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UH West Oahu associate professor wins essay contest, garners cash prizeUniversity of Hawaiʻi-West Oʻahu
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UH West Oʻahu Associate Professor Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee won the 2009 Charles Wei-Hsun Fu Foundation and the International Society for Chinese Philosophy (ISCP) essay contest in the "senior scholar" category for her work "Confucian Care: Beyond the Colonial Politics of Feminism." Rosenlee will be awarded a $2,000 cash prize in addition to a $1,000 travel award and will present her essay at the upcoming ISCP conference at Fujen Catholic University in Taipei, Taiwan, in July.
In her essay, Rosenlee constructs hybrid feminist care ethics that are grounded in Confucianism, and challenge the alleged misogynistic nature of Confucianism and its irrelevance to contemporary life. She argues that Confucian care is not only compatible with feminist care ethics, but more importantly, is able to strengthen the theoretical groundings of care ethics and meet the objections of its liberal critics.
The Charles Wei-Hsun Fu Foundation was organized in honor of the late Charles Wei-Hsun Fu, scholar and teacher, and is dedicated to the search for knowledge and promote the international efforts of philosophers, and encourage deep explorations of Asian thought and culture. The ISCP supports and sponsors conferences and other activities related to Chinese philosophy in cooperation with philosophical congresses and academic institutions.
Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee is an associate professor of Philosophy at UH West Oʻahu. Her research areas of interest are Chinese philosophy, ethics and feminism. She is the author of Confucianism and Women: A Philosophical Interpretation (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2006) and published numerous journal articles, including "Neiwai, Civility, and Gender Distinctions," Asian Philosophy 14:1 (March 2004): 41-58, "What Is It about ʻBitch' that Makes Us Laugh?" Peace Review: A Transnational Quarterly 10:4 (Dec. 1998): 549-51, and "Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of the Self and Its Aporia," International Studies in Philosophy 30:2 (1998): 55-67.
For more information, visit: http://www.uhwo.hawaii.edu


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I had initially stopped by because I was looking for an oil burner, but what I found was so much more and left with an armful. There were pillows and African fabrics, Japanese china and Moroccan lamps, candles and jewellery, handwoven baskets and hand painted frames. ....More
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Lady Gaga Ready To Take Over Tumblr
What's a pop phenom and social networking maven to do after she tops 11 million Twitter followers?
Join Tumblr, of course.
The microblogging platform, which exceeded five billion posts and 17.5 million accounts last month, now includes Lady Gaga among its users. Christened 'Amen Fashion,' Gaga's Tumblr is functioning — for now, anyway — as an outpost for pictures by and/or of the star, mostly in a series of typically attention-getting outfits.
Not surprisingly, there's a huge audience for Lady Gaga photos; according to reports, her Tumblr's launch triggered enough traffic to slow down the service's entire network. The debut of 'Amen Fashion' comes roughly a month after her latest album, 'Born This Way,' debuted on top of the Billboard charts with over a million copies sold — the highest one-week sales tally in a decade.


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Avon has just announced that Patrick Dempsey will partner with them to launch a new men's fragrance set in November — the Grey's Anatomy star's first. The actor joins Reese Witherspoon as the faces of the venerable brand. And he's keeping it all in the family — Dempsey's wife, makeup artist Jillian Dempsey, has been Avon's global creative color director since July 2006. Tell us: Will you buy Patrick's scent for the man in your life?


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by Jim Harris
I checked in to the eye doctor's office at 8 a.m., not seeing very well, feeling pretty old. The new office was a gleaming, sprawling complex, abuzz with activity. Patients were rolling in — literally.
Many were leaning on wheeled walkers, propelled more by the inexorable pull of gravity than by any force of their own. They were teetering, wobbling, listing and leaning in various degrees and directions. Most of the men were accompanied by young female aides-de-camp whose job it was to keep their charges from blurting out anything inappropriate and from falling down.
I sat there watching the parade for what seemed like hours, cursing the gods for human frailty and also for making me wait so long. I had important things to do. The elderly gentleman sitting across from me was talking tirelessly to his aide ("You gotta play the lottery every day!"), but when she left to visit the restroom, he turned his attention to me. "It's hot in here," he said. (It was freezing.) "Reminds me of when I was in Korea. This Muzak is terrible." (It was.) "Sounds like a washing machine." (It did.) I just smiled and nodded. At one point he asked, "How original can original sin be if everybody has it?"
Thankfully, just then a worker popped her head out of one of the many doors. "James Harris? Follow me." She took off running, and I had a tough time keeping up through the maze of twists and turns. Eventually I wound up in a tiny, dark room with a new person.
"Hi I'm Karen, your eye drop technician. Sit here, lean back. Good. Someone will be with you shortly." After about 20 minutes, another person (not a doctor) came in, introduced herself and told me to look into a machine that shot a BLINDING LIGHT into my eyes.
I was then sent to a new waiting area, a small alcove with only a few seats, much too close together for comfort. I tried to look unapproachable, but I could sense the 97-year-old guy sitting next to me, staring. "You got stock?" he asked.
"You should. You're a young man. I made $14,000 last month."
And so we were off and running. About a half-hour later, when he momentarily ran out of things to say, I desperately grabbed the only magazine available in the whole barren landscape: an ancient, coverless copy of some gossip rag. I don't know what it was called, but it might have been "Cleavage" since that was the salient feature on every page. The closest thing to editorial content was "Snooki" from "The Jersey Shore" answering multiple-choice questions as to her favorite TV shows. Spoiler alert: she picked "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" over Downton Abbey.
Over the next hour or so, I was tasked with following various fast-moving non-doctors to various rooms. The drops had by now made everything look blurry. I just remember seeing lots of backsides disappearing around lots of corners as I tried to keep up. Once in the rooms, I was asked to look into machines that shot more BLINDING LIGHT into my shell-shocked eyeballs, and then sent back to the dreaded alcove.
My last time in the "cove," I had to pee terribly (as opposed to peeing well), but I was afraid to leave my seat for fear of missing my summons to see the doctor. I was beginning to feel like I was in some sort of marathon mating ritual. I had danced with every dignitary in the village, performed all the required tasks, sat through interminable chitchat but still had not seen hide nor hair of the medicine man. I assumed that it must be bad luck to see him before the moment of examination-consummation.
When the doc finally did appear, it was brief but brilliant. He flew into the room, white smock flapping in the wind, accompanied by a transcriptionist. He leaned over me, put on a magic helmet that shot BLINDING LIGHT into my eyes, then left as quickly as he arrived.
It was now noon. I somehow found my way to the check-out area in a kind of stupor, where I was instructed to "take four of these drops two times a day and two four times a day, but never at the same time." (Huh?) I was then instructed to wear a pair of huge wraparound sunglasses. All I needed at that point was a plaid sports jacket and a Lincoln Continental, and I could've driven straight to Miami Beach and fit in perfectly. Before I left the office, I found a way to suffer one last indignity by walking into the ladies room by mistake. Sorry ladies, I didn't see a thing; honest.
I kinda miss the personable, old old-school doctors who worked without a cast of thousands, but I know I shouldn't complain. Anyway, I'm seeing much better now, I don't feel quite as old, and since I don't have any more doctors' appointments lined up, I'm as happy as that older guy in the Viagra TV commercial with a big grin on his face.


