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In in a star system on the outskirts of the Brikverse is a planet only known as the Planet of the White Plains. Two armies have gathered here to fight for the Maniac Beer supply. For some unknown reason it is the only land mark on the entire planet. ESF has come to claim the planet and forever drink Maniac Beer, while USAR has come to kill their enemies the ESF. ESF is lead by MFS. USAR is lead by Zombie Lincoln. Even Warhead has shown up as the gunner for my main battle tank. Again I am playing against Payton who I found out scrapped his army to make a new one so he had to use the forces of USAR.\
My setup note I have one squad of infantry in the main battle tank. I brought half of my vehicles for this battle.
The field which was kinda bland compared to most of my fields. The Maniac Beer surrounded by other rations and supplies.
My machine gun team wielding chainswords and assault rifles. There is also of course the heavy caliber machine gun with scope.
MFS on his motorbike sitting between my two tanks.
Payton's setup with all his infantry tanks, and jeeps.
And there's Zombie Lincoln with his ak-47.
Turn 1
I move up with all my forces splitting my tanks with one to each side.
There's Warhead wielding a Paladin missile launcher, and some Maniac Beer.
Just an Overwatch of my forces at this point. We're using the house rule that you can't shoot on first turn. We do this so we can change our setup's if we have to before blowing each other to bloody pieces.
He moves up that's it.
Turn 2
Now comes the action.
MFS jumps onto the dreadnut trying to hack his way in with little results.
My Hammerhead Tank's guns engage a jeep tearing up the break lights and bumper sticker.
Warhead kicks the pilot below him in the turret. The pilot's head slams into the controls firing the main gun.
The USAR tank loses 1d6 worth of armor and also loses 2 inches of movement.
One of my fighter planes opens fire with a missile blowing of the door of the troop transport vehicle.
I fire my mini tanks gun doing nothing.
Zombie Lincoln grabs my snipers sniper rifle and beheads him with the blunt end, and then.......
Tosses it into the jet engine of a fighter plane.
The engine explodes sending the fighter into a spin.
Before it hits the ground and explodes.
My battle jeep loses one of its machine guns.
His deadly space man shoots his uber gun doing no damage except throwing him through the fuel tank of the flamethrowers on my tank.
His men jump onto the jeep and start shooting at the windshield and any other unarmored areas.
The jeep is blown to one side as the fuel tanks ignite.
He shoots down two of my snipzooka guys.
and then kills the other two blowing up the flamethrowers backpack.
The blast wave kills everyone on the outside of this vehicle.
The DSM's friend chainsaws the fuel tank of freeing the DSM.
The dreadnut shoots and kills some guys.
All these guys shoot at my tank doing one structure point of damage.
Hunter the maniac throws his chicken wing at warhead getting it stuck on the helmet.
And this is a sneak peak at next turn for me.


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GPG Development Co. filed the deed of trust, assignment of rents and security agreement Jan. 24 through Landmark Community Bank.
The following joint venturers signed the deed on behalf of the borrower: Ken Garland Jr., Mark E. Pugh, Michael R. Pugh, Timothy L. Pugh, and Arminta L. Pugh.
Built in 2002 and home to Medicap Pharmacy, Pugh's Flowers and Signs First, the Class A strip shopping center sits on 2.7 acres on the west side of Whitten Road between Reese and Elmore roads.
The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal was $1.4 million.
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It will be the end of an era when the Ike's store at Eastgate Shopping Center closes Saturday, Feb. 1.
When the East Memphis store closes its doors for good, the Ike's brand will be gone.
Ike's was formed in 1983 by Memphis-based Malone & Hyde Group. The stores, with their distinctive yellow and red colors and elephant mascot, offered deep discounts on everything from sodas to prescription drugs.
USA Drug bought Ike's and closed two Ike's stores in 2010 in a deal with Walgreen Co., which owns the Ike's name and left the stores on Union Avenue and Park Avenue as the only remaining locations.
The Union Avenue store has closed in anticipation of being converted into a Fresh Market. The Eastgate store is closing as the Walgreens store at Poplar Avenue and White Station Road prepares to open. A sign outside the store in recent days said it would open Monday, Feb. 3.
– Amos Maki
A historical marker in the East Memphis neighborhood where two sanitation workers died in the back of a garbage truck will be unveiled Saturday, Feb. 1, at 10:30 a.m.
The ceremony by the Tennessee Historical Commission and the Memphis Pink Palace Museum comes 46 years to the day after a short circuit in the truck's compactor crushed Echol Cole and Robert Walker to death at Colonial and Sea Isle roads as their crew made its rounds on a rainy day.
Their deaths were the spark that ignited a wildcat strike by sanitation workers 11 days later, setting off already simmering tensions over the working conditions and city's treatment of African-American sanitation workers.
The strike brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis as the conflict quickly came to include other social issues. When King returned to the city in early April 1968 to lead another march, he was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.
– Bill Dries
Kei Nishikori, who won the U.S. National Indoor Championships title in Memphis in 2013, is returning for this year's tournament.
Nishikori, 24, from Shimane, Japan, is currently ranked 18th in the world. He has three career titles on tour and did not lose a set in the Memphis championship last year.
He reached the round of 16 in the recent Australian Open and will compete in a field that includes former Memphis champion Sam Querrey, 2013 runner-up Feliciano Lopez, Vasek Pospisil and Lleyton Hewitt.
The U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships will be played at The Racquet Club of Memphis Feb. 8-16. Tickets to all sessions are on sale now at memphistennis.com.
– Don Wade
Memphis creative groups Running Pony and Sullivan Branding have won regional Emmy awards for work they produced for the University of Memphis Tigers football team.
The two companies shared an Emmy in the Commercial Campaign category for their "Watercooler Guys" ads that sparked a local catchphrase: "Mind your business, Dennis!"
Running Pony won a second Emmy in the Sports Promo category for the team's intro video, "A Storm Is Coming," which features the Tigers and The Mighty Sound of the South marching band playing in a rainstorm.
– Andy Meek
Dr. Ben Carson, an emeritus professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery and pediatrics at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine, will speak at the sixth annual Morning of Hope breakfast and fundraiser Saturday, March 1.
The program will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at Woodland Hills Event Center, 10000 Woodland Hills Drive.
Tickets are $60 each or $600 per table of 10 and may be purchased at whyhopeworks.org. The deadline for all ticket purchases is Friday, Feb. 21.
HopeWorks is also seeking sponsorships for the event. To learn more about sponsorship opportunities, call Ron Wade at 901-272-3700.
Dr. Ari VanderWalde has joined the West Cancer Center as director of clinical research.
An internationally recognized cancer researcher, VanderWalde will also hold an appointment with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center as associate vice chancellor of research and assistant professor of hematology/oncology.
Previously, VanderWalde served as Amgen Inc.'s United States medical lead and clinical research medical director, directing U.S. global development of a viral-based immunotherapeutic that has shown efficacy in late-stage clinical trials in melanoma.
Political campaigns journal Campaigns & Elections has chosen Memphis advertising agency Sutton Reid Advertising as a finalist for the 2014 Reed Awards, honoring the firm for being among the nation's best creative agencies in political advertising and public affairs.
The company's 60-second radio commercial called "Obama" was chosen as a finalist in the category of Best Radio Spots: Best Use of Voice-Over Talent. The ad was created in 2013 for the citywide campaign to fund universal pre-kindergarten classes in Memphis.
Award winners will be announced Feb. 7.
First Tennessee Bank has opened a new office in Jacksonville, Fla., that will serve the Jacksonville market with private client banking, wealth management, commercial banking and commercial real estate services.
Full-scale banking will be offered when the office moves to a downtown business district location in late spring.

