallmark of Gartner analysis, along with the Magic Quadrant.


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MDC airport training program cleared for takeoff
In partnership with Miami Dade College, the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, the Miami Beach Visitor and Convention Authority and Miami International Airport (MIA) recently unveiled its "Miami Begins With MIA" initiative. Crucial to this plan is MDC's commitment to provide new and dynamic customer service training to the airport's 35,000 "badged" employees.
The College's Center for Service Excellence (CSE) is spearheading the curriculum with particular emphasis on the key role each airport employee plays in the visitor experience from arrival to departure. It is no secret that tourism is Miami's top industry, and MIA is the city's economic artery.
CSE provides training for a variety of organizations and all employee levels from entry to senior management, in relevant areas such as team building, customer service and conflict resolution.
"This level of training sets the foundation by building employee morale, improving productivity in the workplace and strengthening the identity of the organization," said María Rey-Seara, CSE's program manager.
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Oliver&Spike: Dimension Jumpers is a mix between adventure and platform puzzler, developed with Unity3D. Think Ratchet&Clank meets Zelda meets Uncharted, with Dimension Jumping against repetitive game-play.
Impressive, both the gameplay and post editing looks great!
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: November 16, 2017
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Integrated Regional Laboratories
Laboratory Assistant II - Full-time (0.8 FTE), 4A-1230P
JFK Medical Center
Atlantis, FL
Integrated Regional Laboratories (IRL) includes thirteen HCA hospital laboratories in Palm Beach, Broward, Dade, Saint Lucie and Okeechobee counties and one Core Laboratory in Broward County. Through the process of re-engineering and the application of leading edge automation technology, IRL has transformed laboratory operations in the HCA East Florida market into an integrated service network.
IRL is a member of the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, Hospital Corporation of America. HCA Ranks on Fortune's list of Most Admired Companies for three consecutive years. In addition, HCA has also been named one of Ethisphere's World's Most Ethical Companies. Join our tradition of excellence!
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JFK Medical Center has evolved into a 472-bed acute care medical/surgical facility and healthcare complex specializing in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology services, orthopedics and bariatrics as well as Women's Services. JFK Medical Center is also a teaching facility for medical residents. Our level of service and team of professionals rank among the best in the nation. Our people possess the perfect combination of professionalism and compassion. Our overall mission is to enrich the lives of our patients by providing care that never quits. Our determination shows through in everything we do from hiring the best, most qualified people, to creating a dynamic work place where ongoing educational opportunities are a top priority.
The City of Atlantis is located near the coastal cities of Lake Worth and Boynton Beach. Close to the Beach, Trendy Restaurants and Shopping Malls. There's a little something for everybody.
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|All A Girl Wants
Sunglasses: Sportsgirl
Vest: Ksubi
Shorts: Shakuhachi
Shoes: Wittner
Handbag: Lacoste
Watch: Swatch Watch
Necklace: Van Rych
Believe it or not this is only the second pair of denim shorts I have owned since I was a ten. It is just something about denim cuts offs that just doesn't sit right with me. I don't know if it is because I hate the look of shorts looking like underwear or that everyone regardless of shape seems to own a pair but this pair of "Shakuhachi" crystalised cut offs are super special.
|Top: Shakuachi
Necklace: Kookai
Shoes: Shakuhachi (below)
When I first purchased them I took them home, tried them on, immediately took them off and said I would never wear them. Needless to say the next day I took them back to work. However, two weeks later they had become one of our best sellers and everyone was dying to get their hands on a pair and I thought maybe I had given up something great. I decided to give them another go!
Since bringing them home I have hardly taken them off. Due to the awesome crystalisation I don't really see them as denim cut offs but more of a statement short. Which is exactly what they are, I have had numerous oo's, aah's and finger pointing at them when I have been wearing them!
When I headed up to the Northern Beaches the other day I wanted to keep it casual (you know, to fit in with the locals haha) but still edgy. Teamed with my Ksubi studded eagle denim vest I managed to pull of simple with a twist. Well, I think so anyway!