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And the Hulkster's not so tickled about reports that he learned of the split from a Florida newspaper reporter.
"He actually heard it from his lawyer," we're told. "There was no surprise. It had been coming for a while. They have grown to be two different people. When hardships hit them, it really brings them down. And when they were finally hit with a real problem -- (son Nick, 17, is facing felony charges of reckless driving from an August car wreck) -- they just couldn't make it work."
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This recycled glass dinnerware is a wonderful way to add a bit of color to your table. Whether you choose to mix and match the colors or stick with one, the end result will be stunning. Recycled glass is melted in a furnace, pigment is added, then the molten glass is poured into molds to create beautiful plates, bowls and glasses.
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A collaborative faculty-student research project co-led by Dr. Vicki-Lynn Holmes, assistant professor of mathematics and education at Hope College, has won the college's fourth annual "Social Sciences Young Investigators Award."
The team received the recognition for "Project-Based Learning (PBL): The Cognitive and Motivational Impact on Secondary Students of Mathematics." Holmes, who has taught at Hope since 2009, received the award as a junior member of the faculty who has mentored students in research.
In addition to Holmes, Dr. Yooyeun Hwang, a professor of education who has taught at Hope since 1996, was the co-leader on the project. The students participating in the project were senior Nicholas Haugen of Kalamazoo; and junior Sam Pederson of Mount Prospect, Ill.
The "Social Sciences Young Investigators Award" is designed to recognize and encourage junior faculty to partner with students in research collaborations that further the scholarship goals of the faculty member while developing the skills of critical inquiry and analysis in his or her students. It includes funding for the faculty and student team to present the work at a professional conference.
The competition is open to junior social science faculty who worked with students on a significant research project, with at least one of the students returning for the next academic year. The selection is made from among the eligible social science projects highlighted during the college's annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance, which was held on Friday, April 12, this year.
The team's longitudinal research project examined the effectiveness of Project-Based Learning. For three years, the researchers followed two comparable groups of eighth- and ninth-graders, one from a school using PBL and the other using a traditional mathematics curriculum. The study found that through the PBL approach, the academic performance gap was significantly diminished and all students became stronger in employing effective study strategies, critical thinking skills and self-regulation, while showing high self-efficacy and significantly lower test anxiety.


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The world of video cards is a much changed place over the past few years. Where once we saw only "sticker versions" of cards mass produced by a handful of manufacturers, we are now seeing some really nice differentiation from the major manufacturers. While the first iterations of these new cards are typically mass produced by NVIDIA or AMD and then distributed to their partners for initial sales, these manufacturers are now more consistently getting their own unique versions out to retail in record time. MSI was one of the first to put out their own unique designs, but now we are seeing Asus becoming much more aggressive with products of their own.
The DirectCU II line is Asus' response to the growing number of original designs from other manufacturers. The easiest way to categorize these designs is that they straddle nicely the very high end and extreme products like the MSI Lightning series and those of the reference design boards with standard cooling. These are unique designs that integrate features and cooling solutions that are well above that of reference cards.
DirectCU II applies primarily to the cooling solutions on these boards. The copper heatipipes in the DirectCU II cooler are in direct contact with the GPU. These heatpipes then are distributed through two separate aluminum fin arrays, each with their own fan. So each card has either a dual slot or triple slot cooling solution with two 80 mm fans that dynamically adjust to the temperature of the chip. The second part of this is branded "Super Alloy Power" in which Asus has upgraded most of the electrical components on the board to match higher specifications. Hi-C caps, proadlizers, polymer caps, and higher quality chokes round out the upgraded components which should translate into more stable overclocked performance and a longer lifespan.


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Will Self joined us from the office of his London publisher, Bloomsbury, to talk about his challenging new novel "Umbrella." It was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize.
Just released in the U.S. by Grove/Atlantic, "Umbrella" is told in stream-of-consciousness form, following in the footsteps of high modernists such as Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. While some have called it a masterpiece, its style has put off some readers, who find it too difficult. Does that mean that writing in styles made famous by Joyce and Woolf is somehow still avant-garde, nearly a century later?
Self answers this and other questions, and tells us a little more about his book, which follows the internal thoughts of a young woman in pre-World War I London who is disabled by a bout of encephalitis lethargica -- a swelling of the brain that affected millions, causing death in some cases and a sort of walking coma in others. There is also her psychiatrist, who reaches through to her, and how he thinks about that afterward.
Self also tells us that he believes American readers are more flexible and adventurous than those in England, where he likes to go in London and about his work as a journalist, which includes writing about eating in fast food restaurants.


