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Across the upper portion of its distinct-looking facade is a large sign that bears its name. The building is every inch majestic that it is sure to catch the people´s attention, or just about everyone who passes by. It certainly got mine the few times the auto bus I was in passed through the area as I was en route to a few day trip destinations, like Segovia and El Escorial). Its grand and imposing edifice sprawled in a wide area of land along Ave. de los Reyes Catolicos is definitely worth a second look.
Madrid, indeed, bursts in so much art and culture, ready for everyone to experience and enjoy by way of the numerous museums scattered all around the city. The Avenue of the Catholic Kings is proud to be the site of one of the city's major museums, the Museo de America, or the Museum of the Americas. Possessing a stately and solemn stance, I would have mistaken it for a basilica or a cathedral were ir not for the large name on its facade that identifies it.
The earliest collections procured and displayed within was initiated by Carlos III way back in 1771; this was the time when early excavations and archaelogical work were done in the American continent.
The museum is one of the finest in Madrid to explore since it has within its collection countless pieces of artistic, cultural, archaeological, and even religious artifacts and valuable historical items, all of which come from every corner of the American continents.
All in all, 25,000 items belong to the museums collection, with some of the most valuable ones included in the collection of the Royal Cabinet of Natural History. Through the years, the museo became more established, and earned the reputation of being one of the most respectable Madrid Museums. As such, more and more donors from the far corners of the world contribute to making its collections richer and more diverse.
Ceramics, vases, urns and similar vessels, helmets and headgears, paintings and other forms of artworks — visitors are assured of a wide variety of artifacts and antiquities to be seen and apprecated at the museum. Museo de America is certainly a must-see, whether you are an individual with a great curiosity on American antiquities or an avid history lover. Many of the items in the collections were donations from other prestigious museums and similar institutions.
In the museum grounds stands a huge stone equestrian statue. You can see the museo in the background
You can also find a rectangular pond with a statue of Vasco Nuñez de Balboa (with inscribed description, Discubridor del Pacifico, or Discoverer of the Pacific in English) standing on one end
Direccion: You may visit the museum at Avenida de los Reyes Catolicos 6, Madrid
Horarios: : Museo de America is open from Tuesday to Saturdays, 9:30 Am to 3:00 PM and closed on Mondays
How to go: The museum is a few hundred meters away from Plaza de Moncloa. You can take the Madrid Metro and get off at Moncloa Station, via Linea 3 and Linea 6 – Circular. Take Avenida Plaza de la Moncloa, along which you will also find the Faro de Moncloa. The site is at the corner of Avenidas Victoria and de los Reyes Catholico. If you want to go via auto bus, available EMT lineas are 2, 44, 46, 61, 113, 132, 133
Nearby Madrid Attractions and landmarks:
1. Arco de la Victoria – You´ll never miss this tall monument if you´re passing by Moncloa. It is also considered a city gateway like those found at Toledo and Alcala; hence, it is called La Puerta de Moncloa.
2. Quartel General del Ejercito del Aire – the headquarters of the Spanish Air Force, a major landmark within the Moncloa-Aravaca district
3. Faro de Moncloa – observe and marvel at the city via a bird´s eye view — this you can achieve by climbing up the almost 100-meter high observation tower called Faro. Be awed by various Madrid attractions from up high – such as the Palacio Real, the Columbus Towers, and even as distant as the mountain ranges of the Guadarramas. It´s definitely worth your time — try to drop by before or after you made your visit to the Museo de America.
Admission Prices: 3 euros (regular) and 1.50 euros (reduced price)
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City commission considers changes to PUD ordinance ⋅ Charlottesville Tomorrow:
The FSNA shall bring community members together to discuss neighborhood issues; the FSNA shall protect and improve the quality of life in the Fry's Spring neighborhood; the FSNA shall advocate for the neighborhood at public hearings and in community forums.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Old Lynchburg Road Safety, Sidewalks and Drainage Project Update
From Charlottesville City Engineer Tony Edwards:
Hello everyone,We have made a lot of good progress since the last schedule update. If the weather will allow it the plans are to have a lot more activity within the project limits. I appreciate the neighborhoods support and patience with the interruptions to normal use of the area. As indicated by the schedule below, we are hopeful that more of the areas can be dressed up soon. May 20, 2013 thru May 24, 2013
Storm structures from #120 OLR to J.P.A will be installed which will complete main storm run.
Concrete crews will be working on curbs and aprons at 241 OLR thru 236 OLR, then jumping over to 223 OLR and continue up OLR, as weather and time allows. These addresses will be notified day prior.
The grading crew will be working in the bio-retention pond area and will start trucking in fill material Tuesday.
* The railing contractor will be scheduled to install railings in designated area behind the sidewalk.
May 27 thru May 31
Utility crew will complete the water services this week and double check for completeness.
Concrete crews will continue at curbs / aprons at 219 OLR heading up OLR
Strom water management pond will be rough graded then lining crew will move in to install liner and bio- mix.
Light company will bore under OLR to install crosswalk controls
* all work controlled by weather* expect road closer every day to all thru traffic. Local traffic will have controlled access.
Tony EdwardsCity Engineer, CFM
Monday, May 6, 2013
May 2013 FSNA Meeting Agenda
Fry's Spring Neighborhood Association
May 8, 2013
Next FSNA Meeting – June 12, 2013
NOTICE: Bike, Walk, Play JPA scheduled for Sat. August 17th
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JPA Extended Arboretum
Dorothy Smith, Charlottesville Tree Commission
Azalea Park Update
Brian Becker
OLR SS&D Update
Tony Edwards email read
2013 Elections
City Council Democratic Candidates Forum
Other Business
May 8, 2013
Next FSNA Meeting – June 12, 2013
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JPA Extended Arboretum
Dorothy Smith, Charlottesville Tree Commission
Azalea Park Update
Brian Becker
OLR SS&D Update
Tony Edwards email read
2013 Elections
City Council Democratic Candidates Forum
Other Business
Friday, May 3, 2013
Old Lynchburg Road Safety, Sidewalks and Drainage Update
From Charlottesville engineer Tony Edwards:
Hello everyone,
We have a lot of activities planned for the next two weeks, so your help in getting this information out is greatly appreciated.
May 2 & 3
Storm pipe installation will continue along OLR from 209 - 201.
Retaining walls at OLR 126,119,118,113,112 & 301 Middleton will be completed.
clearing operations will continue behind the Beach Club pool.
May 6- 10
Water service line work will be done at 250,248,246,242,240,238,110,
Storm outlet end wall work at Middleton Lane and creek will resume.
Concrete curb & sidewalk work will be installed at 227,225,223,221 OLR.
Concrete curb and driveway work along the east side will begin at 252,250,248,246.
May 13 to 17
Storm pipe work behind the behind and along side the Beach Club fence will begin. Top soil will be stockpiled from within the basin area behind the pool.
Concrete curb , sidewalks and driveways will be installed 215,213,211,209,207 OLR.
Traffic access will be limited to one lane and local traffic only. Please take alternate routes whenever possible. We apologize for the dust created in our efforts to keep the streets clear of dirt & mud. Once the retaining wall construction is complete there will be less need to sweep the streets and less dust. We appreciate your understanding. New driveway entrances will require no access to the driveways while the concrete cures. This generally takes 72 hours. We see that great coordination among property owners to share each others driveways during this period has worked will and trust this can continue. We thank you for letting us know of any special needs for access ahead of time and will work with those situations to accommodate where possible.
Thanks again for everyone's positive approach and cooperation towards getting these great improvements completed.
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BlackBerry maker, RIM has recently held a press conference to try and explain the recent issues they've been having over the past four days.
Mike Lazaridis called the press conference this afternoon and has announced that BlackBerry has been completely restored to its functioning state.
The conference started at 15:00 GMT and we've been told that Lazaridis and his team will launch a full investigation into the outages.
"We know we've let many of you down. You expect more from us. I expect more from us," he said.
"You've depended on us for reliable, real-time communications, and right now we're letting you down. We are taking this very seriously and have people around the world working around the clock to address this situation,"
"We believe we understand why this happened and we are working to restore normal service levels in all markets as quickly as we can."
"Clearly we have a backlog in Europe... as you can imagine, with the global reach of BlackBerry and people using it to contact others around the world, there's a lot of messages to Europe from Asia and the Americas,"
"Over time that backlog has built up and affected our other systems."
