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Vigilance Full HD Surveillance Starter Kit
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The Vigilance Full HD Surveillance Starter Kit includes the 16-Channel PoE Network Video Recorder and 2 x Full HD Outdoor PoE Mini Dome Cameras to allow you to start protecting your premise right away. Simply add hard disk(s) to the Network Video Recorder (NVR) and connect the cameras, to start monitoring and recording
without the need of a computer.
The DNR-2020-04P JustConnect 16-Channel PoE Network Video Recorder is an all-in-one network video recorder (NVR) that can record video from up to 16 network cameras1 to its dual HDD storage2. With the integrated HDMI/VGA display output and USB port3, users can view, control and configure the DNR-2020-04P without the need to turn on their PC.
Featuring Power over Ethernet (PoE), the NVR supplies power to up to four PoE cameras, saving valuable time and electrical installation costs during setup.
Powered by an embedded system, the DNR-2020-04P supports real-time remote monitoring and playback via a web browser using the NVR's web GUI. Additionally, support for audio in/out, DI/DO triggering, and external USB 3.0 storage for video export and backups fill the needs of small businesses.
The NVR also includes the option to protect data using a RAID 1 configuration, which duplicates recorded data onto two separate hard drives. In the event of HDD failure, data integrity is maintained on the secondary HDD. The recorded data can be backed up to external USB disks or additional storage locations such as FTP servers whenever required.
The included DCS-260 Multi-NVR Viewer is a comprehensive network surveillance software designed for SMB and enterprise users. Using an intuitive user interface, you can centrally manage up to 128 NVR devices and network cameras, allowing you to efficiently control multiple D-Link NVRs located in different areas.
Users can remotely monitor their surveillance network in real-time through the JustConnect+ mobile app for smart phones or tablets. It offers total peace-of-mind 24/7 for business owners to view live video or playback recorded footage, at anytime, when connected to the Internet.
Full HD Outdoor Mini Dome Camera
The Vigilance Full HD Outdoor PoE Mini Dome Camera is a professional, full featured full HD Camera that is designed to be easy to install and integrated into a highly affordable video surveillance solution. Incorporating IR LED illuminator, WDR and 3DNR support, you get up to 30 metres night vision and clear detailed images in contrasting and low light environments. The camera's IP-66 (weather-proof) housing is specifically designed to withstand all adverse weather conditions.
Vigilance range
The Vigilance Range offers professional, full featured high definition video surveillance that is easy to install and highly affordable. The range consists of cameras designed specifically to meet different surveillance and environmental requirements. From standalone surveillance solutions that allow you to record video without additional software or equipment, to weather/vandal-proof cameras for harsh environments.
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Specifically designed for any security installer looking to offer digital video surveillance, this versatile range of cameras is designed for easy selection and simple installation. You'll be able to guide your customers to the right choice for their needs and they will be delighted with the quality, reliability and straightforward ease-of-use that Vigilance delivers.
2 Hard disks are not included. Supports hard disks up to 10 TB each for a total of 20 TB.
3 This port is used for firmware updates, video exports to USB drives, and backups. Connection to a USB mouse/keyboard is supported.
4 RAID 0 and RAID 1 mirroring requires the use of two internal SATA drives. To avoid data incompatibility in RAID 1 operation, use identical SATA drives from the same manufacturer. Formatted drive capacity for RAID 1 operation is dependent on the drive capacity of the lowest-sized drive. Some older generation SATA drives may not be compatible. Click here for a list of SATA drives that have been tested to work with the NVR.
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Технически характеристики
Technical Specifications
- IEEE 802.3u/x/z
- IEEE 802.3af
- Auto MDI/MDI-X
- Format Disk
- Up to 20 TB HDD
- EXT3 file system
Two Reset Modes
- Reset firmware GUI button
- HW reset button (hold for 10 seconds)
Reset Button
- Reset to factory default
Flash ROM
Network Interface
- Gigabit Ethernet port (10/100/1000 Mbps)
I/O Ports
- 1 x 10/100/1000 BaseT RJ-45 port
- 4 x 10/100 BaseT PoE port (802.3af)
- HDMI (supports 720p and 1080p resolution with 16:9 display ratio)
- D-sub for VGA output
- 1 x USB 3.0 port3
- 1 x USB 2.0 port3
- 3.5 mm audio input x 1, output x 1
- 4 x DI, 1 x DO
- 1 x Smart Fan
Software Features
Supported Cameras
- Please visit www.dlink.com for a list of supported cameras1
- Supports auto-discovery and megapixel resolution
System Requirements for Web Interface
- Browser: Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari
Recording Performance
- Max recording bitrate: 80 Mbit/s
- Primary video profile:
- H.264 at 1080p at 480 fps
- Secondary video profile:
- H.264 at VGA at 240 fps
Camera Search
- UPnP
Audio and Video Recording
- Synchronised audio & video recording
Compression Format
Audio Compression Format
Video Setting
- Resolution
- Quality
- Bitrate
- Frame rate
- Enable audio
- Video profile selection
Recording Mode
- Record by schedule, manual, always, and event-based recording
- Motion-triggered recording
Alarm Recording
- Pre-alarm: 60 seconds per channel
- Post-alarm: 300 seconds per channel
Remote Live View
- Supported via browser and Multi NVR Viewer (DCS-260) software
Remote Live View Control
- Live view
- Preset/Go to Preset
- Patrol/Auto Patrol
- Focus
- PTZ control
- Snapshot
- Full screen
- Auto scan
- Digital zoom (Zoom in & Zoom out)
- Manual Record
- Audio Enable
- Adjust audio volume
- Video layout
- e-map
Remote Playback Control
- Normal
- Fast forward/rewind
- Step forward/rewind
Remote Playback
- Supported via browser and Remote Playback application
- Playback system with timeline GUI, search by event, area, cameras, date, and time
- Browser or Remote Playback support 16-channel simultaneous playback
- Digital zoom
Overwrite Recording
- Auto recycling when disk storage is full
File Export
- Local: Export videos to AVI / MP4 format
- Remote: Export videos to AVI or ASF file
- Export images to JPG file
Digital Watermark Tool
- Prevents recorded video files/snapshots from being tampered with
- Acts as a tool for verification
User Account
- Additional accounts can be created to allow users system access and specify authorization for camera channels, PTZ, etc.
- D-Link DDNS and DynDns server support
- Manual DDNS
System Time
- D-Link NTP
- Input time
- Sync with computer
- Daylight saving time
Auto Backup
- Backup recorded data to USB/SAMBA/FTP via a schedule
Remote Backup
- Remote backup software can backup raw data to redundant storage
System Status
- Camera status
- HDD status
- System status
- Network Service
- DHCP Server/Client
- NTP Client
- DNS Client
- DDNS Client
- SMTP Client
- FTP Client
- HTTP Server
- IP filtering
- UPnP
- CoS
- QoS/DSCP
- Samba
- Bonjour
- SNMP v1/v2c/v3
- PPPoE
User Interface
- HTTP Web browser
- NVR Search Utility
- Remote Playback/Backup
- Verification tool
- Mobile app
- GUI via HDMI/VGA
Package Contents
- JustConnect 16-Channel PoE Network Video Recorder
- Power Adapter
- Ethernet Cable
- Quick Installation Guide
- CD-ROM with:
- Software
- Product Documentation
- 2.1 kg (4.63 lbs)
Power Input
- Input: 100 to 240 V AC, 50 to 60 Hz
- Output: DC 48 V/1.85 A
Power Consumption
- Max. 90 W
PoE Budget
- Per Port: Max. 15 W
- Total: 45 W
- Operating: 0 to 40 ˚C (32 to 104 ˚F)
- Storage: -20 to 70 ˚C (-4 to 158 ˚F)
- 5% to 90% non-condensing
- RoHS
- 63 x 225 x 300 mm
2 Hard disks are not included. Supports hard disks up to 10 TB each for a total of 20 TB.
3 This port is used for firmware updates, video exports to USB drives, and backups. Connection to a USB mouse/keyboard is supported.
4 RAID 0 and RAID 1 mirroring requires the use of two internal SATA drives. To avoid data incompatibility in RAID 1 operation, use identical SATA drives from the same manufacturer. Formatted drive capacity for RAID 1 operation is dependent on the drive capacity of the lowest-sized drive. Some older generation SATA drives may not be compatible. Click here for a list of SATA drives that have been tested to work with the NVR.
Functions & Features
- Full HD 1080p, 30 fps
- Day and night with ICR filter and IR LED
- 30m night vision
- Wide Dynamic Range
- 3D Noise Reduction
- Supports Power over Ethernet
- IP66 outdoor certified
Technical Specifications
Hardware Features
- Indoor and outdoor IP66
Image Sensor
- 1/3" 2-Megapixel progressive scan CMOS
Maximum Video Resolution (Ratio)
- 1920 x 1080 (16:9)
- 1400 x 1080 (other)
Maximum Frame Rate
- Up to 30 fps
- Fixed 2.8 mm, F1.8
Minimum Illumination (Lux)
- 1.0 lux/F2.0 (colour)
- 0.5 lux/F2.0 (B/W)
- 0 Lux (B&W, IR-LED on)
Infrared-Cut Removable Filter
- Yes
IR Built-in
- 30 m
Wide Dynamic Range (WDR)
- Yes
3D Noise Reduction
- Yes
Angle Of View (H/V/D)
- 96° / 54° / 108°
- 3-Axis
- Vertical: 60° / Horizontal 355° /Rotational 355°
Privacy Masks
- 3 zones
Wired Connection
- Fast Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX)
- Power over Ethernet (802.3af PoE)
Software Features
Video Format
- Yes
- Yes
Digital Zoom
- 10x
Motion Detection
- Yes
Event Recording
- Yes
E-Mail Notification
- Yes
Recording to NAS
- Yes
IPv6 Support
- Yes
- Φ113 × 77.7mm
Operating Temperature
Operating Humidity
- 20 ~ 80% RH (non-condensing)
Optional Power Input
- DC power adapter (Input: 100-240VAC, 50/60Hz; Output: 12VDC, 1.5A)
- CE (Class A)
- FCC (Class A)
- C-Tick


