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We break down your 2009 Seattle Mariners, position-by-position, with the start of the MLB regular season fast approaching. In our first installment, we took a look at the infielders. In our second installment, we examine the outfield situation.
Projected Starters: LF Ken Griffey, Jr./Endy Chavez; CF Franklin Gutierrez; RF Ichiro Suzuki.
Bench: Chavez, Wladimir Balentien/Mike Morse.
Fighting for a spot: Balentien/Morse, Mike Wilson.
40-man roster players in the minors: Greg Halman.
Outside of the playing time situation in left field, not too much going on in the outfield. Gutierrez and Ichiro were starters before Spring Training, and Chavez was signed early in the offseason with the intention of being a stopgap starter until a younger player emerges.
With Griffey on board, Chavez's role has diminished to some degree, and it remains to be seen how much of a hit his playing time will receive if Griffey refuses to DH.
The Griffey situation also affects the bench. If Junior is your everyday DH, then both Balentien and Morse have a better shot at making the Opening Day roster. If Junior splits PT in left field with Chavez, then chances are only one of Balentien and Morse head north with the club.
Had the Mariners signed Griffey early in the offseason, Chavez probably wouldn't be with this team right now. But because of his contract, and the defense and speed he brings to the table, he'll be with the ballclub all year long barring a trade. It's unfortunate for the younger guys, but that's the way it works.
Outside of Balentien and Morse, Mike Wilson is another intriguing figure who is fighting for a chance to be on this team. Wilson is a 25-year-old slugger who ate up Double-A pitching last season, belting 27 home runs in 119 games . The Mariners originally added him to the 40-man roster in November, then released him upon signing Griffey. Following his release, the M's resigned Wilson to a non-guaranteed Minor League deal and invited him to Spring Training. Wilson will likely start the season in Triple-A, but his strong performance in the Spring warrants keeping an eye on him.
The only other player of note here is Greg Halman, a highly talented 21-year-old who spent last season split between Single- and Double-A. A native of the Netherlands, Halman played for his country in this year's World Baseball Classic, batting in the middle of an otherwise weak Dutch lineup. The center field prospect is on the 40-man roster, though will likely spend all of 2009 seasoning in the minors. Look for Halman to make a splash next Spring.


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In 1921, a group of business people met at the Ferguson Hotel in downtown Hyannis to discuss how the Cape Cod region might transition from fishing and agriculture to tourism.
In 1921, a group of business people met at the Ferguson Hotel in downtown Hyannis to discuss how the Cape Cod region might transition from fishing and agriculture to tourism. The Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce was formed as a result of the meeting by founders Francis T. Bowles, W. Sears Nickerson, Oscar C. Nickerson, William F. Makepeace, Walter O. Luscombe, Jr., Charles L. Gifford and Alfred Crocker for the purpose of promoting the social, industrial, agricultural, commercial and civic welfare of the people of Cape Cod and vicinity. The Chamber was legally organized and established on Feb. 14, 1922.
On the cusp of its 90th anniversary, the Cape Cod Chamber conducted an in-depth strategic planning process. The goals of this process were to assess the new economic landscape in the aftermath of the "great recession of 2008-09" and to position the Chamber to provide relevant and meaningful programs to benefit the businesses, residents and guests of Cape Cod.
Much of the work has been done in terms of information gathering, discussions with experts and other leaders, member and community surveys. The strategic plan document is being drafted and objectives, goals, strategies and tactics mapped out by which to guide and measure the work of the Chamber in the coming years.
Full results will be released when the entire process is complete. But a quick preview will be discussed at next week's annual meeting of the Chamber. On June 15, 2011, we will induct a new corps of officers and thank several outgoing directors. William Zammer, Jr., owner of Cape Cod Restaurants, which includes Tugboats, Coonamessett Inn and the Flying Bridge, will hand the gavel over to Dorothy Savarese, president & CEO of Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank, as chairman of the board. Our new vice chairman of the board will be Gary Sheehan, president of Cape Medical Supply, who is a co-founder of the Cape Cod Young Professionals. Other officers for the next two years include Kevin Howard of the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod as our treasurer, Matthew Lee, Esq. of Tocci, Goss & Lee as our assistant treasurer, Fred O'Regan of the International Fund for Animal Welfare as our clerk and officers at large Howie Onik of the Dockside Hotel Group and William Catania of the Catania Hospitality Group.
Of special note will be the departure of two long-standing directors/officers, Charlie Ritch, Ritch Financial Solutions of Sandwich and Richard Neitz of Neitz Real Estate of Yarmouth. Both have served on the board for well over a decade, lending their expertise and passion to the work of the Cape Cod Chamber. We will also bid adieu to Dr. Gary Borisy of Marine Biological Labs, Bob DuBois of the Yarmouth Area Chamber and Richard Cawley of Rectrix in Hyannis.
New to the board are Cyndi Williams of the Lighthouse Inn, West Dennis; Mary Corr, the executive of the Orleans Chamber; Rob O'Leary former state senator and now an educator; Admiral Richard Gurnon of Mass Maritime Academy; Joel Crowell, CEO of Cape Cod Cooperative Bank; and Rudy Keeling, commissioner of Eastern College Athletic Conference based in Centerville.
The annual meeting will be held as a formal sit-down dinner this year, featuring locally grown foods from Hawk's Wing Organic Farm and Orchard, Tuckernuck Farm, Cape Abilities Farm, Cider Hill Farm, Cape Cod Organic Farm, Cape Cod Lavender Farm, Jansal Valley Farm, Enterprise Organic Farm and Miss Scarlett's Blue Ribbon Farm. Even the centerpieces will be local! We are fortunate to have Comcast as the presenting sponsor as well as the sponsorship support of Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank. Guests will all be entered to win Red Sox tickets for two courtesy of Collette Vacations, who is organizing our fundraising trip to Africa!
And we look forward to reporting out in this column the detail of our strategic plan in the next fiscal and program year that begins July 1. The Chamber will be well positioned to fulfill its mission as an advocate for business, to strengthen and promote regional economic vitality while addressing related cultural, environmental and community concerns. It is our goal to serve in the next 90 years as a catalyst and advocate for a vibrant economic community in order to create a better Cape Cod.
The annual dinner meeting will be held at the Coonamessett Inn, Gifford Street, Falmouth and tickets are $65 for members or $75 for non-members with tables of eight discounted at $475. Reservations can be made online at www.eCapeChamber.com. Please join us!

