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The business world is changing. As the industry is impacted by worldwide digital transformation, it's clear that businesses who invest in their technology and in their partnerships are better able to outpace the competition. At Microsoft Partner Network, we're committed to helping you do more to take advantage of this opportunity. If you are new to MPN, it can be a bit confusing to know where to start. With these insider tips and the support and resources you need to grow your business, we are confident that MPN is the place for you.
First Things First
As a new member of MPN, you might be asking what are the first things you should do? Here's a brief video outlining the 4 things we think are the most important action items to help you hit the ground running.
Next Steps in Leveraging Your Membership
The Microsoft Partner Network empowers businesses to become more than the sum of their parts. We do this by giving partners access to expertise, opportunities, tools, and a growing community of businesses — all with the goal of helping you grow your business. Here's how we do it.
Customized Memberships
There are currently three different membership options available to partners, each with its own unique offerings that are easily customized to your preference. These membership levels are designed to help partners grow in their paths to becoming the experts that customers know they can trust.
- The entry-level Network Membership offers free training, support, and customer connection opportunities for partners.
- The Microsoft Action Pack Membership offers an annual subscription for partners serving SMB customers that includes all entry-level benefits as well as access to resource centers, internal use rights for up to 10 employees, and additional support.
- For those businesses that earn the designation, Microsoft Silver and Gold Competencies highlight your capabilities, expertise, and commitment in specific Microsoft solution areas.
- Silver Competency includes all the entry-level benefits, plus more internal use rights (up to 25 seats), eligibility for incentive programs, and additional support and advisory hours.
- Gold Competency includes all benefits previously mentioned, plus up to 100 seats for internal use rights, access to even greater incentive programs, support, and advisory hours.
Core Benefits
The benefits provided to Microsoft partners across the different membership levels can best be broken down into four categories: Internal-Use Rights, Marketing Resources, Incentives, and Support & Community Resources.
Internal Use Rights
IUR helps you sell what you know by using Microsoft software and online services to run your business. IUR cloud services and on-prem software gives partners first-hand knowledge of product features and capabilities, increasing productivity and providing opportunities to demo and test services as well as sell more, save money, and gain access to support as needed. Programs included under the IUR include Windows 10 Enterprise, Office 365, Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite, a monthly credit for Microsoft Azure, Dynamics CRM, and more. Learn more about the offerings by visiting the IUR site on the portal.
Marketing Resources
Access to professional, personalized marketing content is another benefit that will help you grow your business successfully as a Microsoft partner. This benefit helps you save time and money and provides access to tools for reaching your customers more effectively. To access these marketing resources, check out Smart Partner Marketing for insight into your marketing experience and customized resources and Marketing SureStep for a unique look at where you are in the cloud journey.
For Silver and Gold level partners, various incentives are designed to reward businesses for engaging with shared customers and to help expand their customer reach in the Enterprise, SMB, Cloud Services, and Devices categories. Sign into the partner incentives page to learn more about which incentives you qualify for.
Support & Community Resources
Here are just a few of the support and community resources available to partners today.
- Partner support community forums
- Phone-based support (1-800-MPNSOLV)
- Signature cloud support
- Technical presales and deployment service
- MPN 101 calls
- Localized MPN Yammer groups
- The International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners (IAMCP)
Now that you have the support and resources you need, we're sure that MPN will help you to achieve even your greatest business goals.
What are the first steps you would recommend to help new partners get the most out of joining the Microsoft Partner Network?

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Starting medical school soon and not sure what to expect? You've come to the right place!
This section is designed to help you settle in and will detail what studying at medical school is like, plus top tips on how to prepare for Problem-Based Learning (PBL) sessions and lectures. Don't forget to use the subpages to make the most of the section!
Many students wonder how they can prepare for starting medical school over the summer between A-Levels and starting the course. You may also have preconceptions of what studying medicine is like, or worries about what you think PBL or seminars will be.
In the video below, Toyin, a current medical student at Aberdeen, tells us her top preparation tips for studying medicine in your first year – and dispels common worries many prospective medical students have!
You may be wondering what studying medicine is really like. Good news: we have lots of case studies, so you can hear directly from current students about their experiences at medical school!
A common worry among students starting medical school is how the workload will differ, and how to adapt to a new pace of learning. You'll cover many topics at a much faster pace, and in much more detail than at A-Level. You'll also be expected to work independently, so you'll need to be self-motivated in your study and revision.
The key thing to remember is that it's normal to find it difficult to adjust at first – and everybody else will be feeling the same pressures. Secondly, you were made an offer because your admissions tutors had faith that you had the skills, attributes and dedication needed for medical school. The other thing to remember is that you'll soon adapt to a new learning style, so try not to worry.
You might also find it useful to read the following blogs on managing your workload, studying medicine and what to expect:
Each medical school will differ in the structure of the course – for example, some may have a combination of PBL sessions, tutorials and lectures.
You can usually find a rough idea of what your timetable will be like on the medical school's website. You might also find it useful to read the following first year case studies on their schedules:
Everybody finds medical school challenging at first. It can be difficult to live away from home, in a new city, with an enormous-looking syllabus to tackle – but you're not alone.
If you're struggling with your course, workload, or simply being away from family or friends, speak to your personal adviser, on-campus GP or friends on your course – they will all be more than happy to help you and make you feel more comfortable settling in.
You might also find it useful to read the following blogs:
After you finish medical school, it's time to begin your career as a junior doctor. Foundation training is the first step along the postgraduate training pathway, and will last for two years.
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text: TV Endemol Unit Eyes Expansion, Hires BBC Executives 9:24 AM PST 11/20/2013 by Stuart Kemp FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME The indie giant's factual production banner, Tigress Productions, hires current BBC features production chief Pete Lawrence to boost its ambitions. LONDON – Indie giant Endemol U.K. has lured a second high-flying BBC executive to join its factual TV production banner, Tigress Productions, to help ramp up output and feed expansion plans. Pete Lawrence, currently head of BBC features production, will join Tigress as creative director at the start of 2014 alongside the arrival of Claire Urquhart, the former BBC features development chief who joined in September of this year. STORY: Endemol U.K. to Make Own Apps, Starting With 'Deal or No Deal' Game Lawrence's 25 years as a program-maker boasts formats, factual entertainment and documentary films. While at the BBC he oversaw the development of an extensive slate, including long-running hit shows such as Watchdog, Crimewatch, Antiques Roadshow and Countryfile. Lawrence and Urquhart's hires form part of a fresh drive to expand Tigress's output by adding a portfolio of features and factual entertainment programming to the company's growing slate of specialist factual, wildlife and adventure series. The expansion strategy is being driven by Tigress Productions managing director Dick Colthurst and overseen by Colette Foster, joint managing director of Remarkable Television. Tigress Productions' output includes documentaries following climbers on Everest for Discovery. Productions in 2013 include the groundbreaking three-part TV event, Africa 2013: Countdown to the Rains, which has just completed its run on BBC Two; Naked and Marooned (Discovery); Edward VIII: The Lion King (Channel 4); Nature Shock (Channel 5); Winter Viruses and How to Beat Them (BBC Two) and programming for The One Show (BBC One). FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Stuart Kemp email@example.com @thr


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Having regular Pap tests is the best way to monitor cervical health. Many women will experience an "abnormal" Pap test during their lifetime, which can be caused by infection with HPV (human papilloma virus). This infection can lead to cervical dysplasia, a potentially precancerous condition in which abnormal cells grow on the cervix. These women may need an additional Pap test, a test for HPV, or a more detailed test called a colposcopy. The prognosis is excellent for women with cervical dysplasia who receive appropriate follow-up and treatment. But women who go undiagnosed or who do not receive appropriate care are at higher risk of developing cervical cancer.
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text: Since getpass() has been dropped from POSIX and is now considered unsafe, I've decided to remove all detection of it. I've reworked the implementation of lutil_getpass() which is used instead, when getpassphrase() is not present. In addition to streamlining the code, I've removed the Merit-specific use of telnet control codes, since that was specifically for a long obsolete deployment at UMich (most likely the old ud client which was deleted from the OpenLDAP tree years ago). -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/