On our way to Palmy KJ and I stopped off at Mona Vale's hot spot cafe, "Armchair Collective" which is owned by Pip Robb of "The Boathouse", Palm Beach.
|Large Latte $4
Although, the combination of interior homewares, furniture and food aren't a new concept to the Sydney cafe society the "Armchair Collective" has really brought it to a whole new level. I have been to cafes where they have tried to do the same thing but it hasn't really worked. Here they've gone the full hog equally distributed the space between cafe and homewares.
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March Madness: Nikita vs. Community
Nikita (Maggie Q) is a trained assassin gone rogue trying to stop a secret U.S. agency known only as Division from recruiting deeply troubled teenagers and training them to be assassins.
Community features smart-aleck lawyer Jeff Winger (Joel McHale), whose education is deemed void by the bar and is forced to attend a local community college with an extremely eclectic staff and student body.
Rogue agents or crazy students – it's your pick! Leave a comment to help your favorite advance to the next round!
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I've only seen one episode of Nikita and I'm in love with Community so that gets my vote.
Team Community!
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When you find a cheeky little lamb loin staring up at you from the shelf in the Organic, it's time to grab it and rush home to cook this dinner party pleaser – you need the skin on the loin, but not if it's a great big fatty lump of a thing, hence the choice of the Organic's lamb rather than Spinneys'.
I served this one on a bed of wilted Thai celery leaves (because I could, that's why) and with sautéed potatoes and peas, but you can do what you want. Each loin is cut into two, giving you pretty much what you'd serve up with a 4-bone rack, but just without the bones getting in the way.
- 2 lamb loins, each @400g
- 2 tbsp chopped fresh rosemary
- 6 cloves garlic, roughly grated
- 4 lemons, grated zest
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 2 tbsp olive oil
Red wine sauce
- ½ onion, finely chopped
- 1 tomato, skinned, deseeded & chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- ½ stick celery, chopped
- 300ml red wine
- 300ml good stock
- 25g butter
- 1 heaped tsp flour
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- Fresh peppercorns
Mix together the rosemary, zest, garlic, salt and pepper. Oil a foil-lined baking tray. (I like to line it with foil to cut down on washing up because I'm bone idle). Cut each of the lamb loins in two and brush them with oil, sprinkling a little salt and pepper on them as you do so. Heat a grillpan and quickly sear the meat side of the loins, then turn them to cook the skin side down for a little longer, about 2-3 minutes. Spread the herb mixture over the loins on the meaty side as the skin side is cooking, adding a bit to the skin side too as you remove them to the baking tray to sit skin side up. These can sit around for a while until you're ready to finish them.
For the red wine sauce, fry the onion, garlic and celery gently in a saucepan until everything's nicely softened, then crank up the heat a little and add the tomato and then the stock and wine, then leave to cook away, partially covered, for 20-30 minutes over a medium heat, before blitzing it with a hand blender. Heat it for another 10-15 minutes, then strain it. Mix together the butter and flour to make a roux and add this to the sauce, re-heating it when you're ready to serve.
I'm also fond of adding in a teaspoon of fresh pink peppercorns at the last minute.
Heat the oven to GM7/220C/425 and bake the lamb loins for 15 minutes (20 minutes for well done just a hint of pink showing and 25 minutes for cremated, Lamb Grise á la Goute de Femme Irlandais). Let them rest for five minutes in a warm place then serve 'em up!


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Wow, I feel like I just wrote this yesterday.....but its been 7 days and I've had a cold during that time! My summer cold, the one that builds me up for the rest of the year. But enough about me! Let's see what's happening webwise this week!
1. Sara at Soft Flex Girl is on Day 2 of her Seven Days of Inspiration posts! I've already seen something I never would have thought of on my own! Thanks Sara!
2. The Crafty Gardener made me hungry! I also learned something that I am definitely doing in my container garden next season! Yummy! What a great idea!
3. In another attempt to get me quilting, Austen at Make+Do blog talks about 'quilt-alongs'. I could do that.....!
4. Jamie has a great post on Things to Avoid When Blogging in 2 parts. I'm almost scared to read it!
5. My darling friend, Juana, of the Cat Who Fishes blog, is back from her holidays in the Italian countryside and she has lots to do now that she's home again! I missed Juana but Flat Juana and Flat Wendy decided to stay in Canada for the summer to keep me company and will spend the fall in Italy!