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27 July 2012 - Cognex Corporation has introduced the In-Sight 7010, an entry level vision system developed specifically for inspection tasks where vision sensors are too limited and a standard vision system may not be cost effective. Every aspect of the In-Sight 7010 has been designed to make deploying a vision system easier than ever before.
It is a completely self contained vision system that includes autofocus optics and integrated lighting in a compact IP67 rated industrial housing. Applications can be configured very quickly using the intuitive EasyBuilder user interface. The vision library on the In-Sight 7010 has been simplified to focus on the tools most frequently used in straightforward vision applications.
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Originally this was about my Escape...but these days, this is about the way of the world..the things that cross my mind, and maybe yours..the creative battles and truimphs and losses...it is about love and understanding of ourselves first and others second...it is about doing what we love and being afraid to try...and then trying...I am blessed with the readers on this blog and my family and loves and my friends....thank you..
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Aegean Airlines forced to cancel flights; TUI net income plummets; Lufthansa, Air France-KLM gain
Aegean Airlines (-1.9%) was among the biggest falls in another day of mixed trading for European airline shares on Tuesday (14-Dec-2010). The carrier fell after cancelling all flights for 15-Dec-2010, due to a planned 24-hour strike by Greek civil aviation staff and air traffic controllers, as part of a general strike.
See related CAPA Profile: Air Traffic Control
TUI net income plummets
TUI Travel (-0.6%) slipped after TUI AG reported a 44.9% year-on-year decline in net profit for the 12 months ended 30-Sep-2010 to EUR113.6 million. The result came on a 15.1% fall in revenue, to EUR16,350 million.
TUI Travel's revenue was also down, falling 1.4% to EUR15,728 million. However, the company's underlying sector EBITDA was up 10.7% to EUR506.0 million.
See related CAPA Profile: Financial Results
Finnair (-2.4%) and Air Berlin (-2.3%) were also down for the day.
Cimber Sterling narrows losses
Cimber Sterling (+0.6%) made a marginal gain for the day, after narrowing its loss for the three months ended 31-Oct-2010 to EUR93,917, compared with a loss of EUR3.9 million in the previous corresponding period. It also reported an operating loss of EUR295,169 compared with a loss of EUR5.6 million in p-c-p.
The result was on a 29% year-on-year improvement in revenue for the quarter to EUR73.4 million. Operating costs were up 26% for the period to EUR46.3 million.
Cimber's yield also rose for the quarter, up 9.4% to EUR 12.48 cents, on a 7.1% increase in revenue per ASK to EUR 8.05 cents.
Despite the improved 2Q2010-11 results, Cimber reiterated its previous forecast of an EBIT loss of DKK20-80 million (EUR2.7-) before special items
Lufthansa, Air France-KLM gain on Credit Suisse upgrade
Lufthansa (+1.7%) and Air France-KLM (+1.4%) were among the biggest gainers for the session after upgrades of their shares from Credit Suisse Group AG. Both were upgraded from "neutral" to "outperform".
Turkish Airlines (+4.0%) and Dart Group (+3.9%) also rose.
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With recent exposure to working as a legal receptionist you will have the ability to hit the ground running when answering calls, greeting clients and office services duties. Your resume will display loyalty and longevity in previous Legal Reception positions.
You will enjoy supporting others whilst providing first class client service and accurate assistance when producing documents. Your proven ability in meeting deadlines, prioritising tasks and multitasking will ensure your success in this varied role. In addition you will be familiar with word and will have an aptitude to pick up new systems and processes.
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Reporting to a enterprise manager you will be working as part of a small and friendly team. Continuous training will be provided and you can expect to further your career in administration and office support.
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A journey in a different direction. Have you ever felt like you don't know where you are going in life? You wonder why you are here? What's the use? Garden of Hope provides answers to these questions and more.Read More
Our ministries are supported by local churches, church volunteers, social organizations, and individuals in our community who want to reach out and touch the lives of others and offer hope for our community.Read More
Our Faithful 500 is a group of consistent monthly donors who provide a solid financial foundation for our day to day operations. Participants commit to a specific monthly pledge. Amounts range from $10 to $100 or more.Read More
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I wanted to practice Velveteen Technique (or White Ink Resist Technique) again and I combined the elements of the following challenges into this card.
1. ColorQ Challenge #235
2. Freshly Made Sketches # 130
3. The Card Concept #7 – Use a Butterfly Theme
I would say this card style is Classy and Elegant. For definition, please check out here.
The subtle and trendy Tweed pattern really added visual textures to the flowers and I am happy with the result!
Card Details
1.All stamps are by Hero Arts. Text die is by Simon Says Stamp. Wood grain embossing folder is by Cuttlebug.
2.I also applied Faux Stitches to add texture.
3. My previous Velveteen artworks are here, there and there.


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We were founded in 1997 and ever since Winfund has been the software solution provider Canadian Mutual Fund Dealers & MGAs from coast-to-coast have come to rely on. Today nearly 50 Mutual Fund Dealers and Insurance MGAs count on Winfund to be their trusted solution partner.
We speak your language.
Our team is built from professionals with unrivaled industry experience. Our established network of industry relationships, both in Canada and around the World, means we work on the leading edge of industry best practice, helping you compete more effectively and drive the successful performance of your business.
Focused solutions. Perfect fit.
Our inventory of proven solutions, coupled with carefully chosen best-of-breed partners, help us to provide the right solutions, right now. Our team listens first and we understand what it means to deliver tools that work for the unique needs of Administrators, Management, and Advisors. Our open architecture means Winfund solutions can integrate seamlessly with your current technology suite and our scalability allows you to leverage Winfund functionality that meets your needs today with the security of knowing Winfund will scale with you as you grow.
Winfund is part of your team.
This is how we view all of our client relationships. We know the industry and we work closely with each of our clients to understand their unique needs. We're proud of our track record of success and the mutually beneficial relationships we have built over the years with our client partners.
Commitment to be #1.
To achieve this, we continue to invest to enhance the investor, advisor, and management experience. Our research and development program will ensure our technology remains best in class and our team-based approach to client relationships means a very bright future for our clients and their advisors & investors.
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Winfund is a wholly owned subsidiary of RPM Technologies. Together we offer a product shelf which is unrivalled in the Canadian technology space. Whether it be an IIROC solution, a Transfer Agency Solution, or a Retail Bank system, RPM Winfund can meet any need, at any scale.


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The town of Winfield is the fastest growing community in the state. Lakes of the Four Seasons is one of the largest private communities in the nation.
Currently, the town does not have an established police department and receives its law enforcement services from the Lake County Sheriff's Department.
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Greenwash Watch: "Reusable Bags are a Health Threat"
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When the City of Toronto considered a ban on plastic bags, a cranky Environment and Plastics Industry Council (EPIC) commissioned a study by Sporometrics, " the foremost experts in many aspects of fungal and environmental bacterial testing in Canada. "
And guess what they found? Some of them were dirty inside. What a surprise!
Of course, EPIC has no vested interest here, and says that
The position of the plastics industry is clear. The industry strongly supports reduction and reuse, and recognizes use of reusables as good environmental practice, but it does not want to see these initiatives inadvertently compromise public health and safety. The industry believes that appropriate independent research and investigation must be pursued.
The study concluded:
The moist, dark, warm interior of a folded used reusable bag that has acquired a small amount of water and trace food contamination is an ideal incubator for bacteria.
The strong presence of yeasts in some bags indicates the presence of water and microbial growth substrate (food). The yeasts are thus a 'canary in the mine' confirming that microbes are growing in the bag.
There is a potential for cross-contamination of food if the same reusable bags are used on successive trips;
In cases of food poisoning, experts are now going to have to test reusable bags in addition to food products as the possible sources of contamination.
3 bags out of 25 examined had coliform contamination.
"The presence of faecal material in some of the reusable bags is particularly concerning," said Summerbell. "All meat products should be individually wrapped before being placed in a reusable bag to prevent against leakage. This should become a mandated safety standard across the entire grocery industry."
None of this should be a surprise to anyone; if you don't wash your dishes or your counter, they get dirty too. If you fold up a damp plastic bag and leave it after carrying diapers or letting meat drip in it, you are going to get stuff growing. If you read the actual test results in the appendix, it appears that very few bags were in fact seriously contaminated.
So don't let it go for a year without a wipedown, don't carry dirty diapers in it, and try to avoid meat leakage. And don't forget how much crap can be on the supermarket checkout belt; contaminated food can be coming out of the disposable plastic bags too. That's why we wash our vegetables and fruit before we eat it, right?
But I have no doubt that over the next few weeks we will hear a lot about this study. Download it from the press release here
via a tweet from Grist: "Amazing bit of greenwashery by plastics industry: Dirty reusable bags are a public health threat! "


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Google Maps, hands down the best maps app for iOS, has received its first update and users now have better integration with their Google contacts. Upon signing in with v1.1 of the Maps app, any saved addresses on your Google account will show up when you look up the name of a friend of family member. This makes it easier to find driving directions to your contact's address, of course provided that you've already entered their details beforehand. To help distinguish between search results of names you've typed in, your saved contacts will show up with a person icon to the left, while general results with a similar names will have a magnifying glass icon beside it. Currently, Google Contacts search only works with regular Google email accounts, and is not available for Enterprise Apps accounts.
Google has posted some handy tips on getting the most out of the Google Maps app for the iPhone. For instance, did you know that you could zoom in and out of maps with just one finger? (double-tap an area, hold second tap and move your finger up/down). Or how you can enable compass mode (to orient yourself) by tapping on the My Location button (bottom left) twice? If you're still fairly new to the fantastic Gmaps – you have downloaded it already, right? – check out the list of useful tips below.
By now, you've likely already downloaded the recently released (and excellent) Google Maps app on your iPhone and made it your primary navigation tool. Unfortunately though, there's no way to make it your default maps app without jailbreaking. But what if there was a way to make it so that Siri will give directions to a location using Google Maps? JailbreakNation discovered that by adding "via transit" to the end of your Siri command, a go-between "Routing Apps" page will appear and allow you to select desired navigation apps. For example, you can say "Give me directions to [destination] via transit", or "Take me to the closest [POI] via transit". Voilà . You can then select Google Maps and choose from one of the suggested routes. It's not a perfect integration, but at least it's there if you'd like to use both Siri and Gmaps. Check out the demo video below.
After months of waiting for the best maps app for iOS 6, Google has finally released their highly anticipated Maps app for the iPhone. With a slick interface and all the features you've come to love but found missing on Apple's own Maps app (i.e. public transit info and Street view), it appears the long wait was well worth it.
Navigate your world with Google Maps, now available for iPhone. Get comprehensive, accurate and easy-to-use maps with built-in Google local search, voice guided turn-by-turn navigation, public transit directions, Street View and more. Use Google Maps to discover great places to eat, drink, shop and play, with ratings and reviews from people you trust. Sign in to save your favorite places and quickly access all your past searches and directions from your computer, right on your phone.
Good news for Google Maps advocates using iOS 6. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google has been field testing their long rumoured iOS Maps app and putting on the "finishing touches" prior to submitting it to Apple's stringent approval process.
Google has distributed a test version of its new mapping app that will work on Apple's iPhones and iPads to some individuals outside the company, said a person with direct knowledge of the matter. Google has been putting the finishing touches on the app before submitting it for approval to the Apple iTunes store, this person said, though it is unclear exactly when that will happen.
While Google has no plans yet for a dedicated iOS 6 Maps app, iOS 6 users (particularly those with an iPhone 5) finally have access to Google Street View for when the need to look up local hotspots in a virtual 360 view arises. If you've ever used this amazing tool before, you know just how handy it can be when trying to locate a particular landmark. This is now possible on the latest OS thanks to an updated Google Maps web app, which can be accessed from mobile browsers like Safari or Chrome. Simply head over to maps.google.com on your iDevice, look up a point of interest in the search bar and ballon-shaped markers will be displayed on the map. Tap on one of them and an info bar will appear at the bottom, with options to call, get directions and a person icon for enabling Street View (if not available for the location, it'll be greyed out). Conversely, you can simply tap on any POIs on the map to bring up said info bar.