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I don't think anyone's really expecting any "deep, meaningful episodes of plot-ness" if they've been following the series up to now. I'm just bringing up the issue of whether or not the series is long overdue for a step in some sort of character relationship development at this point, just to show that "hey! the romance factor isn't dead yet!", else what started as harem comedy is going to wind down to just being comedy then <_<;
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Though I hope Michiru gets her chapter. I heard she exactly looks like Ikuto's little sister except for the boobs.
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today a new ch57 had been released ^^ and well it kinda looks like Iktutos sister might not be blood related to Ikuto after all :P
I mean in previous chapters Misaki (Ikutos sister) in that dream had something very important to tell to Ikuto and that she wanted him to go on a date with her... on her birthday......... and now Michirus mother at last page wonders about something (right after Ikuto told about Misaki and her cold resistance)
I think that Michirus mother had other daughter which went away from the island... and there Misaki was born... maybe she is half-ice fairy too.... that's why just like Machiru she feels good in cold......... Misaki and Michiru have the same hair colour (purple) and even Ikuto mentioned that Machiru looks like Misaki (except boob size :P)
So I guess that what Misaki wanted to tell to Ikuto at that date is that they are not blood related... and that she would want them to be a couple ^^ (since she was blushing and all around Ikuto...and even holded Ikuto's head at her laps when she wanted to talk with him.....)
So I personaly cant wait for Misaki to come to the island too :P it will turn out that she can marry Ikuto just like all other girls :P and too make up for that date Ikuto will take her for a walk around the island just the 2 of them (a late promissed date)
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Perhaps Misaki has something to do with Ikuto not believing the supernatural.
Maybe a spell, hypnotism or some form of conditioning.
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Generations of musicians have honed their skills at the school since original music director Rey Vinole founded the program in 1974. Helmed today by alumni Jean-Paul "JP" Balmat, the program continues to expand, with the school's best musicians taking part in up to 40 performances around the state each year.
Funding for the arts is still a struggle at best. So on Saturday, May 18, the MBHS Music Department will hold its third annual "Jazz on the Green" mini music festival at the school.
The New Orleans-inspired event will include all three of the school's music groups, including the Jazz Ensemble, the Concert Jazz Band and the Preservationists, with the Euphoria Brass Band closing with a tribute to New Orleans.
Open to all ages, the event includes crafts, activities for children, swing dancing and food from local restaurants. Additionally, the school's farmers market will offer up a variety of treats.
"This event is really a kind of showcase for Mission Bay and the beautiful quad area that we have," Balmat said. "In the past, Jazz on the Green has really brought the community together. It's a nice cross-section of people that attend: parents from middle schools, elementary schools and, of course, the high schools, as well as people who just read or see information about our concerts in the local press. It's wonderful, all these different people coming to celebrate these young musicians at a really great venue. It's really one of the most beautiful venues that I'd ever want to play in."
According to Balmat, events like this are crucial to keeping the music program going. He's also quick to note a lot of public support.
"The community has been amazing," he said. "They helped send our students to New Orleans last year and make it a point to be at our performances. Organizations like the Mission Beach Woman's Club, Friends of Pacific Beach Secondary Schools and our longtime sponsors, America's Finest City Dixieland Jazz Society, have played a huge part in our success."
Balmat said he considers music programs to be a vital part of a student's education, teaching them to "work hard in music so they can become better, not so they can pass a test."
"Jazz also teaches a lot about their history," he noted. "Jazz is an American-born art form that follows the progression of some of our most challenging times in our country. It's important for me that students see the connection. It makes them more educated performers."
While most concert guests will only notice the fine music being played on the day, Balmat notes its all an intensive team effort.
"It's hard!" he said good-naturedly. "There is a lot of work practicing, setting up performances, working individually with kids, fundraising for new supplies, keeping up our image in the community and state. It never stops. I go nonstop all day, every day. There is always something to do. I'm just lucky I work in such a rewarding profession and the students really make it worthwhile."
• Jazz on the Green: Saturday, May 18 at Mission Bay High School, 2475 Grand Ave. at noon. All ages. $10 adults, $5 students/children. www.missionbaymusic.com.


