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Much like the horticultural aberration that it celebrates, the little musical "Little Shop of Horrors" seems to have mutated in the 20 years since it first set down roots in a tiny space off Off Broadway. Here it is, two decades later, a jolly green giant in a big Broadway house, delighting audiences anew with its R&B score and peppy cast.
Much like the horticultural aberration that it celebrates, the little musical "Little Shop of Horrors" seems to have mutated in the 20 years since it first set down roots in a tiny space off Off Broadway. Here it is, two decades later, a jolly green giant in a big Broadway house, delighting audiences anew with its R&B score to sell your soul for, its peppy cast of Skid Row denizens with Motor City vocal cords, its affectionate goofing on a cheesy 1960s Roger Corman picture.
The musical does, at times, look small on the stage of the Virginia Theater. With just four significant roles (four and a half, counting the voice of that man-eating plant), a chorus numbering three (but what a trio!) and essentially a single setting, it was clearly designed with the dimensions of Off Broadway theater in mind. And to their credit, the creators of this snappy, endearing and gorgeously sung new revival have resisted the impulse to embellish it with unnecessary clutter. The bloodthirsty fern has been given a booster shot, to be sure, and is spectacularly realized in several sizes by the Jim Henson Co. and Martin B. Robinson. And set designer Scott Pask has provided city vistas scribbled in the style of period comicbooks to amplify the grungy atmosphere of Mushnik's flower shop — and fill the capacious Virginia proscenium. Donald Holder bathes the stage in colorfully lurid lighting. But the musical as a whole hasn't been given the steroid treatment: It's still adorable, and modest in its sweetness and silliness. Audiences new to it aren't likely to notice that it sometimes seems a little bit like a very talented baton twirler on the stage of Carnegie Hall. The truth is, in the past two decades Broadway has shrunk to fit "Little Shop." This show pioneered the kind of tongue-in-cheek approach to musical theater that has since set up shop all over the Great White Way. From its source in celluloid (and no classic!) to its self-mockingly ditzy book and lyrics (by the late Howard Ashman) to its rhythmic score that looked sideways to the world of the pop charts rather than back to Broadway history, "Little Shop" was a harbinger of bigger things to come. Traces of its influence can be found in shows as disparate as "Urinetown" and "Mamma Mia!," while its most successful spawn would be that big-haired behemoth just across 52nd Street, "Hairspray." If the new "Little Shop" can't compete in terms of sheer theatrical dazzle with some of its splashier offspring — the poky plot revolves around a series of meals for that blood-sucking succulent — it's certainly not due to any lapses on the part of the new creative team. After a tryout in Florida opened to mixed notices, the show's producers tapped consummate Broadway gagmeister Jerry Zaks to put things in order. He recast some roles and, presumably, juiced up the comedy. The show whizzes by briskly and brightly, and there's always another of Ashman and Alan Menken's infectiously bopping songs just ahead to set the pulse racing. Retained from the Florida tryout is Hunter Foster as Seymour, the nebbishy gofer at a withering nursery who discovers a peculiar new species of plant. The "Urinetown" star, in a dirty baseball cap and rumpled khakis, makes a delightful loser. Seymour's mousy insecurity evaporates only when he pours his quickly souring soul into his songs. He's agonizingly attracted by the riches promised by his alliance with his monstrous discovery but good-hearted enough to know he's doing wrong. Kerry Butler, so memorable as Penny Pingleton in "Hairspray," will be battling memories of the original Audrey — and for many the only Audrey — Ellen Greene. I never saw Greene onstage, but even in the movie she was a transfixing, utterly original presence, with a voice of hair-raising intensity. But Butler, less achingly vulnerable than her predecessor, works her own wonders with the role. She, too, is able to find the poignant notes in what is essentially a cartoon character, and her performance of Audrey's simultaneously hilarious and touching ballad of yearning, "Somewhere That's Green," is a knockout; you marvel at how such a soul-stirring voice can emerge from such a tiny frame. Douglas Sills, formerly Broadway's camp "Scarlet Pimpernel," plays Audrey's "motorcycle dentist" boyfriend, one of the musical's most inspired inventions. Sills is deliciously smarmy, and he gets a chance to show off his own rich vocal resources. But he is not really the kind of chameleonic clown who can make the most of the quick-change gag that has him flitting through a half-dozen roles in the musical's latter going. An A for effort, nonetheless. Rounding out the cast are Rob Bartlett as a sad-eyed Mushnik, the nursery owner who ends up as a meal for his star attraction, and DeQuina Moore, Trisha Jeffrey and Carla J. Hargrove, the girl-group chorus, who execute the snappy moves of Kathleen Marshall's choreography with the same precision and authority they bring to the glorious vocal arrangements by Robert Billig. Since all the characters have been digested by curtain time, it falls to these girls to lead the evening's fun finale, "Don't Feed the Plants," which reveals that the ravenous offspring of Audrey II have spread across the country and accomplished their evil intentions, to eat Cleveland … and Des Moines … and Peoria! I can't vouch for those locales, but it's certainly true that musicals hatched from the spores of this unassuming little show have, in a sense, eaten Broadway, which is increasingly hostile to species of musical theater that seek to do anything other than show audiences a goofy good time. It's only fair that the mother of them all should get a bite of the action at last.Little Shop of Horrors
Virginia Theater; 1,209 seats; $95 top
A Marc Routh, Richard Frankel, Tom Viertel, Steven Baruch, James D. Stern, Douglas L. Meyer, Rick Steiner/John & Bonnie Osher and Simone Genatt Haft presentation, in association with Frederic H. Mayerson and Amy Danis/Mark Johannes, of a musical in two acts with book and lyrics by Howard Ashman and music by Alan Menken, based on the film by Roger Corman, screenplay by Charles Griffith. Directed by Jerry Zaks.
Choreography, Kathleen Marshall. Sets, Scott Pask; costumes, William Ivey Long; lighting, Donald Holder; sound, T. Richard Fitzgerald; puppets, Jim Henson Co., Martin P. Robinson; music director, Henry Aronson; original vocal arrangements, Robert Billig; music coordinator, John Miller; production stage manager, Karen Armstrong; music supervision and new arrangements, Michael Kosarin; orchestrations, Danny Troob. Opened Oct. 2, 2003. Reviewed Sept. 30. Running time: 2 HOURS.
Chiffon - DeQuina Moore
Crystal - Trisha Jeffrey
Ronnette - Carla J. Hargrove
Mushnik - Rob Bartlett
Audrey - Kerry Butler
Seymour - Hunter Foster
Derelicts - Anthony Asbury, Bill Remington, Martin P. Robinson, Matt Vogel
Orin/Bernstein/ Luce/Snip - Douglas Sills
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Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Cutter Dykstra Engaged – Ring Photo
By Cathy on January 29, 2013
Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Cutter Dykstra are engaged to be married.
The former "Sopranos" actress posted the picture above, of her and Cutter with the engagement ring and tweeted, "So this just happened….."
Cutter added, "She said yes!!!"
The 31-year-old actress later added, "Thank you so much for all the love everyone. I am so happy and more importantly lucky!"
Jamie-Lynn and Cutter, a Washington Nationals player and son of famed MLB star Lenny Dykstra, have been dating for about a year.
This will be the second marriage for Sigler, who was previously wed to A.J. Discala before divorcing in 2006.
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As part of my training at work, I needed to work on our top-of-the-line embroidery machines. Since we have been in desperate need of good, stylish couch pillows at home, I used this opportunity to not only achieve my work goals, but to decorate my home.
The swirled design pillow was made on the Viking Diamond deLuxe, and the more floral design was embroidered on the Pfaff Creative Sensation. I constructed both pillows on the Viking Emerald 203.
Material Notes
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There are some significant utility scale high temperature superconducting (HTS) projects
Southern California Edison says that exploiting the benefits of HTS over the next decade is most likely to start with niche [utility scale] projects to build a technology foundation while gradually expanding markets and growing the manufacturing capacity to supply them. Minervini added that "microgrids" for isolated military bases and large urban data centers may provide another entrée by avoiding the need for investment by risk-averse utilities.
Studies suggest that reducing the present cost of the superconductor by a factor of two would bring the cost of 10-GW, 1200-mile-long, superconducting cables to within range of that of conventional overhead lines. Since underground dc cables also offer substantial environmental, siting, and aesthetic benefits over conventional overhead transmission lines, they may become an attractive alternative option in some situations."


