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Thanks Gaddiel. I guess I will wait on that WiFi card because to get highspeed out here it must be bounced off the moon . HEY, maybe that is why I play in the woods so much....I got no highSpeed .
Thanks Gaddiel. I guess I will wait on that WiFi card because to get highspeed out here it must be bounced off the moon . HEY, maybe that is why I play in the woods so much....I got no highSpeed .
Here's thelink from the SBC site.
It is free until april without doing anything, as long as you have DSL currently, or buy it now I guess. I've had DSL since about Dec 1999 so haven't had a yearly contract since it ended 12/2000. I'm still with SBC and haven't switched to SBC-Yahoo or whatever they call themselves now.
I think the year contract refers to after April when you must buy the 1 yr package for wireless to get the $1.99 rate, so for $24/yr, it doesn't seem like a bad deal. I just talked to a friend last night whose on a cruise ship to the Hawaian Islands for about 2 weeks. He said they offer wireless on the ship for ONLY $240 for 24 hrs! Makes $1.99/month seem like a good deal!
In Fort Smith there is Sweet Bay Coffee on Rogers Next to Kissing Her Deja vu has it.
If your not living life on the edge your taking up too much space!!!!!!
Free: The Coffee Beanery, Ft. Smith, on Hiway 71 South on north bound side in new Italian Market Place across from McDonalds on the south bound side.
Not far from Boo Crew, LukyWest Team, Rusty da Dog and Geoark1 caches and several other's caches. Find a cache, have a coffee and log your finds.
They have great sandwiches toooooooooooo.
Mrs. Geoark
Most of the campus at the UofA runs 802.11G which can be accessed in every major building. Only problem is you have to use their login to access the internet. If you knew a student or fac/staff you could gain access there.
I didn't check to see if it was free but the Barnes & Noble in North Little Rock has internet access now too.
4000 McCain Blvd.
North Little Rock
Does any one have the coordinates on any of these locations? If you do, please post them.
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Thanks a Latte in Searcy is a nice coffee shop that serves deli sandwiches, salads, soups, and baked goods. They have a play room for the kids and have live entertainment on the weekends. The coordinates are:Does any one have the coordinates on any of these locations? If you do, please post them.
Same situation at UCA. However, there has been talk of some non-authenticated access being added to some areas. I'll keep you updated...Originally Posted by RazorbackGeek
I get my directions from above.
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Good afternoon everyone! This is my first post, so I hope it goes well. I just thought I'd pass along the following FREE wi-fi spots in Conway. These are provided by Conway Corporation and the merchant listed. There is no cost to the user. I work for Conway Corporation and can tell you that more will be added soon.
You can view the list online as well at: http://wifi.conwaycorp.net/locations.html
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aka Chris
Conway - FREE hotspots
Something Brewing - 1156 Front Street
Fridayz Poets - 2915 Dave Ward Drive
Central Baptist College Student Center - 1501 College Street (students & faculty only)
Wampus Cat Stadium
Fun Wash Laundry - 155 Farris Road
Subway - 646 South Harkrider
Frank Brannans - 646 South Harkrider
Dusty's Convenience - 646 South Harkrider
Hendrix College Student Center - 1600 Washington
Hendrix College Bailey Library - 1600 Washington