The news will come as a relief for many BlackBerry fans who lost all Internet services on their phones for long periods of time. However, some users may have already made their minds up about switching to a different smartphone.


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Dan Gervais stands about 5-ft.-10 in his wrestling boots, a couple of inches less than that without.
He's 260 pounds, tough as a bull.
In his wrestling ego, he's known as Wild Dangerous Dan, a bloodthirsty villain who patterns himself after another monster of the mat, Abdullah the Butcher.
"I love Abdullah's style," says Gervais. "Chairs ... blood ... I've wrestled with 10,000 thumbtacks in the middle of the ring, with light tubes ... I like to work against Abdullah.
"I've learned a lot of tricks from him. When you go into the ring with him, you never know what he's going to do next."
Gervais likes life as a heel, the guy who gets showered with fan abuse. And as such he has to have little regard for the health of his own body.
"I don't think about my health," he says. "You can't worry about everything. It's a risk. When you go to a place like Puerto Rico, they expect you to perform. If you pulled a guy's arm off, the fans would love it."
Gervais was born and still lives in Vanier. He was always one of the tough guys, scrapping with regularity as a youngster, taking his aggression into the wrestling ring as a 16-year-old.
"When I was younger and people found out I was wrestling, they all wanted to try me," he says. "But nobody's ever put me on the ground. It's OK now. I'm well known in Vanier."
He tried his luck in Montreal and learned under the tutelage of legends Gino Brito and Dino Bravo.
Now 43, Gervais is front and centre in Canadian Professional Wrestling, an organization which calls Gatineau its home, with the CPW Arena at 122 Berri St. the site of shows every two weeks.
But next Saturday, Nov. 1 to be exact, is CPW's big night, its first anniversary show.
None other than Abdullah the Butcher will headline, teaming with Wild Dangerous Dan to face Guy Sauriol and Dave Le Justicier. Other matches: Pierre Carl Ouellet vs. Thunder; Dynamite Tommy Blade vs. Paranoid Jake Matthews; The Black Panthers and Psycho vs. The Drunken Scotsmen and Tray Hugh Mongus; MVP Michael Von Payton and Sweet Cherrie vs. Righteous Rick Sterling and Misty Haven; The Freak Zakk Manson vs. Shane Simmons vs. Mr. Know It All Shawn Demers; Face of Death and Dru Onyx vs. Aftershock; and Casey The Crow Katana vs. Kevin Steen. Tickets are on sale at the Guertin box-office and Ticketmaster (755-1111 or www.ticketmaster.ca).
A press conference (open to the public) will be held Oct. 28 at 11:30 a.m. at Les Raftsmen bar at 60 St-Raymond Blvd. in Gatineau.
"We've already sold 1,000 tickets," said Gervais. "We're hoping for 3,000. We'd like to have a big show every four months."
We've got some tickets for the Gatineau extravaganza to give away: Two family packs for two kids and two adults and two other pairs of tickets. Just name one of the wrestlers on the card and e-mail your answer with your phone number to: firstname.lastname@example.com. We'll draw from all the correct answers and notify the winners next week.
- Road Warrior Hawk (Michael Hegstrand) died in his sleep early last Sunday morning at the age of 46. He was preparing to move with his wife to Tampa when he said he was tired and wanted to rest for a bit. That was about 8:30 p.m. last Saturday. When his wife checked on him five hours later, he was dead. A wire service reported that during a tour of Australia in 2001, Hawk found out the ventricle wall of his heart was so stretched out that it had half its normal thickness.
- Here are the No Mercy results: Brock Lesnar beat The Undertaker; Vince McMahon beat Stephanie McMahon (Paul Heyman is the new Smackdown! GM); The Big Show won the U.S. title from Eddie Guerrero; Kurt Angle beat John Cena; Chris Benoit beat A-Train; The Bashams beat the APA (Shaniqua showed off her new boob job); Zach Gowen beat Matt Hardy; and Tajiri beat Rey Mysterio.
- About 1,000 people, including Vince McMahon, Jim Ross, Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit, Bad News Allen, Dan Kroffat and Jim Neidhart were on hand for Stu Hart's funeral on Thursday in Calgary.
- The huge NWA:TNA pay-per-view scheduled for late next month is off after its headliner Hulk Hogan revealed he needed knee surgery. Jeff Jarrett, who was to face Hogan, went out and won the association's title Wednesday, beating AJ Styles.
- Triple H and Stephanie got married, in real life, yesterday.
- Batista is back, collecting the $100,000 bounty after destroying Goldberg on RAW.


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It's all about the sizzle at Sake Restaurant & Bar with the introduction of their robata grill.
Sitting at the bar that part encircles the kitchen, you can not only see the chefs at work, painstakingly creating your food but also watch the grill glow as it cooks your dinner.
The Japanese have mastered this style of fire-side cooking over centuries. It originated from the northern most island of Japan, Hokkaido, where a communal hearth was used both for cooking and for warmth.
|Saké Head Chef, Daisuke Sakai
It's like a barbecue, but slower as food on skewers is slow-grilled over hot coal. Traditionally its a combo of seafood and vegetables but at Sake they are offering pork, lamb, chicken, beef and vegetables. The 1000 degree Celsius heat induces the bonito flakes on the skewers to literally appear to dance.
Saké Head Chef, Daisuke Sakai enjoys the fast pace of cooking on the robata grill and says that
"cooking in this method allows us to lock in more flavour, with a crispy and smokey exterior and a
melt-in-your-mouth freshness on the inside."
The Robata - Japanese binchotan charcoal grill menu includes King brown mushroom with shiso butter, brined pork belly with braised daikon, chicken negima with Tokyo scallion,
Japanese eggplant with niku chicken miso, lamb chop with wasabi chimichurri, braised shortrib with akamiso, truffle, spring onions, green asparagus with tare, Maldon sea salt and dancing bonito and
charred corn with shiso butter spice.
|Lamb chop with wasabi chimichurri
Ed+bK rating: 4/5 stars. Great light start to an evening or a casual way to end the day.
Bottom line: Robata grill menu prices range from $8 to $20 for two skewers.
Disclaimer: Ed+bK was a guest of Sake.


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About Wine Comes in Six-Packs by Lisa Orban:
Author Lisa Orban is ready once more to share her triumphs, tragedies and hysterical misadventures in her eagerly anticipated second book, Wine Comes in Six-Packs. Although her life is an emotional roller coaster of ups, downs, twists and turns, she manages to keep the reigns steady on chaos and retains balance between tragedy and hilarity throughout her tales. Through her reminiscences of circumstance and consequence, she shares with us her inner strength in her continuing quest to find love, and happiness, on her own terms.
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Author Bio:
Lisa Orban was born in Galesburg, IL a long time ago on a hot summer day. Due to various shenanigans by the adults in her life, her time in Galesburg was short and the family moved to Quincy, IL where they settled down for a good long stay.
Things were rolling along for a while inside the confines of Quincy, and Lisa rolled with them. There were several divorces, marriages, different schools, friends lost & gained, and many, many moves throughout all this activity. Until, quite unexpectedly, Lisa found herself in foster care at 16, much to her surprise.
Upon turning 18, Lisa ran away as fast as she could to Phoenix, AZ where she lived for 3 years. Got married, had a two sons, made many mistakes, and then eventually, ran for her life back to Quincy, where she still lives to this day.
Lisa went to college, earned an Associates in Psychology, raised her kids, got married, and divorced, several times, bought a house and eventually settled down to live the life she wanted, as the ringleader in a madhouse of anarchy. She now writes books, takes in human strays in need of help, travels, and pretty much does whatever she wants, and is quite happy about it.
She became an author in 2015 with her first book, It'll Feel Better when it Quits Hurting, and hasn't stopped since. If you'd like to learn more about Lisa's misadventures in living, visit her website, The Talking Book with Lisa Orban at http://pandra411.wixsite.com/lisaorban
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Foreword (read PDF file)
Chapter 1: Hues and Shades (read PDF file)
Chapter 2: Confessions at the Peace Table
Chapter 3: Living under the Sniper's Gaze
Chapter 4: "You Are Divorced!"
Chapter 5: On Being Different
Chapter 6: The Patriarch's Conversion
Chapter 7: Golden Domes, Secret Prisons, and Sticky Sweets
Chapter 8: Try a Free Sample of Religion!
Chapter 9: No Halal Bacon on Board
Chapter 10: Into the Garden
Chapter 11: What's under the Garment of Piety?