6. It's all trial and error when it comes to working with bronze metal clay and Jen of BeadFX takes us through her experiments. Fascinating results!
7. Margot is Down Under!
8. Tammy Powley has a great post about blogging and references She's Batty (see #4, Jamie) and HandMadeNews.org!
9. Beth, of Indie North, has nothing to say about Radiant Red!
10. That's Pretty and Jewellery n Herbs both had crazy weeks and live in Peterborough, so here they are: 2 4 1!
And that's that for another WWW!
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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Summary Jyoti Bali Sharma [W.I.N.E.S Founder & Organizer]
Bijay's talk focussed on
- Looking within you to find out why we do what we do and why we don't do many things. Know your why, your motivation.
- Know where you want to be short term, mid-term & long-term.
- It's important to have an Inner Dialogue with yourself to determine what your goals are & have a roadmap to get there.
- Being an entrepreneur is hard, being a woman Entrepreneur is even harder. Bijay discussed some of the tangible and subconscious reasons many people specially women don't venture onto the path of entrepreneurship. The reasons may be as deep rooted as inner FEAR (of failure, of being incapable).
- What might be standing between you & your success could be your negative thought process- The Saboteurs in your head.
- The inner voice that might be pulling you back, make that inner voice your ally not a saboteur
- Don't be a passenger, have a roadmap of where you want to be and keep the gas tank filled up to get there.
- You don't want to get to a destination in life that you didn't want to be in at the end of the road.
- Give to others, but make sure your own cup is not depleted!
So... Are you in the driving seat in your life, business and various spheres of your life including Self image, Family, Kids, career, Home, Money/finances, Health, Friend, Spiritual needs?
The talk was very interactive and Bijay created many scenarios and asked the audience how they would react or feel in different situations life poses.
She shared a story to illustrate how you can turn an adverse situation to your advantage in business and in life. You become the 5 people you are closest to in life, so choose wisely, network wisely and stay close to people who will uplift you & your business! What people are saying...
What a terrific meeting today Jyoti. Thanks for organizing. Bijay was fabulous!
Bijay, you were thought provoking & engaging. As you said, I hope we can follow-up & implement a few things we learnt at the meeting yesterday. Thank you for such an inspiring talk.
Thank you for sharing! I really enjoyed and earned a lot from tonights event.
It was super interactive, fun, and deep learning. I will totally check out one of your workshops. thanks again.


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"We had three sheep!" It was an important point for Layla to make. She described her life centered around a two-story house in a village back in Sinjar, her home before ISIS came and changed things forever.
Her house was beautiful! She and her husband could afford to pay someone to build it, they didn't need to lay the concrete block or set the ceramic tile with their own hands. She mentioned their sheep as definitive proof that they were financially secure.
Layla and her husband created a nice life with their children. They farmed, their children attended the village school, and they all spent a lot of time with her husband's family, who lived nearby.
It wasn't an easy life, but Layla and her husband had everything they needed to make it a good one.
Layla was working out in their fields on the hot August day, more than three years ago, when ISIS came through their village. The militants methodically went from house to house, killing anyone found inside.
In time, they came to Layla's house. Her husband and son were home.
When Layla realized what was happening, she ran from the fields to her house, only to make the most heartbreaking discovery of her life—her husband and nine-year-old son had not escaped the ISIS fighters. They were dead. Around her, the village erupted in chaos as each family walked into their own homes filled with tragedy. Those who survived the attack couldn't afford the time they needed to bury their dead—there was no knowing when ISIS would return. They couldn't pack up any supplies. They gathered their living loved ones and ran for the safety of the mountains, with just the clothes on their backs.
ISIS killed so many of their family members. Days spent trapped on the mountain killed more, through starvation and thirst. By the time Layla and her surviving family made it to a village a safe distance away, they were broken people.