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Origins of Computer Dating (Feb, 1966)
I wonder if Gene Shalit already had that crazy mustache when he wrote this in 1966. I was looking for a picture of him to link to and I found this instead. (warning: may not be safe for work. Contains 8-bit music and pictures of Gene Shalit)
Also check out: HOW TO SELECT A MATE (Jan, 1965), and The Truth About Petting (Jan, 1937)
boy… girl… computer
New dating craze sweeps the campus
Out of computers, faster than the eye can blink, fly letters stacked with names of college guys and girls—taped, scanned, checked and matched. Into the mails speed the compatible pairs, into P.O. boxes at schools across the land. Eager boys grab their phones… anxious coeds wait in dorms … a thousand burrrrrrrings jar the air . . . snow-job conversations start, and yeses are exchanged: A nationwild dating spree is on. Thousands of boys and girls who've never met plan weekends together, for now that punch-card dating's here, can flings be far behind? And oh, it's so right, baby. The Great God Computer has sent the word. Fate. Destiny. Go-go-go. Call it dating, call it mating, it flashed out of the minds of Jeff Tarr (left) and Vaughn Morrill, Harvard undergraduates who plotted Operation Match, the dig-it dating system that ties up college couples with magnetic tape. The match mystique is here: In just nine months, some 100,000 collegians paid more than $300,000 to Match (and to its MIT foe, Contact) for the names of at least five compatible dates. Does it work? Nikos Tsinikas, a Yale senior, spent a New Haven weekend with his computer-Matched date, Nancy Schreiber, an English major at Smith. Result, as long date's journey brightened into night: a bull's-eye for cupid's computer.
"How come you're still single? Don't you know any nice computers?"
Perhaps no mother has yet said that to her daughter, but don't bet it won't happen, because Big Matchmaker is watching you. From Boston to Berkeley, computer dates are sweeping the campus, replacing old-fashioned boy-meets-girl devices; punch bowls are out, punch cards are in.
The boys who put data in dating are Jeff Tarr and Vaughn Morrill, Harvard undergraduates. At school last winter, they and several other juniors —long on ingenuity but short on ingenues—devised a computer process to match boys with girls of similar characteristics. They formed a corporation (Morrill soon sold out to Tarr), called the scheme Operation Match, flooded nearby schools with personality questionnaires to be filled out, and waited for the response.
They didn't wait long: 8,000 answer sheets piled in, each accompanied by the three-dollar fee. Of every 100 applicants, 52 were girls. Clearly, the lads weren't the only lonely collegians in New England. As dates were made, much of the loneliness vanished, for many found that their dates were indeed compatible. Through a complex system of two-way matching, the computer does not pair a boy with his "ideal" girl unless he is also the girl's "ideal" boy. Students were so enthusiastic about this cross-check that they not only answered the 135 questions (Examples: Is extensive sexual activity [in] preparation for marriage, part of "growing up?" Do you believe in a God who answers prayer?), they even added comments and special instructions. Yale: "Please do not fold, bend or spindle my date." Vassar: "Where, O where is Superman?" Dartmouth: "No dogs please! Have mercy!" Harvard: "Have you any buxom blondes who like poetry?" Mount Holyoke: "None of those dancing bears from Amherst." Williams: "This is the greatest excuse for calling up a strange girl that I've ever heard." Sarah Lawrence: "Help!"
Elated, Tarr rented a middling-capacity computer for $100 an hour ("I couldn't swing the million to buy it."), fed in the coded punch cards ("When guys said we sent them some hot numbers, they meant it literally.") and sped the names of computer-picked dates to students all over New England. By summer, Operation Match was attracting applications from coast to coast, the staff had grown to a dozen, and Tarr had tied up with Data Network, a Wall St. firm that provided working capital and technical assistance.
In just nine months, some 90,000 applications had been received, $270,000 grossed and the road to romance strewn with guys, girls and gaffes.
A Vassarite who was sent the names of other girls demanded $20 for defamation of character. A Radcliffe senior, getting into the spirit of things, telephoned a girl on her list and said cheerfully, "I hear you're my ideal date." At Stanford, a coed was matched with her roommate's fiance. Girls get brothers. Couples going steady apply, just for reassurance. When a Pembroke College freshman was paired with her former boyfriend, she began seeing him again. "Maybe the computer knows something that I don't know," she said.
Not everyone gets what he expects. For some, there is an embarrassment of witches, but others find agreeable surprises. A Northwestern University junior reported: "The girl you sent me didn't have much upstairs, but what a staircase!"
Match, now graduated to an IBM 7094, guarantees five names to each applicant, but occasionally, a response sets cupid aquiver. Amy Fiedler, 18, blue-eyed, blonde Vassar sophomore, got 112 names. There wasn't time to date them all before the semester ended, so many called her at her home in New York. "We had the horrors here for a couple of weeks," her mother says laughingly. "One boy applied under two different names, and he showed up at our house twice!"
Tarr acknowledges that there are goofs, but he remains carefree. "You can't get hung up about every complaint," says Tarr. "You've got to look at it existentially."
Jeff, 5′ 7″, likes girls, dates often. "If there's some chick I'm dying to go out with," he says, 'I can drop her a note in my capacity as president of Match and say, Dear Joan, You have been selected by a highly personal process called Random Sampling to be interviewed extensively by myself. . . . and Tarr breaks into ingratiating laughter.
"Some romanticists complain that we're too commercial," he says. "But we're not trying to take the love out of love; we're just trying to make it more efficient. We supply everything but the spark."
Actually, computer dating supplies more. According to Dr. Benson R. Snyder, MIT's chief psychiatrist, it acts as a method that society condones for introducing a girl and a boy. "A boy knows that the girl has expressed her willingness to date by the act of joining. I think that's one of the most important things that it provides. It reduces the anxiety of the blind date; you know that the girl wants to go out with someone roughly like you.
"However," warns Dr. Snyder, "if this is taken too seriously, and it becomes institutionalized, it could be seen as a pressure for a safe, conformistic approach. In all relationships, there is a need for the unexpected; even that which is a little anxiety-laden."
With all the joys and ploys of computer dating, social life at sexually segregated schools in the Ivy League remains plenty anxiety-laden. At non-coed schools like Yale and Dartmouth, students lead lives of social isolation. Many are consumed by plans for weekend dates. "We try to pack a whole week into Friday and Saturday night," says a Princeton sophomore. "If we don't make out—if we don't sleep with the girl—the whole thing's a colossal failure."
Comments a distinguished New York psychoanalyst: "Ivy League students are forced to behave like monk-scholars. When they're freed on weekends, they seek emotional release. Almost all college boys are psychological adolescents, with an overpowering need for companionship, and they cannot be expected to live in seclusion. It's no surprise that sexual relations are more and more common among college-aged boys and girls."
"All-boy colleges create a climate for fantasy," says Carter Wiseman, a Yale sophomore. "Girls become unreal beings, so on the weekend, you try to force the reality to fit into the fantasy you've created, and it wont work!"
"Getting dates down here for the weekend is a terrible waste of time," says John de Forest of Yale. "Hotel accommodations for the girl, expenses, arrangements . . . trying to find a girl in the first place. That's why Match is here to stay. I approve of it as a way to meet people, although I have no faith in the questionnaire's ability to match compatible people. The machine has no way of telling whether or not the girl has pazazz!"
But, Wiseman insists, "The odds of getting along with a girl are better if she's been screened by a computer. Say you're interested in Renaissance art, and the machine gives you a chick who's interested in Renaissance art, you've got a basis to build on. You can't just go up to some girl on the street and say, 'Hello, do you like Botticelli?' "
"In midwinter, it's tough to meet a girl a couple of hundred miles away on any pretext whatever," says a snowbound Dartmouth senior. "Match is a great icebreaker; the girl will at least talk to you if you call."
Even before boys telephone their matches, most girls have a line on them through Ivy-vine sources— tipsters at boys' schools and upper-class girls who've dated extensively. Lists are passed through the dorms, where girls pencil comments next to familiar names: cool; hang up when he calls; swings; fink.
"What troubles me about all this computer jazz," says a sophomore at Connecticut College, "is my feeling that boys don't level when they fill in their questionnaires. I was honest with mine, but I wonder if some guys fill out theirs to see if they can get a first-nighter."
"Boys want one kind of a girl to date, but someone quite different to marry," says a Mount Holyoke senior. "Guys are just out for a good time, but I don't know any girl who goes on a date without marriage crossing her mind. When college kids are together, the girl thinks: 'I wonder what it would be like to be married to this fellow?' and the boy thinks, 'I wonder what it would be like to sleep with this girl? "
"I don't see how the questionnaire can possibly result in compatible matches," says Ellen Robinson of Connecticut. "Guys don't care about attitudes and interests. They all want a blonde with a great figure. But if you must fill out a questionnaire, I think the one from Contact is better."
She gets no argument from David DeWan, 22, the MIT graduate student who owns Contact, Match's principal rival in New England. "The Match questionnaire is unbeatable for national distribution," he says. "But in the Northeast, I can use a vocabulary that will be more effective than it would be in the Midwest. Phrases like verbal fluency and aesthetic appreciation sell far better at schools like Princeton and Harvard."
DeWan, a brilliant math and engineering student, does not have an organization as sprawling or yeasty as Tarr's. In fact, he has no organization at all. A frugal man, he runs deep in the black: He has no full-time employees. His office is a room in his grandparents' home, near Cambridge. He uses a Honeywell 200 computer at three o'clock in the morning, when the rental is low. In one distribution of questionnaires, he drew 11,000 responses at four dollars each.
DeWan has been going steady with a girl at Wellesley, so when he organized Contact, they put themselves to the test. Sure enough, the computer matched them. But the computer also matched her with an Amherst boy, who won her away. "It was very sad," says DeWan, "but it proved my system works. It found her a more compatible guy."
"I think that's a riot," says Dr. Snyder, who invited DeWan to discuss the computer project at a meeting of the MIT psychiatric staff. "I was a little bit appalled by its 1984 overtones, but was much less concerned after we talked. Contact provides students with a chance to get over the initial hurdle of knowing that they're not going to be immediately rejected. At their age, it's often difficult to make the kind of small talk that's so important at the initial stages of a relationship. My guess is that computer-matched people are more able to explore comfortably their interests. I think it's a useful social mechanism, but it would be misused if boys used it merely to make a connection for a sexual good time."
"I don't know that Match and Contact can really work," gainsays Dr. Morris S. Davis, astronomer and director of the Yale Computer Center. "Until body chemistry can be inputed into the computer to stimulate the actual reactions of two persons, I have my doubts concerning the efficacy of the method."
Dr. Snyder agrees that the computer can't predict compatibilty. "But it's not just chemistry," he insists. "It's because you can't program something as complicated as the whole cluster of feelings and associations that surround a boy's notion of what a girl ought to be. What a computer can do is increase the probability of a satisfactory relationship by removing incompatible persons."
To test this theory, Chritopher Walker, a senior at Yale, organized a dance for 200 college boys and girls, who were selected at random, matched by computer and tested before and after the dance. They spent time with their matches, then with dates they "picked up" during the dance's designated free period. Preliminary findings: Most had most fun with their "pickups." "If it turns out that way," says Walker, a psychology student who is a great admirer of Match, "it will be because a dance is a one-night stand, where the only thing that counts is physical attraction."
Not everyone has faith in computers. At the University of Wisconsin, two enterprising graduate students, Glenn Weisfeld and Michael Rappaport, have a service called SECS—Scientific Evaluation of Compatibility Service. They offer a short questionnaire, charge one dollar, provide one date, and somehow, it works. Says Weisfeld, "We had our proudest moment when we were congratulated for making SECS a four-letter word."
Just the same, Tarr feels the future belongs to the computer. He's working on campus installations of hundreds of special typewriters, all linked to a centralized "mother computer." A boy, typing his requirements, will receive in seconds the name of a compatible girl on his campus who's free that night. Tarr is also organizing a travel service. On deck: a transatlantic cruise by an ocean liner packed with compatible couples. (Rejected name: Ship of Fools. Scene: night. The deck awash with moonlight. In the shadows, a boy sings, "Come To Me, My Correlated Baby." Below decks, in the salon, a girl murmurs, "How do I love thee? Let me count the punch cards.") Tarr already has outposts in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, will soon go international, providing students summer dates all over Europe.
Since collegians must fulfill each other's requirements, the questionnaire is designed to produce the profile of the applicant and the profile of the applicant's ideal date. Boys have discovered that there is more to getting the girl of their daydreams than ordering a blonde, intelligent, wealthy, sexually experienced wench. They must also try to guess what kind of boy such a girl would request, then describe themselves to conform to her data. The future suggests itself: A boy answers the questions artfully. A girl does too. The computer whirs. They receive each other's name. Breathlessly, they make a date. They meet. They stop short. There they are: Plain Jane and So-So-Sol. Two liars. But they are, after all, exactly alike, and they have been matched. It is the computer's moment of triumph.

