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Our Mission & Vision
The mission of Fellowship Bible Church is to glorify God in all that we do through magnifying the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. The vision of our church is to equip the saints for the work of the ministry and to make true disciples throughout all the nations through local and worldwide outreach.
Leadership Team:
Our leadership team recognizes the authority of God, and realizes that we are under-shepherds who serve the Chief Shepherd, Jesus Christ. We desire to devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the Word. Our passion and goal is to equip the believers for the work of the ministry until we all attain maturity in the fullness of Christ.
Terry, Pastor-Teacher, Elder
As the primary teaching pastor, Pastor Terry has a passion for carefully unpacking the truths of Scripture. He has served at Fellowship Bible Church since 2007. He and his wife have three grown children.
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It`s nice, but you really can`t see the shimmers.
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This color is dark, super dark. You can`t even really tell it is blue until it is really up close and the sparkle in it minimal. I like it though, because I find it to be kinda mysterious.
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Although Indigo has shimmer, it doesn't appear on the nail except if you're looking really carefully. Honestly, I'd pass and go for her sister Ibiza.

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The Star Comics series begins it's final story, a book-end to their run. And the increase in the quality of writing is so dramatic that one is hard-pressed to believe it is even the same series.
Adam is wracked with doubt and bitterness, at the fact that he constantly have to hide his true nature, that he is He-man. Pretending to be a bumbling, lazy, womanizing fool, while his alter-ego earns the respect and admiration of his fellow Heroic Warriors, yes even the love of Teela. It is simply too much, and he informs Man-At-Arms that he quits. He-man is no more, he will never summon the power of Grayskull again. He will join the Heroic Warriors himself, and fight for good in his own guise. Man-At-Arms tries to make him change his mind, but Adam is resolute. He has hardly taken 3 steps outside Duncan's lab however, before his sombre is interrupted by a scream! Man-At-Arms is dangling from the steely hands of Skeletor, defeated!
Adam has no choice but to surrender, as without the Power Sword he cannot defeat the Lord of Destruction. Skeletor reveals his plan, to take them prisoner and when He-man comes to save them, he will detonate a chronal bomb, primed to He-mans brain-wave patterns, that will send the Most Powerful Man in the Universe into the distant future, ridding him from the world. However, since Adam's brainwaves are the same as He-man's, the coundown starts, much to the surprise of Skeletor. Adam reacts instinctively, and is able to reach the Power Sword he left in Duncan's lab, he throws it into the bomb, causing it to malfunction and implode on itself. Skeletor teleports away, his plan seemingly foiled...
But unknowing to himself, the bomb was a success, the damage has been done! The Power Sword is GONE! Lost in time and space possibly forever. Man-At-Arms traces the temporal energy however, as the wormhole opened by the bomb is still open, and sends Adam after the sword, via a teleporter he modifies for the task. Adam arrives in the future, only to face the biggest shock of his life! He-man IS DEAD!
Skeletor now rules Eternia, with an ironed fist. Grayskull has fallen, the Power now rests within the hands of the Lord of Destruction! Dissenters are immediately arrested and taken to hellish prison camps! Children are taken from an early age, brainwashed to be Skeletors loyal troops! The people all around Eternia are starving!
Snake Mountain has been converted into a giant work-camp, where those that oppose Skeletors rule ultimately end up, Adam as well. There he finds his parents, the former King and Queen have been imprisoned there, for almost 30 years! He finally reveals his secret to them, and they give him a weapon, a blaster that Randor have been working on for years.


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GinaC necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 66 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
Wings... we want wings. Open minded new company with an artist who does not have the time to do own logo, so be creative!
The Ginacar Group
We think we want wings, angel wings. They do not have to be obvious or ornate wings, but we want wings to signify the spiritual nature of our company members... without getting too political or religious. I, the company owner, am an artist myself, but I just don't have the time to make my own logo. I am not a digital artist either, so it would take me forever! We are going to distribute a new eco friendly powder cleaner, but that does not have to have anything to do with our logo. We may pick up other items to distribute in the future that have absolutely nothing to do with cleaning, so I want our logo to represent "The Ginacar Group" and not what we sell. Got it? Good ;) The wings can wrap around the lettering, can be colored or black and white. Be a little creative, we are not a conservative company.
Make it bold yet creative, not too "ornate" so that it makes it hard to print. I will be using this logo on our cards, letterhead, brochures, etc. The letters can be all caps, or not... whichever looks best. Now get to work!!!
If possible, I would like The Ginacar Group to be incorporated inside the wing design, or have the wing coming out of the company name as opposed to just having a wing above or beside the name.
- Item 1...I don't like lots of pastels on logos. Some are fine, but not a lot together
- No hearts, butterflies, rainbows or four leaf clovers.
- Not too modern, don't want it looking like a spaceship
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text: FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. - Authorities outside Philadelphia have identified an armed man who barricaded himself inside the bathroom of a sporting goods store and killed himself. Bucks County Coroner Joseph Campbell said Sunday that 58-year-old Mark McCarpy of Levittown died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. Authorities say he entered Dick's Sporting Goods in Fairless Hills after 7 p.m. Saturday and asked to see a shotgun and ammunition. McCarpy pulled out a handgun - later found to be unloaded - and ordered the worker to undo the shotgun's gun lock. He then barricaded himself inside a bathroom. The store and nearby businesses were evacuated during the four-hour-long standoff. No one else was hurt. Lt. Henry Ward says McCarpy had also been involved in a standoff with Middletown officers in 2002.