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hp712, HP 9000/712 model
_________ ______ |PA-7100LC|_..__|Artist|______________[VGA] |_________| || |______| __|__ | || |Cache| | || _ _ LASI ASIC _ _ |_____| | || ______ ______ | || | ..__|i82596|___|_[10Mb Ethernet] |Memory|_| || || |______| |______| || | || ______ | ___ || ||__|53C710|_____[8-bit SCSI-2] |ROM|_______|| | || |______| | |___| ||_______|| ____ ________ || | ||__|PS/2|_____|_[Keyboard/Mouse] |GIO-slot|__|| || |____| |________| GSC | || ______ | _________ ||__|16550A|_____[Serial] |TSIO-slot|_. | || |______| | |_________| | || ______ | | ||__|37C65C|___|_[Floppy] | || |______| | | || ______ | | ||__|16C522|_____[Parallel] | | || |______| | | || _______ |_____|__||__|Harmony|__|_[Audio] || |_______| | || ___ | ||__|RTC| | GSC |___| | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The design goal of the 712 workstation was to reach performance levels of 1992-era workstations and servers (for instance HP 9000 735 workstation) at a fraction of their fabrication costs. Everything was kept simple, the case is one of the smallest Unix workstation cases, similar to the Sun SPARCstation 10 and 20 cases. 712s are very quiet, the fan of the power supply being almost not audible — the produced noise depends on the installed SCSI drive.
Introduced: early-1994 to mid-1995 (712/100) prices from $4,000 (712/60) and $8,820 (712/80) to $15,100 (712/100).
- 712/60: PA-7100LC 60MHz with 1KB on-chip L11 and 64KB off-chip L1 cache
- 712/80: PA-7100LC 80MHz with 1KB on-chip L11 and 256KB off-chip L1 cache
- 712/100: PA-7100LC 100MHz with 1KB on-chip L11 and 256KB off-chip L1 cache
1. The 1KB on-chip L1 cache is not really a true cache.
Time of introduction: 1994
The PA-7100LC was primarily designed as a single-chip solution for application in low cost systems while still delivering the performance of 1991 high-end workstations and servers. The CPU core design was leveraged from the PA-7100 and integrated with several of its off-chip support components on a single die. The PA-7100LC integrates the CPU, FPU, MIOC (memory and I/O controller) and a first-level cache on a single VLSI chip and has a direct attachment to the GSC main bus. Both CPU and FPU support the PA-RISC 1.1 Edition 3 ISA. Details
- PA-RISC version 1.1c 32-bit
- Three functional units: 2 integer ALUs, 1 Floating Point unit1
- 2-way superscalar
- Not SMP-capable
- Five-stage pipeline
- DRAM memory & cache controller (MIOC) integrated on die, thus direct interface from the CPU to memory and cache
- 1KB on-chip I L1 instruction cache, direct mapped, 64-bit per access, prefetch from off-chip I cache
- 8KB-2MB off-chip unified I/D L1 cache, direct mapped, hashed address, virtual index, 480-600MB/s bandwidth
- The 1KB on-chip I cache is not really considered a true cache, thus the off-chip cache in fact is the system's real L1 cache
- 32-Byte cache line size
- Support for bi-endian load-store operations
- MAX-1 multimedia extensions (subword arithmetic) for multimedia applications, e.g., MPEG decoding
- Floating Point load-store to I/O space
- 64-entry unified I/D TLB, fully associative, 4K page size
- 8-entry BTLB, page sizes from 512K - 64M
- 64-bit wide load/store operations
- I and D cache bypassing
- Stall on use D cache miss policy
- Don't fill on miss cache hint
- Hardware TLB miss handler support
- Hardware static branch prediction
- GSC bus interface
- 64-bit ECC interface to the main memory
- Instruction line prefetch from main memory
- Up to 100MHz clock
- 14.2×14.2 mm2 die, 900,000 FETs, 0.75µ (micron), 3-layer aluminium process packaged in a 432-pin PGA
Only one of the two integer ALUs is able to handle loads, stores and shifts, these operations can only be paired with simple math operations, like integer addition or multiplication. Both units can handle branch operations.
* LASI ASIC, which features: o NCR 53C710 8-bit single-ended SCSI-2 o Intel 82596CA 10Mb Ethernet controller o WD 16C522 compatible parallel o Harmony CD/DAT quality 16-bit stereo audio o NS 16550A compatible serial * Artist graphics, 8-bit * Intel 82503 Ethernet transceiver, media auto-selection * CS4215 or AD1849 programmable CODECs * WD37C65C Floppy controller * Two AM29F010 Flash EPROMs * GSC system level I/O bus (128MB/s) * SCSI-2 single-ended bus
* 72-pin ECC SIMMs * Takes 8-32MB modules * Either 4 (on /60 and /80 models) or 6 (on /100) sockets * 16MB (2×8) minimum, 128MB (4×32)/ 192MB (6×32) maximum * Memory has to be installed in pairs, starting from slot 0, which is the closest slot to the drives.
* VRAM expansion slot for: o A2263-66520M - Video RAM expansion for higher resolutions/more colors * One slot for a GIO card (special formfactor GSC bus cards, only used in the 712), with the following cards available: o A2878A - second video o A4011A - 8025 Token Ring interface o A4011B - 8025 Token Ring interface o A4013A - second serial port o A4014A - second Ethernet LAN (AUI+TP) and serial port. Pinout for the AUI/RS232 Y-cable o A4015A - second serial & X25 link (DB9M RS232C connectors) o A4217A - second Ethernet LAN (AUI+TP) & second VGA o TAMS 50488 - HP-IB interface * One slot for a TSIO card (another special formfactor GSC card for the Teleshare expansion slot), with only one card offered: o A4012A - Teleshare POTS interface with two RJ11C jacks
- One tray for a 3.5″ Fast-Narrow SE 50-pin SCSI hard drive
- One tray for a 3.5″ Floppy drive with special connector
External connectors
- 50-pin HD SCSI-2 Fast-Narrow single-ended
- DB9 male RS232C serial (up to 115200 baud)
- DB25 female parallel
- TP/RJ45 10Mbit Ethernet1
- 15-pin AUI 10Mbit Ethernet1
- Two PS/2 connectors for keyboard & mouse
- Three phone jacks (microphone, headphones and line-in)
1. The system automatically detects the used port. 2. You can connect almost any monitor to the VGA jack. The 712 can drive VESA compatible multisync, HP fixed-frequency and many other popular FF monitors. It also is able to produce sync on green signals.
There is an firmware update available for the 712, which contains the latest version (2.3).
Operating systems
- HP-UX: every 32-bit release from 10.01-11.11 works.
- 10.20: runs very nice on all 712s.
- 11.00 and 11i: 712s are not the best 11.x performers. Could be sluggish. * NeXTSTEP: version 3.3 works fine.
- gentoo: works fine (text console is pretty, the boot up takes 2 minutes, the X11 support is ... slow)
- OpenBSD: works fine.
- NetBSD: experimental support as of 5/2005.
2011-03: about gentoo i am working around "tiny rootfs" which could be newtwork booted from a tftp server. This bootup process takes just few seconds. This idea is from dht-walnut NAS project.
Model SPEC92, int SPEC92, fp SPEC95, int SPEC95, fp SPEC95 rate, int SPEC95 rate, fp 712/60 67.0 85.3 2.08 2.66 18.7 23.9 712/80 97.1 123.3 3.12 3.55 28.1 32.0 712/100 117.2 144.2 3.76 4.06 33.8 36.3
Physical dimensions/Power
* 70×423×400 mm height/width/depth * 8.36kg net weight * 110W max. power input * 1.2A max. RMS at 240V * 2.7A max. RMS at 120V
Changing to Serial Console
Serial Cable
To connect your PA-RISC machine to your PC so you can boot the system using a console, you need a 9 pin-to-9 pin female null-modem cable.
Unfortunately, HP decided that the 712 should be hard to configure for headless use. Improper setting of the console path may cause the system to become inoperable. Beware.
do it
Briefly, you must get to the HP-UX bootloader prompt (which they call the ISL) which will allow you to permanently set your preferred console location to the first serial port at 9600 8N1.
