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Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
195 Little Albany Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08903-2681
Hurricanes, blizzards and other severe weather may be rare to our Northeast Corridor, but as 'Superstorm Sandy' reminded us in 2012, it is good to be prepared. Oncology Pharmacy Director Michael Kane, RPh, BCOP, and oncology nurse Jacquelyn Lauria, APN, at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey were on the front lines of managing patient care and medications during and after Sandy. They tell us if you're under a doctor's care for cancer or other chronic illness, you may want to make a plan and assemble an emergency preparedness kit.
Q: How can one get started in making a plan that best meets their needs?
A: Agencies and emergency preparedness organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Red Cross and New Jersey Office of Emergency Management have terrific resources available that can help you map out a preparedness plan.
Q: What might a typical preparedness kit contain?
A: Almost every preparedness kit should contain items such as water, food, flashlights, batteries, extra cash and family contact information, but don't forget about any healthcare needs. Along with a first-aid kit, pay special attention to personal medications and copies of health-related documents.
Q: What special precautions should be taken if one is being treated for a chronic condition?
A: When possible and with sufficient lead time, a seven-day supply of essential medications would be an ideal minimum. Many medications cannot be suddenly stopped without serious side-effects. Additionally, many of the medications prescribed to treat cancer, for instance, are intended to be taken on a specific schedule. Often various supportive medications are prescribed to help manage treatment side effects and going just a few days without could be uncomfortable and unsafe.
Q: Aside from medications, what else might be important?
A: If you need to access the healthcare system during an emergency, having the correct, up to date information is helpful. At the conclusion of each contact point in your care (primary doctor, emergency room visit, or outpatient center) you should receive a visit summary which should include your plan of care and current medication list. Bringing this list and your current medications with you can assist the next medical contact in understanding the most recent events in your care. If you do need to contact your physician during a state of emergency and cannot reach them through normal phone/e-mail methods, calling the hospital to which they admit patients may be helpful to locate them.
Just as important, be certain to update your personal information frequently to include changes in your medical condition, past surgeries and hospitalizations, current medications -- noting allergies or adverse side-effects -- and recent laboratory results. It is also helpful to have names and contact information of doctors and pharmacies, as well as insurance information including front and back copies of your cards.
Q: What is the best way to keep all of this info together?
A: There are many creative ways to store this information including waterproof zipper bags and laminating for physical material and flash drives for back-up copies stored in computer files.
For additional information, visit:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: "Emergency Preparedness and You" www.bt.cdc.gov/preparedness
American Red Cross: "Be Red Cross Ready: Get a kit. Make a plan. Be informed." www.redcross.org/prepare/location/home-family
New Jersey Office of Emergency Management: "A Family Preparedness Guide" www.state.nj.us/njoem/


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May 25, 2010
News Release 10-055
Inv. No. 332-519
Contact: Peg O'Laughlin, 202-205-1819
The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has launched the second of two investigations into the effect on the U.S. economy and U.S. jobs of intellectual property rights (IPR) infringement in China.
The investigation, China: Effects of Intellectual Property Infringement and Indigenous Innovation Policies on the U.S. Economy, is the second report requested by the Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate, in a letter received on April 20, 2010.
In its letter requesting the investigations, the Committee stated: "Despite widespread evidence of the harm to U.S. industries, authors, and artists resulting from IPR infringement in China, the U.S. Government has not conducted a comprehensive economic analysis of the effect of China's ineffective IPR protection and enforcement on the U.S. economy and U.S. jobs." As requested, the USITC will deliver two reports to the Committee. The first investigation, China: Intellectual Property Infringement, Indigenous Innovation Policies, and Frameworks for Measuring the Effects on the U.S. Economy, was instituted on May 5, 2010.
In the second investigation, the USITC, an independent, nonpartisan, factfinding federal agency, will describe the size and scope of reported IPR infringement in China; provide a quantitative analysis of the effects of reported IPR infringement in China on the U.S. economy and U.S. jobs; and discuss actual, potential, and reported effects of China's indigenous innovation policies on the U.S. economy and U.S. jobs, and quantify these effects to the extent feasible. The second report will build upon the qualitative findings described in the first report. The USITC expects to deliver the second report to the Committee by May 2, 2011.
The USITC will hold a public hearing in connection with the two reports at 9:30 a.m. on June 15, 2010. Requests to appear at the hearing should be filed no later than 5:15 p.m. on June 1, 2010, with the Secretary, U.S. International Trade Commission, 500 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20436. For further information, call 202-205-2000.
The USITC also welcomes written submissions for the record. Written submissions (one original and 14 copies) should be addressed to the Secretary of the Commission at the above address and should be submitted at the earliest practical date, but no later than 5:15 p.m. on November 16, 2010. All written submissions, except for confidential business information, will be available for public inspection.
Further information on the scope of the investigation and appropriate submissions is available in the USITC's notice of investigation, dated May 25, 2010, which can be obtained from the USITC Internet site (www.usitc.gov) or by contacting the Office of the Secretary at 202-205-2000.
USITC general factfinding investigations, such as this one, cover matters related to tariffs or trade and are generally conducted at the request of the U.S. Trade Representative, the House Committee on Ways and Means, or the Senate Committee on Finance. The resulting reports convey the Commission's objective findings and independent analyses on the subject investigated. The Commission makes no recommendations on policy or other matters in its general factfinding reports. Upon completion of each investigation, the USITC submits its findings and analyses to the requester. General factfinding investigations reports are subsequently released to the public, unless they are classified by the requester for national security reasons.

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Exchange 2007 storage enhancements: Cure-all or Band-Aid?
Could improvements by Microsoft make Exchange an easier application for storage admins to manage? Or have end users taken email beyond its intended purpose?
While users are finding clever ways to make the Exchange store work for them, (See yesterday's Part one -- "Users turn to SANs to manage Exchange") some in the industry wonder why Exchange doesn't simply work better. Meanwhile, others argue that the way users have turned Exchange into a personal file system archive goes beyond what the application was intended for, and they say it's not up to Microsoft to fix it.
"With a 4K block size, that's quite a few writes to be searching for," McCall said.
Ray Mohrman, technical product manager of Exchange for Microsoft, said customers have been bringing the idea of a move to SQL as the basis for the Exchange database to his attention frequently of late.
"We've heard a lot of requests from customers for improvements to the core of Exchange, and a lot of them want a switch to SQL," he said. But "when it came to Exchange 2007, what people were really looking for in Exchange was increased stability and higher availability," Mohrman said. "We found we could deliver those capabilities and do so sooner by adding features to this newest release rather than overhauling the database."
Mohrman added, however, that the next move for Exchange could be a move to a SQL platform. "With some of the features we've already added, we're in a better position to move to the SQL server," he said. "We've integrated more of SQL Server's text search engines. We're continuing to look toward that option for the Exchange store."
Microsoft already claims that Exchange 2007 will address some of the common storage, replication and backup headaches without a change in database. On the BladeMail product, which Microsoft has officially endorsed, the company expects to be able to support up to 17,500 Exchange 2003 email users on a single BladeCenter chassis, and up to 70,000 Exchange 2007 email users per BladeCenter when Exchange 2007 becomes available. (A regular version of Exchange 2007 will jump up to 2000 to 5000 users per server, rather than the 2003 limit of 200.) The company also plans to move to a 64-bit operating system on Exchange servers, increasing the memory from 4 gigabytes (GB) to 8 GB.
"Today the memory restrictions on 32-bit hardware limit customers from fully utilizing the space on their storage hard drives," Microsoft spokesperson Ray Mohrman said in an email. "The move to 64-bit systems will help to alleviate this by providing the memory required to drive down IOPS by 70%, enabling customers to not only get more usage out of their storage systems today, but reduce the amount of hard drives they may need to purchase as inboxes grow."
The new Exchange will also allow the database to be broken down from one large file, as it has been in the past, into smaller chunks for easier replication, snapshot and CDP.
But until the database changes, McCall said, the sequential reads/random writes problem will remain to some extent. The best way, then, to optimize storage for an Exchange database is to have lots of spindles, as having to do sequential reads on large disk platters only makes performance issues worse, according to McCall. And, he added, if more spindles are better, where better to put the Exchange store than on multiple 16-drive shelves in a SAN?
Is it the product? Or how people use it?
But while the improvements anticipated in Exchange 2007 and a future move to a standard relational database would lighten the load, others think the burden of managing Exchange comes from the way end users have used it, rather than how it's architected -- and that no amount of re-engineering will render Exchange manageable on its own.
As email has supplanted the telephone and remains ahead of instant messaging as the most popular form of work-related communication, Lockhart said, workers have begun to use email in a way the designers of Exchange could never have anticipated.
"People use email for huge amounts of communication, and they use it as a personal filing cabinet," Lockhart said. "Think about it -- when was the last time you created any kind of document at work and didn't email it to someone? It's become a knowledge management tool as well as a communications tool, and that's what starts to overwhelm a mail server running Exchange."
Then, Lockhart said, email becomes a battle between mail administrators and end users who want to keep everything and access it all instantaneously. Huge inboxes clog up the Exchange server, "but users complain bitterly if quotas are enforced to save performance."
In response, Lockhart said, more and more users are settling the tug-of-war by offloading Exchange store onto the SAN, by outsourcing it to companies like Postini, archiving old messages onto third-party systems such as that offered by Mimosa, or some combination of all three. "That way, the IT department is just having to manage the Exchange server, while employees get what they want, which are fewer quotas and immediate access to all their data," said Lockhart.
Microsoft may have solved some of those issues with Exchange 2007, Lockhart conceded, but he predicted they won't be able to keep up with the way Exchange is growing. "The amount of bytes a typical user sends and receives doubles every three years," he said. "It's almost like a force of nature -- a better database or four-year product refresh only gets you so far."
"People have created a file archiving system within email," said Bill Augustadt, CTO of application managed services for ACS Inc., a service provider that manages Exchange for corporations like Disney as well as its own internal group of 38,000 mailboxes. "That kind of thing makes attachments multiply like rabbits. And there's collaboration -- shared calendars, reminders, attachments to those reminders.
"Is email really going to be this central repository, or is it just a communications system?" he said, saying it was up to users, not Microsoft, to decide the answer to that question. "And remember," he added, "Just because something's easy doesn't mean it's right."
A cottage industry around email
A relational file system, such as WinFS, which up until recently was in its own separate development at Microsoft, could do something to address the problem of email as file archiving system by giving users a separate file system archive with the search and indexing features that currently make it easier to store so many files as email. But according to an announcement in the past month, the standalone system has been discontinued (see also "Microsoft kills standalone WinFS file system", SearchWinComputing.com, June 26). However, the functionality is now reportedly going to be folded into the next version of SQL server, which then could theoretically make its way into Exchange.
Meanwhile, there remain a number of companies kicking around the Exchange problem. XOSoft, for example, has a tool called InMotion, announced in October. InMotion uses a wizard-based interface to walk users through basic email migration steps. The product has chiefly been used to migrate between Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003, but it can also be used to move the Exchange store from direct-attached disk to NAS or to the SAN.
Hewlett-Packard Co. also has a product, called Application Storage Manager (ASM), which is included in its ProLiant server iSCSI pack. ASM has a number of other functions for managing Microsoft SQL Server 2000 databases and Exchange 2003 storage groups on HP Storage Servers, but it can also be used in a manner similar to XOSoft's product, to move Exchange stores from DAS to NAS.
EMC Corp. also has a plug-in for Clariion that works with Exchange System Manager, called Storage Administrator for Exchange, which automates underlying storage tasks including converting quotas and the number of mailboxes into SAN storage units, applying RAID levels, LUN creation, binding and masking.
All this is aimed at reducing the amount that companies pay to manage Exchange, which industry estimates peg at $15 per month, per user. "When I told our CFO how much we pay for email systems in a year, he was astonished," Augustadt said. "People are becoming aware of the crazy things people do to get to their data easily and looking for ways to mitigate them."