It took some time to fully come to grips with the depth of their loss, to turn their faces toward the future. Little by little, they found their footing. Neighbors in this new village helped them at first. Then you helped, not long after—providing what they needed to make it through their first winter. You showed up to teach some of Layla's sisters-in-law how to make soap.
But while everyone else began the hard task of rebuilding their lives, Layla struggled. She never learned to read or write, and didn't have the confidence to try. Making soap requires precise measurements; it was too intimidating for Layla to attempt. She even laughed at the suggestion. The little village where she lives isn't exactly an economic center—there aren't any jobs available for a displaced widow who can't read or write.
It took a long time for Layla to find her path forward. Eventually, though, she found one rooted in the past.
In a conversation about starting businesses, Layla asked if it would be possible to get some sheep. Of course! You provided Layla with some sheep, and it was exactly what she needed to move forward.
Sheep gave Layla immediate financial resources, a source of nutrition for her family, and eventually, surplus dairy products to sell. Every sheep purchased for Layla was pregnant, so in little time, her herd doubled (and has continued to grow).
Sheep gave Layla a tie to her beloved husband. Having the modest financially security that comes with owning a small herd allowed her son to get married, and welcome his bride to their home. Caring for sheep allowed Layla to regain some of the confidence that was so badly damaged by trauma.
Life isn't easy for Layla. But she now has what she needs to rebuild a good life.
When we visited this week, we talked about our hopes—hers and ours—for the day when their land is liberated from ISIS, when they can return home. We talked about visiting her sheep in her fields in Sinjar. We talked about the future with a sweet hopefulness.
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West Wyalong Knockout title wide open as defending champions Gundagai opt out
Gundagai's reign at the West Wyalong Knockout is over after the Group Nine heavyweights decided not to enter this year.
The Tigers had a change of tact two seasons ago and entered for the first time in decades.
They were successful, downing Kangaroos in the decider, before getting the better of Southcity last season.
However this time around Gundagai captain-coach James Smart doesn't believe it suits.
"It is enjoyable and a good competition but as good as it was to go over and win it with our team being relatively settled, we haven't got a lot of guys going out or coming in, and the average age of our team I thought four games of footy over a weekend probably isn't the best thing," Smart said.
"It's worked out even more so that the competition is going to be pushed back."
Instead the Tigers will play a three way trial with Group 7 club Jamberoo and Manly club Forestville in Manly.
Despite the absence of Gundagai there is another strong line-up plus plenty of new faces at the knockout as the popular pre-season event continues to expand.
South Sydney District Junior Rugby Football League club Moore Park Broncos are among the 16 clubs entered for this year's event.
There have also been two Group 7 clubs nominate in Nowra-Bomaderry Jets and Shellharbour Sharks.
Shellharbour became the first team from the South Coast to enter the annual event last season but did not compete.
There are six Group Nine clubs nominated this season, down from seven last year.
New Albury captain-coach Adrian Purtell has elected to play in the Canberra 9s, but Junee is back in the fold after missing last year.
Brothers, Southcity, Young, Temora and Kangaroos have also entered.
There are three Group 20 clubs with Yenda and Tullibigeal Lakes United joining the hosts.
Two of the top three Group 10 teams from last season have entered with former Cherrypickers' captain-coach Luke Branighan entering with Oberon Tigers.
They join Bathurst Panthers, who the Tigers knocked out in the prelimiary final.
Canberra club Woden Valley Rams and Cobar, from Barwon Darling, complete the field
A draw for the event on February 23 and 24 is expected shortly.
This story Teams locked in for 2018 West Wyalong Knockout first appeared on The Area News.
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Bulletin, February/March 2009
Annual Meeting Coverage
An Intellectual Playground
by Elise Lewis
Elise Lewis is a 2008 recipient of the James M. Cretsos Leadership Award. She is a doctoral candidate in the School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of North Texas. She can be reached by email at elise.c.lewis<at>gmail.com.
Editors note: Elise Lewis is one of two recipients of the 2008 James M. Cretsos Leadership Award, which honors new ASIS&T members (members for less than seven years) who have demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities. The Bulletin has asked her to describe her ASIS&T experiences and the motivations for her service to the Society.