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New Canon 8-15mm fisheye, telephoto lenses announced
Canon updates two existing telephoto lenses today along with the introduction of a newly designed 70-300mm (an L series lens for the first time) and the unusual 8-15mm fisheye zoom. The lenses contain new flourine coatings on the front and rear elements in an effort to reduce smearing and simplify lens cleaning.
The L series lenses are getting a slight makeover as well. The classic L series "white" will be a slightly more neutral, warmer tone.
Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye Zoom
Canon adds a rare fisheye zoom to its lens stable today, providing a 180 degree angle of view on any Canon EOS DSLR. When coupled with a full frame camera like the 5D Mark II, the lens creates a completely circular image.
Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6L IS USM zoom lens
The new L series will use two UD ultra-low dispersion glass elements for better sharpness, Canon claims. The updated optical image stabilization built in to the lens should provide a gain of four shutter speeds, and the L series weather sealings should keep dust and other elements out of the inner workings.
Canon EF 300m f/2.8L IS II USM telephoto lens
This sixth generation 300mm telephoto lens has been reduced in weight by 8% over the previous model. Canon also claims a gain of four stops of shutter speed with the lens's image stabilization system. A rolling-ball friction system does the stabilization work where sliding parts provided stabilization in previous generations.
Canon EF 400m f/2.8L IS II USM telephoto lens
Catering to the sports photographer, the re-vamped 400mm telephoto has been reduced in weight by 28% from the previous model down to 135.8 ounces. Magnesium alloy and titanium construction have made it more durable and the new 400mm also claims an extra four stops thanks to the rolling-ball friction-based image stabilization system.
Additionally, Canon announces two new extenders for EOS cameras. The Canon Extender EF 1.4x III and Canon Extender EF 2x III are direct replacements of existing models designed for faster auto focusing with compatible EF lenses. Rubber gaskets and seals on both extenders should help to keep the system safe from the elements.
Pricing and availability
The EF 8-15mm f/4L fisheye should arrive in January 2011 for $1400, the 70-300mm in October for $1500, the 300mm in December for $7000 and the 400mm is scheduled to arrive in December for $11,000.


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Have you ever just stopped yourself looked into the night sky and just saw all the stars. I have. Wished upon them as well. I felt like the style truly fit the title. So many times our inventories are like stars ,just way to much to count or maybe counting all the amazing styles you could create from just one outfit. You can also view the designers as stars, they are pretty much intheir own right alread, glamorous, glowing, unique, one in a infinite number. I hope you all like the style. Enjoy!
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Former "Saturday Night Live" writer Joseph Bodolai has committed suicide in a Hollywood hotel room, the Los Angeles coroner's office said Tuesday.
Coroner's office spokesman Craig Harvey said room service staff found the body of the 63-year-old Bodolai at 1:30 p.m. Monday in a room at Hollywood's Re-Tan Hotel. He checked into the hotel Dec. 19.
Harvey said Bodolai drank a mixture of Gatorade and antifreeze. The death, first reported by celebrity website TMZ, has been ruled a suicide.
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News from around the country and around the globe
Besides writing on 20 episodes of "Saturday Night Live" in 1981 and 1982, Bodolai was the TV producer for 20 episodes of "The Kids in the Hall" Canadian sketch comedy troupe.
Police Cmdr. Andrew Smith said there was no suicide note, however Bodolai apparently foreshadowed his suicide online.
The Los Angeles Times cited a lengthy post published Friday on a WordPress blog that appears to be registered to Bodolai. It was titled "If This Were Your Last Day Alive, What Would You Do?" and included Bodolai's accomplishments and regrets.
A message on the Twitter account (at)joebodolai said "Goodbye" and had a link to the blog.
The Associated Press could not independently verify the authenticity of the online posts.


