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Making the decision to attend college is one of the most important decisions you will ever make, and your performance on college entrance exams is instrumental in determining your college choice. Universities and colleges throughout the U.S. require applicants to take the SAT or ACT as part of their evaluation package. This course will prepare you for both tests.
Both the ACT and the SAT contain verbal and math question types. SAT/ACT Preparation Part I will give you all the information you need to do well on the verbal questions of the ACT and the new SAT. The ACT verbal sections are called the Reading Test, the English Test, and the Science Test. The Reading Test and the English Test assess your knowledge of English usage, grammar, and reading comprehension.
In 2005, the ACT began offering an optional essay test. If you choose to take the essay test, this course will show you how to do your best writing in the short period of time you will be given. Beginning March 2016, the SAT verbal questions also changed. The lessons in this course will prepare you for those changes. The new verbal sections are called Writing and Language and Reading. The Reading section consists of Information & Ideas, Rhetoric, and Synthesis questions based on reading passages and quantitative information.
The SAT also contains a Writing and Language section, which includes multiple-choice questions about rhetoric, grammar, and English usage. The essay on the SAT is now optional and administered in its own section. This course will prepare you to write the type of essays that grading officials are looking for and will provide you with a grammar and usage.
In addition to preparing you for specific question types on both exams, this course will give you pointers in time management, anxiety relief, scoring, and general standardized test-taking.
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We have a brand new two-and-a-half minute video for you that shows tons of new footage from this summer's highly anticipated Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The footage was presented by Michael Bay at this year's ShoWest event and is now available online (after the jump).
The new trailer gives us a glimpse of many of the new characters and features a long scene with Shia LaBeouf telling his garage-dwelling friend, Bumblebee, that he's off to College and not taking his pet with him. The good parts comes after that when the video flashes through a ton of different scenes throughout the movie.
This is all completely new footage from what we've seen in the teaser trailer and full trailer so far and I would guess a lot of this will be used in the second full length trailer that's debuting alongside X-Men Origins: Wolverine in two weeks.
Watch the video and see what you think:
I'm not sure where to start - these scenes are a series of highs and lows for me.
Bumblebee is acting like a little immature child and he cries about this College thing? As in, literally cries with tears (lubricant) gushing from his eyes… Why can't Sam Witwicky take him to school in the first place – what student doesn't want a new Camaro as their ride? In addition to that, couldn't he speak fine at the end of the first film? It was pretty random then how he all-of-a-sudden could communicate, maybe he randomly cannot again. Either way, that scene was a chore to watch and exemplifies what was bad about the first film.
The video also shows the blossoming of the relationship between Fox's and LaBeouf's characters but I find myself entirely uninterested in that - it's almost as uninteresting as her stripping PG-13 style outside into a dress during Shia's parent-to-child talk with Bumblebee who's now a toddler.
After those weak points, we move into a tons of quickly cut action shots which show Optimus getting knocked around (again), Jetfire walking with a cane (why a cane?), and a tiny glimpse of Devastator and the twins among others.
I was very excited to see more scenes but I find myself more worried about the movie now. I was one of the few defenders here at Screen Rant of the first Transformers film, having enjoyed it after my second viewing - and I expected improvement in the weak points of the movie. Instead, this footage emphasizes more of those weak points and I don't get it. Was I wrong in my hope?
At least the action sequences look awesome. I wish they'd zoom that camera out a bit though (another problem with the first film).
"I'm not gonna go without you" Mikaela says to Sam.
As more Transformers 2 news comes out, Screen Rant will let you know - If you're a Transformers fan, be sure to check out our Revenge of the Fallen Character Guide.
So what do you think?
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen opens June 24, 2009.
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The ITC Johnston™ typeface has the best typographic qualities of a geometric sans serif married to humanist letter shapes and proportions. It is sturdy, straightforward, and sociable. Designed in 1999 by David Farey and Richard Dawson, ITC Johnston was first released without a suite of italic faces. The reason? ITC Johnston finds its roots in Edward Johnston's early 1900 "London Underground Railway" typeface, and there were no italics for his original design.
In the early part of this century,David Farey and Richard Dawson teamed up again to develop a suite of italic designs that would serve as a proper complement to the roman weights. In the process, the original roman designs were also freshened up. The result, released in 2002, is a distinctive, exceptionally versatile and ultimately handsome typeface family.
Johnston's London Underground Railway typeface was the first alphabet created for a specific corporate identity and the first sans serif design of the twentieth century. Erbar, Kabel, Futura and Gill all follow Johnston's type. Johnston himself, however, never called his design a typeface. It was an alphabet primarily for signage and other display purposes – designed to be legible at a glance rather than readable in passages of text.
Farey and Dawson's adaptation retains the sparkling starkness of Johnston's letters while allowing it to settle in comfortably at text sizes. The ITC Johnston family is the culmination of the design abilities of three remarkable designers: Johnston, Farey and Dawson. Or as Dave Farey puts it, "Without Johnston's dedication to letterforms and in particular his genesis of the twentieth-century sans serif, we would not have been able to create our interpretation."
At last the Johnston family is available as a suite of OpenType® Pro fonts. Graphic communicators can now work with this versatile design while taking advantage of OpenType's capabilities. The new Johnston Pro fonts also offer an extended character set supporting most Central European and many Eastern European languages.
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In this activity, you will watch workshop participants in grade-level groups design a lesson plan that makes a text accessible to English Language Learners.
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HSV-2 Suppression to Reduce HIV-1 Levels in HIV-1, HSV-2 Co-infected Men.
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00378976
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : September 21, 2006
Last Update Posted : August 22, 2013
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Over 80% of HIV-1 infected persons are also seropositive for HSV-2. Increasingly, clinical and epidemiologic evidence show the role of HSV in increasing HIV infectiousness. The evidence suggests that that HSV is an important cofactor in HIV transmission.
The trial's purpose is to assess the reduction in HIV shedding associated with valacyclovir for suppression of HSV-2 reactivation.
This proof-of-concept, randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled crossover trial of 20 HIV/HSV-2 co-infected men, assessed the effects of daily valacyclovir on HIV-1 levels in the plasma and rectal mucosa secretions.
|Condition or disease
|HIV Infection Herpes Simplex Sexually Transmitted Diseases
|Drug: valacyclovir Drug: matching placebo
|Phase 3
Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) is common among HIV infected persons. HSV-2 reactivation is associated with increased plasma and genital HIV-1 levels, and in vitro, HSV-2 upregulates HIV transcription.
The trial assessed whether HSV-2 suppression reduces rectal and plasma HIV-1 levels in HIV-1, HSV-2 co-infected men who have sex with men (MSM).
Conducted in Lima Peru, 20 antiretroviral naive HIV-1 and HSV-2 seropositive MSM with CD4 >200 were randomly assigned to receive valacyclovir 500 mg bid or placebo for 8 weeks, than a 2 week washout period, followed by the alternative regimen for 8 weeks. Men collected daily home anogenital swabs for HSV DNA PCR, had three weekly anoscopy procedures for collection of rectal mucosal secretions for HIV-1 RNA, HSV DNA, and weekly plasma HIV-1 RNA by PCR. Outcomes were plasma and rectal HIV-1 levels by study arm.
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|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
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|Official Title:
|A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Crossover Trial of Valacyclovir for Suppression of HSV and HIV Shedding in HIV-1, HSV-2 Coinfected Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM).