My intellectual playground that is what ASIS&T has become to me. It all culminates at our annual meeting. This year, I was honored to receive the 2008 James M. Cretsos Award. I would like to congratulate my co-winner, Phillip Edwards. Winning the Cretsos Award and presenting Sam Hastings the Watson Davis Award are two events that make me look back and reflect on the path that brought me here with much joy. There are many people who have helped me along the way and I am truly grateful for their guidance and support.
In the fall of 2000, I had just started working on my MLS at the University of North Texas. Sam Hastings was running a digital imaging grant project that I was working on as a research fellow. Dr. Sam asked another student and me to present the student perspective of the project. I quickly accepted having no idea what I was doing. All I heard was ASIS&T, Washington DC, conference and something about a panel session.
What an opportunity. I was standing on the shoulder of giants. I presented at my first conference with Sam Hastings, Brian OConnor, Howard Besser and my colleague Tara Carlisle. I watched in amazement as Howard put together his presentation 20 minutes before our session started. Brian scribbled several remarks on what appeared to be a scratch piece of paper. I spent weeks worrying about the content, theme and delivery of my presentation. The session was a success. After the session I had the opportunity to meet some of the audience members. I remember Barbara Flood told Sam that her students needed to present more often. I remember meeting Bahaa El-Hadidy and starting to realize there is a lineage in our field, and I was now part of it.
The next year I had the opportunity to participate in another panel session. I was looking forward to becoming more involved with the society, for ASIS&T had become my intellectual and professional home. Sam asked if I would be willing to help with another special panel presentation at SIG CON. This sounded very important. I had missed SIG CON my first year and saw the great opportunity to present my current research. Lesson learned.
I meet Kris Liberman that year. She was chairing the Membership Committee and encouraged me to come to the meeting. I walked out of that meeting serving on the Watson Davis Committee and in charge of the New Member Brunch with Caryn Anderson. The rest, I guess you could say, is history.
Since then I have continued to serve on the Membership Committee. I also helped launch a student chapter at the University of North Texas, among other things.
ASIS&T has provided me the opportunity to meet people who challenge me to think about things in new and different ways. I always look forward to catching up with old friends at the conferences, to see what research is being generated from the field and finding a way to give back to ASIS&T. I look forward to continuing to grow with ASIS&T. There will undoubtedly be challenges to face in the future, but I am confident that the Society will continue flourish because of the great minds that contribute and serve. I look forward to being a part of ASIS&T in the future and will continue to work to ensure the longevity and success of the Society. I give my sincerest thanks to those who have helped along the way to make this organization such a fulfilling part of my life and career.
Articles in this Issue
Genevieve Bell Addresses the Future of the Internet as a Cultural Institution
MacArthur Foundations's Connie Yowell Speaks about Children
Report on the 4th Social Informatics SIG Research Symposium: People, Information and Technology: The Social Analysis of Computing
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Notable apps and app updates for December 17, 2015/
On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable new apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be new, but they're popular and deserve mention. Here are today's picks for iOS and OS X.
iOS Apps/Updates
The big news today is that the sequel to the former Apple Game of the Year winner BADLAND is now available. BADLAND 2 (US$4.99) has a lot of the cool things that you loved about the original -- including being able to scroll both directions, online challenges, a full single player campaign -- plus all new ways to get our little fuzzy hero killed in new and horrible ways. Here's the trailer:
If you've never played the original BADLAND, it's available on sale for just $2.99 to celebrate the release of the sequel.
Infinity Blade is another game franchise that's on sale -- that is, the entire trilogy with its beautifully rendered graphics is available with each app going for a buck. Usually you can pay as much as $7 per app, but you can now get Infinity Blade I, Infinity Blade II, and Infinity Blade III for $0.99 each. That's all three games for just under $3. This may not happen again, so get 'em today.