Chapter 12: An Unfavorable Yoke
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- Designed For Pools Up To 50 Ft. In Size
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At only 17 pounds, this lightweight pool cleaner is easy to manage and transport to and from your pool for efficient cleaning.
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For mobility around the pool, the Aqua Products NE3300F features a 60 foot floating cord and a low voltage transformer.
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Watson is moving on from "Jeopardy" champion to physician's assistant. IBM and health insurer WellPoint are now creating the first commercial products for the super-smart supercomputer and plan to test these applications in clinical trials soon.
WellPoint will allow doctors to use Watson to improve diagnostic accuracy, make better-informed treatment decisions and fine-tune claims processing.
"The goal of this WellPoint/Watson effort is to improve people's lives," Dr. Anthony Nguyen, WellPoint's senior vice president of care management, told eWEEK. "It gives us an opportunity now to give physicians and practicing doctors the most updated information while they're treating our members and our patients."
Under the agreement announced Sept. 12, IBM and WellPoint will also use Watson to simplify coordination between health care providers, benefits administrators and patients.
Further reading
Watson gained fame during a stint on "Jeopardy" earlier this year, and the appearance re-airs Sept. 12 through Sept. 14. The supercomputer features a human-like ability to respond to questions asked in natural language.
For "Jeopardy," Watson ran on 90 IBM Power 750 Express servers powered by eight-core CPUs, but for the trials with WellDoc, the insurer will determine the hardware components it requires, according to Rod Smith, vice president of emerging technology at IBM.
"Watson runs on hardware that will be tailored to what WellPoint needs as far as hardware," Smith told eWEEK.
The supercomputer can scan information in 1 million books or about 200 million pages of data, analyze it and respond with answers in less than three seconds, according to IBM.
Watson will sort through large amounts of electronic health records (EHRs) and unstructured medical data to help doctors and nurses provide recommendations on treatment plans, Smith said.
The IBM technology will be able to pull information from social networking accounts to see what patients' preferences are, Nguyen noted.
Although Watson was a speaking robot on "Jeopardy," IBM and WellPoint will decide through the course of the trial how Watson will present answers to doctors and nurses, Smith said.
"The user experience is going to be very important, but how it fits into WellPoint's operations will be critical," said Smith. "We'll explore many ways to bring answers." In the meantime, Smith suggested thinking of Watson as a "dashboard."
New applications developed using Watson will be able to draw on information in patients' medical histories, tests and recent research. It can then allow doctors to decide on effective treatment plans. Watson will also help doctors gain awareness of drug interactions.
With Watson, WellPoint hopes to bring customized information to a patient's needs, according to Nguyen.
"It will bring scientific information specially tailored to you and also layered with your desires and wants that will hopefully increase your [medication] compliance," said Nguyen.
WellDoc will roll out the trials in two stages. By the end of this year, nurses at WellPoint will begin to test the technology to help them make decisions on whether a patient might need treatments such as bariatric surgery. In the first quarter of 2012, WellPoint will test the technology on oncology cases like prostate cancer, said Nguyen.
If the development of products goes well in initial trials, WellPoint will expand applications to include use by other specialists such as cardiologists and pediatricians, Nguyen added.
Initially, WellPoint clinicians will apply Watson technology through a PC-based Web browser, but researchers may eventually use tablets and other mobile devices as well, said Smith.
Because of its high volume of data, the medical field is the first industry in which IBM will develop commercial products using Watson.
"The medical field is probably the most prolific as far as the amount of information that's published every year," said Smith.
The life and death factor in health care makes the medical field a solid test for Watson, according to Nguyen.
Earlier this year, IBM announced it would combine Watson technology with the clinical-language understanding capabilities of Nuance Communications to develop a commercial product in 18 to 24 months. Columbia University Medical Center and the University of Maryland School of Medicine will contribute medical expertise to IBM and Nuance.


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Public Information Statement, Comment Request
National Weather Service Headquarters, Washington, DC
312 PM EDT Mon May 23 2011
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees
From: Geoff DiMego
Chief, Mesoscale Modeling Branch
NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center
Subject: Soliciting Public Comments through June 30, 2011,
On the Removal of NCEP's Regional Spectral Model
for Hawaii
The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) is proposing to stop running the Regional Spectral Model (RSM) and discontinue all output products from this model. The RSM is currently only run for a domain over the Hawaiian Islands. NWS Pacific Region has agreed to discontinue the RSM run after NCEP added a Guam domain to its HiResWindow suite in March 2011. Output of the HiResWindow suite includes the Hawaiian Islands and provides an alternative source of information for the RSM. NWS is seeking comments on this proposed change through June 30, 2011.
The RSM is a limited-area atmospheric model using a spectral method for horizontal advection. The model uses hydrostatic dynamics; it is run for Hawaii with the equivalent of 10 km horizontal resolution, at 20 North, using a grid of 97x76 points on 42 levels. Runs are made twice daily from 00z and 12z and range to 48 hours.
The RSM has been run operationally since June 1997 to provide numerical guidance for use by NWS Weather Forecast Offices in Hawaii. The Hawaii RSM products (211 fields per output time) are only disseminated via the NWS and NCEP FTP servers. These products are not available on NOAAPORT. At this time, the NWS no longer has a requirement to produce these runs or products because newer products have been introduced that meet the needs of forecasters.
The table below lists characteristics of the RSM and other current (and imminent) NCEP Operational Products, all of which are based on nonhydrostatic dynamics, that provide similar or better guidance than the Hawaii RSM. More details about the exact grids and products available for each of the items listed in the table below are available at:
Product Runs/day Range Resolution Grid
RSM 2 48hr 10km/42lev see URL above
NAM 4 84hr 12 km/60lev grid #182
NAM nest* 4 60hr 3 km/60lev grid #196
WRF-ARW 2 48hr 5 km/35lev see URL above
WRF-NMM 2 48hr 4 km/35lev see URL above
* NAM nest is planned for implementation in July 2011. See NWS
TIN 11-16 for more details on the NAM nest.
NWS will evaluate all comments to determine whether to proceed with this change. If approved, a TIN will be issued containing implementation dates.
Send comments on this proposal to:
Geoff DiMego
NWS/NCEP Environmental Modeling Center
Camp Springs , MD
Rebecca Cosgrove
NWS/NCEP Central Operations
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I'm working on a couple of new boards right now. It's a fantastic process, really. I love how everything falls on it's place, one thing by one, like details in Tetris game.
See this dialing rotary disk from old dial-up phone? A great find from my favorite junk-yard. The disk and base are all metallic, and mechanism works flawless. Stamp on it's back says "Made in U.S.A." It cost me barely 10 cents, and it's best centerpiece ever, imho, for a busyboard.


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Complete this form to register your group or class for the River Watch program and to request assistance from River Watch staff.
Assistance is offered both with monitoring in the field and with identification in the classroom. Please select three preferred dates and times for in the field and for in the classroom. River Watch staff will follow up with you to finalize dates and times.
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Amid court closures, Dems call on GOP to reprioritize
Today, Kansas House and Senate Democrats gathered on the steps of the Shawnee, Wyandotte, and Sedgwick county courthouses to highlight statewide court closures, employees being sent home without pay, and the public being denied basics services as a result of Gov. Brownback and the Republican Legislature's failure to pass a budget.
"An entire branch of government is closed today because Gov. Brownback and the Republican Legislature failed to do their job for 73 days," said Senate Democratic Leader Anthony Hensley, Topeka. "It is inexcusable that more than 1,500 Kansans are home without pay and public services are being denied while the Governor and legislative Republicans sit on a $500 million surplus."
Today marks the first of five scheduled furlough days, which will also include April 27th, May 11th, May 25th and June 8th. This will result in a full business week's worth of inaccessible services. Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss ordered the closures after the Republican Legislature adjourned without passing a state budget that included a supplemental appropriation necessary to keep the courts open.
With the exception of justices and judges, all Kansas Judicial Branch employees will be on involuntary unpaid leave during these mandatory closure dates. Taxpayers will be unable to access a wide variety of court services, including normal docket proceedings and the information center.
Here are some examples:
- Child Support: District Court Trustees will be unable to collect child support or enforce support orders. Parents will also be unable to contact the District Court Clerk to determine which child support enforcement agency is assigned to their case or to file fees for post judgment motions to modify custody, visitation or child support.
- Restraining Orders: Kansans will be unable to obtain Protection from Abuse and Protection from Stalking forms, located at the Kansas Judicial Council's office.
