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It's day 12 and I'm experiencing more of Xeloda's side effects. I've been more fatigued than usual, my hair is continuing to thin, and the soles of my feet are red but not yet too tender, today I had a little diarrhea. The neuropathy continues as well in my feet. My tumor markers are stable (they dropped by eight points.)
I saw Dr G today and he calls this drug "just tolerable." He examined my feet and hands (no redness on my hands now) and told me that he was more concerned with my ability to tolerate any discomfort than with any particular degree of redness. He was pleased that I'm using Udder Cream® and was even interested in the new socks I bought at REI which have built-in sock liners to reduce friction.
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Manny Pacquiao's hands are going to be too fast for a very game Rios to handle. Rios is an offensive fighter and hasn't spent much time working on his defense. That will hurt him against Pacquiao, who will eventually stop him after a flurry of punches.
Carlo Pamintuan, Yahoo Sports Philippines
Brandon Rios is a tireless worker and a fearless fighter. However, his best accolades are not the ones needed to beat someone like Manny Pacquiao. Even at this slightly past-peak level, Pacquiao is still too fast for Rios. He also preys on fighters who come forward and that's really the only way Rios fights. The young guy's only shot at winning is if he outworks Pacquiao for the entire duration of the fight and hope the judges reward his activity. But the most likely scenario is that Rios will discover early that he is not in the same league as Pacquiao. He'll get hit hard and hit often but his chin will hold up. The referee or his corner will save him from career-altering punishment in the end.
Cody Brunner, Yahoo Sports U.S.
Earlier in the week, Manny Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach, said it'd be a sixth-round stoppage. Pacquiao himself thought that was being a little bit too conservative, and said it'd be over in four. That kind of confidence could end up being his bane, especially against a heavy-handed puncher like Brandon Rios. If Pacman stands in front of Rios, we could see a repeat of the Juan Manuel Marquez finish. But more likely, Pacquiao will run circles around Rios and pick him apart throughout with his slick combos. Rios' toughness has never been a question – he'll keep moving forward and taking punishment as long as his corner allows.
Noel Zarate, Yahoo Sports Philippines
The hand speed of Manny is miles ahead of Rios' and they may even have the same power (a big maybe on that). Mike Alvarado showed how to dismantle Rios: Box. Pacquiao will do that, except at the speed of light and with Armageddon in mind.
I don't think this will go beyond six rounds before Robert Garcia personally throws in the towel and Rios' face will resemble those of Oscar de la Hoya and Miguel Cotto before him. Pacquiao WON against Tim Bradley and lost to a determined Juan Manuel Marquez. That's all in the past. This won't even be close.
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Project Uses Rice Straw to Make Paper
SACRAMENTO - The Air Resources Board (ARB) announced today that Sacramento Valley rice straw will be made into paper in Canada to determine whether rice straw is viable as a paper pulp material. The project is being coordinated by ARB with support from several state and local groups.
"This project is an important step in finding new and innovative ways to use rice straw. This is exactly the type of opportunity we hoped for when we suggested a pause in the spring burn season," said ARB Chairman, John Dunlap.
Approximately 28 tons of rice straw will be delivered to Vulcan, Alberta, Canada and be processed into pulp by Canadian Flax Pulp, Ltd. of Vancouver, Canada, who has had success in turning wheat straw into paper. The rice straw will be made into paper at a Canadian paper mill and returned to California.
Several of the state's newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and the Sacramento Bee are interested in using rice paper as an insert to test the quality of the paper for possible future use.
As newsprint and paper prices in general have escalated, rice straw as an alternative pulp resource could be a boon to the printing industry, while relieving farmers of an agricultural waste product and allowing for an alternative to open burning.
Rice straw burning is one of the most criticized forms of air pollution in the Sacramento Valley. Making paper out of rice straw will not only help California citizens breathe easier, but give rice farmers a way to make a profit out of selling the waste.
"We take very seriously that we must get alternatives on line so we can use rice straw in commercially productive ways besides burning. The Lung Association is very supportive and appreciative of the people who are making this happen," said Jane Hagedorn, Executive Director of the Sacramento chapter of the American Lung Association.
The project, facilitated by ARB, is supported by the Rice Research Group, American Lung Association, Family Water Lines, Colusa County Farm Bureau, Colusa County Board of Supervisors, Glenn County Farm Bureau, Wilderness Unlimited, Sacramento Valley Air Basin Control Council, Economic Development Corp., Valley Truck and Tractor, Allis Auto Parts, W.A. Baggett, and Larry Middleton.
The Air Resources Board is a department of the California Environmental Protection Agency. ARB's mission is to promote and protect public health, welfare, and ecological resources through effective reduction of air pollutants while recognizing and considering effects on the economy. The ARB oversees all air pollution control efforts in California to attain and maintain health based air quality standards.
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Why is Purim not celebrated on the 13th of Adar when the Jewish people were victorious over their enemies, but instead on the 14th of Adar when they rested? Jews do not rejoice at another’s demise, even if that person is a rasha or an enemy. Instead, we celebrate our salvation and our being uplifted. Based on this idea, our simchas Purim is not about the revenge against Haman and his cronies, but rather about our survival against all odds. As such, Purim was established on the 14th, the day we rested from fighting and realized our salvation, not on the 13th when we defeated our enemies. (Manos HaLevi)
Why are Hamantaschen eaten on Purim? One of the main themes of Purim is that of V’nahafoch hu, the “turnabout.” The story represents not only salvation from our enemies, but a complete reversal and interchanging of situations for the parties involved. The Jews switched from being completely dominated by their enemies to completely dominating them. There are many avenues through which Hashem could have caused His plan to come about. On Purim, Hashem used Haman, the very person who desired to destroy Hashem’s people, to actually bring about their salvation. Haman’s decree to annihilate the Jews caused a massive teshuvah movement and recommitment to the Torah; culminating in the hanging of Haman on the same gallows he had built to execute Mordechai. We eat Hamantaschen on Purim, a sweet cookie named after the bitter Haman, to symbolize the V’nahafoch hu of Haman and his evil actions turning into the source of sweetness and nourishment for Jewish survival. (Rabbi David Aaron)
How is Mordechai a hero, when it was his refusal to bow to Haman that led to Haman’s desire to annihilate the Jewish people? In general, one is not only permitted, but required to transgress mitzvos and Torah obligations in a situation where life is at risk (see Sanhedrin 74a). However, with the severe sins of murder, idolatry and immorality, one is required to give his life rather than transgress. The Chofetz Chaim explains that although it might seem as if Mordechai should have bowed to Haman because Haman was known to be a big anti-Semite, and, as such, refusing to bow would severely threaten Jewish lives, that is not the case. Haman carried an idol on his person, making bowing to him the equivalent of bowing to an idol, one of the three transgressions that may not be transgressed even under threat of death. Therefore, even though Mordechai realized the danger, he could not bow in this situation. He continued to hold his ground for this same reason even when his fellow Jews begged him to appease Haman after the evil plan was made known.
The Chofetz Chaim explains that one should never, chas v’shalom, think that keeping the Torah can result in suffering, because it cannot. Nothing can be more illustrative of this point than the Purim story. In the end, not only did nothing happen to Klal Yisrael, but Mordechai’s steadfast adherence to the Torah resulted in a tremendous salvation in which Haman and his sons were killed, 75,000 Amalekim and many more of the enemies of the Jews were wiped out, and the Jews were able to live in joy and tranquility. The Midrash teaches that when Hashem created the world He looked into the Torah and used it as a blueprint (Bereishis Rabbah 1:1). In other words, knowing all that would occur in the future, Hashem created the world with the Torah in mind. He considered all future scenarios, so that adherence to the Torah would not only never cause suffering in any situation that would arise (big or small), but would in actuality cause goodness and salvation on every personal, national and global level.
Therefore, Mordechai was in fact a very great Jewish hero. He not only brought about the destruction of our enemies and the salvation of the Jews through his unshakable commitment to the Torah, but he also effected a tremendous Kiddush Hashem, sanctification of Hashem’s Name, by demonstrating to the Jews, and making them realize, that one can never ever go wrong by following the Torah. This new perception on the part of the Jews resulted in tremendous simcha, and prompted their voluntary reacceptance of the Torah on Purim with love. (Shalmei Todah)
Why did Haman want to kill all the Jews in response to Mordechai’s refusal? The Meggilah says וּמָרְדֳּכַי לֹא יִכְרַע, which literally translates as “and Mordechai will not bow,” in the future tense (Esther 3:2). This comes to hint that in every generation there will be one person in Klal Yisrael who will refuse to bow in this way. Haman understood this, and realized that even if he killed Mordechai there would always be some other Jew who would defy him. So he decided to not only kill Mordechai, but to also destroy the entire עַם מָרְדֳּכָי- nation of Mordechai (Esther 3:6), so that the defiance would end. (Sfas Emes)
What is the deeper meaning to Haman’s “title” of צֹרֵר הַיְּהוּדִים-Tormentor of the Jews (Esther 3:10)? Simply translated, צֹרֵר הַיְּהוּדִים means tormentor of the Jews. However, the word צֹרֵר or צוֹרֵר derives from the word לִצְרוֹר, meaning to bind together, as is used in the commonly known brachah recited for a deceased person תְּהֵא נִשְׁמָתוֹ צְרוּרָה בִּצְרוֹר הַחַיִּים-May his soul be bound up in the everlasting bonds of life. At the time of Purim, there was a lack of achdus, unity, amongst the Jewish people. In fact, Haman predicated the success of his extermination plan on their lack of achdus, describing the Jews to Achashveirosh as a distinct nation that is splintered and scattered (Esther 3:8). Klal Yisrael finds strength and success in their achdus, as was the case when they gathered together at Sinai like one person with one heart (Rashi, Shemos 19:2) to receive the Torah. Divisiveness, on the other hand, can cause their destruction, as can be seen by the fact that divisiveness was the main cause of the destruction of the second Beis HaMikdash (see Yoma 9b).
However, although Haman based his success on Jewish disunity, his decree sparked a teshuvah movement amongst the Jews that fostered tremendous unity. Upon the issuance of the decree, Esther called for the Jews to gather together in their cities to fast for three days in repentance, saying Go gather all the Jews together (Esther 4:16). The Jews also banded together in defense of their enemies on the following 13th of Adar, as the Megillah says The Jews came together in their cities (Esther 9:2). Since it was his decree that brought Klal Yisrael together, Haman is called צֹרֵר כָּל-הַיְּהוּדִים-The one who caused all of the Jews to be bound together (ibid. 24). (HaRav Michoelson of Warsaw)
How did Achashveirosh hint to Haman that he would never succeed in causing the downfall of Klal Yisrael? When Achashveirosh surprised Haman by instructing him to do to Mordechai all that he had suggested be done to the person whom the king desired to honor, Achashveirosh said אַל-תַּפֵּל דָּבָר מִכֹּל אֲשֶׁר דִּבַּרְתָּ-do not omit a single detail that you suggested (Esther 6:10). The word תַּפֵּל derives from the word לִפֹּל-to fall, and the gematria of the words אַל-תַּפֵּל-do not omit equals the gematria of יִשְׂרָאֵל -Israel. Taking it all together, Achashveirosh was unwittingly informing Haman אַל-תַּפֵּל יִשְׂרָאֵל-Israel will not fall no matter how hard you try. (The Rokeach)
These are excerpts from the sefer “Inside Purim” which contains additional answers to the above questions and much more. With haskamos from HaRav Shmuel Kamenetsky, Harav Shlomo Eliyahu Miller, HaRav Noach Isaac Oelbaum, and HaRav Yisrael Reisman, the sefer contains a collection of over 200 fascinating divrei Torah in a short, quick pick-up, and easy to read and remember format, and is a great place to find an exciting Purim vort to say over to family and friends. Inside Purim has been published in both English and French, and is available at Jewish bookstores, and at www.Feldheim.com. To contact the author, email: firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Homecoming draws larger crowd for '09
But organizers of the 75th Rockdale Homecoming were anything but depressed Sunday at the Patterson Civic Center. "We counted at least 175 people in attendance," Dr. Lucile Estell, homecoming association president, said. "That's about 50 more than last year."
Special guests were Lucille Towery, Bonnie McCoy Taylor and Doris Simms Cocek. They graduated together in 1934 and Mrs. Towery ended the homecoming by asking for a Tiger cheer.
Dr. Estell presided over a short program following lunch.
Class of 1931
Pete Keen, 94, was presented a gift as the oldest person in attendance.
He's the only surviving 1931 graduate of Rockdale High School.
Lexie Boswell of San Diego, California, received a gift for travelling the longest distance to attend.
Several other RHS classes, who had scheduled reunion activities over the weekend were also in attendance. In addition to the classes of 1934 and 1959, Dr. Estell recognized the class of 1949 which was having its 60th reunion.
Dr. Estell expressed appreciation to the Rockdale Chamber of Commerce, Tom and Lois Fisher of Poor Boy Barbecue (see page 1D), Rockdale Signs (banners and signs), the Rockdale Historical Society, homecoming association board, Vickie Everhart (historic displays), Ramona Barlow (high school archives), Joy Graham and Amie Stone King.
Citing that the 2009 homecoming fell on Flag Day, Graham led the crowd in a series of patriotic songs.
Graham also introduced Melissa Jane Morris Neely, Margaret Neely Gould and Loretta Neely Spence, descendants of the Neely family whose home once stood where the Patterson Center is located.
Mayor John Shoemake's procla- mation honoring the homecoming association was read by board member Wenda Dyer.
Willie Phillips, east ward city council member, gave the official welcome from the city.
Rev. Jack Chelf of First Baptist Church delivered the invocation.
Rockdale Homecoming Association board officers are: Dr. Estell, president; Judy Slusher, presidentelect; Wenda Dyer, treasurer; Ramona Barlow, historian.
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Brian Currie, regulatory manager at Hutchison, sees it primarily as a "transparency issue: we have to make the documentation (impact assessments) more available", he says.
Hutchison is in dispute with Sydney's Waverley Council over an application to co-locate 19 new transmitters on the Bondi Junction tower.
The council told the phone company it would only give the go-ahead if Hutchison indemnified it against transmissions that proved harmful to residents. Hutchison has refused and plans to take the dispute to the Land and Environment Court.
Hutchison expects to have completed its 3G roll-out by the time the code comes into effect.
Optus, which chaired the ACIF committee, is also in dispute with residents in another Sydney suburb, Como. Residents have temporarily stopped the construction of an Optus base station at the end of a residential street, 50 metres from a preschool and 100 metres from Como Public School.
A report on radiation levels from the existing Telstra tower shows they are highest at the preschool, while levels from the combined Optus and Telstra equipment would be highest at a nearby home. The report says both levels are well below national standards.
Brent Gerstle, Optus' manager of environmental affairs, who chaired the ACIF working group, says that under the new legislation carriers will still have ultimate say with low impact sites "but they have to justify all decisions and consider all proposals put before them".
"In the past 'cowboy' carriers have ignored and even been contemptuous of community input," he says.
"Como would not have unravelled the way that it has, if the code had been in place," he says.
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Bagman can alter his molecular density to contort and stretch his body into a wide variety of shapes. He can also use his body as a biological storage container, consuming his victims and keeping them contained for an indeterminate amount of time. If required, Bagman can also release his victims through an act of regurgitation.
Bagman is an agent of the mystic cult team known as the Pentacle. Along with several other disreputable individuals, he assisted in taking control of the small suburban town of Riverrock, Wyoming. Jack of Fire placed Bagman in control of herding various townsfolk into the Town Square for a massive human sacrifice. When the Shadowpact arrived to free the town, Bagman encountered Ragman, whom he recognized as his own counterpart amongst the Shadowpact. True to his name, Bagman physically consumed Ragman, holding him captive inside of his own mass. Reluctantly however, Bagman was forced to regurgitate his foe under orders from his teammate Jack of Fire. When the rest of the Shadowpact broke free of their confinement, Nightshade encased Bagman inside of a cube of pure Darkforce energy.
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Gotcha Date: November 8th 2005
Birthday: August 13th 2005
Likes: Running around, jumping, playing with his purple bally
Pet-Peeves: Apparently being held, but other then that, none
Favorite Toy: His human family, bally, his brother, Jack
Favorite Food: Royal Canin, Iams
Arrival Story: My family was actually looking for an Eskie for a while. We had to get him online because there are no breeders in our part of NY. Anyway, he was flown in on Friday and we had to go to the airport to pick him up. It got scary because he should have been here in the afternoon, but we got him late at night, because of the flight. Anyways, he's with his forever family now and we love Gypsy dearly...even though I'm bawling my eyes out like a new Mom who has just brought her new baby home. :-)
Bio: I can tell you all that I get very confused because Mom and Auntie came up with so many nicknames for me! BOL
Ok. I seem to really be freaking Mom out here. First, I'm itching like crazy and while Jack is too, he doesn't seem to be as bad as I am. Then Mom found a swollen area on me yesterday. It could be chalked up to me being "excited" or the itching, but then she found another swollen area...left side of my anus. The same place as my sister Farrah had hers. This is freaking Mom out...big time. They are going to try and get me into the doctor today. Please pray and hope that good news comes back and that it's something simple and treatable. I don't want to think of what would happen if it came back bad.
Yes, I am admitting it.....I'm Bad!! BMAO I do have a bad side to me and Mom thought that this song just suits me. I'm actually trying to be good, but I just love mischief! I love getting into trouble...like the garbage. I can open up the garbage can and pull stuff out of it. I tear up things so fast that my humans don't even realize it until they find pieces of paper, cardboard boxes, etc., lying around the apartment. BOL
I also know that is has been a long time since we have been on here, but we are back...even though it still may be part-time for now, but we are back. I've got some news for you!
Mom has gotten her Bachelors of Science degree in Criminal Justice - Crime Scene Investigation, but she can't work in the field because of her health. She also has her Masters of Science in Higher Education - College Teaching and Learning and is looking for an online teaching position. She is also trying to get into Western Governors University for her Post-Bac in Elementary Education Teaching K-8. She wants to teach K-2. Her start date will be in April, provided her former college sends over her transcripts. That is all that Mom and WGU are waiting on now. Once those transcripts arrive, them Mom can do her Intake Interview and may have to take a couple of courses before starting her program, but that would have to be at another college, because WGU doesn't do that. Then she has to take the Education Without Borders class, then she would start her main program. It is most likely going to take her a couple of more years to do that.
We are also looking to move to Hamburg, NY because my other Mom is not only working full-time at a local hospital, but she is attending Hilbert College and the drive from Grand Island is a looooong one. Moving closer to the college would save on gas and maybe even lower rent some, since they are paying a lot now. Plus, with my other Mom and having torn her ACL about a year ago...maybe longer (Mom can't remember)...the stairs are not good idea for Mom2. bol Going up and down them is tough.
Mom has her own pain issues as well, so a one level apartment would be a better option for all of us...including Jack....who is still 27 pounds. bol They are working on him and getting him to lose weight.
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Mattress exactly as described, professional/knowledgeable staff, on time delivery, excellent shopping experience.
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This mattress is the best purchase we could have ever made. We have owned our mattress for over a year now and it is still just like it was the day we unwrapped it. This is the best sleep we have ever had. We will never own an innerspring mattress again.
I had done extensive research and shopped the local stores for a mattress. After a friend returned her tempurpedic mattress because of the smell (off gassing) and she said it was hot, I new that this heavily advertised mattress would not be for me.
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Weekend Predictions: Will New Releases Stop LEGO?
It looks like The LEGO Movie will finally relinquish top spot. Non-Stop should lead the way atop the box office charts, but there are some who think Son of God will be a surprise hit. There certainly is precedent for that prediction. While it is the last weekend in February this year, the same weekend last year was the first weekend of March. Fortunately for 2014, the first weekend of March of 2013 was a bit of a disaster as Jack the Giant Killer opened with just $27 million compared to a nearly $200 million production budget. Worse still, no other movie topped $10 million over the weekend. I don't know if Non-Stop will top Jack the Giant Killer, but overall 2014 should come out ahead of 2013.
Non-Stop is the latest film in Liam Neeson's action career. The film's reviews are mixed, but that's not a fatal result for an action film. Most critics agree that there is plenty of fun action throughout the movie, but most also agree that the big reveal is a mess. What they are divided on is whether or not the action is enough to compensate for the bad reveal, or if the bad reveal ruins the whole movie. The film's box office potential is strong, with most analysts predicting it will earn first place, perhaps hitting $30 million in the process. I think it is wise to be a little more cautious and I'm going with $27 million.
The LEGO Movie will slip to second place with $21 million, but that's more than enough to get it to the $200 million milestone before end of business on Sunday. It will become the first film released in 2014 to get there. It won't be the last, but it will be more than a month till Captain America: The Winter Soldier gets to $200 million in April.
Son of God is a re-cut of the The Bible mini-series. This is great news for the studio, as it means it will only need to cover the P&A budget, plus a little bit more for the re-edit, in order to break even. There is some bad news. The film's reviews are terrible. It turns out cutting a 440-minute long mini-series and turning it into a 138-minute long movie results in an incomplete product. The film appears to be on track to earn $15 million or so, but it is also a bit of a wildcard and could compete for first place with $25 million, if the studio can really tap into the churchgoers market.
The rest of the top five is mostly irrelevant. 3 Days to Kill should earn fourth place, but with just under $6 million. There will be a big gap between third and fourth place.
On the other hand, there will likely be a logjam for fifth place. RoboCop has the best bet to round out the top five, but The Monuments Men, Pompeii, and About Last Night will all finish in the $4 million to $5 million range.
The Wind Rises could rise to the top ten as it is expanding to nearly 500 theaters. It will need close to $3 million to hit the top ten, which is not guaranteed, but it is a possibility.
Likewise, Anchorman: The Legend Continues could return to the top ten. This weekend an R-rated cut of the movie is being released in 1,300 theaters, which could be enough to get a spot in the top ten. It did earn $125 million during its original run, so the possibility of getting $3 million over the weekend can't be completely dismissed. On the other hand, the Blu-ray Combo Pack comes out in just over a month and I think fans will wait.
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Newspaper Page Text
land Daily ' Argxj
V0L.;XL. NO. 232.
ROCK ISLAND, MONDAY JULY 25, 1892.
Single Copies 8 OMk
Per Week ISM Ombs
We never carry goods over from one season
to another, Prices is what does the business.
Some Goods we
Some Goods we
100 doz. fast Black Socks worth 25
6 pair for 75 cts.
Men's Underwear an elegant article for -Extra
good for -
Star Shirt Waists worth - -
your choice of any waist in the
Bring a list of what you want and we guarantee
to save you from 25 to so per cent on every
purchase. We are the only Cash House in
the city. You pay for no loss of bad debts
when you trade with us.
SMx & RICE, Proprietors of
OA" ""10" A"
jrt v t a itmi
give you 1-3 off.
give you 1-2 off.
at prices much
dare sell them.
to Gro lor
less than any
ctS per pair
- sO cts.
- Is cts to $1.50
store for 50 cts.
LURKS IN THE MINE
The Deadly Gas Gathers in
TEEEIBLE DISASTEE U THE PIT.
Fifteen Men and a Bey Harried to Eter
. nlty by the Lurking Gas Pocket Names
of the Dead A Wisconsin Town Laid
. Waste by Fire and l.SOO People Ift
Without Shelter Loss, SSOO.OOO Rail
way Men Forwarding Soceor.
Pottsville Pa., Julyts5. A frightful
explosion occurred at the York. Farm col
liery shortly before noon Saturday by
which sixteen men were killed. The death
roll is aa follows: Thomas Jones, Herman
Werner, Anthony Putlavich, George
Kreiss, William Jones, William Weiman,
Anthony Stock, Edward Curran, Henry S.
Madara, Thomas Flanders, Robert Aiatt,
Charles D. Alatt, (son of Robert), John
Harrison, James Hartzell, Christian
Harnicker, and George Stock.
Struck a Feeder of Gas.
The explosion occurred in the tunnel on
the first lift and was caused by workmen
striking a strong feeder of gas which had
accumulated and of which they were un
aware. . When the gas was released it
rushed upon the miners with such force
as to penetrate their safety lamps and the
explosion followed with terrific force.
Timbers were toi n out and trucks weigh
ins several tons loosened and hurled in
every direction. Those who escaped were
burned more or less or injured by flying
debris. The gangways are in a fearrul
condition and it was several hours before
the dead and injured could be reached.
Priests and doctors were soon on the scene,
aa were hundreds of helping citizens.
No Criminal Carelessness.
Prominent foreign and local mine offi
cers superintended the removal of the
debris iu order to recover the bodies of all
the unfortunate men and at the same time
instituted a thorough investigation as to
the cause of the explosion. There is no
criminal carelessness on the part of any of
the employes or oflicials. The colliery will
be in full operation again by the middle
of the week.
WISCONSIN TOWN IN ASHES.
Fifteen Hundred People Without Shel
ter Whole Place Wlpetl Ont.
Iron Rivk::, Wis., July 5. With the
exception of one or two buildings this town
is iu ashes, 1,500 people are without shel
ter, and iu many cases without food. Lit
tie is left of what twenty-four hours ago
wus one of the most prosperous mill towns,
the total pi operty loss aggregatinc fcJoO,
0000, with very little insurance. The fire
started iu a hotel, and in less than five
minutes the structure was ablaze.
o Fire-Fighting Apparatus.
As there is nothing in the town in the
way of fire-fighting apparatus and no
stream near by, all that could be done
was to try to save the contents of the
buildings. In an incredibly short space of
time the fire extended to adjoining struc
tures, which burned like tinder. The only
persons who saved their effects were those
who realized the village was doomed aud
carried out I heir householi-'joods before
the flames reached their re.5-Mices.
Help fcent from Other Places.
The fire started at 6 p. m. yesterday.
Last night the people were huddled about
their ruined homes, but the railways came
quickly to the rescue and sent every pas
senger car that could ba spared to the
place for shelter for the homeless. Gen
eral Manager Fitch, of tbeDuluth, South
Shore and Atlantic, also ordered his em
ployes to collect provisions and forward
them here. Eugiues were seut from West
Superior and other places but got here too
leath In the Cave of the Winds.
Niagara Falls, X. Y., July 25. The
first fatal accident, that ever occurred in
side the Cave of Winds was that which
resulted iu the death yesterday afternoon
of Marcus M. Mason, cashier of the Mer
chant Investment company, of 101 Devon
shire street, Boston. Instead of going the
usual way with a guide Mason took a
short course, slipped from the flat rocks
out into the water, going directly uuder
the falls. J. K. Barlow, of Xew Castle,
Pa., jumped in after him, but before he
could reach Mason he was carried by the
current uuder the falls aud lost to sight.
Masou is a young married man.
W. K. Vanderbilt's Close Call.
Hyannis, Mass., July io. While at
anchor in the fog on Nantucket Shoals
yesterday morning W. K. Vanderbilt's
yacht Alva was run into by the steamer
H. F. Dimock and sunk. All on board the
Alva, including W. K. Vanderbilt and
o ii ti il ttpn nn lmAnt the
mrbj ...... ,
Dimock. The accident was so sudden
that the yachtsmen had no time to dress I
but were taken off in their night clothes.
The Alva was one of the largest and finest '
yachts afloat aud cost nearly $500,000.
Terribly Injured the Engineer.
Pittsbcuu. Kan., July 25. An engine in
the yards at this city struck two loaded J
cars ou a iin;u 1 ?s " v ...
eugine aud three cars ami terribly injuring
William Kearney, the engineer, who had
his leg and arm broken while his body was
Heat Prostrations at Chicago.
Chicago, July 25. The intense heat of
yesterday caused the deaths of George
Eckerman, aged 05; Charles Wagner, aged
SO, and Jamea Hennessy. Four others
were probably fatally sunstruck and a
dozen less seriously prostrated.
Resignation of Commissioner Carter.
Washington, July 25. A letter is pub
lished addressed to Hon. Thomas Carter
by Secretary Xoble in which the latter by
direction of the president accepts Carter's
resignation of the office of commissioner
of the land ofiloe. and expresses the presi
dent's "high appreciation of the faithful
ness aud efficiency with which you have
discharged the duties of your office, to
which I beg leave to add my own,"
The Weather Wo May Kxpwit
Washihutox, July 25. The following are
the weather indications for twenty-four boars
from 8 p. masterrtay: For Iowa Gen
erally fair ' weather and southerly winds.
snowed D IOCK1 Bnowcr. lu iiotiunraiTru
I portion this evening. For Indian, and Illinois
Ornerai.y fair weather and continued high
temperature, with southerly winds. For Up
per Michigan Local showers; winds shifting
to southerly; cooler in w&uern. warmer in
eastern portion. For Lower Michigan Lo
cal showers, clearing in son the as tern portion:
sHchtly cooler in southwestern portion: win is
shifting to southerly. For Wisconsin Increas
ing cloudiness: probably local showers; warm
r wrather: southerly winds.
According to Devlin, when Oates told hint
JDevliu) to go to h 11 he (Devlin) replied
t hat the room iu h 11 was reserved for
just such men as he (Oates), and as he
(Oates) came from the south and he (Dev
lin) came from the north Oates would be
more acclimated aud more nsed to the
warm viimate, and would receive a more
Discrediting Plnkerton's Evidence.
The Knights of Labor wanted to have
Pinkerton cross-examined, and especially
as to his declaration that during the
strike on the New York Central in Xew
York state a train was derailed by a
striker. Not a striker was convicted, but
a striker who was arrested by Rooert
Pinkerton, when charged by Pinkerton
after his arrest, knocked Pinkerton down
and beat him. The same information
against this Knight of Labor, who was sub
sequently released, was used against
another, not a Knight of Labor. He wanted
this matter brought out so as to convict
Pinkerton out of his own mouth, but the
somniitte refused to permit it.
PREPARING FOR THE VETERANS.
Washington Kxpeets to Have to Take
Care of 00,000 of Them.
Washington, July 25. Plans for the
entertainment of thousands of Grand
Army of the Republic visitors, who are
expected in Washington at the national
encampment in September, are now under
consideration by the executive committee.
This entertainment, it should be under
stood includes only bed and shelter for those
veteraus and G. A. R. posts who do not for
themselves arrange thesn matters. The
committee estimates that there will be
60,000 of this class of visitors to entertain
and that a fund of not less than $150,000
will be necessary to carry its plans into
execution. In the first place all the pub
lic school buildings will be used. In addi
tion the committee will lease any lare
buildings when favorable terms can be
llarraeks to lie Krected.
But the large proportion of the free
quarters will hare to be in buildings es
pecially erected by the committee. On the
grounds of the Washington monument
temporary buildings are to be erected.
These structures will be sixty-four feet
wide and 500 feet long and. will each have
sleeping accommodations for 3,000 men.
Il is proposed to have twelve of these
buildings, which will afford accommoda
tion for over 43,000. In the immediate
vicinity of F these quarters arrangements
will be made for the erection of large din
ing halls where meals can be served at
Looking After Wives of the Vets.
In fact, all through the city in the vicin
ity of the school buildings and of other
buihlings where large bodies of men are
quartered some provision must be made
for supplying the men with meals. Of
course the committee will not pay for the
meals, as the visitors will assume that
part of the expense. The committee wjU
supply bedding and cots free of cost and
the visitors will furnish their own sub
sistence. The citizens' committee is going
to care for the veterans alone. There will
be no arrangements for women occupying
the free quarters. A great many of the
old soldiers will want to bring their wives
with them, and a special committee, of
which Miss Clara Barton, president of the
Red Cross Association, is chairman and
Miss Cora C. Curry is secretary, is making
arrangements to secure quarters for the
Nominee Stevenson's Tour.
Chicago, July 25. Hon. Adlai fjeverj.
son arrived at this city yesterday. . bis
trip west he received many evidences c Via
popularity with the Democracy. At AV
bany he addressed a short speech to
a large crowd of citizens; at Utica
he made another speech and shook bands
with hundreds. At Syracuse there was
another large crowd to which he addressed
a few words; at Rochester the pro
gramme was repeateJ, and likewise at
Buffalo. Mr. Stevenson is much gratified
at his reception.
Sheerin Starts for Indiana,
Xew Yoke, July 25. S. P. Sheerin,
secretary of the Democrat ic national com
mittee, has left this city for his home in
Indiana, to be absent a week.
inc. a"i lijntML. uawic
How the League Clubs Stand In the New
Chicago, July 25. The first eight games
of the new League aeries shows that Chi
cago can hold a tail-end position with a
grip of death. Out of eight games the
club has only captured two. The standing
of the clubs is given below:
New York 7
bt. Louis 8
Won. lost, i'sr
Illinois-Iowa Played. Won. Lost. Per cent.
Boekford :U 17 IS .5iH
Joliet 31 18 15 -M6
Kocklsland-.Moline.3S 14 14 .500
Scores on the Iiamond.
Following are the League scores recorded
yesterday: At Boston Chicago 5, Boston
7, at Brooklyn Cincinnati 2, Brooklyn 3;
at Philadelphia Cleveland 6, Philadelphia
10; at Baltimore Louisville 3, Baltimore
4; at Washington Pittsburg 4, Washing
ton 7; at Xew York St. Louis 4, Xew
Illinois-Iowa: At Rock Island Jackson
ville 5, Rock Island-Moline 8; at Rockford
Joliet 6, Rockford 13. (Sunday) At Rock
ford Joliet 2, Rockford 0; at Reck Island
Jacksonville 5, Rock Island-Moline 19.
Lewis J. Beater, member of m wealthy
I ronton, O., firm, hanged himself with a
rope made of towels, injuring himself so
severely that though cat down before
death ha died lata-.
OATES AND DEVLIN Al ULMix
The Southerner Kesents the Knight's
Critlrimu Very Vigorously.