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Milloux Suicide — Suicide Girl of the Day
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STATS: Big eyes, big lips, big butt.
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INTO: Hardcore flirting, music: gothic/country/metal/emo/skramz, dogs & reptiles, astonomy, hairstyling, twisted & sick stories, tasteless jokes, forensics, photography, post production, 3D/2D animation, videography, music production, getting inspired & learning, exploration & travel, comics, porn, mysteries & sleuthing.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0--The Enterprise Gets An Update
Enterprise Linux and Red Hat
Red Hat is not only one of the oldest and best known Linux distributions, but is probably the one that has the most traction in the business community thanks to smart people, clever marketing, a steady stream of advertisements, and the introduction of some of the concepts that people take for granted in the commercial Linux space. Many Linux distributions, such as Red Hat, SUSE, Mandrakelinux, and even the ill-fated Caldera Linux distribution, have offered server and desktop products for years, but Red Hat was the first to make a lot of noise about "Linux for the Enterprise," pioneering the label, if not the concept.
Enterprise Linux vendors have to walk the tightrope between providing stable and up-to-date versions of the software packages required in enterprise deployments. Stability is an interesting notion in the Open Source world. On the one hand, you have the legions of dedicated and capable developers who are continually identifying and fixing problems in Open Source software.
On the other hand, you have Linux distribution vendors who are doing the same thing themselves, either by committing resources directly to supporting various software packages or by incorporating patches from the Open Source community. Either way, this is still a net win over proprietary software with a single possible source, a black-box approach to software deployment, and painfully slow release and update cycles.
Red Hat's focus on the Enterprise has had different effects on the desktop and enterprise communities. Desktop users who had previously committed to Red Hat have been split into two communities. One of these is made up of users who feel rejected, are disconcerted about desktop support, and have therefore largely gone elsewhere for supported desktop Linux products.
The flip side of this is the users who are taking advantage of the momentum of the Fedora project and the expertise of its contributors to keep moving forward with the descendant of a popular and widely-used distribution. In enterprise deployments, there's always Red Hat EL Desktop, which is attractive for support reasons and little else.
In the enterprise, most large organizations, except perhaps those with a huge existing commitment to the distribution formerly known as Red Hat N (now end-of-lifed), have seen Red Hat's Enterprise focus as a tremendous win because this has brought enterprise applications vendors such as Oracle into the Linux fold. Businesses can count on Red Hat for enterprise-caliber support and can therefore safely commit to adopting Linux as the heart of their infrastructure without having to worry that they may always have to retain legions of hackers chained in the basement.
Conservative release cycles and a more exhaustive test cycle make Red Hat Enterprise Linux a safer bet for the business community--they don't have to chase the release of the week. And finally, Red Hat's well-known and thoroughly advertised certification and training programs guarantee a certain level of competency and provide the kinds of data points that HR personnel and MIS/IT managers can identify on during the hiring process even if they don't personally know the right questions to ask.
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Essential Sales Skills - Developing the professional sales approach - Manchester - 16/17th May 2018
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Essential Sales Skills – Sales Training Course
Many people, whether new to or currently involved in sales, receive little or no formal sales skills training. Indeed, often the only direction given is either by accompanying other sales people, minimal in-house training, or even just trial and error with new and existing customers. This, at best is not utilising proven methods to produce or increase sales, but at worst could be detrimental to the future of some businesses in these fiercely competitive times.
The Essential Sales Skills training is designed for people who are new to sales, or for existing salespeople who have either not received any formal training or are in need of a refresher course. The programme presents all the fundamental essential sales skills, techniques and qualities required to develop a professional sales approach to potential or existing customers. The training course also includes an emphasis on the importance of good time & territory management and the essentials of motivation and body language.
The course is not based on any high pressure techniques, sharp practices, or "the latest sales fad" but concentrates on solid sales principles that are the essence of successful professional selling in today's and tomorrow's market.
Essential Sales Skills – Sales Training Course Content
* The professional salesperson
* Success qualities
* Motivation and attitudes
* Planning
* Time management
* Territory management
* New business v existing business
* Prospecting
* Cold calling
* Telephone appointing
* Probing/fact finding
* Establishing needs/desires
* Presenters and presentations
* Feature/advantage/benefits
* Pre-empting objections
* Handling objections
* Closing techniques
* Avoiding toxic vocabulary
* Basic body language
* Practical examples
Who Will Benefit?
To provide a comprehensive grounding in the processes and principles involved in professional sales skills and provide each delegate with a wealth of practical ideas and knowledge to improve personal performance sales skills.
Enable delegates to be self-motivated and to maximise their time & territory
Courses are restricted to twelve delegates per venue. This allows maximum individual attention and the opportunity for delegates to attain individual objectives. The fee includes refreshments throughout the course and a buffet lunch each full day. All delegates will receive comprehensive course manuals for future reference and guidance.
When & Where
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Manchester Airport
Ringway Road
M90 3NS Manchester
United Kingdom
Wednesday, 16 May 2018 at 09:15 - Thursday, 17 May 2018 at 16:30 (BST)
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MIAMI SHORES, Fla. -- Barry University women's tennis team locked up the No. 1 seed at the Sunshine State Conference Championships next week, following Wednesday's 8-1 win over Lynn.
The No. 2-ranked Buccaneers (21-0, 8-0 SSC) completed a perfect regular season in the conference with Wednesday's victory over the No. 8 Fighting Knights. The Bucs host NAIA No. 17 St. Thomas at 10 a.m. Saturday in the regular season finale.
Barry plays in the SSC Championships next Thursday-Saturday at South County Regional Park in Boca Raton, Fla., entering the league tournament as the top seed.
"It's always a tough match when we play Lynn," Barry head coach Avi Kigel said. "They're always one of the best teams in the country."
It started with nifty doubles play as Barry was at its best. The Buccaneers No. 1 doubles team of Elisabeth Abanda and Emma Onila, ranked No. 11 in NCAA Division II, knocked off third-ranked Valentine Confonfalonieri and Ioana Ivan, 8-5, in the final pairs match to be completed. That gave Barry a 3-0 lead.
"Lynn's No. 1 doubles is ranked No. 3 in the country for a reason," Kigel said. "We knew they were a very strong team. But we also knew that our No. 1 doubles team is very strong, and if we play the way we are capable of playing that we would have a good chance to win. It was close, but we were able to get the 'W' at the end."
Barry's No. 2 tandem of Linda Fritschken and Kimmy Twelker rolled to an 8-2 win over Ana Kriz and Aleks Vukadinovic for the Buccaneers' first point. Isabela Miro and Karina Goia upped the Bucs' lead to 2-0 with an 8-3 victory over Kim Przeszlowski and Alina Jane at the third flight.
"We got off to a really good start, being up 3-0 after doubles," Kigel said, "and we just kept our momentum going in singles."
Twelker picked up a win over Kriz, who retired with the Buccaneers' freshman leading 3-0 in the first set. That extended Barry's lead to 4-0. Ranked 33rd in the country, Fritschken sealed the team victory with a 6-1, 6-1 over Przeszlowski at No. 3 singles.
Leading 1-0 in the second set, Fritschken craftily mixed backhand with cross-court shots to chase the aggressive and athletic Przeszlowski around the court to take the next two games. Przeszlowski remained aggressive and ran down ball after ball, eventually winning a game. But with Fritschken leading 4-1 in the second set, the Bucs sophomore sewed the match away by taking the final two games.
"She was playing very smart, moving her side to side," Barry assistant coach Ana Maria Zuleta said. "She was wearing her out. As the match wore on, Linda increased the pace to finish the point faster. By increasing the pace, she got easier shots to go for winners to close up the match. Linda has the game to speed up and place shots.
"Her opponent was really good. She was defensive. Linda got a little bit more tired with those long rallies. But she played really smart, strong and aggressive."
Akemi Maehama posted a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Vukadinovic at No. 6. Goia gave the Bucs their fourth singles win when she beat Jane, 6-3, 6-2, at No. 4.
Following Onila's 6-1, 6-1 loss to the 13th-ranked Ivan at No. 2, Abanda put a bow on the Bucs victory with a signature win at the top flight. Ranked 28th in the country, Abanda beat the fourth-ranked Confalonieri, 6-4, 6-3, at No. 1.
"She just played a very solid match," Kigel said of Abanda, who has beaten the top two-ranked singles players in the South Region in this, her first, NCAA season. "She was aggressive with all of her shots. She kept pressuring Valentine the whole time, without any letdowns.
"We always knew that Bess could play at that level, and even better. She's had a little bit of ups and downs in the last four or five matches, but today she had a very solid performance. We knew that she is capable of playing at this level, which she needed to beat a really good player like Valentine. Elisabeth just needs to stay aggressive because that's her game."


