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I first made these baked eggs with cumin and saffron when I lived in Shanghai a few years ago. I had recently become obsessed with cumin, after eating at many Muslim Chinese restaurants in Shanghai and Beijing that specialized in cumin lamb dishes. Of course, at home, I wanted to use cumin as much as possible, and worked the spice into this breakfast dish.
So here's a short, revised recipe, since I recently made this again and it was every bit as good as I remembered. The process is a piece of cake. You just sauté some shallots or onions in a pan, add the tomatoes, cumin, salt, and pepper, then transfer the mixture to ramekins. Then you crack an egg into each ramekin and sprinkle a bit of saffron on top. It looks really nice coming out of the oven with specks of bright red from the saffron and the egg still bubbling on top.
It's a great, fragrant comfort food dish and perfect for a leisurely weekend brunch. Or even an easy weeknight meal, if you have some rice or noodles to go along with it.
Baked Eggs with Saffron and Cumin
Serves 2
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 large shallot or 1/2 medium onion, finely chopped
- 2 large or 3 medium tomatoes, cubed
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 2 eggs
- 1 pinch saffron (6 to 8 threads)
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Toast cumin in a dry, medium- to large-sized skillet. Add the olive oil, and cook the onions over medium heat until soft, about 3 minutes. Add the tomatoes and sprinkle in the cumin. Cook, stirring, until the tomatoes have softened, about 5 minutes. Salt and pepper to taste
- Divide the tomato mixture into 2 medium ramekins. Top each ramekin with 1 eggs. Crumble the saffron threads with your fingers and sprinkle them over the eggs. Bake in the oven for about 2o to 25 minutes, until whites and yolk are set (a few minutes less if you prefer your egg yolks slightly runny). Remove from the oven and sprinkle a tiny bit more salt and pepper on top. Cool for 3 minutes or so before serving.
Updated September 9, 2012. Original recipe posted June 2, 2008.


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@ bovington for a tank display show in April
If memory serves me correct I saw a piece about this particular vehicle on the history channel a few years back.
She was a non functioning static display that had been left to rot @ Abeerdeen and they drug it into shop somewhere for a paint job.
Been a few years since I looked @ the pics of the stuff @ Aberdeen...all of it looked to be in sad shape...thinkin they got a K5 there to..?
Crying shame..several million dollars worth of stuff left to rust.....course the military doesnt have the talent,or the money,or the desire to fix a bunch of antique weaponry.
Should be sold to the private market where it can be restored,made whole and used in demonstrations where you can see history live again...for an admission price naturally...but who wouldnt mind payin that.
How many thousands of people would show up for some live fire displays once a month..especially the K5..!
If only...

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Right from the six-note melody that opens the first stage, you can tell there's something special about Super Mario World. This is the Super Nintendo launch title that set the bar impossibly high for day-one releases, created the magic that games such as Super Mario 64, Sonic Adventure, and Luigi's Mansion have hoped to echo since, and that nearly two decades on is still regarded by many as the gold standard of platforming adventures.
It's a true classic in every sense of the word, but unlike some other Nintendo mainstays, Super Mario World has only been re-released a few times before now: once bundled with Super Mario All-Stars on the SNES, once as a GBA remake, and once on the Wii Virtual Console. Now that it's arrived on the Wii U Virtual Console, is it worth picking up once again? We think so; off-screen play, customizable controls and Miiverse integration make this the best version yet. And if you're wondering whether to play Super Mario World for the first time, feel free to go ahead and start it downloading before you read the rest of this review. You're going to love it.
Super Mario World carries on the platforming legacy of the Super Mario Bros. series, and the basic gameplay here is much the same: players guide our heroic plumber across a world map, running and jumping from left to right through seventy-odd levels spread out over seven (or more?) connected worlds, all in a bid to rescue the predictably kidnapped Princess Toadstool. This time around, Mario's familiar Mushroom Kingdom is swapped for the terra incognita of Dinosaur Land, and you'll meet plenty of prehistoric friends along the way who need to be rescued from Bowser's Koopalings as well.
The Dinosaur Land setting means that Super Mario World doesn't rely on the "fire world, ice world" themes that often appear in platformers; instead, its considerable variety goes well beyond a change of scenery, and individual levels mix things up in a way that keeps it feeling fresh throughout the entire journey. In addition to straightforward platforming, you'll have to work your way out of brain-bending, maze-like Ghost Houses, contend with forced-scrolling obstacle courses in the Koopalings' fortresses, and leap through aerial stages with hardly any ground to touch. In a welcome change from the Super Mario Bros. games, each world's Koopaling boss puts up a unique fight; you'll still get plenty of mileage out of the three-bops-on-the-head technique, but each boss' attack patterns, arenas, and strategies are different, and they're all fun to battle.
In fact, this title is incredibly fun in its entirety, from start to finish. In addition to the bucketfuls of charm present at every turn, there are a few specific aspects that make it such an absolute joy to play. Foremost is the game's incomparable controls. You'll run through Dinosaur Land with some of the smoothest, tightest platforming controls seen anywhere. Mario's moves are few - jumping, spin-jumping, running, and ducking - but with clever combinations of these basic maneuvers you can pull off some seriously satisfying tricks.
That feeds directly into what is possibly Super Mario World's biggest achievement: it's an unrivaled master class in level design. There's a sense of momentum to the stages that becomes clear as you play, turning what at first appears to be a staccato sequence of individual obstacles into an elegant racing line of jumps, dashes, bops and shell-tosses. It rewards players who tape down the run button and fly through on instinct, but there's also plenty to entice you into stopping and smelling the Piranha Plants. Five Dragon Coins placed tantalizingly just out of reach in each level reward you with a 1-up, unmarked warp pipes to coin stashes and power-ups are dotted all over, and there are dozens of secret exits from stages, leading to new and hidden areas on the map that are well worth reaching.
Along with excellent level design, inventive power-ups have always been a big part of Mario platformers, and this one is no exception. The Tanooki, Frog, and Hammer suits from Super Mario Bros. 3 are sadly gone, but Super Mario World has some new tricks up its overalls that more than make up for their absence. The first is the feather power-up, which grants Mario a superhero cape and lets him float, glide, and spin-attack his way through stages. It might not be as adorable as the Tanooki suit, but it's definitely a lot of fun, and leaping and bounding over levels with the cape billowing behind feels as great as it sounds.
We're fans of the feather here at Nintendo Life, but the introduction of a plumage-based power-up isn't a patch on this game's biggest addition: Yoshi. The lovable green dino makes his first appearance in Super Mario World as Mario's companion, and Nintendo games have never been the same since. Yoshi can use his lengthy tongue to eat up almost any enemy, as well as apples scattered around stages for coins and some cool bonuses. By holding different coloured Koopa shells in his mouth, he can spit fire, kick up deadly sand clouds, and even fly - can your Tanooki suit do all that? Yoshi changes the way you'll look at levels; there are lots of routes and exits you can only take with the green steed in tow, and a few that you'll need to leave him behind for. Beyond that, riding Yoshi is just plain fun - it's impossible not to smile when you break open a '?' block and find a green egg inside. There's a reason a generation of gamers tried almost everything to unlock him in Super Mario 64.
Later generations who were introduced to platforming with the New Super Mario Bros. series will be surprised to learn that Mario's multiplayer antics weren't always so rowdy. Before he and Luigi were fighting a pair of Toads for coins and screen-space on the Wii, they enjoyed the classic, comparatively civilized two-player co-op mode found in Super Mario World, where players take turns moving around the map and clearing levels. (As anyone with siblings can tell you, the younger player is obligatorily Luigi.) Depending on how you play, it can be a friendship-affirming buddy-quest or a continuous battle of 1-upmanship, but either way it's a blast. Just as with real-world adventures, this game is best enjoyed in company, and playing through the game with a friend is one of the finest ways to spend a day that we can think of.
While opinions vary on whether or not this is the best-looking 2D Mario outing (Yoshi's Island's pastel-painted style is hard to beat), Super Mario World is an absolutely beautiful game in its own right. It's bright and bold, with clean lines and a cartoon-like style that reminds us a bit of The Wind Waker, in a very good way. This is iconic 16-bit Mario - the graphical holy grail that retro-styled games aspire to - and it holds up incredibly well even today.
The soundtrack by legendary composer Koji Kondo is similarly timeless. It's full of memorable melodies, many of which are variations on a single theme that runs throughout the game. You'll hear the level 1-1 tune bubble up as a waltz in underwater sections, echo nervously underground, and charge quickly and confidently ahead in the air. In a truly lovely touch, hopping onto Yoshi's back adds a bouncy bongo beat to whatever stage music is playing. The excellent sound effects provide another interactive layer to the soundscape - from Yoshi's famous 'start-up' noise to grabbing coins, breaking blocks, spin-jumping, entering pipes and even being shot out of them, every action has a unique identifying sound.
Super Mario World has always been a phenomenal game, and this Wii U edition adds a few new features to the mix that make it the best version yet. First, the most immediately exciting: off-screen play via the GamePad marks the first time you can potentially play Super Mario World in bed. (Sure, there was the GBA remake, but this is the original.) Dinosaur Land looks excellent on the small screen, with crisp lines and a colour palette that's serendipitously very well suited to the Wii U's streaming technology - it looks so good that we constantly found ourselves looking at the GamePad even while playing on the TV.
One of the coolest additions afforded by Super Mario World's new Wii U home is Miiverse integration. Its community is a great place to share memories and see some amazing art, but for a game as full of secrets as this one, it's also a fantastic resource. It's been a fair few years since we'd last made it out of the secret-exit-ridden Forest of Illusion, for instance, and when we got stuck on the fourth stage, a quick trip to Miiverse was all it took to bail us out. We found a post by someone else having the same problem, read the helpful (and marked-as-spoilers!) tips in the comments, and were back on our journey within a minute. It's amazing what Miiverse can do - when Super Mario World was originally released, players had to rely on playground intel to find all 96 exits, and anyone who's spent fruitless summer days searching for Mew under a truck can attest to the fact that that isn't always a reliable source.
Given the Wii U's bevy of possible control inputs, it's great to see that almost every option you can imagine is supported here. Players who grew up with the original Super Mario World should have no trouble translating their skills to the GamePad or Wii U Pro Controller - and the game feels wonderful on those pads - but if you're looking for a more authentic experience, you can plug in an original Wii Classic Controller — or the SNES Classic Controller if you're lucky enough to own one — and party like it's 1990. Another first for this release is the ability to customize the controls entirely to your liking. Struggled to pull off a running spin-jump on the SNES? Cut your platforming teeth on Rayman Origins or another series with shoulder-button dashes? Remap a run button to 'ZR' and rock on. It's worth mentioning that we initially ran into a frustrating amount of difficulty trying to assign a controller to a second player. The Virtual Console interface is unnecessarily obtuse about this, but it's easy enough to do once you know how.
Finally, as with all Virtual Console games on the Wii U, you can create a restore point to come back to at any time. Super Mario World was actually the first Mario game to let you save your progress - with in-game save points dotted fairly regularly along your journey - so a Game Over won't set you back as far as in the Super Mario Bros. titles, but restore points are still a welcome option to have.
For anyone still on the fence about Super Mario World, the answer is yes, download it now. This is the apex of 16-bit platforming, a cornerstone of the gaming canon, and - most importantly - just as much fun to play today as it was twenty years ago. If you're yet to experience the thrill of discovering a secret exit, the joy of soaring through a level with your super-cape, or the unique tragicomedy of accidentally running off a cliff while trying to catch up to a runaway Yoshi, you're in for some of gaming's best-loved and most iconic moments. And if you already have fond memories of beating the game back in the day - or if the original cartridge is sitting in your SNES as you read this - off-screen play, a vibrant Miiverse community, and the chance to play through it all again may well be reason enough to dive back into Dinosaur Land. This is one of the best games of all time; clear your weekend, call over a Player Two, and enjoy!