Washington, July 25. Representative
Oates, chairman, of the house committer
that investigated the Homestead lalor
trouble, came nearly to blows Saturd.tv in
1 an altercation wi:h John Devlin, ouu .tf
the members of the executive committee,
of the Knights of Labor. Devlin and his
asseciates submitted to the bouse commit
tee Friday certain questions which were
put to the Pinkertons, and answered by
them in writing. Saturday morning Dev
lin went on the floor of the house before
the session and asked for a copy of the
testimony, which could not be furnished
him at once, at it had not come from the
Oate Version of the A Hair.
Oates says the affair happened this way:
Oates, in response to Devlin's request for
a copy of the testimony taken Friday, snid
that it was not printed yet, but Devlin
could have an order on the stenographer
to see the testimony and make whatever
notes from it he wanted. Devlin insisted
on a copy and Judge Oates told him that
the proof sheets would come from the
printing office Monday evening and that
he (Devlin) could have a copy Tuesday
morning, but that he would like the
names of witnesses he wanted examine!,
as the committee wanted to make a report
Thought It Most Kztraordlnary.
Devlin then said that he thongh the ac
tion of the committee Friday was most
extraordinary. He thought it extraordi
nary that the Pinkertons should be per
mitted to see the written questions and
read them liefore they were asked by t lie
chairman. His manner as well as his
words offended Judge Oates, who told hint
that the committee had treated him and
his associau-s with extraordinary co:im-1-eration,
having given their questious pre
cedence over those of the committee, aa 1
that his criticism now was improper a id
impertinent. More words followed, kill
Judge Oates told Devlin that he might -
to h 11. Devlin charged that the comm; -tee
had taken this recess at the iust.iii--of
the Pinkertons. Judge Oates retorted
that this was false; that Devlin was a d i.
liar. The two men seemed about to come
to blows when members interposed in
prevented a tight.
What levlin Said te Oates.
Devlin was seen by a representative ;f
the United Press at the National hotel.
Doings In tne allonai Legisiataro.
WasHINgton, July 25. The anti-option
bill occupied the senate again all Sat
urday, diversified only by a brief financial
discussion over a proposed legal tender
ameudment to an important bill relating
to judgments of United States courts.
The senate amendments to the general
deficiency bill occupied most of the time in
the house, the French spoliation claims
being discussed for two hours, the house
disagreeing to this item 79 to 119. The
Indian depredation claims, amounting to
(476,252, as inserted by the senate, were
agreed to by the close vote of 96 to 94. A
resolution was passed calling on the presi
dent for information regarding the trans
portation of imported merchandise in bond
or duty from one portion of the United
States over Canadian territory into another
portion of the United States.
Novel, but "Not Half Bad" Idea. '
London, July 25. In honor of there
cent marriage of his son Viscount Chel
sea, Earle Cadogan has donated 500 for
the purpose of taking 00 adults and 1,600
children among the poor of Chelsea to the
Crystal palace where, in addition to see
ing the sights, they will be treated to d in
ter and tea.
Van Buren ran 1. miles at Washington
Park Chiqago in 2:06, wining IS, 000.
H'VViU M. Xubemeyer and Xellie Boise,
of Cleveland, went out on the lake for m
row aud were both drowned by the capsiz
ing of the boat.
The Local Market.
Bran -N"c jr cwt,
Staipstiitf fl.OO perewt.
Hay Timothv. SUfftlS: prairie, 10&11 ; clover
f 113,10; baled. $11 (K&n2.fi0.
Butter Fair to choice, l.'Hc: creamery, S9Q34c
Eucs Frewn. 14c: packed. 10c.
Poultry Chickens, IOQ.12; turkeys. 1-He
ducks, 1-Hc; peee, 10c.
rurir and vEeaTABLis.
Apples tS.a5S2.78 per bbl.
Cattle Batchers pay for corn fed steers
84ft44c; cows and heifers, 2H&3c; calves
Hard 7 Sn7 75.
Soft 1U&3 80.
Common boards $18.
Joist Scantling and timber, IS to 16 feet, $18.
Kvrry additional foot in length 50 cents.
X A X&hini'lee f 75.
Lath f J X).
Fencir? 12 to 16 feet $18.
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NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg Endorses President Obama for Second Term, Citing Climate Change
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) announced that he is endorsing President Obama for reelection. The mayor wrote in an op-ed for Bloomberg View that, "The devastation that Hurricane Sandy brought to New York City and much of the Northeast -- in lost lives, lost homes and lost business -- brought the stakes of Tuesday’s presidential election into sharp relief."
He went on to say, "Our climate is changing. And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it might be -- given this week’s devastation -- should compel all elected leaders to take immediate action."
President Obama released the following statement today in reaction to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s endorsement:
“I'm honored to have Mayor Bloomberg's endorsement. I deeply respect him for his leadership in business, philanthropy and government, and appreciate the extraordinary job he's doing right now, leading New York City through these difficult days.
“While we may not agree on every issue, Mayor Bloomberg and I agree on the most important issues of our time - that the key to a strong economy is investing in the skills and education of our people, that immigration reform is essential to an open and dynamic democracy, and that climate change is a threat to our children's future, and we owe it to them to do something about it. Just as importantly, we agree that whether we are Democrats, Republicans, or independents, there is only one way to solve these challenges and move forward as a nation - together. I look forward to thanking him in person - but for now, he has my continued commitment that this country will stand by New York in its time of need. And New Yorkers have my word that we will recover, we will rebuild, and we will come back stronger.” | <urn:uuid:b2d41314-5d15-46fe-85bd-edb801c1d819> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://insider.foxnews.com/2012/11/01/nyc-mayor-michael-bloomberg-endorses-barack-obama-for-president/ | 2014-12-20T00:19:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802769121.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075249-00073-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965914 | 396 | [
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* Notes *
The opening performance of The Bonesetter's Daughter proved to be a rather maudlin and self-indulgent affair. The beginning was promising, the call of the suona players from the Grand Tier was regal and imposing, and the aerial acrobatics combined with projections of water and fire during the overture were impressive. The first trio of Ruth (Zheng Cao), LuLing (Ning Liang), and Precious Auntie (Qian Yi) was also pretty. It is too bad that the set makes such a loud squeaky sound as it moves forward during that scene, it was completely audible from the back of the orchestra level last night, as it was from the boxes during the dress rehearsal. It was also obvious that amplification was used for Qian Yi.
Unfortunately, the music lost focus from there, and seemed very much in the background compared to the elaborate plot, which seems to have as much to do with Greek tragedy as it does the book The Bonesetter's Daughter. Reading Amy Tan's book only confused me, as the characters and story line have been compressed nearly beyond recognition. The players here have been reduced to mere caricature, whether it is the meanness of the Kamen family, the madness of LuLing, or the evil embodied by Chang. I found it extremely difficult to relate to any of the people on stage because all of the personalities were so flat and the music did nothing to illuminate them. As over the top as scenes of urination, threats of vomiting, suicide, attempted incestuous rape, and castration are, all this in 2 hours and 40 minutes is simply too much and is not dramatically effective.
The production is overwrought, one almost feels that director Chen Shi-Zheng doesn't trust composer Stewart Wallace to pull the opera off either. Every moment is filled with either choreography or video projection, if not both. Particularly ridiculous was Act II, Scene 1, when LuLing is in Hong Kong, writing letters for abandoned wives. Not only is she singing about this as she goes, she waves a brush against paper on stage with an apparent wife and her daughters. So far this is fine, but do we really need projections of letters folded into boats to get this message across? Or dancers depicting abandoned wives wandering around the stage?.
As for a few positives, first of all, Act I, Scene 1 has a birthday cake flying through the air, which is certainly unusual. It is brought in by an acrobat suspended by wires, and she does some flips after depositing the cake on the table. The music as we enter Immortal Heart in Act I, Scene 2 was an exuberant breath of fresh air. The suona and percussion were all played beautifully, though again, the singing was amplified. Generally, the singing and acting were very good. Hao Jiang Tian was quite the villain as Chang, and his voice is warm and resonant. Qian Yi was an ethereal Precious Auntie, her movements were perfect. The way she could just glide on stage as if she were on rollers did make her seem otherworldly, and her hand gestures were gorgeous. Ning Liang (LuLing) sounded fabulous in her lower range, though she did have a couple of shrill gasps. Zheng Cao (Ruth) had no such problems, her voice is simply beautiful. It was very nice to hear her in a substantial role, finally.
* Tattling *
The audience was respectful of this world premiere, there was very little talking, and I heard no electronic noise. There was some talking heard from backstage during a quiet scene in the second half of the opera, but this was not as distracting as loudness of the set in the first scene, so one cannot really complain. Near the very end of the opera, I heard a woman express aloud her confusion about what had just happened on stage. However, the work received a standing ovation. | <urn:uuid:f8a0569d-245c-4af9-9d9e-98c9a0ab2083> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://operatattler.typepad.com/opera/2008/09/bonesetters-daughter-opening.html | 2014-12-20T00:07:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802769121.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075249-00073-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990088 | 804 | [
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This is Clare. She is a quick little study done in graphite and "special" watercolor, born of 2 recent and simultaneous infatuations:
The band, Clare and the Reasons, from Brooklyn, NY. Listen to the tracks "Pluto" (a song of condolence for the overthrown planet we used to know and love) and "Rodi". Be prepared for an entrance into a lovely little world. Plus, the lead singer spells her name the same way I do my middle name.
While I was listening to them, I was on the search for Dr. Martin's Concentrated Watercolor (it feels like a secret I've uncovered). Their saturation is delicious and their layering ability is so exciting. I can't wait to try it all over everything! Even ice-cream! | <urn:uuid:b604fe96-d79e-4038-a002-1c0ea1b48fca> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.thecinnamonrabbit.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html | 2014-12-20T00:02:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802769121.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075249-00073-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956346 | 172 | [
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Jen Carlton Bailly showed us how to make Scrappy Whole Cloth Placemats, His + Hers Pillows and she’s been an expert here more than once too. Today she’s sharing her experience with the new Threadbias Quilt Design Tool; you’ll love the quilt she designed! Learn more about Jen in her introduction and be sure to stop by her blog.
Threadbias is giving away a one-month pass to their Quilt Design Tool, or a one-month credit for existing subscribers. Leave a comment here telling us what tools you currently use to design your quilts for a chance to win! We will pick a winner on April 8th. (Sign up for a free account on their site if you don’t have one already.)
When Kristin asked if I’d like to review the new Threadbias Quilt Design Tool I was really excited. However, like with most things, I was also skeptical. I like my pencil, my gummy erasers from art school, my pretty pencils and my calculator. Plus I’ve played around with several different programs like it that just didn’t work and ended up being frustrating. Hearing though that the tool had a fabric calculator and would tell me how much fabric I needed to make my quilt totally peaked my interest.
I sat down and opened the program. I tried to play around, tried some more and then got frustrated. Oh right!– I was told to watch the tutorials. Of course, I know better… So I hopped over to the YouTube page and watched all fourteen videos. They were short, sweet and to the point. Once I had run through all of those I felt like I was totally set up for success. It was still a little frustrating getting around and remembering everything, but after a few dedicated sessions I totally got it. So don’t try this and expect to just “get it.” It’s a computer program, and will take some time to learn. Practice is really the key. Oh, and watch the videos!
If you know who I am you know that I have a slight obsession with ¼ circles. That was my jumping off point. It took me about a minute to create one, and that’s when my obsession with this tool began. I started copying the ¼ circle and playing around with different angles. In literally a matter of minutes I had the nine blocks below. MINUTES! It was right after this that I had to give myself time limits on using it. Otherwise I knew it would consume me!
Seeing all the blocks laid out got me thinking about the tiling tool that Alex talked about in the videos. (This happens to be my favorite part of this whole program.) I picked my favorite block and added some colors.
Then I copied the block and tiled over four spaces and got this.
From there I copied the whole row and tiled down four more rows. When I saw my screen I was so excited. There were so many different patterns that came out that I didn’t even know were there! Now, you might be good at spotting a repeat pattern– I know I marvel at my husband’s talent for it– but it’s just not how my brain works. So when I saw them I was ecstatic!
When I selected the fabric requirements tool for my design I knew it was a little off. The calculations are over-estimates and cutting this particular block can be done more efficiently than the program could probably calculate. That being said, it was still helpful to have a good place to start.
The one thing that I would love is a cut schedule. (It’s promised for a future release.) A cut schedule tells you how many and in what size yellows to cut, how many blues, etc. In the meantime I just added them up on my own which is just fine! This quilt has 25 blocks. Each block has 16 pieces in it, which means 400 blocks for a 120 by 120 inch quilt.
After a few days I kept coming back to the block. Finally I decided I loved it so much it was going to be my new king quilt. I gathered all my yellows, blues, grays and my favorite yarn dyed Essex. (Thanks to everyone who gave and sent me yellows!) Here are my first four blocks.
I love how it’s turning out. It will probably take some time but will totally be worth it.
Overall it’s such a great tool. I designed 15 different quilts in the matter of an afternoon. There was no erasing, no tearing out my paper and throwing it away, just lots of fun trying out new patterns. I’ll share the quilts with you all over the coming months on my blog.
I really encourage you to try it. It’s free with a 9” x 9” workspace and all of the features; you just wont be able to save your designs. You can buy a subscription to the full tool for just $10/month that can be cancelled at anytime. They have a support forum for the tool and have been amazing about getting suggestions implemented. Updates are free as well! It is a web-based program so you don’t need to worry about installing any software or paying for upgrades.
If you would like to try your hand at making quarter circles, you can get the template that I used here at TabSlot.
Threadbias is giving away a one-month pass to their Quilt Design Tool, or a one-month credit for existing subscribers. Leave a comment here telling us what tools you currently use to design your quilts for a chance to win! We will pick a winner on April 8th. Be sure to sign up for a free account, if you don’t have one already.
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I have a To-Do list that’s longer than my arm.
I have multiple deadlines that are Looming Large this week.
My scholarly materials are due fairly soon, and there are a couple more things that need to be sent out into the Great Reviewing Stream ASAP.
I have about 20 research-related tasks that must be done Right Now.
I have been completely neglecting Mr. Jane. We are not even 2 ships passing in the night….we are 2 ships flying in completely different solar systems.
So what have I spent the last 4 hours doing? Writing a homework assignment. (And actually, much of that was tweaking the assignment details, since I wrote the basic assignment earlier this afternoon.)
In my defense, it’s a brand-new assignment, in a topic area I’m not completely comfortable with, and I needed to do some sanity checking and write the solution to make sure that I was giving them something do-able. But honestly? I could have finished the assignment in maybe 2 hours, tops. I spent way too much time finessing the assignment, for very little gain.
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Is it really safe to use Organic Miracle Grow on my veggies? I'm totally new to gardening so other than compost, I don't know how to fertilize my plants. I'm limited to a small container garden at this time. Any tips would be appreciated.
Here's what I started using:
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Usability Professional’s Association – International Conference
May 24 - 28, 2010
From International Observations to Cultural requirements - Integrate or Tailor Cultural Differences in User Interface Design
Presenters: Wei Zhou, Oracle; Di Meng, Oracle; Lynn Rampoldi-Hnilo, Oracle
Tailoring applications for each country a product is shipped becomes prohibitive in cost. Through international observation research, key cultural and technological adoption patterns can be assessed. In this presentation, we will discuss when, how, and why we should or should not integrate these key requirements into a single user experience.
Date: Friday, 28 May, 2010
Time: 8:30 - 10:00 AM
Tutorial: How to Conduct International Research with Mobile Users: From Start to Finish
Presenters: Chad Sampanes, Oracle; Michele Snyder, Oracle
This tutorial provides attendees with the knowledge of why it’s worthwhile to conduct mobile international ethnographic research: how to set it up, how to execute it, how to produce exciting deliverables, and ways to ensure research findings make positive effects on final products.
Date: Monday, 24 May, 2010
Time: 6:30 - 9:30 PM
Creating Richer Personas-Making The Mobile, International, and Forward Thinking
Presenters: Michele Snyder, Oracle; Chad Sampanes, Oracle; Brent White, Oracle; Lynn Rampoldi-Hnilo, Oracle
Personas are a great way to get development teams in sync with a new space and their users. This presentation discusses solutions to extending personas to include novel types of information such as mobile behavior, cultural differences, and ways to promote forward thinking.
Date:Thursday, 27 May, 2010
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Under current federal law, the FBI has no authority to block the sale of firearms or explosives to individuals on the terrorist watch list.
This “Terror Gap” means the federal government can’t stop gun sales to the same people it thinks are too dangerous to get on an airplane.
According to the Government Accountability Office, people on the terrorist watch list have passed background checks and purchased guns 1,119 times over the past 6 years. And on multiple occasions, terror suspects have even passed background checks and managed to buy explosives.
Terrorists repeatedly attack Americans here at home. Failing to stop terrorists from getting guns has cost American lives. Terror suspects have already gunned down Americans in attacks within our own borders, and put U.S. troops in harm’s way where they should be safest — on their bases, near their homes and with their families.
FORT HOOD, November 5, 2009
Major Nidal Hasan allegedly shot 43 people at Fort Hood — 13 were killed and 30 were wounded. Hasan was able to buy a handgun even though he was under investigation by the FBI for links to terrorism. FBI agents investigating Hasan were never informed that he was trying to purchase a weapon.
QUANTICO MARINE CORPS BASE, July 27, 2009
Daniel Patrick Boyd and six other suspects were arrested for conspiring to murder U.S. military personnel at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. Boyd, who was under investigation by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, amassed an arsenal of assault rifles and traveled to the Middle East to meet with militants and plan attacks.
LITTLE ROCK MILITARY RECRUITING STATION, June 1, 2009
Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad allegedly attacked a military recruiting station in Little Rock, Arkansas, shooting one private to death and wounding another. Mohammad was under FBI investigation as a terror suspect at the time of the shooting.
FORT DIX, 2007
Six terror suspects were caught training with various firearms and plotting to attack Fort Dix. When they attempted to buy additional firearms such as M-16s, AK-47s, and handguns from a government informant, law enforcement officials were able to arrest the terror suspects before they could strike. One of the six terror suspects pleaded guilty to providing firearms to illegal aliens and the other five suspects were convicted of conspiracy to kill U.S. military personnel. | <urn:uuid:81f6230c-a108-42ee-94ca-91cd0814b473> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://gunvictimsaction.org/fact-sheet/fact-sheet-gap-in-law-allows-people-on-terrorist-watch-list-to-get-guns/ | 2014-12-18T15:21:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802767247.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075247-00113-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974205 | 489 | [
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Once you know what you’re doing with the shape, it’s time to draw it up and get it in the press. Unless you want to get fancy and layer up your own base, your best bet is to use a single sheet of plywood, between 5-10mm depending on your board shape. Lighter is better obviously, but if your board is going to be massive you’ll want something a bit more substantial.
Then simply measure up and draw out your design on the ply before cutting it out, preferably with a jigsaw for accuracy. Then you’ll need to get it in a press to get that rockered shape else you’ll be frontfliping your way down the mountain.
Again it’s up to you exactly where it’ll go; do you want a flat base between the bindings and a spooned nose or more of a banana shape? As Bud Keane would say, it’s up to you man…
Your best bet here is to use either a bench or pallet and nail/screw some sort of ply-bending device together; it doesn’t have to be pretty, it just needs to hold together for a couple of days. Wood bends better when wet so you can wrap it up in damp towels, or even better steam it if you have access to a sauna/hot tub. Don’t soak it as it’ll deaden, just keep it damp. And keep it in place for at least 48hrs so the shape will hold. | <urn:uuid:ec7bcf08-37e1-416a-9dbd-37a1ef87e5af> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://whitelines.com/features/how-to-build-your-own-powder-board.html/3 | 2014-12-18T15:21:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802767247.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075247-00113-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94349 | 323 | [
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Vital Villan Interviews: villarich
villarich is next up for our Vital Villan Interviews: 1 - How long have you been a Villa fan and how did you first get the Claret & Blue faith?
I have supported Villa since I was 5, so 36 years... 2 - What was your first game?
Villa v Spurs, but can't remember the exact year as it was so long ago now, but it was sometime in the late 70's 3 - What is your most memorable moment as a Villa fan?
Dennis Mortimer lifting the Europen Cup in 1982, crowning Villa as the 'Kings of Europe'. 4 - And the worst moment?
Ron Saunders leaving Villa in 1982 and also Villa losing the FA Cup final in 2000, we were dreadful. I remember leaving Wembley and travelling home totally gutted, it took me a good 6 months to get over the disappointment of losing that game. 5 - Who are your favourite current Villa players?
Martin Laursen, Ashley Young, NRC and Gabby 6 - Which former player/s are your ultimate heroes?
Tony Morley, Dennis Mortimer, Gordon Cowans, Colin Gibson, in fact the entire squad who won the League Championship in 1980/81 and the European Cup and Super Cup in 1982...They were awesome, the best Villa team I've ever seen. And last but not least the 'Legend' who is Paul McGrath. 7 - Which player do you think was the worst to ever put on the team colours?
Gosh there have been a few over the years...Sasa Surcic, Stan Collymore, Milan Baros...I'll leave it at that I think8 - What is the best goal you have seen Villa score and which is your favourite game?
Peter Withe 1982 European Cup Final , (coz it won us the cup), its also my favourite game. 9 - Best away ground visited?
White Hart Lane (and its not great) 10 - Who would you like to see Villa sign this summer?
Niko Kovac 11 - What are your predictions for us this season in the:
1/4 final of Uefa Cupc) Carling Cup
Winnersd) Fa Cup
1/4 finals 12 - What is your opinion of Martin O'Neill?
Martin O'Neill is a great manager, I want him to stay in charge at Villa Park for the next 20 years. 13 - What is your opinion of Randy Lerner and the new board?
Aston Villa was a football club on its knees under Doug Ellis and David 'dare a great bunch a lads' O'Dreary, since Randy Lerner has taken over, the transformation both on and off the pitch has been nothing short of fantastic. My faith has been restored and I am once again proud to be an Aston Villa supporter. 14 - Where do you sit at Villa and are you a season ticket holder?
Absolutely I am a season ticket holder at Villa Park...I sit in the Doug Ellis Lower stand towards the Holte End 15 - And finally (stolen without shame from Vital Arsenal!) if you could invite 4 people connected to Villa, living or dead, to a dinner party, who would they be? And you can add one bit of top totty as well to make the party go with a 'bang' ;o)
Tony Morley, Martin O'Neill, Randy Lerner and Paul McGrath. Top totty would have to be Jennifer Aniston.
Up the Villa!!!
With thanks to Villarich
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Fairbanks, Hope Academy and Indiana Wesleyan University announce The Adolescent Addiction, Learning and Recovery Project (AALRP) formed to investigate the impact that substance use disorders (SUDs) have on student learning and school success, as well as the effect that personal recovery will have on student learning and school success.
The joint effort combines the expertise of staff from Fairbanks, a not-for-profit drug and alcohol treatment center in Indianapolis, Indiana, Hope Academy, the recovery high school as Fairbanks, and the Addictions Counseling faculty at Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, Indiana.
In a 2011 national study conducted by the University of Michigan, illicit drug use by 10th graders in the past 30 days was 19.2% and alcohol use for the same age over the past 30 days was 27.2%.
"This is a unique project," said Dr. Richard Hooker, associate professor of Addictions Counseling and project coordinator. "We have a nationally recognized treatment provider, a ground breaking public charter school for students in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction, and a university known for its contributions to the addictions field collaborating together to find real-world solution to helping students affected by alcohol and other drugs. This project has enormous potential."
"It is the goal of Fairbanks and Indiana Wesleyan University to create a supportive environment in Central Indiana to explore, share and impact the strategies of prevention and the recovery of substance abuse disorders," said Charlotte Pontius, director of Program Development and Outreach. "We are excited about the partnership with Indiana Wesleyan University and ook forward to starting the project."
Project findings will serve as a research incubator that promotes a new generation of addiction/recovery investigations aiding educators and youth-serving professionals with:
- The only known website focused entirely on how student substance use negatively impacts learning; and conversely, how sobriety and personal recovery restore positive outcomes
- Website contents tailored to practitioners, providing them with relevant information, tools and strategies that equip them to support substance-impacted (SI) student sobriety and recovery, and to promote student learning and educational success
- Relevant research translated into short, readable, professionally-friendly reviews where findings are framed for practical application
- Opportunities for educator/practitioners to give input into the issues they face when working with SI students
- Teaching tips focusing on practical classroom and guidance issues
- Research-based professional publications concerning topics relevant to educators and practitioners
AALRP's Leadership Committee will function as the collective executive of the project and will consist of four Fairbanks/Hope Academy staff and four IWU staff. The Fairbanks/Hope Academy staff consists of Director of Program Development and Outreach Charlotte Pontius, Hope Academy Chief Operating Officer Rachelle Gardner, Project Director Dr. Sigurd Zielke and Dr. Mary Jo Rattermann. IWU staff consists of Associate Professor of Addictions Counseling and Project Coordinator Dr. Richard Hooker, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Business Associate Dean Dr. Stacy Hammons, Division of Behavioral Sciences Chair Dr. BJ Fratzke and Psychology Professor Dr. Betsye Robinette.
The five-year project begins January 1, 2013.
Indiana Wesleyan University is an evangelical Christian comprehensive university of The Wesleyan Church, which has its world headquarters in Indianapolis. The University was founded in 1920, and is committed to liberal arts and professional education.
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HAYWARD -- A 24-year-old woman suffered gunshot wounds to her head and neck while she slept in her home less than a mile from downtown Hayward early Wednesday morning, but she is expected to survive, according to police.
The gunfire came from outside the home in the 500 block of Smalley Avenue about 12:25 a.m. and injured the sleeping woman, Hayward police Sgt. Eric Krimm said. An undisclosed number of bullets went through a window at the Hayward home, one striking the woman as she slept on the living room floor.
Her boyfriend -- whom police say is in his 20s -- was also home at the time in a separate room, but he was not shot. He is not a suspect and was cooperating with detectives, Krimm said. Two children also live in the home, although police did not know whose children they were or if they were home at the time of the shooting.
As of Wednesday afternoon, police did not have a suspect in the shooting. They are looking at "a number of motives" for the shooting, but Krimm said there is no reason for other residents in the area to be afraid as the attack appears to be a targeted one.
"We don't believe it to be random," Krimm said. "Something was or has been going on at the house. It looks like the shooter went to the house and intended to shoot someone. Whether they shot their intended target is not known."
The woman underwent surgery at Eden Medical Center and was expected to survive, Krimm said. She was conscious and communicating with rescuers before she was taken to the hospital, Krimm said.
Evidence markers to the left of the front door outside the single-story, beige-and-tan home appeared to show two bullet holes in a window. Shattered glass was evident inside the home, which is located directly next to a nursing home -- St. Anthony Care Center -- and has a gated driveway. The nursing home appeared to be untouched in the shooting.
Beatriz Perez, a neighbor who lives in a triplex on the same property behind the home, said the woman is "a very nice lady. She is my friend, and this makes me scared."
Perez heard the gunshots, but she said she did not think it was gunfire and went back to bed.
Robin Langston, 55, lives in the nursing home and learned about the shooting at breakfast that morning.
"The police came and interviewed the night nurse," she said while sitting in a wheelchair on a sidewalk outside the victim's home. "They checked my windows for bullet holes, but there weren't any."
Anyone with information is asked to call the Hayward Police Department at 510-293-7272.
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A/N:- So… I accidentally posted the wrong version of Ch 74 at first, one which didn’t contain some of my final edits/additions. Very little in the way of storyline is different in the proper version, with primarily some expansions of character's thoughts (I do have a tendency as a reader recently commented to be overly wordy… unfortunately I haven’t managed to reign it in) and a more rounded completion of the conversation between Buffy and Remus. I updated it to on the monday after I first posted it (17th), so if you read it the weekend it went up and you’re interested in seeing the changes, you might want to re-read from where Remus and Buffy discuss Lily’s letter. Nothing new is particularly plot central… so you won’t miss much if you choose to just read on.
Over this last weekend I also updated the posted story to my current draft (and got rid of all my boring notes like this). This doesn’t mean that it’s all nice and revised (I know it’s needed - for chapters 20-40 especially - but I need to find the time to do that properly… instead of using what little I have to write you new chapters) but it will at least mean that if I’m told of errors I know they’re still in my version (I’m certain there’s still some horrendous ones in there). Again, I don’t believe much has changed from what was posted before… definitely not any major plot points, although a couple of thousand words have been added to the count.
Now that’s over and done with - Welcome to the longest chapter of the story! (that’s true even without these notes - making the story break the quarter of a mill mark) I think I can pretty definitively say that there will not be another this long… mostly due to what I need to say next…
I have to take a break in writing here (probably until the summer when uni’s over… at the very least until May). Or… well, since (despite evidence to the contrary) I’ve never really been able to completely stop writing - a break in posting (I might even be able to get back with a few chaps in reserve so I don’t have such long gaps between chapters). I wanted to get to this chapter before I had to do this as, after having left you guys in the lurch about so many things for so long, I thought I should finally resolve some things for you all (and hence powered through to include all the scenes planned for this chapter rather than moving them to the next when this got so long) which, to a point, this and recent chapters should do.
Since no one can assess my success in that better than you… read on and judge for yourself...Vanishing Dreams
“My Lord, our attacks have been going well.”
“Yes, agents are fulfilling our objectives, here and abroad. Although…” he trailed off dangerously, “It appears the Americans went too far, didn’t leave any witnesses.”
“They were just having fun, My Lord. We didn’t think-”
“No, and you should not attempt to do so. Leave what you do not understand to me and follow orders.”
“My apologies… We did not intend to harm your endeavours.” he should have stopped there but for some reason thought he could help his cause by barrelling on, “Attacking Salem brought up old resentments. We didn’t see a reason to show the Muggles any mercy.” Not with how little they had shown us went unsaid, centuries old resentments still festering.
The others edged away, careful not to show any signs of support, however much they agreed with the sentiment. They knew a man who was asking to be punished, even if he did not realise it.
“The only reason you should need is that I ordered it.” the cruel voice responded from the depths of the chair he was lounging in, “If you cannot ensure they follow my directives I will find somebody who can. In the mean time I believe some time with my new pets will serve as a reminder of what is important.”
With a casual flick of the wrist he gestured to his other followers, two of whom briskly stepped forward to carry out his directive, first leading him then, when he realised where he was being taken, dragging the disgraced man out. The huge snake at their master's feet rose up for a moment as he began to struggle, showing a distinct interest in the proceedings.
The man laid a hand on the creatures' head and let out a strange hissing sound that made his remaining followers flinch. His handsome face twisted into a satisfied smirk, "Peace, Nagini, there will be better prey for you soon."
Suddenly the man was alert, still resting seemingly carelessly in his throne but more aware of his surroundings, listening carefully to something in the distance. He flinched as if recoiling from an imaginary blow, his brow furrowing in concentration as he focussed on the origin of the attack.
One groan of pain, then more echoed through the room as one by one the other occupants gripped at their left forearms, trying to contain the burning within them, but all this was ignored by their leader as he fought some internal battle.
"My Lord?" A new arrival asked, his voice wavering in pain. Figures were appearing, all also pulling at their clothes, scratching at the black lines of the brand traced on their skin, trying to get at the thing which was attacking them from within. "What..." the voice faded out as it's owner crumpled to the floor followed quickly by his companions as if this was some kind of game.
Only their leader remained aware, aware but ignoring what was happening to his followers, his thoughts miles from their plight.
~ ~ ~
By the time the Headmaster arrived, Buffy and Harry had been deposited on neighbouring beds in the main hospital wing each with a large dose of Pepper-Up potion which they were instructed to regularly sip.
“Oh, Headmaster, Miss Fullbright found you.” Madam Pomfrey smiled as she spotted him in the doorway, “I’m glad you came so quickly.”
“I’m afraid we must have passed her on the way here. As you see, I have other reasons for coming.”
As Dumbledore slowly moved into the room, an unsteady form following alongside was revealed. It’s companion removed the Headmaster’s supporting arm and straightened to shakily stand as soon as the other occupants of the hospital wing were spotted.
“Severus!” the Healer rushed to his side and, ignoring denials of it’s necessity, helped Snape into the bed beside Buffy’s and started to inspect him for injuries, popping one of her magical thermometers into his mouth and shaking her head at the result.
"There's no need-" Snape's words were cut off by a stern look from the Headmaster as Madam Pomfrey bustled over to her potions cabinet.
"You have severely depleted magic levels."
He scowled at the Healer, "Yes, Poppy, I am well aware of that. I also have a more than adequate supply of my own
potions in my office, since I am the one who provides yours."
"And, as a wizard with some knowledge of healing, you know that your condition can be dangerous if not treated properly." The witch responded, berating him as if speaking to a student rather than another staff member.
Buffy saw Harry trying to hide a smirk at her reaction to his most hated teacher, for once being treated like the surly child he so often resembled as the mediwitch thrust a glass matching their own into his hand and ordered him to drink. She would have been disguising a smile of her own but the woman's words caught her attention, "Dangerous?"
"Oh, there's no reason to worry. Just keep sipping your potions."
"But..." Dumbledore met Buffy's questioning gaze as the mediwitch moved over to Harry, pulling his hand away from his scar to inspect the irritated mark and once again taking his magic level.
"If left untreated, extreme loss of magic can permanently reduce your magical abilities. Even erase them altogether."
"Headmaster!" The woman whipped about, "There's no need to bring up something so unlikely, to worry the-"
"No, Poppy, I believe there is." He intoned calmly, waving away her arguments, "They both have a habit of overextending themselves, and should be made aware of the potential ramifications. That if they continue to do so they might not fully rejuvenate their power, even with your care."
"Well." She answered with a huff, unable to entirely disagree with the man.
"I believe we also need to discuss what caused your magic loss today. Poppy-"
The Healer held his eyes for a long moment, seeming about to argue further, but then relented with a nod, "I'll just go and check on my other patient. I need to change her sheets, as Scourgify
seems to have no effect."
At her words a house-elf appeared at her side, ready to lend her assistance, with a pile of fresh white linen it its arms which towered above the creature's head.
"Come on, Mink." Madam Pomfrey lead the way into Faith's room, shutting the door behind them.