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|August 2003
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- Reduction in anogenital HIV-1 shedding with suppression of HSV-2 reactivation. [ Time Frame: 18 weeks ]
- Evaluate HSV-2 suppression with decreased plasma HIV RNA levels [ Time Frame: 18 weeks ]
- Assess the effect of daily valacyclovir on pharyngeal shedding in HSV-1 seropositive individuals [ Time Frame: 18 weeks ]
- Determine the temporal pattern of HIV shedding in the rectum, pharynx and semen with respect to mucosal HSV-1 and HSV-2 reactivation; Determine HSV-2 suppression and HIV replication within rectal mucosa. [ Time Frame: 18 weeks ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Greater than 18 years old,
- Documented HIV-1 seropositive,
- CD4 count greater than 200,
- Not on HIV antiretroviral therapy,
- HSV-2 seropositive as determined by Focus EIA (IN >3.5)
- Not intending to move out of the area for the duration of study participation.
- Willing and able to:provide independent written informed consent;undergo clinical evaluations;take study drug as directed;adhere to follow-up schedule.
- Bacterial STDs (symptomatic STD syndromes or laboratory-confirmed asymptomatic gonorrhea and syphilis) are treated within two weeks of study enrollment and random assignment.
Exclusion Criteria:
MSM who meet any of the following criteria are not eligible for this study:
- Known history of adverse reaction to valacyclovir, acyclovir or famciclovir;
- Planned open label use of acyclovir, valacyclovir, or famciclovir
- Known medical history of seizures
- Known renal failure, serum creatinine >2.0mg/dl
- Hematocrit < 30 %
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00378976
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|Principal Investigator:
|Connie Celum, MD, MPH
|University of Washington
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Preventing Perinatal Infections -- For Pennies
In a study of nearly 7,000 pregnant women, cleansing the birth canal with an inexpensive antiseptic solution dramatically reduced post-birth infections, hospitalizations and deaths, according to a study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The research report was published in the July 26, 1997 issue of the British Medical Journal. The study was funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
We found that washing the birth canal with a very safe solution -- 0.25 percent chlorhexidine in sterile water -- at each vaginal examination before delivery, and then wiping the babies with the solution after delivery, significantly reduced postpartum infectious problems in both mothers and babies," says co-author Paolo Miotti, M.D., M.P.H., a pediatrician and medical officer in NIAID's Division of AIDS.
Perhaps most significant was our finding that infant deaths related to sepsis, or bacteria in the bloodstream, were reduced three-fold among babies in the intervention phase of the trial."
Chlorhexidine has a long track record of safety, and the investigators noted no adverse reactions to the solution among mothers or babies.
The low-cost, simplicity and safety of this approach suggests that it may have a role in reducing illness and death associated with perinatal bacterial infections, which exact a considerable toll among women and neonates, especially in the developing world," comments the study's field director, Taha E. Taha, M.D., Ph.D., of Johns Hopkins University. "Significantly, the cost of the antiseptic solution used in this study, and the cotton to apply it, was less than 10 cents per patient, making this a feasible approach for the most resource-poor settings," adds co- author and senior investigator, Robert J. Biggar,M.D., of NCI.
Although encouraged by these findings, the investigators stress that further research is needed in a randomized study to confirm the results.
In the study, the investigators enrolled a total of 6,965 women at a busy hospital in Blantyre, Malawi. The study was divided into control and intervention phases. During the first two months of the trial -- a control phase -- women received the usual prenatal care provided at the hospital, and underwent the typical delivery procedures. In the subsequent three months -- the intervention phase -- women received standard care plus birth canal washes with the chlorhexidine solution administered by a nurse midwife. Babies born in the intervention phase were wiped with pads soaked with the solution immediately after delivery. The final month of the study was a control month and no chlorhexidine solution was used.
In all, 3,635 women giving birth to 3,743 babies were enrolled in the intervention phase of the trial, and 3,330 women giving birth to 3,417 babies were enrolled in the control months.
Benefits to Babies and Mothers
Compared to control infants, infants born in the intervention phase of the study were 22 percent less likely to die; three times less likely to die from sepsis; 12 percent less likely to be admitted to the hospital for any reason; and 2.3 times less likely to be admitted for sepsis.
Among mothers receiving the chlorhexidine intervention, hospital admissions related to delivery were reduced by 27 percent and admissions related to post-partum infections were reduced three-fold.
Dr. Miotti notes that additional studies of vaginal cleansing to prevent perinatal infections will be needed before the approach can be considered standard care. Although the investigators speculate that the benefits seen in the intervention arm of the trial were due to reduction in pathogens in the birth canal, they did not have the facilities in this study to document infections before and after treatment with the chlorhexidine solution. Future studies may involve taking vaginal swabs before and after cleansing with chlorhexidine and testing them for pathogens such as Group B streptococcus, which are recognized causes of neonatal sepsis.
The current report is the second from a study in Malawi that evaluated the effects of birth canal cleansing. Previously, the researchers reported that the 0.25 percent chlorhexidine solution did not reduce the overall rate of HIV transmission from mother to infant. It did, however, reduce HIV transmission when a woman's membranes were ruptured for more than four hours prior to delivery (See Biggar RJ, et al. Lancet 1996;347:1647-50).
"This study, designed in the context of HIV prevention, demonstrates that HIV-related research often has positive spin-offs relevant to other diseases as well," comments Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID director.
NCI and NIAID are components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NCI is the principal federal agency working to prevent cancer and help patients live longer and healthier lives. NIAID supports research on AIDS, malaria and other infectious diseases, as well as allergies and asthma. In addition to the current study, NIAID supports numerous other research to prevent perinatal infections, including efforts toward understanding the mechanisms by which bacteria infect newborns, and developing and testing maternal vaccines to protect newborns against infections acquired in utero or during delivery. NIH is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Press releases, fact sheets and other materials are available on the Internet via the NIAID home page at http://www.niaid.nih.gov, and on the NCI home page at http://www.nci.nih.gov.
Reference: Taha TE, Biggar RJ, Broadhead RL, Mtimavalye LAR, Justesen AB, Liomba GN, Chiphangwi JD and Miotti PG. Effect of cleansing the birth canal with antiseptic solution on maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality in Malawi: clinical trial. British Medical Journal 1997;315:216-20.


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4.5 Inches Wide. Lead-free, dishwasher and microwave safe, this richly-colored bowl is handcrafted and painted by Mexican artisans. While a very functional piece, the inside and outside is covered with a textured pattern making each piece unique.
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SK7953 : Queen's Sconce, southern rampart
taken 7 years ago, near to Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire, Great Britain
Queen's Sconce
Known locally as Sconce Hills, this 3-acre structure was built in 1644 by Royalist forces to guard the southern approaches to Newark by the Fosseway, River Trent and River Devon. The huge earth ramparts form a 4-pointed star that would have originally had a wooden palisade with cannon. It was not taken until the town was surrendered by Charles I in 1646.
The Sconce is a scheduled monument, being first listed as early as 1933. The English Heritage scheduling describes it as representing "England's finest remaining example of Civil War military engineering."
The word sconce is derived from the Dutch word 'schans' meaning fort. Link
Newark Civil War siege-works
During the English Civil War (1642-1651), Newarks strategic location at the crossing of the Great North Road, Fosse Way and River Trent earned it the title Key to the North. A Royalist garrison arrived in late 1642 and successfully repulsed three major sieges by Parliamentarian forces between 1642 and 1646, remaining in Royalist hands until 1651. An extensive network of defensive earthworks in and around the town survive in recognisable condition as the finest collection of Civil War siege-works in the country.