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I've got a single threaded program using the high level PAPI interface to count the number of executed ASM instruction of certain code sections. I am basically using only the following two functions: PAPI_start_counters; PAPI_stop_counters. Now I was wondering if it is possible to execute the same program at the same time on a multicore (AMD) CPU and still to obtain correct measurements, or would the implicit initialization (or something else) in the aforementioned two high level functions mess up everything. For example, on a modern AMD quad-core, if I start less than four instances of the program, would PAPI in each program use a different hardware-counter so that the multiple instances do not interfere with each other?
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Hearing voices...
Posted 10 May 2003 - 04:13 AM
My question is this...for those who have encounters of any kind do you find that there are certain places that are more active for you personally?
For me it is cemetaries. I hear voices coming from almost every cemetary I walk by. The older the cemetary the more I hear. I have learned to tune them out as it is very distracting and overwhelming sometimes. The funniest thing I heard was someone complaining about their flower arrangement. I was visiting my friend and we were walking past a cemetary and I heard the complaint and started laughing. I told my friend what I heard and later that day after I went home she walked back up to the cemetary and saw flowers in pots stacked up in the shape of a pyramid that was huge and overbearing near a headstone. She said she knew right away that was the one being complained about. LOL...
Posted 20 May 2003 - 03:21 PM
i have never really heard a ghost speak. i want to but i think it would freak me out too much.[/glow]
Posted 20 May 2003 - 03:40 PM
Posted 20 May 2003 - 07:35 PM
I know what you are talking about when you mention feeling spirits, I have only recently had a few times where they spoke audibly to me also. Cemeteries are good places to research, I have a couple near me that seem to "call out" to me when I pass by. I have had results at these cemeteries. For me, the spirits are much stronger at night, or in the dark. Is it the same for you? Just curious.
Old business buildings, theatres, historic old mansions would seem a logical place to look. Personally the haunted Wayne theatre is one of the most active buildings that I have had the opportunity to visit. I suspect the spirits see the place as it once was and are pursuing the same pleasures there that they did in life. Just speculation.
Posted 21 May 2003 - 05:00 AM
Posted 21 May 2003 - 05:14 AM
You probably didn't look forward too much to your rounds at the seed building! LOL I am sure the spirits had alot of fun at your expense. Armed with what you now know it would be an interesting investigation indeed if you could get back there.
The Wayne theatre was built early in the vaudeville era and has a rich history as a speakeasy. Originally it had an attached hotel and bowling alleys in the basement, probably where the drinks were served. It is in the process of restoration at present. The projection booth and the basement where the actors had their rooms are extremely active. The orchestra pit is also interesting. Anyone interested can go to the "Links" section of my web site and find the link to the Wayne theatre. I love that place! ;D
Posted 21 May 2003 - 05:22 AM
I will check out your link on your site for sure. Do you think that the renovation is possibly stirring up even more activity? Can you get in now? Also, were there many documented deaths there? With that type of history I'm sure there must have been, violent too.
Oh yeah, I'm sure they had tons of fun with me there!! They played me like a cheap violin!!LOL ;D
Posted 21 May 2003 - 12:07 PM
I believe it was at the start of the renovations that activity was noticed, if I am remembering it correctly that would indeed make sense.
There was at least one death that I know of. A stage hand fell out of the overhead and died on the stage; However, with the colorful history there are probably more that met their demise at the theatre, or the attached hotel. I do have some shots of the Wayne on my site where we were interacting with spirits in the basement and on the stage. They closed it up for the winter, but I am sure we will revisit the place sometime this summer. I've been there twice and its never disappointing!
Posted 21 May 2003 - 12:22 PM
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Posted 24 May 2003 - 01:17 PM
I have not visited a cemtary in the dark in a long, long time but I am sure that they would make themselves loud and clear at night. :o
I have heard them mostly in the daytime. But the spirits I saw were at night and when I was visited by a spirit it was at night.
Posted 26 May 2003 - 09:17 AM
Posted 26 May 2003 - 06:00 PM
As a whole we know so little about whats beyond the dark veil, we all are in the early learning stages and the only experts are dead.
I have a couple of thoughts as to why the spirits I have encountered seem stronger at night.
Perhaps, the full spectrum of daytime sun is uncomfortable to them, or perhaps they are "washed out" in the daylight so we do not perceive them. For sure our primary input to the brain is visual during the day.
Maybe at night/dark we are forced to pay attention with our other senses as vision is greatly reduced? Only a theory, what do you others think? :-/
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Saturday, July 01, 2006
My Bakerloo pattern is now in Magknits - it made the cover, go see (the photo above is a link to the pattern itself).
As I've written before, this ended up being a rather emotional project. I came up with the idea so I could make a pair of socks with a piano keyboard on them for my dad for Father's Day.
But only days after I'd swatched he was diagnosed with cancer, and he died only weeks later. This is why the piano ones were done in a cashmere blend, they were bed-socks while he was ill.
20 comments:
- gleek said...
very very cool! i love the construction of these socks. it's so different and challenging. congrats on another magknits pattern!
- Saturday, July 01, 2006
- Kelly said...
They are truly amazing Alice - another triumph!
I am very tempted to give these beauties a try...
- Saturday, July 01, 2006
- Amy said...
Oh, Alice, they look wonderful! Congrats on making the cover, too, by the way. I may have to try them, but I'm still muddling through (slowly but surely) the love me knots. =)
- Saturday, July 01, 2006
- Agnes said...
Wonderful pattern ... I love it! The pair you showed with this post are nice too!
- Saturday, July 01, 2006
- purl pirate said...
Oh Alice, the thought of your Dad wearing the beautiful socks you made with such love and care is making me smile sadly.
- Saturday, July 01, 2006
I love that pattern - so different
- Saturday, July 01, 2006
- noblinknits said...
The pattern looks very interesting and a fun twist on socks making (I'm a toe upper by the way). Well done on publishing such a personal item. I'm sure your dad really appreciated them.
- Sunday, July 02, 2006
- Gina said...
Congratulations on the cover. In light of it all, it is rather bittersweet, but I hope you can find some joy in it. Lovely pattern.
- Monday, July 03, 2006
Oh I love the piano socks!
Now that I know the story, I MUST make them.
When my Dad was in the Hospital for the Last
Time...I made him a pair of sideways socks to warm his feet, which were always dreadfully cold.
After he died, my Mother sent me back the socks.
I hold them sometimes, and it helps with the
Missing Him So Much.
Congrats on making the COVER of Magknits!
- Monday, July 03, 2006
- Pig wot flies said...
What a brilliant and beautiful pattern. Well done.
- Monday, July 03, 2006
Hi Alice,
Wonderful pattern again! I'm so sorry about your dad, but I'm sure these socks were a great comfort to him.
I also knit your Rosalind scarf for my husband. Great pattern! I cannot wait to knit a couple more in different color combinations.
- Monday, July 03, 2006
- Kathy said...
I am so very sorry about your dad. The Bakerloo's are incredible. They are SO piano keyboard like. A real tribute to your father. Congrats on the Magknits publication. I'll go take a look
- Monday, July 03, 2006
I love that tute - its such an unusual idea.
But the Bakerloo line? Hate it!
- Monday, July 03, 2006
- Scoutj said...
Oh I love them.
- Tuesday, July 04, 2006
- Susan said...
Bakerloo revealed! Finally! This is just the pattern that may entice me to try another pair of socks. I am mightily impressed.
- Thursday, July 06, 2006
- jinny said...
I want to make these socks, but the charts are no longer available through magknits. :(
- Wednesday, April 09, 2008
- Alice said...
Sorry Jinny, I've not had time to put them up online yet. I'm EXTREMELY busy at the moment. Try googleing 'sidewinders' for a similar pattern.
- Wednesday, April 09, 2008
- invertir en oro said...
I may have to try them, but I'm still muddling through (slowly but surely) the love me knots
- Tuesday, August 23, 2011
- muebles en asturias said...
Pretty effective piece of writing, thanks for the post.
- Sunday, October 09, 2011
- www.e3d.es said...
Thanks so much for this article, quite effective piece of writing.
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Manchester United have staggered the representatives of Benfica defender Ezequiel Garay after promising the Argentine star an annual salary of €7 million, Goal can reveal.
Old Trafford officials have held informal talks with those close to the 26-year-old centre-half over a contract worth €132k-a-week that would represent a significant rise on his current deal at the Portuguese club, with David Moyes keen to bolster his backline following a number of injuries to Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic last season.
Reports claim that the Premier League champions are willing to pay up to €20m for the former Real Madrid star, but Goal understands that the clubs have not yet held formal talks over a potential transfer.
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Concerns have mounted at United over the squad's strength in depth in the centre of defence, with Ferdinand and captain Vidic - who hasn't travelled on the club's pre-season tour due to suffering from sciatica, both having been hampered with injuries in recent years.
Meanwhile Chris Smalling, seen by many at the club as a long-term successor to Ferdinand, made only 15 league appearances for the champions last term, and also missed out on the club's trip to Asia and Australasia with an ongoing foot problem.
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As the seemingly endless procession filed into St. Peter's on Thursday, October 11, an audience of global dimensions caught its first glimpse, by television, of the Second Vatican Council. It also received a forecast of what the Council's course will be.
Cardinal Léger had summed it up in a statement made for newspapermen in Montreal before he left for Rome: "To grasp fully what will happen at the next Council, it is necessary to consider it in terms of the modern world." In the face of a changing world, the Canadian prelate predicted, "the Council will affirm that it is the will of the Church to meet new needs so that it may fulfill its mission of salvation." What this spectacle of bishops drawn from a hundred lands and every race and color furnished was a graphic index of the problems posed by the very complexity and diversity, yet growing movement toward unity in today's world.
Gathering within the Vatican's precincts, these "fathers" of the Council were a living cross section of contemporary history. As one gazed about he might read, for instance, the troubled story of communism's threat in the strong countenance of Poland's Cardinal Wyszynski, the slow pace of exiled Chinese Cardinal Tien or the bowed head of Bishop Hamvas—the first member of the Hungarian hierarchy to reach Rome in 14 years. The emerging nations also had their story told, in the persons of towering Cardinal Rugambwa, Bishop Kiwanuka and other representatives of the relatively new Churches in Africa. And on every side, one saw the impress of the Americas, with more than 300 bishops on hand from Canada and the United States, and almost twice that number from the heavily Catholic nations of Latin America.
But the personnel of the Council at its opening session mirrored more than the diversity of the family of man. The number alone, compared with that assembled at any previous Council, pointed to another highly significant fact about our changing world. For just as there were almost three times as many bishops present as assisted at the start of the First Vatican Council, so the world's population today far exceeds that of 1869.
More importantly, much of this growth has taken place in recent decades. Indeed, an estimated 600 million out of the present total of 3.1 billion men on earth were born in the past dozen years. And, with the exception of Latin America, the greatest rate of increase has been in lands where Catholics are proportionately few. One man in every three, at the present moment, dwells somewhere behind the Iron Curtain. Yet Catholics account for less than six per cent of that vast mass, and the chances for widespread conversions are slim indeed. More striking still is the estimate that the countries of Asia, in which only four out of a hundred persons are now Catholics, will number one out of every two human beings alive in the year 2000.
This, then, is surely a Council which cannot content itself with looking to the past. Written across the brow of the composite image of the Council projected by those rows of prelates seated in the central church of Christendom was an awareness that it must embrace, in Cardinal Léger's words, "the interests of all men who believe in man and the moral values that make men great." Hence, too, as a Council for our times it can be expected to take up mankind's overarching concerns: "world peace; co-operation among unequally developed peoples; the growth of population; the liberty of man in today's political, economic and social context."