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Aug. 9, 2006
Charles Morrow's first season as head coach for the Lipscomb Bisons soccer team didn't produce an Atlantic Sun Conference Championship, but the 5-11-1 record, 2-6 in the conference, did give his team a huge confidence boost for the 2006 season.
"Coming in last season I really didn't have too many expectations," said Morrow. "I think we were just trying to get through it more than anything and evaluate as we went along.
"From the outside looking in, you can say that the players did better. They won a lot more games than they won the year before. Nationwide we were eighth in the country in terms of the most improved programs. You look at that and think that the players should be happy with that, but they were pretty disappointed. At the end of the day they were mildly pleased with the change and the results but still not satisfied. They had high expectations."
The Bisons were picked to finish seventh in the A-Sun by the coaches in a preseason poll. Morrow knows his team can beat that prediction. Even better, his players are not willing to settle for anything less than a berth in the A-Sun Tournament.
"The guys that we have back from last season have improved throughout the course of the year and the spring," said Morrow. "And a lot of the new guys that we have coming in will compete for time right away. The expectations are even higher among the players than they were last season."
The Bisons were known for their defensive abilities last season, but Morrow is looking for more offense this time around, especially from some of the new additions to the team.
"With a couple of exceptions we didn't give up a whole lot of goals last year," said Morrow. "We were able to be pretty competitive with almost everyone. But if we didn't score first then it wasn't going to happen.
"Even though Scott Mason had a game with a hat trick and Kevin Terry had several games with game-winning goals, really our main offensive threat was Ben Page. Everybody we played against keyed on that and that made us one-dimensional. Ben was the only guy up top who was consistently a threat."
Morrow is bringing in 13 new players this season. Most of them have the ability to jump start the Bisons offense. But he stops short at saying the Bisons will have a more offensive-oriented approach this season.
"In recruiting this year we tried to find the best guys that we could find who could give us more bite in the attacking third," said Morrow. "Several of the guys coming in could do that for us.
"We might not be so much offensive-minded, but more competent in the attacking third. It might be that we will be so much better as a team that we don't have to be offensive- minded. We will have guys who are better at getting behind defenses and better at running at defenders. I think it will make us better in the attacking third. Because of that we might give up fewer goals because we will be so much better."
One of the concerns for Morrow is making sure that the newcomers become members of the team on all levels as quickly as possible.
"It is almost like starting over again to have so many guys coming in," said Morrow. "It is a big challenge, not only for me, but for the current players. Everyone has their own individual expectations of what role they want to be in. Sometimes that view is accurate and sometimes it is not. Our team chemistry will be a pretty important piece of our success this year... how quickly the guys bond and jell together on the field.
"Something that is really important to me is that the upperclassmen have the understanding that this is not my guys coming in versus the players who have been here before. We want the best people out there who will give us the best opportunity to win and be successful."
The Bisons are welcoming 15 returning players. Morrow and assistant coach Kevin Burk have seen the veteran players benefit from their hard work the past few months.
"The guys who have been here want to do better," said Morrow. "They are hard on themselves. They have risen to every challenge that we have thrown out there. A lot of it is just maturity.
"We practiced and trained everyday this spring. We gave them the weekends off, but we practiced everyday. On their days to lift weights we practiced. We just felt like we needed to be on the field with the ball in order to make up as much ground as possible."
The Bisons are coming off an undefeated spring season with victories over Vanderbilt, Belmont, Covenant College and a team from Uruguay.
One of the benefits of the spring games was the chance for junior goalkeeper Jake Goergen to gain valuable playing time. Goergen is expected to battle freshman Danny Prichard for the starting spot.
"We felt like Jake grew quite a bit in the spring," said Morrow. It will be a good fight between them. It will be interesting to see who emerges out of preseason and during the season."
The rest of the starting lineup is going to be more difficult to determine. There is depth on defense, in the midfield and among the forwards. But sorting out a starting lineup will take some time.
"The back is probably the most solidified area," said Morrow. "Jeff Boynton is the right back. Xander Vooys has done very well. I don't know if we will play three or four on the back. Tim Hunter is coming back after being a medical red-shirt and will get a look. Plus we have some good backs coming in."
Among the new defenders are junior college transfer Babak Abouzar and T.J. Williams from Trinidad and Tobago. Williams might also get some time in the midfield.
In the midfield are veterans Terry and Mason, both juniors, along with senior Tyler Johnson. Newcomers Kezi Lara, Benji Lance and Josh Inglebright will also get long looks. Alexi Achilleos, who has played extensively in Greece while in high school, will challenge on either defense or in the midfield.
"The midfield is where there is the most competition and the biggest uncertainty," said Morrow. "I have no idea who is going to be there. It could be any number of people."
Veterans Page and Jorge Suarez are returning at forward. Challenging for playing time will be new additions Miguel DaSilva and Jeremy Reding.
Preseason drills will be even more important this season as playing time and starting spots are up for grabs at many positions.
"We have tried to talk about the starting lineup," said Morrow. "At this point it is hard to speculate."

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Two busted in Pinehurst drug raid
Police arrested two men after information led them to suspect a methamphetamine lab was being run out of a residence in Pinehurst.
The Pinehurst Police Department, in a joint operation with Pct. 2 Constable David Cagle, executed a search and arrest warrant at a home at 2745 40th St. in Pinehurst at around 9:15 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27. Police reported that information was obtained that methamphetamine, known as "crystal meth," or other illicit substances was being manufactured within the residence. Upon searching the home, police discovered a quantity of methamphetamine as well as paraphernalia and ingredients of a methamphetamine laboratory used to manufacture the substance.
Police arrested 36-year-old David Matthew Lester, who lived at the residence, and Orange resident Darrin Kyle Foreman, 41, at the scene. Both men were taken to the Orange County Jail on a $10,000 bond each for possession of a controlled substance. Foreman has since posted bond, but Lester remained in jail as of Wednesday, Jan. 30. If convicted, both men face up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
The West Orange Police Department assisted in the operation.
One nearby neighbor of Lester's said she had a hard time believing he was engaged in such nefarious activities. She said Lester was staying at the home, which belonged to family members, and taking college classes.
"I was just shocked," the woman said. "I never thought he would be involved in something like that."
Lester's neighbor was surprised, but this was not his first run-in with the law. A criminal database search revealed Lester was arrested Feb. 2, 1997, for felony possession of marijuana and was given three years of probation.
Foreman had a prior arrest on April 28, 2010 for driving while intoxicated, a class B misdemeanor, for which he was given one year of probation.
The night of the raid, the neighbor said she was in her house when she saw a suspicious vehicle park alongside the road and two men run across her lawn. She called out thinking it was Lester, but the men identified themselves as Orange County sheriff's deputies. That was the night Lester went to jail.
Pinehurst Police Chief Fred R. Hanauer III stated that a methamphetamine manufacturing operation is dangerous to the public, as well as those manufacturing the substance, due to the volatility of the ingredients used and the potential for explosions. Ingredients may include red phosphorus, drain cleaner, lithium batteries, acetone, lye, muriatic acid, pseudo-ephedrine nasal and sinus medication as well as other dangerous chemicals. He encourages citizens to call if they suspect something of this nature is occurring.
"Although the residence falls outside of the drug free zone of the West Orange Elementary School, the residence is within one quarter mile of the school, and we will not tolerate this in Pinehurst," Hanauer added.
Sharon Brooks can be reached at (409) 832-1400, ext. 241, or by e-mail at sharon [at] theexaminer [dot] com (mailto:sharon [at] theexaminer [dot] com)