As soon as they were alone, Dumbledore's intense gaze landed on the students, waiting for an explanation. It was Harry who broke first, not used to ignoring the expectations of authority figures, or not those he acknowledged as worthy of that authority anyway. Despite everything that had happened the last year, everything he had learnt, the Headmaster still fell into that category.
"Faith has... had a Dark Mark. I grabbed her arm when I noticed it and then I... we..." He trailed off, unable to explain the way their power had rushed through Faith, trapping them in a strange loop of magic.
"The Mark started to bleed," Buffy finished, "coming out through her skin until there was nothing left."
That surprised the usually unshockable Headmaster, "The Dark Mark is gone?"
"I think so..." Buffy shrugged, "I don't know. It wasn't there before so maybe it's just hiding again?"
"I doubt your actions would have resounded through others with the Mark if they didn't have a profound effect."
"Why didn’t we see it before?"
"What?" Buffy asked, frowning as she tried to understand Harry’s words.
"The Mark. How come it was hidden?"
Snape let out a disparaging snort, "You don't think we would be stupid enough to have proof of our allegiance permanently visible on our skin? If anything the Protean Charm is the least complex aspect of the spells contained within the Mark."
"But if it's meant to stay hidden-"
"Something or someone activated it." He cut Harry off a sneer before taking a sip of his potion, the effect ruined when his hand shook slightly as it returned the glass to the table beside him.
"Voldemort!" Harry exclaimed, grinning when Snape recoiled away from the name of his master, "It showed up when I said Voldemort
." he gleefully repeated the word which had so unsettled the man.
"Of course it did, you idiot boy."
"There's no need to snap, Severus." Dumbledore held up his hand before Harry could speak again, his attention all on the reclining man, "Are we still alone?"
Snape sat silently for a moment, deep in thought before finally nodding, the Headmaster waiting for that gesture before indicating that Harry could continue.
“Why did it react to my saying..." Harry trailed off at the sharp look Dumbledore gave him, "...his name?”
“It responded to the name of its creator, alerted him to its use. That is part of the reason his name was so feared.”
“But… I’ve mentioned Riddle near her before.” Buffy cut in.
“Tom Marvolo Riddle might be the name he was born with but it wasn’t the one he attributed to himself. When the name he chose is spoken near a Dark Mark he is able to sense it, to use the connection and hear what is being said about him."
She nodded, his words making as much sense as any of the more complex magics did to her, "Why did Faith even have the Mark?" Buffy glanced at the bed beside her, "I thought it was only for his followers; Death Eaters."
"He wanted to bind her to him," Snape replied, "and she agreed to be bound."
"She wouldn't-" Buffy started angrily, only to be cut off by the man's bitter laugh.
"The Dark Mark cannot be given against one's will. The uses it is put to might be corrupt, but the binding itself is not, it Marks us as his in a ceremony more meaningful than any wedding."
"He was possessing her!"
"I'm sorry, Miss Summers, but what Professor Snape is telling you is true." Dumbledore's eyes were filled with sorrow, "She may have been coerced, but Faith must have willingly accepted the Mark, free of the taint of any other's magic, or the ritual would not have worked."
"How do you know?"
His gaze flicked to Snape before returning to Buffy, "Riddle once tried to Mark one of my allies, but was unable to do so, despite using the Imperius Curse to control her."
"So... Faith wanted it?" Harry asked warily, glancing across at the room she lay in.
"Buffy-" the Headmaster began with a sigh.
"No." She cut in firmly, "He might have convinced her to take it, that it would help her escape the memory of what he had forced her to do... but that doesn't mean she wanted
A rap on the windowed door of Faith's room drew their attention back to Madam Pomfrey who, with that minimal warning, swept back into the main Hospital Ward.
"If Madam Pomfrey is finished with her, I believe it is time to assess the truth of your claims." Snape rose to his feet, earning him a frown from the Healer which deepened when Dumbledore gestured for Harry and Buffy to follow him.
"Headmaster, I don't think-"
"They have both finished their potions, Poppy. Moving to another room will not cause any harm."
The Healer huffed, "I expect you both to return before dinner to assess if you require another dose. In the mean time you are not to perform any magic." her eyes flicked to Harry, "That includes flying Mr Potter."
"If you use your broom today I will ensure it is confiscated again." She stated, her firm tone leaving no doubt that she would do as threatened, despite the recent overruling of her authority. Harry turned hopefully to Dumbledore, but instead of support he merely found agreement. That, and Snape's overt enjoyment of the situation, gave him a deep scowl as he stormed into Faith's room.
The Headmaster shut the door behind Buffy as Snape pulled up Faith's left sleeve and inspected her forearm, now clear of any evidence that there had ever been a Mark, the skin pale and unbroken.
"It's gone." The Potions teacher finally said, the usual distain wiped out of his tone by his shock.
"We told you that already."
Dumbledore ignored Harry's snide words, his eyes remaining fixed on the man beside the bed, "Are you certain?"
The usual derisive sneer returned to Snape's face and he pulled up his own left sleeve to display the black image upon it. He remained like that for a minute, staring at his forearm with a level of focus that seemed to have no direction until the brand on his arm began to fade slightly into pale skin. He let out a heavy gust of air before shakily pulling it back in, the Mark returning to its original state. "That is as much as I can hide it at the moment. If she was Marked, we would be able to see it."
"See. We got rid of it." Harry said with a satisfied smile.
“Does this mean we can remove them all?”
“I don’t know. Possibly.” She could almost see the thoughts shimmering behind Dumbledore’s eyes, the plans being concocted.
“What about my scar?”
The Headmaster's excitement dimmed at the reminder of that other link, of the bond forged by his futile attempts to stop Riddle, “I doubt that Harry.”
“But if...” Harry trailed off at Dumbledore's expression.
“The connection you have to Riddle is far closer than that given to those bearing the Dark Mark. I’m not certain anything could break it except…”
“One dying at the hand of the other
.” Harry finished with a disappointed sigh.
"So..." Buffy finally spoke into the heavy silence which had taken over the room, "Should we give it a go?"
"Try and get rid of your Mark."
Harry and Snape both stared at her with identical shocked expressions, neither apparently having thought about that aspect of this discovery. Snape, unsurprisingly, regained his composure first, his face donning a sneer, "Miss Summers, I don't think-"
"No, Severus, I believe she is right. We should see if they can repeat the effect."
The man's scowl deepened at Dumbledore's words, but he followed the implicit order, wordlessly presenting his left arm to Harry who reluctantly placed his hand on it just below the elbow as Buffy locked her fingers about his wrist.
"What now?" he snapped at them when no immediate changes were apparent.
"I... I don't know. Before it just..."
"It just happened." Harry finished for her.
"Well, then it's obviously not something you can replicate." Snape bit out, wrenching his arm out of their grasp and stalking across the room.
"Perhaps not as easily, the connections they share would have helped, but if it is possible for one Mark, it should be for others. We merely need to deduce the circumstances required."
"While you waste your time pondering that, I should go."
"Yes, of course." the Headmaster responded vacantly, his mind caught up in the potential of what had happened, "You know what can be shared."
Buffy was reluctant to leave, even when Harry also excused himself to, as he grumpily muttered, watch
the Griffindor Quidditch team practice. She hovered by the bed, watching Faith as she lay there, still unaware.
“You should try to reach her, Miss Summers. If she has borne his Mark all this time it might be what was blocking you.”
"Do you really think so?" She had to ask. Buffy had been wondering just that since she had seen the brand on Faith's skin, refusing to let herself hope that she might finally succeed.
"I do." Dumbledore replied with a smile, leaving her to make an attempt.
~ ~ ~
The girl of light jerked up at her name and a bright smile broke across Buffy's face; Faith could hear her.
Faith scrambled to her feet, running from this new presence in a place where she had only experienced nightmares.
Buffy ran through the darkness, using everything she had to catch up with the girl and pull her around. Faith flinched back in preparation for the expected blow, but when one didn't come she finally looked at who had caught her.
"How... What are you doing here?" Faith glanced about and lowered her voice to a whisper, "You should go. It's not safe."
"Okay, lets go then."
"I can't. I've got to hide." she pulled out of Buffy's grip and began backing away, staring behind her.
"No, we've got to fight."
"You don't know what she is. What she can do."
The shadowy Faith appeared behind her wielding that knife, but this time Buffy was there, could fight her. She could fight her but not, as Buffy quickly came to realise, stop her. However good, however fast Buffy was, her opponent was faster, better,and her blade was quickly covered in Buffy's blood. She was weakened, losing bit by bit as each small injury slowed her further until she made a big mistake, left her side open long enough to be stabbed exactly where Faith had done so before. The hilt of the imaginary blade sticking out from beneath her ribs just where another had only weeks before.
"Buffy!" Faith called out in breathless horror as Buffy's blood spurted out from the wound; covering her attacker's hands, both the Faiths hands, in blood.
Buffy swayed on her feet, helplessly watching as the dark form approached Faith, carelessly using a new knife on shadowy shapes which appeared between them. Hacking off a young man's hand, slitting the throat of a girl in chains.
“No, no, no" Faith kept saying as she backed away from both Buffy and the shadow, staring down at the blood coating her hands with an expression of disgusted disbelief. "I didn't... it wasn't..."
"It's okay." Buffy managed to choke out, "I know you didn't want to."
"I... I can't... I'm sorry..."
Faith began to run and Buffy reached out for her. She wasn’t close enough for physical contact but somehow held on with the connection they shared, pulling not just the Faith made of light, but the other Faith too. Both Faiths drawn back by the Slayer bond because, the realisation stuck Buffy like an epiphany, it wasn't just one of them she was connected to, it was both. Because... "She's you!"
A bolt of lightning cracked through the darkness, making the earth shudder, and then was gone, the darkness more oppressive after that burst of light. The sudden change made Buffy take a deep breath, but the pain she steeled herself for after that action never came and she looked down to find her injury too had disappeared, leaving her able to move.
"No! It wasn't me. I didn't do those things."
"You didn't intend to. You didn't want to. But you did, Faith." The whole place entered into constant motion at those words, flashes of light emerging from the darkness all about them, "It wasn't your fault, but it was you."
"No..." Faith sobbed, crumpling to the floor and curling into a tight ball, refusing to look up at the shadowy figure which loomed above her.
is a part of you... and I think... I think you have to accept that if you want to get out. You need to stop hiding from it, from her." Buffy warily moved behind the cowering form, watching the one standing over them carefully for any sign of attack, but none came. She knelt down next to Faith and rubbed her back to help ease her sobs, "The knife's been destroyed, Faith. He can't make you do things any more. He only wins if you let what's happened defeat you."
Faith looked up at the girl above her, at the cruel expression she had worn as she carelessly cut others down. She shuddered at the sight, but reached out with a wavering hand to grasp one that exactly mirrored it.
~ ~ ~
"No one told me you were, like a slayer Yoda, B." A voice rasped out as Buffy was trying to make sense of the sudden change, of being thrust out of Faith’s mind. It was as unsettling to be forced out as the visions imposed upon her had been.
"Wha..." She blinked and focussed on the figure sitting up on the bed, eyes open and alert.
"You must embrace the darkness within, Young Slayer, or it will rule you." Faith couldn't quite imitate the voice, not with hers sore from so long without use, but the tempo was perfect.
Buffy tried to scowl, but she was grinning too hard, ”Shut up."
"Seriously though. To come out with that crap you must have given in to Xander's movie selections way too often."
"It worked didn't it?"
Faith ducked her head slightly, unsure how to react to Buffy's sheer elation at having her awake, speaking to her like the cocky girl she had once seen in a dream.
"Miss... Faith. You're awake!"
Madam Pomfrey was standing in the doorway with a smile almost as wide as Buffy's, drawn over by the voices in the room but expecting it to be another visitor, not that what they were hoping for had finally occurred. She entered the room, taking out her wand to check on her patient, then stopped suddenly when that action elicited a surprising response. Faith flinched back as soon as she spotted the wand, rolling off the bed and frantically escaping from tangled sheets, trying to get ready to defend herself.
"No! Faith, it's okay. She's just trying to help." Buffy had to hold her back from attacking the Healer, feeling the girl's entire body shaking in fear.
"She has one of those..."
Her eyes opened, remembering what wands had done to Faith, immediately understanding what the girl expected, "Wands aren't bad... they can just... do bad things."
Faith tried to return Buffy's confident smile with a smirk, not quite able to hold on to the confidence her expression required, "And now you sound like the NRA."
She hadn't relaxed, but at least Faith wasn't trying to get out of Buffy's grasp anymore. Faith watched the mediwitch's every movement, still poised to defend, but no longer about to preemptively attack.
"I don't care... I'm not letting one near me."
"That's fine. Madam Pomfrey, could you-“
The Healer had already pocketed her wand, not knowing the reason for Faith's reaction but happy to placate her patient, "Call the Headmaster? Of course."
Faith tracked her progress as the woman exited the room, only letting out a shuddering breath when she disappeared from sight. Now that they were alone, she looked about the room, her gaze finally focussing on something out the window; the Griffindor Quidditch team practicing for the final match, "So this is where you've been?"
"Yes... I can do magic," Buffy paused a moment, waiting for Faith to lose the tension which had entered her body at those words, "When the wizards found out they sent me here so I could learn to control it."
“But… they said you were dead. Buffy, everyone in Sunnydale thinks you’re dead… Your mom…" Faith trailed off, her eyes widening as memories flooded back, "God, B, your mom!” Faith sat back heavily on the bed.
Buffy closed her eyes, trying to hold back the flood of emotions which threatened to overwhelm her, “I know.”
“I’m so sorry. I tried to stop them…”
“Don’t. It wasn’t your fault.” It was hers, Whistler's, everyones and no ones.
"So.... wizards, huh?" Faith asked, breaking the morbid silence which had begun to descend.
"Yeah." Buffy managed to smile, "wands, broomsticks, cauldrons and all."
Faith nodded, her eyes flicking over Buffy's body in search of the weapon she too must have, but her eyes stopped, fixed on something else, before they reached the wand in Buffy's back pocket. "Buffy! You're..."
Buffy glanced down and found her shirt wet with blood, the old knife wound had been reopened, her body somehow reacting to the events in Faith's mind. She saw the horror, the denial in Faith's eyes, something more a part of the girl she'd met there than the one she'd been speaking to since waking.
"It wasn't you."
"But it was." Faith gave her an uncomfortable grimace, the expression more real than any of the smiles and smirks she'd worn, "A part of me did it, wanted to, enjoyed it even. I think that's what was so scary."
"But... you're not going to stab me again, I hope."
"No! Of course not."
Buffy smiled, ”Then we're good. People want to do lots of things. It's the impulses we choose to follow that matter." She saw Faith's expression darken, "And you didn't choose to do those things, the knife possessed you, controlled you."
"Whatever you say, Dr. Phil." Her confidence was back, but Faith's grateful eyes reassured Buffy that she had heard what she was saying, that it mattered.
"Is it okay if I..." Buffy gestured at her bleeding side.
"I want to heal myself, but I'll need to use my wand."
Faith's eyes flitted about the room for a moment, alighting again and again on the only exit, before taking a steadying breath, "Okay."
Even expecting it she flinched back when Buffy withdrew her wand, but watched with interest as Buffy exposed her wound and prepared to cast.
"I hope you're not about to heal yourself, Miss Summers."
Buffy started like a child caught sneaking sweets, and looked up to find Dumbledore and Madam Pomfrey watching her disapprovingly through the doorway, "I..."
"Leaving aside the fact that it's exceedingly reckless for someone without training to attempt healing spells, and that new legislation prevents you from casting spells not authorised by your teachers, you are not permitted to perform any magic today."
Buffy sheepishly restored her wand to her back pocket, "Oh yeah."
His disappointment broke into a smile as Dumbledore turned to Faith, "It is very nice to finally meet you, Faith. Would you mind Madam Pomfrey using her wand to heal your irresponsible compatriot? They could go outside if it makes you uncomfortable."
"Um... no. Buffy can stay." Faith was watching the new arrival warily, and Buffy knew why. The air around Dumbledore was always alive with magic, and if with Faith associating that feeling with pain, with her torture, it was understandable that wouldn't want to be alone with him.
Faith looked on with fascination as Madam Pomfrey closed the cut on Buffy's abdomen before cleaning away the blood, trying to hide a gasp when she saw the unbroken skin left behind. Even after seeing this benign, beneficial even, use of the power she feared, Faith wasn't able to relax with so many potential enemies in the room. Her eyes jumped frantically from the Healer to Dumbledore and back until, at a nod from the Headmaster, Madam Pomfrey left.
"Well, now that's out of the way. I am Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." He extended his right hand to Faith with an amiable smile.
Faith tensed again at his abrupt movement despite the friendly words, but stood her ground, taking his hand and giving it a quick shake before retreating back to Buffy’s side, "Faith, the... uh, Vampire Slayer. But I guess you knew that."
Buffy glanced into the ward where Madam Pomfrey was tidying her supply cupboard, letting out the breath that had caught in her throat when it became clear that she hadn't heard Faith's words.
"Yes, but as most magic users are not aware of Slayers, it would be best if you refrain from introducing yourself as one."
Faith glanced at Buffy, ”So we're secret identity gals?"
"But then how did the ones who... took me know what I was?” She asked with a frown.
"They're working with werewolves."
A grimace flickered across her face, ”Oh yeah.”
Buffy could almost see her thoughts. The werewolves who killed Joyce.
"Those who took you are extremists. They believe in wizarding supremacy and have little care for non magical beings, human or otherwise. We believe they wanted to use you somehow."
"Use me?” she let out a bitter snort of laughter, “I guess they did that. As their personal assassin." Buffy gripped hold of Faith's hand, but before she could repeat her earlier words again, make them feel like mere platitudes, Faith continued, "I know it wasn't really me... it'll just take time to believe I couldn't have helped it."
Seeing her discomfort, Dumbledore silently conveyed his own reassurances with a smile and changed the subject, "I have contacted Matthew Azazel, the Chair of the Watcher's Council, to inform him that you are awake. I am certain he will be here soon.
~ ~ ~
Matthew did not come that day.
Instead he sent his apologies, promising to arrive as soon as he could, and they were left deciding what to do without him. Buffy refused to leave Faith alone in the Hospital Wing, not when she had only just awakened, not while the sight of a wand made her itch to attack before its wielder did. To retaliate as she had been unable to while chained to a dungeon wall.
Buffy took Faith to the one place in the school where there was no chance of encountering any wand but Buffy's; to Rowena's hidden safe-house which had, after all, been designed with Slayers in mind. Buffy guided Faith through the school, deliberately using the more problematic routes, those no other student would bother with. This avoidance was made easier by the Weasley twins final prank, the swamp on the fifth floor had turned a collection of corridors into dead ends by blocking the point where they met, leaving that floor's entrance to the stairwell awkward to reach but empty of other students.
Faith had flinched away from every moving portrait they passed on the way up through the school, every sign of the magic which permitted the building, making staircases move or disappear, every portrait but this. The feral vampire stalked closer to the front of it's frame, as interested in the girls standing before him as they were in him, hungrily breathing in their scent, their power. Just as Faith was doing to him.
"B... I can feel
"I know. Want to slay him?" Buffy asked, holding out her wand.
Faith frowned at the picture and the stick of wood, "He's just a picture."
"Not just. Pictures here are often more than they seem." She grinned when Faith took the offered weapon, weighing the fragile piece of wood in her hand. It was impossible to believe that such a fragile thing could cause so much pain, could be, in the hand of another, her biggest fear. "But please don't leave my wand in him.” She added as Faith finally turned to the portrait with a purpose.
Buffy retrieved her wand as they went through the door, smiling back at Faith's gleeful expression.
"It might not have been real, but that felt good, B. It's been an age since I've had a good slay." Her voice trailed off on the last word, remembering that while it had been a while since she'd faced a vampire, she had slain other things in the meantime. She recovered her ease, sending Buffy a cocky grin which silenced the concerned words that were poised on the tip of her tongue.
"You have to follow my footsteps on the stairs, they're rigged." Faith nodded, grateful Buffy hadn't brought up her slip, and followed her up the stairs.
Faith let out a low whistle as she followed Buffy through the rooms, “Nice digs.” she moved over to a bed, bouncing on the well-sprung mattress. Dumbledore had evidently decided that Buffy could stay with Faith; the bedroom opening off Rowena’s office now contained not one but two beds, one with her nightclothes lain out upon it.
As they were getting settled a house-elf appeared, laying out a filling dinner on the coffee table in front of the fire, the normal beverages supplemented by two glasses of Pepper-Up potion.
“Do you remember much of what happened to you?” Buffy finally asked what she’d been wondering all afternoon. Faith obviously knew enough to be wary of wands, but that didn’t mean she recalled every detail. She had needed to be reminded about the werewolves who had taken her.
Faith slowly chewed and swallowed her mouthful, giving herself time to decide what to say, “Which part?”
“Any of it.”
"At first... they just..." Faith shrugged, wanting to dwell on that time as little as ”Well, it was easy to lose track of what was happening for a while there. I kept slipping in and out."
“That makes sense. It seemed to…” Buffy trailed off at the intense look Faith was giving her.
“You were there. I felt you…” She frowned, reflecting on what had happened during her torture for the first time and realising that the other presence she sometimes felt hadn’t just been a dream, “You showed me how to keep him out.”
“I dreamt of you and, once I knew what was happening, tried to find you, to help.”
“It did.” That indefinable reassurance that someone cared, even when she had no foundation to base the belief on, had done so much to help her make it through. At least, it had until another presence had begun to whisper through her mind. "And then he gave me that knife and things became... both much clearer and completely out of focus."
“Did you feel me after you got the knife?”
Faith recoiled, “You dreamt of that?” she liked the idea of Buffy witnessing her actions under the knife’s influence even less than her knowing details of her experiences at the hands of the wizard.
“Not really. The knife’s possession overrode our connection. I got flashes sometimes… when you managed to fight it.”
She relaxed slightly, letting out a self-deprecating laugh, “Yeah. I wasn’t good at that.”
“You-“ Buffy began but Faith’s glare quieted her, stopped her offering pardon, asking forgiveness for actions neither could have prevented.
“So… How did you find me anyway?”
~ ~ ~
A high pitched scream cut through the air, forcing Buffy awake.
They had stayed up long into the night, discussing the wizarding world, the Watcher’s Council, slaying, life in Sunnydale. Talking about everything except what had happened to Faith, what she had done, skirting around anything which came close; Joyce, the wizard’s war.
Buffy heard another, more smothered, yell through the door before she reached it, throwing it open and leaping off the balcony to pull Faith back, off the girl she was slowly strangling against the wall.
“Faith!” she shouted at the girl trying desperately to escape her grip. “Stop. She won’t hurt you.” she glanced over at Ginny, who got warily to her feet, holding up her hands in the universal sign of surrender.
Slowly Faith’s breaths calmed and she stopped struggling, “She… she pointed it at me.”
Ginny’s eyes grew, if possible, wider at the words, “I didn’t…”
“Liar.” she spat out the word, growing agitated again, “Her wand was aimed right at me. I had to stop her.”
“I just came up here to practice Summoning Charms.” Ginny gestured vaguely at the pile of cushions by the window and those littered around her, “I heard something behind me and…”
Buffy nodded, understanding what had happened, “Faith, Ginny is just a student at the school practicing spells, she wasn’t going to hurt you.” she carefully let go of the other Slayer, and picked up Ginny’s wand from the floor, giving it back to the girl, sending Faith a warning look when she tensed. “Why don’t you show Faith what you were doing?”
“Um… Okay.” Ginny turned away from the slayers to face the window, careful to keep her wand lowered while she was faced in their direction. With a deep breath she raised her wand, “Accio cushion
The cushion came at her too high, too fast, flying over Ginny’s head and landing with a heavy whump
on Faith’s. Ginny flinched as it impacted and Buffy tensed, readying herself to leap back between the girls, but instead of renewing her accusations, Faith began to laugh.
“Right, B, I get the point. Little Red isn’t out to get me with pillows.” Faith gave her a only partially forced grin, her eyes still trained on the wand, “Just… put that thing away will ya?”
Ginny smiled in relief and pocketed her wand, moving about the room to collect the cushions she’d been using and throwing them back onto the sofas.
“What’s a girl gotta do around here to get breakfast?”
Faith’s words had barely left her mouth when the house-elf who had served them the previous evening appeared, “Will there be three for breakfast?” it asked with a bow, never entirely raising it’s head.
“No.” Ginny answered.
“You can stay if you want.” Buffy said, although her tone wasn’t entirely inviting, she had gotten to used to thinking of this place as her own.
“I need to meet the team for breakfast - we’ve got the pitch again this morning.”
At those words the house-elf disappeared, reappearing almost immediately with two plates piled with steaming food, one of which Faith quickly dug into.
“Okay. Um… I think Faith’s going to be staying here for a bit…”
“So I should stay away?”
“Well… at least let me know if you’re coming. She’s… a bit wary of wands.”
Ginny’s eyebrows rose at that understatement, “It’s all right. I’m glad you’re feeling better Faith.” She received a grunt of acknowledgement from Faith at her words and turned towards the exit before pausing again, speaking to Buffy in a whisper, “Let me know if she wants to talk about it.”
It took a moment for Buffy to realise what she was talking about, remember the last conversation they’d had in this room what felt like years ago. About what it felt like to be possessed.
“I wish I’d had someone to talk to.” the girl murmured, to herself more than Buffy, before striding purposefully out of the room.
“What does she want to talk to me about?” Faith asked through a mouthful as Buffy began to eat her own breakfast.
“About being possessed.” Faith’s expression closed off as it had whenever she broached something close to this topic, but Buffy continued on regardless, “Three years ago a diary of Riddle’s from school managed to control Ginny, used her to set a big snake on other students.”
“No one was killed but, from what I’ve been told, she was just lucky.” Buffy said answering the unspoken question in Faith's frown.
She nodded, her eyes trained on the door as she put another fork full in her mouth, thinking about the experience she shared with the girl who'd left.
After finishing their meal, the slayers made their way back to the bedroom to ready themselves for the day ahead but, before she mounted the steps up to the mezzanine, Faith paused, staring at the painting behind the desk.
“There’s something freaky about that picture, B." She frowned, trying to work out what it was about it that felt so strange, "Besides it being the only normal painting in this place.”
Buffy grinned, "You have no idea."
She had told Faith that wizards once helped slayers the night before, but not given her the details, wanting to save that until there was time to show off the hidden room.
"Is it another door?"
Buffy watched silently with a smile; Faith was already inspecting the frame, it wouldn't take long before she... click
. The painting swung open and a white figure flew out, launching herself on Faith. She quickly recovered from the surprise and began to retaliate, desperately blocking the blows as she searched for an opening.
"You can do bet-" the statue's teasing words cut off with a sharp, unnecessary intake of breath, Camilla's human mind making her inhuman body react like it was real. She absentmindedly deflected Faith's incoming attacks before falling to her knees and speaking in a formal tone, "Greetings, Slayer."
"Hi." Faith panted, as shocked by the sudden end to their skirmish as she had been by its beginning, "Who... what are you?"
"I am Camilla, and I was once a Slayer. Now I train those who are called."
"Would you like to see..." she paused as she rose to her feet, glancing into the darkness behind her with a sad smile, "the training room?"
Faith grinned, "Sure." Before they passed into the corridor, she glanced over at Buffy on the stairs, "You coming, B?"
"Buffy!" The statue launched herself at her, but instead of attacking, she pulled Buffy into a fierce embrace. "You're alive! But... how?"
Buffy's brow furrowed, then she realised what Camilla was saying, why the statue had been acting so dejected; what she had thought. "I told you there was another Slayer, about Faith."
“Yes…” The statue trailed off. Camilla hadn’t believed her, Buffy had known she hadn't entirely trusted her words, but hadn't thought that meeting the other slayer would make Camilla think she was dead.
"So, now we've established we're all hot chicks with super powers. What shall we do while we wait for the Watcher?"
Buffy and Camilla shared a look before attacking, and Faith meet their assault with a grin.
~ ~ ~
She looked up again from her work strewn over the desk, disturbed by Faith's inability to sit still, "Why don't you spar with Camilla?"
"Nah. I'm still sore from yesterday." Faith stretched, her spine audibly cracking as she eased out the kinks with a groan.
Buffy could sympathise. The previous day had been spent in a thrilling three-way fight, trying out nearly every weapon on the training room's walls, letting their combat take them all over the suite. She was still feeling the after effects of the day's activities, and Buffy hadn't spent the last month in bed.
Faith finally stopped pacing, perching on the edge of the desk and opening up one of the books, flicking aimlessly through it. "When do you think he'll get here?"
"I didn't know ten minutes ago and still don't now." Buffy scowled, "I'm going to be behind enough anyway, missing todays lessons, without failing these assignments."
"You got a pass today, B. From the head honcho himself."
"That won't matter." Not to a certain teacher.
Faith froze, staring at a page halfway through the book she was fiddling with. "What..." Buffy glanced at Faith, at the book in her hands, the one Harry had given her, fallen open at the page she'd perused again and again over the last fortnight. "What is this?"
Buffy watched the creature prowling across the page, "It's a myth."
"I've seen it before..." She trailed off with a frown.
"In the Ministry? Ron and Neville thought I looked like a Sivin too."
Faith shook her head, trying to remember through her distorted memories of her possession, “You? That thing was you?”
“Yeah, it’s this ability some wizards have where they can turn into an animal. Neat, huh?”
“No, it’s not. That animal, you, it’s what he’s
looking for. He showed me a book. It was kind of like this one but... more of a fairy tale… and the thing it described, it was this creature. He thought I knew how to find it.”
While Buffy was processing those words, the door to the stairwell flew opened and Matthew stepped through, his face breaking into a broad smile when he saw Faith.
"I am sorry to have kept you waiting, Faith. We're all so glad you've woken up."
"Matthew Azazel, Chair of the Watcher's Council." He shook Faith's hand, patting their joined grip enthusiastically.
“Where’ve you been?” Buffy stood up, moving around the desk to confront the man. They had been waiting two days for a man who had claimed saving Faith was his priority and Buffy wanted him to have a good reason. For his delay to not negate all his claims that he cared.
"I was out of the country. Dumbledore warned the Council that some werewolves were returning to America."
He shook his head with a slight smile to ease her concern, ”No, although we understand they did check if a Slayer had returned.” he took a deep breath, “They were in Los Angeles, close enough that the Hellmouth would make them change three nights instead of two."
Buffy glanced out the window at the clear blue sky, "It was a full moon last night." She hadn't even stopped to think about what had happened on the last one.
"Are they... How many did they get?"
"Eight are dead, three still critical.” Matthew shrugged helplessly, “We put out alerts, warning people to stay in their homes but... not everyone listened."
"What about tonight?"
“My Watchers are there, trying to contain them as much as possible."
Buffy frowned, hating the thought of being stuck here while there was known dangers she should be combatting, ”Why didn't you tell me? I could have-"
"We couldn't risk it.” he stated firmly, “We still don't know what he wanted a Slayer for."
"Yeah we do." Faith broke into the conversation holding up the book for him to see.
"You think he wants this..."
"Sivin." Faith confirmed with a nod, passing Matthew the book.
"He kept asking about it. Showing me this old book in a messed up language. Said that 'The Slayer has the key to unlocking the Sivin'"
Buffy laughed bitterly, "His translator messed up. The Slayer is
Matthew looked up from the text he was perusing, ”What do you mean?"
"B can change into a Sivin."
“Buffy, why didn’t you tell me?” he asked, his voice was laced with traces of fear and anger, but it was the disappointment that hit Buffy hardest.
“I… I thought I was an Animagus… The Headmaster thought so too, I’ve been trying to control it… and…” she trailed off, unable to meet his eyes.
Matthew let out a defeated sigh, “and you were worried what we’d do if we knew.”
"You have these properties, immunity to magic, in your Animagus form?” He waved the book at her, the lines of concern on his face deepening.
Buffy shrugged, ”Yeah."
His frown grew even more defined, “But… you changed back?”
"Yup. Twice now.”
The disappointment in his eyes rose at those words, that she had felt so unable to trust him. Buffy readied herself for the onslaught of his anger, for him to direct that hurt at her as she had not long ago to the suspicious wizards; berate her for keeping secrets. Instead Matthew’s confusion rose to the fore and he seemed to sag beneath it’s weight.
~ to be continued... ~What is Voldemort planning? ... Will they be able to remove other Dark Marks? ... Will Faith overcome her fear of wands? ... Do slayers always stab one another with knives? ... Are wizarding fairy tales always real? ... What does all this mean for Buffy?
All this and more coming… sometime… in Key to the Past!A/N:- As the above implies, this isn’t the end of the story (not even the end of this ‘book’ as I can’t help but feel that needs to come at the end of the school year as it does in both the fandoms I’m poaching from) but, like I mentioned before the chapter, this seems like an appropriate point to pause (while everyone’s mostly okay, before I raise too many other questions/concerns)… something I hope my readers agree with. Based on the comments I’ve received since I finally revealed her parentage, you guys seem to have less questions! Which I’ve kinda been hoping for as it likely means that most of them have been answered (though I know there’s some that haven't - as I said… this isn’t over).
Sorry to leave you waiting (again).. I know I’d probably just lulled you into a false sense of security with my (relatively) regular updates… Hopefully the fact that I’ve given you more chapters in the last three months than any stretch of posting since the very first bunch back in ’05 (and far more words than those initial 20 chapters) will aid your forgiveness.
Don’t be concerned that this means I won’t finish this. There are more scenes I’m excited to write (and thanks to Allen Pitt, got planned out far better than I had before)… real life just won’t spare me the time needed to do them justice at the moment.