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|"Are you a wizard or not?"
The title of this article is conjectural. Although it is based on canonical information, the actual name is a conjecture and may be supplanted at any time by additional information released from canonical sources. If this occurs, please move this page to the appropriate title.
- "I'm so excited about Care of Magical Creatures. Ugh, I only wish Crabbe and Goyle weren't going to be there."
- —The girl to Fay in the dormitory[src]
This witch (b. 1979-1980) attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as a Gryffindor from 1991 onwards, and was a classmate of Harry Potter.
In her third year, she took Arithmancy, which she found was too difficult for her, Divination, taught by Sybill Trelawney, and Care of Magical Creatures, which she looked forward to, though she wished Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle hadn't taken it too. She couldn't believe it when Dumbledore told them that Dementors were at the school entrances, and could not wait until the holidays to get away. Providing she was not a Muggle-born, she presumably graduated in 1998.
Early life
The red-haired witch was born in 1979 or 1980, possibly to a Muggle family, as Fay Dunbar said that one of Hermione Granger's room mates owned a hair-dryer. However, it is possible that that person was another individual.
She received her Hogwarts acceptance letter in 1991, and began her first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on 1 September, that same year.
Education at Hogwarts
First and second years
- Fay Dunbar: "I think Quidditch is the greatest sport in the Wizarding world."
- Girl: "I don't like Quidditch, it's too fast paced for me."
- — The friends conversing.[src]
Being sorted into Gryffindor House by the Sorting Hat upon her arrival, her common room was in Gryffindor Tower. To enter, she had to say "Caput Draconis" to the portrait of the Fat Lady. Despite what others said, she insisted that the Fat Lady was not really fat, but was just "big boned". She befriended Fay Dunbar, and the two girls were practically inseparable, never being seen apart from each other.[4]
Their friendship was unlikely, as Fay was a Quidditch fanatic, wanting to play Beater on the Gryffindor Quidditch team while she, herself, couldn't keep up with the sport, as it was too fast-paced for her. Both of them disliked Draco Malfoy, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, and neither of them wanted to have any classes with any of them.[4]
The girl hated Potions class, saying that the Potions Classroom smelt terrible. She also did not like the teacher, Professor Severus Snape, who always favoured his own house, Slytherin, over her house.[4]
At the end of her second year, when her class had to choose their elective subjects, she chose Care of Magical Creatures, as did Fay, presumably believing that Professor Silvanus Kettleburn was still teaching, Divination, as did all the other girls in her dorm, and Arithmancy with Professor Septima Vector.[4]
Third year
- "I can't believe they've brought Dementors in to guard Hogwarts. I'm never going near the forest again, I'll tell you that!"
- —She speaks to Hermione Granger regarding the Dementors placed around the school.[src]
After the summer holidays, the Gryffindor witch returned to Hogwarts, though this time Dementors were standing guard at every entrance. She said that she could not believe that the Ministry of Magic had stationed them around the school, and told Hermione that she was afraid of going anywhere near the Forbidden Forest. However, she was also looking forward to Care of Magical Creatures with Rubeus Hagrid, who had taken over from Professor Kettleburn and would, from then on, be held at Hagrid's hut on the edge of the forest.[4]
The witch and Fay, as well as Parvati and Lavender, were up and ready for their first day before Hermione was, though Parvati and Lavender had already left. While Hermione rushed to her class, the two friends remained in the dormitory, talking for a while.[4] In the lesson, they were taught about Boggarts by Remus Lupin, the new teacher as of Professor Lockhart's departure, and had a practical lesson on how to destroy them. The girl faced the Boggart, and it frightened her with either a rat, rattlesnake or eyeball, the other two belonging to Fay and to Lavender.[3]
The girl was really looking forward to Care of Magical Creatures, but wished that Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle were not there. Fay also mentioned Draco Malfoy. During the first lesson, they went into the forest, which she was afraid of, and were told that their copies of The Monster Book of Monsters, which had bitten them, had to be stroked in order to open. When Professor Hagrid introduced the Hippogriff Buckbeak, she, along with the rest of the class, did not seem to be able to believe her eyes. After Hagrid asked for a volunteer, the Gryffindor girl was afraid and stepped back, leaving Harry Potter to interact with Buckbeak instead. She watched apprehensively alongside Hermione and Neville Longbottom, and applauded happily after Harry flew the Hippogriff. Unfortunately for him, Malfoy insulted Buckbeak, who proceeded to attack him. The Gryffindor girl ran and hid behind a rock with her best-friend and Parvati. The class was dismissed while Hagrid took Malfoy to Madam Pomfrey in the Hospital Wing.[4]
That year, the girl also began classes in Arithmancy in Classroom 7A with Professor Vector. Unlike Hermione, who found the subject fascinating and called it "wonderful" and her favourite subject, she found that it was too difficult for her and did not like it.[4]
After Sirius Black broke onto Gryffindor Tower, the Gryffindor girl slept with the rest of the school in the Great Hall in squashy purple sleeping bags that Professor Dumbledore conjured. However, she returned to her normal bed the day after, and spent most of her time talking with her friend in their dormitory.[4]
Despite not being a great fan of Quidditch like Fay, the girl watched the Gryffindor versus Hufflepuff game. She cheered in the pouring rain with Ronald Weasley and Hermione, and appeared to be enjoying it. However, Harry Potter later fell off of his broom, leaving all the Gryffindors to gasp in horror, but Professor Dumbledore saved him.[4]
The Gryffindor girl was later present during the lesson that Hermione, after being insulted by Professor Trelawney, stormed out of the class. At the time, she was crystal-gazing with Fay, and looked up in surprise after Hermione left. She returned to her work straight away, and was later the last person out of the classroom. On the Divination staircase, she walked with a boy, rather than with Fay, who was ahead of her with another girl. Harry, who was returning to the classroom, accidentally walked into the girl, and said sorry.[5]
The girl watched Harry Potter fly on his Firebolt and cheered happily. Although she was not fond of Quidditch, she at least appeared to admire the broomstick, which she beamed at with high regard.[5]
Fourth year
- "I'm really looking forward to the summer holidays!"
- —The Gryffindor girl speaking with Hermione.[src]
In her fourth year, she watched Harry Potter compete in the Triwizard Tournament as one of the two Hogwarts champions, the other being Cedric Diggory, who Fay fancied.
Fifth year
In her fifth year, she sat her Ordinary Wizarding Levels but she and Fay were the only Gryffindors who did not join Dumbledore's Army. The girl most likely achieved an O.W.L. on Divination, Defence Against the Dark Arts, and Care of Magical Creatures. She may have failed her Potions and Arithmancy O.W.L.s due to how she disliked the subjects.
Later years
In her seventh year, she sat on her Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test in the 1997–1998 school year, unless she was a Muggle-born, in which case she would have been locked in Azkaban. However, if she was, she was freed afterwards.
Later life
It is unknown if the girl took part in the Battle of Hogwarts, or what became of her after it.
Physical description
The Gryffindor witch had red hair, which, during her Hogwarts years, she often wore as plaits. She had blue eyes and white skin, and wore her school uniform very neatly. Unlike Fay, during her magical creatures class in year three, she did not take off her robe, but she did take off her jumper and tie it around her waist. She was considerably shorter than fellow Gryffindor Neville Longbottom, and was slightly shorter than Hermione Granger.
Personality and traits
The girl appeared to be very different academically to Hermione Granger, who was very logical and intelligent, and Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil, who were too believing of Professor Trelawney's often wild predictions. She was clearly interested in magical Creatures, and was looking forward to studying Care of Magical Creatures with Rubeus Hagrid. She was also interested in Arithmancy, but when she actually began the class, she found that it was too difficult for her. Potions was another class she disliked, because of Severus Snape, and she did not appear to like Divination with Trelawney either, like the most of the class aside from Lavender and Parvati. This implies the girl had a strong preference for practical subjects in terms of her Hogwarts learning.
Behind the scenes
- J. K. Rowling has been asked about the two unidentified girls in three interviews. She said their names were in her notebook, and promised twice to post them on her website, but has not as of yet.[6][7][8] Even if she does, it will be impossible to say which name belongs to which girl.
- The girls' names may have already appeared partially on the class list shown on Harry Potter and Me.
- It is highly likely that the girl was either Alice Tolipan or Luca Caruso, the two unknown individuals who joined Dumbledore's Army. If not, then she and her friend were the only Gryffindors in their year not to join the group.
- Other possible identities include Sally-Anne Perks, Lily Moon, Sophie Roper, Sally Smith, or Runcorn.
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game) (Mentioned in DS version only)
Notes and references
- ↑ Fay Dunbar said that one of the girls in her dormitory owned a "machine for drying hair". As Hermione did not have one and Lavender and Parvati were pure-blood, it can be assumed that it was the Gryffindor girl who owned it, thus having at least one Muggle parent.
- ↑ "World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling," South West News Service, 8 July 2000 - "Hogwarts just serves Britain and Ireland."
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 7 (The Boggart in the Wardrobe)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
- ↑ 2004 World Book Day chat
- ↑ 16 July, 2005 Leaky Cauldron/Mugglenet interview
- ↑ December 2007 PotterCast interview


