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Rankin and Castor Address EMS
The director and associate director of the Zwemer Center for Muslim Studies at Columbia International University will address The 2014 North American Mission Leaders Conference sponsored by The Evangelical Missiological Society (EMS) and held in Atlanta, Sept. 25-27.
EMS exists to advance the cause of world evangelization through study and evaluation of mission concepts and strategies from a biblical perspective.
Zwemer Director Jerry Rankin and Associate Director Trevor Castor will present papers on this year's topic: Immigration and Migration, Globalization, Urbanization, and Exploitation.
Rankin, a former president of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board, will speak on: "Organizing to Reach the Diaspora: A Case Study in Changing Overseas Structure from Geographic Components to Global Affinity Groups."
Castor, who is also a professor of Intercultural Studies at CIU, will discuss: "Mapping the Diaspora with Facebook." Castor says Facebook can be used as an efficient ethnographic and migration-mapping tool that offers cultural insights as well as linguistic, ethnic, national and religious identifiers.
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THE BULLETIN o f the Rubber Growers Association (Incorporated)
Vol. 17. JULY, 1935. No. 7.
A meeting of the Council was held on the 1st July, 1935.
Technical Research & Development of New Uses Committee.
A report was submitted dealing with various investigations and
research work in progress, particular reference being made to the
paper on " The incorporation of rubber with tar products," published
in the June BULLETIN.
Propaganda Committee.
The report of the Propaganda Committee which was submitted
and adopted, dealt inter alia with the following matters :—Rubber
Exhibition, Manchester ; Rubber and Agriculture ; Agricultural
Exhibitions; Empire Exhibition, South Africa ; Anti-Noise League ;
Rubber in the Brewing Industry ; Rubber Rail Pads, and Rubber and
Netherlands Indies Committee.
Algemeen Landbouw Syndicaat.—It was reported that since the
last meeting, membership of this Organisation has increased to 351,954
hectares, of which rubber accounts for 178,780 hectares.
It was further reported that the draft budget for 1936 was to be
discussed at a meeting to be held in Holland shortly.
Centrale Proefstations Vereeniging.—It was reported that the
draft budget and draft working scheme for 1936 were to be considered
at a meeting in Holland during June.


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Body found on South International Drive
Authorities say death suspicious
Body found on South International Drive
Authorities say death suspicious
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. —
Orange County detectives were on the scene where a body was found on South International Drive Sunday afternoon.
WESH 2 News has learned people passing by the area near a hotel discovered the body and alerted authorities at 4:18 p.m. near the Marriot Grande Vista Resort.
A man was walking with his son when the boy noticed what he thought could be a body. The two were headed to a nearby pond to do some fishing.
"We saw something and he said it looked like a body. I told him, 'Stay here,' and I went to get a better look. It was a body," Jeff Mahanes said.
The body was found in a vacant lot south of the Beachline Expressway. Officials with the Orange County Sheriff's Office said the death was suspicious.


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A quick look at some of the steps to take to comply with your Data Protection obligations:
The right of access is the most important right that an individual has and you need to make preparations for handling access requests. Dealing with access requests is not your only obligation. Staff should be made aware of the obligations imposed by the Data Protection Acts. To comply you should:
· Ensure that the basic principles of data protection are explained to staff;
· Ensure that there are regular updates to guidance material and staff training and awareness, so that data protection is a "living" process aligned to the way the organisation conducts its business;
· Document procedures, for example with regard to accuracy and have regular security reviews;
· Allocate responsibility for compliance and set-out what in-house sanctions may be imposed if correct procedures are not followed;
· Set out the circumstances in which personal data may be disclosed to third parties, including Gardai and other enforcement agencies.
Staff should be aware that from October 2007 the principles of data protection apply to manual records, including those created before July 2003.
Obligations on retention and security need to be addressed
· Adhere to the 'need to know principle' – only personal data necessary for the purpose should be collected and staff should only be able to access the personal data that they need to carry out their functions;
· Have adequate access controls, firewalls and virus protection and do not forget manual files;
· There should be retention policies for the various categories of data.
The organisation should provide for
· Periodic audit checks and reviews;
· A procedure for complaints handling;
· Plans for remedial steps if things go wrong;
· Privacy /Data Protection Statements on Forms and Websites and an internal e-mail and internet use policy.
Dealing with Subject Access Requests
As stated above the key right for the individual is the right of access. Essentially this means that you have to supply to the individual the personal data that you hold if a valid request is made under Section 4. Click here for more detail on your obligations in respect of an access request. The time limit for complying with an access request is 40 days. In order to ensure your compliance with the time limit and your other access obligations the following organisational and procedural steps are recommended:
1. Appoint a Co-ordinator who will be responsible for the response to the access request. A description of the functions and responsibilities of the Co-ordinator should be circulated within the organisation and staff should be advised of the necessity for co-operation with the Co-ordinator. If the organization is a public sector organization and subject to the Freedom of Information Acts, there should be co-ordination between the FOI and DP processes.
2. All subject access matters should be submitted to the Co-ordinator.
3. Check the validity of the access request. Ensure that it is in writing, that a fee of max €6.35 is included if you choose to charge the fee.
4. Check that sufficient material has been supplied to definitively identify the individual. This is most important. You should set down criteria on what is sufficient to prove identity for your organisation. This may be the signature, an ID number in combination with name and address or date of birth. It should not be possible for a third party to provide the material to lodge a false access request.
5. Check that sufficient information to locate the data has been supplied. If it is not clear what kind of data is being requested you should ask the data subject for more information. This could involve identifying the databases, locations or files to be searched or giving a description of the interactions the individual has had with the organisation.
6. Log the date of receipt of the valid request.
7. Keep note of all steps taken to locate and collate data – if different divisions of the organisation are involved, have the steps "signed off" by the appropriate person.
8. Check each item of data to establish if any of the modifications in respect of health or social work data (section 4(8)) or any of the restrictions on access provided by section 5 apply.
9. If data relating to a third party is involved, do not disclose without the consent of the third party or anonymise such data if this would conceal the identity of the third party. An opinion given by a third party may be disclosed unless it is an opinion which was given in confidence on the clear understanding that it would be treated as confidential.
10. Monitor process of responding to the request – observing time limit of 40 days.
11. Supply the data in an intelligible form (include an explanation of terms if necessary). Also provide description of purposes, disclosees and source of data (unless revealing the source would be contrary to the public interest). Number the documents supplied. Have the response "signed-off" by an appropriate person.
12. Regularly review your procedures and processes.


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Rumors of the next Call of Duty game are already looming with Call of Duty: Ghosts. Ghosts, not Ghost.
Activision skipping the current gen and letting millions of dollars go ? "No way". You're welcome.
No way, that is why 4 studios are needed to make the next COD because they will need to make more versions of the game. There might be some Next gen features that are exclusives to the X720/PS4 but there is no way in god's green earth that they are ignoring 140 million consoles behind. Not as long as Bobby Kotick is still in charged.
Nope will not happen. Maybe next year it will only be on the Next gen consoles but the fan base is to big to just drop like that as there is far to much £.
I would actually respect activision if they did this, the game would have to prove itself worthy of next gen exclusivity. In reality though their love for money says this is NOT HAPPENING!
never in a month of sundays! its a billion doller game on ps36 and wiu/pc! they make even more on dlc and now they are following EA on microtransactions they would not turn away from their customer base and all that cash for 2 consoles that have no install base yet.
I see the next 2 cods remaining on the platforms that are out now as it will take time in this world economy to build numbers on the new consoles wii u, 720 and ps4! it could be we never see as many sales again as we did on wii and ps360 as the world is a different place and with tablets and phones now being an issue too.
What they need to do is bring out a new improved engine and innovate with the game as at present it's a rehash each year in my eyes.


