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06 February 2017 - 06:49 AM
Uniform Server ZeroXIII modules (Plugins)
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06 August 2016 - 06:40 AM
I have traced this issue to the MySQL server.
The error is caused by a missing folder UniServerZ\core\mysql\share\spanish.
As of today (6-8-2016) there were only a few downloads of the new release and its corresponding modules because of this I decided to republish instead of creating new releases:
11 March 2016 - 05:11 AM
1) "Or do I simply modify one of those three files as needed, leave it in its current directory, and then use the UniController to select the chosen .ini file? " This is correct.
Although "Configuration File (php.ini) Path" shows C:\WINDOWS this path is ignored even if it contains a php.ini file. The configuration file loaded is that selected by UniController, on start-up PHP is forced to load only this file.
The php info "Loaded Configuration File" is the one that php is currently using.
2) "And I see the file name of the various earlier versions of PHP (e.g., ZeroXII_php_5_6_x.exe). But nowhere do I see a link to download the needed file(s). "
Not sure I fully understand the problem!
The needed files are contained in self-extracting archives for example ZeroXII_php_5_6_19_g.exe
Download this file from the modules folder https://sourceforge....ZeroXIImodules/
Copy the downloaded file to folder UniServerZ.
Stop servers and close UniController if running, double click downloaded file in folder UniServerZ.
This extracts all required files for php 5.6.19.
Start UniController and select php version php56 this switches to php 5.6.19
You are now ready to run the servers.
19 February 2016 - 07:22 AM
It looks like the offical release wants to use mysql.dll this is not contained in PHP 7.0.x
The v2.x Developers version of e107 resolves this issue. Download from:
The above installs on a default installation of Uniform Server Uniform Server 12.1.0-ZeroXII
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19 February 2016 - 07:21 AM
There is ftp support, to enable this add the following line:
to the php configuration files:
php_development.ini, php_production.ini and php_test.ini
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andrew chiropractic necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 146 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
We are a Chiropractic and Massage clinic that promotes optimal health and fitness through natural therapies. At our clinic we aim to get patients actively involved in looking after their health by improving their physical, mental and nutritional wellbeing. Being active and living a fit lifestyle is one of the most important aspects in achieving good health.
As Chiropractors we work with the human body including the spine, muscles, joints and nervous system. A lot of our patients come to us for a variety of reasons, predominately because they are stiff, injured, in pain and not moving well. Once we begin chiropractic care we provide relief and get them moving healthy again. This improves their mobility allowing them to move better and become active again. We work closely with personal trainers, gymnasiums and a number of sporting teams and clubs.
We market to people who want to live a healthy and active lifestyle. Our demographic age group is from 18 – 50 years of age and both sexes equally. We cater for people who have fallen behind in looking after their health and are seeking pain relief, improved mobility, performance and strength which enhances their overall health and wellbeing. We want them to see our company as a centre for a new life and growth.
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• We would like our logo to come across as something that feels active, alive, healthy and energetic which is how we want our patients to feel. We want new patients who see our logo to say "that's what I need, to be recharged, well aligned and active again".
• Chiropractic is a natural, drug free therapy that believes in the body's own ability to heal itself. I would like this logo to be fresh and brightly coloured. The preferred colours are blue, green and white background, but I am excited to see what ideas and concepts designers feel would reflect my business well.
• I would like the feeling of movement with an abstract human figure in the business name, possibly in the "f" part for fitness or one of the other letters. Otherwise this image can be separate from the name at the begging, end, above or below the business name.
• Chirofitness must appear as one word with "Chiro" and "Fitness" being highlighted separately by using different colours.
This new logo will then be used for all advertising including business card, letter head, signage, clothing and website, so am hoping to get a great collection of ideas from you all. We wish you the best of luck and looking forward to seeing what you can come up with.
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It can't come down to Colin Kaepernick vs. Aaron Rodgers on Saturday, not if the 49ers want to set the pace of this playoff game.
It would be highly entertaining to see, but it almost certainly wouldn't work for the 49ers.
This game can't have the echoes of an old-school 49ers-Green Bay quarterback opera, can't repeat Steve Young vs. Brett Favre, can't ignore who the 49ers are and what they still do best.
For one more week at least, the 49ers have to be bullies again.
If this divisional-round game is about Frank Gore, Mike Iupati, NaVorro Bowman, Aldon Smith and Donte Whitner, the 49ers win.
And if it's about Rodgers going throw for throw with Kaepernick, the 49ers probably will be in some trouble that they might not be able to escape.
There wasn't a lot to take out of the Packers' near-scrimmage against wounded Minnesota in the first round Saturday, but one thing: Rodgers is throwing well, and when Rodgers is throwing well, watch out.
If the 49ers — or any team — lets Rodgers get into a rhythm throwing to his endless set of playmakers, the Packers are almost impossible to stop.
Of course, I'm not saying the 49ers have zero chance if they get behind early and this turns into an aerial circus.
If Justin Smith is as limited as expected, that all very well might happen, and the 49ers could switch on the offensive turbo-boosters.
Just a year ago, they beat the pass-crazed New Orleans Saints in this same round with an explosion of big pass plays in the late-going.
But that was with Alex Smith at QB, not Kaepernick, and that game was far more perilous than the 49ers wanted it to be.
Maybe in a year — maybe in another week — the 49ers will comfortably go into any big game ready and more than able to depend on Kaepernick for 300 yards, 40 throws and zero huge errors.
I think that was the point of making the QB switch in the first place — Smith was Jim Harbaugh's QB for cautious times; Kaepernick is the guy Harbaugh believes can eventually win tough playoff games on his own.
It just probably shouldn't and can't be this game, not when Green Bay features Rodgers and a defense that can be tricky for young QBs.
The 49ers played it perfectly in their 30-22 Week 1 victory at Lambeau Field. They ran it 32 times for 186 yards, kept Rodgers out of sync, and they dared Green Bay to run it, and Green Bay still couldn't run it.
When the 49ers needed the big play, it was Bowman slicing in front of a Rodgers pass in the fourth quarter to seal the game.
Familiar refrain: That also was with Smith playing one of his finest games (125.6 passer rating), balancing the power run style with an efficient pass attack.
But the 49ers have committed to Kaepernick now, for good reasons, and they are a different offense.
The 49ers are more dynamic under Kaepernick than they were with Smith, but they're also more erratic.
They consistently threaten the deep spots of a defense, but they also are having a tougher time running it consistently.
The stats are pretty easy to see:
In the seven Kaepernick games, they've gained only 38.4 percent of their yards on the ground.
They had more passing yards than rushing yards in each of Kaepernick's seven games, and averaged 137 yards on the ground.
