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Now in-store the Xcel Infiniti Celliant Comp
Next we are going to take a closer look at the Xcel Infiniti Celliant Comp winter wetsuit. This Xcels suit is available in a hooded and non-hooded version
The ultra-popular Infiniti Comp is now available with TDC Thermo Dry Celliant, Xcel warmest wetsuit lining ever. TDC's clinically proven Smart Fiber Technology recycles your body heat into infrared energy for maximum warmth and enhanced performance. In the Infiniti Comp, TDC is featured in an infrared print low pile from the upper chest all the way down to the ankles. The most flexible of all Xcel fullsuits, the Infiniti Comp gets its name from the large front and back ''comp''(etition) ready panel that has zero seams from the upper chest to the knees for maximum range of motion. The Comp is also extremely lightweight and fast drying, with ultra-premium V Foam
TDC Thermo Dry Celliant Low Pile
Fast drying, lightweight, and naturally hydrophobic, TDC is Xcel warmest wetsuit lining ever, and an Xcel exclusive found nowhere else in the market. TDC's clinically proven Smart Fiber Technology converts your body heat into infrared energy for maximum warmth, increased endurance, faster recovery, and enhanced overall athletic performance. The infared printed low pile TDC delivers the ideal balance of warmth and flexibility.
X2 Front Entry System
A watertight front entry system with a front zipper angled along the upper chest. The zipper flap is attached at the right shoulder to keep more water out. The inner Crossover Neck Entry features overlapping panels that stretch to allow extra wide, step-in-through-the-neck entry.
Magnetic Zip Closure
Innovative, quick release zipper closure features double magnets on the zipper pull tab and attached zipper flap that securely lock the zipper in place, for easier and quicker release than traditional snap locks.
Crossover Neck Entry
Overlapping inner front and back neck panels (underneath the zipper flap) stretch to allow extra wide, step-in-through-the-neck entry.
V Foam
The most lightweight, premium foam available; significantly lighter, stretchier, and softer than standard foams.
UltraStretch Neoprene
Comfortable, lightweight neoprene with softer foam and a tighter weave textile for less water absorption, better durability, and maximum stretch.
Thermo Dry Seam Tape
This all-way stretch, lightweight, durable interior seam tape creates an even better seal that keeps warmth in and water out. The tape is either infrared patterned (products with TDC) or yellow (non-TDC products).
Inner NexSkin Seals
A thin band of liquid neoprene ("NexSkin") in the inner wrists and/or ankles forms an excellent seal and helps minimize flushing.
Glued & Blindstitched Seams
A fully sealed, maximum stretch seam construction. Neoprene panels are glued and pressed together, then blindstitched (needle doesn't fully penetrate neoprene, keeping more water out).
Back Knee Flex Grooves
Behind-the-knee cutouts for maximum flexibility.
High Performance Comp Design
Engineered large, seamless body panel maximizes core range of motion. Available exclusively in the Infiniti Comp series wetsuits.
DuraFlex Knee Panels
Comfortable, durable knee panels that stretch with you.
Less Seam = More Stretch
Smarter product design means minimizing seams to maximize stretch. Any seams used are always pre-bent and contoured for a truly engineered fit.
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Re: Sum of Squares
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg26625] Re: [mg26587] Sum of Squares
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <andrzej at tuins.ac.jp>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 22:36:06 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
A small correction is needed to my earlier note. It is indeed true that every polynomial of degree two is a sum of squares of polynomials and this indeed follows from the diagonalization of quadratic forms (or classification of real quadrics) as I wrote. I was wrong in believing that this was also true for polynomials of arbitrary degree. What is true is that every such polynomial is a sum of squares of rational functions. This is the solution of "Hilbert's 17th problem". An example of a polynomial which is always non-negative but is not a sum of squares of polynomials is: w^4+x^2*y^2 +y^2*z^2 +z^2*x^2 -4x y z w Hilbert's 17 thh problem and related questions are considered in detail in Bochnak, Coste and Roy: "Real Algebraic Geometry", ch. 6. on 01.1.10 9:52 AM, Andrzej Kozlowski at andrzej at tuins.ac.jp wrote: > Yes, this is certainly possible. For the case of quadratic polynomials in > several variables, by using the same methods as in the general > classification of real quadrics (see any good linear algebra book) one can > easily show that any such expression which is non-negative for all real > values of the variables can be expressed a sum of squares of linear > expressions. I am sure that is also true for higher order polynomial > expressions (i.e. that they must be sums of squares) although I can't > immediately see an obvious way to prove it. > > It is should not be difficult to write a Mathematica package which does this > (a package that does this may well already exist). > > By the way, it is easy to check using Mathemaitca if a polynomial expression > is always non-negative. For example in your case: > > In[1]:= > << Algebra`InequalitySolve` > In[2]:= > InequalitySolve[5 x^2 + 8 x y + 5 y^2 + 2 x z - 2 y z + 2 z^2 >= 0, {x, y, > z}] > Out[2]= > True -- Andrzej Kozlowski Toyama International University JAPAN http://platon.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/andrzej/ http://sigma.tuins.ac.jp/


