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We've all heard stories of one person's crusade becoming a full-blown war, and it looks like the gay and lesbian community has found their war against Microsoft. Last week, news emerged of a gamer named Teresa who frequented Xbox Live. Teresa was allegedly banned from the service because she identified as a lesbian in her profile. Needless to say, she wasn't happy about this and took the ban public, no doubt with little knowledge that the entire thing would force Microsoft into a very embarrassing and public apology over its woeful Xbox Live Policy.
The issue is that Microsoft claims its policy is there to prevent homophobic slurs on XBL, a sort of gaming "don't ask, don't tell." MS does state it's against "ALL types of orientation," because Microsoft doesn't want anyone outlining their sexual preferences on Live. The issue, however, is that there is a huge problem with context while using text analysis technology to pick up on this (which is allegedly what MS uses), and many words are simply not being picked up by the system.
In a brief investigation carried out by LesbianGamers.com, the following gamer tags were shown to be in existence (at some point): IamStraight, hetero, HeteroLifeMates, poofterh8r, Gaybaishnig, Lesbiankilr, Queerkillah and Dyksmasher. Clearly the issue with these Gamer tags isn't just that they refer to sexual preference, but that they actively incite hate against particular groups. It is only logical then that Microsoft immediately act on this pitiful system to ensure that context is considered when it comes to Gamer tags.
The backlash from not only the LGBT community but also the general gaming community has been quite astounding. Gaming websites and groups have banded together to ask what can be done in this situation and how Microsoft can improve its policies. There is no doubt Microsoft realizes it has a problem and the company has to act on it, and for this we applaud them, but surely they need to consider this one of their priorities at the moment in order to regain confidence in the LGBT market.
This issue has been the most widely discussed gaming point of the week. People want to know what Microsoft intends to do about this, and people want to provide ways to help. An open letter spearheaded by Lesbian Gamers and co-signed and written by a number of other gaming sites will be forwarded to Microsoft this week. Let's hope there are no more cases like Teresa's in their future, and we can all work together to ensure safe spaces for LGBT individuals on Xbox Live.
Now your gaming news tidbits for the last week or so.
Nintendo unveiled a new Wii controller called the "Pro." This is essentially the classic controller with additional shoulder buttons and legs, kind of like the GameCube controller. It's only available in Japan.
"Lost Planet 2" will feature four-player co-op, because playing with three other people is more fun. Here's hoping the sequel is better than the original.
The "Mass Effect 2" teaser trailer released, and we're a little worried about our beloved commander Shepard.
The "Aliens RPG" was allegedly shelved, which sucks for "Aliens" fans and RPG fans alike.
"Rockband 2" finally got a Wii and PS3 release date in the UK. It will be out on PlayStation 3 on March 27 and Nintendo Wii on April 24.
Kristen Kreuk, the Smallville actor who plays video game hero Chun-Li in the upcoming "Streetfighter" movie, admits to having played "Street Fighter" only once. No biggy — it's not like Angelina Jolie played "Tomb Raider" loads, and she did an OK job.
The Lesbian Gamers main review machine got "The Red Ring of Death" last week, and we're following its exploits at the site, because it's nice to turn a tragic event into something informative.
Happy Gaming — assuming you're not a lesbian, looking for other lesbian gamers and thinking it's a good idea to add that to your Xbox Live profile.

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The North Toronto Community Band is a concert band of about 50 amateur musicians of all ages who gather on Monday nights from September to May to practice and perform together. We play a wide variety of music - arrangements of show tunes, film music, classical transcriptions, big band jazz, marches and solo features, as well as some original works for concert band.
The Band performs four or five concerts per year: a couple a local retirement residences, a Christmas concert or two, and our big gala concert every Spring.


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Thursday, April 16, 2015
The 100 by Kass Morgan
In the future, humans live in city-like spaceships orbiting far above Earth's toxic atmosphere. No one knows when, or even if, the long-abandoned planet will be habitable again. But faced with dwindling resources and a growing populace, government leaders know they must reclaim their homeland... before it's too late.
Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents are being sent on a high-stakes mission to recolonize Earth. After a brutal crash landing, the teens arrive on a savagely beautiful planet they've only seen from space. Confronting the dangers of this rugged new world, they struggle to form a tentative community. But they're haunted by their past and uncertain about the future. To survive, they must learn to trust - and even love - again.
(Synopsis taken from Goodreads).
My Thoughts:
I have had The 100 sitting on my Kindle for a long time. Every time I try to pick it up, I end up getting distracted and having to put down in favor of another book. One of my reading goals for myself for 2015 was to read some of the review books I had gotten from NetGalley that I haven't read to get caught up on my review tbr. I decided to try The 100 because I heard how popular the show is, but I wanted to read the book before I watched the tv show. I'm so glad I did. I loved the book, but I do not like the adaptation that the tv show takes at all.
