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Students who park vehicles on University property must purchase and display SIU Edwardsville parking permits on their vehicles. Permits are available by mail or through the Parking Services website (see Online Services section). If students purchase online and choose to post the charge to their student accounts, they are exempt from paying the online service charge. Please note that to charge your permit to your student account, you must purchase online. You may not do so in the Parking Services office.
Residents of Cougar Village and Woodland/Prairie/Bluff/Evergreen Halls are required to purchase, for each vehicle registered, residential (yellow) permits. Only one residential permit may be issued for each single student; two permits may be issued per family apartment.
Students displaying residential Cougar Village permits on their vehicles may park in any of the parking areas reserved specifically for residents at Cougar Village. They may also park in the residence hall lots or any of the red permit lots. Residents may not park in areas that are designated for staff or University vehicles. A map displaying Cougar Village parking lots may be found in the University Housing Living Guide.
Students displaying residence hall parking permits may park their vehicles in the WH, PH, BH or EH lot or any of the red permit lots. They are also honored in Lot 4A or 5A at Cougar Village.
Students may also participate in a "lottery" for a limited number of Green permits. Registration is conducted prior to the beginning of fall semester. Parking Services establishes the dates for lottery registration annually. If you are successful in the lottery, a Housing sticker will be affixed to that permit by Parking Services, so that it will be honored in the residential lots.
If an individual is found guilty of parking hangtag misuse, he/she may be charged with a Class A Misdemeanor punishable by serving up to one year in the Madison County Jail and/or up to a $2,500 fine.
Parking Services distributes email correspondence to students annually reminding them to purchase permits for the upcoming academic year. Included is information about registration deadlines, prices, purchasing permits by mail or the Internet and the criteria for purchasing specific types of permits. A copy of the most recent email communication can be accessed here (which will download a PDF file).
Parking permits purchased at any time for the fall and/or spring semesters are at full price. Permits are reduced to half price for summer term. Between July 15 and the first day of the fall semester, permits for both the current and the upcoming academic years are honored when appropriately displayed on registered vehicles. Also, fall and spring semester permits are honored during the succeeding summer term.
Each permit must be displayed with the permit number facing outward from the rear-view mirror of the vehicle. If it won't fit there, display it in a visible location on the dash. Motorcycle owners may display permits in locked cases on their bikes. If they also own cars or trucks, they are permitted to display permits inside the cases from their rearview mirrors.
Please remove your permit from your rearview mirror when you are operating your vehicle. To not do so is a violation of the Illinois Vehicle Code which states "No person shall drive a motor vehicle with any objects placed or suspended between the driver and the front windshield, rear window, side wings or side window immediately adjacent to each side of the driver which materially obstructs the driver's view."
Students may obtain a Parking Permit Registration Form by clicking on the Forms page of the website. They are also available in the Parking Services office. Please note that there are no refunds for permits once they have been purchased.
Students who have permanent or temporary state-issued disability hangtags, parking cards or plates are also required to purchase and display SIU Edwardsville parking permits in order to use parking spaces for individuals with a disability on University property. Vehicles with appropriate permits may be parked in handicap spaces only when individuals with a disability are the driver or passenger in the vehicle.
For a short-term disability, 30-day temporary permits may be issued by the University. The purchase of a current SIU Edwardsville permit is also required. An SIUE disability permit does not authorize an individual to park in a space for individuals with a disability. Rather, Parking Services works to provide these individuals with more convenient parking than they would normally have.
If the individual does not have a physician's statement, he or she must first go to Health Service, then to Parking Services. If the employee already has a physician's statement, he or she may go directly to Parking Services. Individuals are permitted to park in non-wheel chair designated and non-metered spaces (except those for University vehicles) in lot of choice.
Should the need persist after 30 days, the individual may request (2) more 30-day temporary disability permits with a new doctor's note for each additional permit. For high risk pregnancies, a 90-day temporary disability permit may be issued if supported by a doctor's note.
If you are interested in forming a carpool, the first step is to get a group (2 individuals or more) together and register with Ridefinders (http://www.ridefinders.org), a division of Madison County Transit. After your carpool is approved by that agency, your group must come to Parking Services to obtain a hangtag. One hangtag will be issued per carpool. Each member will be required to purchase a green permit at half price for up close parking in the green lots. One person would be required to serve as the "lead" person. That individual would also be responsible for any tickets issued to the carpool permit. Carpool members may purchase temporary permits on days when they need to drive themselves. Should someone leave the carpool or the carpool dissolves, individuals would be required to pay the difference between whatever permit they are requesting and the amount paid for the carpool permit.
If a student needs a replacement permit, he or she may complete a form in Parking Services stating that the permit has been lost. If the permit was stolen, a police report must be filed with University Police. if lost, a replacement permit may be purchased for $20. If stolen, a replacement will be issued at no cost. Only one replacement permit will be issued per year. Additional permits will be at full permit value.
If an individual forgets or misplaces his or her permit, a temporary permit may be obtained from Parking Services. A temporary permit authorizes parking in a lot corresponding to the permit originally purchased. The rate is $3 per day. Until a temporary permit can be obtained, the motorist may pay to park at a meter or pay machine. Temporary permits may be purchased online.
Evening permits are sold to students with evening classes and are valid for parking in Lots A, E or F after 3:00 P.M. Monday through Friday or in the Red permit lots anytime. Permits may be purchased online. Only one Evening permit may be issued to an individual.
Motorcycles and mopeds must also be registered through Parking Services. Designated motorcycle parking is located in most lots. Only one motorcycle may be parked in a single space. Motorcycles may not be parked in automobile spaces on the Edwardsville campus wtih the exception of "pay by space" spots, provided payment is made. Each motorcycle must be parked in a lot which corresponds to the color of the permit. The permit must be displayed in a lockable case available through Parking Services. The initial case is free; additional cases are available for $20. Properly registered motorcycles and mopeds may be parked in automobile spaces on the Alton and East St. Louis campuses.
Special permits are available for individuals taking non-credit classes through the Office of Educational Outreach. These permits must be ordered at least two weeks in advance of the start date of the non-credit class and are not available to current SIUE students and/or employees. Permits are day, time, and lot specific.
Non-permit holding students who normally use other means of transportation (i.e. bus, bicycle, car pool) or who live on campus and occasionally may need to drive a vehicle to campus may park in the Red (student) or Yellow (residential) lots for $3 per day. Permits are available at Parking Services or online.
Overnight parking is permitted in the Woodland, Prairie, Bluff or Evergreen Hall and Cougar Village parking lots. Authorized overnight guests at Cougar Village or Woodland/Prairie/Bluff/Evergreen Hall may park in areas normally reserved for residents.
Non-residential students on official University business which requires them to leave vehicles on campus overnight may do so at the Supporting Services parking lot (Lot S). Each individual is also asked to provide University Police with a description of the vehicle and the estimated time and date of return. Private vehicles should not be parked in University fleet vehicle spaces, however.
No parking will be permitted in the tunnel between Rendleman Hall and the Morris University Center.
Occupied vehicles are permitted to stop along Hairpin Drive in designated areas for the sole purpose of dropping off and/or picking up riders. Parking, even when the vehicle is occupied, is not permitted and will result in a fine being issued. The exceptions are prospective students and their parents parked in the Admission Counseling/Campus Tour section with appropriate permits.
Individuals with current Red (student) or Yellow (resident) permits may park in Lots 1, 2, 3 and Lot F after 3:00 p.m. This permits students to park closer to the campus core in the evening.
Parking Services reserves the right to revoke parking privileges for any violation.
Residence Drive is an emergency vehicle access drive and must remain clear. Residents may use the 30-minute meters located off Residence Drive for loading and unloading. This time limit is strictly enforced.
There is open parking for students in the Red and Yellow lots the first week of the semester and the week prior to it. There is also open parking in the Red and Yellow lots during semester break periods when classes are not in session.