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A NEW YOU: Take inventory of your thoughts
A heavy snow had started to fall as I stepped on the back deck outside of my home. My breath froze in the air before me, and I closed the door shut. Within moments, everything was white.
The outside thermometer affixed to the house read 20 degrees, and my thoughts slipped to a quote I had once heard: "In life, you can either be a thermometer or a thermostat."
Looking at the illuminating snow's radiance, I recalled the rest of the quotation, "A thermometer cannot influence the surroundings. It is affected by the environment to register its temperature. It's always going up and down. But a thermostat regulates the surroundings and changes them when they need to be changed."
Each day, life can present us with various situations and challenges. How do we deal with them?
Our mind is an incredible gift from God. But, it has to be managed. So today, take inventory of your thoughts. What do you find yourself focusing on the most? How often are you negatively affected by someone else? Does your mood shift with your situations? Are your thoughts helping you?
Maybe you can't control your circumstances at this moment, but you can control your thoughts. In the Bible, Paul wrote to the Philippians and advised them to choose to think about the good things of God: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." (Philippians 4:8)
You always have a choice about which way you'll view your situations and what you are going to do about them. If your child spills a glass of milk, for example, you may not be able to change what has happened, because you see the spilled milk all over the table -- that is a physical reality. However, you can change our attitude toward it, not letting yourself get upset and angry. And this, ironically, alters reality.
No matter what has happened, the power to choose a better way to live is available to you now. Your future is too bright to let anything contaminate your life. So, beginning in your own thoughts, you can choose to let go of past hurts, setbacks and disappointments to make room for the new, wonderful things that God wants to do for you.
God has not forgotten about anything He has promised. Psalm 37:4 says, "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of our heart." Thus, be joyful in the Lord, dwell on the positive aspects of your life and keep persisting forward. You could be a few days away from your miracle.
I have a friend who worked her way through college waiting tables at a restaurant. She worked more than 40 hours a week. And often, she would attend her classes wearing her waitress attire. My friend also had many ongoing difficulties. Yet, she never complained. Instead, she had faith in God and maintained an optimistic mindset. Some who were skeptical said she'd never make it through school. However, my friend didn't get diverted. At times, her dreams seemed far away, but not in her mind. Daily, she made a conscious effort to tune out any negative thoughts, while keeping a vision of success in the forefront of her mind. Her contagious, enthusiastic attitude was, "I may not have the resources. I might have some challenges and limitations. But I will gladly work hard to achieve my God-given goals."
One afternoon, as she was working at the restaurant, the president of the college and a few of his associates walked in for lunch. They were seated in her section of the restaurant, and she cheerfully took their order. While my friend was serving them their plates of food, they began conversing.
"Don't you attend our college?" one of the associates asked her. "Yes," my friend answered enthusiastically. With a smile, she explained how she was waitressing full time, as well as attending school and she was involved in volunteer work.
The group left the restaurant that day and they were so impressed with my friend's work ethic and positive attitude that when they returned to the college, they went into the office and looked up her school records. Then, they called her employer to confirm how many hours a week she worked. Thereafter, out of the blue, my friend received a telephone call from the financial director of the college. And she was awarded a scholarship to continue her education!
When you're optimistic and have a spirit of excellence, people take notice!
My friend graduated, and today she owns a successful business. Moreover, she always gives back to others and continues to strive for excellence in all that she undertakes.
Hebrews 6:10 states, "God is not unjust; He will not forget your work and the love you have shown Him as you have helped His people and continue to help them."
So, do you merely reflect the environment as a thermometer does? Or, like a thermostat, do you change it? Remember, you are not a victim of circumstances. Rather, with God by your side and a positive, thankful mindset, you're a victor over your circumstances.
Your future is what you make it to be. Thus, think great thoughts, dream big dreams. Believe in yourself and in your extraordinary gifts and go out and pursue them. And, as with my friend, unexpected blessings and rewards will come your way, and you'll step forth on the path of victory that God has arranged for you.
Write to Catherine Galasso-Vigorito in care of the New Haven Register, 40 Sargent Drive, New Haven 06511. To order a copy of her new book "The Open Window: 8 Weeks to Creating an Extraordinary Life," visit www.anewyouworldwide.com or bookstores nationwide. &Copy; Catherine Galasso-Vigorito, 2013.