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33-year-old Jay Devi has five children and she is unusually married to TWO husbands at the same time in this postcard perfect Indian village near the Tibetan border.
Six years after getting married to Hirachand Soni, 37, Ms Devi was told to accept his elder brother, Roshan Lal, 50, as another husband.
Absence of cultivable land and tradition means people here have to practice fraternal polyandry or sharing a wife. Most of the villagers survive on tiny plots of croplands on the steep hills at an altitude of about 8000 ft.
"In this difficult terrain, there isn't enough cultivable land, so instead of finding separate wives and splitting up the inherited property, we had to marry a single woman, to keep the land together," says Mr Soni. "Nobody would like to share his partner, but we are forced by the circumstances."
Perched on a hilltop, they have spent all their lives in this three-room house, accessible after an hour-long trek in the barren and rocky mountains of Himalayas.
Both brothers work as labourers with a governmental organization that takes care of roads in the area and are surprisingly happy with their lives. "Initially I felt very bad to share my wife with brother but now it is fine and we are prospering," says Mr Soni.
How does a married trio deal with sex was a tricky and intrusive question to be asked to the common wife. "We have made shifts, otherwise there would be lot of issues," Ms Devi blushes. "For a month, I would sleep with one and with other for the next month."
For Mr Lal, whose mother was shared by five brothers, polyandry is a norm that needed to be followed in letter and spirit. "We have to control our emotions and make sure that we care least about sex," he says. "Otherwise it is hard to survive in this place."
What about the woman who had to take care of two husbands and five children, Ms Devi says: "I could feel a mountain falling on me when I was told to sleep with Roshan Lal who was like an elder brother then. I pleaded with my first husband (Hirachand) that he stopped this but I had to surrender to the situation."
When asked what forced her to make this ultimate sacrifice, Ms Devi points at her children. "I accepted it for my children otherwise it would be hard to nourish and educate them, Ms Devi says. "Every woman dreams of a single man but I believe that blessing is for women born away from these mountains."
After seven years of polygamous life, Ms Devi has learned to enjoy the life, and she is happy with both her husbands. "We can divide the work, and if one of them is out on a job, I have another one to take care of me and children. All the property would be registered against my name and I will provide good education to my four daughters and a son," she says. "But I will make sure that they marry a single man of their dreams."
Who is the biological father of the children, none in the family knows or cares. Mr Soni says: "They are our children and they call me younger Papa and Roshan Lal as elder papa."
Three-and-a-half-years before, Ms Devi had the last daughter and since then both husbands would buy her contraceptives to avoid any pregnancies. "We have decided not to have any more children as we already have five and it isn't easy to nourish them," Ms Devi informs.
In this village of about 300 people, polyandry is a norm, so no one gossips but in the adjacent villages people do talk bad. "Whenever we pass by those villages, women there would point at us and say that she has many husbands. They would laugh at us but that doesn't mean we are promiscuous."
Marriages are arranged here and most of the women have two husbands but some have four or five, depending on the number of sons in a family.
With the advent of satellite TV and the mobile phones, lifestyle is changing in this Buddhist village, and the age-old tradition of polyandry is sure to take a hit.
Eldest daughter, Sumitra Devi, 12 says: "Both my fathers are good and I love both of them equally but I would marry only one man."
"Love can't and shouldn't be distributed."
Polyandry is illegal in India but socially acceptable here, and nobody from the government has bothered to take action against the tribals, who break the law.


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With their valuable cargo securely stored in Deana's backup the party starts the journey back to Whiterun. Glaring sunshine greets them as they march across the sulphur pools that abound around the Eldergleam Sanctuary.
'By the Nine, that is a powerful, pungent smell' complained Zora colourfully. Hot geysers bubbled angrily as the burst the surface of the green tinged pools. Undaunted the trio carried on and Vilja even piped up, a very out of tune, version of the Dragonborn Comes in an attempt to lift spirits. It somewhat worked!
They took a northern route, keeping the Darkwater River to their right before hitting the road near the Darkwater Mill. They then turned to the West, fording another river before once ascending the lower slopes of High Hrothgar, as they skirted the large mountain. The climb proved steep, but luckily the weather held and a majestic view of the rear of the Dragonreach towering over the tundra greeted them as they crested the last hill before Whiterun itself.
Though the journey proved largely uneventful, the party did come upon an unsavoury scene near the ancient Nordic tower at Valtheim. Several dead bodies were strewn across the road as it passed under the shadow of the towers. They had obviously been ransacked as clothes and other items of low value were all thrown across the cobbles. A Kahjit had been beheaded and its head set upon a spike about halfway up the tower, a small puddle of blood collecting at the base of it.
Zora explained that bandit bands would often base themselves in these old Nordic towers and lay claim to roads and thoroughfares that passed by them. The more 'cultured' bandit leaders resorted to charging a toll, whereas the more savage ones (clearly the ones in Valtheim) just engage in wanton pillage and slaughter. Perhaps something could be done to make this road safer at a later date.
Light drizzle began to fall from the sky as the trio made the gates of Whiterun. The guards pestered them with questions about dragons and dragon sightings. Dragons?!?!?!?!? Were these guards on the mead? Deana assured them that no dragons had been seen, and that no dragons had followed them, and that she had no idea of what had happened at Helgen. Yet there was something in the urgency with which they spoke that made Deana very, very wary. Entry into the city was forbidden to them until the Gilgergreen sapling was produced and even then it was a very reluctant permission!
It was a very grateful Danica Well Spring that received the sapling. She showered blessings of Kynareth upon our friends and rambled on about a ceremonial replanting and rebirth. Deana respectfully bade goodbye and headed to the Guild at the Huntsman for a well deserved ale!