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EA Tops 'Fight Night Round 4' With Sweeps From Pizza Hut
May 29, 2009: Pizza Hut has signed a deal with EA Sports to support the launch of Fight Night Round 4 with a "Rumble in the Ring Ultimate Fight Sweepstakes." From now through June 27, visitors to www.Pizzahut.com can enter for a chance to win prizes, topped by a VIP trip for two to Las Vegas to see a championship fight. Other prizes include a limited edition Fight Night Round 4 branded Xbox 360 videogame and entertainment system and copies of the Fight Night Round 4 for the Xbox 360. Footage from the videogame, which hits stores June 30 with a cover featuring Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson, can be seen at the Pizza Hut Web site. "Pizza Hut is thrilled to partner with EA Sports on the debut of one of the most anticipated games of the year, Fight Night Round 4," Bob Kraut, Pizza Hut vp-marketing communications, said in a statement. "With sweepstakes and promotions such as 'Rumble in the Ring," Pizza Hut continues to establish its position as the food of choice for gaming enthusiasts everywhere." Back to Home Page


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ALCTS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group/Meeting Details
ALCTS/CCS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group (CNDG)
Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Room 615
How Catalogers and System Developers Work Creatively with Metadata
The meeting will begin with "Institutional Repository one click MARC record generation," presented by Terry Reese who will share his timesaving one click MARC record generation approach for harvesting metadata from DSpace into MARC for inclusion in OCLC and Oregon State University's integrated library system. Terry Reese is Digital Production Unit Head at Oregon State University Libraries.
Next, Lai-Ying Hsiung will describe the differences between record and object identifiers, and their increasing relevance as match points or linking devices for searching, record loading, record merging, report generation, global updates, FRBR implementation and data sources cross-matching in her presentation "What's in a number: its increasing relevance in the online environment." Lai-Ying Hsiung is Interim Head of Technical Services at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The final presentation will be Casey Bisson's "Metadata and faceted searching: an implementation report based on WPopac" in which he will discuss the lessons learned from working with metadata in WPopac, an open-source web OPAC for which he recently received the prestigious Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration. Read the complete announcement. Casey Bisson is System Developer and Information Technologist at Plymouth State University.
A question and answer session will follow the presentations.


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While traveling via a red cross transport ship, they are attacked by San Diablo�s air force. Dr. Blake transforms into Thor and handily defeats them. The Executioner executes his high commander that �failed� to sink the ship. After the boat docks the doctors are ambushed by his men. The Executioner does not want people to receive treatment otherwise they may have strength to revolt. Dr. Blake summons a storm and changes to Thor to battle them.
The terrorists capture Jane making Thor back off. He reverts to Dr. Blake in hiding and allows himself to be captured to reunite with Jane. The Executioner orders Blake�s death at firing squad and takes his cane from him. Knowing he must have the cane to become Thor, Blake goads him into battling him with bare hands but snatches the cane and transforms himself to Thor.
Thor makes quick work of the men and the Executioner decides to flee with all the money. His own men shoot him down. Jane asks Blake where he was during the panic. He said he was hiding behind the wall. Jane thinks to herself she wished he were braver like Thor. They treat the people and leave the country for home.Notes:The Kronans appear in flashback.
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Pwease, pretty pwease. ^_^ *beg*
I need (for a top secret Chaos mission that only the Great Erin knows about) examples of round college logos. If you know of some piccies hanging around the web of these, snatch them and post them here. If you have a shirt with one, scan it and post it here. Pleeeeeeezezezezeze. Urm. It would help a whole bunch ^.^ So do it cause you love the Chaos.
I'm just here for the bananas they feed me.


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Gubu World is an Irishmans view of global affairs. Gubu is an Irish political phrase that stands for grotesque, unbelievable, bizare and unprecendented. Gubu World is a polictical blog that debates international issues of contention. While keeping an eye on events in Ireland we regularly debate developments in Iraq, Iran, Israel and other troubled spots.
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Names are important. You have them from the moment you are born until the day you die. That is, unless you change it to "Cary Grant" or "World B. Free" along the way. Yes, names are important — especially in Japan.
Japanese fashion model Hikari Kamikawa recently gave birth to a happy and healthy baby boy. She named the child "Ace" — a fine name. But not a very Japanese name, and a name that has some in Japan already feeling bad for the kid.
Unlike in the West, Japanese people legally cannot have a middle name. People have a first name and a last name. You can call yourself whatever you like in Japan, but Japanese legal documents do not have a space for middle names or middle initials.
And until the 19th century, unless you were nobility, last names just didn't exist. As adults in the workplace, people only refer to each other by their surnames. That is, unless they develop a friendly — informal, even — relationship. Thus, the first name is extremely important.
When naming a child, parents pick names that represent their aspirations for that child — whether they want the kid to become beautiful or brave. The kanji characters parents select have meaning. Often, parents will even count the number of strokes in the kanji when deciding which to use.
Against this background, fashion model Hikari Kamikawa gave her son a very unusual name: "Ace".
"The origins of the name?" blogged Kamikawa. "That manga I love so." The name "Ace", of course, is from One Piece character Portgas D. Ace.
Some of Kamikawa's fans were excited about her choice, saying it was "wonderful" or "very cool". Others on her site and bulletin board 2ch were less than enthused, writing that the name was "problematic" or that it's actually going to make the boy's life hard. The name isn't easy to read, and "Ace" isn't a Japanese name. It sounds strange — like a company's name. Some even indicated that Kamikawa's choice seemed to lack class.
Kamikawa is a model for Koakuma Ageha, a popular fashion magazines for hostesses. Koakuma Ageha models regularly appear in Sega's Yakuza games. Many of them also work as, well, hostesses, Kamikawa included. The most recent place she worked at in Tokyo's Roppongi charged patrons between ¥8,400 to ¥12,600 for 60 minutes of chit-chat. That doesn't include the ¥3,000 to pick the girl you want to talk to! While often lumped in with the sex trade, hostessing isn't actually sex. It's flirting, talking, and drinking, but has been called psychological prostitution. Many of the Koakuma Ageha models and readers, for that matter, are working class. So naming your kid after a comic book character might be totally fine. Yet, that's exactly what her choice was — totally fine.
Japan does have a list of banned names, names that you legally cannot use. For example, it is illegal to name your child "Akuma" ("Devil") in Japan. Sorry Street Fighter fans!
Kamikawa's choice, as odd as it sounds to many Japanese, doesn't violate any of the governments rules regarding children's names. What's more, this style of naming — picking something simply because you like it — makes total sense to Westerners. So many Westerners are named after characters or famous people. Heck, Robin Williams named his daughter after "Zelda", and that didn't cause an uproar. Zelda is a nice name. Ace is too.
More and more, there are Japanese kids with names that only a few years ago would have been thought totally unusual, but today are increasingly becoming commonplace. More and more, people want to give their kids unique names. Last names are changing, too, with increasing numbers of Japanese married to foreigners now willing to legally change their married names to very foreign sounding ones like "Ashukurafuto". Japanese names are changing. Japan is changing.