The 100 made me realize how much I love reading sci-fi again. It had been so long since I read any sci-fi that I had completely forgotten. The book had such an in-depth, interesting world building and plot. The plot was unlike anything I have ever read before. I was turning pages late into the night, trying to figure out what was going to happen next, and how the 100 were going to overcome the adversities that were placed upon them (trying to be vague so I don't spoil anything). I ended up staying awake until three a.m. to finish it when I had to be up at six a.m. for class. I don't regret this decision at all.
At first, I was a little worried whether I would like the book or not because it had several different characters points of view. Usually, I hate it when books do that. However, The 100 did it in a way that worked, and helped to enhance the story. The reader would pick up on things from one character's point of view that would come into play later on in the story. It made reading the book even more fun.
I tried to watch the first episode of the tv show, and I wasn't a big fan. It didn't seem like it was a very faithful adaptation to the book. The only thing that remained the same were most of the characters names, and the very bare bones of the plot. If you have watched more of the tv show, and it becomes more faithful to the book, please comment below and let me know. All in all, I loved the book. I can't wait to dive into the next one, especially after that cliffhanger ending.
I give The 100: 5/5.
Want to know more about the author?
Website: http://alloyentertainment.com/authors/kass-morgan/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kassmorganbooks
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6922454.Kass_Morgan
I received this book from the publisher, via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review. I was in no way compensated for this review.
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Animated gifs and animations of Jaguar XJR-15 to share on social networks, download or send to other phones for Whatsapp, Line or Skype. Jaguar Sport is a subsidiary of British automaker Jaguar and Tom Walkinshaw Racing. Together, they produced the Le Mans winner Jaguar XJR-9, and then produced a street-legal car based on it, which was the XJR-15. It is widely recognized for being the World's first fully carbon-fibre road-car. It was a mid-engine, rear-wheel drive sports car powered by a 450hp 6L V12 engine. The XJR-15 was derived from the Le Mans winning XJR-9 racing car, sharing many component parts.


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Jagdish Bansode is helping prepare Time Test for the Coral-Eclipse
By Jagdish Bansode 4:06PM 30 JUN 2016
To celebrate Stable Staff Week, groom Jagdish Bansode writes a daily diary in the lead-up to Saturday's Coral-Eclipse as he helps prepare Time Test
Groom Jagdish Bansode
Age 38
Working at Roger Charlton's 8 years
Favourite memory Al Kazeem winning the Prince of Wales's Stakes
I LOOKED after Al Kazeem throughout his whole career at Beckhampton and he won four Group 1 races for me. He's retired to stud again but I'm now lucky enough to look after Time Test, who I hope can win his first Group 1 in the Coral-Eclipse on Saturday.
I started work at 6.30am today and my first task was to check all was well with Time Test and that he had eaten his breakfast. Happily he had finished it all.
I then looked at the riding-out board to see which horses were going out first lot and which horses needed to be put on the walker. Time Test was going on the walker, so I put him on there, along with four other horses, for half an hour while I mucked out their boxes.
At 7am I groomed and tacked up Time Test so head lad Steve Raymont, his regular work-rider, could give him a routine canter. I always want to get a full debrief after work and was glad to hear Steve was very happy with the horse.
After exercise I washed Time Test and took him for a pick of grass, which is something he loves. Once he'd safely returned to his stable I checked all the horses had hay and fed them.
I finish work at midday and then return at 4pm, when I look after my three horses. I hope the weather is nice so I can take them out for another pick of grass.


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With a relentless push towards automation in manufacturing processes, it is safe to say that Industry 4.0 or the Fourth Industrial Revolution has arrived. Industry 4.0 has roped in The Internet of Things (IoT) to drive towards the idea of a smart factory. It is a day and age where an ongoing production process involves churning out products with complex BOMs/processes coupled with the dynamic material, supply, and schedule changes. …Read More
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Butterfly's Shadow could be described as a steady accumulation of late-realised truths, which leave the protagonists with the painful sense of arriving at knowledge too late. The novel, which takes its inspiration from Puccini's famous 1904 opera Madame Butterfly, is predominantly the story of Joey, the eponymous heroine's child. In the opera, his mother Cho-Cho gives up her religion and family to marry an American navel officer, Ben Pinkerton, who leaves her shortly afterwards, unaware she is pregnant with his son. Ben returns, but realises too late that he still loves Cho-Cho.
In Langley's novel, Joey is torn between two cultures, growing up in America with faded memories of Nagasaki and the Japan of his early childhood. Not able to understand until much later why his mother relinquished him to her lover Ben Pinkerton and his American bride Nancy, Joey struggles to reconcile the disparate elements of his identity, feeling acutely that 'he has more than one past to remember'.