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HANG TIME, Texas — Yes, it was about the money.
The Grizzlies had given far too much of it to Rudy Gay, a guy who was sitting on the sidelines nursing a bad shoulder when they scratched out the only playoff series win in franchise history.
That's not to say that Gay hasn't been a nice player during his six-plus seasons in the NBA; the kind who could often fill up the basket and make it look easy.
But that was the trouble. The Grizzlies have carved out their place, if tenuous, in the upper half of the Western Conference. Like Tina Turner and her band: they never, ever do anything nice and easy.
Gay has been barely shooting 40 percent from the field this season, checking it at a myopic 31 percent from 3-point range. For a player taking such a big bite out of the payroll, Gay too often seemed to drift, which was the rap as far back as 2006 when he was drafted eighth overall out of UConn.
Now the Grizzlies get veteran Tayshaun Prince, who can knock down the 3s, play solid defense and do all of the dirty work/little things, if he's still so inclined at 32. They also get Ed Davis' ability to finish at the rim and a couple of contracts that are far more palatable.
In short, the Grizzlies saved themselves a bundle and in a roll-of-the-dice way may have gotten some answers for a team whose chances to reach the NBA Finals this season were probably closer to a scratch-off lottery ticket than money in the bank.
Now the question is whether they'll do the right thing by coach Lionel Hollins, who's been allowed to quack like a lame duck without a new contract all season.
While the new ownership group (which is led by Robert Pera and celebrity pals Justin Timberlake and Peyton Manning) and the management team (which includes stat guru John Hollinger) are clearly making their mark on the operation, it is Hollins who has already placed his stamp on the Grizzlies.
Yes, he's often cranky and challenging. But those are the same attributes that describe the Grizzlies when they're at their best. A lot of coaches talk about professionalism and accountability, Hollins demands it. He learned during his playing career from championship teams in Portland and Philadelphia that sacrifice and teamwork are not just to be valued, but expected.
Much was made of Hollins recent statement when he said: "We get hung up on statistics a little too much, and I think that's a bad trait all over the league."
Was it a shot at Hollinger and the new regime? Or simply Hollins being Hollins? Likely a little bit of both.
In the four years since Hollins has been on the Grizzlies bench, he has pushed, prodded, cajoled, driven and turned the quaint little franchise in the league's smallest market that had never won a single playoff game into a "Grind House" team which Memphis could support. He did it by making the Grizzlies a reflection of his own personality, often flinty and contrarian.
This is Hollins' team, even if they change pieces, because they share his DNA. You can't have the "Grind House" without the head grinder.


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Author Notes: Last year, I stumbled on an interesting and useful reference book (with recipes) called, "How to Pick a Peach," by Russ Parsons. In the headnote to one of the recipes, Parsons mentions that the French chef, Michel Richard, often adds a pinch of curry powder as a seasoning for mushrooms. As Parsons notes, the curry powder adds a certain complexity to the mushrooms. It's a great idea which I've used a lot since reading about it. This recipe is a new and improved version of a mushroom ragù I've been making for as long as I can remember. I recommend that you use a tiny pinch of "Escoffier's Spices", the recipe for which I've posted here on food52. Or, you can use a "white curry" blend, included below, which is simply a curry powder without the turmeric (as I prefer not to have its bright yellow color in this dish). We like this over polenta (as shown in the photo), or atop pork chops that have been marinated in red wine and herbs before grilling. I use this as the basis for a similar dish in which I braise chicken, and in and on a simple meatloaf (turning some of the ragù into a savory mushroom ketchup). We also like this as a main dish stew, created by adding zucchini and Italian sausage. I've posted several of those recipes here on the food52 site. In the instructions below, I include tips for making this vegetarian. Enjoy!! ;o) —AntoniaJames
Serves: 4
The Ragù
12 ounces mushrooms (4 cups chopped)(I use a combination of shitakes, buttons and chanterelles, when I can get them).
1 tablespoon olive oil
3/4 cup red wine, divided (I use a Burgundy or Cotes du Rhone for this.)
1 medium yellow onion, chopped
3 medium shallots, thinly sliced
1 heaping tablespoon of bacon fat, or butter or oil, or a combination
1/4 teaspoon "Escoffier's Spices" (posted here on food52), or "white curry" spice mix (recipe follows).
2 ounces of Black Forest ham or 1 ounce of prosciutto, finely chopped
1 cup diced tomatoes in juice (canned is fine)
¼ teaspoon finely chopped fresh rosemary leaves
1 teaspoon coarsely chopped fresh thyme leaves
½ cup chicken or pork stock, or more if necessary
2 tablespoons finely chopped parsley
Freshly ground pepper to taste
The "White Curry" Spice Mix
2 teaspoons cumin seeds
2 teaspoons coriander seeds
¼ teaspoon cardamom seeds
1/2 of a small cinnamon stick
2 teaspoons yellow mustard seeds
5 whole cloves
1 teaspoon black peppercorns
The Ragù
- Heat a large non-stick skillet until fairly hot, then add the olive oil and swirl it around quickly. Add the mushrooms, stir a few times, then turn the heat down to medium low. Stir for another minute or so, then leave them alone for another three or four minutes, stirring briefly only once or twice, briefly. Turn the heat back up to medium and cook for another minute, stirring constantly.
- Put the mushrooms in a bowl and, with the pan still hot, deglaze it with 2 tablespoons of the red wine. Pour the wine and pan juices into the bowl with the mushrooms.
- Rinse and lightly wipe dry the pan. Return it to the stove and get it hot over a medium heat. Add the bacon fat, butter or oil, and the onions and shallots; stir well to coat them. Continue stirring while the onions cook for about a minute, then turn down the heat to medium low and let the onions cook for about 6 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- When the onions are a fairly uniform golden brown, add the spice blend and the chopped ham or prosciutto and stir well, cooking for another minute.
- Add the mushrooms and their liquid, and stir to combine, continuing to cook over medium heat. Then add the tomatoes, the herbs and the rest of the wine. Stir well, and then lower the heat.
- Simmer gently for ten minutes, stirring occasionally. Then add the chicken stock, and scrape down the sides of the skillet, blending everything together well. Cook for another two or three minutes, or until the sauce is reduced to your liking. Taste for seasoning and correct.
- Just before serving, add the chopped parsley and freshly ground pepper.
- Enjoy!!
- This holds very well for a couple of days, tightly covered in the fridge. In fact, it's better if it's had a chance to sit for at least a few hours before eating.
- Also, here's an idea about serving it with polenta. If you have a rich chicken stock, made using a ham bone or a slice of ham or prosciutto which you've roasted with the chicken pieces or bones (if you roast before making your stock) or included in the stock itself while cooking, use it to make the polenta. It's the best way to make polenta taste great without adding a lot of butter, cream and cheese. I usually add a tablespoon or two of grated pecorino romano anyway though, even when using the rich stock, to round out the flavor.
- To make this vegetarian, omit the ham, but add a bay leaf and ¼ cup of celery, finely chopped, a minute or two after adding the onions. And use vegetable stock instead of chicken stock. If you are serving both carnivores and vegetarians, add a bay leaf when you add the mushrooms back to the skillet. Then, take some of the ragù out for the vegetarian (or vice versa) right before adding the chicken stock; then add the ham with the stock to the carnivore's pot. Add some vegetable stock and simmer with the finely chopped celery.
The "White Curry" Spice Mix
- Toast the cumin, coriander and cardamom lightly in a small skillet just until fragrant, shaking the pan frequently. The minute they seem to be turning a darker color, remove all of the seeds right away, lest they burn.
- Break the cinnamon stick into about five or six pieces. Very lightly toast it in the skillet, shaking the pan frequently, for no more than a minute or so on medium heat.
- Grind the toasted seeds, the cinnamon stick, the mustard seeds, the cloves and the pepper to a fine powder. (Check the grinder once or twice to dislodge any cinnamon pieces that may have stuck to the blade.)
- Sift through a fine sieve. Store in a jar and use within a few weeks.
- Enjoy!! ;o)
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Mushrooms
More Great Recipes:
Bacon|Cardamom|Clove|Coriander|Cumin|Mushroom|Mustard|Parsley|Pork|Prosciutto|Red Wine|Shallot


