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Psycho Moto
Psycho Moto is a zine created by Ethan H. Minsker, and published by the Antagonist Art Movement in New York City, New York, U.S.A.
Psycho Moto began as East Coast Exchange, a Washington D.C./New York City based zine created in 1988. Copies were produced illicitly by friends who worked in copy shops during Minsker's college years in NYC and in Washington D.C. during Minsker's summer breaks. The original focus was Washington D.C.'s and New York City's punk and hardcore music scenes. By 1994, ECE had transformed into Psycho Moto from a realization that there are few opportunities for struggling artists and writers to showcase their work. This zine served as a platform for exposure, and by the year 2000, became the inspiration for the formation of the Antagonist Art Movement.
The latest manifestation of PMZ relaunched in mid-2012 after a several year hiatus, and can now be found in hard-copy form and online at Scribd.com. The zine is put out every two months or so, and includes art, short fiction and non-fiction, and reviews (music, books, etc). A recurring theme in the zine's modern incarnation is "Death to Blogs," emphasizing the importance of independent print publications in the digital era.
In the late '90s, PMZ was featured in the Youth exhibit at New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City's SoHo district.
English is the majority language, but pieces have also been published in Spanish to incorporate the cross-culture connections of the Antagonist Movement. Future issues hope to include more languages and distribution in more countries. During the course of the almost 20 years of issues, PMZ has been sent to more than 100 countries, including Japan, France, Germany, Mexico, Ireland, Poland, Hong Kong, China, Austria, and the UK.
While most content comes from members and affiliates of the Antagonist Movement, outside submissions are welcomed and encouraged. The submissions email can be found on the Facebook page.
Current Staff
Ethan H. Minsker – publisher, editor-in-chief
Marissa Bea – editor/contributor
Kristin Brzoznowski – editor
Eric Wallin – designer/layout
Notable Contributors
Seth Abrams – writer
Richard Allen – writer
Janine Annett – writer
Raul Ayala – artist
Jason Boog – writer
Jose Carmona – artist
Brother Mike Cohen – writer
Patrick Craig – writer
Crispy T – writer/artist
Timothy Danger – writer
Shannon Daugherty – artist
Kimberly de Los Angeles – writer
Greg Di Gesu – writer
Alexis Duque – artist
Jose Egas – writer
Kirsten Flaherty – artist
Dave Fox – artist
J. Glovsky – writer
Megan Hanford – writer
Un Lee – artist
Kristy McCarthy – writer
Brendan McMullan – writer
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Oscar Nieto – artist
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Patricio Ponce – artist
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Ulices Rosales Rodriguez – artist
James Rubio – artist
Christy Schick – writer
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Michael Stewart – artist
Dan Tagonist – writer
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Jordan Turner – writer/artist
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Kelly Clarkson + Bruno Mars Perform Their New Singles on 'X Factor'
The original 'American Idol' Kelly Clarkson jumped reality show ships and kicked off the 'X Factor' results episode tonight (Nov. 23) by performing her new single 'What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger),' complete with graphic novel-type images flashing behind her. Our favorite? The fist that pumped while featuring words from the lyrics. She wasn't the only pop star to provide the entertainment on a tense episode. Crooner Bruno Mars also took the stage to show 'em how it's done.
Clarkson, wrapped in a beige bandage dress, is the original reality talent competition winner, so if there is anyone who understands the position the current crop of contestants are in, it's Clarkson.
We were sort of surprised that Clarkson didn't interact with judges Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul post-performance, since this was a reunion of sorts, as all three started off on 'Idol' together. Then again, the ep was only an hour and two acts were being sent home, so time was at a premium. That, coupled with the fact that Steve Jones is always cutting everyone off, meant no time for chatter.
At the midpoint of the show, Bruno Mars performed his new single 'It Will Rain,' with his signature hat and all. He stood on a riser and was drenched in red and orange lights at first. Then the lighting switched and began flashing to simulate lightning to match the lyrical content. It was all about Mars' voice during his performance of this heartfelt ballad.
Watch Kelly Clarkson Perform 'What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger)' on 'X Factor'
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In his highly acclaimed, controversial, international best-selling book, From Unconsciousness to Consciousness (first published in 1984), the great mystic and philosopher, Osho, says:
"There is no life after death, as you know life. And if there is any life you have to learn to live now, and you have to live it so totally and intensely that if there is any life after death you will be able to live there too. If there is not, there is no question. That should always be the rational person's approach."
"I don't say anything about heaven or hell, punishment or reward. I simply say to you: go on dying to the past so it is not a burden on your head. And do not live in the future, which is not yet. Concentrate your whole energy here now. Pour it into this moment, with totality, with as much intensity as you can manage. And in that moment you will feel life. To me that life is equivalent to God. There is no other God than this life. Of course, if after death you survive, you will know the art of living and you will continue. If you don't survive, there is no problem."
"…death everywhere is worshiped, glorified, and the world beyond death is emphasized continuously: that you have to sacrifice this life for that life which is to come after death. My emphasis is just the opposite: sacrifice that for this. Sacrifice everything for this moment. Rejoice this moment, and if you are capable of rejoicing this moment, you will be able to erase the suicidal instinct from your being completely."
"If you can rejoice in this life totally, you will not be bothered at all what happens after death — because so much will be happening now that you cannot imagine that more is possible."
One on One with Osho
Excerpts from two interviews between Osho and members of the international Press (Bill Harlan, Denver Post and Christ Keizer, The Boston Globe).


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By: Mike Springer
March 14, 2013
Tallahassee, FL-A Tallahassee man accused of running two internet cafes raided by Federal agents went before a judge Thursday morning.
