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Adrienne Arsht goes her own way. In philanthropy, as in business, she chooses causes based on what intrigues and captivates her.
Ms. Arsht was born in Wilmington, Delaware. Her father was a lawyer. Her mother was the fifth women to become a member of the Delaware bar and later, the first female judge in the state. Ms. Arsht graduated from Mount Holyoke College and Villanova Law School and became the 11th woman to join the Delaware bar. In 1969 she went to New York City and worked in the legal department of Trans World Airlines. Then, in 1980, she moved to Washington and married Mike Feldman, a Kennedy administration member whose interests included law, real estate, radio stations, and banking.
In the 1980s, she and her husband bought TotalBank, a small community bank in Miami. In 1996, he wanted to sell it; she didn't. Ms. Arsht moved to Miami to oversee the bank. Soon she was leading a dramatic turnaround. By 2007, she had grown it from 4 branches to 14, with assets of $1.4 billion. Several months after Mr. Feldman's death in 2007, she sold the bank for a reported $300 million and was named chairman emerita of TotalBank.
In 2008, she gave $30 million to Miami's then-floundering performing arts complex, putting the center on firm financial footing. It is now called the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. She is treasurer and a trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington and founding chairman of the Adrienne Arsht Center Foundation. She is also a board member of numerous organizations, including the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Opera, the University of Miami, the Atlantic Council, Amigos for Kids, and the Washington National Opera Council. She is president of the Vice President's Residence Foundation and a member of the Fine Arts Committee of the U.S. Department of State, the Blair House Restoration Fund, and the Council on Foreign Relations. She takes an interest in public affairs and supports programs serving Hispanics in Wilmington.
Philanthropy spoke with Ms. Arsht in Washington, D.C., where she now lives.
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PHILANTHROPY: Many of your signature gifts have been to large performing arts complexes. Why have you chosen those as a focus of your philanthropy?
MS. ARSHT: There are so many exciting concepts that can be brought to fruition within a center. A performing arts complex offers an extraordinary value to a city. It brings art to everyone of every generation and every interest.
PHILANTHROPY: Can you tell me more about the Arsht Center's value to Miami?
MS. ARSHT: The money was raised and the center was opened, but it was disastrously managed. They weren't presenting the programs that people wanted to see. It was about to go bankrupt and have to shut down. With my contribution and new management, it then was able to be what it was supposed to be: a great performing arts center.
PHILANTHROPY: When you made your gift, did you insist on changes to the management?
MS. ARSHT: They had already agreed to that being done. That is what made me feel confident. They brought in an interim person and eventually hired John Richard, the man who's there now.
PHILANTHROPY: And the programs are well-attended and popular?
MS. ARSHT: Oh, very much so. It's really become the town square. It's the center of activity for people planning where they live. The apartments in the neighborhood are selling out quickly. Other businesses have bought land in the vicinity. Hotels are coming up in the neighborhood. It revitalized downtown Miami.
PHILANTHROPY: What else captivates you about the arts?
MS. ARSHT: I love musical theater. I made a $5 million gift to the Kennedy Center to fund the Adrienne Arsht Musical Theater Series. Some of it is Broadway shows that travel, and some are shows that we create. It's a form of music that I think is a significant part of our heritage, and I want to make sure that it is preserved for generations to come. Musical theater is a unique part of America's cultural patrimony—it really doesn't exist anywhere else. Such artists include Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Lorenz Hart, Lerner and Loewe, Stephen Sondheim—that's an American musical art form.
PHILANTHROPY: What are the respective roles of the commercial sector and the philanthropic sector in making musical theater possible?
MS. ARSHT: When it's on Broadway, it's commercial; the funders are called investors, and they are looking to make a profit. Some shows become major hits, such as Mary Poppins, Annie, Wicked, and The Lion King. They tour to nonprofit performing arts centers throughout America. It is these shows, which are at the Kennedy Center for two weeks, that need to be subsidized.
It's one thing for a Broadway show to run for a year, so its investment is recouped. But if it's just going to be shown for two weeks, the running costs are greater, and so what it charges the Kennedy Center to perform there is more than the Kennedy Center takes in in the way of box office. So it needs to be subsidized, and that's what the Adrienne Arsht Musical Theater Fund does.
PHILANTHROPY: What are some of the big challenges to arts-related philanthropy today?
MS. ARSHT: I'm not somebody who wrings my hands and thinks the end is near, and that there are no more audiences, and they're all getting gray. We've been saying that for generations. And lo and behold, the next generation comes along, and then you see the performers: Gustavo Dudamel—I think he's 31—this great Venezuelan conductor with the L.A. Philharmonic; Pablo Heras-Casado, the Spanish principal conductor of the Orchestra of St. Luke's in New York, is 34. There is 33-year-old Andris Nelson conducting at Tanglewood—and being considered to become a new conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Musicians and artists come along, and their colleagues come and see them or hear them. I'm not particularly worried. It's always a struggle to raise the money, but that's not going to get better or worse.
PHILANTHROPY: What do you think about the increased popularity of crowd-funding websites for visual and performing arts projects? I'm specifically thinking of Kickstarter, where people can get together with relatively small amounts of money to back a project and then that project gets executed.
MS. ARSHT: I think it's fascinating. It's wonderful. It reminds me of an old Russian fairy tale that I was brought up on, "Stone Soup," in which if everybody just puts in one thing—somebody puts in a carrot, somebody puts in a few lettuce leaves, somebody puts in a turnip. Everybody puts in a small amount and it becomes substantial. When it comes to crowd-funding, I don't care whether it's so-called great art, whether it goes on and it's sustained and wins Grammys, Emmys, Oscars—it's supporting an artist.
PHILANTHROPY: What's the value-added for a philanthropist like you in supporting a performing arts center, instead of just supporting several different arts companies and institutions that might use the center?
A performing arts center has the luxury, the ability—and the responsibility—to bring new things for their audiences. They can only do that if they have the financial basis. If everybody just supported the art form, the performance, or performer that they like, then there's no money for the entities that are coming along but don't have a fan base. At a well-run arts center, with plenty of well-known and popular programs—Aida or Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera, say—there's enough money to also be innovative, to do something that you can't get individual funding for, say, traditional Chinese dance.
PHILANTHROPY: You give in Miami, New York, and Washington. How does your giving break down by city?
MS. ARSHT: Since I sold TotalBank and started focusing on philanthropy, my $30 million to the Adrienne Arsht Center is the largest gift in one city. I probably give more in New York than in D.C., if only because there are more institutions that I'm involved in there.
PHILANTHROPY: Had you ever lived in Miami before acquiring TotalBank?
MS. ARSHT: No.
PHILANTHROPY: So what was it like settling down there and getting to know the philanthropic, business, and cultural communities?
MS. ARSHT: I became involved in the Hispanic community—the bank had been started by Cuban Americans and Spaniards, and the majority of the clients were Hispanic. The president and I were the only Anglos; everybody else was Hispanic. It was exhilarating. People would say, "So why are you in Miami? What it's like?" And I would say, "Miami is the future today." I became totally involved in the Hispanic community and its fabric. The members of the community embraced me as one of their own.
PHILANTHROPY: So are you looking forward to Tom Wolfe's new novel about Miami? He describes Miami as "the city where America's future has arrived first."
MS. ARSHT: Yes! Back to Blood. I've pre-ordered it. I remember when he was down in Miami doing the research for it.
PHILANTHROPY: You're a woman in the world of philanthropy, with money you've earned yourself. What's it like to be engaged in philanthropy like that, and what are some of the challenges?
MS. ARSHT: Relatively speaking, there are not many women who have made large sums of money and are giving it away. There are so few women among the equity players in Silicon Valley—Facebook, Groupon, et cetera. Almost every new billionaire is a male.
So one of the reasons that I am willing to be outspoken, and have things named after me, is hopefully to set an example for other women that they can do this, and in some ways to show men that women can give too.
PHILANTHROPY: Does philanthropy miss out on anything by not having more female philanthropists who have been wealth creators?
MS. ARSHT: [Laughing] Well, they are certainly missing out on money. Men and women do view money entirely differently, however. Men use money to gain access and power. The way I see it, they give, and their names are on things, and the amount of their gift is a way of keeping score with other men. It's a sign of masculinity and power and status.
Most women are not interested in those things. We would often prefer to be anonymous. They don't give that much because all women, at whatever level of wealth, are afraid of being bag ladies. They have this genetic instinct to nurture and protect the home. If you discreetly asked a billionaire's wife is she is afraid of being poor, she would say "Yes." And her husband would say, "But I've taken care of you! You have all the money you want in your bank account."