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Nov. 23, 2007
LONG BEACH, Calif. - The UC Santa Barbara women's volleyball team opened the Baden Thanksgiving Classic with a 25-30, 30-24, 30-26, 30-22 win over first-time opponent Temple on Friday evening at Long Beach State's Walter Pyramid.
With the win, UCSB improves to 12-18 on the season while Temple, which plays in the Atlantic 10 Conference, falls to 15-20.
The Gauchos posted a .322 team hitting percentage in the match including a match-high .394 clip (16k, 3e, 33a) in the fourth game.
Junior Lauren McLaughlin had a team-leading 19 kills and 11 digs in the match while hitting .312. Sophomore Rebecca Saraceno led the team for points tallying 16 digs on 28 attempts with three errors for a season-best .464 clip. The Redondo Beach, Calif. native also had three aces, nine digs and two blocks in the win.
Also contributing a strong performance for the Gauchos was freshman Stacey Schmidt, who posted 14 kills and a .303 clip. She also had three block assists. Rounding out the players with double-digit kills was senior Brett Quirarte who tallied 10 along with her team-high four block assists.
Freshman setter Dana Vargas handed out 52 assists and also had four kills, an ace, and eight digs. Junior libero Leigh Stephenson posted a career-high three aces and nine digs. The Nipomo, Calif. native is just four digs away from setting the UCSB record for digs in a single season.
UCSB will continue action at the Baden Thanksgiving Classic on Saturday when they face Yale at noon. Following their match with the Bulldogs, the Gauchos will complete the 2007 season with a pairing against Pittsburgh at 5 p.m.


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Woman Throws Shoe at Hillary Clinton During Speech
A woman has been arrested by police in Las Vegas after she threw a shoe at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Thursday during a speaking event. Photo: Getty.
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Director of English, Dorset
Closing date:
Start date: January 2019
Contract type: Full Time
Contract term: Permanent
Suitable for NQTs: No
Director of English
L6-10 (salary negotiable, with the opportunity to become a Specialist Leader of Education with further salary enhancement)
January 2019
'This is an outstanding school. Teachers have high expectations of their students, who respond by producing excellent work.' (OFSTED, June 2015)
'The behaviour of students is outstanding. They are exceptionally keen to learn, and show real enthusiasm in lessons.' (OFSTED, June 2015)
Do you want to be part of a team where you will help make a lasting impact on our students, many of whom are disadvantaged, and rapidly accelerate their progress?
Do you want to work in a school where you are free to teach, with impeccable student behaviour and unhindered by bureaucracy?
This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious practitioner, who wants to lead the rapidly growing English curriculum area and make a real impact on further driving up attainment and progress in English. You will also have the opportunity to support other English departments as part of our Teaching School and Support School work.
Despite being a 'secondary modern' in a selective grammar school borough, our mind-set is that we are a 'grammar school for all'. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or needs. Our goal is to prepare every student to be able to go to university or high-powered alternative. We believe in the traditional values of hard work and kindness.
Our Academy is a vibrant and exciting place to work and was graded as outstanding in all areas by Ofsted in June 2015. In 2016, Magna achieved a Progress 8 score of 0.52, placing us well within the top 5% of highest performing schools nationally. In 2017, Magna achieved a Progress 8 score of 0.4, placing us in the top 15% nationally. We are very excited about our record 2018 outcomes – our Progress 8 score might possibly be in the top 1% of schools nationally.
We have very high expectations of our staff, but we value them highly, and treat work load very seriously. Our systems ensure you can really focus on your core purpose – teaching, in a sustainable way, unhindered by bureaucracy or poor behaviour.
What we offer:
- A professional progression model to enable you to progress to Assistant-Principalship
- Great students who behave impeccably – you can make a massive difference to them
- Tight, robust 'no excuses', 'warm and strict' behaviour systems
- Same-day centralised detentions, including homework detentions (you do not need to organise/run/chase them at all), helping to underpin impeccable behaviour, so you are free to teach
- A feedback policy focused on whole class feedback – we do not have onerous/impossible marking policies
- A centralised homework system at KS3 – you do not need to check/mark KS3 homework
- No formal graded lesson observations – just ongoing 'no-stakes' feedback, helping you to continuously develop – we believe that trusting our staff with autonomy helps to develop a strong staff culture
- Collaborative planning with centralised, shared units of work and resources
- CPD starts as soon as you are appointed
- State of the art facilities and a very pleasant location in beautiful Dorset
The successful candidate will be:
- an excellent teacher of English, with proven middle leadership experience, who will play an important role in leading English into its next stage of development
- someone who does whatever it takes to ensure the life chances of all our students are maximised. They will blend extreme personal humility with intense professional will.
- totally aligned to our values and mission. If you are the type of person who fits with our culture, you will love working here.
It is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious practitioner wishing to further develop their career. You would be a member of the extended Senior Leadership Team, be able to study for the NPQML/NPQSL and have excellent progression opportunities to become an Assistant Principal as the Academy, National Teaching School, National Support School and MAT continue to grow. As a Teaching School you would also have the opportunity to become a Specialist Leader of Education.
We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our Academy to fully appreciate our excellent learning environment.
To apply, please click on the "quick apply" button to submit an online application.
Please contact email@example.com or 01202 604222 to arrange a visit or an informal, confidential discussion about the role.
Closing date for applications: 9am Friday 21st September 2018.
Learn more about Magna Academy at: www.magna-aspirations.org
Magna Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check before taking up the post.
Magna Academy Poole is a thriving learning community in which students, staff and parents work together to ensure outstanding outcomes for our young people.
Our Academy is vibrant and exciting and was graded as Outstanding in all areas by OFSTE...
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President To Pardon Turkeys
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama throws his support behind Liberty...
Category: Religious News
Boston Marathon - Egypt
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has condemned the Boston Marathon bombings, calling them "sinful assaults" and saying that Islamic law does not condone violence against civilians.
A Tuesday statement from the Islamist group's political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party, expressed "condolences to the American people and to the families of victims, with hopes for a quick recovery of those injured."
The party also says that Islamic law "firmly rejects assaults on civilians and doesn't accept any means of terrorizing people, regardless of their religion, color, or gender."
Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi hails from the Brotherhood.


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My Princeternship started off smoothly enough. The Los Angeles Metro—or at least the Gold Line—was much faster than I expected, and I arrived at City Hall half an hour early. When I tried to get into the building, however, I was horrified to realize that I had forgotten my passport—my only form of government issued I.D. Without my passport, I couldn't even get a visitor's pass, and I certainly couldn't get fingerprinted! I panicked and retreated to the food court. Fortunately, my host, Marcia Gonzales-Kimbrough '75, soon showed up, calmed me down, and got me into the building.
Marcia spent the next hour or so talking to me and Silvia—the other Princetern she was hosting—about her childhood in Taos, New Mexico, her time at Princeton, and her career at the City Attorney's office. Marcia has been working at the City Attorney's Office for over thirty years, in a number of different capacities, from prosecutor to counsel to the fire department. Right now she is working in the Municipal Advice Section, which means that she provides legal advice to the Los Angeles City counsel and other municipal entities.
One of Marcia's primary responsibilities is advising the oversight committee for the 'L.A. for Kids' program. 'L.A. for Kids' receives $25 million each year through a special tax assessed on all properties in the city. This money is used to build parks and play areas for children. By law, projects built with this money need to meet certain requirements, and Marcia helps city agencies and nonprofits understand what they need to do to meet these often complex requirements.
Our conversation with Marcia was interrupted by a phone call: a city agency wanted advice regarding a possible conflict of interest. After answering the agency's questions, Marcia took Silvia and I to lunch at a Mexican restaurant on Olvera street. On the way back to City Hall, she pointed out landmarks downtown. Then, after a tour of City Hall, we climbed to a balcony near the top of City Hall and saw the same landmarks from above. On the way, we ran into a councilman, Tom LaBonge, who was giving a tour to the Japanese consul general to Los Angeles. We went back to Marcia's office, where we met other city attorney's, including Phil Lam, the city's intellectual property lawyer.
The next day, after I got fingerprinted and received a volunteer I.D., Silvia and I went to a city council meeting. Marcia had explained the agenda to us, so we were able to follow most of what was happening. Tom LaBonge, the council member we had met the day earlier, recognized us at the meeting. After the meeting, we went to lunch with Marcia in Little Tokyo, where, completely by chance, we met Charlie, a friend of Marcia's. Charlie is a criminal defense attorney who takes only capital murder cases. After lunch, Charlie took us on a tour of the East Los Angeles Superior Court. We saw an arraignment, a prosecutor's closing argument, and jury selection. In each court, Charlie explained what was happening to us.
On the morning of the last day of my Princeternship, Marcia gave Silvia and I several reports to read. The reports concerned the use of grant funds for the acquisition and development of property. The content of these reports is important because it is later used to support grant applications, and inconsistencies or errors in the reports can prevent projects from being funded. Marcia explained the comments she made on some of the reports, and then asked us to review two others for inconsistencies. After she discussed the reports with us, Marcia got a call she had been waiting for. The city agency that had called on the first day of the Princeternship called to get further advice on a contractor they believed might have a conflict of interest. Marcia explained that they were not prohibited from doing business with the client by municipal law under the circumstances, but could refuse if they thought it was too risky.
After she got off the phone, Marcia drove us to the Police Academy.
We ate lunch at a 50's style diner, and then walked around the academy grounds. The area around the academy has been turned into a beautiful rock garden, with waterfalls, trees, and a meditation chapel. As we walked, Marcia explained the work she had done for the L.A.P.D. when she represented them.
We returned to the court house, hoping to continue watching one of the trials we had seen the day before. Unfortunately, the courtroom was empty, so we went to watch another trial. We saw a guilty verdict being read out, and then returned to Marcia's office. There, we asked her a few more questions about her career, and she told us about her experience balancing her career with her family. We ended the day by going to a party where a judge who used to work in the City Attorney's office was being honored by the Latino City Attorney's Association. After the party, Silvia and I said goodbye to Marcia.
The last three days had been amazing. I have gotten to see how Marcia advised the city on legal issues, met attorneys practicing a number of different areas of law, and seen the city government and court system in action. I would definitely recommend anyone who wants to explore a career in law apply for this Princeternship if it is offered again in the future.