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Study Shows Neuroblastoma Evolves Rapidly, Limiting Treatment Targets
A recent genomic study of neuroblastoma reinforces the challenges of treating the most aggressive forms of this disease. Contrary to expectations, the researchers found relatively few recurrent gene mutations — mutations that would suggest new targets for neuroblastoma treatment. Instead, the investigators have refocused on how neuroblastoma tumors evolve in response to medicine and other factors.
As part of the National Cancer Institute's TARGET (Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments) initiative, John M. Maris, MD, director of CHOP's Center for Childhood Cancer Research, led a multicenter research project on neuroblastoma. The largest genomic study of a childhood cancer to date, the TARGET project analyzed DNA from 240 children with high-risk neuroblastoma, with the goal of mapping out a limited number of treatment strategies.
Comprising only 7 percent of childhood cancers, neuroblastoma is nonetheless responsible for 10 to 15 percent of all childhood cancer-related deaths. Affecting the nerve tissue, neuroblastoma usually appears as a solid tumor in a child's chest or abdomen, and can spread to the lymph nodes, liver, and bones. The average age of neuroblastoma patients is approximately 18 months.
Though great strides have been made in the fight against neuroblastoma (many of them at Children's Hospital), children with high-risk forms of this disease can face a daunting course of therapy, including surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Neuroblastoma is also notoriously complex, with a broad number of gene changes that can give rise to the disease.
The TARGET study's approach would have represented a significant step forward in the personalization of neuroblastoma therapy. However, the researchers found that there were relatively few recurrent mutations in somatic (non-germline) cells. In the absence of frequently altered oncogenes that drive high-risk neuroblastomas, the investigators concluded that some cases may result from other changes, such as modifications during tumor evolution.
"This research underscores the fact that tumor cells often change rapidly over time, so more effective treatments for this aggressive cancer will need to account for the dynamic nature of neuroblastoma," said Dr. Maris.
Future treatment strategies could involve devising interventions to deal with dynamic tumor cells that evolve during nervous system development, Dr. Maris noted.
"Personalized medicine is more complex than we had hoped," said Dr. Maris, who added "this study implies that we must think very differently about how we'll use genomics to define treatment."
To read more about the TARGET study, see the full press release. To learn more about the work being done to treat neuroblastoma and other childhood cancers, visit the Center for Childhood Cancer Research website.


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The perfect answer to days when comfort is needed, this rich golden soup is uniquely Southern with the sweetness of the potato enhanced by the addition of the bourbon.
Of course, it can be completely smooth or partly chunky.
It may be made several days in advance and reheated, or frozen. This recipe can easily be halved. — Nathalie Dupree
Serves 6 -8
3 quarts canned sweet potatoes, or 4 peeled, sliced and sauteed sweet potatoes
6 cups chicken stock or broth, fresh or canned
1/4 to 1/3 cup bourbon
Freshly ground black pepper
1 cup fresh greens, such as turnips, kale, collards or sweet potato leaves (optional)
Puree potatoes to desired texture in a food processor or in a pan with an immersion blender, adding chicken stock as necessary to aid the pureeing. When pureed, whisk in as much of the remaining cup of chicken stock as is necessary for a medium-thick soup. Bring up to a boil and cook a few minutes. Taste. Add the bourbon and bring to a boil. Season with salt and pepper. Roll the greens into a cylinder shape and sliver. Stir into the soup.
Variation: Omit the greens and bourbon, add 1 tablespoon fresh chopped ginger or curry to the puree before returning to the soup.
Nathalie Dupree is the author of 14 cookbooks, including the James Beard award-winning "Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking." She lives in Charleston and may be reached through Nathaliedupree.com.


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Free WiFi brought to you by the CBD's CCTV system.
You can already get it on buses in Alice Springs, and now you can access free WiFi in the Todd Mall.
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Tourism NT says the free WiFi network will use the optic fibre already installed for the CCTV system.
NT Police only need two of the six cables installed to run CCTV, the WiFi network will take up two cables, leaving two vacant.
The $85,000 price tag includes two years worth of operational costs and will be taken from the existing Tourism NT budget.
Alice Springs Mayor Damien Ryan says the Council will chip in $15,000 dollars to help pay for half of those running costs.
"It will be great for our visitors, but it will also be great for our locals and I think on market days it will be a boom," he says.
The service is anchored in the Tourism NT's new headquarters and five access points will be placed on light poles up and down the mall.
Mary-Anne is visiting from Rockhampton and says free internet would be a plus for grey nomads passing through.
"(I would use it) for catching up with family at home and letting them see some of the great photos that we've taken in the spectacular part of Australia," she says.
How it works
- Uses two fibre cables installed for the NT Police CCTV system
- Five access points placed on light poles up and down the mall
- Anchored at the new Tourism NT Office, there will also be coverage in the Visitor Information Centre
- Capable of speeds up to 10MB a second
- In theory can be used up to 1km away from thee access point but needs line of sight work clearly so 500m is more likely
Access is limited to 3 hours and 200MB over a 24 hour period
Click on the audio to hear what Todd Mall patrons think of the free WiFi.


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Two men were killed in Baltimore on Monday, marking September as the second-deadliest month this year for homicides.
A man was stabbed multiple times at about 5:45 p.m. Monday in the 3600 block of Benson Avenue, in the Violetville neighborhood. He later died at a hospital. Police said a person of interest was taken into custody on the scene.
Another man was shot and killed in Northeast Baltimore on Monday evening, in the same neighborhood where another man was killed less than a week ago.
The man was shot in the 3000 block of Tivoly Avenue in the Coldstream Homestead Montebello neighborhood at around 6:30 p.m., police said. He was pronounced dead on the scene by medics.
Last Tuesday, Kevin David Everette, 27, was fatally shot just blocks away from the scene of Monday's gunfire. More information on the killings was not available.
In September, Baltimore police classified 24 deaths as homicides, though a small number of those were old cases in which the victim later died in September or police determined the case was a homicide in that month. Only in June did police have more homicides, investigating 27 of them.
As of Sept. 30, 177 people had been murdered in Baltimore in 2013, according to police.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 410-396-2100.