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text: >a small 5 node cluster >1) Be able to run across a Beowulf and on a single computer, and >2) Show the immense processing capabilities of Beowulf versus a >single computer. > The applications I mentioned earlier, Seti and Dnetc, I just >realized, in the context of how I envisioned it being set up, would not >be true parallel processing, would it? Not all nodes are working >together as one "supercomputer", instead they each operate on their own >and tell a "master node" how they are coming along and that master node >just takes all the statistics, adds them up, and makes it seems like one >large multi-node computer. ... This might be a rather lame suggestion, but how about the mandlebrot fractal program ? Install MPI, compile the program, and run... It's not exactly a new idea, but it can do what you want : run on 1 or more computer, work on the same image, and scales sufficiently well to show the increase in speed. Also, it produces pretty images that might impress the ignorant :-) . Luc


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Game Design Essentials: 20 RPGs
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[In the latest in his popular Game Design Essentials series, which has previously spanned subjects from Atari games through 'mysterious games', 'open world games', 'unusual control schemes' and 'difficult games', writer John Harris examines 10 games from the Western computer RPG (CRPG) tradition and 10 from the Japanese console RPG (JRPG) tradition, to figure out what exactly makes them tick -- and why you should care.]
Introduction: (Original) Dungeons & Dragons
Designed by: Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson
Influenced by: Braunstein, a game that Dave Arneson is known to have played, predated D&D. There were also weird fiction and pulp fantasy stories and tabletop war games dating back to H.G. Wells' floor game Little Wars.
Series: No less than seven editions and many side-products. Not to mention all the CRPGs that claim to be derived from its rules. Also, those CRPGs that steal mechanics from it without attributing them.
Legacy: Nearly all RPGs.
Although it's not a CRPG, let's begin with a discussion of the original role-playing game, the edition of Dungeons & Dragons that started the role-playing game craze in 1974. It might not seem relevant to the discussion, but there are some things about the RPG genre that only really make sense when viewed in comparison with this particular game.
It may not actually have been the first role-playing game; word is that Dave Arneson participated in another game prior to its release. But D&D 1974, referred to among fans on the 'net as "OD&D," was the introduction of RPGs to practically everyone else.
First: the term "role-playing game," it seems, was not used in the original set. A search through the books and supplements of the OD&D game show a good number of uses of the word "role," as a general term for a character played by either a player or the referee, but none for "role-playing game." Neither is it used in any of the supplements.
The earliest published use seems to be either the Holmes version of the game, which slightly predates AD&D, or the last issue of TSR's early publication The Strategic Review, where it's used in describing their shiny upcoming magazine The Dragon. Until then, it seems there may have been no good name for what Dungeons & Dragons was.
This is important because "role-playing game" is one of those terms that is proscriptive in its use. It implies that players, to an extent, personify their characters. D&D arose out of a marriage between wargaming and fantasy fiction, so narrative is in its blood, but early on the most frequent type of adventure was a simple free-form dungeon crawl. If you count OD&D as a role-playing game, then you necessarily have to admit that RPGs don't have to be games of storytelling, or at least not games of "top-down," DM-driven storytelling. (RPGs have always been games of what we might call "storywriting".)
In this sense computer versions have more in common with early social roleplaying sessions than later ones. Few people play CRPGs with an eye towards acting out their characters' roles.
Second thing, the game was hard. Really hard! Characters dropped like flies! Only a small percentage of characters would ever reach level two. That might seem harsh, because it was, but it didn't chase players off because people didn't identify as strongly with characters. One tends not to get attached to characters who stand a good chance of not making it out of their first trip into the dungeon. Without storytelling, and with the game's much-simpler system -- compared, even, to AD&D 1st edition, which is not really all that dissimilar to OD&D with all the supplements applied.
This is important because many early CRPGs, and even some early JRPGs, took a similar attitude to character death. The Wizardry-influenced style of game makes death common, especially at low levels. Wizardry charges a good deal to revive a dead character, the process has a good chance of failing, and if it does it costs even more to try to revive the pile of ashes the corpse becomes. The roguelike genre continues to hold up the tradition to this day.
Third thing, the game had a strong setting and a reduced scope. OD&D is a game about exploring dungeons, and other dangerous places, and that's mostly it. High-level characters may get the opportunity to start their own little fortress or tower, but with level nine, "name level," so far away and the game so deadly, this isn't something a player can do more than hope to reach. Because dungeon exploring is ultimately a loot-harvesting game, and treasure can be obtained in ways other than fighting, characters gained one experience point per gold piece acquired. This knowledge can seem surprising to us computer gamers today, as nearly every CRPG that uses an experience system anymore doles it for fighting alone.
The XP-for-gold rule implies strongly that the DM must carefully guard his riches and not hand out gold on a whim. This need led, at times, to a kind of DM vs. players rivalry. If a DMs failed to realize this they could end up subtly nudged towards giving out extra wealth, leading to what became known as "Monty Haul" campaigns, with vast amounts of treasure distributed for little work. Second edition remedied this by switching to all combat-based experience, offering treasure XP as an option, as well as XP for completing quests.
Handing out experience points for collecting gold fits in with the '20s and '30s pulp fantasy works that inspired the game, which are fairly gritty tales with heroes are mostly in it for personal enrichment. Characters in pulp fantasy are, by D&D standards, fairly weak. Even the most powerful ones, like Conan, face significant danger from some angle or another, in his case from magic and gods. OD&D characters are never completely safe, at least not if the DM is competent.
So, why is this important? Because this attitude, that role playing is a game of loot acquisition first, is everywhere in early computer RPGs. Even those with strong save-the-world quests have a lot of loot gaining along the way. It also explains those "strange" games, like PLATO dnd, that allow characters experience, or even direct improvement, for the simple act of money-harvesting.
Fourth thing: OD&D did not include a mandatory combat system. The first books referred players to Chainmail, a prior game of Gygax's, for ideas for how to resolve battles. It had a section marked "Alternate Combat System" that would later become the standard combat mechanism D&D would use for years, but Chainmail was the official solution, and besides its use of armor class and hit points, its rules were quite different from what is now seen as standard D&D combat.
This is important because it shows is that combat play, ultimately, was not considered the defining aspect of the game. It was a replaceable system. When played with Chainmail, D&D looks a lot like a special form of wargame campaign. This may well be a contributing factor to the strong split between "exploration mode" and "combat mode" that many RPGs use to this day. OD&D didn't get the system that would ultimately become the combat method used in AD&D 1st edition, and later mutated into the "d20 System," until the first supplement, under the heading "ALTERNATIVE COMBAT SYSTEM."
Related to this is the fifth thing, and perhaps the most important of all: OD&D was poorly explained. It is impossible to play Original Dungeons & Dragons with just the first three rule books, and even the supplements left important things out. Gygax and Arneson wrote for a presumed audience of wargamers. It still managed to become popular because the game primarily spread by word-of-mouth. People didn't learn from reading the books; they learned from other people, and thus the rules of the game followed the principles of oral tradition, with the rules used as reference.
This is important because it let a hundred rulesets thrive. Different regions tended to play the game in different ways. When more rigorous rules were written, some people decided they liked their old system better and invented competing RPGs, codifying those rules, to compete with D&D. It is this very proliferation of rules that produced the wide variety of games and approaches among early CRPGs.
I am not trying to argue that the game was better or worse than present-day RPGs. It is not hard, really, to find people who would say otherwise; there is a burgeoning field of "retro-clone" RPGs out there whose purpose is to make games very much like those old systems. But the original game of Dungeons & Dragons was surprisingly different from what we remember today, and it turns out that many of the oddnesses of RPG gaming, some persisting right up to the present, have their roots in its evolution.
Some of the ideas for this introduction came from the following blogs:
- Delta's D&D Hotspot
- Jeff's Gameblog
- I Waste the Buddha With My Crossbow
- RetroRoleplaying
- Lamentations of the Flame Princess
- Grognardia
- Always Go Right
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The number of Californians who have enrolled through the state's health exchange continues to inch higher, officials said Wednesday, while a stepped-up campaign aimed at encouraging more Latinos to participate by the March 31 deadline also was announced.
A total of 828,638 state residents have enrolled in health plans through Covered California, the state's health exchange. The figure represents enrollment from when the market first opened on Oct. 1, through the first two weeks of February.
Peter Lee, the executive director of Covered California, said enrollment has exceeded projections of 580,000 residents by the March 31 deadline.
"These enrollment numbers mean that with six weeks to go, California has already exceeded its projected base enrollment for the 2014 open-enrollment period," Lee said in a statement.
"While this is a strong showing, our goal is not pinned to meeting projections, but to making sure every Californian gets covered."
Through Jan. 31, about 627,00 people were eligible for subsidies. In addition, 877,000 Californians were deemed likely eligible for Medi-Cal coverage.
"This continued high interest in quality coverage from our Medi-Cal managed care plans is very encouraging," said Toby Douglas, director of the state's Department of Health Care Services.
Meanwhile Latinos accounted for 28 percent of all those who enrolled through Covered California so far, but encouraging their participation has been a challenge. Back in December, officials with Covered California acknowledged their slow start in reaching the Latino community. The Spanish-language paper applications weren't immediately available. There also was a lack of Spanish-speaking enrollment counselors. By Covered California's estimates, at least half of the 2.2 million uninsured state residents are Latinos who qualify for government subsidized coverage.
"We had 45,745 Latinos enroll in a single month," Lee said. "We're glad to see increased momentum for enrollment in the Latino communities, but we still have work to do as we move into the final six weeks before the March 31 deadline."
At least $8.2 million has been spent on Spanish-language media by Covered California from January to March 2014, an increase of 73 percent from the October-December 2013.
In addition, Covered California has launched a new advertising campaign called "Tengo un plan de salud" or "I have a health plan" and it has developed partnerships with Southern California Latino supermarkets to include information in their weekly advertising circulars.
Much of the focus will be in the San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys, and South Los Angeles, the Inland Empire and the Central and San Joaquin valleys.