The original source of this information is http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/1999-December/008117.html.
To change to a serial console, you need:
- a PS/2 style keyboard
- a monitor with VGA style interface
- the HP-UX ISL (either an HP-UX bootable hard drive or netboot)
First, you need to get to the BootROM prompt. When your system prints the following on screen, press and hold ESC until you get the BOOT_ADMIN> prompt:
Press <ESCAPE> to stop boot sequence.
Setting monitor type
If your display doesn't show properly, the frequency may be out-of-range. You can select the monitor type suitable to your display.
If your 712 has the add-in VRAM board, normal VGA 680x480 mode is monitor type 7. Without the VRAM board, the number may be different (possibly 5?).
BOOT_ADMIN> monitor 7 Monitor Choices Type Resolution Frequency ---- ---------- --------- 1 1280x1024 72Hz 2 1024x768 75Hz 3 1024x768 70Hz 4 1024x768 75Hz Flat Panel 5 1280x1024 60Hz 6 1024x768 60Hz 7 640x480 60Hz 8 1280x1024 75Hz VESA 9 1024x768 75Hz VESA 10 800x600 75Hz VESA 11 640x480 75Hz VESA 12 1280x1024 72Hz Greyscale 13 1280x1024 50Hz Current Monitor Type is 7 640x480 60Hz BOOT_ADMIN> reset
If you have HP-UX installed on local disk
BOOT_ADMIN> boot pri isl Booting ISL Revision A.00.38 OCT 26, 1994 ISL>
Boot 712 from LAN
BOOT_ADMIN> boot lan isl
ISL Revision A.00.25 November 18, 1992
Setting console
Run the following command to set your 712 to use a serial RS-232 console with 9600 Baud, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, and no parity:
ISL> conspath 2/0/4.0x283
To set your 712 to use the local console (i.e. keyboard and screen), run the following command:
ISL> conspath 1/0/0.0
You can use the display and information commands to verify that your settings have been stored properly. Once you're sure everything looks right, power cycle your workstation to start using your serial console.
Additionally, you can temporarily use the local console by pressing the "Esc" key on the PS/2 keyboard while resetting. This is setting only affects the console location temporarily and only works with firmware rev 1.6 and later.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- BootRom Version 1.6 Memory Size: 192 MB ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (c) Copyright 1990-1993, Hewlett-Packard Company. All rights reserved Press <ESCAPE> to stop boot sequence. <ESC> Selecting a system to boot. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Command Description ------- ----------- Auto [boot|search] [on|off] Display or set auto flag Boot [pri|alt|scsi.addr] [isl] Boot from primary, alternate or SCSI Boot lan[.lan_addr] [install] [isl] Boot from LAN Chassis [on|off] Enable chassis codes Diagnostic [on|off] Enable/disable diagnostic boot mode Fastboot [on|off] Display or set fast boot flag Help Display the command menu Information Display system information LanAddress Display LAN station addresses Monitor [type] Select monitor type Path [pri|alt] [lan.id|SCSI.addr] Change boot path Pim [hpmc|toc|lpmc] Display PIM info Search [ipl] [scsi|lan [install]] Display potential boot devices Secure [on|off] Display or set security mode ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOT_ADMIN> boot lan isl Booting ISL Revision A.00.25 November 18, 1992 ISL> display Fastsize value is 0000000F Autoboot is ON (enabled) Autosearch is ON (enabled) Primary boot path is 2/0/22.214.171.124.0.0.0 Primary boot path is (hex) 2/0/18.104.22.168.0.0.0 Alternate boot path is 2/0/126.96.36.199.0.0.0 Alternate boot path is (hex) 2/0/22.214.171.124.0.0.0 System console path is 22.214.171.124.0.0.0 System console path is (hex) 18.104.22.168.0.0.0 ISL> conspath 2/0/4.0x283 ISL> display Fastsize value is 0000000F Autoboot is ON (enabled) Autosearch is ON (enabled) Primary boot path is 2/0/126.96.36.199.0.0.0 Primary boot path is (hex) 2/0/126.96.36.199.0.0.0 Alternate boot path is 2/0/220.127.116.11.0.0.0 Alternate boot path is (hex) 2/0/220.127.116.11.0.0.0 System console path is 2/0/4.6220.127.116.11.0.0 System console path is (hex) 2/0/4.2220.127.116.11.0.0 ISL>
Y cable pinout
Pinout for RS232/AUI cable(A2263-62045) for 712 card (A2263-66536)
There is a card for the 712(HP part #A2263-66536) that provides 2nd AUI lan and 2nd DB9 RS232 port. The back of the card has a 26 pin connector and the 15pin AUI and 9pin RS232 connectors are provided by a special Y cable (A2263-62045) which are pretty hard to find. Here is the pinout of this cable in case you need to make one.
These diagrams are looking at the end of the connector not the back. Make sure to take that into account if building a cable. Pin numbering is taken from the numbers on the plastic in the cable. If a pin is not connected it is represented as an "o". The numbers outside the bottom connectors are the pin numbers that that pin is connected to on the top connector.
--------------------------------- \ o o 3 o o o 7 8 9 / \ 10 11 12 13 o o 16 17 18 / \ 19 20 21 22 o 24 25 26 / ------------------------- 12 13 20 19 18 9 8 7 24 --------------------------- ----------------- AUI \ o o 6 5 o 3 2 o / \ 1 2 3 4 5 / RS232 \ o 14 13 12 o 10 9 / \ 6 7 8 9 / --------------------- ------------ 22 21 3 11 10 26 25 17 16 12 13 20 19 -------------------------- AUI \ o o 6 5 o 3 2 o / \ o 14 13 12 o 10 9 / --------------------- 22 21 3 11 10
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The youngest sister was cursed...
Ashcroft uses her.
To lift the curse, three sisters enter the dungeon, and gather treasure.
An RPG about the tenacious destruction of innocence: from purity to decay.
Scenario by K-lie!
The girls can't resist when Ashcroft soils the each of their virgin chalices.
Enjoy the moral collapse!
12 base illustrations (3 CGs of assault per girl, 3 CGs of group sex)
Tons of variation artwork!
Fleur - long red hair, middle sister, wants to help her sister no matter what
Fidilina - blue hair, eldest sister, gentle with a solid powerful core
Lilianne - blond hair, the youngest, cheerful in spite of her terrible curse
Ashcroft - the antagonist who holds the cure to Lilianne's curse... and a scheme to experiment on them all...
Scenario: K-lie
Illustration: Reu
- Map display feature, detailed side view battles
- Level up, "Gem up" RPG elements
- Unlockable gallery (collect treasure to gain the password!)
- No installation necessary
Created with RPG Tkool VX Ace.
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- Please check demo/trial to confirm specs.
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"All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it." --BABE RUTH
Having better players makes "the right time" or "the big hit" happen a lot more often. PLUS PLUS
IMO the #1 prospect is Yorman. To do what he did, at his age, shows his potential. Yes he's still raw, but he'll be spending some time at Dayton next year as a 17 year old. From all reports, phenomenal tools, and possibly the highest upside of any position player. If he realizes his talent, He could be knocking on the door by age 20.
Raisel Ghul, the Demon's Head
The eyes never lie.
Alonso has enormous upside as well, has a lot more polish, and from all accounts is closer to the majors and helping the big club. Yorman is a great prospect, but for me he's still quite a ways off. Compare Alonso and Yorman side by side, and I dont think there's too much a gap in their overall upside. So to me, it then comes down to who's closer and further along in the development process. Thats Yonder.
"I hate to advocate chemicals, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone... But they've always worked for me."
-Hunter S. Thompson
A possible GG defender at CF vs a 1B. Speed vs. ... not speed. Once Yorman fills out, he still will likely have less power than Alonso, but you never know. Yorman is a much bigger question mark, yes, but remember this: at age 16 he was hitting in the Pioneer league while Alonso likely wasn't aloud to go to the prom unless an older girl asked him.
Alonso damn well better have more polish, he's 6 years older than Yorman. But for raw talent, and where he played this year, plus age I pick Yorman. In fact it was because he spent time at the Pioneer League and Duran didn't tells me he is a bit more polished than Duran. Maybe a bit more mature. Of all the Reds prospects, he is THE guy I'm most interested in.