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- Gregory Maguire: Most people knew Anderson Cooper was gay; he came out Monday
- He likes that Cooper insists that he still deserves privacy
- He says like Cooper, he knows that being gay is one part of the many qualities that define him
- Maguire: Emerson said "character is centrality;" maybe Cooper believes this, too
I feel like a short-order cook flipping a pancake, looking at it in the air from side to side, to see how well done it is, to see if it is ready. There are plusses and minuses to every statement made by a celebrity. I am a great fan of Anderson Cooper, especially of his hair, but I still want to be honest about what I think of the message he recently sent to Andrew Sullivan, on whose blog he came out on Monday.
It's a pancake with two sides, and it's still up in the air.
On one side, Anderson Cooper joins a long troupe of people like Ellen DeGeneres, Elton John, Liberace and on back down the line, for which the Great Announcement has got to be seen as made, perhaps, for the sea whelks and the Easter Island statues who don't get CNN at home and don't notice sexuality and its cues. I mean, there may yet be a population of creatures on the planet surprised that Anderson Cooper is gay, but I suspect they eat plankton.
On the other side, honesty still takes courage, and one of the things that a bright cunning professional with good hair does when he or she comes out is to encourage other gay or lesbian people with good hair to let it down, too.
What I like better than Cooper's admission, or the good reasons he summarizes for making such an admission, is his insistence that even under these circumstances he has a right to a private life, and he intends to invoke those rights. I have generally resisted being identified as a gay spokesperson, even though I am gay and I do speak. And have political opinions, and I use them in my writing. (I haven't got the hair to be a gay spokesperson, though.)
Less facetiously, the truth is that I could not stomach being a professional gay spokesperson because I have never been a professional homosexual. I am only a professional writer, and as such -- just as Cooper attests, too, about himself -- my sexuality is a real but a limited part of my character. It is something that has helped define me as an artist in that it taught me how to stand on the margins and scrutinize the center.
Incidentally, so, too, has being a Roman Catholic in this dark season of Catholic instability, hysteria and political game-playing. So, too, has being married to a man with whom I have adopted three brown-skinned kids. So, too, is believing that the physicality of books matters. Also, believing in not being a one-issue voter.
All these aspects of my self marginalize me, but they don't make me a Catholic writer, a gay writer, a blended-family writer, a nut-job. They make me a better writer, because they round me out. They fill me with contradictory and complicating sympathies. They make me work harder at being myself.
So, the pancake is still in the air. Will Anderson Cooper be a better professional journalist for having been honest in this aspect of his life? I don't know that anyone can be sure of this, him least of all.
But that is why, in the end, the pancake flips onto a plate ready for serving in a pool of warm maple syrup, and it looks just right. He is willing to take the chance that he might be marginalized for this. He thinks it is important enough to risk being belittled, even by an admirer, like me.
Maybe Anderson Cooper holds close to his heart a maxim that I do. It's by Emerson, one of my own local heroes. He wrote "Character is centrality, the impossibility of being displaced or overset."
When I was about 17, I stitched those words into some invisible vest pocket of my psychic armor and said to myself: "You don't have to tell all the truth. You just have to be sure not to lie. Do not do anything that will cause you to be displaced or overset. Be central upon the limited, unorthodox, marginalized square upon which, through no doing of your own, you find that you stand."
Here's your pancake. And look. It has a face in it! A holy miracle. It isn't the face of Anderson Cooper and it isn't even the face of Jesus (who also has great hair). It's Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Eat your pancake. It's good for you.
Thank you, Anderson.
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For over 50 years, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been the European Union's (EU) most important common policy. It has taken a large part of the EU's budget, with a declining percentage over recent years.
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The CAP is financed by two funds which form part of the EU's general budget.
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The European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) primarily finances direct payments to farmers and measures regulating or supporting agricultural markets.
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The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) finances the EU's contribution to rural development programmes.
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Under Title 05 of the EU General Budget you find details on the budget for Agriculture and Rural development.
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The European taxpayer rightly expects that these sums are correctly spent. It is therefore of paramount importance that management and checking systems are in place which give reasonable assurance that the sums are spent properly and that any irregular payments are detected and recovered.
Under the basic rules for the financial management of the CAP, the Commission is responsible for the management of the EAGF and the EAFRD. However, the Commission itself normally does not make payments to beneficiaries. According to the principle of shared management, this task is delegated to the Member States, who themselves work through national or regional paying agencies. Before these paying agencies can claim any expenditure from the EU-budget, they must be accredited on the basis of a set of criteria laid down by the Commission.
The paying agencies are, however, not only responsible for making payments to the beneficiaries. Prior to doing so, they must, either themselves or through delegated bodies, satisfy themselves of the eligibility of the aid applications. The exact checks to be carried out are laid down in the different sectoral regulations of the CAP and vary from one sector to another.
The expenditure made by the paying agencies is then reimbursed by the Commission to the Member States, in the case of the EAGF on a monthly basis and in the case of EAFRD on a quarterly basis. Those reimbursements are, however, subject to any subsequent corrections which the Commission may make under the clearance of accounts procedures.
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CHICAGO — Coach Joel Quenneville's decision to reunite Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane looks like the series-changing event of the 2013 Stanley Cup Final.
Now the question going into Monday's Game 6 is whether Chicago Blackhawks captain Toews will even play, and whether the Boston Bruins will have their best all-around player, Patrice Bergeron. Both players were injured in Chicago's 3-1 win Saturday that leaves the Blackhawks one win short of claiming their second league championship in four years.
"We're hopeful (Toews) will be ready for the next game," Chicago coach Joel Quenneville.
BOX SCORE: Blackhawks 3, Bruins 1
HURTING: Opposing stars leave Game 5
The Bruins had less information on Bergeron because he was taken to the hospital in an ambulance to check out his situation.
Both injuries are critical because over the last two games this series has shifted from being about depth and role players to being about star players stepping up and grabbing the spotlight. The first few games were about role players like Chicago's Andrew Shaw and Boston's Daniel Paille, and now the focus is on the top lines and the premium defensemen.
Kane scored two goals for Chicago in the victory, and since Quenneville put them back together on a line with Bryan Bickell, the Blackhawks have gone 2-0 and scored nine goals against goalie Tuukka Rask, the same goalie who limited the Pittsburgh Penguins to two goals in four games.
Meanwhile, top line of Milan Lucic, David Krejci and Nathan Horton was on the ice for all three Chicago goals.
Kane and Toews have grown up together in the Chicago organization, and the big wonder of the series is why Quenneville didn't put them together sooner.
"We're different-style players, but I think we complement each other very well," Kane said. "We've played together for six years now. I know we didn't play together very much this year, but throughout times in the past you can look back at those times that we've had success. (Toews) a great player. He makes it easy to play hockey."
Quenneville said the line, with Bickell doing the heavy lifting as a physical player, works well because "everyone brings something different to the party."
Patrick Sharp remembers watching the 2007 NHL draft coverage and hearing analysts saying No. 1 pick Patrick Kane, a smallish winger with a boyish face, could possibly make the Blackhawks in his first season.
"I got a chuckle out of that," Sharp said. "Then he came in and won rookie of the year and has gotten better every year since."
Kane now has seven goals in his past seven playoff games, and looks the most dangerous player in this series. He has played his way into Conn Smythe Trophy consideration.
"He has a lot of big goals in his short career," Sharp said. "He has done a lot of in six years and I think his best is yet to come."
With Marian Hossa playing, but not getting much done because of an undisclosed injury, and Toews' status now unknown, Kane's becomes even more important.
But the true pressure is now on Boston's top players to rise up and to perform at the level that Toews and Kane have been at for the past two games.
Neither Krejci, the league's leading playoff scorer, nor Horton has a goal in the championship series.
Plus, Boston's top defenseman Zdeno Chara, who has played more minutes played than any other defenseman or forward in the playoffs, suddenly has lost his ability to dominate the defensive zone. He is minus –5 over the past two games, and he has been on the ice for eight of Chicago's last nine goals.
He did score a third period goal when the Bruins were entertaining a comeback hopes. Krecji and Lucic assisted.
VIDEO: Boychuk's hit on Toews
Johnny Boychuk, another key Boston player, hit Toews' head when he seemed to cause the injury, but he doesn't believe he will face any supplemental discipline review.
"He was bending forward and I was trying to stop him from going to the net ," Boychuk said. "I'm pretty sure it was clean."
Quenneville confirmed that Toews "wanted to play" in the third period, suggesting that he might have a better shot at playing than Bergeron.
Bergeron is the team's best all-around player. He is their top faceoff man, and their best defensive forward. Plus, he has been a dangerous scorer of late.
Clearly, Julien believes the Boston stars will rise up in Game 6. "You are not going to push us away that easily," he said.


