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Guest Post:
Development of Helen as a Heroine:
One of the questions I get asked a
lot is, "Why do you write YA?" and I always give a complicated three part
answer. This may not seem to have
anything to do with the development of Helen as a Heroine, but in a way it does, Bear with me.
off, YA fans are the best. I'm not
pandering by saying this—it's just a simple fact. YA fans are the best. When a teenager loves
your book she loves it all the way down to the ground, and no matter how many
other books she reads over the course of her lifetime, your book will always be
special to her. That's an enormous honor
for a writer, and I take it very seriously.
second reason I write YA is because I love fantasy and sci-fi, known
collectively as "genre fiction", and for the past few years while it's been
trendy, YA has been extremely accepting of it.
Adult literature has almost never been accepting of genre, because in
general, it doesn't sell well. My theory
is that most people stop reading fantasy when they go off to college. They're told that it's childish and inferior
to real literature and most people put their fantasy books away, shamefaced, and
try to act cultured. For the time being,
YA allows me the opportunity to write in the genre that I love.
third reason I love writing YA is because of the heroines. Just yesterday I was flipping through
channels, dodging work, and I came across the movie Brave. I saw Brave when it came out, and although I think
the movie has its flaws, I still got sucked into the story yet again. I got sucked in because of the heroine. There's something magical to me about watching
a young woman learn who she is, then to watch her test her limits, and finally stand
up for herself no matter what the cost.
first time a woman must go through this process of self-realization she's
usually a teenager. It's so intense, and
the emotions are so deep, that we all remember this time more clearly than any
other in our lives. But here's the
kicker. It's not the only time a woman goes through this
process. Who we are never stays
put. Sometimes when I think back on my
life, I think of it in stages that all seem so different from each other it's
almost as if I've lived several lives.
It's been a long time since I was a teenager, but I write YA because I
still feel deeply connected to the process of self-realization that is so much
a part of the YA heroine's journey.
Helen starts off shy. She slouches and under-achieves, always apologizing
for who she is, because she doesn't accept herself yet. The first book, Starcrossed, is where Helen learns who she is and learns how to
accept it. In Dreamless she tests her limits, and even though she is pushed well
past the point of breaking, she doesn't.
The final book, Goddess, is
where Helen has to stand up for herself, no matter what the cost. Her family can't help her. Her friends turn on her. She even has to give up a bit of herself in
order to stand up for the core of who she is.
the course of three books, Helen goes through the painful process of
self-realization, which is something that we all go through. There might not be any monsters for us to
fight, but the process is just a terrifying no matter how young or old we are, or
whether it's the first or the fifth time we've gone through it. I loved writing Helen because she was a
constant reminder to me that in order to claim ourselves we have to be like all
the best YA heroines.
have to be brave.
About Josephine Angelini
Josephine Angelini is a Massachusetts native and the youngest of eight siblings. A real-live farmer's daughter, Josie graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in theater, with a focus on the classics. She now lives in Los Angeles with her husband.
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About Goddess – the thrilling conclusion to the Starcrossed series:
After accidentally unleashing the gods from their captivity on Olympus, Helen must find a way to re-imprison them without starting a devastating war. But the gods are angry, and their thirst for blood already has a body count.
To make matters worse, the Oracle reveals that a diabolical Tyrant is lurking among them, which drives a wedge between the once-solid group of friends. As the gods use the Scions against one another, Lucas's life hangs in the balance. Still unsure whether she loves him or Orion, Helen is forced to make a terrifying decision, for war is coming to her shores.
In Josephine Angelini's compelling conclusion to the masterfully woven Starcrossed trilogy, a goddess must rise above it all to change a destiny that's been written in the stars. With worlds built just as fast as they crumble, love and war collide in an all-out battle that will leave no question unanswered and no heart untouched.
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- Starcrossed City (novella prequel to Starcrossed): Goodreads | exclusively on Josephine's website
About Starcrossed – Book 1
How do you defy destiny?
Helen Hamilton has spent her entire sixteen years trying to hide how different she is—no easy task on an island as small and sheltered as Nantucket. And it's getting harder. Nightmares of a desperate desert journey have Helen waking parched, only to find her sheets damaged by dirt and dust. At school she's haunted by hallucinations of three women weeping tears of blood . . . and when Helen first crosses paths with Lucas Delos, she has no way of knowing they're destined to play the leading roles in a tragedy the Fates insist on repeating throughout history.
As Helen unlocks the secrets of her ancestry, she realizes that some myths are more than just legend. But even demigod powers might not be enough to defy the forces that are both drawing her and Lucas together—and trying to tear them apart.
About Dreamless – Book 2
Can true love be forgotten?
As the only scion who can descend into the Underworld, Helen Hamilton has been given a nearly impossible task. By night she wanders through Hades, trying to stop the endless cycle of revenge that has cursed her family. By day she struggles to overcome the fatigue that is rapidly eroding her sanity. Without Lucas by her side, Helen is not sure she has the strength to go on.
Just as Helen is pushed to her breaking point, a mysterious new Scion comes to her rescue. Funny and brave, Orion shields her from the dangers of the Underworld. But time is running out–a ruthless foe plots against them, and the Furies' cry for blood is growing louder.
As the ancient Greek world collides with the mortal one, Helen's sheltered life on Nantucket descends into chaos. But the hardest task of all will be forgetting Lucas Delos.
Josephine Angelini's compelling saga becomes ever more intricate and spellbinding as an unforgettable love triangle emerges and the eternal cycle of revenge intensifies. Eagerly awaited, this sequel to the internationally bestselling Starcrossed delivers a gritty, action-packed love story that exceeds all expectations.
Goddess will be on Tour in May and June with a Kismet Book Tour! As a lucky reader you can enter TWO giveaways! The first giveaway, each Day you can win a copy of either Starcrossed, Dreamless or Goddess and throughout the Tour. The second, one winner will get a signed Goddess-Kindle Paperwhite.! Follow the Tour for more chances to win!!
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Tuesday, May 21st – Fiktshun – Lucas Interviews Josie
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Friday, May 24th – Supernatural Snark – Word Association
Tuesday, May 28th – Refracted Light Reviews
Wednesday, May 29th – Tales of a Ravenous Reader
Thursday, May 30th – Hobbitsies
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totally loving their new record 'watersports', who else is digging this? real volatile/spacious experimental punk and it's dancey too!
they're playing loads of UK dates this week, anyone going to see them?
yeah great band
not quite at Black Eyes level though
would love to see them live. they were supposed to be playing Leeds, the promoter + venue + supports had even been sorted, but they went elsewhere for some reason.