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A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I didn't hate this book, nor did I love it. It was kind of short at a little over 300 pages. It read quickly because all the separate thoughts and plot points were broken up by a double space. The story was kind of quirky and sometimes funny, I thought some of the best bits were between Alan and the doctor.
Anyway, I wouldn't normally keep this book, but it was signed by Dave Eggers so I feel like I should hang onto it.
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US women Under-23 hoops camp opens with top college players
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) While the women's college basketball season may still be a few months away, most of the top returning players are spending this week at the inaugural Under-23 USA Basketball training camp.
''I don't know if I've ever seen such a great collection of college talent in the same place on the women's side,'' UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. ''They've done it on the men's side a few times with select teams playing against the pros, but never on the women's side.''
Auriemma, who led the U.S. to gold medals at the past two Olympics, was a guest speaker to the opening training session Monday night. His talk had nothing to do with the X's and O's of basketball. It was about being a good teammate and what it takes to be an Olympian.
''It's not about the points you score, but about what else you can bring to the team. Are you a good teammate?'' Auriemma said. ''No one remembers who the leading scorer was or who led the team in rebounds. It's all about whether you won or not. Everyone has pretty much the same skill set. The question is can you be a good teammate.''
Louisville coach Jeff Walz will lead the U23 team when it plays in a tournament in Japan in the middle of August. He was happy to have Auriemma address the group of 36 players before the start of practice.
''I think it's perfect. You have a lot of great college players that need to hear from someone else. They get the same rhetoric from their college coaches all the time,'' Walz said. ''Now you get the Olympic coach come in here and basically back up what we've been saying. It's important for them to hear and understand. It's not just, `What you do during a game? How do you come to practice? How do you get your teammates better?' It's so valuable to have him come and be a part of it.''
The U23 camp and team were the brain child of USA national team director Carol Callan. She was talking with her counterpart in Australia about what they could do to strengthen competition for this age group, since there is no longer a FIBA U23 tournament. The World University Games, which these players could normally play in, are being held this year at the end of August, which would make it difficult to field a team since most players are back in school and would have to miss class time.
''We wanted to find something for this group and this seems to fit perfectly,'' Callan said. ''The timing was just right with most of them done with summer school so they could make it out to the training camp.''
The players will train all week and also have a mini tournament that will culminate with a gold medal game on Friday. At the same time a group will be picked to play in the U23 tournament in Japan. Napheesa Collier, Azura Stevens, Katie Lou Samuelson and Gabby Williams of UConn, as well as Rebecca Greenwell of Duke, can't play in the Japan tournament because their schools have trips planned to Italy at the same time.
The selection committee will still have plenty of talent to choose from with the remaining players.
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Conservative opinion writers are competing in something of an arms race to see who can describe Newt Gingrich, whom most of them despise, in the most apocalyptic terms. Here's a list, from The New Yorker, of ten of the most over-the-top takedowns from the right of the former Speaker of the House and current Republican Presidential frontrunner:
- George Will: "Gingrich … embodies the vanity and rapacity that make modern Washington repulsive…. There is almost artistic vulgarity in Gingrich's unrepented role as a hired larynx for interests profiting from such government follies as ethanol and cheap mortgages. His Olympian sense of exemption from standards and logic allowed him, fresh from pocketing $1.6 million from Freddie Mac (for services as a "historian"), to say, 'If you want to put people in jail,' look at 'the politicians who profited from' Washington's environment."
- Michael Gershon: "As president, Gingrich would be forced to repudiate his previous views out of strategic necessity. But those views demonstrate a disturbing tendency: the passionate embrace of shallow ideas."
- Kathleen Parker: "[N]o one other than Callista Gingrich thinks her husband can prevail in a general election. No. One…. Instead of rallying to support him, former colleagues are going out of their way to politely say, 'He can't lead.'…. Another insider speaking to me privately was blunter: 'He's unstable, and everybody knows it, but no one wants to say it.'"
- Quin Hillyer: "[T]he power of the Gingrich surge does show, again, a lesson taught well by neo-Nazi David Duke when Duke was ascendant in Louisiana politics two decades ago. When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself, most voters rely more on what they see and hear themselves in real time than on facts, history, logic, or learned experience."
- Jonah Goldberg: "The other night while having drinks with some prominent conservatives, I said I thought there was a significant chance that Gingrich will not only win the nomination but that he might be the next president. Going by their expressions, I might as well have said I put a slow-acting poison in their cocktails."
- David Brooks: "[Gingrich] has every negative character trait that conservatives associate with '60s excess: narcissism, self-righteousness, self-indulgence and intemperance. He just has those traits in Republican form.
"As nearly everyone who has ever worked with him knows, he would severely damage conservatism and the Republican Party if nominated. He would severely damage the Hamilton-Theodore Roosevelt strain in American life."
- Ramesh Ponnuru: "[Gingrich] is still erratic…. He still has the same old grandiosity…. He still has the same need to justify his every petty move by reference to some grand theory…. He still has a casual relationship with the truth…. He still has the same penchant for sharing whatever revelation has just struck him…."
- Jennifer Rubin: "The warnings and criticisms [from conservatives] fell into four distinct categories. The first is that Gingrich isn't a staunch conservative but an opportunist who will gladly stab the right in the back for personal gain. The second is that his character is so flawed that he's not fit to hold the presidency. (Only one issue concerns his serial infidelity….) The third is that he's not the new Newt at all and continues to dissemble on everything from his lobbying work to his undermining of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). The fourth is that he made millions lobbying (yes, lobbying) for big government on behalf of clients opposed to conservative principles."
- Mona Charen: "Newt Gingrich is a bad bet because he will embarrass the Republican party. He will do so through things he has already said and done, and in ways we cannot predict except to be sure—because character will out—that they will happen."
- Joe Scarborough: "He is not a nice human being. He is a bad person when it comes to demonizing opponents. When he puts on his political helmet he is a terrible person…. Let me tell you something: the Republican establishment will never make peace with Newt Gingrich. They just won't. They won't. This is an important point. Because the Republicans I talk to say he cannot win the nomination at any cost. He will destroy our party. He will re-elect Barack Obama, and we'll be ruined."
Read the full article at The New Yorker Online…
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Chetan Bhagat's book-turned movie "2 states" is releasing this week. I have not read the book, however, the trailer and the promotions of the movie remind me of my own "2-states" marriage with my Tamilian husband. While I grew up in a typical boisterous Nepalese family, my husband grew up in a simple Tamilian Iyer family. Frankly speaking, our families as well as our upbringing are poles apart. Nepalese and Tamilians coming together is still the most preposterous idea. I still remember the looks of our relatives during our wedding – as if we had married some alien. Of course, we have had our own share of those Nepali- Madrasi stereotype remarks such as Tamilian's dark complexion and Nepali's small nose. My favourite is someone commenting that our kid would be a "Kaala- Chinki". And it goes on…!
A cross-cultural marriage does have its own share of challenges as well as opportunities. First, when you marry your spouse, you also marry his or her culture, which influences every aspects of marriage. It is not that we do not have cross-cultural conflicts. Be it the acceptance by your spouse's families and relatives, struggle with spouse's language or a simple social interaction in our day to day life- there are several factors that couples of cross-culture marriages face. However, such differences can be easily overcome if the couples can leverage cultural strengths, and have a shared identity enabled with mutual love and respect (not only for each other, but also for each other's roots). Here are my three key experiences from my cross-cultural marriage:
- "Accept and respect. We are all different": While I and my husband are enjoying both Tamilian and Nepali traditions, our cross-culture marriage has worked well for our families as well. First, they became aware of another culture, and second, they got an opportunity to travel, which they would not have if we had not got married. Over the years, we have all learnt to respect each other's traditions. Today, when I enjoy Pongal festival as a Tamilian Bahu, my husband equally enjoys Dasain festival as a Nepali Juwai. Undoubtedly, our cross-cultural marriage has exposed us to new foods. I am not a foodie per se, but I am a voracious eater when it comes to my mother-in-law's Madrasi dish, particularly, her Sambhar Vada. Likewise, my husband loves my mother's MoMo. While I love attending Carnatic music shows in Tamil Nadu, my husband does not miss a chance to go for paragliding in the mountains whenever he is in Nepal. Particularly, he loves those boisterous Nepali parties with lots of alcohol and food. In short, we are living a life enjoying two cultures.
- "Happiness is…learning a new language": Between us, we have four languages: English, Hindi, Nepalese and Tamil. Trust me, those moments are extremely romantic when your spouse (who does not know your language) tries to speak in your language. While we amuse each other when we try to speak each other's languages, at the same time, we are also learning a new language. As they say, " You live a new life for every new language you speak."
- "No matter where you are, you are always a bit on your own, always an outsider": Both of us still belong to the society where marriages are arranged by parents purely by merit of caste, culture, and religion. No matter how understanding our parents are about our choices, we still meet relatives who are prejudiced towards us because of our appearances and background. As for example, we have Tamil-speaking or Nepali-speaking relatives. Despite our polite request if the conversation could happen in English or Hindu, at times, the other person continues in Tamil or Nepali. While such unsympathetic act rarely happens (after all, we all know that it is rude to speak in regional language in front of a foreigner), nevertheless, whenever we face such moments, we feel left out. However, such incidences also bring two of us closer as we find ourselves standing by each other and boosting each other's mental and emotional strength. I particularly admire my husband when his relative speaks in Tamil, but he ensures that he replies in English or Hindi so I understand. Though insignificant, however such small gestures from the spouse help strengthen the relationships. As they say, "Out of difficulties, grow miracles."
So these are my three experiences from my "2-states" or in my case, "2-nations" marriage . I have to mention that both I and my husband were lucky that our parents accepted our choice without any protest (of course apart from initial awkwardness). No matter how modern and independent we are, we still want our parents' blessings when we are to start our new life with our partner. It gives me an immense pain when I hear about other parents opposing children's choices. Some parents are not in speaking term with their children when they decided to go against parents' wishes. Some parents ensure that their children sacrifice their love, and marry someone else from the same caste. Many parents believe that once married, love will automatically come. Perhaps, it is true, still that emptiness in life and bitterness towards parents remain forever.
Lastly I conclude by stating that nothing matters in marriage except mutual love and admiration for each other. As they say, "Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love." South, North, East, West- nothing matters when two hearts purely and truly love each other. And I sincerely hope the movie "2-states" has done justice to the stories of thousands of cross-cultural couples like us.