Ben, for whom Cho-Cho is 'a leftover from a regretted past,' never quite learns to relinquish his regrets and forge a meaningful relationship with his son. Whilst he experiences a growing awareness of the fragility of life and how often we all experience loss, he never quite grasps its importance. In a scene that finds him travelling in cramped conditions during the Great Depression, Ben wonders to himself if animals also felt pain, but he concludes in typical fashion that 'these thoughts had not occurred to him before and seemed unhelpful now'. Ingrained in him is too strong a sense of denial. Ben's transgressions set off a chain of others, both in America and Japan, and the novel pays close attention to how we atone for our mistakes. Joey's stepmother Nancy, knowing that she is responsible for ensuring that Joey grows up without his biological mother, feels most keenly the need for atonement; her trajectory, with its inevitable pain and guilt, is sensitively observed.
Langley's prose throughout is lyrical but never overdone, something that really comes across in her portrait of Joey and his attempts at forging an identity that encompasses both his American and Japanese selves. His Japanese past, so long suppressed, is violently brought back into focus after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent animosity towards Japanese-American citizens. Langley describes this reawakening in Joey in painful terms: 'Somewhere a wheel is turned and with infinite slowness he is flayed, the flesh gradually stripped from his body leaving him peeled of his American sense of self'. This reforming of his identity is antagonised and violent – and yet necessary.
Butterfly's Shadow is almost worth reading for the final descriptive passage alone. It is an image that sums up the spirit and wisdom of the novel, the sense of not reaching certain truths until it is often too late. For its characters, this is the source of great heartbreak but also self-knowledge. That this knowledge is so tied to reconfiguring the past gives the novel its poignancy, and leads to Joey's lament that 'wisdom is an ageing process'. We are always changed by what we learn.


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New Orleans is now home to Americas Premier Taxi Company, after Simon Garber launched the same service in Chicago and saw if fly to success he realized that citizens in others cities and states across America deserve to have the same luxury, comfort and reliability each and every time they step from the sidewalk into a taxi. For the New Orleans residents and visitors this has now become a reality that can be seen time after time. The company pride themselves on perfection, and no matter what time of day you book your cab you will see this perfect vision in action.
Equipping the latest model of vehicles with the latest technology and also the same up to date technology being use by the dedicated staff in the control room allows New Orleans Carriage Cab Company to run a more than efficient service all year round. Drivers and staff alike have undergone intensive training and testing to be sure they are up to the standard that you can expect, and you deserve when you ride in a New Orleans Carriage Cab taxi.
With the ability to use Smartcard payment, book online and the use of the drivers GPS this really is a modern day taxi company that is needed for a modern day city. Even business trips become pleasure trips with the leather-lined cars, the additional legroom, the friendliness and professionalism of the driver and the reality that your taxi will collect you on time and get you where you need to be when you need to be there. You haven't experienced a true American taxi cab until you have journeyed in a New Orleans Carriage Cab company, and once you have you will do all you can to build it into part of your daily routine.


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With graduation season coming up, I started thinking about my own graduation back in 2014.
One of the of the hardest parts about graduation that I remember was the pressure to make the "right" decisions heading into post-graduation life and the "real world." Should I travel first? Should I teach English in Japan? Should I play it safe and get a job in Portland? Am I even going to be able to get a job? It was hard to know what the right decisions were, and I watched many of my friends wrestle with the same questions and uncertainty about the next big life step.
Now that I am almost three years into a crazy post-college path, I wanted to share some advice that I have found helpful when making big life decisions. Hopefully, whether you are planning to head abroad after college or still formulating a plan, a few of the quotes below will help provide a little boost of wisdom to your decision making process.
On Finding Work/Life Balance
The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has, and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another.
—The Conquest of Happiness, Bertrand Russell
Learning how to diversify your interests after college can be a bit of a challenge. In college, you are constantly surrounded by people your age, there is an endless schedule of social events, and there is a club for every interest. Though college life is centered around the courses you are taking, most people are involved in a variety of groups, sports, clubs or jobs which help balance the weight of courses.
The difficulty with transitioning into post-college life is that in the absence of all the extra-curricular opportunities that college provides, it is very easy to let life become one dimensional, centered around your job. Life can become an endless cycle of waking up last minute, going to work, coming home (or going to happy hour), eating dinner, watching Netflix, and sleeping.
Not only does this schedule not offer a true chance to step away from work and refresh your mind by engaging in other interests, it makes your work your only indicator for how life is going. If work is going well, than life is going well. But if work is going poorly, then so is your life.
Using your job as a life barometer is risky because there is only so much of a job you can control. Mean co-workers, unreasonable bosses, and office politics are all independent of you. Allowing your job to decide how satisfied you are with life places your satisfaction with life outside your immediate control.
That is why Bertrand Russell suggests diversifying your interest. Developing hobbies or passions outside of work not only provides a more rich daily experience, they also provide counterweights to your work life. If work is going poorly, but your volunteer work or band is doing well, you can find solace in that.