OS X Apps/Updates
We're big fans of Macphun's Mac photography apps here at Apple World Today, which is one of the reasons we run their advertising on the site. One of those apps, Tonality, is a black and white photography editor for Mac, and it's on sale right now for $34.99 -- that's 50% off. If you'd rather get all of the Macphun photo tools -- Noiseless CK, Intensity CK, Snapheal CK, Tonality CK, Focus CK, and FX Photo Studio CK -- in the Creative Kit 2016 for just $99. You get a bunch of add-ons free of charge, including a Winter & Holiday Texture Pack, Magic Winter Presets for Tonality and Intensify, an ebook about food photography, Watermark Plus from Pearl Mountain, and a $30 gift card to CanvasPop.


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I am hoping to relocate there within a few months. The local quilt shop (In Between Stitches) moved and when they had the reopening celebration, DH went to check out the store and got me 10 yards of fabric and a few of the little giveaways the store had for the party. I called the store to thank them for helping him select and it was so funny. The store owner remembered him by name and told me he did very well selecting on his own and had a good time.
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Council Tax Debt Advice
Council tax counts as a priority debt which means it is important to make payments or you risk facing severe consequences. If you fail to pay your council tax debt, you could be visited by bailiffs, money could be deducted straight from your wages / benefits, a Charging Order may be issued by court which will secure the debt against your home or the council might begin bankruptcy proceedings against you.
As these consequences are so severe, it is even more important to seek professional debt advice and ensure that you make your council tax debt payments over paying your non-priority bills (such as store card or credit card debt).
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When you first miss a payment to your Council Tax, you will receive a reminder from your local council, and if you can afford to pay the council tax debt, no further action will be taken against you. However, if you do not or can not pay, your local council could ask the magistrates' court to grant a liability order. A liability order means that the council will be able to pursue 'enforcement actions' against you.
The first step in council tax debt advice could be to contact your local council. You will need to explain about how you intend to pay off your Council Tax arrears and whether your financial situation has changed. Ensure them that you plan to pay off the council tax debt as soon as possible by discussing your income and expenditure which will help you calculate how much is affordable.
Additionally you can enquire about your eligibility for a Council Tax discount. For example, you could get a discount if there's only one adult living in the property, or if you're on a low income. In some cases, you may even be able to backdate a Council Tax discount.
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Perhaps your council tax debt is unaffordable because your outgoings are too high due to your unsecured debts. If this is the case, you could benefit from a debt management plan which could lower your payments to your non-priority debts which will make your council tax much more affordable.
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Here's what happening . . .
Cause for Rejoicing
What a blessing to welcome our new Sister Gwen. She has been an inspiration to all of us who know her and we rejoice together over her answer to our Lord's call.
God has answered our prayers and returned Brother Eric safely from his trip to India. His experience there was life-changing and he has photos to share!
Prayers Needed
Please join Sister June in prayers as she asks God to touch her son Rick's heart and lead him to a relationship with God.
Brother Ted is still struggling with effects of his recent cancer treatments. Lets join together in prayer asking God to comfort him and bring healing.
Get Involved
We are looking for several energetic folks to help with a community service effort where we will be raking leaves in areas of town where we know there are mostly elderly citizens. Contact Sister Outreach for more info.


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Dinner & Revenge at DaLat: Vietnamese Restaurant Down Town Yps
Dinner and Revenge: A dish best served cold in Ypsi.
The first time I visited DaLat was back in the 90's, I recall having some hot and spicy conversations with my coolest and strikingly attractive lesbian girlfriend, Sam, over shrimp spring rolls and freshly squeezed lemonade. Everyone should have a friend like Sam in their 20's- she is the one who held my hand and introduced me to my now fave foods like Sushi, Middle Eastern Foods, and of course Vietnamese.
Last night I had a date there with my best friend of like 18 years, who was also my maid of honor. It has been almost a year since we have spoken to each other.
Our friendship is the kind that we may not speak to each other for months, or sometimes even years, but when tragedy strikes we know for certain who to call for unconditional love, support and compassion.
She was my strongest ally when I found my creepy husband placing personal ads online.
And she was there in a heartbeat when the dirt bag beat me up over confronting him on yet, more crap posted online months later.
She was there for me, 2 years ago when I was at the hospital getting x-rays and being interviewed by a domestic violence counselor.
So it was at DaLat that we recapped the past year over low cal shrimp spring rolls at a $1.25 each and the most appetizing almond sauce (no extra charge) I have ever tasted- I so wanted to just pick up the bowl and drink it.
