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CANNES, France (AP) — The magic and glamour of Cannes can be hard to spot on a day when rain is lashing the palm trees, roiling the gray Mediterranean and pooling in puddles along the Croisette.
But the world's leading film festival can transform careers — something no one knows that better than actors Berenice Bejo and Tahar Rahim, stars of director Asghar Farhadi's festival entry "The Past."
Bejo shimmered on-screen in Cannes two years ago in "The Artist," her director husband Michel Hazanavicius' vivacious silent homage to Hollywood's Golden Age. It went on to win five Academy Awards, including best picture.
Rahim was the breakout star of the 2009 festival in Jacques Audiard's poetic and brutal prison drama "A Prophet," as a youth growing to manhood behind bars.
Cannes exposure helped boost both performers onto the international stage. While once most European actors could choose between stay at home and playing Hollywood villains, their paths suggest a more globalized movie world.
"It was quite a miracle for me," Bejo said Saturday, as rain drummed remorselessly on a Cannes rooftop lounge. "Two years ago my life changed a little bit in Cannes.
"I don't think Asghar Farhadi would have cast me in this movie if I hadn't done 'The Artist.'"
It's hard to think of two movie styles further apart than the flamboyant artifice of "The Artist" and the anatomically detailed domestic drama of "The Past"
Bejo plays Marie, a harried Frenchwoman with two children, a new boyfriend with a young son, and an Iranian ex who has returned after four years to finalize their divorce. Rahim is her boyfriend Samir, a man with complex family ties of his own.
All the characters are trying to move on — but the past keeps dragging them back.
Bejo said she did a screen test for Farhadi, then didn't hear from him for a month, so initially thought she hadn't got the part.
"He said to me, I was looking into your face if I could see the doubt," she said. "I guess because he saw me in movies where I was quite positive, quite sunny, quite glamorous. He needed to see if I could show another part of myself — and I guess he found it."
For Bejo, as for Rahim, working with the Iran director was a dream come true. "The Past" is the first film Farhadi has shot outside his homeland, and the actors say they loved his working methods — two months of rehearsal to delve into character, break down barriers and forge bonds, followed by a four-month shoot.
With its Iranian director and largely French cast, it's one of several border-hopping movies at Cannes this year. French director Arnaud Desplechin's made-in-America "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian" stars France's Mathieu Amalric and Puerto Rican actor Benicio Del Toro. Another French filmmaker, Guillaume Canet, has a multinational cast including Clive Owen, Billy Crudup and Marion Cotillard in his New York crime drama "Blood Ties."
It's a trend Bejo is happy to embrace.
"In America you have Christoph Waltz, you have Marion Cotillard," she said. "In France we have Italian and Spanish actors. ... I think it's great. We are used to strangers and foreign accents, and it's great that we can see that in our movies now."
Both she and Rahim have been busy since their Cannes breakthroughs. Bejo recently made French heist movie "The Last Diamond" and soon starts filming Hazanavicius' next project, a war movie set in Chechnya.
Rahim's projects include the English-language Roman-era adventure "The Eagle" and another movie appearing at Cannes this year, the nuclear power plant romance "Grand Central."
Coming up, he plays a cop in the French movie "The Informant," and is currently shooting a globe-spanning 1920s-set drama with Turkish-German director Fatih Akin, another pillar of culture-crossing cinema.
Despite the busy international career — and post-"Prophet" expressions of interest from the United States — Rahim says Hollywood remains a hard nut to crack for non-Anglophone actors.
"It's not what you expect at first," Rahim said. "You'd like to be with Michael Mann or (directors) like this, but you don't have those parts that easily. Because first you have to speak English, you have to erase your accent."
For now, he's just happy to be back in Cannes, an experience that is easier the second time around.
"The difference is that now I'm not afraid when I come here," he said. "I'm (saying) 'OK I'm going to take every good vibe and keep it.'"
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The beginning of the six-week period covered in our latest industry price-performance rankings (November 6th through December 18th) coincides with the market's post-election swoon, when concerns about the oncoming "fiscal cliff" in the U.S. and economic weakness in Europe weighed heavily on valuations. Considerable questions remain about how both of these scenarios will play out, but stock prices have rebounded since mid-November, indicating investors have regained some confidence that favorable resolutions are within reach. In fact, most of the leading market benchmarks finished in the black for the period. The Value Line Arithmetic Average, for instance, rose nearly 3%, while the Dow Jones Industry and S&P 500 Index had more modest gains.
Against this backdrop, an industry had to advance at least 6% to secure a spot in our top seven. At the top of the list was the Telecom Equipment group, which rose 11.2%. Foreign Electronics and Wireless Networking also registered double-digit gains of 10.8% and 10.3%, respectively. Meanwhile, the Chemical (Diversified) group was able to edge out Automotive for the seventh spot, 6.4% to 6.3%. In looking for investment ideas among the best-performing industries, we are focusing our search at the top of the list and the telecom-equipment stocks. Despite its prominent place in this week's rankings, this industry was not a hospitable environment for investors in 2012. The group badly underperformed the market over the past 12 months and, based on our Timeliness Ranking System, the year ahead could well be a rocky time for many of those equities, as well.
More conservative investors, in particular, will want to proceed cautiously when seeking out investment opportunities in this space. The majority of the telecom-equipment stocks get below average scores for Price Stability. This is not surprising in that the fortunes of competitors in the hotly contested and rapidly evolving industry can change fairly quickly. In such an environment, even the biggest names can struggle, as illustrated by the dizzying fall from grace suffered by Nokia (NOK). The Finnish company was once the world's largest and most profitable cellphone maker, hitting its peak only five years ago. Now, though, it is mired in red ink, as it works to reposition its portfolio to better compete with the likes of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and other smartphones utilizing Google's (GOOG) Android operating system. If these efforts prove fruitful, NOK stock would likely provide strong total returns in the 3 to 5 years ahead, but the risks here, including a deteriorating balance sheet and intense competition from formidable rivals, figure to keep most investors on the sidelines.
For those looking to steer clear of such high-risk, high-reward scenarios, the industry does include three stocks that carry Above Average or better ranks for Safety: Cisco Systems (CSCO - Free Cisco Stock Report), Motorola Solutions (MSI), and Qualcomm (QCOM). This week we will focus most of our attention on Cisco.
The California-based company is a leading provider of Internet Protocol-based networking and other products transporting data, voice, and video. Its revenues and profits took a step back during the recession, but the company otherwise put together a strong track record for growth. This should continue in the current fiscal year, which ends in late July, with full-year share net reaching $2.00, up 8% year over year and nearly double its 2009 tally of $1.05. Over the next three to five years, the company aims to increase its revenues and earnings 5%-7% and 7%-9% per annum, respectively. In view of its strong execution and exposure to attractive growth markets, such as cloud computing and smartphones, Cisco appears to have the wherewithal to meet these objectives.
In the meantime, the stock provides a respectable source of current income. Its yield of 2.8% is 50 basis points above the Value Line median, and we expect the payout to climb at a slightly faster pace than profits in the years ahead. Factoring this together with a Safety rank of 1 (Highest), and CSCO stock looks to be a solid selection for investors seeking worthwhile, risk-adjusted total returns to 2015-2017.
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.