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| The StoryTeller
(as part of The Jim Henson Hour)
|Air Date
|April 28, 1989
|Written by
|Anthony Minghella, from an early Russian folk tale
|Jim Henson
A Russian hussar is rewarded for his kindness to beggars with a special sack which can force anything inside it, as well as a deck of lucky cards that guarantees he wins every game. When he learns of a palace that is haunted by devils who play cards all night and have yet to be defeated, the soldier goes to the castle to play a game with them. They offer him gold if he wins and he offers his soul to them if he loses. The soldier wins, gathering the devils into the sack, and after driving off the rest, forces one of them to serve him faithfully.
Many years later, the soldier's son becomes ill. The soldier's devil shows him a special glass in which Death can be seen. Through Death's position in the glass, the soldier can determine whether the victim will recover, with the application of holy water, or perish, and uses the glass to become a healer. However, when Death comes to take him (the result of a bargain to spare the Tzar), the soldier makes use of the sack again, with unforeseen consequences.
At the end of the story, the dog asks where the soldier could be. The storyteller replies he could be anywhere. The dog notes the sack that the some biscuits he wanted looks like the one death was in. The storyteller simply throws it off, and on landing, one of the devils jumps out and flies away. The dog looks quite surprised at the sack, but ignores it.
- Bob Peck as the Soldier
- Stuart Richman as Fiddling Beggar
- Walter Sparrow as Card Trick Beggar
- John Franklyn-Robbins as Tzar
- Ishia Bennison as Tzar's Wife
- Jan Chappell as Soldier's Wife
- Gavin Knights as Soldier's Son
- David Fleeshman as Innkeeper
- Alistair Fullarton as Death/Devil
- David Alan Barclay, Michael Bayliss, Marcus Clarke, Richard Coombes, John Eccleston, Geoff Felix, Brian Henson, Mike Quinn, Francis Wright as the Devils (puppeteers)
- Tony Jackson, Peter Hawkins, and Peter Marinker as the Devils (voices)
- There is some unusual compositing in the first shot of this episode (of the Storyteller by the fire). Part of a different take has been superimposed over the center of the shot and is faded in and out.
- This episode theatrically accompany Fathom Event's Fan Celebration screenings of Labyrinth on April 29, May 1, and May 2, 2018.[1]
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Henkel implemented CCH Tagetik's software solution for Midterm Planning, Annual Planning, Monthly Budgeting and Forecasting
What impressed us most is that the software can unify the planning and budgeting process throughout our company while accounting for the individual needs of specific divisions and departments. In addition, we can use CCH Tagetik to flexibly execute our driver-based concept and run what-if simulations on various levels.
Christoph Wenner - Corporate Director
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The challenge
In large corporations that combine tradition and innovation in dynamic business environments, the accuracy of enterprise planning often has priority over speed. Slow approval processes, highly granular data, and a lack of insight with regards to interdependencies, however, stand in the way of efficient planning processes.
Back in 2010, the financial controlling department at Henkel began to question if the benefits of its current system reflected the amount of time and work involved. To address its growing requirements, the company launched an ambitious project to restructure its enterprise planning process and create a leaner, driver-based approach with a stronger emphasis from the top down.
Streamlined company's midterm planning, annual planning, monthly budgeting, and forecasting processes
It provides a more binding way to break down group objectives within the individual business units
Move from an account-driven style of planning to a strategic discussions haped by cause and effect relationships
Each business area can apply its own method of planning as long as it can transfer the final budget into the corporate framework
The solution integrates more than 1,000 planners across the different business sectors, they can plan their data without IT support.
The workflow monitor with a built-in notification function maintains an overview of the overall process status
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The project was spearheaded by the group's financial controlling department and included consultants from CCH Tagetik and pmOne, budget contributors from various business sectors, and Henkel's IT department. It started with an intensive concept design phase, which the Henkel project team used to thoroughly identify and document the group's requirements. After a successful pilot project in the second half of 2011, Henkel chose CCH Tagetik as the base solution for its global planning system in the beginning of 2012. Since the implementation was completed on schedule, the company used CCH Tagetik to kick off its 2013 planning cycle. "Since we only chose CCH Tagetik in early 2012 and the system had to go live by midyear, our project was under massive time constraints," recalled Christoph Wenner, Corporate Director at Henkel. "Thanks to the determination and dedication of the pmOne and CCH Tagetik consultants, however, we were able to wrap up the project both on time and on budget."
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BOSTON, Mass. – Postseason awards continued to flow in for the MIT football program today as the Greater Boston Gridiron Club announced its list of New England Football Awards for 2012. Senior offensive lineman Ethan Peterson (Rutland, Vt.) is the Division II-III recipient of the Nils V. "Swede" Nelson Award, while defensive line coach, Al Pogarian, was selected as the Division II-III Assistant Coach of the Year.
Peterson is the recipient of the 67th annual Nils V. "Swede" Nelson Award, which recognizes exceptional achievement in sportsmanship, academics and athletics. A first team All-NEFC and Academic All-American selection this season, Peterson was also selected as one of 15 national Scholar-Athletes by the National Football Foundation. A nuclear science and engineering major with a 4.8 GPA (5.0 scale), he was the leader of the MIT offensive line that that was among the national leaders by allowing just nine sacks, the fewest allowed in the New England Football Conference. Peterson is the fifth MIT player to be named to the Nelson Award.
Pogarian just completed his sixth season on the MIT coaching staff. He came to MIT in 2007 as the running backs coach and under his guidance the Engineers set a single-game rushing record of 477 yards that season. For the 2008 and 2009 seasons he took over as the offensive coordinator and saw his unit set school records for points, touchdowns, first downs, rushing yards, total offense, and rushing TDs. He moved to his current position with the defensive line in 2010.
Peterson and Pogarian will be presented their awards at the annual Bob Whelan College Football Awards Night on Thursday, January 10 at the Westin Hotel in Waltham, Massachusetts.


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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a quick trip to Baghdad on Tuesday, during which she told Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that the US is pleased with a new law to politically rehabilitate members of executed former dictator Saddam Hussein's Baath Party and urged him to move faster on political reconciliation.
The Associated Press reports the Bush administration has seen recent legislative steps in Iraq as encouraging.
"President Bush and Secretary Rice decided this would be a good opportunity for the secretary to go to Baghdad to meet with Iraqi officials to build on progress made and to encourage additional political reconciliation and legislative action," National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said.
The de-Baathification law is one of 18 steps which the United States considered benchmarks to promoting reconciliation among the country's Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.
A senior aide to al-Maliki said Rice also encouraged the prime minister to promote the progress of the other benchmark legislation, including provincial elections, constitutional amendments and a law to share the country's oil and gas resources among the different sects.
Agence France-Presse reports that Ms. Rice said the new law signals a new "time of hope" for Iraq.
"Iraq is moving forward in a way that is promising but still fragile," Rice told reporters after talks with Iraq's leaders.
"I must say that from the time I was here a month ago I have also seen progress on the political front, particularly in the reconciliation that the Iraqi people themselves are carrying out at the grassroots front," she said.
Steps taken early in the US occupation in Iraq had stripped tens of thousands of members of the Baath Party – most of whom were Sunni Arabs, the community that has driven Iraq's insurgency – of their government jobs. Many analysts said this had fueled anger at the new, Shiite-led political order the US helped install in the country.
The US has now made political reconciliation between Shiite and Sunni a key goal to ultimately ending the war there. But some critics believe the new law, which will allow some Baathists to go back to work, does not go far enough.
Writing in his blog Informed Comment, University of Michigan Middle East historian Juan Cole argues that the new law won't mollify angry Sunni Arabs and that it, in fact, will not allow many to take up their old jobs.
If the new law was good for ex-Baathists, then the ex-Baathists in parliament will have voted for it and praised it, right? And likely the Sadrists (hard line anti-Baath Shiites) and Kurds would be a little upset. Instead, parliament's version of this law was spearheaded by Sadrists, and the ex-Baathists in parliament criticized it.
The headlines are all saying that the law permits Baathists back into public life. It seems actually to demand that they be fired or retire on a pension, and any who are employed are excluded from sensitive ministries.
The New York Times reports says there are a lot of unanswered questions about the new legislation that are creating anxiety within the Sunni Arab community.
The legislation is at once confusing and controversial, a document riddled with loopholes and caveats to the point that some Sunni and Shiite officials say it could actually exclude more former Baathists than it lets back in, particularly in the crucial security ministries.
Under that interpretation, the law would be directly at odds with the American campaign to draft Sunni Arabs into so-called Awakening militias with the aim of integrating them into the police and military forces.
"This law includes some good articles, and it's better than the last de-Baathification law because it gives pensions to third-level Baathists," said Khalaf Aulian, a Sunni politician who opposed the legislation. "But I don't like the law as a whole, because it will remain as a sword on the neck of the people.
"Maybe in the future they will use it to prevent anyone they like from keeping their job," he said.
But the Arab News of Saudi Arabia – a Sunni country that has been worried about the marginalization of Sunni Arabs in Iraq's political life – praised the new law as an important step toward healing Iraq's divisions.
This first major piece of US-backed legislation the Iraqi Parliament has adopted is a candid admission that the US made a colossal mistake when it adopted its de-Baathification policy shortly after the 2003 invasion.
The legislation and the US position on it indicate a new realism in Washington, a recognition that long years of grandiose plans have not worked in Iraq. The Iraqis are at the point where they are able to fashion their own approaches and desired outcomes, and Washington, in part, apparently recognizes that and in part is reflecting on its Iraqi policies over the past few years. And the Americans seem increasingly prepared to say that whatever needs to be done should be done on Iraqi terms.