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Kate Thompson: Irish. She writes a lot of books set in Ireland, viagra 40mg and I've introduced her three times before. I've got no new information on her, patient but I will provide these links: The New Policeman (the first book I read of hers and reviewed); Switchers (the second, an unrelated but vaguely speculative novel as well); Fourth World (the first volume in this series, in which we meet Christie [a boy] and his brother Danny and are introduced to their particular world of Ireland during an awful economic crisis).
Since this is the second book in the trilogy, and because there are a few big reveals in the first volume, I'm cutting plot discussion. Continue reading Only Human (Missing Link, book 2), by Kate Thompson


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Over the past 5 years many building projects have sprung up throughout the neighborhood, including several major apartment buildings, multiple additions in the Cortex Innovation District, and taking shape currently at West Pine and Kingshighway, One Hundred, a fascinating 36-story, 316-unit apartment tower designed by Chicago-based Studio Gang. While high-profile developments have garnered well-deserved attention, there are also some more modest projects underway that demonstrate the broader vitality of the neighborhood as well.
The new entry gates on Washington Place at Union are noteworthy because they reflect the extraordinary comeback—spanning over 20+ years—of the two blocks of Washington stretching from Kingshighway to Union Blvd. Over the years, adventuresome home buyers have recognized the redevelopment potential of the housing stock and have committed great energy and significant financial investment into restoring residences on these blocks.
Washington Place resident Jassen Johnson said that neighbors had been dreaming about and saving for this gate project for 10+ years. At each annual meeting the gate project would be raised but nothing was done about it, so he finally volunteered to find a way to make the dream a reality.
Johnson reached out to architectural firm UIC for design and construction help. The design, which is a modern interpretation of the original entry way, was based on 2 small existing columns that remained on the site and a photo of the original found by one of the neighbors. The new gates will include lighting and a security camera system.
Funding for the project is provided by the Washington Place Special Business District. When the design process was completed and construction bids obtained it was realized that there was a shortfall in funding to complete the project. Rather than wait, Johnson and Commissioners of the SBD secured a loan to enable the project to proceed.
There will be a neighborhood gathering/ribbon cutting shortly, once final details are completed, including installation of landscaping at the base of the gates.
Several blocks east, a three-story single-family residence is under construction in the 4400 block of Fullerton's Westminster Place, just east of Taylor.
The project (rendering above) is the work of CWE-based designer Jimmy Jamieson.
Developer Mark Mathis and his daughter Lauren are developing a 4-story apartment building at 4301 Maryland (at Boyle). The first floor consists of a 585 s.f. 1 bedroom unit, a common entry with elevator, and parking. There will be a 766 s.f. one-bedroom and an 838 s.f. two-bedroom unit on the second floor. A two-story 2,000 s.f. 3-bedroom unit with two balconies will occupy the 3rd and 4th floors. The first and second floor units include balconies as well.
An early rendering of the project is shown above. Numerous refinements were incorporated into the final design in a collaborative process between the developers and the Cultural Resources Office and the Central West End Association Planning & Development Committee. A second structure of similar design is planned for the site once this building is completed and the units leased.
The photo above, taken as construction was just underway, shows the location of the project on the west side of Boyle Ave., directly across from the Gaslight Theater and the former West End Grill & Pub.
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Find Out About the Team Swaps, Enhanced Vehicles and Driver Rankings Ahead of this April's Grand Prix
The countdown stands at less than 60 days until we hear those magic words, "Drivers, start your engines!' and 14 teams have been busy during the offseason preparing as well. Testing new cars, new drivers, new crews, this is not going to be a repeat season of the same old one bit.
This year the cars have seen many improvements during the off-season, most notably the aero-kits on the front. There have also been changes in the overall contour of the body to reduce drag even more. Five of the eight teams recently tested the newly designed cars and though it not a qualifying event, it offers an opportunity to evaluate and make modifications to the car.
In testing, the top speeds were recorded by Graham Rahal and Takuma Sato of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. Sato took the fastest lap speed of 189.855 mph, and Rahal with 189.090 mph, respectively. Sato was the fastest three out of four times during the four three-hour test sessions.
Also in testing was Scott Dixon of Chip Ganassi Racing in his new PNC Bank Honda with the addition of a windscreen which is being evaluated by Indycar. This was the first on track test of the windscreen, and there is still much more testing to be done before a decision is made by Indycar officials.
And if you did not notice that Takuma Sato is now part of the RLL team, there have also been other changes within the teams this year.
Ed Jones is now one of two drivers for Chip Ganassi Racing. In previous years CGR had a stable of four cars and drivers, but has now paired down to Dixon and Jones. And to have Scott Dixon as a mentor will be something we should all be watching.
James Hinchcliffe will be joined by friend and fellow Canadian Robert Wickens on the Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team. Wilkens will be an interesting addition to SPM, as his background has covered so many types of racing, and has proven himself in every single category.
Tony Kanaan is moving to AJ Foyt Racing in the position left by Sato's move to RLL, and will be joined by Zach Veech in the No. 26 car, while AFR undergoes many other changes in the 2018 season.
Helio Castroneves is still part of the Penske team, but is now in the No. 33 in IMSA in a decision made late last year between the team and driver. If he takes the pole with IMSA, would it count as three in a row for the last three years in Long Beach? I think it would go to Helio. Racing is racing.
Max Chilton and Charlie Kimball are now a part of Carlin Racing. The UK based team currently competes not only in Indycar, but Indy Lights, FIA Formula 2 & 3, Euro Formula Open and the BRDC British F3 Championship. Overall they have an impressive 24 championship titles including their first Indy Lights title in 2016.
Dale Coyne Racing brings on board Zachary Claman DeMelo and Pietro Fittipaldi, both taking turns during the season in No. 19. The drivers will be splitting the season in the same car, and Zachary is slated to drive in Long Beach. DCR is also being joined in a limited partnership by none other than racing legend Emerson Fittipaldi.
Ed Carpenter Racing features not only Ed Carpenter, but Spencer Pigot in No. 21 and sharing the No. 20 is Jordan King. In 2018 Carpenter will be at the wheel on the ovals, giving the streets of Long Beach (and the remaining street courses) to King.
Harding Racing is home for Gabby Chavez from Columbia. Chavez comes to Indycar from four victories and eleven podium finishes in Indy Lights. Chavez also brings experience from IMSA and Karting, as well as victories in Formula BMW Americas.
Suffice it to say, there are many changes not only in the cars, but in the teams, drivers, partnerships and challenges. 2018 Indycar is going to be different in many ways. Old teammates will be friendly rivalries, old friendly rivalries will turn into teammates. New teams bring new crews and drivers to be tested and driven to win. But that is what this sport is about. Constantly changing and improving.
The days are ticking down, and so are the best seats. But did you know there are other options than just general admission and grandstand seats? There are several club seating packages available which offer preferred seating, and other perks. These are more, but worth every bit of the cost. Which would you prefer, leaving your seat for a beverage or table service? Each club has its own perks depending upon the level, so please check before you decide which option best suits your style.
Featured photo of James Hinchcliffe celebrating a win last year by Dave Newell.
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I love Clive Barker. There's something about the man's seamless blend of the morbid, and erotic that I've always been attracted to.
Hellraiser was one of the first true horror movies I watched as a child, and I still remember the experience vividly. Sneaking out from my bed, and creeping downstairs. Peeking out from behind the wall that separated the living room from the entryway in my childhood home, and listening to the blood-curdling screams as a leather-bound man with pins embedded in his head summoned chains from the pits of hell to dismember those unfortunate enough to stumble upon the gateway to his realm. I instantly fell in love, and peed a little, but mostly the love.
It wasn't until many years later that I discovered Nightbreed, an adaptation of his horror-fantasy novel Cabal that was released in 1990.
The film follows Aaron Boone, a mentally unstable man who dreams of a supernatural world that exists within a cemetery called Midian, and is led to believe by his psychotherapist, (David Cronenberg in a thoroughly terrifying role) to be the serial killer responsible for the murders of several families. After escaping Doctor Philip Decker, (who we soon discover is the serial killer, surprise, surprise) Boone takes refuge in Midian, and discovers its denizens are an ancient race known as the Nightbreed who were driven to near extinction by humans. Once there he must lead the Nightbreed in a defence against Dr. Decker who intends to destroy them all.
Nightbreed is another example of studio mistreatment, in this case 20th Century Fox. The studio barely promoted the film, and much to Barker's chagrin, released a handful of misleading posters, and trailers that marketed the film as a slasher, and not the unique horror-fantasy that it was. They also refused to screen it for test-audiences, and critics, arguing that the people who watch horror don't read reviews, causing the film to be sold to the lowest common denominator.
Unsurprisingly the film tanked, regaining only 8.9 of its 11 million dollar budget, and quickly faded into obscurity, but has since found a new audience thanks to Scream Factory's release of the director's cut on bluray.
Nightbreed is quirky, grotesque, and rich with as much homosexual undertones as you'd expect to find in a Clive Barker piece of art, and I love it.
Do yourselves a favour skiddies, and check out Nightbreed.
Midian awaits you.