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Re: New Forum??? What's Happening???
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:35 am
mburns wrote:The improvement is already apparently. The traditional view is much more appealing to users to a degree we never anticipated. Hope you understand. Questions welcome.
Kudos especially for your 'finger on the pulse' monitoring of the community, your responsiveness, and your willingness to take a chance.
Successful forum merges hit near the wrong-end of the difficulty spectrum, but you have done this one well, if a few rough starts.
I would have predicted (well, okay, I did predict) disaster and am delighted to admit I was wrong. I seriously underestimated your ability. I won't let that happen again.
Good job.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. said Friday that the news and publishing unit it plans to spin off next year posted a $2 billion net loss in the fiscal year through June, mainly due to one-time charges and restructuring costs in its newspaper division.
The details of the split were revealed Friday in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission. It confirmed investors' suspicions that the spun-off company — to be known as News Corp. — will be smaller and less profitable than the TV and movie business that will form Fox Group Inc.
The "new" News Corp. posted $8.7 billion in revenue last fiscal year, about a quarter of the company's total. Charges amounted to $2.8 billion, mainly due to declines in the value of newspapers and a drop in advertising at its in-store flyer business. The charges included restructuring costs of $156 million, most of which came from shutting down The News of the World, the tabloid at the heart of a hacking scandal in Britain.
News Corp. CEO Murdoch, 81, will be executive chairman of the spun-off company and remain CEO of Fox Group. He'll end up controlling both entities through the nearly 40 percent of Class B voting shares he controls through a family trust.
Robert Thomson, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, will be the CEO of News Corp. with an annual salary and target bonus totaling about $4 million, not including stock awards.
The filing of the plan "is another important step forward in the evolution of our company and in the establishment of two independent global leaders," Murdoch said in a statement.
Shareholder approval is not needed for the split, but is required for the way it happens. The company plans to issue shares in the new News Corp. to existing shareholders in proportion to their current holdings of nonvoting Class A shares and voting Class B shares. If shareholders don't approve the split plan, the company may have to come up with a different way to enact it. A special shareholder meeting will be held sometime next year.
According to the filing, the smaller entity will be made up of Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal; newspapers such as The Herald Sun in Australia and The Times in Britain; digital real estate services; book publisher HarperCollins; pay TV channel Fox Sports Australia and a 50 percent stake in Australian pay TV provider Foxtel; and Amplify, its fledgling for-profit education business.
The remaining Fox Group will house pay TV channels that include Fox News Channel and FX; 20th Century Fox movie studio; Fox broadcast TV stations and network; satellite TV provider Sky Italia; and its 39 percent stake in British Sky Broadcasting.
Shares of News Corp fell 57 cents, or 2.2 percent, to $24.86 in afternoon trading amid a broad market decline.


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Like it or not, Winter Olympics have become all about hockey
On a mountain in the morning, two Canadian men crashed on a warm and difficult day at snowboard cross and hardly anyone seemed to notice.
Gary Bettman was talking.
He was giving no hint as to whether National Hockey League players will participate in the next Winter Olympic Games.
"It's nothing that's been discussed," he said, likely stretching the truth.
"It's nothing that will be discussed," stretching the truth even further.
Later, he said they would likely have a decision about NHL participation of some kind within six months, which is probably a touch premature.
The news conference conversation on Tuesday — a whole lot asked, a little answered — on the day that hockey playoffs began unofficially separates the Olympics in a way it has rarely really been separated before. And maybe for Canadians more so than anyone else.
That was always the fear heading into Nagano in 1998: What would happen when the NHL players took centre stage?
The question was there then, but never really answered. Yet, in each Olympics since, as the NHL brand has grown both in North America and around the world, the hockey tournament has grown larger and more prominent — and the level of play has been superb.
In Vancouver four years ago, the success of the entire Canadian team, the excitement in the city and country, the new flag-waving Canadians, proved to be a wondrous introduction to the gold-medal finale of the hockey tournament. But that was never an Olympics entirely about hockey. It was enhanced because of Sidney Crosby's goal but, still, there was so much else.
Just not necessarily now. These Games seem to have morphed into a playoff round of a hockey tournament with mammoth anticipation.
Outside of hockey, there is not a lot of real excitement in the streets here. There is little celebration for what has gone on, successful and expensive as these Games have been. The feel for the Games seems to occur only inside the Olympic fences.
And, inside those fences, the performance of the Russian hockey team will certainly determine how Russia will perceive and remember these Olympics.
Here, there is almost the feeling that there is hockey and everyone else needs to step aside.
Which is either right and wrong, fair or not, depending on your perspective.
That hockey trumps all here isn't the fault of the NHL or the players. It's partly a media determination: It's partly understanding who wants to watch what, read what, talk about what on the radio.
"There is nothing in the life of an athlete like winning a gold medal," Rene Fasel, head of the International Ice Hockey Federation, said at the Olympic news conference.
And, without missing a beat, Bettman chimed in: "Except winning the Stanley Cup."
Which seems to be an issue all its own. For the first time ever, the actual Stanley Cup is at the Olympics and the arrival of it has not been without controversy. Some athletes, mostly from the mountains, have expressed disappointment the Cup is here. They say other athletes don't parade around with their world championship trophies at this self-contained event. The should-the-Stanley-Cup-be-here question has been all over Twitter, with a variety of angry responses from those who believe it's an intrusion and those who understand the ceremony of it.
And some athletes, such as figure skater Patrick Chan and speed skater Jessica Gregg, were thrilled to be in the company of the Cup.
Chan looked more excited hugging the Cup than he did holding up his silver medal post-figure skating. Gregg — who was born just before her father, Randy, won his fourth Cup — got the chance to have her personal Cup moment. But others were not as thrilled.
Bettman bristled just slightly when asked about the Cup controversy here.
He said it wasn't his idea at all to bring the Cup to Sochi.
"We were asked," said Bettman. "We were asked by the IIHF. We were asked by the COC. We were asked by USA Hockey to make it available.
"We're extraordinarily proud of the Stanley Cup. We're proud to share it … I didn't know (there was controversy).
"Like us, we're invited guests here and the Stanley Cup was an invited guest. We didn't say we were going to bring it and impose it on people. We were asked to make it available and that's the only reason it's here."
They could have declined the invitation. They chose not to.
They did not anticipate anything negative to come from the Cup being in Sochi. But there is a built-in sensitivity about the juxtaposition of the NHL players living and playing alongside those whose sports are not of similar profile. Athletes who need to wear Olympic credentials just so they can be identified. This just exacerbates that discrepancy.
This is the fifth time the NHL players have played in the Olympics and it's the fourth straight time in which conversation centres around whether there will be participation in the next Games. And the dilemma never changes for the hockey business.
The players want to represent their countries. Much as this is a great advertisement for hockey, the NHL would rather not close down its business.
The IIHF wants the best on best at the Games. The NHL would rather do this in a World Cup format, where it controls the games and, more importantly, the money.
There are wavering agendas here and it's a tightrope to walk for all sides. "The reason we're here in the first instance is because this is a game with a history and tradition of international competition and our players, our NHL players, love representing their countries. If the players ever said we're not interested, we're not going to ever force them to come," said Bettman.
This trip to Russia this time was a challenge for the NHL and for its players. The trip to South Korea in four years time, with a 14-hour time difference, will be equally difficult. But the players aren't likely to change their minds: They will want to play in Korea.
"This discussion, these questions, the stories that have been written, going in and coming out of every Olympics," said Bettman. "The discussion was no different than the one we're having now."
These are the topics. Will they or won't they? And if not that, it's the Stanley Cup or who will play on Sidney Crosby's line, or what's wrong with the Russians, or can Daniel Sedin play without Henrik? Or can anyone slow down Phil Kessel and Team USA? And if not that, it's who wins gold in women's hockey: Canada or the U.S? Or will P.K. Subban ever get to play a regular shift?
There are no shortage of topic points. It means on a Tuesday when a Canadian short-track relay team gets fortunate with a silver medal and there are two top-10 performances in biathlon, Slovenia advancing to the quarterfinals represents some of the more significant news of the day.
As for the Canadians who fell at snowboard cross, their names are Kevin Hill and Chris Robanske. One went down in the semifinals, the other in the quarters. Their Olympics are over, their stories barely told.