It's awesome, like actually
AND, we're playing with them in Manchester so really looking forward to seeing them live!
yeah i kind of think maybe they're better than black eyes in a way, certainly better at using space and being a little more subtle in their volatility. but yeah, black eyes, pretty fkn awesome
thought they were dead good
although the dude does sing like a squaking parrot. I'm not saying that's a bad thing.
keep reading the name
will check 'em out
The album is brilliant
I love the way track 2 segues into track 3, it blows my mind every time I hear it.
They were awesome at The Lexington a few weeks ago.
playing tonight in newcastlw
anyone see them in london? heard they were grin-as-wide-as-the-bar amazing
saw them on wednesday
really lovely guys too. I was proper scared doing my first interview with them and then they let me go out for dinner with them :D
Possibly my favourite new band of 2009. The album's incredible and I've ended up seeing them twice so far. They were amazing at The Lexington, and even better at The Macbeth last week.
i interviewed daniel a while back, he was so rad
I say yes.
saw them yesterday in Helsinki. Great stuff, great sound, awesome reverb on everything. There was an australian support "My Disco", they were really really good as well.
My Disco are absolutely incredible
blew me away at their leeds shows. shame only 7 people paid in to see them.
TIGHT! loved the heavy guitar antics as well!
horrible band
ill rather listen to crappy no wave bands than them


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So you love books? You have many, adorning those shelves in one corner of your home. Do you wish if there was a better, beautiful and artistic way of displaying your book collection? If you can relate to all of the above then the 'The Narrators', an initiative by Reshma Jain, has the right recipe for you. They have just converted literary masterpieces into beautifully designed posters. So now you can have the entire text of the book in the form of a poster, decorating the walls of your home. Excited? Read on, for our interview with Reshma Jain and you can also check out a few of their works here. For the entire collection, head over to their site -here
|The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
Discovering Mumbai (DM): Hello Reshma, can you shed light on your personal background?
Reshma: I am a 35 year old single girl staying with my parents in the crazy city of Mumbai. I have been a journalist for most part of the last decade, and used to freelance for papers like Sunday Midday, Hindustan Times, Deccan Chronicle and The Hindu. Past four years I was Managing editor of a magazine called 'Marwar'. I left it in December to work on a documentary by an Austrian production house which was on surrogate mothers. That was an incredible experience.
|Reshma Jain, founder 'The Narrators'
DM: When did the idea to start 'The Narrators' occur to you?
Reshma: The Narrators was a name we stumbled upon as I was working on a book for an industrialist based in Kolkata.
DM: How did you stumble upon the idea of book posters?
Reshma: I shifted to my new house in April and my friend from Berlin gifted me a 'Pride and Prejudice' poster. I fell in love with it almost immediately. Later I had a series of housewarming parties for friends and relatives, they all would show wonderment at the poster and requested to source some for them too. My friend in Berlin Peter Morcinek, who has been wanting to collaborate with me for almost a decade now, said "Reshma, let us do it"; and we ordered the first 15 posters. Overnight they were sold, in spite of lots of people finding them expensive.
DM: Can you tell us about the process of making a book poster? How much time does it take from start to end?
Reshma: It takes anything from a week to a month because books under hundred years are copyrighted and take time. Then the design, ensuring the whole book is covered, at the moment Peters friends are designing and we source it from them, eventually we wish to design and print in house any book of your choice.
|Book Poster of The Jungle Book
DM: How are you planning to go about marketing your posters?
Reshma: That is always a tough one, being a journalist I have never been in the place of selling so now to appease someone to write on me or this venture is difficult but the uniqueness of the product has already reaped the word of mouth wonder.
Secondly my brother has a store in Raghuvanshi Mills so I plan to show some from there.
DM: How has the response been so far?
Reshma: Overwhelmingly 'wow' but most online stumblers found it expensive, but if they come home and see it, then they like it.
DM: What were the challenges in starting The Narrators? How did you overcome these challenges?
Reshma: Lack of funds and vision were the main challenge, until we decided to see…haha
|Peter Pan
DM: Can you share some memories from the journey so far?
Reshma: Made so many wonderful new book lover friends, they would come home, decide on their favourite book poster and eventually we would end up sharing many cups of tea… and books… so made some wonderful new friends.
DM: So what's the future plan for The Narrators?
Reshma: 'The Narrators' is definitely going to be an umbrella for innovation and writing. So every year I plan to launch a new product, which is completely unique.
DM: Few words about the city of Mumbai
Reshma: A city that can embrace contradictions and polarities… incredibly abundant… and painfully fast paced.
You can check out 'The Narrators' entire collection of wall posters - here


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Back in March, we heard that Guillermo del Toro was focusing on making an otherworldy Cold War romance his next film, since he has passed the PACIFIC RIM 2 directorial reins over to Steven S. DeKnight. All we knew at that time was that Sally Hawkins (pictured below) and Octavia Spencer were going to be starring in what was being described as a "mysterious, magical" story set in 1963.
Now Tracking-Board.com may have revealed what exactly this film is. According to the site, the title is THE SHAPE OF WATER, and the story is RUMORED to center on
Elisa, a mute janitor working at a lab where an amphibious man is being held captive. When Elisa falls in love with the creature, she devises a plan to help him escape with the assistance of her neighbor. The world outside of the lab, however, may prove to be more dangerous for the amphibious man than Elisa could have anticipated.
Hawkins will star as Elisa, while Richard Jenkins is in talks to play Elisa's helpful neighbor. Michael Stuhlbarg is also in talks to join them in the cast.
If Tracking-Board's description is correct, this sounds like an interesting project, and very del Toro. The official description goes like this:
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963. A mysterious and magical journey from master storyteller Guillermo del Toro.
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Visit & Names
ok, this visit was quick and easy like the rest of them. Nothing new to report, of great importance anyhow. I have gained 4 pounds since my last check up, which puts me at 2 over my starting weight. I read in one of my weekly baby email newsletters that by 5 and half months the average weight gain is about 10 pounds. So I am happy to report that I am under the average there! But, gaining those 4 pounds was too easy. I was even making a conscious effort to eat more healthy! Oh well....