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Pay for submission
Received emails from AIR gallery and beers-lambert gallery saying they came across my work and believe it fits into upcoming show where they send you the link but then you go to find out you have to pay to be considered to be in the show...I messages back the beers-lambert gallery owner and he said how much he liked my work and wanted to see it once in New York. Paid to have work considered for show didn't get in.
|AIR is an artist co-op, which means they operate in a different way than commercial galleries. They survive on membership fees received from artists ($500 for an initiation fee, $200 a month after that) also, you have to help run the place. They only take a 20% commission on sales in exchange, and they're straight up about their business practice. As far as that kind of place goes, I think they're one of the better ones around.
|Jan. 5, 2013, 6:29 a.m.
|Didn't realize Beers Lambert Contemporary did that though - they're London based, right? Did they contact you, encourage you to submit, and then reject you?
|Jan. 5, 2013, 6:33 a.m.
|As long as galleries are up front about submission fees/pay to exhibit policies it's all right. Some are underhanded about it and don't let you know until you've already got your hopes up.
|Jan. 13, 2013, 9:39 p.m.
|A list of co-ops couldn't hurt, they're not a bad way for artists to get started. Can anyone recommend a good one?
|March 17, 2013, 6:32 p.m.
|How is paying for submission not a slow but steady move to the vanity gallery model of doing business?
|March 18, 2013, 9:22 p.m.
|I like Space Womb gallery - it's not a vanity, but they're a young gallery in LIC that needs to cover the cost of promotional materials and reception wine - they do group juried shows and charge artists $100 for participation, but the shows are carefully curated, they don't take just anyone who pays...
|March 21, 2013, 2:43 p.m.
|And, as regards the March 18th post - sort of, but not really... co-ops have been around for a long time, unlike vanity galleries, which will take literally anything, co-ops tend to be extremely selective. At their best, they can also create a community of artists that trust and help each other. At their worst, obviously, they border on vanities but tend to charge less...
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1.List 10 different things engineers do.
2.Visit a construction job. Look at a set of plans. Tell your Webelos den leader about these. (Get permission before you visit.)
3.Visit a civil engineer to understand how to measure the length of a property line. Explain how property lines are determined.
4.Tell about how electricity is generated and then gets to your home.
5.Construct a simple working electrical circuit using a flashlight battery, a switch, and a light.
6.Make drawings of three kinds of bridges and explain their differences. Construct a model bridge of your choice.
7.Make a block and tackle and show how it works.
8.Build a catapult and show how it works.
9.Draw a floor plan of your house. Include doors, windows, and stairways.
10.Explain how engineers use computers.
Do These:
1.Read Bernoulli's Principle. Show how it works.
2.Read Pascal's Law. Tell about some inventions that use Pascal's law.
3.Read Newton's first law of motion. Show in three different ways how inertia works.
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4.Show the effects of atmospheric pressure. **
5.Show the effects of air pressure.**
6.Show the effects of water pressure. This may be combined with atmospheric pressure or with air pressure.
7.Build and launch a model rocket with adult supervision. (NOTE: You must be at least 10 years old to work with a model rocket kit sold in hobby stores.)
8.Explain what causes fog. Show how this works.
9.Explain how crystals are formed. Make some.
10.Explain how you use your center of gravity to keep your balance. Show three different balancing tricks.
11.Show in three different ways how your eyes work together. **
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Jewish World Review Sept. 8, 2010 / 29 Elul, 5770
I, Market Economy
By Jonah Goldberg
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | No one in the world knows how to make the newspaper you are holding (and, if you're reading this on your phone, computer, iPad or Kindle, no one knows how to make those things either).
Even the best editor in the world has no clue how to make a printing press or the ink, or how to operate a communications satellite.
This is hardly a new insight. In 1958,
The pencil tells the story of its own creation. The wood comes from
To make a long story short, the simple act of collecting and combining the ingredients of a pencil involves the cooperation of thousands of experts in dozens of fields, from engineering and mining to chemistry and commodity trading. I suppose it's possible for someone to master all of the knowledge and expertise to make a pencil all by themselves, but why would they?
The lessons one can draw from this fact are humbling. For starters, any healthy civilization, never mind any healthy economy, involves unfathomably vast amounts of harmonious cooperation.
These days there's a lot of buzz about something called "cloud computing." In brief, this is a new way of organizing computer technology so that most of the data storage and number crunching doesn't actually take place in your own computer. Rather, everyone plugs into the computational equivalent of the electrical grid.
Do a Nexis search and you'll find hundreds of articles insisting that this is a "revolutionary" advance in information organization. And in one sense, that's obviously true. But in another this is simply an acceleration of how civilization has always worked. The information stored in an encyclopedia or textbook is a form of cloud computing. So is the expertise stored in your weatherman's head. So are the intangible but no less real lessons accumulated over generations of trial and error and contained in everything from the alphabet to the U.S. Constitution to my daughter's second-grade curriculum.
More relevant, the modern market economy is the greatest communal enterprise ever undertaken in the history of humanity.
The latest proof of Hayek's insight can be found not only in the economic winter that goes by the label "recovery summer," but in the crown jewel of the stimulus known as "cash for clunkers," which subsidized car purchases that would have happened anyway. That's a major reason the auto industry just had its worst August in 27 years. Meanwhile, lower-income buyers are seeing used-car prices soar thanks to the artificial scarcity created by destroying perfectly good "clunkers."
But that's a small point in the grand scheme of things. According to progressives, the financial crisis discredited "market fundamentalism" and created a burning need for a more cooperative society where "we're all in it together." It's an ancient argument, with many noble intentions behind it. But it rests on a misunderstanding of one simple, astounding, irrefutable fact. The market economy is cooperative, and more successfully so than any alternative system ever conceived of, never mind put into practice. Admittedly it doesn't feel that way, which is why everyone wants to find a better replacement for it. But they never will, for the same reason no one can make a pencil.
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Hotel Dunas Don Gregory, part of Dunas Hotels & Resorts since 1998, is one of the most emblematic hotels in the south of Gran Canaria. Since it became part of our group, the hotel has undergone several improvements and renovations, but thinking of our guests and adapting to changes in the tourism market in the Canary Islands, next 2017 we'll carry out a comprehensive refurbishing.
The comprehensive refurbishing of Hotel Dunas Don Gregory will be carried out during the first half of 2017. The Hotel will be closed from April 1st to August 15th, to concentrate all efforts and resources at once and interfere as little as possible with our guests' holidays. After those four months of intense work, Dunas Don Gregory will reopen to the public on August 16th, 2017.
The refurbishing of Dunas Don Gregory is a well-studied investment, which has been analyzed and planned with much attention to detail and care for months at the Dunas Hotels & Resorts Group offices. The team is ready to face this new challenge with the certainty that the result will be as successful as to make regular and new guests falling in love with it.
The idea is to harness the unique location of the Hotel and open all its doors, windows and common areas, so that the whole hotel looks at the Ocean. This design will achieve an up-to-date modern hotel, decorated with neutral basic colors, light timber and a mélange between the Scandinavian aesthetics and tropical influences. The objective is to have very open areas and glass walls, i.e. in the new bathrooms.
The entire hotel will be refurbished: from the rooms to restaurant kitchens, to all public areas.
This comprehensive refurbishment of Dunas Don Gregory will bring some changes in the types of rooms that are offered. In addition, from August 1st, 2017, the hotel will become Adults Only, admitting only guests over 16 years of age.
The new rooms will include the Double Ocean View, the rooms on the Premium Floor (4th floor of the hotel) and the Premium Duplex Suite. These last two will include access to a private solarium on the 4th floor, plus a full Premium Suite pack of services such as a tea & coffee corner, welcome pack, bathrobes and slippers, pillow menu and other details to enjoy a perfect stay with all the comforts.
Next year will bring a comprehensive refurbishing of the Dunas Don Gregory hotel and will reopen to our guests in August 2017. You can already book to be among the first ones to enjoy the brand new Dunas Don Gregory!