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Washington intrigued by new instant replay rules
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Rangers manager Ron Washington said he is ready for the new challenge of instant replay after attending a meeting about the new rules on Tuesday in Peoria.
Washington, general manager Jon Daniels, assistant GM Thad Levine and bench coach Tim Bogar attended the meeting run by officials from the Commissioner's Office, including former managers Tony La Russa and Joe Torre.
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Rangers manager Ron Washington said he is ready for the new challenge of instant replay after attending a meeting about the new rules on Tuesday in Peoria.
Washington, general manager Jon Daniels, assistant GM Thad Levine and bench coach Tim Bogar attended the meeting run by officials from the Commissioner's Office, including former managers Tony La Russa and Joe Torre.
"I thought it was outstanding," Washington said. "I didn't go in there with any preconceived ideas. I was willing to listen. I think it will work out, but as a manager I have to be careful about how to use my challenges. I'll have to go to school and learn it inside and outside."
Washington will get a chance to practice in Spring Training. Replay will be used in six Rangers games that are being televised in the Cactus League, with the first one on Tuesday against the Angels in Tempe.
"Overall, I think it's a very common sense approach to it," Daniels said. "They kind of laid out their objectives, which is to improve the accuracy of the calls, and specifically, the most impactful calls. It will not negatively impact the flow of the game.
"It really made a lot of sense. They're looking to take a big step forward in putting this in, but I don't think it's necessarily the endgame. When you look back at the NFL's experience when they introduced it, they had to pull it back and make some changes before they put it back in the game. Baseball is learning from that."
Approximately 90 percent of all plays will be subject to review, including calls involving home runs, ground-rule doubles, fan interference, boundary calls, plays at first base, force plays, tag plays, fair-foul and trap plays in the outfield, hit by pitch, timing plays, touching the base, passing runners and any dispute involving ball-strike counts, outs, score or substitutions. All other plays, including interference and obstruction, will not be reviewable.
Teams will be allowed to have a club employee monitoring video and communicating with the manager whether or not to challenge. Both the home and road teams must have equal access to all video, but no additional electronic equipment will be allowed. Camera angles in all parks will also be standardized.
Joe Prebynski, who has been with the Rangers for the past five years as video coordinator and advance scout, will assume the responsibility of monitoring the games on video and making possible recommendations on replay to either Washington or Bogar. There will also be times Washington will request a replay without consulting with Prebynski.
"It was very well explained, but like anything else, it's going to have to be a deal where you get comfortable with it," Daniels said. "There's going to be some level of strategy involved for Ron and the guys. He was talking about out here in Spring Training in games that aren't replayable, he'll visit with the staff and think through, 'Hey, what we would have wanted to do.'"
The new system will also allow close plays to be shown on the video board at all parks, including those being reviewed.
"In the past, we were never allowed to show close plays," Daniels said. "With some common sense restrictions, but not many, [PA announcer Chuck Morgan] will be able to play them. In the past, everyone at home, everyone in the suites and in the tunnel or clubhouse could see the replay except the 40,000 in the stadium that paid to be there.
"Now they've fixed that. We can show it to our fans in the stadium. We're trying to improve the in-game experience and encourage fans to come to the park. Why shouldn't they have access to the best angles?"
T.R. Sullivan is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Postcards from Elysian Fields, and follow him on Twitter @Sullivan_Ranger.


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We may need a clever bridge to communicate this great variety of formats to available the opening the channel. Now this wonderful bridge has appeared to us, it is the smart DVD Ripper. To rip a DVD means the video and audio files would be ripped to Avi, Mpeg-1, Mpeg-2, CivX, Wav, Wma, Asf, Vob, etc. Under such conditions, when you get the DVD ripper, the DVD rip for Mac, DVD rip to PC, or iPod, the process becomes very simple and straightforward. The DVD ripper would realize the format convert to make your videos be used in any compatible devices.
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CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Three black people are among the 12-member grand jury hearing evidence in the Michael Brown case.
Paul Fox, director of judicial administration for St. Louis County Circuit Court, confirmed the racial and gender makeup of the grand jury on Friday. St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch has said it will be several weeks before a decision is made on whether to charge Darren Wilson, the Ferguson officer who shot and killed Brown on Aug. 9.
The grand jury consists of six white men, three white women, two black women and one black man. Nine votes are needed to indict.
The ages and hometowns of the jurors weren't released. A judge is expected to consider Monday whether to make that information public.
The Justice Department also is investigating Brown's death.


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fine wrote:the trade in question is
Nash, M. Miller, Kenyon Martin, E. Curry.
Johnson, Gay, Udrih, Collison.
i still don't see enough to veto it. I can't veto a trade just because one side did better. crackerz, your trade would have been better for trifecta, but he would'nt be getting any assists in return. with this trade he got one of the best pg's.
Oh, I see. The other trade was much better, but I still don't think it's too lopsided. Not enough to be vetoed, at least.


