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Lunar Shower Change:
Lunar Shower now has an additional effect: While you are under the effect of Lunar Shower, Moonfire generates 8 Solar Energy and Sunfire generates 8 Lunar Energy.
I find this change interesting, but it's only one piece of the puzzle and we are short on details. To be honest this raises a lot more questions then it answers.
Question #1: Is this in addition to the changes released last week? For example, will Moonfire generate 16 Solar Energy when Lunar Shower is active?
My Guess: I highly doubt it. Having Moonfire and Sunfire generate more energy then Wrath or Starsurge doesn't sound right. If this is in addition to last weeks change, I don't have a clue as to what the purpose of it is. The base level DoT energy would already discourage "Solar Cleave" type rotations and DoT AoE. This would just magnify the change. As a result, I'm assuming that this replaces the base level DoT Energy introduced last weak at least for Moonfire and Sunfire.
Question #2: If we assume this replaces the base DoT energy, does that mean Insect Swarm no longer generates energy?
My Guess: This is a complete guess, but I don't see a purpose to having Insect Swarm generate a energy at a base level but Moonfire and Sunfire to not. That said who knows. This is Data Minded info after all.
Question #3: What does this mean for Moonkin DPS?
I'm going to assume that this replaces the DoT energy introduced last week in it's entirity. Meaning that I think none of Balance DoTs will generate any energy unless we have lunar shower. If that is the case I like this change.
It's a small improvement over the previous version; it limits the impact on more normal styles of play. For example, on a Patchwerk style fight this should have absolutely no impact because there is never a reason to spam Moonfire or Sunfire and no extra energy will be generated. On a dual target fight like V&T skill players should be able to limit the impact by spacing out the DoT refreshes. I think Hamlet said it best on EJ when he said "it accomplishes the goal of removing endless Sunfire spam, but doesn't affect our ordinary single-target rotation. So in that sense, it avoids a lot of the side effects and complications of the prior version."
I still have concerns that it creates a bit of a trap when it comes to movement DPS, since there will be times when it's bad to spam Moonfire while in Eclipse, but there is probably no way around that.
Also, a lot of players will still dislike how this affects a Moonkins ability to control Eclipse with Moonfire. This is one of the big things that separated the elite moonkin from the pack. I think this is going to be the real impact of this change. It's going to nerf the Elite moonkin because they can't use one of their tricks anymore, but shouldn't have a big impact on your more average moonkin, and that may be part of Blizzards goal.
Seven Bosses and Eight Skulls:
One thing that I found a little confusing in MMO Champions information was the pictures they had of the Firelands Raid instance. One of the big debates over the last week is how Firelands will have only seven bosses, yet if you look at the maps you see eight skulls.
There are three maps. The first is of the Firelands and has five skulls on it. The last is of Sulfuron Keep and has two skulls. The middle map is of a place called The Anvil of Conflagration, and it has a skull in it as well. The way you get there appears to be by a portal from the Firelands raid. If you notice the portal design in the Anvil's map is the same as that of the portal in the upper left hand corner of the Firelands map.
It's possible that there is some overlap her but I doubt it. What is the eighth skull for? Is it a Heroic only level boss like Algalon and Sinestra? Is it a minor optional boss like the animal bosses in Karazhan?
Tier 12 Druid Set:
I talked about the set bonuses last week, and now we get our first look at the stats on the set pieces. MMO Champion doesn't have the pieces grouped into sets yet, but you can tell by the names which pieces are apart of the Balance tier.
I took a look at the stats to see if there were any itemization changes and there were none. The Tier 12 set stats are the exact same design as the stats we have on our Tier 11 set. The sockets are the same, the socket bonuses are the same, and the only thing that is different is the amount of stats.
If this goes live it should make upgrading gear a littler easier because you want have to deal with big changes in your hit level when replacing tier items, but I wonder if these items are complete yet. I wouldn't be surprised if these are upgraded place holders at this point.


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I changed my conclusion inspired by a particular speech that I listened Yesterday night
Countries are separate by imaginary boundaries created by the men, those are not real. Countries are many but the world is just one, each country decision could affect the fate of other. We should not just ignored the achievements of a county, in this particular case US and celebrated their failures.
Works together should be the best solution for a better World Science of Science Policy Road map. World problems like energy resources and climate changes, do not respect our imaginary boundaries.
Should not be a competition of which country will be the next World Power or which country is the most admired.
It's necessary to have a international help and cooperation, and imitated the good from other countries and try to no commit their same mistakes.
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Magical Power of d-Block Transition MetalsActivity by David Tanner | added on Jun 30, 2011 | Denmark
Sponsor(s): Danish Chemical Society, Technical University of Denmark
Public lecture by the 2010 Nobel Laureate, Prof. Ei-ichi Negishi
Prof. Negishi was one of the recipients of the Nobel prize for chemistry in 2010, and his lecture will deal with the power of Pd-catalyzed and Zr-catalyzed reactions in the field of organic synthesis.
The lecture will be held on Monday, August 29, at 2:00PM in lecture theatre 42, Building 303N, at the Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
This activity is open to the general public, and it provides a wonderful opportunity for young chemists from all over Denmark to hear of the latest developments in a very important area of chemistry, as presented by one of the world leaders in the field.
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Report: Vocational courses booming
Vocational training at Howard College has not only taken off, but is continuing to grow, according to the quarterly update received by the Big Spring Economic Development Corporation on Tuesday afternoon.Kinsey Hansen, solid works representative for Howard College, reported that the summer cohort — May through August — had 31 students enrolled in 40 classes. All students completed the course, with 17 who have identified that their courses led to employment. Fall enrollment shows 68 students in 147 vocational training classes. According to enrollment numbers, there are 21 students in electrical, 51 in welding, 30 in core curriculum, 11 in heavy equipment, 26 in wind and eight in hydraulics. "Our welding program is continuing to take off; obviously with 51 students we have a great demand for this course," Hansen said. "We are continuing to offer classes to students, but we are also offering business specific classes which are workforce training classes geared specifically on business requirements."The first solid works class — 3D software which enables individuals to draft in 3D format and test a product or design before it is ever produced — has also been completed. "We have identified this class as a huge need in this area through our advisory committee," Hansen said. "We can draft it and test it before we print it, get prototype and go through all methods of the product."Another addition is the on-site heavy equipment class. The first class is being held at a the high school in Garden City, with 10 students enrolled. "These students are very excited. They have been wanting this class for more than a year and we are very happy that we were able to get that out there," Hansen said. Though the new semester is already kicking off, there are more classes to come in the following months, officials said. Motivation Education Training (MET) partnership class will start in October as well as a wind class. An additional class pertaining to truck driving has also been added, due to a significant demand represented in that industry. There are two classes offered, depending on the requirements, traditional or shortened course. The fifth class began earlier this week. Renewable energy is proving to be a field in high demand, as well. According to Hansen a niche was found through the Tractel rope and rescue training. Howard College continues to be a global trainer, with area industries specifying Howard College as the designated training facility. "We are excited that we had a student come in from Australia just for Tractel training. That is very exciting to be able to say we are a global trainer," Hansen said. An addition for solar energy is in the works. A small scale house, which will be powered by wind and solar energy, is being constructed in order to be used in the classes. The construction was put off due to demand for improvements in other areas in the vocational training courses. "We had industry needing other classes so we put the house on the side so we could strengthen the PLC and hydraulics classes to get those going for local industry," Hanson said. Electrical lab expansion has reached completion. All identified needs have been addressed and added on as identified. "Of course, once we go back and look we will probably find more to add on, but at this point for the first time we are ahead of the game on electrical. We are excited to have that completed," Hansen said. Green construction technology will be launching in the next fall semester. A full-time staff member was recently hired, allowing the course to move forward. Gary Morris will serve as instructor for the program."He brings many years of experience and we are excited to bring him on board," she said. Dual credit courses are also taking off with area high schools."We have Coahoma students also taking part in other classes that are offered in the dual credits courses. This is also the first time the Stanton students have been able to work it into their schedules to travel to the Big Spring campus and take part in the technical dual credit courses," Hanson said. The quarterly report is provided to the EDC on the vocational program in regards to the grant awarded in 2009 to help jump start the vocational program at the college. Part of the requirement for the grant was to report back to the EDC board on a quarterly basis with the progress of the program. "It seems the vocational training program has just exploded." Big Spring EDC Executive Director Terry Wegman said. Other topics on the agenda included approval of the annual report for 2011-2012. According to Wegman, the report is a way for those wanting to know what the BSEDC is doing to receive all the information. "Anyone who wants to look at this can come by and pick one up, we can email it to them or however they need us to get it to them. It is available to anyone who wants a copy and it serves as a great snapshot of what's going on with the EDC," Wegman said. The board also received and approved the financials for the month of August. In that report sales tax was shown at a 32 percent year over year increase and a 19.4 percent increase year to date. "All in all it's a good year. We are nearly 20 percent ahead (in sales tax) and doing well," Rodney Bomar, treasurer/secretary, said. Wegman also reported that the Big Spring Rail System and Boyce Galvanizing, two of the bigger projects on going at this time, are moving forward and should both be up and running by the beginning of 2013. Big Spring Rail System is in the process of training four people and awaiting the arrival of the second locomotive. Boyce Galvanizing is already receiving shipments of zinc for production and is projecting a $1.5 million payroll."The bottom line is that we are all about the return on investment. We plant the seed money and over time we watch it grow," Wegman said. Contact Staff Writer Amanda Duforat at 263-7331 ext. 234 or by e-mail at email@example.com