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I want to see the film *much* more than I want to do the race
Stephen Auerbach's documentary follows participants in the 2005 Race Across America (RAAM), and although the race is also open to 2, 4 and 8-Person teams, he concentrates on the efforts of a handful of cyclists from the solo field whose efforts are on such an epic scale that they make our sportive heroics look like a pootle to the shops.
The race runs from San Diego on the Pacific coast to Atlantic City on the continent's eastern seaboard and has been called the world's toughest sporting event, the boggling statistics that appear along the bottom of the screen at the start of the film certainly seem to support that; the worlds longest human-powered race, 3051.7 miles, 110,000 ft of elevation (that's about 4 Mount Everests), the winner riding an average of 375 miles a day, typically finishing in 8 or 9 days with sleep an unnecessary luxury. As of 2005, 288 cyclists had attempted the solo RAAM, tellingly almost half of those failed. This film adds the human meat to those figurative bones.
Commentary is not from an overall narrator but via snippets of pre-race musings with a selection of competitors (a broad range of riders and experience from rookies through multi-RAAM finishers to previous winners), organisers, coaches and journalists and as the film progresses from on-road footage of riders and their support-crew. The various insights into the endurance, pain, effort and psychology needed to compete in the event, and the inspirations, desires and dreams voiced by the competitors manage not to come across as cheesy, or of the "motivational poster" kind, but instead offers a brief but real understanding as to why these riders want to push and punish themselves across the country.
Initially the task to face the enormity of the land as the whole continent stretches out in front of the racers, and the film responds with artistic shots of cyclists looking very small in the landscape on a very very long straight road, or grinding up an unending hill. As the riders forge across the country the miles ridden in relation to the lack of sleep are truly staggering and highlights the difference between the front-runners and the rest, the first rider to quit does so after only 40 hours when the 107 degree heat of the desert exhausts him, a time where the leaders haven't even stopped for their first sleep. Frightening.
About halfway through the film the landscape becomes less of a backdrop as the focus shifts towards the personal. This is prompted by an event, and I don't want to give the story away here, that happens on Day 5 which completely changes the aspect of the race. The film flips to record the introspective as riders have to come to terms with the incident and its soul-searching aftermath on top of having to deal with the fatigue and stress of sleep-deprevation and being on the bike solidly for days on end.
At this point the skills of the support crews come to the fore as riders stretch their physical and psychological limits and they become increasingly dependant on their helpers in the following van. An essential part of surviving RAAM the support-crew has to know when to shout at their rider to keep pedalling, playing inspirational music through the loudspeakers strapped to the roof (east-european folk music anyone?), or when to use gentle coercion to get them to the various time-stations on time to avoid disqualification, having the foresight to make them rest, or simply dragging them off the bike for their own safety. Exercising diplomacy to deal with their tiredness and hissy-fits, bringing riders back from their hallucinations to reality, adapting bikes and equipment to make life more comfortable, such as gaffer-taping a neck-pillow to a rider to hold their head up, and in some cases making sure they stay alive by seeking much needed professional medical attention.
This is a truly gripping film, with more drama in 8 days than an entire Tour De France. Simply letting the participants and the pictures tell the story puts the viewer right there by the side of the road, sometimes in the gutter, riding the rollercoaster of emotional and physical ups and downs with the riders. I'm not normally a fan of cycling films, my attention tends to waver part way through as I'd rather be riding than watching, but Bicycle Dreams is riveting, possibly because it's less about bikes and more about people. It's a dramatic human drama with bikes simply and literally being the vehicles for hope, pain, disillusionment, despair, happiness, effort, and as the title suggests, dreams. It's an impressive, inspirational, and yet also deeply sad film, and I'd happily sit a non-cyclist in front of this, although it might enforce the impression that we're all completely mad.
Running time: 107 mins
Price: $19.99 + $8.99 p&p (price shown at top of review appx at current exchange rate)
Exhausting and rewarding to watch, although not as exhausting or rewarding as riding across America
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Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
"They are seekers, madmen and angels hell bent on riding across America on a bicycle in less than ten days"
Hmmmm, that's not how I'd put it, a bit too much rhetoric for such a film.
I didn't get bored at any point, in fact I watched it three times.
Uncomfortable viewing at times.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Had us glued to the screen.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
The sense of being right there in the midst of it all, the human emotion, the nice views.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes, although 'enjoy' may not be the right word.
Would you consider buying the product? Yes
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes
About the tester
Age: 42 Height: 180cm Weight: 74Kg
I usually ride: a variety My best bike is: My best bike is: Enigma steel road bike
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: As much as I can I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: road, cyclo-cross and mountainbike just riding around, sometimes fast, sometimes with lots of stops for cake. Mountainbike and cyclo-cross racing, the odd evening road crit. Far too much singlespeed for my own good


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Public-private information exchange
To put in place systems for appropriate interaction between national governments, multilateral agencies, and manufacturers at national, regional and international levels.
Vaccine safety issues are the responsibility of those who provide the vaccines as well as those who develop or manufacture the products.
The importance of close collaboration between regulators and industry is well recognized in vaccine pharmacovigilance activities but may not occur in all situations. Manufacturers need information about adverse events from the national authorities, and national regulators need up-to-date safety information from manufacturers too.
The Global Vaccine Safety Initiative (GVSI) aims to promote a more efficient and rapid collection and exchange of information about vaccine safety issues between national regulatory authorities, vaccine manufacturers and multilateral agencies. The GVSI is developing a forum for information exchange between industry and other stakeholders, as well as a "think-tank" that will develop and propose new approaches in the field.
A globally harmonized mechanism for the collection and exchange of information on AEFI
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(Portland, OR) May 1, 2012 -- More than half of Oregon's charities and nonprofit organizations saw an increase in donations and support last year in spite of the state's continued sluggish economy, according to a new report released Tuesday by Portland State University and the Nonprofit Association of Oregon.
In the first report on Oregon's 10,429 nonprofits, researchers found that 54 percent of nonprofits reported revenue increases in 2011 over the previous year, compared to 20 percent reporting reduced revenue with the rest reporting no change. At the same time, two-thirds of the state's nonprofits experienced increased demands for services as a result of the struggling economy and other factors.
"The report reveals the sobering reality our nonprofit organizations face every day while they work to build strong communities and contribute to the state's economy vitality with shrinking resources and internal capacity," said Carrie Hoops, executive director of the Nonprofit Association of Oregon.
Michael Kaplan, executive director of Cascade AIDS Project, confirmed that nonprofits like his took significant hits in donations from both individuals and foundations during the depth of the recession. Since then, organizations have had to operate leaner with less administration and more emphasis on services.
"The good news is that it's all starting to come back," he said.
Other findings:
- Nonprofits, from hospitals to small neighborhood organizations, provide 166,130 jobs that represent 13 percent of the state's private sector employment, or more than double the jobs in the construction industry.
- 57 percent of nonprofits do not have enough operating reserves to cover three months of operating expenses, and nearly one in four nonprofits operate with less than one month of revenue reserves.
- Women and minorities are heavily represented as employees. Women make up 76 percent of nonprofit staffs, and people of color make up 28 percent.
The data was analyzed by researchers for PSU's Institute for Nonprofit Management, which was created in the College of Urban and Public Affairs to help policy makers and the public understand the nonprofit sector. The report was funded by the Oregon Community Foundation, the Collins Foundation and the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. The complete study can be found on www.nonprofitoregon.org.
About Portland State University (PSU)
Located in Portland, Oregon, PSU has about 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students. PSU's motto is "Let Knowledge Serve the City," and we provide every student with opportunities to work with businesses, schools and organizations on real-world projects. Our downtown campus exhibits PSU's commitment to sustainability, and sustainability is incorporated into much of the curriculum.


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Human Rights Watch says excessive force has been used to disperse demonstrations
Kuwaiti security forces appear to have used excessive force to disperse several largely peaceful street protests since October, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said, citing activists, protesters and witnesses.
Tens of thousands of Kuwaitis have taken to the streets over the past two months to protest changes to voting rules used in a parliamentary election on December 1 that they said would skew the outcome in favour of pro-government candidates.
The Interior Ministry justified the use of force on the grounds that protesters had blocked traffic, thrown stones at the police, and attacked them, HRW said. But participants said the demonstrations were largely peaceful.
"They said that masked riot police used tear gas and sound bombs without warning to disperse demonstrations and beat protesters while arresting them for participating in 'unauthorised protests,'" the New York-based rights group said.
Kuwait's Information Ministry, in reaction to the HRW statement, said authorities were required to maintain law and order when illegal marches and demonstrations took place.
"Kuwait has witnessed several protests in 2012 where streets were blocked and riots took place at residential areas which endangered civilians and public properties," the ministry said.
"The right to protest is enshrined in our constitution. However, protesters should be aware of both their rights and responsibilities under the law."
Although Kuwait, an OPEC member state and ally of the United States, tolerates more dissent than other Gulf Arab countries, it has been enforcing a ban on public gatherings of more than 20 people without a permit.
"Kuwait's rulers need to fully respect the right to assemble peacefully," Eric Goldstein, deputy Middle East director at HRW said in the statement issued from Beirut. "Declaring a gathering 'unauthorized' does not give police license to beat protesters."
Kuwaiti protesters have been less radical in their demands than demonstrators in other Arab countries, calling for the reinstatement of the old voting system, action against corruption and for an elected government rather than one appointed by the prime minister, who is chosen by the emir.
"The authorities should show they will not tolerate abuses by investigating all allegations of abuse by security forces and punishing those responsible for violating rights," Goldstein said. HRW also said Kuwait should increase the accountability of police by ending the use of masked anti-riot officers.
"While police agents may have legitimate reasons to mask their identities in limited circumstances, such as when conducting surveillance, policing demonstrations is not one of them."
Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, who used emergency powers to change the voting system, said on December 16 he supported freedom of expression and constructive criticism, but recent events had shown "aspects of chaos, breaching of the law and unguided political discourse".
The momentum of the protests has slowed since the election, with the last rally on December 15 drawing several hundreds of people.


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Hi again,
Just got back from Waterville, Co. Kerry and here are the results of the recent animation workshops, which were held as part of the Inaugural Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival. We screened the completed films on Sunday at 1100 in an Tech Amergin in Waterville, to an audience packed with young animators and proud parents.
We had 22 students in the stop motion workshops, as well as an additional 32 students in the thaumatrope and flipbook workshops, over the course of the festival, with ages ranging from 5-13 years old.
Made with the assistance of:
Carol Freeman (ragamuffinesque.blogspot.com/ & http://hartstownanimation.blogspot.com)
Christopher McLoughlin (made-of-sticks.blogspot.com/)
Lisa Powell (sparrowfartlisa.blogspot.com/)
Nationwide had a segment on our stop-motion workshop on their show tonight. Here is a link to the full episode on RTEplayer, the animated bits start at 4:04. Enjoy!