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How to add smiley to chat application using Action Script 3 in Flash Professional
This may be simple task when someone give you this, But really some what difficult is there while positioning smiley in the textfield. I had gone through Google none of them explained this.
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Here is simple way I had tried to position the smiley in chat application at exact position, may it useful to you guys. Try this and let me know if you have any ideas about smiley positioning.
In this tutorial I getting text and smiley we had entered in the textbox and save it in a string variable. Then using split() method I split-ed that string into text and smiley and saved it in array variable. Now you can get text and smiley separately using array index like.
str1[0]= hi every body
str1[1]=
Now I added this 'str1[0]= hi every body' in the TextField to know width of text to position the smiley in after the text. Then adjusting vspace and hspace property of img tag I positioned smiley at exact position.
To know various techniques for finding text width of TextField refer my previous tutorial 'how to find text width of TextField using ActionScript 3 in Flash professional'
package { import flash.text.TextField; import flash.display.MovieClip; import flash.text.TextFormat; public class SmileyText extends MovieClip { public function SmileyText() { var txt:TextField= new TextField; var txt1:TextField= new TextField; var txt_format:TextFormat=new TextFormat; txt_format.font='Verdana'; txt_format.size='15'; var str:String="hi every body "; var str1=str.split('<img'); txt1.defaultTextFormat=txt_format; txt1.text=str1[0]; var txt_width=txt1.textWidth; var str2:String="hi every body "; txt.defaultTextFormat=txt_format; txt.width=200; txt.htmlText=str2; addChild(txt); } } }
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By: Karen Marie Moning
I absolutely love this series! It's rare for me to find something I love this much, where I get completely sucked in and easily go through a hundred pages in one sitting. With so many other books I find myself counting the pages to see how much more I've got left till I finish it, but here I'm shocked to find how far I've gotten and wishing another couple hundred pages would magically materialize so I could enjoy it for longer. But enough of my gushing…
Since I'm reviewing the entire series rather than one book at a time, my review will be more general, especially since I don't want to give anything away.
This author's first series of novels, known as the Highlander series, belong to the romance novel category, so some of that style and a fair share of "R" rated moments have made their way into this series as well, but it is so much more than that! This dark fantasy series takes place in Dublin with evil fae, known as Unseelie creeping into our world. When the main character's sister is brutally murdered, she travels to Dublin to find her killer, but gets herself involved in something far greater and far more dangerous. I admit, in the beginning, I didn't particularly like MacKayla Lane, with all her carefree, blond, perfectness, but her transition from that person to what she becomes after going through countless trials is very interesting to watch. Her reactions to impossible situations are realistic, and very human. She's not perfect. She makes a lot of mistakes, and most of them when faced with impossible choices. The ways she tries to balance all the crazy horrible things in her life is also rather charming.
The other characters in the book are fascinating, and the way they're presented makes you always want to know more. Their interactions are always entertaining, whether they're fighting, or having fun, or threatening eachother's very existence.
This is a very fast paced book. Every few chapters something unspeakable and completely unexpected jumps out at you from nowhere forcing you to read at least one more chapter before you can put it down. This book is full of cliff hangers and I wouldn't have it any other way. There really isn't a dull moment.
A few random notes:
I feel this book is more geared toward a female audience, with a female author and a female main character, so keep that in mind if you're considering reading it.
Thankfully it seems the author is working on a new series set in the same world. (Can't wait for that!)
And it seems Dreamworks just might make it into a movie one day. (Mixed feelings about that…I really hope they don't ruin it.)
The series is as follows:
- Darkfever
- Bloodfever
- Faefever
- Dreamfever
- Shadowfever
Happy Reading! 🙂