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The Center coordinates efforts to create a campus culture based on equality, respect for all members of our community, and appreciation of diversity. The Center is a highly visible, tangible symbol of commitment to inclusiveness and multicultural education. It provides a central meeting place for individuals and groups working on diversity issues and facilitates interaction and cooperation among students, faculty, and staff, and with members of the larger Burlington community as well.
The Center for Cultural Pluralism is located in Allen House on the University Green at the corner of Main Street and South Prospect, (802) 656-8833. Visitors are welcome.
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"People are very concerned we have failed to address this issue," said newly-appointed House agriculture chair Rep. Jessica Wooley.
She said her committee finally passed a bill on Thursday that would require all imported GMO whole foods, meaning fresh produce, are labeled.
And long-time GMO labeling advocate Sen. Mike Gabbard said, for the first time, a GMO bill passed out of the Senate Energy & Environment committee.
The Senate version is broader and would require labeling all genetically engineered fish products sold in Hawaii as well as whole foods - most likely meaning papaya and corn.
"I want to be able to tell when I buy my papaya, whether it's conventional, organic or GMO. Just put a label on it," said Gabbard.
In 2012, the now former chair of the House agriculture committee shot down all bills related to GMOs.
But in 2013, Rep. Clift Tsuji supported two bills to label non-GMOs.
"I thought this was a good alternative that was palatable for those who supported and for those who did not," said Tsuji.
"But that would cost us money for folks for Hawaii's everyday farmers," said Wooley, who deferred Tsuji's bills.
At one of the state's last packing houses on the Big Island, distributors are already labeling GMO papaya headed to Japan.
They said most companies they work with are already paying for some kind of label, and whether it's local farmers paying for it or mainland, the cost is cheap.
GMO seed companies in Hawaii have long opposed broader labeling measures.
Wooley said what happened Thursday represents a big first step.
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Indie media center hosts top practitioners at symposium. by Jessica Bachiochi '09 with Maura Stephens
Don't ask who produced Robert Greenwald's documentary Iraq for Sale: the War Profiteers — unless you have a few hours to kill.
More than 3,000 people are responsible for funding the film about how large corporations have made money from the invasion and occupation of Iraq. The Internet, as a technology and as a community, is responsible for marketing it.
Greenwald, a pioneer in using new media to fund, market, and distribute his work, founded Brave New Films and Brave New Foundation (which is now headed by Jim Miller '85) and has directed TV movies, miniseries, and documentaries including Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price and OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism. He and Miller came to Ithaca for the Park Center for Independent Media's inaugural symposium, which united two dozen independent journalists, bloggers, TV and radio producers, and filmmakers for two days of discussion.
The event served two purposes, as Park Center founding executive director Jeff Cohen explains: "for these experts to share best practices and to spread the excitement of independent media to our students." Invited guests like Steve Rathe '71, creator of Murray Street Productions, shared professional stories and discussed new ideas and obstacles. "It was outstanding," Rathe says. "I met a lot of people who were inspiring and had good ideas, like Josh Marshall, who has really led the way."
Marshall, a Polk Award winner for his investigative journalism and Talking Points Memo website, was the keynote speaker. He explained how his interactive readers help generate ideas, gather information, and fund projects — creating "collaborative journalism," as he calls it. Ithaca-area activist Michael Dineen, who attended Marshall's speech, has been reading Marshall's site since it began in 2000. "I read [it] every day," Dineen says. "It's more adult [than mainstream media] — like a grown-up conversation."
This conversation is one of many emerging and growing across the digital world. "The news space is like an ecosystem with a lot of different niches," Marshall says. "By attracting a specific participatory audience, people in the field are finding places in that ecosystem to spur conversations and share ideas about the news." It's not possible for Marshall's staff of 10 to compete directly with corporate media giants, so he must find loyal readers like Dineen to support him. "We are not trying to be all things to all people," Marshall says. "When you have limited resources, you have to pick your battles."
That resource limitation comes with the territory. To avoid the news filtering, censorship, and consolidation that have become a trademark of corporate-controlled media, independent professionals must find new ways to sustain their projects even as they're reshaping how people get their news. In lieu of getting rich, many of these indie types are fueled by a passion for investigating, reporting, and writing about issues, from myriad points of view, that affect society locally and globally. Independent media may never replace corporate media, but it seems clear that they will continue to expand and gain followers. (See story, Making Waves.)
"A rising tide lifts small boats," Cohen says, "especially if they are somehow tied together." He hopes this symposium both strengthened some of these smaller boats and tied more of them together in preparation for waters that continue to rise.


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In the fall of 1998 we began homeschooling. We had 4 children at the time: a 6-month-old, kindergartener, 2nd grader and 4th grader. The oldest 2 had been in a private school up to that point. We didn't start homeschooling because we were unhappy with the school. We had decided when they were all preschoolers that we wanted them to have a Christian education, but when Keith suggested we could homeschool and eliminate the cost of a private school, I laughed! I told him that I just wanted them to go away for a little while now and then.
One year later Keith was out of the Navy, in a low-paying job and we were living with my mother. I started working part-time – first at McDonald's, then at Wal-Mart. A year after that we moved into our own house, and 5 months after that I started to work full-time at our church's child care center. This eliminated a major problem we had with transportation issues between our two jobs and getting the boys to school, but I suddenly had NO time with my children and it was tearing me up, but we saw no way out. I was starting to seriously consider and research homeschooling. But I had to work. My position as a permanent staff member gained us a 40% tuition discount for the boys at the school and my daughter attended the child care center for free. The children and I traveled to and from the same place each day, which allowed Keith to take over-time whenever it came up. We got into a routine that wasn't too bad, but not what we really wanted. In 1997 through a series of events that would be called chance by some, but we credit to the hand of God, Keith got the job he had wanted 3 years earlier. Because of that, I was able to quit my job at the end of the year and be a stay-at-home mom once again! Two months later baby 4 was born and when that school year ended we didn't re-enroll the kids in the school. Our other dream was to live in the country, and the new job's location was going to allow that, too. Near the end of summer we found this house, sold the other, and moved in on Halloween of 1998.
The first books I read learning about homeschooling were from Dr. Raymond and Dorothy Moore. They were one of the first advocates of homeschooling over 50 years ago. The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook and Home Style Teaching helped me to get a vision for homeschooling and helped me to realize that this was something I could actually do. I got their catalog and used their basic philosophy in teaching my children for the first several years. That first year we used The Little House on the Prairie books and The Prairie Primer unit study, and added math with Math-It. We had a great time and I was SO glad we had chosen to do this. With the move to the farm just after we started, we all had a lot of new things to learn in a hands-on fashion. We started a garden, ordered ducks and geese through mail order, raised them, put up pens for them, etc., etc.
Over the years we've made changes in homeschooling. Our original, eclectic schooling eventually became somewhat stressful for me to plan and schedule, especially as we were adding more babies to our family and more animals to the farm. I wanted something that was already planned for me, but I didn't want a traditional school-at-home curriculum. Finally, I was able to start purchasing the curriculum from Sonlight. I had looked at it years earlier, and wanted to buy it because I liked the literature-based program and the fact that everything was already scheduled. But at first I felt I couldn't afford it. I didn't realize that I could have used one core for all my children and just customized their math and English. If I'd realized that before, I probably would have saved us a bunch of money over the years. Now we have all the cores and all I need to buy is new consumables for math, penmanship and occasionally one for another subject. And since I have another 15 years of homeschooling that is a great relief to me! We still customize what we do with it. We don't necessarily do everything in their plan, but even they tell you that they put more in their plan than they expect any one person to do – to give many options, and each family can do what they want with it. We also add supplemental materials and events now and then.
Keith works rotating shifts. This works wonderfully with homeschooling! Our field trips are done when he's not working some weekday and we are able to avoid the weekend crowds at zoos, museums, etc. We take our family vacations on off-peak time – usually early spring or mid-fall. We do school on Columbus Day, Presidents Day, etc., and learn about those people or events. But our birthdays are official school holidays!
The first 3 children we started homeschooling with are now graduated. The oldest is working full-time as a manager of an Auto Zone store. The next 2 are both in college away from home. We currently have 4 that are school age and one preschooler. And the adventure continues!