By making that move, and using a lot more shotgun formations, the 49ers have put more responsibility on a younger QB, and we have certainly seen signs that the young QB is capable of doing some great things.
It also makes the 49ers a less physical team than they used to be, however.
That new finesse style might be better for the 49ers in the long term, or even for next week, if they have to go to Atlanta or host the Seahawks.
If Kaepernick is the QB Harbaugh believes can win a Super Bowl, then eventually he will have to let him loose in an all-important moment.
But that's not this week, at least that shouldn't be the plan.
For this week at least, the 49ers have to turn back and go old-school 2011 smash-mouth in this game.
The 49ers can save the QB heroics for later, because if there's going to be a QB to win this for his team single-handedly at Candlestick on Saturday, it likely won't be their guy.
Or their team.
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- News items in RSS feeds are themed as they are on the website. This support will be expanded to other content types over time. Images from News items are added as enclosures in the RSS feed. See the Middlebury News archive feed for an example.
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- Added support for m4a files. Users can now upload m4a audio files. The application will preview them (with any associated images) and will generate embed code for them. Quicktime is required to preview these files.
- Embed code generated for video files now uses HTML5 embed tags that reference the mp4 and webm versions of the videos for HTML5 compliant browsers. All others will fall back to a Flash player (currently Strobe player).
- Constrained widths of elements of the main file listing table. Before long file names could force the table below the sidebar. Now the elements should remain positioned correctly despite the size of the contents.
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In any event, the Steam for Linux limited beta began in early November with the initial group taken from respondents to the Steam for Linux beta survey. We are adding more participants on a regular basis so if you haven't filled out the survey, you can find it here.
In order to support the large interest around the limited beta, we've created a new Steam for Linux Hub and "migrated" our information and support over. It offers all the features of a Steam Game Hub, so you'll be able to keep tabs on Linux announcements, discussions and news. Join the official group and you'll even see our announcements in your community activity feed.
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DOVER — A new health care model that rewards doctors based on the outcomes of their treatment is showing promise for cutting down costs and improving care for patients with complex health issues.
A new study by researchers at the Dartmouth Atlas Project and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice looked at Medicare spending among 10 health care groups operating as so-called "accountable care organizations" (ACOs).
The ACO model represents a shift away from traditional "fee-for-service" health care systems, which compensate doctors based on the volume of work they perform. ACOs offer financial incentives to doctor's offices, hospitals, and long-term care facilities to coordinate care for an individual patient, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
The country has seen a rapid expansion in the number of organizations experimenting with ACO reimbursement models as a result of initiatives created under the Affordable Care Act in 2010. The federal health care legislation aims to cut Medicare costs by as much as $1 billion over five years by encouraging providers to coordinate care.
Hoping to study the merits of ACO models, Dartmouth researchers examined data from 10 groups taking part in Medicare's Physician Group Practice Demonstration (PGPD). PGPD was a pilot project that ran from 2005 to 2010 wherein doctors were paid bonuses for controlling spending while simultaneously providing quality care.
The Dartmouth study focused on patients who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid — a population that generally encompasses some of the sickest patients in the health care system.
About 20 percent of Medicare recipients have dual eligibility, but they account for about 31 percent of Medicare spending, according to the researchers.
PGPD organizations managed to cut down spending on dual eligibles by an average $532 annually, according to the study, which was published this month in The Journal of the American Medical Association. They achieved the savings largely by shortening hospital stays and reducing the number of hospital readmissions and procedures patients undergo, according to the study.
"Patients that receive both Medicare and Medicaid coverage have historically proven to be a difficult group to manage because of high illness burden, low socioeconomic status, and lack of social supports," Dr. Carrie H. Colla, lead author of the study, said in a prepared statement. "Our results suggest that while some care management or coordination programs have failed to demonstrate savings, ACOs have the potential to improve health care and reduce spending for this population."
Several organizations in New Hampshire are already working within an ACO model. Among them are a group of five participating in a project launched in 2010 by the NH Citizen's Health Initiative. They include: Exeter Health Resources, which represents Exeter Hospital and affiliated physicians; Central New Hampshire Health Partnership, based in Plymouth and Bristol; Southern New Hampshire Health System in Nashua; Cheshire Medical Center and Dartmouth Medical Clinic in Keene; and a North Country initiative of hospitals and home health groups.
Health insurance provider Cigna launched its own ACO-style project in New Hampshire in May in partnership with members of the Granite Healthcare Network, which includes Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover.
Registered nurses are a crucial aspect of Cigna's program. They coordinate clinical care and help patients schedule appointments and access educational materials and clinical programs, such as disease management programs for diabetes and others to help them quit smoking, manage stress or lose weight.
The health care providers earn financial rewards if they meet targets for improving quality and lowering medical costs, according to an announcement furnished by Cigna earlier this year.
"We believe that this arrangement with Cigna offers the best opportunity for us to improve health care quality, lower medical costs and help our patients lead healthier and more productive lives," Dr. Greg Baxter, chief medical officer for the Granite Healthcare Network, said in a prepared statement.
The other organizations in the Granite Healthcare Network are Concord Hospital, Elliot Health System, LRGHealthcare and Southern New Hampshire Health System. Participating in the program are more than 900 health care professionals and more than 23,000 patients covered by a Cigna health plan
Cigna has similar initiatives under way in Connecticut and Maine, where Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems, Kennebec Region Health Alliance, Penobscot Community Healthcare are among the provider groups taking part.
Health care providers in New Hampshire are generally supportive of the ACO initiative, according to Paula Minnehan, the New Hampshire Hospital Association's vice president for finance and rural hospitals.
"The concept really makes a lot of sense — to coordinate the care," Minnehan said. "It is essential in order to transform health care moving forward, but I think everyone's moving cautiously and trying to kind of figure it out as they go."
Minnehan said challenges lie ahead in smoothly transitioning from a fee-for-service system to a proven ACO model. The different payers involved in the health care system are not all in alignment today about what a functioning ACO model should look like. It may also be easier for organizations with a large base of patients to work within an ACO framework, she said.
Regardless, Minnehan said it's apparent that a shift toward greater coordination of health care is inevitable.
"They are feeling the pressure," Minnehan said of the state's hospitals, "but they also are feeling the pressure within their own organizations. They know that it is not business as usual, and fee-for-service medicine is not the future of health care."
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DOVER — A new health care model that rewards doctors based on the outcomes of their treatment is showing promise for cutting down costs and improving care for patients with complex health issues.


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Venture capital firms have encountered plenty of headwinds in recent months, with fundraising totals falling off a cliff. But Voyager Capital, a Seattle venture firm with offices in Portland and Menlo Park, is hoping that things improve in 2012.