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Smartphones and tablets contribute significantly to the overall traffic of a website. In fact, the number of people accessing websites from their mobile devices is more than those using their desktops, laptops, and the like.
In such a case, it would be unforgivable to not take mobile users into account when developing a website. This means, when you make a website, you should test whether it is mobile friendly on various smartphone platforms and other handheld devices.
How do mobile phone emulators help you in designing a website?
• Mobile emulators show you exactly where problems and issues lie in the website and let you correct them to make the website visually appealing and functional on various devices.
• Testing on mobile emulators works perfectly with touch phones and the ones with the traditional QWERTY keypad
• You can check the responsiveness and functionality of the mobile version of your website across various platforms – iOS, Android, Windows, and the like.
• A mobile emulator makes it easy to test websites and does not require you to test the website on different devices. Developers can test the website on a virtual mobile interface with all the functionalities available on a device.
There are some emulators available in the market and here's a list of the popular ones.
Mobile Phone Emulator
This is one of the most popular mobile phone emulators being used by most of the developers. The best part about this tool is that it tests the compatibility of your website across various phones like Samsung, BlackBerry, iPhone, and the like.
iPhoney helps you check your website's compatibility with iPhones. In fact, it is not only an emulator, but also lets you create websites that are compatible with iPhones. You can also test the images and codes in addition to all the functionalities of the website in an iPhone environment with this tool.
This tool, in addition to checking the compatibility of your website on mobile devices, provides you with a score that will help you in judging its potential. It checks the mobile readiness of a website and scores it on a scale of 1 to 5. It uses 30 different parameters, including stylesheet use, media queries, techniques used for caching, etc.
iPad Peek
iPad in the most used tablet in the market. In order to ensure that your webste works perfectly with iPads, you can use iPad Peek. It will replicate the appearance and functionality of your website on an iPad.
Screenfly is one of the best preview tools as it lets you see exactly how the website would look on a wide variety of mobile devices in addition to the traditional laptops and desktops. You can customise it the way you want and test your website under various conditions. This emulation tool is something you must have as it covers a wide range of platforms.
Most of the emulators are free and it is very easy to test your website with these. Mobile use is increasing exponentially, and you cannot afford to miss out on the huge mobile – user market.


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When it comes to metaphors and posters, we like things that are easy to understand and relatively simple. That said, we're not sure exactly how we're supposed to feel about this image of a seemingly diseased heart and lungs, but it's so damn fitting for Roger Green's style of Americana-melancholia that we'll let it slide.
The poster is in the same design as the album cover for Green's Harder to Tell, whose release will be celebrated May 19. Designed by Melissa Rick, it's fitting as both a poster and an album cover, looking somewhat like something that would happen if a designer decided to lay out a poster while watching Seven on repeat. It's dark, brooding, curious -- but it's not particularly scary. You can actually expect about the same from Green's music, though it has little in common with Seven.
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If you wanted to get all deep and make up random things about a poster's narrative, you most certainly could with this one. Are the bands going to be baring their souls? Is the theme of Harder to Tell somehow related to the image? Or is it just a cool-looking picture that's supposed to strike a small amount of fear and a bit of curiosity in a passerby? We'd venture it's probably the latter, but we'd be totally okay if it was those other things, too.


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Where to Sell Your iPhone, Macbook or Samsung Phone
It is not news that almost everyone knows about big online market places like ebay and amazon where you can buy or sell. If you just want to sell your iPhone today and you do not really worry for what price you sell it for, then these market places are easy to set up and sell. These market places start to become a problem if you want to buy and sell devices for a living.
They are a problem because of the fees: Based on Category I have paid up to 20% of my total sale on amazon after my sale. As you can see, they do not care, this is their way of saying you can leave us because we already have a some one who can consistantly sell that product on our market place. Almost everyone who sales a product online knows these market places, and because sometimes people have forgotten what they paid for a product or no longer need it. They do not care if the Market place keeps 40% of the sale.
They claim to be most trusted places where you can buy or sell, but however when you creat an accont to sell, in the case of amazon, you get emails from people asking you to write to them on their emails and on ebay, as soon as an item is listed you are faced with this problem of people writting to request that you write to them outside of the market place.
The best transactions or the best way to sell your phone or computer is to do a person to person transaction, walk to a store where you can have your item evaluated and get paid. We have provided a solution where you can fill out a form and one of our associats will meet with you at the closest coffee shop to take your gadget. This way ou get your money right away and you are sure that no one will be sending emails latter trying to sell more stuff or asking you to write reviews. You do not have to respond to thousands of inquiries to find the right client, it is simple, you fill the form and we come to you. The best part of it, you do not have to accept our offer for you item.
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Behavioral interviewing is hot these days and every job seeker should be fluent in handling this type of interview. A behavioral interview is based on the interviewer attempting to discover how the job candidate has acted in past jobs in various employment scenarios that likely, reflect the situations in the job at hand. Whereas a traditional interview would likely include the question: Please tell us your strengths and weaknesses, the behavioral interview seeks to understand from specific experiences that reveal your strengths and weaknesses and how you deal with them.
The underlying rationale is that past behavior is the best indicator of future behavior and will yield insights that will help the interviewer determine how the candidate might fit into the company culture.
Examples of behavioral interview questions a marketer might be asked are:
- Provide an example of a marketing campaign that didn't perform as expected and how you handled it.
- Give an example of an occasion when you used logic to solve a problem.
- Give an example of a marketing goal you achieved and describe how you reached it.
- Describe a decision you made that wasn't popular and how you handled implementing that decision.
- Describe a situation where your schedule was interrupted. Give an example of how your schedule was interrupted and how you handled it.
- Give an example of a difficult situation you had with a co-worker and how you handled it.
- Share an example of how you worked effectively under strong pressure to deliver on an extremely tight deadline.
- Describe a situation where you persuaded someone to do something they didn't want to do.
As always, the best thing you can do is be prepared and practice. Our content partner, Boxwood, provides job candidates with expert advice for handling behavioral interviews from Alan DeBack in the below video.