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I took 2 years of Latin in High School (Straight As), but I am a little rusty as it has been years since I declined a 4th declension noun. I am also learning Greek. My goals are twofold: one, reading ability in both languages so I can read Catullus and Homer in the original. Second, I want to be able to show my daughter as she grows up my appreciation for Literature, and I feel learning Greek and Latin will make me a better teacher to my little girl.
Another area where I feel a calling toward is the death of classical education in current schools in the USA. It saddens me when pupils think Homer is a cartoon character! Sad, I do think. I want to find ways to get Latin and Greek back in the schools!
Other than languages, I love soccer. I also like music, too. I write poetry and sometimes lecture on the subject (I was in an MA in Creative Writing program until life happened). I am working on a collection of verse, too. So I am a busy guy and I think this will be a great place for me to visit and connect.


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BEIJING--(Marketwire - Jul 2, 2012) - STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, and Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), one of China's most renowned national key universities, today announced the opening of a joint laboratory to encourage innovation in electronics. The laboratory is located at the Electric and Electronic Experimental Teaching Center of HIT, with an aim to support efforts in the study, research and development of innovative and emerging applications of electronics, such as in medical, power management, and multimedia convergence.
STMicroelectronics will provide its various products, IC samples, and technical documentation, as well as regular training to facilitate students in the design and development of innovative electronics projects. HIT will provide general-purpose facilities and management of the joint laboratory. At the initial stage, the joint lab will focus on smart-sensor applications. STMicroelectronics will donate its advanced iNEMO® development tools supported with an iNEMO software platform.
"HIT is recognized as among China's leading technology institutes with strong research capabilities and talented students. MEMS is a high-growth industry and high-quality engineers are very much in demand," said Patrick Boulaud, STMicroelectronics Regional Vice President, Analog, MEMS and Sensors, Greater China and South Asia Region. "We expect the joint lab will contribute to the nurturing of the next generation of engineers and should create new reference designs for the industry. The establishment of the joint laboratory is further proof of ST's unwavering commitment and determination to global innovation and excellence."
"ST is on the cutting-edge of the MEMS technology revolution and our cooperation with ST gives faculty and students access to the most advanced design tools," said Professor XU Dianguo, Assistant Principal of HIT. "It is HIT's first joint laboratory built upon a project-based learning mode aimed at boosting innovation among students. ST's willingness to support the development of innovation in electronics applications in higher education demonstrates the Company's leadership and we are confident that this cooperation will enhance HIT's research capabilities."
Solomon NG, STMicroelectronics Regional Director, Strategic Business Development & Design Center, Greater China and South Asia Region added: "Starting with MEMS-based smart-sensor application development, the joint lab will focus on innovative and emerging applications in diverse fields including bio-medicine, energy saving and environment protecting, and user interfaces. This joint effort aims at building a world-class lab that will play a crucial role in cultivating students' innovative spirit and practical skills and further promoting bilateral cooperation and exchanges."
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ST's iNEMO is a unique evaluation and development tool that offers up to 10 degrees of freedom combining 3-axis linear acceleration, 3-axis angular rate and 3-axis motion sensing through a magnetic field, together with barometric/altitude readings, managed by an STM32 32-bit microcontroller. The integration of multiple sensors with processing capabilities and dedicated software in a single device enables leaps in functionality and performance in a wide variety of applications, including Gaming, Human Machine Interface, Robotics, Portable Navigation Devices, and Patient Monitoring.
About Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) was founded in 1920. From its beginning, HIT has received preferential support from the central government. In 1954, the Ministry of Higher Education designated, for the first time, six national key universities. HIT was the only one of the six outside of Beijing. In 1984, HIT again found its way onto the list of 15 national key universities to receive special support. In 1996, HIT was among the first group of universities to be included in Project 211. This project targets 100 institutions of higher education in China to receive preferential support for development in order to become world-class universities in the 21st century. In 1999, HIT was listed as one of the top nine key universities in China. This distinction provided HIT with the opportunity to develop into a highly-competitive first-rate university with the assistance of the Ministry of Education and the Heilongjiang Provincial Government.
About STMicroelectronics
ST is a global leader in the semiconductor market serving customers across the spectrum of sense and power technologies and multimedia convergence applications. From energy management and savings to trust and data security, from healthcare and wellness to smart consumer devices, in the home, car and office, at work and at play, ST is found everywhere microelectronics make a positive and innovative contribution to people's life. By getting more from technology to get more from life, ST stands for life.augmented.
In 2011, the Company's net revenues were $9.73 billion. Further information on ST can be found at www.st.com.
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St. Augustine Beach Bed & Breakfast
Oceanfront Bed & Breakfast beach resort on beautiful St. Augustine Beach and 10 minutes to historic St. Augustine, the nation's oldest city is a special place that's rich in history, art and culture.
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The main oceanfront beach house has five rooms and the cottage located behind the beach house has three rooms. All rooms have a private bathroom. Fine amenities include an outdoor heated pool and Jacuzzi, award-winning landscaped gardens and delicious hot, full breakfasts. Friendly ambiance and personalized service are the signature of this charming bed & breakfast on the ocean.


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Vanessa Hudgens: Wildfox Presentation with Austin Butler!
Vanessa Hudgens cozies up to her boyfriend Austin Butler at the Wildfox Fall 2013 Collection Presentation & Live Performance during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on Wednesday (February 6) at Capitale in New York City.
Ashlee Simpson was also in attendance at the fashion presentation.
That afternoon, Vanessa wrote a blog post about a band that she wished was headlining the upcoming Coachella Music Festival.
"Wish these guys were headlining… :)" Vanessa wrote along with a Scissor Sisters music video. Check it out on her site!
FYI: Austin is wearing an AllSaints leather jacket.
10+ pictures inside of Vanessa Hudgens and Austin Butler at the fashion presentation…