Reginald Medlin appeared in a Leon County Courtroom on charges of keeping a gambling house, money laundering and manufacturing the sale or possession of slot machines.
A judge ordered Medlin to be held on $250,000 dollars bond.
He will eventually be taken to Seminole County to face those charges.
By: Lanetra Bennett
March 13, 2013
At least eight law enforcement officers waited as a locksmith opened the door to Allied Veterans Internet Center on South Monroe Street in Tallahassee.
It was just after 9:30 Wednesday morning when agents with the I.R.S., the Gambling Task Force, and the Leon County Sheriff's Office went inside to execute a search warrant.
"I think for the past three or four months I think they've been doing something illegal." Says, Martha Ratcliff, a frequent customer at Allied Veterans Internet Center.
The Highway 90 West location was also searched.
The Tallahassee cafes were on a list of 54 search warrants executed in 23 Florida counties and five other states.
FDLE says Allied Veterans was operating under the guise of "internet cafes."
They say the organization falsely claimed to be a charitable veterans' organization, but instead was a $300 million racketeering and money laundering scheme.
Customer Angela Hall says, "A lot of people have come here and spent lots and lots of money here thinking that they would win and knowing all the while they were stealing their money from them."
Agents came out of the Monroe Street center more than two hours after they went in carrying boxes and bags. Authorities seized slot machines and records.
There's a sign on the front door that says, 'Closed until further notice due to computer failure.'
Ratcliff says, "No, I'm not surprised on that because from what I could see, that's what it was leading to."
Ratcliff says she goes to the South Monroe Street location often. She says she's complained to management about the machines.
She says, "It'll just keep spinning and spinning and spinning. When you hit 'reveal,' it's supposed to spin one time. But, it was doing like 20. you hit 'reveal,' it'll do 20, sometimes not stop. Everybody was complaining about this."
Multi-state gambling, racketeering, and money laundering organization dismantled
~57 conspirators tied to running gambling centers under guise of "internet cafes"~
SEMINOLE CO. (March 13, 2013) – Local, state and federal law enforcement officials and prosecutors today announced the charging of 57 individuals for their roles in an organized $300 million conspiracy orchestrated by Allied Veterans of the World. Operation "Reveal the Deal" uncovered a sophisticated racketeering and money laundering scheme stemming from 49 illegal gambling centers operating under the guise of "internet cafes." The organization falsely claimed to be a charitable veterans' organization, but instead deceived the public and government while lining the pockets of its operators.
Law enforcement officers yesterday began executing 54 search warrants and 57 arrest warrants in 23 Florida counties and five additional states, rounding up individuals and evidence involved in the conspiracy. Investigators are seizing slot machines and records from Allied Veterans of the World gambling centers across the state, as well as 80 vehicles and vessels, 170 properties, and 260 bank accounts estimated in the tens of millions of dollars.
Allied Veterans of the World was led by four co-conspirators: Johnny Duncan, 62, of Boiling Springs, S.C., Jerry Bass, 62, of Jacksonville, Fla., Chase Burns, 37, of Fort Cobb, Okla., and Kelly Mathis, 49, also of Jacksonville, Fla. Duncan serves as the former national commander of the organization, Bass is the current commander, and Mathis is the organization's attorney. Burns owns and operates International Internet Technologies and provided the software used by the gambling centers.
The organization is federally registered as a 501(c)(19), a tax-exempt veterans organization, and touts that it operates for charitable purposes. Instead, investigators allege it ran gambling centers and illegal slot machines, funneling the illegal proceeds through a sophisticated web of for-profit corporations that paid off the Allied Veterans of the World management, software provider and lawyer. More than 100 for-profit corporations and a combination of shell companies and internet cafes were utilized to conceal the illegal activity and funds generated by the gambling centers. Investigators found that during the period January 2008 to January 2012, less than 2 percent of the $300 million in gambling center revenues was given to charity.
Investigators believe the four co-conspirators received a combined more than $90 million in proceeds from the scheme. They were charged with Racketeer and Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO); RICO conspiracy; manufacture, sale, possession of slot machines; lottery; keeping gambling houses; and money laundering. Duncan was booked into the Spartanburg County Detention Facility (South Carolina), Bass was booked into the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Jail, Burns was booked into the Caddo County Jail (Oklahoma), and Mathis was booked into the John E. Polk Correctional Facility in Seminole County.
The other 53 conspirators (see attached list) are associated with the illicit enterprise and operated the gambling centers, hiding their portion of a combined $194 million in gambling proceeds. These subjects reside in Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Georgia. They face multiple counts of gambling, slot machines, lottery, money laundering and RICO. As of 1 p.m. today, 49 have been arrested. Among them are Nelson Cuba, 48, and Robert Freitas, 47, both of Jacksonville, Fla. The two are law enforcement officers who serve as the President and Vice-President of the Fraternal Order of Police's Jacksonville Lodge. The investigation found they received more than $500,000 through a shell corporation during an 18-month period. The two withdrew cash weekly, attempting to avoid detection by removing amounts just below mandatory federal reporting requirements. Cuba and Freitas both face the additional money laundering charge of structuring transactions to evade reporting or registration requirements. They were booked into the John E. Polk Correctional Facility in Seminole County.
All charges are first degree felonies and all of the subjects arrested will be initially held on a no bond status.
Operation "Reveal the Deal" began in July 2009 and was conducted by the Seminole County Sheriff's Office, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Internal Revenue Service, and the United States Secret Service. The agencies worked in partnership with the Florida Attorney General's Office of Statewide Prosecution and the United States Attorney's Office.