So… to wrap up my rant (which could have been longer - I’m feeling all reflective and nearly rambled on about my inspiration for this story… where it came from and where it’s going. At least you were saved from that)…
Thank you so much to everyone who has recommended, reviewed or started tracking this over the last three months. I adore hearing from you guys and am repeatedly overwhelmed that people want to read on and even think enough of my story to endorse it. Finally, as always, if you have any questions/thoughts/theories/grumbles (or all of the above) I would be interested to hear them. | <urn:uuid:8e6e2401-a48f-4759-a7d6-6170c721035f> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-6115-75/IntoOblivion+Key+to+the+Past.htm | 2014-12-18T15:46:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802767247.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075247-00113-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981872 | 11,885 | [
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Webinar: Prescribing, Managing, and Billing for PrEP
How—and for whom—should PrEP be prescribed? What’s involved with managing patients who use PrEP? What about side effects and the risk for HIV drug resistance? And what’s the best way to bill for PrEP-related medical visits?
Get answers to these and other key questions in a free April 3 webinar, “The Doc Is In—Prescribing, Managing and Billing for PrEP for HIV Prevention.” Hosted by the Los Angeles County PrEP Workgroup and AVAC’s PxROAR program, this hour-long webinar will feature experts in the field and will provide opportunities to get your own questions answered about incorporating PrEP into your medical practice.
See the brief webinar invitation below for details, and click here to register and submit your questions.
- Date: April 3, 2014
- Time: 12:00–1:00 p.m. EST
The Los Angeles County PrEP Workgroup and AVAC’s PxROAR program are pleased to invite you to join the webinar The Doc is In: Prescribing, Managing and Billing for PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) for HIV Prevention.
The Doc is In aims to address some of the key issues around PrEP prescribing, such as concerns around drug resistance, cost and reimbursement, risk assessment and side effects, among others.
The webinar will feature Nika Seidman and Shannon Weber from the Bay Area Perinatal AIDS Center, and Tony Mills, a general medicine practitioner specializing in HIV care in Los Angeles. Click here to register.
“Prescribing and monitoring PrEP is much easier than managing HIV infection.” See what else longtime HIV specialist Dr. Joel Gallant has to say about fitting PrEP into his own practice—and get PrEP resources for providers. | <urn:uuid:4288b233-4f2c-49ea-a6e0-b4b5fb829748> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://betablog.org/webinar-prescribing-managing-billing-prep/ | 2014-12-20T04:19:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802769374.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075249-00017-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.890172 | 406 | [
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The saddest part of the end of the whole BluRay/HD-DVD format war isn't the ritual suicide of literally tens of Toshiba obsessives as they realize that their side was crushed by the omnivorous Sony Corporation. No, it's the fact that, no matter how cool BluRay may be, it didn't produce anything as jaw-droppingly awesome/pathetic/both as Toshiba's HD-DVD Star Trek Phaser remote control.
The remote control - produced by Toshiba in association with Paramount, to promote the HD-DVD release of the first season of Star Trek Remastered - skirts the fine line between appalling cash-in and must have; sadly, it was only available for a limited period, and even more sadly, it only worked with what has already become known as the Betamax of high definition DVD players. Check the garage sales in years to come for this one.
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The author pictured with the other four recipients of the 2013 Premio Collio
I’ve been a fortunate individual to have traveled to Italy so often and to have tasted so many great wines and more importantly, meet so many gracious, warm people. Each one of my 59 trips has been special, but perhaps none as memorable as the most recent to Collio, where I received the Premio Collio.
This award is given out each year by the Collio Consorzio to a few select journalists and wine professionals who have done the most to promote the wines of this beautiful district in the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. Collio is situated in the southeastern portion of Friuli, in the province of Gorizia and shares part of its border with Slovenia. This area is blessed with rolling hills (the word collio means “hill” in Italian) and is a marvelous climate for grape growing, as there are breezes from the nearby Adriatic Sea as well as winds from the Julian Alps that help moderate temperatures, ensuring a slow, even ripening that results in wines with excellent natural acidity, pronounced aromatics and ideal structure. The cool climate here is ideal for vibrant white wines, although there are also some excellent red wines from Collio as well.
I was given the award for the section on the wines of Collio in my recently published book Beyond Barolo and Brunello: Italy’s Most Distinctive Wines. I wrote about selected wines from more than 20 producers in Collio; these included famed estates such as Marco Felluga, Schiopetto and Radikon. Individual wines included some very famous offerings such as the Edi Keber Collio (Bianco, though he chooses not to label it that way) and Villa Russiz Sauvignon “De la Tour” along with underrated bottlings such as the Gradis’ciutta “Bratinis” and the Primosic “Klin.”
I decided that I would give my acceptance speech in Italian, as I thought that was the proper thing to do. After more than fifty trips to Italy, I have a good foundation in Italian, though I am certainly not fluent in the language. I’m sure if I lived there for an extended period of time, that would be different, but for now, I can understand and speak Italian, relatively well.
Giving my acceptance speech in Italian for the Premio Collio. Tania Princic, who helped me with the translation, is to my right.
I speak often in seminars to the trade and public about Italian wines, but this night was very different, as I would be speaking to 125 locals in the wine business, so needless to say, I was a bit nervous. Prior speaking helped me overcome my nerves to a large degree, but it will still a unique experience that I hadn’t done before. Thankfully, Tania Princic, who works with the public relations group for Collio helped me to translate my speech into Italian just a short while before the event.
Now combine that with the fact that I had to wait more than an hour and a half and you can imagine that I was getting a little more nervous by the moment. But I made it through without too many mistakes (I did mess up a word or two) and the audience gave me a warm reception. I’m sure they appreciated my gesture of speaking in Italian and I’m glad I did as well, as it will help me prepare for the next time I need to give another speech in Italy.
I thought I’d close with the last paragraph of my speech, first in Italian and then translated into English.
“Non ho ancora visitato il Collio quanto mi sarebbe piaciuto, ma grazie alla ospitalita e la qualita dei vostri vini, vi guarantisco che ritorno molto presto.”
“I have not visited Collio as often as I would have liked, but thanks to your hospitality as well as the quality of your wines, I guarantee I will return very soon.”
Thank you very much to the producers of Collio for giving me this award. I am honored and I will certainly not only visit again soon, but will also continue to promote these wonderful wines any way I can! A special thank you also to Alessandra Gruppi and Veronica Brumat for their help organizing my trip.
As we head into the final few weeks of 2010, it’s time to look back on some of the more memorable wines of the year. I’ll list some of my top choices over the next few weeks, but for now, I’m focusing on the best values. This post is about Italian white wines, while the next will be on the reds:
2009 MASTROBERARDINO LACRYMA CHRISTI DEL VESUVIO BIANCO
There is so much excitement about the white wines of Campania these days, given the wonderful bottlings of Greco di Tufo, Fiano di Avellino and Falanghina that are being produced in regular numbers. But don’t forget about the humble Lacryma Christi del Vesuvio, a popular wine served in many trattorie in Napoli. Produced entirely from the Coda di Volpe grape, this has gorgeous perfumes of lilacs, quince and Bosc pear, offers good depth of fruit and glides across the palate. Aged only in stainless steel, this would be an ideal partner for shrimp, clams or just about any shellfish – I love it with seafood pasta as well. This 2009 bottling (a wonderful vintage) from this iconic Campanian producer is a standout for its suggested $18-$20 price tag.
2009 BASTIANICH “ADRIATICO” FRIULANO
I just posted on the Adriatico project from Joseph Bastianich, a selection of three whites from areas near the Adriatic Sea. Each of the wines is notable, but it is the 2009 Friulano (DOC Colli Orientali del Friuli) that is the most complete and complex. This is a delicious white with notes of Anjou pear, mango and cinnamon that has remarkable richness and complexity for $15. This is an outstanding value!
2009 GRADIS’CIUTTA BRATINIS (DOC Collio Bianco)
I featured this wine in a post last month and raved about the quality as well as the price tag. Robert Princic manages this estate in San Floriano del Collio, which has rapidly emerged as one of Friuli’s finest. This blend of Chardonnay, Sauvignon and Ribolla Gialla offers gorgeous aromatics, impressive concentration, vibrant acidity and a distinct streak of minerality and should drink well for another 2-3 years (perhaps longer). Not bad for a wine that retails for $20!
2009 COFFELE SOAVE CLASSICO “CA’ VISCO”
This family estate has released one of its finest bottlings in recent years with the 2009 Ca’ Visco. Produced from 80% Garganega and 20% Trebbiano di Soave, the grapes are sourced from the family hillside estate in Castelcerino in the heart of the Classico zone. Medium-bodied with excellent complexity and light minerality, this is ideal with vegetable or seafood risotto or lighter white meats. ($17)
2009 FRATELLI GIACOSA ROERO ARNEIS
I featured this wine in a post on my other blog back in August. This is a typically fresh, no-oak version of Arneis with textbook pine and pear aromas and a rich, refreshing finish. Perfect with risotto or lighter poultry dishes or just by itself over the next 1-2 years. Arneis has become very popular over the past decade, driving prices up slightly, so the $17 price tag here is quite welcome.
Every industry needs new ideas – this is true no matter how large or small a business we are talking about. The wine industry welcomes new wines from emerging markets all the time, yet many of these wines are their country’s vintners’ take on recognized varieties seen around the world.
I recently tasted three wines from a project that is not only new, but one that is creative and very welcome in the wine world. The wines are three whites produced by Joseph Bastianich, who worked with several growers and producers in Istria, Slovenia and Friuli to craft these delightful aromatic wines. As the represented wine regions are all near the Adriatic Sea, Bastianich has given this project the name of Adriatico.
My tasting notes are below, but a few general notes on the three wines. They represent this area very well, each focusing on a different variety: Malvasia (from Istria), Ribolla (from Slovenia) and Friulano (from the Colli Orientali del Friuli zone of Friuli). They are from the excellent 2009 vintage and feature bright, tasty fruit and lively acidity, are beautiful food wines and are delicious. Best of all, each wine retails for $15! There are some gorgeous wines in these areas that retail for two to three times that and as some of those wines have received tremendous critical acclaim, it’s great that Bastianich and his friends in these areas have combined to give consumers such lovely wine values, which can only help focus more attention on these wine zones.
Here are brief notes on the Adriatico wines:
2009 MALVASIA (Istria)
Winemakers: Matosevic, Degrassi, Kozlovic
Bright yellow with a light effervescence. Yellow peach, pear and honey aromas – just lovely. Medium-bodied with good concentration. Lively acidity, good persistence in the finish and subtle notes of yellow spice. Very refined and delicate – enjoy over the next 1-2 years. Fine for lighter Oriental cuisine.
2009 RIBOLLA (Brda, Slovenia)
Estate bottled by Marian Cimcic, Ceglo, Slovenia
This variety is often identified as Ribolla Gialla; Bastianich is using the variety name as it is most often known in Slovenia. Straw-light yellow with lovely aromatics of spiced pear, jasmine and cinnamon. Medium-full with very good concentration. Rich entry on the palate and a lengthy, beautifully structured finish with vibrant acidity and notes of ginger and white spice. Gorgeous wine- enjoy over the next 2-3 years. (35-40 year old vines- stainless steel fermentation and aging).
2009 FRIULANO (Colli Orientali del Friuli DOC)
Ripe Anjou pear, cinnamon and mango aromas – just lovely. Medium-full with very good depth of fruit, very well defined texture, vibrant acidity and very good persistence in the finish along with a distinct streak of minerality. Perfect winemaking, excellent complexity and an outstanding value for $15. This wine is all about varietal purity, balance, complexity and best of all, pleasure! Enjoy this over the next 2-3 years. This is the richest wine of the three and offers the greatest complexity. This can stand up to most rich seafood and it would also work well with vegetable risotto or lighter poultry dishes.
As I wrote at the beginning of this post, every industry needs new ideas. The Adriatico wines at a $15 retail tag are especially welcome in this economy, but this is a concept that goes well beyond value. It’s also a project that sheds some light on a wonderful area of the wine world that receives much too little attention from the major wine publications. Congratulations to Joseph Bastianich and his team for their outstanding work on this initiative, from the beautiful label design and packaging to the remarkable quality of the wines!
Face it, it’s a lot of fun going on the remarkable journey that is the world of indigenous Italian varieties. You get to try so many wines made from grapes you find nowhere else (sometimes not even in any other regions in Italy), meaning you learn so much and experience so many new flavors in wine. If that isn’t the definition of fulfilling pleasure, I don’t know what is.
One of the most distinctive varieties I’ve embraced over the past year has been Vitovska. If you’ve never heard of it, well, don’t be surprised, as this white grape is only found (to the best of my knowledge) in the relatively small Carso district in southeastern Friuli. This is the small peninsula that curves around the Adriatic Sea and borders with Slovenia.
Only 122 acres of Vitovska currently exist in Carso; the best-known producers to work with this variety are Edi Kante and Paolo Vodopivec. The latter vintner produces two versions of this wine: one aged in large oak barrels (referred to as classica) and one aged in anforae, clay pots once used by winemakers centuries ago. Friulian winemaker Josko Gravner made this vessel important again when he decided to age his white wines in them and Vodopivec, an admirer of Gravner’s traditional winemaking ways, has followed suit.
Vodopivec (pronounced vo-do-pee-vetz), works solely with Vitovska, so he has been able to do a great amount of research with this variety; he believes high density planting is what is needed (his planting regime is at 10,000 vines per hectare, an extremely high amount) and as he believes the variety displays its finest aromatics and qualities when aged in anfora, he has settled upon this for the primary percentage of his production. His vineyards are organically farmed and he uses no chemicals. While this makes his work more difficult, Vodopivec believes this is the proper way to produce the most distinctive version of Vitovska.
The Vodopivec Vitovska Anfora is what is referred to today as an “orange wine”, as it has a deep orange, light amber hue that comes partly from the skins (Vodopivec leaves the grapes in contact with the skins for six months) as well as from the anforae. As there are no wood notes, the variety’s aromatics shine through, usually with notes of Anjou pear, mango and cooked orange. There is good, but generally not extremely high acidity, although that depends on the vintage, as Vodopivec mentions. “In my wines, the acidity is normally not too high, but if it is expressed, there is a pronounced freshness.” The vintner also notes the pronounced minerality as well as notes of honey and almond in the finish.
Vodpoivec first made Vitovska from the 1997 vintage, fermenting and aging it in large oak casks; beginning with the 2005 vintage, he decided to also age some of the wine in anforae and from now on, most of the production will be from anforae. Not only does he love the complexities of the wine as aged in these vessels, he also believes the wine’s structure is improved in this manner.
I recently tasted the current 2006 vintage and was quite impressed at how much better this wine is than the excellent 2005 version. Whether that has to do with the particulars of that year or the fact that Vodopivec now has a better handle on things is up for argument, but the fact is that the 2006 Anfora version (noted by a small orange strip on the bottom of the front label) is an exceptional wine. The aromas are of apricot, baked pear and a note of canteloupe, while the wine glides across the palate; there is a very lengthy finish with lively acidity and excellent persistence. This beautiful looking deep orange wine has impressive texture; as rich and as deeply concentrated this wine is, it is also a wine of great finesse. The balance of this wine is impeccable, as everything is in harmony. What a joy to drink!
While this bottling is quite tempting now, it will greatly improve with time; I expect this wine to be at its finest in another 10-12 years. As only about 1000 cases were made (this is the average production for Vodopivec), the $75 retail price is an honest one. The wine is imported nationally by Domaine Select Wine Estates of New York City.
This is not a wine that anyone would drink every day (even if you could purchase enough), but it is a stunning wine that reminds us of the individualities of Italy’s indigenous varieties as well as the vintners that work with these grapes. Here’s to Paolo Vodopivec and his endeavors with the Vistovska variety!
Looking back on the first six months of the year, I am reminded of the wonderful Italian wines I’ve tasted in 2010. Perusing the lists of these bottlings, I’m once again reminded of the amazing variety of Italian wines – be they white, red, sparking, rosé or sweet. These wines are from the breadth and width of the country, from Piemonte to Sicily and they run the gamut of price ranges. Most of them, of course, are from indigenous varieties, which combined with their excellence, also give them a singularity.
This is nothing new, but sometimes we need to remind ourselves of the identity of Italian wines as well the the quality. I’ve made 4 trips to Italy this year and a total of 45 trips in all (maybe I should just move there?), so I’ve been able to gain remarkable insight into the Italian wine industry. At its best and most honest, it’s about making wines that represent one’s land and one’s heritage. Yes, some Italian wines of today are international in style, but most of the finest wines of today are based upon terroir and communicate a sense of place. Personal preference is one thing, but there’s no disputing heart, passion and honesty.
I’ve just published the Summer issue of my Guide to Italian Wines and it’s evidence to what I mean about Italian wines. In this 46-page issue, I have conentrated on several wine types and regions including:
- 2009 Whites from Friuli
- 2009 Whites from Campania (an excellent vintage in both regions- these wines have fine backbone along with impressive concentration)
- 2005 Brunello di Montalcino – an overlooked vintage, especially after 2004, but one that offers elegance and very good typicity.
- The beautiful sparkling wines of Franciacorta – especially those from Bellavista – what a remarkable lineup of wines!
- The sumptuous 2007 reds from Bolgheri – these are not produced from indigenous varieties, but are often gorgeous wines; 2007 represents some of the finest reds from Bolgheri to date.
These are the highlights of this issue. I’ve been writing my Guide to Italian Wines for eight years now and this was one of the most notable collection of wines I’ve reviewed during that time.
The Guide is available on a subscription basis of $30 per year (four issues), but if you would like to purchase this Summer issue only, the price is a mere $10. I don’t think you’ll spend your $10 more wisely when it comes to learning about Italian wines.
To find out how to purchase, email me at email@example.com
Planeta Moscato di Noto (Photo ©Tom Hyland)
Here is part two of my list of the Best Italian producers of the first decade of the 21st century:
DUCA DI SALAPARUTA
The days when this winery was best known for Corvo white and red are long over. Today, this is one of Italy’s top producers, especially for its glorious red, “Duca Enrico”, which was the first great bottling of Nero d’Avola. The “Triskele” bottling, which is primarily Nero d’Avola with a small percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, is another excellent wine. Congratulations to winemaker Carlo Casavecchia for his excellent work!
Partners Giambatttista Cilia and Giusto Occhipinti continue to produce beautifully styled wines from indigenous varieties at their winery near Vittoria. Their bottlings of Cerasuolo di Vittoria are so elegant and finesseful, while their offerings of Nero d’Avola and Frappato are so varietally pure. Then there’s the aging process in amphorae – why be a slave to modernity when you can make wines this good in the centuries-old way of tradition?
This is one of the finest producers from the exciting Etna district; this producer is adept with both whites and reds. The top white called “Pietramarina” is made from the Carricante variety – the word Carricante means “consistent”, an apt descriptor for this producer. Several noteworthy reds here as well, especially the “Rovitello” and “Serra della Contessa” Etna Rossos. Never anything less than excellence from Giuseppe Benanti and his sons!
Arguably Sicily’s best-known producer – also one of the best, period. While famous for a lush, tropical-tinged Chardonnay, for me their best white is the non-oak aged Fiano called Cometa, an exceptional wine. I also love the beautifully structured “Santa Cecilia” Nero d’Avola, produced from grapes grown near Noto. The Syrah and the eleganty styled Moscato di Noto dessert wine are also highly recommended. Wonderful work from the Planeta family – they do as much as anyone to spread the good word about the wines of Sicily.
This is the Antinori project in Puglia and one of their best. I love the fact that they are offering not only high-ticket wines, but value bottlings as well; the Neprica, a blended red that sells for about $12 is very good. At the other end, the Bocca di Lupo, a 100% Aglianico, is a first-rate rendition of this variety, bursting with fruit and combining all the components in harmony.
A vastly underrated estate that concntrates not on making the biggest wines, but the most honest. A very good Nero di Troia called “Le Cruste” an even better Falanghina (“Le Fossette”) that is a revelation for white wines from Puglia and best of all, a lovely version of the local DOC red, Cacc’e Mmitte di Lucera, a charming blend of Nero di Troia, Montepulciano and Bombino Bianco. Longo almost singlehandedly kept this DOC from extinction – bravo!
CASTEL DI SALVE
From the far southern reaches of the region, rich, ripe and modern wines, but beautifully balanced, zesty and for the most part, handled without too much oak. My favorites are the “Priante”, a Negroamaro, Montepulciano blend (aged in used French and American oak) and the “Lama del Tenente”, a Primitivo/Montepulciano blend. Then there is a remarkable Aleatico Passito, one of the finest of its kind.
A long-time standout producer in this region; excellent white and reds. The Pinot Grigio is famous; the Friulano and Sauvignon should be – each is subtle with exceptional balance. The “Terre Alte” is one of Italy’s finest and most ageworthy whites. The “Sosso” is a beautifully crafted blend of Refosco, Merlot and Pignolo and is one of this region’s most consistent reds. Finally, the Picolit is a rare and exceptional dessert white.
MARCO FELLUGA/RUSSIZ SUPERIORE
I love the elegance and flavor of these wines and I also love the price, as most are quite reasonable. Best evidence of that is the “Molamatta”, a Pinot Bianco, Friulano, Ribolla Gialla blend that offers one of the best quality/price relationships for a Friulian white. The Russiz Superiore Sauvignon is assertive, flavorful and quite memorable.
This producer gets the award as much for the quality of its wines as for its efforts to popularize the lovely whites from this region. Joseph Bastianich, one of America’s most famous restaurateurs, is becoming as successful in the wine world as he is with Italian food. The regular Friulano is simply delicious, while the blended white “Vespa” (Chardonnay, Sauvignon and Picolit) is a stunning white that also ages well (try this wine at 5-7 years after the vintage – if you can find a bottle). The “Vespa” Rosso (Merlot, Refosco and Cabernet Sauvignon) is another fine bottling.
LE VIGNE DI ZAMO
An exceptional estate that consistently produces some of Friuli’s best whites and reds. My favorites include the “Cinquant’anni” Friulano, the “Ronco delle Acacie” blended white (Chardonnay, Friulano and Pinot Bianco) and the Schiopettino, a spicy specialty red of this region. Hard to go wrong with this producer!
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Liliane Bettencourt, Europe’s richest woman, sold her private island in the Seychelles to a marine conservation organization for $60 million.
The L’Oreal SA (OR) heiress, 89, bought the 0.6-square mile (150-hectare) D’Arros Island and several smaller islands in 1998. The buyer, Geneva-based Save Our Seas Foundation, plans to turn the islands into a nature reserve. Jean-Christophe Chiquet, a spokesman for the Bettencourt family, confirmed the sale.
“Previously, D’Arros did not enjoy any protection. Anybody could have gone there and done what they wanted,” Rolph Payet, the Seychelles’ environment and energy minister, said at a press conference in the island nation yesterday. “Now, with protected status under the Nature Conservancy Act, there will be enforcement and monitoring.”
Save Our Seas is a privately funded non-profit organization that supports marine life research, education and conservation projects. Christoph Lamps, a spokesman for the foundation, declined to identify the individual who founded Save Our Seas, only saying that he “is not Swiss.”
Bettencourt is worth $23.3 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. She is the second-richest person in France, behind Bernard Arnault, who controls LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA (MC), the world’s largest luxury-goods company.
There are multiple investigations in progress related to Bettencourt. Authorities searched the home and Paris office of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy on July 3, as part of an investigation into claims that cash from Bettencourt illegally funded his 2007 election campaign. Judges in Bordeaux are looking into claims the billionaire, now a court-ordered ward of her family, was manipulated by members of her entourage into giving away cash, art, real estate and other property.
The Seychelles, a collection of more than 100 islands, lie about 1,000 miles off the coast of Kenya in the Indian Ocean.
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The seasons are changing. Fall arrives soon and summer is departing. It’s time to change things up in your life! Let’s END your single status once and for all.
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Dating is the heart and soul of getting to a committed relationship. Lot’s of lesbians would agree that lesbians don’t date well. We’re too sensitive, too eager to get involved or too lonely to wait for someone who is a really good match.
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It breaks my heart when I see women get their hearts hurt by someone they barely know while dating! And I’m mad that gay women are lonely, heartbroken and don’t know where or how to start dating or even how to find friends!
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Mary Gorham Malia is a gay girl who’s passed the age of 50, survived menopause, hot flashes and night sweats, raised two children, came out later in life and divorced, grew from being a baby dyke to a lesbian with many dating experiences, has been rescued from cubicle nation and now finds the wisdom of being a bit older as the salvation she always wanted. She’s gone from being lost and late to lesbian life to being a seasoned life traveler who has a commitment to reach out to the lesbian nation and make a difference for lgbt women.
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A JUDGE in Camerino sits watching a video that could be hard-core porn, except that the “stars” are an elderly professor and a young student. In Messina, another professor jumps to his death from the balcony of his flat. Pupils arriving at a school in Crema, near Milan, are greeted not by their teachers, but by police officers, who escort them to a classroom for questioning.
These bizarre events all point to a rottenness in Italy's education system. A rash of scandals has shown that qualifications, including degrees, are for sale. The two professors were accused of offering higher grades for sex. One chose suicide. The other fought, claiming that it was charm, not high marks, that had seduced his students. On June 7th, he was acquitted; but he must pay compensation of €120,000 ($150,000) to his university for damaging its reputation.
The school in Crema was among 34 private secondary schools caught up in an investigation into a vast trade in bogus exam passes. The going rate for a diploma di maturita, Italy's school-leaving certificate, was said by prosecutors to range from €2,000 to €8,000. Since a diploma is needed to apply to university or get a white-collar public-sector job, that seemed a bargain—the more so since the organisation behind it, called Diploma No Problem, offered such good service. Answers were supplied in advance for written and oral exams; attendance records were fixed. Conversations taped by the police suggest that the company even booked flights and hotels for “clients” so they could sit exams in places where the outcome was assured.
One school south of Rome seems to have existed almost solely to produce study-free passes. It had 40 normal pupils, but around 1,000 external ones. The school was owned by a man with a criminal record, identified in court records as one of the bosses of Diploma No Problem. Some 23 people have been arrested in co-ordinated raids around the country, and 400 others are still under investigation. Police reckon the enterprise had an annual turnover of €5m.
Its activities were made possible by a reform, introduced by the previous centre-left government, extending to private schools the right to hold examinations that had previously been confined to the state. In the universities, results have long been easy to fiddle, because of a reliance on oral exams. Last year, police in Rome discovered a ring based in the law faculty at Sapienza University that was said to be offering exam passes for €1,000-3,500. Italy's education minister, Letizia Moratti, has asked a panel of officials to investigate the entire phenomenon. About time. | <urn:uuid:7cc79eb6-92c5-4533-b689-8ac7088fcf56> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.economist.com/node/2752836 | 2014-12-21T14:33:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802771374.156/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075251-00097-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986114 | 565 | [
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Let me first clarify my stand before I link to the article. I am a Christian. I am a Republican. There were days when I stridently agreed with Focus on the Family and followed every thing that came out of the campus up in Colorado Springs.
Those days are long gone. James Dobson does not speak for me but he is an interesting figure to listen to at times. Just like the Re-Create ’68 crowd (seriously, the convention should be a terrible train wreck), he’s got a right to say and believe in certain things I might vehemently disagree with.
But this…this makes me listen a little harder. 9news brings us, Unisex Bathrooms In Colorado’s Future?
I’m all for equal rights and tolerance in regards to what people believe and practice (to certain points…those polygamy cults are starting to concern me) and making the USA a little more welcoming and understanding.
Senate Bill 200, quietly signed by Gov. Bill Ritter (D-Colorado) with little fanfare on Thursday, prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or identity. It protects those who identify themselves as gay, bisexual or transgender from discrimination in areas including housing, business and education.
The law also prohibits discrimination in “public accommodations.” That is where the debate took a turn toward the toilet.
But I’m with opponents on this one. First of all, Bill Ritter hasn’t been on my list of people I’m terribly fond of this year. It started with the whole labor union crockup that he slipped a mickey to us with and did it all on his own. And this little fact,
The governor signed the bill privately. When reached for a comment Friday afternoon, his spokesman said Ritter would be available for a public comment on Monday.
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m outnumbered here on the blog and in my city as a Christian Republican…but I don’t like this whole signing bills privately and quietly. It’s unnerving to me at best (not a “BATTLESTATIONS” cry mind you) and leaves me continually questioning Ritter. If I’m alone in this, so be it.
But the concern that Focus has is this,
“It is now legal in the state of Colorado for a grown man to walk into a girl’s restroom in an elementary school for whatever purpose, and it is illegal for the school to say you can’t do that,” said Schneeberger. “What we’re really concerned about is sexual predators … who want to prey on young boys or young girls in particular, who would use the confusion caused by this law to victimize our children.”
The law’s proponents dismiss Focus on the Family’s argument as a narrowly-tailored scare tactic that ignores the greater purpose of the law.
“This is an important step forward for the state to make the state’s laws of fairness and justice applicable to everyone who lives here,” said Bruce DeBoskey, executive director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Rocky Mountain chapter.
And yet the question remains unanswered. What is to prevent some guy from standing in a girls restroom? What if he just stands there and does nothing? The article is lean on those details (if anyone has some better reporting, link in the comments) and leads me to believe that this issue was pushed through with little fanfare, aside from Focus’s campaign against it.
Focus on the Family launched an ad campaign in an attempt to convince Ritter not to sign the bill. The effort failed.
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Space shuttle layoffs for some contract workers
Space shuttle layoffs, effective Oct. 1, involve 902 workers in Florida, 478 in Texas and 14 in Alabama.
The space shuttles, which began flying in 1981 and are capable of hauling heavy payloads, are being phased out due to high operating costs and to free up money for new spacecraft that can travel beyond the International Space Station's orbit about 220 miles (355 km) above Earth.
In Pictures: NASA's Space Shuttle
The coming retirement of the space shuttle is imperiling thousands of jobs at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as well as jobs in Texas, Alabama and Utah, worrying local leaders who are concerned about the economic impact and promising to be an issue in November's congressional elections.
The U.S. space agency has two more flights remaining to complete the station, a $100 billion project of 16 nations that has been under construction since 1998. Congress, however, is considering new spending plans for NASA for the year beginning Oct. 1 that would add a third flight to the station next summer.
The Senate's draft bill also directs NASA to maintain the capability for additional shuttle flights in case the station needs a large piece of equipment that cannot be delivered on any other vehicles, a scenario the agency currently is not planning for, said shuttle program manager John Shannon.
"We'll see what comes out in the legislation. If it's signed, we'll start those studies," Shannon said in an interview.
The new round of layoffs follows previous cutbacks in October 2009 and June 2010 that sidelined 743 shuttle workers, Fluegel said. Additional layoffs are expected next year.
NASA had been planning a follow-on program to the shuttle called Constellation that would have returned astronauts to the moon. An independent review panel convened by the Obama administration determined Constellation was inadequately funded and the White House decided to ax the program, favoring instead commercial space efforts and technology initiatives for future deep-space human travel.
Bills pending in Congress maintain parts of the Constellation program, but eliminate the moon as the driving destination for future NASA missions.
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Wapentake and Petty Sessional Division of Hallikeld - Electoral Division of Masham - Poor Law Union of Bedale - County Court District of Ripon - Rural Deanery of East Catterick - Archdeaconry of Richmond - Diocese of Ripon.
This parish lies westward of the river Swale, and in the rich and fruitful vale of Mowbray. The surface is an unpicturesque level, but the soil is fertile and produces good crops of wheat, barley, and turnips. The parish comprises the townships of Burneston, Carthorpe, Exelby-Leeming and Newton, Gatenby, and Theakston, whose united area is 7,411 acres, of which 1,185 acres belong to the township of Burneston. Its rateable value is £2,198. The inhabitants of the parish, who are chiefly employed in agriculture, in 1881, numbered 1,888, of whom 253 resided in the above township. The principal landowners are Villiers Dent, Esq., (lord of the manor); the Hon. Mrs. Dawson-Damer, eldest surviving daughter of the late Lord Rokeby; W. D. Russell, Esq., and Mr. W. Dovenor, Burneston Grange.
The village is pleasantly situated about four miles S.E. of Bedale. The Church (St. Lambert) is a large and ancient edifice, rebuilt in the Perpendicular style in the 15th century. It consists of a lofty clerestoried nave with north and south aisles, chancel, south porch, and a west tower surmounted by a spire. The building was thoroughly restored and refurnished by the Duchess of Cleveland, and a handsome east window of five lights inserted in memory of her husband William Henry, first duke of Cleveland. A three-light pictorial window on the north side of the chancel, subject, " I am the resurrection and the life," commemorates the death of Robert Russell, in 1876. There are also tablets here to the Carter, Harrison, and Elsley families, and two brasses to the Chaloners and Andersons. The lofty proportions, the sombre hue of its carved oak roof, and the elegant gothic arches of the aisles give the interior a very handsome and imposing effect. Some of the ancient dark oak pews remain. These, an inscription on one of them tells us, were added in 1627 at a cost of £50, left by Thomas Robinson, Esq., of Allathorpe. The font is octagonal with the date 1662 on one of its facets. There are six bells in the tower, three of which were added by subscription in 1874. In 1887 about £200 was spent in draining the churchyard and planting it with trees, and at the same time nearly an acre of ground was added, the gift of W. D. Russell, Esq., the patron of the living. The vicarage, valued in the King's Books (temp Henry VIII.) at £37 6s. 8d., is endowed with one-third of the great tithes of Burneston; the other two-thirds belong to G. J. Serjeantson, Esq., Camp Hill, and Charles Carter, Esq., Theakston Hall. Its present value is £480.
The Wesleyans have a chapel in the village, a plain brick building rebuilt in 1859, on the site of the old one.
A Free Grammar School and Hospital were founded here in 1680 by Matthew Robinson, M.A., Vicar of Burneston, an ancester of the late Lord Rokeby, who endowed them with a rent-charge of £43 5s. on a farm at Scabbed Newton. The building along, narrow, antiquated structure of two stories, formerly contained both almshouse and school, the master and usher of which had free apartments in the house. In 1852 the constitution of the school was altered, and separate premises were erected by subscription and grant from the Committee of Council of Education. The other property of the institution consists of 12 acres 3 roods of land at Carthorpe, purchased from 1795 to 1818, with various gifts, legacies, and contributions, and now let for £27 a year. There are five almspeople in the house, four women and one man, the youngest of whom has passed the allotted "three score and ten," each of whom receives 11/6 monthly, 5/- in July for coals, 2/- in September for a dinner, and 7/6 in January for a dress.