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DIY Decorating - Staining Wood with Vinegar
DIY Chevron Table
DIY Furniture
I had spent six months looking for the perfect kitchen table that I absolutely loved. When my searches kept coming up empty, I decided to take matters into my own hands. I purchased an INGO kitchen table from Ikea for $69.99. It's small, but so is our kitchen. Most importantly, you can purchase it in unfinished pine-- perfect for this DIY endeavor!
Keep in mind that different combinations of wood and vinegar will produce different results. I used unfinished pine and distilled white vinegar for my chevron table DIY. If in doubt, prepare a small stain solution in a baby food jar and test it out on an inconspicuous area (perhaps underneath the table).
The photo below shows the different stain results achieved on the same piece of wood using different vinegars. This was a scrap piece of whitewood lumber I had leftover from building shelves. I purchased it from Lowe's and whitewood is a bit of a generic term that can refer to spruce, hemlock, or fir trees. Keep this is mind when staining whitewood. Two pieces might come out differently.
Distilled white vinegar gave the wood sample on the left more of a reddish/brownish hue. The apple cider vinegar stained the wood on the right more of a grayish color, almost aging it.
You Will Need:
- A piece of furniture (prepped or unfinished)
- Pencil and eraser
- Yardstick or tape measure
- Distilled white vinegar
- A Steel wool pad, grade #0000
- Clean, empty jar & lid
- Painter's Tape or Frog Tape *(see disclaimer in step four)
- Scissors
- Paint brush
- Sandpaper
- Dry rag
- Clear sealer (for finish)
Step One: Stain Prep
Place a steel wool pad inside the jar and fill with vinegar. Make sure your wool is immersed. Let it sit and do its magic for at least 48 hours. During this time, the vinegar will begin to dissolve the steel wool. Feel free to shake your jar from time to time. The liquid in your jar at the end of this science experiment will be used to stain your wood. It's going to be stinky-- unless you love the smell of vinegar and metal. I'd suggest doing the actual staining project outdoors or near an open window if you can.
Distilled White Vinegar
Step Two: Wood Prep
If you are using unfinished wood like my unfinished pine kitchen table, you can skip this step.
If your piece has any kind of existing paint, lacquer, or sealant, it will need to be removed. Sand your wood thoroughly. It's important that all of the bare wood is exposed for this project or it won't work.
Table Before Stain
Step Three: Sketching Chevrons
My favorite part of this project is that I didn't have to download and print a chevron template.
The following six steps correspond to my diagram below.
1. Simply measure your surface and draw a line vertically through the middle.
2. Repeat this step and draw a line horizontally through the middle. This should yield four quadrants. Repeat this process as many times as you wish. Continue constructing your grid by finding the center of each new section and drawing a line.
3. My table has two rows and four columns, yielding 8 sections. These eight sections allowed me to easily construct two large chevrons side by side. For more and smaller chevrons, continue measuring and drawing a more complex grid.
4. When satisfied with your grid, draw diagonal lines connecting sections. Each individual square should contain a diagonal line and the pattern will alternate between leaning forwards and backwards.
5. Repeat this step for all rows of your grid.
6. Erase your pencil mark grid-lines and you're left with your lovely chevron design.
DIY Chevron without Template
Step Four: Applying Painter's Tape
Using blue painter's tape, tape off your chevrons so they'll really stand out. Line up the edges of your tape alongside your pencil marks. In this tutorial I applied the tape to the outside of my chevrons. Make sure all pieces of tape are rubbed down flat. Use your eraser to remove all pencil marks and grid-lines-- I didn't think of this until much later and I regret it. My pencil lines are still visible :( Learn from my mistake. Don't remove tape until finished staining.
DIY Chevrons
Disclaimer: Despite my best abilities, I did encounter a little bit of seepage (refer to picture below). Overall, I do like the design it created. It gives the finished table little nuances of character. If you'd like to guard against any stain creeping under the tape, I'd suggest trying green Frog tape. It has a special gel that forms a barrier between what's under the tape and what's next to it. I would have used it for this project but I only recently learned about it.
Step Five: Applying Stain
Open your jar of steel wool wood stain and let it sit for about ten minutes. The solution should look murky by now but if for some reason it doesn't look ready yet, it may oxidize just a bit more as it sits uncovered (mine did!).
Apply the DIY wood stain to your furniture in long even strokes, working with the grain of the wood. It may be tempting to work in the direction of your pattern, but working with the grain ensures consistent coverage. It might seem like it's not working at first. Your wood may only appear a slight bit darker... as if it were wet. Keep working until your first coat is complete. Within a few minutes, you'll see the wood darken. Since the results don't happen right before your eyes, it's really important to finish each section or coat to keep your coloring even. Allow to dry in between coats. More coats will create darker colors.
Natural Wood Stain DIY
Step Six: Sanding
Sand paper is a big helper for this DIY table wood stain. You can use it to sand parts that might have come out too dark. You can also use it to buff out any places where stain pooled/dripped and dried into a dark little mess. I used sandpaper to give my table edges and corners a good scrub to expose some of the pine color again. This gives it more contrast and character. Give your entire table a quick sand job to prepare it for sealing. Sand in the same direction as the wood grain. If you prefer a more aged and shabby chic look, use a coarser sand paper and work against the grain and even in circular motions. Use a dry cloth to wipe away any sawdust.
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Step 7: Sealing
Sealing is important. It protects your table from everyday use and makes your beautiful design really shine. Literally. Without sealer, the all natural wood stain looks very drab and muted. By this step, you'll have noticed that there is a big difference between how the table looks each time you apply a fresh coat of stain and how it looks when it's 100% dry. Sealer gives the table that wet shine look. I used a primer/sealer by Martha Stewart and applied three coats. While I used a primer/sealer, it's important you don't use it as a primer on your piece. Absolutely nothing should come between the bare wood and your steel wool stain. I don't mean that figuratively either.
Natural Stain for Wood
© 2013 Heather Lavelle
Great article! I'm proud to link to it from www.medianet.info
Just curious if your lid was bowed out? Mine has been sitting for about 20 hours and when I went to check on it, the lid was bowed out. Just wondering if yours was like that as well.
I did this on my hardwood floor in my hallway, it really works well!
Very cool, Heather! It looks almost like inlaid wood, classy DIY (Y)
Love your design & thanks for letting me share one of your photos on my blog - here it is http://www.hometipsforwomen.com/diy-wood-stain-gui...
Heather, that's a cool design to do with vinegar. Beautiful work with those photos! Voted up for awesome!
I accidentally bought steal wool with soap
try adding hydrogen peroxide to your mix and letting it sit uncovered for about an hour after you put everything in your container. After that you should be safe to cover it and let it sit as long as you want. The peroxide will intensify the color and the combo of peroxide and sitting uncovered will lessen the gasses and give what gasses are produced some time to escape. I had a similar problem using pennies instead of steel wool today, and this corrected it the second time i tried.
I finally decided to do this- I learned after a long wait, you need to use metal cap on the vinegar/steel wool or it wont work. Plus my vinegar bottle which was plastic is now bowed out and looks like a bomb, I don't dare attempt to open. I don't know what happened but isn't good. Its been seeping for 10 days. I carefully placed outside just in case. My hands are stained awful to from opening cap on the other. Be careful when using, use gloves. Has anyone had any issues with reaction from vinegar and steel wool- explosion of bottle??? Please let me know your thoughts. great colors from the one which was okay- thanks for sharing
I liked very much the idea of stain wood.
I tried it at home. After 5 days, the color of vinegar still not changed...!!!! Still transparent ! I used lemon vinegar: the one which is transparent. What can I do to obtain stain color? Help please
Thanks a lot
I didn't know vinegar would stain wood. Great table patterns
Awesome article. Bet this will give me some ideas for wood floors I encounter, too. Sharing it on my real estate page.
Very cool! I have a whole living room that I'm going to re-do and you gave me some great ideas! Thanks for this. :)
I never knew you could stain wood with vinegar! The results are impressive and I love the chevron design. I'd never try it, I am too afraid of seepage. But a plain stained table top would suit me just fine.
Amazing article! I never thought of combining vinegar stains with a pattern to turn the plain into the fabulous! Great article--voted up, awesome, shared... This one's a keeper! Great visual layout and easy-to-follow instructions, too.
I pinned this when you first published this hub, but I still haven't gotten the nerve up to try it :( What I was hoping would be my spring project might now become a fall project (or maybe a project for NEXT spring), but I still want to give this a try! So gorgeous!!
A small word of caution to anyone wanting to try this. My steel wool took three weeks to be begin to visibly break down and change the color of the vinegar. I bought mine on Amazon and, without really paying close attention, ended up buying "Heavy Duty Extra Course #4" steel wool. Whatever it is that makes it "heavy duty" apparently also retards the oxidation process considerably.
Love this project! I've been thinking about doing a similar staining project on my bureau, but didn't really know how to go about it. Thanks so much for this informative hub. Pinning immediately :)
This is really cool. Loved it. Shared, pinned etc.... Love the pics and everything.
Wow, very cool! I had no idea that you could stain wood with vinegar. I liked so much from your article. Great overview and beautiful table! There are so many possibilities for this technique.
Great photos how neat I have never heard of doing this. You explain it very well. Voted up, share and Pinned
That is a really interesting technique! You provided great photos too. This would really be useful for so many different projects. And cheap too! Thanks for sharing the idea as well as your personal experience with the project. Voting and sharing.
Your photos are super helpful, and your finished table is beautiful! Good job!