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SAP HCM Lead - London City - up to £65k
- Recruiter
- Progressive Recruitment
- Location
- City of London
- Salary
- £60000 - £65000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
- Posted
- 18 Mar 2013
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- Sector
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- Function
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- Hours
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SAP HCM Lead Functional Consultant / BA - London - London - £60000 - £65000 per annum + 5% Bonus + Benefits
SAP Lead HCM Functional Consultant/Business Analyst needed for my client in Central London paying between £60-65k.
Role Summary:
A customer facing Senior SAP HCM Business Analyst, working as part of a 17 strong Delivery Team for a Global Professional Services firm with a Global SAP system. This person will principally be working on strategic projects alongside their implementation partner.
Current Systems Landscape:
SAP ECC6 - HCM, (including PA, OM, Payroll, Time Man, Benefits), FICO, SD/MM
Solution Manager v7.1, BW, BPC, Business Objects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist with developing business cases to leverage the SAP investment
- Map business requirements to functional/technical specs
- Design, configuration, testing of relevant SAP modules to meet requirements
- Take technical lead role in delivering roadmap of strategic HR projects
- Provide support to other team members responsible for company set up, tactical enhancement work and support.
- Provide expert consultancy t in respect of SAP and standard HR processes
Expected Experience & Personal Qualities:
- 8+ years in a SAP HCM analyst role
- Multiple project lifecycles with a track record of delivery
- Knowledge of Talent Management processes such as recruitment, compensation and performance management, career and succession planning, etc
- Enjoys working collaboratively with other members of a project team
- Focus on customer and delivering business benefits
- Business Process orientated - always striving to find efficiencies
Essential SAP Skillset:
- ECC5 or above
- Core HCM (PA, OM)
- Time & Attendance (Principally Absence and Quota Management)
If you're interested in this position, please get in touch as soon as possible.
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If there's one place designers, wanna-be designers, and those who just want a great deal on something cool, chic, or practical (Hey, why not all three?!) agree on, it's Home Goods. Not to mention celebrities. People Magazine just ran an article on celebs who love the store, led by comedy maven Melissa McCarthy, who was photographed pushing a HomeGoods cart. We knew we loved her.
The home furnishing store isn't just a place you wander in to, it's a destination for millions who swear by it for inexpensive and unique furniture pieces, accessories, and other décor items for every part of the house.
"Few stores inspire devotion in their customers like HomeGoods," said Popsugar. "Treasures abound in HomeGoods locations across the country, and for that reason shoppers are seriously dedicated to the brand."
But, it can be overwhelming to navigate the store, especially if you are easily distracted by pretty things (there are so many pretty things!). So how do you make it out of there alive and with smart buys in your bags? We've got tips.
Go at the right time
Planning to get up on Saturday morning, go to breakfast and then head to HomeGoods? Right. You and everyone else in the city. If a little thing like work is keeping you out of the store on weekdays, when it's easier to see the stuff without having to peer around people and there's less of a chance of fighting over a coffee table, head over on your lunch break. Or during the dinner hour. If you have to go on a weekend, remember the first rule of weekend Costco shopping: Elbows up.
Don't skip the pillows
You may think you don't need another pillow, but you would be wrong. HomeGoods' pillows are legendary, and when you can get a down-filled pair for $25, you just have to pick one up. Did we say one? We meant five. If you can't find something here to match - or spice up - your décor, you're not looking hard enough.
If you love it, buy it
There is probably no better tip for shopping at HomeGoods than this. That blue, glass-front cabinet that stopped you in your tracks? You better buy it now, or kiss it goodbye forever, because it won't be there when you come back tomorrow. HomeGoods has what it has and they typically don't get in more of the same item. Need two of those leather-topped chrome barstools? Don't leave and drive to another store. Drag one to the front and ask a salesperson to help you find a match, because when you get back, it'll be gone.
Check out the rugs
You may not think of HomeGoods as a rug emporium, and, truth be told, there's not a ton of inventory here. But there are some amazing deals, especially on larger rugs that can take a big chunk out of your paycheck if purchased elsewhere. This huge 9x12 wall rug is just $399 and is on trend with the color scheme and pattern.
Plan to fall in love…a lot
We walked in and grabbed a small cart. Silly mistake. Halfway through the trip through the store, we had to go swap it out for a larger cart. Shoulda known better.
Bring your sense of humor
Nothing says, "The British are coming" like a giant couch draped in modified Union Flag motif. Not everything HomeGoods will appeal to everyone, which is part of what makes it cool. And, we can promise you that if we'd returned to the store the next day, this couch would have been gone. You know someone walked in and died over this. To each, their own.
Don't get caught in a theme spiral
If you watched the popular HBO miniseries Big Little Lies, you may have spotted beachy accessories sprinkled throughout "the classic-meets-coastal home of Madeline Martha Mackenzie (Reese Witherspoon). Set decorator Amy Wells told People that, "A lot, if not all, the beach décor is HomeGoods."
But keep this in mind when working with a theme: A sprinkle is good. But watch out for the downpour. HomeGoods is great at styling their vignettes and making you want to bag up the whole thing. But, take home two of everything, and it may look like the beach threw up on your living room.
Think unique
There's something about this wood-and-copper chair that made us stop and stare. And stare a little more. There were several of them, and, at $99 each, they'd be great in a breakfast nook. But even one placed in a corner could be a showstopper, between the distinctive shape and the mix of materials.
Don't forget to check the clearance art section
HomeGoods has some great, affordable art pieces, especially if you're looking for something that is really on trend. But we love the clearance section. There are some great deals here, although you have to look carefully to make sure there aren't visible boo-boos. We couldn't find anything wrong with this abstract painting. Amazing savings is right: It was only $18.
Hit the end caps!
That's where a lot of the other clearance deals are, like this $12.99 glass candle holder. Did we need another candle holder? Uh, no. But we couldn't resist the shape and mix of materials, not to mention the price.
Expect the unexpected
A splash of color. A unique touch that might bring a bit of interest to a forgotten area. Or a piece that catches your eye for no real reason other than it's fun, cool, or different. It happens a lot at HomeGoods. For us, it was this:
Truth be told, this big, blue, ceramic OK sign it makes no sense whatsoever in the space. But we fell in love with it anyway, and now it lives on the office bookcase right next to the desk. We've named him "Bob."
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Trojan Horse: Sockets de Troie
Type: Remote Access Trojan
Port: 5000
Found: C:/Windows/System32/cftmon.exe
How you know: Check the properties and compare the actual file size to the file size on disk
I recently found what I believe to be the Sokets de Troie trojan horse v.1 on my system somehow attached to a file related to MS Office.
After a recent scan with TDS I found port 5000 to be connected with this trojan horse. Port 5000 is tradionally used for Universal Plug and Play. So naturally I disabled the service which killed to port (before investigating further) However this is the tricky part: The file cftmon.exe (which can be seen exactly where it is above) seems to be where the trojan was hiding. Cftmon.exe, which handles speech input on MS Office Suite and is a non-essential service had two different sizes in the properties window. The 'actual' size compared to the 'size on disk' leads me to believe that this was indeed the file that was infected. Nevertheless it has been deleted and another scan revealed nothing unusual as well port 5000 closed for good.
Sockets de Troie is an older trojan horse program (created in 1998) and I don't know how it could have got on my system. Is anyone out there familiar with this trojan? Has anyone experienced any exploits (or attempted therof) on there system with port 5000? Was there a cause for action here or is the Trojan Scanner TDS pulling my leg? One thing I did consider doing was downloading and installing this trojan horse on another computer and seeing if I could freely connect to the one that was infected thereby giving me no doubt that this was the case. I couldn't find the program though.


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Sunderland has appointed Paolo Di Canio as the team's new head coach.
The 44-year-old Italian signed a two-and-a-half-year deal with the Black Cats and will begin working with the relegation-threatened side on Monday.
"Paolo is hugely enthused by the challenge that lies ahead of him. He is passionate, driven and raring to get started," club chairman Ellis Short said. "The sole focus of everyone for the next seven games will be to ensure we gain enough points to maintain our top-flight status.
"I think that the chances of that are greatly increased with Paolo joining us."
The appointment comes after Sunderland sacked Martin O'Neill on Saturday evening following the 1-0 home loss to Manchester United, ending a rein that began in Dec. 2011.
"Our fans have shown tremendous patience and understanding this season," Short added. "They have continued to back the team in huge numbers, both home and away, and that is something that continues to inspire all of us in our drive to give them the successful club they deserve.
"That remains our primary aim."
Di Canio's only managerial experience was with Swindon Town, which he guided to the League Two title in 2011-12, before stepping down in February this year following off-field financial disagreements.
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Scientists highlight the importance of noise limits for energy companies operating in Russia to protect the critically endangered western gray whale
An independent scientific advisory panel established by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) has expressed its concern over the effect of noise levels from offshore oil and gas activities on the western gray whale.
Sakhalin Energy, a consortium that includes Gazprom, Shell, Mitsui and Mitsubishi, is working on the Sakhalin II oil and gas development off the coast of Sakhalin Island in eastern Russia.
The waters off Sakhalin Island are the only known feeding ground for western gray whales, which migrate between eastern Russia and southern China. The whale population is listed as Critically Endangered (the highest category of threat) on the IUCN Red List of threatened species. It consists of about 120 individuals, with only 25 to 35 reproductive females.
The Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel, set up by IUCN in 2006, recommended in April 2007 that Sakhalin Energy adopt strict criteria for the management of noise from its construction activities. This would require them to measure noise levels over a certain period of time and, if necessary, mitigate noise in the whales' feeding area if such criteria were exceeded.
In response to these recommendations, however, Sakhalin Energy stated it was "not technically feasible to implement the proposed criteria" and added that 2007 construction work had been planned on criteria "successfully used in 2006".
In a statement, the panel said: "The panel finds Sakhalin Energy's apparent decision to reject the noise criteria proposed in April for the 2007 season extremely disappointing and potentially unsafe for the western gray whale population; it has received no new information from the company to justify its decision.
"We are especially concerned that the company appears to have decided not to include thresholds for prolonged exposure to lower noise levels. Without more rigorous noise management and mitigation efforts on the part of Sakhalin Energy and other companies operating in the region, their activities may have significant long-term effects on gray whales attempting to feed in this area. Such a possibility is of particular concern with regard to pregnant females and females with calves."
Notes to editors
The panel's recommendations
The Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel recommended in April 2007 that Sakhalin Energy adopt dose-based approaches to managing noise from its construction activities. The panel said mitigation action should be taken when the level of broadband noise received at the edge of the feeding area exceeds 130 decibels for 90 minutes.
It said that for every five decibel increase in noise level, the time that whales are exposed to the noise should be reduced by half. Similarly, for every five decibel decrease in noise level, exposure time could be increased. So, for example, sounds received at the edge of the feeding area at 125 decibels could continue for 180 minutes.
The panel advised that time limits should be based on a daily schedule, so that exposure to 130 decibels for 90 minutes in total should only occur once in 24 hours.
Background on the western gray whale
The western Pacific population of gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) is one of only two surviving populations of this species in the world. Both populations were brought near to extinction by commercial whaling. The eastern Pacific population, which migrates annually between Mexico and Alaska/northeastern Siberia, has recovered substantially and now numbers about 20,000 individuals. By comparison, the western Pacific population, or western gray whale, which migrates annually between Russia and China, is estimated at about 120 individuals with only 25 to 35 reproductive females.
Western gray whales feed for about half of the year, in the summer and autumn, and build stores of fat to provide energy during the calving and mating season. The primary feeding grounds off Sakhalin Island are therefore of major importance for the health and survival of the population.
For more information please visit the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel website
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Simple question, I am assuming that Caesar is pronounced as in Ky-aesar. But generally people in films, TV, media or should I group them as popular culture say it as Se-aesar.
Where/when did the pronounciation go so 'wide' or the marker like this?
Or have I get it all wrong?