Voyager today filed documents with the SEC to raise up to $125 million, marking what would be the firm's fourth fund since it was founded in 1997.
We've reached out to the partners at the firm for comment, but it is customary that VCs take a low-profile approach while raising cash.
Voyager raised its third fund at $107 million in 2007, backing companies such as Ontela, Yapta, SEMDirector and others.
Previous investments by Voyager include aQuantive, which sold to Microsoft for $6 billion, and Attenex, which sold to FTI Consulting for $88 million. It primarily focuses on early-stage clean tech, digital media, software and wireless companies
The firm is led by Bill McAleer, Enrique Godreau, Erik Benson, Curtis Feeny and Daniel Ahn.
It will be interesting to see how Voyager performs on the fundraising trail. After all, it has been a tough road for many VC firms who've contemplated raising more money.
According to the National Venture Capital Association, 52 VC raised $1.72 billion during the third quarter. That was a 53 percent decrease by dollar commitments and a four percent decline by number of funds compared to the third quarter of 2010. In fact, the third quarter marked the lowest amount raised in a quarter since the third quarter of 2003.
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Manchester United has become the first sports team in the world with a $3 billion valuation.
Shares of the English soccer team, which were offered to the public last August at $14, did poorly at first but have soared the past few days. Last seen at just under $17, Manchester United's stock has outperformed the S&P 500 since its IPO and made the controlling Glazer family and legendary investor George Soros, who bought a big stake in the team shortly after it went public, wealthier.
The recent increase in its stock price has pushed up Manchester Untied's enterprise value (equity plus debt) to $3.3 billion, the highest value of any team in the world. The second most valuable sports team in the world are the NFL's Dallas Cowboys, worth $2.1 billion.
Despite a drop in first quarter earnings because of a reduction in television revenue, the appetite for shares of the 19-time English champion has increased due to brighter earnings prospects from new sponsorship deals with Japan's Kansai, and China Construction Bank, and the potential of much more lucrative English Premiership (Manchester United currently is in first place) and Champions League payouts this year.
Publicly traded sports teams have traditionally been bad investments. But thus far the Red Devils are bucking history.
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Amazon's new Elastic IP (EIP) addresses allow users to allocate an IP address and assign it to an instance of their choice. What's really cool is that each IP address can be reassigned to a different instance when needed. For example, if the first one failed or if a new one is supposed to take its place.
Before going into an example, let's review how the Elastic IPs work:
- You can allocate up to 5 Elastic IP addresses per account (default).
- Each EIP can be assigned to one instance, in which case it replaces the normal dynamic IP address. Remember, by default, each instance starts with a dynamic IP address.
- Each instance can have only a single external IP address. It starts out with the default dynamic IP address which can be swapped out for an EIP at any time. If the EIP is deassigned (or assigned to a different instance) then a fresh dynamic IP is allocated for the instance. The limitation of designating a single IP at a time is due to the way NAT (Network Address Translation) works. Remember that each instance has an internal IP address and an external (public) one, which is translated to the internal one. If two external IPs were translated to the same internal IP then inbound packets would arrive fine, but sorting out outgoing packets (i.e. determining which external IP address to assign to outgoing packets) would be very difficult. Hence, the limitation of a single external IP address per instance at any given point in time.
- EIPs are free while they are assigned to an instance, but they cost $0.01/hr if they are not assigned. The reason for this charge is due to the fact that the number of IP addresses worldwide is very limited. Perhaps in theory, this charge will help prevent users from hogging unused IP addresses that could be dynamically allocated to other users. Yet, in a weird way there is no additional cost to Amazon for an assigned static IP as opposed to a dynamic IP because while an EIP is assigned to an instance it actually frees-up a dynamic IP.
- Assigning or reassigning an IP to an instance takes a couple of minutes, which is longer than I would have hoped for, but I can imagine that many network devices need to be updated in the infrastructure to make it all happen.
Let's look at a simple example of an application server running Apache and a PHP app, talking to a back-end MySQL database server and how Elastic IPs can improve the process of updating the site. First we allocate an Elastic IP. Suppose we get 126.96.36.199 assigned. Then we set up the DNS in our preferred outsourced DNS service and map our website name to the IP address, e.g. www.rightscale.com -> 126.96.36.199. Having done that, we can launch our web server and database server. Once the web server boots and we have the website running, we assign it the EIP and can soon thereafter point our browser to www.rightscale.com. Here's how this looks:
Now suppose we want to update from our current production release of the website (we called it rel2 in the diagram) to rel3. The power of the cloud is that we don't need to touch our existing web server and risk causing damage during the upgrade process. Instead we launch a second web server (shown in the diagram below as www_rel3) and install the new release on it. We can point a different DNS entry, such as test.rightscale.com, at the default dynamic IP provided for the instance by EC2 and test the site to make sure everything works properly.
Once we're confident in the new test version, we simply reassign the EIP 126.96.36.199 to the www_rel3 instance and shortly thereafter all users accessing the site are now receiving data packets from the new release. Remember, as long as the www_rel2 is available, you can easily swap back and forth between www_rel2 and www_rel3 until you are completely satisfied with the new site. And when you're ready, you can terminate the old www_rel2 instance. See diagram below.
Amazon did a nice job in creating something much more powerful than simply adding "static IPs" to their offering. It is giving us dynamically remappable IP addresses that fit well into the overall cloud computing paradigm that we can use to manage servers better than with traditional hosting solutions.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many medical guidelines don't stick to quality standards designed to make them trustworthy, and the situation hasn't improved over the past two decades, researchers have found.
"Everybody everywhere is developing guidelines and there is no real quality control," said Dr. Philip A. Mackowiak, who led the new work. "There is no good oversight of who actually develops the guidelines or what criteria need to be met in order for them to be published."
Guidelines help doctors keep up with the latest developments in their fields and are widely perceived as a recipe for good patient care. Insurers also use them to make payment decisions and they can sway court decisions, said Mackowiak, of VA Maryland Health Care System in Baltimore.
But studies have found that guidelines are often based on opinion and weak data, instead of high-quality evidence from clinical trials. And the new findings show wide variation in how closely they follow quality standards set out by the Institute of Medicine, a prestigious U.S. organization that is part of the National Academy of Sciences.
"If they are not quality documents, all these purposes they are supposed to serve become horribly flawed," Mackowiak, also at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, told Reuters Health.
His team reviewed 130 randomly selected medical guidelines published by the National Guideline Clearinghouse and benchmarked them against 18 quality standards.
Fewer than half of the guidelines met 10 or more of the standards, which include things like reporting how panel members are chosen, how the evidence is collected and describing potential side effects of recommended treatments.