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Lagos comes alive as jazz, fashion and culture take centre stage at the biggest jazz event this April, Runway Jazz.
Runway Jazz is a harmonic fusion of the classy worlds of jazz, fashion and fine dining; an expression of the arts, designed to showcase our proudly Nigerian (and African) culture, music talents and products to all around the world, in celebration of the International Jazz Day.
Headlining this maiden edition is American Grammy award-winner, Kirk Whalum, who represents a unique class of artistes with a rich repertoire of sounds including Pop, Gospel, R&B, Smooth Jazz, Instrumental Pop, Quiet Storm, Urban and Contemporary Jazz music, amongst others. He will share the stage with some of Naija's finest entertainers including Omawumi, Yinka Davies, Tosin Alao, the host band, Sweet Sound and many others.
Celebrated since November 2011, the International Jazz Day (IJD) is a global initiative that highlights Jazz music for its diplomatic role in uniting nations. Each year on April 30, this international art form is recognized for promoting peace, dialogue among cultures, diversity, and respect for human rights and human dignity; eradicating discrimination; promoting freedom of expression; fostering gender equality; and reinforcing the role of youth in enacting social change. This is the mandate of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), chaired by Director General, Irina Bokova, and legendary pianist and composer Herbie Hancock, who serves as a UNESCO Ambassador for Intercultural Dialogue and Chairman of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.
As Nigeria's contribution to the global celebration of Jazz, Runway Jazz is scheduled to hold over 2 days – April 29 and 30, 2016 at the Eko Hotel Convention Centre, Victoria Island, with a line-up of activities including a Jazz Concert & Fashion exhibition, Music Masterclass and Fine Dining. It will also serve as a platform to recognise some of Nigeria's greatest music icons – Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Ebenezer Obey, Victor Olaiya, and Victor Uwaifo – whose achievements on Africa's music landscape have made them exemplary ambassadors of Nigerian Music and symbols of our cultural heritage.
Tickets are available online at www.runway-jazz.com; Afritickets and Naijaticketshop [Regular: N10, 000 | VIP: N30, 000 | VVIP: N1, 000, 000].
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Overview of Fibromyalgia and sleep dysfunction
Sleep dysfunction is a component to fybromyalgia specifically, but the fact is insomnia is a factor with all chronic pain. I know when I developed chronic migraines my insomnia got that much worse and that much more complicated. The migraines acute at night, making it difficult, or impossible to sleep... the lack of sleep a migraine trigger for the next day. Seems like an impossible cycle of pain and insomnia feeding into each other.
I know that I have had insomnia most of my life. I know that I have tried pretty much every single thing anyone has ever mentioned to me to help with it. Every herbal supplement. I was on some medications with a side-effect of drowsiness said to help some people that I found useless. And now on some sleeping pills that I seriously do not find all that strong to be honest and only mildly beneficial. I also take melatonin because apparently I have none of my own I have done hypnosis, which, apparently, does not work on me. I do deep breathing exercises. I do meditation. I might be missing some things here and I am not even bothering to list All the supplements... but lets just say I have done A lot since I have begun trying to treat my insomnia at around the early twenties. Insomnia bothered me as a child and in my teens. I was always tired. I skipped school, a lot, to sleep. But as pain increased, so did insomnia... and it became a Problem. A sleep deprivation problem. A 'I cannot sleep at all' problem. And I began to ask doctors about it to which they often said 'we do not treat chronic insomnia with medication'. Up until one doctor realized my migraines were being made significantly worse by sleep deprivation symptoms. Thus the sleeping pill, which did in fact reduce those sleep deprivation symptoms... therefore there is some sleep going on in there somewhere. I mean, rather than days of none at all.
So it is an issue. A very complicated issue I have yet to find a viable solution to. The pain clinic class I went to said my sleep issues were more complicated than the usual complicated. My pain doc said if I wanted to explore more intense sleeping medications I would have to see a psychiatrist as they know those sorts of drugs... but some are known to alter the personality and that does not sound good at all. Freaky really to contemplate being all drugged up because you simply cannot get a good nights sleep.
And yet, the thing is I imagine the pain would be less intense if I could just sleep. I imagine I could think better. I imagine my mood would be better. I imagine the fatigue would be less. I imagine... I have no clue really, but I imagine.
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Porsche has always raced in a unique way. Under the company's model, motorsports is not just about winning but also about selling cars--whether the 906 in the '60s, 934s in the '70s, 962s in the '80s, 911 GT2s in the '90s or GT3 RSRs and RS Spyders in the present decade. Today, believe it or not, Porsche builds about 300 race cars a year.
Yet Porsche does not just sell cars in unprecedented numbers; it also provides unprecedented customer support around the world. At a race where the company is represented en masse, you will find a technical-support truck that also sells spare parts. Every other manufacturer that builds customer racing cars, whether sports cars or open-wheelers, seems to promise to provide Porsche-like support yet rarely does.
The late Richard Lloyd, who was successful with the 956/962 in the World Sports Car Championship in the '80s, remembered buying his first 956 in 1983. "It was just like buying a road car," he said. "We were taken to a big underground car park, shown to our car, handed a key and left to it. We drove the car into the truck and went off testing."
Porsche's customers have notched some of the marque's biggest successes. Five of its 16 wins in the 24 Hours of Le Mans came courtesy of privateer teams. The story was the same in the United States, where Al Holbert Jr. ran the factory-backed operation but independents such as Bob Akin, Bruce Leven and Dyson Racing all won races with the 962 in the old Camel IMSA GTP Championship.
In recent years, Dyson has gone up against the Penske factory-development team in the LMP2-prototype class, and Farnbacher Loles Racing competes against factory-backed Flying Lizard Motor-sports. Series, teams and drivers come and go, rule books are rewritten, and the cars change shape, but Porsche's motorsports philosophy remains largely unchanged.


text: nickershnick25 0 Report post Posted April 7, 2015 My first cousin is my soul mate. He is six years older than I am and we have had a connection since we first met. I have pictures of him holding me when I was only a few months old. We grew up 2 hours away from each other but saw each other often during the summers. All throughout our young lives we gravitated towards each other. When we went to family events we would spend most of our time together and when it was time to leave we would both be to the point of tears at the thought of leaving each other. I don't remember exactly when I started to find him physically attractive. I think it was when I was around 12 or 13. Which I guess is about the same time when he started to feel the same about me. I didn't know until last year that his mother (my aunt) used to have to give him the "cousin talk" after every visit reminding him that yes I was pretty and smart and funny but that it wasn't appropriate to have those types of feelings about your cousin. I never got those kind of talks. I don't know if it was because my dad just didn't see it or if he believed it to be one sided and that I didn't have those types of feelings. When my cousin graduated from high school he moved away to Texas for school. After that I only saw him a couple times over the period of several years. We occasionally talked on the phone but whoever he was in a relationship with at the time would usually get jealous of our conversations. After he dropped out of college he moved to Missouri and has been there ever since. He had two children with two different girls and then got married and was married for 10 years. Last year he and I started to text on a regular basis and he kept telling me how great it would be if I could come and visit but that his wife probably wouldn't like it. I tried not to think about why that was or why I didn't care if she liked it or not. Then later in the year around August I texted him to see how he was doing and he told me that he and his wife were separated. He was really upset about it because she had cheated on him but at the same time relieved because he had never really loved her. A couple of weeks after he told me about the separation I texted him telling him that I love him. Over the years we told each other we love each other a lot. I don't think either of us ever realized what the other really meant when we said it though. He said he loved me too. And I said "no you don't get it. I really really love you." He responded by saying he knew and that we have always shared that same love for each other. It took me a little while to decide how I wanted to respond but I decided to just throw it out there and see what he said. I tried to make a joke out of it by saying that some people might think we were a bit incestuous in our love for each other. I sort of freaked out wondering what he was going to say. He then said that we have always had this connection that went beyond a cute cousin and when I agreed it was like the flood gates opened. Both of us expressed how we had been holding in these feelings for so long because we thought that we could never do anything about them and weren't sure if the other felt the same way. We talked about childhood memories and how we were both feeling the same thing but never knew. We talked for hours and it was amazing because it was like this weight was lifted off of both our shoulders. We had hidden it for 17 years. We decided that I would finally make that visit. I found a ticket and booked my flight and there was no turning back. My dad was questionable about why I was going to visit him but I just played it off as wanting to visit my cousin that I hadn't seen in 10 years. The trip wasn't for another month so until then we talked every day. We talked about everything. What we had been doing the last 10 years. All of the things that we had always wanted to say to each other but couldn't before. How nervous we were to see each other after so long especially now that our feelings were out in the open. The flight was nerve racking. When I got off the plane I had to wait for my bag but he could see me from where he was. He texted me and I looked up and then I was really nervous. I didn't know how we were going to greet each other or how we were going to go from cousins to an actual couple. When I walked out he was waiting for me with flowers. I was on the phone with my dad telling him that I had landed safely and so all we did was hug. When we got to his car he put my bag in the trunk and then turned towards me. I wanted to kiss him so badly but I was freaking out. He pulled me close and cupped my face in his hands and kissed me and it was like everything fell into place. Like my whole life I was only half of whole and I was finally complete. On the drive to his house we couldn Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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If you had forgotten about Octomom, the California single mom of six who underwent in vitro fertilization in 2008 only to become pregnant with octuplets, Natalie Suleman is okay with it. Suleman, whose octuplets are now seven years old and thriving, recently came clean about her efforts to shed the Octomom persona.
Suleman underwent the fertility procedure with the intent of only having one child. Her doctor tried to convince her to abort the others, but because Suleman does not believe in abortion, she carried all eight babies to term.
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Image credit: Natalie Suleman poses with some of her children at their home in Palmdale, Calif. (AP Photo/Antelope Valley Press, Ron Siddle, File)