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FRITZ!Box 3370 Service - Knowledge Base
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Telephone does not ring when you receive a call
One or more of the telephones connected to the FRITZ!Box sometimes do not ring or never ring when you receive a call, although you can make calls.
Important:Some of the settings described here are only displayed if the advanced view is enabled in the user interface. The configuration procedure and notes on functions given in this guide refer to the latest FRITZ!OS.
Simply proceed as described below. After each measure, check whether the issue persists.
1 Assigning telephone numbers to a telephone
- Click "Telephony" in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
- Click "Telephony Devices" in the "Telephony" menu.
- Click the button (Edit) for the relevant telephone.
- Configure the telephone so that it reacts to incoming calls to the desired number: Enter the number under "Outgoing calls" or under "Incoming calls", or enable the option "React to all numbers".
- Click "OK" to save the settings.
2 Maintain a permanent Internet connection
Calls to your Internet telephone number can only reach your FRITZ!Box if an Internet connection is active. Therefore, configure the FRITZ!Box so that it maintains a permanent Internet connection:
- Click "Internet" in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
- Click "Account Information" in the "Internet" menu.
- Click on "Change connection settings".
- Enable the option "Maintain permanently (recommended for flat rates)".
Important:If the option is not available, then the FRITZ!Box already remains permanently connected to the Internet.
- Click "Apply" to save your settings.
3 Having your numbers checked
If the telephone still does not ring when you receive incoming calls to an Internet telephone number although the Internet connection and Internet telephone number are correctly configured, your Internet telephony provider is experiencing technical difficulties:
Important:After porting your telephone number (for example after switching to an IP-based line), you can often make calls with the number immediately. However, you cannot receive calls to this number for one or two more days because the telephone number is not completely ported until then.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A grand jury in Morgantown has indicted a teenage girl suspected of plotting with another girl to kill her longtime best friend.
Media outlets report a Monongalia County grand jury indicted Shelia Eddy on Friday on one count each of first-degree murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy.
Earlier this week, Eddy's case was moved from juvenile to adult court.
Eddy is accused along with a classmate, 16-year-old Rachel Shoaf, with luring Skylar Neese out of her Star City home last summer, driving her into the Pennsylvania woods and stabbing her to death at an agreed-upon moment. The motive has never been revealed.
Shoaf has already pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and is awaiting sentencing. She told police the girls no longer wanted to be friends with Skylar.


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Gunmaker stocks are sliding in the aftermath of last week's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, reigniting talk of gun control.
Shares of Smith & Wesson (SWHC) ended down 48 cents, or 5.2%, to $8.65 each Monday, and Sturm Ruger (RGR) shares closed down $1.57, or 3.5%, to $44 apiece. Shares of Cabela's (CAB), a seller of outdoor gear including firearms, finished down $2.72, or 6.2%, to $41.21 each.
Friday's shooting in a small Connecticut town on Monday pushed lower the shares of the two largest publicly traded gun companies in the United States, despite a strong day for the broader market. Major stock indexes finished up 1% or more Monday. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped more than 100 points to close above 13,235 on hopes that a deal can be forged in Washington, D.C., before year-end on the federal budget.
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The shooting reopens the national debate on whether rules over gun ownership must be changed, says Rommel Dionisio of Wedbush Securities. Since the day of the deadliest shooting ever at an elementary school, shares of Smith & Wesson and Sturm Ruger are down 9.3% and 7.8%, respectively.
Neither of those firms manufactured the weapons recovered in the Connecticut shooting. Authorities said they found a Bushmaster .223 rifle and handguns made by Sig Sauer and Glock. Bushmaster Firearms is a privately held manufacturer owned by Freedom Group. Private investment firm Cerberus Capital owns the Freedom Group.
Mutual fund companies hold most of the outstanding shares of both Smith & Wesson and Sturm Ruger. Vanguard, the largest single shareholder of Smith & Wesson, owns 6% of the shares outstanding, says research firm S&P Capital IQ. Investment group BlackRock is the largest single shareholder of Sturm Ruger, has 7.9% of Sturm Ruger's outstanding shares.
Investors fear the Connecticut shooting might end what has been a strong period of weapon sales and trigger legislative efforts for more stringent gun control laws.
A citizen petition calling for stricter gun controls posted on the White House's We the People page already has gathered more signatures than any other posted to the website.
Investors worry that stricter laws will focus on assault rifles, which have been a big growth area for gunmakers, Dionisio says. One of the three weapons used by the shooter in Connecticut, who killed himself after fatally shooting his mother and 26 people at a nearby elementary school, was an assault rife.
The past 12 months, gun sales at Smith & Wesson jumped 37% vs. the prior 12-month period, S&P Capital IQ says. Sales growth at Sturm Ruger in that period has been even stronger, up 42% year over year the past 12 months.
The April 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado. One teacher and 12 high school students died while 21 others were wounded, some trying to escape the two shooters, who later committed suicide. The tragedy didn't hurt gun stocks. Shares of Sturm Ruger rose 1%. Smith & Wesson wasn't publicly traded at the time.
As mass shootings have become more commonplace, investors have bailed on gun stocks in the days after a deadly public shooting. Smith & Wesson shares fell 8.2% and the stock price of Sturm Ruger dropped 1.5% in the seven days after the April 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech in which 32 people died and 17 others were wounded; Sturm Ruger shares fell 1.5%.
The declines worsened the next 12 months for the gunmakers: Smith & Wesson stock was 63% lower and Sturm Ruger shares had declined 37%.
Despite the public outrage, though, Dionisio doesn't expect big changes in gun rules. Politicians are publicly calling for stronger gun control laws. But, in fact, many state gun rules have eased since President Obama took office in 2009 and Republicans have controlled the U.S. House of Representatives
Gun sales continue to be "trending up," Dionisio says.


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Stadium Spending Document Released
Friday, February 10, 2006
Major League Baseball and the District's chief financial officer began separate reviews of the D.C. Council's stadium spending cap yesterday, with the future of the project along the Anacostia River hanging in the balance.
The council released the final text of the four-page emergency legislation yesterday afternoon, and copies were distributed to council members, Mayor Anthony A. Williams (D) and the D.C. Sports and Entertainment Commission. A copy was sent by the administration to Major League Baseball.
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said league officials needed more time to review the document, which caps the District's investment in the ballpark project at $611 million. But he said the D.C. government's handling this week of the stadium lease agreement was frustrating and unlike anything he has witnessed.
"You think you've seen it all. And then you realize you haven't," Selig said in an interview yesterday. "I've been involved in 18 stadium negotiations, and all of them are difficult and controversial. I've been doing this my whole adult life. But this thing that happened in Washington tops them. It is already legendary in baseball for political intrigue. When it comes to demagoguery, a lot of what happened down there would have made Huey Long blush."
The council voted 9 to 4 to approve the stadium lease with MLB -- contingent upon baseball accepting the spending cap -- early Wednesday after a marathon legislative session. Before adding the cap, the council had initially voted Tuesday night to reject the lease.
The final bill states that all cost overruns, except for costs related to the purchase of stadium land, will be borne by the team's owner, the federal government or private entities.
Natwar M. Gandhi, the District's finance chief, met with Williams yesterday. Gandhi, who has said he will not issue construction bonds until the lease is made final, wants to make sure that the cap does not inhibit his effort to get an investment-grade rating from Wall Street.
Gandhi's spokeswoman said he would have no comment until he finished his review, which probably will include an analysis from bond financing consultants.
The consultants will examine whether the legislation would be looked on favorably by Wall Street. If not, Gandhi could ask the council to make amendments or smaller technical changes.
Selig called critics of the stadium deal shortsighted, saying the Washington Nationals' first season was great for the city and for baseball.
"Nobody is asking anybody in the District not to look at the dollars. That is their job. But they've got to have some vision," he said. "Everybody saw the excitement in Washington last year."
Selig said that although the economic impact of a new stadium is open to debate, "nobody debates the sociological impact. That is huge. And it lasts for generations."
"This team [in Washington] has been a godsend for baseball," he added. "Nobody wants to be in Washington more than I do. It's good for my sport."