Their findings were published by the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The IOM also recommends that panel chairs and co-chairs be free of conflicts of interest, which in theory might warp their judgments.
Yet fewer than half of the guidelines stated whether their members had conflicts of interest. Among those that did, 71 percent of the chairs and 91 percent of the co-chairs had conflicts - and for U.S. government agencies and subspecialty societies, the numbers were even higher.
Mackowiak worried that conflicting financial interests may create tension between what's good for the patient and what's good for business. For a gastroenterologist urging colonoscopies, for instance, "you are basically writing a guideline that makes patients come to see you regularly," he said.
The Institute of Medicine's standards were not published until 2011, and Mackowiak acknowledged that the experts who developed the guidelines reviewed by his team would not have been able to see them. But he added that similar standards have been published before and that they were basic enough that they should have been followed.
The researchers also compared their findings with results from a similar study from the 1990s done by Dr. Terrence Shaneyfelt and colleagues. They found "very little if any improvement" since then.
Getting medical advice can have far-reaching consequences for public health.
For example, one recommendation from specialists in infectious diseases urged doctors to treat suspected pneumonia with antibiotics right away. But it ended up fueling overtreatment with no apparent benefits, because many cases are not caused by bacteria. Treating those cases with antibiotics is likely to breed drug-resistant bacteria and expose patients unnecessarily to side effects.
In a commentary published with the new findings, Shaneyfelt, of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, says that until the situation is improved, guidelines are not trustworthy.
"I am not optimistic that much will improve" over the next decade, he writes. "No one seems interested in curtailing the out-of-control guideline industry."
Mackowiak said medical journals and organizations that publish guidelines should start requiring that they meet the Institute of Medicine's standards.
"They should be exercising greater editorial control," he said.
SOURCE: bit.ly/RdJrNC Archives of Internal Medicine, online October 23, 2012.


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High in the Bavarian Alps, a white castle with soaring turrets overlays a scene of rolling green meadows and snow-capped mountains straight out of a storybook watercolor. The setting is so idyllic it served as Walt Disney's inspiration for Sleeping Beauty's castle.
But the world-famous Neuschwanstein Castle, nearly straddling the German-Austrian border, once played host to something more sinister than the fairytale setting it inspired. During World War II, the Nazis, aiming to amass a world-class art collection for Hitler's dream of a "Führermuseum," stashed thousands of paintings inside the castle. When the war ended, it also closed a 12-year period now recognized as history's largest art heist—raking in priceless masterpieces from the likes of Michelangelo, da Vinci and Vermeer—and the recovery efforts were tasked to an allied unit known as the Monuments Men.
What began as a brain trust of the art world's finest during the war became a group of 345 men and women from 13 countries that comprised the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section unit. They spent 1945 seeking out more than 1,000 troves containing an estimated 5 million pieces of artwork and cultural items stolen from wealthy Jews, museums, universities, and religious institutions. And for six years after the surrender, a smaller group of about 60 Monuments Men continued scouring Europe as art detectives. Now, on Friday, and more than 70 years after the recovery began, a George Clooney-directed movie documenting their cultural reconnaissance opened in theaters with an all-star cast.
When Paris was liberated, the real-life Monuments Men were directed to Germany's Neuschwanstein Castle by French museum employee Rose Valland (played in the film by Cate Blanchett), who, unbeknownst to the Nazis using her Jeu de Paume museum as a headquarters, spoke German and had tracked the outgoing shipments of pillaged art. There, over the course of six weeks, they triumphantly recovered some 21,000 stolen collectors' items. Auguste Rodin's bronze sculpture The Burghers of Calais was found in the woods nearby, abandoned by its Nazi caretakers.
Also found in the castle were 39 leather-bound photograph albums documenting looted items. These books, some of which had been presented to Hitler for his birthday, were used as evidence at the Nuremberg Trials. Though many were lost in the aftermath, two were recently rediscovered by the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art and donated to the National Archives.
The Romanesque-styled Neuschwanstein sits propped on the Bavarian countryside in a stately pose. It was built for "Mad" King Ludwig II, who announced construction of the castle in a letter to his confidant Richard Wagner. "It is my intention to rebuild the old castle ruin of Hohenschwangau near the Pöllat Gorge in the authentic style of the old German knights' castles, and I must confess to you that I am looking forward very much to living there one day," he wrote in 1864. "[Y]ou know the revered guest I would like to accommodate there; the location is one of the most beautiful to be found, holy and unapproachable, a worthy temple for the divine friend who has brought salvation and true blessing to the world."
It took 20 more years for Ludwig to actually move into the still-unfinished complex. The king had a predilection for the Middle Ages and decorated the walls of Neuschwanstein in homage to the medieval scenes that were inspiration for Wagner's operas. Ludwig was known as an eccentric, and he furthered this image by closing his palaces to visitors and retreating into the mountains, preferring to sleep by day and work at night. Neuschwanstein, built to be his mountain retreat, featured state-of-the-art technology, including flushing toilets, electric bells to summon servants, and even telephones despite its outwardly throwback design.
Two years after his move into the new castle, and 22 years into reign as king, Ludwig was declared insane, deposed by the government, and arrested at the castle. Three days later, both he and the psychiatrist who'd evaluated him were found dead in Lake Starnberg in what was called suicide. The mysterious circumstances surrounding his death persist today—historians have long called for Ludwig's descendants, the House of Wittelsbach, to allow his body to be exhumed and examined, even as recently as 2007.
Almost two months after his death, Neuschwanstein was opened for visitors, and today it's become one of the most popular royal destinations in Europe, attracting 1.4 million people annually.
It's lucky for the camera-welding tourists snapping pictures of Ludwig's fairytale castle that the Monuments Men descended on the looted treasures before the Nazis' final art solution came into play: The flailing Reich had plans to destroy its caches of priceless art as allied forces approached.


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stage2west necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 118 diseños de 30 diseñadores freelance.
Bay Area Black United Fund
The Bay Area Black United Fund (babuf.org) motivates the Bay Area African American community to improve their wellness. Wellness is defined holistically: physical, mental, financial and emotional health.
Their brand attributes include inspirational, accountable, excellence, leadership, aggregator and a conductor/convenor (as in an orchestra conductor). A key element is how BABUF's inspires its community to take care of itself, to come up with solutions from within - even if it is one person at a time.
BABUF has existed for 30 years - they were a result of the civil rights legacy. There is a loose coalition of other "BUFs" although if you look at them for inspiration, you will see how "diverse" the coaltion is. There is not a need to link to any other BUF identity.