With a diverse set of interests, the significance of each individual part of your life is diminished and balanced with the others, and the greater the chance something in your life is going well at any one time. Among all the other stresses of post-graduation life, having multiple interests and passions leaves something to always look forward, a light at the end of the tunnel to take comfort in and satisfaction from.
On the Opinion of Others
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
—The Conquest of Happiness, Bertrand Russell
People lose sight of the fact that their life is their life. As you begin to think about what your next step out of college should be, it is easy to start trying to balance what you want for your future with what your parents want for you and what your friends are doing and to start comparing if you are as "successful" as your classmates, or living up to other people's expectations.
Weighing the desires of your parents and the perception of your friends equally with your own goals and aspirations is a problem for a simple reason: your parents and friends don't have to live your life. You do.
Your parents or friends can say you should do this or you should want that, but they don't have to live with the repercussions of those decisions. It is easy to say you should get a Masters degree when you aren't the one doing the studying. It is easy for your friends to say you should travel poor for two months in Asia when they don't have to worry about finding you a job afterwards. Listening to advice from others is fine and well, but you have to drive this car everyday, so you better make sure you like it.
And the truth is, no one really cares what you are doing anyway. Imagine you have some amazingly lucrative job like working at Goldman Sachs. Who cares? Your parents don't care, they love you irrespective of your job. Your friends will think it's cool for like 10 minutes and then you will be back to being the same person to them that you were before. Whose opinion is there to be so worried about? You are the one who is going to be working 80 hour work weeks, so you better be sure that is the life you want.
Once I started thinking of life in this way, I found it so liberating. Isn't it freeing to realize that, to any rationale extent, no one is paying attention to what you are doing? Whether you are a Regional Manager or your startup is doing well or you are teaching 8th grade History, no one is really paying attention. They have their own bills to pay, they want to lose weight, they have marital problems, or whatever it may be. And that leaves you to do with your life what you please.
That is why it is important around graduation to really consider what job or career path or life you want for yourself. You will never be as happy following a path of crumbs laid by someone else as you will be forging your own way. Don't fall victim to the "unnecessary tyranny," of others; you have to live with the life you chose for yourself in a way no one else does, and that means your opinion should weigh far heavier than the opinion of others.
On the Power of Perspective
It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse . As Epictetus says, 'Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things'.
—Wisdom of Life, Arthur Schopenhauer
I find this quote reassuring to think about, even if achieving the actual mindset is difficult. Schopenhauer explains that life's events come at us with no objective value or meaning; they only carry the weight that we assign to them. It is up to us to decide what level of energy, emotion, and value to place on any given event.
This means, for one person, not getting their dream job is a crushing blow, but for another, it is simply seen as a challenge to overcome, or the opening of other doors of possibility. A breakup is either a heartbreaking event, or a moment to reflect and be hopeful about what the future has in store. Every event has only the amount of value and significance that we assign it.
If you are conscious of this power you have over your perception of events, you can begin to live with the mindset of wanting to gain new experiences rather than with the hope to simply avoid failure. If you perceive failures and struggles as necessary learning experiences on the path to future success, and you see success as success, there is nothing to fear. And that can be powerful.
Having this mindset allows for fearless exploration. You can say "yes" to opportunities you may have otherwise declined because you are not hampered by fear of failure, and instead motivated by the potential learning experiences an opportunity may provide. Though far from perfect, I have tried to implement this in my own life, and it has lead to more interesting experiences and opportunities than I would have ever imagined for myself.
On Finding Solitude
For the more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people — the less, indeed, other people can be to him.
—Wisdom of Life, Arthur Schopenhauer
There will be many times after college where you will find yourself alone, especially if your first job is in a new city or abroad. The idea of being alone can be a terrifying prospect, especially for a recent graduate who just finished four years surrounded by friends. It is the reason many people turn down otherwise incredible opportunities; being far from the people they care about is too high a price to pay, even if the opportunity is everything they could have wished for.
Schopenhauer's solution is to empower yourself with a sense of solitude in the absence of people. This doesn't mean not valuing others, it just means that you are able to reach a place of contentedness with yourself. It provides the peace of mind that no matter the situation, you can find satisfaction in life because your source of satisfaction is internal.
Experiencing solitude and manufacturing feelings of satisfaction internally provides an incredible sense of independence. You can follow your whims wherever they take you without the fear of loneliness and your happiness is no longer subject to others people's schedules, moods, and problems. Ultimately, by severing the ties between your own happiness and other people, you gain greater control over your sense of satisfaction in life and that control is in itself a critical source of happiness.
On Fear
There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us.
–Letter 13 in Letters to a Stoic by Seneca the Elder
Every decision immediately post-college feels like a big decision. It feels like you are setting a course for life and that every move seems consequential to future success.
However, if you talk to anyone who is older (especially older millennials) about their career path, you will often find them describing a winding and ill-defined path full of setbacks, restarts, do-overs, second chances and random moments of luck.