For a copy of the charging affidavit, go to: http://www.seminolesheriff.org/media/Login.aspx . Please note there are two files available for download: the affidavit and the related items. User name is scsomedia and password is m3diaUser1
WCTV was first on scene and is still investigating. Law enforcement went inside the internet cafe around 9:40 am. They are still inside.
We'll bring you more information as it becomes available.
Tallahassee, FL - About a dozen law enforcement officers are inside a Tallahassee Internet Café.
The Allied Veterans cafe is located on South Monroe Street in the Winn Dixie shopping plaza.
WCTV was first on the scene this morning. Our reporter arrived just after 9 a.m. At that time, investigators were waiting outside the café.
A locksmith let them inside the building.
Agents are still on scene.
Federal agents have been investigating the Allied Veterans of the World. Officials from that non-profit internet cafe company were recently arrested on racketeering charges. The owner was arrested Tuesday in connection to allegations that he made $290 million after supplying illegal gambling software in Florida and claiming the games' proceeds would benefit a veterans group.
Authorities also interviewed Florida Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll who resigned from office this morning.


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There is a certain irony in the fact that statists are trying to get people riled up about global warming. History's warm eras–Roman times, the Medieval Warm Period, and the current warm cycle that follows the Little Ice Age–have been good times for humans and for the vast majority of animals. It is cold periods that we should dread, which is why the statists' first choice, back in the 1970s, was to claim that human civilization is bringing about another Ice Age.
Now that's something to worry about! Anthony Watts reminds us of the real climate threat, bearing in mind that, geologically speaking, we are still living in the Ice Age. This graphic compares the depth of the ice during the last Ice Age with the height of current skyscrapers in several northern cities:
Where I am sitting right now, in suburban Minneapolis, the ice was a half mile thick, if I remember correctly. That would put us somewhere between Chicago and Boston–in other words, way higher than my house. A return of colder weather would be an utter disaster for the human race and for most animals. An increase of a half a degree in average global temperature? Seriously? Bring it on!


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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...This is a perfect dressing to serve with a cider brined turkey like the one I featured yesterday. While there is some chopping involved, the dressing is easy to make and it is a perfect accompaniment for turkey on Thanksgiving Day. While I prefer to bake the mixture, it can also be used to stuff the turkey if that is more to your liking. The dressing is flavorful and moist and I know that those of you who try it will be pleased with its unique flavor combination. Here's how it is made.
Apple, Sage and Sausage Stuffing...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of Whole Foods
1 loaf sourdough hearth bread, cut into 1/2-inch cubes (about 11 cups)
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
3/4 pound fresh mild pork or chicken sausage, bulk or removed from casings
4 Braeburn, Gala or other apples, cored and diced
3 ribs celery, thinly sliced
1 large onion, diced
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2-1/2 cups low-sodium chicken broth
1/3 cup chopped fresh sage leaves
3/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1) Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. Spread bread cubes out on two baking sheets and bake until dried but not browned, about 15 minutes. Transfer to a large bowl.
2) Meanwhile, in a large skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add sausage and cook, breaking up chunks with a spoon, until browned, about 6 minutes. Add apples, celery, onion and butter and cook, stirring occasionally, until apple and vegetables are softened, 8 to 10 minutes more. Add to bread. Stir in broth, sage, salt and pepper.
3) If using mixture to stuff a turkey, cool completely before stuffing. If baking separately, heat oven to 350 degrees F; bake in a buttered casserole dish until lightly browned and crisp on top, 50 to 60 minutes. Yield: 12 to 14 servings.
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We are a small business trying to compete with the large companies...we can do this and grow to survive the competitive world of business through a great web site...we are engineers who want to help make the world a better place through green energy technology.
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Credit Suisse Names New Heads of Greater China
Credit Suisse AG has made two new appointments in its Greater China team months after a global reshuffling of its management team.
In a statement Friday, the Swiss bank said it promoted Neil Harvey as chief executive officer, Hong Kong. Mr. Harvey, who has been with Credit Suisse for 13 years, was most recently head of Asia Pacific and global emerging markets for the asset management unit. He was also previously head of the investment-banking division and fixed-income for Asia excluding-Japan at the bank.


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Historical artefacts from Ilkley could be lost to the town unless crunch talks this month come up with firm plans for the future of Ilkley's threatened Manor House Museum, it is feared.
Concern is growing that Bradford Council may withdraw its staff and close the Ilkley museum within months as part of proposed budget cuts, unless an agreement for community management is reached.
Further talks are due to take place this month, it has been revealed, as Bradford Council seeks to hand over the management of the museum to the community.
Local councillors and supporters of the museum were told last month the museum could be "mothballed" by Bradford Council if no group comes forward to take it over.
One of those leading the push to keep the museum open fears a withdrawal of professional museum staff could lead to the Manor House losing its museum accreditation – and pieces of local heritage being sent to storage in Bradford.
The Museum on Castle Yard, on the site of an ancient Roman fort, houses Roman and prehistoric finds discovered in and around the town, and exhibits donated by local residents.
But Bradford Council, which is currently consulting on its budget proposals for 2014 to 2016, has yet to announce what is to become of the Manor House if it is not successfully transferred to community management as planned.
Chairman of supporters group Friends of the Manor House, John Cockshott, told Ilkley Parish Council this week: "Withdrawal of all professional staff could mean loss of museum accreditation, so potentially diversion to Bradford central stores of Ilkley artefacts."
The Friends has stressed it is not constituted to run the museum, but may provide some volunteers.
Mr Cockshott said the museum would be better off remaining in the hands of Bradford Council. He felt it was disproportionate for the Ilkley museum to bear the brunt of the cutbacks.