- Marriage Licenses: Couples will be unable to complete a marriage license application, and officiants will be unable to file a license with the county in which a marriage took place.
- Divorce Decrees: Couples will be unable to file the paperwork necessary to begin divorce proceedings, to file fees, or to file a post-decree motion if their ex-spouse has violated a prior order of the court. Couples will also be unable to obtain certified copies of divorce decrees, which are kept by the Clerk of the District Court in the county where the divorce was filed.
Because most taxpayers do not have business before the court on a regular basis, they will arrive at the courthouse on these five days with an immediate need, unaware that the services they require are unavailable. Courts in rural areas will be particularly strained as they struggle to make up the lost time with limited resources.
"Today's action will significantly impact the court system, but this is about more than just the judicial branch," said House Democratic Leader Paul Davis, Lawrence. "This is the first of many unnecessary consequences that Kansans will be forced to endure as a result of the failed priorities of Gov. Brownback and the Republican Legislature. After 73 days, the Legislature has created no news jobs, provided no restored funding for public schools, and threatened to blow a $3.7 billion hole in the budget with a reckless tax plan. A week of closed courts is just the beginning of our problems if Gov. Brownback and right wing Republicans don't re-prioritize and start listening to Kansans when the Legislature reconvenes at the end of the month."
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Former Oakland Athletic Dallas Braden, who once interrupted a game in order to catch up with Alex Rodriguez, an old friend, has retired from Major League Baseball. While many reports are citing recurring shoulder issues, the timing of the retirement announcement strongly suggests that the former starting pitcher has retired in protest of Major League Baseball's treatment of Alex Rodriguez, and the unprecedented suspension handed down by Frederick Horowitz.
An expert in unwritten rules, Mr. Braden released the following statement indicating that his decision may have been more influenced by the written ones:
After many fruitful years as a Major League ballplayer, I have decided now is the right time to jump ship, before MLB ends guaranteed contracts for players and begins allowing arbitrators hand picked by the league to determine player salaries based on something as fluid and constantly shifting as on-field performance.
Shortly after announcing his retirement, Mr. Braden was served with process by one of Alex Rodriguez's attorneys. Mr. Braden is being sued for his failure to speak out publicly sooner in defense of his life-long best friend forever Alex Rodriguez.


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Official Website of the City of Milwaukee
CALL for Action (414) 286-CITY | Click for Action
Mayor Tom Barrett
Mayor Barrett's annual Safe Summer Brewers Game has been in existence since 2005. The goal of this Safe Summer Initiative with youth is to encourage a summer without violence in our neighborhoods.
2,000 children are invited annually and attend many different summer programs at non-profit, faith-based and youth organizations that address and promote non-violence in our community. This community and city-wide collaboration includes partnerships with the Mayor's Office, the Milwaukee Police Department, the Office of Violence Prevention, Milwaukee Public Schools, the business community and the Brewers Community Foundation.
At the end of the summer, children are rewarded for exhibiting effort in school and good behavior by attending an outing at Miller Park. For many of them, it is their first major sporting league experience. With the support of corporate sponsors, children receive a Milwaukee Brewers game ticket, a Klement's Hot Dog and a Pepsi-Cola refreshment.
Through these important partnerships, Mayor Barrett is making it possible for youth in our community to truly have a safe summer and enjoy a memorable day.
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Room 201
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Phone: 414-286-2200
Fax: 414-286-3191
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Today, millions of people will listen to John Lennon sing Imagine. For me, Working Class Hero reveals the man behind Imagine. It also depicts the pain that makes Imagine such a hopeful anthem for humanity. The first lines of the song grab the shattering experience that shaped his life and music—As soon as you're born they make you feel small / By giving you no time instead of it all / Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all. The soul wails. It aches of coming into this world, bright spirited, curious and music-filled and having the wonder of being alive deadened by neglect. John and we feel less than zero. We drown in the confusion of not knowing why our parents brought us into the world only to abandon us.
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school / They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool / Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules. John expresses the pain of not belonging anywhere. Safety is nowhere. Hurt and pain are everywhere. His natural brilliance and playfulness are shunned and disdained. Not able to escape his, or our, own nature and the world's rules drives him and us mad.
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years / Then they expect you to pick a career / When you really can't function you're so full of fear. When our education in hatred, abuse and dread of the world is complete, we're thrown into the marketplace and expected to fend for ourselves. But we're paralyzed by fear. Despite outer appearances, he and we can't function.
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV / And you think you're so clever and classless and free / But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see. Suffering from the post traumatic stress of being raised in an abusive society John and we medicate ourselves with belief, relationships and entertainment. We buy into our programing and still see ourselves as the small nothings we were when we were born.
There's room at the top they're telling you still / But first you must learn to smile as you kill / If you want to be like folks on the hill. Numb and confused, the society that abused John and us offers a way out. It tells us ti whistle while we do the dirty work of beating out the other guy and polluting the earth. Then we will have our shining house on the hill.
After this dark picture of a tortured soul, the only healthy path to recovering John's and our humanity is to imagine an alternate way. It is to enter a place where no boundary lines separate people, there's no valid reason to murder, no one hoards the wealth. In the face of society's ignorance and brutality, the courageous act is to dream of another way. It is to leave the nightmare of division and hatred and enter the dream of love and unity. John Lennon made this courageous break and showed us an imperfect, human, working class way. Every day I'm grateful he had the heroic heart to dream a new dream and he had the soul to live it in the world. Thanks, John. We love you for it.


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This reiki thing is getting out of hand. I literally just searched Craigslist for a used massage table. Today my friend came over and I gave her a second session and I love this new party trick. I've been working on myself most days, (lift skin, improve eyesight, soften jaw), and Jonah usually asks for reiki before he goes to bed. I discovered the other night that I could use it to put him to sleep, and you guys, why didn't I get attuned three and a half years ago.
I worked on Ryan when I first came back from training three weeks ago. He won't let me try it on him again because I am mean. Sometimes I think if people at work had access to my Nest camera (don't hack me, plz), when I am screaming at—er—talking to Ryan they would think I'm a goddamned lunatic with zero chill. Actually they probably already know I have zero chill.
Anyway, Ryan has seen me through almost eight years of healing modalities either studied or received: yoga teaching, reiki training, shamanic vision quests, Body-Mind Centering™, rolfing, bi-weekly acupuncture, hypnosis and making my own kombucha. I'm counting that last one because it really is a spiritual practice. When I get mad at him one of the ways he strikes back is to tell me that I am not Zen at all, which is infuriating. I protest that I'm not trying to pretend like I'm enlightened. (Except if you are enlightened, of course, in which case, uh, me too.)
It suggests that all of this work that I've done should make me someone different than who I am. Someone who doesn't have anger. Believe me, I've really tried not to have anger. One of the things I've learned from my friend/guide/healer (though she bristles at that term), Chloe, is that the only way to move through emotion is to seek its deeper purpose, and under no terms, judge it.
Which is very difficult when you're really mad because someone wants to go to an art show at the exact same time someone said he would hang the rattan lights on either side of the guest bed, and oh, now someone conveniently doesn't have the right ceiling hooks even though we talked about it earlier, so someone will just hang them tomorrow.
It's interesting to me, this work. I think about all of the times I have felt significant shifts. The type where you feel like your whole perspective is blown wide open. The kind where you understand that time is parallel and also other things. Where you know you'll never be the same.
And yet here I am. Essentially the same.
My guess is that if I were able to look outside of myself through the trajectory of my life, all of this work has only moved the needle in the most subtle of ways*. But that's something.
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found friday: vintage botany prints
Lovely vintage flower plates from the etsy store shaving kit supplies. The vintage botany prints are from an old book of floral studies. Shown above, gentian, scabious and mistletoe $8 each. These would look so fabulous framed and hanging together.
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To give my daughter a good, healthy role model by enjoying an active lifestyle.
Dailymile makes it easy to keep track of your workouts. Map your routes and share with a community of active people.
I think I would rather run, pushing Sarah, in TS Debby's wind than to run on the treadmill...while entertaining Sarah, keeping her off of Roxy, the dog, and worrying about where she is and what she's doing. UGH!!! This is going to be a LONG summer of marathon training. BUT run #1 is over!!!
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For Specialist advice on picking your next Vauxhall VXR model, make your choice with Lookers. With dedicated VXR centres in both the North of England and the Midlands, with fully qualified specialist VXR technicians on site, we are able to offer you a unrivalled service on dealing with your VXR needs.