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In the current economy, using a high end designer for small projects is frequently untenable. Recently, several engineering teams have asked me to teach them how to think through design problems for themselves, so that they can better utilize existing OPEX budgets.
Many of these engineers have found it useful to start by breaking the user experience down into three basic chunks: Graphics, Input and Feedback. It would be great to get your feedback on additions to this list.
Please, check out Bill Buxton's insightful response/rebuttal to this piece. As always, he has smart things to say.
A graphics strategy for multitouch should make it easy for users to think through:
- What the computer is doing
- How to navigate from the current application state to all of the user's goal
- How to navigate between the windows/content of an application
- How the controllers are conceptually grouped
- If content is highly freeform (like in a Surface Scatterview) how to organize it
into a recognizable structure, like a grid.
- How many views/windows are open and how users got to the current application state.
A good graphics strategy is made up of two components:
Layout: How the interface hierarchizes and prioritizes the relative (and often changing) importance of content and controllers
Example: Time sensitive content may get larger and eventually take over the screen when it becomes critical.
Metaphor: How users predict what a controller will do. A good "universe of metaphors" should think through how the way each interface element looks and animates communicates what it does, what content effects and how to undo it.
Example: One of the most frequently cited metaphors is Apple's trashcan.
It makes sense because it echoes a real-world experience. The more controllers and interactions mimic the realworld…through physics and meaning, the easier it will be to intuit how the device will respond.
User Generated Events: How users control the device
Waving the device in the air, pressing a soft button, pressing a hard button
• Input multiple predefined values – GUI equivalent:Radio buttons
• Choose predefined values – GUI equivalent:application icons, buttons
• Input highly customized values – GUI Equivalent:Command line searches
• Group content/Remove content – GUI Equivalent:Drag and Drop
• Choose values along a range – GUI Equivalent: a slider, a color picker
Contextually Generated Events: What the software understands about the outside world
• Examples: Changes in user, mood, noise-level/mood in the environment
An effective feedback strategy informs users that their task has been accomplished and that they are progressing toward a desired objective.
• Examples: The color of a button might get brighter. There may be a noise. There may be a task path that progressively lights up.
Feedback can be broken up into two basic categories:
Device Behavior: How the software/Device responds to input, conditions and events
• Examples: The devices rocks, shakes, flashes, etc.
Device Conditions: The state of the device and software
• Examples: Time, power, processor load, modes, users online, etc
Hope this is helpful. Courteous comment and additions are always appreciated.


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I like the word circumspect here because it means cautious to the extent of considering every possible outcome or consequence of a decision.
Dear all,
'Retrospect' to me means 'contemplation of things past'.
'Forethought' to me means 'consideration of the future before taking action'.
What I am looking for is a word that, in a way, fuses these two definitions together. I have a concept/meaning but need a better way of expressing it in words. I want a word that means 'consideration of how one shall feel in retrospect when deciding upon future action'.
Its not quite forethought and its not quite retrospect. If there is no word that means this, then I believe there should be as I often have the urge to use such a word. The definition I have outlined feels to me like just one package of meaning, and therefore should have a word of its own to represent it.
Does anyone know if such a word exists, or at least a simpler way of putting it?
- Edmund Jones
([email protected])
I like the word circumspect here because it means cautious to the extent of considering every possible outcome or consequence of a decision.
Would "deliberation" work?
Many thanks both to mykwyner and Sarah Shaw-Gray. Both words would work in most situations that I wish to express this concept. I especially like circumspect.
However, neither of them quite portray the subtle but essential "looking forwards whilst thinking backwards" idea within the concept, so further additions are still welcome.
Perhaps I shall have to invent a new word of my own!
- Ed
the opposite of restrospective is prospective. i would phrase it as follows- prospective action supported by retrospective insight.
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Language immersion - MyLanguageTravel is a fun and easy way to find, recommend and talk about what's great and not so great about your language immersion and your study abroad program.