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McCully to host Cook Islands PM
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28 February 2013 Media Statement
McCully to host Cook Islands PM
Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully will host Cook Islands Prime Minster Henry Puna and two of his ministerial colleagues today for the second New Zealand-Cook Islands Joint Ministerial Forum.
"New Zealand has a strong and long-standing relationship with the Cook Islands based on shared heritage and close constitutional ties – Cook Islanders are New Zealand citizens," Mr McCully says.
"Our governments have agreed that the priorities for the New Zealand Aid Programme in the Cook Islands will be tourism and sectors that contribute to sustaining the tourism industry such as education, water and sanitation."
"The development effort will also focus on renewable energy, which will be a hot topic ahead of next month's Pacific Energy Summit in Auckland," Mr McCully says.
Mr Puna will be accompanied by Finance Minister Mark Brown and Tourism, Education and Fisheries Minister Teina Bishop.
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If you asked me to describe Austin Briggs' work in one word, that would be it. I've yet to see a wishy-washy piece by Briggs. Even his tamest subjects have a sense of forboding about them. The guy could create tension by adding a certain twinkle in an eye or just the right curve in a brow. The young lady above is a perfect example.
Not by coincidence, I placed Briggs immediately after Alex Ross because he ( Briggs ) also had a connection to Alex Raymond. First he assisted Raymond on Secret Agent X-9 in 1936, then he apperently took over drawing the strip. The next part is a bit confusing... I've read conflicting reports that Briggs either created Flash Gordon but was not credited or ghosted Flash Gordon - then later drew the sunday strips while Raymond drew the weekday strips.
In any case, by 1948 he had left comics and comic strips and would spend the next 25 years as one of the most sought-after and successful artists in magazine and advertising illustration. Briggs was one of the senior faculty of the Famous Artists Correspondence School and is in the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. He died in Paris in 1973 of leukemia.
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If you asked me to describe Austin Briggs' work in one word, that would be it. I've yet to see a wishy-washy piece by Briggs. Even his tamest subjects have a sense of forboding about them. The guy could create tension by adding a certain twinkle in an eye or just the right curve in a brow. The young lady above is a perfect example.
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- Mark Harris9:36 AM
That's nice stuff. Very confident.ReplyDelete
Wish I could do storyboards like that....
I agree, Leif-- "Gutsy" is a great word to describe Briggs' style. His aesthetic confidence paved the way for a whole generation of illustrators, such as Bernie Fuchs,Mark English and Bob Heindel, all of whom revered Briggs. For his part, Briggs used to enjoy how the younger generation of talent kept nipping at his heels. He would see Fuchs, English and Heindel conspiring at the Society of Illustrators and he would call out, "Ahhh, the young Turks... always on my ass."ReplyDelete
That's very interesting, David... I know a lot of elements converged to create the stylistic evolution around the early sixties but I never considered that fearless experimenters with long lists of credits - like Briggs - might have inspired the "young turks", but of course it makes perfect sense.ReplyDelete
I always assumed it was those young turks like Fuchs, Peak etc who forced the "Cooper School" to adapt or die.
Well, they certainly turned up the heat under the Cooper school crowd, that's for sure. I always thought that the Jon Whitcomb types were lightweights compared to the artists you mention.ReplyDelete
By the way, there is a hilarious story in the upcoming Illustration Magazine about the time that Austin Briggs first met Bernie Fuchs. Fuchs was a young kid from out of town, fresh off the pumpkin truck, and he stumbled into the middle of a feud between Briggs and Robert Fawcett. Suffice it to say that eventually everyone went back to being the best of friends.
I only just discovered Briggs, which is ironic, since not only do I love comics and illustration in general, but grew up in the area he was born in (he was born in Humboldt, Minnesota, where I graduated high school...)ReplyDelete
If you haven't already done so, Trish, please check out my Austin Briggs Flickr setReplyDelete
Just a theory, but:ReplyDelete
In addition to the gutsy experimentation of Briggs, Sickles, Fawcett, et al, I always thought that the advertising $$ leaving print for TV, and the readership dropping alarmed the editors at the magazines so much, that they started trying new things. I'm not sure, but I think that the editorial ilustration style got more interesting before advertising?? Any thoughts?
Ironically as illustration was starting to die throughout the 60's, the art directors started to finally let the illustrators experiment. I've always thought that more artists in the 40's and 50's could have done more creative work, but the business and culture were very restrictive.
I think you're on the right track - though there were probably a lot of factors. Illustrators don't operate in a vacuum so their lack of experimentation earlier may have been simply a result of reflecting the sensability of the times of which they were a part. I think abstract expressionism was just emerging in a big way during the 50's, wasn't it? (my art history knowledge is sorely lacking) But anyways, until the public was ready for more experimental approaches, the illustrators of the day likely also weren't ready - nor the art directors, I suppose.
Though I'll tell you this: from my small stack of "Art Director and Studio news" magazines, I can see that, when speaking to their peers, those same ADs chose more experimental styles to decorate the covers of their trade magazine - and this was in '52, '53!