PHILANTHROPY: Does this affect your philanthropic decisions?
MS. ARSHT: Well, I'm not a billionaire, so I don't qualify for Bill Gates' "billionaire boys' club," but I will give away all my money. I'm just going to try not to do it before I die, because I don't know when I'm going to die and that could get dicey.
PHILANTHROPY: Life expectancy does keep going up.
MS. ARSHT: Oh, yes. I intend to be at the cutting-edge on that one. So whatever money I have when I die, it will go the Adrienne Arsht Foundation, and there will be trustees who will give it away. I've told them, "Just give it away as fast as you can. There are no limits on what you can do. It doesn't have to go on forever. Years from now there do not have to be gifts from the Adrienne Arsht Foundation."
PHILANTHROPY: In terms of figuring out what to do now, do you employ philanthropic advisers? How do you find projects that captivate you?
MS. ARSHT: There is nobody advising me on philanthropy. I'll meet somebody fascinating, or I'll cut out an article and ask my assistant to go find out about this or get the literature on it. In Delaware, I have the Arsht-Cannon Fund, which was created by my parents. It is the largest such fund in Delaware and gives away about $700,000 annually. The Arsht-Cannon Fund supports programs for the Hispanic community. There, I have somebody who oversees those grants.
PHILANTHROPY: Does your giving extend much beyond the arts?
MS. ARSHT: The arts are certainly a substantial majority, but there's nothing I've turned down because it's not the arts. At the University of Miami, I've given $6 million to fund major ethics programs, a lab in the Eye Institute, and a chair in pediatric studies. I gave $100,000 for the film Boatlift, made to mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11. It's about the boatlift in which more people were taken off the tip of Manhattan after the attacks than were rescued at Dunkirk in the Second World War. Tom Hanks narrated it. It is so compelling and a part of 9/11 that most people were not aware of. Somebody came to me about that. I thought it was worthwhile, and I did it. Recently, I gave $1 million to the Brent Scowcroft Center at the Atlantic Council to fund a Women in International Defense program.
My support of the arts isn't to the exclusion of anything—but it is where I'm most captivated.


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Jason Statham stars as a man with a dark past, suffering from guilt. When his wife is murdered, he becomes homeless and wanders the streets until one day he encounters a 12-year-old girl (Catherine Chan) hiding from Russian thugs. When he takes them on to protect her, he doesn't know just how deeply involved he will become. Also with Chris Sarandon, Anson Mount, James Hong, Reggie Lee, Robert John Burke, S�ndor T�csy and Joseph Sikora. Directed by Boaz Yakin. [1:35]
SEX/NUDITY 0 - A man talks about a woman he just murdered and says that she was "eating for two."
VIOLENCE/GORE 8 - A man stabs another man in the throat with a fork, other men open fire on the man, the man shoots two of the men through a table and takes one man to a car where he slams his head into the dashboard twice (we see blood on his face). A man stabs another man in the neck with a pen, shoot several other men and breaks another man's neck (we hear a crunch) while a girl watches. A man shoots a lock on a door and his hands are burned by something (we see his burned flesh and he screams until another man shoots him in the head; we see the bloody bullet hole). A man shoots three men and blood splatters and sprays from their wounds; one man is shown still alive with a bloody shoulder wound. A man is shot, blood smears on the wall behind him and he falls down a flight of stairs. A man shoots several gunmen in a crowded restaurant and fights several others, causing the people in the restaurant to run and scream. A man fights several men in a crowded subway car with head-butts, punches and kicks; one man is flipped over and onto the ground, one man's arm is broken (we hear a crack) and one man's face is slammed into a seat (we see he has a bloody nose) before he is shot in the head (we do not see the impact but we see a bloody bullet hole in his head as the gunman searches his pockets).
► A woman is shot in the head as she talks to a girl and the gunman then presses the gun against the girl's face. A girl is forced to watch three men beat and kick a man repeatedly (we se blood on the man's mouth and he yells) until another man shoots him.
► A man hits a bouncer and enters a crowded club with several other armed men, who shoot into the air causing people to scatter and scream while other men open fire: we see several men struck with bullets and blood sprays on walls and a sheet hanging from the ceiling; the men enter a casino area and open fire on the occupants, who fire back and we see people struck and blood sprays.
► Several men beat a man with punches and kicks, one man pulls out a gun and another man tells him to put it away. A man hits another man with his gun. A woman in a hospital room punches a man in the face and yells at him, threatening to kill him; we see another man wrapped in bandages lying unconscious in a bed and understand that he is in a coma (we understand that the man being punched caused the other man's injuries). A man punches another man in the face (we see blood on his nose) and the injured man yells at him. A man head-butts a man and punches another man when they approach him. A man hits two police officers and steals their car (we hear later that one officer's trachea was broken); he reverses into several men shooting at him and then hits another man as he speeds away. A man car jacks a man's car, and pulls him out of the driver's seat and onto the street. A man holds a girl around the neck and points a gun to her head.
► Explosives are detonated on a door and a man inside the room is shot by other men. A man shoots several men in a car (we see bullet holes in their clothing). A man with a gun threatens a woman at a reception desk in a hotel; an armed security guard calls out for the man to drop his weapon, the security guard is shot (we see blood on his chest), another man is shot and falls back through a glass door and several men open fire on other security guards as people in the hotel run screaming. A man is shot in the leg twice (blood sprays) and he is then shot repeatedly in the chest (we see bloody bullet holes in his chest). Armed police surround a hotel, armed men inside the hotel open fire on the police and we see several officers struck (no blood is shown). A man pushes another man through a window and crashes down on top of him on the street below (we see the first man dead with a lot of blood in his mouth). A police officer is shot in the back.
► Police officers open fire on a car with several men inside. A car T-bones another car, the people inside the car that is struck are shot and each person flinches from the impact; one man inside the car holds a gun on a girl, and he is shot before he pulls the trigger and the girl is taken away. Men in a car shoot at and chase another man and a girl in a car, they swerve through traffic, drive down a one-way street the wrong direction and the trailing car crashes into a bus.
► A man pulls back covers on another man in a homeless shelter and we see that the man's throat has been slit (we see blood on the throat wound). We see a man's badly scabbed feet and another man tells him that gangrene is setting in. A man is shown bound in the trunk of a car, we see that he has a bloody nose and cheek and another man tapes his mouth.
► A man enters a room in his home and backs out slowly looking upset (we do not see inside the room); he is followed by several men with guns and he kneels on the floor as they talk about having killed his wife in the other room, one of the men says, "I'm sorry it was so messy" and a man threatens the kneeling man and tells him that they will kill anyone he becomes close to.
► A man runs alongside a moving subway train, jumps on the back, tries to break the glass to get inside, climbs on top of the car, walks along and jumps down between two cars where he can get inside. A girl on a street is grabbed by a man and put in a car (we hear her scream). A man tries to get into a homeless shelter and security guards hold him back. Several armed men in a room point their guns toward a door where we hear police shouting on the other side. A man in a subway stands close to the edge and contemplates suicide. A girl climbs down a drainpipe on the outside of a building, falls to the ground and runs away. A girl walks through a subway station, she appears frightened and hides behind a columns as a group of men search for her.
► A man vomits and we hear gagging and see a bit of saliva trailing from his mouth.
► A girl is questioned by a man and he threatens to harm her if she doesn't tell him what he wants to know. A man threatens to kill a girl's mother. A man tells another man to "kill her mother." A man threatens another man's son and the man says, "What do I care... kill him." A man threatens another man's family. A man in a homeless shelter threatens to "chew your feet off" if another man takes his shoes. A man yells at another man and tells him, "You put him in a coma." A man tells another man, "You broke his trachea." A man makes a racial remark to another man about a Chinese girl saying that "They all look alike to me." A man makes a comment about "When the towers fell." We hear that a girl's father left her and her mother when the girl was very young and that her mother is very ill.
PROFANITY 6 - About 13 F-words and its derivatives, 12 scatological terms, 10 anatomical terms, 16 mild obscenities, 2 derogatory terms for Chinese, name-calling (liar, garbage, garbage man, stupid girl, idiot, dog, stupid, greedy, crazy man, deadly ghost, sleaze bucket, cow), exclamations (shut up), 2 religious profanities, 3 religious exclamations. [profanity glossary]
SUBSTANCE USE - A man drinks alcohol from a flask in a couple of scenes, a man drinks a beer, and people are shown with glasses of wine and champagne in a restaurant.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Gifted children, fixed fights, bribery, police corruption, blackmail, murder of a loved one, guilt, 9/11, atonement.