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It's happening. Can you feel it? Do you see your cock growing BIGGER? I'm doing that to you, baby. You're growing right in your own hands… in my hands… between my breasts. You're getting bigger… bigger still. You're cock is throbbing as it expands. It's inflating like a balloon… so tight, so massive, and STILL swelling.
That's me, baby. I'm inflating you… you're cock is so huge, and I'm going to make it even bigger. You're watching as I show you my tits and rub them. Look at my tits… you're inflating… I'm going to make you as big as this room, and then you're going to come all over me!
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Introduction: Pulmonary fibrosis is a class of inflammatory lung diseases with poor prognosis. Recent studies have implicated Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) and damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) in its pathogenesis. Extracellular cold-inducible RNA-binding protein (eCIRP) is a novel DAMP which exacerbates inflammation. eCIRP promotes inflammation through its binding to the TLR4/MD2 complex. We hypothesized that eCIRP enhances the fibrotic process in lungs by fibroblast activation.
Methods: Pulmonary fibrosis was induced in male 8-week old C57BL/6 WT and CIRP -/- mice through intratracheal (i.t.) instillation or subcutaneous (s.c.) injection of bleomycin and lung tissues were obtained and analyzed for hydroxyproline contents. To study the effect of eCIRP on fibroblasts, we preincubated mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEF) cells with rmCIRP and the effects of transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) in the expression of profibrotic genes were assessed by quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR).
Results: Exposure of WT mice to bleomycin elicited significant changes in the lungs with substantial collagen accumulation as confirmed by increased hydroxyproline content as compared to the control WT mice (both i.t and s.c and p<0.05). Furthermore, pulmonary fibrosis showed substantial attenuation in CIRP KO mice (ANOVA, p<0.05). In MEF cells exposed to TGF-β, pre-incubation with rmCIRP significantly induced the expression of fibrotic genes compared to pre-incubation with PBS (Col1a2, α-SMA, MMP2, and MMP9, p<0.05).
Conclusion: eCIRP enhances TGF-β signaling in fibroblasts and induction of fibrotic process pulmonary tissue. The detailed mechanism by which this enhancement occurs is now under investigation. The results suggest a role for eCIRP in the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis.


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Tengku Adnan, Malaysia's Tourism Minister have been making headlines in the blogsphere recently regarding his comments about Malaysian blogger, especially women blogger. Read Nuraina's blog to understand the chronicle event. For the complete newspaper report, go here. If you don't read Mandarin, like me, you can instead read the translated version. Read here and here to read what some of our heavyweight bloggers have to say.
Posts that contain Tengku Adnan per day for the last 30 days.
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Today we check out the last play in our lineup, iLove by Strangeloop Company Member Maria Burnham:
A woman is attacked on the train platform and has her iPhone stolen. Pushed down the stairs in the process, she wakes up in the hospital with a man by her side claiming to be her boyfriend, but whom she does not recognize.
Directed by Jessica Kent, iLove stars Company Member Carrie Campana as Penny, Nick Johnson as Martin and Sara Cordon as Karen Montgomery.
Loopshop is Chicago-based Strangeloop Theatre's annual short play and new works series. This year's production features a mix of short, original plays and scenes from full scripts in development — all from local playwrights.
Performances for Loopshop 7 will be at 8 p.m. on Monday, July 28, and Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at Chemically Imbalanced Theatre, 1422 West Irving Park Road, Chicago. Tickets for the show are $10 and are available at the door or online at Brown Paper Tickets.


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The BBC's highest-paid star, chat show host Jonathan Ross, is to leave the corporation in July after 13 years because he is not gay enough.
The news was announced last week, and Ross will leave his Friday night BBC1 slot in the summer, and his radio show as well. Favourites to succeed him include the extraordinarily ultra-gay Graham Norton.
Speaking about not being gay, Ross said in an interview that, although he had often thought about tampering with rear admirals, he'd never got around to it.
Ross was involved in shenanigans lasy year with the bearded freak Russell Brand, when the pair left lurid messages on the answerphone of former Fawlty Towers star, Manuel Sachs. He's from Barcelona, you know.
It's been reported that the contract Ross had with the BBC was worth £18m, so he probably won't give a fuck about leaving, and will, likely as not, end up on ITV anyway, spouting more of his lisped comments.


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There are many, many reasons we attend AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio. The bikes, the swap meet, the racing and the overall atmosphere created by motorcycle enthusiasts is an experience we don't wanna miss. We were fortunate to have worked with the good folks at the American Motorcyclist Association to help convey the vibe of VMD (see the video at the end of the post). After going through our pics, here's an alphabetical and photographic rundown of why we love attending this event.
And, if you haven't seen it yet, here's a vid we put together to give you a taste of the sights and sounds of VMD:


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Friday, June 04, 2010
Fundamental Hermeneutical AHA to have
If the reader of the Bible reads the words with the assumptions of common Christian faith, they will read it as Scripture. They will read it Christianly. If a person reads it with their denominational assumptions, they will read it and see the teachings of their denominations. And if one reads it in terms of the assumptions of the original contexts of each text, then one will read in it in terms of what it actually and originally meant.
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- Ken Schenck said...
Two important follow-up comments I've made elsewhere:
The first is in response to a question about the Holy Spirit's role in such things. My response:
"The Holy Spirit inspired the original authors to say what He wanted them to say to their original contexts. The Holy Spirit inspired the Church to come to the correct consensual interpretation of the whole. And the Holy Spirit leads specific individuals to hear direct words to them whenever He chooses."
The second is to balance out the starkness of my statements:
"I am admittedly using very stark language here in my wording. I do not really think meaning is a complete free for all. It is not quite so unlimited as I've made it sound. Text is code based on a meaning fixed by an original context, so there are some meanings that are more likely to be decoded than others. But the potentiality is vast because of the ambiguity and polyvalence of these codes. Whether we like it or not, we are the ones that have to do the decoding."