Council members voting for the lease and cost cap were Chairman Linda W. Cropp, Kwame R. Brown (At Large), Jack Evans (Ward 2), Kathy Patterson (Ward 3), Vincent B. Orange Sr. (Ward 5), Sharon Ambrose (Ward 6), Vincent C. Gray (Ward 7) and Marion Barry (Ward 8), all Democrats; and Carol Schwartz (R-At Large). Opposing it were David A. Catania (I-At Large) and Democrats Phil Mendelson (At Large), Jim Graham (Ward 1) and Adrian M. Fenty (Ward 4).
In addition to capping the city's investment in the stadium, the council's legislation stipulates that any revenue earned from development rights sold adjacent to the stadium, and that are not used to cover infrastructure or land costs, must go into a community benefits fund.
Because the spending cap legislation was an emergency bill, it required nine council votes for approval. The bill will remain in effect for 90 days, during which time the council must vote again on a permanent version of the legislation.
Staff writer Thomas Boswell contributed to this report.


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My thanks again to James for helping me get this website sorted out after the horrible crash of two weeks ago. You'll see there's a new theme in place. Rather swanky too, I think. We'll be working on customising this over the next few weeks, so I hope you like it.
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"— Jack SmithOld Man Harris' house is a location in Fallout 3. It is the residence of Old Man Harris in Andale.
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The English conductor, Howard Arman, studied at Trinity College of Music. After working with leading ensembles in England he went on to appear all over Europe and at festivals in Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Edinburgh, Athens, Utrecht and Brügge, as well as in Jerusalem and in Athens. Howard Arman has lived in Germany and Austria since 1981. He was the main director of the "Festwochen der Alten Musik" in Innsbruck. In Germany he has conducted the Radio Choirs of the NDR Hamburg, SWF Stuttgart and RIAS-Kammerchor Berlin, in Austria the ORF Choir in Vienna. In May 1998 he became conductor of the MDR Radio Choir Leipzig and its artistic director. With the Salzburger Bachchoir, a very important choir in Austria and abroad founded by Howard Arman in 1983, he made over 100 performances and recordings of choir and orchestra works from Baroque up to the music of the 20th century. He continued to lead them until 2000. The Innsbrucker Capellknaben was founded by him in 1991. In Italy he had many concerts and recordings in cooperation with the composer Hans Werner Henze at Festivals in Rome and Montepulciano. In 1991 he had his debut in the Wiener Musikverein. In 1995 he conducted the opening cermony of the Salzburg's Festival. Since his debut in Salzburg he has performances at the Salzburg-Festival regularly. For example with George Frideric Handel's Israel in Egypt. In 1996-1997 he conducted concerts with the Essener Philharmoniker, the Mozarteum Orchester, the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, the Symphony Orchestra of Tyrol and the orchestra of the opera house Halle an der Saale. He conducted concerts in Portugal, Greece, Italy and Japan. The opera represents a particular interest of Howard Arman, he conducts many productions at opera houses throughout Germany (Komische Oper Berlin, Aalto Theater Essen, Opernhaus Halle/Saale, Potsdam, Bad Kissingen, Dessau, Goethe-Theater Bad Lauchstädt), Italy (La Fenice Venedig, Merano, Bolzano) and Austria (Landestheater Salzburg, Tiroler Landestheater). He was awarded the Händel Preis of Halle an der Saale in 1996 because of his performances with the orchestra of the opera-house of Halle which plays on historical instruments. Following his re-formation of the Handel Festival Orchestra on historical instruments for G.F. Handel's Orlando he was awarded, in 1998, the International Händel Prize. At the Volksoper in Vienna he also conducts operetta. including a recent new production of Offenbach´s Bluebeard. Since his appointment in Leipzig he has introduced an unusually wide-ranging repertoire, including orchestral, operatic, Baroque and a-capella works. Last season he conducted The Morning Heroies Symphony by A. Bliss, the oratorio Belshazzar´s Feast by William Walton and several performances of J. Haydn´s oratorio The Creation. Howard Arman holds a professorship at the University of Music, and at the Mozarteum Salzburg. Howard Arman's CD recordings have been made for Harmonia Mundi, EMI, Berlin Classics, Capriccio, Koch International, NCA, Ambitus Hamburg.
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And Laura Bennett provides amazingly clear and intelligent commentary. I especially like this: "the work of these artists, despite the anguish, was never morbid. Pain was not romanticized."
Last night may have also been the first time Project Runway has ever aired footage of a gay man kissing his partner. That, along with Mondo's HIV confession followed by the relentlessly upbeat Austin and Santino show -- interesting that it took the allegedly dowdy Lifetime network to present all this. Is Bravo really so gay-friendly after all?
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I have to admit that I have not been watching Project Runway this season, because after last year's unhot mess I gave up. Now, I think I need to watch this week and see what I am missing.
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If you just want to watch the Mondo episode -- which is really worth it -- it's here. (I think this link will work until Oct 31).
The episodes are 90 minutes and the challenges continue to be unimaginative because they're largely driven by promotional tie-ins. But every once in a while, I am glad I watch. The Mondo story was one of those moments. - 5:08 AM
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My creatinine kinase blood test came in at 24 vs normal range of 25-287, while other tests were normal. What does this mean? Tests were taken because my muscles, particularly my shoulders, ache. I take 40 mg of zocor with 1000 grams of slonician for cholesterol. I am 76 in excellent shape-159 lbs 5`9" and work out regularly. Past angina, got stent 12 yrs ago and pacemaker last year for periodic syncope problem that was undiagnosed for 30 yrs (skipped heart beats). Thanks.
Creatinine kinase (CK), also known as creatinine phosphokinase (CPK), is an enzyme found in the heart, brain, and skeletal muscle. Its clinical utility is typically to raise suspicion of injury to the heart or skeletal muscle if the CK level is elevated. Screening for a low CK is not a typical clinical use.
The most well-known cause of a low CK is reduced muscle mass related to disuse, low physical activity, poor nutrition, or aging. It is hypothesized that certain conditions such as Cushing's Disease or steroid therapy may decrease the amount of CK enzyme that reaches the serum. Other obscure associations with low CK have been noted.
My suspicion is that your low CK does not have high clinical significance; however, your physician may advise you differently. Also of note, the normal ranges for labs have different thresholds for sensitivity to detect "normal" values. In other words, depending on the type of lab, the normal range may only capture 95% (or some other prespecified value) of the "normal" population, leaving 5% of the "normal" population outside of the lab normal value range.
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New Zealand mulls new cyber-bullying law
August 15, 2012 in Technology / InternetNew Zealand said it was considering making cyber-bullying a criminal offence, amid concerns that existing laws offer inadequate protection from online harassment.
A Law Commission report on Wednesday said adolescents were particularly vulnerable to cyber-bullying, which could lead to depression, self-harm and suicide among victims.
The report's author, legal academic John Burrows, said existing laws had failed to keep pace with developments in social media and police were dealing with increasing numbers of complaints about online threats and harassment.
"Communication is different now because it can go viral very quickly and spread to a very wide audience and other people can join in," he told Radio New Zealand.
"In the school playground it's much less likely to spread widely."
Research commissioned for the report found 10 percent of New Zealanders had experienced issues such as cyber-bullying and invasion of privacy online, rising to 22 percent among 18-29 year olds.
Burrows recommended the creation of a new crime specifically aimed at cyber-bullying, making it illegal to post grossly offensive, obscene or threatening content that was aimed at causing emotional harm.
The proposed offence would carry a maximum penalty of three months in prison.
He said Britain had introduced a similar offence, which resulted in a four month jail term last year for a man who posted abusive content on a Facebook memorial page for a teenage girl who committed suicide.
"The mere fact that it's an offence enables the police to have a bit of teeth when they say: 'Look, if that happens again we will take you to court and prosecute you'," Burrows said.
He also called for establishment of a specialised online communications tribunal, with the power to issue "takedown notices" ordering the immediate removal of offensive content.
Justice Minister Judith Collins welcomed the 160-page report and said the government would consider its recommendations as a priority.
"It's time to send a clear message to cyber-bullies, your behaviour is not acceptable," she said in a statement.
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I am steamed like I have not been steamed in a long time. I learned of this story while listening to the latest edition for "For Immediate Release," but an article in Ad Age states,
"The Huffington Post has started offering marketers the ability to inject their own paid comments among reader comments and place paid Tweets among the live Twitter feeds the site assembles around news subjects and events."