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Seventeen-year-old Skye Stracke, who shares her hometown of Perth with megamodel Gemma Ward, claims she has always wanted to be in the fashion industry. But when the former aspiring makeup artist nabbed top honors at a local modeling contest three years ago, she had no idea that her close-to-home debut would lead to star turns at such major-league international shows as Chanel and D&G this past February. "Lanvin was especially amazing," she says. "Alber [Elbaz, the label's head designer] gave us all a pep talk before we went out. The energy was great!" Now settled into her new Brooklyn digs alongside fellow model Mackenzie Hamilton, Skye has shot editorials for the likes of American and Russian Vogue and recently snagged a spot in Lacoste's fall campaign. "It's an all-hours job," she admits of her jam-packed schedule, "but I'm doing something I truly love. I definitely can't complain about it."
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Vaikom is truly a land of fairs and festival with long history and tradition behind them.One of the most respected shrines of loard shiva, vaikom shiva temple is popularly known as kasi of south. It believed that if a devotee visits and prays at vaikom mahadeva temple, Kadatturutty Thaliyil Mahadeva temple and ettumanoor Mahadeva Temple on the same day before Ucha pooja(the noon pooja), his wish will be fulfilled by Loard Siva. 1 Vaikom Mahadeva Temple. This is the oldest and famous Shiva temple in kerala.The history of this temple is connected with the legendry parasurama,an incarnation of Loard Vishnu.More details
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Movie Night at the Joneses
By Traci Neal/Life@Home
It used to be the only way to get the motion picture experience was to pack the family into the station wagon and head out to the local Cineplex, drop a ton of money on movie tickets and snacks, file into a crowded room full of strangers, and sit silently in cramped chairs without the ability to pause the show for a snack or bathroom break.
Then, in the 1980s, came the VCR. And while it didn't immediately put movie theaters out of business as some warned, it did introduce moviegoers to an entirely new concept in viewing — in the comfort of their own easy chairs — and inaugurated a home-theater revolution.
"It became an opportunity to bring the family together to enjoy their leisure time," says Anthony P. Hazapis, owner of Hippo's Home Entertainment Center in Albany. "We go to the movies for the big picture and the big sound, and now with a good home theater you can enjoy both in your own home."
Indeed, in 2011, consumers spent $18 billion to buy or rent DVDs and Blu-ray discs, stream and download movies and TV episodes from the Internet, and access video-on-demand, while theater box office sales have been on the decline, accounting for only $9.9 billion in 2011, according to Digital Trends 2012, a publication of the Consumer Electronics Association.
Some homeowners hire professionals to set up elaborate home theater rooms, actually recreating a small cinema with projection equipment, hidden speakers, roomy leather cinema chairs, popcorn and candy, movie posters, and video collections sorted by genre. But getting the big-screen experience can be as simple and as affordable as self-installing a few specialized electronics in a family room.
"You don't need special seating or a dedicated room," Hazapis says. "It's an option and certainly many people do that, but a lot of people use the couch that's in their family room and put a big television and surround sound in because it's a central, comfortable room where people already congregate."
And while the cost can vary depending on budget and individual needs, "on average, the sweet spot," he says, "is probably in the $6,000 to $10,000 range."
"It's all a matter of everybody has a different budget for their discretionary purchases," he says. "I've been in million-dollar home theaters, and since the first of the year we've done a couple of $40,000 ones."
But don't let the name fool you. Home theaters are not just for movies, says Hazapis. "When you're watching the Super Bowl and you hear cheering all around you, it's almost as if you're in the stadium. It's an excellent experience."
Getting Started
The basic components of a home theater include a large-screen television, a surround-sound speaker system, an audio/video receiver, and a source — or multiple sources — to bring in content. Here's what to look for, according to Consumer Electronics Association trends and research information:
Viewing — televisions are available up to 90 inches and after that, home theaters often use projectors and screens. Look for 3DTVs, smart TVs with Internet connectivity and apps built-in, 4K and 8K displays with four and 16 times the resolution as the best of today's HDTVs, respectively, and organic LED TVs, which offer a better picture and thinner screen.
Hearing — the so-called Home Theater in a Box provides affordable starter speakers with fairly simple connectivity. A surround sound setup has five to seven speakers.
Content — cable television, satellite TV, Blu-ray, Internet streaming, DVDs
Audio/video receiver — amplifies sound and routes video signals to the television.
Extras — theater seating, popcorn machine, wall mount or TV stand, cables
Choose the right set in four easy steps:
1. Choose the right size
Measure the distance (in inches) from the television to the seats, divide by two and write that figure down. Then, divide by three and write that figure down. The set's size should range between the two figures you recorded.
2. Decide on features
Decide if you want features such as 3D, input connectivity (for components, games, etc.), ease of use, broadband connectivity, apps and Internet connectivity, multimedia inputs (for SD cards, HDMI, and USB)
3. Choose image quality
Many sets on the market are full 1080p. Movie buffs and home theater enthusiasts looking for the true cinema experience will want a set that displays 1080/24p (24 frames per second, the frame rate at which movies are filmed). On the other hand, if you are purchasing a TV for more casual viewing, such as in a kitchen or bedroom, a 480p or 720p display may be an adequate choice.
4. Select a display type:
Plasma offers deep blacks and rich colors, can be viewed from wider angles and achieve their best performance in light-controlled or darker rooms.
LCD (liquid crystal display) excels in brighter rooms where reflections and ambient light can wash out a plasma's picture. They consume less power than plasma displays.
- LED (light-emitting diode) has a higher contrast ratio, brighter and more accurate colors and less power consumption.
- DLP (digital light processing) produces vivid colors and deep blacks, making it a great choice for front and rear projection.
Source: Information from the Consumer Electronics Association, ce.org


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ACIE Award 2011
Information Professionals and Student Interactions (IPSI)
Christinger TomerInformation Sciences
608A Information Sciences Building
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Watch the above video of Chris Tomer and Sue Alman discussing their ACIE Project.
Bridging academics with practice has always posed a challenge for professional education. Traditionally, faculty look outside of the University for practitioners to speak about relevant professional issues. Information Professionals and Student Interactions (IPSI), enables Master of Library and Information Sciences (MLIS) students to interact with alumni in mentorship opportunities. Christinger Tomer and Sue Alman, Information Sciences, created a repository of five "digital mentors" selected from MLIS alumni currently working in LIS professions. Students were assigned to each mentor and the mentors were video recorded and interviewed on WebEx, a web conferencing and collaboration utility. After viewing the interviews, students and mentors participated in discussions on Blackboard where they submitted questions and comments to the mentors, applying key concepts and gaining a better understanding of real life issues.
In addition, support was available to record invited speakers as master teachers in a class sessions and during a presentation recognizing the 10th anniversary (link to Mediasite recording) of the FastTrack MLIS Program, the first fully online degree program at Pitt developed by Tomer and Alman, with their colleague Mary Kay Biagini.
This initiative can be sustained over a three-year period, serving as a model for other faculty who wish to cut costs by creating a viable alternative to hosting "live" guest speakers. Alman and Tomer thank graduate student Becky Berkey, who coordinated and recorded the interviews, and managed the development of this project.
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Our new C# SDK makes it a breeze to plug in Box anywhere
We've greatly enjoyed building the Box apps for Windows Phone and Windows 8. The Modern UI design language and unique platform features of Windows inspired us to reimagine our mobile experience for content collaboration.
But Box is inherently a platform, and we want to enable developers everywhere to imagine new and creative ways to manage content in the cloud. On the heels of our recent Android and iOS SDK launches, today we are launching a brand new Windows C# Software Development Kit (SDK), designed to make incorporating Box into your apps a simple, seamless affair.
To continue supporting the next wave of innovative applications with enterprise-grade storage and collaboration, our Windows C# SDK is built around the Box V2 APIs and is now ready for your consumption. Like its iOS and Android counterparts, it provides simple, drop-in methods to interface with the Box API and does the legwork of creating easily consumable data objects for use by your applications. Feel free to explore it now from the Box GitHub account or from the NuGet package.
Completely native, yet portable
The new Windows SDK is written completely in C#, built on top of the Portable Class Library project to ensure maximum compatibility and reusability on all Microsoft platforms. This means that no matter whether you're building a Windows 7, Windows 8, Silverlight, or Windows Phone app, you can leverage this SDK to use Box as your content backend.