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While the Astra VXR is based on the Astra GTC, it has a custom-built chassis - developed at the renowned Nürburgring - which transforms it into a focused, high-performance coupé with specially developed HiPerStrut front suspension, limited-slip differential and Watts link semi-independent rear suspension. Plus continuous damping control for unparalleled connection with the road. Power and performance - the new Astra VXR comes fully loaded and ready to fire.
If Insignia speaks a whole new language, Insignia VXR talks in absolutes. A 2.8 litre V6 Turbo that develops 325PS with a massive 435Nm of torque and 0-60mph acceleration in just 5.6 seconds*. But it's not just about absolute power. It's also about absolute control. An adaptive 4X4 system, electronic limited-slip differential (eLSD) and HiPerStrut front suspension system put the driver in total command. And you can now specify an automatic model with paddle-shift controls on the steering wheel, because we understand that with power comes responsibility.
When it comes to identity, Insignia VXR has clearly got something to say - muscular front bumper with vertical air intakes, rear diffuser and integrated matt chrome tailpipes on every model - hatchback, saloon and sports tourer. This VXR says everything about performance styling in the appropriate tone. When you're this confident in your ability there's no need to raise your voice.
The new Vauxhall VXR Supersport offers speed, power, superb control and all for a lower price than you might expect for a car of this calibre, and it's been the cited as the fastest car of its type in its price range, with an impressive top speed of 170mph. Powered as it is by a twin turbo-charged 2.8-litre, V6 ECOTEC engine it can reach 60mph in just 5.6 seconds. The power of the engine is enhanced by a micro-alloy forged steel crank, 60-degree cylinder angle and die-cast alloy sump – regular features of most racing car engines.
Producing 325PS, the engine also employs a single, twin-scrolled turbocharger and variable valve control for increased throttle response. All this power is kept in check by Vauxhall's HiPerStrut front suspension which improves handling in all conditions by maintaining negative camber.
FlexRide, an adaptive damping system, comes as standard and comes with VXR setting for maximum control at high speeds. When it comes to control and handling, Vauxhall has ensured that there's an overall balance that means this car is exciting yet comfortable to drive.
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A great value in Veterinary Laser Therapy (LLLT). Grady Medical Systems offers class 3b and class 4 cold laser packages. We offer laser therapy at great pricing, with a three year warranty, excellent staff training, and a comprehensive marketing package.
The Grady Laser is durable, effective and easy to use. It is highly portable, making it an ideal system for in clinic use and mobile use alike. The Grady Laser will provide your clinic with efficient treatments (typically between 1-10 minutes). Our veterinary laser therapy machine is very safe and we offer unlimited training to your staff so that anyone who will be hands on with the laser will be properly trained and ready to administer a variety of veterinary laser therapy treatments. Take advantage of our free trial offer to see what laser therapy can do in your practice.
Veterinary laser therapy is both effective and profitable, but before you purchase a laser for your veterinary practice, we would like to ensure that it's the right fit for you. Here's how our 21 day free laser therapy trial works:
1. We ship you the Grady Laser free of charge with marketing, educational materials, and accessories (listed below).
2. Once the laser is in transit, a Grady team member will contact you to set up a training time.
3. You will then have three weeks to use the laser in your clinic.
4. Our team here at Grady is available should you have any questions or should your staff need additional training.
5. At the end of the trial you can choose to purchase the Grady therapy laser (financing is available) or to return it. Should you choose to return the laser, Grady will email you a shipping label so that there is no cost to you.
**Shipment times usually range from 2-4 weeks based on availability**
Current financing is available as low as $250/month. Credit approval is guaranteed for veterinary practices.
The GradyVet P-3000 control unit is compatible with a variety of Class 3b probes to fit your needs. The standard probes included with our free trial are the Cluster Probe to cover large areas of tissue and the Precision Probe for hard to reach areas. See below for Class 3b probe specifications and description.
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what yac isYAC is a nonprofit, after school art studio and mentorship program for high school and college artists - brilliant and struggling, confident and fringe, multi-ethnic, multi-tempered, and over 40% financially challenged. They learn art, job, and life skills, and gain a healthy dose of self-esteem and gratitude along the way. YACsters learn to believe in themselves, take creative risk, and give back. 100% graduate from high school. 95% of YACsters go on to university, college, and art college - many on scholarships.
YAC is an incubator for some of our community's future creatives, whether they end up in the arts, education, business, or science. YAC provides supplies, studio space, art training, exhibition and commission opportunities, individual mentoring, and a community unlike any other. We're open 4 hours a day, 6 days a week, year round.


text: Want vs Need (WVSN) is a relatively new concept of an invitational tournament that borrows from the old school philosophy and taking Jiu-Jitsu back to its roots...submission only. This is becoming a popular trend in some tournaments over the last year with events such as Metamoris, the BJJ Kumite, etc. WVSN is not focusing on world class black belts rather the new crop of emerging talent at ranks such as blue and purple. It's a refreshing concept that gives great exposure to some young grapplers. The Jiu-Jitsu Battle featuring purple belts was released in January here is a highlight video that was put together showing some great action. Keep in mind that individual matches had no time limits or points. Fortunately the matches are also available on YouTube for those wanting to see more. If you don't want to know the results then follow this video link and watch the matches.


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The Inuit Art Centre Project
The Winnipeg Art Gallery holds the world's largest collection of contemporary Inuit art. Amassed over the last 60 years, this amazing collection of over 13,000 carvings, drawings, prints, textiles, and new media is matched by an outstanding record of 160 exhibitions and 60 publications. To celebrate the art, culture, and land of the Inuit, and to celebrate the people who have created these works, the WAG is building an Inuit Art Centre, the first of its kind in the world.
This exhibition outlines key aspects of the project: designing an international centre, the vision for the Inuit Art Centre, and the history of Inuit art at the WAG.
The IAC will be a centre for exhibitions and programs, research and learning, studio practice and artmaking. It will be a gathering place–a community hub for exploration, dialogue, and inspiration. It will be a link to the North and its people.
Galleries and a visible vault will display thousands of works of art and artifacts through dynamic exhibitions, programs, and interactive spaces. Classrooms and studio spaces will offer opportunities for creative learning and artistic production, inspired by the images and ideas from the collection.
Situated next to the existing WAG building, the IAC will bring the power and beauty of the North to its neighbours in the south. In turn, Inuit art will serve as a lens and enable visitors to survey the world of Canada's Arctic–transporting them to the North.
Gallery Hours
- Tuesday 11am-5pm
- Wednesday 11am-5pm
- Thursday 11am-5pm
- Friday 11am-9pm
- Saturday 11am-5pm
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The Chiefs invested all nine of their draft picks this year on players at only six positions — cornerback, inside linebacker, receiver, defensive tackle, tight end and center.
All were positions where the Chiefs needed more depth and competition. But during a conference call with reporters on Sunday, ESPN draft analysts Todd McShay and Mel Kiper Jr. agreed that the Chiefs didn't necessarily force those picks based on need.
"Wide receiver was their key need, and they didn't take one at 18 or 49," Kiper said. "They waited until the third round to take Chris Conley (of Georgia) and then the seventh round to take Da'Ron Brown (of Northern Illinois), who I thought was a really good pick."
In all five of his mock drafts, Kiper consistently selected a receiver to the Chiefs. Instead, they selected Washington cornerback Marcus Peters in the first round and Missouri center/guard Mitch Morse in the second.
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"They didn't force need to go wide receiver," Kiper said. "Had they forced it, they would have taken a wideout in round one, more than likely."
On the call, McShay mentioned that his list of the Chiefs' needs, in order, went receiver, inside linebacker, offensive line.
"Then corner would have been the fourth or fifth, and they wound up drafting two corners in the first four picks," McShay said. "Maybe we were off on the needs a little bit … I just thought they were a little bit higher on their younger (corners), Phillip Gaines and Jamell Fleming.
"I know (cornerback) Sean Smith enters the contract season and they only had six interceptions last year, so clearly it was a need, but I didn't think it was something that they were chasing, necessarily."
McShay and Kiper also agreed that the 6-foot, 197-pound Peters — who was dismissed from Washington's program after repeated clashes with the coaching staff — was a valued commodity during the first round before the Chiefs selected him 18th overall.
"I know this — there were two other teams I know of in the next 10 picks that really wanted Marcus Peters, and there was a team that went earlier (where) he was actually second on their board after the player they wound up taking," McShay said.