As BABUFs moves into the future, they need a logo that presents them as contemporary, holistic, and supportive of their community's self-support of their health.
Bay Area African Americans aged 35 - 50 who are willing to either give money or time to BABUF. They have a pragmatic approach to race relations, a la Obama, rather than a militant approach, a la the Civil Rights Movement.
The Bay Area is defined as the area in Northern California around the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a highly multi-cultural area with many new residents. Someone with "roots" has lived here just one generation. As a result, it is a very creative community - open to new ideas.
Logo needs to work in color and in black & white.
Logo will live online and in print. so we need both CMYK and RGB versions.
it needs to read on small forms like business cards and letterhead and in large formats like outdoor billboards.
It should feel iconic
If you choose to use the name in the logo, you may use the acronym BABUF.;
It is not a requirement for the name to appear in the logo, However, the name will appear adjacent to the logo.
There is no tagline.
The logo needs to appeal to an adult American African/American audience. This is NOT a hip-hop or RAP audience. It is not angry. It should be inspirational, perhaps spiritual. Ir should engender a holistic self-motivated community. It should resonate with a black audience.
You can see the existing logo (which we dislike very much) on their website: babuf.org.
as a side note, the website will also be changed so that it is contemporary, matches the brand as described above and clearly describes the work of BABUF.
Please do not use stock imagery or photography.
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Damascus – Albawaba.com
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat paid respect to the late Syrian president Hafez Assad at the People's Palace in Damascus Tuesday, and extended his condolences to Assad's family and Syria's cabinet members.
Arafat met for ten minutes with Bashar, Assad's son and heir apparent, before shaking hands with mourners.
The Palestinian president, who was on row with the late Assad, also embraced Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas, who last year issued a smarting verbal attack against Arafat in the latest series of extremely tense relations between Syria and the PLO.
Arafat arrived in Damascus on the same plane with Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, and he was accompanied at the services with Palestinian leaders and officials. These included Naif Hawatmeh, secretary general of the Democratic Front of the Liberation of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, secretary of the Executive Committee of PLO, Khalid Fahoum, former speaker of the Palestinian National Council, and Farouq Qaddoumi head of the Political Department at the PLO.
Arafat, who saluted the laid coffin, was in media's spotlight. It is not known so far whether Arafat would hold talks with Bashar Assad or the Syrian officials on the sidewalks of the event.
Unlike US state secretary Madeleine Albright and Mubarak who were received separately in a side room by Bashar, Arafat met with Assad's son in the large lobby of the Palace.
Albawba.com has learned that Arafat has asked to accompany the cortege to Kerdaha town where Assad will be laid to rest.
Arab and foreign leaders attending the funeral will not be at Kerdaha Tuesday afternoon, as they paid condolences at the Palace.
This is the first time Arafat visits Damascus in four years; the last time he came here was in April,1996. In 1988, The Palestinian leader paid homage at the grave of his deputy Khalil Wazir, days after the latter was assassinated at the hands of the Israeli Mossad in Tunis.
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No money no summer camps for Gaza kids
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories - The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees is cancelling its annual summer camps for children in the Gaza Strip, saying it has failed to raise enough money.
"It was decided to stop the Summer Games programme in the Gaza Strip for 2012 due to not having received sufficient funding from donors, that is $9.9 million (7.5 million euros)," said Adnan Abu Hasna, spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), in Gaza.
He said that UNRWA had received pledges of $3.3 million, "but that's not enough to cover expenses. That's why we decided to allocate these funds to basic humanitarian services and resume the games in 2013 if we get the necessary financial support," he said.
UNRWA's "Summer Games" programme caters to around 250,000 children at 1,200 sites in the Gaza Strip during six weeks of summer holidays.
Last year and in 2010 campsites were vandalised by unknown attackers but activities still carried on.
The attacks were blamed on Muslim extremists who view the camps as a symbol of Western corruption because boys and girls mingle freely.
Abu Hasna said that the cancellation of this year's events was a blow to the children and to around 9,000 older Palestinian youths who would have had summer jobs helping to run the camps.
UNRWA cares for nearly five million Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Syria Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, including more than one million in Hamas-ruled Gaza.


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On the night of July 9, 1843, Fremont and his party camped "on a small stream, near the road which runs from St. Vrain's fort to the Arkansas". This would be in today's Russellville Gulch, just south of Franktown and along the old Trappers Trail and just west of the Elbert County line. More excerpts from his journal as edited by Jackson and Spence, 1970, p. 440-443, for the days he was actually in Elbert County follow.
This camp would have been just south of the Elbert County line, north of today's town of Peyton, and marked the exit of Fremont from his only visit to the immediate area.
Source: Jackson, Donald, and Spence, Mary Lee, editors, "The Expeditions of John Charles Fremont, Vol. 1, Travels from 1838 to 1844," Univ. of Iilinois Press, 1970. Available through your local library.


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Set in the foothills of the Drakensberg Mountain range in Kwa-Zulu Natal, ZuluWaters Game Reserve, a malaria free
area, promises a uniquely intimate experience with the African wilderness. To ride adventurously close to the herds of Wildebeest and Buffalo whilst on a guided game trail, casting for wild brown trout in the 15km stretch of Bushmans River or just listening to the sound of the breeze in the grasses, ZuluWaters's blend of exclusivity and adventure makes for an
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Those who spend time at ZuluWaters Private Reserve are left with a sense that something in them has changed, that they are perhaps a little more than when they arrived – a little more fulfilled, a little more inspired, a little more human.


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Middleborough mourns death of teenager killed by alleged drunk driver
Monica Demello killed in head-on crash
The community of Middleborough is mourning the loss of a teenage girl who was killed by a drunk driver early Saturday morning.
Monica Demello, 18, a freshman at Gordon College, was pronounced dead at the scene when officers arrived to the head-on crash on Route 44 in Lakeville at 2:09 a.m.
Demello had been home visiting her family for Easter weekend.
At the crash site, family and friends set up a makeshift memorial of handwritten notes, candles and flowers.
"I think that God might have needed her more than us," said former co-worker Katarina Henriquez.
Friends said Demello studied culinary arts at Bristol-Plymouth Regional Tech before going on to Gordon College. She had wanted to be either a guidance counselor or nurse.
"She was the kind of person everyone loved to be around," said best friend Alexandra Pohl. "She was the person who would go up to you and say, 'how are you doing? Are you doing OK? You look sad, what's wrong?' Always put a smile on your face."
Police said Kathleen Allen, 23, of Middleborough, was operating under the influence when she struck Demello's car with her Dodge Ram.