The truth is, there are no "right" experiences (though there are certainly "wrong" ones) out of college. What is important is to start experiencing as soon as possible, and the more challenging the opportunity the better. The failures you think are lurking in the depths of uncertainty are mostly smoke and mirrors. At 22 or 23 years old, there is no better time than to jump in the deep end and test those failures to see if they are as potent as you perceive them to be.
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Terrorists will determine if the IDF strikes against them, Chief of Staff Benny Gantz told a press conference Tuesday morning.
There will be "quiet in return for quiet and fire against fire," he told reporters.
The Chief of Staff said Israel's defense is two pronged, relying on civilians and the military. He explained that the calm behavior of southern Israelis in the face of more than 300 rockets and missiles in four days was a major factor in what appears to be a quick defeat of Hamas' attempt to inflict mass casualties on civilians.
He also praised the Iron Dome anti-missile system, which not only intercepted an overwhelming majority of incoming missiles aimed at urban population centers but also provided a sense of security among civilians.
The public acted responsibly, and the military acted strongly Lt. Gen Gantz said.
As for the ceasefire that officially took effect at 1 a.m., despite further rocket attacks, the Chief of Staff stated, "It is not over until it is over."
He warned that the IDF will react swiftly against any threat of a terrorist attack, a policy that puts to rest Islamic Jihad's proclamation that it would not accept a ceasefire unless Israel promises to halt all actions against terrorists, including those planning imminent attacks.
The Chief of Staff noted that terrorists have continued to arm themselves with more advanced weapons and in larger quantities.
The recent eruption in violence occurred after the IDF struck at the leader of the Popular Resistance Committees terrorist group and foiled a large-scale terrorist attack planned on southern Israel.
Lt. Gen. Gantz said that previous experience has shown that it may take several hours or more for the ceasefire to become reflected on the field. ""We know it takes time, so we will wait several hours," he said.
Almost at the same moment he spoke, a Color Red early-warning siren sounded in the Western Negev. A Kassam rocket earlier in the morning exploded harmlessly in an open area.


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Authorial/Illustratorial Pit Stops
I would just like to extend a thank you to two talented artists in their field who chose to visit the Donnell Central Children's Room yesterday. Accompanied by a posse of publishers and an agent, up-and-coming Derek Landy is the author of that nice skeleton book all the kids are talking about, Skulduggery Pleasant. I desperately want to start calling it that-jive-talking-skeleton book, but though this sounds good it's not strictly true. Pity. Mr. Landy is a quiet sort, and I never quite had the chance to inform him that the title of his book is doomed to be misspelled Skullduggery Pleasant due to the nature of its subject matter. I gave the group a little tour as well. In the course of the tour I couldn't help but notice that almost all our significant point of interest (Winnie-the-Pooh, Mary Poppins' umbrella, a signed Harry Potter book) are British. Go figure. Now with its up-and-coming release date there was nothing on hand to give Mr. Landy to sign aside from my own much battered, much dog-eared ARC of his book. He did so quite nicely. A lovely time was had by all.
Then a little later in the day we were treated to the appearance of illustrator Robert McGuire. A relatively new up-and-coming artist, Mr. McGuire was bringing some friends of his to the library to view the illustrations he did for Sid Fleischman's The White Elephant (published last year and on NYPL's 100 Books For Reading and Sharing list). My co-worker and I managed to convince him of the necessity of signing our Reference copy for posterity, and even got the name of his 2007 picture book due out in March (The Furry-Legged Teapot by Tim "I Get All the Best Illustrators To Do My Books" Myers).
Thanks to both men. We'll be looking forward to seeing how your books fare this year.
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They come really close to our tent trying to know what kind of freaks people we are, leaving our comfy beds and hot water to stay three days in the desert. living on steaks and chocolate.
This camel was trying eat my sleeping bag! from my brother's pick up.
Here, you can see my brother trying to scare the camel. but the camel didn't even run! he walked away so slowly. Maybe my sleeping bag stinks!
They were very comfortable walking between our cars and eating like I don't even exist! I felt humiliated :P
I always wanted to take a picture of camels with sunset! Capoooooom! I got one :)
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"Who put that there?!"
Luckily, local villagers heard his disgruntled cries and came to the rescue.
First, they dug out an incline in the well wall.
Then they tossed a rope around the unhappy elephant.
And hoisted him up the muddy slope ...
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... Where, hopefully, the brave little elephant was able to catch up with his herd.
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Surprisingly enough, I'm still alive! I just wanted to wish any readers out there a great holiday season. No Grey Knight with a Santa hat this year, as I'm on my cell phone, but there's always next year for my dream photoshop of a Dreadknight Santa Claus.
Happy Holidays everyone! Best of luck with the hobby side with all those great gifts you were hoping to receive.
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Old NumbskullJanuary 1, 2006 San Diego, CA
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Comment: Old Numbskull is AleSmith's first barley wine offering.