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Amazing festival celebrates Neches, youths
Highlights of the NRF … After King Neches LXIV Bill Benning arrived at the dock of the Beaumont Country Club and James McNicholas was named NRF Citizen of the Year at the MCM Eleganté, the Knights of the Neches hosted their third Knights Stag party chaired by Bernie Daleo. Enjoying the casino games, raffles and auction were Greg Austin,Roy Steinhagen,Will Leonard,Jordan Reese,Russ Waddill,Craig Messer,Mike Gilbert,Northcott McFaddin,Doug Fierce,Greg Zummo,Ted Harp,Kyle Hayes and Clark Winslow.
Meanwhile ... 2012 NRF princesses and their escorts began arriving at events for the festival. The Beaumont Country Club feted its princess, Lauren Dowdy, with a traditional tea attended by the other princesses. The Symphony League of Beaumont hosted a pool party to honor its princesses Beth Broussard,Leah Carroll,Caroline Clark,Annie Forman,Hannah Grace Heartfield,AmieAnn LaMendola and Helen Elizabeth Old. Enjoying the view and delicious edibles by chair Brenda McMakin were escorts Dane Steinhagen,William Lighty,Bryce Boyette,Devonte Williams,Sam Lombardo,Connor Roane,Brant Burns,Emory Cothen and several others. This past Friday evening, Elizabeth Waddill and Kathy Fisher chaired the always entertaining NRF Get Acquainted Party on stage at the Jefferson Theater. Dressed in creative toga outfits were Chris Scheurich,Caroline Fluke,Grady Talbot,Alyssa Henke,Richard Scott,Molly Anderson,Caroline Hall,Curtis Leister,Anna Hubbell,Dylan Clay,Marli Pieternelle,Britney Gaines,Stephens Garrett and Jazmine Lewis, to name a few. Winning the contests for different costume categories were: best Grecian footwear, Katy Waddell; most original outfits, Phoebe Hambright and Connor Roane; least amount of toga fabric, Adonis Bateaste; most authentic, Brantley Wilson; best Zeus, Dane Steinhagen; best goddess interpretation, Annie Forman;and Santorini meets Beaumont, Brody Fierce.
Upstairs in the Jefferson, Gillian Jenkins chaired a very sophisticated Premier Party for the parents of the duchesses and other NRF contingent. Among them were Kim Phelan,Emily and Chris Miller,Leslie and Bill Wilson,Delores and Roland Respess,Nancy and David Fertitta and too many more to mention. After the princesses, duchesses and their escorts completed practice Saturday morning for the NRF Coronation, Queen Neches LXIII Laura Broussard and her parents Chris and Martin Broussard hosted a very clever luncheon for the court on the grounds of the Julie Rogers Theatre. Moz Burgers were grilled and served by Dwight Moore along with delicious cupcakes by Kelly Patrizi. Enjoy the luncheon fête were Ashton Almond,Jacey Andrepoint,Hannah Bender,Sarah Baisdon,Paige Broussard,Brooke Dyson,CaSandra Cantue,Morgan Elkins,Britney Gaines,Amanda Fertitta,Megan Kuether,Dallas Nixon,Arianna Nacol,Nicole McClung,Michelle Miller,Andrea Rugg,Haley Riley,Julie Sherlock,Taylor Simmons,Catherine Swantner,Aaron Stawser,Bailey Swanson,Kathleen Thompson,Erin Turk andWhitney Walters, as well as duchesses Madeline White,Madeline Stone,Jade Respress,Blair Martin,Nicole Huang and Marilyn Budde. Escorts there were Shawn Figari,Daniel Messina,Dillon Guidroz,Trevor Reed,Enrigue Villarreal,Austin May,Trey Daniel,Marcus Kelly,Eric Bramble,Garrett Lockhart,Ian Smith,Zach Cross and Ryan Bean.
The naming of the queen and her court took place Saturday evening as social chairs Rachael Roane and Heather Petkovsek along with NRF President Doug McMakin (who all did a fantastic job coordinating this year's festival) stood by. Master of ceremonies Bill Leger named the Grand Duchess Jacqueline Hirschfield, then third lady-in-waiting Gabriella Oxford was named, followed by Marli Pieternelle as second lady-in-waiting and then Helen Elizabeth Old as first lady-in-waiting. Finally Queen Neches XLIV Beth Broussard was announced and crowned by King Neches LXIV Bill Benning. As delighted parents, family and guests along with the NRF royalty court made their way to the Beaumont Civic Center, they were thrilled with the beautiful transformation of the contemporary glass tables and ghost chairs created by the talented chair of the ball Camille Ohmstede. Dancing way into the evening, this year's court had an incredible time celebrating the NRF festival. Sunday morning, Elizabeth and John Miller served an outstanding brunch to the royal court and their families. Another fantastic festival that celebrates our river and the wonderful youths of our fair city!
Inter-faith celebration … Temple Emanuel will host its Community Inter-faith Shabbat Celebration at 6 p.m. on Friday with a reception to follow. This is part of the wonderful Love Thy Neighbor program and includes "The Freedom Music Project" on Saturday, May 5, at 7:30 p.m. A $10 per person offering is kindly requested.
Run for the Roses Party … Saturday afternoon, May 5, Beaumont Community Players will honor Evelyn Lord,Rosine Wilson,Sallye Keith and Betty Greenberg with a Kentucky Derby Party. Tickets are $75 per person or $100 per couple. Wear your derby finest and enjoy hors d'oeuvres and cocktails as you watch the 138th race. For more information, call (409) 833-4664.
Viva la Cure … The American Cancer Society is preparing for the 23rd annual Cattle Baron's Ball this Saturday, May 5, at 7 p.m. at the Jack Brooks Regional Airport. Slip into your boots and shout Viva la Cure at this always exciting and fun filled event. Call (409) 835-2139 for ticket info.
Family fun … The Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) will once again host a day of fun with their Family Arts Day starting at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 5.
Storkmarketing … Hannah and William Elliott welcomed their first image, Ruby Christine, on April 24. Grandparents Christy and Mike Persia (this was also their 36th wedding anniversary) and Judy Elliott are thrilled with the new arrival.
Candles and cakes … Belated best to Bruce Hoffer,Susan Geyser and Pati Cure. B-day greetings to Keely Meehan,Laurie Overall-Johnson,Eddy George,Judy Black,Lauren Smith,Julie Weldy,Scott Sherron,Carrol Thomas,Lori Falk,Jerome Dick,Lexie Mouton and Vivian Todd.
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Session F of The Victorian Vision Online follows an in-class session on the 'fallen woman'. Specifically, we focus on Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 'Jenny' and Augusta Webster's 'A Castaway' (both published 1870). In many ways these are a dream team of poems to set alongside each other for all sorts of reasons. They can be compared as monologues, with DGR's being considered a kind of 'interior' monologue (as Daniel Harris, 1984, suggested), and can be compared through the lens of gender, with the 'client' versus prostitute herself speaking. Many critics (e.g. Joseph Bristow, 1993) have pointed out that Rossetti's poem, although seemingly emerging from a liberal male standpoint, nonetheless silences and aesthticizes Jenny: it turns her into art rather than having to engage with her as a woman who speaks. The reappraisal of Augusta Webster in recent years — surely a poet who must in future be taught alongside the dramatic monologues of Browning and Tennyson — has meant that 'A Castaway' has also become comparatively better known on Victorian Literature courses.
The session itself is in many ways almost a 'traditional' seminar, but it takes place in an online space. I give the students a number of questions about both poems — e.g. "What is our speaker's attitude to Jenny? Does this change as the poem /the night progresses?"; "What kinds of social analysis of women's position (fallen and otherwise) does 'A Castaway' contain? You might want to think about the topics of work, education and marriage." — and they are encouraged to make close readings of the poems in their responses. This always works well. The ambiguously placed narrator in 'Jenny' still continues to get students going, and although once he might have seemed the height of sympathy for the prostitute's plight he doesn't fare so well (in my students' responses and in more recent critical accounts) alongside Eulalie's attempt to give voice to the prostitute herself.
I decided to do something I've never done before with these discussion forums, and I told the class there would be a prize for the student who made the best contribution to the 'online penitentiary' over the week of the exercise. Who would decide this? The students themselves. Their final 'signing off' from the exercise at the end of the week was to send me an email telling me who they thought should be the winner and, briefly, why. This they did. Overall they voted for 13/28 different students as their nominee, with a few students receiving multiple votes. There was one student who clearly got more votes than any other but two who came joint second. As I was in a good mood I gave the runners up a small prize too. The winner got a copy of Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White (reviewed here by Kathryn Hughes in The Guardian).
Here are some examples of what I thought were good comments by the students about their classmates' postings:
"XX's own initial posting shows a good insight and is done with close reference to the poem … In her other contributions XX manages to present her own opinion based on her findings in the poem and encourages others to take part in the discussions".
"I think XX is the winner because in her posts she is very detailed and also she has responded to lots of people's posts. Her dedication to keeping on replying shows her interest in the topic".
"XX submitted her first post on Friday and continued during the week. She gave thoughtful and sensitive interpretations of both poems using good quotations that showed close reading of the texts. She also supported them with refs. She continued her own discussion and contributed to others. Her English and grammar were also good".
"XX's strands are always informative and very interesting without being too long, or too formal. XX always interacts well with other discussions and you can guarantee a good enjoyable debate with XX, as she always responds to and develops your ideas and opinions".
In the week of the X-Factor final on ITV there was nothing else to do but be democratic about who determined the winner here. It can perhaps feel risky for lecturers to allow their students to engage in peer assessment, although this was relatively safe (no actual marks involved), and I was pleased by the quality of some of the comments they made on each other's postings. I was wanting them to pay some attention to what makes for a good contribution to a discussion forum and I felt they did.