A female passenger in Allen's truck was taken by medical helicopter to Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Allen was charged with motor vehicular homicide, OUI liquor with negligence, OUI liquor with serious injury and negligence, OUI liquor, operating to endanger and a marked lanes violation. She is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Wareham District Court.
"I hope she learns a lesson. I hope she gets punishment too but if she doesn't she still has to face that she killed an innocent 18-year-old," said friend Kirsten Lees.
Gordon College posted a statement on its Facebook page expressing sadness and shock over Demello's death ahead of Easter Sunday.
"May the blessed assurance of Monica's place with our risen Savior be a comfort in these coming days," read the statement.


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Sandra Bullock surfaced on Wednesday afternoon causing a paparazzi frenzy.
The actress, who has remained out of sight since multiple women alleged affairs against her husband Jesse James, braved swarms of photographers to reportedly visit a friend.
According to People, the Academy Award-winning actress went to the home of Gabriel Brener, the head of the Brener International Group, LLC, an investment firm based in Beverly Hills, Calif.
According to a friend close to the actress, Sandra surfaced for personal, not professional, reasons.
"She's not there on business," her friend told the mag. "They've been friends for decades… She spends a lot of time at his house."
In related news, Access Hollywood caught up with Donald Trump, who previously worked with Jesse on "The Celebrity Apprentice," on Wednesday night in New York. Trump told Access that the slew of celebrities going to rehab for sex addiction "is getting a little carried away."
The real estate mogul said he always questioned why Jesse – who is currently at Sierra Tucson Rehabilitation Center in Arizona – did not have his wife as a guest while he competed on the NBC reality competition.
"I always wondered, 'Why did he not bring Sandra?' You know, he never wanted to bring Sandra, and I'd question him, saying, 'If you bring Sandra Bullock, this big movie star that happens to be your wife, you're going to do great,'" Trump told Access. "And somehow he never really got there. And it's now curious as to why he didn't."
Trump said that despite Jesse's current problems, he feels like the reality star still has his wits about him.
"I know Jesse very well," Trump explained. "And he's a very tough guy, but he's a very smart guy. Sullen, a little bit sullen, but very very smart."
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Could you record it?
Student or Learner
Ok, let's start saying I have "studied" phonetic for the last two or three months, until then I always focused on grammar, vocabulary, idioms, etc.; I knew that my pronunciation was bad, but people just made fun of me or they used to say something like "take it easy, I can understand you anyway" and nobody ever taught me or helped me to speak better, so I started exerting the pronunciation on my own with the support of videos on Yotube, etc.
I'm Italian and we have just 7 vowel sounds and some diphthongs; I was shocked when I found out that English has twelve or even more of them and I figured out where my accent comes from, I've always been speaking English with a half of its vowels sounds (I should also mention the th sound, but let's focus on vowels).
Anyway, I started to pronounce the vowel sounds singularly and the words in which they are present...ok I know that's always easy to pronounce a single sound than a word and a single word than a sentence....
The fact is, whereas I had some problems (and I still have) at recognizing (or should I say in recognizing?) and pronouncing the sound 3: (which is in words like word, earth, work, etc.) I easily recognized and I can pronounce individually the "schwa" sound (teacher, about, etc) , maybe because it's used in some Italian dialects or just because it's simple since it doesn't require the use of the tongue... anyway if I try to say "teacher", "about" or any other word that comprises the sound I pronounce it more like an "e"...
Is there someone else who has faced this problem? How did you cope with that?
Could you record it?
It isn't strictly necessary to be able to pronounce perfectly all of the phonemes of a given language (but it's good that you are making the effort to); if I were to learn Italian I would struggle to distinguish o /ɔ/ from ò /o/ and would most likely pronounce them the same; but you could still understand me. It would be fine, therefore, if you were to pronounce a full vowel in those place or better if you said a short "e" sound.
As for helping you, try exaggerating the schwa in these places; properly go for it and don't be afraid of sounding silly (but you may want to practise in private) and it might become more natural to you, to the point where you can do it normally in words. I don't know whether this would work, but it's worth giving a go. :)
One other thing, marcodraper. What may be persuading you to pronounce a full /e/ in words ending in '-er' is the dictionaries' addition of a bracketed /r/. This means NOT that 'you can add a hint of an /r/ and it'll never be wrong', but that there is an /r/ sound ONLY when there's a following vowel: /ðǝ ti:ʧǝr a:skt/ but /ðǝ ti:ʧǝ sed/.
In some dialects of English (the so-called 'rhotic' ones), there is always an /r/ sound, but it's not standard.


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Drivers have 1 in 10 chance of going to jail for killing a cyclist
Drivers have 1 in 10 chance of going to jail for killing a cyclist
The newspaper analysed police data on the 40 cyclists killed in the capital between 2010 and 2012 and found that only 4 of the drivers involved had been sent to prison.
More worryingly, only 15 of the cases were even prosecuted, the remaining cases were either discontinued by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) or there was no charge brought.
Lenient sentencing
Sentencing for bad driving offences is currently far too lenient, both for fatal and non-fatal incidents and is in desperate need of review to make sure the danger of bad driving is eliminated. The current maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is 14 years imprisonment, but this is seldom imposed. Multiple aggravating factors need to be present in order for judges to impose the maximum sentence. In 2013, Nicholas Lovell, the driver that killed Bristol couple Ross and Clare Simons, received the maximum sentence - discounted for a guilty plea - however, he had previous convictions for driving whilst disqualified and dangerous driving, he was disqualified from driving at the time of the incident and he fled the scene of the crash.
Review of sentencing guidelines
The Government announced last year that it will conduct a review of sentencing guidelines for driving offences that cause death and serious injury, but, disappointingly, it has already twice postponed the start date and will only begin the consultation in spring 2015. What's more, the proposed review only covers offences that cause death and serious injury but not the offences of dangerous and careless driving. CTC will maintain pressure on the Sentencing Council to broaden the review so that it also covers these offences.
The revised guidelines should include sentences that discourage bad driving, with a focus on prolonged driving bans and re-education for those who do not need to be locked up for public protection and custodial sentences for those who deliberately drive dangerously or who drive whilst disqualified.
A relatively short custodial sentence may be appropriate for drivers who have caused considerable harm but where this genuinely appears to have arisen from a momentary lapse by a normally careful and competent driver. This sentence could be suspended if an early guilty plea is made, but should be coupled with a substantial driving ban. Hardship pleas to avoid driving bans should not be accepted. Less serious offences are best penalised by non-custodial sentences such as driving bans, fines and community orders.
Although a shockingly small number of people go to jail for causing the death of a cyclist, a huge number of people are never even prosecuted for the offence.