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Maris McCrabb needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 420 designs submitted by 126 freelance designers.
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Our first target is small and medium sized businesses who want the advantages of sophisticated IT solutions but who cannot afford expensive data services platforms or have a large IT department. Folks who use software like Sharepoint but want to get the most out of those packages but require software that is simple to use and reliable.
We require a logo for our product ARTEMIS we can use in a variety ways from an impact movie to our software and marketing brochures. ARTEMIS is an information sharing software that helps people exchange information regardless of where they work or what they due. Human resources can talk to engineers or even graphic artists and each can understand what the other is saying without having to know the others' jargon. Further, ARTEMIS can make this dynamic network of exchanges as efficient as possible. It links users, processes and information reports together throughout a firm or across the firm's suppliers and customers. We need a logo that captures these essential points: information sharing, not just data sharing; optimized information exchanges throughout the firm, its suppliers, and its customers; simple, easy to use; and non-intrusive to existing processes or reports. ARTEMIS comes with a template editor that folks can modify forms as they need; it comes with a database that can be updated as firms require.
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Opinion: President of Racial Division
Political Diary Editor Jason Riley analyzes President Obama's proposed solution to the racial tension and community disorder in Ferguson, Missouri.
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by Ron Petrou
Three-and-a-half years ago I moved from Kimberton in Chester County to Mt. Airy in order to introduce the ideas of Rudolf Steiner to people in the Philadelphia area. For 33 years I lived in Kimberton surrounded by people who had dedicated their lives, inspired by Steiner's ideas, to teach children at Kimberton Waldorf School or live with and help children and adults "in need of special care" in four Camphill communities. But few of these Steiner enthusiasts had the desire to share these ideas with residents of Philadelphia.
Having seen how Steiner's ideas had transformed the lives of myself, my wife, my daughter and many of my students and friends, I wanted to introduce others to these ideas. To explain the transformative power of Steiner's ideas, I will briefly tell my story.
In 1971 I moved with my four-year-old daughter and my wife from Suffolk County, Long Island, to Chicago. She was a nurse, and I was a public high school English teacher and child welfare caseworker. My wife, a fiery, red-haired Scotswoman, Martha, a former Catholic whose mother was an alcoholic prostitute and had grown up in a repressive Catholic orphanage in Glasgow, had encountered a Waldorf teacher and the ideas of Steiner in England when she was a student nurse.
She wanted our daughter to attend a Waldorf School. I was 33, a former Episcopalian and committed agnostic, leaning towards atheism. One day soon after arriving in Chicago, I was driving my four-year old daughter, Catherine, in the car when she suddenly asked me, "Daddy, where was I before I was born."
The question totally threw me. I didn't know what to say, but I knew I couldn't dump my lifeless, negative atheism on her innocent, honest curiosity. I went in search of someone, some church perhaps, where she and I could find out the answer. Every Sunday for several months thereafter we would visit churches of various denominations. Eventually we met a German woman, Rosemarie Bergmann, who knew about Rudolf Steiner, Waldorf education and the wisdom of fairy tales. Catherine and I immediately were drawn to her and her storytelling.
Soon after this discovery our family, especially Catherine, experienced a traumatic event that every parent dreads. One night an intruder broke into our apartment, entered Catherine's bedroom while she was sleeping, pulled down her sheet and blanket and was pulling up her nightgown when Catherine suddenly awoke, screamed, woke me up and frightened the intruder enough to run out of the apartment before I got to him. The front door was open, and I saw his footprints on the snow-covered front steps.
Catherine was terrified. After that she couldn't sleep. She was constantly checking the windows and doors. Martha and I didn't know what to do.
We asked Rosemarie for help. She advised us to tell Catherine in her bedroom, lit by candlelight, an unexpurgated Grimm's Fairy Tale every night. She said that gradually from these profound, life-giving stories, Catherine would acquire the courage to overcome her fears.
I took on this task every night for the next four years. I entered with her into the magical realm of childhood's fairytale consciousness. Gradually, as Rosemarie predicted, Catherine overcame her fears.
Significantly, in 1976, Bruno Bettlelheim, an Austrian-born American psychiatrist who had spent time in a concentration camp during World War II and who worked with emotionally disturbed children in Chicago, published a book, "The Uses of Enchantment." The book won a National Book Award in 1977. It described the therapeutic power of fairy tales, especially Grimm's Fairy Tales, to assist children who have experienced trauma.
From this beginning my family's destiny took a creative and exhilarating turn. We with other parents started a Waldorf School, which is now the K-through-12 Chicago Waldorf School. I earned a Master's Degree in Waldorf Education from Adelphi University in Long Island, moved to Chester County and became a high school English teacher at the Kimberton Waldorf School. Catherine graduated from Kimberton in 1986, earned degrees from Harvard and Columbia Medical School and is now a psychiatrist in Los Angeles and co-author of a book entitled "Principles of Trauma Therapy."
I have now been an active student of Rudolf Steiner's ideas for 42 years. From my own experience I can understand why the Waldorf School movement is the largest non-sectarian private school movement in the world with over 1000 Waldorf schools, including 150 in America and one in Mt. Airy. In addition, from Steiner's ideas have arisen more than 100 Camphill communities world-wide, serving those "in need of special care."
Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) gave more than 6000 lectures and wrote more than 35 books, most of which are in print in English and many other languages.
Ed. note: Ron Petrou will present a six-week course on "The Ideas of Rudolf Steiner" that will meet on Tuesdays, starting Feb. 12, 10 to 11:30 a.m., at the Chestnut Hill Center for Enrichment, 8431 Germantown Ave. More information at 267-421-7749 or email@example.com


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The First Printed Math Books
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So much poor design has been made in the pursuit of "originality," "creativity," and "grabbing the viewer" (don't try this in person).
I'm having trouble getting on board with these tools. Easel.ly, for example, provides themes, such as the one on the right. There's a guy in the middle with graphs around him and pointers coming out of his body. You get to edit however you want.
So in this case, you start with a complete visual and then work your way backwards to the data, which I'm not sure how you can edit other than manually changing the size of the graphs. (Working with the interface takes some patience at this stage in the application's life.) It's rare that good graphics are produced when you go this direction.
I asked students to share what they liked and didn't like. Why was one poster successful where another wasn't? In a few cases disciplinary biases impacted the posters they liked, but most of the time their preference was driven by design features. The posters that were striking, confident and accessible were the clear favorites.
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March 28, 2011
CONCORD, N.C. (March 28, 2011) – Season ticket holders and Speedway Club members at Charlotte Motor Speedway and NASCAR Hall of Fame members will reap the benefits of an ongoing partnership between the two motorsports entities with the creation of new, exclusive benefits for these select groups.
"Charlotte Motor Speedway is all about putting our fans first and this is another way to give our most loyal customers added value and show our appreciation for their continued support," said Marcus Smith, president and general manager of Charlotte Motor Speedway. "The NASCAR Hall of Fame is a great partner and shares our goal of giving fans an excellent experience when they come to 'The Greatest Place to See the Race.'"
All Victory Lane Season Ticket holders and Speedway Club members will receive a 10 percent discount on admission at the NASCAR Hall of Fame, as well as a 10 percent discount in the Hall of Fame Gear Shop when they show their Victory Lane Hard Card or Speedway Club membership card and photo ID. Members can also take advantage of racing simulator rides for just $3, a savings of 40 percent.
When NASCAR Hall of Fame members visit Charlotte Motor Speedway, they'll receive a 10 percent discount on event tickets, as well as a 10 percent discount on merchandise and souvenirs in the Charlotte Motor Speedway gift shop. To receive the discount, Hall of Fame members need only to show their membership hard card at the ticket office or gift shop.
"Our alliance with Charlotte Motor Speedway continues to grow, further showcasing Charlotte as the ultimate destination for race fans," said Winston Kelley, executive director, NASCAR Hall of Fame. "In addition to all of the NASCAR Hall of Fame benefits, our members now enjoy added value from Charlotte Motor Speedway. Likewise, it is our pleasure to reciprocate the offer to the racetrack's most loyal customers."
The partnership not only includes special benefits for members, but mutual advertising and event opportunities to provide added benefits to fans and attendees at both venues.
In addition to the added NASCAR Hall of Fame benefits, the Victory Lane Season Ticket currently includes reserved seats to all three NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races in May and October at the speedway, as well as $1,500 in free added value, including a 15 percent discount on tickets, VIP parking, trial membership to The Speedway Club, free tickets to other select speedway events and invitations to members-only functions. Victory Lane Season Tickets for 2011 are available now by calling the Charlotte Motor Speedway ticket office at 1-800-455-FANS (3267).
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Whether a die-hard NASCAR fan or newcomer just learning the sport, with six memberships available, NASCAR Hall of Fame guests are sure to find the one that suits them. Souvenirs, free merchandise, exclusive access to special events and member-only discounts are just a few of the things members receive with a NASCAR Hall of Fame Membership in addition to benefits at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Memberships start at $25 for kids, $50 for adults and can be purchased online at NASCARHall.com, by phone at (704) 654-4427 or at the box office.
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Conveniently located in uptown Charlotte, N.C., the 150,000-square-foot NASCAR Hall of Fame is an interactive, entertainment attraction honoring the history and heritage of NASCAR. The high-tech venue, designed to educate and entertain race fans and non-fans alike, opened May 11, 2010 and includes artifacts, interactive exhibits, 278-person state-of-the-art theater, Hall of Honor, Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant, NASCAR Hall of Fame Gear Shop and NASCAR Media Group-operated broadcast studio. The venue is open 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. seven days a week and has an attached parking garage on Brevard Street. The five-acre site also includes a privately developed 19-story office tower and 102,000-square-foot expansion to the Charlotte Convention Center, highlighted by a 40,000 square-foot ballroom. The NASCAR Hall of Fame is owned by the City of Charlotte, licensed by NASCAR and operated by the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority. www.NASCARHall.comTweet