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I have not had this happen to me, or know of anyone it did happen to, but I wanted to offer my 2 cents. Where is her swelling? Has she had an echocardiogram recently to check on the function of her heart muscle? Did she have any issues with swelling prior to her pregnancy? In my mind there is obviously something wrong, and I have never seen a case of severe chronic swelling that comes from diet and climate alone (although I am not a physician). It does seem as though there is a piece of the puzzle missing, and I would encourage your daughter to be proactive about her care until they can figure out what is going on. One of the other ladies may be able to shed some light on the lasting post-partum symptoms following pre-eclampsia and eclampsia as I am not too terribly familiar with post-partum symptoms.
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My daughter delivered a year ago 2 Weeks early due to sudden onset of pre eclampsia which after being induce turned into eclampsia and coding twice. After a week stay in the ccu and 6 Weeks worth of visits to a cardiologist was told he heart was fine. She has since delivering had episodes of severe swelling as she did while pregnant. she has had several labs performed which have all come back normal. no one seems to know the answers to this. All the Dr says is climate and food intake contribute to swelling. I don't buy that because we all eat the same diet and no one else swells. I am not familiar with this disease at all. It is very scary and happens with little to no warning signs. She has been the first in our family to encounter this. Just wondering if anyone else has had this happen to them and what they did about it?
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In his typical rhyming style, Muhammad Ali might call it something like "a whopper of an opera."
The legendary boxer, who floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee, has inspired "Approaching Ali," a chamber opera with music by Carroll County native and Baltimore School for the Arts alum D.J. Sparr. The work is based on Davis Miller's 1996 book "The Tao of Muhammad Ali."
Contemporary political figures have ended up in operas, "Nixon in China" by John Adams being the most prominent example. There is at least one opera about the Kennedys, at least two operas about Marilyn Monroe, and another about the slightly less significant, but certainly famous, Anna Nicole Smith.
"Setting Ali as an operatic character made sense," Sparr said. "He's sort of mythological, bigger than real life. He seems more than a single human being."
Washington National Opera gives the world premiere of the hourlong "Approaching Ali" next weekend at the Kennedy Center. It was developed as part of its American Opera Initiative, a project to commission new works by young, emerging American composers writing about American themes.
When Sparr saw a news release about the launch of the initiative a year ago, he was intrigued and sent off an email to the opera company.
"All of a sudden, a week later I was on the phone with them," Sparr, 37, said.
With Ali as the topic for an opera, it's no wonder he got the company's interest. He was quickly accepted into the program. Sparr entered with solid credits behind him. Raised in Westminster, he started taking guitar lessons in elementary school. He was soon writing his own songs.
"Then my mom heard about this thing called the Baltimore School for the Arts," he said. "I auditioned and got in. I studied jazz guitar."
A teacher introduced Sparr to classical music ("I got a cassette tape of Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Beethoven's Third Symphony, and I really liked that"), and the idea of becoming a composer soon took hold. His first piece was written for the Carroll County Children's Choir.
Sparr took part in a summer program for high school composers at the Boston Symphony's high-profile Tanglewood Music Center in the Berkshires and earned degrees from the Eastman School of Music and University of Michigan.
Currently based in Richmond, Va., Sparr has had works premiered by the Richmond Symphony and the eclectic chamber group eighth blackbird, among others, and has earned several awards along the way.
In 2011, he was named Young American Composer-in-Residence with the California Symphony Orchestra, a post previously held by such talents as Kevin Puts, the Peabody Conservatory teacher who won the Pulitzer Prize last year for his first opera, "Silent Night."
"Approaching Ali" marks Sparr's first foray into opera. The idea for it came about fortuitously. In the summer of 2011, Sparr and his wife, Kimberly, a former faculty member at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County who is assistant principal violist in the Richmond Symphony, sublet their Virginia house to a writer — Davis Miller.
In chats about music with Sparr, Miller mentioned pieces for narrator and orchestra he liked that celebrated great men: Aaron Copland's "A Lincoln Portrait" and Joseph Schwantner's "New Morning for the World," a tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Davis said, 'I think there could be a piece about Ali,' " Sparr said. "So I read his book, and we started talking about an opera."
"The Tao of Muhammad Ali" details Miller's longtime admiration for the former Cassius Clay and the friendship that the author developed with his childhood hero.
By last autumn, Miller had drafted a libretto. He was joined in the final writing process by a mentor for the American Opera Initiative, Mark Campbell, today's go-to opera librettist for several composers — Campbell was Puts' collaborator on "Silent Night."
"I'm really excited about the finished product," said Michael Heaston, director of Washington National Opera's Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program. "D.J., Davis and Mark have managed to tell an autobiographical story with a lot of dramatic interest in the time frame of just one hour."
"Approaching Ali," which calls for an orchestra of 10, moves back and forth in time between 1964 and 1984 as it reveals how Miller's youth was made difficult by the death of his mother and being bullied in school.
The young Miller drew inspiration from seeing the supremely self-confident Ali on TV and started learning to defend himself. (The real Miller became an accomplished kick boxer and shared the ring briefly with Ali in an exhibition bout before focusing on a writing career.)
The two men met and developed a friendship, which the opera depicts in scenes that take place in the Louisville, Ky., home of Ali's mother. "Champ, you changed my life," Miller sings to Ali. "When I was a kid, you made me believe I could do anything."
Miller is a dual character in the piece, portrayed as a child by a boy soprano, by a baritone as an adult. Miller's parents and Ali's mother are also characters. And, of course, there's the "The Champ" himself.
" 'Mr. Champ,' as we call him," said Soloman Howard, the bass who will sing the role of Ali in the premiere. "It's an honor to portray someone you idolized growing up. But my first reaction when they asked me was: 'What? Ali? Me?' "
The D.C.-born Howard, 32, a member of the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program, recently sang the role of Joe in several performances of the company's brilliant production of "Show Boat" last month.
He settled on a vocal career while studying at Morgan State University, where he sang in the school's celebrated choir, and earned a graduate degree at the Manhattan School of Music. But Howard brings more than the vocal chops to the role of Ali.
"I have an athletic background," the singer said. "I played football and did some sparring with my uncle in Baltimore. He would show me things from time to time, ways to take care of myself, 'just in case,' he would say."
Still, stepping into the operatic ring in the guise of one of the 20th century's most iconic men has to be a little intimidating, especially since Ali's own speaking voice is so well known.
"It's extraordinarily challenging," Howard said. "I was kind of shocked that the part calls for a bass. Ali has more of a tenor voice. But it was very musical to me. There was kind of, sort of a rhythm in which he spoke, with elongated phrases. Making him an operatic figure just made sense to me."
In addition to going against expectations when it came to the vocal range for the title character, Sparr avoided writing the opera in an all-out American style. He took inspiration from Eastern cultures, especially gongs and dharma drums.
"Davis told me it felt the air was electrified when Ali walked into a room," the composer said. "I wanted to create a shimmering sheen in the orchestra."
(The air would certainly become electrified if the 71-year-old Ali were to attend the premiere. That does not seem likely, but he and his family have been informed about the new opera.)
For Howard, the chance to be Ali, if only for an hour, is exhilarating.
"I feel I'm drawing something from him," Howard said. "He didn't always believe he was the greatest, but he would tell himself that. In later years, he had to psych himself out. I can relate to that. I often tell myself things for encouragement. The amount of charisma, charm and character he possesses is just amazing. To me, he's the friendly giant."
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At long last, we at Trailer Park have finally been able to get a look at Madonna's directorial debut, "W.E." Now, we all know that Madonna is a horrible actress. But hey, so is Sofia Coppola, and I don't see anyone complaining about her skillz behind the camera (except for me, because I hated "Lost in Translation"). "W.E." has thus far received a tepid reception at film festivals in London, Toronto, and Venice. But her Madgesty deserves a fair shake, and so I'm going to OPEN MY HEART and see if Madonna turns the key. Let's watch the trailer and answer a few questions.
Does the trailer let us know what the movie's about? Yes. This movie is about Wallis Simpson, the married lady who fell into an affair with King Edward VIII of England, who abdicated the throne so that he could be with her forever. That sounds totally romantic, except that I already saw "The King's Speech" and it turns out that the whole thing was really kind of creepy and gross. And who's gonna argue with the veracity of that film? It won an Oscar, people!
Does the lady playing Wallis kinda look like Madonna? She does! She has Madonna's mouth and everything. Kinda weird, actually. Give credit to Madonna director for knowing that Madonna the actress lacked the skills necessary for the role. But I do worry about Andrea Riseborough, who seems to act like she's Madonna acting in that part. That's not a good sign.
Is there a totally unnecessary parallel storyline set in modern days? Yes. Abbie Cornish is some gal who finds Simpson's letters to her boytoy and rediscovers all kinds of neat things about the relationship. This is clearly the "Julie" portion of the film, and everyone hated the Julie portion of "Julie and Julia."
Does the trailer make it explicit that this movie is directed by Madonna? NO. You only see that at the end. So if you had no idea about the movie before you saw this trailer, you'd see her name at the end of the credits and be like HOLY SMOKES! MADONNA?! They did the right thing to underplay her contributions, because who goes to a movie just because Madonna directed it? NO ONE.
Is there sex? I think so! You get some hand-on-leg shots, plus a shot of Riseborough undoing her dress. You even get a pearl necklace ripped off. No bout of passion is complete without a ripped-off pearl necklace. Look for Madonna to be PROVOCATIVE.
Do we get lots of newspaper shots that tell you how scandalous this all was? We do. But did Simpson get a fair shake? This movie seems to imply that she didn't. But again, I refer you to "The King's Speech." A TROLLOP IS A TROLLOP.
Does this trailer work? No. I think this trailer is hurt by a distinctive lack of star power. Cornish and Riseborough are relatively unknown quantities, and the trailer itself feels cold and remote. It keeps telegraphing the romance and scandal of it all without ever making you feel it. That's a rough sell when people can watch "Downton Abbey" at home for free.
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Emilia Clarke has a certain kind of nubile beauty that's irresistible to casting directors. She's one of those child-women who's all bee-stung lips, broad brow and soft, round visage, a facade of über-innocence that's always hiding anything but. On an actress like Mila Kunis, a baby face is the alluring mask of a bad girl. But in the case of Game of Thrones star Clarke, it's the portal to a type of young female character you've rarely seen, one whose womanly side isn't largely expressed by her sexuality but by a solid core of inner strength and authority.
Of course, there's a reason you haven't seen many characters like that: Not many young women—or young men, for that matter—are masters-of-the-universe material. Not yet, anyway. So the executive producers of HBO's highly rated fan favorite fantasy-epic series launched an extensive search for Daenerys Targaryen, one of the would-be monarchs of Game of Thrones' dungeons-and-dragons world.
HBO signed a more well-known actress to the pilot, and then, as Hollywood tales often go, the part of the silver-haired goddess was recast to Clarke, now 24, after more than 100 had auditioned. "It's just so rare that someone so young is called upon to be so commanding and have so much gravitas," says D.B. Weiss, who cocreated Thrones with David Benioff based on George R.R. Martin's wildly popular series of novels, A Song of Fire and Ice.
During the first season—the second premiered last month—Daenerys starts out as a girl who's used and abused by her ruthlessly ambitious brother, Viserys, before eventually evolving into a commanding tribal ruler. She becomes the last surviving member of House Targaryen, which rode dragons to conquer the Seven Kingdoms and rule them for 300 years. The first season ends dramatically with Daenerys rising naked from the ashes of her warrior husband's funeral pyre with three newly hatched dragons clinging to her.
"It is a continual pinch-myself moment—am I actually experiencing this?" Clarke says. "[I'm just] trying not to make any mistakes in this minefield I've found myself in."
"There are so many great actresses who have had the opportunity to play variations on the frightened young girl," Weiss says. "There really isn't much in the way of a prior body of work for 18-to-25-year-old actresses that would indicate their ability to give you that kind of power and fire and edge of the slight unhingedness that you see in a Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia or [Renée Jeanne] Falconetti in [The Passion of ] Joan of Arc—somebody who has crossed over to the other side and is experiencing a different world. Emilia was the only person who could really go to that place convincingly."
To say Clarke's track record wasn't revelatory for the network's purposes is an understatement. Her prior screen credits consisted of a guest spot on the daytime British soap Doctors and a role in the Syfy movie Triassic Attack, about dinosaur bones that spring to life to chomp down on a small town.
Suffice it to say, the latter hasn't earned eternal life on the cable channel's website. If you're surprised HBO would gamble on an unproven actor to star in a series estimated to cost nearly $60 million for just the first season, you aren't alone.
The voice on the phone sounds as bright and effusive as that of any artist who's just springboarded her career—and more humble than many. "I'm coming up against things I never in a million years thought I'd experience so quickly," Clarke says from her parents' home in Buckinghamshire, a leafy London suburb.
"It is a continual pinch-myself moment—am I actually experiencing this and getting to meet so many people I can learn from? [I'm just] trying not to make any mistakes in this minefield I've found myself in."
There's a bit of a disconnect between Clarke's age-appropriate reality and five-three stature and her ability to deliver lines like, "I am the dragon's daughter, and I swear to you that those who would harm you will die screaming," so convincingly the bad guys would do well to hit the road.
At the moment, she's on a break from shooting Spike Island, the Mat Whitecross–directed indie film about a pilgrimage to see the Brit band Stone Roses, so she's hanging out with her folks. "I long for the countryside," Clarke says. "That's where I get my calm and tranquillity—from being able to come and find a spot of green." Not exactly the rallying cry of young Hollywood.
Clarke may have had a strong role model in her businesswoman mother, but it was the world of her theatrical sound engineer father that enchanted her. The Clarkes took their daughter to see her first show at age three. "We sat her in the front row in house seats—Showboat at the London Palladium," says mom Jenny. "She sat on my lap the whole way through, transfixed by the whole thing."
If Emilia knew from a young age that she wanted to become an actress, she took her time getting there, even passing on stage school as a child. "I looked around one when I was maybe nine," she recalls. "It just scared the bejesus out of me. I was incredibly open, and the girls seemed fierce and determined." She did spend summers and holidays in National Youth Theatre workshops and joined the local after-school Stage Coach program in Oxford.
But it wasn't until after secondary school that she enrolled in Drama Centre London (alma mater of Colin Firth and Pierce Brosnan, to name two)—after taking a year off because she'd been rejected by a first batch of schools. "Drama school is fundamentally practical," she says. "I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting. But you [get] an agent—that's what matters."
"It's bizarre, and it's going to sound really corny, but it's the God's honest truth: For some reason, I just felt so connected to Dany."
Still, even landing the agent was a squeaker. For the school's agent showcase, Clarke prepared a snippet from the film Bright Young Things, adapted from an Evelyn Waugh novel, and a comic monologue. Then she crossed her fingers.
"It was possibly the worst month of my entire life; every day you're clutching the phone in your hand, waiting. People were getting 12, 13 offers. Some people in my year got 25. I had two, maybe three." She graduated in 2009 and launched into what she wryly recalls as the "big bad world," where she mostly passed canapés for a caterer, tended bar, manned a call center and worked at the London Film Museum to pay her rent.
One year later, her agent called about the part of Daenerys on Game of Thrones. Given the character breakdown calling for someone "tall, willowy and blonde," petite Clarke believed she didn't have a shot. But after auditioning for the London casting agent, she was called back to read for producers.
"By the time the recall had come around, I'd read the book and was engrossed in Dany," she says. "It's bizarre, and it's going to sound really corny, but it's the God's honest truth: For some reason, I just felt so connected to Dany I kind of just knew what I needed to do." And so she did a third read, this time before HBO brass in Los Angeles, where she landed the role.
Despite the overnight success, Clarke goes about her life unrecognized. That's thanks to the long, heavy, semibraided silver wig stylists spend some three hours attaching to her naturally brunette hair. She takes such travails in stride, even when they involve shooting for hours under the fierce Malta desert sun, often emoting in a made-up tribal language called Dothraki.
"She's the kind of person who lights up rooms," Weiss says of Clarke. "A lot of people about whom you'd say that also have a flighty, manic, pixie quality, maybe a fluffiness, to them. She doesn't have that. She's extremely serious about what she does."
Indeed, Clarke's admits to currently "dating her work," and she's grateful for the unusual platform it provides. "One of the many things I love about Dany," she says, "is she's given me an opportunity to fly the flag for young girls and women, to be more than just somebody's wife and somebody's girlfriend."