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General house rules and thoughtsJust a couple of things I thought i'd run by you all which will hopefully make the game run a little tidier. All these thoughts are up for discussion and negotiation if you don't agree with them.InitiativeTo make life easier and speed up the game slightly, I thought that I would roll initiative for everyone whenever a combat starts. That way we won't have to wait for everyone (and their timezones) to roll their initiative before anything can happen. When combat begins i'll post up the initiative order in the OOC thread (which will be a separate thread from this), and everyone can post in the respective order. If someone fails to post for 24 hours (real life does happen; don't stress about it!) and it's their turn on the initiative list, i'll post their action based on their Standing Orders (See below) to keep the game-flow going. Before anyone's next action is registered, everyone must have a turn (I've learned my lesson from previous games ); the exception being if someone is disabled in some way.Outside of combat, people may make actions in whichever order they wish.Standing OrdersI would like everyone to PM me their standing orders. These are actions that I will take in your absence in the event that you are unable to post. This way, I can keep generally in-line with what your character would do in a combat situation. I don't want anything fancy, just some very basic guidelines. Here is an example:QuoteMoruz: Fighter lvl 1 - Standing OrdersNormal: Moruz will attempt to perform Power Attacks with his Melee Weapon.Low HP: Moruz will either fight defensively, or retreat to range and attempt to use his crossbow.Special: If someone else has low HP, Moruz will try and attack and distract whoever is attacking that person.Combat RollsYou may make all combat rolls if you like (I will trust and assume you know your characters' bonuses etc), or if you do not wish to make the rolls, I can make them for you once you post your action. You are in direct control of every action your character takes - you cannot take control of other characters or NPC's (with some leniency given: Basically, this is here to make sure you don't say "I swing my axe. The bad guy dies!") I will post the results of your attacks and actions.Skill RollsAll Knowledge rolls, Perception rolls and Stealth and disguise rolls will be made by me - if you roll for these, I will re-roll my own dice and use my own results. The purpose of this is that I may not want you to know the results. All you need to do is mention that you are attempting these things (whether through roleplaying or the spoiler tags for OOC chat)When Knowledge, Sense Motive and Perception checks are made, the results will be PMed to whoever performed them. If you want the others to know the results, you must roleplay it: The other characters will not be aware of the information learned unless it is mentioned by the character. Sometimes these checks, if made by multiple people, may yield different results via PM. I did not make a mistake (probably ); it is merely that your characters' perception based on the rolls I make.All other checks may be rolled by you if you like.EquipmentI have written everyone's character sheet and equipment in a notebook, and i'll try to remember to keep it relatively updated, however I will probably forget to add things from time to time. It may not hurt to keep a physical or mental note about what you own.ExperienceExperience will be given at the end of a scenario (e.g. a dungeon, or an encounter in the wild etc...). XP gains will be boosted somewhat. Bonuses will be granted for good roleplaying and storytelling, or clever ideas.
Moruz: Fighter lvl 1 - Standing OrdersNormal: Moruz will attempt to perform Power Attacks with his Melee Weapon.Low HP: Moruz will either fight defensively, or retreat to range and attempt to use his crossbow.Special: If someone else has low HP, Moruz will try and attack and distract whoever is attacking that person.
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Remnants of Park City's past
This is how everyday should start! Mesa Arch, Utah
Park City at Night
Lake Powell morning
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Sunset at Little Elk Lake
Winter Olympic qualifying at Park City's superpipe
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Crawford Draw in southern Utah
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Artisan gifts
The Twice Giving Gift Shop on the campus of the Midwest Distribution Center in Chatham opens its doors Saturday, Nov. 19, offering unique, handcrafted items made by artisans from around the world including local artisans. Enjoy cookies and wassail while shopping for every one on your list. The Midwest Distribution Center, a disaster relief facility, is east of I-55 near Ball Elementary School. Though not affiliated with the center, the not-for-profit shop's proceeds go to helping those in need.
Twice Giving Christmas Open House
Saturday, Nov. 19, 9am-3pm
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Swamp Garage's Corolla isn't equipped with the most high tech cooling equipment (it's got a desk fan), but that's not a problem. You don't need much more than a steering wheel, rear-wheel-drive, and a fire extinguisher when you just want to tear around a field, paddock bashing your way to glory.


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Opening Friday
The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13): Director Christopher Nolan brings his Batman trilogy to a triumphant close with this epic-length (nearly three hours) comic-book adventure that makes The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man seem like trinket toys. Christian Bale returns as millionaire Bruce Wayne, facing off against the villainous Bane (Tom Hardy), who wishes the hero great bodily harm. Series regulars Gary Oldman, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman are back, joined by newcomers Anne Hathaway as the Catwoman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a young police officer. Prepare to be gobsmacked.
Beasts of the Southern Wild (PG-13): A sensation at this year's Sundance Film Festival, the directorial debut of Benh Zeitlin turns out to be the real deal. Set in a post-Katrina New Orleans, the story focuses on a 6-year-old girl (Quvenzhané Wallis) trying to care for her ailing father. Magical, hallucinatory and unforgettable.
Take This Waltz (R): Actress Sarah Polley wrote and directed this comedy about a married woman (Michelle Williams) who becomes infatuated with her neighbor (Luke Kirby). Seth Rogen co-stars as the possible cuckold.
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Small screen
Breaking Bad (10 p.m. Sunday, AMC) When this magnificently twisted series kicked off, protagonist Walter White (Bryan Cranston) was a desperate, dying high school chemistry teacher who hit on manufacturing meth to pay for his treatment. Five years later, he's a narcotrafficking kingpin with a high body count that's growing all the time. And the show, if it's possible, is even more riveting.
Political Animals (10 p.m. Sunday, USA Network) Sigourney Weaver is spectacular as a first lady-turned-politician-turned-secretary-of-state. Sound like anybody you've ever heard of? For a full review, see page 1M.
Strange Sex (10 p.m. Sunday, TLC) Television's most deviant documentary series is back for a second season. Most of the content can't remotely be printed in a newspaper. (For example, Google the word hymenoplasty, but not while anybody is watching .) Yet this may be your only chance ever to see size 102ZZZ breasts. You are probably thinking I made up that number. You are wrong.
Sullivan & Son (10 p.m Thursday, TBS) Stand-up comedian Steve Byrne plays a corporate lawyer who quits to run a bar. Just wait until he finds out there are no bailouts! This sitcom is produced by Bryne, Cheers producer Rob Long, ex-Jennifer-Aniston-boyfriend Vince Vaughn and Peter Billingsley, most famous as the moon-faced little kid tormented by warnings of "You'll shoot your eye out!" during his quest for a BB gun in A Christmas Story.
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Rest In Peace Craigos
I hate Craig Foster so much.
The Socceroos were gallant. But let's not ****ing pretend like they're some kind of heroes.
Hate that Foster is able to write for The Age.
The **** are they thinking?
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
Craig Foster.... Annoying man.