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The Giants have been working to create cap room by outright releasing or restructuring the contracts of veteran players.
One of the reasons to create cap space is to re-sign some of your own free agents. The Giants have several of those, including tight end Martellus Bennett. Expectations have been that the Giants would try to bring Bennett back after a productive first year with the team, but Bennett says that there haven't been any significant overtures toward getting him under contract at this point.
Paul Dottino of WFAN in New York directed a tweet to Bennett asking him when he was going to re-sign with the Giants so that Dottino would be able to stop fielding questions from his followers about Bennett's status. Bennett sent a series of replies back to Dottino that explained where things stand at the moment.
"I dunno bro. Not feeling the love," Bennett wrote. "They have other priorities that come before little ole me. I'm just a small piece of what they're trying to do there. … I've come to the conclusion that we are just temporary investments to the owners. Value money and growth over players. … Just like any business. Employees aren't as valuable as we use to be. Everyone needs a job. Lol."
The Giants took care of one of those other priorities when they re-signed left tackle Will Beatty on Wednesday, which could mean that Bennett will start feeling the love from the Giants soon. Or there could be too wide a gap to get anything done until the market helps set the price for Bennett once free agency opens next month.


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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
Recently I had to write a DAX formula containing a LASTDATE within the logical condition of a FILTER: I found that its behavior was not the one I expected and I further investigated. At the end, I wrote my findings in this article on SQLBI, which can be applied to any Time Intelligence function with a <dates> argument.
The key point is that when you write
LASTDATE( table[column] )
in reality you obtain something like
LASTDATE( CALCULATETABLE( VALUES( table[column] ) ) )
which converts an existing row context into a filter context.
Thus, if you have something like
FILTER( table, table[column] = LASTDATE( table[column] )
the FILTER will return all the rows of table, whereas you probably want to use
FILTER( table, table[column] = LASTDATE( VALUES( table[column] ) ) )
so that the existing filter context before executing FILTER is used to get the result from VALUES( table[column] ), avoiding the automatic expansion that would include a CALCULATETABLE that would hide the existing filter context.
If after reading the article you want to get more insights, read the Jeffrey Wang's post here.
In these days I'm speaking at SQLRally Nordic 2012 in Copenhagen and I will be in Cologne (Germany) next week for a SSAS Tabular Workshop, whereas Alberto will teach the same workshop in Amsterdam one week later. Both workshops still have seats available and the Amsterdam's one is still in early bird discount until October 3rd!
Then, in November I expect to meet many blog readers at PASS Summit 2012 in Seattle and I hope to find the time to write other article on interesting things on Tabular and PowerPivot. Stay tuned!


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Monday, November 24, 2008
We need to apply more pressure on the media, we need the boycott
Greta van Susteren demands Obama's BC. It looks like writing campaign of thousands of volunteers, threatening boycott of media and their advertisers is starting to work, and we need to apply more pressure demanding decency and journalistic integrity from the media and disclosure of info on all the law suits against Obama or boycott of the ones that refuse to do so, let's boycott them and their advertisers and sponsors. Greta and others need to have some guts and some backbone and talk about it on the air, not just on their blogs, where it is safe,so that millions of viewers know that there is an issue of Obama being a British citizen at birth (based on his fathers citizenship), that the court will hear the Donofrio case on December 5. 300 million Americans have a right to know and need to be prepared that there is a good possibility that the court will decide that Obama cannot be the next president of the US and we need to move quickly to resolve this issue: will it be McCain or whether there will be a new election and probably the contest between Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney.
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Rosetta Steins fly-by timeline
The Rosetta spacecraft control room is buzzing with anticipation as Rosetta closes in on asteroid 2867 Steins. The fly-by timeline includes a series of critical events, culminating with closest approach - expected at 20:58 CEST, 5 September 2008.
At the time of closest approach, Rosetta is planned to be 800 km from the asteroid, passing by at a speed of 8.6 km/s relative to Steins. Both Rosetta and Steins will be illuminated by the Sun, providing an excellent opportunity for science observations.
Between 40 and 20 minutes before closest approach, Rosetta will be flipped and the spacecraft will switch to a specially designed asteroid fly-by mode, an optimal configuration that supports the intensive observation and tracking activity of the on-board instruments.
Although most scientific observations will take place in the few hours around closest approach, several instruments will be switched on for a longer time around the event.
ESA's Cebreros deep space antenna (DSA 2) in Cebreros, Spain, will be used for communications with Rosetta in the two days preceding closest approach. When the spacecraft is not visible from Cebreros or New Norcia, NASA's DSN (Deep Space Network) ground stations at Goldstone, Canberra and Madrid will provide support for tracking and for science operations.
Around closest approach, Rosetta will be 2.41 Astronomical Units, or about 360 million km, from Earth. Radio signals sent to and from the spacecraft will have a 20 minute one-way travel time.
Timeline of nominal fly-by events
Note: All event times are stated in ground time, CEST.
|1 September
|Instruments switched on (except OSIRIS which was already on for the navigation campaign)
|4 September
|Slot for possible trajectory correction manoeuvre (36 hours before closest approach)
|Last opportunity to acquire images for optical navigation campaign
|5 September
|Slot for possible trajectory correction manoeuvre (12 hours before closest approach)
|Navigation cameras switch to tracking mode - initially both used, then use CAM 'A' only (to be decided)
Uplink fly-by commands for asteroid fly-by mode (AFM)
Includes an update to the command profile already on board & the final updated AFM commands (only if 1 CAM at least is tracking)
|Spacecraft flip over
|Spacecraft switches automatically to asteroid fly-by mode
|Sun illuminates Rosetta from the back and the asteroid fully
|Closest approach, at a planned distance of 800 km from the asteroid
|First post-fly-by acquisition of signal (AOS) - telemetry received via NASA's Goldstone ground station
|Start of science data download via Goldstone
|6 September
|Live streaming of Rosetta Steins fly-by press conference from the European Space Operations Centre begins
|Images from fly-by published on ESA web
|End of press conference streaming
|End of reception of first set of science data
Editor's note
An expanded version of the timeline appears in the Rosetta blog.