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Feb 2013 02:02 UTC
"This means that people can no longer get convicted for violating the copyright monopoly alone. The court just declared it illegal for any court in Europe to convict somebody for breaking the copyright monopoly law when sharing culture, only on the merits of breaking the law. A court that tries somebody for violating the copyright monopoly must now also show that a conviction is necessary to defend democracy itself in order to convict. This is a considerably higher bar to meet." Well, that's progress, I guess.
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And yet you bothered to comment, and not to even bother using a complete sentence in doing so? Seems rather odd for something you "didn't read."
Not really. I'm sure you had some wonderful things to say. I wouldn't know since I still can't bring myself to read what you wrote.
I'm just pointing out that it might be helpful to others if you'd consider using stuffy old things like, y'know, line breaks and more liberal sprinkling of paragraphs in future.
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Proceedings of the 2004-Fez conference on Differental Equations and Mechanics
Foreword This conference on Differential Equations and Mechanics took place in the Faculty of Sciences and technology, University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah Fez, Morocco, from May 24 to May 26, 2004. The purpose of the conference was to present recent progress and new trends in differential equations in connection with mechanics.
The organizing commitee consisted of: Bilal El
Harras, Ahmed El Khalfi, Ahmed Alaoui El Hilali, Azzeddine El Baraka, Najib
Guessous, Khalid Benmlih and Abdelmoujib Benkirane.
The Mathematical scientific commitee was composed by : A. Benkirane(Fez), A. Benlemlih (Fez), A. El Alaoui El Hilali (Fez), N. Guessous (Fez), J.P. Puel (Versaille), P. Saramito (Grenoble).
Some of the papers presented at the conference have been publishing in the proceedings and reflect the authors contribution to the conference. Please see the table of contents.
Azzeddine El Baraka
Faculty of Sciences and technologie, Fez
Ahmed Alaoui El Hilali
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The Union Church of Pocantico Hills
This is another shot of the Union Church which I posted last week. Around the side there were these shadows that caught my eye.
Hey, am I first today?
It's amazing how the shadows make the whole building so much more interesting, isn't it?
Another lovely shot, Mary.
Quite a nice nice place
This is such an interesting building; I love the stonework! The shadows add another dimension.
what a beauty!
A very beautiful shot !
beautiful shadows on an amazing building
the stone work is so lovely
What beautiful, soft shadows and they do indeed make the whole building look more interesting! And like the others, I love the stonework! It's really beautiful!
Have a great week, Mary!
That's a really beautiful building, and the shadows do add another layer of texture.
Another great shot of the church. I once heard a photgrapher say "you must view a subject from all sides and all posible angles". How true.
Beautiful, soft shadows on the stonework make this such a lovely shot.
Very peaceful looking.
Happy SSS to you.
lovely shadowy patterns...
beshadowed chimney,
jutting from church's stone wall
soon enwreathed with smoke
My Shadow Shot
What a stunning structure, they sure don't make'em like they used to!
I wonder if the stain glass is with this design all year long or is it Halloween decoration. Beautiful building - I like the stone work.
Interesting building. The shadows makes the stone work softer.
I really love the shadows in this picture. It gives it a mysterious look.
Love the look of this old church!
cool shot there mary
Lovely dappled shadows against that gorgeous stone!


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While head scratching and anguished late-night conversations about majors, graduate schools, and future careers are generally the norm among undergraduates, these jittery economic times have no doubt created even more anxiety for today's college students. The alumnae that fill the pages of this issue should strike reassuring notes. Some arrived as Barnard first-years relatively secure in their knowledge about their future goals; for example, the art-gallery director who arrived to major in art history, found work in a downtown gallery, then set up her own business. Or the young film actress who was intent on professional studies at a conservatory to advance her career objective, but whose mother insisted on a more thorough grounding in the liberal arts. Barnard satisfied both of them.
Many times, the course of a career is serendipitous. Consider the would-be dance major, now a PhD candidate in physics, or the law student who worked for a fashion manufacturer one summer and decided not to return to law school in the fall. Another alumna, now a marketing powerhouse for a well-known group of department stores, opted to major in sociology and piano performance, but still felt the pull, and loved the pace, of the business world.
What these women have in common is not only their Barnard educations. They share a commitment to finding and fueling their own dreams—with study, research, experimentation, persistence, hard work, and a willingness to start small and think big. Many of these alumnae attribute their independent outlook and feelings of empowerment to their four years at the College, and the added jumpstart of spending those years in a global capital like New York City.
In this issue, we share news about the new Vera Joseph Scholarship Program, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, named for a 1932 graduate and chemistry major who was one of the first African-American women toattend Barnard, and designed to facilitate the often financially challenging paths of majors in biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, and mathematics. Newsworthy, too, is the acquisition of some major new laboratory equipment, thanks to a second NSF grant, that will enable both faculty and students to pursue advanced research.
Support comes in many guises... We also look at educators, from those teaching middle-school children to professors at the college level. Through encouragement, mentoring, personal experiences, and expertise, these instructors provide the unquantifiable stimulus that challenges students to think for themselves and find their own pathways to success, however these young people may define it.
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Before last night's Oscars we were told over and over again that the night's theme would be "A Tribute To Movie Music," with whispers of planned musical numbers and host Seth MacFarlane clearly itching to get his Sinatra-style singing out there. Of course, when the actual awards aired, any theme was overshadowed by what happened onstage, from Jennifer Lawrence's trip on her way to accepting Best Actress to Ben Affleck's teary eyes accepting Best Picture for Argo.
But looking back, there were a whole lot of musical moments to take up time onstage (and make it so people like the Best Visual Effects winners got played off by the Jaws music). There was Adele, there was Barbra, there was Shirley Bassey… and somehow in that mix there was Russell Crowe, the actor famously mocked for his singing in Les Miserables. Did he do any better onstage? Relive the moment in the videos below.
If you want to relive Seth MacFarlane's big "We Saw Your Boobs" number from the beginning of the show, click here.
Let's start things off on a high note, with the always-stunning Adele, performing her Oscar-winning song "Skyfall" live for the first time. There were some clear sound mixing issues, with the orchestra drowning her out on that booming chorus, but that's a small price to pay to see Adele in all those amazing sequins.
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Currently I am researching dental form and function. This research theme encompasses the study of the structure, form and properties of dental hard materials but also concentrates on the mechanics of food items processed by teeth or extra-orally before ingestion. My approach is to combine in-field measurements with lab based research to help quantify the material and structural properties of the environment an organism inhabits and consumes in order to help piece together the evolutionary basis behind adaptation.
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Monday Afternoon Time-Waster
If you're stuck at work right now, you might be concentrating more on watching the clock as opposed to finishing your work for the day. Don't fret, we're all doing it, hell your boss is probably sitting in his office with the door closed doing it right now. So to make the time pass by faster we've got a few good time-wasters to play with until quitin' time.
- Survivor III fishing game. Play as any cast member from Survivor III Africa and do you're best to provide food for your tribe. Points are dependent on the type of fish you catch and the only button you'll need is the spacebar. It's simple, silly, fun and won't make your remaining time at work feel like 39 days in the bush.
- Memory game using flickr backend. Memry is just like the memory game you played when you were a kid, except that it uses random images from flickr based a keyword of your choice. Try fishing, trout, salmon, whatever you like. For some real fun try something ambiguous, just don't blame me if you get caught.
- SUPER FISHING! Do your best to catch as many fish as you can. Watch out for cans, tires, the occasional dirty pair of underwear, and lightning storms! TIP: You can catch multipule fish at a time.
For more great games and ways to waste time check out Millions Of Games.