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Lakers 4, Philadelphia 76ers 2
An old dog, a new trickster and birth of 'Showtime'
"Showtime" began as 20-year-old rookie Magic Johnson inspired this talented team to first in the Pacific Division. After four close games in the Finals, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 33, turned in a 40-point performance in Game 5 despite spraining his ankle. With Abdul-Jabbar out, Johnson stepped up in Game 6 with 42 points and 15 rebounds.
The Team: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jamaal Wilkes, Magic Johnson, Norm Nixon, Jim Chones, Spencer Haywood, Michael Cooper, Mark Landsberger, Ron Boone, Kenny Carr, Don Ford, Brad Holland, Marty Byrnes, Ollie Mack, Butch Lee.
The Coach: Jack McKinney/Paul Westhead
Season record: 60-22
Playoff record: 12-4
Lakers 4, Philadelphia 76ers 2
A nascent dynasty finds renewed life with Riley
The Lakers came into the season smarting from a surprising loss to Houston in the first round of the 1981 playoffs. With Johnson back from a knee injury and the additions of Coach Pat Riley and sixth man Bob McAdoo, the Lakers swept Phoenix and San Antonio (average margin of victory, 11 points) in going 12-2 in the playoffs.
The Team: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jamaal Wilkes, Magic Johnson, Norm Nixon, Mitch Kupchak, Michael Cooper, Bob McAdoo, Mike McGee, Kurt Rambis, Mark Landsberger, Eddie Jordan, Clay Johnson, Jim Brewer, Kevin McKenna.
The Coach: Paul Westhead/Pat Riley
Season record: 57-25
Playoff record: 12-2
Lakers 4, Boston Celtics 2
Surviving a Boston massacre to make history
Johnson's 12.6 assists a game fueled Showtime and complemented the 22.0 and 17.6 scoring averages of Abdul-Jabbar and James Worthy. A year removed from yet another loss to Boston in the Finals, the Lakers finally got revenge. After a brutal 148-114 loss in Game 1, known as the "Memorial Day Massacre," L.A. came back to defeat Boston in the Finals for the first time.
The Team: Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy, Kurt Rambis, Byron Scott, Michael Cooper, Jamaal Wilkes, Ronnie Lester, Larry Spriggs, Mike McGee, Mitch Kupchak, Bob McAdoo, Chuck Nevitt, Earl Jones.
The Coach: Pat Riley
Season record: 62-20
Playoff record: 15-4
Lakers 4, Boston Celtics 2
Magic rises to new heights and the Celtics fall again
Following one of only two seasons in which they didn't make the NBA Finals in the '80s, the Lakers won 65 games and continued to dominate in the playoffs. They went 11-1 to reach the championship series. Johnson took his place as the top man on the team, leading in points (23.9), assists (12.2) and steals (1.7). He was named regular-season and Finals most valuable player.
The Team: Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy, Kurt Rambis, Byron Scott, Wes Matthews, Michael Cooper, A.C. Green, Mychal Thompson, Adrian Branch, Billy Thompson, Frank Brickowski, Mike Smrek.
The Coach: Pat Riley
Season record: 65-17
Playoff record: 15-3
Lakers 4, Detroit Pistons 3
A fine grind as fifth title brings curtain down on Showtime
With Abdul-Jabbar 41 and in his next-to-last season, Worthy and Byron Scott stepped up, combining to average 41.4 points in the regular season, with a boost from Johnson's 11.9 assists. The playoffs were arduous, the Lakers going the full seven games in the last three rounds before securing the first consecutive titles in the NBA since Boston in 1968 and '69.
The Team: Magic Johnson, James Worthy, Kurt Rambis, Byron Scott, Jeff Lamp, Milt Wagner, Wes Matthews, Michael Cooper, A.C. Green, Billy Thompson, Ray Tolbert, Tony Campbell, Mychal Thompson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mike Smrek.
The Coach: Pat Riley
Season record: 62-20
Playoff record: 15-9
Lakers 4, Indiana Pacers 2
Shaq, Kobe and Phil: Zen and the art of sacred hoops
Four years after signing with the Lakers as a free agent, Shaquille O'Neal delivered the first of his three titles. He averaged 29.7 points and 13.6 rebounds in the regular season. Kobe Bryant chipped in with 22.5 points, and Phil Jackson took home his seventh NBA title as a coach. The Lakers' 67-15 record led the West and they were 15-8 in the playoffs.
The Team: Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Robert Horry, A.C. Green, Glen Rice, Ron Harper, Rick Fox, Derek Fisher, Travis Knight, Brian Shaw, Devean George, John Salley, Tyronn Lue, John Celestand.
The Coach: Phil Jackson
Season record: 67-15
Playoff record: 15-8
Lakers 4, Philadelphia 76ers 1
Regular season lacks drama, but playoff run is epic
The veteran Lakers cruised through the regular season. O'Neal led the team in scoring at 28.7 points a game, closely followed by Bryant's 28.5. The Lakers swept all three rounds of the West playoffs to reach the Finals, where Allen Iverson and the 76ers handed them a Game 1 loss, the Lakers' only defeat of the playoffs.
The Team: Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Derek Fisher, Robert Horry, Rick Fox, Ron Harper, Devean George, Horace Grant, Tyronn Lue, Brian Shaw, Mark Madsen, Isaiah Rider, Greg Foster, Stanislav Medvedenko, Mike Penberthy.
The Coach: Phil Jackson
Season record: 56-26
Playoff record: 15-1
Lakers 4, New Jersey Nets 0
How the West is won tells the true story of three-peat
The Lakers finished third in the Western Conference but defeated the teams holding the 1-2 slots on the way to their third consecutive championship. They handled San Antonio, 4-1, and barely got past Sacramento, 4-3, in the West finals before sweeping New Jersey in the NBA Finals. O'Neal and Bryant combined to average 52.4 points and lead the Lakers to a 58-24 regular season, before the 15-4 playoff run.
The Team: Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Derek Fisher, Robert Horry, Rick Fox, Lindsey Hunter, Mitch Richmond, Devean George, Mark Madsen, Brian Shaw, Samaki Walker, Jelani McCoy.
The Coach: Phil Jackson
Season record: 58-24
Playoff record: 15-4
Lakers 4, Orlando Magic 1
House of Buss is remodeled, with a Spanish accent
After a tumultuous rebuilding process, Bryant won his first championship without O'Neal. The Lakers went 16-7 in the playoffs and, with the help of big man Pau Gasol, Bryant and Jackson won their fourth championship together. Bryant was named Finals MVP for the first time.
The Team: Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, Derek Fisher, Lamar Odom, Trevor Ariza, Andrew Bynum, Jordan Farmar, Sasha Vujacic, Luke Walton, Vladimir Radmanovic, Shannon Brown, DJ Mbenga, Adam Morrison, Josh Powell, Chris Mihm, Sun Yue.
The Coach: Phil Jackson
Season record: 65-17
Playoff record: 16-7
Lakers 4, Boston Celtics 3
Bringing in a wild card and hitting one last jackpot
The Lakers had the West's best record and reached the Finals for a third straight year. They acquired Ron Artest to add toughness to a team rich in height and talent. Though sometimes confused and often confusing to teammates and coaches, Artest meshed with a core that still included Bryant, Gasol and Lamar Odom as L.A. beat Boston for the franchise's 16th title.
The Team: Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, Derek Fisher, Lamar Odom, Ron Artest, Andrew Bynum, Jordan Farmar, Sasha Vujacic, Luke Walton, Shannon Brown, DJ Mbenga, Adam Morrison, Josh Powell.
The Coach: Phil Jackson
Season record: 57-25
Playoff record: 16-7