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Futbol Club Barcelona
Futbol Club Barcelona, or just 'Barça' to its fans, is based at the Camp Nou - capacity 98,000. Founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, English, and Catalan men led by Joan Gamper, the club has now become a Catalan institution. Founding members of La Liga in 1928 they have never been relegated from the Primera. As of September 2006, the number of socis (club members / owners) was 151,127, while in June 2006 the number of penyes (officially-registered supporter clubs) worldwide was 1,782. The club also operates other professional sports teams: AXA-Winterthur FCB (basketball), FC Barcelona-Cifec (handball) and FC Barcelona Futsal. There are also a number of prominent amateur sports teams that compete at rugby union (FCB Rugby), women's basketball, women's football, wheelchair basketball, ice hockey, athletics, baseball, cycling, field hockey, figure skating, and volleyball.
Financial Overview
1999/00 season turnover equalled €118.8 million. Based on income figures for the 2005-06 season FC Barcelona was the 2nd largest club in the world with a revenue of €259 million, this achievement being helped by the estimated €31.5m the club made in total revenue from winning the Champions League vai match, television and winning bonus income. In January 2007 the club released half year financial results which showed the club generated turnover of 144.5 million euros versus expenditure of 135.4 million euros. In total, showing a profit of 9.1 million euros.Financial results for the 2015/16 season showed record revenues of €679million, with a net profit of €29million after tax.


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Say you've got some really important documents—like the meaning of life scrawled on a napkin, or a viable method of time travel in the margins of a newspaper—and someone really wants to shoot them for some reason, like a bunch of times, with a gun. You better hope they're in the Tegra-Lite Bulletproof Attaché.
Pretty much everything about the case is over the top. Its body is made out of 65 layers of a polypropylene thermoplastic composite, it costs a whopping $5,995, and only 28 are being made. At least someone realized the demand probably isn't too high. As you might expect from an attaché that caters to the spy-minded, it also has a false bottom and a handcuff ring.
It also packs some more boring functionality. It has a spot for your iPad, and at 12 pounds, it would probably be good at fending off melee attackers. And, of course, it can be used as a shield. The best defense against bullets is not being shot at, but for everyone else a bulletproof attaché might help. Gotta keep all your precious crayon doodlings safe somehow, right? [Tumi via WSJ, bookofjoe]


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Pay close attention…We know who should be held accountable for this mess we are in today! How convenient for Greenspan to get out when he did…CRIMINAL!
This is a collection of soundbites from Prof. Michael Greenberger from the University of Maryland School of Law who was interviewed for a PBS FRONTLINE program concerning Brooksley Born, former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, who attempted to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the 2008 financial collapse.


text: I didn't see a thread for this, but here are the main issue I'm having; was wondering if anybody had had these issues/any ideas: 1) The phone won't preserve settings for sync in the pulldown notification widget; I have to manually reenable it. 2) I can't keep auto-rotate disabled--I have to keep disabling it (the setting won't save/preserve/what have you) 3) Occasional issue with phone not waking back up from lock screen without a battery pull to reboot 4) The alarm clock app only shows PM on the main screen where you set the alarms; if you set it for an AM time, it DOES go off at the right time--but on the main listof alarms, they're all listed as 8:00PM (even if the alarm is set for 8:00AM). Love the ROM and great work... Liberty was my first ROM on my D2 so its nice to have it back on OTA Thanks for all the great work...love having GB OTA and picking which Blur apps to keep! :hail:


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I have to say that I find this terrifying. I'm not really sure why; if you have any ideas to help me cope I would be deeply grateful. It's embarrassing too; I'm a professional psychologist and the words of Jesus, "Physician, heal thyself" come back to mock me.
I think it's a legacy from school, where the prospect of reading aloud to the class was even scarier than Clifton Hughes, who gobbed all the way down my arm at the bus stop. At work I have to run leadership programmes for senior managers from high profile organisations, and I do that without blinking. When it comes to reading my own work I shrivel. Just writing about it now I can feel my heart spreading till it no longer fits in my chest.
This is something I would like to get over. I rehearse a lot before readings, know most of my work by heart, and think I'm actually quite good at it. When I listen to others, they sometimes mumble out the words in a monotonous, inaudible voice, whereas I try to put some energy into it, and look at the audience.
I just hate it.
A few days ago I found out I've been shortlisted for the Live Canon poetry prize. That's a thrill as it is judged by the fantastic Glyn Maxwell. And the relief is that the awards ceremony will feature actors reading our poems: we won't have to do it. Perhaps I should only enter ones like that.
Please leave a comment if you share this phobia, or if you have any tips for how to handle it.


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accommodate (oneself) to (something)(redirected from accommodate ourselves to)
accommodate (oneself) to (something)
To assimilate or adjust to a new environment or a different set of rules or expectations. The new student struggled to accommodate himself to the new school and often got in trouble as a result. If you're going to live with us, you need to accommodate yourself to our rules.
See also: accommodate
accommodate oneself to something
to adapt oneself to something, such as someone else's needs or a new environment. Please try to accommodate yourself to our routine.
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- Adjustable centre shelf
- Cable management
- Chrome detailling
- Max load: 40kg
- Weight: 39.25kg
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Welcome race fans! If you're headed out to the track this weekend, HBG has put together some craft beer options for you to take to the track. Enjoy!
If there is something coming up that is not listed, we would love to hear about it. News, reviews, info, etc., to share for our next Random Beer Roundup can be submitted to email@example.com. Don't see your favorite craft beer establishment? Let them know you'd like to see them here!
Hoosier Beer Calendar
Events are subject to change
What's Brewing
From Greg at Lafayette Brewing Co. in Lafayette:
On tap at LBC this weekend: Star City Lager; Prophet's Rock Pale Ale; East Side Bitter; Pipers' Pride Scottish Ale; Tippecanoe Common Ale; Eighty-Five; Black Angus Oatmeal Stout; and Maifest.
Side note: LBC will be closed on Monday, May 31, in observance of Memorial Day. Have a great holiday weekend!
From New Albanian Brewing Co in New Albany:
From Cari at Upland Brewing Co. in Bloomington:
Monday, June 14, 6:30 pm - Beer & Wine Dinner at Pizzology featuring Upland Brewing Co. and Italian wines from Crossroad Vintners
Reception at 6:30 pm, with crudites, Preservation Pilsner and Prosecco.
Dinner at 7:00 pm with four courses paired each with an Upland beer and Italian wine.
More details to come once the menu is finalized. All of the courses will be dishes you will not find on the regular Pizzology menu. Neal Brown and Co. will be putting together a great menu for us.
Cost is $60 plus tax and tip. Seats are limited to 35. Please contact (317) 844-2550 for reservations.
At the Bar
From Lauren at Scotty's Brewhouse in various locations:
BBC Beer is coming soon to Scotty's Brewhouse.
Tapped this week -Carry Out
Scotty's Brewhouse Muncie - Upland Helios Pale Ale
Scotty's Brewhouse Downtown Indy - Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy
Scotty's Brewhouse North Indy - Abita Turbodog and Sun King Grapefruit Jungle
From Todd at Keg Liquors in Clarksville:
He'Brew - Rejewvenator (California)
North Coast - Old Stock Ale (California)
Dogfish Head - Festina Peche (Delaware)
Clipper City - Red Sky at Night Saison (Maryland)
Mikkeller - Stateside IPA (Denmark)
Boulder - Cold Hop (Colorado)
Founders - Cerise (Michigan)
Hoppin Frog - Outta Kilter Wee Heavy Red Ale (Ohio)
He'Brew - Bittersweet Lennys R.I.P.A on Rye (California)
Coney Island - Variety 12 pack (New York)
North Coast - Le Merle Saison (California)
Weihenstephaner - World Cup Gift Pack (Germany)
Barley Island - Flat Top Wheat (Indiana)
Red Stripe - Light Lager (Jamaica)