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When it comes to defending against sexual abuse or sexual assault charges of any kind, it is imperative to have an empathetic, but aggressive attorney who completely understands the intricacies of defending these type of cases. If you are a convicted pedophile or sex offender charged with new crimes, there are public safety laws and legislation concerning offender treatment plans that must be considered. These highly emotive, controversial cases require extreme focus, patience, and dedication on the part of your defense attorney. As odd as it may seem, considering she is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, Ms. Broussard has dedicated her life to making a difference in the area of sexual assault from all angles, including as a defense attorney.
Building a rapport with the prosecutors, court coordinators, and most importantly judges, is one of the most important aspects of being a good defense attorney. Ms. Broussard's highly interpersonal skills are unchallenged and she prides herself on staying engaged in the case from start to finish, working every aspect of the case and in no uncertain terms being a staunch advocate for her clients in ways felt by all.
Notwithstanding her uncanny ability to negotiate immensely favorable plea bargains, her communication and interactive skills are imperative for jury selections and jury trials. The key to a favorable jury trial begins with a successful and as fault free voir dire as possible. Sexual crimes evoke confusion, disgust and any number of misnomers and generalizations that could easily taint the jury pool. This is where effective communication is crucial because relevant issues must be clearly defined by the defense attorney during voir dire and throughout the trial.
Excellent preparation and a willingness to take tough cases is what future clients charged with sexual assault of any kind can expect when they hire the Law Office of Victoria Broussard. If you have been charged with sexual abuse or sexual assault, call me today! I will put my expertise to work and make a difference for you.
Driving While Intoxicated
Anyone reading this page who has a DWI charge, please know that the page is not intended to offend you or make you feel guilt or shame, but it is intended to bring awareness to the seriousness of drinking while intoxicated. Hopefully, if that is you, reading this webpage will convince you to never drink while intoxicated again for all the right reasons.
A wise man once said to me, "Do the right thing, the right way, for the right reason, expecting the right result, to benefit yourself, your family and your society, then you will find happiness". Also, the old timers had a saying that, "An ounce of prevention was better than a pound of cure". Interestingly enough, I don't hear this statement repeated much anymore, but it certainly bears repeating.
Getting caught drinking and driving is a preventable offense and one that is undoubtedly no laughing matter, but when something as regrettable as this occurs you need a lot of understanding and certainly maybe a bit of grace. The Law Office of Victoria Broussard will persistently attempt to put you in the light most favorable to the Prosecutor to bring about the absolute best outcome possible for you. I will make sure the prosecutor knows who you are and all the redeeming qualities you have to get you that extra bit of grace.
Although the legal system is not going to be as gracious to you as you would like, it sure helps to have someone on your side with courtroom experience and terrific people skills.
If you have been arrested for, charged with, or indicted on any of the following crimes and any crime not named, call or e-mail now for your no cost consultation:
- Drug Possession
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Upcycling, the process of creatively repurposing old items into something useful, is a great way to downsize on items you don't use by converting them into decorations, gifts and practical items. Try these ideas for ways to reuse your outdated wardrobe items.
T-Shirt Quilt: Have a stack of beloved T-shirts you can't bear to toss? Repurpose them into a quilt to combine sentimental value and practicality.
Fabric Rug: Old clothes can be made into colorful fabric yarn and knitted into a unique floor covering. (Read DIY Fabric Rug for full instructions.)
Sweater pillows: Old sweaters can be made into charming decorations by felting (washing and drying wool so it shrinks into a dense fabric) then cutting out shapes, stuffing them and stitching them together. These tiny pillows make a cute addition to gifts, or look adorable tossed in a bowl. Find a tutorial for the one pictured above from the blog Your Homebased Mom.


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The Furby Connect is set to be one of the most wished for toys this Christmas, and as it's a pricey one we are really happy to see such a good discount at Asda. Normally priced at a whopping £94.97 you can get them instead for £75.98, so that's a great saving.
This Furby Connect friend has a light-up antenna that glows when there's something new to discover in the free Furby app, including music and videos. It speaks in both Furbish and English, and it's colourful eyes display more than 150 animations to help express what Furby wants.
You can interact with your Furby Connect friend by petting, tickling, or shaking Furby, turning Furby upside down, or even moving its antenna like a joystick.
Need a rest? This Furby Connect friend comes with a sleep mask. Just put the sleep mask on, and it's good night Furby. To wake Furby up, remove the sleep mask and Furby will be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for more fun.
It all sounds very impressive and we think the kids will love it! The Furby Connect has made it on to the PlayPennies Top Toys For Christmas 2016 list, as we think it will be a bestseller.
There's no code to enter to get the 20% off Furby, as in the Spend & Save on Toys promotion that's currently running online you get that discount on all toys when you spend £50 or more online at Asda George. There's no word on when the promotion will end though, so be quick if it's on your child's Christmas list!


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"Ten miles south-west of Cairo, on the western side of the Nile, and about five miles from the river, lie the ever-memorable pyramids of Gizeh, or Jizeh. They are built on a bed of rock, one hundred and fifty feet above the level of the surrounding desert, being a projection of the Libyan chain of mountains. This elevation, their immense size, and the clearness of the atmosphere, render them visible at a great distance.
The purpose of such massive piles of almost solid masonry is scarcely yet satisfactorily discovered, it being difficult to conceive of them only as the burying-places of the kings. Many various conjectures have been entertained respecting them, but this is after all the only one supported by evidence.
The principal pyramids are three in number, that of Cheops, or Suphis, being the largest. The ascent of this on the eastern side is easy, and there is a space at the top of thirty-two feet. The stones that formed the apex have been removed, and also the outer casing of the pyramid, in order to build the numerous mosques of Cairo. (...)
A hundred thousand men are said to have been employed for twenty years in the erection, and it is reckoned to have required six million of tons of stone. The pyramids are built due north and south, and were erected in steps and terraces for the convenience of the builders, who advanced from stage to stage by scaffolding, and smoothed the face with an outside casing as they descended. For the most part, the pyramids are solid masonry.
Caliph Mamoon, A.d. 820, first opened the great pyramid. The entrance is on the sixteenth step on the northern side, and, to deceive the seeker, it is placed twenty-eight feet from the centre. The caliph expected to find treasure, and for fear of disappointing and exasperating his workmen when no gold was found, sufficient was taken into the pyramid to cover the expenses of opening, and was then reported to be found in it. The Arabs tell a story of a statue being found in a sarcophagus, and with the statue a body, having a breastplate of gold and jewels, and an inscription in characters which no one could decipher.
There are passages and small chambers inside the pyramid, and in one of the latter the sarcophagus yet remains. When struck, it emits a sound like a bell, and from the fragments broken off by Europeans, it will very soon become transported piecemeal to Europe. It is found in one of the chambers called the king's chamber. No hieroglyphics have been discovered on it, but colonel Vyse found the name of the king from whom this pyramid is called in the stones of the upper chamber. There is space enough in the pyramid for 3,700 rooms of the size of the king's chamber, leaving the contents of every second chamber solid by way of separation.
The second pyramid, that of Cephrenes, is very similar to the first. It was opened by Belzoni, in 1816, and a sarcophagus was found sunk in the floor, containing the bones of an ox. Both pyramids, however, had probably been long ago visited by the Arabs, and despoiled of any contents which might appear valuable.
The third pyramid was opened by colonel Vyse. It contains a chamber, with a pointed roof, in which was a stone sarcophagus, which was lost at sea by the wreck of the vessel which transported it. The wooden coffin, with the name of the king inscribed on it, is one of the most valuable antiquities deposited in the British Museum. The name of the king is Mykerinus. Although this pyramid was only about half the size of the other two, yet it was the most beautiful, as its outer casing was of granite.
Besides these three pyramids, there are several others in the same neighbourhood, of inferior dimensions, and also many tombs. In one of these tombs, probably as old as the great pyramid, are representations of persons engaged in various trades, carpenters, boatmakers, etc., and persons eating, drinking, and dancing. (...)
The fourth dynasty is one in which we begin to emerge into the light afforded by existing monuments. It is remarkable for the number of the princes of which it is composed, and for the length of their reigns. The first three kings of this dynasty were the builders of the pyramids of Gizeh, and around these stupendous structures, which served as their own tombs, are to be found the burying-places of their descendants and companions. The names of the builders, in harmony with Manetho's list, have been discovered on the three pyramids by colonel Vyse. At this early age of the world's history, the arts of building and of design seem to have been as fully understood and as skilfully practised as in later ages."