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Dear Members,
Abhidhamma View(39): Mind for Mind-and-Matter
[Presented by Dr.Tep Sastri @ SariputtaDhamma/JTN/Mult]
CMA VIII, p. 307, 312:
In five ways mind is a condition for mind-and-matter: Roots, jhaana factors, and path factors are a condition for conascent mind-and-matter by way of root, etc. Conascent volition is a condition for conascent mind-and-matter, and asynchronous volition for mind-and-matter born of kamma, by way of kamma. The mental resultant aggregates are a condition for one another and for conascent matter by way of result.
Root condition is a condition where a conditioning state functions like a root by imparting firmness and fixity to the conditioned states. The conditioning state in this relation are the six mental factors known as roots: the three unwholesome roots (greed, hatred, delusion); and the three beautiful roots (non-greed, non-hatred, and non-delusion) which may be either wholesome or indeterminate. The conditioned states are the mental states associated with each root and the conascent material phenomena. Conascent material phenomena are those born of kamma at the moment of rebirth-linking, and those born of consciousness during the course of existence. Just as the roots of a tree are the basis for a tree's existence, growth, and stability, so these roots give rise to the conditioned states and make them firm and steady.
Jhaana condition is a condition where a conditioning state causes the conditioned states to participate in a close contemplation of an object. The conditioning states are the seven jhaana factors [1. initial application, 2. sustained application, 3. zest, 4. one-pointedness, 5. joy, 6. displeasure, 7. equanimity], which reduce to five cetasikas [because joy, displeasure, and equanimity are all feelings, and feeling is a single cetasika]. The conditioned states are the cittas and cetasikas associated with the jhaana factors --that is, all cittas except the ten types of sense consciousness-- and the conascent material phenomena. Although the conascent material phenomena cannot contemplate the object themselves, because they are produced by the close contemplation accomplished by the jhaana factors they are included among the conditioned states.
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Cook of the Month Shandra Spicer refines her own style
As the middle of five siblings, Shandra Spicer grew up watching her mother cook for their family of seven.
Besides things like bacon and eggs for the kids, Sandra Roberson took care of the black bass, perch and catfish her husband Willie Roberson Sr. brought home from fishing excursions.
"Dad would bring it home and she would fillet it and fry it up for us," said Spicer, The Buffalo News' November Cook of the Month. "I just recall always watching her cook."
Spicer remembers the day her mother got stuck at work and asked her, at 11 or 12 years old, to make a pot of chili for dinner. "I hated chili, but I followed her directions," said Spicer.
Looking back, she might have missed a step or two. "It was still disgusting and nasty," Spicer said with a laugh. She didn't rinse the canned kidney beans, maybe, or season the pot well, and the idea of tomato sauce in chili seemed weird.
"It wasn't connecting," said Spicer. "But from that point on, I was determined that whether or not I liked something, I was going to learn how to make it well."
Her father was a "meat and potatoes man," Spicer said. "He liked what he liked, and he didn't want you experimenting with his food. So I didn't experiment a lot growing up. I perfected the art of cooking in the Roberson household: How my dad wanted his food cooked, and how the family liked it."
Spicer would go on to achieve much. She graduated from Sweet Home High School, Class of 1998. With her father and mother, she started S&W Contracting, a commercial general contracting company she runs today.
In 2001, she married Najeeb Spicer. Once in her own house, she was free to follow her cooking instincts.
"When I got married, I'd say [to Najeeb], 'What do you want for dinner?' He'd say, 'I don't know,' or, 'It doesn't matter.' Then I realized I was free to do whatever I wanted to do."
Today, Spicer cooks about 90 percent of the meals for her family of four, including son Ethan, 9, and daughter Ellie, 8.
When her siblings come back to town, they usually eat dinner at Shandra's house. That's when she pulls out recipes like her fried chicken, spicy baked beans, Southern-style greens and sweet potato souffle, whose sugary, rich character is meant to mimic "sweet potato pie without the crust."
There's "nothing healthy about any of this. I won't lie," Spicer said. You could use smoked turkey meat as opposed to salt pork in the greens recipe, but she only cooks these Southern menus three or four times a year.
This is special occasion food, she warned. Besides the sugar and cream in the potatoes, the greens are a lot of work. "It is so much prep work, the cleaning and everything," she said. "People can buy greens cut and cleaned, but I just like to do it."
Shandra's Gluten Free "Sweet Tooth" Sweet Potatoes
3 or 4 large sweet potatoes or yams
2 sticks (16 tablespoons) butter, diced
2 eggs
2 cups brown sugar, packed
1 cup white granulated sugar
2½ cups heavy cream (see Cook's Note)
1 lemon
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon allspice
1½ tablespoons cinnamon
3 tablespoons vanilla extract
½ teaspoon coarsely ground sea salt
Peel sweet potatoes, cut into large chunks, and rinse.
Place in large pot and cover with cold water. Place on stove; add salt. Boil until tender, approximately 30 minutes.
Drain potatoes into a colander. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Add diced sticks of butter to hot pot used to boil potatoes.
Return potatoes to pot, along with brown and white sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and vanilla extract.
In a separate container, beat eggs with 1 cup cream, then add to potatoes along with the remainder of the cream.
Cut lemon in half and squeeze the juice of both halves into potatoes.
Use a potato masher to combine ingredients. (Consistency will be thick and chunky.)
Pour mixture into a bowl. Using a whisk or hand mixer, mix potatoes for about 60-90 seconds, until desired consistency is reached.
Pour mixture into a casserole dish. Bake uncovered at 350 degrees for 60-90 minutes, or until firm.
Remove from oven and let sit for 10-15 minutes before serving. Serve hot, warm or room temperature. For added flavor, top with whipped cream.
Cook's Note: Whole milk or evaporated milk can be used in place of heavy cream. Extend cooking time to give the thinner consistency mixture time to set. For additional flavor and crunch, add glazed crushed pecans or walnuts the last 15 minutes of cooking. Serves approximately 12-18.
Shandra's Southern Style Greens and Cabbage
8 bundles of a variety of greens, including kale, collard, mustard, dandelion, or turnip greens
1 large head of cabbage (about 4 pounds)
2 packages of smoked meat (turkey legs or ham hocks), 1ø-2 pounds
1 12-ounce package of dry salt pork
2 large Spanish onions, sliced or chopped
1.75 ounces (one container) dry chopped onions
4 ounces pickled banana pepper rings, with juice
2 tablespoons red crushed pepper flakes (see Cook's Note)
2 tablespoons garlic powder
2 tablespoons onion power
2 tablespoons black pepper
1 tablespoon ground cayenne pepper (see Cook's Note)
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
¾ cup white distilled vinegar
Separate bundles of greens, place in sink with warm water, soak and sort greens to clean, discarding stem ends.
While sorting greens, add water to 20-quart pot until approximately one-third full.
Place smoked meat, salt pork, onions, banana pepper rings, dry seasonings and vinegar in pot with water, and bring to a boil. Continue boiling with lid on for one hour.
As meat and seasonings are cooking, begin chopping greens and cabbage into large, fork-sized pieces.
After meat has cooked one hour, begin adding greens and cabbage to the boiling pot, alternating between cabbage and greens, stirring in between. Continue cooking on medium to medium high heat for 1½ to 2 hours, stirring occasionally. Dish is done when greens are dark in color and tender. Serves approximately 15-20
Cook's Note: Adjust heat level up or down to taste; these measurements will result in a moderately spicy dish. For more flavor and heat, serve with your favorite hot sauce.
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INSTRUCTIONS TO READERS: Below, I present two hypothetical scenarios. After reading both, please stop. Do not read further. Consider which killer you think is more culpable. By way of background, assume that both killers are young, white, and employed, with little or no arrest histories. Assume that both victims were also white, upstanding citizens, well regarded in their communities.
STOP. Consider: Which killer do you think is more culpable, legally and/or morally? Why? What sort of punishment do you think would be fair?
Have you formed a tentative opinion? If not, what else would you need to know before deciding? Now, I will provide a few facts about the victims. See if they are relevant to your thinking.
STOP. Do these facts alter your opinion about culpability in any way? How? Why? What degree of guilt would you infer? What do you think would be a just resolution in these cases?
Finally, let's consider community reaction. Does this change your opinions about either case?
In a perhaps unprecedented twist, residents of the fraternity row where the crime took place have filed a class-action lawsuit against the local fraternities. Claiming that nuisance behavior has left them living under a virtual state of siege, they are seeking an injunction against the fraternities through an innovative application of a California law banning "criminal street gangs."
Recognize either case yet? Of interest is the different spins they are getting. A central theme in both stories is bad moral character. But in one case it is the victim's character that is condemned, while in the other case it is the killer's.
This is the case getting national and even international attention. On Feb. 8, 2009, in the small California logging town of Fort Bragg, Aaron Vargas killed 63-year-old Darrell McNeill, a former youth group leader and popular furnishings salesman. Vargas is being portrayed as a victim and his crime as understandable or even heroic. His sister is even slated to appear on Oprah Winfrey's TV show to talk about his family's "ordeal."
The facts are being spun accordingly. News account focus not on the large (.44) caliber of the gun, for example, but rather its status as an "antique Civil War replica." (Hey, it still fired.) The gap of several years between when Vargas "broke off the relationship" and when he ultimately killed the older man is largely ignored. (Where was the immediate, heat-of-the-moment provocation?)
The case resolution? A lenient plea bargain. Vargas just pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter. He will serve no longer than 10 years in prison, and may even get probation.
Was that what you expected, or thought fair? Why or why not?
Meanwhile, 170 miles away in cosmopolitan Berkeley, Andrew Hoeft-Edenfield is on trial for first-degree murder stemming from a May 3, 2008 incident that began when the victim and a group of friends walked up to Hoeft-Edenfield and his friend and ordered them to leave fraternity row. Fueled by a deadly mixture of testosterone and alcohol, the incident "quickly escalated as Hoeft-Edenfield pulled out his knife and his friend Adam Russell began swinging an almost full bottle of Bacardi rum at the crowd," according to a news account.
While Hoeft-Edenfield claims he was defending himself from a drunken mob bent on violence when he stabbed fraternity member Christopher Wooton once in the chest, the prosecutor is trying to prejudice jurors against him by imputing his moral character.
"He has a persona, a wannabe thug or an actual thug," she told the jury in her opening statements. As visual proof, she held up his backpack with gangsta-rap-style writings such as "Thug Life," "Money, Guns, Marijuana," and "Killer Drew."
Hoeft-Edenfield's attorney countered that this depiction of her client's moral character could not be farther from the truth. Hoeft-Edenfield is "an example of what hard work can accomplish," she told the jury. A working-class young man from South Berkeley, galaxies away in social class from the elite university for which Berkeley is famous, he had overcome a learning disability, graduated from high school, gotten a job, and was attending college. The fight, she said, was "sparked by the fraternity brothers who were drunk and eager to prove they owned the street," according to a news report. "What he remembers is that he is surrounded by five or six guys, he's got guys stomping him, and all he hears is yelling."
If you were on the jury, how might you vote? Why?
In criminal responsibility evaluations, we forensic psychologists are charged with carefully dissecting an accused's state of mind at the moment of a homicide. Did he form an intent to kill? Did he know right from wrong, in that moment? Was he intoxicated? What were his motivations? These mental state inquiries are tricky enough.
Moral character is a much more elusive construct. Good and evil are never as black-and-white as partisans portray them. Yet, as these two cases illustrate, simplistic moral narratives can be constructed that either lionize or demonize a criminal defendant. These narratives then influence the decision-making of prosecutors, judges, and jurors as to the appropriate punishment, based on perceived moral blameworthiness.
It will be an interesting juxtaposition if Hoeft-Edenfield gets convicted of first-degree murder and goes to prison for a heat-of-the moment stabbing that appears to have been provoked, while a vigilante who proactively took the law into his own hands gets a light sentence for voluntary manslaughter.
If Hoeft-Edenfield is found guilty of murder, a working-class young man may want to think twice about sporting gangsta-style accessories while carrying a knife for self defense. Unless, of course, he kills a child molester. In that case, the public may applaud him.
A good yarn needs both a hero and a villain. The question is: Who gets which role?
POSTCRIPT: After a four-month trial, Hoeft-Edenfield was found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to 16-to-life in prison. That sentence was later overturned on appeal, and he accepted a plea bargain in which he would serve 12 years in prison with no credit for time served or good time. Meanwhile, in what the media dubbed "a crushing disappointment" to his family and supporters, Fort Bragg killer Aaron Vargas received a nine-year prison term.
Readers: I encourage you to post your reactions to this exercise in the online "comments" section of the blog.
My follow-up reports on the Hoeft-Edenfield case:
- Surprise reversal in "killing and culpability" self-defense case: Judge slams defense lawyer as inept, dishonest (May 1, 2014)
- "Killing and culpability" sentences handed down (June 16, 2010)
- Race, class, and self defense: Berkeley fraternity case spotlighted (July 21, 2010)
Further background on the unusual class-action lawsuit against the fraternities:
- American Lawyer: Suit Tries Gang Strategy Against Frat Boys
- Press release: "Lawsuit to curtail the culture of alcohol abuse and violence in the fraternities at UC Berkeley"