Saku - Porter (Estonia)
5th Annual Keg Liquors Fest of Ale, June 5th from 3 - 7 PM. 30+ Breweries, 3 Craft Beer Distributors, 4 Fine Wine Distributors, over 150 craft and import beers, wine, food, charity silent auction and beer raffle and more!http://www.kegliquors.com/fest
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From Corrie at Goose the Market in Indianapolis
Need some summer craft beer to go with your pignic? A refreshing brew for your boarbeque? New in the Goose cellar for this holiday weekend...
Five liter mini-kegs of Bell's Oberon are decorated with Salvador Dali's impression of a Hoosier summer.
Three Floyds' Blackheart is an English IPA (though next year their Braveheart--a Scottish IPA--may overthrow this annual spring release).
Upland's Nut Hugger, a brown ale, is their latest seasonal that we want to squirrel away.
They should line the Speedway with trees in honor of the love Boulevard has sent our way. Their unfiltered wheat is in a (track-approved) bottle shaped can...a bottle shaped can!
From Eric at 21st Amendment in Broad Ripple:
21st Amendment is proud to be selling Sun King cans at 5 of our locations! We also have plenty of other high end canned beer options including Souther Star Pine Belt Pale, Blue Moon, Leinenkugal Summer Shandy, Fat Tire and Stevens Point Cascade Pale, Special Lager and Nude Beach Wheat. If you're looking for a convenient race package we have plenty of Bell's Oberon 5L mini-kegs.
For those of you just looking for something new we now have Three Floyd's Blackheart. It's an English style IPA aged on toasted oak.
Have fun this weekend!
From Big Red Liquors in Bloomington:
Founders Old Curmudgeon
Founders Cerise
Boulevard Zon Belgian Style Wit
Boulevard Tank 7 Saison
Upland Double Dragonfly Imperial IPA
Sierra Nevada Southern Hemisphere Fresh Hop
Brooklyn Sorachi Ace Saison
Brooklyn Pennant Ale '55
Dogfish Head Squall IPA
Rogue Chatoe Series 1st Growth Single Malt Ale
Great Divide Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout
Great Divide Brewer's Pick Mix 12pk
Boulder Mojo IPA & Mojo Risin Double IPA
Boulder Cold Hop
Clipper City Heavy Seas Barleywine Style Aged in Bourbon Barrels
Clipper City Red Sky at Night Saison
Harpoon Belgian Pale Ale
Harpoon 100 Barrel Series Single Hop ESB
Barley Island Sheet Metal Blonde
Rogue Juniper Pale Ale
North Coast Old Stock Ale
Pointe Nude Beach Wheat
Pointe Special Lager
St. Sebastian Belgian Golden and Dark Ales
Maredsous 10 Tripel
Dupont Biere de Miel (Ale flavored with honey)
Dupont Avril (Saison/Farmhouse Ale)
Popperings Hommel Ale (Belgian IPA)
Brugse Zot (Belgian Pale Ale
Wittekerke Belgian Wit in CANS
Also, if you are on your way to the track this weekend, don't forget to stop by your local Big Red for all your cold beer needs.
News around the web:
Rita Kohn's upcoming book, True Brew, is available for pre-order from Amazon.com.
Upcoming Event:
From Ben at Mad Anthony Serious Homebrewers (MASH):
Botanical Brew & Q in Fort Wayne
The Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory will be holding the annual Brew & Q on June 13th. Some changes to the program, the addition of some demonstrations and a live Best of Show judging will be great improvements to the event. Tickets are only $5 and include sample tickets. I'm not sure what breweries have committed at this point. I'm sure that MABC is involved, though. They're doing the barbecue.
Details: http://www.
botanicalconservatory.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70:botanical-brew-a-q&catid=10:events-a- exhibitions&Itemid=1
This is the first year that the homebrew competition will be sanctioned. Registration ends on May 21st. Judging is June 12th. We will have a strong BJCP judge roster. Entries are $8 for the first entry and $4 for each additional entry. The first entry includes admission to the Conservatory's Brew & Q event on June 13th when winners will be announced and the Best of Show judging will be done as part of the activities.
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I hereby declare the Pizza Pro 3000 Circular Saw as the best invention ever developed by humans, aliens, or pant-wearing dolphins. Liz Goulet Dubois, you are a genius, you.
Too bad is not actually motorised, but I can only hope someone buys it and puts an electrical engine in it. [Fred via Nerd Approved via Serious Eats]


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Fantastic wall decoration - The Enchantment wallpaper 664800 by Arthouse transforms living rooms into glitterling adventurous paradises. The impressive bird motif picks you up for a fascinating journey of variety and excitement. The colour shades of grey and colourful colourations arouse a passionate feeling which is needed to get away from everyday life and to enjoy the time gained to feel good at home.