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Meeting Our Cultural Overlords at Comic-Con
How to flirt in a Stormtrooper costume.
SAN DIEGO—Thursday afternoon's Comic-Con panel on the sociology of cosplay began with several bits of useful advice. ("Don't go for Optimus Prime as your first costume. You'll never nail it." "Be nice to each other, because everybody else always treats us like freaks.") But it soon morphed into a very large group therapy session.
"It's really hard to run in armor," a man dressed as some sort of outerspace soldier lamented with a sigh. "It's impossible for me to get anywhere in a hurry." The crowd murmured in assent.
"People forget that we're human beings," said a woman dressed as something decidedly un-human. "They keep wanting to take photos of us no matter what. They hover over us while we're eating. They think we don't need to go to the bathroom."
Here I disagree. I'm well aware that cosplayers take bathroom breaks. In fact, there are few things in life I find more entertaining than watching a man in a Thor costume emerge from a toilet stall, refastening his breastplate, his Asgardian warhammer tucked beneath one arm. Likewise Cylons, Morlocks, and Jawas standing at urinals. And oh, look, there's the Joker blowdrying his hands.
In my mind, this is Comic-Con's greatest gift to the gawking attendee. A chance to live in a fantasy world rendered with unprecedented realism. A world in which the imaginary characters drink diet sodas, make cell phone calls, and defecate.
Just before I traveled out here, I asked a friend who's a sci-fi fan what he might dress up as, were he to try his hand at cosplay. "Not one of the superheroes," he said. "Maybe a Stormtrooper, I guess. One of the anonymous guys at the edge of the action. The ones who just sort of keep the fictional universe humming." Whatever you may think of Comic-Con's cosplayers, they certainly keep the Comic-Con universe humming. Without them, all you've got is a herd of schlumpy people waiting in lines to watch movie trailers. It wouldn't be nearly as fun—as rowdy, as singular—if the cosplayers weren't here.
And believe me, they're here. The more sober-minded Comic-Con-ers complain about the amount of ink the cosplayers get, but the fact is they have a substantial presence. They're impossible to ignore. My rough estimate is that at least 10-15 percent of the people I see here are elaborately costumed. It serves as a sort of shibboleth. Or mating call. "What's up, Perry the Platypus!" shouted a young dude standing in line behind me for an upcoming panel. A cute teen girl dressed up as the Phineas and Ferb character beamed at having had her costume recognized. The dude eyed her longingly as she strolled down the hall, fleshy tail swaying behind her.
Over fro-yos at the Pinkberry across the street from the convention center—seemingly the one place in greater San Diego this week where it is possible to converse uninterrupted by the groans of limping zombies—I asked clinical psychologist Dr. Robin Rosenberg to tell me what cosplay is really all about. Rosenberg has been interviewing cosplayers for years, analyzing their motivations. She feels that dressing up like a Dalek can be a form of self-administered mental health treatment.
"It's a lot like cognitive behavioral therapy," says Rosenberg. In CBT, a therapist will ask a patient to try on a desirable persona as a sort of practice run. An insecure patient might find a situation where the stakes are low and then make a concerted effort to act brash and outgoing. The goal is to become accustomed to that feeling and know it lives within you. Ideally, you can summon it later, in times of stress. Wearing a costume might instantly turn you into a focus of attention—a role shy cosplayers are uncomfortable with in their plainclothed lives—but it lets you experiment with a different attitude while remaining hidden behind a mask.
Rosenberg's theory was bolstered by comments I heard at the cosplay panel. "It forces you to be looked at," said the moderator, who was dressed as Wonder Woman. "But I almost feel more comfortable in my skin when I'm wearing my costume. I put my shoulders back, and I keep my head up." Among the benefits of cosplay listed on her Powerpoint slide: "making new friends" and "improving social skills."
Some cosplayers, known as "real life superheroes," push the fantasy further. A Seattle man dubbing himself Phoenix Jones has dabbled in amateur crimefighting. Jones costumes himself in body armor and a mask and patrols the city hunting for miscreants to foil. Results have been mixed: Jones is a real-life local hero to some—but he's also gotten himself arrested for what might have been an ill-advised spree of indiscriminate pepper spraying.
Vigilantes aside, cosplaying seems rather harmless. And before you chuckle at the cosplayers, pause to realize that we all have alter egos. We all adopt personas for various contexts. "Secret identities are a continuum," as Rosenberg puts it. When you don a business suit instead of your usual hoodie, it is with the expectation that strangers will perceive you differently. It's likely that you yourself will behave somewhat differently, as well.
Personally, I've never been interested in disguising myself as a superhero or an orc. But during my talk with Rosenberg, I suddenly recalled a horrifying sartorial moment from my past. In high school, I sometimes wore suspenders as an homage to Michael Steadman—my favorite character on the TV show Thirtysomething. If there's anything lamer than dressing up as a wizard from a fantasy film franchise, it's dressing up as a yuppie executive from a middlebrow dramedy.
So I salute you, cosplayers. Keep on trucking—by which I mean keep on heating and molding vast quantities of Wonderflex. Or just keep things simple, if you like. My favorite Comic-Con costume so far was one I spotted on a woman in her 60s. She had on regular clothes, but she wore a large, hand-lettered cardboard sign that hung from her neck. It said: "NATALIE PORTMAN IN THOR."


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Creating new file or folder, or renaming a file or folder through the sidebar in ST2 or ST3 will complete the file operation, but will not update the sidebar once completed. You have to manually refresh the sidebar to see the changes.
This is actually caused by an inotify regression in the 3.5.0-22 linux kernel.
Thanks a million for posting this. Was driving me crazy.Problem solved with update to Linux kernel.
Having the same issue on OS/X - is there a similar fix?
No there isn't. But because this was actually a bug in the experimental Linux kernel that I was using, you are experiencing a different issue.
Sorry for necroposting, and it probably looks really bad since this is my first post. But I also have had this issue with Sublime Text 2 (latest build) on OS X 10.8.3 for the past few months.
It's almost making me roll back to NetBeans. I love Sublime, but if the tree doesn't update, it really frustrates me. Is there any real solution or known bug?
Thank you.
I guess i'm necropositng to. Any progress on the mac issue that showed up in ?March 2013? was working just fine before. Sidebar not updating
Sorry to "reopen" the post (I'm new at this) I have a similar issue - I am running everything locally on my machine and when I use "touch" or "rm" for remove from the command line, the Sublime Text 2 sidebar navigation is not updating instantaneously like it has in the past. I am running ST2 Version 2.0.2, 2221 on a Mac OS X 10.9.2. The only way to get the sidebar to update is to click Project > Refresh Folders (for which there is no shortcut key), which is not efficient at all.
This is extremely frustrating and I feel like I've done endless amounts of google searching on the web for answers that are more recent and this thread has been my best shot at similar information and recency.
Any word on possible updates? I have tried a few that are out there, but nothing seems to be working. I've uninstalled and reinstalled ST2, tried updating settings, etc.
Tech Support,
The sidebar is not updating when files are changed.
OSX 10.9.5Sublime Text version 2.0.2, Build 2221
Restarted computer, restarted Sublime Text 2, disabled packages. Searched high and low for solutions.
I restarted OSX in safe mode, by holding the shift key down after the start-up chime. This repairs the files system and checks file permissions. After doing this Sublime text is updating the file browser when I add and delete files.