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100 Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces, Gordon Kerr (Flame Tree Publishing 2011)
For me there is a simple test for Pre-Raphaelite art and many of the paintings in this book don't pass it. The test goes like this: is this art deeply, soul-stirringly ugly and unpleasant on the eye? Are its colours garish and ill-judged, its figures stiff and ungainly, its general air stilted, simpering and sentimental?
If I can say "Yes" to those questions, it's Pre-Raphaelite art. So Sir John Everett Millais's Christ in the House of His Parents (1849) is Pre-Raphaelite. And Millais's Ferdinand Lured by Ariel (1849) is too. And Millais's Ophelia (1851-2) definitely is. And so are William Holman Hunt's The Hireling Shepherd (1851), The Awakening Conscience (1852) and The Light of the World (c. 1852). That last, which shows Christ knocking on an overgrown door, is one of the most famous paintings ever created. For me, it's also one of the ugliest. Pre-Raphaelite painters often turn flesh and other matter into something that looks like plastic. Here it looks like putrescent plastic.
But Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat (1854) doesn't pass the "Yuck!" test so successfully, so it's not very Pre-Raphaelite for me. Nor is his Isabella and the Pot of Basil (1867). And most of the paintings here by Dante Gabriel Rossetti don't even come close to passing the "Yuck!" test. He wasn't a particularly good artist, but he could capture the beauty of female hair, skin, lips and clothing, and even set them glowing, so I don't like to classify him as Pre-Raphaelite. I don't like to classify Sir Edward Burne-Jones as that either. He too could capture beauty, though less earthily and more ethereally.
But Rossetti and Burne-Jones were Pre-Raphaelite, the best of a generally bad movement. Anthony Frederick Sandys was technically a better artist than either of them, as he proved with Medea (1866-8), but he couldn't capture beauty so well. William Waterhouse could, but he definitely wasn't Pre-Raphaelite. He was neo-classical and skilful and if the two of his paintings included here, Ophelia (c. 1894) and Juliet (1898), don't seem particularly out of place, that's because they are far from his best. In fact, I would say that the only masterpieces here are by Rossetti. He was an uneven artist who belongs with the Pre-Raphaelites at his worst and transcended them at his best. Millais never transcended anything. But perhaps Pre-Raphaelitism would have been a less interesting movement if it hadn't failed so often and so uglily.


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3 out of 5 stars
So, Violet and Daisy are teenage assassins with the most angelic faces. They accept jobs, kill people and exit with their fancy bicycles and lollipops. They even pop into the store to buy new clothes with their pay. No one would ever suspect them of being cold-hearted criminals. However, their world is turned upside down when a job changes their lives in the most unexpected ways.
First of all, I want to state that Alexis Bledel is THIRTEEN YEARS older than Saoirse Ronan! OMG she doesn't seem to age a day since Gilmore Girls. The main selling point is these two girls can actually kill and get away with murder. So what happens when they are offered a chance to act their age and receive the love and care they were denied that led them to this path? Sadly, not much of the girls' past were revealed and not enough of the girls' in action were shown. I would have loved to see them take down more bad guys.


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Last month legislation known as Arron's Law was introduced separately in both the House and Senate. The House bill, HR 1918, was introduced by Rep. Lofgren (D,CA) and the Senate bill , S 1030, was introduced by Sen. Wyden (D,OR). The two bills attempt to clarify the meaning of 'access without authorization' as used in 18 USC 1030, Fraud and related activity in connection with computers.
Identical bills were introduced in the 113th Congress (HR 2454 and S 1196). I described the provisions of those bills in a blog post about HR 2454, so I won't repeat that process here. Neither of those bills saw any activity in the 113th Congress, though similar provisions made their way into other 'comprehensive' cybersecurity legislation in the Senate. None of those bills make it to the floor of the Senate either.
Unintended Consequences
(This is one section of that earlier blog post that I will include here because of its potential implications for industrial control systems.)
As I mentioned earlier, this bill is intended to lower the consequences of hacking that is done purely for reasons of social or political activism such as defacing a web site. Unfortunately it appears that there may be some unintended consequences to the proposed changes.
Currently, the only language in 18 USC 1030 that can be used to define as criminal an attack on an industrial control system is found in two subparagraphs of §1030(a)(5). They are:
"(B) intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of
such conduct, recklessly causes damage; or
"(C) intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of
such conduct, causes damage and loss."
The current language of §1030 does not define 'accesses without authorization' so there is certain amount of leeway that the courts have in interpreting that term. The definition provided in this bill, however, specifically requires that the access must be made "to obtain information on a protected computer" {§1030(e)(6)(A)}. Thus it appears that changing the programing of an ICS system or device would no longer be a federal offense under §1030, even if the attack resulted in 'damage or loss' intended or otherwise.
Moving Forward
Since neither Lofgren or Wyden are members of their respective Judiciary Committee's it is unlikely that either of these bills will be considered in the 114th Congress. I would not be surprised, however to see similar provisions being added to other cybersecurity legislation further down the road.