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The mathematicians strike back
Thus far I have framed the story as QKD being the only answer to a code-breaking quantum computer. But, this is simply a product of my own ignorance. As penance, I undertook a pilgrimage to the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica at the University of Amsterdam. I was met by Ronald Cramer and Serge Fehr. Enthusiasm oozes from Cramer as the conversation rapidly expands to encompass a much broader range of ideas than I had anticipated. Fehr is the quieter of the pair.
The big question that I had for the two of them was simple: are there classical cryptography techniques that were thought to be immune to the depredations of quantum computers? Answer: yes. Cramer proceeded to describe something called lattice-based cryptography. The idea—and, I must admit that I don't understand it too well—is to embed a mathematical problem in a very high dimensional grid. For example: imagine that we have a many dimensional grid. You can travel from one point on the grid to another by a combination of basis vectors. In other words, the grid is described by this set of vectors, and a single number, called the norm, might represent the size of the grid.
Now, given the basis set, a vector, and number, you might be asked to calculate a new vector that is the closest possible vector to what you were given. This turns out to be very hard. In these cryptography methods, the key is generated by picking lattice points, something that is very quick, while recovering the private key from the public key involves the much more computationally intensive process of searching the grid. "It looks like these problems cannot be solved more efficiently with a quantum computer than classically" adds Fehr.
The upside doesn't end there though. Cramer continues "In fact, some people believe that lattice-based cryptography is not just a prime candidate for post-quantum computer cryptography, as some people call it, but also cryptography on constrained power devices." Current elliptic-curve cryptography schemes are just too power hungry to work on low power devices. On the other hand, "The operations required to perform lattice-based cryptography—to perform encryptions and decryptions—are extremely simple, and much less demanding algorithmically, than elliptic curve cryptography."
And, in fact, these developments are necessary. Fehr notes:
"It [QKD] is not going to be used on the Internet. Because, at least for QKD systems, you need point-to-point. In theory, there are security proofs by the laws of physics, but of course, those rely on the model. On how exactly the photon source, detectors, and so forth work. So, if an adversary can exploit some properties of these devices that are not captured by the theoretical model, then, it turns out that sometimes these schemes still can be broken."
Fehr's point was a recurring theme during our discussion. Security always comes with a set of assumptions, which for QKD are physical assumptions rather than mathematical ones. But, if you can find a way where the implementation does not match the model, you may expose a vulnerability.
However, Fehr and Cramer believe that QKD will follow the same trajectory as classical cryptography "I think if you sort of compare it to classical crypto, behind 20 years or so. Initially, when the cryptographic schemes were implemented, the algorithms were fine, but then there were side channel attacks. It took some time to see how they could be exploited, how they could be fixed. Nowadays, classical cryptographic schemes, most of the time, seem to be mostly robust against side channel attacks."
Although QKD is capturing a lot of attention, classical cryptographic research and applications are far from dead. One of the areas that excites Cramer is secure computation. In this case, many parties may want to know the answer to a question, but none of them have all the data to calculate the answer. None of them want to share data either. At the moment, the only way to satisfy both these demands is to give the data to a trusted party, who performs the calculation and distributes the results to all parties. "It's benchmarking. Yeah," Cramer says, "So you have five companies, they all have their secret data about their companies' performance, and now they want to sort of derive best practice from the union of all that data. But of course, they don't want to exchange that data. For example, they might want to compute the average managers salary, but, without actually revealing this." Secure computation has the goal of being able to perform such calculations without the use of a trusted party.
A real world example of the future of secure computation is found in the Danish sugar beet industry. All the sugar beets in Denmark are purchased by a single company. The farmers buy the rights to sell a certain volume of sugar beets to the monopolist. However, individual farmers must buy these rights based on estimates of their own production. As a result they often find themselves in the market to buy or sell rights.
Now, the last thing they want to do is buy and sell these rights through auctions run by the monopolist—monopoly power must be limited after all—because the monopolist would have the production records of every farmer and be able to use that to bid the price of the rights down. The market is set up by sellers simply listing the number of units they are willing to sell at each price. Buyers make a similar list of how many units they are willing buy at each price. The results are put together into two graphs of price and volume. Business is conducted at the intersection of these two curves.
Key to the success of this market is that no one knows who is in the market, or how much any particular farmer wants to buy or sell. A more open auction would reveal too much information, leaving farmers vulnerable to market manipulation by the monopolist and each other. So, secure computation could enable a way to create markets that are less open to manipulation, creating a fair economic mechanism.
There is, however, much work to be done "Normally, the function you are computing is a function that would just be implemented on some computer in a computer programming language and a laptop would run it real fast. But now this function is spread out over a network with all kinds of elementary operations: multiplications, additions, and all kinds of other comparisons, and whatever." explains Cramer. The overhead associated with such a distributed computation, along with securing the communication between nodes makes secure computation very costly. Nevertheless, Cramer says that the rise of cloud computing is a strong driver for secure computation.
Clearly, classical cryptography has a huge role to play in future security needs. But, in any article on cryptography, one comment always comes up "All these fancy shmancy cryptography schemes don't matter, it's always some idiot who gives up the password." But, as Cramer points out, "Of course, the days that some people might think that you solve all security problems by cryptography are way behind us. Everybody knows that cryptography is one of the corner stones of security in a real life environment, but certainly not the only one." Although weak passwords may never go away, security has not been helped by developers ignoring security from the outset. The point is this is a multifaceted problem, and developers and researchers can only make the facet they are expert in as clean and polished as possible. Not doing that makes the problem worse, not better.
To quantum or not to quantum
Everyone I spoke to agrees that both QKD and classical cryptography are here to stay. QKD has too many limitations to be able to replace classical cryptography, and classical cryptographic techniques are finding new applications. Indeed, although QKD is selling on the basis of a being provably secure, the reality is the security proof needs to match the implementation exactly for this to be valid. This is where the physicists and the mathematicians run up against each other. A mathematician would say that QKD is provably secure under certain assumptions, but lattice based cryptography is also secure under a different set of assumptions. In the end, the security depends on the validity of the assumptions.
Instead, it's better to take a different perspective on this. QKD is really a random secret key generator, while algorithmically generated keys have a public element. Now, to break QKD encoded data, you need to guess the key—there is no short cut. For the algorithmically encrypted data, you are assuming no one will figure out how to efficiently reverse the key generating procedure. Assuming the QKD generated key really is secret, you can ensure security far into the future simply through a large key. In this light, it is best to see QKD as a technique that is optimal for data that needs to be kept secure for a very long time. But if it needs to be widely distributed, well, that's another story.


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When will the blogs vs. mainstream media debate finally end? Hopefully soon, right? Please? Pretty please? There is perhaps only one man who can settle this once and for all, build that oft-mentioned bridge to the 21st Century. And that man is obviously Braylon Edwards.
Smooth, stylish, kickass taste in cars and clothes and Christ, man, not gay, jerks, Braylon is perhaps the only man who truly, deeply understands the future course of sports media. It is through him that we will all be saved. Who else?
So: Do you like the Braylon Edwards? Do you not like the Braylon Edwards? Speak truth to power, people.


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Construction has started on a new recycling processing facility at the Alamance County Landfill and is scheduled for completion in January.
Alamance County Solid Waste Director Greg Thomas said the center�s construction started last week. Crews have hauled 3,200 yards of dirt to the site to set a base for the structure. Thomas said the center is scheduled to open in early spring.
Over the past six years, the landfill has recycled 22,600 tons generating $900,000 in revenues. The new recycling center will allow the landfill to better manage the storage, marketing and competitive price of selling baled commodities in bulk as opposed to current smaller piecemeal loads of lesser volumes.
The project is being paid for in part with $313,450 remaining in an unspent landfill construction bond fund from 2002. The rest is funded with $270,550 from the landfill�s appropriated retained earnings.
The 8,000-square-foot pre-engineered metal building will serve as a recycling processing facility at the landfill enabling the processing, separation and baling of recyclable materials including cardboard, newspaper, aluminum cans and plastics.
The Alamance County Board of Commissioners approved a $584,000 bid from Central Builders of Mebane in August for the project. Alley Williams Carmen and King Inc. was selected to plan, design, and oversee construction. The new facility�s operational footprint will be about one acre.
During closed hours, the facility will be used as a parking garage for vehicles and will also allow the landfill to better manage the scrap tires it receives.


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Everyone's for great teachers.
But the long-standing debate in California over how best to keep the great ones — and how to get rid of the lousy ones — shows a deep divide in our state about public education.
So does the reaction to Judge Rolf M. Treu's June 10 ruling in the Vergara vs. California case, throwing out the concept of what some are calling an important kind of teacher tenure that protects academic freedom.
But those protections are what others characterize as rules that protect bad teachers by making it hard for administrators to get rid of them when they have achieved seniority after less than two years in the profession.
Interestingly, the lawsuit that led to the decision said that rules protecting teachers from dismissal deprived students of their right to an education under the California Constitution and thus violated their civil rights. The organization that filed the suit, Students Matter, was created and backed with millions of dollars by a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. The formal plaintiffs were actually nine California schoolchildren.
The judge wrote in his decision: "Evidence has been elicited in this trial of the specific effect of grossly ineffective teachers on students. The evidence is compelling. Indeed, it shocks the conscience."
The suit was supported by Education Secretary Arne Duncan and LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy and opposed by the state's teacher unions. Many teachers and especially those unions say that blaming the seniority system for students' problems is wildly misplaced; they contend widespread poverty, large class sizes and a failure to fund education are far more to blame.
What do you think? Do you support the idea of seniority having a real place in the determination of a teacher's overall quality?
In bad financial times when layoffs are necessary, should less experienced teachers automatically go first? Or should principals and superintendents be able to keep the teachers they think are best regardless of experience?
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Sounding Off for Oct. 7
President Barack Obama and Vice President crazy Joe Biden should be asking themselves how can they justify another four years, when we have nine percent unemployment and the economy falling apart, and a foreign policy that is crumbling before their very eyes. How can this justify all this?
Now is when every Christian American must rise-up to "end" the Obama assault on faith, family and freedom, or America as a great nation will be gone forever.
Obama is now packing America's federal courts with hundreds of radical ACLU-style judges similar to Judge David Hamilton. Showing anti-Christian bias, Judge Hamilton ruled that the words "Jesus" and "Christ" could not be uttered at the Indiana State House, but that it was ok for lawmakers to invoke the name of "Allah" in prayers opening legislative sessions.
The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed prayer from the public schools. But the courts are now ruling that the public schools must make provisions for Muslim prayers, just not Christian prayers.
Wake up, America.
How is Mitt Romney going to pay for his war with Iran?
Mitt wants to expand our defense budget... America is already the #1 super power in the world without a competitor. So where do the funds come from to expand our WAR dollars?:
1. Taxes. 2. Cut back on programs for Americans- health budget, Medicare, Medicaid-convalescent care. 3. Education cut backs- for teachers and college loans.
WAR is very expensive- Are YOU ready to invest your son or daughter for another politician's war?
Vote Romney/vote WAR!
Ghost writers in many, many instances are writing the letters that are appearing signed in letters to the editor for Chris Murphy. How to spot them? They are all uniformly well written and shout out "accomplishments" that are credited to Murphy. If you read them, they are all singing Murphy's praises about his dedication.
The only thing dedicated about Chris Murphy is his desire to return to Washington as a senator. Then he will get a bigger pension, bigger benefits, and best of all, not have to have Obamacare. Obamacare, despite being pushed by Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi will not apply to the president, his family or members of Congress. Why? It is a mandate for the rest of us, whether we want it or not. Why should Murphy have the privilege of better insurance coverage? Ask him that.
Also ask Murphy where is his jobs plan. He doesn't have one. The only jobs plan he has is how to get himself re elected.
I'm voting for Linda McMahon in November because Connecticut would be fortunate to have her as its senator. I am thoroughly impressed with McMahon.
It would be folly to think that Chris Murphy has done anything for Connecticut. Despite the campaign ads and the pre-written letters to the editor that his campaign staff ghost writes for the signatures of willing supporters, Murphy has done nothing for this state. Remember, he voted each and every time with the Obama administration, stood shoulder to shoulder with Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi increasing our debt, doing nothing about jobs, saddling us with Obamacare. Not once did Murphy stray from his cronies and have an original thought or vote of his own.
Because Murphy wants a promotion to senator he is using every slimy tactic his handlers can dream up to smear McMahon. I don't know if Murphy believes any of the drivel coming out of his mouth but there is absolutely no benefit to Connecticut in having Murphy as a senator. Once safely back in Washington he will turn his back on us once again.
The saying is, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame me.