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The gameplay in The Sims 4 is a real life simulator. The player controls life, satisfying different desires and needs, one or several characters. Actions unfold in the town, consisting of residential and public areas and populated by already prepared sims. Each character is endowed with reason and emotions, has a unique appearance and personality. Relations between characters are measured on two scales, responsible for friendship and romance. The game has a built in "Character Creation Mode", allowing you to create your own sim or change an existing one. The player can adjust the age, appearance and physique, timbre of voice, character and abilities, some preferences and life goals. The game is equipped with a number of tools for changing the interior and building settings.
The entire interface is located at the bottom of the game window. In the lower left corner is a character icon with a designation of his emotional state and small icons of other family members. Here there are 6 needs, when you click on the icon of each of them will appear a scale of satisfaction. In the lower right corner are the buttons of the modes of life, purchase and construction. In the middle of the pause button and start the game. When the game is paused, now there will be no red frame, instead of it will appear a translucent white edge along the edges of the screen.
The Sims 4 is developed on a completely new engine, which is complemented by the new technology Smart Sim. It gives the characters the ability to talk with each other and react to what is happening with the help of various emotions. Almost the entire game process depends on the emotional state of the character, his mood, skills, desires and actions vary depending on the feelings experienced. In The Sims 4, a character can perform several actions simultaneously and perform tasks in a group with other characters. The game offers an extensive selection of professions, allowing you to go through certain stages of work, requiring communication with other sims.


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MIAMI – Police are still searching for a gunman who killed a popular South Florida rapper.
Family, friends and fans spent the day bringing flowers to a memorial where Robert LeBranche, 37, was shot Monday night.
DJs at 99 Jamz said calls and Tweets poured in all day Tuesday following LeBranche's death. He was known as "Bizzle" or "Chowtime" to his fans.
"He gave jobs to the community, you know, so people weren't having to turn to violence or crime ," said Mike Bridges, DJ "Mike B" at 99 Jamz. "He was just a positive guy all the way around."
LeBranche was at a car wash he owned on the corner of NW 7th Avenue and 54th Street when a witness said he got into an argument and then a fight with another man.
"He stood there for a little bit and then he swung at him. When he swung at him, he missed. The other guy backed up and pulled a gun out," said the witness, who asked not to be identified. "So, we got out the way and then he opened fire on him. He opened fire on -- he emptied a clip."
The witness was washing cars at the time of the shooting.
"I came around the corner and the victim was getting up and he said, 'Why do you me like that?' So, I was thinking he just shot around him, okay, but the other dude, he came back out of the shadows and shot him again about six or seven times," said the witness.
LeBranche's two children were sitting in an SUV on the other side of the business where the shooting took place. The children did not witness their father being shot.
Friends say LeBranche had a passion for music, basketball and his two sons.
"He was a good person to know. A Lord's person. Friendly and outgoing," said a man outside LeBranche's Miami home.
A Facebook page remembering him has more than 8,000 likes since the news of his death.
Police said they identified the shooter and hoped to arrest in him by the end of the day Tuesday. Miami Police is asking anyone with information to call 305-603-6640.