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Break down: Students split, scene slows
The Parlor Scouts and the Comas
at Tokyo Rose
March 13
Like a plague of locusts descending on a warned but helpless populace, the students have returned from their yearly beer bong-soaked love fest known as Spring Break to cover Charlottesville again with their swarming and noises in the night, and speaking for the local businesses out there (of which I am not one), I'd like to say: We missed you!
Spring Break is but a tumbleweed-soaked taste of the lonely afternoons of June though August, and I suspect local business owners dread this period like a plague of– let's say "lice" this time. Concert frequency also goes way down as Charlottesville's population drops, and Saturday, March 13– the last day before the return of the horde– provided a glimpse of why so few big sonic happenings happen: The Rose crowd was about 3/5 of what it would have been (and usually is) for a larger rock show.
The indie-rock outfit known as the Parlor Scouts was on first, and general comments I heard were something along the line of, "They were okay, but their singer is... hot!" (That exact line may have been from my lady friend). Composed of a bassist, a guitarist, a drummer, a keyboardist, a Theremin player, and the aforementioned young lass, the group generally played somewhat helter-skelter music in l/2 time.
On top of fine instrumental backing, and to a seemingly appreciative crowd of hipsters, singer Autumn Beckett applied her Betty Boop-meets-Marilyn Monroe vocals– squealing and sounding like an eight-year-old. I don't have any respect for this vocal technique, which seems to require little more in the way of skill than the ability to talk in key– if the Parlor Scouts were the first band to feature the vocal technique in question I might feel a little differently, but I believe I've seen three bands at the Rose over the last few years with cutsey-whootsy female front-women, and I've had enough.
The Comas were on next, and they saved the evening for me– great catchy pop songs of the well-constructed variety, and a singer who sounded like a cross between Rivers Cuomo (Weezer) and Frank Black (the Pixies).
Strumming a sometimes distorted acoustic guitar, singer Andy Herod led off many of the group's songs with just his two contributions, before the Comas' guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, and drummer entered the action.
Backup vocals were provided by the female bassist, which allowed for some really quite nice male/female harmonies on a few numbers, and as the group moved from quirky off-kilter pop to bright up-tempo numbers, the screen behind them displayed a black and white film of the type seen in 2002's The Ring (although with not as many maggots).
The true test of whether a show is enjoyable for me is if I end up buying one of the group's records on the way out. And although I was all ready to do so, no merchandise table was in evidence.
The Comas


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Peter is a great person to do a Holiday Club about, and the songs "Rocky's Road" and "If I was Peter" help the kids to see how wonderful it is to follow our Lord Jesus!
"Rocky's Road" tells the story of Peter, with 4 events: Peter's call (Fishers of Men), Pentecost, Peter healing the lame man in Jesus' name, Peter escaping from jail in Jerusalem. Click here for the downloads.
"If I was Peter" is all about meeting Jesus, and seeing how amazing and true he is - and if Peter, Mary, Martha and Thomas all saw and believed, so can we! The downloads are all here!
Check them out now for your Vacation Bible School or Backyard Bible Club!


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And, what a listen is was – and is – as you will soon see in the video below.
This 18-year-old sweetheart of a girl with the powerhouse voice may just be the frontrunner in the inaugural season of The X Factor USA.
Quite frankly, I have never heard anything quite like this in any audition in any show. This young lady is superbly gifted and trained. She has an extraordinary vocal gift but beneath it all is a skilled vocal support system.
Watch Melanie Amaro's performance below and note the seamless phrasing, breathing skills and circular mouth on her impeccably sustained vowels. It does not get any better than this.


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RICHMOND, Texas (AP) — Hilmar Moore, who has been mayor of the Southeast Texas town of Richmond since 1949, has died at age 92.
Moore died Tuesday night after a lengthy illness, his wife, Evelyn Moore, said Wednesday. Hilmar Moore was the nation's longest-serving mayor of uninterrupted tenure, according to the website for the city of Richmond, which is about 25 miles southwest of Houston.
Moore first became mayor when he was appointed to fill an unexpired term in September 1949. He had come back to the area after serving in the Pacific in World War II.
"I was called to the Rotary Club on Monday, Sept. 22, 1949, just to attend the meeting and they said, 'We want you to fill out an unexpired term as mayor,'" he said in a recent interview with public radio station KUHF-FM in Houston. "I said, 'OK, I'll think about it.' They said, 'No, we want to swear you in this afternoon.' I said, 'Wow. That's a little fast.'"
When he took office, Richmond had about 2,000 residents. It now has more than 12,000.
The San Antonio native also ran cattle on land that had been in the family since 1822, and served on several national and Texas groups that represent ranchers. His mother was a member of the prominent Guenther milling family in San Antonio.
"I have three ancestors who were here during the period that Texas was a republic," Moore told KUHF. "In fact, my great-great-grandfather was one of the signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence, so my roots are pretty deep here in Fort Bend County."
A life-size statue of Moore in front of Richmond's City Hall was unveiled in 2008.
A public memorial for Moore is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Richmond.