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UsedCardboardBoxes necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 6 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
UsedCardboardBoxes.com (UCB) is looking for a graphic designer (preferably local to LA) to help us upgrade some of the images used on our website and in our literature. We are NOT looking for a new logo or a new "corporate identity." However, we are looking for someone to help us create a new way to portray the used cardboard boxes we sell via our website (see: http://www.UsedCardboardBoxes.com). To learn more about what UCB does and the "look/feel/vibe" of our company, watch this 60-sec video: http://www.usedcardboardboxes.com/s….php?id=75.
We sell to all types of people that are moving, all across North America. We deliver to any residential address in the US, in 1-2 business days. A majority of our customers are women (mothers, actually). We sell to college students on a budget, to eco-friendly families with homes in Beverly Hills. We need to portray our boxes a quality, clean boxes that people can depend on.
A few points to help candidates understand what we need:
1) Since we sell USED boxes, we cannot use photos on our site. We need "lifelike" illustrations.
2) We use three different sized boxes to make up all the our moving kits and stacks on our site. Those sizes are Medium, Large and X-Large.
3) We sell 11 different moving kits on our site, ranging from a "Dorm Room" to a "10 Bedroom/Office". Each of those 11 kits comes in two versions: "Average Joe" or "Pack Rat". Therefore, we really sell 22 different kits. It's important to know that all of our kits consist of a certain amount of only those THREE BOX SIZES (Medium, Large, X-Large) as well as various amounts of FIVE PACKING SUPPLIES (tape, paper, marker, box cutter, tape dispenser).
4) As you can see from our website, we are currently using only ONE image to represent all of our kits (no variation in sizes). This project is to create a "better" way to represent our kits .
5) Although we THINK we want to see illustrations of the moving kits themselves (i.e. illustrations of boxes), we have also considered illustrations of the number of rooms, the size of the house, the number of people moving, etc. Another way to do it is to create some type of grid that shows the supplies you get and the number of each.
Contact me for samples of what we have done already, so you can see what works and what doesn't.


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KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — They can ski a little in Austria, too, right?
For the past three days, the Austrian ski team heard everybody anoint the USA's Bode Miller as the overwhelming favorite in the men's downhill — one of the marquee events of the Winter Olympics.
JULIA MANCUSO: Time for a big-event moment
FTW: Bode Miller down but far from out
Miller, the five-time Olympic medalist and longtime World Cup superstar, had wowed the ski world with near-perfect runs in winning two of the three training sessions.
And who won the other one? Matthias Mayer of Austria.
Then, Mayer went out Sunday, under cloudy skies after three days of sunny training days, and outskied Miller, who finished a surprising eighth, and everybody else in winning the gold medal with a time of 2 minutes, 6.23 seconds.
UP CLOSE: Take a trip on downhill slope
SATURDAY RECAP: Five events in the books
It was a welcome triumph — and relief — in Austria, the ski-crazy country whose men's Olympic team was shockingly shut out — no medals at all — at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.
Mayer, 23, has never won a World Cup race and his career best in a World Cup downhill is fifth. Even though he is considered a rising star, he continued a tradition of long-shot winners in the Olympic men's downhill, among them the USA's Tommy Moe (1992) and Frenchmen Jean-Luc Cretier (1998) and Antoine Deneriaz (2006).
"This is unbelievable," Mayer said. "I thought maybe in a few years I could dream of this sort of achievement. It was really cool and my family will be excited.
"I woke up this morning and I knew that I could win this race. I was smiling the whole day, all throughout inspection. It was my day today."
Mayer said he ran into Miller before the race.
"Bode told me that he was really nervous," he said, "but I was looking forward to the race, and I think that was an advantage."
Christof Innerhofer of Italy took the silver medal, just 0.06 seconds behind Mayer. Norway's Kjetil Jansrud, who had called Miller's final training run Saturday "epic," won the bronze.
Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal, the other favorite going into the race, finished fourth, and the USA's Travis Ganong, 25, of Squaw Valley, Calif., was fifth.
Ganong, who actually had the fastest times of anyone on the last two (of five) intervals, said he felt extra fresh after having a shortened training run Saturday, when he lost a ski at the top of the hill.
"I had a lot of energy today and I left it all out on the mountain, and it was awesome," Ganong said. "I'm pretty fired up for my first Olympic run."
As for Miller, he was expected to make a historic run Sunday but instead ran into trouble and became an also-ran on the fast, difficult course at the Rosa Khutor alpine center.
Miller, starting 15th, four spots after Mayer, was ahead of Mayer's intermediate times on the top of the course, skiing the second-fastest times of anyone on the top two intervals. But he slowed in the middle — he ranked seventh in the third interval and 23rd in the fourth.
He finished with a time of 2 minutes, 6.75 seconds, 0.52 seconds behind Mayer.
So Miller, 36, who was trying to become the oldest skier to win an Olympic alpine race, will have to wait and give it another try in the next race — the super-combined Friday.
"It's one of those days where it's hard to say where the time went," Miller said. "I skied pretty well. I was really aggressive and took a lot of risks. I made a couple of small mistakes but not really mistakes that cost you a lot of time. It's tough to be just missing it."
Miller said the difference between his run Sunday and his winning training runs was mostly about course conditions. Sunday's race was held under a cloudy sky, with warmer temperatures that softened the surface that had been turned into ice panels in previous days by course officials' decision before the training runs to inject the middle section with water. Also, the cloud layer made for a flat light condition that makes it harder for skiers to see the terrain.
"Training runs were bluebird — perfect visibility and hard snow," Miller said. "That's the perfect conditions to see who the best racer is, unfortunately. Today the visibility went away, the temperatures are warmer. The course breaks down a little bit.
"Not to make excuses, but when the visibility goes bad it affects me quite a bit. Guys who have a little bit different balance and initiation process in their turns, it just doesn't seem to faze them. Matthias is great that way. He doesn't really change if the visibility goes bad. That's a huge advantage today because I had to change a lot from the training runs to today just not being able to see the snow . . . I ski a bit more on the edge than most guys. I don't have as much tolerance for not being able to see the snow. I need to know where the snow is at the beginning of the turn, middle of the turn. I need to know where the little bumps are because I'm right on the edge.
"I'm disappointed I didn't get a medal, but I brought huge intensity and skied aggressive and I was pushing the lines. The conditions didn't favor me today, but that's the case a lot of the time in World Cup skiing and you just have to deal with it.
"It's tough when you have to judge yourself because the clock doesn't really seem to judge you fairly."
Ganong, who started seventh and watched Miller's run from the base of the hill, said he thought Miller lost critical time on a mistake on a turn just before the Bear's Brow jump — about two-thirds of the way down — that caused him to run into a gate panel.
"He had one mistake — a pretty critical turn that goes into a flat section," Ganong said. "If you lose your speed there, it's a losing battle . . . He kind of pinched the turn —turned a little too early — and stuck his head through the panel. I think that's where he lost his speed."
Svindal, asked about the role weather conditions played in the race, said, "I don't know if it changed anything during the race. This is an outside sport, so we are used to this."
U.S. men's head coach Sasha Rearick said he expects Miller to charge back in the next two men's events, the super-combined Friday and the super-G on Sunday. In Vancouver four years ago, Miller won a gold medal in the super-combined and a silver in the super-G, and also a bronze in the downhill.
"He got the nerves out of the way," Rearick said. "He's going to take his aggression to the next courses. That I'm confident of, very confident of."