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Man Faces Felony Theft Charges After Posing as Brantley Gilbert
There's only one Brantley Gilbert, but that hasn't stopped an Indiana man from trying to pose as the 'You Don't Know Her Like I Do' singer. After sending emails and text messages acting as if he were the country star, 25-year-old Thomas Michael Barth has been charged with two counts of felony theft, according to a statement made by the Warsaw Police Department.
Barth posed as Gilbert's manager and photographer — and later posed as Gilbert himself — when he sent messages to Robert's Signs, a business in Indiana, and musician Kevin Kyle. Barth received more than $8,000 worth of personalized products and clothing from Robert's Signs during a three-month period. He also obtained more than $4,000 in musical and electronic equipment from Kyle, as well as a computer.
Much of the merchandise has been recovered, and for now, it looks as if Barth was acting alone. Gilbert and his managers have fielded a number of complaints about Barth using the country star's name inappropriately. They ordered him to stop, but Barth continued.
Police said that earlier this month, Barth admitted to misrepresenting Gilbert, and on Thursday (April 29) he turned himself into the LaGrange County Jail in Indiana.
For now, it seems that Brantley Gilbert's identity is safe. And it's a good thing, too. Recently, Gilbert's 2010 album 'Halfway to Heaven' achieved gold status, selling 500,000 copies. The last thing this country star wants to think about is someone stealing his name — he earned it.