Alcohol (wt.): 8
Alcohol (vol.): 10
Color: n/a
Bitterness: n/a
Original Gravity: 1100
Final Gravity: 1026
Malts used: Maris Otter, crystal malt
Hops used: Fuggles, Goldings and "a new English variety that is more pungent and intense"; dry hopped with "a combination of the more aromatic British varieties", plus Mt. Hood, and Centennial
Red/brown barley wine that weighs in at 11% ABV. Stunning toasted malt and caramel on the nose with hints of nuts. A massive blast of rich, sweet, chewy malt fills the mouth, with undercurrents of burnt fruit and bitter hops. The hops—spicy and peppery—come through powerfully in the finish, balancing the rich malt and fruit notes. Throw another log on the fire and sip and sigh with pleasure.
- Roger Protz
There's magnificent mahogany color and a head that speaks for itself; this beer is wonderfully mellow with light bitter undertones, fine maltiness, and hints of caramel and toffee. This is a great beer at 70ºF (21º C), and at 108º F (42º C) even better, more delicious and quite refreshing. AND if you dip your Oreo cookie in this beer, you'll never go back to milk!
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An 11% alcohol barleywine in a 750ml bottle? This beer should come with instructions: "Just add friends." This is a huge beer, but it is nicely balanced, making it very pleasing to drink. Bold hop bitterness pierces through chewy caramel and sticky toffee, with warming alcohol notes throughout. Savor this beer at cellar temperature. Enjoyable now, but this big boy should round out and improve over the next few years.
- John Hansell
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Author of Complete Guide to World Beer and 300 Beers to Try Before You Die respected beer authority and editor of the CAMRA Good Beer Guide.
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Fred Eckhardt lives, writes about and drinks beer in Portland, OR. He is the author of The Essentials of Beer Style and Sake (USA).
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John Hansell writes about beer, wine and spirits. He is the creator, publisher and editor of Malt Advocate a magazine for the whiskey advocate.
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Here are some ideas for discussion or writing topics on Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.
- Research the influence Ibsen had on George Bernard Shaw. Is Eliza Doolittle comparable to Nora in any interesting ways? If so, write an essay that explains how one can see Ibsen's influence working its way into Shaw's Pygmalion.
- Research the myth of Pygmalion as represented in Ovid's poem The Metamorphoses. Summarize the myth and show how has Shaw updated the myth for modern audiences. How has he refashioned the raw material and turned it into his own artistic statement?
- One theme prevalent in Pygmalion is the theme of self re-invention. One might argue that this has direct relevance to modern society. Consider the popularity of "makeovers", for instance, as well as the American myth of the "self-made" person, the rugged individual, etc. Explore how one might use the play as a tool to understand and critique these idea of self-invention. What is Shaw saying, and how does that help us understand the phenomenon differently?
- A related theme in Pygmalion is "class mobility." England is notorious for having a well defined and rigid class system. You might analyze Pygmalion as a satire of that system. See if you can identify the major characters as representatives of different British classes (this may require a little bit of research to establish the layers of the British class system). Discuss how Eliza's social mobility generates comedic effects in the play. What exactly is Shaw satirizing? Then select a class system from your native country (for many it will be the United States, but it can be any country). Describe its levels briefly, then discuss the theme of social mobility in that country. What qualities mark a person as a member of a particular social class? Are they the same markers as presented in the play? Would it be easier/harder for an Eliza Doolittle to move up to a higher social class? What factors impact a person's ability to move socially?


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The only important election that will likely be truly contested this year is the Virgina gubernatorial race and it is shaping up to be a close one. A new Quinnipiac poll found Republican State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and Democrat Terry McAuliffe tied with each other, currently getting 38 percent of the vote in a two person race. This is basically unchanged since last month when Quinnipiac previously polled.
Quinnipiac also asked what would happen if Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling decided to run as an Independent. Bolling is a Republican but has been completely screwed over by Cuccinelli. Cuccinelli's allies in the Republican Party changed the nomination process in Virginia from a statewide primary to a convention, effectively denying Bolling any chance of even trying to win the nod. This underhanded tactic did not sit well with Bolling.
If Bolling did enter the race as an Independent, he would start off with 13 percent of the vote. In this scenario Cuccinelli's support would drop to 31 percent but McAuliffe's support would drop only to 34 percent. Not surprisingly, having two Republicans in the race would end up benefiting the only Democrat.
This is of course why in most states parties use a primary election to pick nominees. It discourages multiple candidates from the same party from taking their fight to the general election where they can split the vote. It would be poetic justice if Cuccinelli's own scheming cost him the race.