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Isn't it crazy to think that there was a time when you needed a beefy PC to play a point and click adventure?
My uncle was always into building PC's back then, when it wasn't so simple. I bet he had this game. I used to love going over his house to see the latest stuff, but was more than happy to go home and enjoy the simplicities of my Snes and Mega Drive. It really is something how much easier it is today to build a beast PC. And how much more user friendly it is getting pretty much any game to run perfectly. The platform has come a long long way.
Of course, the PC and consoles today also have much less individual personality because everything is so standardized.
#48. Mario Kart DS
When I started this list I knew that a Mario Kart game was going to end up somewhere on it, but I wasn't entirely sure which one. The series is always great, but it doesn't make a lot of dramatic changes. We all know the mechanics of it. You drive around a track, try to knock your opponents around with a weapon or use one to defend yourself, and pray to whatever dieties you believe in that you won't get your run ruined by a blue shell. The graphics have gotten better, the tracks have gotten more plentiful, and more racers are included, but there's not many dramatic changes from installment to installment. So ultimately I decided to go with Mario Kart DS for a couple big reasons. It was the first with an online mode, which was probably the biggest one-time addtion and that added an entirely new level of competition to it (even if those fuckers who figured out snaking would always beat me). More importantly, it the first one that I actually enjoyed for more than a couple days.
My wife got me the Mario Kart DS bundle for Christmas in 2005. She was pregnant with our son and since I was determined to save every dime I had for his arrival I'd pretty much stopped buying games. So she figured she'd get me this and it would keep me occupied. I had my doubts because at that time I wasn't real impressed with the DS (lord knows I was wrong about that since it would go on to be arguably my favorite gaming system ever), and I didn't care too much about Mario Kart. But I gave it a chance, and it was a game changer for me. I was quickly addicted and always wondered if I missed out by not giving the earlier games a more series try. It was also the reason I finally figured out what the hell Wifi was. In order to race online I quickly familiarized myself with it and for a while I'd either go to McDonalds which was offering it or if I sat outside on my porch I could leach a signal from a neighbor. Not long afterwards I realized I actually had a wifi modem that an earlier internet provider gave me and I never took the time to figure out. So yeah, once that was set up this game was pure bliss.
#47. Punch Out (Wii)
I started making this list back in July, and once I settled on everything I really didn't make too many changes to it. Writing it all out has taken longer than I first anticipated (plus Dragon Quest 11 has filled up a lot of time I thought I'd use to write), and as a result sometimes I forget what games are on it. Case in a point, two weeks ago my wife had a friend over and they were having some girly feely emotional conversation, so I excused myself to my office where my Wii U and decided to boot up Punch Out since it's a great game to kill a short amount of time with. By the time I had gone against Great Tiger I was REALLY getting into it again and I started to wonder how I could have left it off of my list. So I double checked, and of course it was there. Why wouldn't it? This is one of the great pure video game experiences of all time.
Punch Out is about one thing - recognizing patterns. The controls are simple enough with just a few punches, dodges, and blocks, but it's all about how you use them and knowing when to break out the right move. Of course if that was the only thing Punch Out had it would get a little old, but the cast of fighters you go against is the perfect presentation for the controls. Each fighter has a distinct style and personality. Some you even feel a little bad that you have to give them a black eye. And Punch Out's greatest gift to us was of course Title Defense mode. Just when you thought you had the game beat, now you have to prove you can keep the championship and each fighter comes back with new moves and jacked up (possibly on steriods in Soda Popinski's case). It added a new level of fun and difficulty to an already great game.
#46. L.A. Noire
Ahhhh L.A. Noire, my imperfect masterpiece. Sure the interogations and questioning were flawed and became counter-intutive when the played already figured out where things were headed before Cole did. Yes, the final scavenger hunt homicide case was futile as hell. And it's tough to argue that the game's story didn't kind of collapse on itself at the end showing that things got very rushed at the end of development. All of that stuff is easy to overlook when you see all the other things that this game does so very right.
The mood and the setting of post-war LA is completely nailed to a tee. You can see the signs of properity all around while grime and crime fill in the cracks. The characters are interesting running the gamut from cops that just don't care to others that are genuinally corrupt. And even as flawed as some of them are, you always kind of regret getting moved on to other desk where you don't get to work with them again. The cases and investigations though. When they're good, and most of them genuinally are, they're amazing experiences. They feel like classic detective movies and tv shows from the 50's and 60's (hell they even borrow their names in some instances), but with a little more seediness added to them for modern audiences.
And the last thing to note is how sad I am that Team Bondi was run by a group of douchenozzles. I'd love nothing more than to play their follow-up title, Whore of the Orient, and see what they could have done with lessons learned from this title. Sadly, due to a myriad of poor management decisions that doesn't look like we'll see it. Then again, who knows? Maybe Rockstar will find someone else to make it. A man can dream.
Punch Out was really fun. One of my favorites on the Wii. L.A. Noire was cool too. I'd actually like to replay it one day.
I still have Punch-Out for the Wii sitting on the shelf yet to be played. I really should get to it one of these days. I loved the SNES game.
Punch out games are all great.
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I still have Punch-Out for the Wii sitting on the shelf yet to be played. I really should get to it one of these days. I loved the SNES game.
That might be the best one.
#45. Kingdom Hearts
Disney and Final Fantasy... when the original Kingdom Hearts was announced everyone thought it was one of the worst ideas of all time, and everyone was wrong. The combination turned out one of the most amazing games we'd ever seen. It was so much better than it had any right to be. What could have been just a blow-off game that would have sold fine just due to the names involved turned out to be an absolute classic that spawned one of the most byzantine storylines of all time (that's another story entirely though). Now before I go completely overboard let me first say Kingdom Hearts 2 is by far a better game. The story did start to go off the rails, but the controls and camera which could get kind of nightmarish in the original were much better this time around. The original will still be my favorite for three big reasons.
- The sheer novelty of seeing my Disney and Final Fantasy characters in one game for the first time was just wonderfully incomprehensible and that could never be repeated again.
- It had the best line-up of classic Disney characters of any of the KH games.
- It played it during a very rough spot in my life and it was a godsend.
That third point is pretty important here. When KH first came out I was going through one of the worst financial stresses of my life. From the second half of 2003 to the end of 2004 I was struggling to just keep the lights on and food on the table. There wasn't a lot of gaming going on for me at that time, and I sold off most of my games just to get by. But as that mess was coming to an end I was able to get my hands on an extra $20 which was enough for a used copy of Kingdom Hearts, and I played that fucker like nothing else. I'm rarely go the completionist route, but this game was rich in content so I completely dove in. I found every dalmation, fought every optional mini-boss, and build the most elaborate gummi ships the world has ever seen. Not only was it all but, but as an extra bonus I got that super kick-butt secret ending too. It definitely kept me occupied and pretty happy during a rough patch and for that the original Kingdom Hearts will always be a god-tier game to me.
Just recently played KH again, and shit, it may be a bit rough here and there, but that double dose of Square and Disney magic more than makes up for it. I still need to play KH2 before the sequel comes out.
#44. Final Fantasy V
Final Fantasy V was for a while my biggest video game obsession. Maybe the biggest I've ever had. The first time I got on the internet was the end of 1995 and being a Squaresoft fanboy at the time the first thing I did an Infoseek search for was Final Fantasy. After clicking a few links it didn't take long before I discovered that I had been lied to for the past 5 years. There were in fact 6 Final Fantasy games, and not 3. The one that caught my eye though was Final Fantasy V. After seeing that there were like 18 different character classes to choose from, I was sold. I needed it. The chances of it coming to America were slim though. Over the next two years a rumor about it being released in the US as "Final Fantasy Extreme" came and went. And I tried playing a very poor early fan translation on an early version of SNES9x, the choice SNES emulator of the time. That barely ran on my PC though. So in 1997 I finally broke down and found an import game store that would send me the game for $90.00. And it was worth every penny.
Playing the game was an adventure. It was in Japanese so I had to track down and print a translation of the script. I also had the game shipped right before spring break so I could play it during my week off from college. Funny story about that too. My girlfriend and I had rented a cabin to spend the week in, and you'd think two college age kids would more or less spend it having sex, but unfortunately she was a virgin and was set on holding onto it like.... a virgin holding onto her virginity?? Fuck it, it's late and I'm stuck for a metaphor. Point is I didn't have sex that week so with an english script in hand I tackled FFV, and just about beat it before the week was over. It was a fun but difficult experience. Years later, I got the GBA version that had a good translation and conquored that, all the while having sex with my wife...who wasn't a virgin. Anyway it all worked out, and the game is probably still my favorite Final Fantasy game to this day.
I wanted to like Kingdom Hearts, but it really only seemed to have fan service going for it. At some point I gave up. Maybe I'll try it again someday.
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I wanted to like Kingdom Hearts, but it really only seemed to have fan service going for it. At some point I gave up. Maybe I'll try it again someday.
I think that's a completely legitimate opinion if you only play the first one, and particularly only part of it. The first half of Kingdom Hearts is a very uneven experience. Very much like the developers were still trying to figure out what to do with the game. Particularly in Wonderland, Tarzan's Jungle and parts of Agrabah, it really feels like you're just wandering around trying to trigger events to make the plot move forward. The second half of the game is a much smoother experience.
if you ever wanted to give it a second try though, I would probably suggest just skip the first and go straight into Kingdom Hearts 2.5. As I said before it is the better game for a number of reasons. It just didn't have the same impact as the original.
#43. Ms. Pac-Man
Ms. Pac-Man wasn't the first game I ever played, but it was the first game I played a lot of. When I was four years old, Christopher, my new best friend moved into the neighborhood. I wouldn't figure it all out until years later but Christopher's family was a little different than everyone else in the neighborhood because his dad (or step-dad rather) worked for the local mob. He seemed fairly high up too. As a fringe benefit of being in the mob, they always had a lot of cool stuff in their house including a pool table, Space Invader's pinball, and a couple stand-up arcade game including Ms. Pac-Man. Pac-Man fever was still running high so this was always the go-to game for us. We'd have to stand up on chairs to see the screen, but that didn't stop us. Neither of us was particularly good. Once in a blue moon we'd make it to the 3rd level (the banana and pear level) and then speculate what color the future levels would be and what kind of fruit Ms. Pac-Man would get to eat.
It's also been an omnipresent game. I don't think there's ever been a time where I went more than a year without seeing it show up somewhere. And for good reason. It was an excellent game, even better than the original. Any time I come across it I'll still toss in a quarter and play it. Even played just over a week ago at a local comic book shop as a matter of fact. It's just as good as ever, even if I'm not quite as good as I was back in the day.
Yeah the first few hours of Kingdom Hearts are brutal. Back in the early 00's I didn't mind though. Starts slow as hell.
robio said:The second one is arguably even worse in that regard though. The intro segment in Twilight Town is so freaking slow. Granted it doesn't last too long, and the game immediately picks up after it's over, but got it was slow. kind of makes you wonder if we're going to get something like that again in Kingdom Hearts 3.
It's funny you mention that, because that was the only part of KH2.5 I played before switching to Persona 5. But I think I got past it so when I go back to the game, hopefully that's where the real shit starts.
God, Wonderland and Tarzan's Jungle were awful. I think I probably quit the game about five times during those stages. Thank goodness the rest is better.