That's right. It appears that they want to parlay their 70 million monthly visitors into an opportunity to "double their revenue stream," a stated goal. Moreover, the Ad Age article quotes Ian Schafer, CEO of interactive agency Deep Focus as saying:
In theory, there's more upside in doing it that way than in buying a banner ad. With those the default behavior is to ignore them. With this the default behavior may be to pay attention."
So, Ian. It's better to deceive readers than to put an ad where people will know it's paid ad? Nice.
Let's face it. The Huffington Post leans pretty far to the left, which, as demonstrated by their popularity, clearly resonates with readers. But there so many things wrong with this that I don't know where to begin. It's at best, stupid, and at worst, deceptive.
Reason #1: Paid editorial content gone awry.
In the olden days, we called this paid media. Sure, if you picked up a newspaper and saw a paid editorial that had the same typeface and font as the article surrounding it, you could figure out that it was paid. Oh – and it was clearly marked as an advertisement, not an opinion endorsed by the paper.
Greg Coleman, HuffPo's Chief Revenue Officer (note the title) states:
"An advertiser sponsoring a Twitter subject page around the World Series might interject with relevant baseball statistics — just to earn a little good will and brand halo, he suggested. Or a health-care company sponsoring a Twitter page around health-care policy might post a paid Tweet 'to bring to fore the facts' but in a neutral way."
Greg, you are either being disingenuous or you are an idiot. What pharma company is going to PAY for "neutral facts?" I can't imagine a person in a marketing capacity for a company saying "Hey boss, I have a great idea for how we can put out our information — and pay for it — but that waters down our point of view." That's a steaming load of bullshit that I am not swallowing.
Reason #2: Leaders should set the pace.
There was justifiable annoyance and even outrage when the FTC announced that bloggers would need to begin to disclose paid relationships on their blogs. I blogged about this before, stating that I sincerely wish that the FTC had better things to do than to mandate common sense, but what precedent does this set when one of the leading news sites on the Web is now blurring the lines between content, marketing and public relations? Bad, bad, bad.
Reason #3: Hypocrisy, plain and simple.
HuffPo built its name and considerable audience by leaning left, and often attacking essentially any corporation or entity that they view as overly greedy or disingenuous. If you want to taint an opponent, put the word "big" in front of the industry. "Big oil." "Big tobacco." "Big pharma." Read: it's wrong to make obscene profits when the little guy suffers.
Get ready to spit out your coffee. HuffPo does not compensate its bloggers. The Wall Street Journal noted:
"The initiative is already generating discussion, not surprisingly, on Twitter, where some users wondered if the extra revenue would go toward compensating the site's unpaid bloggers."
So HuffPo is not paying their bloggers while attacking:
- "Big Oil": MoveOn v. "Big Oil" McCain: Spend Our $39 Billion on Clean Energy
- "Big Pharma": White House Confirms: Deal With Big Pharma Bars Price Negotiations
- Capitalism: "Will Obama Reboot Capitalism Anew?"
Go ahead and read these articles — they describe corporate greed and deception, profiting while the little guy gets the shaft.
So if you:
- Blur the line for "paid tweets" as part of your revenue goal to double your profit this year;
- Do so in a way that is highly suspect and disingenuous;
- Do not compensate your bloggers, presumably the "little guys"; and
- Still rail against "BIG [INSERT INDUSTRY HERE]?
it's ok? Just so long as the rules apply to others and NOT YOU?
Remember what happened when the Washington Post, in a fit of stupidity and greed,
"…intended to sell sponsorships to lobbyists, corporations and industry associations for dinners at Ms. Weymouth's [the paper's publisher] home, attended by Mr. Brauchli [the executive editor] and journalists covering the evening's topic, along with government officials."??? Pay for play in journalism.
They got busted. Hard.
At what point does the HuffPo become "Big Online?"
Shame on you, Arianna Huffington. You and your editors have wrapped yourself in the cloth of journalism while practicing the worst form of deception and hypocrisy.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (ArkansasRazorbacks.com) – Behind a double-double from junior Marshawn Powell, the University of Arkansas men's basketball team downed the Florida A&M Rattlers by a score of 89-60 for Arkansas' second game of the Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational.
"Florida A&M came in and tested us," head coach Mike Anderson said. "We missed easy opportunities to distance ourselves, but it was a good gut check for our guys."
Leading the Razorbacks on the court was Powell, who recorded the eighth double-double of his career and first since the 2010-11 season with 21 points and 10 boards against the Rattlers.
"Powell had a double-double and had a good balanced scoring night," Anderson said. "He is starting to look like his old self."
Four other Razorbacks, Rickey Scott (13), BJ Young (12), Mardracus Wade (11) and Coty Clarke (10) scored in double-figures as the team advanced to 3-0 on the season. The Razorback bench contributed largely to the win, scoring 35 of the team's 89 points.
"I loved our energy off the bench with Ricky Scott and Coty Clarke in particular," Anderson said. "Coty came off the bench with good energy."
Arkansas went 7-of-17 from the three-point line and recorded 20 points on the free-throw line in the victory. Defensively, the Razorbacks had a tremendous game, picking up 10 steals and eight blocks.
At the start of the game, Powell electrified the crowd when he recorded a defensive rebound and drove it down the court picking up a crowd-pleasing dunk off an assist from Mickelson. The next three Razorback possessions were all Powell as the Newport News, Va., native recorded two layups and a dunk, making it eight-straight Razorback points to put Arkansas up 15-6 with 14:37 remaining in the first half.
With 12:31 remaining in the first the Razorbacks began a momentous 12-0 run, in which four different UA players scored to put Arkansas up 29-12.
The Razorbacks would conclude the half with an 18-point lead over Florida A&M with five different Razorbacks making a three-pointer and nine different UA players putting points on the board. Leading the Razorbacks was Powell who recorded 13 first-half points and five boards. Arkansas would capitalize on the 10 Rattler turnovers and put up 19 points.
To open the second-half it was Powell again that stunned the crowd as he blocked a shot by the Rattlers and snagged the defensive rebound only to drive the ball down the court for another dunk, which put the Razorbacks up by 20, 51-31. The Rattlers would respond by putting together a 13-4 run to close the gap to 11 with 15:05 remaining in the first. After a timeout, Arkansas would pick up the pace and shut out the Rattler offense as they put up a 13-0 run in 4:23 to extend their lead to 10, 64-44 with 13:15 remaining.
Arkansas would keep up the intensity for the rest of the game as they finished with a final score of 89-60, putting the Razorbacks margin of victory over the last three games at nearly 28 points per game.
The Razorbacks will hit the road on Friday to take on Arizona State at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., at 6:00 p.m. CT as a part of the Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational.
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well no ...but I used it in a controll dream ... but I don't think you'll wet your bed? |
Hi, just wondered; have anyone used the toilet in a lucid dream? Sometimes I feel like I have to, but when I'm about to do it I panic; what if I wet my bed while peeing in a dream? Especially in those dreams that feel so real... |
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well no ...but I used it in a controll dream ... but I don't think you'll wet your bed? |
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To find more try this link: http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/inde...howtopic=15972. |
Lucid Count: 60 (a lot from dream reentry and recognizing FA)
Experiencing uncommon problems is a way to debunk inaccurate theories and find the truth.
I really like this topic. "Is it okay to use the toilet?" Priceless. Anyways, it is (in my expirence) fine to use the bathroom. In fact, peeing should actually make you not pee, your mind discerns that your empty. But, if you do strat drowning in pee or something, ah... might want to wake up before you piss yourself. |
Pee all you want. I use the toilet in my dreams. Sometimes I can't stop, haha! I've never wet the bed, usually I wake up actually having to pee though.... |
I sleep to dream.
Lucid Dreams - 2
Last LD was 10/27/06
I have had many dreams where I go to the bathroom but I never really feel relieved. (it is a horrible feeling ) I never wet my bed though. |
I once used a toilet in a non-lucid dream, nothing got wet in real life. |
I don't think I've ever used the bathroom in a lucid dream. I've been IN LD bathrooms but never actually used the toilet. |
I make up for my lack of dream loo's in real life |
"There are people who say there is no God, but what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views." ~Albert Einstein
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I go to the toilet all the time in my dream. Well, it usually isn't a toilet, just some random place that never really makes sense. It doesn't make you piss in real life though. |
ive used it in my dream and nothing bad has ever happened... |
"Your unsuited for the rage of war so pack up, go home, your through.