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Agricultural Exceptionalism
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Colin Peterson (D, Sugarbeet Farmers) announced yesterday [$] that he would begin hearings on the 2012 Farm Bill this spring. I'm still recovering from the traumatizing 2008 Farm Bill fight, so I heard this news with some trepidation.
But wait! Put those red pens away, folks, because Chairman Peterson plans to keep on spending on agricultural programs. Heaven forbid that agriculture should take any of those "cuts" we've been hearing so much about :
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D‐Minn., said… he is determined to write a bipartisan bill that is within the funding baseline that exists in 2012.
The funding baseline is the amount of money that the Congressional Budget Office determines would be spent on all programs in the farm bill if the same programs were to continue after 2012. CBO projects the funding levels based on spending in programs in past years.
Peterson said at least initially he expects each major farm bill section — the farm program, conservation and nutrition — to stay within its 2012 baseline.
He also specifically pledged to fight off any attempts to lower direct payments, which flow to current or past farmers of certain crops year‐in‐year‐out, regardless of whether they still farm or not.
Some further details on his plans for the next farm bill can be found in this National Journal article [$ again, sorry] but the gist of it is that Chairman Peterson doesn't want reformers interfering the way they did last time, even if farmers were left practically unscathed from the battle.
In a speech to the National Association of Wheat Growers and U.S. Wheat Associates, Peterson said that reformers "who don't understand how this works … defined what reform is" in 2008. Peterson said there should be changes to the farm bill, but he ridiculed one of the reformers' biggest goals: limitations on payments to big farmers.
The campaign to lower payment limits "is not reform. It's an ideology," he said. Reformers want Congress to decide what size farms should get subsidies, a notion that Peterson rejects. "We are not smart enough in government to decide what farm size is," he said.
(Sidebar: Isn't it cute how Chairman Peterson couches his opposition to farm payment limits in libertarianish terms about how government "isn't smart enough." His support for a 80+-year-old suite of government interventions suggests he is not as skeptical about government's smarts as he indicates in this little political aside. But I digress.)
And in a charming dismissal of the importance of free trade (he's an old‐hand at dismissing international obligations in this area), Chairman Peterson offered this:
Peterson said he did not think pressures to comply with trade agreements would be too much of a problem in the farm bill because "the trade situation is dead in the water," and negotiators realize they cannot get approval from Congress if agriculture is not satisfied. "We've got some power over that system," he said.
"I am not going to turn myself into a pretzel to accommodate this latest trade agreement," he said.
A disappointing start to the 2012 Farm Bill fight, to be sure, but my hope is not dashed. With any luck, the recent signs of voters' disgust with Washington will translate into some extra political support for those of us working for real reform. (see examples here and here.)


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This story was reported on the BBC TV 6 pm news this evening. They think the creature lived around the time of the split into the tarsier branch of primates and 'our' (larger, anthropoid) branch. Though in fact I see that the online story states that the scientists think probably it was on the tarsier branch. It's a bit unfortunate that BBC TV News sought to sensationalise somewhat re a human ancestor, though it's still very interesting and the fossil looks impressive (if the creature was rather small).
Here's the Nature paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v4 ... 12200.html
Dr Henry Gee has made a quote that is correct but will probably be misused by YECs. But we haven't got a repetition here of what happened with 'Ida'.


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* '''Promote a global perspective''' by supporting as many languages and geographic locales as possible.
* '''Promote a global perspective''' by supporting as many languages and geographic locales as possible.
* '''Ensure that releases will always be available for free download''' in binary, source packages and as
* '''Ensure that releases will always be available for free download''' in binary, source packages and as images.
=== Non-objectives ===
=== Non-objectives ===
Revision as of 22:19, 2 September 2009
The following sections contain the general positive objectives and non-objectives for the Fedora Project.
Positive objectives
- Create a complete, general-purpose operating system built for and by a community. The community is comprised of not only those people who consume, but also those who produce for the good of other community members. The operating system is an integrated set of software that balances needs of both desktop and server users. Respect for these needs has created opportunities for innovation and teamwork, while being mindful of the rich architectural heritage that makes a stable, superior operating system. For instance, SELinux has been improved for better operation in desktop environments, and desktop solutions like PolicyKit have emerged to create flexibility within the confines of the UNIX-like security architecture.
- Build the operating system exclusively from free and open source software. Fedora is self-hosting and self-building, and requires no non-free software to create the distribution.
- Do as much of the development work as possible staying close to upstream projects. In general, we prefer to move to a newer version for updates rather than backport fixes.
- Be on the leading edge of free and open source technology, by adopting and helping to develop new features and version upgrades.
- Emphasize usability and a "just works" philosophy in default configurations and feature designs.
- Promote rapid adoption of new releases by allowing for easy upgrades, with minimal disturbances to configuration changes.
- Include a wide range of packages that fits into the various different needs of the users. This package set is limited, of course, to packages that Fedora can legally provide, and also subject to our packaging guidelines.
- Establish and implement technical standards for packages, ensuring the quality and consistency of the operating system.
- Produce robust time-based releases every six months using a release model that allows the development team the flexibility it needs to ensure quality, while making sure that a release does not slip indefinitely. Our schedule may shift from time to time based on participant needs, but only after consideration and approval by the community governance entities that oversee the Project.
- Provide timely updates for releases, throughout the supported lifetime of a release (thirteen months).
- Promote a global perspective by supporting as many languages and geographic locales as possible.
- Ensure that releases will always be available for free download in binary, source packages and as installable images.
- Fedora is not interested in having a slow rate of change, but rather to be innovative. We do not offer a long-term release cycle because it diverts attention away from innovation. For those community members who desire a long-term release cycle, there are derived distributions that satisfy this requirement. For community members who require a business-class support model beyond community maintenance, we recommend Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- Fedora is not interested in being a platform for proprietary or patent encumbered components. While we do not purposely make installation of such components more difficult, we also do not allow our schedule or processes to be driven by theirs.
- Fedora is not a dumping ground for unmaintained or poorly designed software. Sheer quantity of available software is not a measurement for the quality of a distribution. We do not include free and open source software that interferes with the Project's mission of advancing free and open source software.


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Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
"Transcatheter aortic valve replacement is the most significant advancement in cardiology since coronary angioplasty."
That's what Lexington Medical Center cardiologist Dr. Robert Leonardi says about "TAVR," a minimally invasive procedure that allows doctors to replace the heart's aortic valve without open heart surgery.
In this video from WLTX, he explains TAVR.
Dr. Leonardi is one of the most experienced TAVR cardiologists in the Southeast and one of only a few fellowship-trained in transcatheter (non-surgical) valve procedures. A Greenville native, Dr. Leonardi earned his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He then completed an internal medicine residency at Duke University in Durham, N.C. and achieved board certification in this specialty. Dr. Leonardi finished his education with a cardiology fellowship at MUSC and fellowships in interventional cardiology and structural interventional cardiology at Emory University in Atlanta. He is also board certified in interventional cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.
By letting go of artificial boundaries between heart surgeons and interventional cardiologists, Lexington Medical Center is pleased to be using a collaborative, team-based approach to help patients with heart valve disease in our community. The team is made up of physicians from Lexington Cardiology and Lexington Cardiovascular Surgery. The hospital is proud to have performed the first fully percutaneous (no surgical incision) and first "awake" (without general anesthesia) TAVR procedures in South Carolina.
Dr. Leonardi is one of the 11 board-certified cardiologists at Lexington Cardiology, a Lexington Medical Center physician practice, dedicated to delivering the highest quality care in the treatment of cardiovascular disease.