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As in past years, South Shore Center says it will be presenting a Summer Beats Concert Series, a free, live music event starting next month and ending in late August.
The first concert is set for 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 19, with Mike Amaral s California Beach Boys, a tribute rock band playing the Beach Boys classic hits. All performances take place in the Center Court.
Along with music, the concert series features family activities like face painting, henna tattoos, raffles and more. R&B Wine Cellars will sells some of its top wines at the event, as well.
Community members are asked to support the Alameda Unified School District's Equipped 4 Success school-supply drive by donating basic items to fill backpacks for low-income students. All wine sales from the concert benefit the drive.
South will present these other shows this summer, from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturday:
– Aug. 2, Tito Garcia Y Su Orquesta Internacional (Latin/salsa)
– Aug. 16, Sun Kings (Beatles tribute band)
– Aug. 30., Pure Ecstasy (MoTown)
Recently, South Shore announced that Studio Grow, an indoor play center that provides drop-in programs for children ages 0 to 6 years old plans to open at the retail center in mid-June.
Studio Grow, which was founded in Berkeley in 2006, chose South Shore Center for its newest Bay Area location because it is Alameda s premier lifestyle destination, particularly for young families, said Julie Taylor, senior vice president of Cornish & Carey Commercial Newmark Knight Frank, in a press release.


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Human Genes In Rice: Opening up Pandora's Pot?
|Rice with human genes will soon be grown in Kansas.
Rice engineered to contain human genes will be grown for the first time outdoors instead of in a laboratory, bringing it one step closer to commercial production, according to The Washington Post. The genes that the California-based biotechnology company Ventria Bioscience has infused into rice enable the plant to produce bacteria-fighting proteins found in human breast milk and saliva. "We can really help children with diarrhea get better faster," Scott E. Deeter, the company's president and chief executive, explained of the product.
But many consumer groups are worried the engineered rice will do more harm than good. Genetically modified (GM) plants have a history of migrating out of their target plots and contaminating other plants, critics note, and it would be difficult to control the doses of human proteins that people purposely or inadvertently take in. "This is not a product that everyone would want to consume," Jane Rissler of the Union of Concerned Scientists told the Post. "It is unwise to produce drugs in plants outdoors."
A study in Peru sponsored by Ventria Bioscience demonstrated that children with severe diarrhea recovered a day and a half faster when taking fluids that contained the proteins. But this does not make the rice a "silver bullet" for combating diarrhea in developing countries, experts say. "There's no guarantee that the public will use this in poorer nations, as patent issues have obstructed altruistic biotech applications before," notes Worldwatch Institute researcher Brian Halweil.
And, according to Halweil's colleague Danielle Nierenberg, "most of these GM-enhanced varieties of crops don't really address the root problems of poverty and disease." Every year, over one million infants and children die from diseases associated with inadequate water and sanitation, and hundreds of millions of people are "debilitated" by illness, pain, and discomfort, authors David Satterthwaite and Gordon McGranahan write in Worldwatch's State of the World 2007 report.
"Instead of pushing these products on poor consumers who lack the financial ability to say 'no' to GM plants, the money invested in developing these crops could go to broader goals like providing clean water and sanitation to prevent the very diseases these crops are created to treat," Nierenberg says.
This story was produced by Eye on Earth, a joint project of the Worldwatch Institute and the blue moon fund. View the complete archive of Eye on Earth stories, or contact Staff Writer Alana Herro at aherro [AT] worldwatch [DOT] org with your questions, comments, and story ideas.


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A little boy and a little girl are in the bathtub together. The little girl looks down at the boy and asks, "Can I touch it?"
He answers, "No way -- you already broke yours off!"
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Yamaha Jet Boats
McMillan Marine is proud to be Rochester's exclusive Yamaha Jet Boat dealer due to Yamaha's recognition of our detail to customer service. We don't sell them on blacktop...we sell AND deliver them on the water...isn't that where they SHOULD be?
Jet drive...it's a simple idea. But the benefits are immeasurable. Propellers housed internally pull water into the tubes and push it back out through the nozzles—which direct the water flow to maneuver the boat. Compared to stern drive competitors, internal propulsion system allows for a more maneuverable ride, with better acceleration and minimal hesitation due to an overall lighter-weight boat. Not only does our fuel-efficient, twin-engine system give you a smoother ride, it also minimizes the time and money you spend on maintenance.
Yamaha boats include many standard features that most competitors consider optional—like a custom, matching trailer with swing-away tongue, a satellite-ready JBL® Marine stereo and an integrated swim platform. It's what's called the "Yamaha Total Package" and it's just one of the many things that sets Yamaha apart from the competition.