My next appointment is on the 30th of this month, at which I will be taking the glucola test. It's like drinking a 12 ounce can of orange soda. It's really not too bad....but you have to drink it fast. Like over loading your body with sugar to see if you body can handle it correctly. The crappiest thing about this test is that it takes an hour to do. :( Oh, and the fact that you aren't supposed to eat for 12 hours prior...that sucks too. I will be sure to take my Harry Potter book and try to get some good reading done. :) (a little more than a month until the next book comes out!!!) Anyhow, I am sure the test will go smoothly.
I have also made my appointment for the 4-D ultrasound. I am really excited about this!! It's going to take place on the 19th of July....I think. I will have to call them back later to double check the date. I will be a little over 28 weeks, so the baby's features will be pretty much developed. And we might even get to take a peek between it's legs so we can at least narrow the name picking down by 50%.
So speaking of possible names, I will close this blog with MY latest picks of names....maybe Kevin can provide some feedback.....
(These are in no particular order.)


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Hong Kong is known for its eye-popping property prices as the land-starved special administrative region competes with New York, London and Monaco to be the place where the most expensive property in the world is found.
Now, according to various real estate experts, a property at 110 Repulse Bay Road has been crowned the priciest in the world on a per square foot basis.
The luxurious waterfront house measures 4,120 sq ft, has four bedrooms and four bathrooms, and is priced at US$87.3 million – or, approximately, US$21,200 per square foot.
It has large windows overlooking the South China Sea, an internal staircase, a master room with a walk-in closet and extra bedrooms to accommodate two domestic helpers.
According to news reports, there are a couple of other houses – one in Hollywood, the other in Mumbai – which are tagged as the most expensively priced real estate in the world.
Bel-Air mansion in Hollywood has an asking price of US$500 million. It was designed by famous architect Paul McClean, but the 74,000 sq ft mega mansion still costs a fraction of the Hong Kong villa in terms of dollars per square foot – at a mere US$6,756 per square foot, approximately.
Meanwhile, the world's most expensive house ever built is in Mumbai and is owned by billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries. Antilia, as it is known, cost a whopping US$1 billion to build – but still, the 400,000 sq ft house cost only US$2,500 per square foot.
The private home is so large that it requires a staff of about 600 to maintain it throughout the day.
London and Monaco are the other places where property prices go through the roof. According to new research by property agent Halifax, there are some impressively priced – per square foot – properties in some of London's posh areas. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea boasts some of London's priciest properties at about US$1,370 per square foot on average.
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Along with yoga's rise in popularity has come a raft of DVD and online classes offering a potentially less expensive and more convenient alternative to live, scheduled instruction. Such prerecorded offerings often focus on the fittest and most photogenic yogis, however—without the real-world masses—which may be good for education, but can be demoralizing for those who are less than perfectly toned and proficient. Enter YogaVibes, a site that offers recordings of real-world yoga classes, complete with fellow classmates in all shapes and sizes.
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My 4th Sunday Teachings for our Times lesson this month was to summarize the talks presented at the 2008 General Conference by our newly sustained Prophet, President Thomas S Monson. I found all of the talks at this year's conference to be uplifting, enriching, energizing and definitely though-provoking. President Monson's main talk, "Looking Back, Moving Forward" provided an eloquent structure to remind the brethren what a remarkable, service-driven life he has lived while looking ahead to (potentially) some themes that may become hallmarks of his Presidency: faith and family.
Click on the link to view or download the powerpoint file with the lesson (on the notes pages):
General Conference Talks by President Thomas Monson
Homework this month: Find a talk from the Conference that motivates you and email a link to a less active or lapsed member or friend not of our faith (the Conference talks are on LDS.org as well as youtube). Add 5-10 lines of your personal testimony with the link explaining why you think they might find it interesting to watch. Let them know it won't take more than 10 minutes of their time. When you've done the homework, add a note to the comments and let us know how it went.


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Burlington County�s jobless ranks inched up slightly in October to 9.2 percent as an estimated 600 more residents found themselves without work, compared with September, according to New Jersey Department of Labor estimates.
Released Monday, the county�s estimated unemployment rate rose one-tenth of a percent from the September rate of 9.1 percent. The new rate reflected an estimated 22,500 unemployed residents living in the county last month from a total eligible workforce of 244,200.
In September, an estimated 21,900 county residents were jobless from a total workforce of 240,600.
The county�s 9.2 percent unemployment rate was well above the October 2011 rate of 8.5 percent and the October 2010 rate of 8.4 percent. It also was above the October 2009 rate of 8.8 percent and October 2008�s 5.2 percent.
October was also the first unemployment rate increase since July, when the rate spiked to a record high of 9.9 percent before dropping to 9.5 percent in August and 9.1 in September.
Another hike appears likely, in large part because of the devastation that Superstorm Sandy caused. Although the storm hit New Jersey in late October, the brunt of its impact is expected to show up next month, when the November unemployment numbers are released.
James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, said that tremendous uncertainty surrounds the storm recovery and that the economic numbers likely will be dismal for the next two months at least.
�There has been lost economic output, and that�s not going to be made up,� Hughes said. �We�ll probably take a big hit in November and December in jobs data and unemployment. We should get some of it back in 2013, but we�re really dealing with uncharted territory.�
In Burlington County�s four largest towns, unemployment rates increased in Evesham, Mount Laurel and Pemberton Township but remained the same in Willingboro.
In Evesham, the rate rose from 7.5 percent in September to 7.6 percent in October. In Mount Laurel, it rose from 7.7 percent in September to 7.9 percent in October. In Pemberton Township, the rate rose from 11.4 percent to 11.6, and in Willingboro, it remained at 12.8 percent.
The numbers reflect rates that are not seasonably adjusted.
Statewide, the unadjusted rate rose from 9.2 percent to 9.4 percent in October. The change reflected 432,600 unemployed New Jersey residents, compared with 418,700 in September.
New Jersey�s adjusted rate for the month still inched down a tenth of a percent to 9.7 percent. It remained well above last month�s national unemployment rate of 7.9 percent.
New Jersey�s slow recovery from the recession is largely because of the state�s small manufacturing base and because its once-powerful pharmaceutical sector has consolidated at locations outside the state, Hughes said.
�We�re still paying the price for having a reputation as a negative business climate,� he said, adding that South Jersey�s economy and labor market in particular has been hampered by the housing market�s slow rebound.