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Exclusive: Larry King Gets a Family BrainSurge on Nick
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Nickelodeon, hello! Larry King may have signed off from CNN, but he's definitely found ways to keep busy. King will next appear on Family BrainSurge (formerly BrainSurge), Nickelodeon's mind-bending game show that has been rebranded to include the wh… Read more


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Hello everyone it is I, Dawn from Dragoart.com. Today I am going to start the day by submitting a tutorial on another Pokemon. He is purple, and looks like a spiked ball. You will learn "how to draw Gengar", step by step. This is another tutorial request fulfilment so, if you are the one that wanted this lesson, I hope you learn from it, as well as enjoy it. Gengar is a Ghost/poison type that falls in the Shadow Pokemon species category. These Pokemon have rounded shaped bodies, and their color is a deep or dark purple. The spikes are raised and cover the middle of the back, and there are also some spikes around the head. They have reddish colored eyes, and the arms and legs are attached to the body as whole pieces. These levitating Pokemon have the ability to hide almost perfectly within the shadow of any object. When I say any, I mean anything at all even a human. The other known abilities of a Gengar, is the Hyper Beam, and Giga Impact. By looking at this species you would think that they are evil right? Well, that's not the case. Depending on who trains one of these purple balls of mass, that will dictate their personalities. In general, Gengars are mischievous by nature. Like many mischievous beings, these Pokemon love playing practical jokes. If you want to obtain your own Gengar to train, you can find them in the shadows of rooms, caves, or any other dark place. I think you will have a blast with this tutorial because you will teach yourself "how to draw Gengar", step by step. This species is very easy to draw as you can see by it's appearance. Peace out peeps, and have fun!
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Fat T necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 109 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a communications provider specialising in the wireless/mobile broadband space - the existing company The Fat Free Fone Company is here http://www.fatfree.com.au - we have set up a sister company - The Smart Phone Company to retail and review Smartphones and accompanying monthly plans The business will only have an online presence. The existing business website will give you an idea of our culture/look and feel. I'd like to extend this into the new brand with an identity that is easily recognised as being an evolution of the Fat Free brand.
We are targeting people that are using or thinking of upgrading to a smartphone ie iPhone, Nokia N97, HTC Hero etc. The site will provide news and reviews of various products as well as a support section user generated reviews etc. The target audience is a littel hard to define but ideally soething that sits across both corporate and the 24 - 44 year old smart phone user.
Basically we need a new logo - I'm interested to see how the current logo for The Fat Free Fone Company would look as The Smart Phone Company but in different colors. Not very adventurous I know but it seems like a logical progression and easily identifies both companies as being within the same group - in saying that I'm also happy to see other designs. I'm not really interested in the logo involving a mobile phone handset as the name itself is pretty descriptive - but it does need to be something that is easily transferrable from web to email signatures and print advertising other hard copy collaterall. I have no prefernce for color although not Pink or Purple. It needs to project a clean contemporary look that sits well with the associated logos for the producst ie Apple, Nokia,HTC as well as the Network Carrier logo's - i'e 3, Vodafone etc.
With the increase in mobile data usage and the Smartphone handset being a handheld PC/Camera/Organiser maybe these thoughts can be used in terms of the feel of the logo - stay in touch and informed wherever I am ?
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MOVIES OPENING (Friday, unless otherwise noted)
The Help (Wednesday)
30 Minutes or Less
Another Earth
The Devil's Double
Final Destination 5
Glee: The 3D Concert Movie
Bachelor Pad (season premiere; 8 p.m. Monday; ABC)
The Bling Ring (special; 8 p.m. Monday; Lifetime)
Single Ladies (season finale; 9 p.m. Monday; VH1)
Superheroes (special; 9 p.m. Monday; HBO)
Tia & Tamera (series debut; 9 p.m. Monday; Style)
Donna Decorates Dallas (series debut; 10 p.m. Monday; HGTV)
Sugar High (series debut; 10:30 p.m. Monday; Food)
Auction Kings (season premiere; 9 p.m. Tuesday; Discovery)
Crazy About Pippa (special; 9 p.m. Tuesday; TLC)
Gordon Ramsay's F Word (season premiere; 9 p.m. Tuesday; BBC America)
I Escape: Real Prison Breaks (season premiere; 9 p.m. Tuesday; ID)
White Collar (mid-season finale; 9 p.m. Tuesday; USA)
Big Law: Deputy Butterbean (series debut; 10 p.m. Tuesday; ID)
Covert Affairs (mid-season finale; 10 p.m. Tuesday; USA)
Dirty Money (series debut; 10 p.m. Tuesday; Discovery)
Top Shot (season premiere; 10 p.m. Tuesday; History)
Gordon Ramsay's Shark Bait (special; 11 p.m. Tuesday; BBC America)
Toddlers & Tiaras (mid-season finale; 10 p.m. Wednesday; TLC)
Jon Benjamin Has a Van (season finale; 10:30 p.m. Wednesday; Comedy Central)
Monday Night Football: Preseason: Seattle @ San Diego (special; 8 p.m. Thursday; ESPN)
So You Think You Can Dance (season finale; 8 p.m. Thursday; Fox)
Make Me Superhuman (special; 9 p.m. Thursday; NatGeo)
Extreme Chef (season finale; 10 p.m. Thursday; Food)
Russian Dolls (series debut; 10:30 p.m. Thursday; Lifetime)
NFL Preseason: Tampa Bay @ Kansas City (special; 8 p.m. Friday; Fox)
Karaoke Battle USA (series debut; 9 p.m. Friday; ABC)
Whale Wars (season finale; 9 p.m. Friday; Animal Planet)
Strike Back (series debut; 10 p.m. Friday; Cinemax)
Whale Wars: Reunion (special; 10 p.m. Friday; Animal Planet)
Lavell Crawford: Can a Brother Get Some Love? (special; 11 p.m. Friday; Comedy Central)
Doctor Who: Best of the Doctor (special; 9 p.m. Saturday; BBC America)
Doomsday Prophecy (special; 9 p.m. Saturday; Syfy)
Momster of the Bride (miniseries debut; 9 p.m. Saturday; Style)
Wrestlemania: The World Premiere (special; 9 p.m. Saturday; NBC)
CMA Music Festival: Country's Night to Rock (special; 8 p.m. Sunday; ABC)
Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes (series finale; 8 p.m. Sunday; OWN)
Exorcist Files (special; 9 p.m. Sunday; Discovery)
In the Flow With Affion Crockett (series debut; 9 p.m. Sunday; Fox)
Food Network Star (season finale; 9 p.m. Sunday; Food)
Behind the Music (season finale; 10 p.m. Sunday; VH1)
The Great Food Truck Race (season premiere; 10 p.m. Sunday; Food)
High Stakes Sweepers (special; 10 p.m. Sunday; TLC)
Lost and Delirious (special; 10 p.m. Sunday; Logo)
The Marriage Ref (season finale; 10 p.m. Sunday; NBC)
NEW ON DVD/BLU-RAY (Tuesday)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High [Blu-ray]
Jumping the Broom
Mars Needs Moms
Secret Diary of a Call Girl: The Final Season
Top Gear: The Complete Season 16
Your Highness
ALBUMS DROPPING (Tuesday; subject to change)
The Throne, "Watch the Throne" [Monday on iTunes; Friday CD Release]
Against Me, "White Crosses"
Drive A, "The World in Shambles"
Luke Bryan, "Tailgates & Tanlines"
Michael Ian Black, "Very Famous"
Pepper Rabbit, "Red Velvet Snowball"
Scattered Trees, "Sympathy"
The Horrors, "Skying Out"
Trivium, "In Waves"
RAMS HEAD LIVE: Beres Hammond (Tuesday); INXS/Berlin (Wednesday); WyckedAlways Better Tomorrow (Thursday); Baltimore Shredfest 2 (Friday and Saturday)
1ST MARINER: America Idol Live Tour (Thursday)