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Joseph Lee has always wanted to be a professional soccer player.
So when he was selected for the Chicago Fire Academy U-16 team before his freshman year at Vernon Hills in 2012, he said, he was ecstatic.
"The academy is the highest level you can play at," said Lee, a 5-foot-8, 150-pound forward/midfielder. "It helps me progress more as a player. There's a lot of college exposure. There are benefits."
There are also choices to be made. From 2012-2014, Lee chose to play for the Chicago Fire Academy over Vernon Hills. But this fall, Lee swapped his red-and-blue uniform for the Cougars' white and blue.
For Lee, the decision to play for his high school his senior year was an easy one to make.
"I wanted the experience of playing with my school and my friends," Lee said. "It's a nice breather."
Lee is not the only area boys soccer player taking a break from high-level club soccer, specifically the U.S. Soccer Development Academy, which runs three teams in the Chicago area.
Multiple athletes are suiting up for their high school teams rather than playing club soccer.
Lee, Libertyville senior Nate Edmunds and Lake Forest senior Matt Moderwell were members of the Chicago Fire Academy's U-18 team. The Fire Academy also includes U-14 and U-16 teams.
Larry Sunderland, the director of the Chicago Fire Academy, said the mission is to develop players who can eventually play for the Chicago Fire's Major League Soccer team.
"We are a pro academy. We train to develop pro players. So I clearly want our guys with us year-round," Sunderland said. "There are clearly sacrifices for being in a soccer academy and striving to be a pro player."
For Lee, Edmunds and Moderwell, that sacrifice would mean long hours both in training and transportation.
Five days a week, they would have to drive the 40-plus miles to the Chicago Fire Academy's training facility in Bridgeview for practices. Weekend tournaments would mean that portions of Saturdays and Sundays would be spent traveling on a bus or plane.
The perks are good. According to Doug Hicks, vice president of communications for the Chicago Fire, the team makes a "seven-figure" investment in the U-14, U-16 and U-18 squads each year. This allows the Fire to pick up all training, coaching and travel expenses to high-exposure tournaments all over the country, often with college coaches in attendance.
"I went to a few showcases in Florida. We see college coaches at the games," Deerfield senior Nick Klabjan said.
Klabjan, a 5-7, 140-pound forward, is playing for the Warriors this fall, and his high school team won a Class 3A regional title last week. It downed Waukegan 3-1 on Tuesday night in the Stevenson Sectional.
Klabjan played his first three years with the Chicago Magic PSG, a team in the same conference as the Chicago Fire Academy team and Chicago Sockers FC. All three teams are run by the USSDA.
Before the season, Klabjan committed to Wisconsin. He said if he hadn't received an offer from the Badgers, he may still be playing for the Magic.
"The main reason I chose (club soccer) is for the exposure and to develop as a player," he said. "Luckily, I did commit, as playing for high school is really fun."
Mark Schartner, in his 29th season as Stevenson's coach, said the relationship between club and academy soccer teams and young players is often too transactional.
"I think parents are deceived — that the money-making machine that is club and academy soccer is great for a few players, that the stigma of 'you come play for us and we'll get you a scholarship,' there's not much truth to that," Schartner said. "Parents would be much wiser to put their dollars into tutors and making sure their kids are ready for the ACT. Contributing to this world is through academics, not athletics."
Sunderland disputes that notion, saying there are no upfront fees for players selected for the Chicago Fire Academy and the team is purely an "investment, not a money-making scheme. Everything is covered. There is a clear distinction between what we do as opposed to other academies" that do charge fees for training and coaching.
"And it is a given for us if you graduate, you will receive a college scholarship," Sunderland said.
According to the Chicago Fire Academy website, 10 players who graduated high school in 2015 signed with NCAA Division I programs. Among the 2016 class, Edmunds has committed to Butler while Lee and Moderwell are undecided.
Edmunds, Lee and Moderwell say they plan to return to the Chicago Fire Academy when the high school season ends. Sunderland said they will not be guaranteed the spots they vacated on the U-18 roster.
"I understand the needs of the players. When they said they needed a break, I had to support that," he said. "But there may not be room when they come back. Somebody could have replaced them. So there is a risk for these kids who choose to play high school."
That's a risk Lee and Edmunds said they are willing to take.
"I need a break. I needed more freedom to express myself without all the pressure, and high school has helped me with that," Edmunds said, adding he has pro aspirations after college. "It's a great experience to be with (Libertyville)."
Lee said, "There is so much support from the school. And to play with my friends, I've enjoyed that."
Libertyville won a regional title last week and will play Highland Park in the sectional Wednesday at Stevenson.
Vernon Hills also won a regional title and shut out Lakes 2-0 on Tuesday night at the Harvard Sectional.
Jon Kerr is a freelance reporter for the News-Sun.
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Year: 2006
Nose: Antoine Lie
Inoffensive musky-sticky-milky-calonic notes wrapped in a harsh bag of aldehydes. I approached this scent quite late, meaning that I've often heard about this one without having actually smelled it, and all the people who owned/used it said this was naughty, raw, animalic, truly "offensive" and provocative (those were people who actually bought this, so... well, no offense). So I expected something cool and challenging. Meanwhile I tested some other scents by Etat Libre and found basically no interest whatsoever in their fragrances, so when I came to this I was quite in a "prejudice" mood. And I was right, because well... this is it? This depressing tin can of aldehydes and randomly-assembled putrid aromachemicals should evoke "sweat, blood, saliva"? No. This is no way challenging. It smells bad, but in no possible creative or provocative way - just dull, boring, pointless bad. Not even that bad actually – more than bad it's a plain, uninspired, clumsy smell. Being provocative in whatever legitimate and credible way means to be able to structure your provocation and contextualise it into a more broad critical discourse – to use it as a tool, or as language. Doing random stuff like this is and giving it a meaning by mere marketing means is not art and is not provocation, it's just a depressing way to exploit a cliché - in this case, the "épater les bourgeois" cliché (and making money out of it). This said, as I said it's not even that bad or stinky - any obscure and cheap chypre from the '50s would kick this in the butt in terms of "animalicness" (or whatever effect Eld'O pretends to achieve). To me it smells more like if Antoine Lie found a disposal bag of Takasago waste molecules and – bingo!. I don't want to sound hateful, pretentious or offensive but personally it really saddens me to think someone really consider this "irony" or "avantgarde" or whatever daring stuff and is actually willing to pay for this.
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Step 1: Base
You don't want to be too heavy on your base because you are going to be building up colour with your highlighter and bronzer, so a light coverage is your best bet. I blended my base in using my favourite brush – the Real Techniques Blending Brush.
Step 2: Highlight
Highlighting brings things forward, so you want to highlight any areas that may be darker (e.g. under eyes) or that you want to look more prominent on your face (e.g. brow bone). Take your highlighter and begin to fill in the areas that are pictured: under the eyes, brow bone, centre of the forehead, bridge of the nose, cupids bow (upper lip) chin and jawline. Then, using either your fingers, a sponge or a smaller foundation brush, begin to gently buff the colour into your skin and blend slightly outwards.
Step 3: Contour
Contouring pulls things back, so by creating shade you are essentiall making ares sink, or disappear altogether. Using your bronzer and a blush / contour brush mark out the places you want to sink, hollow or slim down. Areas to focus on are your hairline, the hollows of your cheeks (under your cheekbones) the edge of your jaw, down the sides of your nose and your eye sockets. As you can see in the picture, before I have even started blending, you see the light and shade of the face, where the definition will be.
With the nose, eye sockets and the hollows of the cheeks, start by gently drawing your lines in place with a small blending eyeshadow brush before using your contour brush to blend outwards and downwards.
Tip: Shine a torch directly at your face. The areas the light hits are where you want to highlight, and the areas where the shade hits are where you want to contour. The only exeption is your under eyes; the shade will hit here because it is a hollow of your face so you want to highlight the area to pull it forward.
Step 4: Finish Up
Finish with your blusher by gently applying it to the apples of the cheeks. Using the excess colour left on your brush, blend the blush all the way along your cheekbones. Do not apply this heavily as it needs to be very subtle! Applying it all the way along the cheekbones lifts your face, as the apples of the cheeks are quite low down. If you are going for a more extreme contoured look, you don't have to apply blusher, but it can make you look drawn or washed out. After blush, you can apply a shimmered powder highlighter to really lift the cheekbones and brow bone, but again keep it subtle.


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Since acquiring Nokia in full last year, Microsoft has yet to release a flagship handset to take on the big guns in the market – but it looks like that's finally set to change.
Rumours suggest the Lumia 940 and 940 XL are in the works and may be announced at an October 19 event in New York. That same event is also rumoured to be the reveal for the Surface Pro 4 as well as the Microsoft Band 2.
NokiaPowerUser has supplied some of the specs for the larger phone suggesting it'll have a 5.7-inch, 2560 x 1440 display with an octa-core Snapdragon 810 processor under the hood and 3GB of RAM.
Fantasy flagships
The design is said to be polycarbonate, like we've seen before on the Lumia range, and will come with 32GB of internal storage, a 20MP PureView rear camera, 5MP front facing camera, and an Iris scanner for unlocking the phone.
There's also a suggestion there'll be a USB Type-C port at the bottom and Native Pen support for the stylus that comes with the Surface Pro tablet range.
Take this one with a truckload of salt – we'll have to wait for a few more weeks to find out if any of it is true.


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Italian police have arrested two US soldiers from an army garrison in Vicenza, near Venice, over the rape of a pregnant woman.
The pair, identified as Gray Gerelle Lamarcus, 22, and Edil McCough, 21, allegedly sexually abused, beat up and robbed a 24-year-old woman of Romanian origins was six month pregnant.
The woman, who occasionally worked as a prostitute, was repeatedly punched in the stomach, her lawyer said.
Lamarcus and McCough allegedly negotiated a sexual encounter with their victim but then decided not to pay.
They led the woman to an isolated area outside town at night and brutally beat her. The two paratroopers then abused her for several hours. Once finished, they left her naked in a field robbing her of her purse.
A few hours later, she managed to contact a friend who alerted the police. Detectives said they found her bag and underwear inside one of the soldiers' car.
The incident took place in mid-July and the two paratroopers have now been placed under house arrest, pending an investigation. The soldiers are believed to be held at an Italian army post which hosts the headquarters of the US 173d Airborne Brigade in Vicenza.
The woman is recovering at a local hospital and is not at risk of losing the baby according to doctors.
Lamarcus was also treated at the same medical centre after he attempted to commit suicide. He was later released. The soldier was already under investigation for another rape, this time of a 17-year-old student which happened eight months ago.
Major Michael Weisman, a spokesperson for the 173rd brigade, told IBTimes UK they were fully cooperating with Italian authorities in the investigation.
The incident has heightened tensions between the 3,000-strong US contingent in Vicenza and the local community who have often voiced discomfort at the soldiers' presence.
According to local press, US troopers have been involved in a series of incidents in recent years, including brawls, muggings and sexual abuses.
Under a Nato treaty the US can request its soldiers accused of an offence be tried by American rather than Italian authorities.
The practice is despised by a large section of Italian public who perceive US military courts as too soft on their troops.
Vicenza mayor Achille Variati has called for Lamarcus and McCough to be tried in Italy.
"The hypothesis that the US army demands the two soldiers who raped and beat a pregnant woman to be tried at home is unsustainable," he said.
Weisman said the US military asks host countries for the transfer of jurisdiction in all cases, regardless of the charges involved.
A request has been filed in Lamarcus and McCough's case but the Italian Ministry of Justice has the final say on the matter.
Fact box:
Italy hosts several Nato and US Military bases, including the famous air bases of Aviano, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Sigonella in Sicily.
Vicenza has been home to a contingent of US troops since the end of WWII.
Since 2000, the town has hosted the 173rd Airborne Brigade, the US conventional airborne strategic response force for Europe.
Some US 3,000 soldiers are garrisoned in two Italian military posts in the city, named Dal Molin and Ederle.


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