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VIZIO Internet Apps Plus currently offers instant, on-screen access to Netflix, Amazon Instant Video (just not the 4K version—yet), iHeartRadio, Hulu Plus, Spotify, YouTube and more. The most recent additions include Plex for organizing and streaming personal media, as well as AirCastLive, which also allows users to send videos or photos from any smartphone to the big screen.
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My entire life is a lie. Well, that's not completely true. See, I just lied. It's probably because ever since childhood, we adults have been lied to our entire lives.
Okay, so I still refuse to believe that Pluto is not a planet. George Washington never chopped down a cherry tree. And the Civil War wasn't a war to free the slaves. Whether in school or at home, kids are just told certain things to make learning easier. Maybe they're not the most blatant lies, but more a stretching of the truth. Regardless, a white lie is a lie.
So why do we lie to our kids? And don't tell me you don't. Everyone has lied to their kids at some point. Maybe we do it because their minds aren't developed enough to understand the full concept of some things. Or maybe we do it because it's just easier that way.
Since the average U.S. adult lies roughly 29 percent of the time (See, I just made that up. I lied. Again. It's so easy!), we're doing our kids a favor by lying to them. We're inadvertently teaching them that lying is a part of life, and the sooner they can accept it, the better.
Here's a look at 10 Big Fat Lies We All Tell Our Kids.
- It doesn't matter if you win or lose, it's how you play the game. Yeah, right. So why do we even keep score? No baseball player's getting a 10-year contract valued at $280 million for just playing a good game.
- Fictional characters. Santa Claus. The Easter Bunny. The Tooth Fairy. We make up these elaborate stories about mythical characters because ... well, it's just too darn easy to fool the little buggers.
- This will hurt me more than it'll hurt you. Yeah, the kids aren't buying this one either.
- Work hard in life and you'll get far. Sure, if by "work hard," you mean walking. That's about the only way you'll get anywhere. The older you get, the more you realize how true it is that it's not what you know, it's who you know.
- Stop touching that or your palms will get hairy. No, really? Parents don't STILL say that, do they?
- We sent Fluffy upstate to run around a huge farm. Dog, cat, fish, whatever. Whenever a family pet dies, nobody wants to tell the kids. So they're always sent off to some huge farm far away. That must be one ginormous farm if everyone's pet is there!
- It's what's on the inside that matters. That's what we apparently tell all the ugly kids.
- There's nothing to be scared about. Have you seen what college tuition is going to cost when your kids are old enough?!?
- Mommy and daddy were just wrestling. But how come on TV, the athletes all wrestle with their clothes on?
- Cheaters never win. Unless you're Lance Armstrong ... for a little while, at least.
What lies do you tell your kids?
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What's wrong with this scene: a person gets home from work, and rather than turn on his 46-inch TV to watch video, he finds himself instead watching the palm-sized screen on his smart phone.
That's the scenario New York Times technology writer Nick Bilton described in a recent article in the newspaper's Bits section. Why? Because turning on his television, receiver and set-top-box is just waaay too hard and time consuming for him.
His point I think was that iPods and iPads offer easy short-cuts to an online entertainment world, but TVs with their tricky big screens only offer more confusion and time spent staring at media guides.
Well, he's right on a few things. Some products could use a lot of improvement in their onscreen presentation—he could try a TiVo, but he doesn't want cable and complains that a TiVo would just give him more buttons to worry about.
The gist of the article was to berate TV makers for not making better online experiences. I guess he didn't go to CES this year. The biggest theme among all TV makers for 2012 was smart TV. Both Samsung and LG showed voice-controlled features. Samsung even added gesture control. All the major TV makers are competing for the hottest online experience with expanded app stores and more personalization. Panasonic has so many fitness apps that I feel myself getting toned just looking at the box.
Like most people I enjoy social media, news updates and watching cats do stupid things on YouTube, but when I want to watch a TV program such as Walking Dead or a movie in its most pristine Blu-ray excellence, I use a television—a big one (sometimes I use a projector with a really big screen). I also use speakers—big ones. If you have a living room use the whole room. Don't consume your media on a product meant for commuting on a subway.
I wont even bother talking about universal remotes as solutions to his button problems (there are apps for that) because I already know New York Times writers don't know how to use them.
Bilton says the winner of the TV wars won't be won by "the size of the screen or how thin it is hanging on the wall." Well, actually it will, but I'd add picture quality to that. The number one factor in most people's TV buying decisions is picture quality. Online features, while nice, aren't at the top of the list. The best-looking displays on the market are on televisions–big ones.
While I agree with Bilton that much in the TV product world could be better, and that the prospect of an Apple-made TV is interesting, claiming that his components are too hard to use so instead he just watches Netflix on a phone—that's just posturing. My kids know how to turn on the TV, find their recorded shows, access our Netflix account, play their video games and operate the music server. It's not too tough for them, and they're in middle school.
I'd love to see TVs work more intuitively, include more features, maybe better interfaces, but for a person to ignore the superior experience sitting right in front of him because it doesn't have a touchscreen… I don't get it.


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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Freshman Emily Ryan (Indianapolis, Ind.) finished fifth in the 500 Free during the first day of the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships being held this week in Indianapolis. Her finish helped MIT to 33 points after day one, good for seventh place overall.
Ryan swam a 4:55.62 during the morning preliminary heats, the fifth-fastest time during the preliminary session During the evening championship race she improved her time by 0.06 to 4:55.56 to claim fifth in her first NCAA Championships experience.
In the 200 IM, junior Anna Kokensparger (Omaha, Neb.) swam a 2:06.36 in the morning session that was the 14th fastest and gave her a place in the consolation finals. In that race she turned in a 2:09.13 to finish 16th overall.
MIT's 200 Medley Relay team of freshman Eann Tuan (Richardson, Texas), sophomore Calley Murphy (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Kokensparger and sophomore Christy Rogers (Bend, Ore.) missed the championship final by the slimmest of margins in the morning session, turning in a time of 1:45.41 that was 0.01 short of the championship final. In the consolation final the Engineers took the race and ninth overall with a time of 1:45.90
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Episode 7 - "Team Jones vs. Team Sonnen - His Fist on My Face" (Airs March 5, 9:00 pm e/p) - One fighter cuts loose and another alienates himself when the guys get a night out at Hooters. Josh Samman�s recurring leg pain lands him in the hospital. Cop-turned-fighter Jimmy Quinlan steps into the Octagon to face Team Jones first pick Clint Hester in the sixth Preliminary Fight.