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The Farikal project has been my main occupancy the past three years. You know that feeling when you carry something with you absolutely everywhere you go? It's almost like being in love, your mind wanders back to the big idea every chance it gets, and other things in life get's a second priority.
We started Farikal with two hypotheses;
1.Are we able to reinvent old craft techniques?,
2. Are we able to produce clothes with craft techniques at a Norwegian factory?
Hypothesis 1 was fullfilled, we travelled all over west-Norway and gathered information about craft techniques – then we modernized them with new design. Take the amazing Varafell jacket, an ancient viking technique woven on a loom which they find remnants from in ancient settlements combined with modern design and norwegian materials. We also lazercut a traditional norwegian embroidery technique called kvitsaum.
Learning nuperelle/needle tatting technique from Evelyn. Pic by Martin Torvund.
After collecting all this information and doing a lot of research the showpiece collection was created, and we had an amazing, fun launch party with an insane turnout in our hometown Bergen. It was so fun and so worth all the work, with boyfriends and wonderful friends around us, being a tremendous help making it all come together. The same weekend we had a pop-up shop at Isotop – also successfull, fun and a great learning experience.
As soon as the pop-up finished we started discussing production, a new pop-up and webshop for a few pieces. We initiated the production with wonderful Norwegian factory Lillunn, which I can strongly recommend to everyone. But a little further down the line, looking at the costs, timeline, efficiency, quantity amongst other things – the production was never gonna happen the way we wanted it to. Not where we were coming from. So hypothesis 2 was a no for us.
We've had such a journey – visiting lovely ladies all over western Norway, getting so much support from everyone we met, friends and families, Bergen Kommune and Hordaland fylkeskommune. Thank you so much for making this project possible!
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Lawyer-writer Mike Godwin says he came up with Godwin's Law to discourage facile comparisons to Hitler and Nazism, but sometimes facile happens anyway: Daily Kos featured blogger Hunter declared Monday that "Wayne LaPierre and Sarah Palin at the National Rifle Association [convention] is what an American Nazi Party rally would sound like if Germany had won the war."
From Hunter's post on the Indianapolis convention (emphasis added):
Sarah Palin speaking to the National Rifle Association sounds like a recipe for good old-fashioned nightmare fuel, and you will be happysad to know she did not disappoint.
"C'mon! Enemies who would utterly annihilate America, they would obviously have information on plots. They carry out jihad. Oh, but you can't offend them. Can't make them feel uncomfortable, not even a smidgen," Palin said on Saturday during a speech at the National Rifle Association's "Stand And Fight" rally. "Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists."
C'mon, she says.
We nearly—and when I say nearly, I mean not that nearly—had a vice president of the United States who would make big public jokes about torturing people. Another one, I mean. A tin pot spokesmodel for the decay of America, the single and precise moron that H.L. Mencken was awaiting.
Wayne LaPierre and Sarah Palin at the National Rifle Association is what an American Nazi Party rally would sound like if Germany had won the war. The flag, the cross, the obsession over the danger posed to the ruling class by violent minorities and the warning that arming yourself to the teeth in order to prevent the demise of the very nation at the hands of those violent minorities, the petty mocking of the rule of law and mocking of the quaint sensibilities of those who would not commit crimes against the nation's enemies. There's nothing Godwin about it, this is what it would look like. Does look like, in certain meeting halls and convention centers...
...Wayne LaPierre warns of the urban youth and their knockout gangs, and the gin and meth version of the vice president of the United States sneers at people not willing to commit human rights crimes against people we suspect might be enemies of the nation, gets waves of applause from the loyal crowd and goes home to cash her check.


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Types of Foods That cause Hemorrhoids
You have observed some soft and painful mounds appearing on the opening of one's anus, this might be an indication of hemorrhoids. Eating particular types of food can increase your risk of having swollen and inflamed veins. Aside from chronic diarrhea or perhaps constipation, aging, genetics, pregnancy, obesity or sitting on the toilet for long periods of time, hemorrhoids is also caused by various types of foods such as sugary, salty, fatty foods and alcoholic beverages.
Sugary Foods
There are several kinds of sugary foods that cause hemorrhoids. Included in this are cakes, candies, sodas, muffins, ice cream, doughnuts as well as cookies. Foods with high sugar content tend to cause constipation, inflamed anal or even rectal veins and also sprained bowel movements.
Salty Foods
Consumption of salty food can also contribute to hemorrhoids development. Meals with high sodium content cannot only elevate your blood pressure but it can also make your own rectal blood vessels to bulge. Some example of salty foods that cause hemorrhoids would be the following: pretzels, salted nuts, canned soups, potato chips and French fries. You have to remember that bulging anal veins are the primary cause of hemorrhoid discomfort which happens during bowel movement or rather sitting for longer periods of time.
Drinking alcoholic beverages can also be another example of foods that triggers hemorrhoids. It increases the risk of developing hemorrhoids by causing dehydration. When dehydration takes place, strained bowel movement as well as bowel irregularity also takes place. You need to understand that alcohol exacerbates the symptoms of hemorrhoids because it dehydrates your body, leaving a little amount for lubrication in the tissues. Without enough liquid, the rectal walls are susceptible to pressure due to the inflamed veins.
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Fatty Foods
Fatty meals such as ham, beef, lamb, fried chicken and sausage consists of large amounts of saturated fats that consequently solidify your stool which eventually leads to constipation. These unhealthy fats increase your risk of having hemorrhoids due to swollen anal and rectal veins that presses your rectal wall. Caffeine.
Caffeine Also Plays a Vital Part When It Comes to the Development of Hemorrhoids
Caffeine will be a form of laxative that irritates the stomach and intestines which results in involuntary bowel movement. This particular phenomenon can cause loose stools or constipation which aggravates the problem. You need to keep in mind that coffee and other foods that contain caffeine contribute to the development of hemorrhoids.
Spicy Foods
There is no specific study that proves the connection of spicy foods in the development of hemorrhoids. On the other hand, there are some people who say that the acid content of spicy foods irritates the tissue around the rectal wall.
- Some of the other foods that cause hemorrhoids include mustard, red pepper, and nuts.
- They are only digested partially in the stomach and when they get to the rectum, irritability takes place in the affected area.
- While these type of foods cause hemorrhoids, you still need to keep in mind that absence of high-fiber meals also cause hemorrhoids.
- Some of the foods that you need to consume regularly include broccoli, wheat, beans, apples, carrot, brown rice, spinach and a lot more.
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(The one that will be share a platform with the Fiat 500X Crossover.)
So far, from the spy pix we've seen around, it looks like a typical square Jeep with round headlights.
Which isn't bad. (although that sounds like the Patriot a lot...)
And it also looks like we won't have to wait to long to see it since it might be shown at the upcoming Geneva Auto Show.