Councillor Brian Mann called for earlier notification by Bradford Council of such major changes.
He said: "It was at the meeting on December 16 that the bombshell was dropped that with three months notice the Manor House could be mothballed." Coun Brian Mann added: "To be honest I don't think that's on at all."
Parish Council chairman and Ilkley ward councillor, Mike Gibbons, is to request a meeting with Bradford Council Culture portfolio holder, Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe, about the museum.
Another ward councillor, Anne Hawkesworth (Ind, Ilkley), however, is urging those involved in the push to save the museum to come up with a "radical solution".
She said: "Different people find one or the other the most interesting. For me it is the building – the contents can go anywhere. Much originally came from the library. I do not think jumping up and down is going to achieve anything on this occasion."
Bradford Council officer Sue Gledhill, of the Keighley Area Co-ordinator's Office, told parish councillors a co-ordinated approach to the council on such issues is good, but many representations from individuals on the budget proposals would give more credibility to the local case.


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Obviously, you need enough room. If you're only talking about four to eight nodes, you might well be able to build it in your office (presuming that your office is no smaller than mine). In fact, my current home beowulf is ``in my office'' - four nodes under desks in various rooms of the house, plus my own desk node and a small stack of ``dedicated'' nodes shelved next to the desk. I could easily stack up six to eight mid towers next to my desk, and have enough power and AC to service them (they live in recently renovated space that I engineered for a small cluster). I probably couldn't stack up sixteen, though, for a variety of reasons.
If you are planning to stack more than two units high, you will likely want shelves so that you don't have to unbuild your whole stack to get to a single node in the middle for service. My mini-mid towers are roughly 8x18x18 (inches), so I need at least two feet of space from a wall (to allow for cords and stuff) 16 inches wide and around 36 high to build a four node stack. With open shelves, I'd probably add two inches horizontally and four to six inches vertically to make it easy to get nodes in and out and allow a bit of air to circulate around the boxes.
A BIG shelved beowulf is most conveniently built well away from any wall, so that you can walk right around it. That way you can easily get to the back and do the cabling, can slide units in or out for service, and can keep air flowing through the whole thing to keep it cool. The same is generally true for rackmount beowulfs - even though the racks are often on wheels or casters, it's preferrable not to have to move them to get to either the front or the back.
Make sure that the floor of your space is in fact strong enough to support your beowulf. A loaded PC case might weigh anything from 10 pounds to 40 pounds (power supplies, especially, can be very heavy) and the shelving (if any) adds to the weight. Stack up enough of them on a few square feet of an upstairs room of a woodframe house and you can make the house quite unhappy. Remember, it's so embarrassing11.3 when all that hardware (and you) plunge down on your pets and children in the living room in the event that you fundamentally overload the structure - I personally just hate it when that happens.
Even in an office-type building, if you crank three fully loaded full-size racks into a small office you can have a similar experience. Estimates published on the beowulf list for the weight of a fully loaded rack (I asked!) can range anywhere from 700 to perhaps 1500 pounds and even if nobody gets hurt when it crashes through the floor it would be an expensive mistake. In a lot of cases, organizations with a rackmount beowulf will also have a big UPS, which can also weigh in close to a ton in a footprint similar to that of a rack (1600 pounds on about 3 feet by 3 feet was reported on the list).
Another thing to remember is that you almost certainly want it to be twice the size that you think you ``need'' it to be at first. You need room for the physical nodes. You need room to walk around the physical nodes, attaching wires, punching switches, and generally looking busy if the boss comes buy. Assuming that you're not the boss, of course. Room for a desk or table capable of holding a monitor, an office chair, even a small workbench with a trusty electric screwdriver, multimeter, portable flashlight, and some bins for screws and whatnot is called for (and you should start scrounging for all of this stuff if you don't already have it handy). You need room to assemble and disassemble nodes, room to sit and work on node software via a workstation sitting on the desk, room to store various things. Finally, the robustness of your beowulf to failures in cooling depend mightily on how big the room is - how much ``thermal ballast'' does it provide. We'll talk about this further below.
Once you've gotten the size and the strength of the space worked out, you are by no means done. The next thing to work out is how to feed the beowulf what it needs to live and how to remove its waste products11.4.


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1. To stand up straight, as tall as one can. I know you feel self-conscious about being so much taller than everyone else, but please, try to draw yourself up for the group photo.
2. To stand up straight in a show of indignation. After Andrew made those rude comments about me, I drew myself up and stormed out of the office.


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The virotype Influenza A RT-PCR Kit allows the safe detection of RNA from influenza A virus in samples from birds and pigs. The kit contains all of the reagents for real-time RT-PCR in a single ready-to-use reaction mix. It can be used with oropharyngeal, tracheal, and cloacal swabs, fecal samples, or tissue samples from birds, and nasal swabs, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF), and tissue samples from swine. It can also be used with cell culture supernatants. Due to the high sensitivity of the test, pools of up to 10 individual swab samples can be tested.
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virotype Influenza A RT-PCR Kit detects RNA from Influenza A virus. A validation study of 343 samples, with known influenza A status (186 positive and 157 negative; kindly provided by the OIE and National Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza / Fowl Plague [AI] and private laboratories), was tested with the virotype Influenza A RT-PCR Kit. Of 186 positive samples, 178 samples tested positive, providing a diagnostic sensitivity of 96%. In this study all negative samples tested negative, providing a diagnostic specificity of 100%. In addition, a titration series was performed with ten-fold dilutions from 108 to 10 copies/well of influenza A RNA. The results demonstrate a high correlation (99%) between the number of copies and the amount of amplification product in the range from 108 to 100 copies/well, and positive detection of the virus down to 10 copies/well (see the figure Sensitive detection of Influenza A RNA).