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It was August 1981 when IBM released the Personal Computer Model 5150. Costing $1,265, it didn't have a monitor, parallel ports or even a hard disk. To the casual observer, it was more of a box than a computer.
But it sold like crazy, even after the wild success of other revolutionary computers, like the Apple II in 1977 and the Atari 800 in 1979.
The 5150's open architecture and use of third-party hardware and software certainly had something to do with its success, but we can't help but feel like the over-the-top marketing campaign with a Charlie Chaplin lookalike played a role as well.
(See one of the original commercials at the bottom of this post.)
This computer was the first one to be a truly open system -- it was customizable, users could install whatever they wanted and easily write their own software. Internally, the machine boasted a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor and a 256K RAM.
Of course these specs sound like a joke compared to modern hardware, but they were groundbreaking for their time. Impressive work, considering it was designed by a team of just 12 people working out of Florida.
The 5150 was so important that it inspired a lot of reverse engineering, yielding an entire market of PC-compatible systems. Newer PCs quickly put IBM in the shadow of other computer companies. IBM eventually sold its PC division to Lenovo in 2005.
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I Review the Jetlev R200 Jetpack
IN THE WEEK or so since I flew the Jetlev R200 hydraulically powered jetpack, people have asked me, "Is it fun?" And I say, Why, yes, it is a jetpack.
This mind-bending piece of equipment, amphibious and aerobatic, slightly ludicrous and respectably hazardous, is a startling encounter with wetter-than-air flight that can be yours for a mere 100 grand (including the lessons that you'll sorely need). Or you can wait for a chance encounter with a Jetlev rental operation, on the beach in Barbados, say.
My advice: Don't drink and Jetlev.
Here's how it works: Aboard what is essentially a Jet-Ski hull, a three-cylinder, 200-horsepower Rotax engine runs a pump that shoots pressurized water (up to 60 pounds per square inch, or 420 pounds of thrust) up a 4-inch-wide, 33-foot length of high-tech fire hose. Here it meets the jetpack's aluminum Y connection, routing hydraulic pressure to two laterally mounted thrusters that can be operated separately—forward and back—with lever arms extending over the operator's shoulders.
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In accordance with applicable regulations (art. 135‐undecies, Consolidated Law on Finance), Intesa Sanpaolo has assigned Computershare S.p.A. as its "Appointed Representative", to whom shareholders can submit proxies at no cost by the end of the second open‐market day preceding the date scheduled for the Meeting (and therefore by close of business on 29 November 2017). The proxy is valid only for proposals on which instructions to vote have been conferred.
The proxy and voting instructions may be withdrawn by 29 November 2017.
Proxies issued to the Appointed Representative must be made by filling and signing the appropriate form: form for issuing the proxy to the Appointed Representative.
If, for technical reasons, the form cannot be made available in electronic format, it will be sent in hard copy upon request to Computershare S.p.A., tel. +39 011 0923200 or to the Shareholders' Office (email@example.com, tel. +39 011 555 6227, fax +39 011 093 2650).
The proxy must be received by the Appointed Representative by the deadline indicated above, 29 November, through one of the following methods:
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Wonderful ceramic miniatures.
The Little Red Door photostream.
The Etsy Shop.
Friday, September 24, 2010
The Little Red Door
Wonderful ceramic miniatures.
Posted by Rot at 7:36 AM
Labels: Ceramics, etsy, etsy.com, gnomes, miniatures, the little red door
2 comments:
- crudedoodle.com said...
crap. these are some of my new favorite things!
- September 24, 2010 at 8:32 AM
- Mr Black said...
Steam Punk-ins? Or is it the Halloween machine? Very cool store. I wish we had something like that in Nashville.
- September 24, 2010 at 1:52 PM
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Five members of the Minot State Univeristy football team—a D-II team—have been suspended following arrests on drug charges Friday night. One of the players faces charges of attempted murder after allegedly knocking one police officer unconscious.
Jesse Ili is being charged with attempted murder, among other charges, because he fled the scene of an arrest after officers responded to a report of suspected drug activity. Ili fled on foot and allegedly assaulted two pursuing officers in an altercation so severe, he knocked one officer unconscious. Police are also looking for a sixth, unnamed suspect in connection with the incident.
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"As the New Year approaches, we are told that the President is
considering the deployment of tens of thousands of additional
troops to Iraq in the desperate hope of subduing the burgeoning
civil war there.
This is a chilling prospect that threatens to compound the
tragic mistakes he has already made over the last four years.
In 2002, I strongly opposed the invasion of Iraq because I felt
it was an ill-conceived venture which I warned would "require a
U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undermined cost, with
undetermined consequences." I said then that an invasion without
strong international support could drain our military, distract
us from the war with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and further
destabilize the Middle East.
Sadly, all of those concerns have been borne out.
Today, nearly three thousand brave young Americans are dead, and
tens of thousands more have been wounded. Rather than welcomed
"liberators," our troops have become targets of the exploding
sectarian violence in Iraq. Our military has been strained to
the limits. The cost to American taxpayers is approaching $400
Now we are faced with a quagmire to which there are no good
answers. But the one that makes very little sense is to put tens
of thousands more young Americans in harm's way without changing
a strategy that has failed by almost every imaginable account.
In escalating this war with a so-called "surge" of troops, the
President would be overriding the expressed concerns of Generals
on the ground, Secretary Powell, the bipartisan Iraq Study Group
and the American people. Colin Powell has said that placing more
troops in the crossfire of a civil war simply will not work.
General John Abizaid, our top commander in the Middle East, said
just last month that, "I believe that more American forces
prevent the Iraqis from doing more, from taking more
responsibility for their own future." Even the Joint Chiefs of
Staff have expressed concern, saying that a surge in troop
levels "could lead to more attacks by al-Qaeda" and "provide
more targets for Sunni insurgents." Once again, the President is
defying good counsel and common sense.
As I said more than a month ago, while some have proposed
escalating this war by adding thousands of more troops, there is
little reason to believe that this will achieve these results
either. It's not clear that these troop levels are sustainable
for a significant period of time, and according to our
commanders on the ground, adding American forces will only
relieve the Iraqis from doing more on their own. Moreover,
without a coherent strategy or better cooperation from the
Iraqis, we would only be putting more of our soldiers in the
crossfire of a civil war.
There is no military solution to this war. Our troops can help
suppress the violence, but they cannot solve its root causes.
And all the troops in the world won't be able to force Shia,
Sunni, and Kurd to sit down at a table, resolve their
differences, and forge a lasting peace. In fact, adding more
troops will only push this political settlement further and
further into the future, as it tells the Iraqis that no matter
how much of a mess they make, the American military will always
be there to clean it up.
That is why I believe we must begin a phased redeployment of
American troops to signal to the government and people of Iraq,
and others who have a stake in stabilizing the country - that
ours is not an open-ended commitment. They must step up. The
status quo cannot hold.
In November, the American people sent a resounding message of
change to the President. But apparently that message wasn't
clear enough.
I urge all Americans who share my grave concerns over this
looming decision to call, write or email the President, and make
your voices heard. I urge you to tell them that our soldiers are
not numbers to add just because someone couldn't think of a
better idea, they are our sons and daughters, our brothers and
sisters, our neighbors and friends who are willing to wave
goodbye to everything they've ever known just for the chance to
serve their country. Our men and women in uniform are doing a
terrific job under extremely difficult conditions. But our
government has failed them so many times over the last few
years, and we simply cannot afford to do it again. We must not
multiply the mistakes of yesterday, we must end them today.
May this New Year bring a turn in our policy away from the
stubborn repetition of our mistakes, so we can begin to chart a
conclusion to this painful chapter in our history and bring our
troops home.
U.S. Senator Barack Obama"