The Poor's Land, seven acres, at Exelby, was partly bequeathed by Richard Foes, in 1673, and partly purchased in 1780 with £80 benefaction money, and £73 10s. raised by subscription. It lets for £12 a year. The poor have also the rent of a gravel pit (£2 a year) and the interest of £100 saved from the profits of this pit.
CARTHORPE township (area 2,056 acres, rateable value £2,890) is chiefly the property of George John Serjeantson, Esq., J.P., Camp Hill; William Poole, Esq., Little Danby; Mrs. Ryott, Southport; and John Stead, Carthorpe. The land is generally low, and the soil partly clay and sand, except in the north west about Intake house where it is of a peaty nature, indicative of a lake or marsh in former times; its name too, Carthorpe - the thorpe by the Carrs - is corroborative of this. Some fields here bear the name of Boghills from the numerous little hillocks which they contain. These we are credibly informed, when levelled down, rise again in four or five years. The rise of the mounds is not gradual but sudden; the explanation of the phenomenon we leave to others.
The village occupies a low situation about a mile S. of Burneston. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have chapels here, and there is also a public elementary school, the property of, and solely supported by Mr. Serjeantson. About half-a-mile from the village is Camp Hill, the residence of the above named gentleman. The estate and manor were purchased by the present owner's father, from the Rev. Mr. Lambert in 1796, and very considerable additions made to the mansion. The Serjeantsons have been settled in Yorkshire for more than 400 years, and for 300 years have held land at Hanlith. The present representative now, (August, 1888) in his 89th year, is the last of the family. In a portion of the village called Hall-garth is the shell of an ancient chapel, now used as a lumber shed and cow-house. Nothing is known of its history nor of the period of its erection, but Mr. Longstaffe assigns it to Saxon or early Norman times.
An ancient stone hammer was found at Breach House in 1856, and a few years ago three skeletons were discovered 12 or 15 inches below the surface at Howe Hill on the east side of Carthorpe.
The poor of the township have £3 a year, left by John Gale of Bushy, Hertfordshire.
EXELBY, LEEMING, AND NEWTON are three separate places, forming, conjointly, a township containing 2,439 acres, and 690 inhabitants. For rating purposes it is valued at £4,223. It is in Bedale union and Electoral division, and Northallerton County Court district, The manor and a large portion of the land belong to W. D. Russell, Esq., whose father, the late Capt. W. N. Russell, inherited this estate from the late dowager duchess of Cleveland (daughter of R. Russell, Esq.,) who died in 1861. Thomas Sturgess and Mrs. A. Bell have also estates in the township.
Exelby is a small village, about two miles E.S.E. of Bedale, consisting of a Wesleyan chapel and a few cottages.
Leeming village, three miles E.N.E. of Bedale, is so called from its situation on Leeming Lane, a portion of the old Roman road (Watling Street), which extended northwards into Scotland, The name, according to Dr. Stukeley, is compounded of two British words, Lhe Maen, signifying the "stony way," in allusion to the stones wherewith it was paved. A more probable origin is lime, which is here abundant, and which, in the old Frisian dialect of Yorkshire about the time of the Conquest, was called leahm. A chapel (St. John the Baptist) was erected here in 1424, and endowed with £2 17s. 3d. per annum out of the Exchequer. This edifice having become dilapidated, was rebuilt in 1839, at a cost of about £600, raised by subscription. It is a very plain brick building. The living, formerly a perpetual curacy, was constituted a vicarage in 1880, the district assigned including Leeming, Newton, and Londonderry. It is in the gift of the vicar of Burneston, and is worth £160 per annum.
There are also in the village chapels belonging to the Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, the former erected in 1844, and the latter in 1853, and enlarged in 1862.
The school belongs to the church, but was transferred in 1874 to the School Board, who pay one shilling a year as an acknowledgment. It is attended by 120 children.
Newton, or, as it is sometimes called, Scabbed Newton, is a hamlet about one mile S. of Leeming. Newton House, the seat of W. D. Russell, Esq., J.P., is a handsome stone mansion, surrounded by pleasant, well wooded grounds. It was rebuilt by William Henry, first duke of Cleveland, on the site of an older edifice. Londonderry is a village on the great north road, about two miles from Leeming Bar station. A neat lecture hall has recently been erected by Mr. Russell for the benefit of the inhabitants.
CHARITIES. - The poor of this township have the bequests of Ralph Cowley, in 1663, and Thomas Isles, in 1684, together amounting to £7 per annum. Isle's dole is given to the poor of Exelby only.
GATENBY (the by, or town on the gata or road) township, containing 849 acres, is chiefly owned by W. D. Russell, Esq., but Mrs. Shaw and Charles and Abraham Gowland have also land here. The hamlet is small and scattered, and situated on high ground on the west side of the Swale, 4½ miles E. of Bedale. Church service is held every alternate Sunday afternoon, in the Ivy Cottages, by the vicar of Burneston. The rateable value of the township is £1,145.
THEAKSTON township (estimated area, inclusive of woods, 919 acres) is chiefly the property of Charles Carter, Esq., J.P., Theakston Hall. The Grange farm belongs to W. D. Russell, Esq. The village of Theakston, i.e., the thatched town, is pleasantly situated, midway between Burneston and Exelby. Theakston Hall, the seat of Charles Carter, Esq., is a handsome mansion, surrounded by well wooded grounds. Mr. Carter succeeded his father, the late E. J. Carter, Esq., D.L., in 1863. He is a magistrate for the North Riding, and was formerly captain in the 68th Bengal Native Infantry.
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Santouri Cancelled in Stanford
Hoda has left a comment, telling me about the cancellation. Thank you so much Hoda Jan for taking the trouble to let me know. You are really kind, and as my kids would say, you are "Ba Maram." So, I guess we will all have to go to Aleph Null's performance in Berkeley on Sunday and have a good time! | <urn:uuid:ecbc2adb-ec24-499e-859c-bfc1f1788bd1> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://nazykaviani.blogspot.com/2007/08/santouri-cancelled-in-stanford.html | 2014-12-21T18:39:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802772134.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075252-00041-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975847 | 82 | [
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So, when you connect on the fly to a database your subject to a
variety of issues, like when the db is not available and when the
db does not have a route.
One of the main reasons why a dev may want to connect on the fly is because they have too many front ends to hold a persistent connection on the backends. Since mySQL does not use libevent, holding open threads to mySQL is much more costly. Threads == Memory.
But, that's here nor there. The main purpose of this post is to talk about how to recover from failed connections that block apache threads.
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
Thought I'd send you into the weekend with these little beauties. I made them a few weeks back and have been dreaming longingly of them ever since.
The actual name of the muffins (courtesy of the fabulous Flo Braker) is "Blueberry Muffins with Doughnut Topping." In some ways, this is more accurate--the body of the muffin is pretty standard muffin material--not overly sweet and there's no rising or deep-frying or whatever else actual doughnuts entail. (I wouldn't know because I can't stand doughnuts--one of the very few sweets I find easy to resist).
Little muffin bods aside, though, the topping is pure sugary, buttery goodness, which is the aspect of doughnuts I can get behind. The process is a little obscene--you take the baked muffins, dip the tops in a bowl of melted butter and then roll them in cinnamon, sugar, and cardamom. I was relieved the husband didn't walk in on me doing it. It just seemed...wrong.
In fact, the preponderance of butter made my muffin liners pop off and pull away, as if even they were thinking, This is extreme. We're out.
No prob. I'm just gonna peel you little suckers off anyway to get to the soft purpley underbelly.
Since I'm lazy as hell, I searched the interweb in hopes that someone else had taken the time to type out this recipe and lo and behold, I found it here. Thanks, fellow blogger!
I'm not sure you need all the melted butter for the topping, or even all the sugar mixture: truth be told, I chucked out quite a bit of both, and I was not exercising any restraint. So, you could certainly scale back there if you're interested in, say, staying alive. I may even do so the next time I give these a go, which could be as soon as this weekend. | <urn:uuid:0a8dbb04-169e-4eb3-a927-cde4e08f3ace> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://thehungrydog.blogspot.com/2012/03/blueberry-doughnut-sugarbombs.html | 2014-12-21T18:39:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802772134.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075252-00041-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972634 | 420 | [
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HCA's funding bonanza keeps the 'affordable' homes a-coming
Published by Max Salsbury for 24dash.com in Housing and also in Development, Finance, Local Government
HCA's funding bonanza keeps the 'affordable' homes a-comingImage: Money Arrow via Shutterstock
The development of yet more 'affordable' homes has been announced in the wake of the Homes and Communities Agency's big cash funding bonanza.
The Longhurst Group, a provider of housing, care and support services, was awarded £17.8 million in this week's HCA allocations - money it will use to build 890 new homes.
On top of the windfall, the group has secured a further £25m in funding in the form of a reserve bond negotiated as part of a £250m debut bond it issued in July 2012.
In the two years since the issue Longhurst has expanded its development programme, building more than a home a day during 2013/14. The group has plans to deliver an additional 2,500 homes over the next five years.
The allocation, which Longhurst bid for on behalf of the Blue Skies Consortium, was the HCA's 15th largest nationally.
Bob Walder, Longhurt's chief executive, said: "Despite the economic turbulence of recent years we’ve stayed true to our promise that we’ll continue to deliver quality new homes for the families who need them most.
"In the midst of a national housing crisis, this funding will make a significant difference to the lives of people who will finally be able to find an affordable, safe, warm home."
Longhurst's financial results for 2013/14 show that turnover increased to £97.5m in the year, with the underlying operating surplus improving by £6.9m to £29.6m. The group’s net surplus for was £7.7m.
Rob Griffiths, Longhurst's chief financial officer, said: “The business thrived during 2013/14 demonstrating a strong performance in both social housing lettings and shared ownership sales. We impressed investors with the strength of our financial performance and this was ultimately reflected in the price agreed for the funding.”
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|Photo by Harper Point for Interweave Crochet|
It is great to be posting on the Crochet Cowls blog again! I designed the Natalie Cowl for Interweave Crochet's latest Accessories issue, and I am thrilled to be able to share it with you. It is crocheted in 3 pieces, and then the 3 pieces are crocheted together simultaneously. It helps you to place the motif perfectly and securely. It looks a little different depending on how it is worn. In the above photo from the magazine, the lower band has been pulled down flat. You can also let it roll over more, as in the photo I took before sending the cowl sample to Interweave.
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Two days of perfect autumn weather saw record attendance numbers at Kumon's annual festival this year. The festival's theme was "Frontier" and 4884 people came to see the various displays and entertainment compared with 3505 last year.
Our short-term exchange students from Phillips Exeter Academy gave a presentation in the Kumon hall about their school life in America.
Kumon Kokusai Gakuen again welcomed three exchange students from Phillips Exeter Academy this week.
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Originally Posted by nekrosoft13
played the game yesterday, you don't even have the game for pc, and yet you bitch about it.
better physics in game world (thank you nvidia!) all the small but pronouce physics in world are amazing.
3d vision (not my thing, but it has it)
dx11 HBAA (don't remember the acronym)
option to play with keyboard and mouse
ease of steam, don't have to look for disc
download took, 80-90 minutes(, install took about 5 minutes
OH and zero ****ing issues, that so many people are bitching about.
But Nekro, you NEVER
have issues. Ever. On nearly any game. And you always put the blame on the people having the problem who are looking for help.
I can't WAIT to fire the game up. It's sitting there, all ready to go..... but I have to travel and my PC is too big to take! DAMN IT! | <urn:uuid:61f72e5f-c5eb-435a-8ecb-1cfd0a0c3ea9> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2504726&postcount=47 | 2014-12-23T03:27:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802778013.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075258-00121-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966404 | 211 | [
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Video Available Of Rammstein Interview At Golden Gods Awards
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Metalinjection.net has posted a video interview online with Rammstein at the Golden Gods awards, which can be viewed below. Metalinjection also commented on the clip:
"Rob talks to the vocalist (Till Lindemann) and drummer (Christoph 'Doom' Schneider) of Rammstein about fire marshalls, exploding babies and their killer videos. The band went on to win the Best Live Band award at the Golden Gods."
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If you are a database admin or developer you always should know and take care about, where tables are stored, how much space they consume and how data grows in the tables. One of the golden rules in SQL-Server database development is not to use the PRIMARY file group as the default location for user-tables in your projects.
Better create a new custom file group, and set it as the default file group. From my opinion, this is the point, where a good database design starts: “With the implementation of additional and customized file groups”. In this article you will find a fast example how to do that. I had to mention file group separation first, before we can move on, because this was actually my motivation to write that query and this blog post.
If you never think about it, or don’t even have an idea where the tables in the database are located, how big they are and how much rows your tables contains. You better take care of it…NOW!
Therefor i wrote a quick management query, especially aligned Read more…
A few days ago, we had mysterious issues with one of our Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 machines. The problem was noticed, because an information popped up in the system tray, of other terminal servers, that the Remote Desktop Licensing Service is not available on the network.
The source server of the problem was found pretty easy. After a troubeshooting for a while, i found out, that the problem-machine is not available via UNC-Path’s and Named Pipes.
If i tried: net use \\<troublemachine> from a remote system i received the error message, that the system is not available. So i searched for the service, that is responsible for providing this services, and this is the server service also known as LanmanServer. Read more…
This week i had the honor to test a G2-Series HP I/O-Accellerator Card.
Installation and Post-Configuration of the card is very easy. So you could go ahead immediately with testing these Hot Stuff.
We configured the card to 50% Performance, so we loosed 50% of the available space on the I/O-Card. But for our reasons, to put the TEMPDB of MS SQL-Server 2008 R2 and an Archive log of an ERP-System database on it, shoud this be space enough.
So here are the test results. I don’t wan’t to comment to much. Look at the results. They are self explaining. Read more…
here i am with my 1st SQL-Server Post!
If you want to know the membership of a database role, to what other database roles the role
belongs to, i have a good satatement for you.
SELECT dbrole1.name AS dbrole1_name
, dbrole2.name AS dbrole2_name
FROM sys.database_principals AS dbrole1
JOIN sys.database_role_members AS dbrm
ON dbrm.member_principal_id = dbrole1.principal_id
JOIN sys.database_principals AS dbrole2
ON dbrole2.principal_id = dbrm.role_principal_id
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I always recommend colleagues to read and watch the thread on sysadminslive.com about the Facebook IT Mangement and Operations strategy.
Because the using good tools and ideas to observe there system.
Take a look at yourself: http://www.sysadminslife.com/linux/facebook-ein-blick-hinter-die-kulissen-und-in-das-komplexe-system
currently i’m on the way to deploy a Windows Server 2008 R2 terminal server farm. One server is already up and running productive and the other is one step before going online. I work a lot of with GPO’s and user roaming profiles, to ensure to have excatly the same configuration on the new server for all users. Also i use control panel restrictions to display only neccessary .CPL’s to the user.
And one special control panel addin, what is shipped with the MS Office suite ML32CFG.CPL (responsilbe for configuring MS Outlook MAPI Profile), i discovered how important it is, to ensure that applications have to be installed in the same order as on the other terminal servers. Why, you may ask….because, of the 8dot3-names (8.3) and the windows internal file/path handling. In some cases the OS calls an an application it tries to use the 8dot3 path / name. Read more…
It’s an Awesome Tool, to Speed Up Your System Boot, Fix System Slowdowns
Sound’s very interesting and i’ll give them a try.
found via Lifehacker (http://tinyurl.com/26py4s2)…
Discovered via Daniel Melanchton’s Technet Blog
This is really a nice Tool to find existing Group Policies easily. The Group Policy Search
Thank’s Daniel for that helpful information.
A long time ago, but now it’s here!
everyone knows it’s very annoing if you have to login to multiple websites during work days. It would be much easier to have a tool tool, what helps us to automate the login process to websites like Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Onlinebanking, etc.., where i am registered to. That would safe time and increases workflow and you don’t need to consider about passowrds anymore. Before this article i used a very simple tool to manage my passwords. I also heard and tested Keepass in the past, but it brought no advantage on my workflow.
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[ Thursday, 23 October 2008, Tomasz Dudzik ]
Reading through comments of an article featured on the jakilinux.org site I’ve stumbled upon somebody complaining that Gwenview is underexposed. Let’s take it on then, using a SVN pullout for KDE4.
Gwenview is a very useful image viewer for KDE4, also featuring:
There are not too many functions and settings included so far, but a lot is scheduled to be added. The start page allows us to browse “places”, like directories, drives, mobile devices, network folders. Apart from this, it also allows browsing the history of places we’ve already seen. Currently the program lacks, or I couldn’t find it, the option to clear this list.
The application features plugins, although this option doesn’t yet work. These will allow the use of a wide range of effects on the selected image. A plugin that reduces the “red eyes” effect is being worked on. Gwenview has a very eye-catching slideshow feature.
A side bar allows work to be done on the image. One can rotate the image (anti)clock-wise, mirror it horizontally or vertically, or wipe it completely (delete). One can also launch a more advanced image editor such as Gimp for bitmaps or Inkscape for vector editing. The side-bar can be hidden by clicking the “Hide side-bar” option at the top of the window.
Settings for the application are quite scarce to date. The basic settings below are currently offered:
- main window’s background colour setting;
- transparent images’ “background” selection;
- the mouse scroll behaviour, or thumbnail/preview cache removal option (Useful for people with low available disk space)
The bottom of the screen now features a zoom bar, like the one available in other KDE applications such as Dolphin.
These are most of the features of the application, which is currently available in Subversion. Everybody interested is welcome to use/test and submit their views/bug reports.
This article was also featured on the author’s blog: KDE4 applications : Gwenview [in Polish].
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, April 11, 2012
/PRNewswire/ -- Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (NYSE: DGX) today announced that Stephen H. Rusckowski
will succeed Surya N. Mohapatra, Ph.D. as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective May 1, 2012
. Dr. Mohapatra will remain in his role through April 30
to ensure a smooth leadership transition. Mr. Rusckowski will also become a member of the Board of Directors.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120411/NY85952 )
The company also announced that Daniel C. Stanzione, Ph.D., currently Lead Independent Director, will become Non-Executive Chairman of the Board, effective May 1, 2012.
Mr. Rusckowski, 54, is currently Chief Executive Officer of Philips Healthcare, the largest unit of Royal Philips Electronics, a position he has held since 2006. He has also been a member of the Board of Management of Royal Philips Electronics and its Executive Committee.
"Steve Rusckowski is uniquely qualified to be Chief Executive Officer of Quest Diagnostics," said Dr. Stanzione. "He has built an enviable track record in healthcare by successfully driving growth, both organically and through disciplined, effective acquisitions. His emphasis on operational excellence has enabled him to deliver consistently impressive results. Steve is a keen conceptual thinker, and his experience and his knowledge of the issues facing the industry make him the ideal leader to capitalize fully on the opportunities that lie ahead in a dynamic healthcare environment. We look forward to Quest Diagnostics' next chapter of success under Steve's leadership."
"Quest Diagnostics is a world leader, and I am delighted to join such a dynamic, innovative company," said Mr. Rusckowski. "Given the company's strong position in diagnostic testing, information and services, I believe there are extraordinary opportunities to grow and build shareholder value. I look forward to working closely with Quest Diagnostics employees, as well as customers, shareholders and business partners."
During Mr. Rusckowski's tenure as CEO of Philips Healthcare, revenues increased from approximately 6 billion Euro in 2005 to approximately 9 billion Euro in 2011, accounting for approximately 39% of Philips consolidated revenues, from 21% when he became CEO. Philips Healthcare has 38,000 employees in more than 100 countries worldwide. Prior to his current role, Mr. Rusckowski was CEO of the Imaging Systems business group within the company. Before joining Philips he held numerous management positions with the healthcare division of Hewlett-Packard/Agilent Technologies. He joined Philips when it acquired Agilent's Healthcare Solutions Group in 2001.
Mr. Rusckowski earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Science degree in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management.
Commenting on his appointment as Non-Executive Chairman, Dr. Stanzione said: "I look forward to collaborating with Steve to serve the company and its shareholders in this new role." He added: "Surya's years at Quest Diagnostics have been marked by visionary leadership. He has put a very strong team in place and firmly established Quest Diagnostics as an industry-leading, patient-focused healthcare company. We have a solid foundation for future growth. We are particularly thankful for the uninterrupted dedication and leadership Surya has shown as the Board searched for his successor over the past months. His efforts ensure a smooth transition to leadership under Steve Rusckowski."
About Quest Diagnostics
Quest Diagnostics is the world's leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services that patients and doctors need to make better healthcare decisions. The company, which had 2011 revenues of $7.5 billion, offers the broadest access to diagnostic testing services through its network of laboratories and patient service centers, and provides interpretive consultation through its extensive medical and scientific staff. Quest Diagnostics, which has approximately 42,000 employees, is a pioneer in developing innovative new diagnostic tests and advanced healthcare information technology solutions that help improve patient care. Additional company information is available at: www.questdiagnostics.com
For Quest Diagnostics: Kathleen Valentine (Investors), +1-973-520-2900, or Gary Samuels (Media), +1-973-520-2800
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Major Dave Parramore, a commander in the U.S. Army, doesn’t complain about the time challenge of training for the Hawaii Ironman. Rather, he thrives off it, intending to lead by example.It could be traced back to when Dave Parramore was a child: On the roof of his house one day he discovered his fear of heights. "I wasn’t overwhelmed by the feeling," he explains. "But I noticed how I didn’t like going to the edge. It was a fear that I didn’t have control over. I have a type-A personality, and that kind of thing doesn’t sit well with me. I couldn’t settle for being afraid, and not having control over the fear. I said, ‘I’m going to lick this.’"
One way to lick such a fear, apparently, is to grow up and then become an officer in the U.S. Army. From there, go through both paratrooper and flight school training, jumping out of planes and flying helicopters. This was Parramore’s one-two punch to decimate the heights phobia.
Follow this with almost ten years of flying Black Hawk helicopters for the Army, a vehicle used for missions like transporting troops, search-and-rescue, and medical evacuation. One of Parramore’s more memorable flying days happened when he was commander of a med-evac unit in Honduras. Storms had turned Venezuela upside down with mud slides, and Parramore and the pilots he commanded were dispatched to help. It was 16 hours of white-knuckled flying just to get there.
"We had to pass through six South and Central American countries. There was no visibility. At one point, winds had blown us 150 miles off-course. We made it, but that was a day we later joked about how we set a record---three times---of ‘almost’ getting killed."
By contrast, becoming an Ironman can actually seem tame. But this is how the Army major, currently serving at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, fulfills his craving for red-line challenge (Parramore is in his 15th year of active duty, he’s now a commander in an information systems unit). This October the 2003 lottery winner will be getting his fix at the Hawaii Ironman.
"It’s a great thing to finish a race like a half-marathon. But the truth is, you can usually get through a half-marathon without much training," he says. "The thing I like about the Ironman is that there’s no way to just hop into it. You have to commit yourself and do the work."
Parramore has completed two Ironmans in the last 10 months, finishing Ironman Florida in a remarkable 11:35:16, and, more recently, Ironman Austria in 12:25. Despite impressive first Ironman performances, Parramore’s start in triathlon was shaky. Injury problems from long distance running prompted thoughts of multisport, the trouble being a common one among runners - his swim.
"At first, I could barely complete four laps in a pool." Not exactly one to shy away from a weakness, Parramore went to work, and signed up for the St. Anthony’s Olympic distance triathlon.
As fate would have it, the swim at St. Anthony’s was roughened up by weather. "I heard Dave Scott say, ‘the waves look pretty bad,’ so I knew it’d be trouble," he says. He laughs when he tells the story. "My legs were dragging so deeply in the swim, I knew when they started scraping sand that I was getting close to the bike leg."
2003 is Parramore’s third season in triathlon, and by virtue of his work ethic, the 36-year-old has beaten the swim problem sufficiently enough that 2.4 miles of swimming goes by in about 1:10. At Ironman Austria, it was the bike that stung the most. "Everyone had told me that the bike leg in Austria is a fast one. But when I looked at the bike profile---about a week and a half before the race---I knew I was in trouble. It wasn’t something I was prepared for."
The bike leg, a three-lap affair, repeatedly drains a triathlete’s power with a particularly long and steep climb. "I was totally anaerobic. I thought, ‘it can’t get any worse than this,’ but of course, then you have to run a marathon."
You can tell when you talk to him that Parramore feeds off of correcting past mistakes, and marginalizing any obstacles in his way. Training for an Ironman is not conducive to his work weeks as a chief information officer---a job requiring many 12-14 hour days of mapping out complex scenarios and simulations of deployment. Just imagine what that’s been like in 2003. Yet there’s no tone of complaint. His only regret is that he didn’t start with triathlon earlier.
"I feel like I wasted my twenties," he says. "It was when I was 31 that I had an epiphany. I knew that I’d let myself go, and I knew I had to do something about it. It’s easy when you’re in the Army to use the little off-time you have to party. But you can’t do that when you’re training for an Ironman."
In other words, Parramore makes it happen. Getting up and training at 4 a.m., swimming instead of sitting down for lunch, making full use of a Saturday off for an epic bike ride through Fort Bragg’s pine barrens. He also leads his unit’s morning PT, displacing calisthenics and shuffling formation runs with serious aerobic development work, incorporating techniques like heart rate training. All straight out of the book of triathlon.
His soldiers love it. He’s also aware of the example he’s setting as an Ironman. "In times like these, the soldiers really inspect the officers. They inspect you as much as you inspect them. They want an example to follow. It has an effect, too: when people get the idea behind what an Ironman is and what it requires, it strikes a chord. They get interested, and ask me questions about training."
At the Hawaii Ironman this October, Parramore is going to be crossing the finish line for his 8-year-old daughter, Rebecca. When his father passed away two and a half years ago, the value of parenting seized him. "A child is facing so much these days when trying to grow up. So much is being thrown at them, and we try to fix it with counseling and training programs. The great thing about the Ironman is that it offers so many important lessons. How commitment, hard work, discipline, and mental strength lead to success. I’m doing Hawaii for my daughter, because I want her to see all of this.
In an essay Parramore submitted for a contest sponsored by Michelin tires, he passionately detailed his feelings:
"Rebecca lives in Florida with her mother, and since my father can’t be at the finish line this year, I want to be at the finish line for my daughter at the 2003 Ironman. My father instilled many values in me as a young athlete, and this event will honor him and the influence he had on me. Furthermore, this picture of hope for my daughter amidst the turmoil in this world will complete the circle…seeing athletes compete with extraordinary endurance just to finish; an event she will never forget….At the finish line, I want to show my beautiful young eight-year-old that life, like Ironman, takes courage, patience, and endurance."
Also in the essay, Parramore talks about the problem of living in a culture bent on selling instant gratification and visions of short cuts to happiness As far as the antidote---a truth that most Ironman triathletes discover sooner or later---Parramore tells it like it is.
"The secret is…there is no secret."
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Don't get me wrong, I love using a good adverb when writing as much as the next person, but going back I always see how it weakens the story.
Let's look at two examples of sentences to prove a point.
"Alisha stepped onto the slippery ice and nearly fell over."
"Alisha stepped onto the ice and lost her footing, one leg sprawled right while the other twisted left. She shot her arms out to her sides to gain balance and just avoided a pathetic flop onto her rear."
The first sentence is okay. You know what's going on, but what does it really say? To me 'nearly' is the worst of the adverb sins becasue you don't always know what the something is that almost happened but didn't. You can see from the second sentence how much more visual your writing can be without the adverb.
Here's a challenge for you, don't use adverbs for one week. I mean Everywhere. Every time you're itching to write that 'ly' stop yourself. In your blog posts, in your short stories, and in your novels. Come out the other end and see if it doesn't make you a better writer.
I've been practicing this with my novel, but I'm going to bring it here now too. So if you see an adverb feel free to point it out, becasue we all want to be better writers.
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Natural Gas Boom Myths
April 15, 2014
A number of myths have developed concerning America's oil boom, says Mark Mills, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
Soon, the United States will no longer be dependent on foreign energy imports, thanks to the incredible growth of domestic oil and gas production. The United States is now the largest producer in the world of natural gas, and our economy has benefited by hundreds of billions of dollars as a result from the boom in hydrocarbon production.
Regulators need to loosen their grip on these producers and allow them to continue to grow, not strangle them with new regulations. This is why it is so important to debunk the major myths about U.S. oil production.
- Myth 1: The profits all go to "Big Oil." This is not the case. More than 20,000 small- and medium-sized oil and gas firms exist in the United States, with a median size of just 15 employees. Not only do these smaller firms produce three quarters of the oil and gas in America, but they are responsible for nearly 100 percent of the recent boom.
- Myth 2: Energy is an old business, not the future. Not so. Technology is largely responsible for this energy boom because "smart" drilling -- which uses sensors and computers -- was combined with horizontal drilling and fracking to reach all of this oil and gas.
- Myth 3: Oil jobs are just in a few oil boom towns. Mills explains that there are plenty of jobs beyond Texas and North Dakota. In fact, for every oil job, there are three or four created elsewhere -- from information services to education. And in each of the 10 states that have increased their hydrocarbon production, employment growth statewide has outperformed the nation as a whole over the last six years. Behind Texas, the top hydrocarbon-supported jobs are actually in California, Florida, New York, Illinois and Ohio.
To keep this boom going, the federal government needs to get rid of laws that restrict natural gas exports. By allowing exports, the United States could reach more customers, which means more investment in the United States and more jobs for American workers. States can regulate oil and gas production just fine -- there is no need for the federal government to impose arduous regulations on top of state laws.
Source: Mark P. Mills, "3 Myths on Our Natural Gas Boom," USA Today, April 3, 2014.
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Originally Posted by Aric'sX15
nah itll be fine. youll have to get all the water out by picking up the bag and draining it over the side.
This is not necessary if you install one-way check valves on the overflow hoses. The bags will shrink like a raisin when they are emptied.
Your X-1 will want a lot of weight in the bow if you run (2) 750's in the rear.
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Thursday, December 18 2014
There is no cloud storage for print, making the decision to recycle a bunch of my print comics qualitatively different from my decision to delete a book or title from my tablet.
Monday, November 10 2014
GeekGirlCon may not be a "comic-con", but it has helped to bring about positive change in comics culture.
Friday, October 17 2014
Goofing around with Garfield on The Garfield Randomiser and Garfield Minus Garfield evokes the poetic Surrealism that arose from Dadism.
Wednesday, October 1 2014
The normalcy of reading movement into comics art is what makes Warren Ellis' and Jason Howard's new series, Trees, a curiosity.
Tuesday, September 23 2014
The growing popularity and diversity of Canadian comics and graphic literature raises questions around how a culture and place presents itself to the world.
Wednesday, August 27 2014
However modest in scope, comiXology's new downloads signals the beginning of the end for strict DRM in digital comics -- and it will change how we view comics.
Tuesday, August 12 2014
It's common knowledge that the 'best' superhero is the one in cape and cowl. And that's true. It's just not the one you think.
Monday, August 4 2014
Humankind once laughed at The Planet of the Apes -- until it became a critically acclaimed artistic endeavor and had an Academy Award category created for it. Now who amongst us is laughing?
Monday, July 28 2014
The best creators will find ways to make the best use of whatever medium they are working in.
Monday, July 7 2014
Marvel owns characters and its profits come from comics sales, film tickets, lunch boxes, etc. As such, character identification fluctuates easily between media.
Monday, June 16 2014
Suddenly, movies from all walks of the Marvel Universe began to rage against the big screen with three distinct universes vying for control of box office gold.
Monday, June 9 2014
The story is far from over for The Fantastic Four and Spider-Man, but what of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? What of the incredible saga of all of those also-ran comic book films?
Monday, June 2 2014
Marvel Comics rules the box office today (three films based on Marvel Comics occupied the top 10 in May 2014 alone), but getting there was a long, hard, slow road.
Tuesday, May 6 2014
The only thing that can be done with film better than comics is spectacle. Thinking otherwise betrays a lack of respect for comics, and a pretentiousness about film.
Friday, April 18 2014
Complications or confusion aside, the hacking of comiXology demonstrates a disconcerting vulnerability in digital comics.
Wednesday, February 26 2014
A lot of comics may be seen as cheap, but so what? That also makes them fun.
Monday, January 6 2014
Comics is an ideal medium for showing memory, time and mind, as having "physical dimensions".
Monday, December 2 2013
While Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. may stem directly from The Avengers film franchise, like those movies, the show also has comics in its DNA.
Monday, November 11 2013
I can't think of another gathering of academics, practitioners, and fans that places comics alongside not just other pop media, but also science, math, and technology.
Monday, September 30 2013
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Lets look at what is being celebrated? You want to celebrate a man/men that "discovered" Florida? Well those men did not "discover"...
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unpossibl1 wrote:Battle Tested20 wrote:unpossibl1 wrote:We are crawling along at a snails pace here...
It's the off-season and some people work. I like the 9 hour time limit.
We can talk about picks in between and give each other grief too.
BTW, solid pick John3:16
Haha well that is part of it, I have the summer of (teacher). But really I was just hoping to make picks before leaving tomorrow morning. I'm assuming it will pick up this evening but I'll send in my top 10 just in case.
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Aug. 7, 2012
Davie Crawford, a graduate of Northwest Missouri State University’s geographic information science master’s program, recently won first place in the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) 2012 Student Competition.
Crawford’s paper, titled “Implementing a Utility Geographic Information System for Water, Sewer, and Electric: Case Study of City of Calhoun, Georgia,” is related to his thesis. In the paper and his thesis research, Crawford designed, implemented and summarized a Geographic Information System (GIS) for the city of Calhoun, Ga., to improve the efficiency of managing water, sewer and electric.