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Today is Monday, Jan. 7, the seventh day of 2013. There are 358 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 7, 1973, sniper Mark Essex laid siege at a Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge in downtown New Orleans for about 10 hours, killing seven people before he himself was slain by sharpshooters.
On this date:
In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei began observing three of Jupiter's moons (he spotted a fourth moon almost a week later).
In 1789, the first U.S. presidential election was held. Americans voted for electors who, a month later, chose George Washington to be the nation's first president.
In 1800, the 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore, was born in Summerhill, N.Y.
In 1894, one of the earliest motion picture experiments took place at the Thomas Edison studio in West Orange, N.J., as Fred Ott was filmed taking a pinch of snuff and sneezing.
In 1927, commercial transatlantic telephone service was inaugurated between New York and London.
In 1942, the Japanese siege of Bataan began during World War II. (The fall of Bataan three months later was followed by the notorious Death March.)
In 1949, George C. Marshall resigned as U.S. Secretary of State; President Harry S. Truman chose Dean Acheson to succeed him.
In 1953, President Harry S. Truman announced in his State of the Union message to Congress that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb.
In 1963, the U.S. Post Office raised the cost of a first-class stamp from 4 to 5 cents.
In 1979, Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government.
In 1989, Emperor Hirohito of Japan died in Tokyo at age 87; he was succeeded by his son, Crown Prince Akihito.
In 2006, Jill Carroll, a freelance journalist for The Christian Science Monitor, was kidnapped and her translator shot dead in Baghdad. (Carroll was freed almost three months later.)
Ten years ago: President George W. Bush unveiled his $674 billion economic expansion plan. Police in London announced they had found traces of the deadly poison ricin (RY'-sin) in a north London apartment and arrested six men in connection with the virulent toxin that had been linked to al-Qaida terrorists and Iraq.
Five years ago: The Pentagon reported an Iranian fleet of high-speed boats charged at and threatened to blow up a three-ship U.S. Navy convoy passing near Iranian waters, then vanished as the American ship commanders were preparing to open fire. In Baghdad, the head of a key U.S.-backed Sunni group was killed in a double suicide bombing that claimed at least 11 other lives. Second-ranked LSU defeated No. 1 Ohio State, 38-24, in the BCS championship game played in New Orleans. Philip Agee, a renegade CIA agent whose naming of operatives led to a law against exposing spies, died in Cuba at age 72.
One year ago: Three days before the New Hampshire primary, Mitt Romney brushed aside rivals' criticism in the opening round of a weekend debate doubleheader that left his Republican presidential campaign challengers squabbling among themselves and unable to knock the front-runner off stride. Record-shattering Drew Brees threw for 466 yards and three touchdowns, and the New Orleans Saints poured it on in the second half for a 45-28 NFC wild-card victory over the Detroit Lions.
Today's Birthdays: Author William Peter Blatty is 85. Country singer Jack Greene is 83. Pop musician Paul Revere is 75. Magazine publisher Jann Wenner is 67. Singer Kenny Loggins is 65. Singer-songwriter Marshall Chapman is 64. Latin pop singer Juan Gabriel is 63. Actress Erin Gray is 63. Actor Sammo Hung is 61. Actor David Caruso is 57. Talk show host Katie Couric is 56. Country singer David Lee Murphy is 54. Rock musician Kathy Valentine (The Go-Go's) is 54. Actor David Marciano is 53. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., is 52. Actress Hallie Todd is 51. Actor Nicolas Cage is 49. Singer-songwriter John Ondrasik (on-DRAH'-sik) (Five for Fighting) is 48. Actor Doug E. Doug is 43. Actor Kevin Rahm is 42. Actor Jeremy Renner is 42. Country singer-musician John Rich is 39. Actor Dustin Diamond is 36. Actress Lauren Cohan (TV: "The Walking Dead") is 31. Actor Robert Ri'chard is 30. Actress Lyndsy Fonseca is 26. Actor Liam Aiken is 23. Actress Camryn Grimes is 23. Actor Max Morrow is 22.
Thought for Today: "I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable." — Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author (1906-2001).
(Above Advance for Use Monday, Jan. 7)
Copyright 2013, The Associated Press. All rights reserved.


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Plant rhubarb for decades of desserts
Some of my favorite spring vegetables include lettuce, spinach, asparagus and rhubarb.
One of my favorite spring desserts is a slice of warm rhubarb pie with ice cream.
Rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum, is a cool-season perennial vegetable that was introduced to the United States at the end of the 18th century. Rhubarb was first cultivated in the Far East more than 2,000 years ago. It was initially cultivated for its medicinal qualities. Rhubarb forms thick red, pink or green petioles (stalks) with large extravagant green leaves.
Rhubarb grows best where plants will receive full sun in fertile, well-drained soils that have good organic matter. Plant rhubarb in the early spring while plants are dormant. Avoid harvesting the plants the first year, and only lightly harvest for one to two weeks during the second year. Full harvest may begin the third or fourth year depending on the plant size. Harvest for eight to ten weeks.
Rhubarb has a sour, tart, tangy flavor; you could say it is mouth-puckering. To minimize the tartness, most people find it necessary to sweeten rhubarb with sugar, honey or fruit juice. Rhubarb is often combined with strawberries; it is rarely eaten raw. It can be purchased from a u-pick grower or a supermarket. In central Illinois, harvesting usually begins in late May and can continue until late July.
The flavor depends on the cultivar. Reliable red-stalked cultivars include: Canada Red, Cherry Red, Crimson Red, MacDonald, Ruby and Valentine. Victoria is a reliable green-stalked cultivar. Generally the deeper red the stalk, the more flavorful. Medium-sized stalks are generally more tender than large ones.
Harvest 10- to 15-inch stalks by snapping them, rather than cutting them off. Grab a stalk down where it emerges from the ground, and pull up and slightly to one side. Harvest only a third of the stalks from a plant at one time. Immediately after harvesting, cut off and discard the leaves. If purchasing rhubarb, look for flat, crisp stalks, not curled or limp.
Rhubarb leaves should never be eaten, they contain oxalic acid, a toxin that can cause poisoning when large quantities of raw or cooked leaves are ingested.
Rhubarb is 95 percent water and one cup of diced rhubarb contains about 26 calories, 2 grams dietary fiber and 351 mg of potassium. Due to its acidic nature (pH of 3.1), avoid cooking rhubarb in reactive metal pots such as aluminum, iron and copper.
Rhubarb can be prepared and served many different ways: pies, tarts, breads, cobbler, cakes, jams, sauces, puddings and salads. My favorite rhubarb recipe is a longtime family favorite.
Rhubarb upside-down cake
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 4 cups of chopped rhubarb
• 1 yellow cake mix prepared according to directions on the box
Into a 13x9-inch baking pan pour melted margarine and sprinkle with brown sugar. Spread chopped rhubarb over the sugar mixture. Prepare a yellow cake mix according to the directions on the box. Pour batter over rhubarb. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 45 minutes or until cake is done.
Jennifer Fishburn is horticulture educator for University of Illinois Extension, Logan-Menard-Sangamon Unit.
For more information on growing and using rhubarb, visit the University of Illinois Extension "Watch Your Garden Grow" website at http://urbanext.illinois.edu/veggies/rhubarb.cfm


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Ocala police say that a man who accidentally shot his mother on Oct. 30 died on Friday, 11 hours after the mother died on Thursday in an unrelated incident.
Ocala police say that a man who accidentally shot his mother on Oct. 30 died on Friday, 11 hours after the mother died on Thursday in an unrelated incident.
Edith Kerekes, 82, died at 8:12 p.m. Thursday at Ocala Regional Medical Center.
Her son, Attila Frank "Sonny" Kerekes, 55, died at 7:05 a.m. Friday under the care of Hospice of Marion County.
Detectives said an autopsy is being conducted to determine a cause of death for the woman.
They also said Sonny Kerekes checked himself in to a hospice facility on Thursday, but they did not reveal details.
Lila Ivey, director of outreach programs for Hospice of Marion County, said federal privacy laws prohibited her from confirming or denying whether her agency had a patient named Kerekes.
She did say that hospice takes care of all people, regardless of their situation.
On Oct. 30, officers responded to a home in the 3700 block of Northeast 21st Lane in reference to a woman being shot in the abdomen.
Police said Sonny Kerekes, who had moved in with his mother several months ago, told them he had owned his father's .38-revolver since his father died in the early 1980s. He said he used the gun to shoot sharks when he was a commercial fisherman in Miami.
He told officers his mother wanted to see the gun, so he was taking it from a bag in which it was stored. He said she was in the kitchen and he was in another room when the revolver accidentally went off and a bullet went through a wall.
He said he did not know his mother had been wounded until she told him about pain in her abdomen, at which point he called 911.
A detective visited the woman at the hospital and she said her son went into a room, she heard a noise, and then she was in pain. She said she did not see the gun.
Detectives said Friday they had been considering charging Sonny Kerekes with culpable negligence.
None of the Kerekes' relatives could be reached Friday for comment.
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serb nationalists burned a Croatian flag Saturday to protest a decision by a U.N. war crimes court overturning guilty verdicts against two Croatian generals, and the prime minister called the decision a blow to reconciliation in the postwar Balkans.
Many in Serbia are furious that appeals judges at the Netherlands-based tribunal on Friday freed Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac, who had been previously sentenced to lengthy prison terms for killing and expelling Serbs from Croatia during an offensive in 1995.
"This will have serious consequences at reconciliation in the region," Serbia's premier Ivica Dacic said. "How can someone demand that we condemn all crimes if others are allowed not to condemn the crimes against Serbs?"
Croatians, meanwhile, consider the decision proof that they were the victims in the Balkan conflict. The fighting in Croatia was part of the wars that erupted across the Balkans with the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The most deadly was in Bosnia, where Serbs battled Muslims and Croats in a four-year struggle that claimed some 100,000 lives.
Hundreds of supporters of the extremist Serbian Radical Party rallied in front of the presidency building in the center of Belgrade demanding that the government abandon plans to join the 27-nation European Union and cut ties with the court in The Hague, Netherlands.
The crowd carried banners reading "Stop The Hague" and chanted nationalist slogans in support of the party leader, Vojislav Seselj, whose own trial is ongoing at the tribunal for the role in the atrocities against non-Serbs.
"Serbia has done nothing to help its own heroes who are jailed in The Hague," said Radical Party official Nemanja Sarovic.
Later Saturday, a separate protest by another far-right group was held in front of the EU headquarters.
Even liberal Serbs have warned that Friday's ruling created a sense of injustice and could stir nationalist sentiments. Serbia's government has scaled down cooperation with the tribunal, while Serbia's President Tomislav Nikolic said the verdict was political.
Dacic insisted "this verdict was clearly political ... designed to clear Croatia of crimes committed against Serbs."
Serbian media on Friday and Saturday repeatedly carried file footages of tens of thousands of Croatian Serb refugees fleeing in August 1995 in long columns on tractors, cars and carts. Many still have not returned to their homes.
In Croatia, the two generals received state honors and a hero's welcome on Friday, with tens of thousands jubilant people gathering in the capital, Zagreb, to greet them.
The country is also marking a remembrance day this weekend in the eastern town of Vukovar, which was heavily bombed by the Serb-led military in at the start of the Serb-Croat war in 1991.
The war erupted when Croatia declared independence from Serb-led Yugoslavia triggering a rebellion by minority Serbs. About 10,000 people died in the conflict.
Darko Vojinovic contributed to this report.