This is a real-time RT-PCR kit for the detection of RNA from influenza A virus. RT-PCR is based on the amplification of specific regions of the pathogen genome. It is a sensitive and specific tool for pathogen detection.
Real-time RT-PCR involves the reverse transcription of viral RNA and subsequent amplification of the cDNA by PCR. The amplified product is detected using fluorescent dyes. These are usually linked to oligonucleotide probes that bind specifically to the amplified product. Monitoring the fluorescence intensities during the PCR run (i.e., in real time) allows the detection of the accumulating product without the need to re-open the reaction tubes afterward.
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Hello there, i started playing warcraft 3 again after many years and downloading random maps i found this one called "Hero of the empire", wich has a recently updated version http://hero-empire.com/load/download_he ... c/1-1-0-73
The thing is, a great map indeed, there are hundreds of items and combinations and secrets to discover, BUT! i play it in single player mode, each game takes about ~3 hs and 1 mistake can make you loose easily, no cheats allowed, no much info shared...was trying to obtain that info with xdep, wich crash automatically just to know how to play it and not wasting entirely weeks making mistakes. Tried a few maps with xdep and all of them generates the listfile, but not this map
Are there other tools to at least read the units, items, skills contained in the w3x file?
Since xdep gets nothing, mpq master, mpq recovery, etc gets nothing too. I m not pretending to get the map unprotected (i dont care about the code, triggers, etc) but at least to know the units and items pointing me which programs can i use; most things u can learn are from replays, wich are also 2 or 3 hs wasted to discover 1 or 2 item combination or something else.


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Rick Owens
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About Bruno Long
Bruno Long is a Revelstoke-based professional photographer who spends his winter months touring and exploring the Columbia Mountains near his home. Originally raised in New Brunswick, he is making up for lost time in the mountains by capturing as many beautiful moments as he can. When winter is over, he can be found out riding, digging or shooting on the local bike trails. Whether the powder be brown or white, he gets to enjoy plenty of it in this British Columbian paradise.Website: http://www.brunolong.com


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Associate Dentist
Associate Dentist to join our well-established practice in Cosham, Portsmouth.
This exciting opportunity also offers:
- Four Days per week- Any days and times available but we request one late evening until 8pm on a Tuesday with a later start
- Up to 1000 UDAs
- Great Private earning potential with a high number of private and Denplan patients
- Additional discount for utilising Oasis Labs
- Continuous Professional Development
The Practice: Established with 6 surgeries, modern working environment, fully computerised, SOE Software, digital x-ray, Rotary Endo, Apex Locator and fully Air Conditioned. Experienced longstanding associates, supported by a dedicated Dental Hygienist and a team of qualified professional support staff. Providing a 70/30 mix of private & NHS, and in addition offering Denplan Plan and Oasis Basics.
Location highlights: Easy access from M27, five minute walk from Cosham train station.
What we do matters. Our customers trust us with one of their most important assets, their smile. Patient care is our passion and we believe everyone deserves a happy and healthy smile, which is why we thrive on having the very best people in the industry working with us to ensure we all keep on smiling.
Here at Oasis Dental Care (now part of Bupa) our people are at the heart of everything we do, because we care. We have created environments where people can look forward to coming to work, feel empowered and benefit from working collaboratively with brilliant & talented experts. So joining us isn't just for a job, but a career.
As an Associate Dentist you'll be benefiting from a supportive practice team, a well-managed appointment book, exceptional development and opportunities to take you as far as you want to go; and that's just to mention a few, so what's not to love?
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Scott32 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 102 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
I need a logo for a new interactive ad agency, specializing in helping clients increase conversion across all of their online marketing campaigns, websites, landing pages, etc.
I envisioned the use of gears in the logo, a dynamic process that speaks to the method employed when helping clients turn marketing dollars into ROI. The method we'll use is one of testing, data anlysis, interactive expertise, and high levels of client service.
- Item 1...Colors need to be blue and black (not light blue)
- cue32 - the '32' is not a degree number (NOT 32nd degree)
- I like the idea, but am not married to, the 'gears turning' angle
- I want an image the suggest class, quality, precision
- I want to make sure the brand name, cue32, in included in the logo
- Item 1...Anything cute
- multiple colors - using shades of blue and black are fine, but I don't want any other colors introduced
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Yaya Learns English by Kiddies City – Review
What we love…
bright interactive app that encourages children to learn a variety of words in English ranging from numbers, colors, shapes, and everyday words.
What we'd love to see…
use of matching numbers to roman numerals for the counting, no timer for some of the games, shorter "test" at the end of the app
Fun interactive kids app that teaches children numbers and a variety of words in a interactive birthday adventure for Yaya. There is no IAP or advertising.
Our Rating
Yaya Learns English by Kiddies City is a iPad only app in which a young girl named Yaya explores the city in a variety of interactive scenes. Each scene has a variety of activities from finding coins and matching them up by numbers in the train scene, to earning tickets at a theme park and attending a birthday party! The app uses U.K. English, but many words are similar to American English and it is great for kids of all ages. The app features English, German, Spanish, Korean, or Chinese as languages. There are four apps in the series including Yaya learns German, Yaya learns Spanish, Yaya learns Chinese all of which have a similar story just with different languages tied to them. The app features multi step directions, completing a task, finding coins and matching them up, getting the birthday ready and more.