How could I, make a man, out of you!"
why not just make the urine disaper in the dream? |
"There are people who say there is no God, but what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views." ~Albert Einstein
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This discussion seems to have diverged. Non-lucid dreams, well, i cannot remember any accidents in the last few years. Lucid Dreams - I've never felt the urge. |
you must be the change you wish to see in the world...
Actually, my last lucid dream started with me at the toilet, and i started going, and i tested to see if i was going, and i was really, but it felt very real, it was amazing. |
Last night I had a dream. Amazing I know, j.k. |
Actually this reminds me of a dream. |
why the hell would you want to pee in your dreams?? just a little weird if you ask me. |
DO NOT PEE IN A LUCID DREAM after my first time a very strong urge to piss like crazy came over me and i took one step and my whole bed was wet now i cannot wait 2 minuets to pee when i have to go i have to go NOW IT COMES OUT LIKE A FIRE HOSE and i wet the bed every night and if i hold it in my lucid dreams it hurts if i go i am never relived and i wet the bed |
That doesn't sound like a dream issue. Your body is trying to tell you something. Like stop drinking water before bed. |
lol epic necro, but yeah as melanieb said going to the toilet in a dream isn't going to make you wet the bed. |
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I actually had problems with this as a kid. Was a bed-wetter until I was about 6, and have had a handful of accidents later than that. I could sleep through anything. But yes, there have been plenty of times where I had been dreaming about going to the bathroom and woke up either already soaked, or became lucid in just enough time to say "OH NOES", wake up, cut off the stream and run to the bathroom IRL. |
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I have never wet the bed urinating in a dream. Actually, having to pee but being completely incapable of relieving myself has become a fairly reliable dream sign. This is almost a 100% way to get a short and low quality lucid dream because I always end up realizing how much I actually need to pee in waking life so I decide wake myself up (very disappointing). Sets me up great for WBTB though, lol. |


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Alliance Bank launched their You:nique Mastercard on 8th January 2009 giving their customers 3 choices i.e. Cash Rebate or Low Interest or 2x Reward Points.
Here's my comments on this You:nique Mastercard. It is a great idea to let customers choose their own image on the card, however I think others (merchants) wouldn't careless towards what image is on the card as long as it can be charged and not rejected. It is more like "shiok sendiri" for the cardholder. I still prefer a simple black background card.
In respect to the image on the card, look at your frequently used cards, most likely it will have scratches or look worn out since nowadays card issuers send you cards that are good for 5 years! So do not put your own or family photo onto the card, because you don't want your own or loved ones image to be scratched or having so many people "touching" your face. Worst off, say you want to cancel the card, you have to cut "yourself" into two - bad feng shui. If you really want to have your loved ones with you all the time, carry their photo in your wallet.
It will cost you RM38 to put your chosen image onto the card.
Ok, lets talk about the 3 offers as follows:
1st Option Cash Rebate
Cash Rebate up to 2% for all transactions. Sounds good but then again Alliance Bank presently also offers cash rebate for their other credit card based on tiers where Classic, Gold and Plat get up to 1.2%, 1.3% and 2% limited to RM1000, RM3000 and RM5000 respectively. Do note that You:nique card cash rebate advertisement says UP TO 2%. Can't find any info on the up to 2% thingy in Alliance Bank website and it has been almost 2 months since the card was launched. If this card really gives 2% flat cash rebate for all amounts spent without limit, then I would say this card is the best in the market.
There is a plus for this card as with the other credit cards offered by Alliance which is you still get reward points.
2nd Option Low Interest
This is what is stated in You:nique website
Your finance charge is only 9% p.a. for the first 12 months, and thereafter it is subject to your payment behavior in accordance with Bank Negara tier interest guidelines. If you consistently make minimum payment every month, the finance charge remains at 9% throughout the tenure of the card.
From above, it means that the low interest rates is only good for 12 months and after that it is back to the normal tiers interest or if you only make minimum payment then interest remains at 9%. Now if you consistently make minimum payment only, when is anybody ever going to settle his/her debt? Wow! This is real innovation by Alliance Bank.
This option does not give you rewards points.
3rd Option 2X Rewards
If you ask me, just forget about this option and take first option where you get cash back and reward points.
As for annual fees, it is the same as other Alliance Bank credit cards i.e. swipe minimum 12 times in a year.
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New Adjunct Professorship Appointed to NUI Galway's College of Engineering and Informatics
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Dr Patrick O'Brien, Group Director of Strategic Business and Marketing for Wood Group Kenny and a member of the Executive Management Team of MCS Kenny, has been appointed as Adjunct Professor in the College of Engineering and Informatics, NUI Galway.
Dr O'Brien, a chartered engineer with close to 30 years industry experience, was awarded a Bachelor of Engineering degree, Master of Engineering Science and PhD by NUI Galway. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland and a Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology. Dr O'Brien plays an active role in a number of industry bodies and he is a board member of Subsea UK.
Throughout his career, Dr O'Brien has gained extensive experience primarily in the design of compliant pipeline systems that connect from the seafloor to an offshore oil and gas floating platform. One of his major achievements is the development of the engineering algorithms for the world leading Flexcom riser analysis software. He is the author of many technical papers and he has chaired numerous industry conferences on riser technology. His specialties include: flexible pipe technology, riser mechanics, riser design, nonlinear structural analysis, subsea industry knowledge, strategic and creative thinking, and business networking.
NUI Galway's College of Engineering and Informatics has had ongoing research links with MCS Kenny since it was first founded as a campus spin-off in the 1980s. Currently Dr O'Brien is working with NUI Galway's Dr Annette Harte and Adrian Connaire, PhD researcher, on a project which aims to greatly increase the efficiency of the current approaches to modeling the mechanical response of highly compliant marine risers. This new appointment will mark the beginning of a new phase in the relationship between the University, MCS Kenny and the Wood Group Kenny in the field of research and development in the offshore arena.
Commenting on his appointment, Dr O'Brien said: "There has been a long tradition of collaboration between the University and MCS Kenny, and this appointment greatly strengthens that link. The company is currently working on two joint research projects with the engineering school, and we will look to build on that going forward. I am honoured to accept this position, particularly as NUI Galway is my alma mater, and I look forward to contributing ongoing lectures which bring my company's extensive experience of the offshore oil and gas industry to the engineering school's students, a timely input given recent announcements of the oil and gas potential offshore Ireland."
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Nov 21, 2006
Normalcy would not exactly be the word I would've used to describe the beginning of Day #1 of the road trip. My wakeup call came at 8:30 when the lunatics from Birmingham were crashing around my room and diving back into the vodka. At least Aoife felt my pain and brought me breakfast in bed. She's a keeper.
Eventually, Heather, Kate, Adrian and myself made our way out to the airport to pick up our little POS Nissan (though vastly better than the Corona) that would take us around the whole of Ireland in about four days. But within minutes of picking up the Nissan we'd already hit our first potential pitfall. It was a manual, which meant I couldn't drive and Kate only had her international license but not her domestic, which meant she couldn't drive either. This meant Heather was by default our alternate driver, and that didn't exactly inspire confidence.
Our first stop was Kilkenny, and that was more because we were starving than anything else. It turned out to be an excellent little surprise. It's a nice little town of quaint pubs, shops and restaurants, plus the large castle sitting over the river that runs through the heart of town. The sandwich shop was also great, which doesn't sound all that special, but you'd be shocked how hard it is to find a decent sandwich outside of America. Most places a sandwich is two pieces of bread, a slice of meat, maybe a slice of cheese, and if you're willing to pay a little extra, a slice of tomato.
We were sitting in the parking lot, eating our sandwiches and trying to figure out the best way to get up to the castle for a look-see when we stopped a woman as she was walking by with her dogs for advice. Twenty minutes later we were saying our good-byes. That's the thing about the Irish -- they are easily the friendliest people in the world. This revelation shouldn't come as much of a shock to most travelers, you encounter the Irish everywhere (literally everywhere -- you wonder how there's only 4 million of them) and with little exception they're gregarious and friendly and always up for a good time. But most backpackers are like that. But while the average local in many countries couldn't be bothered to stop to talk to three Aussies and an American during the afternoon dog-walk, the Irish love the excuse to stop and talk to someone new, give a little help and make a new friend.