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A relatively recent change in some leading blogs is leading to lots of teeth knashing and annoyances. Its not just a UI issue, or a journalism issue, or an SEO issue… its also about greed.
The latest post on this issue is from Louis Gray but you can see it on any recent post at TechCrunch.com or Engagdet.com.
Basically, almost half the links in their entries link back to category or tag pages in their site, instead of the obvious target. So, for example, the links above to Engadget would actually not take you from my site to www.engadget.com, but instead to another page on this site listing other entries I've written about Engadget. If you click on a link which looks like an external site, you naturally expect to go there. And if its ambiguous, say a story about a person or a place, the hotlink text should say where it's linking you, either through a symbol or in the hypertext itself.
Ryan Block, the editor of Engadget, has posted his explanation of why he does this but it reads as you'd expect: a dancing around the issue and a defense of a practice which is reflects a pure greed: keeping people on your site when they don't expect to go creates new pageviews, and therefore ad impressions. If you want to help users, you make sure your links clearly communicate where they are going.
I enjoy reading Techcrunch and Engagdget, and its a quandry. Because I hate supporting sites which do scummy things. Let's hope the noise get's them to change their practices. If you are writing about events and items which are not part of your enterprise or organization, and you include a link, readers expect such a link to direct them to another source, or even the actual home of the event or item. If you want to direct people inwards, simply use the language and give users a clue that you are sending them to the archive. Its easy to do… and because its so easy, the choice not to do so is very telling.
Look, there are lots of scummy things out there (did you see the free page counters who hide 3rd party links in your pages to get free search ranking increases?) and this is not worth hurting people over. We just all expect better from the leading bloggers ("they're just like us, only they make money from this stuff!") so when they abuse their position or our trust, it feels worse than if some desperate newspaper does similar tricks.
PS: Even the big guys dislike it: Look at Jeremy Wagstaff's post entitled Sleazy Practices.
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|CIP device
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The CIP device was a module specifically designed to breach the Classified Infrastructure Portal firewall. The CIP firewall protected most major U.S. infrastructure (telecommunication, transportation, and power grids); if it were breached, they would all be vulnerable to hacking. It was created by a captured Michael Latham at the behest of Sangalan war criminal Iké Dubaku. The device was used to perpetrate two terrorist attacks against the United States in an attempt to coerce President Allison Taylor into calling off the US invasion of Sangala. However, the device was destroyed during an undercover operation to capture Dubaku.
Before Day 7 Edit
For eight weeks prior to Day 7, a crew of mercenaries (working directly for Iké Dubaku) was stealing numerous software and hardware required to build the CIP device. Gabriel Schector was responsible for forging access cards which the thieves used to gain entry to the facilities. ("Day 7: 8:00am-9:00am")
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Michael Latham, the chief engineer of the CIP firewall, was one of the few people who could build the CIP device. At 8:01am, he was kidnapped by the same mercenaries (led by Tony Almeida) and forced to work on the device. At 8:09am, Latham finished building the CIP module, and it was used by Almeida to hack into Northeast Air Traffic Control's systems. One of the mercenaries cut off their communication with Global Skies Airlines Flight 117 and Sunrise International Flight 35 and, pretending to be an ATC operator, directed the two flights into a collision course at JFK International Airport. However, Almeida instructed the pilot of Flight 117 to pull up, just as he was about to collide with Flight 35. He then called the supervisor of Northeast 3, warning that this was only a demonstration of what the CIP device was capable of. At 9:34am, Almeida's superior, David Emerson, delivered the device to Iké Dubaku at his base of operations inside the Ritter Building. ("8:00am-9:00am", "9:00am-10:00am")
Dubaku contacted President Taylor and warned that he would use the device to kill American citizens unless she withdrew all U.S. armed forces from around Sangala. When he had yet to receive any indication that the president was complying with his demands, he decided to make good on his threat. He had his technician hack into the ATC systems and direct flights 131 and 471 into a collision course. At 1:26pm, Flight 131 collided with Flight 471, killing everyone aboard both aircraft. With the president still refusing to give in to Dubaku's demands, he decided to utilize the CIP device again, this time targeting the Boyd Chemical Plant in Kidron, Ohio. ("10:00am-11:00am", "1:00pm-2:00pm")
Dubaku's technician caused the safety valves on the primary storage tank—which contained over 3,000 gallons of methyl isocyanate (MIC)—to fail and began raising the pressure on the tank itself. This would have eventually caused it to erupt, releasing the deadly insecticide into the atmosphere. Prevailing winds would have swept the cloud over Kidron, which would have killed over 50% of its population. The plant manager, John Brunner, entered the primary tank room and manually released some of the pressure, buying some time for his employes to evacuate. However, the CIP intrusion was cut short when undercover operatives (including Jack Bauer, Tony Almeida, Bill Buchanan, and Renee Walker) infiltrated the Ritter Building in an attempt to capture Dubaku. The CIP device was dropped and destroyed in an ensuing gunfight. Brunner was the only one killed during the Boyd chemical plant intrusion, but thirteen other employees were hospitalized. ("2:00pm-3:00pm")


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The girls of Westwood, I'll miss seeing you. Marilyn. Natalie. Peggy. Farrah. Donna. Eve. Eva. When friends and family visited us, one of my fav spots to show them was this gem with walking distance. Now our house is in escrow, we're downsizing to move closer to the beach! Sure, we'll miss some neighbors, but I'll REALLY miss this cemetery.
You can walk to the Westwood Mortuary from our soon-to-be-sold home. A postage-stamp sized cemetery not visible from the street, this venue is tucked behind high-rises on Wilshire Boulevard, towering condos, the library and a neighborhood of homes. A few steps in, magically the traffic noise is gone, muffled by structures. You whisper as you slowly poke around, gingerly walking among headstones of some very famous folks.
Actors a-plenty. Rockers. Beach Boys. Talk show hosts. TV faces and movie darlings. Many old; some tragically quite young.
There are plenty of guys to visit, too. Merv. Walter. Carl. Dean-o. Bob. Don. Frank. Eddie. Roy. Mr. Magoo. You can read extensively about those who are buried there.
And then there's Jack Lemmon, whose burial Larry and I mucked up a teensy bit, unintentionally. There is a movie theater in one of the high-rises, and when we walked there some years ago and arrived early, we went to the cemetery. Strolling in, we only saw a couple of business-suit-clad guys. We meandered. They watched. We sat. They watched us. Finally, making our way to the exit, one asked if we were visiting someone. "No, just looking around." "OK, are you leaving now?" "Yes." (What's HIS nosey business??) Back to the theater on Wilshire Blvd., we were surprised to see quite a few TV cameras right outside. "What's going on??" I asked. "Jack Lemmon's funeral." OH LORDY, the guests were waiting in the tiny chapel for us tourists to leave. Next day, I wrote a card to Mrs. Lemmon apologizing. Made me feel a little better.
Non-celebrities, like Clementine Brown, also reside here. She's my all time favorite headstone – 1912. I like the font and graphic – a lady crying into her hands.
Yes, there is still room here for you if you want to rest in peace, somewhat unpeacefully. It is a stop for tourists, but never crowded. Just take an hour or two and you are done. It is a bit kooky, too, with no rhyme or reason as to how headstones are placed, all catawampus.
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So checking in.. I have made it home after my 5 week North Shore, Hawaiian Surf adventure. Rather battered, scraped and bruised. But safe, happy & content none the less.
This trip definitely has taken the cake for one of the best trips i've done thus far!.. Increadible location, powerful, challenging waves & amazing people! Truely blessed & greatful for the experience!
Here are a couple fun shots from my pal Sacha Spex! Will get together the rest of the shots & swing them your way.
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text: Thanks for the response Falko, Glad to hear about the language thing not being a issue. I had read in one of my books that Debian was created by a gentleman from Germany, so I just assumed it was German in origin lol Now onto the commands you pasted. When I try to download those debs I get 404 errors. I poked around the folder trees and just couldn't find those deb files. I did find the same file name on Google. http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu//pool/universe/q/quotatool/quotatool_1.4.10-1_amd64.deb Since Ubuntu is Debian based would these files work? Thanks as always, Scott