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Alan Jones won the British Grand Prix, his third win in succession even though the one in Spain had been invalidated, to extend his lead over Nelson Piquet in the drivers' championship to six points.
"This was the one race I wanted to win above all the others," he said. "I consider this my home grand prix."
At the start of the day it seemed the 100,000 crowd at Brands Hatch were set to see the Ligiers dominate. They occupied the front row and Didier Pironi eased into an early lead from Jacques Laffite, with Jones, who tried to sneak through, left floundering. "I made a better start than Laffite and drew alongside," he said. "But he moved over and I had to put my right-hand wheels on the grass to avoid him."
Within 20 laps Pironi was into the pits for new rubber, and as the day progressed it was clear the team had made the wrong call regarding tyres. Laffite took over but as he passed the pits on the 30th lap he signalled he also needed fresh tyres; he did not make it, as halfway round a deflating tyre sent him spinning into the crash fencing. Pironi, who had recovered to fifth with some bold overtaking, was also eliminated by a puncture on the 64th lap.
That allowed Jones, who admitted he thought the Ligiers "would drive off into the distance", to come through to secure the win, although he had to nurse his car home as his own tyres started to disintegrate.
Jones had another reason to smile. "I was delighted that they played the Australian national anthem, because when I won in Spain they played the Austrian anthem."
Piquet took second for Braham and the second Williams of Carlos Reutemann, the winner 12 months earlier, completed the podium. Almost unnoticed, Derek Daly took his Tyrrell to fourth place, helped by the frailty of other cars.


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Crosspaul necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 49 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Fit Fx Studio
Fitness studio that offers as the main service cycling/spin sessions on indoor trainers. We also offer Yoga, Strength training, Athlete testing, bike fitting, evaluations, etc. Owners/partners/instructors include highly qualified and experienced coaches in cycling, triathlon, and fitness.
Differentiated from other "spin studios" in that we are more specific to meet the needs of real athletes. Bike sessions take place on real bicycles. We are also partnered with a high-end bike retail store that provides services for our clientele. The studio itself features a very professional set up and design as well as "look/feel". Sound system... finishing... etc. Our GOAL or mission... is to be the BEST cycling specific fitness studio in the city of Vancouver.
We are targeting Cyclists, from beginner to expert levels. Also targeting people who ride recreationally, do yoga, & or just want to work on general fitness BUT like to train with the BEST. Our desired audience is primarily the busy young adult to middle-age professional who is time crunched and likes to stay in shape. People who generally like to buy "the best" is who we are after. A large existing market of these types of athletes exists in the city of Vancouver. People who are passionate about their fitness goals.
A logo with accompanying design for business name (text of "Fit Fx Studio")
This logo needs to be impart feeling of Athleticism... speed... fitness... !
Fx could be made to look similar to Rx (as in prescription drug symbol - see attached file)
As in "Prescription for Fitness"...
I also have added a logo that had a "chainring" as the "O" in the word studio... I like this. If you can incorporate that it would be GREAT.
The logo may include some form of a person or perhaps a wheel... even a bicycle.
We will include the colour yellow in our studio design and would like to include the colour yellow in the logo.
------ the use of colour is somewhat open...
We are suggesting Yellow, grey, red, white, black (as some to choose from)
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by Roy C. Smith
Charles D Ellis spent 10 years writing The Partnership, his much praised 2008 effort to capture the "culture" of Goldman Sachs, and so Cohan's latest effort seems a rush job to catch the last of the lingering public rage against the big banks that played so rough during the financial crisis.
Cohan interviewed former senior partners, who turned out to be much more loquacious than expected for a firm known for its secretive ways.
The glitzy New York version in Vanity Fair included a lengthy, pre-publication excerpt covering 1989-1999 when the firm had five chief executives. This was truly a messy period in the firm's history, full of juicy bits for gossips to savour.
But the piece never mentioned that these were very difficult times in both Wall Street and the City of London, when firms changed their business models drastically to survive and a great many distinguished names either failed or disappeared into mistaken or unwanted mergers.
Goldman is one firm that sailed
through this period, despite its management changes and
other tumultuous events, without slowing down much at all.
Indeed, it emerged after its initial public offering in 1999
as the unquestioned leader of the global capital markets
read the full opinion-editorial on efinancialnews.com