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Picard is one of the main reasons Harvard earned a ranking as high as No. 2 in the nation during the 2012-13 campaign (photo Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Current Harvard women's hockey players Lyndsey Fry and Michelle Picard will compete for Team USA at the 2013 IIHF Women's World Championship in Ottawa, Ont., April 2-9. The duo is joined on the U.S. Women's National Team, which is coached by Harvard's Katey Stone, by Julie Chu '06-07, while Sarah Vaillancourt '08-09 will skate for Canada.
Fry, a junior forward, and Picard, a sophomore defender, helped the Crimson post a 24-7-3 record this season and carry Harvard to its first NCAA tournament berth since 2010. Fry, a native of Chandler, Ariz., was second on the team with 16 goals and 20 assists for 36 points and tied for the squad's lead with five game-winning scores. Picard, who hails from Tauton, Mass., was an important piece to one of the nation's best defensive units. She helped Harvard earn the top-ranked penalty kill (93.4%) and the No. 2 ranking in scoring defense (1.21 goals per game).
Chu, who is one of 23 players on the United States roster, is a veteran of USA Hockey. Of the 10 Olympians on the team, Chu is the most decorated with three Olympic Games on her resume.
Vaillancourt, a teammate of Chu's on the CWHL's Montreal Stars, has been a part of Canada's National Women's Team since 2003. She owns two Olympic gold medals, in 2006 and 2010, and has played in five IIHF World Women's Championships (2005, '07, '08, '09, '11).
Team USA and Canada open the event April 2 at 7:30 ET in a Group A preliminary round game at the SBP Arena in Ottawa, Ont.
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Picard is one of the main reasons Harvard earned a ranking as high as No. 2 in the nation during the 2012-13 campaign (photo Gil Talbot).


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WHEREAS, the avoidance of misconduct and conflicts of interest on the part of employees of Metropolitan Government is indispensable to the maintenance of these standards;
NOW THEREFORE, I, Bill Purcell, Mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me, do hereby direct and order the following:
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Rockies hold off Marlins after three-run first
MIAMI -- The schedule asked the Rockies to fly across the country from Spring Training in Arizona to Miami to begin the year. It's not the most convenient slate. But LaTroy Hawkins, the team's 41-year-old closer, felt renewed, rather than jetlagged.
"I felt better than I did all spring," Hawkins said. "I think the humidity and everything … when I got off the plane, I was like, 'Thank you.'"View Full Game Coverage
MIAMI -- The schedule asked the Rockies to fly across the country from Spring Training in Arizona to Miami to begin the year. It's not the most convenient slate. But LaTroy Hawkins, the team's 41-year-old closer, felt renewed, rather than jetlagged.
"I felt better than I did all spring," Hawkins said. "I think the humidity and everything … when I got off the plane, I was like, 'Thank you.'"View Full Game Coverage
That feeling of renewal was just what Hawkins needed Wednesday night, in his first appearance this year. He had to throw 36 pitches in a seat-of-the-pants ninth inning. And although he gave up a run, he forced Garrett Jones into an infield popup to put to bed a 6-5 victory over the Marlins at Marlins Park in front of 15,866.
Hawkins most recently threw 36 on May 11 for the Mets against the Pirates, but that was a two-inning mop-up in an 11-2 loss. This one gave the Rockies their first 2014 victory and a chance, should they win Thursday, to earn a split of the season-opening, four-game series. And this one was Hawkins' 944th career game, which tied Hall of Famer Rollie Fingers for 19th all-time.
It wasn't as if Hawkins was spraying the ball all over the place. Twenty-four of the pitches were strikes, but the Marlins were simply tough outs. That was especially true of Christian Yelich, who ran up 11 pitches -- seven of which he fouled off -- before grounding out for the second out with a runner at second.
"That was a great at-bat -- he fought off everything," Hawkins said.
The Marlins' Giancarlo Stanton, who homered for two runs off winning pitcher Jordan Lyles (1-0) in the sixth, cracked a ball to left field in the ninth that sounded to Hawkins "different than anything I've ever heard … but I knew it was foul." Stanton nevertheless was able to single in a run before Hawkins forced the Jones out.
And after all the pitches, even at his age, he was fine.
"Now when we get into the season and I've thrown a couple days in a row, 36 pitches?" Hawkins said. "Oh.
"The first thing 'Doogie' [head athletic trainer Keith Dugger] said, when I went in and he had the ice and everything laid out, was, 'Time to rebuild you.'"
It was a nail-biter, but not for Hawkins. Rockies catcher Jordan Pacheco, who went 3-for-4 with an RBI, went to the mound at one point but said, "he calmed me down." Manager Walt Weiss made a mound visit as well, but simply to let Hawkins rest a little.
"'Hawk' grinded through the inning and got it done," Weiss said.
The Rockies were patient enough offensively for 12 hits, just one for extra bases, to take a 6-1 lead by the end of the fourth. The bullpen, which the Rockies tweaked with the signing of Hawkins during the offseason, held the lead, but not without drama.
Adam Ottavino replaced Lyles in the sixth and struck out Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Marcell Ozuna and Adeiny Hechavarria with runners at second and third to hold the game at 6-4.
"'Otto' was huge, coming in and getting through that inning," Weiss said.
Matt Belisle threw a perfect seventh. Rex Brothers, moved from closer to the eighth inning with the Hawkins signing, survived his two walks to force a Saltalamacchia popup; he struck out Ozuna to end the eighth. Hawkins survived a run on two hits and a walk. He struck out one.
The Rockies had scattered unfruitful production the first two nights. On Wednesday, half of their hits came during a three-run first inning. Following Pacheco's three hits, leadoff hitter Charlie Blackmon and No. 2 hitter Michael Cuddyer scratched two hits apiece.
Colorado's only extra-base hit was a first-inning RBI double by Carlos Gonzalez, who would leave in the bottom of the sixth as a precaution because of dizziness that he attributed to dehydration. The double was Gonzalez's third extra-base hit in as many games.
After Gonzalez's double, which came off Marlins starter Henderson Alvarez (0-1), Troy Tulowitzki, Justin Morneau, Nolan Arenado and Pacheco all singled, with Morneau and Pacheco driving in runs.
Colorado's other big inning, a three-run fourth, featured the Rockies taking advantage of poor defense and Alvarez's wildness.
Shortstop Hechavarria's throwing error let Arenado reach to lead off the inning. After Pacheco's single, Marlins second baseman Derek Dietrich made a poor throw to second after fielding DJ LeMahieu's grounder to load the bases. With Lyles batting, Alvarez (three-plus innings, seven hits, six runs, three earned) issued a wild pitch, then loaded the bases by walking the pitcher.
Marlins reliever Kevin Slowey walked Blackmon to force in a run for a 6-1 advantage, but he struck out five and gave up three hits in four innings to keep his team close.
Lyles, called up because of a left hamstring injury to right-hander Tyler Chatwood, gave up four runs on five hits and struck out five. He hit Dietrich before Stanton's homer and walked Jones afterward.
"We located the fastball pretty well, and working with 'Checo,' for the most part we threw the ball over the plate," Lyles said.
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb.