"So he was a highly coveted player (who) I thought (was) the best man-to-man pure cover corner in the draft, but obviously the character issues are there, and if they're comfortable with it, then they got a really good player at 18 overall."
Kiper repeated the notion that Peters was a top-10 talent whose draft stock was dinged because of character concerns.
"If he didn't get dismissed from the team, if he didn't have his issues ... he's going in the top 10," Kiper said. "If Justin Gilbert's the eighth pick last year, (Peters is) a top-10 pick. So they probably figured 'Hey, we got a highly skilled corner, and we're picking at 18, that's a pretty good value pick at that point.' "
Cornerback was a need, considering the Chiefs' starting nickel job is up for grabs and Smith could also be facing a suspension to start the season after he recently pled guilty for DUI. The Chiefs selected Peters in the first and Oregon State's Steven Nelson in the third to add depth to the position.
The Chiefs' second-round pick, Morse, figures to compete at center with Eric Kush after last year's starter, Rodney Hudson, departed via free-agency.
The Chiefs addressed another need by drafting two inside linebackers in the fourth (Ramik Wilson of Georgia) and fifth (D.J. Alexander of Oregon State) rounds. Both will have an opportunity to boost a unit that played a role in the Chiefs' 30th-ranked run defense (based on yards per carry) in 2014.
Conley and Brown, as Kiper noted, will add some depth to a wide-receiver position that failed to record a single touchdown all season.
Illinois State tight end James O'Shaughnessy will have an opportunity to compete at a position that will be without veteran starter Anthony Fasano, who was released in February.
Southern Mississippi defensive tackle Rakeem Nunez-Roches figures to have a chance to help out at nose guard, where Dontari Poe has carried a massive workload the last two seasons.
To reach Terez A. Paylor, call 816-234-4489 or send email to email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @TerezPaylor.


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The past two years have been good ones for Free Software, the developers who create it, and the users who rely on it. The explosive growth of installed Linux-based systems continues unabated. Key Free Software server technologies, such as Apache and Samba, are accepted (and are often the leading) mission critical components in business environments. Governments and institutions worldwide, especially in developing nations, are looking at Linux-based solutions to minimize their costs of deployment and maintenance. Perhaps most heartening, we can now point to successful business models built on Free Software development, service, and support, with Red Hat being only the most notable.
That said, I'm firmly convinced that the next 24 months will be even brighter. Although Free Software has already proven itself on the server side, it is just now starting to be considered as an alternative to Windows on the desktop. I strongly believe that Free Software on the desktop, and in particular the GNOME platform, is a viable alternative to proprietary software.
This will come to pass not only because of the inherent dynamism of the Free Software development model. These outcomes will occur because desktop software for Linux and Unix systems is becoming dramatically easier to use while offering the productivity applications required for, and compatible with, corporate use.
It might be obvious to everyone, but I want to point out that as more people use Free Software, more people will develop applications; and the more applications we have, the more compelling our system becomes. Of course, our objective should be to bring more people into the realm of Linux and GNU. To accomplish this objective, Linux and Unix-based systems must first become easier to understand and use.
Use It or Lose It: Improving Usability
One approach to enhancing usability is the GNOME project (there are, of course, others, such as KDE). From its inception, the GNOME project sought to provide a very solid foundation for application development, a comprehensive set of tools for software developers to use, and most important for this discussion, an end-user desktop environment. What started as a desktop for Unix has evolved into something much more.
With the release of GNOME 1.2 last year, the desktop design showed great advancement in reflecting how people interact with computers — with applications that better understand the way people think (rather than having people have to adapt to the way the software works).
However, despite these continued improvements, we need the help of all Free Software programmers to make the desktop experience even better. If you are interested in contributing to this, please check out the GNOME TODO system and the documentation on becoming a GNOME contributor at: http://www.gnome.org/todo/.
Everything You Need: A Complete Productivity Solution
Key to both end-user and corporate adoption of Free Software on the desktop will be the availability of a robust set of core productivity applications, including a Web browser, e-mail client, and office suite. These must be not only feature-rich, but also must provide the file format compatibility and network support needed to interoperate with corporate standards.
Happily, progress is being made on all fronts. For example, the integration of the Mozilla Web browser on the desktop is coming along nicely. As Mozilla continues to improve in terms of speed, reliability, and size, we will see developers using it in more places.
Another major step towards making the deployment of Free Software simpler is the release later this year of StarOffice from Sun under the GPL as OpenOffice. This will provide a Free Software suite of powerful, integrated, MS Office-compatible applications. Note that Sun is not only continuing to enhance OpenOffice, but is also working on accessibility features for the GNOME platform.
Whether users choose StarOffice/ OpenOffice applications or the included GNOME applications (such as AbiWord and Gnumeric) for lower-end hardware configurations, they'll have a pretty complete set of tools for migrating away from Windows.
The remaining piece of the desktop puzzle is the incorporation of a full-fledged mail client and personal information manager. Towards that end, two years ago I launched the GNOME Mailer project, which eventually matured into the Evolution project now underway at Ximian.
Critical Missions: The Corporate Desktop
The next 24 months will see the significant expansion of Free Software such as GNOME onto corporate desktops. The growing grassroots adoption of Linux desktops by users will lead first to departmental and then to central IT support. What is true in R&D departments now is spreading to vertical applications, including customer management, retail displays, and finance.
This is being driven by more than the lower cost of deployment that Free Software solutions provide. First, the broad platform support of GNOME means that companies will be able to implement a common desktop experience regardless of which Linux distro or Unix variant they run. This is important for allowing companies to maintain legacy Unix boxes as they integrate new Intel-based Linux CPUs.
Second, software management approaches such as Red Carpet (Ximian's software management application) will allow users, workgroups, and departments to reap the benefits of the continuous improvement of Free Software applications without the current pitfalls inherent in updating dozens (or hundreds) of machines. Unlike the frequent Windows upgrade cycles, tools such as Red Carpet mean that enterprise customers, and the ISVs serving them, will have an upgrade process that is secure and cost-effective.
A Foundation to Build On
Linux and Unix-based systems will also continue to improve in terms of developer tools and system and application extensibility.
We must continue to improve the platform in terms of both end-user experience and underlying technology. The Bonobo Component architecture was finally released as part of GNOME 1.4, an important step for component technology in Unix. Looking ahead, the team is currently working on GNOME 2. This new version will not only include the much anticipated developer platform upgrade, but will also use components in a more pervasive way.
Other examples of improving developer tools include GTK+ 2.0, which will be released together with the various accessibility features contributed by Sun and the underlying Pango platform. A new and updated lightweight HTML engine (fully 4.01 compliant, with support for CSS1 and CSS2, as well as a DOM) has been developed by Codefactory. The pixbuf imaging library has been integrated into the core GTK+. A suite of SOAP tools will also be available for people interested in integrating SOAP support into their GNOME applications or writing standalone SOAP servers.
Free Software: We Are the World
One of the most interesting aspects of the user base expansion for Free Software is its momentum internationally, especially in the developing world. This is being driven by Free Software's proven lower cost of deployment combined with improvements in localization and language support.
Developing countries looking at closing the digital divide will look into using Free Software as a way of lowering the deployment costs of their various nation-wide initiatives. For example, Mexico City's government has a two-year plan to migrate all of their systems to Free Software. Free Software systems are also planned in the Venezuelan banking system. And this movement is spreading through South America and Europe.
Global adoption will be aided by enhancements in localization and onscreen local language display. New language support is a major thrust of the GNOME 2 project. GNOME 2 will feature the Pango technology for text handling and layout on the screen. This will allow GNOME to support Unicode character sets, and by doing so, fully support all major languages in use today (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and others).
Ask Not What the Code Can Do for You
All in all, there is a great future for the Free Software community on the desktop, but we need your help. We need you to contribute; even the smallest contribution to the project can make a difference. If you fix a little bug, improve the documentation, or provide a good bug report, your contribution could impact the lives of millions. And those millions of people will have a desktop that is a bit better thanks to you. You might have a huge impact on the lives of people around the globe.
Miguel de Icaza is co-founder and CTO of Ximian Inc., a developer of desktop environments for Linux and Unix.
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f you're driving through Arizona on I-10 this afternoon and see a candy-apple red truck pulling a big blue trailer, and the driver ain't got no clothes on... that would be me.
It's supposed to get to 115 today. According to XM, it's already 105. Lawd-a-mussy.