File and folder picker components included
We know that many developers will want to get their feet wet with the SDK by simply pulling a file from a user's Box account or choosing a place in Box to save a piece of content. So, we made these very common use cases super simple - just drop one line of code into your Windows application and get a full-fledged file picker component.
This is the only line of XAML needed for a file picker:
<controls:BoxItemPickerLauncher Client="{Binding Client}" />
This is the only line of XAML needed for a folder chooser:
<controls:BoxItemPickerLauncher Client="{Binding Client}" ItemPickerType="Folder" />
The results are stunning and make integrating with Box a matter of minutes instead of hours.
Coverage for all major Box API endpoints
Login, OAuth 2 token handling, uploading files, and downloading files are all made easier by leveraging the SDK, but you can also use it to post comments, search a user's Box account and add collaborators to folders. Here is the full list of Box API endpoints covered:
Have a use case that isn't covered by the endpoints above? Let us know! Or even better, feel free to fork our SDK and submit a pull request directly to our GitHub account. We'd love to see how you make the SDK better!
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Akerib Named Chair of Physics Department
Based on the recommendation of Cyrus C. Taylor, dean of Case Western Reserve University's College of Arts and Sciences, the university's Interim President Gregory L. Eastwood, M.D., has appointed Daniel S. Akerib, chair of the Department of Physics, effective March 1. Taylor, the Albert A. Michelson Professor of Physics, previously served as department chair.
Akerib's research interests include experimental particle astrophysics, dark matter, low-temperature detectors and particle physics. He is the principal investigator of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search at the university, which is supported by the National Science Foundation. Akerib, who joined the university in 1996, earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and a doctorate from Princeton University.
Campus News
Case's Sustainability Web site provides information for all things sustainable at the university including recycling, energy conservation, Adopt a Building, Energy Ambassadors and more. Refer to the site for ways to recycle and/or reuse your items. Details: http://www.case.edu/news/sustain/.
For Faculty & Staff
Reminder: Proposals for Kelvin Smith Library Opportunity Funds are due today. More details at http://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/news/.
For Students
Springfest Battle of the Bands begins at 9 tonight at The Spot. The Springfest committee invites students to cast votes for the band they think should open for this year's headliner. Details: http://studentaffairs.case.edu/events/springfest/stage.html.
Students are invited to watch their favorite professors and staff members try to defend their title at the Faculty/Staff vs. Students Basketball Game from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., March 2. If interested in playing for the student team, send e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Cleveland Saves Week, now through March 4, is an initiative designed to increase financial awareness and promote saving, investing and building wealth. Weatherhead Undergraduate Programs will host an informational session from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., March 1, in Nord Hall, Room 410. Pizza provided. All participants will be entered into a drawing for one of several $100 savings bonds. For details, e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.
The premedical chapter of the American Medical Student Association and Peer Helper Network are taking part in Global AIDS Week of Action through March 2. Events include a petition signing and red ribbon distribution from 12:30 to 2 p.m. today in Nord Hall and Thwing Center; an action campaign table on Thursday in the Hovorka Atrium during Provost Hour; and film viewing of the documentary, A Closer Walk, on Friday in Schmitt Lecture Hall during Community Hour.
Celia Schultz of Yale University will deliver a public lecture, "Sanctissima Femina: The Status of Women in Cults of the Roman Republic," at 7:30 p.m., March 1, in Clark Hall, Room 309. Cosponsored by the Classics and religious studies departments.
For a list of other events and activities on campus and in the community today, refer to the WebEvent calendar.


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Show Info: A conservative, a progressive and a hyper-emotional school teacher walk into a bar...and someone hits record! Every week or two Scott, Zack, Jeff & guests do life together. Sometimes funny and always real. Unpolished and potentially unsafe...kind of like life. Pull up that barstool. Grace, Peace, Cheers!


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FORT WORTH — It's race weekend at Texas Motor Speedway.
The first drivers hit the track today in preparation for the NASCAR Dickies 500 race weekend, which will feature racing in all three of NASCAR's top-tier series.
The action begins today with practice and 7-Eleven qualifying for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. The qualifying session will be held at 7 p.m. and can be seen on SPEED TV.
On Friday the action begins at 9 a.m. with practice for the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Spectator gates open at 11 a.m. and the first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice is set for noon. The 7-Eleven qualifying session for the Sprint Cup Series will be held at 3:40 p.m. and the qualifying for the Nationwide Series begins at 5:35 p.m.
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series WinStar World Casino 350k (147 laps, 220.5 miles) begins at 8 p.m. and can been seen live on SPEED TV.
On Saturday the gates open at 8 a.m. and the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice sessions will be held from 8:45-9:30 a.m. and from 10-11 a.m. The NASCAR Nationwide Series O'Reilly Challenge (200 laps, 300 miles) will begin at 11:30 a.m. and the race can be seen on ESPN2.
On Sunday the gates open at 10 a.m. and the American Racing Custom Wheels Pre-Race Celebration, featuring a concert by ZZ Top, will be held at 11:45 a.m. The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Dickies 500 (334 laps, 501 miles) will begin at 2 p.m. and can be seen on ABC TV.
Both NASCAR Camping World Truck Series practice sessions have concluded. In the first practice session Kyle Busch was the fastest after posting a 29.983-second, 180.102 mph lap. In the final practice session, Mat Crafton recorded the fastest time after posting a 29.970-second, 180.180 mph lap.
There will be 37 drivers that will attempt to qualifying tonight for Friday's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race.
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Click here to view my motorsports column on MYSA.com, which features a story about story about NASCAR's Jimmie Johnson and a preview of this weekend's races at Texas Motor Speedway.


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Community Association Meetings March 2017Fells Point Residents Association, March 1st, Bertha's Mussels (2nd fl.) 734 S. Broadway
York Road Partnership, March 1st 5502 York Road
Violetville Comm. Assoc., March 2nd , 3450 Violetville Ln., Violetville Rec. Center
Fallstaff Improvement Assoc., Inc., March 2nd , Fallstaff Middle School
St. Helena Comm. Assoc., March 2nd , St. Helena Community Center 6509 Colgate Avenue
Harlem Park Neighborhood Council, Inc., March 2nd , 1433 Edmondson Avenue
Citizens for Comm. Improvement , Cci, March 4th, 1907 Rosedale St., St. Matthews Church
Baltimore Highland Comm. Assoc., March 4th Lord Baltimore Cleaners, 3710 E. Baltimore St.
Southeastern Police CRC, March 6th , Southeastern HQ; 5710 Eastern Avenue
Harwood Community, March 6th, 300 E. 29th Street
Garrison Hill Comm. Assoc., March 6th, Sweet Hope Freewill Baptist, Dolfield Ave.
Hunting Ridge Community Assoc., March 6th, Hunting Ridge Presbyterian Church
Robert W. Coleman Comm. Assoc., March 7st , 2400 Windsor Avenue
Mt. Royal Improvement Assoc., March 7st Brown Memorial, Park & Lafayette Aves.
Morrell Park Comm. Assoc., March 7st 1805 Wicks Lane, St. Marks United Church
Reservoir Hill Improvement Council, March7st 901 Druid Park Lake Drive
Medfield, March 7st 42nd & Falls Road
Waverly Improvement Assoc., March 7st , YMCA, 33rd Street
Ashburton Area Assoc. Inc., March 7st 3935 Hilton Ave.
Woodmere Assoc., March 7st 5271 Reisterstown Road
Butcher's Hill Comm. Assoc., March 7st , St, Andrew's Church, Corner of Chester & Lombard
Rosemont Comm. Assoc., March 7st 701 Poplar Grove St., Rosemont Towers
Franklintown Neighborhood Improvement, March 7st, 701 Poplar Grove
Wilhelm Park Neighborhood Assoc., March 7st, Grantley and Violetville
Mt. Vernon-Belvedere Assoc., March 8th, 1 E. Chase
Bayview Comm. Assoc., March 8th, Our Lady of Fatima Church, Pratt & Kane Streets
Southeast Neighborhood Development, March 8th, Mason Lord's Building, Bayview Hospital
Community Law Center, March 8th Dickeyville Memorial Church
Irvington Community Assoc., March 8th 4025 Frederick Ave., Irvington Place Apts
Greenspace Action Partnership (GAP) March 8th, 808 S. Ann Street
Chinquapin Park Improvement Assoc., March 8th Arbor Oaks Apts., Dartmouth & Linden Community Center
Remington Neighborhood Alliance, March 8th, 201 E. 28h Street
Hampstead Hill Comm., March 8th Linwood and Eastern
Neighbors for Brewer's Hill, March 8th St. Gerard's Club, 3500 block of Foster St.