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Stocks have scored decent gains this year, with the S&P 500 minting 19 records to date. That has prompted some market participants to call for the S&P to hit 2,000 in 2014.
But it\'s just when investors start to feel complacent that they should turn around and consider the chance of a correction, according to Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management.
\"Throughout this year, our best guess has been to expect the S&P 500 to reach as high as the 2000ish level sometime this year, but for the stock market to also experience a correction at some point perhaps ending the year about where it began,\" he wrote in a note. \"Since the stock market is closing in on the 2000ish level, it's time to consider whether it will simply continue higher throughout this year, or if in the second half, the stock market finally struggles with a more difficult environment?\"
Of course, there\'s no immediate risk of a correction, he says. But that could all change quickly. He lays out five gauges to watch for that could signal correction pressures in the market:
1. More aggressive stock-market gains: The S&P has traded mostly in a 100 to 125 point range around its uptrend since the beginning of 2013. That\'s a \"controlled and methodical\" upward move, Paulsen said. These gains need to accelerate to a more unsustainable pace in order for the risk of a correction to increase, he said.
2. Decline in correction calls: Even as stocks have gained this year, stock-market bears have continued to broadcast their views about the likelihood of a correction. While that has slowed somewhat — investors are more comfortable than at any time in this recovery, Paulsen said — there isn\'t a broad feeling of euphoria. \"For correction risk to truly become elevated, most have to believe a correction is not likely,\" he wrote.
3. Rising bond yields: The fact that Treasury yields have remained so low in 2014 has increased the attractiveness of the stock market, helping to propel it higher. \"In order for \'correction risk\' in the stock market to rise significantly, the 10-year Treasury bond yield will first probably have to advance at least above 3 percent,\" Paulsen said.
4. Concern about inflationary pressures: Investors aren\'t currently too concerned about inflationary prospects, but that could change in the next few months, he said. \"Both stocks and bonds are vulnerable should the consensus eventually decide rising inflation is starting to become a \'bad thing!\' For now, the potential for \'overheat fears\' causing a stock market correction are only flashing yellow,\" Paulsen said.
5. Hawkish discussions about the Federal Reserve: Stocks have benefited from the Fed\'s stimulus efforts, which helped keep Treasury yields low and boost the appeal of equities. The Fed has been slowing the rate of its stimulative bond purchases and hopes to end the program completely this year. That would be followed by an eventual rate hike, though there\'s likely to be a period of time in between the two actions. This steady path from the Fed \"hardly raises concerns about a correction,\" said Paulsen.
\"However, we suspect the Fed may be forced…to announce it will quicken its tapering and tightening pace. Correction risk in the stock market will likely be enhanced once discussions surrounding whether the Fed is behind the curve and needs to accelerate tightening actions to catch up become more prevalent,\" he wrote.
–Saumya Vaishampayan
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The employee dimension presents one of the trickier challenges in data warehouse modeling. These five approaches ease the complication of designing and maintaining a 'Reports To' hierarchy for ever-changing reporting relationships and organizational structures.
Most enterprise data warehouses will eventually include an Employee dimension. This dimension can be richly decorated, including not only name and contact information, but also job-related attributes such as job title, departmental cost codes, hire dates, even salary-related information. One very important attribute of an employee is the identity of the employee's manager. For any manager, we'd like to work down the Reports To hierarchy, finding activity for her direct reports or her entire organization. For any employee, we'd like to work up the hierarchy, identifying his entire management chain. This Reports To hierarchy presents significant design and management challenges to the unwary. This article describes approaches for including this relationship in a dimensional model.
The Employee Dimension
The basic structure of the Employee dimension is shown in Figure 1. The unique feature of a Reports To hierarchy is that a manager is also an employee, so Employee has a foreign key reference to itself, from Manager Key to Employee Key.
However, if you want to query this table in the relational environment, you'd have to use a CONNECT BY syntax. This is very unattractive and probably unworkable:
Alternative 1: Bridge Table using Surrogate Keys
The classic solution to the Reports To or variable-depth hierarchy problem is a bridge table technique described in The Date Warehouse Toolkit (Wiley 2002), p.162-168 and illustrated by Figure 2. The same Employee dimension table as above relates to the fact table through a bridge table.
There are several minor disadvantages to this design:
The major challenge comes when we want to manage Employee and the Reports To hierarchy as a Type 2 dimension -- a dimension for which we are tracking history rather than updating in place. This bridge table would still work in theory; the problem is the explosion of Employee and Reports To Bridge records to track the changes.
To understand the problem, look back at Figure 1 and think about it as a Type 2 dimension for a medium-sized company with 20,000 employees. Imagine that the CEO -- the top of the hierarchy -- has 10 senior VPs reporting to her. Let's give her a Type 2 change that generates a new row and hence a new Employee Key. Now, how many employees are pointing to her as their manager? It's a brand new row, so of course no existing rows point to it; we need to propagate 10 new Type 2 rows for each of the senior VPs. The change ripples through the entire table. We end up replicating the complete Employee table because of one attribute change in one row. Even aside from the obvious implication of data volume explosion, simply teasing apart the logic of which rows need to be propagated is an ETL nightmare.


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Do you know if any of the HTA cars run restored vintage shocks like these, or do the substitute with newer technology?
Ah you're right Jon, November 67, not January. Still, I am amazed any NOS set still exists. I'm sure these have an interesting story having made it all the way to the Netherlands.


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The provisions of this title shall be applied to any taxpayer with due regard to any treaty obligation of the United States which applies to such taxpayer.
For relationship between treaties and this title, see section 7852(d).
For purposes of applying any exemption from, or reduction of, any tax provided by any treaty to which the United States is a party with respect to income which is not effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business within the United States, a nonresident alien individual or a foreign corporation shall be deemed not to have a permanent establishment in the United States at any time during the taxable year. This subsection shall not apply in respect of the tax computed under section 877(b).
A foreign person shall not be entitled under any income tax treaty of the United States with a foreign country to any reduced rate of any withholding tax imposed by this title on an item of income derived through an entity which is treated as a partnership (or is otherwise treated as fiscally transparent) for purposes of this title if—
(A) such item is not treated for purposes of the taxation laws of such foreign country as an item of income of such person,
(B) the treaty does not contain a provision addressing the applicability of the treaty in the case of an item of income derived through a partnership, and
(C) the foreign country does not impose tax on a distribution of such item of income from such entity to such person.
The Secretary shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary or appropriate to determine the extent to which a taxpayer to which paragraph (1) does not apply shall not be entitled to benefits under any income tax treaty of the United States with respect to any payment received by, or income attributable to any activities of, an entity organized in any jurisdiction (including the United States) that is treated as a partnership or is otherwise treated as fiscally transparent for purposes of this title (including a common investment trust under section 584, a grantor trust, or an entity that is disregarded for purposes of this title) and is treated as fiscally nontransparent for purposes of the tax laws of the jurisdiction of residence of the taxpayer.
(Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 284; Pub. L. 89–809, title I, §105(a), Nov. 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 1563; Pub. L. 100–647, title I, §1012(aa)(6), Nov. 10, 1988, 102 Stat. 3533; Pub. L. 105–34, title X, §1054(a), Aug. 5, 1997, 111 Stat. 943.)
1997—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105–34 added subsec. (c).
1988—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–647 substituted "Treaty provisions" for "Income affected by treaty" in heading and amended text generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: "Income of any kind, to the extent required by any treaty obligation of the United States, shall not be included in gross income and shall be exempt from taxation under this subtitle."
1966—Pub. L. 89–809 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), added subsec. (b), and substituted "affected by treaty" for "exempt under treaty" in section catchline.
Pub. L. 105–34, title X, §1054(b), Aug. 5, 1997, 111 Stat. 944, provided that: "The amendments made by this section [amending this section] shall apply upon the date of enactment of this Act [Aug. 5, 1997]."
Amendment by Pub. L. 100–647 effective, except as otherwise provided, as if included in the provision of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, Pub. L. 99–514, to which such amendment relates, see section 1019(a) of Pub. L. 100–647, set out as a note under section 1 of this title.
Pub. L. 89–809, title I, §105(d), Nov. 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 1565, provided that: "The amendments made by this section (other than subsections (d) and (f)) [amending this section and enacting section 896 of this title] shall apply with respect to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1966."