Crawford graduated from Northwest in April. He currently works as GIS manager for the city of Calhoun. His responsibilities include managing, planning and coordinating GIS-related activities for city departments. He also spends time educating and training department personnel on how to use GIS in addition to researching improvements and enhancements to the city’s GIS.
While Crawford said he hopes the top honor enables more people to view and benefit from his paper, he also looks forward to conducting additional research.
“I was able to apply the knowledge and experience gained in the program to my real work environment and create a successful GIS for the city of Calhoun,” Crawford said. “I look forward to applying more of the experience I have gained through Northwest's GIScience program to future projects.”
Crawford’s thesis advisor was Dr. Ming Hung, associate professor of geography in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
“Davie is a self-motivated student and professional,” Hung said. “When he was admitted into our GIScience program in 2005, he already had experience working with GIS for the company Woolpert Inc. Through coursework, he continuously improved his skills and knowledge.”
Hung noted the city of Calhoun offered Crawford the opportunity to implement its GIS in 2007.
“Putting GIS to work in his workplace is one of his long-term goals,” Hung said. “He presented a great example of integration between coursework, thesis research and workplace. I am pleased to see that he was awarded first place in the URISA Student Competition.”
The URISA Student Competition is open to current students or students who have completed degrees within the previous year. Papers submitted to the URISA 2012 Student Competition are evaluated based on four criteria:
As the winner of the 2012 competition, Crawford will receive a certificate signed by the URISA president and a URISA membership for one year. His paper will be recognized during the awards ceremony at the URISA 2012 Annual Conference Sept. 30 through Oct. 4 in Portland, Ore.
Founded in 1963, URISA is a cross-discipline association of professionals in the GeoSpatial industry. URISA is the leading provider of learning and knowledge for the GeoSpatial industry. One of URISA’s goals is to help GIS professionals and other information technicians to solve challenges in state, regional, and local governments. URISA is considered the leading organization for the use of GeoSpatial technology in urban and regional environments. For more information about URISA, visit http://www.urisa.org/.
Mark Hornickel, Communication Manager
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Northwest Missouri State University
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You can drive to within 200yrds of the summer gate with a AWD/4x4. This morning was COLD. Snowshoes were not needed. Microspikes are definately nice to have.
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August 24, 2007
Castro is Dead....
Final update 7/25: Castro is not dead.
UPDATE: Sources tell me that Castro is dead. I'm now getting more people who are telling me that Castro has died and that an official announcement is coming soon.
Val Prieto will probably have the news before me.
Commenters, e-mailers and Val are reporting that South Florida law enforcement are on some kind of alert and are preparing for a flood of immigrants...
Knock on wood, keep fingers crossed that this time the rumors will be true. But, don't get your hopes too high.
UPDATE 2:37: I'm listening to 610WIOD Miami and Schnitt, who is on the air, has a guest on from the local Fox News affiliate now reporting that the US government is officially denying the report and contacts in Cuba say police are not mobilized nor are police in South Florida.
UPDATE 3:37: Time for the announcement was 4 pm.....and that time has come and gone. Perez Hilton still thinks its coming, but I doubt it.
UPATE 4:26: Fox News reporting that the White House is denying that Castro is dead.
UPDATE 4:47: Estancia Cubana also claims Castro is dead.
What's interesting is that every one who keeps telling me that Castro is dead also links Castro's death to an official announcement today. They believe Castro died some days ago but that the Cuban government wanted to wait until today to let the news out.
If you happen to have any information or links, please leave in the comments.
Rumors that Castro is dead are circulating again. It's like clockwork, these rumors of Castro's death. Every four months or so. And for some reason I get a flood of e-mail every time Castro is rumored to have died.
So, for the record, as far as I know, Castro is not dead. But it won't be long now. I'll just have to wait a little longer before finally visiting my Dad's childhood home in Havana. | <urn:uuid:1b759856-3e0e-467a-ba75-73ccc419f931> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/189154.php | 2014-12-19T06:31:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768276.101/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00121-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972216 | 425 | [
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Space problems at BU
NOTE: Boston Common is no longer being updated. For the latest Boston-area blog posts, please see Universal Hub
Anybody who's ever lived in an apartment can surely sympathize with those poor infected researchers at BU:
... But Moore acknowledged that researchers in the lab had violated policies requiring them to work with tularemia inside an enclosed box, called a hood, that sends air through sophisticated filters.
Instead, the tularemia samples were sometimes worked with in the open, in part because the enclosed research boxes were sometimes filled with material that should not have been kept there, Moore said.
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Manuscript Group 383
15 cubic feet
The records of the Latah County Sheriff were transferred to the University of Idaho Library by Sheriff Kenneth Buxton between July 1986 and January 1991. They were processed by Judith Nielsen in June 1997.
The county sheriff is the principal county law enforcement official in the county and is elected every four years. Sheriffs and their deputies patrol county highways and roads, investigate crimes, pursue fleeing criminals, and make arrests. Idaho law gives county sheriffs the authority to provide police services throughout the entire county, but sheriffs leave law enforcement in the larger cities almost entirely to city police forces. In Latah County the sheriff has a contract with the U.S. Forest Service to provide police protection for Forest Service lands for a fee. The sheriff's office and other local police officers are charged with the primary duty of enforcing state liquor laws. (Sydney Duncombe. State and Local Government in Idaho and the Nation, Moscow, University Press of Idaho, 1984. p. 136)
The records of the Latah County Sheriff span the years 1891 to 1984, with the bulk of the material covering the years 1895 to 1977.
Included in the records are Sheriff's ledgers, journal and cashbooks, fee books, a sale and execution docket, records of prisoners, and a U.S. commissioner's record of proceedings in criminal cases.
Sheriff's ledgers v.6-8, November 15, 1942-August 6, 1946, are lacking.
The majority of records in this group are bound volumes. They are labeled on the spine, and are in sequential order by type.
The sheriff's ledgers, 1895-1977, contain records of court documents delivered by the sheriff's office. Each transaction lists the case name, attorneys, nature of action, date and nature of service, and amount charged to the plaintiff or defendant.
The journal and cashbook, 1895-1917, are both bound in the same volume.
The sheriff's fee books, 1891-1925, lists plaintiff, defendant, for what paid, and amount.
The sheriff's sale and execution docket, 1933-1976, lists property (e.g., buildings, land, automobiles, farm equipment, etc.), sold at sheriff's sales. Other information includes adversaries, lawyers involved, costs including the sheriff's costs.
There are two types of prisoner records, the first, 1914-1976, includes the name of the prisoner, the crime, when committed and released, and by whom. The second is a record of prisoner fees charged to agencies and includes the name of the prisoner, amount of time served and the amount due, usually from another city.
The United States Commissioners Record of Proceedings in Criminal Cases, 1937-1941 is a bound volume of printed two page forms. Only nine cases are recorded in the volume.
The final items in this manuscript group are the sheriff's accounts/budgets for 1972-1984. Records of expenditures are listed by account name.
Sick leave and compensatory time records for employees for the years 1975 through 1977 were discarded. Guidelines from the Oregon state archives retention schedule suggests that communications records be retained for a maximum of one year, therefore radio and telephone logs for 1975 through 1980 were also discarded. This reduced the records by 2 cubic feet.
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I’m still amazed that students cannot figure out that the American word vacation mean vacances. I know they’ve always been taught the British word holiday, but I thought they’d be able to understand it in context… Apparently I was wrong.
What is another way of saying “What else?” All of my students are getting into the habit of saying Nespresso every time I ask what else. Thanks a lot, George Clooney!
I’m trying to buy clothes from LaRedoute but I’m having trouble figuring out what some of the colors are because there aren’t any pictures. Glycine ? Vert bouteille ? Rose dragée ?
I’ve been playing Le Manoir aux Mille Questions on France5’s site (they’re supposed to be revision questions for elementary/middle school students, but I want to make sure I know this stuff too!) and I came across a geography question asking how many continents there were. The choices were 2, 5 or 6. Umm, I always learned there were 7 continents: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & Antarctica. What do French kids learn? There are only 6 continents: America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, & Antarctica.
This weekend, I watched this adorable Frenchie (left) play tennis against this equally adorable Serb (right) in the Australian Open. I still don’t enjoy watching sports, but I liked listening to the Australian accents and thinking about living in Australia again…
While doing some French exercises online, I found some tests d’entrée for those wanting to immigrate to Quebec. There’s a lot of listening questions, but I couldn’t really concentrate on answering the questions correctly because I kept getting distracted (in a good way) by the Quebecois accent. And then I started thinking about living in Quebec again… ::sigh:: | <urn:uuid:386df58c-0464-44f4-8917-61484a1d0b08> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://ielanguages.com/blog/observations-questions/ | 2014-12-20T17:15:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770060.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00025-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946171 | 411 | [
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Glow 12 x 36" Softbox Strip Rectangle - R Series
What's Included With This Item:
- Removable inner baffle
- Outside diffusion panel
- Carry bag
- 4 Rods
- 2 Year Warranty
Glow Strip Rectangle - R Series Softboxes are specifically able to isolate the glow effect, not only used for a directional soft light source but as a specialty rectangular shape in reflective and translucent objects, like glass bottles and metallic surfaces. This smaller 12 X 36" box size acts as a swath of gentle light that limits coverage and creates more dramatic effects.
The entire series employs advanced technology designed to create perfect images for editorial and product still life and stylized imaging. Most uses for this size with people are in isolated light treatment where controlled contrast is desired.
Glow Softbox materials and construction are superior. The critical ingredients in any softbox are the internal reflective fabric, the front diffuser/baffle and the shape of the box. Super strength silvered grid fabric finely line the interior surfaces of the box and add a crisp quality to the output.
Every Glow - R Series product features removable double diffusors. Light spread is extremely even, pleasing and contrast balanced edge to edge. Reinforced support rod pockets, seams and Velcro closures make assembly and setup trouble-free.
|Length||36 in / 90 cm|
|Width||12 in / 30 cm|
|Depth||13.5 in / 34 cm|
|Weight||14oz / 0.4 kg|
|Materials||Water and heat resistant fabrics|
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Saturday, December 20, 2014
Maunchasen by Proxy and Abuse
what is maunchasen by proxy? I might have the spelling wrong. This is supposed to deal with a person that does harm to another person and then becomes the person that saves the person just in time. I have this situation with a mother and son.
Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a rare form of child abuse in which illness in a child is simulated (faked) and/or produced by the child`s caregiver, often the mother. The illness often results in extensive medical evaluations in the child, with multiple and lengthy hospitalizations, a wide variety of tests, and consultation with many different physicians and hospitals. The child`s caregiver denies any knowledge about the cause of the child`s illness, but the acute symptoms and signs in the child often go away when the child is separated from the caregiver. The diagnosis of Munchausen syndrome by proxy is extremely difficult to make. The caregiver`s history often sounds "real" to the physician, leading the physician to believe there is a serious illness, thus perpetuating more tests, more evaluations, more hospitalizations, etc. When considering this diagnosis in a patient, it is important to involve a multidisciplinary team with both medical and non-medical personnel early on with experience in evaluating these cases and making the diagnosis.
Stephanie Zimmerman, MD
College of Medicine
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- Participating in Commission proceedings
The Maine Public Utilities Commission welcomes the participation of the public in its proceedings. Individuals or groups may participate or share their views with the Commission in several ways. You may speak at Commission public witness hearings, write a letter to the Commission, or request information from our staff on any issues of concern. A member of the public may become an official “party” (or participant) in a formal Commission case. Read on to understand how the Commission works and what the options are for your participation
- Commission Cases
The Commission conducts much of its official business through formal legal cases. The issues addressed in formal cases include rate adjustments, service adequacy, the prudence of proposed investments, and utility practices. Cases are divided by issue area: Electric, Gas and Gas Safety, Communications (Telephone), Consumer Assistance Division Appeals, Damage Prevention (Dig Safe), Water.
Types of Cases
There are several types of cases that come before the Commission as described below.
• Adjudicatory Proceeding: Most cases involving individual utilities are adjudicatory cases, which are very similar to litigation in a court case. The Maine Administrative Procedure Act and the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure Chapter 110 provide formal guidelines on how such cases must be handled. Adjudicatory proceedings typically include pre-filed written testimony, a period of time for written discovery and technical conferences so parties can ask witnesses questions, hearings before the Commissioners, briefs filed by the parties and finally a recommended decision by staff and an opportunity to comment on the recommendation. The Commissioners make a final decision based on the record developed in the case.
• Investigation: An investigation is typically initiated by the Commission to review an issue that involves one or more utilities. Investigations are adjudicatory proceedings.
• Inquiry: An inquiry is a less formal proceeding initiated by the Commission typically to gather information. The formal rules of adjudicatory proceedings do not apply. If after gathering information the Commission wishes to take an action, it may open an adjudicatory proceeding or rulemaking.
• Rulemaking: Rulemaking proceedings are conducted pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 M.R.S. §§ 8001-11008. The Commission seeks comment on a proposed rule or rulemaking amendments that have general applicability to more than one utility or entity. Rulemakings are less formal than adjudicatory proceedings.
- Staff Role in Commission Cases
The Commission’s staff includes accountants, engineers, lawyers, financial analysts, consumer specialists, and administrative and support staff. Staff performs myriad duties in order to carry out the Commission’s regulatory responsibilities as well as perform other functions assigned to the Commission by the Legislature (hold auctions for standard offer electricity supply, solicit bids for long-term electricity contracts, investigate green power options, and more).
In adjudicatory (also called “litigation”) proceedings, the staff act as advisors to the Commission. Lawyers on staff manage the procedural aspects of a case. The staff assists the Commission by making sure the record of the case is fully developed and by analyzing the information presented by the parties (persons who are formal intervenors in the case). Staff asks questions of parties either orally or through written data requests. If staff intends to rely on facts not in the record or if it conducts an independent financial or technical analysis, this information is provided to the parties in the form of a document called a “Bench Analysis.” Parties can ask questions of the staff about the Bench Analysis.
In some cases, the parties try to resolve or settle their differences. During a settlement process(described in detail below), staff can participate in settlement discussions if all parties agree. Staff does not sign any settlement agreement (called a “stipulation”) which might result from the discussions. If a case is not settled, formal adjudicatory hearings and briefing occur after which staff issues a recommended decision called a Hearing Examiner’s Report. All parties may file comments (called “exceptions”) on this Report. The Commission (the three Commissioners) then publicly deliberates the matter and issues a decision. Any party can appeal a Commission decision to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
- Initiating a Case
A case or proceeding begins when a utility or some other party formally requests the Commission to take action or make a decision on an issue. Each case is referred to as a Docket and given a number (e.g., Docket 2013-00123). The Commission also initiates its own inquiries and investigations. In addition, ten or more consumers may submit a petition requesting that the Commission open a case (see below for more on this process).
- Filing Written Comments
You may file written comments in any case that affects or interests you. Your letter can be sent electronically by the the Commission's new on-line filing system. If you do not have access to a personal computer or at your local library, please contact the Clerk of the Commission at (207)287-3831. Your filing must include the docket number of the case about which you are writing. You can find the docket numbers on the website (see instructions in “Commission Cases”). Include your name, address, phone and email. If you are mailing your letter by post, send to the attention of the Administrative Director, MPUC, 18 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333. Written comments in Inquiries and Rulemakings will be considered in any final decision of the Commission. In Adjudicatory Proceedings, including investigations, comments are read by Staff and Commissioners but facts contained in the letter cannot be considered as evidence in a case unless they are sworn. Letters can provide the basis for the Commission to further look into a matter or issue. Sworn testimony can be provided during a public witness hearing (see below) or by intervenors in cases.
- Ten Person Complaint
Ten or more persons can request the Commission open a case by filing a petition with the Commission. The complaint must be about a utility’s rates, acts or practices which the petitioners believe are unreasonable, insufficient or discriminatory, or about the fact that utility service is inadequate or cannot be obtained.
The complaint must clearly state full names and addresses of those who’ve signed the complaint and identify a “lead complainant”—a primary contact person designated the agent for the other complainants. The petition must clearly state the act or thing done (or omitted to be done) about which the complaint is made and include reference wherever possible to the law, order or rule (and sections thereof) related to the claimed violation. The petition will be reviewed and judged as to whether the complaint has merit; if so, the Commission will open an investigation.
- Intervening in a Case
You can intervene in a Commission case. If you want to be an official participant in the case, you can file a petition for intervenor status via the Commission's new on-line filing system. Mandatory intervention is granted to persons or groups who may be substantially and directly affected by the proceeding and to any government agency. Discretionary intervention may be allowed for any other interested person or group after a determination of the Commission. Once you have filed for intervenor status and it has been granted, you will receive the official documents of the case (by electronic mail). You will be automatically notified of events in the case (hearings, meetings, decision points) and can participate in those events.
- Following the Progress of a Case
You can receive information on a particular case in a number of ways.
• If you are an intervenor, you will receive email notice of all materials filed by the parties to a case including legal briefs, and discovery documents.
• You can place yourself on the notification list for any case. You will then receive electronic notice of all filings in the case.
• All documents filed in a case and transcripts of hearings are available to the public and may be viewed at the Commission's new on-line filing system
- How to Access the Commission's New On-Line Filing System
The Commission's new on-line filing system is where all the publicly available documents in all Commission cases are filed. To access those documents, go to the Commission's new on-line filing system. For more information how to use this new system, please view the Commission's training manuals.
- Public Witness Hearings
The Commission holds public witness hearings in selected proceedings to allow customers of a utility and other interested people to comment on a pending case about their utility. The Commission typically schedules public witness hearings in the service territory of the utility. Prior to a hearing, the Commission will publish a public notice twice in a statewide newspaper at least seven days before the scheduled hearing. The Commission also sends out information to the press about the coming event.
The public witness hearing is held to allow the public to share their comments with the Commission. The Hearing Examiner—a Commission staff member in charge of the case—will explain the format and process of the hearing before it begins. The Hearing Examiner will be available after the hearing is over to answer questions from the public.
- Speaking at a Public Witness Hearing
Sign-up sheets will be available; sign in if you wish to speak. The Hearing Examiner will call the speakers’ names in order from the sign-in sheet. When your name is called, you can go to the microphone. You will be asked to state your name and whether you are providing “sworn” or “unsworn” testimony.
• Sworn Testimony is part of the official record of the case and is reviewed by the Commission before it makes its final decision. The Hearing Examiner will administer an oath to all those planning to give sworn testimony stating that what they are about to say is the truth.
• Unsworn Testimony will not be part of the official case record, but is considered and can provide the basis for further Commission investigation.
The best testimony is brief and to the point. Those testifying are asked to provide written copy of their comments if possible.
- Settlement process
In some Commission cases, the parties to the case hold settlement discussions during the same timeframe as the adjudicatory or litigation proceeding. Commission staff can participate in settlement discussions if all parties agree. Staff does not sign any settlement agreement which might result from the discussions. If these settlement discussions between parties result in an agreement (called a “stipulation”), that agreement is filed with the Commission by the parties. There may be a hearing on the settlement agreement before the Commission. Whether there is a hearing or not, the Commission schedules a deliberation at which to review and decide whether or not to accept the stipulation. If the Commission approves the stipulation, the case is decided and there is no further adjudicatory process. If the stipulation is not approved, the Commission continues the litigation process to its final conclusion.
- Commission Hearings and Deliberations
Members of the public are welcome to observe the Commission at work. At expert and evidentiary hearings, the Commissioners hear from and question parties to the case. At deliberations, the Commissioners publicly discuss and decide cases. Unlike a public witness hearing, you may only observe, and may not comment, at these regular hearings and deliberations.
Deliberations are usually held at 10am on Tuesdays most weeks at the Commission offices, 101 Second Street, Hallowell. They are usually streamed live from the Commission website. You can listen to or view many hearings and deliberations through the Commission’s live audio programming, see information below.
Check the calendar on the Commission's homepage for the time of the deliberations and to confirm that the item that concerns you is on the agenda. The Administrative Director prepares an agenda of issues to be deliberated by the Commission each week. The agenda is sent to all parties in advance and posted on the Commission’s homepage. You can also call the Commission office to check on the agenda (207-287-3831).
- Commission Decisions
At the conclusion of an adjudicatory proceeding, the Commission makes a decision to approve, approve with conditions, or deny the request. Every decision is made in writing and is not final until the final Order is issued which includes the findings of fact sufficient to explain the basis for the decision to parties and the public. The Order is publicly available at the Commission's new on-line filing system.
- Using Live Audio to Hear Commission Proceedings
Many Commission proceedings (hearings, deliberations) are streamed through the Commission website. You can listen to sessions live as they happen or go into the audio archives and hear previous sessions. You can find dates and times of proceedings on the calendar on the homepage.
For live audio, go to the Live Audio page. Click on the “Live Audio"; follow directions for entering the recording system, and click on the live session.
To hear audio for past Deliberations during 2010 and forward: go to the Live Audio page. Click on “Live Audio”; follow directions for entering system; and then, click on “Archives” in left-hand navigational bar to get list of archived deliberations sessions by date.
- Review, Reconsider, Appeal of Commission Decision
Anyone who is a party to a given case can request that the Commission reconsider a decision by filing a petition with the Commission stating the grounds for reconsideration. This petition for reconsideration must be received by the Commission within 20 days of the date of the final Order in the given case. Any petition not granted within 20 days from the date of filing is denied.
Anyone who is a party to a given case can also appeal a final Commission decision to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, sitting as the Law Court, by filing within 21 days of the date of the final Order a Notice of Appeal with the Commission (attention: Administrative Director, MPUC, State House Station 18, Augusta, ME 04333). Such an appeal must follow the Courts Rules of Appellate Procedure.
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Will market, install, and support Jetrix UV printers.
The Oldham Group has signed a master agreement with InkTec Corporation to market, install, and support the Jetrix product line of UV printers in the US, including the Jetrix 2513 and Jetrix 3015 UV flatbeds.
“With the growth of digital and wide-format printing in the marketplace, our customers are increasingly seeking economical and efficient solutions,” says Todd Rhinerson, director of wide format equipment, The Oldham Group. “The Jetrix printers are unique in that they are the only UV offerings in their class that can jet a primer, and print directly onto 4-inch thick media. InkTec’s motto is ‘Today's technology is never good enough for us,’ and I think that really applies to the market as they continue to demand better and faster. To this end, we look forward to also marketing future innovations from InkTec and working ever so diligently to continue to meet the needs of our customer base.”
Established in 1951, The Oldham Group’s initial focus was on printing supplies. Prepress, pressroom, and bindery equipment became increasingly important aspects of the business, and the company added an electronics division in 1989, then launched a large-format division in 2007. Today, the company, headquartered in Springfield, Illinois, offers a selection of wide-format printers and consumable solution, as well as prepress, pressroom, and bindery equipment, and more.
Korea-based InkTec offers the Jetrix 2513 and Jetrix 3015 UV flatbed printers.
THE OLDHAM GROUP
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Well Luja and Chakaa are at it again. This time Luja coming up with a little swap gender trick against the wing governors.
I decided to enter in Koai's gender swap contest. I have always liked Luja and Chakaa as a pair, sometimes Luja's plans are not always successful. Even if the plan doesn't succeed, Chakaa is there to back up Luja no matter what. Its not your typical gender swap but I thought it was clever enough... or idk maybe its me with bad humor?
anywho hope people like it.
Luja, Chakaa, Kheri, Majali, & Ayo: (c)
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If your laptop battery's life has gotten shorter over time, The New York Times recommends recalibrating it:
...the calibration process basically involves first turning off your screensaver and other power management settings that put the computer to sleep. Then fully charge the laptop before letting it run all the way down until the computer shuts off automatically.
Once the battery has fully drained, you can charge it back up again and restore your screensaver and power management settings.
If calibration doesn't help, it's time to purchase another battery. The Times recommends finding discounts at laptopsforless.com and batteries.com. Just make sure you pick up the right one for your model lappie. | <urn:uuid:b1da55c6-ef7b-4277-9991-4cbf3a24c274> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://lifehacker.com/130735/how-to-recalibrate-your-laptop-battery | 2014-12-22T03:04:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802773061.155/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075253-00105-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912184 | 139 | [
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Washington, DC, Nov. 25, 2013 – The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) applauded the recent announcement that the Chinese government will soon ease mission application and approval requirements for some general aviation (GA) flights within the country.
Currently, any GA flight operating within China must be reviewed and approved by the Chinese military, which controls all airspace over the country. The new policy, effective Dec. 1, will allow many GA operations flown by home-based pilots and aircraft to fly throughout the country with only the approval of the Civil Aviation Authority of China (CAAC).
Additionally, CAAC will provide wider availability of aeronautical information to GA pilots under the revised policy, titled “Approval and Management Regulation for General Aviation Flight Missions.”
NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen said the introduction of the new policy marks a good step forward for promoting GA operations in China and throughout the Asia-Pacific region. “We are pleased that Chinese officials have adopted these regulations specific to general aviation,” Bolen added. “This development is the latest in series of encouraging signs that China is committed to the industry’s growth.”
Bolen further noted the changes should encourage additional investment in general aviation in China. “We hope to see further easing of flight restrictions on GA operations, as the government gains comfort with the industry and becomes more aware of its future growth potential,” he added.
Foreign aircraft operating within China will still need military approval coordinated through the CAAC, as will use of military and non-public facilities and airways, and operations near restricted areas, disputed borders or territories, or special events. All GA aircraft will be required to have a secondary radar transponder onboard to ensure Chinese ATC maintains contact with the aircraft.
NBAA has long worked with the Asian Business Aviation Association (AsBAA) and other industry stakeholders in maintaining the dialogue between regulatory authorities and business leaders in the region about the benefits of business aviation, and the expanded freedom for GA operations.
Encouraging the growth of business aviation is also a central objective of the annual Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (ABACE) in Shanghai. ABACE2014 will take place April 15 to 17, 2014. | <urn:uuid:255010ae-e71b-4b89-88f5-d5a08bcda58c> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.aviationpros.com/press_release/11248339/nbaa-welcomes-new-policy-easing-some-restrictions-for-ga-flights-in-china | 2014-12-22T03:01:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802773061.155/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075253-00105-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938713 | 458 | [
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Entire recipe: 303 calories, 12g fat, 616mg sodium, 22.5g carbs, 4g fiber, 13g sugars, 26.5g protein -- PointsPlus® value 8*
BBQ chicken is classic, but sweet 'n savory BBQ sauce is also wildly delicious on salmon. This fish-with-a-kick-pack will blow your mind...
Prep: 10 minutes
Cook: 20 minutes
2 tbsp. BBQ sauce with 45 calories or less per 2-tbsp. serving
1 tsp. Sriracha sauce
1 cup broccoli florets
1/2 cup chopped yellow squash
1/2 cup chopped zucchini
One 4-oz. raw skinless salmon fillet
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lay a large piece of heavy-duty foil on a baking sheet and spray with nonstick spray.
In a small bowl, mix BBQ sauce with Sriracha sauce until uniform.
Lay veggies on the center of the foil. Top with salmon and drizzle with sauce mixture. Cover with another large piece of foil.
Fold together and seal all four edges of the foil pieces, forming a well-sealed packet. Bake for 20 minutes, or until veggies are tender and fish is cooked through.
Allow packet to cool for a few minutes, and then cut to release steam before opening it entirely. (Careful -- steam will be hot.) Eat up!
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Google chrome takes 16 seconds to start initially. I haven't added any extensions .Same with the Firefox which takes about 10 seconds to start while on windows 7 it is at most 5-6 seconds. I have a dell Vostro 1014 with 2.1 GHz core 2 duo,2 GB Ram and running Ubuntu 13.04 64bit since 15 days.
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Laura Lilyquist was recently designated as the new Vice President of Marketing for CaptureToCloud. She was formerly with Symantec as their new Global Director of Business Expansion. Lilyquist received her degree from the University of Wisconsin. There’s more about her appointment on this news link.
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babycakes is a pretty well-known bakery in new york city specializing in gluten-free and vegan cakes and cupcakes. i feel like these recipes would be valid to follow (if the caloric content isn't too high!)
Website wouldn't load for me - it was having trouble finding the video. To provide a link, if you use the 'Add a Link' feature above the test box when replying, Spark creates a proper link. www.foodnetwork.com/food/consciousco ok ing
From what I could tell from the website, it is sponsored by a bakery called 'Baby Cakes' in NYC
Source of modified food starch depends on the coutnry of origin. Hopefully someone else can give you more details.
Hi! I was just surfing the Food Network website and came across a video I thought you might all enjoy watching. Because I have a couple other programs open that are rather big, the video feed was really slow so I didn't watch it all, but what I saw was good. One thing I did wonder though, is the lady who is GF mentioned that Modified Food Starch has Gluten in it. I thought the majority of MFS today was from corn? Or are we wasting to much of it making fuel and they've reverted back to using wheat? (sorry when your married to a farmer, using food for fuel doesn't make sense!) Anyway, take a look, we've finally made the big time! http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/consciou scooking Happy 4th of July!
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March 26, 2011 4:31pm
We know that Bell will exclusively release the HTC Incredible S on April 4th at a retail price of $499.95. In addition, SaskTel stated earlier this month they too will carry this Android and so will Virgin. Taking a look at this inventory screenshot shows it coming to Virgin (along with some accessories) at a price tag of $499.99 but doesn’t reveal when they’ll be launching it. Hopefully on the same day as Bell or shortly after. Another Android-powered device is coming to Virgin… this will be their 4th and join the HTC Legend, Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant and the Samsung Galaxy 550. | <urn:uuid:6630203b-37fc-45ac-977f-6181fde17aa1> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://mobilesyrup.com/2011/03/26/htc-incredible-s-pops-up-in-virgins-inventory-at-499-99/ | 2014-12-19T11:00:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768404.109/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00065-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933699 | 141 | [
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Ever be a Mountain Biker without riding them
Week off next week so thinking about going to both. I don't normally do Trail centres, but I've spoke to loads who rave about 'degla and I've always fancied nipping to Cannock.
Going on my own, bit of a coward on the bike unless I know what's coming up on the trail and not particularly good at jumping but I do like going downhill and don't mind climbing.
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The AD5449 is a CMOS, 12-bit, dual-channel, current output digital-to-analog converter (DAC). This device operates from a 2.5 V to 5.5 V power supply, making it suited to battery-powered applications and other applications. As a result of being manufactured on a CMOS submicron process, this part offers excellent 4-quadrant multiplication characteristics, with large-signal multiplying bandwidths of 10 MHz. The applied external reference input voltage (VREF) determines the full-scale output current. An integrated feedback resistor (RFB) provides temperature tracking and full-scale voltage output when combined with an external current-to-voltage precision amplifier. This DAC uses a double buffered, 3-wire serial interface that is compatible with SPI®, QSPI™, MICROWIRE™, and most DSP interface standards. In addition, a serial data out pin (SDO) allows daisy-chaining when multiple packages are used. Data readback allows the user to read the contents of the DAC register via the SDO pin. On power-up, the internal shift register and latches are filled with 0s, and the DAC outputs are at zero scale.
The goal of this project (Microcontroller No-OS) is to be able to provide reference projects for lower end processors, which can't run Linux, or aren't running a specific operating system, to help those customers using microcontrollers with ADI parts. Here you can find a generic driver which can be used as a base for any microcontroller platform and also specific drivers for Renesas platforms.
The driver contains two parts:
The Communication Driver has a standard interface, so the AD5449 driver can be used exactly as it is provided.
There are three functions which are called by the AD5449 driver:
SPI driver architecture
The following functions are implemented in this version of AD5449 driver:
|unsigned char AD5449_Init(void)||Initialize the communication with the device.|
|void AD5449_SetRegisterValue(unsigned short command, unsigned short dataWord)||Sends a 16-bit value to the Input Shift Register of the device.|
|unsigned short AD5449_GetRegisterValue(unsigned char dacChannel)||Reads 12-bit data form DAC register A or DAC register B.|
|void AD5449_Setup(unsigned short setupWord)||Enables specific options available for the device.|
This section contains a description of the steps required to run the AD5449 demonstration project on a Renesas RL78G13 platform.
An EVAL-AD5449SDZ has to be interfaced with the Renesas Demonstration Kit (RDK) for RL78G13:
EVAL-AD5449SDZ Pin /SYNC (CS) → YRDKRL78G13 J11 connector Pin 1 EVAL-AD5449SDZ Pin SDIN (MOSI) → YRDKRL78G13 J11 connector Pin 2 EVAL-AD5449SDZ Pin SDO (MISO) → YRDKRL78G13 J11 connector Pin 3 EVAL-AD5449SDZ Pin SCLK (SCLK) → YRDKRL78G13 J11 connector Pin 4 EVAL-AD5449SDZ Pin LDAC (LDAC) → YRDKRL78G13 J11 connector Pin 9 EVAL-AD5449SDZ Pin /CLR (CLR) → YRDKRL78G13 J11 connector Pin 10
With the Applilet3 for RL78G13 tool the following peripherals have to be configured:
Choose to generate the Transmit/receive function for the CSI10 and configure the interface with the following settings:
Configure TM00 as an interval timer:
Disable the watchdog timer:
The reference project initializes the device, sets the DAC output to middle scale and continuously writes values to DAC register, generating a signal. The values that are written to the device are also displayed on LCD.
This section presents the steps for developing a software application that will run on the Renesas Demo Kit for RL78G13 for controlling and monitoring the operation of the ADI part.
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Oct. 28, 2009, 12:17 p.m. CST
by Sailor Rip
Oct. 28, 2009, 12:17 p.m. CST
by Sailor Rip
I'm sorry everyone.
Oct. 28, 2009, 12:26 p.m. CST
I haven't seen the movie, but I heard of a lot of people who've seen it saying that it's a boring movie, and that all that "scariest movie ever" shit is false advertising to the max. Can't see nothing scary about this alternate ending.
Oct. 28, 2009, 12:27 p.m. CST
by Darth Dean
then I'm sure as shit glad I didn't see it!
Oct. 28, 2009, 12:29 p.m. CST
by vic twenty
I've seen 3 endings but not the film. Should I bother at this point?