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Tron's too sexy for his circuits! (16)
All Hail Pokey Therapy Sticks O'Doom! (5)
Condemned to Live a Mortal Life (3)
Havoc is a Pretty Girl! -^.^- (5)
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COT Dat
In this past week's COT report, we saw Producers adding to net shorts now -92,197 contracts. Producers have a ways to go to reach their 52-week net short low of -154,481 contracts. Managed Money added to net longs now at 31,748 contracts and Swap Dealers did have a very small drop of net longs to 46,549 contracts.
If you need help understanding how to understand how to use the NEW COT report to your benefit get instant access to my new e-book "What Lies Beneath ALL Trends". It is filled with eye opening information.Commercial Net Tracker instructions: This form tracks the Commitment of Traders (COT) data for the commodity futures market. This form "looks" at the most recent five weeks of COT data and provides visual indications of the data. A) If the current value is at a 12-month low, the cell will display a red/burgundy background. B) If the current value is at a 12-month high, the cell will display a green background. C) If the current value went from net negative to net positive, the cell will display a blue background (indicating a bullish condition). D) If the current value is both a 12-month high and also went from a net negative to a net positive, the background will be green. You should view the data with green backgrounds to determine if they also went from net negative to net positive.
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Just hours before the world premiere of the newest film in "The Hobbit" trilogy in Hollywood, Calif., Air New Zealand unveiled the latest Hobbit-inspired plane in its fleet at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Dec. 2. The Boeing 777-300 features a 177-foot decal of the dragon Smaug from "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" — revealing director Sir Peter Jackson's interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien's mythical beast in its entirety for the first time.
In addition to the unveiling of the new plane, the event featured speeches from Christopher Luxon, CEO of Air New Zealand; Chris Tremain, New Zealand's associate minister of tourism; and Blair Rich, Warner Brothers' executive vice president of marketing. The presentations centered on the long-term strategic partnership between the production company, the airline and the New Zealand government to promote the country as a filming location and tourism destination.
"The government remains determined to use the opportunities that 'The Hobbit' movies present to highlight New Zealand as a great place to visit as well as a wonderful place to come and do business," Tremain said. "Making the three movies in New Zealand safeguarded work for thousands of talented New Zealanders and enabled us to further build on the success of 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy by once again giving us a platform from which to promote New Zealand on the world stage — and promote it we have."
As New Zealand's third largest tourism market, the United States contains more than 28 million people who have put New Zealand as a destination on their bucket list, Luxon said. Air New Zealand, which advertises itself as the official airline of Middle-earth, sees a major economic advantage in being associated with the films because the company believes that they're driving people to visit the country.
"What we're trying to do is make sure we can get Americans to visit us as their next destination rather than just one of several that they're considering," Luxon said. "If wanting to see and experience Middle-earth is a way you might come and visit us, then we fully encourage that."
The promotional alliance between Air New Zealand and Warner Brothers has also yielded benefits for the production company's lucrative film franchise, Rich said.
"'The Hobbit' is the jewel in our crown, and we are very protective of our brand. Air New Zealand has so completely embraced the spirit of the [films] and what Peter Jackson has brought to life," Rich said. "From its entertaining and engaging Hobbit-themed safety video, which has delighted millions of passengers and become a viral hit, to its remarkable plane wraps, Air New Zealand has added a completely new dimension to our marketing efforts for the films."
Air New Zealand worked with the digital effects company behind the films, Weta Digital, to develop the graphic that would serve as the film's "flying billboard." Luxon likened the project to a wallpapering job — just one that took four days and 430 man-hours to complete.
"Seeing Smaug fly off the big screen and into the skies is pretty exciting," Jackson said. "The first (Hobbit-themed) Air New Zealand aircraft features various characters from 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' and is extremely impressive, but I think Smaug running the entire length of the aircraft is even more awe-inspiring."
Furthering its global marketing campaign, Air New Zealand recently released another Hobbit-themed video, "Just Another Day in Middle-earth," which drives home its message that "Middle-earth is closer than you think."
The airline and the New Zealand government hope that these efforts, along with the premiere of the second installment in the trilogy, will continue to boost tourism brought about by the first film, which reinvigorated interest in the country much like "The Lord of the Rings" did.
Selling New Zealand
Since the release of the first film, total tourist visits to New Zealand have increased by 10 percent, with travel from the U.S. growing by 18 percent, Tremain said. Last year's holiday season brought around 10,000 visitors to the Hobbiton movie set near Matamata in the North Island, and the attraction is on track to welcoming a total of 250,000 visitors this year.
Tremain, who owned a travel agency before getting into politics, said he knows the difficulties travel professionals have to go through.
"Travel agents want their customers to come back and say, 'We had a fantastic time and want to do business with you and your travel agency again,'" Tremain said. "Predominantly, they want happy customers — and that's what New Zealand can deliver for them."
Whether clients want to experience an adventure tour, enjoy food and wine or simply "chill out and relax," Tremain said that the country has something for everyone. The greatest difficulty in selling New Zealand as a travel destination, however, may be clients' perceptions about its distance from home.
Luxon, who lived in the U.S. for eight years and regularly made the journey to New Zealand, cited survey research that revealed that some Americans believe the country is 42 hours away — compared to the actual flight time of 13 hours from Los Angeles to Auckland.
"At the end of the day, you can jump onboard one of our aircraft, have a great sleep, have some great Kiwi food and wine and then wake up in New Zealand," Luxon said. "It's much closer than anyone thinks, and I think that's the key barrier that we're starting to unlock with Americans."
Air New Zealand, which calls itself the 'airline of Middle-earth' has two Hobbit-themed Boeing 777-300s in its fleet. // © 2013 Air New Zealand
The second plane features a 177-foot decal of the dragon Smaug from "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug." // © 2013 Laura Forest
Director Peter Jackson (bottom right) at the unveiling of the Smaug plane at LAX // © 2013 Cody Geib
Christopher Luxon, Air New Zealand's CEO, stated that many Americans don't realize that New Zealand is only 13 hours away from Los Angeles. // © 2013 Cody Geib
The "Just Another Day in Middle-earth" video aims to drive home the point that "Middle-earth is closer than you think." // © 2013 Air New Zealand
Fili in The Hobbit films, Dean O'Gorman appears in both of Air New Zealand's Hobbit-themed videos. // © 2013 Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand's Hobbit-themed videos feature New Zealand's domestic airports. // © 2013 Air New Zealand