My son loves anything to do with trains – so he really enjoyed putting together the tracks and matching the first letter of the objects ("r" for rainbow and "t" for tree). He really enjoyed trying to make the tracks correct so he could continue within the app. At the birthday party, it was fun for my son to help Yaya decorate by making juice – he chose orange and loved watching the blender make it. He also enjoyed matching the letters to the words and getting stars for finishing each task. The app has beautiful artwork with animations throughout including floating balloons. As a mom, I also liked my kids could touch the speaker icon to hear the word spoken again. The app features numbers from one to ten and thirty seven other words like apple, roller coaster, bridge, house and other words you use everyday in the English language. The narration in the app is well done by a native English speaker. I would suggest this app for kids aged four through about second grade because of the complexity for some of the mini games. I liked that the app had a comprehension test at the end – although 30 questions seemed a bit high – I would prefer if there were ten or so questions that rotated through. My older son especially enjoyed the birthday room and making the cake, blowing up the balloons and sorting the candy items for the favor jars. The app features a gated parental area which includes a glossary of the words including pronunciation, links to social media. This parental area is accessed by touching a number and holding it for three seconds.
In terms of improvements, seeing a number on a coin versus the roman numeral can be confusing for kids who may not have learned that concept yet. I have a 3 year old who loved finding the coins, but had a hard time matching them to the roman numeral because they were not the same. When you successfully complete the numbers, you are presented with a screen which shows the coins – again with numbers and the spelling of the number which is different than how it is presented within the app. Older kids may understand the concept more clearly and be able to execute There are also a number of items within the various screens it would be nice to see an interaction with when you touch them. In the park, my son got frustrated because when you put the kids on the rides you are timed as you answer questions – it would be nice for younger kids if you didn't have a timer because when time ends you have to start the level again. I would also like to be able to mute the background music – as it can be a bit distracting but when you turn down the sound you lose the narration.
Overall, this is a cute app designed to help kids learn English in a fun and interactive way. It is designed for children who already speak English as well as non native English speakers. The mini games are fun and have good replay opportunities – but younger kids especially can get frustrated when you try the app because of the inconsistencies in the levels of the games. There are no in-app purchases and no advertising contained within the app. This is a fun educational app that will have kids playing over and over again.
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Weeping Willow - Limited Edition Print
Limited Edition Print on canvas, stretched onto 3/4" stretcher bars.
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Prints are all printed using 200 archival inks and UV protected.
Artist personally approves all prints.
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Sunday, June 28, 2009
Zoo Party Idea Board
11 comments:
- michelle said...
What about animal shaped lollipops or cookies set in either vases or cute little pots with shredded green paper as grass. Can't wait to see what you come up with!
- June 28, 2009 at 10:55 AM
- Joanne Kennedy said...
How cute! I know what you mean about when you have one idea planned out and then the child decides they want something different.
I'm with you on the year planning. You really need that to come up with different ideas and find unique items that are not the run of the mill type items.
I'm sure you will put the best zoo theme party ever!
- June 28, 2009 at 11:11 AM
- LW said...
Color paper mache animals with topical flowers. Something like the bird and snail that Anthropologie has on their web site…
You could find yard ornaments and paint them colors to match your theme…
Or chocolate candy animals. The possibilities are endless…
I love the zoo idea and the face painting is just wonderful.
I am working on a Sept. party in the same colors for my ten year old granddaughter...
- June 28, 2009 at 7:49 PM
- Cottage Rose said...
Hey Donna; Wow what a fun party, can I come, I promise to be good and not eat too much cake.... I can act like a little one I do it all the time.... lol Really though it looks like it is going to be wonderful, love all the colors and the details you came up with, wish I could see inside your brain, and get a good look at how you pop up with all these ideas.....lol;
- June 28, 2009 at 8:08 PM
- lisalyn said...
This party looks fabulous! I can hardly wait to see it all put together. You have such amazing ideas. :)
- June 29, 2009 at 7:08 AM
- Blushing hostess said...
Wide, flat bottom, glass vases with sand and leaves and sticks and miniture plastic zoo animals with be such fun! This should be a great event to plan...
- June 29, 2009 at 9:32 AM
- Jessica said...
Zoo party sounds absolutely fun! I think it would be cute to get toy safari cars and other mini plastic toy animals and arrange them on each table like a safari scene.
Or you can maybe find safari hats and put them on their backs, filling the inside with some type of moss and grass and birds.
- June 29, 2009 at 11:11 AM
- dana said...
OMG---between your ideas and those offered by your readers, the Zoo Party will grrrrrreeeeeeeaaaat!!!! (Remember Tony the Tiger?) :) That's the only zooy thing I can think of! :)
L, Dana
- June 30, 2009 at 5:36 AM
I did a zoo party many years ago and I utilized pineapples and fern leaves to create palm trees. The pineapple made a great tree trunk and I then used animal faced pillows from oriental trading peeking out of the tree. I will have to forward you pictures. They came out great.
- June 30, 2009 at 4:50 PM
- The ParTea Planner said...
Okay, now the pressure for me to try to get up there to face paint at her party is ON like DONKEY KONG.....
Colorful Face Art
The ParTea Planner
et al
- July 23, 2009 at 1:48 PM
i used palm trees that i bought from the dollar store, added bananas, and animal blocks from the oriental trading company (they have removable appendages and come in packages of 12).
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Nature Notes: Spring Emerging
It's the time when flying insects emerge. Small, black male ants were flying around my patio on Friday. They ended up in a tote half filled with salt water for a brine shrimp culture I have going. Winged ants of different species are often found mostly drowned at the edge of the ocean along the South Fork's shore, especially around Georgica Pond. That they ended up in salt water on my patio leads me to believe that the odor of saltiness strangely attracts ants, even though they are not at all aquatic, and why would they give themselves up so easily?