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- Opening Scene
- River Access Cave
- Return Scene
- Harrvah City Under Attack
- Harrvah Castle Under Attack
- Harrvah City Aftermath
- Harrvah Castle Aftermath
- Harrvah City Outskirts
- Harrvah Sand Dock
The first five maps all take place at night while the rest are during the day. These aren't necessarily individual maps (for example, opening scene and return scene share the same map file), but they are different "areas" if you will. The city outskirts map is the only map that I consider optional, and I listed it as a possible map to allow the player to battle enemies and complete a small side quest.
Anyway, right now I'm working on the Opening Scene map. We've had a basic version of this for some time, but I'm planning to make the following changes:
1) Remove the character Dester so that the initial playable party is only three characters (Claudius, Mark, Lukar)
2) Add Sergeant Methus to the troop to walk alongside the captain
3) Add Mak Hounds to the troop movement. Currently planning on 3 hounds, but I may drop that down to 2.
4) Organize the troops so that everyone is in a squad of 3, including the captain who will have his own squad and be the first to enter the cave. Mak hound squads will consist of the hounds and 2 other knights
5) Reorganize the troop movement so the front is the captain's squad, the hound squads are in the middle, Claudius' squad takes up the rear, and other knight squads scattered in between
6) Modify the dialogue to remove any mention of the Muabi (although I'm not exactly sure who I will make the narrator)
7) Various other improvements in the knight movements. For example, making their walking animations out of sync so it doesn't look so odd, and showing the knights running up to the cave in their squads.
Should have most of these changes done in a day or so. The animation de-syncing in #7 might be difficult to do and require some code changes.


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"I just felt like it was something I should have been doing. It's helped someone in my family, and it felt like the right thing to do."
On one of the coldest days of the year, with the windchill reaching temperatures less than 25 degrees below zero, the American Red Cross blood mobile rolled into St. James to collect donations from the community.
One resident heard the call for donations and decided now would be a good time to give blood. Janine Bowers gave blood for the first time at the Thursday, Jan. 31, blood draw.
"I just felt like it was something I should have been doing," said Bowers. "It's helped someone in my family, and it felt like the right thing to do."
Posters have been hanging in St. James businesses for most of the month of January and Bowers learned of the blood draw from a poster hanging in her office at St. James Family Dentistry.
Aiding in the donation process was Melissa Buddensiek, who has been a phlebotomist for the American Red Cross for about a year and a half. Buddensiek worked to make Bowers' first experience donating blood a good one.
"I'll definitely be doing it again," said Bowers. "It's been a very comfortable process, and they found the vein right away."
"It was a good vein, just the way we like them," said Buddensiek.
Though this was the first time Bowers has given blood, she explained she wasn't nervous about the experience.When she placed a call earlier in the week to make an appointment the entire process was explained to her, so she knew what to expect.
The process of giving blood takes an average of eight minutes – depending on how much water a donor has drunk throughout the day and the size of the vein.
Volunteers were expecting about 115 donors over the two days of collection. That many donors are capable of saving more than 300 lives. Look for future blood drive dates in the Plaindealer and schedule an appointment to save a life the next time the American Red Cross blood mobile stops in St. James. The need is constant and the gratification in instant.


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Cathy is a freelance journalist in the field of architecture, design, sustainability and travel.
Has written for publications including House & Garden (is the current eco columnist), Elle Dec, Dwell, Grand Designs, The V&A magazine, The Spectator, The Times, Coast (covered maternity leave as deputy editor), The Evening Standard, the Architects' Journal and Building Design.
Cathy is also the Copenhagen correspondent for Easyjet Magazine and a regular contributor to The Copenhagen Post. She has written four books including The Sustainable Home and 100 Houses, both published by Merrell, as well as website and brochure content for Velfac and Solid Floor. Cathy has also appeared on ITV as an architecture critic.


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TOMS RIVER, N.J. - May 14, 2013 --A New Jersey man whose 4-year-old son shot and killed a 6-year-old playmate has been criminally charged and is due in court later this week.
Prosecutors say Anthony Senatore had multiple unsecured weapons accessible to children in his Toms River home.
Authorities say Senatore's son took a loaded .22-caliber rifle from a bedroom on April 8 and fired a shot, fatally wounding neighbor Brandon Holt while they were playing outdoors.
Officials say four shotguns were found close to ammunition and accessible to Senatore's three children. Senatore's other children are 12 and 8.
Senatore was arrested late Monday. He's charged with child endangerment and enabling access by minors to a loaded firearm. He's due in court Thursday.
His attorney declined to comment Tuesday.


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Posted on March 18, 2013 in Pro Tennis Talk
It's the first week of August, and the professional tennis tour has returned to the hallowed grounds of the All England Club for the second time in a month. A month ago, Roger Federer once again reigned supreme taking his 7th Wimbledon title, and now the battle for Olympic gold has begun. Many of the top players had their eyes on the Olympics for a while, like Roger Federer seeking his first Olympic gold in singles or Andy Murray playing in his home nation of Great Britain. The Grand Slams are always important, but the Olympics only come around every four years and present a unique opportunity to represent your country and be remembered forever as a national hero.
Another player looking forward to the Olympics was Spaniard Rafael Nadal, who up until just a few days before the event was not only Spain's best chance at a tennis gold medal, but was slated to have the honor of being Spain's flag-bearer in the Opening Ceremony. An incredible honor, and one that Rafa did not take lightly.