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In February of 2011, I was given a Sony camera that was dropped in a cup of coffee. A few smacks against the wall, and the camera was mostly working. Not wanting to let the technology go to waste, I bought the cable required to get images off of the camera and an idea was born.
On March 23, 2011 the cable arrived and thus began coffee.jezra: a coffee a day photo project.
On October 9th 2011, I lost the Sony camera while celebrating after the US Nation Beard and Mustache Championships (my sideburns didn't win), and I started using a semi-working Kodak camera my sister gave me a few years ago.
On December 1st 2011, I started using a Nokia N900, which not only takes the pictures, but also resizes the image, edits the text, and uploads the text and image to my server, and backs up my images; all thanks to Linux.
On September 13th 2016, I ported the image processing scripts for my n900 to work in termux on Android/Cyanogenmod.
For everyone I've had coffee with, for everyone who I'd like to have coffee with, and for the coffee buddies that are no longer with us, this is for you.
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If you would like to support this project (as well as my various other projects), consider buying me a cup of coffee.


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Yesterday, I cooked a few dishes for lunch. Anyway I cook on a daily basis nowadays! Yeah... cooking is fun, and I never seem to get bored of it!
Lately, I find myself loving simple, fresh and fast dishes... and most importantly, they must be nourishing. Whenever possible, I would shorten the cooking time too, to keep the nutrients intact.
One of my dishes is the Mussels Salad. I roasted some small tomatoes with a dash of lemon, thyme, olive oil, and glazing them with honey. Once roasted, I blended in some well roasted tomatoes, garlic, a touch of black pepper and a pinch of salt to marinate my NZ mussels prior to cooking them for a minute in a hot oven.
I shredded some carrots, cucumber and celery, and mixed them in a big bowl with some herbs and olives - and drizzled with the juice from the roasted tomatoes.


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To Whom It May Concern: Failure, Freedom, and The Future
"We are all failures at least, all the best of us are."-J.M. Barrie
"We are all failures at least, all the best of us are."-J.M. Barrie
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Hey Tia, thanks so much for sharing that. I know how you feel. I was divorced five years ago, and it was insanely horrible. However it also created space for a hell of a lot of God's grace in my life. God was so good, and the new life He managed to bring out of that death circumstance continues to bless me every day. I've since remarried, and what I learned through my divorce has helped me to make better choices a second time around.
Take care & every blessing,
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This is BEAUTIFULLY written. Thank you so much for sharing! Don't ever take this post down. The world benefits from it.
I just found your blogs this week and have been reading for hours, so inspired and educated by what you write. I'm sad to hear of your painful divorce and the resulting feelings of failiure. You are not a failiure! You are on a journey. Keep Going!
Thanks for sharing. I love your blog and all you have to share. You are not a failure. This post is so wonderfully written- I have never been divorced- but because of your writing I felt I could get a glimpse of understanding. I sort of understand that fear that controls you until a situation becomes so unbearable that the fear of failure doesn't seem so bad anymore. I have experienced that on a smaller level. Thank you for writing and sharing and letting us in on your life. I hope that life continues to get better.
Tia, still here 4 u.
Thanks for your vulnerability and so sorry for your pain; hang in there and press on; I concur with whomever asked you not to quit your blog....missed them greatly...
Girrl, I feel you. I just pasted the following into my FB status. So glad I found your blog, keep writing!
"...finding the courage to tell a complicated truth when living a much simpler lie seemed kinder and more convenient for everyone..."
Sometimes just a sentence or phrase is enough. Read that one in a very personal blog post today, and thought how true it is.
I am one more person who has found your site. You do have a gift with words. Thank you for sharing your pain. Your sharing will continue to help others. You have no idea who will find you site and learn, grow, find someone to connect with, from your words.
I have read your posts off and on since I started blogging a few years ago. Thank you for this. I would like to link to it from a post I am writing. It has taken me 27 years to realize "failure" isn't the scariest boogie man in the closet. Blessings to you and looking forward to more honest posts!
You have more courage than all the smarmy-hunky-dory-everything's-fine-Bible-in-your-face evangelicals combined. And friends who ditched you over a divorce? They were never your friends to begin with. True friends are just that; true. They don't ditch you over religion, politics, sexual orientation, or any other whatever one can come up with.
You are a gifted writer and the Christian blogosphere is all the better for it. Please don't stay away for long. You have much people cheering for you.
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natty dread wrote:Ok, I've been thinking about this for a while...
While it's true that the bonus areas have a differing amount of borders, this isn't really such a big issue due to the bonus structure. That said, I think connecting North Sea to Uxmal instead of Dziblahblah would be ok.
I think more pressing issue is Tikal and Palenque being in such a central position. Tikal however has most of a trade route in it's area which grows it's bonus by 3. That only leaves Palenque, and I'm not sure what to do about it, if anything - all I can think of is, I could remove the bridge between Bonampak & Yaxchixclax to make it a bit less exposed.
I was thinking make Palenque and Tikal have a bigger bonus area to make up for being in between all the other capitals. Plus tikal is connected to 3 other colored areas while every other is only connected to 2. Tikal, while having the most trading routes, is still the most vulnerable making the routes not a very good option.


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EAST WENATCHEE Douglas County Public Utility District Commissioner Lynn Heminger has announced he will not seek re-election next year.
"It has been an honor and privilege to serve the people of Douglas County as a PUD commissioner for nearly 23 years at this point. When my current term expires in a little over a year, it will be time to let someone else lead the district in a conservative, consistent manner," he said.
In other business at Monday's meeting, commissioners approved a three-year, $110,000 contract with ecologist Tracy Hillman, of Redmond-based BioAnalysts Inc. He will serve as chairman of the Wells Habitat Conservation Plan Tributary Committee.
The tributary committee decides which restoration projects to fund along the Columbia River, from Wells Dam to Chief Joseph Dam and the tributaries in between, including the Okanogan and Methow basins.
Utility commissioners will next meet at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the district's headquarters, 1151 Valley Mall Parkway.
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CHOOSE YOUR PATH! You become DUKE, leader of the G.I. JOE team, as he begins his journey to become a Real American Hero! You make the life or death decisions! Or—is Duke just being tortured horrifically at the hands of the Baroness, and this is way of dealing with it—a never-ending branching series of Might Have Beens? Or... is it both?
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Sept. 18, 2004
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - MIT opened up NEWMAC Conference play with a 2-1 win over the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in rain-soaked conditions on Saturday afternoon. Jose-Ramon Torradas paced the Engineers' (2-0-1, 1-0 NEWMAC) offense with two goals. Dan Judycki had the lone goal for the Bears (3-2, 0-1 NEWMAC).
From the opening whistle, Tech put pressure on Coast Guard's defense despite the soggy conditions. MIT got on the scoreboard 23 minutes into the first half, when Torradas connected on a pass from Walter Song. The Engineers entered halftime with a 1-0 lead and out-shot the Bears, 8-2.
Tech continued to attack in the second stanza, eventually finding success in the 76th minute. A free kick by Dan Griffith into the box went to Robert Pilawa who sent it to Jose-Ramon Torradas for the game-winning goal. Coast Guard did not back down, as Dan Judycki headed in a corner kick by Anthony Marcheski with 2:38 remaining in regulation.
In the goal, Morgan Mills collected two saves for Tech. Steven Davies had three saves in 65 minutes of play with Ryan Waitt finishing out the game for Coast Guard.
The next game for MIT will be on Saturday, Sept. 25 at 1:00 p.m. when it travels to NEWMAC foe Clark University.