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Former Bengals cheerleader forced to wear ankle bracelet
The former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader and high school teacher who pled guilty in October to having a sexual relationship with a student will have a new accessory as part of her wardrobe because of a parole violation in January.
Sarah Jones reportedly will have to wear an electronic monitoring device after breaking a condition of her plea deal in which she could not leave her native Kentucky without her parole officer's permission.
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According to Kenton County court documents, the parole officer was made aware that Jones was in Cincinnati on Jan. 29, 2013, to do a radio interview on 700 WLW. The interview was related to Jones' involvement in the sex charges against her and her recent civil case against the website, thedirty.com.
Jones is permitted to be in Ohio for work and school purposes only. She currently works for her attorney, Eric Deters, and attends classes at the University of Cincinnati.
In other Bengals offseason news, linebacker Brandon Joiner officially rejoined the team after serving eight months in prison on 2007 robbery and drug charges he committed as a freshman at Texas A&M. Rather than release Joiner after his sentence in May, the Bengals placed him on its reserve-did not report list, allowing them to retain his rights upon his release.
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While the team no longer has any affiliation with Jones, it was willing to take a continued chance on Joiner because of character references from college coaches and even the governor of Arkansas, all stating the community service and positive changes he has made in the past six years. The Bengals had great success with another undrafted free agent linebacker in 2012, giving Vontaze Burfict a chance despite his checkered past. Burfict started 14 games for the Bengals and led the team in tackles. If they can get even a fraction of that production and good behavior from Joiner, the Bengals' willingness to take chances on so-called "character guys" might finally result in something more than bad headlines.
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There is a discussion that has spawned on Plus Heal about the high use of Renew in T9 and T10 raids. Some players were asking about it and I felt it was enough to touch on and elaborate further about here.
What is it?
The Renew heavy spec: Take a look.
It's essentially a 14/57/0 Holy priest build but there are a few key talents that are missing. Almost all direct healing spells do not get talented. Talent staples such as Empowered Healing, Divine Fury, and Improved Healing are skipped over entirely. Instead, Blessed Resilience, Empowered Renew and Test of Faith are all taken and maxed out for amplified Renew… age.
Single target healing spells aren't used much.
Flash Heal would mostly be used during Surge of Light procs (when they're free). When looking at spell usages, it'll be a mixture of Circle of Healing, Prayer of Mending and lots of Renews until the cooldowns are available. Prayer of Healing is another option when strong AoE heals are needed.
For glyphs, it would consist largely of:
A case could be made to include glyph of Renew in lieu of Guardian Spirit but that's assuming that cooldowns might not be needed. I don't know, the ability to boost healing received every minute is like a reverse 2 minute DPS cooldown, you know?
You can expect a really high amount of overhealing to come from this style of play especially when you are paired with multiple Druids. The line of thinking here though is to sustain your raiders and "slow down" whatever damage ticks they are taking long enough for a Chain Heal, or a Holy Light to bring them back up to the green zone.
What are the benefits?
Master of Priestcrafting, Zusterke, points out that:
- A glyphed Flash Heal costs roughly the same as Renew
- Both spells can trigger Holy Concentration
- An Empowered Renew can hit with an instant heal in the 2-3k range (Flash Heal takes 1.5s to produce a 5k-6k heal)
- Renew is a HoT and still produces healing after it is applied
- It doesn't require a glyph (although the glyph is handy)
Where could I apply it?
In Icecrown, I can think of several instances where a heavy Renew style would be very beneficial. Against Lord Marrowgar, Bone Spike Graveyards can be cushioned quite easily. Lady Deathwhisper, jus about every player would benefit and those caught in death and decay have an extra second or two to bail out. On Saurfang, players suffering from Mark of the Champion would have some increased insurance.
In the Plagueworks when fighting Festergut, the gases that damage the entire raid can be mitigated with a whole bunch of Renews. Against Rotface, even though the healing is halved, those affected by the slime debuff when they have to run out could move a bit further before a dispel is necessary. It's also great for stabilizing the raid after one of those Oozes explode. When engaging Professor Putricide, preemptively Renewing the raid just before a green ooze makes contact or on any number of other aspects of the fight can grant a slight edge.
To finalize
I'm going to give this a shot this week and see how it works out. It's not quite the same as dropping shields all over the place, but you can see the similarity when it comes to "blanketing the raid".
Anyway, it's a style and spec to consider so keep an open mind.


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Eagles coach Andy Reid will return to the sideline Thursday for the preseason opener against the Steelers two days after the funeral for his eldest son, Garrett Reid.
Eagles' wner Jeffrey Lurie, commissioner Roger Goodell, Patriots coach Bill Belichick, Saints interim head coach Joe Vitt, Browns vice president Mike Holmgren, general manager Tom Heckert, head coach Pat Shurmur and offensive coordinator Brad Childress, former 49ers and Lions head coach Steve Mariucci, Ravens coach John Harbaugh and several former and current Eagles players attended the funeral along with approximately 900 others.
Lurie said Sunday that he wouldn't be surprised if Reid came back to the team's Bethlehem, Pa., training camp by the end of the week. But indications from Reid and Lurie Tuesday were that he'd be back coaching the team for the first game of the preseason Thursday in Philadelphia against the Steelers.
"We'll see," Lurie said. "But all indications are, he probably will be (coaching Thursday). I think what you'll see from Andy is that desire to be around another loving extended family."
Lurie reminded Reid to take his time returning to work, but wasn't surprised when the coach said he'd be there Thursday.
Reid left the team Sunday morning when 29-year-old Garrett Reid was discovered in a dormitory room at the Eagles' Lehigh University training camp. He issued a statement Monday that his son had lost "the battle that has been ongoing for the last eight years."
Garrett Reid was remembered as joyous by Lurie, and rambunctious by Holmgren, who said Andy Reid was the first person he ever hired and recalled family meals in San Francisco that turned into scenes out of Star Wars because of the high energy of the two family's children.
"It is in times like these that we lean on our faith, our family, our friends, and our Eagles family. We will do so in the difficult times ahead," Reid said in his statement Monday.
Reid has been with the Eagles since 1999, longer than any current NFL head coach has been with the same team. The Eagles went 5-11 in his first season, one of only two losing seasons -- 6-10 in 2005 -- in Reid's tenure. He has a 126-81 career record and is 10-9 in the postseason.