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"We have heard the chimes at midnight." That's from "Henry IV part II" by William Shakespeare. And it could kick off a literary, textual daylong tale inspired by "The Clock."
Christian Marclay's 2010 art piece "The Clock" is a film installation. Marclay cut together 24 hours worth of time passing in film -- watch-checking, clocks in the background, people saying the time. The thousands of clips are sequential, and when the piece is screened it is synced to the time of day in the real world.
The piece is so unique in that it inspired the book section of The Guardian to see if it could create a literary version. Are there enough passages from novels, short stories, plays and poems that reference time to build a text version of "The Clock"?
They can't do it on their own. Marclay spent more than two years, and had six assistants, to create his work. The Guardian had begun this project and set it aside, and now, with two weeks to go before the Edinburgh Book Festival, they're hoping to complete it with your help.
If you can think of a literary passage that references time, submit it online here.
The passages might be something like this, from Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina": "'Yes, I must go to the railroad station, and if not there, then somewhere else, to punish him.' She looked at the time-table in the newspaper. The evening train went at two minutes past eight. 'Yes, I shall have plenty of time.'"
The thing about "The Clock" is that it ticks away in lockstep with time ticking away in real life. "I've always thought of this piece as a giant memento mori," Marclay told The Times. "You're constantly reminded that you've wasted an hour of your time, and you're constantly reminded about this thing that you're trying to figure out: time."
A text version won't work quite the same way. It can talk about the hours passing, but how that time passes will be unique to each reader. We read at different rates, can get distracted or close the page, and time stops in a book. In the film and real life, time clicks on regardless of our actions; with a book, time moves only as quickly as the reader allows it to.
Astronaut Chris Hadfield's first book lands in October
Williams' Book Store in San Pedro to close after 104 years


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In hockey, a Hanrahan goal is scored when one player distracts the goalie, allowing one of his teammates to score without any trouble. This is not just simply screening; the goalie must be fully engaged with the distractor. Very rare. Derived from the movie SlapShot.
Dunlop's comments about the Long Island goalie's wife caused said goalie to attack him, allowing Braden to score an easy goal. Classic Hanrahan goal.
by Reppin' Latvia March 22, 2011
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Enterprisewide system is installed in 18 months for less that $10 million
Officials at the Labor Department decided two years ago that the best way to replace their 20-year old financial managent system was to install a pre-configured solution that could be integrated across more than 22 agencies and organizations.
The seeds of that decision have finally borne fruit with Labor moving to a cloud computing-based financial management system, said David Lucas, chief strategy officer of Global Computer Enterprises, the contractor on the project.
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Labor is using GCE's financial management Shared Service Provider Appliance, which is based on Oracle Financials Release 12. As a result, the agency has retired its old, Cobol-based, mainframe system, Lucas said.
The GCE financial management solution is a pre-configured, pre-integrated system that provides a full range of services, including data migration and testing through security, change management and training, Lucas noted.
"You're going to see a ton of these [deployments] over the next few years," said David Linthicum, an author and independent consultant. There is a mandate from the federal government for agencies to start looking at implementing cloud computing, he said.
By starting with a pre-built solution, Labor was able to save considerable time, money and risk, as well as begin introducing change to users in all of its agencies simultaneously.
Working with Labor officials and the department's information technology team, GCE was able to get the new financial system up and running in 18 months for less than $10 million, Lucas said.
That price tag would have been significantly higher had the agency built a system from scratch, which would have included new hardware, software and the infrastructure to support a new system as well as ongoing maintenance costs, he stated.
Labor now doesn't have to worry about hardware, software or software licensing, but it still owns its data, Lucas said, noting that there was no controversy about who would own the data hosted in their data center.
GCE complies with all of the mandatory government security regulations, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology's guidelines, Federal Information Security Management Act mandates and SAS-70, Lucas said.
Plus, GCE worked with Labor's chief information, chief financial and chief security officers to mitigate risks, he noted. GCE has a seven year contract with the agency, he noted.
"This is basically a software-as-a-service deal, and software-as-a-service has been around for a long time," Linthicum said.
"From a technological point of view it is not a huge leap. However, "from a trend point of view it is important," he said. The more success stories that occur, the more other agencies are likely to start implementing solutions in the cloud, he stated.
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Less than $10 million? Once this nightmare is over the government will have apent more than $100 million on this terrible system. Complete debacle.
Agree with all comments. NCFMS has many challenges - getting vendors paid via line item accounting is the greatest challenge.
GCE is delusional. NCFMS is definitely not a cloud solution; it is hosted. GCE continues to spread propaganda, and it is surprising that no one in government holds them accountable. It was granted it's authority to operate based on the confirmation that the infrastrcture and application components were not shared with other GCE customers. At the OCIO level we are defining the cloud policies that are required for DOL to effectively transition per Kundra's 25 pt implemntation plan, but there are no true cloud solutions at DOL as far as the CISO's office is concerned.
This claim is dubious and needs OIG attentions. Preposterous and a false claim, cheating citizens of their tax.
Cloud Computing? Wow that's a huge stretch, or spin by GCE. Agencies have been running financial systems as SaaS for many years via shared service centers. I guess the gov invented the Cloud?
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Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 21 June 2013 (IUCN) -- Namib Sand Sea in Namibia, Xinjiang Tianshan in China, Tajik National Park in Tajikistan, Mount Etna in Italy and El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve in Mexico have been declared World Heritage sites, following expert recommendations of IUCN.
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UPDATE: Manchester police arrest third man wanted in armed robberies
November 07. 2013 3:46PM
MANCHESTER - Police Thursday afternoon arrested a man they have been seeking in connection with several armed robberies in the city earlier in the week.
About 3:15 p.m., Manchester Police located and arrested Jarrell Wilson, 22, of Manchester. He was spotted in the area of Union and Manchester streets in Manchester and was arrested without incident by Manchester police detectives, working in conjunction with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Fugitive Task Force.
Wilson is now being held on warrants charging him with four counts of armed robbery.
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MANCHESTER – Two people are under arrest and police are searching for another man in connection with a series of armed robberies Monday and Tuesday in the city.
Lacy Clagon, 23, and Sarah Flonory-Schneider, 20, both of Manchester, were arrested Wednesday. Police continue to look for Jarrell Wilson, 22.
Investigators identified the three as suspects in the armed robberies that occurred Monday at 7:45 p.m. at the Union Street Market, 621 Union St.; on Tuesday at 12:15 p.m. at Michelle's Gourmet Pastries & Deli, 819 Union St.; and at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday at N&K Market, 374 Pearl St.
Clagon was arrested at noon Wednesday in the area of Grove and Union streets. He is charged with four counts of armed robbery related to the three stores, and of a customer at the pastry shop who was robbed of her purse.
Flonory-Schneider, the alleged getaway driver, was arrested about 1 p.m. Wednesday on three counts of criminal liability to robbery. Police said she drove the others to and from the robberies.
Investigators located and seized the car used in the robberies and are in the process of obtaining warrants to search a Manchester address related to the investigation.
In the meantime, police want the public to be aware that Wilson remains at large and should be considered armed and dangerous.
The weapons used in the robberies — a long-barreled handgun and a smaller, black handgun — have yet to be found.
Wilson is described as a black man, about 6 feet tall and weighing 220 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.
Anyone who sees Wilson should not approach him. Instead called 911 immediately. Anyone with information on where he can be found is asked to call police at 668-8711.
Anonymous tips for cash rewards may be made through Manchester Crimeline at 624-4040 or online at manchestercrimeline.org.