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text: Float like a butterfly: Francis still has a chance of winning Sri Lanka's first Commonwealth medal in swimming When Conrad Francis' grandfather took him for a dip in the waves of Lavinia Bay near Colombo, Sri Lanka, the eight-year-old had no idea he would be swimming all the way to Sydney. The journey took more than a decade, but Francis, by now 19, found himself with the eyes of the world on him as he stood by the pool at the International Aquatic Centre as an Olympic athlete at Sydney 2000. The 6ft-tall Francis could have gunned for a career as a fast bowler in Sri Lanka's number one sport, cricket. But he has no regrets at the path he chose and, after competing at two Olympics and becoming a household name on the island, he now wants to be the first from his country to win a Commonwealth Games swimming medal. Sri Lanka, whose Anton Sudesh Peiris claimed weightlifting bronze in the men's 62kg on Tuesday, had previously only won 10 Commonwealth medals in total since the first Games in 1930. With Australia dominating the pool as usual in New Delhi, a semi-final spot is Francis' first target. And having won a swimming scholarship to Victoria that meant spending his teens Down Under, Francis has competitive pedigree among giants of the sport whom he still counts as close friends – and family. 'Home from home' "I rose up through the nationals with the Australian guys who are here in Delhi – it's like home from home," he told Al Jazeera after recording a personal best and Sri Lankan record of 00:26.39 in the 50m butterfly heats on Tuesday. "My coach (from Nunawading swimming club), Leigh Nugent, is now the head coach of Australia. I rate him as my second dad. We've had a laugh together in the last couple of days and it really brings memories back." Pooled results 1999 - Three silver at South Asian Games 2000 - Fifth in 100m butterfly heat at Sydney Olympics 2002 - Only Sri Lankan swimmer at Commonwealth Games in Manchester 2003 - First Sri Lankan swimmer to win gold outside country, at Asian Age Group champs 2004 - Won 2 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze and set 2 new records at South Asian Games 2004 - Fifth in 100m butterfly heat at Athens 2006 - Commonwealth Games in Melbourne 2010 - Sets national record at 50m butterfly in Commonwealth Games in New Delhi One of Francis' old swim-mates is former world champion and Olympic medallist Geoff Huegill, who came out of retirement to win through to Wednesday's 50m butterfly final. "Before my race I was sitting with Geoff and he said, 'Are you ready for this?'," Francis said of his heat on Tuesday. "I said yes, and he said, '100 per cent ready?'. That's what he's always like – always concentrate, because there's no race for tomorrow, there's only the race for today." Finishing sixth in Tuesday's heat, Francis still has his pet event, the 100m butterfly, to look forward to on Thursday – with the 50m breaststroke as backup. It will take something special to catapult the 29-year-old to fame outside his home waters. But it's not just the Aussies who are looking out for him. Francis is also a friend of Sri Lanka batsman Mahela Jayawardene, and says he has no problem with cricket getting star billing over other sports at home. Cricket boost "Mahela called me and wished me all the very best," he said. "It's always nice to get good wishes from them. It gives you a boost to know that the country is behind you. "Cricket has been given the main priority as the national sport in terms of technology and funding. It's out on its own while all the other sports come under one ministry. But it's not a problem. "I'm a big fan, I love to play cricket but it came down to a choice between being a left-arm pacer and being a swimmer. I've no regrets – there's nowhere I'd love to be more than in the pool." That wasn't true 20 years ago. "I was never one of those pool boys, I was always a sea boy," Francis said. "My grandfather would take me right out there and just leave me to find my way to the shore. "My mum used to stand there saying, 'What's going on here?'. Later when I was in Australia I used to go to the beach all the time, because I didn't have to keep it secret from my mum." SOURCE: Al Jazeera Sport Australia Sri Lanka


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I've learned so many interesting, random facts while researching this comic. Did you know that all United States Senators have the same desk!? That's right! In 1909, the carpentry firm S. Karpen and Brothers manufactured 125 identical mahogany desks for the opening of the Russell Senate Office building. (Why 125 is something that baffles me. There were 46 states at the time, 92 senators. Were S. Karpen and Bros. anticipating that sixteen new states would eventually join the union? But if so, what was the odd-numbered desk for? Or did they think suspect their incredibly sturdy desks would gradually break over the centuries-long history of our glorious republic?)
As soon as I discovered this, I knew I had to draw the desk properly. Alas, my attempt at "mood-lighting" on page 168, though moderately successful, resulted in most of the wood being blacked out in shadow anyway. Here are my preliminary pencils, where you can see the form of the desk a little better.
By the way, I'm only sporadically accurate about these things. For instance, I don't actually know if the capitol dome AND the Washington monument are visible from any window of the Senate Office Building – I suspect they are not. I am indulging in that same cinematic shorthand whereby the Eiffel Tower can be seen out any window in Paris or Peter Parker's crummy Manhattan apartment still has a breathtaking view of the Empire State Building. This is called poetic license, and I fall back on it every time I don't feel like doing research.
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A man from a wealthy family who should be in his second year of college, is still finishing his highschool requirements. His family hire a tutor for him who is his own age but she comes from a poor background.
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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, along with their horde of 173 children, better be practicing their Italian ... they just added another mega mansion to their real estate portfolio, this time in Italy.