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The OpenGL Preview project aims to create a fast previewer for Hugin, reducing the time taken to redraw the preview to real time rates. After that, the new previewer can be made more interactive than the current one. The project is James Legg's Google Summer of Code 2008 project, mentored by Pablo d'Angelo.
Image Transformations
The new previewer will have to approximate the remapping of the images to fit on low resolution meshes. There are two methods for this:
Remapping Vertices
Taking a point in the input image, we can find where the point is transformed to on the final panorama. Therefore, we can take a uniform grid over an input image, and create a mesh that shows remaps this grid into the output projection.
- This method suffers when the input image crosses over the +/-180° boundary in projections such as Equirectangular Projection, as there will be faces connecting one end to the other, and nothing between the edges of those faces and the actual boundary. We must split the mesh so that it each part is continuous, which means some faces will have to be defined off the edge of the panorama.
- The poles of an equirectangular image will also cause similar problems. At a pole, the image should cover the whole width of the panorama, but this is only one point in the input image. Vertices in the mesh near the pole are define a face that does not cover the whole row.
- The detail in the faces might not match up well with the area of the panorama. The faces are all of different sizes and some mappings may put the details in parts that can't be seen as easily as the lower resolution parts.
- The mesh resembles the output projection well, and covers up roughly the same area as the correct projection. The edges of the mesh lies along the edges of the image, so we don't need to worry about what happens outside of it.
Remapping Texture Coordinates
Alternatively, given a point on the final panorama, we can calculate what part of an input image belongs there. Therefore, we can take a uniform grid over the panorama, and map the input image across it.
- This mapping breaks down at the borders of the input image. The borders of the input image may cross the output mesh at any position, so we need to draw the image with a transparent border.
- We must also calculate the extent of the images in the result so the mesh only covers the minimal area.
- Some faces of the minimal bounding rectangle still don't contain any of the input image at all, processing them would be a waste of time.
- There are no problems at the poles and edges of the panorama.
- The output is of uniform quality throughout, as the faces always have the same density.
Distortions Comparison
To check that these transformation methods do not distort the image too much, I devised a test. Using Nona to produce a coordinate transformation map from input image coordinates to output image coordinates, and similarly creating a projection that goes the other way, I tried these transformations in Blender.
I projected a cylindrical panorama, 360° wide, and with a pixel resolution 4 times as wide as it is tall, into a fisheye image pointing at the lower pole of the input image, 270° wide, and square.
|Vertex mapping Approximate Transformation
This mesh has 32 columns of faces, and 8 rows, across the input image. Since the image is 4 times as wide as it is tall, this means there are 256 faces which cover an equal amount of the input image.
|Transformation with Nona
This is the remapping that the other images are approximating.
|Texture Coordinate mapping Approximate Transformation
This mesh as 16 rows of faces and 16 columns, spread equally over the output panorama, so there are 256 faces which cover an equal amount of the output.
Note that at this point I have not attempted to correct the texture coordinates around the boundary of the input image.


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Kate Hudson: Winery Visit with Kurt Russell & Matthew Bellamy!
Kate Hudson shows off a bit of her midriff as she makes a trip to a winery on Monday (May 6) in Santa Barbara, Calif.
The 34-year-old actress was joined by her fiance Matthew Bellamy, her mom Goldie Hawn's longtime love Kurt Russell, and an extended group for the fun afternoon.
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CHARLOTTE � The unknown is over for Charlotte 49ers football.
And the team hardly resembles a first-year major college program as its 3-2 record would attest.
In a season of firsts, the 49ers enter Saturday�s noon home game against Gardner-Webb coming off another one � their first road victory.
That result came against Presbyterian, a fellow Big South Conference member with Gardner-Webb.
�I really like how we�ve prepared for every game,� said first-year coach Brad Lambert, the former Wake Forest assistant who was tabbed as the 49ers� inaugural coach in March 2011. �We�ve just come out and handled our business.�
So far, that�s come against a schedule that grew increasingly challenging and will be more and more daunting as the first season wears on.
That includes Saturday�s contest, as it marks the first nationally-ranked team Charlotte will face on its home turf of Jerry Richardson Stadium.
�We�ve got a huge challenge this week with Gardner-Webb,� Lambert said. �I really feel like we�re facing a confident group. You can see that on tape when you watch them.
�Of course, since they�ve beaten teams as talented as Furman, Richmond and Wofford as they have, they should be confident.�
As one might expect of a first-year program, Charlotte has started 14 or 15 redshirt freshmen or true freshmen in all five of their games. That includes quarterback Matt Johnson, a redshirt freshman from Maiden.
Johnson is 13th among all FCS schools in passing yardage (1,240) and 10th in TD throws (11).
Redshirt freshman Austin Duke (Charlotte Independence) and redshirt senior Mikel Hunter (Air Force transfer) are Johnson�s top targets. Duke has 26 catches for 291 yards and Hunter has 18 catches for 257 yards.
The running backs are redshirt freshman Alan Barnwell (285 yards) and freshman Kalif Phillips (280 yards). Phillips had two touchdowns and 105 yards rushing for A.L. Brown in last season�s 44-0 season-opening victory at Shelby.
Junior strong safety Martay Mattox, a transfer from East Mississippi Community College, is the 49ers� leading tackler with 40.
In addition to confidence, Lambert said Gardner-Webb�s defensive line and redshirt junior quarterback Lucas Beatty, a former Charlotte Olympic standout, have gotten his team�s attention.
�Defensively, they present some problems for us,� Lambert said. �And their quarterback is playing really well and not making mistakes.
�Again, they�re a real challenge for us as a Big South Conference team from a league that�s proven to be really good,� Lambert said.
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"Retailers are finding different ways and reasons to get consumers to buy again."
In the wake of the recession, consumers are wary. Although they are slowly starting to spend again, they are in an investment mindset, according to Cohen.
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My Room: Maelle
Grown up but not too grown up. Giulia tells us about her preschooler's lovely room update: My daughter is four now and really wanted to change up her room. She requested purple and some additional bright colours. We wanted the room to be bright and cheerful, but allow enough flexibility to change things out and make it more grown up down the road.
We chose a deep purple (BM darkest grape) as an accent wall. We moved her white metal bed in front of the accent wall as well as the white vintage dresser that we had just painted and restored. The sheets pick up the purple but also introduce pink, greys, orange and green. The pale pink was maintained on main walls and a fun pink polka dot curtain was added. We introduced a dresser with an orange drawer front and kept her vintage green chair.
Art was hung salon style for interest and flexibility. The bookcase was a DIY project based on a Martha Stewart template. The name art above her bed captures the colours introduced in the room and is a DIY project.
The style is eclectic, adding old with new. Particularly her bookcase and art wall include some items dear to my family - old books and pieces given to us. The cushion on her chair was made by my grandmother for my mother.
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Tony Stewart's defense of his 2005 championship doesn't look so bad on paper, and it sure seemed to be soaring during his laborious celebratory fence-climb following his July win at Daytona.
It was his second win of the 2006 season, and it pushed him to fifth in the championship standings. Little did he know that hot summer night atop the flag stand would be his crowning achievement of the year.
Disastrous finishes in the next two races dropped Stewart to 11th in the standings with only seven races to recover. It was too big of a hole and Stewart stunningly became the first defending NASCAR champion to miss the cut for the Chase for the Championship in what was then a 10-driver field.
In true Stewart fashion, he didn't go out with a whimper: Stewart won three of the 10 Chase races, but wasn't eligible to challenge Jimmie Johnson in what became the first of Johnson's five consecutive Sprint Cup titles.
Now here we are, seven years later, and another defending champion is in a similar hole.
Going into Saturday night's Coke Zero 400 at Daytona, Brad Keselowski was ranked 13th in the standings and winless this year. He has eight races left to claim a berth in the 12-driver field and is among a handful of elite drivers jockeying for the final few spots in the Chase:
— Keselowski: BK had three wins at this point last season but finds himself on the outside looking in after Sunday's disappointment at Kentucky, where he had hoped to repeat last year's victory. His problems Sunday started 48 laps in the race — so early that Keselowski said "there is no reason to drive like an animal" — when Kurt Busch drove on the apron, then shot back up the track into traffic and into Keselowski.
It created a messy accident that stopped the race for nearly 20 minutes and it dropped Keselowski four spots in the standings to 13th. To earn a Chase berth, he either needs to be ranked inside the top 10 in points, or needs wins to be eligible to claim one of two wild card spots.
Crew chief Paul Wolfe knew the ramifications the moment Busch hit the No. 2 Ford.
"We were just holding onto the top 10 there, and we were one bad race away from falling out," he said after the race.
There is an upside to Keselowski's situation. He is only 14 points behind 10th-place driver Joey Logano, his Penske Racing teammate. That's not bad considering the No. 2 team has been docked 31 points this year in a pair of NASCAR penalties. If Keselowski still had those points he'd be ranked eighth.
But he doesn't have those points and has two months to make up the difference.
"We have struggled before as a team and we have worked through that and put ourselves in position to be champions," Wolfe said. "I think in the past we have not been shy of doing some different strategies to make things happen and over the next few weeks if we are not getting the finishes where we need to be then we will need to look at that over the last month closing into the Chase."
— Busch: The 2004 champion is in the second year of trying to resurrect a career that fell apart when his anger issues cost him his job at Penske Racing. He's doing it now with Furniture Row Racing, a single-car team that's not supposed to challenge for a Chase berth.
But Busch is in decent shape at 14th in the standings and only 16 points out of 10th. He's gotten there behind four finishes of seventh or better in the last six races, including Sunday, when he managed to come back from the early incident on the apron to finish sixth. All told, Busch has seven top-10 finishes this season and has climbed from six spots in the standings in three races.
"We came through when we needed to and had another good points day," said Busch. "We're creeping up in the points and need to avoid major slips in the next nine races."
— Stewart: The three-time champion won at Dover last month and that victory is enough to make him eligible for a wild-card berth.
But his situation is shaky because he's tied with Aric Almirola for 16th in the standings and he could find himself locked out. It's a real possibility considering Martin Truex Jr. and Greg Biffle, who have one win each, aren't securely inside the top 10 and Kasey Kahne is 11th with just one victory.
Working against Stewart is that he really hasn't been running all that well this season. The No. 14 team had only one top-10 finish before Memorial Day. He was seventh at Charlotte and won at Dover for his first back-to-back top-10s all year. He carried the momentum into Pocono and Michigan with a pair of top-fives and he'd suddenly climbed from 21st in the standings to 10th.
But the last two weeks have been two steps back, with a 28th at Sonoma and a 20th-place finish Sunday.
"Not the greatest showing, but we did what we could with it," he shrugged.
— Denny Hamlin: He's never missed the Chase since his 2006 rookie season, but time is running out on Hamlin's comeback story this year.
In fairness, a compression fracture in a vertebra in his lower back sidelined him for four races and likely cost him any chance at the Chase, anyway. But he returned determined to grab a wild-card. He finished second at Darlington in his first full race back, then won the pole at Charlotte and finished fourth to go from 31st in points to 24th.
He won the pole the next week at Dover, but a crash ended his streak of top-five finishes. He was also wrecked at Sonoma and had a hard hit Sunday at Kentucky. Now he's 25th in points and must win over the next nine weeks to keep his Chase hopes going. At this stage, it will likely take him at least two wins to make it happen.
Team owner Joe Gibbs dismissed talk of Hamlin getting out of the car anytime soon to fully heal, insisting the goal is to salvage the season.
"I think Denny wants to stay after it and we have a chance to get some wins," Gibbs said. "Who knows what's going to happen? We could get hot. I know he'll be the favorite at several of these race tracks we have down the stretch over these next nine weeks. Who knows? Maybe a miracle in there. You can't have a great comeback unless you're behind, so we'll just go after it and do the best we can. He's got a good attitude and we'll keep swinging."