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Poems, memories, old photos, art, favorites,poetry
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Tin Ear
Tin Ear
By Peter Schmitt
We stood at attention as she moved
with a kind of Groucho shuffle
down our line, her trained music
teacher's ear passing by
our ten- and eleven-year-old mouths
open to some song now forgotten.
And as she held her momentary
pause in front of me, I peered
from the corner of my eye
to hers, and knew the truth
I had suspected.
In the following days,
as certain of our peers
disappeared at appointed hours
for the Chorus, something in me
was already closing shop.
Indeed, to this day
I still clam up
for the national anthem
in crowded stadiums, draw
disapproving alumni stares
as I smile the length of school songs,
and even hum and clap
through "Happy Birthday," creating
a diversion—all lest I send
the collective pitch
careening headlong into dissonance.
It's only in the choice acoustics
of shower and sealed car
that I can finally give voice
to that heart deep within me
that is pure, tonally perfect, music.
But when the water stops running
and the radio's off, I can remember
that day in class,
when I knew for the first time
that mine would be a world of words
without melody, where refrain
means do not join,
where I'm ready to sing
in a key no one has ever heard.
Monday, August 15, 2011
The Work
The Work
By Robert Penick
The plumbing is undone
at one end of the house
like my childhood train set
and how the trains never came back.
My father's tools are scattered
through these rooms and I wonder
how long it would take him
to sort things out.
To couple the pipes and
make the equation.
I have outshone my father
in one vital respect:
I screwed this job up
in half the time
he would have needed
to actually complete it.
Somewhere he is shaking his head
and giving me that ancient look,
the one shot from
fathers to sons
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Closed Swimming Pool
Closed Swimming Pool
By Tony Hoagland
There's nothing sadder than an empty swimming pool
with a fence around it,
the deep end no longer deep, the blue paint
knocked off like crust
to show the chalky plaster underneath.
Someone call those experts
at making things completely disappear!
They may have pumped it out but they didn't get
the ghostly vapor trails of shrieking eight year olds
running barefoot on the slick cement-
or the rustling pages of the glamour magazines
in the laps of sunburned mothers.
They drained it dry and then the sky and time
filled it part way up again with rain
that turned into a scuzzy pit
for catching windblown trash and leaves.
It is obscene
to come out on a walk and to find this thing,
to stand there with your fingers poking through chain link
and look into the forsaken pit of it.
I pause there with my friend and we feel
like a couple of animals looking through the fence
at the zoo that we escaped from long ago-
a grey wind ruffling the trash bags in the trees
and a bolted-on black sign disclaiming liability:
meaning childhood is over now;
Even in memory it has been prohibited.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
The Connoisseuse of Slugs
The Connoisseuse of Slugs
By Sharon Olds
When I was a connoisseuse of slugs
I would part the ivy leaves, and look for the
naked jelly of those gold bodies,
translucent strangers glistening along the
stones, slowly, their gelatinous bodies
at my mercy. Made mostly of water, they would shrivel
to nothing if they were sprinkled with salt,
but I was not interested in that. What I liked
was to draw aside the ivy, breathe the
odor of the wall, and stand there in silence
until the slug forgot I was there
and sent its antennae up out of its
head, the glimmering umber horns
rising like telescopes, until finally the
sensitive knobs would pop out the
ends, delicate and intimate. Years later,
when I first saw a naked man,
I gasped with pleasure to see that quiet
mystery reenacted, the slow
elegant being coming out of hiding and
gleaming in the dark air, eager and so
trusting you could weep.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
For the Chipmunk in My Yard
For the Chipmunk in My Yard
By Robert Gibb
I think he knows I'm alive, having come down
The three steps of the back porch
And given me a good once over. All afternoon
He's been moving back and forth,
Gathering odd bits of walnut shells and twigs,
While all about him the great fields tumble
To the blades of the thresher. He's lucky
To be where he is, wild with all that happens.
He's lucky he's not one of the shadows
Living in the blond heart of the wheat.
This autumn when trees bolt, dark with the fires
Of starlight, he'll curl among their roots,
Wanting nothing but the slow burn of matter
On which he fastens like a small, brown flame.
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MILWAUKEE — The case against 22-year-old Hector Acevedo was dismissed on Wednesday, February 15th.
Acevedo faced multiple charges for allegedly attacking his pregnant girlfriend in November 2016. The criminal complaint in the case did not mention how Acevedo received the injuries visible in his mugshot.
On Wednesday, court records indicate an "essential witness" for the prosecution failed to appear in court — and the state indicated it had no alternative theory of prosecution. Therefore, a defense motion to dismiss the case was granted.
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Needs More Love
As despised as Bruce Kalish is as a producer of Power Rangers (not without good reason), I feel with Jungle Fury, he did something right. I believe that a combination of Kalish's appalling record on the show, and Jungle Fury being succeeded by RPM leads to this factor, but anyway.
Jungle Fury's plot deals with a number of characters, and I found each major character interesting in their own way. Casey, as a deconstruction of the Rookie Red Ranger, works well and his development leads into a true Crowning Moment Of Awesome. Lily was probably the least well-defined main (at least to me), but even so she felt like a strong character who stood on par with the other Rangers. While I regret that the show didn't follow up too much on Theo's implied Ascended Fanboy status, he was a good character, albeit slightly egotistic at times. RJ was hands-down my favorite main character of the season, sheerly for his eccentric and quirky nature as a mentor, but also the utter prowess that quirkiness often masked. While Dominic seemed less developed than the other characters, I did find his introduction intriguing, and the character was at the least interesting. Jarrod, though the villain, carried an element of complexity to his character beneath the Demonic Possession of Dai Shi and his initial characterization as an Arrogant Kung Fu Guy, allowing me to take him as a much more interesting villain than the likes of The Master.
The series' musical score is excellent. The opening theme is a great breath of fresh air compared to the nightmare which was Operation Overdrive's, and the BGM was generally very good.
I particularly enjoyed that Dai Shi was not necessarily accepted right away by his former supporters. The Enemy Civil War subplot with Grizzaka added a nice aspect to Dai Shi where he had to struggle to gain the respect of his own forces once again. The episode where Whiger and Casey become (grudging) allies was also interesting to me, showing that although the villains are evil, they can bear similarities to the heroes and work beside them if necessary.
Overall, my feelings towards Jungle Fury are simply that it Needs More Love. It's not as good as the likes of RPM and In Space, but it is superior to Kalish's last two series, and works for his final series.
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It might be the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who this year, but it's fair to say this season has been far from vintage. Half of it a farewell tour for Amy and Rory, the other an undeveloped mystery of who is Clara 'Oswin' Oswald. But Steven Moffat's finale managed to finish off the series with great flourish, as old friends and scary villains appeared, the mystery of Clara was resolved and plenty more questions were left about the Doctor.
The finale wasn't just about the Doctor and his companion, as old friends River, Vastra, Jenny and Strax all feature in this action-packed episode. The Victorian Scooby gang have become fan favourites over their three previous appearances, and here hold a conference call to discuss the ramifications of the Doctor's secret being discovered. Inception-inspired, they are all plunged into a dream state so that they can communicate across time and space.
The awkwardness of Clara and River's first meeting is interrupted by the sinister machinations of the Whisper Men, the mysterious top hat-wearing monsters that like the creature in Pan's Labyrinth are terrifyingly rendered without eyes. Moffat's scripts often misdirect the viewer and explore characters existing between life and death. The moment Jenny says, "I think I've been murdered," is gut-wrenchingly horrific, as the helpless group try and wake up in order to fend off the faceless monsters. In the end the Doctor realises that in order to save his friends he must head to Trenzalore to answer the question that must never be asked - Doctor Who?
From Gallifrey to Trenzalore
Whilst hints have previously been dropped about the Doctor's name, what hasn't revealed before was that Tranzalore is the location of the Doctor's grave. The ominous planet is filled with the dead who we are told have fallen in battle, and is dwarfed by a giant Tardis that the Doctor explains is also dying, and so is losing its ability to control its shape on the inside. Discovering that Dr Simeon and the Great Intelligence are now working with the Whisper Men, after River apparently utters the Doctor's name Simeon steps into the Doctor's time stream in order to wipe the Time Lord from history.
It turned out that the impossible woman was not a trick or a trap as the Doctor guessed, but just an ordinary girl showing extraordinary heroism. With all hope lost as Dr Simeon jumps into the Doctor's time stream to rewrite his personal history, she sacrifices herself to save the Doctor and fragment herself across time and space. It's a finale similar to season one, where Rose looked into the heart of the Tardis, consuming its power and fragmenting the warning sign Bad Wolf for the Doctor to find.
We go one better here as Clara is shown across the lives of various incarnations of the Doctors. It's cheesy to see her interact with the archive footage of previous Doctors, especially William Hartnell as the first Doctor stealing the Tardis from Gallifrey, but in the show's half-centenary it is a great way of literally blending the old with the new.
Whilst I was initially worried that as the impossible woman Clara would merely be a cipher for uncovering the Doctor's past, its satisfying to see that their histories are connected through her own heroic actions and that all this time she has been the woman that saves the Doctor.
The One Who Broke the Promise
As opposed to the woman that kills the Doctor, Professor River Song. The archaeologist/assassin returns this time as the computerised consciousness saved by David Tennant's Doctor in Silence in the Library. Though Alex Kingston is given little to do in the episode, we do get a tearful goodbye and romantic kiss between husband and wife, as the Doctor says he will see her around. Whether that will be in the 50th anniversary special remains to be seen, as otherwise this is the not the ending River Song deserves.
It is a neat ending that wraps up the mystery of Clara, as the Doctor manages to rescue her by entering his own time stream. Not having his name revealed is certainly an anti-climax, but then as the Doctor notes, his title is not just a name but also a promise. As the Doctor his role is to remedy the universe, saving civilians from the evils of the galaxy. But in his time stream it is revealed that this promise was once broken, with John hurt introducing himself as a fallen Doctor.
It's a show-stopping final image that will generate fierce excitement ahead of the blockbuster 50th anniversary special come November. With hints of the Doctor's role in the Time War, as well as religious order who tried to kill the Doctor for being too dangerous, is all of Steven Moffat's tenure a careful construction of this reveal leading up to the special later this year?
Regardless it's great to know that Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman will feature. Smith continues to impress as the 11th incarnation of the Time Lord, and Coleman's bright and determined Clara has really shone in the last couple of episodes. Season seven had a lot of problems. The Christmas break made it feel disjointed, and the lack of two-parters mean that we were deprived of any classic stories. But as an arc that established a new companion and whetted appetites ahead of the 50th anniversary it succeeded on so many levels. If only we could travel in time to November now.
Previous Episodes
Episode 12 Review - Nightmare in Silver
Episode 11 Review - The Crimson Horror
Episode 10 Review - Journey to the Centre of the Tardis
Episode 7 Review - The Rings of Akhaten