Panway Neighborhood Improvement Assoc., March 8th
Greater Mondawmin Coordinating Council, Inc., March 8th, 2401 Liberty Heights Ave.
Seton Hill Comm. Assoc., March 8th St. Mary's Park
CHICA, March 9th, St. Brigid's Hall, 900 S. East Ave.
Fells Prospect, March 9th
Cheswolde Neighborhood Assoc. Inc., March 9th
Patterson Place Neighborhood Assoc , , March 9th, Graceland United Methodist Church
Community of Curtis Bay Association, Inc , March 9th, Curtis Bay Recreation Center
Madison Park, March 9th 1901 Eutaw Street
The New Auchentroly Terrace Assoc., March 9th, 2401 Liberty Heights Avenue
Lyndhurst Comm. Assoc., March 11th, 621 Wildwood Parkway, School #88
Patterson Park Neighborhood Assoc., March 14th , Graceland United Methodist Church
Fulton Community Assoc., Inc ., March 14th, 1142 Fulton Avenue
Save Middle East Action Coalition, March 14th, 1731 E. Chase Street
Liberty Square Neighborhood Assoc. , March 14th, 3000 Towanda Ave.
Loch Raven Improvement Assoc., March 15th, Good Samaritan Hospital, Parker Conference Rooms 3 & 4
Whittier-Monroe March 15th 2100 N. Monroe St.
200 N. Association, March 15th, Patterson Park Library
Little Italy Comm. Assoc., March 15th St. Leo's Church Hall, Exeter Street
Pimlico Terrace, March15th 4236 Pimlico Ave.
Upper Fells Point Improvement Assoc., March 15th, St. Patrick's Church Hall, 1728 Bank St.
Orangeville Comm. Assoc., March 16th , Fells Point Visitor's Center
Sandtown-Winchester (RAC), March 16th , 1601 Baker Street
Southwest Police Department, March 16th ,,
Southwestern Community Rel. Council, March 16th, 424 Font Hill SW BCPD
W. Arlington Improvement Assoc. of Baltimore City 1, March 16th ,, 4500 Garrison Blvd.
Western Dist. Police- Comm. Rel., March 17th, 1034 N. Mount Street
Carroll Improvement Assoc., March 17th, 2950 Phelps Lane PAL Center
Graceland Park, Graceland United Methodist Church, March 17th, 6716 Youngstown Ave.
Parklane- Greenspring, March 17th , James E. Gross Rec. Center
Central Forest Park Comm. Assoc., March 17th 3901 Maine Ave.
Penn-North Revitalization Corp., March 17th
Howard Park Civic Assoc., March 17th, Forest Park Senior Center
Darley Park Comm. Assoc., March 17th Wolfe & 25th St., Mt. Hebron Baptist Church
Upton Planning Committee, Inc., March 17th, Providence Baptist Church, 1401 Pennsylvania Ave.
Carrollton Ridge Comm. Assoc., March 21st, (TBA if holiday) Samuel Morse Rec. Ctr. 424 S. Pulaski St.
Highlandtown Comm. Assoc., March 21st, 3403 Gough Street
C.A.R.E., March 22nd
Fulton Heights Community Org., March 23rd, 2000 Fulton Avenue
Fells Point Development Task Force, March 23rd, The Inn at Henderson's Wharf, 1000 Fells St.
Hanlon Improvement Assoc., March 27th , Hilton Elementary
Cylburn Community Assoc., March 31st, Grace Outreach Center, 2605 Banister Ave.
Glen Neighborhood Improvement Assoc. March 24th, JCCC
Operation Reach Out S/W Crime and Grime, March24th, N. Fulton, Bon Secour Support Center
Crestwell Community Assoc., March 24th, 5110 Frederick Ave., Still Meadow Evangelical Free Church
Dorchester Community Assoc., March 26th, 3900 Dorchester Ave
Charles North Community Assoc., 3rd tuesday, (odd number months) 1900 St. Paul Street
Hampden Community Council, March 28th , 1221 W. 36th Street
Coppin Heights CDC, March 28th, 1100 Whitmore Ave.
Morrell Park & St. Paul's Improvement, March 28th, 2601 Tolley St.
Hilltop 4100, March 28th, 5271 Reisterstown Rd.
Windsor Hills Neighborhood Assoc., March 28th , 3001 Alto Rd.
Berea-Eastsie Neighborhood, March28th
Charles North Community Assoc., 1900 St. Paul Street (3rd Tuesday/odd numbered months)
Ten Hills Community Assoc., 2 meetings per year (dated TBA)
St. Bartholomew Episcopal Church
Upland Community Assoc., Quarterly Future Care, 22 S. Athol Ave.
Washington Hill, Quarterly (see website)
Bellona Gettings Comm. Association, Meetings As Needed Location Varies
Belvedere Improvement Association, Meetings As Needed Location Varies
Better Waverly General Meeting Three Times a year Location Varies
Blythewoods Association Meetings As Needed
Cedercroft Maintenance Corp. Meetings As Needed
Chinquapin Park (Park Only) Meetings As Needed
Lake Evesham Comm. Association Meetings As Needed Location Varies
Lake Walker Comm. Association Meetings As Needed Location Varies
Levindale-Sunset Comm. Association Meetings As Needed Location Varies
Mid-Govans Comm. Association Meetings As Needed Location Varies
Radnor Winston Improvement Association General meeting upon announcement
Canton Comm. Association Quarterly (see cantoncommunity.com for dates)
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Here's my story today on the $17,000 fine, which Belinda Stewart says is unfair and one of her pursuers, Sen. Mike Carrell, says is too lenient.
Stewart can ask the Executive Ethics Board to reconsider the fine, or she can appeal to superior court. Carrell is asking the Department of Corrections to fire Stewart.


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I wish my dad drew cool illustrations on my lunch bag instead of, you know, not drawing cool illustrations on my lunch bag. Graphic designer, illustrator, and all-around awesome dad Bryan Dun has been drawing on his kid's lunch bags every day for the past 2 years.
He spends around 30 minutes a day making the cartoons, drawing them during lunch, then coloring them after the kids' bedtime. He then takes a photo of before handing it to his son.
Recently, his kid just finished first grade, prompting him to share his achievement with the reddit community, 'I draw all the time, I decided his bags were good practice. Tough material to work on, and it would motivate me to keep doing something different every day'.
The adorable lunch bag art has even bagged (no pun intended) the admiration of his son's classmates and teachers, who all have taken home an illustration at one point. Now, I believe it's time to hand out the 'Best Dad in the World' mug now.
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Furiae is an ancestor of Haruhi Suzumiya.
- Which makes Inuart, Nowe, and Manah ancestors of Haruhi as well.
Before the pact, Caim is already mute.That would explain that prior to the pact, he doesn't give out directions to his soldiers.
- This is impossible. We clearly hear Caim speak before the pact in mission 1. "Empire scum, I will feed you to the ravens," etc... and clearly hear him speaking after the pact is broken and he fights Angelus in one of the endings. It would be my guess that he is just too preoccupied with killing everything to be bothered by what his army is doing, not to mention the fatal back wound.
- He's the one who proposes the idea of a pact to Angelus in the first place.
Drakengard 3's PlotThe game takes place a few centuries after the events of Drakengard 2's Golden Ending. Thanks to the stinger of that ending showing one last dragon, it turns out that the dragons and gods aren't as dead as everyone thought they were. After a series of calamitous events that nearly culminate in the end of the world, the Powers That Be (the current Empire, founded by Hierarch Seere when he and his army of Golems filled in the power vacuum left by the Knights of the Seal) decide to resurrect the Seals again. There is a small change: rather than concentrating the power of the last seal on just one maiden, it's decided that the last seal should be distributed amongst four young girls so they can share the burden of the seal. Not only that, but the goddesses are trained to defend themselves in case the other seals fall. The cost of this new system, however, is that the strain of being the first cog of the Goddess Seal (the 'Zero') kills any human girl who volunteers. Then somebody remembers Manah and Nowe: a powerful witch and a dragon/human hybrid...and all the descendants that share their unique bloodline. The Empire captures Zero and One (not their real names, just their designation as part of the Goddess Seal system: Two and Three will be brought into the game as boss fights/allies) when they're young, kills their parents and hides them away, training them until they're old enough to become goddesses themselves. The plot will center around Zero (the Caim/Kaine expy whose special attacks happen when she sings. Maybe a callback to her ancestor Inuart) and her trying to rescue her little sister (who bears more than a passing resemblance to her great-great-great grandmother Manah...) with the help of that last Holy Dragon seen in the above mentioned Golden Ending, and also try to find out why the seal system was brought back. Also, the game is going to go back to its original batshit, violent and depressing roots, based on the stills released and the fact that the original Drakengard and NieR team have been brought in on this project. There's also the fact that Caim's pact symbol is hidden inside the 'O' of the new game's logo.