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The problem of listening to music while working or studying
What is really the best music to listen to when working or studying? I know a lot of people who can sit with their headphones on listening to heavy pumping trance music or hard core rock music. For me this is impossible, I get totally un-concentrated and un-focused. First of all music at work has to be played in speakers (if OK by your fellow employees) so that the music will not be to intense right into your brain.
But the real problem is two folded; first the music you listen to has to be good enough to put you in a pleasant mode and hopefully excited about doing what you're supposed to be doing (studying / working); secondly the music has to be bad enough not to have you listen more to the music than what you're supposed to be doing – again work or study.
Lo-fi experimental electronic music is perfect for this and there are a couple of records that keep coming back to when studying AND the best thing is that they are both Japanese albums – having that great advantage that you do not understand all what they are singing about, and thus, you cannot sing along.
So please enjoy these two musician's albums while working or studying, but make sure to listen to them in your speakers on a fairly low level and not in your headphones. Enjoy!
Yukihiro Takahashi (高橋幸宏 Takahashi Yukihiro, born June 6, 1952) is a Japanese musician, who is best known as the drummer and lead vocalist of the Yellow Magic Orchestra.Yukihiro Takahashi first came to prominence as the drummer of the Sadistic Mika Band, and became known to western audiences after this band (led by Kazuhiko Katoh, formerly of The Folk Crusaders) toured and recorded in the United Kingdom. After the Sadistic Mika Band disbanded, some of the members (including Takahashi) formed another band called The Sadistics, who released several albums. Finally Takahashi recorded his first solo album Saravah in 1977. In 1978, Takahashi joined Ryuichi Sakamoto and Haruomi Hosono to form the Yellow Magic Orchestra.
Takako Minekawa; as an accomplished all-around musician, Minekawa's musical skills set her firmly outside of the J-Pop "idol" tradition: she writes and composes most of her material, singing quirky lyrics about subjects such as clouds, cats, and the color white (her personal favorite), with her love of Kraftwerk and French Pop Music also showing through her unique experimental sound. She often makes use of vintage Casio keyboards and analog Moog synthesizers, as well as vocoders and other electronic instruments.


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The Holy Cross baseball season ended on a disappointing note with a loss to Army in the Patriot League Tournament championship series, but HC pitcher Donny Murray didn't have too much time to dwell on the setback.
Just a couple of weeks after his outstanding sophomore season at HC, Murray was gearing up for his first year in the Cape Cod Baseball League. The right-hander hurled two innings of scoreless relief in his debut for the Falmouth Commodores on June 17 and has continued to pitch well out of the bullpen.
Murray joined the Commodores on a temporary contract, but last week, the team offered him a full contract, so he'll be in Falmouth for the rest of the summer.
"It's really exciting," Murray said before Tuesday's game against Bourne. "You try not to pitch with (the contract) in the back of your mind, but you kind of do just because it's sort of like a tryout for the rest of the summer. At the same time, you just try to have fun and play baseball. Playing down here is definitely living up to the hype. It's just been a great experience down here so far."
Murray, who started 11 games for HC this past season, is among Falmouth's leaders with 11 relief innings. In five appearances, he has struck out nine and walked one and has a 3.27 ERA.
"I'm focusing on finding out different ways to make myself better as a player," Murray said. "Anything I can pick up, whether it's from watching other players or against the hitters I'm facing, I'm just trying to pick up different things that can help make me better for when I go back to school. My ultimate goal is to help my school win the Patriot League championship next year."
Murray, who is from Walpole, lives with a host family in Mashpee. His parents, Tim and Doreen, and younger brother Ryan have been regulars at Falmouth's games. The Commodores are in second place in the CCBL's Western Division.
Murray earned All-PL second-team honors in 2013 after going 7-3 and leading HC in wins and ranking second on the team with a 4.33 ERA.
He threw a complete-game one-hitter against Army on April 28 to clinch the PL regular-season title.
The senior-laden Crusaders had legitimate hopes of winning their first PL tourney, but were swept in the best-of-three final series by Army.
"It didn't feel like it actually happened," Murray said, "and I don't know if it has sunk in yet, knowing we won't be playing with those 12 seniors anymore. But next year we can't wait to come back and win the league."
Former Holy Cross standouts Tom Greene (class of 1959), Dave Quehl ('76) and Johnny Turco ('52) will be added to the Crusader Football Legends Ring of Honor this fall. The trio will be recognized during a ceremony before HC's game against Monmouth at 6 p.m. Sept. 21.
Greene, an All-New England quarterback, Quehl, who still ranks as one of the top receivers in program history, and Turco, who was one of the best all-purpose players to wear an HC uniform, make up the fourth Ring of Honor class.
Honorees must be members of the Holy Cross Varsity Club Hall of Fame and are selected by a committee that includes representatives from the HC athletic department, the Gridiron Leadership Council, the Holy Cross Varsity Club and the Holy Cross Development Office, along with fan voting.
With the addition of these three former greats, a total of 16 names will be included in the Ring of Honor.
Recent Colby-Sawyer graduate Cailin Bullett of Millbury was named the North Atlantic Conference's Woman of the Year by the league's athletic directors.
Bullett, a four-year standout point guard at Colby-Sawyer who helped the Chargers to the NCAA basketball tournament as a senior, will be honored at a Colby-Sawyer home sporting event during the upcoming school year.
Bullett owns the career record for assists at Colby-Sawyer with 583 and she is the only player in program history to amass more than 1,000 points, 500 rebounds and 500 assists.
In addition to her on-court accomplishments, Bullett achieved academic distinction with the Wesson Honors Program, Sawyer Fellowship Award, Wynne Jesser McGrew Senior Scholar-Athlete Award and the Squires Award for Academic Excellence. She served as president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and volunteered for the Memorial Scholarship Field Day, Students Against Drunk Driving and numerous basketball youth camps.
"Cailin is one of the finest examples of a student-athlete that I have ever coached," Colby-Sawyer coach George Martin said.
Here is an update of new area coaches: Assumption baseball, Mike Rocco; Assumption men's and women's cross-country and track and field, Stacie Wentz; Assumption women's soccer, Kevin Meek; Becker field hockey, Jill Powers of Leominster; Clark women's tennis, Helaine Vrana; Nichols baseball, Nick Puccio; WPI softball, Whitney (Mollica) Goldstein; and WPI volleyball, Greg Poole.
As part of a branding and marketing initiative beginning in the 2013-14 season, Assumption recently unveiled its new athletics logo.
Assumption partnered with Phoenix Design Works of Maplewood, N.J., for the redesign.
"I'm excited for the announcement of our new graphic identity program, which I think is both a modern look and something that still fits within the Assumption College tradition," director of athletics Nick Smith said. "I think our new family of logos will be well-received by our alumni, fans, Assumption community and most importantly, our student-athletes."
WPI will induct eight new members to its Athletic Hall of Fame Sept. 27. The inductees are Ryan Cain '07 (basketball), Janet Hammarstrom '80 (field hockey, basketball, softball), Megan Holmes '05 (soccer), Paul Josephson '77 (baseball), Tony Masullo '80 (wrestling), Jim Naughton '96 (basketball), Peter Perivolaraskis '93 (football) and Alison Wing '04 (basketball).
The induction ceremony will be part of Homecoming Weekend.
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In recognition of its Student-Athlete Advisory Committee's work on a bone marrow registration drive, Assumption was named the winner of the NCAA Division 2 Community Engagement Award of Excellence for the Northeast-10 Conference. … The Nichols doubles team of Brandon Roode and Eduardo Irizarry ranked eighth in the final Intercollegiate Tennis Association's regional rankings. … The WPI wrestling program is one of eight finalists in the Best of Brand "Highlight Reel" category for programs which created wrestling-related videos to highlight aspects of their team's season and to build their brand in a unique manner. "WPI Wrestling 2013: Engineering Excellence" was created by Riccio Productions and compiled footage from WPI's most successful season in the last 10 years. The video can be seen here: youtube.com/watch?v=lBIuIv4
Bj1Y. The award program is an initiative of Elite Level Sports Marketing and the National Wrestling Coaches Association.
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Labor Day Blu-rayLabor Day is a quiet movie about an extraordinary event that occurs as a young man is growing up and finding his way in the world. It's a lonely movie, about a mother and her son who feel very out of tune with the rest of the world and who inexplicably begin to awaken once a stranger enters their lives.
We're introduced to Henry Wheeler (Gattlin Griffith) through a lovely sequence narrated by Tobey Maguire that explains the young man's relationship with his mother, Adele (Kate Winslet). Henry's father, Gerald (Clark Gregg), left some time prior to the events of the film to start a new family. Because of this, Henry has taken on many of the traditional male household roles. When a known fugitive named Frank (Josh Brolin) enters their lives, his appearance during Labor Day weekend offers a breath of fresh air in a stuffy household, as well as an intimate look into life behind closed doors.
Labor Day was initially a book written by Joyce Maynard, and the novel's setup makes for trouble in the film, with plenty of backstory. Tobey Maguire has to narrate the film so that we understand where the characters are coming from. Flashbacks have to be employed so we understand how the main characters used to feel and behave. Still, despite the oddball setup of the novel and its many troubled expository devices, Labor Day is a worthwhile venture.
Mostly the film works because its characters have emotional depth. Young Henry is bright-eyed and go with the flow, open to new changes in his world. It's Kate Winslet who steals scenes playing an emotionally broken woman who learns to find joy in unexpected chances and moments. Poor Brolin has the most interesting character but is stuck playing second fiddle.
It's not easy to pin Labor Day into a box and describe what kind of story it is. It's a coming-of-age narrative and a romance, an awakening story and a drama. It's all of these things and more. It's not the best movie, you'll see all year, but credit should go to Jason Reitman for trying his hand at something unexpected and more or less, pulling it off.
Best Special Feature:
The extras, like Labor Day itself, are quietly compelling. There's nothing groundbreaking here, but fans of Jason Reitman should enjoy the articulate way the director explains his ideas during the commentary, but especially the "Making of" segment. While the deleted scenes are mostly a bust, there is interesting information about the timeline of the film's creation, as well as interesting input from the cast.
Other Bonus Features:
Commentary by Jason Reitman, directory of photography Eric Steelberg and first assistant director co-producer Jason Blumenfeld
"End of Summer: Making Labor Day"
Deleted Scenes