But my current weight-loss regimen specifically says I can't do stuff like that.
Instead, I used a fork and dipped as Mz.Fit and I discussed revenge.
My mouth exploded with each bite, as I listened to her list of peeps in need of some serious non-physical revenge. The flavors were fresh, crisp, and delightfully bland-except for the almond sauce- the secret sauce that will make anything taste better.
Speaking of secrets, when my main dish arrived, number 66 or if you're fluent in Vietnamese, you would call it Canh chua chay I realized just how disappointed I was in my best friend's husband and her so called mutual friends. But the dish was priced just right, $7.00 and enough for 2 meals!
After taking a deep breath of excitement over the presentation of my dish, I lifted my bowl to inhale the spicy hot and sour soup.
Ahh, my nose thanked me as it caught the main seasoning- fresh garlic. I swear to god, for a moment my body was in a trance overlooking the dinner bowl filled with huge chunks of fried tofu, a garden of bean sprouts and chunks of tomatoes, and celery.
Quick mental note to self:
"Tanya, you sooo are going to enjoy this, eat slow, remember with each bite to count to 12 before you swallow and ask for a 2 go bowl at once."
I sipped my unsweetened iced tea between bites while paying close attention to the glass being square and delved into all of the years my best friends' husband has been cheating on her.
Another sip of tea, I express to her how sad I was with this news; her marriage was the ideal marriage to me… They have been married for 7 rock solid years; throughout their marriage I have begged them to let me be wife #2.
The husband calls her cell phone right after I ask what was his reaction to her confronting him… he admitted it, came clean, maybe too clean for me personally.
oh great! He is on his way over to say "hi" to me.
I want desert and a drink. Have to wait on that drink as they don't serve alcohol there. We decide on number 75 the Da vai hoac nhan. I have no idea what it is but it sounds crisp, clean and very low cal.
"Girrrl, I really don't know how to react to him. I am going to be superficial and fake."
She encouragingly responds, "That's fine hun, I understand."
The waitress delivers our desert, I am at first thinking she brought over another glass of ice water but then I see the long dessert spoon next to the glass. Mz.Fit asks for an extra spoon, and asks me what she can do to get him working harder on their marriage.
We set the glass between us and dig deep, avoiding the ice as we fish out a bite sized lychee fruit.
I was on chew count number 5 when I had to spit out a piece of ice hidden inside the cumquat like fruit into my iced tea glass.
She laughs endearingly. I tell her I have some ideas to help light a match under her dirt bag husbands' ass.
I get up to take a few snap shots of the interior for this review… I see HIM in my peripheral vision I move quickly as if I am headed to the rest room.
Tucked away in the back of the restaurant, it dawns on me that this building used to be some kind of fancy department store.
There is a long, wide, spiral stair case leading from shadows into darkness to a second floor, maybe more. I so want to investigate, but I hold back scared of having no idea who could be up there.
But now knowing the owner's family also lives in the Restaurant, I am glad my intuition steered me against that impulse.
I turn and find the ladies room, I might want to pee for the heck of it, but both seats are way too gross and I decide I will wait and relieve myself at the dive bar instead.
Deep breath… and another… ok I'm ready to be fake now.
A few snaps of my camera on my way back to our booth…
"Hi, hello, how are you? We're going to the bar want to come. Ok, let's go."
It was fast and forced but I got my girl and me outta there. Her husband would be over after he got his order. On the way up Michigan Ave I called my dear sweet, freaky cohort to meet up with us at the Tap Room.
After a few shots, a few beers, a free game of pinball and my man PRINCE singing in the background, I tell my girl and her jerk of a husband that hopefully come Thursday I will finally be divorced.
Check out their menu....it is fab, enough to take home for a midnight snack and way inexpensive:
Monday: CLOSED
Sunday thru Thursday: 11:00 AM - 8:45 PM
Friday & Saturday: 11:00 AM - 9:30 PM
Phone: (734) 487-7600
NOTE: We stop serving the last 15 minutes which is for CARRY-OUT only.


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