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ARMCHAIR GOLF caught up with the Titleist Pro V1 during a break at a recent photo shoot. Here's what the No. 1 ball in golf said about itself, the players and more.
Q: Can you tell a little bit about yourself?
TITLEIST PRO V1: Love to. I'm a Urethane Elastomer™ covered 3-piece multi-component golf ball featuring enhanced aerodynamics with slightly higher flight for longer distance, soft feel and Drop-and-Stop™ control.
Q: Is that it?
TITLEIST PRO V1: I'm designed for serious golfers of all levels that demand Tour-validated technology and performance. I provide long and consistent distance with the driver and long irons, while maintaining a soft feel and high performance into and around the green.
Q: OK, thanks. Nice job. So, do you ever get tired of all the promotional work, photo shoots, tournaments and other events?
TITLEIST PRO V1: It goes with the territory. When you're No. 1, expectations are extremely high. I always have to be on my game and perform at the highest level. I'm up to it, friend. I'm the Titleist Pro V1, the No. 1 ball in golf. Everyone plays me.
Q: Well, not everyone. Tiger doesn't.
TITLEIST PRO V1: Next question.
Q: Do you ever think you go too far?
TITLEIST PRO V1: Excuse me?
Q: Distance.
TITLEIST PRO V1: Oh, the distance question. No, man. The powers that be decide that stuff. And the players. They hit the living crap out of me. There's nothing like leaving the tee at 180 m.p.h. and flying 340 yards. What a ride! It makes my Urethane Elastomer™ cover tingle just thinking about it.
Q: If you were a player, how would you mark you?
TITLEIST PRO V1: Huh?
Q: If you were a player, how would you mark your Titleist?
TITLEIST PRO V1: Got it. Don't you love that commercial? All the players talking about me and how they mark me. It's so cool! I have to go with David Toms, though. I like his answer best. A "T" above the "T."
Q: Who are your favorite players?
TITLEIST PRO V1: All the guys that play me.
Q: Do you have to say that?
TITLEIST PRO V1: Yeah, it's in my contract.
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Great post...I like the way you think.
- Greenskeeper said...
TITLEIST PRO V1: Love to. I'm a Urethane Elastomer™ covered 3-piece multi-component golf ball...
But his great grandfather Balata Titleist was wound really tight.
- Chris said...
You really went the distance with this one. I like your spin on the subject, and I think you got to the core of the matter. LOL
- chander said...
what is the compression 80 or 90 for pro V.
please reply.
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By banning the sales of pesticides and herbicides Bhutan has outlined a clear path for the future of its agriculture: it will become the first wholly organic country in the world. Bhutan was already largely organic, but the recent decision announced at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2013 aims to make it possible for the tiny Himalayan country to cut the last bond with dangerous agricultural chemicals.The goal is not only to go organic, but to grow more food as well. Bhutan aims to achieve this with a region-by-region and crop-by-crop approach. At the same time it will study and introduce new methods of growing traditional crops in order to increase yields.
This will set an example to show how ecological farming, which organic farming falls under, is a valid alternative to industrial agriculture when it comes to increasing food production. The only hurdle is in the consistency of investment, which ecological farming lacks when compared with the financial resources industrial farming attracts.But apart from the higher yields, an added benefit is the boost to Bhutan's export potential as the country tries to increase organic foods exports to neighboring China and India, where the demand for organic produce is on the rise. It makes business sense!Bhutan already has an important record to be proud of: it is a carbon neutral country and food secure while also being able to guarantee water and electricity supplies to more than 95% of its population. It is now making the next step to become 100% organic, not only for practical reasons to grow more food, but also from philosophical point of view to protect the environment."Hopefully we can provide solutions. What is at stake is the future. We need governments who can make bold decisions now rather than later," Agriculture Minister Pema Gyamtsho said in an interview. The small country in the eastern end of the Himalayas is not new to taking a lead role on issues around the environment and sustainability.In 1971 Bhutan set a new concept for measuring progress. Rather than using the amount of goods and services produced by the country (known as Gross Domestic Product or GDP) it implemented a new measure and criteria known as Gross National Happiness or GNH. This measures the spiritual, physical, social and environmental wellbeing of its inhabitants and territory. This type of development model has been discussed at the UN and has been publicly backed by leaders from Britain and France.The latest move by Bhutan to ban the sales of pesticides and herbicides is testament to the country's leading environmental stance: these chemicals are petrol based and their residues end up in the food we eat and damage the soil and the water quality.So what are we waiting for? While Bhutan is small and its agriculture scale rather limited, from a global perspective we can still learn from its approach. The move to turn 100% organic is prompted by farmers becoming convinced that they need to work in harmony with nature. This idea that we need to work with nature is a central aspect of farming that we seem to forget and which should be put at the core of agriculture.Let the world learn from Bhutan … once again!
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Think it would be time to send Rainbow Warrior to Bhutan...
Smile, this was a joke...!
Sun Wu, godfather of Rainbow Warrior ...
Think it would be time to send Rainbow Warrior to Bhutan...
Smile, this was a joke...!
Sun Wu, godfather of Rainbow Warrior III
PS: hope noone feels neglected...I am busy having some fun at Japan Daily...Paul Watson is there aswell :)
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Well this certainly seems like related news:
"Sumant Kumar was overjoyed when he harvested his rice last year. There had been good r...
Well this certainly seems like related news:
"Sumant Kumar was overjoyed when he harvested his rice last year. There had been good rains in his village of Darveshpura in north-east India and he knew he could improve on the four or five tonnes per hectare that he usually managed. But every stalk he cut on his paddy field near the bank of the Sakri river seemed to weigh heavier than usual, every grain of rice was bigger and when his crop was weighed on the old village scales, even Kumar was shocked.
This was not six or even 10 or 20 tonnes. Kumar, a shy young farmer in Nalanda district of India's poorest state Bihar, had – using only farmyard manure and without any herbicides – grown an astonishing 22.4 tonnes of rice on one hectare of land. This was a world record and with rice the staple food of more than half the world's population of seven billion, big news."
"While the "green revolution" that averted Indian famine in the 1970s relied on improved crop varieties, expensive pesticides and chemical fertilisers, SRI appears to offer a long-term, sustainable future for no extra cost. With more than one in seven of the global population going hungry and demand for rice expected to outstrip supply within 20 years, it appears to offer real hope. Even a 30% increase in the yields of the world's small farmers would go a long way to alleviating poverty.
"Farmers use less seeds, less water and less chemicals but they get more without having to invest more.
"It is a set of ideas, the absolute opposite to the first green revolution [of the 60s] which said that you had to change the genes and the soil nutrients to improve yields. That came at a tremendous ecological cost,"
19 February, 2013 at 11:16
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The Natural Environment is the greatest asset the earth has. What has taken place for centuries to pollute the earth has become a huge distortion for...
The Natural Environment is the greatest asset the earth has. What has taken place for centuries to pollute the earth has become a huge distortion for everyone. When each person wakes up and takes a hold of their own life, they will Become MoreAware and See what has to be done. It will take courage to step back from all the harmful Marketing Ploy, but it can be done. Good for you Bhutan... Have Fun!
Duane, the Founder of The NUPresentation Foundation, ALLHumanitarian Developers and Educators, Huntington Beach, California, USA. www.TheNUPresentation.Info
19 February, 2013 at 21:24
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Me parece una pagina entretenida con noticias actuales y relaes
20 February, 2013 at 17:59
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I thought you and your members would be interested in this new book, "The Poison Planters", which exposes the dangers and corruption of GMO/...
I thought you and your members would be interested in this new book, "The Poison Planters", which exposes the dangers and corruption of GMO/rBGH industry in the form of a novel in order to inform a larger audience. It is on amazon.com, or www.thepoisonplanters.com.
Thanks for your support, and for your efforts.
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Organic farming is one of the many steps that one can take towards the need of more environmental friendly and also, aids the people from intoxicating...
Organic farming is one of the many steps that one can take towards the need of more environmental friendly and also, aids the people from intoxicating them self with more chemically altered food product. More supports should be given to those who follow such trends..
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Recent Developments In Data Processing
BY PAUL W. PINKERTON Partner, New York Office
Presented before the Delaware Accountants Association, Wilmington—April 1958
WHENEVER I do that, or see it done, I think of the two good
friends who had been engaged in good natured kidding about each other's religion for many years. Finally they agreed that as intelligent men they should at least attend service at each other's church. On the next Sunday they attended Mass together at the Catholic's church. They sat in the back, and all during the service the Catholic explained in whispers the significance of the various parts of the ceremony. The Sunday after that, they attended the Baptist church, where the Protestant worshipped. Again they sat in the back and the Protestant explained in whispers the significance of the different parts of the service. When the lights in the sanctuary were turned off, the minister stepped up to the pulpit and took off his watch, just as I did, and placed it before him on the rostrum. The Protestant said nothing so the Catholic leaned over and whispered, "What does that mean?" The Protestant whispered back, "That doesn't mean a damn thing."
In the last few years we have witnessed a tremendous increase in mechanization of the office. Many factors have contributed to this increase. We have all seen or heard the figures representing the growth in the number of clerical employees, both in absolute terms and relative to the number of factory workers. It is popular to blame government for part of this increase and to attribute the rest to management's need for a paper substitute for direct observation and to the lag in improvements in office machinery. It is easy to overlook the startling growth in service industries, such as insurance and banking, the advances in management techniques that require clerical activity in the interest of additional profits, and the need for accounting
for the sharply expanded volume of credit, both personal and commercial.
The increase in clerical costs has occurred over many years. What was the spark that ignited the sudden interest in mechanization ? Perhaps it was the application of electronics to the processing of data that has focused attention on the problem which has been growing