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Rita Ora rocks two different outfits for her entrance and exit from the Chateau Marmont on Sunday evening (April 13) in West Hollywood, Calif.
The 23-year-old entertainer stopped by the hot spot after presenting at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards, where she ripped off Zac Efron's shirt following his win for Best Shirtless Performance.
"I am the one that holds the title for touching Zac Efron's… physique," Rita said in an interview backstage. "I was trying to think of something non rude… but from the back!"
"It was warm, soft, tender… like a chicken's thigh," Rita added when asked how it felt. "I think I'm going to get a few tweets being like, 'thank god someone had common sense.' But I mean, when you have a speech like that, you can't really have a speech. You just have to take your top off."
Rita Ora on Zac Efron's Physique: 'Warm, Soft, & Tender!'
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Barley prices closed higher by 0.18 per cent on Friday at the National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Limited as a result of strong demand from beer and cattle-feed making industries against restricted supply in physical markets. At the NCDEX, barley futures for April 2016 contract closed at Rs. 1,391.50 per quintal, up by 0.18 per cent, after opening at Rs. 1,388 against the previous closing price of Rs. 1,389. It touched the intra-day high of Rs. 1,393.
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Salinas Police said the male pedestrian was originally in the Sherwood Gardens Shopping Center when he attempted to run eastbound across North Main Street near the intersection at Iris Drive.
He nearly made it to the other side but was struck by a pickup truck traveling northbound. The victim sustained major injuries and was given CPR at the scene.
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You better redneckognize! TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras spinoff Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is a bona fide hit, with ratings soaring higher than its already impressive premiere episode. According to Nielsen, the fourth episode of the show drew an audience of almost 3 million, a 30 percent spike from last week's 2.3 million viewers. (To put it in perspective, a really good episode of Real Housewives—typically a premiere or a reunion—will pull in about 2 million viewers.) And people are specifically tuning in just for the Thompson family, as the ratings were double that of the show's lead-in, Toddlers & Tiaras.
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mikecorrales necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 16 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
15 year old trusted regional health-related brand needs a serious website update. The site will be mainly ecommerce-oriented; selling products on the site but will also serve to drive local customers into the store with pre-paid card purchases and compelling promotions.
DRlNK M0RE WATER
We are a purified water store where people bring bottles in and we
refill them. Customers buy pre-paid water cards to save money. We also carry numerous other items such as water bottles, hydration packs, water bottle dispensers, etc. We
also carry gluten free food items for those that are gluten sensitive,
but water is the main focus, that's what pays the rent.We're operating on 100% wind power.This is a trusted name (company) that's been serving the community for 15 years. We also have a rather large presence in the event and donation arena locally.
Our ideal customer is one who wants to drink good clean drinking water
and save money while doing it. We charge less than the grocery store
for a much better product. In the area we live in, the water is
horrible, so people using point of use filters are also a target.
We have been a trusted name that's been serving the community for over fifteen years.
Our goals with the website are to inform the public about my business, Encourage
customers to both buy our products online and to encourage local people to visit our place of business.
Our current site is at drinkmoreretail.com (you can look at for content ideas but the design is BAD!) and our logo can be downloaded from here.
- The width of the site should be between 960 and 1000 pixels wide.
- If I had to choose one word that would describe the feeling I want to get across to the site visitors it would be "Healthy"
- The overall look-and feel should convey: Informative, professional, have excellent flow, and look health-oriented
- I prefer to use all Stock images
- Other sites we like include bayleys.com for its simple and effective layout (although the design is too flat-looking - we'd prefer more dimension and its too wordy on the bottom though) raceface.com, it's highly stimulative and has a dimensional (non-flat) look to it (excluding the full page intro)
- Colors I like for the design include blue and beige, but I am open to other options.
- The websites menus should contain the following sections (not necessarily in this order): Home Page, Products, FAQ, Contact Us, Locations and Map
- This is important: Please do not submit designs with aliased (jagged) text. It makes it hard to judge if the design is poor or just the text is making it look hideous.
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Sometimes at Land of Holistic Pets we get asked what exactly are 'safe' herbs to give to dogs.
For thousands of years humans have used herbs in cooking and medicinally.
In fact there are many safe herbs which help promote and maintain health in the body and strengthen or boost the body's own immune system.
Herbs can give relief to underlying health issues and can even sometimes help relieve acute symptoms.
It is usual to take some sort of formulation of herbs for a particular condition like cancer or arthritis. Other formulations might aid digestion or help control skin or ear problems.
Different traditions have developed their own understanding and combinations of herbs. At Land of Holistic Pets we combine the best of eastern and western herbal traditions.
The 'safe' herbal formulations sold through the Land of Holistic Pets shop have all been carefully selected to support specific health issues. These include:
- Herbs to support liver, kidneys, bladder and heart in dogs
- Immune system support for cats and dogs
- Herbs addressing cancer in dogs and cats
- Herbs to support the digestive system
- Herbs to treat skin, coat, ear and anal gland issues
- Herbs for hip and joint problems in dogs
- Thyroid and diabetic support herbs
- Herbs to help calm dogs and cats
- Dog and cat detox herbs
Take a further look at our introduction to herbs where we examine the wisdom of herbal pet care.
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BUFFALO --Sometimes football truly is, as coach Joe Philbin says, not that difficult a game.
Much of it is as simple as blocking and tackling.
And so if you're wondering why the Buffalo Bills, a team that is the worst in the NFL at stopping the run, could stop the Dolphins Thursday night, all you have to do is look at the blocking and tackling.
The Bills tackled and they beat the Dolphins off blocks.
It wasn't any exotic scheme that helped the Bills. It wasn't a team stacking the tackle box against Reggie Bush that limited Miami to only 60 rushing yards and 2.5 yards per carry.
It was the Bills simply beating the Dolphins physically up front.
"You got to give credit to them. They did a good job up front," said quarterback Ryan Tannehill. "They weren't bringing safeties down. They did a good job of shedding blocks and making tackles.There were a few times I turned around and there was really just nowhere to run. And that's with no safeties being in there. So you have to credit their front seven for doing a good job of making it difficult to run."
So, as I told Tannehill, what he's saying is the Bills were winning up front. They were beating the Miami blocking up front.
"For some of the game, yeah," Tannehill said. "We just couldn't get things going."
That's it. In a nutshell.
The team that was giving up an average of 163.7 yards per game on the ground coming into this game beat the Dolphins physically up front.
And that leads me to this question:
How is it that an offensive line with a first-round pick at left tackle, a first-round pick at center, a second-round pick at right tackle, a third-round pick at right guard and a guy who was signed as a free agent solution a couple of years ago at right guard get beat physically?