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RYAN Turner's 21st and 22nd goals of the season capped Barnstaple Town's 2015 off with a hard-fought win against Cadbury Heath.
Well known for their attacking style and bags of goals, Town showed their fighting ability to grind out a 3-1 win against an impressive Cadbury outfit.
Scott Huxtable added to Turner's first to send the home side in 2-0 at the break, but Heath captain Matt Huxley halved the arrears shortly after half-time to give his side a chance.
But the free-scoring Turner had other ideas, sealing the win with a brilliant strike to send Barnstaple into the new year in third place.
It wasn't quite the 50 seconds it took against Odd Down two weeks ago, but Barnstaple stamped their authority after just five minutes of this game when Liam Gregory's quick throw found Turner in the box, he dummied once and coolly slotted home.
But Cadbury weren't prepared to just lie down, and two testing crosses – one from George Boon and the other from Jamie Horgan – were inches away from finding a finishing touch.
The visitors' 16th-place position was seemingly a false one on the basis of the first 25 minutes, Matt Britton drilled one just too high, Boon hit his effort straight at Steve Oliver and Huxley somehow missed his kick from less than six-yards out.
There was a feeling that Barnstaple would make Heath pay for their missed opportunities, and they did just that in the 36th minute – and in some style.
Shaun Copp, Lee Francis and a lovely flick from Jed Harper-Penman helped switch it from left to right and feed Huxtable who drove the ball into the far corner.
Without the usual pairing of James Mayne and Aaron Harper-Penman (both suspended) in front of him, Oliver was only tested once in the first half, when he turned Huxley's fierce strike round the post after 41 minutes.
Cadbury got exactly the kind of start to the second half they needed when their skipper rolled his man in the box and hit it into the corner three minutes in.
The comeback was almost complete a minute later when Kristian Lee shot just wide and they came even closer after 53 minutes but Aaron Thorne saw his effort flash inches over.
After an edgy start to the second period, Barnstaple grew in confidence as Turner led the charge and played in Francis on the far side to fire just past the post.
A third for Barnstaple seemed just around the corner as Jack Jenkins hit the side netting and Turner's deflected shot was saved by Tom Drewitt.
And that goal did arrive with 12 minutes left on the clock as Turner got his second of the game.
There didn't appear to be much on when the 22-goal hitman picked the ball up on the right hand side, but he ran the line and curled a super effort into the far corner to wrap up the three points.
Town still had time to hit the woodwork, twice, as substitute Will Nicholls powered a header against the top of the bar before it looped up and hit the same spot on the way back down.
Barnstaple Town (4-4-2): Steve Oliver; Scott Huxtable, Josh Phillips, Niall Heeney, Liam Gregory; Jed Harper-Penman (Ross Jones 61), Jack Jenkins, Lee Francis (C), Shaun Copp (Steve Holland 68); Ryan Turner (Will Nichols 80), Dave Pearse. Subs not used: Jimmy Thorne.
Cadbury Heath (4-4-2): Tom Drewitt; Aaron Thorne, Aaron Day, Callum Whooley (Mitch Norman 86), Harry Price; Jamie Horgan, Kristian Lee, Matt Britton, George Boon; Simon Mcelroy (Joe Guest 45), Matt Huxley (C). Subs not used: Andy Black.
Attendance: 167
Referee: Marc Whaley


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Will Your Relationship Last? 9 Signs You'll Be With Someone For The Long Haul
Even if you're in a long-term relationship, it's totally normal to occasionally worry about the future. Especially as friends and family around you starts to get married and settle down, you may start to wonder if you're in it for the long haul.
Because dating with someone for a long time can be a BFD — it can change who you are as a person. "Long-term relationships will change you — either for better or for worse," Jianny Adamo, Counselor and Certified Relationship Coach at Fearless Love, tells Bustle. "Love has the power to transform us, so hopefully we have chosen well and picked a partner that can grow with us. [Their] friends and family become our friends and family and vice versa. Their debts or assets will either take or give to our relationship. Their ability to support, listen [to], and cherish us will be wind in our sail, but if they tend to criticize, invalidate and can't hear you, this will take from you." It's huge. And there's a big difference between being with someone for a few years or for, well, forever.
But how can you know if your built for the long haul? Well, it's time to be really honest about your relationship. Life is unpredictable, but here are the signs that you've got a strong relationship foundation for the future.
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1. Your Partnership Is Equal
It's so important you feel like you're an equal part of the relationship. "You should also look for someone who cares about you at least as much as they care about themselves," psychologist Nikki Martinez tells Bustle. "That your happiness is their happiness, and that they love you, and will take care of your needs as they arise and never complain about it."They just do it out of love. Kindness, surprise, selflessness, are all good qualities." If it's a one-sided relationship it won't last — and it shouldn't.
2. Your Values Are Synced
Are your values all lined up with your partner's? "Every relationship involves compromise, but if values are too different, it may be time to end the relationship and move on," Kimberly Hershenson, a licensed therapist, tells Bustle.
3. You Factor Each Other Into Your Futures
A good sign that you're in it for the long haul is that you're thinking about a future together. Even if you're not planning it out year by year, somewhere they're in your head. "If you're intentionally — or even subconsciously — not wanting your partner to participate in your plans, it may be time for you both to move on," Hershenson says.
4. There Are Small Signs That They're Thinking Of You
It's not all about big romantic gestures. "You need to look for the random acts of consideration and kindness," Martinez says. "These are the things that will last you. For example, my toilet paper and paper towels have been magically refilled since a month into dating my husband." It's the day-to-day things that matter in the long run.
5. You've Fought
... and made it out the other side. "The one thing you should look for in a relationship is good conflict resolution skills," Dr. Fran Walfish, Beverly Hills child, parenting, and relationship psychotherapist tells Bustle. "People are generally great at communicating the warm and fuzzy stuff. But when it comes to working out the kinks and differences of opinion that lead to unpleasant fighting, most folks gets stuck."
If you "never" fight, it's time to assess whether you're really being honest with each other. Learn how to disagree honestly and constructively and move past it.
6. You Can Talk About ANYTHING
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7. You Have Your Own Life
As long as you have your core values in sync, you should have a strong life outside of your partner. "Compatibility is one of those things that you need on some level to make it through the long haul," Matchmaker and dating coach Karenna Alexander tells Bustle. "Having compatibility when it comes to inner qualities — like one's values — is the most important thing. Hobbies and surface characteristics — like vacation preferences or decor preferences — are less important." And in fact, they're a great opportunity to main some independence because a co-dependent relationship just doesn't have the longevity to last. Separate interests and having time alone are necessary.
8. You Can Be Quiet Together
Over the years, there's going to be some down time, so it's important to be OK with silence. "How well do you and your partner do silence?" clinical hypnotherapist, author and educator Rachel Astarte, who offers transformational coaching for individuals and couples at Healing Arts New York, asks Bustle. "In other words, can you both comfortably share downtime without words, without a task to perform… without the need to interact and relate? Even mutual meditation counts as a task. If you and your partner can experience silence together without feeling freaked and worried that something is wrong or — an even bigger red flag — feeling bored, then that's a good sign you can stand side by side on life's unpredictable journey."
9. You Can Compromise
You can't both get what you want all the time — and compromise is key to success. "The ability to compromise is a crucial component of any relationship," dating expert Noah Van Hochman tells Bustle. "It may seem as though in a great relationship everything is always perfect, but how many of those relationships do you know of? And more importantly, if everything always went along seamlessly in a relationship, then where would the attraction and growth come from?" If you know how to meet in the middle, it's a very good sign for your relationship.
Committing to someone for the long haul is difficult, but it can help to know if your relationship has what it takes to go the distance. Be honest with yourself because staying together means having a strong relationship in the first place.