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Teaching Channel Presents "Reading Fundamentals" Reading Fundamentals: We'll spend the hour in two fifth classrooms where the emphasis is on building strong reading skills and meeting students at their level. Meet two inspirational teachers who believe you can inspire students to be readers by giving them choice, one-on-one guidance, and affirmation. D
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Making Meaning In Literature: A Workshop for Teachers, Grades 6-8 "Workshop 5. Student Diversity" The varied viewpoints necessary for valuable class discussions are celebrated in this program. The group talks about the diversity of their students and how their interactions with literature are shaped in part by their life experiences, unique thoughts, and previous reading experiences. They examine the worth of using the lens of multiple perspectives to examine a work of literature, and offer suggestions for ways to encourage each student to contribute to the ongoing classroom conversation. D
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Wild Photo Adventures "Large Mammals of Alaska" Host and professional wildlife photographer Doug Gardner and bush pilot Glenn Alsworth Jr. explore the tundra and photograph bears, caribou and moose. D
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Wild Photo Adventures "Wyoming Big Horn Sheep" Host and professional wildlife photographer Doug Gardner and photographer Jared Lloyd brave sub-zero temperatures to photograph wildlife of the Wind River Basin, WY. D
6:00 pm
Sewing with Nancy "Doll Fashion Studio, Part 1" Learn to sew trendy 18" doll fashions for a quick and easy seasonal wardrobe. Author and designer Joan Hinds and Nancy share the secrets to sew a seasonal collection of clothes for 18" dolls. Each outfit is sewn with speedy techniques and easy flat construction. D
6:30 pm
Sewing with Nancy "Doll Fashion Studio, Part 2" Little girl's gifts in minutes-sew simple 18" doll outfits for all occasions. Nancy and designer Joan Hinds create adorable doll clothes that are easy to sew and incorporate fast closures for little fingers. Learn to make impressive special occasion clothing including a fairy princess dress, a cheerleader outfit, a snowy day ensemble, and a sweetheart dress. D
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Donna Dewberry Show "Sugar & Spice" Donna creates decorative accents for a youthful room or office using plain wooden containers. She stitches up a quilt with a pond party theme.G
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Knit and Crochet Now! "Baby Dress-Up" Learn to work duplicate stitch to embellish a chunky knitted vest with Kristen Nicholas. Ellen Gormely crochets a party dress that will please any little princess. And Brett Bara crochets the Midnight Snowballs scarf using two colors of chunky yarn. D
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Bake Decorate Celebrate! "Child's Play" Baking and decorating are child's play with the right techniques. The first project features edible paper dolls using sugar sheets. Next, Nancy's decorating lesson is the leaf tip. D
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Donna Dewberry Show "Girlie Style" Donna shows how to daisy up and decorate wooden letters, picture frames, boxes and clothing for that special little girl in your life. D
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Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel "Girl Scout Quilt Alert" Members of a North Carolina quilters guild introduce Brownie and Girl Scout campers to embroidery and patchwork.G
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For Your Home "Girly-Girly" Using paint, ribbons, carefully selected furniture, a handmade quilt, stick-on wall decorations and super storage ideas, Sloan and Vicki create a pink and green dream come true-and on budget. D
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Short Ribs and Chops Hit The Grill" Test cook Julia Collin Davison show host Christopher Kimball how to make Easy Grilled Boneless Pork Chops. Then, equipment expert Adam Ried reveals his top pick for pressure cookers in the Equipment Corner. And finally, test cook Bridget Lancaster shows Chris how to make the best Grill-Roasted Beef Short Ribs, and gadget guru Lisa reviews her favorite knife accessories. D
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Simply Ming "Wakiya - Ramen" Nothing says Japan like Ramen noodles - this episode of Simply Ming brings Chef Ming Tsai on the road to the Instant Ramen Museum in Osaka, Japan. Ming also learns the secrets of cooking Ramen from famous Japanese Chef Yuji Wakiya. D
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Coastal Cooking with John Shields "Carolina On My Mind" The Grande Dame of Southern cuisine, Nathalie Dupree, shares some of the secrets of Southern cooking with her Frogmore Stew and Biscuits. Other recipes include Savannah She-Crab Soup and Peach Shortcake with Fluffy Cornmeal Pecan Toping. The Kitchen Goddess demonstrates how to put together a peachy floral centerpiece for your dinner table. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Venice and Its Lagoon" Rick samples sumptuous art treasures, and explores back-street wonders. He cruises its lagoon, stopping in fiery Murano for glass, pastel Burano for lace, and murky Torcello for a sense of where Venice was born. Part 2 of 2G


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Time: March 5, 2009 from 4pm to 5pm
Location: http://www.thinkatheist.com/page/for-the-atheists
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Event Type: talkshow
Organized By: Morticia
Latest Activity: Dec 31, 2015
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Godlessness knows that we all have loads of fun on the podcasts and if you've been on the site for more than a one visit, chances are you know Morticia. She's rarely gotten the chance to participate in the Saturday night podcasts, so she has created a weekday alternative.
Thursday, on Ustream ( or via: http://www.thinkatheist.com/page/for-the-atheists )at 1pm Pacific/ 4pm Eastern, she's hosting a live video talk show for anyone and everyone to join in and ask about our lovely non-religion.
The wonderful part is that Ustream is full of our favorite Bible-thumping Christian weirdos that will prove to make a rather interesting if not IQ-loweringly funny show. She needs all the fellow atheists she can get to help promote and to back her up on her endeavor to spread logic through the use of cleavage and brains.


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Patina (bronze)
The colour effects on bronze sculptures varying from green to brown and black that are obtained by applying hot acids to the bronze.
1. Lowest part of the supporting masonry for a classical column, composed of a plinth, dado and cornice.
2. A base supporting a statue or other object.
A flat column or rectangular pillar engaged in a wall and projecting only slightly from it.
Process used for reproducing, enlarging or reducing a model by measuring a series of 'points' marked on the original and transferring them to the block of stone to be carved.
Pompeii Urn
A form of vase designed by Carrier-Belleuse, who was then artistic director of the Sèvres Porcelain Factory and, as such, a prolific creator of new forms.
In painting and sculpture, plump naked boys representing cupids or young angels.