Oct. 28, 2009, 12:32 p.m. CST
this is the original 2007 dvd ending.The theater ending was tacked on later.
Oct. 28, 2009, 12:33 p.m. CST
by two fathoms deep
with it leaving her right when the cops show up, but it's a little too long. I'd have to watch the whole thing with that attached to get the efect. Hopefully the alternate endings are on the DVD, cause I'm definitely buying it. I loved this movie.
Oct. 28, 2009, 12:37 p.m. CST
Minus the "her body was never found" nonsense. It had a lot more suspense to it. <p> And for what its worth, I found the film very scary. Remember that scary is a subjective term. And half the dreck most of the mouth-breathing metal head horror fans love I find about as scary as a black cat.
Oct. 28, 2009, 12:40 p.m. CST
is that deep, bassy ambient sound they used whenever the entity "visited." Most people probably didn't consciously notice it, but that's the point. On a subconscious, near Pavlovian level, that effect worked pretty well, it set the audience on edge every time it started up and was one of the principle factors in establishing an early feeling of dread as to what was going to happen next.
Oct. 28, 2009, 12:47 p.m. CST
is that they play it off like this shit actually happened. It was a fun movie to watch, but mostly for the audience reactions. The night scenes were well played, and some inventive trickery made it better than it than your average horror movie. It worked with Blair Witch because at that point the idea was fresh. I remember seeing people in the theater after it was over trying to see if the credits would give some kind of indication if it was real. When you find out it was "just a movie" the illusion is broken, and it lessens the impact. I hope the next movie that comes along like this is something real.
Oct. 28, 2009, 12:51 p.m. CST
I enjoyed knowing damn well it wasn't real. I knew before going in the Blair Witch Project wasn't real as well--a film which, by the way, directly marketed itself as being real, unlike Paranormal Activity, which has consistently marketed itself as what it is, a scary MOVIE. It never ceases to amaze me the lack of critical thought so many people apparently possess. It's like the morons who believe every email their friends or family forward them.
Oct. 28, 2009, 12:53 p.m. CST
1. Did the girl who came in looking for Micah, was she saying "baby"? Was micah cheating on Katie (perhaps with the girl we saw earlier in the movie)? Did this have to do with the possesion. 2. Did the light in the far roo turn on/off when the police were downstairs? What is the significance of this?
Oct. 28, 2009, 12:54 p.m. CST
The ones you guys got a hold of is of course the original ending from 2007 <p> There were two other test screen versions as well. <p> In one ending she crabs walks toward Mecah's body, Imitating the movements of the creature possessing her after throwing him into the camera. <p> In another she kills Mecah and her girl pal who comes to the house, then she walks toward the camera and slits her throat. Which ties in to an earlier scene with Mecah in the kitchen threatening to cut the demon's head off. Gruesome stuff. <p> The ending we saw in theaters was suggested by Speilberg.
Oct. 28, 2009, 12:54 p.m. CST
I think the light turning on and off was the sign the entity left her. It's a sloppy narrative move, and one of the reasons I agree with Spielberg: this ending sucks.
Oct. 28, 2009, 12:55 p.m. CST
The guy was a total fucking knob, and the girl was a controlling, obsessive bitch right at the very beginning, even before the haunting stuff began and caused all the stress. Like the way she showed disapproval and criticized him for spending so much on his new camera. It's his money, girl!! She's a student, he's an investor, they're not even engaged, she's living in his spacious house, driving a car he probably paid for, and she's nagging him about money?? Not only that, she's only in her early 20s and she's already starting to pack on the pounds, she vetoed a sex tape, and to top it off, she's fucking being haunted?? That jackass should have kicked her ass out of that house. And no, I don't hate women, and I do have a girlfriend. Just pointing out that this movie was kind of ruined for me because I felt no sympathy for the characters.
Oct. 28, 2009, 1 p.m. CST
They both did a great job of being creepy as fuck.
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:05 p.m. CST
Some demon was stalking her ass wayyyy before she even met me. She and that demon would be on the first thing smoking
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:08 p.m. CST
I liked the movie but didn't think it was deserving of all the hype. Still, it effectively killed Saw, so it earns kudos for that.
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:15 p.m. CST
The hype was a result of the fact that it was different and attempted to scare audiences in a more original way. Blair Witch was more about running away and disorientation, but the style was similar so I get the comparison, but they are completely different movies. Paranormal Activity went for more of a subtlety (with the exception of the theatrical ending) and I'm glad that it's been rewarded. <p>Personally I highly dislike most horror movies, but I really enjoyed this one because of how creepy it was and that it didn't attempt to beat you over the head with jump scares and heavily punctuated music. <p>But this ending doesn't quite do it for me, because I don't think the cops would have shot her dead like that. They could have easily disarmed her without killing her, and the fact that she was clearly disoriented should have given them no cause to kill her. The knife was dangerous yeah, but she could just have easily been protecting herself from the actual murderer. (She wasn't, but they didn't know that at the time.)
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:16 p.m. CST
I had heard of this ending and thought it sounded superior to the theatrical ending, but now that I've seen it, its kinda crappy. <p> It kills all the momentum built up from that final night together, and it takes WAY too long to get to the "end". <p> Also, the screams in the theatrical cut went longer and were much more terrifying than the screams in this ending. <p> And to top it all off, Katie getting shot actually looked very comical. <p> So far, the theatrical ending works better, even if it does have that bad, cliched, final shot.
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:18 p.m. CST
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:19 p.m. CST
I had no problem with the female, but big problems with the guy. <p> In conclusion: Katie had some tig ole biddies.
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:22 p.m. CST
My nomination in that category is "The Hangover." For all the over-the-top praise that movie got, it was a bottom-barrell grown-ip Frat comedy.
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:23 p.m. CST
because PA is the most overhyped movie in the history of film.
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:26 p.m. CST
Have you ever heard of the term hyperbole? Look it up. I can think of dozens of films, off hand, that have had more hype.
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:27 p.m. CST
Of course the cops would shoot her. She's a deranged knife wielding idiot. They warned her several times to drop the knife. BANG BANG. I thought they waited too long to shoot her myself. And cops are just human. They don't have super karate powers to disarm people. That's why they have guns and tasers.
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:33 p.m. CST
The police will shoot anybody in the ass that walks toward them with a knife. Especially if they yell a few times at you to drop your weapon, It happens all the time.
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:40 p.m. CST
that most people saw is much better though.
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:40 p.m. CST
...and I cannot believe the ass-licking bullshit perpetrated by AICN. Your reviewers aren't total fucking morons, and I don't think anyone cares what Harry writes about anything (because he raves about anyone who will invite him onto a set and provide him with jello intravenously) but until now I had expectations that the rest of you wouldn't cream your pants over a shitty fucking movie. The grain of salt I'm going to be forced to choke down every time I read a review on this site henceforth is larger than my fucking esophagus.
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:43 p.m. CST
by Kevin Holsinger
There's no way a movie like this will ever be real.<P>Think of it this way: someone you love dies horribly. There's a video of it. The video is released in movie theatres and people HAPPILY watch your loved one get murdered.<P>Then we come here and talk about box office numbers, what critics liked/disliked it, etc. People go on IMDB and speculate about the ending. People rush to post downloadable copies of YOUR LOVED ONE'S MURDER on the Internet.<P>I imagine there's someone in this country sick enough to allow a movie studio to show such a thing.<P>But if it was someone I cared about, you'd never see that video. Not in the theatre, not on YouTube, nowhere. Ever.
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:45 p.m. CST
I can't believe other reviewers like Capone and Massawyrm gave the reviews they did (I could be wrong, but I remember them foaming at the mouth). You'd think they were 12 year old girls the way they described gripping the armrests while watching this movie, pissing themselves while their tails cowered between their legs. Shameful.
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:48 p.m. CST
by Kevin Holsinger
Theatrical cut-pleasantly short, possibly too Hollywood, too dependent on jump-scares, immediately scarier.<P>Original cut-too long, more original, not dependent on jump-scares, takes longer to scare (in my opinion).
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:49 p.m. CST
I believe the phrasing you are looking for is "retarded, heavy-handed, amateurish sound design which was cliché before the birth of Jesus"
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:52 p.m. CST
No, the term I was really looking for was "clever and subdued, the type of thing ADD infected morons like manifestchaos are sure to wail against."
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:52 p.m. CST
You wrote, "some inventive trickery made it better than it than your average horror movie."<br><br>Would you please explain what you're talking about? Because I spent 90 minutes bored to tears in a half-full theatre and I have absolutely no idea where this film's FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLAR budget went. I heard some really shitty sound effects, I saw some white powder and a broken picture frame; literally the ONLY thing about this movie I could not recreate in-camera on a ZERO dollar budget was the final shot of Micah flying through the room and into the camera. What would you say was inventive about this movie?
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:54 p.m. CST
Having some moron hold down a low low C on a synthesizer for five minutes every time the lights go out is not CLEVER AND SUBDUED you fucking moron. The fact that you are accusing me of having ADD for not liking this is proof of your stupidity. I love BARRY LYNDON, which is hundreds of times slower than this, but it has an actual story and relies on visual cinematic beauty and Kubrick's trademark dark wit to involve the audience, not some cheap intro title card that insinuates THIS MAY ALL HAVE HAPPENED, OOOOOOOOHHHHHH SPPOOOOOOOKYYYYYYY.<br><br>You fucking idiot.
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:55 p.m. CST
Well, yeah, me too. But the fact that this movie had it's own WEBSITE to demand it, proves just how over hyped it was.
Oct. 28, 2009, 1:56 p.m. CST
Choke on your bitter anger. You attacked meand my words, so deal with it. Trolling really is a sad pastime.
Oct. 28, 2009, 2 p.m. CST
Why would you have hurt my feelings? You haven't insulted me, only earned my pity by defending what's easily the worst film of the year. I'm not trolling, I'm genuinely irked that a film so touted by generally trustworthy AICN reviewers could be so full-out fucking terrible. Frankly I don't see how they could possibly have meant what they wrote after watching this embarrassment to cinema. Maybe they're on payroll now. (Paramount's, that is.)<br><br>OPEN WATER was mediocre but it was millions of times better than this.
Oct. 28, 2009, 2 p.m. CST
HE DIDN'T AGREE WITH WHAT I SAID!! HE'S A TROLL!
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:03 p.m. CST
But thanks for playing.
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:05 p.m. CST
on a film and vociferously attacks anything positive anyone said about it as a troll, going after individual talkbackers personally. <p> Your beef, manifestchaos, isn't just with Aintitcool and me, the majority of critics gave it a good review as well, so you've got many houses to burn down. <p> I feel the same way about the Hangover. Hell, I even brought it up in this talkback, but unless someone proclaims it the "movie of the year" or something, I'm unlikely to personally attack them or their taste in films. Maybe the knowledge other people have film opinions I find wrong doesn't fill me with venom I guess.
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:06 p.m. CST
about this ending I have seen people talking about is what happens with the door in the background. Just before the cops shoot her the door down the hall slams really hard (presumably scaring the cop into shooting her). After they shoot you see the cops walking down the hall into the room with the door asking 'what was that?'. I guess there's a bit more to read into there in terms of what happened/why the demon would try to scare the cops.
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:10 p.m. CST
because the damn shaky-cam made me nauseous. It was a good movie, but waaaay too much motion sickness for my taste.
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:10 p.m. CST
by Mr. Profit
I saw the ridiculous claims that it was the scariest film ever. And of course I was skeptical, but I went anyway because I was curious. The movie establishes a good sense of tension, and it plays on everyone's experiences of being home alone and weird shit happening to them. <P>But every time the entity did something, I laughed. And not in a "This is stupid and I think I'm bad ass" way. I laughed because I can recall weird shit happening to me. Like when my doorbell rang at 1AM and I was alone and I quickly looked out the window and no one was nowhere near my house or front door. So it's funny in a sense because you can totally relate. <P>But then all of the relatability and realism goes out the window as soon as the Ouija board scene happens. It was stupid and fake and not scary. Then the picture in the attic was shenanigans. And finally the ending. The fucking ending was in the damn trailer for starters. And that CGI nonsense was not scary. It's like it betrays the rest of the film because the reveal is so hokey. Flinging him into the camera and having her make demon faces and then opening her mouth all evil is NOT SCARY. Saying she was never found WAS NOT SCARY. <P>Again, I appreciate what they did for fucking 10K. The same way "The Signal" is appreciated by me at 50K. BUT it is far from the scariest film of the decade. And when I hear hipsters say that it's scarier than "The Exorcist" I just want to smack them.
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:15 p.m. CST
by two fathoms deep
When the cops showed up, the lights in the back hallway turned on to show that the demon left her body. When she got up she didn't remember any of it and was obviously disoriented. Then the demon slammed the door causing the cop to jump and pull the trigger. Like I said: clever, but a little slow.
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:15 p.m. CST
Much like manifestchaos. Kidding. My point is it doesn't make sense to say it was rediculous to be maketed as the scariest movie ever because it's actually the least scary and worst movie ever! Ever!!!!!
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:17 p.m. CST
Why show an alternate ending here? Won't that prevent people from going to see the movie?
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:17 p.m. CST
but I dont know if I will, so I dont mind it being spoiled for me, so can somebody tell me what happens in the theatrical ending?
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:19 p.m. CST
by Mr. Profit
After unfortunately seeing people jump to their deaths on 9/11, is anything really scary anymore? When did people become such wusses? I couldn't believe I saw a girl in tears and shaking. She must have one hell of an imagination because nothing on the screen was scary enough to make you cry. <P>It was very odd.
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:23 p.m. CST
sorry I didnt read your post before posting mine, but you basically cleared up most of it for me. so I'm guessing that she becomes possesed and kills her boyfriend by throwing him across the room and then makes scary faces. FADE TO BLACK
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:25 p.m. CST
Isnt there a scene where the demon tried to get under the covers with her or some shit. I thought I saw that in the trailer.
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:29 p.m. CST
by Mr. Profit
One one hand it's fucked up because she makes him stay in the house only to get up in the middle of the night and goes downstairs and begins to scream waking him up. <P>He wakes up, runs downstairs, you hear a struggle and then silence. Then you hear the footsteps up the stairs and his body is suddenly hurled at the camera. She appears and slinks into the room and makes demonic faces before it fades to black. They never found her. The end. It is really silly. And not scary. Again, decent film when you remove the hype, but the last 20 minutes kill it. <P>Oh and the part where the medium visits then leaves the house suddenly was hilarious.
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:31 p.m. CST
by Mr. Profit
The entity pulls her ass out of bed and drags her down the hallway. And people criticizing the male lead have it in reverse. She was trying WAY too hard. The male lead was more natural and convincing.
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:33 p.m. CST
You really believed a guy would continue to act like an ass to his girlfriend and the demon after he's got evidence of its supernatural activities on camera? I found the guy to be far too unbelievable, and a jackass to boot. <p> Unless you're referring specifically to acting ability...
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:35 p.m. CST
by Stan Arthur
I was pretty underwhelmed.
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:36 p.m. CST
It almsot seems like clockwork that a film this hyped would receive some negative backlash because no movie could live up to what the advertising campaign made it out to be. But eh fact of the matter is, the movie really is quite slow, and just not very good. I've heard the term "you tube movie" bandied about, and thats really what it is. Granted, it does indeed have a couple creepy moments, but the film really is very slow, uneventful, and super-repetitive. I mean by night 20 you're like, "come on, let's get to the point already". There's only three basic things that happen in this movie, 20 times: 1) The couple argue about the demon, 2) the couple goes to bed and the demon does something mischevious while they sleep, 3) the couple wake up and watch the video the next day, and then you rinse and repeat back to Number 1. Seriously, by like the 10th night, say, any normal person would have left the house, gone to a church, called the National Enquirer, or something. The film does not realistically portray what people in circumstanced like these would do in the least, and the 30 second ending doesn't justify all tedium that came before. This really should have just been a 15 minute short on youtube, and nothing more. There is nowhere near enough material and ideas from the filmmakers to fill a feature. -J.
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:38 p.m. CST
by Mr. Profit
Acting ability mostly. Because he seemed natural. The woman at times seemed like she was trying too hard. She didn't really sell the scene with the crucifix. It came off a little weak. He was a better actor. But I do like the fact that both looked normal. But as far as his asshole behavior is concerned, I do think I have seen guys act on par with what he was doing. And in the movie's timeline, he really didn't believe and stop his joking until he found her sitting outside in the cold.
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:40 p.m. CST
by Stan Arthur
The really ending is taken directly from a After Effects tutorial by Andrew Kramer that he posted two years ago. You too can learn how to do the morphing demon face here: http://tinyurl.com/coct95
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:45 p.m. CST
by Stan Arthur
The REAL ending.
Oct. 28, 2009, 2:56 p.m. CST
by Mr. Profit
Oct. 28, 2009, 3:12 p.m. CST
What a bunch of fucking morons. I can't get past that. I went to the theater on opening weekend ,sat at the very top,and it was packed all the way down to the very last seat. There were a few good jump scares and "oh shit thats creepy" moments but nothing to come close to scariest film ever. I just find it hard to fathom that there are people dumb enough to think movies like this and anything else with a "this footage was found" opening are actual real life footage. If they think that, Cloverfield must have fucked there shit up for real.
Oct. 28, 2009, 3:15 p.m. CST
Wow. I should reread my posts before I send them out there. Anyway, I guess I liked the way they made it believable enough to where people were trying to figure out if what they just saw actually happened. Like you mentioned, the scene with him flying back was well done in particular. I also enjoyed the footprints in the baby powder. That's why I said SOME inventive trickery.
Oct. 28, 2009, 3:32 p.m. CST
Download the entire "festival" cut (the one that features the "alternate" i.e. original ending anywhere torrents or movie downloads are available. It'll be marked as a "DVD Screener" but it's really DVDRip quality.
Oct. 28, 2009, 3:50 p.m. CST
by Le Phantom
Another fine example in the Blair witch tradition!!! A lousy movie with a lot of hype and a clever internet campaign to draw in an audience! Do you really feel good to pay ten bucks to see someting that was made for 15 grand and shot in somebody's house that is mediocre at best! They should have released it on April Fool's Day!
Oct. 28, 2009, 3:51 p.m. CST
All those haters are seemingly just pissed ´cause that movie bitchslapped their favourite, pointless and stupid "Torture-porn"-franchise at the box-office! ;-) Halloween 2010 without another SAW? Hell, yeah!!!
Oct. 28, 2009, 3:53 p.m. CST
THE MOVIE DID A GOOD JOB OF CREEPING OUT MY FAMILY...IT WAS JUST AN EXPERIENCE MOVIE. THE ONE YOU PARTAKE IN. THE ONE YOU VOTE FOR...THE ONE YOU KINDA LEAVE THE CRITIC IN THE CAR...OF COURSE ITS NOT REAL..BUT IT COULD BE. IT COULD HAVE HAPPENED. PEOPLE DO CRAZY SHIT TO EACH OTHER ALL THE TIME. ODD EVENTS IN THE MEDIA..SO THINKING THIS BROAD SNAPPED AND SMOKED HER MAN..LEFT ME FEELING EVEN MORE CREEPED OUT CAUSE REAL LIFE ALWAYS HAS WEIRD, CRAZY ASS BUGNUTS SHIT GOING DOWN LEFT AND RIGHT..SO THINKING THAT MAYBE SOME OF THE MADNESS IN THE WORLD COULD POSSIBLY BE EVENTS LIKE THIS..AND TOTALLY NEVER KNOWN..OR SCOFFED AT,,,IS PRETTY COOL. THE MOVIE WAS A FUN RIDE. IT WAS WORTH THE SIX BUCKS. IT WAS WORTH CHECKING THE REACTIONS BY THE JUMPY CROWD. DEFINITLY WORTH HEARING THE VERY STEROTYPICAL GAY COUPLE IN THE THEATRE,,,THIS DUDE WAS COMEDY GOLD,GAVE THE 13 YEAR OLD GIRLS A RUN FOR THEIR MONEY. BOTTOM LINE...AT LEAST IT TRIED A FEW NEW THINGS..BUT IF YOU THOUGHT IT WOULD BE ANYTHING BUT CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST...SORRY..THESE FILMS ARE MORE OF THE FABRIC OF VOYOUERISM, A FEELING OF ACTUALLY WATCHING SOME REAL SHIT GO DOWN..A POSSIBILITY IN THE PART OF THE IMAGINATION..A THOUGHT THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE A CRACK IN A FRAMED PICTURE THAT IS ON THE WALL...AND FINALLY...NO MATTER WHAT...IT WAS JUST ANOTHER MOVIE YOU PAID TO SEE TO ENTERTAIN YOURSELF.
Oct. 28, 2009, 3:57 p.m. CST
Oct. 28, 2009, 4:13 p.m. CST
I watch Ghost Hunters sometimes and enjoy it...always hoping for something crazy to go down. This movie was the episode I will never get to see...could you imagine? Jay's like..."shhh..grant do you hear that? LONG QUIET PAUSE..Jason's fat ass comes flying into the camera. Grant spiderwalks in slowly, covered in blood after killing Steve and Tango...and then begins sniffing jays body...oh that shit would be money in the bank right there.
Oct. 28, 2009, 4:53 p.m. CST
by Mr. Profit
So why would someone on here post that anyone who wasn't scared by this film is a bitter Saw fan? I am not a fan of Saw movies. Last one I saw fully was part 2. Aside from that they look like shitty direct to dvd quality films. But I don't knock anyone who enjoys them because my ass lines up for every F13 movie that is released. So I'm not perfect. But I still don't see how anyone was scared by this movie. If anything (like I stated above) it made me laugh because hearing crazy noises in your house is a totally relatable thing. But it's still not scary. Just odd and kind of funny.
Oct. 28, 2009, 5:24 p.m. CST
by Read and Shut Up
...I didn't get a chance to see it.
Oct. 28, 2009, 5:39 p.m. CST
<p>I hate the Saw franchise. I only saw the first movie. And was bored to death. And this movie was also boring, but creepy.<p> <p>And if I were Micah I would have kicked her out the house. She has been dealing with that thing her whole life. Deal breaker. She friggin got drug out the bed at night and decided to stay in the house. Fuck that.<p> You'd have to find me cause I'm leaving. Shit I'd leave after door moved back and forth.<p> I'm not afraid of any living person. But if shit is doing shit and I can't do anything about you can have the house. I want to live.<p> <P>I thought what they were doing by staying there and doing all the psychic detective crap was dumb. But hey there are about 12 shows on the air dealing with ghosts.<P> So people do dumb crap all the time. But that last night when he listens to her crazy ass to stay home, after he looked at the tape an saw her standing over him for 3 hours and then going outside. Nope that's when it's time to bail. Or call the 911 to get her on a 72 hr hold for psychiatric reasons. Cause she's bat shit crazy.<p>
Oct. 28, 2009, 6:22 p.m. CST
by Mr. Profit
The first night she stayed at my house and crazy shit happens and she goes "oh yeah a demon has been following me all my life", I would have been on some Beyonce "To the left" shit and thrown her out the house. Fuck that. I would think in real life demon stalkers are a fucking deal breaker in a relationships. I have seen many end for far less.
Oct. 28, 2009, 6:30 p.m. CST
by Onin Solstice
I think you have to actually believe in ghosts to buy this lame movie. Nothing happens. Doors move, steps are heard......ooh. That's too much for me. I better hope no one's taped me in night-vision, I drool when I sleep.
Oct. 28, 2009, 6:35 p.m. CST
i fell asleep<p> everytime i woke up, all i saw was micah being fucking irritating<p> and as the idiot was a fucking evil day trader...im glad he was killed
Oct. 28, 2009, 6:45 p.m. CST
With The ORIGINAL ENDING. Where she walks up past the camera lifts the knife and slits her throat. No stupid self-aware tacked on bullshit about never finding her body. The movie just ends. All Black. No Credits. Thaat ending is why the movie got hyped so much for so long. It was affecting, everyone in the theater just sat there gut-punched. <br> <br> I dragged so many people to this movie and found myself apologizing on the way home and trying to explain what affected me so much the first time. Even the second ending that was posted here is kinda lame, but nothing compares to the poor choice Hollywood bullshit ending that Spielberg insisted on that all of America had the misfortune of seeing. It changed the whole complexity of the movie. <br> <br> People were robbed.
Oct. 28, 2009, 6:58 p.m. CST
the cop ending was the original ending<p> what you saw was apparently only screened once<p> the director apparently filmed even more than the three endings that have been shown<P> and i really think they should change the name of the movie to either "did you hear that?" or "two irritating retards in a nice house"
Oct. 28, 2009, 7:06 p.m. CST
Yeah, but were the first 1.5 hours of the movie still the same tedious and repetitive bullshit? Yeah, I thought so. There's more to movies to an ending. That may work for an episode of "Tales From the Crypt" or "Twilight Zone" but I'm pissed paying for junk like this and having to sit thru so much boring, time-filling nonsense, just to get to an ending. Although, in this case, I was thrilled when it finally came, lol. And pretty much everyone in the theater walked out mocking the film, and it's shit ending. -J.
Oct. 28, 2009, 7:17 p.m. CST
It seems a lot of people can say that this is not scary, but what is scary to them? Most everybody will say Exorcist, but besides that. I thought Paranormal Activity was creepy and scary as fuck, as well as Blair Witch Project because it is something that a lot people can relate to. It's make everyday situations, and making it creepy. I like that. What's NOT scary to me is Hostal, Saw, Friday the 13th. Not Scary. The original Halloween was pretty scary, as well as the first Nightmare on Elm Street, but only because I was like 8 when I saw it. So, just curious, what's scary to everybody?
Oct. 28, 2009, 7:19 p.m. CST
http://tinyurl.com/yzt9w47<p> since worst previews does their own hosting, and the studios dont really know they exist, it is still up<p> note that the heavy walking is just her fat ass coming up the stairs<p> note that the cops act like total retards too
Oct. 28, 2009, 7:23 p.m. CST
the original night of the living dead
Oct. 28, 2009, 8:09 p.m. CST
is the throat slit ending, not that i've seen it. The ending with the cops is an interesting idea in theory but the whole thing isn't excuted as well.
Oct. 28, 2009, 8:12 p.m. CST
No, the cop ending was fimled and screened after the throat-slit ending. <br> <br> Her is a full description of all the endings and the order in which they were screened. I personally saw the ending with her cutting her throat over a year ago, before the cop ending was ever screened <br> <br> http://tinyurl.com/yc4vnm3
Oct. 28, 2009, 8:16 p.m. CST
The Innocents is a freaky fucking movie.
Oct. 28, 2009, 8:20 p.m. CST
A good ending can complete a film and seriously affects the way you remember and are affected by it. There are hundreds, if not thousands of movies that would suck if not for their endings. Think of how you would remember Shawshank if they opened up the cell to find that Andy hung himself. It changes everything, it changes the whole movie and everything about it. <br> <br> Sure, a spooky Twilight Zone ending doesn't make a bad movie good, but it's naive and thoughtless to say that a movie that takes a slow-burn approach to a knockout ending is the same movie without that ending.
Oct. 28, 2009, 8:29 p.m. CST
by Mr. Profit
Nothing really scares me and hasn't for a while. I guess as you get older, real life is a scarier place than movies. The oddest shit will affect me now, and it's never a horror movie. <P>But as a child, of course things like "The Exorcist" and "Halloween" were scary films. But also equally scary to me as a kid was the movie "David". Because I could never understand how a father could burn his son alive and leave him disfigured. I think most people in their late 20's who have grown up through the 80's have seen really fucked up and odd shit growing up on TV. I remember the Snakeman Anti-Drug PSA scaring me more than anything in "Paranormal Activity". WPIX Shocktober Commercials used to scare me too. But when you get older, and have seen a lot of things, shit just ain't as scary as when you were 12 and first saw "Pennywise The Clown" in a rain gutter stalking a little boy. <P>So it takes a lot more than closing doors at night and powder foot prints. As an adult, I can't recall any movie that has bugged me out or scared me. "Requiem For A Dream" bothered me because people were addicted to hope and that fucked them up worse than any drug. But I don't even get startled by jump scares. It sucks. But I have to admit, I saw "Ju-On" by myself and this scene made me jump. And it's stupid as fuck: http://tinyurl.com/yftnlud
Oct. 28, 2009, 8:33 p.m. CST
by Mr. Profit
The Sixth Sense falls into what you are talking about. That ending makes the movie. Without it, it's 2 hours of waiting for Chris Hansen to pop out and berate Bruce Willis for hanging out with a little boy with no adult supervision.
Oct. 28, 2009, 8:45 p.m. CST
Why do you guys care so much if somebody that it was or wasn't scary? I personally thought it was terrifying, probably third scariest movie I've seen behind the Exorcist and Silence of the Lambs, but I know people who find none of those films scary in the least bit.
Oct. 28, 2009, 8:46 p.m. CST
Sad pathetic bastards who regard anyone who was scared or creeped out by a movie a "pussy." They're like bad 80s movie boyfriends, ragging on their dates for being scared and playing the strong, silent type in the hope of getting laid later. I myself don't get scared by many films at all--The Shining, Tale of Two Sisters, Ju-on being a few examples--but I don't consider that a testament to my manhood. <p> Some of the most well crafted, original, and important horror films--The Exorcist, The Haunting (1963), Night of the Living Dead, Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre, though I admire and enjoy them a great deal, don't scare me a bit. It's all completely subjective.
Oct. 28, 2009, 8:47 p.m. CST
is a hoax movie done RIGHT. PA was horrible. That ending! Bwahahahahaha! It was like a scene from The Uninvited!
Oct. 28, 2009, 9:10 p.m. CST
and where the fuck they spent $15k. Seriously, WHERE could they have spent that much money? Because a camera to rent like that costs less than $2k for A MONTH. Hell, you can buy one for a little more than that... cheaper if it's used. As a struggling filmmaker, I just don't get it and feel like I'm banging my fucking head against the wall and then see this... it makes you wanna quit. <p>As an example, I started a web series and shot the first few episodes for less than $500 in less than 24 hours and it's WAY more complex than this shit. LOL, where's my movie deal? I'm going to post a link, so please check it out. And before the inevitable comparisons to The Fourth Kind I didn't get the idea from that, I shot it WAY before I heard about the movie and was actually inspired by Communion and Transformation, the Strieber books. Oh, and Thriller. Curious what TB's think... it was just an honest attempt to scare and entertain, with more to come... THE GREY CORRIDOR: http://bit.ly/6rOE6
Oct. 28, 2009, 9:22 p.m. CST
by Merkin Muffley
But police officers don't walk around going, "Police department! Police department!"
Oct. 28, 2009, 9:57 p.m. CST
It's gotta be one of the cheapiest nastiest productions ever to make such a fortune. It has a couple of scary moments, but i couldnt help wonder if because you're so desperate for something to happen as you're enduring the home video style of it, just about anything would be scary it's so kinda bleak and empty. It gets pretty goofy towards the end, my wife was terrified but i was starting to giggle. The time lapse gag gets a bit old too.
Oct. 28, 2009, 10:02 p.m. CST
The house they used was the director's house. In order to make it work they had to remodel some of it, including building that staircase. That is actually where most of the money went and the rest went toward getting the camera and equipment. And they spent less 11k making it. The rest of the 15k came from the studio to make the new endings. Personally I think the original ending to the movie was light years better than the theatrical. To me that theatrical ending was nothing but more of Hollywood's inability to just let a movie tell it's story and end. They had to change it simply to make it possible to release a horrible direct to DVD sequel next year. It had nothing to do with making the movie better or fitting in with any sort of artistic direction, it was only about wanting to be able to milk the movie into another Saw like franchise. Her body was never found? Oooooh! Go screw, Spielberg. Plus I was actually very happy to see a movie end without the hack shot of the camera falling over and something creepy happening in a odd angle. Why does every shaky cam movie have to end with the exact same shot?
Oct. 28, 2009, 10:04 p.m. CST
It is not a "Movie" - face it - it is a High-School home video. And the fact that it got a MAJOR Studio to release it, shows that they knew there would be lots of morons out there lapping this dreck up.
Oct. 28, 2009, 11:10 p.m. CST
Fuck you all.
Oct. 28, 2009, 11:11 p.m. CST
And it wasn't me.
Oct. 28, 2009, 11:31 p.m. CST
Well written, well acted, great pacing, no shit CGI crap. All around very good 'haunted house' movie. Have'nt heard people actually 'scream' during a flick since...forever! I found myself watching the doorway more than anything else...and waiting for whatever might show up was 10000000000000000x more satisfying than any of the horror shit that the studios have crapped out this past year. This isnt some overblown juvenial turd like "A HAUNTING IN CONNETICUT". This is the real deal as 'haunted house' flicks go. Reminded me of the original 'THE HAUNTING'. What you dont see if far more terrifying than what you do.
Oct. 28, 2009, 11:45 p.m. CST
Irreversible. That movie stays with me until this day. Paranormal Activity was fun, and at times a little intense, but not at all how they're advertising it as "the scariest movie ever made". You wanna see real terror with a great "pay-off", watch Irreversible.
Oct. 28, 2009, 11:48 p.m. CST
Well done. Good luck with all your endeavors.
Oct. 28, 2009, 11:59 p.m. CST
Care Bears movie man.
Oct. 29, 2009, 12:51 a.m. CST
that Katie *was* the demon? Or at least possessed by it? It's there when she's a child, it's "followed" her all her life, she didn't bother to tell Micah about it until they had a relationship going, no one else could have had that picture of her, she's clearly seen doing things while not in control of her body... plus the final shot of her demon face being revealed to the camera. The way I saw it, Micah was the haunting victim in this movie, not Katie. (Plus that fits with the whole "her body was never found" bit... because that body is out somewhere else, haunting/killing somebody else.)
Oct. 29, 2009, 1:31 a.m. CST
by Sappers Forward
Movie in a nutshell: Mika (the nutless boyfriend) gets no ass for a month. All we see is a door open and close a couple of times, lots of pointless screaming, and that's about it. And we never get to see her tits. If they spent more than $20k on this I'd be surprised.