Among New Jersey�s 21 counties, Burlington�s rate was the 11th highest and was one of 18 that increased. The rates dropped in Salem and Warren and remained unchanged in Somerset, according to the Department of Labor.
Cumberland had the highest unemployment rate at 13.3 percent; Hunterdon had the lowest at 6.7 percent.
The leisure and hospitality industry was responsible for the biggest job losses in October, about 9,700, mostly because of the loss of seasonable employment, according to the Labor Department.
The public sector shed about 2,300 state and local government jobs last month.
The biggest increase in employment last month, about 4,500 jobs, was in the construction sector.
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For a while, one of the best parts of my week would be when I received a letter from one of the ladies in jail I write with back and forth. Some are moved to other dorms in the jail where I don't visit, and some have been transferred to prison but we still communicate. Since most residents, especially in prison, can't receive visitors without a lot of paperwork and planning, writing has been an easy way to stay in contact and it gives us us both something to look forward to each week.
Over the past few weeks, I have received letters that made me cry with tears of joy as well as sorrow. One girl informed me that even though she would now be in prison for several months, she was adjusting well and focusing on who she wants to be when she gets out and how she can avoid going back to old patterns. We write about our dreams, our hopes, our fears. I tell her what I have done during the week – what has been fun and what has been hard. She tells me how she passes the time in prison and what it is like to try to keep her hopes up there.
Another girl wrote to me grieving the death of her sister, and the fact that she had to find out about her sister's death while she is in jail and cannot be with her family. She tells me what it is like to feel lonely and isolated, and how it is hard to sleep at night because she is afraid of the past and is unsure of the future.
The real gift this week came this afternoon when I met one of the women who was in the jail church service every Sunday, but now she is out and was able to meet me at a Starbucks near my office. When I pulled up, I saw a beautiful woman in a brightly colored dress sitting under an umbrella enjoying the sun. I continued to scan the patio to look for my friend, because the last time I saw her she had not been able to shower in a while, she was wearing her ill-fitted "blues" (jail attire), no make-up, and her hair was tangled and short. The woman in the sunflower dress jumped out of her seat and all but ran to hug me in the parking lot. Her shiny curly hair was bouncing alongside her silver hoop earrings. I had not even recognized her, except for her smile. I will always know that smile.
We hugged and laughed, and went into Starbucks to place our order. She had to call a friend to ask what to order because she had not ordered coffee in so long. We sat down at a table outside because she wanted to just soak it in. I obliged even though I was wearing cropped pants and it was well over 95 degrees and we had no shade. I sipped my chai and grinned from sweat bead to sweat bead as she breathlessly told me story after story about what she has done in the three weeks she has been out of jail. She kept stopping in her stories to look up at the sun. It took me a minute to appreciate where she was coming from – she had rarely seen, much less felt, the sun during her most recent stint in jail.
She asked me how work is going and if my new dog had pooped on the floor anymore, and we took a walk through Winter Park Village to check out the human-size chess board. The pieces had been removed, so we grabbed a bench in between a large fountain and the life-size chess board under the trees so that we could continue talking. My friend told me that she actually likes to look at herself in the mirror now because she doesn't hate what she sees anymore. She told me I would be the WORST crack dealer ever because I was too crazy (but in a good way). She said I wouldn't last one second as a drug dealer because the drug dealers would think I was on crack because she thinks I am too hyper. She told me all about her drug classes, counseling, group therapy, and her plans to start computer classes next week. My friend is in her 50s and has never used a computer, but she wants to get a job and eventually start her own business one day so she signed up for classes to get the training she needs.
She talked about how she hasn't gone back to old ways and places, that she hasn't answered calls from old boyfriends, and that she moved houses when her living situation was tempting her back to angry outbursts. She stopped mid-conversation to thank Jesus for letting her be sitting on that bench in Winter Park rather than in prison.
She writes our mutual friends every week, too, so we compared updates and talked about how heartbroken we are for the girls who have received long prison sentences. We talked about racism. She told me that white people are really brave to do stupid things like jumping out of planes and climbing mountains. I told her I had never jumped out of a plane, I just wanted to be able to dance better. She laughed and said, "Oh you have some soul in you!"
We talked about who makes the best fried chicken, who serves the best Mexican food, and our dogs. We talked about seeing a movie when I get back in town because she has really missed being able to eat buttered popcorn in a cool movie theater.
We laughed and laughed and laughed. If you had passed us on your way to Victoria's Secret or The Loft, you would think we had known each other for years. You may have even wondered if we were related somehow. No one would have been able to guess that we had met in jail – she as an inmate and me as a worship leader (not sure which one is more humorous, actually). You would have no clue that my friend was wearing a jumpsuit just over three weeks ago and afraid that she may never seen sunshine again. You would never know that she had scowled at me the first time we met and that I was terrified of her.
I had hoped we could see the movie Inside Out together today and then talk about it, but I had to go back to work. So we hugged a parted ways, laughing about what it would be like if we took a road trip together one day. I am so proud of my friend. She has a very long road ahead of her, but for today she is more than willing to do the hard work. She has lived in hell and is experiencing a piece of heaven and doesn't want to lose that. I am so thankful to have her in my life, even if it is just to remind me to be grateful for the scorching sun on my back. Even that is a gift.


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800MHz, not 667MHz FSB for Xeon?
Posted by: JohNEE on: 06/10/2003 11:56 AM [ Print | 33 comment(s) ]
X-bit Labs has a piece up here suggesting the proposed Xeon 667MHz FSB has been scrapped in favour of 800MHz in line with the Pentium 4.
At first Intel was not going to speed up the processor bus to 800MHz of its server Xeon processor family like they did with the Pentium 4. According to the earlier roadmaps of the company, Intel was planning to move Xeon processor family to 667MHz Quad Pumped Bus only. However, the success of the Pentium 4 processors with faster 800MHz bus pushed Intel to revise their plans. In the end of last month Intel informed their partners that 800MHz bus will be also introduced for Xeon processors instead of the previously planned 667MHz bus.An interesting but, sensible change of plan.
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#23240 Posted on: 06/10/2003 04:27 PM
I wonder if they overclock well, like there desktop brothers?
(P4 "C" series)
Imagine that...Dual Xeons 3Ghz+ with over 1000MHz FSB...