Rhia Weston, CTC's Road Safety Campaigner
Low prosecution rates
Although a shockingly small number of people go to jail for causing the death of a cyclist, a huge number of people are never even prosecuted for the offence. This and the fact that prosecution rates for driving that caused death dropped 77% across England and Wales in the decade to 2012, send out the message that the justice system doesn't consider bad driving that kills worthy of a prosecution.
In addition, prosecutions for causing death by dangerous driving (max. sentence = 14 years) have plummeted since the offence of causing death by careless driving (max. sentence = 5 years) was introduced in 2008. This makes it very hard for the courts to hand out rational sentences. We should be even angrier about this than the fact that a minority of people are being jailed.
The CPS frequently discontinue cases due to lack of evidence, therefore, gathering sufficient evidence during a police road crash investigation is vital for ensuring the viability of a prosecution. The police and CPS often charge drivers with weak offences (e.g. careless driving instead of dangerous driving) due to multiple factors, including misinterpretation of charging and prosecution guidelines, and the awareness that juries are reluctant to convict drivers if they face jail.
Clarity in charging and prosecution guidelines and better training for those applying them are therefore crucial to ensuring offending drivers are charged and charged appropriately. CTC's Road Justice campaign, sponsored by Slater and Gordon Lawyers, is calling for better roads policing to improve evidence gathering and better charging and prosecution decisions. The campaign will publish a report in March 2014 focusing on charging and prosecution practice and how it can be improved.
Please sign the Road Justice petition demanding better roads policing.


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Beach Sports Association founded in Russia
The decision to establish the Association was adopted in the summer of 2013 during the XXII Summer Universiade in Kazan. This initiative was supported by Alexander Zhukov, President of the Russian Olympic Committee who offered to support this idea with a number of sports federations.
Positive feedback for the proposal was received by the Russian Volleyball Federation, Russian Tennis Federation, National Badminton Federation, Russian Football Union, Russian Wrestling Federation, Russian Rugby Federation.
The agenda of the conference included several important issues including: 1) approval for the Organising Committee's report; 2) establishment of the Association; 3) approval of the organisation's charter; and 4) elections for the governing and auditing departments.
Gaik Magakelyan's (President of the Afina Pallada Group) candidature for the post of President of the Association received unanimous supported from all members. Dmitry Bielavsky, Shamil Tarpischev, Sergey Shahray and Stanislav Shevchenko, President of Russian Volleyball Federation were named Vice-Presidents of the organization.
"I would like to congratulate Mr. Magakelyan on his election as president of the Association. This is a man who is a friend of sports. The Volleyball Federation of Russia has organised more than one competition with "Afina Pallada" in close cooperation with Mr. Magakelyan. For sure, this is a good choice," Stanislav Shevchenko commented on the appointment.
Ilya Volodarsky, FIVB Beach Volleyball Commission member and Moscow Grand Slam's promoter was named General Director of the Beach Sports Association.
"Thank you for your trust, dear colleagues. Throughout the years we conducted the preparatory work for the establishment of this beach sports Association. I am glad that now we can officially confirm that foundation of this organization in our country. We will work for the development of beach sports in Russia and will try to provide the necessary support to all the federations involved in beach life, ", - said General Director of the Association Ilya Volodarsky.
The main objectives and activities of the Association will be beach sports development in the Russian regions, hosting the competitions in beach sports, the creation of indoor beach sports centers along with international activities.
It was stressed that the Association will not interfere in the activities of federations themselves, but only to create additional opportunities for the development of controlled beach disciplines.
"I want to thank all the members of the presidium for the trust and support. Beach sports are actively developing in Russia and around the world. Our Association will try to provide support to federations in these areas, without interfering in their sports activities. We want to create a platform for the development of beach sports from the mass to professional level in all regions," said Gaik Magakelyan.


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A place to rest - to practice - to be inspired - to be at home with your self.
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Check-ups aren't any fun, and nobody knows this better than animals, for whom a checkup is an inexplicable nightmare of bright lights, prodding, cold tables, and thermometer sodomy. This baby river otter (his name is Molalla, but let's just go ahead and call him Squibbles) deals with his check-up pretty stoically, right until the moment he lets out an exasperated and adorable, "Eeeep!"
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ANKARA, Turkey, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday an investigation into corruption in his government is a coup attempt by the judiciary.
"In this process, there has been a coup attempt by the judiciary in Turkey," Euronews quoted Erdogan as telling a group of journalists.
"There has been an attempt to seize the sovereignty from the people and transfer it to the judiciary."
The corruption investigation has weakened Erdogan, Euronews said. He also suggested that a way could be found to retry military officers convicted of plotting a coup, suggesting he feels he needs help from Turkey's powerful military, Today's Zaman reported.
Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said Friday no general amnesty would be granted the officers convicted of the coup attempt. Their supporters accused police and judges Thursday of fabricating evidence.
Erdogan's Freedom and Justice Party is moderately Islamist. This has put his government at odds with the military, which sees itself as the defender of the secular legacy of Kemal Ataturk, founder of the modern Turkish state.


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MJS Music Publications Classic Van Halen Phrase by Phrase Guitar Method (DVD)
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5 hours of Eddie's radical guitar methods in an easy-to-play format.
MJS Music Publications' Classic Van Halen Phrase by Phrase DVD shows you what it's really like to play guitar for Van Halen. Instructor Mark John Sternal dissects Eddie Van Halen's rock-definingly inventive guitar style.
Learn to play all of the leads, rhythms, and fills to popular songs from the albums Van Halen, Van Halen II, Women and Children First, Fair Warning, and 1984.
The MJS Music Publications Phrase By Phrase Guitar Method explores some of the greatest guitarists of all time, breaking their complex styles into simple, recognizable phrases. Thorough, easy-to-understand tutorials demonstrate proper finger placement and techniques, followed by half-speed practice tempos and combined sections that are played at full speed.
- 1: Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
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Also known as: Chenin Blanc, Steen, Pineau de la Loire, Pineau de Savenniéres, Pinot Blanco, Pineau d'Anjou, and Gros Pineau d Vouvray.
Characteristics: Chenin Blanc produces varying styles and qualities. Chenin Blanc is the base grape for many superior French wines and is also used to enhance jug wines produced in the United States. Those French wines considered superior include those from Savenniéres, Vouvray and Coteaux du Layon. The French Chenin Blanc is a naturally high acidic grape varietal that produces dry to moderately sweet whites that are typically fruity, crisp, fragrant and spicey.
Ageing: Chenin Blanc ages well, 2 -5 years is typical for average quality versions. Sweeter, higher quality French Chenin Blanc can age for 20 years or more.
Serving temperature: Serve at a temperature of 40º-45º F.