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Library for efficiently building up buffers, one piece at a time https://github.com/chadaustin/buffer-builder
|Latest on Hackage:
Module documentation for 0.2.4.4
Data.BufferBuilder is an efficient library for incrementally building
ByteStrings, one chunk at a time. Early benchmarks show it
is over twice as fast as ByteString Builder, primarily because
BufferBuilder is built upon an ST-style restricted monad and
mutable state instead of ByteString Builder's monoidal AST.
Internally, BufferBuilder is backed by a few C functions. Examination of GHC's output shows nearly optimal code generation with no intermediate thunks -- and thus, continuation passing and its associated indirect jumps and stack traffic only occur when BufferBuilder is asked to append a non-strict ByteString.
I benchmarked four approaches with a URL encoding benchmark:
State monad, concatenating ByteStrings: 6.98 us
State monad, ByteString Builder: 2.48 us
Crazy explicit RealWorld baton passing with unboxed state: 28.94 us (GHC generated really awful code for this, but see the revision history for the technique)
C + FFI + ReaderT: 1.11 us
Using BufferBuilder is very simple:
import qualified Data.BufferBuilder as BB
let byteString = BB.runBufferBuilder $ do
BB.appendBS "http"
BB.appendChar8 '/'
BB.appendBS "//"
This package also provides
Data.BufferBuilder.Utf8 for generating UTF-8 buffers
Data.BufferBuilder.Json for encoding data structures into JSON.
- Add 'stdc++' as an explicit library dependency. (Thanks Rob Dockins!)
- Fix a bug where control characters (codepoints 1 through 31) were not being escaped.
- Include test.json in sdist so benchmarks can be run from Hackage. (Thanks Ryan Scott!)
- Fix a bug with appendEscapedJsonText and Text buffers with nonzero offsets. (Thanks Joe Lee!)
- Add the ability to calculate the output length of a BufferBuilder without allocating or writing bytes
- Add the ability to query the current buffer size
- Add the ability to return a value from a BufferBuilder
- Add the ability to percent-encode directly into a Utf8Builder
- Add Utf8Builder.unsafeAppendBufferBuilder
- Add the ability to encode custom types as JSON keys
- Fix a buffer overrun in the double serializer
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Report on meditation workshops in Atlanta, focusing on Satya Vedant (Vasant Joshi) and yogi Sadhguru Vasudev
Indian spiritual leaders visit Atlanta
by Caroline Young
March 27, 2013 03:45 PM
The concept of meditation has been around for thousands of years in the Eastern world and is spreading rampantly throughout the West.
Frustration, stress and anger are a few things a regular meditation practice can help to release, according to Swami Vedant, also known as Vasant Joshi, PhD.
He is a disciple of Osho, a spiritual teacher and guru who died in 1990.Joshi, of India, travels the world guiding people through Osho meditations and spreading Osho's beliefs and techniques.
He also said people also start to let go of drug, alcohol and smoking habits after developing a meditation practice.
"Many peoples' lives change in such a way they cannot believe how they could have lived that unconscious, unaware life for so many years," Joshi said. "They are able to connect and relate with people better. They're more compassionate, more alive and respect life much better."
He is currently in Atlanta until June, when he will continue traveling around the states for several months. Joshi hosts three- to four-day meditation retreats, as well as smaller sessions in various locations (www.meetup.com/oshomeditationatlanta). Osho meditation is also offered in yoga studios throughout Atlanta.
For Joshi, his first experiences with Osho meditation in 1975 brought him a "tremendous amount of clarity" and a "life-transforming vision."
"I see life in a very different light. I learned to enjoy life, not to carry the same burden of the past," he said.
Joshi described meditation sessions as a gathering of friends to have fun and be aware of all three levels of being; the body, thoughts and emotions.
"Then one begins to experience our consciousness. We are conscious but we don't do things consciously," he said. "Another message is we have to respect this life. This life is precious."
Joshi said Osho believed in one humanity and one consciousness, and his teachings help erase divisions among people created by the mind.
"We have to remove the dichotomy, the split between mind and body and consciousness. They're all connected," he said. "We are not here to convert anyone or convince anyone. We are simply saying, 'Something has worked with us. Maybe it will work for you.'"
Joshi said he tells his practitioners, or "seekers," to choose one of Osho's 300 "active" meditation techniques, which includes breathing, catharsis — which can be dancing, crying, laughing jumping or shouting — and seated meditation.
"You have to go inside and look what you're carrying inside. We are carrying emotions like anger and jealously," he said. "We silently watch what is going on inside and [learn] how you can deal with [it]."
Additionally, the international nonprofit Isha Foundation, non-religious and volunteer-run, has made a presence in Atlanta. It was established by internationally known yogi Sadhguru Vasudev, whose focus is to cultivate human well being with a holistic approach, said Leslie Crespi, Isha Atlanta media outreach coordinator.
She said there are two arms to the organization, including yoga and Isha Kriya meditation offerings, as well as social outreach projects worldwide. So far, the U.S. has about 35 cities with city centers, including health care facilities, libraries and churches, with free introduction Isha Kriya meditation sessions.
"It's an opportunity to come and meditate with other people of like mind, and to get questions answered," Crespi said.
One-hour sessions are hosted Mondays at the Northside Branch Library from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., and there will be a guided meditation session April 4 at the Phoenix and Dragon Bookstore in Sandy Springs, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Crespi said Isha Kriya meditation involves 12 to 18 minutes of focused time "going internal."
"People will experience a sense of peacefulness. It can enhance health. … Your heart rate goes down," she said. "People report more mental clarity and focus."
Personally, Crespi said she stopped getting sick consistently, was more productive at work and had a significant energy boost after she started meditating and doing yoga nine years ago.
"It's overall, a sort of blissfulness and joy," she said. "Little things don't bother me. … I am less reactive and much more thoughtful and aware, versus responding out of emotion."
Vasudev will be speaking at Emory University in DeKalb County April 14 at 5 p.m., as part of the Sheth Series, where key global leaders are often asked to come and address key issues in economy, politics, and leadership.
"The focus is on inner management and wellbeing for people who lead people," Crespi said.
He will also be at the Georgia International Convention Center in College Park April 19 through 21 for a three-day event, Inner Engineering, which will include guided meditations, yoga, discussions with Vasudev about human consciousness and nutrition, and there will also be vegetarian meals served both days.
Article in Neighbour Newspapers: neighbornewspapers.com
Links: oshoatlanta.com – innerengineering.com


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< Back to Theatre
The Three Lions
The Three Lions By William Gaminara
A footballer, a prince and a prime minister walk into a hotel room.
This hilarious new comedy offers a behind the scenes glimpse of diplomacy in action, revealing what went on between David Cameron, David Beckham and Prince William in a Swiss Hotel the nght before England's bid to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup. In Spite of missed planes, mistaken Identities, misunderstanding and sartorial challenges , they are determined to bring the beautiful game home. But, when things start to go disastorously wrong, three heads may not be better than one!
". Masses of good jokes, a great final twist , this one's a runner" The Times.
The Three Lions was a critical success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2013 and will embark on a national tour before its run at the St. James Theatre.
Show Information
Thursday, 30th April 2015
Saturday, 2nd May 2015
2 hours
Venue Information
St. James Theatre
12 Palace Street
Map | Seating Plan
Head northeast on Wilton Road (towards Victoria Street), Continue onto Allington Street, turn left to stay on Allington Street, turn right onto Warwick Row, continue onto Palace Place, turn right onto Palace Street and the theatre will be on y


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High Performing Teams Have These 10 Characteristics
According to Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese, authors of the book, The Collaboration Imperative, high-performing teams have the following characteristics:
- People have solid and deep trust in each other and in the team's purpose--they feel free to express feelings and ideas.
- Everybody is working toward the same goals.
- Team members are clear on how to work together and how to accomplish tasks.
- Everyone understands both team and individual performance goals and knows what is expected.
- Team members actively diffuse tension and friction in a relaxed and informal atmosphere.
- The team engages in extensive discussion, and everyone gets a chance to contribute--even the introverts.
- Disagreement is viewed as a good thing and conflicts are managed. Criticism is constructive and is oriented toward problem solving and removing obstacles.
- The team makes decisions when there is natural agreement--in the cases where agreement is elusive, a decision is made by the team lead or executive sponsor, after which little second-guessing occurs.
- Each team member carries his or her own weight and respects the team processes and other members.
- The leadership of the team shifts from time to time, as appropriate, to drive results. No individual members are more important than the team.


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Opinion: Peggy Noonan: We're In a Fix
Declarations columnist Peggy Noonan compares President Obama's Syria muddle to the Cold War era. Photo: Getty Images
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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