- My guess is that it perhaps is going to show how the seals where placed in the first place.
Drakengard 3 will follow ending D of the original game.In the same way that Drakengard 2 and Nier split at A and E, this game will follow D. After Seere seals the Queen Beast the two of them come to a gradual understanding. Either naturally, or after some help from the Bone Casket. Either way, The Queen Beast becomes Zero, carrying over her harmonic magic. The flower, aside from possibly being pact related, could also represent this, given that the gods are best known for the Seeds of Resurrection, but that's probably just coincidence. Likewise, Zero's color scheme is based entirely around white/gray, which speaks for itself. One, on the other hand, looks too similar to Manah to be mere coincidence. She is either A) Seere's "daughter" akin to how Nowe is Inuart's "son" or B) Seere himself subconsciously masked as the person dearest to him.
Drakengard 3 will bring the first game's fifth ending and NieR togetherAfter WCS has been eliminated from the world of NieR and put back into the Drakengard universe, the pieces of the Queen Beast begin to coalesce and gain sentience and her powers, becoming the 'Goddesses' that descend from the heavens to save Drakengard-World after years of civil war following the collapse of the only two stable-ish powers in that world. One is the main essence of the Queen Beast herself - hence why she looks like Manah and also has the red eyes associated with WCS from Nier-World, and why she wants to 'unite' the Goddesses: it's the Queen Beast inside her that wants to be whole and wreak havoc again. Out of all the Goddesses, Zero is supposed to be the most powerful of them all. The reason why is because there is a part of Caim inside her, just a little bit of ash from when he and Angelus got nuked, and that spark of him is what shapes who she is: her violent temper, her missing eye (a nod to Drakengard 2) with the Lunar Tear in the socket (which is the exact shape of Caim's pact rune), the protectiveness she feels towards her younger sister...and her affinity with the as-yet unnamed Holy Dragon she makes a pact with.
In relation to the above, The Goddesses in Drakengard 3 are somehow connected to both the Goddess Seal and the Queen BeastIf Zero and One are anything to go by, the colour scheme of the Goddesses will be white and grey. The woman who serves as the Goddess Seal always wears white. In the first game, the Queen Beast is grey all over.
- Sort of confirmed: The Intoners are Grotesquerie Queens.
Drakengard 3 will be the story of how the Goddesses were sealed into weaponsDrakengard 2 reveals that the powers of five goddesses were sealed inside the Infinity Plus One Weapons of the main characters. Thus, the story of Drakengard 3 will be a prequel to the previous games, about how the Utahime Five were sealed away.
The third game takes place before the first Drakengard and the protagonists are connected to the GrotesqueriesThe main reason I believe this is cause of both the sexual themes in the third game as well as the protagonists using Magic Music. Remember that in the final battle with the queen, Angelus says that it starts to sing.
- One other thing is that the mysterious runes that appear when they sing are the same as the Watchers in the prior game and the same as the runes present in NieR.
- It's been confirmed that rakengard 3 takes place before the first game.
- Hopefully this doesn't get in the way of Multiple Endings... though it's going to at least lead to Cutting Off the Branches for this title.
Hymir's Finger will return in Drakengard 3.But, Zero will use it like a lance, since those are used for heavy attacks and guard breaking, whereas swords are used for speed and combos.
- Confimed, it will return now under the name Mass of Iron. Sounds like its Shout-Out to the Dragonslayer is even more obvious now than before, since it's often called just a huge "lump of iron".
The Red Eye Plague is connected to the Watchers' mind-control.One thing that was mentioned was that the Red Eye Plague causes the victim to no longer feel any pain and become almost inhuman, something that was mentioned about the Imperial troops in the first game.
Something horrific will happen to Mikhail.He's a kid, it's par for the course for the series.
- How does getting sliced clean in half sound. Even Zero seems to a found it a bit much.
The black dragon in the manga is Legna.
- Confirmed
The Tokyo Tower has some sort of connection to the Drakengard verse.This may be just grabbing things out of thin air, but I can't think of any other reason as to why they would draw the Tokyo Tower in the background of the official art seen on the main page other than that it holds some sort of important meaning beyond the first game's ending.
Zero will make Caim look like a calm, rational person in comparison
- We already know she's out to kill her sisters, and even Caim never stooped to siblicide. And before you bring up Ending C of Drakengard 1, Furiae killed herself upon being rejected (sexually) by Caim. Caim had no way of knowing that this would break her. If anything, it's Manah's fault for being enough of a troll to bring force the issue upon Caim's attention.
Two to Five are connected to the seals in the first game.The thing I noticed was that they rule over the same realms that the seals where in leading me to make this guess. I can only speculate where Zero and One fit into all of this.
One is somehow special compared to the other sisters and/or there is going to be a twist involving her in some way.Consider the following: - One has a dragon with her, like Zero. Having a dragon serve you in drakengard is only reserved for protagonists or rivals usually. - One is the only Intoner not to have an apostle associated with her. - One has red eyes (typically associated with The Watchers) and looks like Child Mana. She will probably be the last sister zero will kill and there will be a big twist involving her and/or zero's quest.
The Flower in Zero's eye is a Seed of Destruction that bloomed.If you pay attention to the trailers, Zero doesn't get red eyes until the flower shows up.
- I was thinking of something in the same lines.
- Jossed. That Flower is the entity that is turning Zero into a Grotesquerie Queen.
Gabriel was reborn as Legna.That is the only thing I can think as to why Male One and Legna shares a past in the manga.
- Debunked Angelus and Legna are both confirmed alive at the time of Drakengard 3, and are among the oldest dragons.
Manah is the descendant of Male One.Male One at the end of branch A in Drakengard 3, decides he will become the new One. Since Male One created the Cult Of The Watchers, and Manah was also in the Cult and her family origins remain unknown this would explain Manah's latent magic power, and her insanity; she'd be a descendant of a Grotesquerie Queens.
- Confirmed. She and Seere are his great-great-grandchildren.
Drakengard 4 will be made by PlatinumGames.And it'll rise from the whatever remaining ashes of Scalebound
- And this will be a plot point.


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Discussion in 'Waffle' started by Gloxxy, Sep 30, 2009.
for everyone to vent their anger on each other?
lol would've stopped alot of shit that ive recently come bak to!
But tbh, surely theres dogs on acid an bananarena to bitch on, if u must that is?
By the beard of zeus!
no. there should just be more people behaving like grown ups on here
ahh man i sent that and was beaten to it! and i got the fucker wrong!! CUNTS!!!
i used to be a memeber of a forum that was as/more active in the waffle section than on here ..
for some reason , mood changed and people got bitchy and started nit-pickin and actin like women basically .. next thing, the mods made a ' no bitching, bullying , giving out shit rule ' .. everyone had to be nice and you wasnt allowed to call someone an idiot for making a daft thread etc ..
now the forum is dead, no one wants to be nice all the time , its boring, banter is healthy and character building, if you cant take it in written form.. dont be a member..
peoplelike the freedom in waffle, start making loads of rules etc, itll get boring, controlled, and basically just abit shit.
if you had a sub-forum for bitching, everyone would fall out and act like women.. and the waffle would become non-bitching.. which is un-natural.. we all got negative shit to vent at each other..
We really must be bunch of precious delicate little flowers if when a few disagreements arise we all start to cry and create 19 posts about why it's not fair.
Winge winge fucking winge, this is the most policed forum I've been on, remember the Spitfire incident on DNBA? That couldn't have happened here (weather thats good or not, I dunno), because it's just not the sort of thing thats allowed to go on.
I love this forum, but we need to find a happy middle ground, I dunno about you but me and my mates ARE CONSTANTLY taking the piss and playing (actually quite cruel) pranks on one and other. We do this because we know at the end of the day it's just a laugh and nobody means any harm.