(Assuming the 2.4Ghz, 800Mhz FSB model behaves like the Pentium 4 2.4C in overclocking ability.)
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#23241 Posted on: 06/10/2003 05:00 PM
But dual xeons mobos dont support FSB clocking ... or do they ?
I know you can force 533 on a 400 mhz. But 800 being the top of the range, you wouldnt be able to do that.
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#23242 Posted on: 06/10/2003 05:01 PM
Too late Intel! I've already hoped aboard the Opteron train!
Come on, ride the train, hey, ride it, woo woo
Come on, ride the train, hey, ride it, woo woo
Come on, ride the train, woo woo, hey
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#23243 Posted on: 06/10/2003 05:31 PM
Someone has had too much coffee... Although if I had the money to do that, I would be right there with you
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#23244 Posted on: 06/10/2003 10:36 PM
Sounds to me like someone is playing catch up with competition. Since Opterons have no typical FSB and are limited by core clock frequency. A 244 and 246 Opterons have a comparable FSB of 1.8 and 2.0Ghz and not to mention alot of bandwidth to play with than what the above has to offer.
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#23245 Posted on: 06/10/2003 10:46 PM
I found something interesting regarding the integrated memory controller in the Opteron (which is probably the same with the Athlon 64).
On page 17 of the AMD Opteron(TM) Processor Data Sheet:
There is a table of DRAM interface speed vs. clock multiplier which gives the internal multiplier used by the processor in respect to the speed at which it runs the memory bus. What's interesting about it is that there is an actual slightly-over-nominal difference in the memory bus speed across the different processor speeds. The curious one is the memory bus speed of the 2GHz and the 2.2GHz versions of the chip (when they become available anyway) where there is a ~9MHz drop when using DDR-333 SDRAM. I wonder how much impact that would make when running latency and raw memory throughput numbers between the two chips.
There is even a nice little penalty when using DDR-266 SDRAM along with the 1.8GHz Opteron (where there is a ~4.5MHz drop from the 1.6GHz Opteron). I know a handful of MHz doesn't matter too much in the grand scheme of things, but it's interesting nonetheless.
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#23246 Posted on: 06/10/2003 11:08 PM
I think Intel has seen the memory bandwidth benchmarks of the Opteron and had a little accident in their collective pants.
Even on the matter of clock speed, Opteron manages very similar performance with almost half the clock speed.
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#23247 Posted on: 06/10/2003 11:29 PM
Uniprocessor Springdale/Canterwood chipset is running happily with 800FSB (some even overclock to 1200FSB), why not Server/Workstation setup? No doubt, Intel is going to do that...
The memory controller for dual setup is a little harder to achieve than the desktop, so I don't think it will be as easy as the desktop counter part to overclock to 1000FSB. I wish it did.
You can force it to 166/200FSB if proper BIOS implementation is done. Just the current generation of North Bridge might not run at 200FSB without excess amount of heat.
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#23248 Posted on: 06/10/2003 11:39 PM
since right now, the opteron reviews i have seen are performing right at the 2.8(533) xeons, but the opterons look like they will scale better, looks like intel is releasing a massive power increase just to keep ahead of the Opterons, i wonder how this will affect the AMD game plan.
If Amd does not drop the price on its dual opterons MBs, the only ones i have seen are in the 800+ USD range, Intel will all of a suden be cheaper SMP solution, i never thought i would see the day.
All i can say is with AMD keeping Intel prices down, and Intel pushing the bleeding edge of the performance evelope the next year should be fun
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#23249 Posted on: 06/10/2003 11:50 PM
... and that's why competition is a good thing
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#23250 Posted on: 06/11/2003 12:14 AM
i love compition, thats why my servers for my home domain look like this
and yes i know i need to switch the drives, but not right now, and for an inside look at them.
in the Dual Amd box on top
and the dual xeon on bottom.
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#23251 Posted on: 06/11/2003 12:58 AM
But which Intel processor and motherboard combo can I purchase with 64bit OS support for less funds?:confused:
Let me look around, I'll get back to you.
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#23252 Posted on: 06/11/2003 04:00 AM
That's a 5.4% difference if you're talking 9MHz drop from 166(.6667...). 2.7% if you're talking 9MHz off of 333(.3333...) I don't think it will be a significant difference. Though if you're talking 5% lower on one frequency and 5% higher on another, that's a 10% swing, and that might be enough to make a noticeable but trivial difference.
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#23253 Posted on: 06/11/2003 05:31 AM
Not to start a flame war, but which Opteron board do you have that can hold enough memory to need 64 bit OS support? Just curious...
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#23254 Posted on: 06/11/2003 06:17 AM
Ummm... every one of them so far?
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#23255 Posted on: 06/11/2003 09:42 PM
spikegifted.net "At the very beginning of the 19th century chemists generally thought that compounds from living organisms were too complicated in structure to be capable of artificial synthesis from non-living things, and that a 'vital force' or vitalism conferred the characteristics of living beings on this form of matter." Well, how wrong were they? So much for dogma...
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#23256 Posted on: 06/11/2003 10:05 PM
....took the words out of my mouth.
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#23257 Posted on: 06/11/2003 10:20 PM
I almost died when I saw that the Newisys had AGP listed on their 4cpu board (AMD 8111 + 8131 + 8151), but it's a misprint unless it actually has onboard AGP video? :confused:
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#23258 Posted on: 06/11/2003 11:42 PM
The ASUS SK8N sounds like it could be an Avril Lavigne song -- let's call it "Get your Asus SK8N."
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#23259 Posted on: 06/12/2003 05:37 AM
So I looked through some of the boards that had easy to find "spec" links. Most of them had mem limits of 8, 12, or 16GB. Current 32bit OSes handle these memory sizes, so I don't know that this answers the "need" a 64bit OS question.
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#23260 Posted on: 06/12/2003 05:44 AM
I thought 32bit OSes can only address up to 4GB of memory space? :confused:
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#23261 Posted on: 06/12/2003 05:49 AM
I think he is talking about PAE assitance. Which is the alternative to 4GB addressing limit.
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#23262 Posted on: 06/12/2003 05:52 AM
And do so through special-case hacks (PAE) which require specially written software to do anything useful. And even then just turning such a feature on slows down the machine.
Opteron with just 8, 12 or 16GB of RAM still uses a flat memory addressing model when run by a 64-bit OS. PAE does not. Welcome back to the 286 and paged memory access!