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Remnants of the Confederate States of America, such as the Ku Klux Klan, should exist in contemporary society. This is because the KKK is protected under the free speech amendment. They would not exist if some white people did not feel threatened by idea of the dissolution of European heritage. They should be protected such as how black nationalists are protected for their speech.
Not all remnants of the CSA are like the KKK. With regards to the KKK, I despise what they stand for. I think they are motivated by hatred and ignorance. However even members of the KKK have a right to their beliefs. They and other "fringe" groups have the right to exist.
The KKK and Confederate remnants should exist, if only to remind us of our failures as a nation. By forgetting existence of these times would do a complete disservice to our children and future. History, good or bad, needs to be remembered. One platform this can be showcased is through remnants.
Remnants of the Confederacy lost the civil war. Stop waving the flag like it means anything other than treason. It does not represent racism, or the rebel spirit. It represents treason. This treason that was punished over 150 years ago should not have any impact on today's society. For the most part, that is true. Do I think that the KKK has a right to exist? Sure. Do I think they are a waste of a good 501c3 charter? Absolutely.
If it weren't enough that organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan are founded in hateful rhetoric that has no place in modern society, consider the following: such groups are remnants of an enemy nation. The Confederate States of America, many ironically seem not to remember, were literally traitors to the United States.


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I'm not one who wants to waste much time on there so any help is good. If you're trying to launch successful linkbait/viral campaigns, then this tool is also right up your alley. Once you have a decent Twitter following you'll be surprised how much easier it is to snag links. A lot of sites, apps and widgets now a days are arching and indexing retweet'd content. So the more of an influence your account is, the more random links you're going to pick up over time.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Republic FC has released Trevin Caesar by mutual consent of the club and the player.
"We would like to thank Trevin for his service to the club and we wish him well in the next chapter of his career," said Republic FC Head Coach and Technical Director Paul Buckle.
Caesar made 27 USL appearances in his only season with Republic FC, scoring seven goals and recording three assists.
Press Release Courtesy of the Sacramento Republic FC Media Relations


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A New Russian Reality TV Show Will Allow Rape And Murder
A new Russian reality TV show airing this summer will apparently be a real-life "Hunger Games," where contestants are free to murder and rape each other.
Yep, you read that correctly.
The show, called "Game 2: Winter," ALLOWS you to rape and murder other people. In fact, Cosmopolitan reported that the rules of the show say, "Everything is allowed. Fighting, alcohol, murder, rape, smoking, anything."
The show is essentially a survival show. Contestants are pitted against each other while they're all stranded in the Siberian wilderness, with nothing but knives to hunt for food. Premiering July 1, 2017, it will feature 30 contestants all competing for a chance to win the $1.6 million prize.
The only requirements are that the contestants have to be "mentally sane" and older than 18. TBH, it seems a lot more selective than most American reality shows...
So, who's the sicko behind this whole thing? Yevgeny Pyatkovsky, a 35-year-old Russian millionaire.
He explained, "There will be no filming crew: the whole area will be dotted with cameras and each participant will be carrying a portable camera with 7-hour life rechargeable battery."
There's a catch, though. And it's a pretty big one: Contestants have to pay £132,000 (a little under $165,000) to participate.
Yeah, good luck finding a group of "mentally stable" people willing to spend £132,000 for the LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY to fight, drink, smoke, murder and rape.
That being said, some participants will be chosen to participate for free via an online poll.
Even though the whole "everything is allowed" thing does leave room for the risk of you, um, idk, being raped, apparently, the contestants are actually more likely freeze to death than anything else.
If you do decide to murder or rape someone, the show still holds the contestants accountable to the Russian law and warns that police will get involved. So, silver lining...?
Citations: This Russian reality show is a real-life Hunger Games (Cosmopolitan)