PIER SIX: Melissa Etheridge (Tuesday); Chicago (Sunday)
MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILION: Return To Forever IV (Tuesday); My Morning Jacket/Neko Case (Friday) O.A.R. (Saturday)
SONAR: The All Stars Tour (Tuesday); Sean Price and Guilty Simpson (Wednesday); Welcome 2 the Court Vol. 10 (Thursday); BSM rap series "Come and Get It" (Friday); Manifest presents: Release (Saturday)
GOLDEN WEST: Purling Hiss (Thursday); Joan of Arc (Friday); Iceage (Saturday)
BOURBON STREET: Junior Doctor/Shirock (Tuesday); Car Party (Friday);
METRO GALLERY: Tally Hall (Sunday)
OTTOBAR: Anarbor, Conditions, et al (Monday); Proclamation, et al (Tuesday); Insubordination Fest 2011 (Thursday-Saturday); Gang Green, et al (Sunday)
POWER PLANT LIVE: Mr. Greengenes (Friday)
RECHER: Candlebox (Tuesday); Stacked Like Pancakes, et al (Friday); The Ravyns (Saturday); Shoutwaitandgo, et al (Sunday)
9:30 CLUB: Queensryche 30th Anniversary Tour (Tuesday); Volbeat (Wednesday); Brantley Gilbert (Thursday); Kendrick Lamar (Friday); Junior League Band (Saturday)
JIFFY LUBE LIVE: Blink 182/My Chemical Romance (Friday); Tim McGraw/Luke Bryan/The Band Perry (Saturday)
BLACK CAT: Mittenfields (Monday); The Caribbean (Tuesday); Screen Vinyl Image (Wednesday); Couch Night (Thursday); Olivia Mancini & The Mates (Friday); Cryfest (Saturday); Backdoor (Saturday); Alkaline Trio (Sunday; sold out)
ROCK & ROLL HOTEL: The Cool Kids (Tuesday); Kurt Vile and the Violators (Wednesday); Tally Hall (Friday)(; The Silver Liners (Saturday); Rock & Roll Hotel 5 Year Anniversary w/ Patrick Stump (Sunday)
O's v. White Sox (Monday-Thursday; Camden Yards)
Baltimore Summer Restaurant Week continues (through Sunday; various city locations)
White Marlin Open (Monday-Friday; Harbour Island Marina, Ocean City)
Lobsterama (through Aug. 25; Gertrude's, Baltimore Museum of Art)
Second Joey V. Memorial Golf Classic (Monday; Fairway Hills Golf Club; Columbia)
Films on the Pier — "Let Me In" (Wednesday; Broadway Pier, Fells Point)
B-52's headline National Zoo's outdoor concert fundraiser (Wednesday; National Zoo, Washington)
Preseason NFL: Ravens at Eagles (7:30 p.m. Thursday; NBC/WBAL, 98 Rock)
Baltimore Playwrights Festival premiere: "Abraham & Isaac" (Thursday, runs through Aug. 28; Theatrical Mining Company, Le Clerc Hall, College of Notre Dame)
5th Take Five! Annual Baltimore Improv Festival (Thursday-Sunday; Creative Alliance)
Comedian Josh Sneed (Thursday-Saturday; Baltimore Comedy Factory)
"Beautiful, Delicious, Nutritious" summer chef demo with John Shields (Thursday; Maryland Science Center)
Flicks from the Hill — "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" (Thursday; AVAM)
Comedian Godfrey (Thursday-Saturday; Magooby's Joke House)
Little Italy Open Air Film Festival — "Nine" (Friday; Little Italy)
O's v. Tigers (Friday-Sunday; Camden Yards)
Baltimore Playwrights Festival premiere: "Asking Questions" (Friday, runs through Aug. 28; Fells Point Corner Theater)
"The Milwood Elementary School PTA" playwright presentation (Saturday; Strand Theater)
Shiny Happy Things workshop by artist Bob Benson (Saturday; AVAM)
Second African American Authors Expo and Multi-Cultural Book Fair (Saturday; Doubtree Columbia)
FestAfrica 2011 (Saturday and Sunday; Veterans Plaza; Silver Spring Civic Center)
Bike and Wine Tour (Saturday and Sunday; Terrapin Adventures, Savage)
Beer and Fear (Sunday; Terrapin Adventures, Savage)
The Tim Green Quintent, jazz in the sculpture garden (Saturday; Baltimore Museum of Art)
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A quick glimpse into the next season's fashion trends is always exciting, especially when we are just getting our first impressions with regards to what the hottest looks will be. The Nicholas K brand's creations have now marked the beginning of New York Spring/Summer 2012 Fashion Week and managed to make quite an impact with the fabulous styles displayed. The Nicholas K brand uses layering as the power technique for creating impressive outfits with the potential to become an endless source of style inspiration for the upcoming year. Modern ... Read More


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Explainer: Ten hot green-energy trends to watch
From the rollout of sexy new electric vehicles to technologies that convert turkey poop to electricity, green energy is the source of constant hype and buzz. What do green-energy experts have on their radar screen? To find out, we checked in with Dan Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley; and Ron Pernick, co-founder and managing director of Clean Edge, a research firm with offices in Oregon and California. Click ahead to learn about 10 trends they say are worth watching.
Solar prices are dropping
Prices for solar energy are dropping and will keep dropping, Kammen and Pernick say. For Kammen, the trend means that solar will finally start grabbing significant market share away from energy sources such as coal and oil — and catch up to the deployment of wind power, which itself is forecast to become as big as nuclear.
Lump all three sources of energy together, and "we are now starting to talk about more than half of our energy coming from clean carbon sources," he says, noting the caveat that nuclear has its own concerns, such as waste storage that lead to questions about its overall cleanliness.
According to Pernick, the price drops in solar — as much as 50 percent from 2008 highs — will lead to cost parity with other energy-generating technologies. "That is the big Holy Grail … and we are going to get there," he says.
A meet-up of energy and information technologies
In a "Jetsons"-like future, refrigerators will know when we're low on items such as cheese and beer and send a message to our GPS-equipped cell phones to remind us to pick up a wedge and a six-pack the next time we walk into our favorite grocery store — and thus prevent an extra 20-mile jaunt in our 2,000-pound car for a few items. Such a future is just around the corner, Kammen says.
"Smart hardware won't solve our consumption addiction, but it will allow us to be much more efficient," he says. "And movement of goods around is a big deal."
Kammen and his colleagues are currently matching up energy and information technologies with a smart phone application that lets people take a virtual test drive of an electric vehicle such as the Nissan Leaf or Chevrolet Volt. The app sits on a GPS-equipped smart phone and rides along with drivers in their current car. Then, the users can go online, upload their data, and learn what their energy consumption would have been if they were driving an electric ride.
China starting to win the clean energy game
Global competition for dominance in the green energy industry is fierce. Industry insiders are watching the fight and keeping score, according to Pernick. "China is starting to beat out almost all other nations on a lot of different clean energy counts," he says. Sectors where China has a leading edge include solar photovoltaic manufacturing and deployment of wind turbines. The Chinese are also players in the electric car market, a sector traditionally dominated by the U.S. and Japan.
Call for clean-energy funds getting louder
Titans of U.S. industry, including Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Bank of America chairman Chad Holiday, issued a call this June for an annual $16 billion investment in clean-energy innovation.
To get there, according to Pernick, will require government subsidies and regulations that promote clean energy instead of propping up the oil, gas, coal and nuclear industries.
"The naysayers will say, 'Well, you know, if you can't compete against oil and gas, then why bother?' And that's either an ignorant or disingenuous statement," he says. "There is not one energy source on this planet that is not both subsidy- and regulatory-dependent."