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Two highly acclaimed cancer researchers, Ravi Bhatia, M.D., and Smita Bhatia, M.D., MPH, will join UAB in January 2015.
Smita Bhatia, M.D., MPH, a distinguished pediatric oncologist with a strong interest in cancer outcomes, will be join the School of Medicine to tackle the health challenges cancer survivors face during and after treatment.
The Argus Awards, created in 1996 to recognize faculty members, give medical students the chance to honor their mentors, professors, courses and course directors for outstanding service to medical education.
Pediatric cancer researcher Gregory Friedman, M.D., receives $40,000 grant to fight brain cancer in children.
The UAB School of Medicine will lead in the establishment of a national research consortium focused on the discovery of new and better drug therapies to treat viral infections.
Nefertiti Durant, M.D., MPH, uses Internet tools, cultural relevance in the fight against obesity in young black women.
Research at UAB showed that Internet tools designed to encourage young black women to increase physical activity need to include content that reflects specific cultural needs.
UAB has entered the realm of international medical training with the creation of the International Advanced Clinical Training Program.
Sergio Stagno, M.D., chair of the Department of Pediatrics, received the President's Medal during UAB's fall commencement exercises Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013.
Health professionals across campus, including 14 from the School of Medicine and UAB Hospital, completed an extensive week-long course in medical simulation training — a first step toward building a world-class program at UAB.


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Nashville, Tenn. – The Lipscomb women's soccer team got fall camp underway on Wednesday morning as the Bisons held their first practice in preparation for the 2012 season. First-year head coach Kevin O'Brien was eager to get on the field.
"It was positive, we have some work to do no doubt over the next couple weeks as we get prepared for our first competition," O'Brien said. "I feel the effort they put out, the commitment they put into training was awesome. I Felt good about day number one."
The Bisons opened camp with 25 student-athletes with 11 returners and 14 new faces. Of the returners, senior goalkeeper Erin Zerio will once again handle duties in the box. Senior Andie Thorton, who led the Bisons in scoring just two seasons ago. Alex Wagner, a junior, returns as the leading goal scorer from last season at the midfield. Senior defensemen Kameron Stilwell is expected to anchor the defense.
"Kameron Stilwell is leading the charge… just a leader on and off the field; hopefully she can bring the younger players under her wings and teach them how to be successful within the program." O'Brien said. "She is a very quick learner with understanding what we're trying to do as a coaching staff and she is helping us implement it with the team. It is always great when you have captains on the team that almost function as coaches."
The first day of camp focused on what O'Brien describes as the foundation of the team, defense.
"We focused on defensive understanding of how we are going to play as a team," O'Brien said. "We'll build from simple to complex. We feel like if we have a committed cohesive unit that buys in to defending first, we're going to be a hard team to break down and beat.
It's going to be a long camp and the girls are up to the challenges that so far we have put in front of them. As we continue to build a style and system hopefully they stick with it and learn it well so come our first competition we have a product that can be competitive."
The Bisons will kick things off on Saturday Aug. 4, with a 5 p.m. alumni match pitting the 2012 squad against former players. Following the alumni match, the Bisons will play rival Belmont in an exhibition contest at 6 p.m. match on Aug. 10 at Rose Park. The first regular season contest will be on Aug. 17 at7 p.m. against Jackson State at the Lipscomb Soccer Complex.


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I've downloaded everything, but I can't seem to launch it. Where do I launch it?
You need to create a new shortcut.
Read this (its from the third paragraph down)
>> How to create a new shortcut to play the mod:
1. Make a copy of the Rome - Total War shortcut on your desktop or make a shortcut of RomeTW.exe or barbarian or alexander exe (Obviously this shortcut must refer to the executable in the same folder than the catw folder - just in case you have more than one RTW installation on your computer)
2. Right-click on this new shortcut, then click on "Properties".
3. At the end of the target line, add: " -nm -show_err -mod:catw" (the space is needed)
5. Then you should be able to launch the mod with this shortcut. If you want you can use the CATW icon located in the catw folder.
Feel free to post here if you have any problem related to installation.
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Jose Reyes, as anticipated, is sitting again today, and probably won't play until the team returns home. Alex Cora, who delivered a three-run triple last night, has been moved up in the order to second. Josh Thole gets a start today over the slumping Rod Barajas.
Here's today's lineup:
Angel Pagan, CF
Alex Cora, 2B
David Wright, 3B
Ike Davis, 1B
Jason Bay, LF
Josh Thole, C
Jeff Francoeur, RF
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Court: Book Scanning Is Obviously Fair Use
from the not-even-close dept
Although I recognize that the facts here may on some levels be without precedent, I am convinced that they fall safely within the protection of fair use such that there is no genuine issue of material fact. I cannot imagine a definition of fair use that would not encompass the transformative uses made by Defendants' MDP and would require that I terminate this invaluable contribution to the progress of science and cultivation of the arts that at the same time effectuates the ideals espoused by the ADA.In other words, when you look at this project, it should be obvious that it's advancing the public good in many ways, and thus, promoting the progress. The judge relies heavily on one of my favorite fair use cases that I often use to debunk false ideas that some people have about fair use. Those who don't know the law, often insist that there can be no fair use if either (a) the entire work is used or (b) it's used in a commercial setting. Yet, as the Bill Graham Archives v. Dorling Kindersley case showed, neither point needs to be true (even if they may weigh on how the fair use factors are considered). In this case, even if there were commercial elements and the entire works were "used" in that they were scanned, the court said that this use was obviously transformational in a useful manner.
A transformative use may be one that actually changes the original work. However, a transformative use can also be one that serves an entirely different purpose.... The use to which the works in the HDL are put is transformative because the copies serve an entirely different purpose than the original works: the purpose is superior search capabilities rather than actual access to copyrighted material. The search capabilities of the HDL have already given rise to new methods of academic inquiry such as text miningThe judge also, thankfully, noted that just because HathiTrust didn't "add anything new" to the work itself "misses the point" because each scan "serves a different function than the original work."
The judge also rejected the whole claim that the scanning "impacts the market" for the works -- which is the other key factor. While some like to pretend that any activity "impacts the market" because any use limits the possibility of a license, the court (thankfully) recognizes that such an argument is ridiculously broad and makes no sense. Furthermore, he notes that the plaintiffs have to show real harm is likely, and they completely failed to do so here.
Of course, the details in the Google book scanning suit are somewhat different -- in that the use is more clearly commercial, and a greater amount of the book is made available. However, as James Grimmelmann notes, the "near complete victory" for HathiTrust with this ruling does not bode well for the Authors Guild case against Google, and increases the likelihood of an out of court settlement.


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The United Nations and the League of Arab States are considering sending a joint observer mission to Syria to try to end the crisis engulfing that Middle East country, with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warning on Feb. 9 that recent attacks against civilians in the city of Homs were a bad omen. Ban reported that well over 5,000 people have been killed as a result of a government crackdown since a pro-democracy uprising began in March last year.
"For too many months, we have watched this crisis deepen," Ban told journalists at U.N. headquarters, following a closed-door Security Council briefing on conditions in Syria. "We have seen escalating violence, brutal crackdowns and tremendous suffering by the Syrian people."
According to local sources, the Syrian army has sharply increased the use of tanks, helicopters, mortars, rockets and artillery fire to attack civilian areas, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said. With one million residents, Homs is Syria's third-largest city. "I am appalled by the Syrian government's willful assault on Homs, and its use of artillery and other heavy weaponry in what appear to be indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas in the city," said High Commissioner Navanethem Pillay.
On Feb. 4 Russia and China vetoed a draft resolution supported by the Security Council's 13 other members. The draft text had endorsed an Arab League plan to resolve the crisis. Ban said the council's failure to agree on collective action was "disastrous for the people of Syria. It has encouraged the Syrian government to step up its war on its own people," he said. "I fear that the appalling brutality we are witnessing in Homs, with heavy weapons firing into civilian neighborhoods, is a grim harbinger of worse to come."
The secretary general asked, "How many deaths will it take to halt this dangerous slide toward civil war and sectarian strife?"
As the government bombardment of Homs entered its fifth day on Feb. 9, most Christian families fled the city. Some priests have decided to stay, even as government forces intensified their strikes against the heart of the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, said the Vatican's nuncio to Syria, Archbishop Mario Zenari.
Archbishop Zenari said the Vatican has no plans to close its operations in Damascus, the Syrian capital, and church officials still hoped for a peaceful outcome that preserved order.
"Within the region, Syria is a model of religious tolerance, above all with respect to relations between Christians and Muslims," he said. "Till now, Christians in Syria have enjoyed great respect from every side in the conflict."


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|2011 Big Bash Awards Brunch
John Bachman, a 50-year Class Agent for the Class of 1961, accepts the Class of 1909 Trophy Cup from President White. The award honors the class with the highest reunion percentage. The Class of 1961 also claimed the 1928 Attendance Trophy with 58 class members signing the Alumni Register.


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Here's the perfect option if you're looking for living room furniture that matches your whole minimalism meets uncomfortable meets ludicrously expensive motif. Designer Baltasar Portillo's Lodge Chair made from powder coated wrought iron and a handful of welds.
And what would you expect to pay for what is essentially the bare minimum amount of materials needed to support someone's weight? How does over £1,700 sound? I guess they must be charging you for all that negative space as well. [Outdoorz Gallery via Design Milk]