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With a deal struck between Paramount Pictures, which produced the first four Indiana Jones movies, and Walt Disney Pictures, which owns Lucasfilm and accordingly owns part of the Indiana Jones franchise , to produce a new Indiana Jones movie, hopes are running high for a great movie. At the same time, dread is filling the hearts of many Indy fans who love the world of Indiana Jones too much to see it compromised. There are many reasons to hope for the best, but there are also reasons to fear.
Five Reasons Why Indy Fans Should Look Forward to Indy V:
The Indy Franchise as Owned by Disney
This is actually a good thing, and it is possibly a very good thing. Look at how well Disney has done with the Marvel universe. Disney has hired writers and directors who have kept the interconnecting storylines of the Marvel characters faithful and clear with an appeal to old-school Marvel fans and newbies alike. If Disney handles Indy the same way, the results could be terrific.
New Writers for a New Movie
While many of the individual writers involved with "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" have done great work elsewhere, it is pretty clear that the alien skulls story was a non-starter. Rumors that George Lucas passed on a stellar script by Frank Darabont, who wrote "The Shawshank Redemption," to accept instead the confusing story that became Indy IV only affirm that the concept of putting the franchise in new hands is for the best.
The Franchise Deserves to End on a Good Note
If "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" had been the final Indy movie, fans could have rewatched it over and over with complete satisfaction. To end such a beloved series on the sour note of "Crystal Skull," however, is degrading to the fans and to Indy himself. He deserves better, the fans deserve better, and director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas, who brought the first three wonderful Indy films to the big screen, deserve better.
Another Chance to Hear the Iconic Theme Music in the Theater
The Indiana Jones theme music written by John Williams is one of the best and most instantly recognizable movie themes of all time. Williams was nominated for Academy Awards for his scores for the first three Indy movies for good reasons. The stirring theme is so thrilling that it is worth it for Disney to spend the money on Indy V just to give fans the chance to hear that wonderful music blast them into another adventure again.
Another Indy Movie Means Another Harrison Ford Movie
Few movie stars hold a place in fans' hearts the way Harrison Ford does. Not only is he Indiana Jones, he is also Han Solo in the "Star Wars" movies and Jack Ryan in the early Jack Ryan movies. A beloved icon, he too deserves a chance to make up for the misfire that was "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," and his fans deserve a chance to see him get it right.
Five Reasons to Fear Indy V:
Harrison Ford's Age
Harrison Ford is a great actor who has portrayed living legends onscreen, but he is also 71 years old with a bad back. He cannot do any of Indy's stunts any longer, and it might just be painful to watch him try.
Uncertain Villains
Classic Indy gave us the best villains in history: the Nazis. When Indy IV replaced power-hungry, goose-stepping Nazis with ambiguous Russians, the whole franchise sagged. The Indiana Jones franchise is steeped in its love of mythology and ancient artifacts, and so were the Nazis. However, the Russians did not care about them at all. So who can take the place of the Nazis in Indy V? There are no clear candidates nearly as exciting as the villains the franchise has already left behind.
Nuked Refrigerators and Digital Monkeys
Indy IV jumped the shark the moment Harrison Ford climbed into a refrigerator to survive a close-range atomic blast. In fact, in many circles, the phrase "nuked the fridge" replaced the older phrase "jumped the shark." Another eye-rolling moment from Indy IV involves Shia LeBeouf swinging through the trees with a tribe of digital monkeys. Two painfully ridiculous scenes in a movie is too many, especially for an Indiana Jones film, and the prospect of more ridiculous scenes in a subsequent movie is too much for many fans to bear.
Shia LeBeouf
"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" ended with a clear indication that Indy was passing the hat and the whip on to his son, played by Shia LeBeouf. However, audiences have since made it clear that they have little to no interest in seeing more of LeBeouf, especially after his recent history of arrests, altercations and plagiarism accusations. It seems unlikely that any Indy fans would cheer an Indiana Jones V movie that starred LeBeouf.
Validation of Indy IV
So many fans saw "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" as a betrayal of their deep love of the Indiana Jones character and franchise. Just as many "Star Wars" fans were disappointed by the three prequel movies, it is possible that another Indiana Jones movie could follow the same path to dismay and regret. Possibly, it would be better to just ignore Indy IV and accept that the first three Indiana Jones movies are as good as it gets.
Should there be another Indiana Jones movie? It would seem it all depends on the decisions the filmmakers have to make. If they choose wisely regarding writing and casting, then the next Indy movie could be the best yet, or it could confirm that everything fans fear in the wake of Indy IV is true.
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Every Saturday we round-up the week in mobile applications bringing you news of the biggest new releases across all major platforms and a host of reviews from T3's App Chart. Let's look back at the biggest news from the last few months...
PlayStation app to Android and iPhone
There's been plenty of word that the campfire that Sony is plotting a PlayStation Android phone, but in the meantime, we've been greeted with an official app for Android and iPhone. There's no gaming to be had hear, but you can keep track on your trophies and get the latest PS3 and PSP news direct from the source.
Angry Birds rules the roost
What a year for the guys at Rovio! After a hugely successful iPhone launch, it followed up with Android, iPad and Nokia to become the top paid app in the world, with over 50 million downloads. In 2011, there's talk of an animated movie and plush toys. Our favourite has to be the festively-themed Angry Birds Seasons which opened up a new level for each day of Advent.
Also check out the Angry Birds Peace Summit:
Google Maps Navigation wins big at T3 Awards
It wasn't the biggest surprise in the world, but the free Android turn-by-turn sat nav deservedly took the inaugural App of the Year gong at the T3 Gadget Awards in October, beating out Foursquare, Layar and Spotify
Falcon battle in your own backyard
Hands up who hasn't dreamed of shooting down TIE Fighters from the Millennium Falcon? Well now you can, with a little more reality than your average sim. Star Wars Arcade: Falcon Gunner uses the iPhone's camera lens to stage the battlefield meaning the skyline of your hometown or the comfort of your living room.
Angry Birds HD
The iPhone game causing a stir around the world has gone big, gone HD, gone iPad.
T3 App Chart | Top 10 iPad Apps | Angry Birds HD Review
T3 iPad Edition hits the App Store
The launch of the iPad Edition has been a huge event for us at T3, giving a whole new lease of life to your favourite gadget magazine, with a host of interactive features and videos, bringing your favourite tech to life like never before. Download the January issue from the App Store today.
FIFA 11 scores on the iPhone
Once again EA's top sports franchise comes out with a winner on the iPhone. FIFA has once again asserted its dominance over the footy game scene on a new plaftform. Check out our FIFA 11 review for iPhone
Sonic 4 spins its way onto the iPhone
It has been a whopping 16 years in coming, but Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I has arrived on the Apple iPhone and we're happy to reveal that it's a must-have app for fans of the classic series. Read our Sonic 4 for iPhone review
Windows 7 arrives with Xbox Live games
Microsoft's new mobile OS has already delivered on its promise to bring a host of top games to the platform, via the Xbox Live portal. Earthworm Jim, old classic Monopoly and RPG The Harvest are all worth a download if you're handset is rocking the world's newest OS.
Google Translate lifts the Android Market
The Android Market has been steadily improving throughout the back end of 2010, but Google's own stable of apps remain the most impressive. None more so than Google Translate, which can translate text and speak it back through your handset. It means you'll no longer go to Spain, speaking slowly and expecting people to understand. Well worth our coveted five star award.
Angry Birds HD rules on iPad
One of the first five star games for the iPhone, and it comes in the form of those ill-tempered winged creatures. Angry Brds HD for iPad translates gloriously from the iPhone and looks beautiful on the iPad's 9.7-inch screen. Definitely worth a punt.
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|Generalized finite element methods for three-dimensional crack growth simulations
|Pereira, Jeronymo P.
|Director of Research:
|Duarte, C. Armando
|Doctoral Committee Chair(s):
|Duarte, C. Armando
|Doctoral Committee Member(s):
|Song, Junho; Geubelle, Philippe H.; Heath, Michael T.; Eason, Thomas G., III
|Department / Program:
|Civil & Environmental Eng
|Civil Engineering
|Degree Granting Institution:
|University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
|computational fracture mechanics
partition of unity methods
Generalized Finite Element Method (GFEM)
global-local Finite Element Method (FEM)
crack propagation
3D fracture
|Three-dimensional (3-D) crack growth analysis is crucial for the assessment of structures such as aircrafts, rockets, engines and pressure vessels, which are subjected to extreme loading conditions. The analysis of 3-D arbitrary crack growth using the standard Finite Element Method (FEM) encounters several difficulties. The singularities at crack fronts require strongly refined finite element meshes that must fit the discontinuity surfaces while keeping the aspect ratio of the elements within acceptable bounds. Fully automatic generation of meshes in complex 3-D geometries satisfying these requirements is a daunting task. Partition-of-unity methods, such as the Generalized FEM (GFEM), are promising candidates to surmount the shortcomings of the standard FEM in crack growth simulations. These methods allow the representation of discontinuities and singularities in the solution via geometrical descriptions of crack surfaces, that are independent of the volume mesh, coupled with suitable enrichment functions. As a result, volume meshes need not fit crack surfaces. This work proposes an hp-version of the GFEM (hp-GFEM) for crack growth simulations. This method provides enough flexibility to build high-order discretizations for crack growth simulations. At each crack growth step, high-order approximations on locally refined meshes are automatically created in complex 3-D domains while preserving the aspect ratio of elements, regardless of crack geometry. The hp-GFEM uses explicit surface meshes composed of triangles to represent non-planar 3-D crack surfaces. By design, the proposed methodology allows the crack surface to be arbitrarily located within the GFEM mesh. To track the crack surface evolution, the proposed methodology considers an extension of the Face Offsetting Method (FOM). Based on the hp-GFEM solution, the FOM provides geometrically feasible crack front descriptions by updating the vertex positions and checking for self-intersections of the edges. The hp-GFEM with FOM allows the simulation of arbitrary crack growth independent of the volume mesh. Numerical simulations using the hp-GFEM coupled with the FOM are corroborated by experimental data and experimental observations. As an alternative to large-scale crack growth simulations, this work combines the proposed hp-GFEM with the generalized finite element method with global-local enrichment functions (GFEMgl). The proposed method allows crack growth simulations with arbitrary path in industrial level complexity problems while keeping the global mesh unchanged. Furthermore, this method allows crack growth simulations without solving the entire problem from scratch at each crack growth step. The GFEMgl for crack growth explores solutions from previous crack growth steps, hierarchical property of the enrichment functions as well as static condensation of the global-local degrees of freedom to expedite the solution process. Numerical examples demonstrate the robustness, efficiency and accuracy of the proposed GFEMgl for crack growth simulations.
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The Visitor Center is very nice. It is a short walk down to the fort or you can take the jitney.
|Plaque About Union of NW and HBC Posts
|Visitor Center
|Overview Picture of Fort Today
|Woodcarving in Visitor Center
|Lake at Visitor Center
Fort William today is a reconstructed fur trade post as it existed in 1815. This site opened in 1973. When touring, you feel as if you have stepped back in history during the fur trading of the Northwest Fur Trade and Hudson Bay Company. The fort sits on the Kaministiquia River in Thunder Bay featuring 57 heritage and modern buildings on 250 acres offering a variety of programs including overnight experiences, education programs, artisan workshops and much more. The original post was located several kilometers downstream.
|Welcome Sign
|Native Encampment
|Main Gate
|Wintering House and Corn Store
|Dining Room
|Residence Bedroom of Dr John McLoughlin and Wife
|Stone Store for Liquor and Provisions
|Indian Shop(local Ojibwa traded furs for provisions)
|Indian Shop
|Powder Magazine
|Powder Magazine
|Fur Store
|Great Hall
|Great Hall
|Canoe Sheds
|Canoe Shed(Canoes are still built here)
|Canoe Being Built
|Tailor Shop
|Carpenter Shop
|Farm Goats
|Here's Looking at You
|Shearing the Sheep
|Loving the Cute Goat
|Reanactment of Voyager Trial
Originally established in 1803 as Fort Kaministiquia, it was renamed Fort William in 1807. The trade goods came from Montreal via the Voyagers. The furs were packaged and compressed into90 pound bundles and returned to Montreal.
The post continued to operate until the change of fashion and depletion of fur animals until the 1870's. The arrival of the railroads brought an end to the Voyager system and was officially closed in 1883. The site was obliterated by the CPR in the 1890's. The powder magazine was the last of the buildings to be destroyed in 1902.
I urge you to visit if in the Thunder Bay area.