Energy development in the developing world
"Few research labs innovate for other people; they innovate to meet their own needs," says Kammen, explaining the importance of energy development and innovation that is evolving in the developing world. Shown here are solar panels on a gas station in Algeria, for example.
In Central America, plans are under way for a power grid that connects together everyone from Panama to Mexico. While the grid will be powered by all kinds of energy, solar and wind will be part of the mix. "We need more developing countries prioritizing their own needs, not just waiting for whatever happens to spill over [to them]," says Kammen.
Transportation starting to go electric
To those sick of the hype over electric vehicles such as the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf, shown here, Pemnick says ... get over it. The buzz over electrified transportation is only going to get stronger, he says, with a build-out of high-speed rail networks and a resurgence of streetcars joining the mix.
Kammen hopes to see a shift in behavior from personal cars to use of more mass transit, but isn't ready to call it a trend. "There are options there," he says, "but they are not real yet."
Growing investment in smart grid and grid infrastructure
The electricity grid brings energy from wherever and however it is generated to the people who use it. Lots of technologies have emerged in recent years that promise to make use of this electricity more efficiently, such as sensors that shut off unnecessary appliances when demand spikes, and meters that let people know when rates are lowest for energy-intensive activities such as washing dirty clothes.
Investment in these types of smart grid technologies is destined to grow, according to Pernick, whose firm recently launched an index to track the sector. In addition, the grid itself is bound to grow in coming years as utilities shuttle new sources of generation, such wind energy from rural, windy locales, to people in big cities on the coasts.
Carbon dioxide, a value-added product?
Pernick sees signs of a nascent industry that uses carbon dioxide from industrial operations such as coal-fired power plants and breweries to create products such as calcium carbonate, a key component of Portland cement, and algae fuels.
"This whole idea of industrial ecology that has been around for decades hasn't really reached an inflection point yet," he says, "but I think we're close — where all of the sudden waste streams become value-added products and services."
Megaprojects delayed but not all dead
The economic downturn and engineering obstacles have derailed green megaprojects such as Abu Dhabi's planned Masdar City, a carbon-neutral, zero-waste community in the oil-rich nation, shown here in an artist's rendering, and Texas oil-tycoon T. Boone Picken's much-hyped plan to build 1,000 MW of wind power in the Texas panhandle.
But not all green megaprojects are dead in the water, according to Clean Edge. For example, the clean-tech research firm has its eyes on 2,000 megawatts worth of concentrating solar power plants under construction in China, a 1,000-megawatt wind farm in India, and the rollout of smart meters and distributed solar throughout Southern California.
Biofuels gain prominence, green cred still questioned
Electric utilities are burning more forest trimmings and agricultural waste to generate electricity and heat — a sign, according to Clean Edge, that woody biomass is growing up from a niche business to one that could become a significant player in the energy mix.
However, as deployment of the technology scales up, so do questions about its green credibility — it gobbles up land and still emits carbon dioxide, for example.
"We will certainly have more biofuel," says Kammen, "but whether we have biofuel that in fact is sustainable or not, I'm not sure. And if we have lots of biofuel but it is not deep green, not significantly cleaner than fossil fuel, why bother?"
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There is a lot of belief building in the Buffalo Bills' locker room this offseason. Mario Williams, Mark Anderson, Marcell Dareus, and Kyle Williams form a scary defensive line.
The team's offense looks primed to improve after a few years under Chad Gailey. Fans are thinking playoffs. Running back C.J. Spiller is thinking higher.
"We split with New England. We had the Giants on the ropes. We are close to being a Super Bowl team," Spiller told NFL Sirius XM Radio on Thursday. "We have to protect the ball."
That's the beauty of the NFL. The Washington Redskins swept the New York Giants last year, so they have reason to believe they are close. Spiller's Bills gave the New England Patriots problems, so they should feel confident they can make a big step forward.
The difference between the Patriots and the Bills is consistency. New England doesn't fall into tailspins like Buffalo did at the end of last year. New England survives injuries and the tough parts of their schedule.
We think the Bills are a dangerous group this year because it all starts up front and they have a lot of promise on both sides of the line. (Don't discount Buffalo's ability to run-block.)
The toughest hurdle for the Bills may be eradicating the losing culture on the team. It's been so long since the Bills have been in the playoffs. Things will go wrong this year. It won't all be smooth. When that happens, the Bills need to respond better than they did in 2011.


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Gender and the Media
Gender and the Media
ISBN: 978-0-745-69899-1 October 2015 Polity 304 Pages
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Eschewing a straightforwardly positive or negative assessment the book explores the contradictory character of contemporary gender representations, where confident expressions of girl power sit alongside reports of epidemic levels of anorexia among young women, moral panics about the impact on men of idealized representations of the 'six-pack', but near silence about the pervasive re-sexualization of women's bodies, along with a growing use of irony and playfulness that render critique extremely difficult.
The book looks in depth at five areas of media - talk shows, magazines, news, advertising, and contemporary screen and paperback romances - to examine how representations of women and men are changing in the twenty-first century, partly in response to feminist, queer and anti-racist critique.
Gender and the Media is also concerned with the theoretical tools available for analysing representations. A range of approaches from semiotics to postcolonial theory are discussed, and Gill asks how useful notions such as objectification, backlash, and positive images are for making sense of gender in today's Western media. Finally, Gender and the Media also raises questions about cultural politics - namely, what forms of critique and intervention are effective at a moment when ironic quotation marks seem to protect much media content from criticism and when much media content - from Sex and the City to revenge adverts - can be labelled postfeminist.
This is a book that will be of particular interest to students and scholars in gender and media studies, as well as those in sociology and cultural studies more generally.
Table of contents
1. Gender and the Media
2. Analysing Gender in Media Texts
3. Advertising and Postfeminism
4. News, Gender and Journalism
5. Talk Shows
6. Gender in Magazines
7. Postfeminist Romance
"This book is extremely well written, which adds to its excellence as a text that combines an expert synthesis of the literature and Gill's own insightful analysis. Gill's book is suitable as a core text for any media studies, cultural studies and gender studies course as an update of Van Zoonen's 1994 text, since it contains an analysis of a diverse body of work made suitable for undergraduate level thanks to Gill's accessible writing style."
Gender and Education
"Brilliant - a must-read for all media educators."
Newsletter of the Media Education Association
"Gender and the Media is excellent throughout and confronts the reader with an embarras de richesse of insights."
Feminism and Psychology
"Gender and the Media is a lively and stimulating read and works as an excellent introduction for students in the field of media and gender studies. It is also a grown-up book that moves beyond the current feminist preoccupation with 'girls', to a renewed focus on 'women' in their infinite variety. I strongly recommend it."
European Journal of Women?s Studies
"A new masterpiece in the field of feminist media studies. Gender and the Media sheds new light on where we have been, and where we are going. It will be a staple of all media studies and women's studies classes for at least the next decade."
Andrea Press, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"This is a thorough, lucid study which includes a good deal of new and original material, presenting it with admirable theoretical fluency yet in a clear and student-friendly way."
Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths College
"Rosalind Gill's book is an invaluable contribution to the field of gender and media research. Well written and engaging, it offers an overview of contemporary representations of gender, a sense of the main theoretical and methodological approaches at issue and a grounding in the cultural politics of the field."