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#23263 Posted on: 06/13/2003 12:18 AM
Like others have said, PAE is far from perfect.
Also, there's more than memory when it comes to 64bits
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#23264 Posted on: 06/13/2003 02:08 AM
Yeah... it is a little hack-ish , but it is a well supported hack. Most major OSes, drivers, and large memory applications, along with most x86 processors made over the last 5 years support it.
This isn't exactly right. I'll talk to Windows apps, since that is what I know. Windows apps that use < 3GB of memory can run unmodified in a PAE aware version of Windows. You can have as many of these apps as you like (or instances), each consuming 3GB of memory. This should cover alot of applications needs.
Apps that need >3GB of memory for an instance would need 3-4 lines of code changes... basically a wrapper around a new alloc instruction. Not a big change. In addition, most applications that need this much memory probably are already using PAE. All the larger databases and such do. Actually, there are probably many more applications that support PAE than x86-64, and will be for a while. It would probably be worthwhile checking on any apps you are interested in running to see if 1) they can use > 3GB of memory, 2) if they support PAE, 3) if they support x86-64.
This is true. It does have that trade off.
Please add 64 apps, as they must be modified, if you are trying to sell the benefits of having > 4GB of memory for applications.
Ok.. this may be a little misleading. First off, all memory accesses are all paged on the x86 architecture. The linear 32 or 64 bit logical address space is what they application sees. The OS and processors work in the segemented physical address space. PAE adds another level of indirection into the paging system, that is it. Typically, the OS & processor handles all this translation for you, so all the program ever sees is the linear address space. I believe this is still the case for PAE using Windows AWE. The difference is your pointers are no longer simple 32bit ints, but that doesn't typically come into play unless you are handling pointer arithmatic by hand.
At any rate, I'm not trying to give folks a hard time. There seems to be a good bit of confusion about > 4GB of memory accesses and the different capabilities. There is alot of hay being made of of the x86-64 >4GB memory addressing, when the real comparison doesn't lend itself to such a strong stance. Good discussions like this are an opporunity to dig through how things work and bring the tradeoffs into the light.
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The Advantages of Hiring a Real Estate Agent
We are currently in the age of do-it-yourself projects. The internet has given us a seemingly boundless reservoir of information, which makes it easier than ever to search for what we need to know to conduct just about everything all by ourselves. Due to this fact, when it comes time to buying or selling homes, most people ask themselves if employing a real estate agent is really worth it. A simple search online is sure to inundate you with tips that say otherwise. Nevertheless, the process of buying or selling a home is generally something that should not be dealt with alone. Here are some of the top reasons to engage the services of a real estate agent.
Professional Networking
Real estate agents network with other professionals, many of whom offer services that you will need to find yourself (e.g. electricians, general contractors, plumbers). Inasmuch as legal liability is a thing, many agents will be unwilling to recommend a certain person or company over another, but they have some knowledge about which service providers have a reputation for efficiency, competency and competitive pricing. They can, however, offer you you a list of references of service provides with whom they have worked and provide background information to help you make a good decision.
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Cost is certainly a deal maker or deal breaker when it comes to enlisting the services of a real estate agent to help you sell or buy a home. However, if you select to forgo hiring a real estate agent because you want to save a dollar now, you may not be able to receive as much in the long-term when it comes to delivering the results you planned for. Keep in mind that it is about value, not cost. Selling a property can turn out to be a very complex and specialized process. It is not for the sellers that are easily scared!
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Ask prospective agents which homes they have sold in your community, how they will market your home, what they charge in fees, and how quickly their last 5 to 10 listings sold. Search for customer feedback. Be cautious of agents who will lock you in for 6 months with a listing contract. More importantly, choose an agent who will fight to get the deal that's best for you, not the one that's easiest for her.
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Is Kenya Married? Or Is It All A Sham?
Does anyone else find it weird that the opening shot of the show is Cynthia in a bathtub looking like she's in a model shoot? It was just weird. Cause let's be honest – we all look like this in reality when we take a bath…
Why does Portia think that her and Kandi are in an okay place? Did she not see Kandi not wanting to be anywhere around her at that party last week?
On this date he makes her do a photoshoot… which is her day job… so far this date is her working… He managed to salvage it with this very nice dinner.
Why did this Life Coach of Sheree's parents name him Jack Daniels? What are you supposed to do with that name?
Portia is giving up friends, and meat… wonder how this is going to play out?
I kinda want to buy this bacon cooker she has , though!
I am still not sure that Kenya's marriage a real marriage. I still have not seen an officiant in any of the pictures. I heard her say there were 4 people there and then I read that there were more like 10. We saw on the show that her Dad didn't know about the wedding and that she didn't invite him, yet, on Bravo.com we see: "Kenya's father could not attend the "last-minute" ceremony because was celebrating his birthday in Jamaica" On the show she talks to her Dad on the phone and he said "…why didn't you tell me, I've been hearing all kinds of stuff about it". So, which was it? Did he know and choose not to come, or did she not tell him at all as the phone call indicated?
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When parents get a divorce, one or both of them may ask for joint or sole child custody rights. The case is generally filed in the child's home state. For legal purposes, the child's home state is the state where he or she has lived with a parent or certain other adults for at least six consecutive months. If a child is under six months old, the case can be filed in any state where he or she has lived.
The relocation laws of child custody
When a parent plans to move with a child who is subject to a custody agreement, there are a variety of factors and laws that must be followed. Parents planning to relocate with the child should be familiar with California custody laws governing relocation before making any major decisions.


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A driller and offsider were preparing to move a drill rig to a new hole, however the jump-up stand and rod rack were interacting. The drill rods were moved from the rod rack up against a wall to allow the rod rack to move.
While the driller was positioning the rod rack, the offsider was using timber to level the rig. During this process the leg of the rod rack made contact with the drill rods positioned on the wall behind. As a result, the 13 drill rods where knocked over and fell onto the jump-up stand and onto the ground. The offsider was also hit by the rods. The offsider suffered bumps and contusions to his wrist and leg.