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Men's Swimwear Inspired by Our Top Vacation Spots
From Miami to Palm Springs, discover the freshest suits of the season.
Good news: packing for vacation just got easier. When selecting swimwear for your summer getaway, keep your destination in mind. Some locations evoke vibrant colors and bold prints, while others call for a relaxed, subtle aesthetic. We've broken down some of our favorite destinations—and the bathing suits to match.
Whether or not you're packing a surfboard this summer, an on-point island look can be achieved with bold stripes and fun, Hawaii-inspired motifs. Capture your carefree tropical style sense with expertly mixed prints in pop colors.
It's all about fun on the white sands of South Beach… and that includes your swimwear. Pass on subtle and go for a bold statement. We're digging '90s-inspired prints with graphic appeal, saturated color schemes, and punchy statements in neon hues.
Martha's Vineyard
Pack preppy if you're headed for New England, the epicenter of Americana. East Coast vacation style is all about gingham, stripes, and a classic color scheme. When in doubt, ask yourself: are these swim trunks made for lounging on the boat all afternoon?
Palm Springs
Aiming for a retro California vibe? West Coast cool translates to fresh surfer stripes in a distinctly resort-ready color palette (and pink flamingos, too). Add some whimsical prints to the mix and you'll be primed for the Instagram-ready style of Palm Springs.


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If you are switching from a party to Republican, it will be effective 90 days later.
New voters or a switch from unaffiliated becomes active when the "paperwork" is processed.
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The second concert of the 2013-14 Kent State University New Music Series, with special guest artist Yang Jin, pipa, and faculty guest artist Yu Jin, viola, will be presented at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Carl F.W. Ludwig Recital Hall on the KSU campus. Admission will be free.
Guest artist Yang Jin will perform Dian ("The Points -- The Spirit of Calligraphy") for solo pipa by Chen Yi. Violist Yu Jin will perform Cadenza for solo viola by Krzysztof Penderecki, and she will also join the KSU New Music Ensemble for a performance of "The Viola in My Life" by Morton Feldman.
The program will feature the world premiere of KSU faculty composer Anthony Donofrio's "Piano Quartet," performed by violinist Samuel Huang, violist Haojian Wang, cellist Jeff Millen, and pianist Sadie Fellows, conducted by the composer.
Tubist Josh Davis will perform Frank Wiley's "Caverns" for solo tuba. This performance will be presented in memory of Ron Bishop, Principal Tuba of the Cleveland Orchestra, for whom Wiley composed "Caverns," and who presented numerous performances of it over the years.
The program will include "The Unreasoning Mask" by Cleveland composer Larry Baker, performed by flutist Matthew Watkins, clarinetist Elizabeth Franks, and marimbist Heather Johnson.
Hanna Jencius will sing Morton Feldman's "Only" for solo mezzo-soprano. The New Music Ensemble will perform "Trope" by Marilyn Shrude, faculty composer at Bowling Green State University. The concert will close with the New Music Ensemble's performance of "Music in Similar Motion" by Phillip Glass.


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Neighbor builds 6ft wall half an inch from family's windows to stop them 'trespassing' on his land by opening them.
The view from their converted barn should have been of glorious rolling countryside.
But when Lee Goddard and his family looked out of their windows one morning they found themselves face to face with a six-foot wall.
It had been hastily built by neighbor Elhamy Shaqer, who claimed his land extended right up to the barn wall and thus, by opening their windows, they were trespassing.
He built the wall half an inch away from the back of the one-storey barn, blocking all the light and making it impossible to open the windows more than a chink.
Matters came to a head last Thursday when Mr. Goddard, a builder who had turned the barn into a three-bedroom home, moved in with Diane Wilson and their two sons, Harvey, five, and Charlie, two.
Mr. Goddard, 35, decided to take the wall down as no light was getting in to the three bedrooms.
But he was shocked when Mr. Shaqer's wife Andrea called the police and he was threatened with arrest for breaching the peace if he carried on.
They intend to seek a court order preventing the wall being damaged any further and demand costs for the rebuilding part of it.


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(ok Max is too young to want anything but this is something cute that id want for him in the future) there should always be time to get messy and let imagination run free! im really digging the stamp sets from Yellow Owl Workshop sold at Raspberrykids. Especially the Beach and Circus set.
as Max is our first baby (and grandchild), my family and i are all about picture taking and documentation. Max wont be this small forever! to document how the little man is growing physically, we sought out a keepsake growth chart that was not only sturdy, but hung on the wall (as opposed to the wall decals). im really digging these growth charts by EEBOO.
For the loved one of various ages (newborn to adult), im liking these padraig slippers.
based in North Vancouver, this independently owned and operated company make the perfect slippers for the cold season. they're a must to keep your feet warm indoors! im not sure how they'll stand up to the outdoors though if you live anywhere outside of west coast Canada as we have quite mild winters! nice array of colours and sizes, nice leather soles therefore no static against carpet! check out their store finder!
I love Dr. Seuss' Oh the Place's You'll Go!


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12 egg whites
3 cups part skim ricotta
1 pound ground hot Italian chicken sausage, cooked
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
12 sun dried tomato halves (32 grams), chopped
Non-stick olive oil spray
Preheat oven to 350. Spray 6 2 cup ramekins (oven safe bowls) with non-stick spray.
In a large bowl combine egg whites and ricotta. Whisk until it becomes a smooth mixture. Add salt, pepper and tomatoes. Stir to combine. Add sausage, stir.
Divide mixture into ramekins evenly (about 1 cup in each).
Place ramekins on a baking sheet and bake for 35-45 minutes. Until golden brown on top and frittata has risen. Frittata will double in size while baking. Once cool it will reduce back down to about the same size. Remove from oven, garnish with fresh herbs and serve.
Recipe printed from http://TheSlowRoastedItalian.com/
Recipe printed from http://TheSlowRoastedItalian.com/
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