I'm getting a new student this afternoon in Phoenix. He only has 70 hours to complete, so he should be a breeze. Just teach him to use the Qualcomm and let him make money for me. This means I need to clean-up Sally this afternoon... in this heat. It's a bit of a wreck having had it to myself for the past month. Yesterday she got a bath and is all shiny on the outside... but the inside... hoooo boy.
I suppose with it being a holiday that there's a good chance I'll be sitting around until tomorrow. If that's the case, I might seriously consider investing in a motel room for the night. Poor Sally's A/C can't keep-up with this kind of heat.
I think I need to get a picture of Sally while she's clean and replace that icon I have of The Beast.
I love novelty music and Ray Stevens is always a reliable source of yuks. "Guitarazan" always cracks me up, as does "Harry The Hairy Ape".


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Well, this is quite exciting because this business only launched it's website on the 27th of May.
So not even three weeks ago!
We had better tell you who we are talking about – it's the edgy golf clothing brand; Rival Golfer.
Within their current stock there is a red toddlers cap, a blue teens cap and of course a variety of adult caps, along with a polo and golfing accessories.
So what did we think of Rival Golfer; "very cool".
For review we received a children's hat, (pictured below), men's navy polo shirt and a mesh cap – quite a pack really!
I thought their logo was quite good. I could see right away what angle or niche they were targeting with that logo design. Not only that, but I liked the fact they are aiming to make their logo, 'Frank' a positive influence because as it turns our Frank is an acronym.
Although, our little one is not a golfer, he loved the hat all the same. It fit him well and the quality was good. I liked that the care tag was completely glued into the hat and would not flop down to be seen.
The men's 'trucker' cap which is actually called a Hallmark Mesh Cap was really cool. My husband really liked it. He does play golf but only sporadically and he said he would wear it both on and off the golf course which is what this brand is wanting it's products to be.
The Rival Golfer polo was impressive too. Both my husband and I liked the design of the polo and my husband found it to be a very good fit and comfortable to wear while playing golf.
Ultimately we were very impressed with what Rival Golfer had to offer us for this review. I think anyone who plays golf would be interested in finding our more about this brand as it does have a much edgier look to anything I have seen in this sport apparel before.
We feel privileged here at Aussie Product Review to have been given the chance to help this new, edgy, Australian golf clothing brand Rival Golfer but now it is up to our social media followers to get on-board and share this new business with others who may be interested in golf clothing and accessories, because not only will they discover a new brand but they may want to enter our competition….
Up for grabs is a men's Navy Polo shirt (select your size), a hat and a ball marker. This set is going to be perfect for any keen golfers.
*Please note – Rival Golfer sizes are from Small to Extra Large so please be aware of this before entering the competition.
Also, and I think this is a first for Aussie Product Review, but Rival Golfer will be releasing a new colour in their Hallmark Mesh Cap to coincide with their product review.
The new colour is RED!


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This is a true story.
When I was around 16 I travelled to Mexico with my then girlfriend's family. We went all the way from Florida to San Juan de Los Lagos, so the drive was VERY long. We were in an SUV, I can't really remember the model/make but it was white and it was myself, girlfriend, her brother, mom, dad, a cousin and Aunt.
My girlfriend and I rode right in the back (no seat), the vehicle only had two rows of seats. With the high back on the second row, the other passengers could not see what was going on in the back.
We spent hours touching and feeling each other during the long road trip. The best part was when we were driving at night, her brother had got in the back with us.
My girlfriend laid her head on my lap and stretched out in the foetal position. It was dark so she started rubbing on my cock which was rock hard in no time. She finally pulled the head out of the bottom of my shorts and started jacking me and rubbing the head with her thumb! Her brother couldn't see because it was too dark so it was really hot getting jacked with her whole family in the car.
I bent down and whispered that when I was ready to cum I would tap her on the shoulder. She managed to find a cloth near us as it didn't take long and I shot a huge load into it.
The best part was that her brother was talking to me at the exact moment I shot into the cloth, and he had no clue! He couldn't see because it was so dark. I still get hard thinking about that episode in my life. It was so HOT!


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|Nutrition and You: When Is Tube Feeding a Bad Idea? (the "K-E Diet")
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Enteral nutrition or tube feeding is a way to sustain life when food cannot be taken orally. Technology continually
leads to improvements in this therapy: smaller tubes; low-profile tubes; backpacks for carrying formula and pumps; and smaller, more convenient pumps. Perhaps it isn't optimal, compared to eating orally, but you can achieve health and well-being and receive all the nutrition you need.
How many of you receiving enteral (EN) or parenteral nutrition (PN) have had someone say to you, "I should go on that therapy. Then I won't have to worry about what I eat!" It may have been said jokingly, but now—as many of you know—there is a new "diet" being marketed that uses short-term nasogastric feeding for weight loss! Called the "K-E Diet," it provides a specialized high fat, high protein, very low carbohydrate (or ketogenic) diet.
The physician who is promoting this "diet" places a feeding tube into the "normal" person's stomach. The tube is kept in place for ten days and the person infuses a special powdered ketogenic EN formula that has been mixed with water. This very low calorie (800/day) and low carbohydrate (~zero) formula causes the body to create ketones as it has to metabolize its own energy stores for calories. The formula is provided twenty-four hours per day using a pump. The physician who is offering this in Florida advertises that one can lose twenty pounds in ten days—all for only $1,499!
The facts:
$1,499 is a lot of money—hire me and I will nag you not to eat for ten days!
Here is what some of the experts have said:
Laura Matarese, PhD, RD, Oley Board member, and Associate Professor of Gastroenterology at East Carolina University: "Enteral nutrition is a life-saving technique for those who are unable to eat by mouth. However, this is not an appropriate methodology for weight loss. The K-E Diet (short for Ketogenic Enteral Diet) was developed to induce quick weight loss. So what's wrong with this approach? Plenty! This could be the most shocking, controversial diet ever developed, in my opinion. It is a drastic and extreme regime which amounts to controlled starvation. You will, of course, lose weight rapidly on such restricted calories—but no one should slim down that quickly. Additionally, the psychological and emotional reasons for overeating need to be addressed, which this plan fails to do. And there are potential side-effects. For example, constipation is common due to the total lack of fiber in the formula. The ketones, which are created when your body burns its own fat, are expelled via the urine and breath, so another side-effect is bad breath. Although feeding tube placement is generally considered safe and 'low risk,' it is not totally benign. There are potential complications, such as tube misplacement in the lung or perforation of the stomach. Bottom line: save this therapy for those who cannot eat by mouth."
Lillian Harvey-Banchik, MD and nutrition support physician: "A person who, without a valid medical reason such as drug resistant epilepsy, voluntarily goes on a ketogenic enteral diet is playing Russian roulette with their life. The potential risks to both short-term and long-term health, including renal damage and cholelithiasis from rapid weight loss, negates any short-term weight loss benefit, especially since the lost weight is normally regained rapidly once the diet is stopped."
Cheryl Thompson, PhD, RD, and EN researcher "For HPEN consumers and clinicians, the thought of using a medical therapy as a fad/crash diet is understandably upsetting. Tube feeding is intended to promote and restore the health of those unable to eat—not provide an unhealthy formula with the potential risk of causing health problems. It is also distressing that a physician (who is bound by the oath to first do no harm) would claim patients will 'get used to the KE-tube within just a few minutes' and 'apart from being 20 lbs lighter will be in the perfect place to continue a more healthy relationship with your food'—to lure people into paying for a ten-day diet. Yet the real tragedy is that some overweight people are so desperate and gullible they are resorting to such drastic measures—often for vanity alone.
"Consumers who have posted on the Oley Facebook page have been quite vocal and quite right, I especially like what Lisa K. had to say: 'As a person who has to rely on a feeding tube to survive, I find this diet for vanity absolutely appalling.'"
Those of you who are receiving HPEN because you need it to survive are the best examples of how well this therapy works. It is from you that we receive our inspiration!
This column has been compiled by Carol Ireton-Jones, PhD, RD, LD, CNSC, FACN; and reviewed by Laura Matarese, PhD, RD, LDN, FADA, CNSC; and Cheryl Thompson, PhD, RD.
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Just bought a Pioneer AVIC-F310BT off my son.
Learning how to use it ATM
If everyone can use it and I can't > I'll register for nursing home placement...
Just bought a Pioneer AVIC-F310BT off my son.
Learning how to use it ATM
If everyone can use it and I can't > I'll register for nursing home placement...