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Season Two of "Iyanla: Fix My Life" Premieres Saturday, April 13 at 9 p.m. with Explosive 90-minute Episode Featuring Rapper DMX Followed by Premiere of "Life With La Toya" at 10:30 p.m.
"Raising Whitley" Joins the Lineup Saturday, April 20 at 10 p.m.
Los Angeles - OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today its new Saturday night programming lineup coming inApril including the return of the original series "Iyanla: Fix My Life" featuring inspirational life coach Iyanla Vanzant and two new original docu-series premieres, "Life With La Toya" starring La Toya Jackson and "Raising Whitley" starring actress and comedienne Kym Whitley.
Season two of "Iyanla: Fix My Life" returns to the primetime lineup Saturday, April 13 with a powerful 90-minute episode from 9-10:30 p.m. ET/PT. In the explosive season premiere, Iyanla travels to the hometown of multi-platinumrapper and actor DMX where she tackles one of the most controversial sessions of her career. Immediately following at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT is the premiere of "Life with La Toya," which gets up close and personal with La Toya Jackson as she juggles the many demands of her famous family, her life-long friends and her growing entertainment business empire.
One week later on Saturday, April 20 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, the new comedy docu-series "Raising Whitley" joins the Saturday night lineup. The new series stars actress and comedienne Kym Whitley who along with her chaotic collective of friends, come together as a family to raise her young son.
Saturday, April 13
9:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT "Iyanla: Fix My Life" (season premiere with DMX)
10:30-11:00 p.m. ET/PT "Life With La Toya" (series premiere)
Saturday, April 20
9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT "Iyanla: Fix My Life" (all-new episode with Sheree Whitfield and her ex-husband Bob Whitfield)
10:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT "Raising Whitley" (series premiere)
10:30-11:00 p.m. ET/PT "Life With La Toya" (all-new episode)
Series descriptions follow:
"Iyanla: Fix My Life"
Season Two Premieres Saturday, April 13 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Iyanla Vanzant, accomplished author, inspirational speaker, talk show host and living testament to the value in life's valleys and the power of acting on faith; goes behind closed doors and deep inside the most private parts of people's lives for emotional, riveting conversations. Season two features powerful episodes with multi-platinum rapper and actor DMX and former "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Sheree Whitfield. In the season premiere, Iyanla travels to DMX's hometown of Yonkers, New York. Things go awry as DMX's emotions run high and his temper takes over. In the second episode, Iyanla works with reality star Sheree Whitfield on her relationship with her ex-husband, former NFL star Bob Whitfield. Iyanla sits down with the couple to talk about the role of co-parenting in spite of their contentiousdivorce. Secrets are revealed, truths are uncovered and emotions run high as Sheree and Bob reveal how they really feel about each other. "Iyanla: Fix My Life" is produced by Harpo Studios and executive produced by Jill Van Lokeren, Jon Sinclair and Terry Goulder.
"Life With La Toya"
Series Premiere Saturday, April 13 at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT
"Life With La Toya" takes viewers inside the outrageous world of La Toya Jackson - the wild card of one of showbiz's most famous families - as she tackles love, career and maybe even parenthood, all on her own unpredictable terms. The new reality series gets up close and personal as La Toya hunts for a new house, builds new business ventures, contemplates starting a family and perhaps the biggest of all --- jumps into the dating pool for the first time, ever. On board for her new adventures are La Toya's devoted business partner Jeffré, her legendary mom and dad, a pair of meddlesome matchmakers, a magician, a lovelorn lifeguard and La Toya's lifelong best gal-pal Kathy Hilton (yes, Paris' mom). La Toya also opens up about her tumultuous past darkened by an abusive ex-husband, the death of her brother and family feuds. "Life With La Toya" is produced by World of Wonder Productions and executive produced by Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Tom Campbell and Jeremy Simmons with Ja-Tail Television and executive producers La Toya Jackson and Jeffré Phillips.
"Raising Whitley"
Series Premiere Saturday, April 20, 10 p.m. ET/PT
"Raising Whitley" is a humorous, poignant new docu-series following actress and comedienne Kym Whitley and her riotous collective of friends - whom she calls "The Village" - as they attempt to do something none of them have ever done before: raise a baby... together. When Kym signed up to mentor a troubled young girl, she never imagined she'd get a call from the hospital saying, "Your baby is ready." After learning that her mentee exited the maternity ward leaving only Kym's contact information, Kym experienced a cataclysmicmoment. With less than an hour to make a life-changing decision - and to do a lifetime of soul-searching - Kym chose to become a mother. The Village banded together to help Kym bring up baby Joshua the best they knowhow, but sometimes it's hard to tell who is more mature - Joshua or the adults tasked with raising him. Over the season, Kym learns the chaotic realities of becoming a full-time mom: She realizes that, while Craigslist may be perfect for finding an old couch, it's not ideal for finding a new nanny; she survives Joshua's first haircut; she gets her groove back on a manhunt with her girlfriends; and she discovers that being "just friends" with Joshua's "daddy" may not be that simple. "Raising Whitley" is produced by Pilgrim Studios and executive produced by Craig Piligian, Melodie Calvert and Kym Whitley.
About OWN: OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK
A joint venture between Harpo, Inc. and Discovery Communications, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network is a multi-platform media company designed to entertain, inform and inspire people to live their best lives. OWN debuted on January 1, 2011, in approximately 80 million homes on what was the Discovery Health Channel. The venture also includes the award-winning digital platform, Oprah.com.


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Flink '72 on Macroevolution
March 1, 2010
Wabash graduate Dr. Steve Flink '72, M.D., will speak on campus on Tuesday, March 2 as a guest of the Wabash Christian Men's organization. The topic of his lecture will be "Scientific Evidence Against Macroevolution. He will speak at 7:15 p.m. in Hays Hall 104.
Dr. Fink was a chemistry major at Wabash and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. A member of Phi Delta Theta, he was a four-year member of the Wabash tennis team. He earned his medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine and has a private internal medicine practice in Greenfield, Indiana. He and his family spent five years living in China before returning to Indiana.
"My special interest is creation vs. macroevolution (molecules to man)," said Dr. Fink. "Why am I so passionate about this subject? A 2002 Barna poll showed that 70% of church high school students leave the church by the time they graduate from college. A 2005 study by the National Study of Youth and Religion showed that the number one reason youth left the church was intellectual skepticism. And the number one cause of intellectual skepticism is macroevolution and millions of years. Macroevolution is the number one attack on the reliability of the Bible."
Dr. Fink's lecture is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a question and answer period.
"In addition I will also talk about the failure of chemical evolution — how chemicals supposedly evolved into the first cell," said Dr. Fink.
Dr. Fink has been involved with Christian apologetics and worldviews ministry for over 20 years. Of special interest to him is the topic of macroevolution. In his lecture Dr. Flink will discuss the following:
- Bias and presuppositions in interpreting data
- The inability of the proposed mechanism of macroevolution to produce new information
- Evidence against macroevolution from the fossil record
- The problem of irreducible complexity
- Why does it matter?
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Videogame firms have apparently come in the cross-hairs of the White House and other D.C. lawmakers who are looking at a wide array of options in the wake of last month's tragic mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, and other shootings carried out by troubled young people with a reported high consumption rate of violent games.
But while many options may be on the table, the industry may be unlikely to turn away from what is its most lucrative business — and the one category that has proven resilient to competition from cheap mobile and social games that have crunched other segments of the console-based game business.
Executives from the industry are reportedly meeting with Vice President Joe Biden on Friday, the latest in a round a high-level meetings ahead of what is expected to be a strong push from the Obama Administration to enact new gun-control-related measures. Many parties — including the gun industry itself — have pointed fingers at violent shoot-em-up games as a culprit in a "culture of violence" that needs to be addressed.
Game publishers have been here before, and in the past have responded with actions such as creating the ESRB rating system and demanding that retailers enforce it, such as prohibiting anyone under the age of 17 from buying an M-rated game. It has also used its main lobby group – the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) – to dispute the link between violent video games and real-life violence.
M-rated shooters are a huge business for the industry. For the last three years at least, four of the ten best-selling games for the year belonged to this category, according to data from the NPD Group. This does not even include other violent M-rated properties such as Ubisoft\'s "Assassin's Creed," which is more of a swordplay action franchise and is also a top-ten seller for those periods. The recurring "Call of Duty" franchise from Activision has been the top selling game in the industry over the last three years, and the next "Grand Theft Auto" iteration from Take-Two Interactive will likely take that spot this year. Properties such as \"Battlefield\" from Electronic Arts and \"Halo\" from Microsoft are highly profitable offerings from those companies.
Stocks of game publishers did not register much concern about the meetings in D.C. on Friday — though all already are down for the last 12 months on concern about slowing sales and an aging console cycle. Pressure from lawmakers to limit shooting games may become one more weight on the group in the coming months.
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Pete Lyons, assistant secretary for nuclear energy in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), along with representatives from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), will be on hand as the University of Hartford unveils its Sub-scale See-Thru Nuclear Power Plant which will be used as a training tool for University students. The plant, which will be unveiled on Friday, Feb. 15, during a 9:30 a.m. ceremony, will also be useful to new hires entering into the region's nuclear power industry.
The Sub-scale See-Thru Nuclear Power Plant was designed and built by undergraduate and graduate students in the University's College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture (CETA), under the direction of Professor Tom Filburn.
Filburn notes that the University of Hartford is the only educational institution in the Northeast with a Sub-scale See-Thru Nuclear Power Plant.
The simulator and its accompanying computer display panels will allow students to get a hands-on feel for the routine and off-normal operation of a Pressurized Water Reactor power plant. Students will demonstrate its operation at the unveiling.