Cynthia Carter, Cardiff University
- Written in a clear and accessible style, with lots of examples from Anglo-American media. the book offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and an up-to-date assessment of the key issues and debates
- Looks in-depth at five areas of media — talk shows, magazines, news, advertising, and contemporary screen and paperback romances — to examine how representations of women and men are changing in the 21st century
- Offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and an up-to-date assessment of the key issues and debates
- Provides students with an introduction to the theoretical tools available for analysing representations
- Gender and the Media is a core course in media and cultural studies and yet there is no good up to date textbook currently available. This book fills that gap


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Photo Challenge: Favorite Chair
You have YOUR seat- the one that you'll fight your Aunt Mildred for, even if she is 105-years-old. Be it a recliner, a beanbag, or a wooden straight-backed rocker, we all have a favorite chair in our lives. This photo challenge is dedicated to capturing the place you love most to rest your rump. Those of us at JPG will be reclining this week in honor of Thanksgiving, the only holiday which leaves us with no choice but to sit back and relax. But, a good chair doesn't need a reason!
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WACO, Texas -- A Muslim soldier on the run for three weeks after going absent without leave from a Kentucky Army post found no help from friends in his Dallas-area hometown, where he hatched a plan and bought supplies to blow up a restaurant filled with Fort Hood troops, according to testimony at his federal trial Tuesday.
Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo, who was AWOL from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, bought pressure cookers, clocks, wires and other bomb-making components at a Dallas-area store in the early morning of July 26, according to surveillance footage and receipts shown to jurors. Abdo then paid $400 for a taxi ride to Killeen, Texas, just outside Fort Hood, arriving about 3:30 a.m. at a motel, the cabdriver testified.
After police acting on a tip detained Abdo at the motel July 27, they say they found the items in his room and backpack. He was stopped just hours before completing assembly of the bomb, showing he "intended to commit mass murder," prosecutor Gregg Sofer told jurors earlier Tuesday during opening statements.
Abdo, 22, faces up to life in prison if convicted of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and five other charges.
But lead defense attorney Zach Boyd countered in U.S. District Court in Waco that no bomb was ever built and said the government is "not going to be able to get around that fact."
After going AWOL, Abdo bought a gun in Nashville after meeting the seller online, according to court testimony. He stayed in Memphis for two weeks -- paying for motel rooms, food, cabs and bus fare with cash or gift cards so he couldn't be tracked, and used someone else's ID card, according to testimony.
FBI Special Agent C. Michael Owens testified Abdo told him that after going AWOL, he wanted to flee the country or go to Edinburg to seek refuge with a man who helped his father years ago. But when the cabdriver in Dallas could not take him to South Texas, Abdo said, he looked at a map and recognized Killeen because of the news reports after the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage in which a Muslim soldier is charged, Owens said.
"He said he wanted to give faith to brother Nidal ... and said, `People think he's crazy, but he's not crazy and I came here to remind the people,' " Owens testified.
The reference was to Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the shootings that killed 13 and wounded more than two dozen. Hasan faces the death penalty if convicted at his military trial, set to start in August.
Abdo told investigators that he went to Texas to "martyr himself" for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, Owens said. Abdo told investigators he planned to put a bomb in what looked like a gift box, leave it at a Chinese buffet frequented by Fort Hood soldiers, wait outside and shoot any survivors after the blast. Abdo said he expected to be killed by authorities or arrested, Owens told jurors.
Abdo said he didn't plan an attack inside Fort Hood because he didn't believe he would be able to get through security at the gates, Owens said. But Abdo said he bought a military uniform at a local store because it was necessary to fit into the community, Owens testified.
Killeen police began investigating Abdo on July 26 after a gun store employee reported a young man bought 6 pounds (2.7 kilograms) of smokeless gunpowder, shotgun ammunition and a magazine for a semiautomatic pistol, while seeming to know little about his purchases, the store manager testified Tuesday. Officers also learned that he bought a U.S. Army uniform and a "Smith" name patch from another store, and jurors saw surveillance footage showing Abdo leaving the store wearing the uniform he just bought.
Another incident raised authorities' concern after Abdo went AWOL. On July 4, police in Oak Grove, Ky., near Fort Campbell, reported finding a shovel, two large containers of bleach, body bags and a digital camera in a trash bin outside a truck stop. Oak Grove police Sgt. Victor Lynch told jurors he found Abdo's car at a nearby restaurant, where a truck stop employee had reported seeing him go after dumping the items. Lynch said he found a cattle prod, three boxes of handcuffs, trash bags and a large body bag carrier in the car, but Abdo was nowhere to be found.
Owens testified earlier that Abdo said he had planned to offer a Fort Campbell soldier a ride, kill him and videotape it while reciting the names of people he felt had been wronged by the U.S. military -- including Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, a 14-year-old Iraqi girl who was raped before she and her family were killed in 2006. Five current or former U.S. soldiers went to prison, one for a life term, for their roles in that attack.


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Renewed uncertainty over Europe's sprawling debt crisis following elections in Greece and France weighed on stock markets Monday, with the main exchange in Athens down a massive 8 percent at one stage.
Investors have been particularly spooked by the Sunday election in Greece, which resulted in a split Parliament with no party likely to be able to form a government. The two parties that governed as a coalition for the past six months were pummeled to the benefit of more extreme parties of the right and left. The socialist Pasok party suffered the biggest retreat. Its share of the vote collapsed from around 43 percent in the last election in 2009 to a little over 13 percent.
A period of uncertainty looms for the bailed-out country, which is in its fifth year of recession and has over half its youth out of work following big spending cuts and tax increases in return for crucial international bailout funds. If no government can be formed that can command a majority in Parliament, another general election within the next two months seems possible.
"Financial markets loath uncertainty, and so the reaction seen to the elections makes a great deal of sense," said David White, a trader at Spreadex.
With more than 99 percent of the vote counted, conservative New Democracy led with 18.9 percent and 108 of Parliament's 300 seats. Party leader Antonis Samaras, who backs Greece's bailout commitments for austerity, will launch coalition-forming talks later in the day.
Further weighing on sentiment is Sunday's defeat of French President Nicolas Sarkozy to his socialist rival Francois Hollande, who has campaigned on the need for more growth-generating economic policies and less reliance on austerity. While economists agree more growth would help fight the debt crisis, some fear Hollande could upset the current balance in European policies, with uncertain consequences.
Final results showed Hollande narrowly defeated incumbent Sarkozy with 51.62 percent of the vote.
Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a setback Sunday in a regional election in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein. Merkel and her government have borne the brunt of the criticism over Europe's austerity drive.
"Election defeats for President Sarkozy, and for the main coalition parties in Greece and for Angela Merkel's party in Schleswig Holstein highlight voter backlash against austerity, economic contraction in unemployment," said Neil MacKinnon, global macro strategist at VTB Capital.
In Europe, shares opened sharply lower but recovered some ground as the day wore on.
Germany's DAX was down 0.8 percent at 6,506, while the CAC-40 in France fell 0.3 percent at 3,153. The FTSE 100 of leading British shares was closed for a public holiday.
Greek shares suffered worse, trading 8.2 percent lower at one stage before recouping some ground alongside other European markets, to be trading 6 percent lower.
In the currency markets, the euro also recovered some of its poise after falling to a three-month low against the dollar during Asian trading hours. It was up 0.5 percent at $1.3032, having earlier fallen to a low of $1.2972.
Wall Street was also poised to open lower with Dow futures and the S&P 500 futures both 0.5 percent lower.