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Retro piracy - Should the Royal Navy kick arse?
Tackling the freebooters of the 'Gate of Tears'
And, much though I'd love to believe as one who spent many happy years in minehunters that they could "be handy" against pirates as Ms Purves suggests, it isn't true. Minehunters are even slower than frigates, they don't carry even the single helicopter which is all a frigate can boast, and their boarding teams are smaller still. (Though I would definitely argue that small-ship sailors have lost less of the Royal Navy's former adaptability and aggressiveness than their big-ship counterparts.)
Helicopters, though, go at least four times as fast as a frigate or a speedboat, eight times as fast as a minehunter or a dhow. They can be on scene fast, over a large area. They are much better for searching large areas in order to find target vessels, as an unnoticed British anti-pirate success a couple of years back demonstrates. Whirlybirds can carry weapons which easily outclass pirates' AK47s and RPGs, and can deliver strong teams of well-armed Marines who really are trained and ready for close combat.
If the pirates raise their game and start carrying shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles, that's no problem: there is a British naval helicopter missile specifically designed for blasting small fast boats from beyond portable-weapons range. And you could buy at least three or four fleet auxiliaries full of helicopters and troops for the cost of just one, single, largely useless destroyer. Extra marines and choppers would also be tremendously useful in just about every war we are realistically likely to fight in future; as opposed to subhunters and antimissile ships, whose performance has often been embarrassing even against the very rare enemies they are actually designed to fight.
Yes, the pirates seized might well have to be tried and punished in the West - handing them over to local justice would see them either set free or summarily put to death, though the Foreign Office is trying to find some way of putting them ashore locally after capture.
So let's assume, worst case, that pirates captured on the high seas would need to be brought to the UK for trial. There may be some legal difficulties with deporting them after their time in UK jails, but in the case of convicted pirates it ought to be achievable. Anyway, compared to the costs of capturing them in the first place the expense wouldn't be significant even if they wound up on benefits for life.
So sure, the UK could easily tackle piracy if we really felt like it. As we've seen, though, it seems odd that we suddenly care about Filipino or Ukrainian or even Danish sailors being seized and held to ransom, when we haven't cared for decades about them being shipwrecked (and often enough drowned) by the hundred every year.
Certainly the Royal Navy would strongly resist any serious pirate-fighting plan. It has no real interest in having more marines, helicopters or fleet auxiliaries. None of these offer chances for a Royal Navy officer to become an admiral, or even a captain. The navy is only going on about pirates in an attempt to justify some more of what it considers to be proper career-enhancing warships - frigates and destroyers - or at any rate to preserve the ones it already has.
Any move to cancel destroyers and spend the money on actually fighting pirates effectively would be bitterly resisted.
Maybe one day the Royal Navy will finally understand what Admiral Fisher foretold before World War One - what was conclusively proved again and again in World war Two, and proved again in the Falklands - that surface combatant warships themselves are no longer a good or cost-effective way of controlling the seas. Maybe one day the navy will realise that surface ships are almost always most effective when used as bases for aircraft.
Until then "naval power" will have very little relevance to any sort of real-world modern maritime problem. Until then the UK's ability to actually do anything about piracy will be fairly limited - assuming that it wants to, which as we have seen is a relatively curious thing to want. ®
*All Royal Marines - except the marching bands, mostly employed on ceremonial duties - are nowadays Commando qualified and wear the green beret. In the UK forces this signifies elite-light-infantry status, similar to that of the Airborne forces: it doesn't imply membership of secretive special-ops units as the shorthand term "commando" often does in America.
Lewis Page served for eleven years as a Royal Navy officer, variously as navigator, mine clearance diver, bomb-disposal operator ashore and first lieutenant (among other things) at sea. After a lengthy period of vicious bullying, the Royal Marines awarded him the green beret of the commando forces. He has transited the Gate of Tears, but nobody would let him chase any pirates.


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Title: Market Outlook and Investment Opportunities in Asia
Date: 7 Dec 2017, Thursday
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Speaker: Mr Andy Liew – Business Development Executive, Aberdeen Asset Management
Asian economies, which are among the biggest beneficiaries of globalisation, are closely watching Trump's actions with trepidation amidst a backdrop of uncertainty and volatility as the end of the year draws near. With more Fed rate hikes seem imminent and geo-political risks still surrounding the region, the outlook for 2018 does not offer us any respite. Join Andy from Aberdeen, as he shares the various potential challenges on the horizon and where the opportunities lie for the year ahead.
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eh - still as predictable AF - kids still live with me - still working too hard but cant complaining - still eating and drinking too much - same ol same ol Hope all is well with you and the family I told Pudge and Dave to tell you hi but theyre ***** and probably didnt bother
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Sorry WTE. I know it sucks and hurts but hey you're among friends. We really do understand how much the next week is going to feel like it will never end.....p
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Patrick, what is wrong with the Bruins lately? They look sluggish. I hope they make a move soon to replace Horton. I think he might be out for awhile. Also with Peverly out 4-6 weeks, they are getting thinner up front. I still think they are a great team and should rebound. Take care.
lol assclown avatar. I remember that from the Mannings Army Forum
Tough loss Patrick. I do feel bad for Welker. They had a good season and have nothing to complain about. The Pats played their guts out with an undermanned defense. I have tons of respect for all of them. Take care and Go Bruins.
Rematch like you wanted. YOu can get your revenge. We shall se what happens. Pats would have killed SF imo
Could not have said it better myself.
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Many teens - both girls and boys - went home with a new hairstyle Saturday, Feb. 2, after learning about various aspects of health and wellness at their annual Teen Health Fair at the Admiral Coontz
Many teens - both girls and boys - went home with a new hairstyle Saturday, Feb. 2, after learning about various aspects of health and wellness at their annual Teen Health Fair at the Admiral Coontz Recreation Center in Hannibal, Mo. Waylon Hahon's spiked hair added to his height.
Michaela Weathers said getting her hair done was the most fun thing, along with getting a ring decorated with a real flower. Her friend, Jade Ledbetter, said one of her best things was getting her eyes tested, adding her eyes were OK.
The students were doing a scavenger hunt among the numerous booths, as they learned the effects of using illegal drugs, driving while intoxicated and other choices they will be making as they mature.
Dr. Sandra Ahlum, leader of the sponsoring Community Health Assistance Resource Team (CHART) Teen Task Force, reported the approximately 300 teens and 200 adults present came from several schools. Students were bused from Highland, Clark County, Canton, Louisiana, Marion County and Palmyra schools this year, Ahlum said, and the good weather helped make this possible.
Each year new booths are added to this annual health fair. One was the Girl Scouts. Also this year the Kroc Center in Quincy, Ill., was represented. At this booth, teens were doing various exercises and even challenging the personnel to compete with them in Indian wrestling. Others were doing push-ups, such as Brittany Humphrey and Alexa Gillum.
Skin cancer screening also was being offered for the first time by the Blessing Cancer Center, Ahlum noted. The vision screening also was new.
Physical fitness was featured at the Healthcare USA booth, where Renee Hendrickson explained this agency based in Jefferson City is a Medicaid plan affiliated with the State of Missouri.
Many prizes had been donated by area merchants, Ahlum said. They were won in drawings.
Details about the services offered by various agencies were offered. Jennifer House, health and nutrition administrator with the Early Head Start program in the eight counties served by the Douglass Community Services, was explaining how important its services are to new mothers, including a prenatal program.
The teens were busy dancing when not visiting booths or eating pizza and apples. After an energetic dance, Katie LaRocca and Kalli Gordanier of Palmyra Middle School explained both had won prizes.
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Some of the students were already learning about health by spending the weekend taking care of dolls representing newborns. October Crockett, carrying her doll, explained she was assigned her "baby" in her child development class at Hannibal High School.
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