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Lung carcinomas are not usually detected at an early stage of their development because symptoms of their presence, which may include chest pain, difficulty breathing, persistent coughing, bloody phlegm, and increased susceptibility to respiratory infections, do not usually appear until they are in an advanced state. Oftentimes, the cancerous growths are not noticed until they have spread to other locations within the body. Thus, the prognosis for patients with lung cancer is somewhat bleak, the five-year survival rate for them being estimated at less than 15 percent overall. Treatments for the disease are similar to those for other types of cancers, consisting primarily of chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation exposure. The exact treatment chosen depends upon a number of factors, such as the patient's health and the level of advancement of the disease. In some instances, for example, it may be judged necessary to remove part or all of a lung, while in other cases, radiation therapy to destroy small numbers of cancer cells may be judged sufficient. Frequently, the various treatments will be used in conjunction with one another.
The A-549 cells illustrated above were immunofluorescently labeled with primary anti-cytokeratin (an intermediate filament protein) mouse monoclonal antibodies followed by goat anti-mouse Fab fragments conjugated to Marina Blue. MitoTracker Red CMXRos (mitochondria) and SYTOX Green (nuclei) were also used to counterstain the carcinoma cell culture. Images were recorded in grayscale with a QImaging Retiga Fast-EXi camera system coupled to an Olympus BX-51 microscope equipped with bandpass emission fluorescence filter optical blocks provided by Omega Optical. During the processing stage, individual image channels were pseudocolored with RGB values corresponding to each of the fluorophore emission spectral profiles.
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Tokyo police arrested a 21 year-old Chinese man for violating Japanese copyright law. The man, a student at a Japanese vocational school, was taken into custody for selling phony One Piece figurines.
Since February 2011, the man allegedly sold approximately 1,300 fake One Piece figures via online auctions, earning ¥5 million (US$63,000). The man got the figures from China for the equivalent of a few bucks, and then turned around and sold them online in Japan—sometimes for a couple hundred bucks a pop.
Authorities apparently found 85 knock off One Piece figures in the man's residence, located outside Tokyo.
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By Cody Willard
It's funny, but the same guys who wish death upon me now in my comments and who mock me around the Internet for thinking Apple can run to $1000 by 2015 and that Google can get to $2000 by 2020 are the same guys who were trashing me for such predictions when they were each 25% lower.
And indeed, some of them are the same people who used to trash me when I predicted Apple in 2005 that Apple would someday have a bigger market cap than Microsoft.
Or wait, it's a lot like all these people who hated me when I was buying Apple back at $7 a share in 2003:
Cody Willard
Apple in my eye
Now, we've been buying Apple and Apple calls when it was getting crushed off the Universal Music purchase rumors. And I like the valuation on this stock and the fact that every investor and trader to whom I mention that I own says "What?! Why?!"
long aapl, aapl calls
You see, I actually do read all your emails and your comments, even the hateful ones and I have been for years. Because when it's as overwhelming as some of the times I wrote about these stocks in the past, it really can be a helpful contra-indicator.
So comment on. And read the comments that I let filter through. Because there's meaning in them words — even the angry ones.
Then again, maybe instead of freaking out, everybody should catch their breath. Go take a walk around the block with your dog. Go check out the latest iPad auction from my site, AppConsumer, and see if you can get a new iPad for less than $50 like somebody did last week. Go to a movie. Go ride a horse. Do something besides freak out about your stocks and whether Apple is going to rally between now and year end or not.
Or even better yet, go buy the next Apple or at least some tech growth stocks that you think might be the next Apple You can find out what stock I think is the next Apple by checking out some of the 9/10 rated stocks in my new report, 50 Stocks for the App Revolution, available at http://AppRevolutionStocks.com.


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Man faces new round of charges that he stalked, harassed woman he formerly dated
A 61-year-old Fairfield man accused of stalking a woman he formerly dated arrested Sunday night on charges of harassing and stalking a woman he previously dated was charged with new offenses Monday when he appeared in Bridgeport Superior Court.
Barry L. Hammons, of Sunset Circle, who was held on $25,000 bond, went to his arraignment Monday on charges of first-degree criminal trespass, second-degree harassment and second-degree stalking.
When he arrived in court, he was charged on a warrant with second-degree harassment and second-degree stalking stemming from an April 11 incident.
He was released from court Monday wearing a GPS bracelet, police said.
Hammons had been warned by police not to have any contact with the woman, but called her 10 times Sunday and another 12 times a couple of days ago, according to the report. Police said he entered her Windsor Road yard and rang her doorbell early Sunday evening.
Hammons had dated the woman about six months ago, police said.
On April 11, the woman called police around 1 p.m. to say that Hammons was sitting in a car parked on her street. He had been there since about 11 a.m. that morning. When officers arrived, Hammons was reading a book. He was warned and sent on his way, police said. Later, when police learned he had been warned previously, they applied for a warrant.