Swarms of small flies, fungus gnats, and the like have been emerging. It's no wonder that swallows and martins come back at this time of year, they seem to know when there will be food on the table after a long migration northward. Bats are migrating now and as they pass through they are likely to find some of these insect swarms to keep them going as they move up to New England and beyond. The little brown bat is a resident. A few spend the winter here, but most arrive here from caves, say those in Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania.
The species is in trouble because it has a fungus disease that gives the nose a white appearance, thus the new name "white nose disease." Rabid bats don't froth at the mouth like rabid dogs and raccoons. Thus if you see a local bat that looks like it's frothing, it's probably got the fungus disease. The little brown bat and several others hibernate close to each other in caves and crevices, allowing the disease to quickly spread from one bat to another.
Moths are the predominant night fliers. They also supply a goodly amount of food for bats. The advantage of flying at night if you're an edible insect is that birds that feed on insects are mostly roosting at night, getting some shut-eye. Owls are an exception and small owls like the screech and saw-whet owls often take moths when they're easy to get. Of course, bats came along and developed sonar for locating flying insects in the dark, so while night-flying moths generally don't have to worry about hungry birds, evolution has put them in a position almost as dangerous as that faced by daytime flying moths. Both day and night fliers have developed erratic flight patterns which can save some of them from the beaks of birds and the jaws of bats.
Bats, on the other hand, have very few predators because of their nocturnal habits. The red bat flies through every spring and back the other way in the fall. It is one of the few day-flying bats and uses its eyes as much asits sonar to feed. One or two could be taken by a falcon of sharp-shinned hawk, but I have yet to see that happen in my neighborhood.
It is a little early for the more noxious night-flying insects, say the various mosquitoes and no-see-ums. Bumblebees have been out for a week. One flew into my house on Monday while I had the outside door open to let fresh air in. A horsefly also came in for a look around. The bumblebee made it out through a living room window that I opened, the horsefly buzzed around well into the night.
No mosquitoes, but ticks are aplenty. Two weeks ago while tagging trees for removal at an East Hampton nature preserve, I came out of the brush with a bunch. All three species were on me, dog (or wood) tick, deer tick, and Lone Star tick. The Lone Stars climb up higher on standing vegetation than the other two species. If you get a tick on your neck, shoulder, or scalp, 50 to 1, it's a Lone Star. Deer are their favorite hosts and the softest parts of the deer, the eyes, ears, lips and nostrils are high up off the ground. For the female Lone Star with her telltale white spot on the back, why attach to the lower leg and crawl all the way to the head? It's easier to leave your plant perch and go directly onto the head.
Yes, it's a slow spring, but most everything is back from the South and the insects, ticks, and spiders are out to get us. It's safer in the house or in the water. Bedbugs have yet to make a dramatic appearance so far away from the city and Nassau County. Ah, May.
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Attention Everyone– Epic Girl Fight!
On an episode of the legendary sitcom 'Seinfeld,' Elaine asked Jerry what men find so appealing about cat fights. "Because men think if women are grabbing and clawing at each other there's a chance they might somehow kiss," Jerry sagely responded.
Generally, this is the case, but then there is the rare girl fight that is so vicious that us fellas can appreciate it more like we enjoy boxing or professional wrestling. The video below shows a three woman fight which would qualify as one of those battles. It's NSFW for language and almost NSFW for nudity.
The clip comes courtesy of our friends at 92.9 Jack FM.
While we're tempted to say that when girls fight like this that everybody is a winner but we're going to have to give the actual fight decision to the lady in the black. Not only did she keep her cowboy hat on as the fists flew, but she didn't tumble backwards over the seats like the chick who almost lost her top.
There's just no graceful way to recover from that.


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Find out what revenue streams are key for short and long-term growth.
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Cashflow might be the most important element of any small business. You can have a great business idea, be an incredibly hard worker, and have all the mentors and connections in the world, but unless there is money coming through that door on a consistent basis, the business isn't going to last too long.
How many times have you read about new startups and their burn rate, which is defined by Wikipedia as "a measure for how fast a company will use up its shareholder capital… if the shareholder capital is exhausted, the company will either have to start making a profit, find additional funding, or close down."
For an individual entrepreneur, it works the same way. If the cash flow isn't coming in, they might have to borrow money from friends, find more clients, borrow on credit cards, or go back to working a full time job.
In the pursuit of wealth and building a business, I propose that there are 3 types of income that solopreneurs should strive for:
1) Consistent Income
Consistent income is what feeds the bottom line of the business, and frankly, pays the bills. This is money that you can count on to come in without fail month after month, serving as a baseline for basic expenses.
Let's look at some examples:
Joanne is a talented web designer. She left her full time job last year at a major publishing company to go out on her own and build her own business. Because she was so specialized in what she did and her old company really loved her work, they agreed to keep her on retainer, paying her $3,000 per month in exchange for being available to do small projects such as ads, banners, emails, templates, and website design projects as they come up.
As long as that is in place and she can do the work, that $3,000 will come in on a regular basis and Joanne can count on it to pay her rent and utilities every month while she builds up her private business. Nice work, your lights are still on.
– Or maybe you're a writer and have agreed to produce 2 articles per month for a website at $100 per post.
– You might have an advertiser on your blog that pays you a monthly fee to run ads throughout your site.
– Or you're a photographer and every single month you teach a class at a local college and you're guaranteed $1,000 per month to put toward your iPhone, your cable bill, and your car payment.