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- have procedures for the movement of drills that consider rod management
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Saturday night in West Seattle, history was made… or remade… when Northwest legends The Sonics performed a special set at Easy Street Records on Record Store Day to benefit KEXP's New Home. The iconic Tacoma band alone were a huge draw to the legion of fans inside and surrounding the store, but dozen or so surprise guests made this a show for the archives! Joining them on songs new and old was a who's who of Seattle rock — Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening, Matt Lukin of Mudhoney and Melvins, Emily Nokes of Tacocat, Chris Ballew of The Presidents Of The United States Of America, Big Kahuna of Girl Trouble, Ben Shepherd of Soundgarden, Van Conner and Mark Pickerel of Screaming Trees, and Rod Moody of Swallow — each paying tribute the guys who started it all! Even original Sonics bassist Andy Parypa took the stage for a raw version of "Psycho", proving to all that a band in their 70's could tear it up.
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Facts of Vickie Chesser Biography
|Former model, Beauty Queen, Ex-wife of Johnny Bench
|Vickie Chesser (m. 1975–1976)
|The University of South Carolina
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Vickie Chesser is a former model and Miss South Carolina, contestant. She is well known as former wife American former professional baseball catcher, Johnny Bench.
Vickie Chesser Early life and Career
Vickie Chesser was born as Vickie Lynn Chesser. She attended the University of South Carolina. She began her modeling career appearing several commercial adds. As a model, she appeared in ultra bright toothpaste adds. Then, she participated in Miss South Carolina in 1970 Miami Beach, Florida.
Vickie Chesser during Miss South Carolina Vickie Chesser Miss USA Awarded Costume
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Vickie Chesser has announced the winner of the best state costume awarded during the Miss U.S.A. The 5 '5 beauty queen topped a score of beauties in being selected to represent the state in at Miami Beach in the Miss USA contest.
However, she did not get the title but able to hold 1st runner up, where Deborah Shelton (Virginia) able to hold the title of Miss South Carolina in 1970.
Vickie Chesser Came to attention
Chesser became a central point of media when she was seen with Johnny Bench, That was a time when he was a sensation catcher winning six division titles, four National League pennants, and two World Series championships.
Vickie Chesser with her ex-husband Johnny Bench
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Chesser first met him on a blind date, and that was not loved at first sight, and from there the couple began to date each other.Their relationship news began to buzz, and after dating eight weeks, the two decided to marry.
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Chesser married to Johnny Bench on 21 February 1975 Cincinnati. The ceremony was attended by only a few family member. In 1975, February 23, she and her husband run at the Reds spring training camp. She and her husband went to spend their honeymoon in spring training. She was jogging every morning and said she would continue to stay shape.
Vickie Chesser and her ex-husband Johnny Bench
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Vickie Chesser joined her husband as the Cincinnati Reds catcher worked out with the team at the Reds spring training camp in February 1975.
Her husband Cincinnati Reds seven-time All displays seven baseballs representing seven ways to check for cancer in one hand after he was named to head the athletes against cancer. This is a new American Cancer Society group aimed at stopping up efforts of prominent athletes in the fight against the dreaded disease. She has eyes only for her husband during his talk on July 22, 1975, in New York.
Vickie Chesser and her ex- spouse Johnny Bench on the Cancer Society event
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He and his wife relax at the family home before his successful shoulder surgery in Oklahoma City. He released from the hospital and planned to attend Oklahoma-Nebraska Football game on November 1975.
However, their marriage relationship did not work out, and the couple finally decided to divorce, and their divorce case was finalized in the year 1976.
Vickie Chesser Net Worth
Vickie Chesser is one of the former successful model and beauty queen. She has appeared several commercial adds. Moreover, she is the ex-spouse of Johnny Bench. His estimated net worth has a net worth of $5 million. She is surely enjoying her luxurious life with her family.


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Cloud Computing has potential to revolutionize way that systems are developed and marketed. Among several research gaps related to this new model is the Lock-In. The Lock-In is the difficulty on migrating data and applications from a cloud platform to another. The lack of standardization, as well as other reasons, are causing the problem. This work presents a model-driven(MDE) approach for portability of applications between cloud platforms. With MDE software engineers can work at a high level of abstraction freeing themselves from repetitive tasks related to software implementation and specific details of cloud platforms. Besides portability, MDE brings additional benefits related to traditional software development approaches. The approach presented in this work, basically consists of a DSL and a set of automated transformations for two known cloud platforms Google App Engine and Microsoft Azure. The approach allows the development of cloud applications on a high abstraction level, showing that despite being simple, the elements of the approach are enough to generate many cloud applications, as well as facilitates its development. The evaluation confirms the benefits provided by MDE technologies.


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This is the real NRA logo
This is the logo of the NRA i found on a leftist web site
The Nazis murder millions while the NRA defend the rights of millions. The comparison that the wacko left is making shows their twisted mind set. To the leftist, the U.S. Constitution is Nazi law that they are hell bent to rewrite or erase. The Nazis were leftist socialist just like the people attacking the NRA and in fact many of the oldest members of the NRA were in Europe during WW2 killing the damn leftist Nazis.
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Leftist Think Members of the NRA are Nazis
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I believe the Nazis confiscated guns from their people.
And I've heard that they used lists of registered gun owners to do it.
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Wednesday, 21 January 2009
best animation in my world
While doing the last bit of object project I got insipiration from my childhood. Well the whole project started from my childhood as the chair i chose is my old highchair. The research took me back to Finland and no further that 60s or 70s. Those decades and the early 80s when I was small gave me direction. I wanted to catch the feeling in childrens books from that era. This animation,by loved Finnish author and illustrator Camilla Mickwitz, is one of my best memories from television. It is a warning about dangers of ice and it was shown every winter when waters started freezing.
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"My name is Hazel.
Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won't be able to get ore than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears.
Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell your our love story, because - like all real love stories - it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me, because there's no one I'd rather have... I can't talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know this.
There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that.
There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got.
But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful." - Hazel's eulogy


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Osman Sagar Lake popularly known as the Gandipet, lies 20 km west on the outskirts of city of Hyderabad. It is spread over an area of 46 square km. It is the man made lake created by the dam across the Isa, a tributary of the river Musi. It is the main source of water supply to the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. The lake is surrounded by the parks and the grass on all sides. The ideal time to visit the lake is after the monsoons. Although the tourists are seen here through out the year be it summers or the winters. Away from the city the lake provides the charming atmosphere to the tourists. The breathtaking green landscapes surrounding the lake are truly rewarding.
Osman Sagar Lake History of the Osman Sagar Lake :
Osman Sagar lake was constructed by the Vllth Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan in the year 1920. The lake constructed after to save the city from the disastrous floods. The creadit of planning out the design out of the lake goes to the Mokshgundam Vishweswarraya.