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Larry sent in his DIY Vacuum Motion Sensor Mouse Trap creation.
"I built a mouse trap using an infrared motion sensor wall switch, an extension cord, a paper towel tube and a mini shop-vac. peanut butter is the bait. The mouse goes in the tube. The sensor senses it and turns on the shop-vac for 3 seconds. And voom, the mouse is inside the shop-vac. The sensor turns off the shop-vac. And it's ready to catch the next mouse. No re-setting. No mess. No kidding."
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This is beautiful!! A piece of engineering, ingenuity, and simplicity that just amazes me. Good thing I don't have a rodent problem, but if I did, I'd make one of these.
This is a cool hack, but so very cruel – the mouse will suffer for a long time. Please use a regular mousetrap – they're cheap, efficient, and kills the mouse quickly.
For the cost of just the cables used in this project, you could get a handful of mousetraps.
vary cool. keep up the good work!
Something tells me that wall socket needs replacing…
A video of this in operation would be awesome.
Yeah! Leave a video!
Sometimes the minimalist "gets the cheese" so to speak. Excellent job. I may have to implement this in my arsenal. Not sure of the "mouse will suffer for a long time" comment, a regular snap trap will not always kill instantly and I have seen a many struggling mice. I will take the little rodent "suffering" over the wife's suffering and the anxiety of another mouse in the house and my wasted hours waiting to take him out with the air rifle. Traps don't always work on those mutant mice who have been "wet-wired" you know. Little buggers.
My Shop-Vac Electronic Mousetrap attachment is not cruel at all. Notice the picture of the unharmed mouse in picture. Actually right after I took that picture, the mouse jumped out and ran very quickly under a counter. No problem. I put some water in the vac and it caught him again, but this time the mouse did not get away. It's a prototype. A gift to the world.
I like the whole concept. You can transport the mouse/mice to a new location. No harm done. Smart Thinking Larry.
[…] guess it isn't as bad as getting caught in a traditional mousetrap, but it still sucks. Some clever engineering turned this shop vac into a giant mouse sucking machine. When a mouse trips the sensor it is ingested and held in the chamber for disposal later. I […]
imho, the only good mouse is a dead one. If you catch/release the live mouse, they will most likely just come back again and I really don't want to train the mice to avoid the traps over the long haul. As it is, I had one mouse that was very proficient at cleaning the bait out of the trap without setting it off. I figured the trap might be defective in some way so I put down a new trap without doing anything with the old one. The mouse then proceeded to clean out the new trap, but then got greedy and went back to the first one that had no bait in it. Well – that was the end of that. Took 4 days to get rid of that sucker…
Hmm, add an electrical valve to fill the vac with CO2 after the run and you might have a winner.
I had a mouse eat the bait off the spring trap, that's why I made this. The shop-vac wins every time. All the mouse has to do is look in the tube and the sensor sets off the vac.
I thinking the Shop-Vac mousetrap would be practical at an industry that has a lot of mice, where poison is not a good thing, like a peanut butter factory. Are they using poison now or do they a have an army of guys cleaning up and setting spring loaded traps or those horrible glue traps?
Also I'd like to point out this is a prototype. It can be customized to do whatever you'd like to the mice after it caught.
The point is to first catch the little beast before it eats the loaf of bread the kids left on the kitchen counter. Or peas and poops on everything.
Thanks for the comments.
A video would be nice. Does anyone have a high speed camera? Cause the mouse just kind of disappears really fast.
That would be a very interesting 10 second video.
And now modify the trap for mosquitoes. 😀
It would be more efficient if connected to meat grinder 🙂
[…] Alan Perekh posted this on the Hacked Gadgets forum. He baited the business end of his Shop Vac with some peanut butter, and plugged into an IR […]
[…] is: is it an ethical mouse trap? Link – via MAKE, which has a lively discussion about whether such a trap is […]
Very very good. You are well on your way to becoming a Sith Lord.
Did your vision turn foggy red when you first turned this on?
Gopher vacuum truck. Saw this years ago and at first thought it had spinning blades inside to uh, dispose of them. This pure catch and release.
I'd love to have one of these! Would certainly help with our mouse problem and wouldn't have to worry about the dogs or kids getting snapped by a trap.
Wait till my dog gets into this. I suppose the sensor won't shut off and she will just have this paper towel cylinder suctioned to her nose. (It would serve her right.) Can you make a great big one for the fridge?
What do your pets do with those nasty spring loaded snap mouse traps?


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St. Louis, Mo., October 15, 2011 – The Washington University in St. Louis football team snapped a three-game losing streak with a 24-20 win over the College of Wooster on Saturday afternoon at Francis Field in St. Louis, Mo.
Senior Chris LaBarge had a fumble return for a touchdown, while his younger brotherTrevor LaBarge added two touchdown scores in the win. Junior Chris Castelluccio ran for a career-high 103 yards on 26 carries.
The Bears jumped out first following a 24-yard field goal by junior Eric Chalifour with 5:05 remaining in the first quarter. Washington U. took advantage off a special teams mistake by Wooster on the ensuing kickoff. Jordan McIntyre fumbled the kickoff after being hit by freshman Ryan Bednar, and then Chris LaBarge picked up the ball and scampered 11 yards for the touchdown.
Wooster (2-4) fumbled for the second time on its next possession, and Chris LaBarge recovered on the Wooster 27-yard line. Eight plays later, Trevor LaBarge scored from a yard out to push the advantage to 17-0 with 1:10 left in the first quarter.
The Fighting Scots defense put the clamps on the Washington U. offense in the second quarter, and got back into the contest by scoring 14 unanswered points. Brett Frongillo found the end zone with from one yard out to make it 17-7, and then Frongillo connected with Zack Weidtrick on a 54-yard touchdown pass just before half to cut the lead to 17-14.
Washington U. held the ball for 10:11 in the scoreless third quarter, and limited the Wooster offense to just 11 plays. On the first play of the fourth quarter, Trevor LaBarge capped a 14-play, 83-yard drive with a one-yard TD run to push the lead to 24-14 with 14:57 to play. Frongillo added a 10-yard touchdown pass to Cameron Daniels in the fourth quarter to round out the scoring.
Wooster had a 377-347 advantage in total offense, but allowed Washington U. to picked up 196 rushing yards on 54 carries. Junior quarterback Dan Burkett was 15-of-28 for 151 yards and an interception, and also ran for 67 yards on seven carries. Senior Easton Knott had four catches for 37 yards, while junior Drew Sexton added three receptions for 66 yards.
Senior Nick Hillard led the defensive unit with nine tackles, while Bednar (five tackles, forced fumble, break-up) and sophomoreNelson Nwumeh (four tackles, one sack, one tackle for loss) were around the football in the victory.
Washington University (3-3) closes out non-conference play on Saturday, Oct. 22, at Oberlin College, Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. (ET) in Oberlin, Ohio. Oberlin has lost three-straight games and is 2-4 overall, and coming off a 37-23 loss at No. 12 Wabash on Saturday.
Bear Notebook: Washington University and Wooster have split the four all-time meetings … Senior Joe Rhein made his 36th-consecutive start at center … Head coach Larry Kindbom picked up the 140th win of his career at Washington U. … The Bears had a 38:45-21:15 advantage in time of possession.


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Neo-Baroque building built in 1905-06 based on a plan by F. Schlaffer. On 5th May 1945 the Czech National Council that organized the Prague Uprising met there.
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Today, Wednesday June 10th, 2010, marks the general availability of the final release of Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0.
In addition to providing a number of performance and user experience enhancements, these client runtimes were the last remaining pieces in the Flash Access 2.0 technology stack. As reported here, the back-end components shipped a month ago on May 10th so adopters could start developing content protection solutions based on Flash Access, using the public beta of Flash Player.
With the general availability of FP 10.1 with support for Flash Access, consumers have access to technology that will allow them to watch more premium content online. In addition, a number of other distribution and monetization technologies from Adobe, such as HTTP Dynamic Streaming rely on this Flash Player/AIR release. Other complementary offerings, such as the Open Source Media Framework, have also shipped recently.
Together, all these technologies will work together to enable new opportunities for monetization and highly interactive experiences while providing robust content protection. This represents the result of collaboration across several teams at Adobe who worked hard to bring this technology to market and advance the state of the art in video distribution.
It will be interesting to see how quickly this version of Flash Player gets adopted. With every Flash Player release, the adoption cycle keeps getting shorter. For instance, when Flash Player 10 was released, it had roughly 50% penetration within two months, and had passed 85% penetration in about 8 months. That's penetration in all Internet-connected PCs, Macs and Linux boxes. How's that for reach and consistency? If Flash Player 10.1 achieves that kind of penetration in less than 1 year, I believe it will be the most widespread DRM technology ever.
You can read details about other enhancements in FP10.1 on the Flash Player blog.
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Kiva - Loans that Change Lives
You don't Need to be a Genealogist to Join - you Just Need to Care!
My last blog post was about a small trinket box which my grandmother gave me many years ago. In other posts I have narrated stories telling of my adventures in discovering Swiss, Irish and Scottish ancestors. I have even written anecdotes about a great uncle who was suspected of spying in WW11. This post is different. As genealogists, part or full time, we focus a lot on the past. We do so, importantly, in order to preserve the past for the future.
Sometimes we just need to focus on the present... and right now, there are many people who do not have lives so fortunate that they can even enjoy the luxury of researching ancestors, nor do they have a certain future. For some, it is a daily struggle just to survive, to educate children, to start a business or just to feed and care for livestock.
Kiva is an organisation which allows us to make loans of $25, NOT DONATIONS, to people less fortunate than ourselves. There is an element of self esteem involved, which makes it important for people to be able to accept a loan and to repay it. There is undoubtedly a sense of fulfillment in helping others to make a better present and future for themselves and for their families.
At this time of year, especially, as you decorate your Christmas tree and prepare to enjoy the festive season with your family, or participate in whatever other traditions or festivities that are a part of your family life, please think about joining the Genealogists For Families Project and Kiva in caring about the future of other families.
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Spotlight on Student Scholars - Michael Schramm '14Michael, the recipient of a Muhlenberg College Dean's Grant, spent the summer researching "Radical America: Populism and Socialism in the 1890's."
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 01:33 PM
As a history and political science double major, he originally expressed an interest in studying the historical climate between the conclusion and aftermath of the American Civil War and the onset of the first World War.
Dr. Daniel Wilson, professor of history and a faculty mentor of Michael's, encouraged him to be more specific. During their weekly discussions, Michael began to investigate the Populist movement and the social changes the group attempted to enact.
Michael tried to explore the historical controversies regarding the Populists. The two main views he discovered portrayed the groups as either radical reformers or as reactionary conservatives who desired a return to an agrarian society. He was left trying to formulate his own opinions, based on the journalism and contemporary writing he poured through, on whether or not the eventual goals the Populists sought could classify them as a successful political movement.
One of his most enjoyable and surprising discoveries involved the passion and bias of contemporary journalism. Michael began to appreciate the powerful persuasive tones and challenges issued by historical writers, something he finds watered-down and diminshed in today's media.
Michael's research was one of dozens of summer projects made possible through funding through generous individuals and foundations and by Muhlenberg College. To learn more about how Muhlenberg supports student research and student-faculty collaboration, please visit our Research and Scholarship site.