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Wild Canyon Games 2012 – Extreme Geocaching
Four geocachers finally stood atop the rock covered peak of a desert vista. The geocachers could see the horizon stretch out before them for miles. Geocaching.com Lackeys Colin Williams (Colin) and Jenn Seva (MissJenn), accompanied by two other geocachers, climbed high enough to look down on the flight path of an observation helicopter.
There were no homes to be seen. They squinted to even find a road. But hidden on the largest geocaching course in the world – 55 square miles – 450 geocaches waited in crevasses and cracks, bushes and trees, to be discovered. Colin and Jenn were part of one of two Geocaching.com teams competing in the Wild Canyon Games. The Wild Canyon Games is a team-based adventure race competition.
Colin and Jenn's GPS coordinates told them a geocache was somewhere on that peak. They teamed up with other geocachers to find it. Geocaching is just one event in two days worth of adventure games.
In the geocaching event hundreds of competitors had four hours to accumulate the most points – by logging geocaches and recording the unique codes inside. Each geocache carried a point value based on its difficulty, terrain, and distance from the start.
The course crawled with more than 600 geocachers. Teams plotted strategy to unlock the geocaching route they believe would deliver them the most points. They raced the clock.
Nearly 130 teams from the Pacific Northwest of the United States competed in the games.
Colin says they had to take the long detour to try to find just one cache – to help even the playing field, "Sure, we climbed the highest mountain in the area. If we spent the whole time geocaching it would have been unfair to the rest of the field."
Lackeys helped the rest of the field prepare for the event. The Lackey teams assisted competitors by downloading the waypoints on GPS devices and offering GPS device training before the geocaching event began. Groundspeak's two teams of seven also competed in an Olympic length relay triathlon and a seven stage relay which included, among other obstacles, a 50 foot canyon swing, an elevated ropes course, and a zip-line.
Lackey Annie Love (Love) completed the zip line safely. But she says, her fate seemed a little unsure at the top of the tower, "As I was about to step off the Zip Line platform, I had a quick thought of 'OMG, I am going to die!!' and then I thought to myself 'My team needs me.' and I leaped off."
The weekend wrapped up with a team relay race called Creek to Peak that features Cyclo-Cross, an obstacle course, a lake sprint swim, two mountain sprints, and much more.
But for Lackeys like Constance Baldwin, it was the geocaching that defined the weekend. She says, "Geocaching brought us together in sometimes adverse terrain and we cared for each other. It was extremely profound for me personally and made me love the game and Groundspeak and what we do even more."
Wild Canyon Games 2013 is already being planned for next year. When asked by the emcee of the event, "Are you coming back next year?" Lackey Bethany Buer simply said, "Duh!" And we hope to see you there.
A special thanks to the Wild Canyon Games organizers and Paul Tannahill (Pablo Mac) and his team for preparing the geocaching course.


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Team Maggie Afternoon Update Day 9
Lots to cheer about today! After 7 tough days, there was great news this morning, and the news seems to just be getting better! From Mom Lauren
Today has been a good day! Not only was Maggie's bilirubin down but her lab report shows that she has some monocytes..these are basically baby white blood cells that will turn into neutrophils!
The doctor said that while her mouth is still full of sores and she still has all the mucous that it looks a little better today which is a sign that something is definitely happening with her bone marrow because typically the white cells will first go to those areas and try to heal them! Maggie has such a long way to go and this doesn't mean that things are perfect but it is such a huge step!! It could still be a few days before we see any true white blood cells but that's ok!
She got platelets just now and has been up all day! She is currently out of bed watching her iPad on the couch..first time she has been out of bed since last weekend!
Your prayers are working and I couldn't be more grateful!!!
Please keep praying. Pray for a peaceful Friday night. Pray for a sense of calmness for Maggie and Lauren. Pray that they have a good day. Pray for healing.
Please upload a photo! I know that Lauren has been heartened and strengthened by the love and support. Have a look at them, you'll feel stronger too.The page is being updated constantly as we receive submissions. WE HAVE OVER 80 PICTURES UP ON THE WEBSITE! You can either upload them HERE or email them to me firstname.lastname@example.com
You can make a donation to help defray the medical and travel costs associated with Maggie's care. Maggie has been down in Boston for 3 weeks. I know there are family going down this weekend to help Lauren and Maggie, but let's face it, gas is expensive. If you want to make a donation, click HERE for the details.
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Pity may have kept Bilbo from killing Gollum, but not everyone shares that compassion. Gollum died after leading the hobbits into Shelob's lair but before he bit the Ring off Frodo's hand.
What happens when Frodo decides to keep the Ring?
1. One-Shot Story (option one): Sam won't accept Frodo's decision. They've gone too far to fail now. Will he fight Frodo to destroy the ring himself? If he gets the Ring, will he be able to succeed where his friend failed?
2. One-Shot Story (option two): How does Gollum die? Who kills him and why? Was it Frodo? Did he finally go mad and kill the wretch so he'd stop trying to take the Ring? Did Sam, who knew the truth about Gollum's desire for the Ring, feel it was the only way to protect Frodo? Perhaps Sauron's servant (who sent him on an errand of mischief) discovered he failed and punished him for it?
Maybe Gollum wandered to the west side of the mountains in search of food and water or on another errand. Did Faramir find him wandering alone and assume he'd killed the two hobbits? Was it Legolas, who was angered by the shame Gollum brought to the woodland elves by escaping their dungeons? Or was he killed by someone completely unexpected?
3. Short Story: As Isildur's fate was drastically effected for the worse, so is Frodo's. What happens to the Hobbit? Describe everything from the moment he keeps the Ring until it arrives in Sauron's possession.
4. Novel-length Story: Frodo finds himself taken captive by Sauron's armies. Now the Dark Lord has his Precious back. What havoc does the hobbit's failure cause for Middle Earth's people? How does the land change in nature and civilization? How does the Ring get recaptured and destroyed?
For "extra credit", don't add Original Characters.
5. Other Inspiration: Tell another story inspired by and related to the basis of this challenge.
Categories: Book-verse, Movie-verse
Characters: Frodo, Sam, Sauron
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Categories: Movie-verse Characters: Aragorn, Frodo, Gandalf / Olorin, Legolas, Merry, Nazgûl, Pippin, Sam, Sauron
Genres: Friendship, Horror, Tragedy
Warnings: Character Death, First Draft
Challenges: Descent into Madness
Series: None
Chapters: 4 Table of Contents
Completed: No Word count: 2378 Read Count: 5764