We took a few minutes to stroll up to the castle and walk around the nice patch of green that stretches out in front of it. We didn't bother going in since it was by tour only and that tour cost more (which means it cost something) than what we were willing to pay. So we were on our way through Waterford (home of Waterford Crystals) to the south coast and on toward Cork. The one problem of driving through Ireland is it always takes maddeningly long to get anywhere. For one, it seems like all of the non-four million who are traveling the world are out on the roads. For another, the tremendous economic boom that has hit the country is only now, at best, extending to roadwork. Ireland has experienced a tremendous economic turnaround since the introduction of the euro (just about the only country to make such a claim), a shift known as the 'Irish Miracle.' But most of the roads, even the major highways are still just one lane on each side. This means that traffic grinds to a halt if anything -- construction, an accident, a slow driver, someone wants to make a left turn -- anything at all happens.
We were well behind schedule when we found the brown sign (as is the signs that dubiously advertise something worthwhile lies down the road) pointing for a detour to Mahone Falls, but decided to go explore anyway. The road was narrow and fairly precarious at points as it took us up and down small hills and through a couple small towns and finally opened out into some dramatic landscape over the coast. There was some spectacular scenery, but not a waterfall in sight as far as we could tell. Lots of sheep though. It was nice enough that we deemed the break from the itinerary a success even without the waterfall.
What all the traffic and the detour meant, though, was that it was nightfall by the time we pulled into Cork. The only map of the city we had was the crappy Lonely Planet one and it's impossible to find a street sign in Cork, like every other European city. I realize that most cities put street signs on the corner of building long before the introduction of cars to cities, but we've had cars for quite some time. Is it so difficult to put up a metal pole with a couple pieces of scrap on it and write a street name so people who might be lost can figure out where they're going without slowing to a stop at every intersection, infuriating and endangering everybody around them? That's all I'm saying.
With a bit of luck and some excellent navigation (if I don't say so myself) we finally found our hostel and set out to find some pasta and alcohol -- equally important parts for a successful night. I suffered the ego-crushing insult of getting carded walking into the liquor store (not even while purchasing, just to enter) while the rest of my friends cruised in. I realize I might have a bit of a baby face but do I look 17? I knew I wasn't going to be living that down for a while.
It was a fairly typical Friday night, bar-hopping from bars with U2 cover bands and that sort until we hit the main drag, Oliver Platt which offered up plenty of options for late-night entertainment. The whole time I was trying to reach my friend Tony, the Irish guy who shared his beer with me on the very first night of my trip. For one reason or another, we never connected and we were left to our own devices. Even without a local tour guide it still wasn't difficult to find some decent nightlife on a weekend and we made sure to enjoy it even with a 8 am wakeup call staring us in the face (for better or worse).


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Lords of Xulima - Crowdfunding
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A new blog has appeared on the Lords of Xulima site talking about crowdfunding a part of the game.
More information.
Basically, there are three optional features that were not certain if were going to be able to include because of their costs.And those 3 features are: An Original Soundtrack, Additional Languages and More Content.
Lords of Xulima is our first production and even though for us its the ideal role-playing game into which weve put all of our passion and thousands of hours of work, we really dont know how it will do commercially.
For this reason weve decided to start a crowdfunding campaign to try to include these features that would improve the game and make Lords of Xulima a much more well-rounded production.
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After today, I'm imposing a self-moratorium on blogs about monkeys and the internet, despite the many letters, text messages and e-cards I've received urging me to continue mining this admittedly deep vein. (Thank you, faceless Blogospherians, I am humbled by your enthusiasm.) But this, I just had to share. Many of you may be aware of the little website that could: YouTube. For those of you who are not, YouTube is a video hosting website that
So what drives this burgeoning media empire? Anyone who's performed more than a cursory exploration of the site will tell you: videos of baby animals falling asleep, bums fighting, and the desperately lonely videoblogging about either of the aforementioned. Anyway, point is: the sister of a guy who acted in a film I made owns the baby monkey who is by far the most popular animal-falling-asleep on YouTube (something like a million people have seen it), which puts it in the running to be the internet's most celebrated animal. And while "Sleepy Baby Monkey Named Mercutio" may not sweep next year's Oscars, don't be surprised if by then it's been seen by more people than whichever arthouse indie which inevitably takes home the little golden guy.
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A fresh fruit salad can take some time to prepare and needs last-minute assembly. That's why I often rely on this make-ahead frozen fruit dish when entertaining a crowd. —Judy McHone, Springfield, Illinois
15 Recipes to Make for Summer Pool Parties
- 2-1/2 cups water
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 can (6 ounces) frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
- 3/4 cup thawed lemonade concentrate
- 4 large firm bananas, sliced
- 1 can (29 ounces) sliced peaches, undrained and chopped
- 1 can (20 ounces) pineapple chunks, undrained
- 1 can (15 ounces) mandarin oranges, drained
- 1 package (10 ounces) frozen sweetened sliced strawberries, thawed
- 1 jar (6 ounces) maraschino cherries, undrained
- In a large bowl, combine all ingredients. Cover and freeze for at least 8 hours or until firm. Remove from the freezer 45 minutes before serving. Yield: 18 servings (3/4 cup each).
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Term: Diagnosis
Diagnosis: An analysis to determine the cause of a situation. Most often, the term is used in relation to healing practices. Virtually every healing technique has it's own form of diagnosis. Often, the methods of coming to a diagnosis, and the diagnosis itself, do not seem logical in a system other than the one in which it is used. Thus, the pulse diagnosis used in traditional Chinese medicine and the determination of the cause of an ailment within Chinese medicine often makes no sense to a person trained in Allopathic Western medicine.
The most famous clairvoyant visualizer of all time is probably Edgar Cayce (1877-1945). Cayce would go into a light trance and clairvoyantly diagnose illnesses of people he did not know or had not even met. Thousands of people were helped by the man ... Relevance: 5% Functioning as a priest(ess), healer and channel between the worlds, the shaman calls on a very unique abilities—that of divination. Divination is the ability to use perception and attunement to interpret signs and symbols. Shamanic divination is ... Relevance: 3% Introduction. Seeing the Aura is one step, but without the ability to read and Interpret is an "empty" skill. To analyze and interpret observations is a key step to success in nearly any endeavor. Always we start by organizing the ... Relevance: 2% Psychic empathy with the natural world enabling the practitioner to locate water, ores, petroleum, ley lines, etc., usually aided by a device such as a forked stick, pendulum or a modified set of coat hangers which will strongly respond in the ... Relevance: 2% A chakra is a spinning vortex of energy created within ourselves by the interpenetration of consciousness and the physical body. Through this combination, chakras become centers of activity for the reception, assimilation and transmission of life ... Relevance: 2% Over the past several years, the idea of spiritual and psychic healing has become very popular. There are three very important laws about healing you should know.
Law One: Only a licensed Medical Doctor can legally practice medicine.
Law Two: Only ... Relevance: 2% |


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You're a little cutie Buddy!!! I hope the cat overcomes its fear of you and you two can be friends! Congrats on being POTD!
I hope you have a fun day!
You're a little cutie Buddy!!! I hope the cat overcomes its fear of you and you two can be friends! Congrats on being POTD!
I hope you have a fun day!
Forever in my heart...
Hi Buddy in Norway! Happy Pet of the Day to you!
Aww, what a beautiful Ferret boy you are, Buddy! My heart melted when I laid eyes on that pic of you gazing so longingly out of your window, the sun showering your sweet face with golden light! What a sweet and loving best friend your person has in you, Buddy...You are your human's dream Ferret come true, and she/he couldn't have hoped for a more perfect "1st!" You and she/he have already bonded in such a special way, and no doubt that bond will only grow deeper with time! What fun you two will have over the many years to come, getting to know one another, sharing happy times, making memories to last a lifetime! Sounds like one heavenly match to me!
Thanks for the BIG smiles, sweetie pie! I hope you're enjoying an extra special, fun filled day, being spoiled rotten!
Lots of love, cuddles and little kisses to you beautiful Buddy, our very special and most deserving Pet of the Day!
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Buddy what a handsome fellow you are!!!
What a treat to see your sweet face on my computer today. It must be lots of fun having you for a best friend. Please thank your loving human for sharing you with us. You are a treasure for sure.
Congratulations, sweet Buddy, on being our very special Pet of the Day!!!
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