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. . . family game night. They were playing "Life" when Julie, nauseated, went to her room to lie down. Her family heard a thump, then Julie tumbled down the stairs. They rushed her to the hospital.Doctors discover they can slow the disease a bit but can't cure it. Julie's school mates at St. Agnes in Roeland Park, KS raise $12,000 to send the whole family to Lourdes.
Doctors listened to her heart, checked lab results, asked questions. They told her parents the news: Their daughter's heart and lungs were shutting down. They couldn't be fixed. She had maybe two weeks.
In May they went to Lourdes. Pam Garcia hadn't expected an instant healing for Julie. But she was overjoyed when they returned. Julie seemed a little better.How so? Julie later got the chance for a wish from the Make-A-Wish Foundation. She initially wanted to visit Arnold Schwarzenegger, who the Star reports, was too busy.
She no longer needed her oxygen tank or the wheelchair, and the doctors took her off several medicines.
"God didn't heal Julie's heart," her mother said. "He opened it."
So she asked Make-A-Wish for something no child had yet asked them. Go here to find out what.
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This is an attempt at contour detection using a basic algorithm.
Basic contour detection with Processing.org from mistercrunch on Vimeo.
I simply look at each pixel and compare it with its 8 surrounding neighbors and sum the gray scale difference. From there a certain threshold is applied to decide whether to display the pixel or not.
I was expecting something a bit less noisy and more cartoonish but I love the results. Somehow it looks as though there's some image compression happening somewhere between my webcam and my pixel array.
This should work pretty good for the video installation I'm working on (projector + infrared webcam + infrared spotlight). See it at BaconWood in May: and hopefully at Burning Man 2010.
This is an attempt at contour detection using a basic algorithm.
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This week marks the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, a document that enshrined the rights, privileges and liberties of the clergy and the nobles, and placed limits on the power of the crown.
The charter, first signed at Runnymede on the banks of the Thames contained 63 clauses dealing mostly with the administration of justice, and the detail of feudal rights and customs.
What you want to know more?:
- It was granted by King John in June 1215, drawn up after his barons rebelled and forced him to agree to limitations on his power, because he had demanded heavy taxes to fund his unsuccessful wars in France.
- Originally known as the 'charter of liberties' or the 'charter of Runnymede' it acquired its more familiar name in the year 1217.
- About 20 copies were originally made, only four survive: The British Library holds two; the cathedral cities of Salisbury and Lincoln have one each.
- Lincoln Cathedral's copy was on display in New York when the Second World War began and then spent nearly six years locked in Fort Knox.
- The original versions were written in Latin on a calfskin parchment. The first known written English version was made in 1534.
- Only three of the original clauses in Magna Carta are still law: one defends the freedom and rights of the English church; another confirms the liberties and customs of London and other towns; and a third paved the way for trial by jury.
- Magna Carta guaranteed free movement of people in and out of the country, for merchants (clause 41) and everyone else (42).
- The charter granted no freedoms to women. But some clauses did help women, particularly widows who were no longer forced into second marriages when a knight died in combat or of disease.
- Many of the rights in the 1998 Human Rights Act originated in principles emerging from Magna Carta. the Human Rights Act enshrines the European Convention of Human Rights in British law.


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Okay, I love rainbows. I always have done. I'm a rainbow lovin', hippy tree hugger. And proud of it. How do I show this aspect of my personality? Check these babies out….
Yep, just hit the 'Buy Now' button, so these will be winging their way to me in the next few days. I actually saw them in Oasis in Birmingham over half term when I went there for a shopping/eating/socialising day of complete gluttony with some friends. I actually spent quite a bit of money at the Hippy Buddy stall in Oasis (Birmingham) because they had a sale on, so I just couldn't justify them at that point, but I just couldn't get them out of my mind, so I succumbed to the temptation tonight. Well, I needed a break from painting. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. I have far more harem pants that a girl probably should in her wardrobe, but what the hell! They will look great with my Christmas presents from M (aren't they awesome?!)
Anyhow, I've been busy busy this week; dragons and peacock feathers and Dr Who designs have been keeping me busy. I'm currently painting a set of Dr Who glasses that say Happy Birthday in Gallifreyan! I'm also mulling over a Star Trek themed design in honour of Leonard Nimoy, one of sci-fi history's greatest hippies. I'll update you all when I have something worked out. Also toying with a carnival/Easter crazy coloured designs too!
Continuing with the rainbow theme, I've just had an order for a rainbow range of my Egyptian Lily glasses for a lady's holistic treatment room… I'm looking forward to doing those in a gorgeous spectrum of colours! She plans to use them as candle burners and I can just imagine them twinkling in a glorious rainbow – they'll be so pretty in a darkened room! Mmmm, may have to do something similar for myself…I have some glasses that someone gave me that aren't really suitable for drinking, but they'll make perfect candle burners….
Tonight I've been painting along to one of my favourite Supernatural episodes of this series (Series 9) where Dean mind melds (a Trekkie reference?) with Colonel the Germen Shepherd, that episode just cracks me up! Watching Dean standing at the window with the Colonel shouting 'Hey, Hey, You, You' is just what I imagine Jack is saying when he's barking!
I must admit, I've been so busy recently, I haven't had time to do much else in the crafty sense, but what I need to do at some point soon is make myself some zill mufflers – zills are the little finger cymbals that bellydancers use – our current choreography is a challenging one with half the troop using veils, and half zilling. I'm not a fan of veils, so I've opted for the zills, but they are quite noisy and they send Jack into a frenzy of doggy excitement, so I need to muffle them a bit, like so….
So I'll need to whip the old crochet hook at some point soon!
There's also a swap on Craftster that I'm very tempted by, an Alice in Wonderland OTT (One Tiny Thing), you basically craft 1 thing which is max size 4x4x4" to send to your partner (based on their likes etc). I think I could manage to squeeze one tiny thing into my hectic schedule and I do so love Alice and especially the Cheshire Cat (I have more nerdy Quertee t-shirts that are Alice themed than is probably healthy for a grown-up!)
You know what? This has given me a great idea for a new design…..
Ta ta for now!


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We've got camping in our soul and believe in enjoying life outdoors. We're also keen on style, comfort and quality.
Whether you fancy staying in one of our modern holiday homes, lodges or a tent, you can be sure to step into quality, detached accommodation, complete with your own outdoor space that you're free to enjoy however you like. Indoors, everyone can enjoy their own space in separate bedrooms and self-catering facilities at your fingertips will give you the freedom to dine in if you fancy.
Does this sound like ordinary camping to you?