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How to Recover Deleted Photos?
Step 1: To recover deleted photos you need to download demo version of Remo Recover (Windows) software. Install the software and launch the application.
Step 2: Now on the main screen select the option "Recover Photos" as shown in
Step 3: Once you have selected "Recover Photos" as an option, in the next screen you will be displayed two options - "Recover Deleted Photos" and "Recover Lost Photos" as shown in . Since you are recovering deleted photos select "Recover Deleted Photos" option. But if you are trying to recover videos which were lost due to formatting or lost during data transfer then use "Recover Lost Photos"option and view this tutorial instead.
Step 4: After selecting "Recover Deleted Photos" option a window displaying all the available logical drives is shown. From this list of logical drives select the drive from where you have deleted the data as shown in . For example, if you have deleted photos from your SD card then you need to select the SD card from the logical drive list and proceed for recovery.
Step 5: After selection of the logical drive click "Next" button, this will start the scanning process as shown in .
Step 6: Now the next screen that you would see would be displaying the recovered photos and other media files in two different views, by default you will be displayed the "Data View" and if you want you can also view the recovered pictures in the "File Type View" to differentiate various file types as shown in . The recovered "deleted" files would been shown with a cross red mark.
Step 7: You can preview the files by double clicking on that particular file or by selecting that file and doing a right mouse click to select "Preview" option as shown in ..
Step 8: You have an option to save the current scanning that you have done by using "Save Recovery Session" option available in the toolbar as shown in .. This option is extremely helpful when you would like to resume the saving process at a later time.
Step 9: Now its the time to activate the software. Once you buy the product you will receive an activation key.
Step 10: You can now "Open Recovery Session" and select the saved session file, which opens the previously scanned information, saving you additional scanning time, now click "Next", as shown in ..
Step 11: Start saving your recovered media files by selecting them. You can save the recovered data either on to your drive or burn a CD / DVD as in ..
Use Remo Recover (Mac) to retrieve deleted photos on Mac
Note: If you are recovering from your hard drive, avoid downloading and installing Remo Recover software in the affected hard disk where you have deleted data as it may overwrite the lost data resulting in permanent data loss. Instead, you can install the software in another healthy computer, connect the affected hard disk as a slave to that computer and recover the lost data easily.
Supported Digital Camera Brands: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Olympus, Minolta, Hasselblad, Leica, Panasonic, Sigma, Pentax, Samsung, Casio, Fuji, Kodak, etc.
Supported Devices: Hard Disk Drives (HDD) - IDE / SCSI / SATA, USB external drives, flash memory cards, memory sticks, Pro Duo, SD ,SDHC, SDXC, XD, CF, MMC cards, Digital Cameras, Camcorders, iPods and FireWire drives
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Recover Photos Lost During Data Transfer
Photos might be lost during data transfer from memory card or any device to your computer or vice versa. During transfer you might disconnect or eject the card or the device by mistake or due to low battery the device might go into a standby mode, this might result in data loss as the photo wouldn't be on the device and neither on your laptop. Read here detailed steps on how to recover photos lost during data transfer.
Recover Lost Photos after System Restore
When you restore your system be it a device like digital camera, iPod or your laptop, everything goes back to factory settings and all your data will be wiped out. If you have restored the system to factory settings and want your data back you should follow certain procedure and precautions. This page gives you detailed information to help you in recovering lost photos after you performed system restore.
Deleted iPhoto Library Recovery
iPhoto library is used by almost every Mac user to manage photos. If you have deleted the iPhoto library by mistake you can recover it easily using Remo Recover Mac Media Edition. This Mac application has the best built-in algorithm that is specifically designed to recover almost all photo file formats.
Recycle Bin Recovery
When you delete a file it momentarily resides in the recycle bin, but if you empty the recycle bin the file is considered permanently deleted. You may even delete a file to bypass the recycle bin by pressing Shift and delete buttons. Don't think that this file is gone forever, if you want to understand how to recover files deleted from recycle bin go ahead and read this page.
How to Recover Data from My External Hard Drive
External hard drives are widely used these days as an extension to the storage capacity of your laptop or as a backup device to store important files. We usually tend to store various kind of information in the external drives like movies, music, photos, Microsoft Office documents etc. If you have deleted something on the external hard drive or formatted it by mistake you can recover the data off it easily. Restore lost data from all popular brands of external hard drives. Remo Recover is an extremely easy to use software that helps in recovering accidentally deleted or lost data from Windows and Mac OS X


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Cuisinart has been a trusted brand in the US for many years. It was founded way back in 1971 by Carl Sontheimer, and ever since its inception it has proven to be a fabulous companion both for amateur cook or baker and master of the kitchen. They offer a variety of cookware, glassware and other small kitchenware that include coffee maker, blender, waffle maker and the famous food processor among others. The best food processor revolutionized the way of cooking for many kitchen aficionados. In fact it was made popular by Julia Child and James Beard stating that is a great help in the kitchen because it can do various tasks with minimal effort and time. It is also now available in many countries worldwide making it one of the most bought processors these days. Each Cuisinart food processor is unique and differs in function so it is best to carefully choose how and what foods or ingredients that needs to be mixed or sliced, what the capacity is and if it is durable to ensure the maximum usage of this kitchen tool.
The Cuisinart prep 11 plus is great way to start with. It has an 11-cup capacity suitable for medium sized cooking. It can easily slice a cucumber or shred a lettuce in no time. It has on, off, pulse and dough modes which makes it easier if you are reluctant on what button goes with what. And because it has a dough mode built with it you can easily make bread dough with it or even dough for pastry tart shells with just one touch of button. Green peas can be pureed in a matter of seconds and onions and tomatoes chopped for a great salsa. There are many colors to choose from it comes in black, white, stainless, red and gray. It is also dishwasher safe and has a quiet motor, it's a lovely kitchen companion. It has a full 10-year warranty with another 3-year limited warranty on the entire unit. It is not exactly the cheapest of the bunch but with a high performance kitchen machine it is pretty competitive.
Another high performance kitchen equipment is the Cuisinart custom 14-cup food processor. This kitchen tool has a boxy base appearance with rubber feet to prevent it from sliding. It has a large capacity so whipping up a large batch of pizza dough for a large group of people can be done in a breeze. In addition nuts can be powdered and hard cheeses grated. That's how powerful it is. It does not matter whether the vegetable or fruit is large or small, there is a useful pusher that will cater to both. It can even chop meat or chicken or any poultry for that matter, and what you will end up is fine grounded meat that can be used for meatballs or burgers. It also comes with both manual and instructions on how to use it. All in all whatever the motivation is for buying, functionally and durability remains as the top priorities.


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Remembering Little Rock
By Matt Hawkins
November 21, 2013
Dr. Terrence Roberts, a member of the "Little Rock Nine," reflected Wednesday night on his part in American race relation history and the journey since the momentous 1957 day.
As one of nine chosen from more than 100 students who applied to be part of the group to break Little Rock Central High School's color barrier, Roberts knew the group faced a potentially dangerous challenge.
"We were all fearful we would be killed," he said. "We were vulnerable and always under attack. We suffered through that period."
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This historic role fulfilled a childhood premonition after Roberts had accidentally violated the color line at a Little Rock diner. He recalled sitting at a "whites only" counter, only to realize his mistake when patrons' stares fixed on him. Though an unintentional faux pas, he sprinted from the diner in tears.
"As I ran out, I could feel something snap," he said. "It was the end of Terry Roberts. I was going to end up like Emmett Till."
With five decades of perspective on his part in history and the civil rights movement, Roberts still remembers the long-term "incredible energy" exerted by segregationists at that time. He attributed that to three centuries of legalized racial discrimination on U.S. soil that began with the first slaves in 1619 and legally ended with 1954's Brown v. Board of Education ruling.
"If you do something for 335 years, you're so practiced in the art that you just do it," he said. "The law changed in '54, unfortunately, nothing changed with it because if you invest 335 years in it, you don't just give up because nine justices in black robes said so."
He credited his first grade teacher and his mother for preparing him to face the challenges of racial tensions and his lifelong love of learning that propelled him to a career in psychology-related fields.
Roberts followed his teacher's mantra, "You have to take executive responsibility for your learning," and exhorts students to do likewise.
"The largest thing you own is a storehouse of ignorance, but don't fret about it," he said. "You can whittle away at it."
He credited the collective strength of the parents of the nine for helping the high school students persevere through the 1954 school year.
"They were remarkable people," he said. "They knew the level of danger we were facing. We didn't."
Noting his mother's "model was so profound," Roberts praised her ability to love across societal divisions.
"The power of love is greater than all others put together," he said. "I'm fortunate I learned that early. If you got within hugging distance (of her), you were hugged."
Out of that love came deep respect for the practical implications of the Golden Rule.
"Treat everybody in the universe as a peer," Roberts said. "That's how to treat everybody. It's easier said than done, but that's our goal."
In applying these life lessons to today's race relations, Roberts criticized dialogue for not facing core issues.
"We dull them through a thin veneer of civility pretending things are OK, but beyond that there is no substance," he said.
It's this lack of deep dialogue that fueled debate surrounding Trayvon Martin's 2012 death in Florida.
"This is not different," Roberts said. "This is business as usual. The thin veneer of civility blinded us to that."
Wednesday's event, part of Bradley's yearlong celebration of the civil rights movement, brought senior Chinyere Achusim close to one of her heroes. Achusim, who was chosen to introduce Roberts, was elated by the opportunity to hear him speak.
"It means a lot to have living history come in," she said. "It felt amazing to sit here and listen to him. It's wonderful to have him come and so many people come to learn something about African-American history."