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J.J. Abrams, who has made a name for himself writing, directing and producing such hits as "Lost" and "Star Trek," was tapped in January to direct "Star Wars: Episode VII." (Tracey Nearmy / European Pressphoto Agency)Link
Abrams made his first foray into television in 1998, co-creating the coming-of-age drama "Felicity," which starred Keri Russell as the title character. The show won a Golden Globe and an Emmy. (The WB)Link
Abrams created the Jennifer Garner-starring spy thriller series "Alias," which won four Emmys and a Golden Globe. (Norman Jean Roy / ABC)Link
J.J. Abrams on the set of "Mission: Impossible III," the first feature film he directed. The film earned nearly $400 million at the worldwide box office. (Paramount Pictures)Link
Director J.J. Abrams and star Tom Cruise on the set of "Mission: Impossible III." (Paramount Pictures)Link
Director J.J. Abrams and star Tom Cruise pose atop Shanghai's historic Bund 18 building after wrapping up filming in China for "Mission: Impossible III" on Nov. 30, 2005. (Associated Press)Link
Abrams co-created "Lost" with Jeffrey Lieber and Damon Lindelof. The suspense-filled show followed a group of people after their plane crashed on an island. The massively popular series became a cultural touchstone, with millions of viewers tuning in for twist after twist. (ABC)Link
J.J. Abrams is photographed in Los Angeles in April 2006. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles TimesLink
J.J. Abrams, second from left, poses with the cast members from "Fringe," a sci-fi television series he co-created with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. (Rich Lam / Getty Images)Link
J.J. Abrams reveals his first casting for his 2009 reboot of "Star Trek" during a 2007 Comic-Con panel in San Diego. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)Link
A scene from Abrams' 2009 film "Star Trek," which raked in more than $385 million worldwide. (Paramount Pictures)Link
Steven Spielberg, left, co-produced the 2011 film "Super 8," which J.J. Abrams wrote and directed. The pair are shown here at a 2009 dinner honoring Spielberg in Beverly Hills. (Michael Kovac / WireImage)Link
J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg on the set of "Super 8." (Paramount Pictures)Link
Director J.J. Abrams and actor Kyle Chandler on the set of "Super 8." (Paramount Pictures)Link
Young actors Joel Courtney and Riley Griffiths discuss a scene with director J.J. Abrams on the set of "Super 8." (Paramount Pictures)Link
J.J. Abrams, left, and Eric Kripke executive produce the post-apocalyptic adventure series "Revolution." The pair are photographed here at Abrams' company Bad Robot in Santa Monica on Aug. 20, 2012. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)Link
Abrams, second from left, shares the stage with "Star Trek Into Darkness" actor Benedict Cumberbatch, star Chris Pine and producer Bryan Burk during a December 2012 press conference for the sequel to their 2009 blockbuster. (Koji Sasahara / Associated Press)Link
J.J. Abrams and his wife Katie McGrath are co-chairs of the Children's Defense Fund of California. They're photographed here in December 2012. (Mark Davis / Getty Images)Link
J.J. Abrams is photographed in Beverly Hills in June 2011. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Link
J.J. Abrams is photographed in Beverly Hills in June 2011. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Link
It's a question that immediately sprang to the minds of fans of two franchises with Thursday's news that J.J. Abrams will direct "Star Wars: Episode VII."
What happens to "Star Trek"?
According to Paramount Vice Chairman Rob Moore, Abrams — who directed both 2009's "Star Trek" and the upcoming sequel "Star Trek Into Darkness" — will still be involved in some capacity with a possible third "Trek" movie, at the minimum as a producer, if not also directing the film.
Moore also pointed out that Abrams will continue to play a role in another of the studio's most valuable franchises, "Mission: Impossible."
"J.J. will continue to develop projects for us including a new 'Mission: Impossible,' and he is committed to produce another 'Star Trek,'" Moore said Friday afternoon.
With 2009's big-screen reboot of the beloved television and movie series, Abrams won over a new generation of audiences with a broadly entertaining and accessible take on Gene Roddenberry's venerable cast of characters — and satisfied hard-core fans by creating a place for Leonard Nimoy to appear as Spock alongside Zachary Quinto's new take on the beloved Vulcan.
Anticipation for the May 17 sequel is astronomically high. Paramount wisely began stoking interest in "Star Trek Into Darkness" starting late last year, with the release of a plot synopsis, a poster, a teaser, a trailer and then rolling out nine minutes of footage before Imax 3-D showings of Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey."
Last month, Abrams revealed the nine minutes to select journalists at a Century City screening room. Two days later, at the Santa Monica offices of his company, Bad Robot, the writers and select cast members — including Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, Alice Eve and Benedict Cumberbatch — gathered to chat up reporters and to show off costumes and props from the upcoming film.
Damon Lindelof, who wrote the script with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, said the early rollout was inspired by director Christopher Nolan's early reveal of footage from "The Dark Knight Rises." With four years having passed since Abrams' first "Star Trek" film, Lindelof said, "there had to be a lifting of the curtain a little bit," otherwise fans grow suspicious.
With just about 100 days to go before the film officially opens, though, word of Abrams' defection to a galaxy far, far away — news that met with a decidedly mixed reaction — raises questions about who might direct a third "Trek" film, should Paramount move forward with one, and what role Abrams and his creative partners Lindelof, Kurtzman and Orci might play in a future installment.
Abrams' schedule likely would prohibit him from stepping behind the camera, though there was a four-year gap between "Star Trek" and the upcoming sequel. If Abrams does not direct, that could leave either Lindelof or Kurtzman and Orci in the director's chair, or perhaps another Abrams associate such as filmmaker Matt Reeves, who helmed the Abrams-produced monster movie "Cloverfield" (though Reeves is set to direct "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" for Fox).
It seems for now Abrams' relationship with Paramount remains strong — every film Abrams has directed or produced since 2006's "Mission: Impossible III" has been for the studio, where Bad Robot enjoys a lucrative first-look deal.
Still, executives can't be overjoyed by the idea of Abrams working on "Star Wars" for Disney, especially with the promotional effort for "Star Trek Into Darkness" continuing to pick up steam. At least for the moment, journalists are probably more interested in hearing about how Abrams might further George Lucas' vision than deciphering the identity of Cumberbatch's mystery-shrouded villain.
— Gina McIntyre
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