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Hello everyone. We are inviting bits for the development of a web based peer to peer platform similar to Ebay but focusing on single (niche) category e.g. electronics.
Like Ebay users should be able to create a personal customisable online store through witch they advertise products for sale in predefined subcategories (e.g. TVs, DVDs, phones, etc)
Unlike Ebay the products will be sold at a fixed price only. This will NOT be an auction site. Online shoppers should be able to browse listings by going directly to an online store or following links sorted in categories and subcategories.
Online stores should have the option to feature their online store or feature individual products (e.g. top ranking in the category the product belongs).
We are aiming to make this a safe and secure environment. Only verified and authenticated businesses will be granted permission to create an online shop. Businesses will first have to make an online application to upgrade from a normal account. Only once admin have verified details and granted permission should the business online store come into existence and able to sell products. The security will be further enhanced to the feedback and grading system.
The website revenue will be based on cost charged towards subscription fees, listing adverts and commission on sales. We therefore need a robust system in place to do such calculations. The online store should also be able to view details such as total sales (daily/monthly/etc) and amounts due.
If this project is a challenge that you would like to take on we would like to hear from you.
The application should be easily scalable with a good database architecture. We are looking for a quick start. I believe you would like the development process broken into stages and the payments spread accordingly into instalments. Our intention is to have the user interface designed at the initial stage. A good example for website in terms of user interface and features would be Airbnb.
Before the final instalment is paid out we would require the site to be fully implemented on our service ( we plan to use Amazon Web Services Cloud). We will then put the site through rigorous testing (via third party) who will test the application for errors, bags, stress and security. Once all known issues are rectified we will then go on to make the final set of payments.
Other websites that this project will draw sinspiration from are Ebay, Amazon, Airbnb (front end and features of a site).
Please reply back with as much detail about yourself and your company, time scale for completion and the projects you have done in the past.
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Middle East construction firms must invest more in safety, says industry expert
The booming Middle East construction industry needs to invest more in safety to prevent fatal accidents and injuries, and save money as well as lives, an industry expert says. Paul Redstone, Regional Operations Manager, Middle East, for Bovis Lend Lease, said that construction companies and workers must share the responsibility to make building sites safer.
Redstone, who addressed one of the seminars during last week's Big 5 PMV exhibition at Airport Expo Dubai, highlighted the Build Safe Dubai initiative now being driven by a group of like-minded consultants and contractors to try and champion change, share best practice and set an example about what can be achieved in terms of building safely.
"We feel that there are actually good regulations here, it's just that it's such a saturated construction market," he said. "It's almost unfeasible to actually have the government bodies enforce it. It's the responsibility of all project stakeholders, and workers, to create safe environments on their projects.
"This is not as simple as it sounds, so we talk to the contractors who are facing challenges to share best practice with them. We also try to reinforce to clients that it really is worthwhile to enforce safety. The experience of the biggest contractors in this group is that safety saves time and money on a project overall. So we are trying to get that message across."
Redstone said the impact of poor safety measures varies from project to project. "We had a study done which looked at fatalities globally," he said. "It's hard to compare places, as fatalities in different parts of the world have different costs associated with them. But once you stop work on a project, by the hour it can cost tens to hundreds to thousands of dollars, depending on the size of the project.
"In one specific project it was estimated that if one worker dies on site, and that site stops for 12 hours, along with the investigations that follow on, it could cost the project at least US $816,877 (AED 3 million); and it was not a particularly large project.
"If you have an accident, a great deal of executive time goes into investigations, court cases and compensation, and there are so many smaller elements that take time and money."
Redstone says a wide range of factors contribute to accidents on building sites in this region. "The major physical cause relates to falls of people or materials from height," he explained. "Also, many workers don't have sufficient awareness of the seriousness of the risks that face them every day.
"Many labourers are from backgrounds that aren't connected to construction and are put into construction positions because the supply of really skilled labour just cannot meet the demands here. Dubai standards are actually improving at a faster rate than the West improved their safety standards from, say, the 1950s through to the 1990s, but there is still a perception that, 'this is how we used to do it and that is still okay."
Redstone added: "There is a clear focus on health and safety from government level that needs to cascade through the supply chain. Regulators have pushed a change and we are waiting to see just exactly what that change holds. We want to be part of this change and this is how we're going to give it a try. "My expectation is that we can get companies across the industry involved and create a real awareness of the importance of health and safety.
"We have a member's charter that states that each signatory organisation believes that every worker has the right to an injury-free work place, and all stakeholders will work together to ensure local safety regulations are followed."
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I agree that education is all about the children, after all, they are the ones we serve, both as individuals and as communities. Those children we send into our educational system, whether it be public, private or home schooled are indeed what a great education is about. But at some point we gave up our dignity as educators. We got so infatuated with believing that it is all for the children that we forgot that we need decent work environments to sustain us. That we need to be a little bit about ourselves as well.
The quickest retort to any educator who stands up and fights for change is "You are against the children." We are not allowed as teachers to ask for better pay, because some believe that the money will then be taken away from the students. We are not allowed to ask for respect in a profession that gives little otherwise, because teachers are public servants funded by the tax payers and we should just be happy that we have a job. We are not allowed to point out that we do work more than 8 to 3 every day and most of us do not get the summers off because that doesn't fit with the box that society has created for us as lazy, indulgent, and taking an easy job. But most of all, we are not allowed to say that yes, indeed, it is about the children, but it is also about the teachers.
As teachers we cannot be all about the children if we do not have work environments that support and nurture us. Communities that rally around us. Governments willing to pay us a better wage. If we fight for change we must not be for the children, but instead selfish and demanding. However, those children that we all serve, deserve to have teachers that don't need to work an extra job on top of the 60 hours many of us put in. Teachers that do not spend their own money on extra supplies because otherwise the students will suffer. Teachers that are respected because they do make it all about the children. So yes, I agree, education is all about the children but it also about those teachers that prop them up to be the leaders of tomorrow.