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In most cases, your order will be processed and sent on the day it is received at Excellence Billiards NZL before 3pm (New Zealand) Monday - Friday. Please allow 1 business day for order to be processed just in case. If an ordered product is on back-order, discontinued, or any other irregularity, we will let you know through email or telephone within one business day (Monday - Friday) of placing your order.
Excellence Billiards NZL does not process orders on weekends or holidays.
Order Shipment Time
New Zealand: 1-4 working days on all stocked items (National Courier)
International: 4-10 working days on all stocked items (International Courier)
Excellence Billiards NZL carries a large stock of the Pool cues, Pool cases, and Billiard accessories depicted on our website. Our large stocking practices are what we feel separates us from other online Pool / Billiard supplies and auction style sites that simply drop ship their products direct from various Pool / Billiard wholesalers.
If we happen to be out of one of your items ordered and expect the item to be out of stock for some time, we will have the manufacturer ship the item directly to you. If you ordered additional items that we have in stock, we will ship your items directly to you from our warehouse using the shipping method you select and pay for ground shipping to you from the manufacturer on the out of stock item.
We feel that just because we might be out of an item, you, as our customer, should not be responsible for any additional shipping fees that could have been avoided if we had the item in stock. Due to the high costs of shipping international orders, only one shipment overseas will be possible. Out of stock orders will be held until all the merchandise can be shipped as one.
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If a package arrives damaged, note the damage and call us immediately. If the driver is still present, ask that the damage be noted. This will expedite shipping claims. Do not discard product or packaging. The carrier may wish to inspect the package before paying a claim.
If the package is damaged but the merchandise looks unaffected, note the damage on all delivery receipts before signing. If the package is damaged to an extent, the merchandise may be damaged, refuse delivery and call Excellence Billiards NZL +64 9 443-7227
If you find an item damaged after delivery, retain shipping carton, packing materials, and notify the carrier as well as Excellence Billiards NZL immediately. Excellence Billiards NZL ships all single cues and shafts in a very heavy duty tube that we have had little if any shipping problems with to ensure your new cue or shafts safety.
Excellence Billiards NZL is not responsible for any delay caused by the shipping company. We will help replace products in a timely manner as our goal is your customer satisfaction.
Please inspect your shipment carefully upon arrival. Un-pack your order, inventory all items ordered, and report any shortage immediately. If it is a small part or item you are missing, please look carefully throughout the package and packaging material as small items can become dislodged during the shipping process. Customers have 5 days from delivery to report any discrepancy between what was ordered and what was actually shipped.
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If an item is missing or a wrong item has been shipped due to our error, the problem will be corrected at our shipping expense. Excellence Billiards NZL will pay for the pickup of the wrong item as well as the delivery of the correct item. If you have inadvertently ordered the wrong item or wrong type due to customer error, the customer will be liable for shipping expenses to and from Excellence Billiards NZL to correct the problem.
Colours and stains may vary from what is shown on our site. We do our best to describe the items and depict them in great detail, however, it is impossible for a perfect match to be made as colours on computer monitors will vary and custom cue makers prefer to have slight differences between their cues to set them apart.
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Warranty claims are subject to the policy or discretion of the original product manufacturer. Warranty information is included with the products, or may be found on their respective web sites. Rest assured that Excellence Billiards NZL will help in any way possible with any warranty claims you might have.
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Sure it seems a little sleazy, writing a fat check under cover of darkness in an attempt to sabotage your competition. Billionaire Chris Hansen's secret contribution to a group trying to thwart the construction of a new Sacramento arena – even after Hansen had lost his bid to buy and move the Kings to Seattle – smacked of gutter tactics, like Alex Rodriguez allegedly throwing other PED users under the MLB bus or the old Committee to Re-Elect The President [CREEP] of Watergate and Woodward-Bernstein fame.
But just because something isn't sporting, old chaps, doesn't mean that it's going to get in the way of smart business.
A proper sense of perspective figures to prevail if and when Hansen, on behalf of Seattle, attempts again to return the NBA to that city. That perspective looks something like this:
- $80,000 < $509 billion.
Every day of the week and twice on Sunday, as a matter of fact.
Adam Silver, NBA deputy commissioner and the man who will slide over one spot when David Stern retires Feb. 1 after 30 years in the job, assured Seattle reporters that Hansen's bit of chicanery likely would not be a deal breaker if he were to make another bid for an NBA team, via either relocation or expansion.
Hansen and two political consultants agreed Monday to pay a $50,000 fine for failing to disclose the donation for a petition effort on behalf of arena opponents. Its goal: Force a citywide vote on Sacramento's $258 million in public subsidy to the project. Hansen's bid of $625 million was rejected by the NBA Board of Governors, who chose as Kings buyers a group led by Vivek Ranadive for $535 million.
The anti-arena donation, which violated California campaign-disclosure laws, raised some eyebrows over Hansen's tactics but probably won't place hurdles in front of a renewed Seattle effort, should Hansen still be involved, reported Percy Allen of the Seattle Times:
"I would say it won't affect Seattle's chances," Silver said Sunday in Springfield, Mass., before the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame ceremony. "I haven't talked to Chris since those allegations came out. I think as he said, he got caught up in the moment."
Silver also said:
"We have a lot of competitive owners in the league," he said "I'm sure all of that will be put behind us."
To put it another way: NBA owners didn't get to be multi-millionaires and billionaires by letting little ethical hiccups get in the way of megadeals. Hansen's ploy was bad form, embarrassing and worthy of some tsk-tsking in the mahogany-paneled inner sanctum. But a hastily stroked, pull-no-punches check for $80,000 isn't about to scuttle a deal that could deliver a half billion dollar (or more) windfall as an expansion fee to be divvied up among the current 30 teams (that is the Forbes 2013 average franchise value, which was how Charlotte was valued when it entered in 2004). Or an even bigger payday for one of the league's poorer sisters, moving the revenue-sharing NBA back into the USA's No. 12 TV market.
The NBA, through Stern and the Governors, has been known to drive home political, financial and even ethical points before. It took a stand, some would say, choosing the lower bid so the Kings could stay in Sacramento. (And it did not, Seattle fans might allege, in allowing Oklahoma City businessman Clay Bennett to abscond with SuperSonics in the first place.)
But if Hansen remains the most viable option as a deep-pocketed Seattle owner, and the best candidate to land the $200 million subsidies for a new $490 million arena, there's no way the NBA and its owners snub him. A Sonics redux would be good for business, with a lot more zeroes involved than the regrettable check Hansen cut.


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text: Hi Eric, Eric Thibodeau wrote: > The "gists" of it: > I need to generate graphics of execution sequences to explain how a process > (ie: sGA, sMOGA) runs sequentially and then show where and how this process > can be split up. The graphics I am thinking of are traditionally horizontal > bars which are usually split up into multiple parallel sub-portions as the > process gets dissected by the author...me ;) . These bars can be commented > with either time ticks, variable names, zoomed portions, etc. This sounds like a gantt chart (project plan) to me. Have you looked at GanttProject - http://ganttproject.org/ I had a play with it about 18 months ago, but have never used it for real work. HTH Cheers f. P.S. At work I use a windows based non open source one :-( which will let you split tasks and have a finer time resolution.


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Nurturing a Culture of Integrity?
At the World Bank Spring Meetings last week, there was a very interesting discussion, moderated by Femi Oke, on the topic of "Investment, Infrastructure, and Integrity," On the panel were a few worthies from the private sector, Karan Bhatia, of General Electric, Peter Solmssen of Siemens AG, and Julio Rojas of Standard Chartered Bank, along with Rashad Kaldany and Janmitra Devan of the World Bank. They were joined by the Minister of Finance of Indonesia, Agus Martowardojo, and the Secretary of Finance of the Philippines, Cesar Purisima.
The issue is a prickly one: How to promote clean business in large infrastructure projects? It is unavoidable for the World Bank, the private sector and governments to be involved in infrastructure, so it is essential that the reputation of the infrastructure sector be tied to integrity. At the same time, the response to corruption has to be pragmatic. The challenge is to figure out the balance and respond appropriately and make "risk-based" decisions, versus "rules-based" decisions. The panelists alluded to the role of knowledge and the open dissemination of knowledge on private-sector business dealings and in government contracting and procurement to spur accountability and governance in this arena. There was agreement that the World Bank's open agenda would be helpful in pushing this forward.
The panel was asked to share their individual "principles" to achieve integrity.


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