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Overlooking the lake, Sagar Mahal is the historical building, which was used by the Nizam of Hyderabad as the summer resort. The Mahal is located on the banks providing the magnificent view of the Lake. But with the passage of time this heritage building was converted into the lake resort by the Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development. Tourists who wants to stay here overnight can hire the guest room in the Sagar Mahal. It has ten double rooms with all the modern requirements.
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bryson was looking forward to carving pumpkins with his mee-ma and papa (bryan's parents) all week. we went and picked out our pumpkins and i got a white one, "cause i'm white" i joked. bryson said, "i want to be white like my mommy." kathy asked him, "do you want to be white like your mommy or brown like your daddy." "i want to be brown like my daddy." i laughed and said, "you get what you get kid...you're stuck with your skin." he replied, "bummer". that is his new word...bummer...i laughed so hard - he is cracking me up lately...here are our pumpkins...
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REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio (CBS.MW) -- Abercrombie & Fitch posted better-than-expected second-quarter earnings late Tuesday on a 16 percent climb in year-over-year sales and expects to meet analysts' estimates for the rest of the fiscal year.
After the market closed, clothing and accessories retailer Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) reported a second-quarter profit of $21.2 million, or 21 cents per share, compared to an adjusted net income of $18.9 million, or 17 cents per share in the year-ago period.
Nineteen analysts surveyed by First Call expected the company to earn 19 cents per share.
Total sales for the quarter rose to $231.5 million from $198.9 million a year ago, the Reynoldsburg, Ohio-based company said, but same-store sales fell 6 percent.
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The scene shifts off to Ronald playing with the boys at breakfast and lunch.
As Ronald is playing with the younger boy, he sees the older boy eating Hungry Jack's.
Even though Ronald is evil, he has family and friends he is more (or less) close too, and also had a now deceased sister named Daisy Mc Donald, whom he had an incestuous relationship with.
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By Serdar Yegulalp | 2016/07/10 08:00
MeTal generates pages by way of templates, whose filenames and URLs are determined by what are called mappings. Mappings are Python expressions or list comprehensions, although I'm finding I may in time need to have more robust ways to generate mappings, perhaps by way of entire modules.
Here's a simple mapping:
(The $i at the end is a macro that inserts the name of the blog's default page type (e.g.,
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Here's a more complex mapping:
This is for generating multiple mappings, in this case a list of mappings that are generated from all the tags in a page. (The tuple at the left is used as a mechanism to pass the tag itself, as context, to the generated page.)
You can see how this might get unwieldy. Think, for instance, how much more complicated it could get if we have to include pagination as part of the deal.
What I'm leaning towards is a mechanism -- optional but useful -- that allows you to generate mappings by way of a function stored in a module that's actually a template. The module, or the function in the module, would be passed the blog's contextual information, and then you could use functions from within the module to return mappings.
I don't plan on implementing this right away, but it's a good direction to lean in.
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Robert Winn is a dear and treasured friend, an honest, kind, and generous man, and a person of impeccable integrity. I feel privileged to vote for him for the Ogunquit Select Board in June.
Many of Bob�s contributions are unseen. In the winter, he rises early to shovel snow for several elders in the community. When he learns of a need, he shows up to assist in any way that he is able, asking nothing in return.
He has volunteered his time and equipment to support various charities such as the Frannie Peabody Southern Maine AIDS Walk/5K Run and the Ogunquit Lobster Dash.
There are signs of Bob�s contributions that are visible throughout Ogunquit. About 20 years ago, he and his shop students constructed wooden enclosures for the town�s trash cans.
Bob and his students built the ticket kiosk at Main Beach which houses the parking lot attendants.
The costs to the town were the monies needed for building materials.
His skills in design of structures, and his experience in building them are invaluable as we embark on improvements to our infrastructure.
As a beloved teacher and a coach, his mentoring has formed fine members of our extended community.
As a Select Board member he has been an asset to the town of Ogunquit. He has served us well, working diligently and thoughtfully. He has had a level head, no personal agenda, and is committed to the betterment of the town of Ogunquit.
We are privileged to have him among us, willing to serve in any way he can.
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What are two things that most people (if not everyone) have trouble with? Envy and peer pressure. These are in many ways the same thing. Peer pressure doesn't just happen to people under 20, and it often doesn't take the form of visible pressure. Peer pressure can seep in quietly and act silently, undetected, until we have changed the way we see ourselves and the way we want others to see us. This invisible peer pressure is also not always the fault of others. The fault, rather, often lies within ourselves.
We have a feeling that we are not good enough for society. We think to ourselves, subconsciously, "I will never be really accepted, acknowledged, or recognized until I conform to the way they dress or act. I can never be known to others because I have not accomplished what that person over there has accomplished."
We are tempted to belittle ourselves and make less of our own worth because we see what everyone else has. This is why peer pressure and envy coincide and act almost simultaneously. Would we feel peer pressure if it was not preceded by envy?
As a pianist who started late (compared to most), I am often susceptible to this kind of envy and peer pressure. I look at young musicians my age playing in concert halls across the world. Why did they get lucky? I'll never be that good. There's also the little kids playing pieces more difficult than what I play. How is that fair?
But all that I've just written is just a prelude to what I really want to say. Back in the fall, certain words came to me about this issue. Then a few months later, more followed in the same vein. Here are those words:
Do not measure yourself according to what others have accomplished, for there are many gifts and offices distributed among those called by God. Rather, measure yourself according to where God had placed you, and according to the daily work and daily life that he has called you to. Be yourself according to your own talents, for in doing so, you are living according to God's call for you. God wants your response to his call for you, not his call for someone else.
In viewing ourselves against the backdrop of someone else, we set ourselves up as judge and are tempted to despair.
Further, do not bemoan the position God had placed you in, and wish you had been given something else. Do not wish for a different opportunity that you perhaps see in others. God has not called you to their opportunity, but to your opportunity, and it is up to you to do with what you have been given. Do not let that opportunity disappear and fade while you are busy wishing for different circumstances, people, or events in your life. Rather, take the time, opportunity, circumstances, people, and events that have come into your life and do your best with them. The time is yours! Seize it, friend!
And if you find yourself saying, "I wish none of this had happened", remember the response: "So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you."
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Drought, regions and the Australian economy between 2001-02 and 2004-05
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