And it's magnifico!
To go along with their French chateau, New Orleans mansion, 5-acre Los Angeles compound, Malibu home, and ocean-front property close to the Cambodian jungle, they reportedly just dropped $40 million on this Italian villa. It's like they just buy a house in whatever country they travel to.
The U-shaped mansion, guarded by an iron gate and two stone lions, wraps around a garden filled with old statues peeking out from around the bushes. Inside, it boasts a whopping 18,000 square feet that includes 15 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, two fit-for-royalty receptions rooms, coffered ceilings, and antique tile flooring. The walls are covered in frescoes that date back to the seventeenth century. The property also holds two swimming pools, waterfalls, a cinema, stables, and a friggin' vineyard (wow!). Brangelina, will you please adopt me?
There are some speculations on whether they actually bought the home or are just leasing it, but at this point, does it even matter? If they weren't such good-doers, I'd give them a hard time about spending all this money on real estate, but their constant trips to help starving children forces me to keep my mouth shut.
After everything that they do, I think they can buy whatever the heck they want.
What do you think about their most recent purchase?
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From Diffgeom
Symbol-free definition
A function from a metric space (often, a Riemannian manifold) to another is termed an isometry if it preserves distance between points.
Definition with symbols
Let and be metric spaces. A function is termed an isometry if for all :
We are often concerned with self-isometries of a metric space, viz isometries from a metric space to itself.


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I did one workout last week, and I felt good about it. Hubby says he is going to start going with me so we will see. I am going tonight after we get home from walmart before I cook my taco bake. (look for the recipe and photos tonight or tomorrow - sorry so late!) I don't think I'm going to start on the 100 pushup challenge until next Monday because I want to do the initial test on Wednesday so that I have a while to rest up to start the workout.
I'm doing well on the breakfast and "getup-time" in the mornings, although I did sleep in on Sunday and skipped breakfast. I tried to get up, but I was just exhausted. That's ok, though I am not expecting perfection right away. I knew there was going to be days that I don't make it through, but I pride myself in getting up, eating breakfast, brushing and flossing, and taking my vitamins 6/7 days last week!
***Later that evening***
I went and spent time with my girlfriend, Angie this past weekend as well. We had a good time, we cooked wings and cake and had some drinks, ate, and watch the movie "He's Just Not That Into You". It was a decent movie, but I probably won't watch it again. That's one down for #65, 142 more to go!
I have also finished my second of fifty books. I loved this series when I read it the first time, and this time is no different, although this time I think each book ended before I wanted it to, like there should be an anti-climax and there wasn't. I don't know what book I'm going to be reading next, but I'm thinking that until I have the money to buy The Time Travelers Wife (I'm waiting for it to come out on video so that I have more time to read the book) I'll probably re-read the Twilight Series in preparation for the movie in November!
Goals for this week:
21. Work out at least three times a week - Monday is down! Wednesday and Saturday to go!
26. Complete the 100 Push Up Challenge: do initial test Wednesday, and implement this and the ab lounger into workout. (and stretching)
51. First movie on 100 list: Citizen Kane (1941) - watch this (probably Saturday)
53. Work on crosstitch kitty project
10. Work on design for recipe book pages.
I also get my nephew next weekend (9/12), so that's #64 down for this month! I'm excited to have him to myself for a day.
I made the taco bake for dinner, it was good, but it wasn't FANTASTIC. I'll post about it tomorrow evening when I get home.
Doug's concert was great! (I forgot to blog about this earlier) Everyone got up and danced and clapped and had a good time. He plays some great stuff. If there was a way to post some of his music I would. They're a christian rock band called Doug Farris and Company. Keep a lookout for them, if they can get some exposure I think they will be pretty big on the Christian Music circuit! Here are some photos from the big night:
Doug (lead vocals and guitar)
Doug (guitar)
Backup vocals (long haired Dougs wife if I'm not mistaken)
Rockin a solo
The group at the end for a final song
I had a great time!


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About 8,000 Little Jumpers Trampolines are being recalled due to safety concerns that the handlebar can break causing a fall hazard.
The Alex model 786X, was sold at independent specialty toy and retail stores from January through March 2012 for about $100.
The product is a small, toddler-sized trampoline with a yellow and blue colored handlebar over the top of the trampoline. The trampoline has a blue mat and orange pads with different colored circles printed on the pads, yellow legs and blue feet.
A white label is sewn into the underside of the orange pads which has "786X Little Jumpers Trampoline" printed above the bar code. This recall involves trampolines with the codes 21011-P0003070, 21011-P0003246, 25511-P0003071, 27811-P0003372, 29811-P0003373 and 34211-P0003375. This code is printed underneath the barcode.
Consumers should stop using the product immediately and contact the firm for instructions on receiving a replacement trampoline. For additional information, contact the firm at (800) 666-2539 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit the firm's website at www.alextoys.com/safety.