Waffle will return its former prowess when people feel like they can have a laugh (and yeah, sometimes push it too far) without having to face the banhammer.
I think you should fuck off Gloxxy.
Nobody likes you and you sort.
i once raped SLow in hiis sleep as banter. he got moody for a few hours but then laughed when he found out id only given him AIDS.
Fuck off you fat-headed, blank shooting, Northern Monkey.
Quoted for 100% truth & accuracy.
I love being disliked. Its what makes us Northern scu.......erm...folk get out of bed in the morning.
You can get to fuck as well you roid paddling, drug addled, troglodyte Southern fuckwit. Its Mister Jaffa to you, ok?
Does sheep shit contain corn, Brof? Check under your foreskin and let me know please.
(This thread was started as joke by the way. A bitching sub forum would be proposterous! Banter is what you make of it. If you can't take it and get personal about it, get off the fucking Waffle!)
this is the internet. its not even real.
hhahaha sigmata
The only thing my foreskin tells me is that your wife needs to chill out and understand you're still a man even if you have lost the most manly aspect of all.
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On Jan 16, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Henry Story wrote: > > Here is my question to your group. How is an xsd:hexBinary with a white space > meant to be interpreted currently? There are two ways to answer this simple question. The simple answer is: "an xsd:hexBinary with a white space" is a contradiction in terms. No literal with any whitespace is a member of the lexical space of xsd:hexBinary. An element or attribute of type xsd:hexBinary, whose initial value has internal white space, is invalid. A more complicated answer is necessary if you want to understand the details -- in particular, if you want to understand what parts of the journey from an input data stream to a validity judgement are defined by the XSD spec and which are out of scope and unconstrained by XSD. I'll try to explain this as simply and fully as I can, identifying the various places at which the XSD spec leaves some room for differences of behavior and at which a language lawyer can identify some wiggle room that might allow you to achieve your goals. Readers who find language lawyering, casuistry, and hairsplitting tedious and irritating will want to drink some herb tea before continuing. For concreteness, let us consider the literal ' 0F B7'. The details of what happens with this literal depend upon just where and how the literal is encountered. There are several cases to consider: validation of an XML document using XSD or another schema language that uses XSD datatypes, and validation of an isolated literal outside the context of XML validation. Case 1. In the context of schema validation of an XML document using an XSD schema, if ' 0F B7' is the normalized value of an attribute or element assigned the type xsd:hexBinary by the schema, then 1 First the XML parser parses the XML document. Let us imagine the XML document contains the element <cert:key cert:modulus=" 0F B7" cert:exponent=" 65537"/> or the element <cert:key> <rdfs:label>made on 23 November 2011 on my laptop</rdfs:label> <cert:modulus> 0F <!--* hi, mom! *-->B7</cert:modulus> <cert:exponent> 65537 </cert:exponent> </cert:key> Then (to use the vocabulary of the XML Information Set spec) the string ' 0F B7' is the [normalized value] of the attribute information item for the cert:modulus attribute. (Or rather, since I'm in language-lawyer mode: it might be. Whether the [normalized value] is ' 0F B7' or ' 0F B7' or '0F B7' depends on whether attribute cert:modulus is declared in the DTD, and how.) And the six characters ' ', '0', 'F', ' ', 'B', and '7' are the sole character children of the cert:modulus element, and the cert:modulus element has no element children. 2 The validation software creates a representation of an information set to validate. In the normal course of events, the infoset to be validated is the infoset generated by parsing the XML document we started with. But there is nothing to prohibit an XSD validator or other software from offering to perform certain modifications to the infoset before validating it. (I believe that some XSD validators do some infoset fixup on the output of XInclude processing, before validating it, for example. But it's not a prominent feature of most validators.) If, in the input infoset, the string ' 0F B7' occurs as the [normalized value] of an attribute, or the six characters in that string occur, in order, as character children of an element which has no element children and no other character children, then in either case the string ' 0F B7' is the 'initial value' handled by the XSD processor. 3 To keep things simple, I'll assume that the element or attribute we are dealing with is assigned the type xsd:hexBinary by the schema being used for validation. Then in schema validation as defined by the XSD spec, whitespace normalization is performed on the initial value. The whitespace facet of xsd:hexBinary has the fixed value 'collapse', so the result of whitespace normalization is '0F B7', which is the 'normalized value' for XSD purposes. 4 The validation rule Datatype Valid defined by XSD part 2 is applied to the normalized value. That validation rule says (in XSD 1.1; 1.0 has a more complicated procedural formulation that is intended to amount to the same thing): A ·literal· is datatype-valid with respect to a Simple Type Definition if and only if it is a member of the ·lexical space· of the corresponding datatype. The literal '0F B7' is not a member of the lexical space of xsd:hexBinary, so it's not datatype-valid with respect to that simple type definition. 5 A conforming XSD validator will report, using whatever interface it defines, that the element or attribute we started with is not schema-valid. XSD validators are not required to expose all parts of the post-validation infoset, so there is no guarantee that the validity of individual elements and attributes will be exposed. In practice, however, you'll usually at least get an error message pointing to the offending literal, here '0F B7', and identifying the type it's not an instance of. 6 The consuming application will do whatever it chooses to do with the information that the input document is not schema-valid. XSD is carefully designed to make it feasible for the consuming application to recover gracefully from isolated problems in the input. But most application designers treat validity as an all or nothing property and will abort if the input is not valid. That's a choice they make. Case 2. If we are validating an XML document using a Relax NG schema which validates '0F B7' against xsd:hexBinary, then I think steps 2 and 5 may drop out (you should check with a Relax NG expert if it matters), but steps 1, 3, 4, and 6 apply as before. (And even though Relax NG doesn't define specific validity annotations for elements and attributes as part of its output, you'll usually get an error message identifying the literal and the datatype where a problem was encountered.) In either case 1 or case 2, the best opportunities for making ' 0F B7' or '0F B7' be accepted as a lexical representation of the two-octet string 00001111 10110111 are probably in step 2 and (if you have access to a 1.1 processor like Saxon that provide a suitable pre-lexical facet) step 3. (A cynic might say that there is little difference between a processor that decides to allow white space in the lexical space of xsd:hexBinary and thus fails to conform to the XSD spec and introduces an incompatibility of the kind Liam Quin warns against, and an XSD-conformant processor which exploits the unconstrained nature of step 2 and removes whitespace from certain items in the infoset before validating, except that one defines what it does in simple, clear terms and the other covers it up with mumbo jumbo. But far be it from me to agree with such a cynic. I am almost never that cynical.) Case 3. We are not validating an XML document, so XSD Part 1 (Structures) does not apply. We are in some other context where literals are identified and checked against simple types. Logically, the following steps apply: 1 The literal to be validated is identified. Usually this is going to be the sequence of characters found in the input (whatever that is), with no funny business. But XSD Part 2 doesn't say anything about that, and funny business is certainly feasible here. For purposes of our example, I'll assume that the literal identified is ' 0F B7'. 2 If the controlling spec says to apply whitespace normalization as determined by the whitespace facet, then that's done. If the controlling spec says not to apply whitespace normalization, then it's not done. (If the controlling spec doesn't say, then it probably should be made clearer.) I believe I was told some time ago that the relevant RDF specs are clear that whitespace normalization is not applied. That was some time ago, and I might have misunderstood, but I don't think so: I argued that it was user-friendlier to perform the whitespace normalization, but was told the WG had carefully decided not to do so. In XSD 1.1, any other pre-lexical facets are also applied at this time. (XSD defines no other pre-lexical facets, but other specs may.) At this point, our literal is either '0F B7' or ' 0F B7'. 3 Either way, it's not datatype-valid, because neither of those forms is a member of the lexical space for xsd:hexBinary. Here, an external spec can specify whatever pre-processing it likes as part of step 1. And other specs that use XSD 1.1 can also define further pre-lexical facets for xsd:hexBinary that could have the effect of getting rid of the whitespace. Step 2 is also a potential source of help in this situation, if the controlling spec refers to XSD 1.1 and not to 1.0. (But if the RDF specs really do forbid the application of the whitespace facet, the responsible working groups are probably not going to be eager to define new pre-lexical facets. Still, you probably know more about the politics of the RDF working groups than I do.) I hope this helps. -- **************************************************************** * C. M. 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06/29/2017 13:55 to 01/01/2018 17:00 Important Message! Effective July 1, 2017 the State Board of Equalization has been restructured to better serve taxpayers. Learn more about the restructuring
Regulation 2507. Distilled Spirits Sold or Exported.