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Lucky Nasdaq winners escape 13 years of pain
The bursting of the tech-stock bubble destroyed a massive amount of wealth. Yet there were survivors, even some winners.
There aren't many tech stock investors who can look back at March 2000 fondly, especially those who bought into the hype and bet big on Internet companies with sock-puppet mascots or those promising to revolutionize toy retailing.
Fanned by unsustainable popularity of just about any stock with a ".com" in its name, the Nasdaq composite index soared to a 5,048.62 closing high on March 10, 2000. Now, 13 years later, it is 37% below that. Many of the poster-child stocks of the period, such as networking equipment firm JDS Uniphase, are a fraction of their highs. Other former headline grabbers are gone or forgotten, such as online pet supplier Pets.com and online toy seller eToys.com.
The bursting of the tech-stock bubble resulted in a massive period of wealth destruction. Yet a surprising number of companies and their investors not only escaped the carnage, but emerged as winners.
"There were business models that were not filled with air, but had superior cash flow and generated value," says David Sowerby of Loomis, Sayles.
Make no mistake: Tech stocks that have done well since 2000 are the exception. Just 55 stocks that were in the Nasdaq 100 — the exchange's most valuable non-financial firms — in March 2000 still exist as independent publicly traded companies.
So which companies survived and thrived after the dot-com crash? The Nasdaq's outliers, if you will, since 2000 fall into several areas, including:
•The category killers. Investors figured in 2000 that tech was such a fast-growing area, there was plenty of opportunity for all companies. But when tech spending slowed down, companies in hyper-competitive areas — especially in networking gear — got slammed. BroadVision, Vitesse Semiconductor, Level 3 Communications and JDS have been the worst stocks in the Nasdaq 100 that are still trading, all down more than 98%.
But the ones that defied the odds are those that fended off competition. Apple has been the top-performing Nasdaq 100 stock, rising 1,269% since 2000 as it got an early start in the mobile computing business. Similarly, Amazon and eBay dominated their fields of online retail and online auctions. Those stocks are up 297% and 127% respectively. "Amazon was squarely in the middle of the tech bubble in terms of valuation, and yet it not only survived but actually thrives," says Jack Ablin of BMO Private Bank.
•The obscure. Investors played a game of financial pile-on in 2000. Darlings such as Cisco Systems, Oracle, EMC and Sun Microsystems became household names, and individual investors jumped on not because they liked their business models, but because the stocks were rising at the time. Since then not one has paid off for investors. Cisco, Oracle and EMC are down 69%, 15% and 64% respectively.
But several Nasdaq stocks that got little notice in 2000 turned out to be the real stars, including scientific gear maker Sigma-Aldrich and Fiserv, which provides behind-the-scenes payment processing services. Sigma-Aldrich is up 600% since 2000, the best performance in the Nasdaq 100 after Apple; Fiserv had a solid 258% rise.
•The non-tech. The best way to make money in stocks sometimes is to zig when others zag. Avoiding tech was a big way to mine profits out of the Nasdaq 100 in 2000. Starbucks is the No. 3 Nasdaq 100 stock since, perking investors with a 516% gain. The coffee chain also got an unexpected jolt when its visionary founder, Howard Schultz, rejoined the company during the decade.
Other big wins that came from outside tech included retailers Dollar Tree and Bed Bath & Beyond, which rocketed 418% and 382% respectively since 2000. Dollar Tree was perversely a huge beneficiary of the recession, as consumers trimmed their budgets and looked to dollar stores for more items, including groceries. And Bed Bath & Beyond, too, benefited as the ravages of the recession caused its No. 1 direct rival, Linens 'N Things to file for bankruptcy protection. Another big winner: truck-equipment maker Paccar, up 459%.
Much has changed with the Nasdaq 100 since the 2000 high. Back then, most of its companies lost money or paid no dividends, says Dave Gedeon, managing director of global indexes at Nasdaq OMX. Today, the Nasdaq 100 trades at 16 times its earnings the past 12 months, just slightly higher than the Standard & Poor's 500. Companies in the Nasdaq 100, too, pay a 1.5% dividend yield vs. 2.1% for the S&P 500.
Yet, picking the next decade's winners doesn't mean the Nasdaq stocks that survived the tech-stock crash will be winners from here. Tech is a fast-moving area. Competitors quickly crop up. And business advantages can be fleeting.
Google, for instance, is now the No. 2 largest company on the Nasdaq 100 after Apple, and it didn't even trade until 2004. Now Google is beating Apple in the smartphone war. Meanwhile, Facebook, which wasn't founded until 2004, is attacking Google's online advertising monopoly.
The struggles within the Nasdaq 100 are just part of the rise and fall common with tech stocks. "These companies become a victim of their own success and enthusiasm inspires expectations," Ablin says. "Most of these expectations become unrealistic."


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 55 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
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Our Company: (brief) Our company sells online marketing software. We sell the software to our clients and they create "campaigns" for their customers. "Campaigns" are also called landing pages or explained to be 1-page websites with tracking capabilities.
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There are no restrictions on color scheme or style. However, our current logos possess a combination of bold and not-bold type style. For example, "VIP Landing Pages" where either "VIP" is bold or the words "VIP" and "Pages" both stand out in bold. So, a combination of bold and not-bold letters or words is suggested, but not required.
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"I would like a Fitbit Flex or anything else that can help me get in shape. I also need to increase my hipster look, so cool shoes or shirts are on my list too! Also I just want to spend the day doing nothing with my family, no birthday parities, kids activities, dinner parties, or other overscheduled activity. I just want to lay low." -Justin Mehta
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A Drink For The True Cognac Connoiseur
New York-based Martell Cognac, the oldest and one of the most revered of the major Cognac houses, introduces L'Or de Jean Martell, the culmination of the house style, the product of the unique art of Cognac and the result of the painstaking care and creation of many successive generations of Martell cellar masters, in a very limited quantity. Although we couldn't afford this even in the best of time, for those who can, they will have a rare treat.
Martell L'Or de Jean Martell is the epitome of Martell expertise: a double distillation of the clearest eau-de-vie, a sophisticated combination of the four finest growths -- Grand Champagne, Petite Champagne, Fins Bois and Borderies -- and a lengthy maturation in fine-grain oak barrels.
"L'Or de Jean Martell is truly the ultimate expression of the House of Martell and a testament to Jean Martell whose founding principles are based on the pursuit of perfection," noted Larry Neuringer, Brand Director of Martell, Pernod Ricard USA. "Martell Cognac has long been linked with the sense of French refinement, and every bottle embodies the experience of unrivalled craftsmen: cellar masters, growers, distillers and coopers all who have handed down their expertise from generation to generation. It is the skill and vision of these craftsmen that has made the House of Martell an icon of French excellence and resulted in the presentation of L'Or de Jean Martell, the ultimate statement of luxury."
The Cognac owes its rich and complex character to the aged eau-de-vie from Borderies -- the smallest and most exclusive growing region in Cognac. As the spirit matures, the candied-fruit notes offset the power and depth of the spirit's Grand Champagne eau-de-vie. L'Or, the culmination of Martell's nearly three hundred year quest for perfection, is a blending of several hundred eau-de-vie, some of which have aged for more than a century like hidden treasures deep in the house's cellars. These secret cellars, rechristened the "Chai Jean Martell" or Jean Martell Cellars, hold exceptionally rare spirits, some dating back to 1830. It is from here, to which only a chosen few have access, that many of the eau-de-vie for L'Or de Jean Martell is drawn.
The liquid has an intense amber color with hints of shimmering mahogany. The nose holds extraordinarily complex aromas of fruited candy, sweet spices and gingerbread created by the unique blend of Borderies and Grand Champagne growths. On the palate, the attack is silky smooth and subtle moving towards the richer more substantial flavors of orange peel, prune and gingerbread. The finish is beautifully long and elegant.
This exquisite Cognac is encased in a teardrop shaped decanter made of Cristal de Sevres -- the finest crystal. Each individual decanter is hand-blown using time-honored skills that combine technical mastery with respect for the delicate material to create curves of elegance that are then embellished with gilded garlands, a subtle allusion to the elegant French classical style.
Neuringer concluded, "L'Or de Jean Martell is a fitting testament to Jean Martell himself. His insistence on perfection and his driving passion lead Martell to creating one of the most revered and enduring luxury goods companies in all of France. That same enthusiasm and attention to quality has been passed from generation to generation creating Cognacs that have, throughout history, been sought after by royalty and heads of state around the world and that uphold the name that sets standards for others in the field."
Suggested retail price is $3,600 per bottle.