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State trail maintenance fund looks to be taking hit
For want of a park, many of the state's trail systems may be lost -- to underbrush, overuse and, eventually, a chaos of downed trees.
Lost, too, will be the majority of the seasonal trail-crew workers who keep this region's National Forest lands from falling into such disrepair.
That appears to be the tradeoff made this spring, when state legislators swept $9.56 million from a fund previously dedicated to trail maintenance and development grants into the state's general fund for the 2009-2011 budget.
The move helped save the Washington State Parks system, which faced the prospect of having to close as many as 40 parks. But it leaves the Nonhighway and Off-Road Vehicle Activities (NOVA) fund empty, meaning no NOVA grants will be available for the biennium.
Because NOVA grants have become a primary source of funding for trail maintenance, the loss of money will affect almost every land-managing agency and every type of trail user, from off-road vehicle (ORV) users and mountain bikers to hikers and backcountry horsemen.
The National Forest trail system figures to take the biggest hit. The Naches and Cle Elum ranger districts have long depended on NOVA grants for their trails-program budgets.
"It's maybe not the worst-case scenario, but it's a pretty bad scenario," said resources assistant Mike Rowan of the Naches Ranger District, which expects to lose 26 of its 40 seasonal employees over the next two years.
Things look even more bleak in the Cle Elum district, which expects to lose about 70 percent of its recreation and trails budget.
Losing NOVA "is going to be pretty profound," said Tim Foss, who manages the Cle Elum district's trails, wilderness and ORV programs. "We have about 30 people, both permanents and seasonals, who work in recreation here. We anticipate being down to six or seven -- we're talking about losing 23 of them. It's huge. It's a great big hit. I've never seen anything quite like it."
Clubs in the ORV community are up in arms over the loss of grant money. It was, they contend, their money to begin with.
NOVA money comes from ORV license tab fees and funds generated from the ORV portion of the gas tax. Since 1973, ORV users have waived their rights to a fuel-tax refund with the understanding that the money raised would be used to develop, maintain and manage trails and nonhighway road systems. Two years ago, ORV groups asked state lawmakers to more than double ORV use-permit fees to finance trail maintenance and improvements.
With Forest Service recreation budgets in the Pacific Northwest region a fraction of what they were in the early 1990s, ranger districts have increasingly turned to NOVA grants administered by the Recreation and Conservation Office (formerly known as the Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation). The Cle Elum district has received about $4 million in NOVA grants since 1996, while Naches has received about $3.4 million over that time.
The current financial crisis, though, left the governor and the state Legislature facing a $6 billion shortfall that grew to $9 billion by the time the legislative session ended. Although the appropriation of NOVA funds wasn't in Gov. Chris Gregoire's proposed budget in December, the budget approved by the Legislature moved both the NOVA money and another $9.8 million from the Boating Facilities Program into the general fund to rescue the flagging state parks budget.
"I think the Legislature found itself in a much tougher situation than we did and probably extended what the governor did, and that is look for balances in other funds to help solve their general fund problem," said Victor Moore, the governor's budget director. "In order to save the programs they thought were a higher priority, they moved from various funds to protect state parks from deeper cuts."
That movement of money from one pot to another is fairly typical during the budget process, Moore said: "There's a whole host of transfers from various dedicated accounts to the general fund."
Trail users, however, say lawmakers overstepped their bounds.
"We feel like somebody stuck a stick in and broke it off," said Dave Walters, land-use coordinator for a Tri-Cities off-roading group called the Peak Putters. "It is, as far as we are concerned, an illegal taking of the money."
That argument may ultimately be decided in a courtroom. The Northwest Motorcycle Association and the Washington Off Highway Vehicle Alliance are jointly preparing to sue the state over the NOVA account.
State officials believe they're on firm legal ground, according to legal counsel for the Senate Ways and Means Committee. They point to two previous court decisions, one in 2003 after the Legislature lowered its employer contributions to a state pension fund in order to balance the state budget. The state Supreme Court upheld the state's right to do it.
Cassandra de la Rosa, executive director of the Retired Public Employees Council of Washington --the plaintiff in that 2003 lawsuit -- said she couldn't see any way the state pension issue could apply to the NOVA case.
"I fail to see how the state can take money that individuals have put into a program and then take the money and run," de la Rosa said. "At least with the pension systems, (state officials) are obligated to continue paying benefits."
In 2005, the Northwest Motorcycle Association sued over disbursal of the ORV gas-tax portion of the NOVA account, but courts ruled the Legislature could spend that money as it saw fit.
Not all legislators, though, believe this year's emptying of the NOVA account to rescue the budget was the right thing to do.
"I think there's been a slow eroding of the NOVA account, and this is the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back," said Sen. Jerome Delvin, R-Richland.
Other say the Legislature's decision will have long-term impacts on trail systems throughout the state, notably in National Forests that have already watched the steep decline in their trail-maintenance budgets since the early 1990s.
"In 2010 and 2011, we might get most of the log-out done," said Foss.


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LocationStation Court Imperial Wharf, London, England
Project TeamZaha Hadid (Design), Patrik Schumacher (Design), Woody Yao (Project Directors), Maha Kutay (Project Directors), Margarita Yordanova Valova (Project Architect); Design Development: Gerhild Orthacker, Hannes Schafelner, Jimena Araiza, Mireia, Sala Font, Erhan Patat, Yuxi Fu, Michal Treder, Torsten Broeder; Concept Design: Dylan Baker-Rice, Melissa Woolford, Matthew Donkersley, Maria Araya
Structural And Facade EngineeringBuro Happold
Mep And Acoustics ConsultantMax Fordham Consulting Engineers
Lighting DesignISOMETRIX Lighting + Design
Av ConsultantSono
Cost ManagerBetlinski
ConstructionEmpty, S.L.
Area1100.0 m2
Project Year2011
Text description provided by the architects. The most recent Roca Gallery to open is in London. Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, the Roca London Gallery is located in Chelsea Harbour and is 1,100 m2 in size. The leading role is played by the water that, in the words of Zaha Hadid, "acts as a transformer moving, without interruption, through the façade, carving the interior and flowing through the main gallery as drops of water".
The façade has a series of openings that seek to show the effect of water erosion and a white interior filled with drops of light acting as the backbone of the Roca London Gallery. These drops of water connect the different areas of the space which are part of the Roca London Gallery itself; namely an exhibition of Roca's most innovative products, the meeting room and the multimedia space, amongst others. Additionally, the interior features the latest technologies which combine with modern audiovisual, sound and lighting equipment to transport the visitor to a truly cutting edge space.
Zaha Hadid and her team have created a design that is not just purely visual, it also uses the art of precision and control to help the visitor understand the relationship between the architecture of the space and the design of Roca bathroom products.
Miguel Angel Munar, Senior Managing Director, Roca Bathroom Products Division commented:
"For Roca it is essential to have a presence in a city like London which is a benchmark for design and innovation on a global level. London is also of strategic importance to our future business development since it allows us to be close to our top international distributors and clients. At the Roca London Gallery, Zaha Hadid has perfectly interpreted all our brand values as well as our company philosophy in a singularly exciting and tangible way."
"Our work imbues architecture with the intricacy and beauty of natural forms. Using a formal language derived from the movement of water, the Roca London Gallery has been eroded and polished by fluidity; generating a sequence of dynamic spaces carved from this fascinating interplay between architecture and nature."
Roca"s commitment to design and innovation is clearly visible in the exterior of the building with its distinctive and unique façade which gives the Roca London Gallery its identity. Three almost organic portals which appear to have been shaped by water erosion open up this space to the city. The movement of water is the overriding theme in the Roca London Gallery – flowing and merging exterior and interior spaces. The interior is sculptured white concrete and its state of the art lighting connects each of the different areas whilst serving as a central axis around which the Roca London Gallery revolves. The interior is fabulous, functional and flexible, featuring cutting-edge, modern, audiovisual, sound and lighting equipment. This technology provides interaction with the brand and the opportunity to discover the company"s history, its landmark achievements and the values on which all of Roca"s work is based: the commitment to sustainability and particularly to innovation, design, wellness and saving water.
The Roca London Gallery is intended to be much more than just a display space. Available to an extensive audience that will include everyone from design-savvy architects to design-hungry students, it will become a London hub hosting a wide range of activities such as exhibitions produced in-house or externally, meetings, presentations, seminars and debates, the criteria being a celebration of design in keeping with the Roca brand and company values.
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COFES is that place on the calendar that we set aside to lift our heads from the daily grind and consider our work in a broader context. This year at COFES 2017, we'll take a deep dive into complexity and transformation.
The growth of complexity in everything we do is presenting us with new and difficult challenges, from our constantly changing business environment, to conflicting requirements of more simplicity (to the customer) in products that require more complexity to deliver. New phenomena result from complexity, often requiring consideration of things that were not previously an issue. The demands of IoT, the emergence of additive manufacturing. And it's not just products: emergent properties of complexity occur in processes, in IT, in business models, in politics, and in economies.
Rather than focus on how to design complex systems from scratch, our attention will be on interventions that can transform existing systems to mitigate the effects of complexity.
Many firms have started transformations to address aspects of complexity in their IT systems. But few are addressing complexity in other areas.
One definition of a functional complex system is as a network adaptive agents. Prior to IoT, our physical products didn't have much in the way of a complete roundtrip of data, much less the ability to adapt. Now, as IoT becomes pervasive, we are adding the ability for products to be modified remotely. In other words, we are moving from a product's value decreasing over time, to the domain of products that adapt to their environment, becoming more valuable over time. (This is particularly true with embedded AI and machine learning systems.)
We rarely have the luxury of redesigning our software products from scratch. What is the path to transform our existing software to accommodate learning and adaptation?
Complexity—in our products, our business systems, our customers' needs, and more--demands our attention. It's time to examine the tools we have to upgrade our systems in the context of growing complexity. We'll do just that at COFES 2017.
Our customers are those that create the world around us. They design the roads and bridges, the buildings we live and work in, the things we use and see around us.
The place to impact all of this is at the planning, design, and engineering stage. It's where the leverage is. Our customers have the leverage to change the world.
The COFES community provides the tools to these people who have that leverage.
We've been able to absorb much change in the past. But today, with increased population, increased infrastructure, and increased global interdependencies, we have lost much of our flexibility to absorb such change without hardship. The reasons for this are understandable and to be expected. With our larger population we have less room to maneuver and have significant investments in infrastructure – all a result of unconstrained growth without concern for long-term consequences.
What's worse, we may be having an impact that is resulting in such change coming more quickly – within a lifetime rather than over generations.
Change will come. And it's not just whether that we have to adjust to. Changes will be painful to many – deadly to some; others will reap unexpected windfalls. The balance will shift.
What can we do about it? We can choose not to ignore it. We can think about longer term implications of our decisions and have longer term horizons for our planning.
We provide the tools to the people who have the leverage to implement change. We can help them innovate better.
At COFES, we ask "What can we do to make our customers more effective innovators?"
It's not just about sharing best practices -- the bigger question is "How can we innovate in the development of better practices?"
Let's meet face-to-face and discuss these critical issues. We're all in this together.
A Cyon Research Event