Authority Cited: Section 32451, Revenue and Taxation Code, Reference: Sections 32211 and 32452, Revenue and Taxation Code.
Every distilled spirits taxpayer shall keep a record of all distilled spirits sold, and in addition thereto, shall make a daily record in book forms prescribed by the board covering all distilled spirits sold or delivered to other taxpayers in California and all distilled spirits exported or sold for export from California, as follows:
(a) All sales or deliveries of distilled spirits to other California distilled spirits taxpayers, all transfers of distilled spirits to licensee's own branches in California, and all returns of distilled spirits to original vendors in California, shall be recorded in form BOE-243-B.
(b) All sales of distilled spirits exported or sold for export from California and actually exported and all sales of distilled spirits to common carriers engaged in interstate or foreign passenger service, shall be recorded in form BOE-244-B.
History: Effective April 17, 1955.
Amended November 19, 2009, effective January 25, 2010. Replaced "SBE Form 243B" with "form BOE-243-B" in subsection (a). Replaced "SBE Form 244B" with "form BOE-244-B" in subdivision (b). Added authority and reference notes.


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On the Job: Betty Jolly, State Government Relations Director
Posted: January 29, 2010 at 1:03 am, Last Updated: February 19, 2010 at 9:52 am
By Robin Herron
Betty Jolly joined Mason in November 2008 as the university's first director of state government relations. Working with other members of Mason's Legislative Committee (Larry Czarda, vice president for administration; Tom Hennessey, chief of staff; Lane Kneedler, university government relations counsel; Christine LaPaille, vice president for University Relations; Morrie Scherrens, senior vice president; and Peter Stearns, provost), Jolly shares Mason's expertise and promotes the university's position on legislative issues with state legislators.
Jolly has more than 25 years of experience in Virginia: as a lobbyist, political operative and state employee. She was political director for the Mark Warner gubernatorial campaign, served on Warner's transition team and held several positions during the Warner administration. Before joining Mason, she was policy education director for the Commonwealth's Department of Health Professions. She also worked for the University of Virginia Health System for more than 10 years.
Jolly has a BA from Tennessee Tech University (which was founded by one of Jolly's ancestors) and an MBA from James Madison University.
The Gazette caught up with Jolly during a break in action from the 2010 session of the General Assembly, which began on Jan. 13 and winds up March 13.
Why did you decide to come to Mason?
I've actually had my eye on Mason for a long time. I thought it was a vibrant model of higher education that I found fascinating. The model is to move strong people into positions and let them make decisions. So it has the potential for entrepreneurship. Also, I liked its demographic "footprint": It's in Northern Virginia, has grown really fast and has great leadership.
You joined Mason just over a year ago and attended last year's General Assembly session. What were your major goals last session, and how successful were you?
My goals were: learn Mason and shape my experiences to Mason's needs; listen closely to my Legislative Committee and coordinate with the Committee on External Academic Relations; get to know the research arm of the university and the needs of employees; be able to explain every decision made in Richmond with the rationale used; impact directly the outcome of certain high-profile needs; set the stage for Mason to be "a given" at the table in . . . every discussion about Virginia postsecondary education and research; get President [Alan] Merten [to Richmond] as often as possible — he is very popular in Richmond — and faculty members and board members when possible, to put a face on Mason; provide a marketing event for Mason — a day when members are given mugs or material about the university; make the Mason case for resources and our accountability, historically, for those resources: what our record is for student retention, for access, for intellectual firepower, for job growth. [Mason] leadership seemed not displeased [with my efforts]. However, I didn't get as many faculty or administrators [to Richmond] as I would have liked, due to the pace . . . and a learning curve.
What has changed since then?
I have a year's worth of Mason-specific experience and maturation in the role, and an understanding of where resources for information, internal to Mason, are. Plus, Tracey Jenkins from the regulatory and government relations division of Wachovia came on board in November 2009 as the executive assistant for the office of Mason's government relations.
How did you prepare for this year's session?
Contrary to popular perception, the General Assembly meets all year; there's not a week between the end of one session and the beginning of another that there are not many committee meetings, which continue off session to do business. During session, however, is when all the business at all those meetings comes to its tipping point — and decisions, not discussion, are the order of the day. It can be painful to watch smart people with good ideas who mistake the few weeks the session meets as the time to bring an idea to the arena. Introducing something new during the Assembly is a Hail Mary. You have to be there day in and day out and see patterns building on what's possible and what's the likelihood of it fitting into a bigger picture so that a rising tide can lift your boat too when decision time comes. And, for the most part, members don't relish weighing in on something . . . that they don't really have knowledge of.
Describe what's been happening so far and what your day is like.
So far there have been committee assignments; budget overviews and hundreds of amendments filed to the governor's introduced budget, plus over 2,500 bills filed. Getting all those bills read and organized and triaged as to what concerns Mason is a first order of business, and there's not much time. . . . It's entirely possible you need to be at least three places at once, not to mention trying to get to a member's office to talk privately about Mason's agenda in particular or the unintended consequences of a bill. Then there's the meeting with your cohort groups — other higher education liaisons meet weekly to share intelligence and coordinate interests; there's the monitoring of caucus groups of interest — like the Northern Virginia caucus, whose legislators meet weekly to talk about regional interests. We have a delegation that's very interested in Mason. And of course, the real game: the floor action in the House and Senate after the bill moves out of committee. In short: you snooze, you lose. So you do your best to be at the best place at the right time, to know the honest players and to be one of them so they want you to succeed, as you do them. Relationships are very, very important, and my number one rule: never give a legislator a surprise. If there will be opposition to what you are asking, tell the member what to expect and so forth. Courtesy still works.
What are Mason's priorities for this session?
We are looking specifically at research funding opportunities and our inclusion in state research boards. We are looking at ways to grow all assets — in particular, a health and human services building on the Fairfax Campus and a life sciences building on the Prince William Campus. We will be watching a tax on auxiliary enterprises, an increase in pension pay-ins, caps on out-of-state students. There is a real need for more student financial aid; particularly if tuition needs to be raised because of the dire economy. Then there's language we've entered through legislative patrons that gives us authority to work with private partners to leverage opportunities.
What are our biggest challenges, aside from the budget situation?
Making the case why our training of the health workforce is critical to the commonwealth; why our potential to be a research powerhouse for the commonwealth is at a tipping point; studies to persuade for a level playing field in the cost of living and in base budget adequacy. But a big challenge will also be understanding the state's chief executive vision and get in front of the parade. And finally, there's the challenge of getting the Mason community on the same page through communication, dialogue and discipline. There is too much competition for resources for anything less than internal teamwork.
What changes do you expect with a new, Republican governor?
It's not much of a guess what to expect: you just have to look at the new governor's web page to see visually the streamlining of information from the former governor's web page. Job creation and economic development incentives were shared as early as this week, and this governor is detail oriented. We, in higher education, will all be studying his speech [he gave] last May at Mason very, very carefully to see what the candidate promised and what Gov. McDonnell will do.
What's the feeling in Richmond these days?
That's the most interesting question to me and the one most people ask. There is a half-life of melancholy about lost opportunity and marginalized hopes, and in many, many cases, lives further marginalized — those people who count on a safety net like Medicaid or help for a disabled child. But, there is also the feeling of extrapolating out of this economic downturn the priority of getting a better understanding of systems and systems risk. The idea that we are doing just fine with systems as they are has been badly dented. There's a sense this year of riding the trend rather than denying it or fighting it. And there's a sense of the opportunity to get momentum going. The reason it's important to read the mood is to know how to partner. And one thing is for sure: the middle of a crisis is no time to get tough. So everybody who works in this system professionally knows: ask for something — new planning money, for example — with the caveat of understanding the aggregate picture, and say thanks and thanks again and do not ever indicate that you expect anybody to fall on his or her sword. There's no panic. One very good reason is the solid financial engineers we have in state government. The money staffs in state government have long tenures and are maybe the best in the country; ditto for the financial staff in higher education institutions in Virginia.
Can Mason faculty and staff members do anything to help further Mason's legislative agenda?
Absolutely. Keep up with state government activities by visiting the web site. E-mail comments (firstname.lastname@example.com), talk to the Committee on External Academic Relations to get word to me or call the Richmond office: 804-786-2217. And rub the toe of the statue of George Mason — I understand that's good luck. I'm taking no chances.
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