Earlier in Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 index plunged 2.8 percent to close at 9,119.14 — its lowest finish in three months — with the market's export sector also sapped by a rising yen. Hong Kong's Hang Seng slid 2.6 percent to 20,536.59. In other Asia markets, Australia's S&P/ASX 200 lost 2.2 percent to 4,301.30 and South Korea's Kospi shed 1.6 percent to 1,956.44.
Oil prices fell alongside equities, with the benchmark New York rate down 65 cents at $97.84 a barrel.
Pamela Sampson in Bangkok contributed to this report.


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The fight for the '16 Super Bowl helps the Dolphins' stadium battle
Each day, the Miami Dolphins literally count down the seconds until the meeting in late May when the NFL decides where to play the 2016 Super Bowl. The suspense may be team owner Stephen Ross' best political weapon in winning about $200 million in government dollars for a stadium renovation.
On miamifirst.com, which the Dolphins launched as the online headquarters for their stadium campaign, a ticker in the top corner tracks the days, hours and seconds until May 22, when Ross' fellow NFL owners are expected to decide between South Florida and San Francisco for the 50th Super Bowl.
The Dolphins and their backers claim the extra dollars that will come from the milestone Super Bowl justifies quick approval of $199 million in government money for a stadium renovation — leaving no time for the extended negotiations or referendum that skeptics of the deal want.
"There is a lot of pressure … to react in a very, very quick way," said Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban Bovo Jr., who last week voted against a resolution endorsing the Dolphins' financing plan. "It should have been discussed for months before we got to this point."
Commissioners approved the resolution nine days after the Dolphins unveiled a plan to spend at least $201 million in private dollars on a $400 million renovation. The rest would come from a new $3 million yearly state subsidy to Sun Life and from raising Miami-Dade hotel taxes, which would generate at least $9 million a year under current conditions.
A bill allowing both changes is set for its first hearing in Tallahassee on Tuesday, two days after Sunday's Super Bowl in New Orleans. If the bill passes, county commissioners would have to vote again to raise mainland hotel taxes to 7 percent from 6 percent to fund the stadium renovations.
The May 22 deadline comes thanks to a schedule set by the NFL, an association governed by its 32 teams. In October, the NFL announced San Francisco and South Florida as the two areas allowed to compete for the 50th game. The contest has played well to the Dolphins' argument for a stadium upgrade, given the $1.2 billion stadium being built near San Francisco in time for the '16 game.
NFL teams have long used Super Bowl as a potential reward for communities funding stadium construction. But Super Bowl L in 2016 presents a special case for South Florida, which vies with New Orleans for holding the most Super Bowls in NFL history.
Dolphins executives say a stadium upgrade will preserve South Florida's Super Bowl edge for years to come, so a stadium plan approved after May would presumably make the region a strong contender for Super Bowls after 2016. But team executives say a delay would probably cost South Florida the benefits that come with the 50th game.
"The NFL's going to put a lot into it,'' said Rodney Barreto, the longtime chair of the Super Bowl host committee and whose partner in a Coral Gables firm, Brian May, also lobbies for the Dolphins. "It's going to be a year-round celebration. It's their anniversary."
Super Bowl L isn't the only argument the Dolphins have made for the $400 million renovation package. They also see a renovated stadium helping attract soccer games and other major events, as well as beefing-up stadium amenities enough to keep the stadium a viable NFL home for at least 25 more years.
But as the Dolphins pursue tax dollars for the third time in four years, they're citing the 2016 game as the need for a quick decision. Asked about a possible referendum on the Dolphins' tax plans at the Jan. 14 unveiling, Ross replied: "They're going to be voting for the Super Bowl in May of this year and there's no possibility of that happening."
Robert Baade, an economics professor at Lake Forest College in Chicago, sees expectations for the 50th game as amplifying the NFL's already inflated case for a Super Bowl's economic impact.
"Logically, why would anybody think that?'' Baade said of the 50th-game boost. "Maybe the NFL has a bigger party than normal … But we're talking about nibbling at the edges. Who are they going to invite? The heads of state from all over the world? I just can't imagine what it is they could do that would make a meaningful difference" to the economy.
A NFL spokesman was not available for interviews about the 2016 game.
While organizers claim a Super Bowl brings as much as $400 million to a local economy, Baade's research sees the game's boost topping out at $90 million each year. It's probably closer to about $40 million for a destination that's already popular in the winter, he said. New Orleans is suspending Mardis Gras festivities to host the Super Bowl this Sunday, while the big game falls at the peak of tourism season in South Florida.
In fact, Miami-Dade's tourism director has warned there aren't enough hotel rooms to accommodate Super Bowl if it falls on the same weekend as the Miami Boat Show in 2016, one of three weekends proposed by the NFL for the 50th game.
Even so, the tourism bureau asked large hotels to set aside 90 percent of their rooms for the NFL during Boat Show weekend in 2016, hoteliers said this week. South Florida's Super Bowl bid package is due in April.
Tourism leaders say they're eager to win the 50th Super Bowl, in part because of the attention and cachet that will come with being chosen for the milestone game.
"There is charm and magic in the 50th celebration of anything,'' said Nicki Grossman, Broward's tourism director. "It's the intention of the NFL to make that a grand Super Bowl. The Super Bowl of Super Bowls until they hit 100."
Miami Herald staff writer Adam Beasley contributed to this report from New Orleans.


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Joseph HOY (or HAY)
Hello folks,
I am trying to trace details of my paternal great grandfather, Joseph Hoy (or maybe Hay) who was born in Norwich, England in 1827 and transported to the Swan River Colony (WA), Australia, as a convict, aboard the "William Hammond" in 1856.
Joseph married Fanny Charlotte Corrigan, born in Dublin, Ireland in 1837, in Guildford, Western Australia, on 1st March, 1863.
His convict record gives his surname as HAY but I would assume that he was possibly HOY because that is our name today. If he wasn't Hay, then we aren't truly who we think we are!!!
Looking for Edward John Caldwell, born 1871 in Nerring, Victoria, Australia.
G'day folks. My name is Ernest James(I like to be called James)Hoy and I am 65 yoa, retired and live in Ellenbrook, Western Australia. This is a fantastic site and I am most greatful to all who bring it to us. Now, this is my first time so please be gentle with me.
I first gained an interest in genealogy some 15 years ago and enjoyed it immensley until such time as the big "C" came aknocking on my door and belted me around very baddly. It was a long, difficult buttle, but, HEY" I'm alive! I have been dormant for several years now but am at last ready to get back into the game and look forward to a long and sucessful relationship with you all.
I would like to research the HOY family but, for now I am trying to trace my maternal grandfather, Edward John (Ned) CALDWELL. He was born in Nerring, Victoria, Australia in 1871 and spent his working life as a mining engineer. He worked in Victoria, before moving to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia for the gold. Ned died on 6th June, 1935 in Midland Junction, WA.
Again, thanks everyone, I will most certainly keep in touch. Bye for now.
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Before Midnight
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In Before Sunrise (1995) an American man, Jesse, met Frenchwoman Céline on the train to Vienna. They spent the whole night walking the Viennese streets, philosophising, arguing and flirting. At sunrise they parted on the railway platform, promising to meet again. Their paths didn't cross until nine years later, in Before Sunset (2004). This time, the pair spent a day in Paris discussing their unhappy relationships and rediscovering their feelings for each other. In Before Midnight we discover that Jessie and Céline have stayed together and are now spending a holiday in Greece with their daughters. The world of emotions is still their preferred topic of conversation, but it is now their own relationship which is put to the test.