In some cases, consistent income doesn't have to be related to your business. We've all heard of the actor that waits tables or tends bar at night while they're pursuing their dream and going on auditions during the day, waiting for their big break.
Entrepreneurs do this as well, taking a part time job in an unrelated field to have consistent revenue coming in while they launch their product or build up their side hustle… anything to have a consistent feed coming into that bank account.
2) Spike Income
The second type of income is what I call spike income. These are jobs that come in inconsistently, but can really bolster your bottom line.
Let's go back to Joanne, the designer. She out there hustling and trying to bring in new clients. This month she got a web design job for a friend of friend that will pay her $1,800. Then she won a quick contract on 99designs.com to do a logo treatment for $600. And that December she's thrilled, as she was asked to design the overall branding for a holiday promotion for a local business, including logos, online advertising, printed handouts, and in-store promotional materials. Total income for that job will be $3,500.
The reason this is spike income for her is that it is inconsistent:
– Once that friend's website is done, they might not need any more work from her
– There is no guarantee that she will win the next job on 99designs
– And unfortunately, while she can propose promotions for New Years and Presidents Day, Christmas comes but once per year
Side note: Check out this interesting article on Spike Lee and Kickstarter on one of my favorite sites, CelebrityNetWorth.com.
Here are some spike income examples from my business:
– A speaking engagement at a conference or small company
– 1:1 salary negotiation consulting sessions with a client
– Successfully pitching and writing an article for a major magazine
– Product managing a new media training program for a large company
– Teaching a class online or in person when it is offered
Once again, there are no hard and firm rules for how money can flow into your business. Some people rent out their apartments on Airbnb while they are away, getting an influx of hundreds or even thousands of dollars a few times per year.
While the downside of spike income is its inconsistency, the upside is that it can grow your overall annual income tremendously as more and more spikes hit your bottom line.
3) Passive Income
The final type of revenue is passive income. For many, this is the long term goal for building wealth, having freedom in your life and business, and is the holy grail of making money… earning income while you sleep.
To be clear, unless your wealthy parents are funding your lifestyle via a trust fund, passive income isn't something that comes easy. Rather, as Pat Flynn from SmartPassiveIncome.com says, "It's working hard now to reap the benefits later."
In the traditional sense, passive income was derived through things like stock dividends or real estate. For example, I would love to own a 3-family brownstone in Brooklyn or on the Upper West Side near Central Park. I found one for sale that offered two spacious one bedroom apartments and a sweet top floor studio – I could live in one of the one bedrooms and rent out the other two apartments.
That would be perfect if I could rent out the one bedroom for $2,500 per month and the studio for $1,500 per month. If my monthly mortgage payment on the building was
$5,000 (oops, $3,000. Messed that up on the audio podcast too), then I would be netting $1,000 per month in passive income. Sure, there is maintenance and repairs to do, dealing with renters, taxes, and so on, but all things being equal, as long as there is a tenant there, month after month I would be getting $1,000 in income, without quote "working."
The flaw in this particular plan: That building costs $9 million dollars, so the monthly mortgage wouldn't be just
$5,000 $3,000… it would be roughly $59,000.
But in the digital economy, you don't have to lay out millions of dollars. In fact, sometimes you can build products that generate passive income for nearly free.
The key is that you are putting in significant effort to create a wealth-building product once, with the goal of generating recurring income down the line.
Here are some examples of passive income:
1) Writing a book that is sold to a publisher. This actually can generate spike income through an advance, and then passive income if royalties from book sales come in on a regular basis
2) Creating a digital ebook priced at $29 that can be sold on your website over and over again
3) Building an app for Android or the iPhone that can be sold in the app store and earns you revenue each time someone downloads it
4) Cultivating a membership site for tech geeks or weight loss or online dating or video gamers that provide a community and support, and charge a recurring monthly membership
5) Creating software or a website that charges users a monthly fee. I think of how many of these I use myself:
a. Amazon Prime
b. Netflix
c. Dropbox
d. Aweber email hosting
e. Dreamhost website hosting
f. Libsyn hosting for my podcast
Yes, in some of these cases there are costs, such as shipping for Amazon and bandwidth for web-based sites. But all I know is they get my money every single month no matter what I do.
What could our designer Joanne do? If she had a specific talent, say, creating mobile responsive websites for children's authors, she could work in all three forms:
1) Her old company pays her a monthly retainer for consistent income
2) New authors could come to her as one-off clients to build their websites as spike income
3) Based on her experience, Joanne could take several weeks or months of her time to build the ultimate responsive WordPress theme template for authors looking market their children's books. Once complete, she can sell it on her on website or on a site such as Themeforest.net or Woothemes, and every time it is downloaded, she would make income
Whether you're a Silicon Valley startup or designer just ramping up, maximize that cash flow and think about 3 types of income streams.
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In what order should you eat your food? which should you eat first, vegetable, meat, dairy, bread.
When all items are consumed at the same meal it is not important which item is eaten first. All the foods will be mixed together in the stomach. There is some emerging evidence that if you eat a salad or soup prior to the main dish that you eat less of the main meal – which would be helpful for weight control. There are also some nutrients that help the absorption of other nutrients, like vitamin C (in many fruits or veggies) helps the absorption of iron (in meats.) Overall, it doesn't matter in which order you eat the foods in order to receive their nutrients.
Spinach is low in calories and has no fat or cholesterol. It is high in Vitamins A, C, K and Folic Acid (a B vitamin). It is a good source of Vitamins B2, B6 and E. It is also a good source of iron, calcium, manganese and magnesium. It is high in fiber. It is rich in phytochemicals like beta carotene and lutein that are good for health. You can find some good recipes using spinach by clicking here.