Food pairings: Light rice dishes, salads, seafood, poultry, ham, and spicey foods.


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Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette (ăntwənĕt´, äNtwänĕt´), 1755–93, queen of France, wife of King Louis XVI and daughter of Austrian Archduchess Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I. She was married in 1770 to the dauphin, who became king in 1774. Her marriage had been made to strengthen France's alliance with its long-time enemy, Austria. The union, however, was not altogether popular, and Marie Antoinette's actions only increased hostility toward her. She constantly sought the advice of the Austrian ambassador and attempted to influence French foreign policy in favor of Austria.
Unhappy in her marriage, which remained unconsummated for seven years, she surrounded herself with a dissolute clique, led by Yolande de Polignac and Marie Thérèse de Lamballe, and threw herself into a life of pleasure and careless extravagance. Her notorious reputation led to scandals such as the Affair of the Diamond Necklace and to rumors concerning her relations with officers of the guard and with Hans Axel Fersen. The famous solution to the bread famine, "Let them eat cake," is unjustly attributed to the queen, but it is certain that Marie Antoinette lacked understanding of economic problems. With the birth of her first son, her life became more sedate.
Although she had contributed to the downfall of A. R. J. Turgot in 1776 and was hostile to Jacques Necker, her influence on the king's decisions during the first two years of the French Revolution (1789–91) has been exaggerated. She was brought with the king from Versailles to Paris (Oct., 1789) and was seized at Varennes when the royal family attempted to escape (1791). Despite her hatred of the Revolution, the apathy of the king forced her to conduct negotiations first with the comte de Mirabeau, then with Antoine Barnave. Simultaneously, however, she secretly urged Austrian intervention; after war was declared, she fully identified the cause of the Bourbon dynasty with that of France.
After the storming of the Tuileries palace (Aug., 1792), she and her husband were removed to the Temple and accused of treason. The king was executed in Jan., 1793. Marie Antoinette's son was taken from her (see Louis XVII), and she was transferred to the Conciergerie. Known derisively as the "Widow Capet," she was tried before the Revolutionary Tribunal (Oct. 14–15, 1793), found guilty, and guillotined (Oct. 16). In her last misfortunes she displayed steadfastness, courage, serenity, and dignity. Her portraits, notably by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, are well known.
Among Marie Antoinette's published correspondence see Lettres de Marie Antoinette (2 vol., 1895–96) and Olivier Bernier ed., Secrets of Marie Antoinette: A Collection of Letters (1986). See also biographies by S. Zweig (tr. 1933), A. Castelot (tr., 1957), D. M. Mayer (1969), P. Huisman (tr. 1971), J. Haslip (1987), A. Fraser (2001), and C. Weber (2006).


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Winning Wellcome Trust ExPlay Game Jam Entries now Online to Enjoy!/
A busy audience assembled at the ExPlay event in Bath on the 2nd of November to hear the winning games announced from the eight short-listed titles. After much anticipation Professor Bruce Hood awarded the winning teams their prizes: First Prize: HIVe (Java download, video)
In HIVe the deception moves to a molecular level, where one player is a HIV infected cell disguised as a normal cell, seeking to infect other cells. The second player is an antiretroviral seeking to find and destroy the infection. The developers write, "The objective of the HIV player is to infect as many cells as possible before being caught by the antiretroviral drug player. We felt that the lifecycle of a virus is a constant battle of deception with the body and our game tries to capture this whilst at heart still being a game and being fun. We felt using HIV as the virus was important for its relation to scientific research and global social issues."
Second Prize: Qualit-eye Control (iPad, video)
Based around the structure of the human eye and using the inspiration of the Thatcher Illusion, where it becomes hard to detect changes in an upside-down face. In this puzzle game, the player must select if a given object is really the same as its mirrored counterpart. The developers wrote of their game; "Given the theme of deception in science, we began thinking about how the human eye is an astoundingly amazing tool – yet deceptive. The human brain has to process a lot of data continually, so will occasionally make assumptions and take shortcuts, meaning we occasionally interpret false images in line with our expectations… So we developed Qualiteye Control, a game that puts the player in the position of a miniature scientist acting as a controller between the eyeball and the brain of Prototype X1."
Wildcard Prize: InCogNeto (Android download)
A two-player game in which each player must connect cogs to a top wheel and at each turn select it to mask their actions or advance their plans. The developer wrote of their game, "…inspired by the idea of subterfuge, how we deceive ourselves and create false realities when we don't have all the information… Strategy and tactics play an important role as you read your opponent's body language, listen for audible clues (i.e. the rack moving) and use spatial memory to spot changes in the playspace. While your body is performing quality control of a widgetoid factory – you must decide what widgetoids are correct, and which ones are being falsely interpreted and need to be rejected quickly."
The judging was based around the balance of the gameplay and the science so the judges looked for great games that integrated the science into the gameplay.
The judging was based around the balance of the gameplay and the science so the judges, Professor Hood, Dr John Williams, Head of Neuroscience and Mental Health at the Wellcome Trust and Dan Efergan, Creative Director at Aardman Digital, looked for great games that integrated the science into the gameplay. The games needed to be fun to play; they were not looking to develop a 'worthy' game, it needed to be fun in its own right. The aim was to make the combination of the science and the gameplay engage the player; those that did scored well.
The games were created on the 5th and 6th of October during the Wellcome Trust ExPlay Game Jam. The event, held over two locations, the Science Museum in London and the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol, saw over 100 developers create 22 entries around the theme of Deception. Where possible, the games from the event are available online at: explay.co.uk/gamesjam and are free to play.
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Trick or treat? Treat please! Here are some terror-rific Halloween deals and freebies you can score today.
Chipotle – Boo-ritos are only $2 when you come into any Chipotle dressed in costume, from 4pm to close. Also applies to bowl, salad, or an order of tacos.
Chili's Grill & Bar – Score a Free Kids' Meal with purchase of an adult entrée. Only available to kids 12 and under and limit of two Free Kids' Meal per adult entrée.
Buca di Beppo – Find a coupon for a FREE Buca Large® Garlic Bread with a Dine-In purchase of any Buca Small or Buca Large Pasta, Baked Pasta or Entrée.
Olive Garden – Bring your kids in costume and get a free kids meal with each adult entrée. Mention "Trick or Treat Special" to claim this offer.
Outback Steakhouse – Bring your little ghosts and goblins for them to receive a Free Kids Meal with a purchase of an adult entrée.
P.F. Chang's – Avoid the ghouls and goblins this Halloween and get 20% off your online order. Enter GHOULS or GOBLINS for the promotion code during checkout.
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts – Get a free Halloween doughnut at Krispy Skremes for wearing your costume.