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April 11, 2009
WORCESTER, Mass. - MIT's varsity heavyweight crew defeated Trinity College, Williams College and WPI to take home the Donahue Cup for the third consecutive year. The Engineers, ranked No. 20 in the latest USRowing Collegiate Poll, dominated from the start en route to the win.
The cup is traditionally contested between Williams, WPI and MIT. When Trinity joined the competition this year, the race became a showdown between the three top-ranked New England Division III crews (No. 1 Trinity, No. 2 Williams and No. 3), plus MIT. The Engineers faced stiff competition from all these crews. Williams had won the 2008 Head of the Charles in the collegiate division, and Trinity was ranked 18th among all American college crews.
In the event on Saturday, it was no contest. MIT started fast and led the entire way. The Engineers held off a determined finishing charge by Trinity to cross the line in 5:50.3, followed by Trinity (5:52.55), Williams, (5:53.86) and WPI (6:03.55).
MIT's freshman crew remained undefeated, beating Trinity by nearly four seconds, despite catching a crab and breaking a rigger 250 meters before the finish line.


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The daughters of a mentally ill man shot by police on Christmas Day have cried as they recalled learning of his death from a text message.
Jane Cowie and Rebecca Collis were at home at Lisarow on the NSW central coast on December 25, 2009, when their father Ian Cowie was shot three times in the lounge room, after allegedly pointing a knife at an officer.
On day two of the inquest into the 46-year-old's death, Glebe Coroner's Court heard that although the daughters had been taken to Gosford police station after the shooting, no one had told them of his death.
Ms Cowie, who was 18 at the time, said she and her mother were at the police station when she received a text from her boyfriend informing her of media reports mentioning her father's death.
"So you found out by text?" Coroner Sharon Freund asked.
"Yes," Ms Cowie replied.
"No one told us that my dad had passed away. We found it on the internet," Ms Collis said.
"There was no one liaising with you about the welfare of your dad?" counsel assisting assisting the coroner Mark Higgins asked.
"No," she replied.
The inquest heard that the women had arrived at the family home at around 5pm on Christmas Day and were met by police, who told them complaints had been made about Mr Cowie throwing rocks into a neighbour's house.
Inside, their father, who had a history of mental illness including depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder, was distressed and pacing back and forth.
"He just kept saying, `I haven't done anything wrong. Can you tell them to go away,'" Ms Cowie told the inquest.
The inquest heard how Mr Cowie became increasingly agitated and angry, threatening to put a "10-inch knife" into police and telling them to get off his property .
Outside, Senior Constable Bradley Owen told Mrs Cowie, "It's okay, we are going to call for backup. We will take him to hospital."
When a third officer, Senior Constable Neil Prest, arrived, he had a baton in his hand, both daughters said.
They said he came to the front door holding the baton in his right hand and hitting his left hand with it.
The inquest heard that neither woman had mentioned the hitting motion in previous statements.
"After that, it all just got out of control," Ms Cowie said.
The inquest has heard that after using capsicum spray on Mr Cowie, the officers pursued him into the kitchen where he grabbed a carving knife and pointed it at Sen Const Prest, following the officer into the lounge room.
Fearing for his life, Sen Cons Prest shot him twice, with Sen Const Owen firing a third shot.
The inquest continues.


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UConn gives Stanford women bitter lesson
Tara VanDerveer arrived at Stanford in 1985 during the Reagan administration, in the year of New Coke, Duran Duran and Joe Montana's Super Bowl win over Dan Marino.
She's seen a lot in 27 seasons, but she'd never witnessed something like the Cardinal's 61-35 loss to Connecticut. Never seen her team thrashed so badly on its homecourt. Never seen the Cardinal held to a program low in both field goals and field goal percentage.
The fact that Stanford entered Saturday's game against mighty UConn as the No.1 ranked team in the country made it even more embarrassing.
"To be so ineffective in so many areas of our game is extremely disappointing," VanDerveer said. "Extremely frustrating."
Before Saturday, Stanford had won 82 straight games at Maples. The Cardinals' last home loss was an NCAA Tournament second-round game against Florida State in 2007, when Bill Walsh was among those in the stands. Most of VanDerveer's current players were in middle school at the time of that loss.
But VanDerveer wasn't concerned about having the streak ended. Or recording the worst home defeat since a 96-51 loss to Long Beach State in 1983 back when Dotty McCrea was the coach. What the Hall of Fame coach was primarily concerned about was how terribly her team played.
"We really struggled," she said. "Call it a measuring stick, but we were really exposed in a lot of different ways."
What Stanford was exposed as was a one-player team. UConn doubled and tripled junior Chiney Ogwumike, limiting her touches and frustrating her looks. She finished with 18 points, and every one of them was a battle. Without her fluid scoring, Stanford looked lost. Ogwumike was 6-of-22 from the floor. The rest of the team combined to shoot 5-of-35, totaling a horrific 19.3 percent from the floor.
When asked if she liked her team's choice of shots, VanDerveer said, "I liked the first one." The bucket by Joslyn Tinkle put Stanford up 2-0, its only lead of the game.
It's been a long time since Stanford was so reliant on a single player. A year ago, Ogwumike was the counterpart to her sister, Nneka. A year earlier, Nneka Ogwumike teamed with Kayla Pedersen and Jeanette Pohlen. Those three overlapped Jayne Appel. Appel formed the core with Candice Wiggins. Before that it was Wiggins and Brooke Smith.
There have always been other players to make Cardinal opponents pay for the double team. But against the second-ranked Huskies, Tinkle and Amber Orrange - the other two Stanford players scoring in double figures this season - all but disappeared.
"If I had a better lineup, I would have played it," VanDerveer said. "There's not a princess coming in on a white horse. This is who we have."
The good news is that it's December and the Cardinal have run through a gantlet of high-powered teams. The bad news is that they enter the Pac-12 season next week unclear of whether they're the scrappy team that upset Baylor or the lost team that was overwhelmed by UConn.
"The question is valid," VanDerveer said. "What team are we?"
They're definitely not the 2010 Stanford team. Two years ago, UConn came to Maples with a 90-game winning streak and left distraught after Pohlen, Pederson and Nneka Ogwumike handed the Huskies a loss. Though the players who were on that UConn team were motivated not to leave with the same feeling, this game wasn't really about payback.
"Two years ago, it was a national event, but I don't think tonight was a national event," said Geno Auriemma, who was greeted with boos by the Maples crowd. "For us to win a game here in late December, it's no more than just a big game against a really good team. I didn't get all that excited about us winning 90, so I'm not going to get that excited about us beating someone who's won 82 at home."
Auriemma was concerned with how his young team would react to a sold-out road environment. He shouldn't have been. Though UConn was not offensively brilliant (shooting 37.5 percent), its defense smothered the Cardinal. VanDerveer had said that if her team turned the ball over against the Huskies, it would be "like bleeding in a shark tank." And it ended up being a feeding frenzy: Stanford had 14 turnovers; UConn scored 15 points off the chum.
UConn will rise to the top spot in the polls, and it looks like a complete team, one that will contend for a championship in New Orleans in April. Baylor fans still think that their team's loss to Stanford was a fluke and that the Bears should repeat as national champions. The jury is still very much out on Stanford.
"They're both great teams, and we have to decide if we're going to be a great team," VanDerveer said.
Buried within the bitter defeat is a lesson. Two years ago, UConn used its loss at Maples Pavilion to fuel it the rest of the season. This Maples humiliation might fuel Stanford.
"When you lose the way Stanford lost today, it's got to be very difficult," Auriemma said. "But come March, they'll look back on this game and think, 'Hey, we grew a lot from this game. We learned a lot.' That's my guess as to what's going to happen."
Stanford can only hope its nemesis is right.
Ann Killion is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @annkillion


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Elizabeth Joy Smith, age 58, of Oak Ridge, died Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, at the Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.
Elizabeth Joy Smith, age 58, of Oak Ridge, died Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, at the Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.
She was born May 8, 1954, in Oak Ridge, the daughter of James and Wanda Willey Summers.
Mrs. Smith was a homemaker and had worked for 20 years as a teacher's assistant at Woodland Elementary School. She was a long-time member of New York Avenue Church of Christ. She was a wonderful and loving wife and mother and the type of person everyone would like to have as a friend.
She is survived by her husband of 39 years, Stanley Theron Smith; daughter, Lacey A. Smith; son, Theron Christopher Smith of Wisconsin; and sister, Susan Shular and husband, Gary, of Knoxville.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, at New York Avenue Church of Christ. The funeral will follow at 8 p.m.
A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday at Oak Ridge Memorial Park.
The family asks that any memorials be in the form of contributions to New York Avenue Church of Christ, 219 New York Ave., Oak Ridge, TN 37830.
Weatherford Mortuary is handling the arrangements. An online guest book can be signed at www.weatherfordmortuary.com.


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