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Any additional fabric, ribbon, buttons, etc. for bib embellishments.
Iron the 6″ strips on all four ends. On the longest sides, fold and iron to the wrong side about 1/2″. On the shorter ends, fold and iron about 1″ or whatever it takes to fit on the burp cloth.
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Using the same fat quarters that you cut from for the burp cloths, cut two 10 1/2″ squares from each of the three fabrics. Place two of the fabrics of the same fat quarter, right sides together.
Place one of the fabric pieces face side up on the fusible side of the fleece. Iron to adhere the fleece to the wrong side of the fabric.
Sew 1/4″ seam all the way around the bib leaving about a 3″ opening to flip.
Repeat these steps for the other two bib cloths and embellish as desired. I used my fourth fat quarter for accent embellishments such as the "C" applique' and the YoYos.
Weave the 16″ piece of ribbon or trim through one of the sides of the suspender clip. Roll the end of the ribbon down hiding the raw edge of the ribbon and stitch down as close to the clip as possible. NOTE: Be sure the rolled edge of the ribbon is on the same side as the back side of the suspender clip.
You may even want to open the suspender clip while drying so the glue does not leak onto the other parts of the clip. Let Dry.
To Package your Bibs and Burp Cloths, simply roll the bibs and place ontop of the burp cloths. Then use the Bib strap to wrap around the set and clip the ribbon using one side of the clips, letting the other clip just dangle.


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HOUSTON - A Houston police officer fatally shot a man who forced his way into a southeast Houston home and assaulted a family, investigators said.
Houston police said it started after Kenneth Brian Releford, 38, broke into a home and began attacking a family at a home on Sampson Street near Francis Street.
The victim's 61-year-old son, Roy Abbs, said Releford broke down his 87-year-old father's front door at around midnight.
"He kicked the door in and went to my dad's bedroom and started tussling and I guess, being mental, he didn't know what he was doing," said Abbs. "We do know he had a mental problem."
Police said Releford beat up not only the 87-year-old man, but also attacked his two grandchildren, ages 12 and 14.Officer fatally shoots man
"He hit one of them in the shoulder area," said Abbs. "One's 14 and the other is 12."
Neighbors called 911 and an officer arrived, found Releford and told him to put his hands up. Police said Releford refused and kept his left arm behind his back. A representative for the police department said that Releford approached Officer J. Rosemon and he fired his weapon at least two times, killing Releford.
According to investigators, Releford was not armed. Police said because his arm was behind his back the whole time, Roseman feared he had some type of weapon.
Roseman has been on the police force for two years.
"I can understand the situation," said Releford's father, Audry. "Somebody come pounding on our door and call the police ... I feel like I would use a Taser before I use a weapon."
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I've been vegan for 13 years, before that I was a lactose intolerant veggie – so I've spent a lot of time looking at recipes with a geek problem-solving eye, carefully reverse engineering them to remove the animal products and find ways to repurpose many well known and not so well known culinary delights to make fit for myself and anyone else who'll eat them.
Something that I've come across is the notion of copyright in recipes, which has on occasion put me off pasting recipes. Having looked into this a little, it seems that lists, prescriptions or formulas are not unique enough to be subject to copyright protection, but an accompanying explanation or preparation of significant length or a combination of recipes could be construed as a literary work and basis for copyright in the same way a poem, story or lyric is. But whether or not you could be sued would depend on a subjective decision based on individual specifics by a judge. It also seems that you'd be okay if the 70 year rule regarding the death of the author applies, recreating your own version of an 'old standard' or you just write your own 'how to' or instructions (disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, so check before you quote/rely on my findings).
Recipe patents are interesting too, but only really worth pursuing if they fulfill certain criteria which include being 'novel & nonobvious' – which would seem to be quite a challenge! I read that in the US, 20 years after filing, you have to reveal patents and that's why certain companies such as Coca Cola are very pleased they never patented their beverage formula. However, for anyone interested I found a nice Open Cola recipe here: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-OpenCola At the end of the day, if you must, the only way to keep a recipe sekrit is to keep in under your hat, i.e. not tell anyone and hope that no-one reverse engineers it to perfection!
As I mentioned, I just about always modify recipes to suit my needs – usually with a bit of randomness for fun. I see my ingredients as my bits of source code and I enjoy finding new and interesting ways to compile them to do tasty things for me – some compile better than others 🙂
Anyways, I Twitter, Flickr and generally ramble a lot about my culinary creations and people often remark 'how can that be vegan?' – which pleases me and also signifies a well developed food hack, as I do like to demystify the stereotypical image of a vegan diet as something void of yumminess and treats. In fact my arabesque state is living proof that I enjoy my food 😉
Through my love of food coupled with my admiration for open source principles I'd like to create an open source recipe database for concoctions using some of the geek principles I mentioned earlier. I've been poking around the web and seen quite a few open source recipe databases, for example I might give Krecipes a go, especially as I can't resist a cute Tux beckoning me – but do see a list at the bottom of this post for some of the others I've found. In terms of existing open source recipe sites I'm amused by http://www.nibbledish.com/ because it also looks like it could double as a dating site with the boys & girls tabs arranged so you can select by recipe creator image, thus if you're that way inclined being able to see if they're um, dishy ;-P
Other ideas around the idea of open source & food that I've mused about with cohorts have been various foodie unconferences (inc a cookoff, vegan cupcake day & vegan hacks), how fab it would be to add an open source area to the work recipe database, an online gameshow(!) and bothering Peter from tinker.it to enquire if he could help me solve some of the practicalities re building tiny arduino cupcake ovens :-0
Some links from my perusing…
Open source recipe/ingredients databases and calorie/ nutrition calculators:
A few articles on recipe copyright:
Some existing recipe sites declaring thier open sourceness:
..by the idea of cooking engineers – but sadly for geeks it's a bit b0rked at the time of writing & seems to have a copyright/patent notice, so doesn't seem to follow open source principles:
None of the above to be confused with:
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Recipes 😀
And finally…
As you've so kindly indulged my witterings, here's a couple of videos that I've made to share with anyone who's asked me how I make stuff or has any odd ideas about vegans not having yummy food. Take the source code and modify them with your favourite ingredients, but don't ask me to sample them if they're not vegan! PS I know that I'm not the next Nigella or Ridley Scott, so I won't be too offended if you laugh at my crap presenting/filming/editing skillz 😛 Oh yes, I'll add the ingredients lists soon.
packet of vegan short crust pastry
or if you're going to make it yourself:
200g / 1.5 cups flour of choice
100g / half cup vegan marg
5 tablespoons water
Rub flour & marg together to make breadcrumb bits then add water and mix into dough.
Roll out on floured board and cut strips to make sides & cut round tin for base or just cut out oversized and mould into tin. I didn't bake my pastry crust beforehand as the quiche takes 45-55 mins to cook
Heat oven to 190C / 390F
packet of silken tofu
3 tablespoons soya milk
heaped teaspoon of turmeric
3 cloves garlic
handful of spinach
packet of asparagus chopped into bitesized bits
4 or 5 mushrooms
small red onion
1/2 teaspoon of mustard seeds
sprinkling of mixed herbs
black pepper
pinch of salt
olive oil
chopped tomato to garnish
Firstly saute the onion, mushroom & asparagus with mixed herbs & mustard seeds.
Whizz spinach and garlic together, put into a largish bowl
Whizz silken tofu, soy milk & turmeric and pour into the bowl of spinach & garlic. Add salt & pepper to taste.
Fold in sauteed veg and then pour mix into pastry
Arrange chopped tomato on top & spray with a little oil. Turn over top of pastry if sides more than half a cm higher than mix – just to neaten!
Bake for 45-55 mins or until knife comes cleanish. Take out of oven and will set a little more if you leave it to stand.


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