Best Shape Award = 4th Gen Prelude + Best Bang For Your Buck Award = R34 GT-R N1
Source Unit: Eonon 7" Motorized Screen With Built In Dvd Playe
Speaker Amplifier: Alpine PDX 1.600
Front State: Alpine 6.5" Type-X Splits
Rear Stage: Alpine Type-R 6x9"s
Subwoofer Amplifier: 3000W Earthquake Amp (will Be Changed To Alpine)
Subwoofer: 2x12" Alpine Type-S
Capacitor: 1.5 Farad
Wiring: 4 Gage Amp Wiring Kit
Sound Proofing: Sound Deadening Matt Through Boot & Doors
BUILD THREAD: http://www.preludeaustralia.com/foru...G4-Civic-Build
running two 6x9 350w each plus two 140w (cheap) 4's in doors connected straight to headunit as Clarkson would say.. POWER!!!!!!
everything is disconnected and in my room from previous vehicle. havent had time and plus i dont have amp wire.
Headunit: 7" touch screen dvd, mp3, gps, digital tv, cd, memory card player
Front: panasonic 4"
Rear: Sony Xplod 6x9 350w
out of car: subwoofer/amp (sony) need wire than itll be installed
extra (under bed): 6x9 panasonic, another set of 6x9's, Two 4" sony, amplifier, cd stacker, Two sony headunits, Two 7x10's, and other stuff
Source: Meizu M6 Miniplayer w/ lossless audio files.
Headunit: Blaupunkt in-dash 6-stacker - ASR-Audio modification
Front stage: Re/sponse 6.5" Kevlar Splits
Rear stage: Re/sponse 6.5" Coaxials
Sound proofing: 3kg of dynamat per door.
Amp: 5channel Re/sponse Class-D, 4x60W + 340W@2ohm
Sub (planned): Boston G3 10"
I like luxury. It's the new performance.
This is under $1000
Source Unit: Eonon D2208
Speaker Amplifier: Kicker 10Z3504
Front State: Orion XTR 062
Rear Stage: Alpine Type S
Subwoofer Amplifier: Kicker 08DX1002
Subwoofer: Kicker
Capacitor: N/A
Subwoofer RCA: Stinger
Speaker RCA: Stinger
Sound Proofing: N/A
Source Unit:Alpine 9887
Speaker Amplifier: Blaupunkt GTA480
Front State: 6.5" polk MM6501 splits
Rear Stage: N/A
Subwoofer Amplifier: MTX Thunder 3401
Subwoofer: crappy 12" WCC
Capacitor: None
Subwoofer RCA: meh?
Speaker RCA: meh.
Sound Proofing: none yet
2 months from now:
Source Unit: Pioneer 9887
Speaker Amplifier: 3*JL /2 or Alpine PDX
Front State: DLS Gothia 6.3 3 way splits
Rear Stage: N/A
Subwoofer Amplifier: JL 1000/1
Subwoofer: IDmax12v3
Capacitor: None
Subwoofer RCA: eh
Speaker RCA: ehh
Sound Proofing: dynamat ERRWHERR
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Asset Management Company to Liquidate Piney Creek Power Plant
Jan 14, 2014, 11:17 ET
CLARION, Pa., Jan. 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Stuart B. Millner & Associates (SBMA)--an asset management company--recently signed a contract with Piney Creek Limited Partnership to liquidate the assets from the Piney Creek Power Plant in Clarion, PA. The facility originally cost approximately $182 million to build in 1991, and has undergone numerous expensive renovations since.
The Piney Creek Power Plant--a 32 MW (net) generating plant that utilized waste bituminous coal as its primary fuel source--shut down in 2013. According to SBMA officials, the assets are "state of the art," and could prove to be a great opportunity for buyers in need of meeting mandatory percentages of renewable energy. Indeed, many of the assets are very new. For example, the biomass system was just installed in 2012.
How the Assets Will Be Sold
The assets will be sold through multiple auction events. The first will be hosted online at Bidspotter, an international online auction platform. This auction will include the new biomass system, as well as a valuable boiler, a coal crusher and three transformers. Bidding is scheduled to close on January 22. More auction events for the power plant will follow.
SBMA specializes in the deactivation and decommissioning of industrial plants and power plants. The company has clients across North America. To find the company's current online auctions, visit Bidspotter.com.
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It's been a warm humid week here in Montreal, and I've been working on Christmas cards and praying for rain and even snow! I believe we actually got to 40 degrees Celsius. This week our challenge at The Outlawz is to make a Christmas card or project. You can use any image, the only rule is you must use either Copics or Promarkers and even a combination of both. So ladies, get a head start on your cards for the holidays, and at the same time you may even win one of the amazing prizes being offered at The Outlawz challenge site. Good Luck!
My image is from Polly Craft, and it's called "New Christmas". I love the Goth look of this image. You could probably turn this into a Halloween image, by just changing up the colors and styles.
The image was colored using Copics, and the designer papers are from the Jovial paper pad by Basic Grey. I added some red glitter to her hat and mitten, and then some liquid applique for the trim on the hat. I embossed the panel with the Snowflake folder by Cuttlebug. The sentiment is a freebie from Create With TLC.
Pollycraft – Challenge # 101 Great Outdoors (Making Snowman).
Simon Says Stamp – Anything Goes.
Dijistamps4Joy – Challenge #23 Christmas In July.
Deep Ocean – Challenge #3 Cards.
Totally Paper Crafts – Challenge #75 Girly Girls.
Sew Many Cards – Challenge #60 Glitter.
Digi's With Attitude – Challenge #32 Anything Goes.
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How to Control the Nature of Your Habitual ThoughtsSaturday, September 13th, 2008
Thought power is the key to creating your reality. Everything you perceive in the physical world has its origin in the invisible, inner world of your thoughts and beliefs. To become the master of your destiny, you must learn to control the nature of your dominant, habitual thoughts. By doing so you will be able to attract into your life anything you desire with exact precision as you come to know the Truth that your thoughts create your reality.


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3 Days of a Blind Girl
AKA: Three Days of a Blind Girl, Retribution Sight Unseen
Year of release: 1993
Genre: suspense
Director: Chan Wing-Chiu
Producer: Alfred Cheung
Writer: So Man-Sing
Cinematography: Tam Chi-wai
Editors: Mei Fung, Kwong Chi-Leung, Yu Jun
Music: Johnny Yeung
Stars: Veronica Yip, Anthony Wong, Jamie Luk, Anthony Chan, Alfred Cheung, Fruit Chan
Rated II for violence, language, and nudity
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After seeing this film's cover art and knowing that it stars Category III sleaze king Anthony Wong, you might think that 3 Days of a Blind Girl would be your typical over-the-top Hong Kong exploitation flick. But even though there are some bits of T&A thrown into the mix, this is actually a pretty smart and effective suspense/thriller picture.
Veronica Yip stars as Mrs. Ng, who is left temporarily blind after an operation. Her husband (Anthony Chan), in a huge rudo heel move, takes off to Macau for a few days to take part in a doctor's convention, leaving the missus to fend for herself. Soon afterwards, a former patient, Sam (Anthony Wong) shows up at the Ng's door. Supposedly, he just wants to thank the good doctor for saving his wife's life, but it quickly becomes apparent that he has more sinister motives.
Upon Anthony Wong's entry into the proceedings, 3 Days of a Blind Girl seems to follow the exploitation formula to a tee, with a scene featuring the lovely Ms. Yip taking a shower (with her "two points" fully visible for the enjoyment of the audience) and then a later one where Anthony cooks up the Ng's dog and feeds it to Mrs. Ng.
But somewhere along the way, director Chan Wing-Chiu changes gears and decides to let the actors' performances, rather than sex and/or violence dictate the course of the movie, and it really works. Both Yip and especially Wong put in solid work, which compels the viewer into getting into the story itself, rather than waiting for cheap thrills via the next shocking moment.
Don't get me wrong -- there's a good amount of salacious content here and in no way is this a movie for the average viewer weaned on weepies and romantic comedies. On the other hand, if you're of the raincoater ilk looking for oodles of boobs and blood, then you might be a bit disappointed with 3 Days of a Blind Girl.
This is really one of those rare films that strikes a nice balance between the sick and the sublime, and is perfect viewing material if you want a little thought to go along with your scares. Even though it is a relatively minor entry in the filmography for everyone involved, 3 Days of a Blind Girl is one of the hidden gems of early 1990's Hong Kong cinema.