Oct. 29, 2009, 1:54 a.m. CST
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! Eight more episodes to come and those will switch between being shot like a regular movie and the first-person stuff. It's hard topping the alien stuff, though, but we have an FX guy building a puppet and are hoping to put them all on youtube, then put out a DVD that's all of them edited together with 20 extra minutes and a ton of other stuff.
Oct. 29, 2009, 1:57 a.m. CST
Or set them up in the hallway? One thing that bugs me about this ghost hunting show shit, is that they always seem to set the cameras in places that cover the WHOLE room, instead of one that covers a small area.
Oct. 29, 2009, 2:08 a.m. CST
Some of the things require a supernatural power. If it weren't for the Ouji board and footsteps in baby powder, it would be less cut and dry. Given that a light enough door can move on its own if its doorway is on the heavy side (like at Myrtles Plantation) you could easily cut this movie in a way where Katie could be possessed or simply schizophrenic. That said, this movie strikes me as being about procrastination. What, does the demon need to tap-dance and hare hare yukai with a cherry on top before you call the demonologist?
Oct. 29, 2009, 4:51 a.m. CST
This was on par with that film alien abduction the mc pherson tapes. stright away you know it's trash due to the poor acting. I never felt right. At least you don't get that in the blair witch. Both endings were shit
Oct. 29, 2009, 7:38 a.m. CST
I checked out your stuff last time you pimped it here, but I think you'd left the thread by then. Cool stuff. The only small thing I woulda said was that some of the shots didn't quite cut together with the eye stuff, and the lens flares looked super digital, especially as you had them in the same shot as real flares from the streetlights. But that's just technical. I loved the creepy alien getting all IN YOUR FACE!
Oct. 29, 2009, 7:52 a.m. CST
God almighty. Why can you guys not differentiate between a marketing department using outrageous hyperbole to get as much business for a little low budget film as possible, and the filmmakers/film itself? Jesus! Of COURSE the marketing guys are gonna say it's the greatest thing ever - to hold the film itself responsible is moronic and inverted. Remember this film has been around for YEARS completely apart from any hype. <p> But even that's second to always whinging and whining about lame CG horror, or torture porn, or basically any modern stuff - and with the same breath when an "old-fashioned" flick comes along and uses good 'ol bumps in the night and basic sound effects, you piss on that too! I shudder to think what you all think of the classic Universal stuff - oh no I don't, because you wouldn't have seen them - that's the sorta stuff you hate! Getting all righteous and taking offence like most of you are doing just begs belief... I don't even think some of you watched it, considering that the whole point was just getting out of the house made no difference at all. And maybe, just maybe the boyfriend was SUPPOSED to be a bit of a dick (another horror tradition you seem to have forgotten)...
Oct. 29, 2009, 11:16 a.m. CST
by Cletus Van Damme
Especially when entering someone's home and searching for a subject/suspect. Loudly and repeatedly identifying ourselves helps make sure that someone that takes a shot at us at that point isn't found innocent when/if they shoot one of us because they thought we were an intruder.
Oct. 29, 2009, 11:28 a.m. CST
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. I actually didn't have any digital lens flares, that was all in camera. I hate digital lens flares. I actually think lens flares in general are overdone now, but.. pretty hard to avoid when you shine a light directly into the camera. The only thing digital were the eye blinks of the alien and of course the lights from the ship. Thanks for checking it out!
Oct. 29, 2009, 11:47 a.m. CST
But hey it's the American way - 1 gets rich, a million loses 10 bucks each. HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Oct. 29, 2009, 12:14 p.m. CST
Left it too open to, maybe she was just crazy.
Oct. 29, 2009, 3:19 p.m. CST
Can someone help a brother out with an alternate link?
Oct. 29, 2009, 7:28 p.m. CST
Did you find the video? Here's the link. http://tinyurl.com/yzt9w47
Oct. 30, 2009, 8:45 a.m. CST
Well, that was a treat. I think the new ending worked better, but that's not to say this one was bad.
Nov. 1, 2009, 6:58 p.m. CST
The lights on the ship/accompanying flares are exactly the flares I was talking about. They were green I think? And then there were the real flares of the streetlights in the same shot. That was all I meant. But like I say, that's just a little thing, and you got that great creepy vibe. I think flares are overdone too, and it makes sense to have them looking straight at the ship, but they suffered in comparison to the lag/trails on the streetlights. It was like you'd graded it down after the flares had been put on or rendered with the ship then graded or something. <p> And hey, when I say all this I know that you can get anything just so with time money and resources... but when you don't have those it's a different kettle of fish! So congrats again. Cheers! | <urn:uuid:7bf4f0ce-4285-4186-a326-d2bf99a7d4b9> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.aintitcool.com/node/42879 | 2014-12-19T10:53:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768404.109/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00065-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972167 | 11,384 | [
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|Robertson, G. Philip - MICHIGAN STATE UNIV.|
Submitted to: Ecosystems
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: December 19, 2007
Publication Date: N/A
Interpretive Summary: Increasing the number of different crops grown together in agricultural systems may reduce the need for intensive use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The goal of this study was to assess how, in the absence of fertilizer and pesticides, increasing the number of crop species grown in sequence (using crop rotation and cover crops) from one to six crop species over a three-year period impacted crop yields. Crop combinations included corn, soybean, winter wheat, and three different legume and grass cover crops. Results of the study showed that grain yields of corn and soybean were higher in cropping systems that included all six crops compared to systems with fewer crops. Also, corn yields in these systems were comparable to those in conventionally-managed systems for each of the years studied. The increased crop yields were likely due, in large part, to the beneficial effects that leguminous crops can have on soil fertility when included in a diverse rotation. This data suggests that the sustainability of cropping systems for food, fiber, and biofuel production may be improved by increasing the number of different crop species grown together.
Technical Abstract: Understanding the role of diversity in the functioning of ecosystems has important implications for agriculture. Previous agricultural research has shown that crop rotation and the use of cover crops can lead to increases in yield relative to monoculture; however, few studies have been performed within the broader context of diversity-ecosystem function theory and in the absence of chemical inputs. We performed a field experiment in Michigan USA, in which we manipulated the number of crop species grown in rotation and as winter cover crops over a three year period and in the absence of fertilizer or pesticides, to determine the impact of crop diversity on grain yields. Treatments consisted of three row-crops, corn Zea mays L., soybean Glycine max (L.) Merr., and winter wheat Triticum aestivum L., grown in continuous monoculture and in two and three-year annual rotations with and without cover crops (zero, one, or two legume/small grain species). Crop yields and weed biomass were measured each year and plant available soil nitrogen was measured over the course of the growing season in the final year of the study. The effects of crop diversity were manifest most strongly in corn. In all three years there was a significant positive linear relationship between the number of crop species in the rotation and corn yield. Corn yields in the highest diversity treatments were over 100% higher than the continuous monoculture and were not significantly different from the county average for each of the three years despite the absence of chemical inputs. In soybean and winter wheat, yield differences among crop diversity treatments were also significant, but of lower magnitude (32 and 53 %, respectively). Crop diversity treatment effects on corn yield were likely due to the number of legume species (crops and cover crops) in the rotation and their effects on available inorganic soil nitrogen. Results demonstrate that ecological theory is relevant to the management of agricultural systems and that increasing diversity in cropping systems can lead to significant increases in ecosystem functions related to crop production. More importantly, these results suggest that yield penalties associated with reduced chemical use for food, fiber, and biofuel production may be offset by managing for higher crop species diversity. | <urn:uuid:e0af1cd8-38d4-4ee9-9520-ae4ab13c35e5> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publications.htm?seq_no_115=207676 | 2014-12-19T11:08:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768404.109/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00065-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95707 | 736 | [
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One of a series of interviews with IMSLP contributors…
1). How did you first discover IMSLP?
Now that some three and a half years have passed since coming to IMSLP, I’m no longer entirely sure what brought me here in the first place. In any case, they haven’t been able to get rid of me. I’ve been a contributor to Choral Public Domain Library since 2001, when I submitted a set of full scores to Handel’s Vespers psalms there, and it was sometime early in 2007 when the IMSLP showed up on the radar as a similarly motivated, well thought-out and worthwhile project, offering quite different musical material: scans of existing scores rather than new typesets, and of a wider range than CPDL’s more antiquarian and strongly choral focus.
If I recall correctly, someone had posted a link on the CPDL forums offering the prospect of all sorts of goodies for download at the other end, which meant it was only a matter of time before curiosity killed the cat – but my memory might be at variance with what really happened. What I do know is that discovering the range and potential of the IMSLP website was hugely more exciting and memorable than the means which had gotten me there.
2). What were your immediate goals?
When I first arrived, the IMSLP collection was under 5,000 scores, but the site also had the US file server in operation, so there were some extremely interesting scores made available that hitherto, had never been quite so easy to obtain. CPDL, for example, was initially very bandwidth conscious, and endorsed small-footprint typesets; by the time IMSLP started fast internet from home was becoming widely available and larger multi-megabyte downloads were a more practical proposition. Thus scans of full scores – forbidding tasks to typeset from scratch – were now readily manageable. I know within the first week of joining I had downloaded some things I didn’t already have in my own physical library, like full scores of Verdi’s Requiem; Brahms’ First Symphony and Academic Festival Overture (my favourites of his orchestral works); and Busoni’s Fantasia contrappuntistica.
The IMSLP had a much larger range of 20th century works – the CPDL was often hamstrung by its reliance on US copyright strictures – so I also noticed that the hosting of IMSLP in Canada allowed it to concentrate on a different collection of modern composers. I could also see that the collection could possibly grow to include samples of all sorts of music from the past: manuscripts and original sources of interest to musicologists alongside practical editions, full scores and parts. My goals for the site are unchanged – the library should continue to grow in all possible directions of conceivable musical interest. Really, we have only just scratched the surface of the music written before the 20th century, which I shall endeavour to indicate in a following article. And just as obviously as the years roll on we will gradually claw back some of the stuff currently protected under absurdly long copyright terms.
3). What instruments do you play?
Bwahahaha! I play recorder… badly. The alternate name for the instrument of “misery stick” might have been invented with my playing in mind. I haven’t graduated to any of the wind instruments with similar fingerings, though I keep threatening to buy a cheap re-make of the Renaissance cornetto from a maker in the UK and commit atrocities on early music. Be warned.
I play kazoo… badly. In fact, the time I performed my arrangement of the final portion of Rossini’s William Tell Overture for kazoo quintet, we were all bodily removed from stage before we reached the stringendo. I was enraged (but so was the audience, it’s fair to say).
I play keyboards… badly. One time I was performing Carl Vine’s Choral Symphony and the organist was absent from the dress rehearsal, so they let me lose on it, sight-reading from a full score. Fortunately, no one could tell when I played wrong notes as opposed to the right ones…
Another time I was asked to take a sectional rehearsal of a chorus without a repetiteur, so there I was conducting some Rachmaninov with one hand and thrashing away at a cheap electronic keyboard with the other, and ended up snapping off the D above middle. I now advertise my keyboard-wrecking skills in advance of similar engagements.
I play percussion… but not so badly as to break instruments. I leave that to the more extrovert performers I know.
I’m generally rather more accomplished as a singer – particularly in terms of versatility, since I started singing while at University as a tenor and more often sing counter-tenor/alto these days; but when performing with amateur choirs I’m occasionally asked to fill in other voice parts to make up for the shortcomings of other singers. Sometimes in-between singing the written alto or tenor part, I’ll leap up to soprano or down to bass to fill in those parts; its not uncommon that I’ve been asked to reinforce all four parts (at different times, naturally!) in the same piece of music. I have won a soprano aria competition for tenors and basses (singing high stuff from Le nozze di Figaro and Carmen), but it wasn’t pretty – sight or sound.
I taught myself to sight read from my mother’s library of full scores, so I tend to treat sight-singing in a rather instrumental fashion. I take no prisoners. Especially where conductors are concerned. Conductors are the scum of the earth.
Oh yes, I also conduct… so on that subject – tacet.
4). What are your musical interests?
Generally I was brought up on a diet of orchestral music of the late 18th and 19th centuries, as my father was a record collector and had a great love of the Beethoven symphonies, a huge range of orchestral favourites, and a variety of popular music up to the 1960s – but no rock and roll though. (Well, with the sole exception of ABBA.) The record collection fascinated me before I could even read: in fact, reading the back covers of whatever was playing on the stereo was part of my education learning to read as a three- or four-year-old. My tastes now are wider and considerably more eclectic, but also probably a lot snobbier than Dad’s: I have a number of potent dislikes, which depending on how cheeky I’m feeling at the time may be less than well-concealed. My mother was a professional pianist and singer, and my own rebelliousness is to blame for my not learning piano from her, but I think a lot of my attitudes to music stem from hers.
I have a love of vocal and early music going back to the 1400s, though I tend to prefer the monumental, nascently-tonal, polyphonic music of the Renaissance to the thin, weedy sounds that look back towards mediæval times; it is no surprise I’ve typeset the 40-part motets by Tallis and Striggio, or colossal vocal-orchestral works from the early Baroque and later periods. While I do enjoy the intimate chamber dimensions of some vocal and instrumental music, I love the greater potential and range of orchestral and large ensemble music.
Concertante music, or similar music with little to recommend it other than the virtuosity of the soloist(s), as well as opera in general, tends to leave me cold. Oratorios often bore me stupid. I view Wagner as a dangerous viral infection and limit my exposure to the various “bleeding chunks” (as Sir Donald Tovey described them) butchered from the operas. I enjoy listening to and performing modern music of all kinds, the weirder and more mentally stimulating the better. Commercial pop music might as well not exist in my universe – not that I have a huge amount of time for the indie scene either. I often hear unrecognisable doof-doof noises emerging from people’s iPod headphones on the train or tram, enough for me not to be hugely curious at making a closer acquaintance, I have to say.
In terms of performance, I think it’s important to always be looking to be doing new music (either “new new!” or otherwise, old music that you haven’t done before) in your concerts as well as revisiting the “bums on seats” repertoire staples. For example, before the end of the year I’m really excited to be doing Bach’s B minor mass and Havergal Brian’s Gothic symphony – in addition to less exciting seasonal fare such as Handel’s Messiah. My most recent concert was one consisting almost entirely of new works receiving their premières.
I’m also interested in making the best musical resources available for the performance of the works: access to original sources, or as early as are still extant, are obviously hugely important for the interpretation of music – just as important as reliable performance materials.
5). Who are some of your favorite composers?
The three HBs loom large: Heinrich Biber, the great violin virtuoso of the High Baroque; Hector Berlioz, to me the most colourful and literate figure of the Romantic generation; and Havergal Brian, the extraordinary composer of sharp-edged, monstrously conceived orchestral music. From time to time I’ve paid reverence at the altars of Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, and Mendelssohn. Sebastian Bach and Brahms I treat more with respect rather than adoration.
Then there’s a huge number of composers I admire from the time of Josquin and Brumel onwards to the current day, and it would be both boring of me to list them and pernicious to potentially leave some out: you can check out my userboxes (and I need dozens more in addition to those few). You would be wrong to also assume if I’ve edited a score by a composer, then there’s some liking there – I’m pretty allergic to large quantities of frequently-heard Handel and Fauré.
6). What are some of your other interests besides music?
I’m a huge fan of Doctor Who and am overjoyed at its current Renaissance on British television, though I think the pace of modern television is too forced for my liking and the show lacks the charm of its 70s-era version while having much superior production values. Keeping up with it makes following the other science fiction franchises a harder task, but my brother introduced me to the new BSG, which I greatly enjoyed in spite the militaristic, American, and Mormon overtones. I don’t tend to believe in narratives where problems are solved at weapon point. Looking at my DVD shelves I also notice Peter Jackson’s wonderful Lord of the Rings films standing out as a block, various excerpts of Monty Python and The Goodies, and the surreal technicolour 1960s cold-war paranoia of The Prisoner.
I’m an inveterate reader of science fiction (Clarke, Baxter, etc), and have also turned my hand to writing: two and a half novels are in various stages of incompletion which I might get around to finishing before too many more years elapse. I follow science and politics from the sidelines without contributing much except in the way of rebarbative commentary on blogs. The upheavals following the September 11 attacks finally convinced me of the evils of accomodationist strategies towards religion, so that I no longer shrink from concealing my atheism or treating religious delusions with undue respect and kid gloves.
Living in Melbourne it is not difficult to keep an eye on various sports in this sports-mad city; I’m currently watching Australia slaughter the old enemy England in the cricket (and listening to the radio commentary, which is the only civilised option) and will have the pleasure of watching the spectacle at closer quarters after Christmas. I enjoy dining out as often as my sometimes indifferent cooking allows, being blessed with fine cuisine and viniculture here. The Devon Rex cats named Biscuit and Cheese which share my flat in bayside Williamstown have their own interests that seem to involve much sleeping, sun worship, and random furniture destruction while simultaneously being almost irritatingly cute.
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No way. Different attitude. The team has a different attitude.
yeah, a bad one.
ROFLMAO. Yap yap yap. Ucla is right where they always are…..behind SC.
Where is waste bucket?
Neuheisel never won 9 games in a season at UCLA.
…or 8 games in a season.
The ruins have only had 9 or more wins twice in the last 14 seasons, pathetic!
No argument there. But that says nothing about what Mora can do at UCLA. If the past was determinative, then there are a lot of nationally successful football programs that wouldn’t be any good. Start with those in Eugene and Palo Alto, for example.
Dreaming. Brett leaves, ucla is bottom half of PAC 12
Great game Jimmy Boy. At least “Pick-6 Hundley” was able to recover some respectable stats.
Ah, who’s ahead of ucla in the south?
Yep, and ASU is ahead of both of our schools.
Only difference is we didn’t yap about winning the self-titled
The intelligent UCLA fans among us didn’t do that either. Comparing the dumb elements of the respective fan bases is a race to the bottom.
The bruins are better. Not as elite as they thought they were but better.
ASU was the better team, and coached with a game better plan. UCLA did not play well enough to beat a really good team. Stanford had better hope that Arizona gives them another gift next weekend, because winning the title game at Tempe would be tough.
I am disappointed and angry. But times have changed. When was last time we felt this way cause we missed a championship. We where not ready to play. But i rather be this pissed we lost our championship hopes then being happy we beat Trojans, like when it was 8-straight. SO now we have to play the Trohans, oh well, I guess so….
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The high liquidity of probated estates, paired with potential brand exposure in the deceased collections space, has motivated many organizations to evaluate and implement specific strategies for identifying and servicing probate accounts.
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Re: FICO® Introduces New Mortgage Credit Score
07-18-2012 12:20 PM
Introducing the "FICO® Mortgage Score Powered by CoreLogic".
A new FICO mortgage credit score unveiled Tuesday casts a wider net to capture consumer behavior not previously considered in whether to grant a home loan. The agency says it will make more people eligible for a mortgage, but critics say that wider net may pull in new inaccuracies and create additional privacy concerns.
On July 10, the consumer credit score giant FICO joined with data firm CoreLogic in announcing the new score designed specifically for mortgage lenders called the FICO Mortgage Score Powered by CoreLogic. The mortgage score is based on information provided by CoreLogic in a detailed report called the CoreScore Credit Report.
The report includes information that other credit reporting agencies, such as Experian, TransUnion and Equifax, don't factor into your traditional reports. If you were late on child support payments, applied for a payday loan or had trouble paying your rent on time, it could show up on your CoreScore Credit Report and be factored into your new FICO mortgage score. But on-time payments on a second mortgage will also be factored into your score, as well as all those months you paid your rent like clockwork. It's not intended as a replacement for traditional FICO scores, but as another tool for mortgage lenders to use early on, at the prequalifying stage for borrowers."It's simply bringing in additional data," says Joanne Gaskin, a director of product development at FICO.
Well that aint fair since most of the time they don't report correctly
Starting Score: 502 5/4/2012
Current Score: 640 08/03/2012
Goal Score: 700
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The Ravens will wrap up their second full week of training camp tonight at the Navy-Marine Corp Stadium in Annapolis for the last open practice of the summer.
Two weeks into training camp, a few story lines have emerged on each side of the football.
The wide receiver corp had a standout week with Steve Smith Sr., Marlon Brown, Jacoby Jones and Torrey Smith each having stand-out days throughout the week.
Watching Smith Sr. run routes is a thing of beauty. Each rep is crisper than the previous one, and he’s also made several great catches with his hands and body.
Marlon Brown has taken heat for his “drops” over the first week of practice, but has certainly improved. During 11 on 11 drills, the second-year player appears to have righted the ship and did a nice job of catching the football while being heavily contested.
Jones is showing his understanding of Kubiak’s offense and turned in his best week of practice making several catches along the sidelines for big gains while Torrey Smith’s route running has gotten increasingly better.
Joe Flacco is grasping the new offense rather well. While there were some interceptions made throughout the week, Flacco has made some brilliant throws including perhaps his best throw of camp thus far finding Smith Sr. in stride down the sideline for a touchdown. While Kubiak’s scheme isn’t known for the “deep ball”, Flacco certainly hasn’t lost his knack for it. His footwork is cleaner and he is more decisive and getting rid of the ball quickly.
Terrell Suggs has had a great camp thus far and his explosiveness is back. In shape and focused on football, Suggs has been very disruptive in the Ravens offensive backfield.
Elvis Dumervil created a stir in the Ravens backfield along with Suggs on numerous reps showing his burst at the snap and his ability to get off blocks. He is proving to be a force to be reckoned with rushing the passer and stopping the run.
Pernell McPhee found himself in the backfield on multiple reps where he blasted past running back Justin Forsett and manhandled Jah Reid for a sack on quarterback Tyrod Taylor.
Rookie linebacker C.J. Mosley has once again turned in another solid week of practice. The rookie has drawn praise from the defensive superstars including Terrell Suggs and Haloti Ngata along with head coach John Harbaugh and defensive coordinator Dean Pees. Mosley has found himself in the Ravens backfield on occasion, and has also done a nice job in coverage. His first test in live action will come against the 49ers on Thursday night.
The Ravens running game is on the up and up. Ray Rice and Bernard Pierce are showing their ability to stick their foot in the ground and get up field. Both players are taking reps with the first team offense and are hitting their gaps with ease. The offensive line is doing a solid job of creating gaps for the unit.
The injury bug hit the Ravens defense hard this past week including the loss of rookie defensive end Brent Urban with a torn ACL.
Rookie Timmy Jernigan was also injured on the same play however he returned to practice on Sunday after missing a few days with a back issue.
Cornerback Lardarius Webb missed the entire week of practice due to lingering back spasms. Coach Harbaugh said Webby will miss at least the the first two preseason games.
Terrence Cody still has yet to take a snap in camp as he is recovering from hip issues.
On the offense, rookie wide receiver Michael Campanaro missed Sunday’s practice with a rib injury.
As my training camp colleague Dev Panchwagh has pointed out defensive end Chris Canty has been maddening. Seemingly coasting through practice, his inconsistencies and lack of motivation are highly noticeable. Although it’s practice, there have been numerous vets showing more emotion and intensity than Canty. The Ravens offensive line handled him with ease the entire week.
Perhaps the most talked about happenings of the week is the battle for the Ravens third cornerback position. The battle between Chykie Brown and Asa Jackson is still heating up. Asa is however leading the race as Brown suffered some setbacks during the week and drawing ire from John Harbaugh who dismissed the young corner from a portion of practice. Jackson’s increased reps and his coverage ability have him as the odds on favorite for now, however the Ravens could opt for the waiver wire once team cuts are made. | <urn:uuid:9996bf50-420f-44de-babe-d017c865e835> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://russellstreetreport.com/2014/08/04/camp-notes/camp-recap-receiving-group-standing-out/ | 2014-12-21T01:08:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770554.119/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00089-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979428 | 944 | [
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1. As stated before you need to put a more modern racket/string on your main page. APD GT, BLX, IG Speed, etc., something that modern players and kids can identify with.
2. You need to let the customers know that you carry all the major brands (if you don't, you need to.) Your website gives the impression that we only have 2 choices. 99.99% of non-TT players want the name brands that the pros use. They don't want no-name brand from a no-name stringer. If Big 5 or Sports Chalet started carrying Topspin, BHBR, B5E, etc., it's one thing. If you ONLY carry those, they will think you are weird. Offer them the choices of Babolats, Lux, Wilson AND more TT-oriented brands such as Topspin, Signum, Tourna, Polystar, etc. to show you have a more in depth knowledge of strings than the big store employees.
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Questions remain for US carriers preparing to comply with the European Union's emissions trading scheme (ETS) even as the United Kingdom has instituted an extension for the programme's first deadline.
Airlines flying into EU airports are required to submit their emissions monitoring, reporting and verification plans to their assigned administering country by 31 August as the EU plans to fold aviation into its ETS from 2012.
Delays in the European Commission's validation of the Eurocontrol ETS Support Facility to track fuel burn caused the UK to give airlines three additional months to register and submit their plans from the time the commission finalises administering assignments. Initially expected in June or July, firm assignments are now likely in early August.
Despite the lag, the United Kingdom remains "committed to including aviation in the EU ETS from 2012."
However, the UK postponement could trigger other EU countries to also offer an initial extension given that the United Kingdom was one of the few administering states to begin implementing ETS into its national laws.
While the Air Transport Association of America (ATA) contends that the UK postponement was "extremely warranted", ATA vice-president of environmental affairs Nancy Young cautions that there are "still questions outstanding as to what this postponement means".
Chiefly, she would like more detail as to how the delay will impact other ETS deadlines. Airlines are currently required to begin tracking their emissions from January 2010 in accordance with the monitoring plans they submit this year.
Flight has been told by a senior source at the European Commission that regulators will likely maintain the January 2010 deadline.
It remains unclear if other EU countries plans to offer similar extensions to the UK. Young of ATA says the association has received no indication of other nations announcing similar delays.
"ATA has member airlines reportedly subject to France, Germany, Italy and possibly even the Netherlands. Presumably the same issues coming up in the UK are coming up in those other countries," she says.
The majority of airlines-some 750 operators-will likely be subject to the UK's jurisdiction, including American Airlines, Continental Airlines, United Airlines and Air Canada.
US Airways, Delta Air Lines and cargo operators Atlas Air and UPS will likely report to Germany while FedEx has been tentatively delegated to France.
The preliminary list also shows that Delta subsidiary Northwest Airlines would file to the Netherlands but it remains unclear how last year's merger of Delta and Northwest will affect those carriers' submission requirements.
While carriers await more information regarding ETS deadlines, there also is concern about errors in the preliminary list of affected operators.
One ATA carrier on the list currently provides no service to the EU while another ATA operator with EU service has been omitted. Young declined to identify either airline.
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Contest Poll: The 2012 Grokfeast Challenge
Posted By Mark Sisson On September 29, 2012 @ 3:30 pm In Announcements | 65 Comments
I’d like to thank the 14 groups who participated in the Grokfeast Challenge this year. Your level of creativity, commitment, and enthusiasm serves as a hallmark for Primal living at its best. It’s been an immense pleasure reading and publishing your experiences on Mark’s Daily Apple.
As good as they all were (seriously, again, great job, everyone), only one group can win the cow. One more shout out to US Wellness , who is donating all the grass-fed beef. If you ever want to take your beef eating to the next level, hit up their newsletter and join the grass-fed revolution.
OK, now on to business. Below are the four finalists. I’ve posted the finalists’ videos and picture, but please click through to the individual posts before voting. Check out the recipes and read their stories. Then vote on the Grokfeasters who you believe best captured the spirit of going Primal. You have until Monday at 4:00 PM PDT to vote.
Vote for the Winner of the 2012 Grokfeast Contest
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Coyotes seem to be a growing issue across the State of Texas and Mountain City is no exception. We have had several complaints about coyotes in the city limits over the past few months. Sgt. Frank Cheatham of the Hays County Sheriff’s Office Animal Control Unit joined our City Council Meeting in March to offer a few tips.
While Hays County SO does not have the equipment to pick up large animals they do have the equipment to trap racoons, possums and other like animals. The idea is that if we remove the coyote food source then they will be forced to look elsewhere for food. A few things you can do to help out include;
- Bring pet food and water bowls in every evening
- Install motion lights around the exterior of your hoome
- Clean up fruit droppings from fruit trees
- Clean up any small dead animals or call in large dead animals for removal
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In the second part of our special report, The Scotsman completes our interviews with the Scots Tory leadership contenders
JACKSON Carlaw says he can pinpoint the moment when the emotional bond between him and the Conservative Party was sealed. It was on the night of 12 October, 1984, when the IRA blew up the Grand Hotel in Brighton, where Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives were holding their party conference.
“I was in a guesthouse a couple of hundred yards away,” he recalls. He was woken up by the blast and roused the group of Young Tories with whom he was lodging.
“I was there within 20 minutes of it. We were bringing deckchairs up from the beach for people to sit on. I remember journalists being just as shellshocked as us.
“That understanding of what it meant to be part of the UK Conservative party and family seared itself into my consciousness. In terms of my core beliefs, if not shaped then, they were absolutely reinforced by it.”
The ability to tell that kind of story is the reason why the 52-year-old MSP, who has largely remained under the media radar in this deeply contentious race, is a contender to win the Scots Tory leadership next month.
Alone out of the candidates, Mr Carlaw has the kind of back story which may give him a special bond with some of the party members who are to elect their new chief – particularly those from a certain vintage.
He first became politically conscious in the 1970s, leaning initially to Labour. Then, as a schoolboy at Glasgow Academy, he remembers doing his homework by candlelight during the three-day week, and feeling angry with the industrial militancy of the unions.
Once Margaret Thatcher arrived in 1979, promising to shake things up, he was sold. As a 20-year-old, he was in Blackpool at her first conference, where the young ’uns were given polystyrene boaters and told to sing “Hello Maggie”. “Just ridiculous,” he admits.
Yes – very. But also the kind of stuff that many members of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist party just love.
Rivals are pretty blunt about Mr Carlaw. “He might have been around for 30 years, but then people have had 30 years to get to know what he’s like,” says one, about his claim to experience. He has won the support of just one of his fellow MSPs, Mary Scanlon.
But, meeting him in his tiny office in Newton Mearns last week, it is clear this is not a man whose confidence is easily punctured. Watching his two main rivals for the job, Murdo Fraser and Ruth Davidson, he claims to be amused by what he says are their “sycophantic” entourage.
“I don’t think a leader is well served at all by being surrounded by people who tell them they’re the best thing since sliced bread. It just leads inevitably to difficulty. Even Margaret Thatcher latterly was only surrounded by people who told her what she wanted to hear, and it’s fatal.”
He says he wants people around him who will question where he is going. He makes great play of the fact that, unlike Murdo Fraser and Ruth Davidson, he had a career outside of politics – running a car dealership (although he claims: “I’ve never actually sold a used car”).
“I’ve always been of a generation that you should come into politics bringing an experience of life into it,” he says.
But the car dealership did not end well. “We expanded too quickly and the business went into administration. It was broken up and sold off a decade ago,” he says. Then he took the road to Holyrood.
Of Mr Fraser’s plan to dissolve the Scottish Conservative party and create a new one from its ashes, Mr Carlaw challenges it on practical business terms, but also because he believes it will not change anything.
“We stopped being the Tory party in 1841 when Sir Robert Peel broke from the Tories because of the Corn Laws. [In Scotland], we have never been the Tories. But that is how we are known.”
The point is, he says, that you can call a new party what you want, but people will still call them the Tories, “probably with an expletive attached”.
Mr Fraser says his new party MPs will still take the Conservative whip. So the whole thing is self-defeating, says Mr Carlaw. “That is not an independent party in any sense at all. So this new party, which is taking the Conservative whip at Westminster, will be the Tory party too.”
He says he has a lot of time for Mr Fraser, however. He has been “tested in battle”. But mention Ms Davidson, who has emerged as perhaps his main challenger for the top job, and a more venomous tone comes out.
Won’t she be a breath of fresh air; a walking, talking sign that the Tories in Scotland have changed? “You cannot simply say I’m the new kid on the block and therefore the world is going to come and flock to vote Scottish Conservative & Unionist – someone who has been parachuted in from absolutely nowhere, who we know nothing about, who has no political agenda that we know about, who has fought no campaigns.
“Ruth Davidson’s own performance in Glasgow [at the May election] wasn’t terribly impressive. Moreover, she failed to win the list-ranking ballot in her own seat and none of the constituency chairmen in Glasgow are supporting her. The idea that you simply say because somebody is new, that is going to save the party, I’m afraid I simply don’t buy it.”
He says the UK party did that with William Hague and “we ruined his career”. Somehow, however, you get the impression that when he talks down Ms Davidson, it is not her career he is primarily thinking about.
Isn’t basically the problem that, if he is elected, people will just look at him and say “Same old Tories”?
“I’ve said how we will change policy, change the face and organisation, and I can do that because I’ve got the experience,” he says, pointing to radical policy proposals such as the plan to restrict the number of terms that MSPs can have. Such a move is likely to bring in a large group of new faces after the next election.
He goes on: “In future there may need to be some reshaping of our brand and identity and everything else.” Although that won’t include a name change, he clarifies.
And any major reforms won’t be proposed this side of the election. He says Mr Fraser’s “we will tell you what’s good for you mentality just turns so many people off”.
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Stockton, California--This Gold Rush-era port city, an epicenter of California's agricultural exports, will become the nation's largest city to seek protection under the U.S. bankruptcy code after its City Council on Tuesday stopped bond payments, slashed employee health and retirement benefits and adopted a day-to-day survival budget.
City Manager Bob Deis likened the process to cutting off an arm to save the body. He is expected to file bankruptcy papers immediately.....
Stockton..[had] been in negotiations with its creditors since late March under AB 506, a new California law requiring mediation before a municipality can file for reorganization of debt. It was the first use of the law, and policy analysts who watched its torturous and tedious progress have titled their report on it "Death by a Thousand Meetings." Mediations ended Monday at midnight.
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