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Freedom of Expression, RUDE GYAL
YEAR: 2014 DIMENSIONS: 66x48 inches MEDIUM: Oil on Canvas
Fashion has always been a means of creating a statement of identity, class, political positioning and personal expression. In the Jamaican dancehall scene fashion is a way for those who participate to move from the shadows into the light. Being seen, photographed, admired, and envied is part of that transcendence. Despite the marginal lines drawn by society, dancehall style creates a new world of affirmation and existence.
In these large oil paintings there is no trace of the dancehall environment. The subjects dominate a moment in time through their style adorned only by their own curation of color. The collection is where the provocative, the fashion forward and the trendy come together to create an individual uniqueness that is a distinctly Jamaican aesthetic.
Limited Edition Print on Moab Entrada Rag Bright paper, 310 GSM.
Handsigned, Edition of 25. Certificate of Authenticity.
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A string walks into a bar with a few friends and orders a beer. The bartender says, "I'm sorry, but we don't serve strings here."
The string goes back to his table. He ties himself in a loop and messes up the top of his hair. He walks back up to the bar and orders a beer.
The bartender squints at him and says, "Hey, aren't you a string?"
The string says, "Nope, I'm a frayed knot."


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This comprehensive course will go over the tools and methodologies that are used during penetration tests in enterprise network environments. The course will utilize a lab environment for hands on instruction of manual penetration testing methods, as well as training on the use of exploitation frameworks, such as Metasploit. This course will focus on methodology, processes, tools, and techniques. By the end of the course, the student will have an understanding of the underlying workings of network exploitation, and will have experience in the successful execution of attacks.
Minimum Student Requirements:
– A Laptop with at least 4Gb of RAM with the ability to run multiple virtual machines.
– Understanding of Basic Networking Concepts
– Basic Linux Skills
Target Audience: The class is perfect for those seeking to enter the information security career field, as well as those seeking to develop the skills and experience needed to succeed as a penetration tester.
About the Instructors:
Alexander Heid is co-founder and President of HackMiami, and is a Senior Security Researcher at Prolexic Technologies with the PLXsert team. Previously Heid served as Chapter Chair for South Florida OWASP. He has previously worked within the finance and defense industries as a vulnerability analyst.
Heid's specialties include digital crime intelligence analysis, application security auditing, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, and malware reversal. Much of the research he has participated in has been featured at national industry conferences and global mainstream media.
Rod Soto is the Secretary of the Board of HackMiami. HackMiami is made up of experienced information security professionals that have years of experience working with large corporations, governments, and small businesses. Members of HackMiami are on the cutting edge of vulnerability research and regularly present at local information security group meetings (ISSA, OWASP) and international hacking conferences around the world (Defcon, HOPE, OWASP AppSec, Hacker Halted).
James Ball is the Chief Information Security Officer of HackMiami.
Mr. Ball oversees the security of HackMiami's networks and infrastructure.Mr. Ball has over ten years of experience in the field of information security with a specialization in web application penetration testing. He also specializes in the art of Information Retreival and Disaster Recovery.


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JeffWolff needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 1274 designs submitted by 299 freelance designers.
Jeff Wolff Attorney at Law
Jeff Wolff is a defense attorney based in Dahlonega Georgia who specializes in defending drugs, and drinking and driving offenses. Jeff is the top defense attorney in his area having attended a top law school and then worked in the prosecutors office as the special drug prosecutor. He's not the lawyer on late night tv commercials. He's who you call when you're really in trouble. So we're looking for a very professional presentation.
People in need of a top criminal defense attorney.
We need an identity kit but let's just start with the logo. If we like your logo, we'll need business cards, letterhead, and envelopes based on the logo.
We must have the end product in a vector format. Illustrator source files are fine but work in whatever program you want as long as you can provide it in vector.
Color-wise, I have observed that Jeff likes earth tones.
I think it would be cool to do an effect with the two double Fs in Jeff's name.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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MedShape Solutions, Inc. Receives SBIR Phase I Development Grant for Shape Memory Meniscal Repair Device
ATLANTA, Sept. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — MedShape Solutions, Inc., the industry leader in innovative shape memory orthopedic devices, today announced that it has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant from the National Institutes of Health to assist in the research and development of a compliant shape memory polymer device for meniscal repair. Additional funding phases could take the total award amount to over $1.5M upon the achievement of key Phase I development milestones.
The menisci are crescent-shaped pads of fibrocartilage located between the femur and tibia in the knee, and act as shock absorbers to prevent friction between the two bones. They also help stabilize the knee and protect the articular cartilage on the surfaces of the femur and tibia. Meniscal damage can lead to degenerative changes to the surfaces of the knee joint. According to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, meniscal tears are among the most common knee injuries; athletes, particularly those who play contact sports, are at risk for meniscal tears. However, anyone at any age can tear a meniscus.
Current surgical practice is to attempt a repair of the torn meniscus in order to preserve its function rather than remove it completely. MedShape's research and development team will use the company's proprietary shape memory biopolymer capabilities to develop an easy-to-use, robust, and effective meniscal repair solution with clearly defined clinical benefits.
"Meniscal repair devices must be simple to insert arthroscopically, be strong and flexible, and be able to maintain good apposition between the tissue surfaces throughout the healing process for a successful outcome," said Kathryn Smith, PhD, post-doctoral research scientist at MedShape. "Owing to MedShape's leadership position in developing shape changing polymer devices, we are uniquely qualified to address these challenges and deliver a superior implant associated with minimally-invasive meniscal repair procedures. The support from the SBIR program is key to helping our team achieve those goals."
For more information on MedShape or the MedShape line of shape memory orthopedic devices, visit www.medshape.com.
About the National Institutes for Health (NIH) and the SBIR program
NIH is the nation's medical research agency—supporting scientific studies that turn discovery into health. NIH's mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce the burdens of illness and disability.
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is a highly competitive program that encourages domestic small businesses to engage in Federal Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) that has the potential for commercialization. Through a competitive awards-based program, SBIR enables small businesses to explore their technological potential and provides the incentive to profit from its commercialization. By including qualified small businesses in the nation's R&D arena, high-tech innovation is stimulated and the United States gains entrepreneurial spirit as it meets its specific research and development needs.
For more information, visit www.nih.gov.
About MedShape Solutions, Inc.
MedShape Solutions, Inc. is a privately held medical device company focused on developing orthopedic devices from proprietary shape memory technology. In June 2010, the company's initial product, the MORPHIX® Suture Anchor, received the prestigious Gold Award at the Medical Device + Design Excellence Awards (MDEA) meeting, based on its superior design and proprietary shape memory polymer. The company also recently launched the shape memory polymer EXOSHAPE® Soft Tissue Fastener for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) repair. For more information about the MedShape line of orthopedic devices, visitwww.medshape.com.
ExoShape and MORPHIX are trademarks of MedShape Solutions, Inc.