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Cheat Sheet
iPad mini For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Your iPad mini has a multitouch screen that you can flick and tap to go from one app to the next. Or tell Siri, who understands dictation, what information to find, music to play, or app to open. From many of your iPad mini apps, including e-mail and iMessage, you can share photos. If there's a hang-up along the way, know how to troubleshoot your tablet.
Using the iPad mini Multitouch Screen
Getting used to the iPad mini multitouch screen and virtual keyboard can take time; swiping, tapping, flicking, and pinching help you handle tasks like deleting apps and making pictures larger. Using your iPad mini's touchscreen icons, buttons, and connections works like this:
Flick a finger to scroll through music, pictures, e-mails, contacts, and more.
Tap against the screen to open applications, play songs, choose photos, and so on.
Pinch and spread (unpinch) to enlarge web pages and pictures, or make them smaller. The actions involve placing your thumb and index finger against the screen. Then, keeping the thumb in place, drag your index finger to pinch or spread accordingly.
Swipe from bottom to top on the screen to use Control Center to turn on and off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and more.
Swipe from top to bottom on the screen to open the Notification Center; swipe from bottom to top to close it.
Trust the virtual keyboard. The touchscreen provides visual suggestions and corrects mistakes on the fly.
Hold your finger against the screen to correct errors. A magnifying glass lets you position the pointer in the precise spot you want to edit.
How to Troubleshoot Your iPad mini
Troubleshooting your iPad mini might be necessary at some point. If your iPad mini locks up, or just isn't working quite right, try these steps. Start with the first tip and then try the other troubleshooting ideas.
Restart your iPad mini
Press and hold the sleep/wake button
Slide the red slider to turn it off.
Wait a few seconds, and then press the sleep/wake button to turn the iPad mini back on.
Reset and restart your iPad mini
Resetting your iPad mini erases all your data and media and resets all your settings! To reset your iPad mini, press and hold the sleep/wake button and the Home buttons. Don't release them until you see the Apple logo.
Reset the iPad mini settings
Resetting iPad settings won't erase your data, but you'll probably have to change some settings afterwards.
Tap the Settings icon on your Home screen.
Tap General, then Reset, and then Reset All Settings.
Restore your iPad mini
This suggestion erases all your data and media and resets all your settings!
Connect your iPad mini to your computer with your USB cord, as though you were about to sync.
Select the iPad in the iTunes source list.
Click the Restore button on the Summary tab.
Because your data and media (except photos you've taken as well as contacts, calendar events, and playlists you've created or modified since your last sync) still exist on your computer, you shouldn't lose anything. Your next sync will take longer, and you'll have to reset any settings you've changed since you bought your iPad mini. But your media and data files shouldn't be affected.
One last thing: If you're using iCloud, photos you've taken, calendar events, and new contacts you've added since your last sync should be in the cloud — they should reappear after you restore. The only items in danger, at least in theory, are playlists you've created on your iPad since your last sync. That said, it wouldn't hurt to let iTunes back up the contents of your iPad mini before you click the Restore button.
iPad mini: Sharing Photos by E-Mail or iMessage
On your iPad mini, use the Share button to send photos to a contact without using the Contacts list. You can send pictures via e-mail or iMessage. And you can share a link to something you're viewing the same way.
In the Photos app, tap Albums at the bottom of the screen.
Tap Camera Roll.
Tap the Select button in the upper-right corner.
Tap the photos to send to your contacts.
You can select as many as you like, but you can only send 5 at a time via e-mail and 20 at a time via iMessage.
Tap the Share button.
Tap Mail or Message.
If you've selected more photos than allowed, the option Mail or Message icon won't appear when you tap the Share button. If that happens, tap some of the selected photos — they have a check mark — to deselect them. Now tap the Share button again, and then tap Mail or Message. When you do, the New Message window fills the screen.
Type in the To field.
Contacts that match what you type will appear. Or, you can tap the + button on the right end of the To field to see an overlay with all of your contacts.
Type a message to go along with the photos. Or not.
When you're happy with your creation, tap the Send button.
iPad mini: Using Siri to Your Best Advantage
To use the Siri feature on your iPad mini, press and hold the Home button until you see this on the screen: "What can I help you with?" Release the button, and Siri is ready to answer your question. Ask Siri questions or make Siri open iOS 7 apps for you. Siri can do things on your iPad mini that you might not even expect, like make appointments or set reminders.
Here are just a sampling of questions to ask Siri:
Get weather info:
What's the weather today?
How's the weather this week?
What will the temperature be in Boca Raton tomorrow?
Open apps:
Play Infinity Blade III.
Launch Photos.
Open Red Laser app.
Find information:
What did the NASDAQ close at today?
Who won the Cubs game today?
How many feet are in a kilometer?
What time is it in Tokyo?
What movies are playing nearby?
Remind me to call Mom when I get home.
Schedule dinner with Lisa Monday night at 7.
Do I have any appointments tomorrow?
Play music by the Beatles.
Find good pizza nearby.
Enable Wi-Fi.
Set an alarm for 6:30AM tomorrow.
Find pictures of Vizsla puppies.


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Emily Hay necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 176 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
Best Deal Homes in MI
I am a 27 year old female entrepreneur committed to starting my own real estate investing business. I plan to buy residential homes from people that may be in distressed situations (foreclosures, inherited property) for example, as well as sell newly renovated homes to first time homebuyers. I am not a realtor. In other words, I am not a real estate professional under a national real estate company...I simply invest in residential property. I have a blog http://www.emilyahay.com where I am committed to being a resource for other people getting into the business of real estate investing - the blog will give you a good idea of what I am like as well.
As I learned about real estate investing, I kept meeting "stodgy", "old school" male investors that had almost a "used car salesman" stereotype (comb-overs, unethical vibes - the kind you need to worry about being taken advantage of when buying a home from). Very few of them dressed professionally or made me comfortable. I want to stand out as a unique investor that people are refreshed to come across and genuinely feel I helped their situation.
I am a person who can build rapport with people quickly and enjoys helping others. I love efficiency and that has fueled my passion for online marketing - can reach so many more people so quickly.
I aim to be one who changed people's mind on the experience of buying/selling homes.
My audience is residential home-owners and home-buyers. These people may be young couples, couples with several children, old/senior citizens, possibly in distressed situations (going into foreclosure for example), they may be lower to mid-middle income, they may be curious to learn what options they have to sell a home. The live in the state of Michigan. I would guess about half of them use the internet for researching and making decisions but some may prefer to respond to a direct mailed marketing postcard.
I am planning to send a great deal of direct mail letters out and I want my logo to stand out as a bright option they may have not known existed...I want to peak their curiosity and make them feel compelled to find "Best Deal Homes in MI" online after seeing the logo. I wanted to get very creative with a business name but was told to be sure your customers know what you do by the title of the company. "Best Deal Homes in MI"
My other audience is certainly real estate investors as well but they understand what my business is but the logo can help me stand out as a savvy new "player" in the market since most are very established and have no logo for their company if any.
A couple neat things to keep in mind:
-In the state of Michigan, everyone holds up their left hand in a "mitten" position to demonstrate a map of the state and to then show people where they live. Perhaps you could incorporate the outline of Michigan as a hand in someway-- holding a house, shaking a hand, etc. I want to stand out as a Michigan-based company.
-When I came up with the name of my company, "Best Deal Homes in MI", I thought, "whether you are buying or selling a home, you want the BEST deal on your home you can get". People don't want a "good deal"...they say "I want the BEST deal" so I decided bestdealhomesinmi.com was the domain to go for. This new logo will go on the top of my website (which is pretty bare bones at the moment).
-I love all the lowercase letters and soft edges that have been associated with the "green movement"..."eco-friendly" "eco-magination"...I like modern fonts, I like a logo that incorporates the company name; words stacked, in a circle, whatever makes it memorable.
-Real estate investing is DOMINATED by men so I want to play the fact that I am a woman to my advantage without seeming "girlie" or "Mary Kay-business like". This logo is to symbolize my business approach of: professional, refreshing, trustworthy, collaborative, genuine, online marketing savvy, efficient, comforting, transparent.
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Dear Sangha Members and Pemakod Project Supporters,
With tremendous joy, I am writing to express to you my heartfelt thanks and to rejoice with you in our shared success and accomplishment in completing consecration of the Deden Tashi Choeling Temple in Padmasambhava's King of the Hidden Lands, Pemakod.
This past January 19-21, 2013, Deden Tashi Choeling Temple – a long-envisioned Copper-Colored Mountain Zangdok Palri temple, the first ever of its kind in this part of the sacred hidden land – was consecrated. Devoted people from many villages in Pemakod, and also from far away cities and countries, gathered to celebrate this completion. We practiced a unique Guru Rinpoche sadhana from the Dudjom New Treasure cycle of teachings, recited one hundred million Vajra Guru mantras, and performed long-abandoned sacred dances -- of the eight manifestations of Padmasambhava as well as the great protector of Pemakod, Lhotsan Apho – all for the benefit of Pemakod and the world. These three days were full of joy and devotion, with pure-hearted Dharma practice for the benefit of all beings, in one large mandala, and were permeated with a profound sense of great accomplishment and rejoicing after everyone's hard work and collective efforts.
I began the sacred work of rebuilding the retreat land facilities and building this new temple with great honor in my heart, and buoyed by the aspirations of great masters of the past. With everyone's support and help, and working with one pure motivation, we brought forward Guru Rinpoche's enlightened vision. According to Padmasambhava, any virtuous deed undertaken in Pemaköd profoundly affects all of humanity and the world, especially in these degenerate times. By accomplishing completion of this sacred temple in this exact location, in fulfillment of Guru Rinpoche's prophecies and the aspirations of great masters of the past, I firmly believe that we have collectively made an excellent and lasting contribution to world peace.
This Temple will remain as a place where new generations can gather to practice together, to learn from each other, and as a place where all of those who sincerely aspire to practice holy Dharma in Pemakod can receive precious teachings and engage in pure practice in the same way as did great masters of the past. Every year, in December, I will lead a Drupchod – a large retreat for the general public – and then afterward will facilitate solitary retreats for dedicated practitioners. I am confident that in the future, our Dharma practices and activities -- both in Pemaköd and elsewhere in the world -- will only continue to expand, building bridges between countries and cultures, and helping support sincere practitioners everywhere.
On this auspicious Saga Dawa Duchen, Full Moon Day, I call upon each of you to join me in rejoicing for the great merit we have gathered together, and in making aspirations that this Temple will remain as a source of great blessings for the welfare of all beings for generations to come. Whatever role I have played in helping to forge, through this auspicious work, such a precious and meritorious connection for others — I dedicate the merit to all beings, for their tremendous good fortune to never be separated for a single moment from the blessings of our Lotus Born Guru, Padmasambhava.
Tulku Orgyen P'huntsok


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See also Understanding Data-tier Applications.
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