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advantage to be selfish. It can be good to be nice and altruistic. It might be smart to be crazy and stupid. And sometimes it even pays to be your own worst enemy.
(Published in Ingeniøren, 13 February 2009. Online link (in Danish): http://ing.dk/artikel/det-kan-vaere-klogt-vaere-dum-95698. Translated by the author.)
Mathematical game theory is still not close to describing the complexity of advanced strategy games like real life poker. But it has begun to explain why crazy ideas, bad bets and ill-advised decisions might have a place in an otherwise logical and rule-based game universe.
One of such explanations was recently developed by professor David Wolpert from the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico in a paper published together with Julian Jamison, David Newth, and Michael Harre in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They use Gus Hansen's method: develop a suitable table image, which convinces the other players to change their strategy. If you succeed, you might look `stupid ́ but you will increase your chip stack in the long run.
Since modern game theory was introduced by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern in the 1944 book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, a vast number of applications have been developed in such diverse fields as economy, evolutionary psychology, ecology, anthropology and political science. Most of the time the scientists investigated equilibrium strategies, the so-called Nash-equilibria, due to an expectation that actors will be rational and selfish in order to maximize their payoff. But this is not always an optimal strategy.
Let's take an example: Game theory assesses what strategy I should use in a competition with another actor so that I can get the best result for myself. Graphically this is normally illustrated by a payoff-matrix:
However, it is obvious from the matrix above that my opponent would like me to defect, no matter what. A Gus Hansen strategy could be useful here: act irrationally and shuffle randomly between cooperation and defection. This would give me 0 points half the time and 6 point the other half, since I still cooperate all the time. On average this gives me 3 points per turn and our imaginary Gus would get 0.5 points per turn. In this situation it will be better for me to shift strategy and defect all the time, because I would get an average payoff of 4.5, no matter what my opponent does.
This is exactly what `The Great Dane ́ has been waiting for! Now his average return increases to 5.5 points, which is even more than I get. If Gus had been `rational ́ he would have stayed with 1 point and I would have continued to get 6 points. But now, because his table image made me change my strategy, I get less, and he gets a lot more.
How to Repair the Theory?
Examples like these (see also BOX 1: The Traveler's Dilemma) have made game theory a limited success in real-life applications. Time after time experiments have shown that people do not act rationally. They cooperate voluntarily, act irrationally or against their better judgment. The greatest and most important results in game theory have therefore revolved around the reasons for why people are not rational actors. Eight Nobel Prizes have already been awarded to researchers in this field, and scientists continue to find fruitful paradoxes between the perceived beauty of the theory and the mess of reality.
BOX 1: The Traveler's Dilemma
Just emerged from the subterranean catacombs of the airport, your suitcase lies on the baggage conveyor belt crumpled like a tin can. You anxiously opening it, and find that the antique vase that you had packed so carefully in foam, cardboard, and wrapped in a thick blouse, has tuned into a jigsaw puzzle in thirteen pieces.
The airline representative says that you will be reimbursed with an amount between 20 and 1000 dollar. The only thing you need to do is to fill out a form and write down the true value of the vase. The representative also informs you that the airline has received a request from another passenger from the same plane who had the same type of vase and which also had been smashed.
If you both write down the same value, the airline company will believe you both and pay this value. But if one of you write down a lower number than the other, the airline company with pay out the lower value to both and then give a 20 dollar bonus to the person who wrote the lower and probably more truthful number, while punishing the higher bidder with a `fine ́ of 20 dollar.
So what to do? Your first impulse might be to write down a greedy 1000 dollars. But your well-honed mathematical skills quickly tell you to go lower. You might get more if you write 990 dollars instead, because if the other passenger writes 1000 dollars, then you'll get 1010 (990 + 20) and he or she will only get 970 dollars (990 – 20), and even if she writes 990, you will both end up with 990 dollars, which is still more than the 980 you would have gotten by writing 1000. And if she bids less than that it wouldn't matter anyway whether your form says 1000 or 990 dollars.
Before you finish the first 9.. a chill runs down your spine. The other passenger can't be anyone else than the cunning stockbroker lady next to you. She is relentless and extremely intelligent. She will definitely have thought this through and your reputation as a rational genius is on the line. It is therefore wise to write 980 for the same reasons as it was wise to write 990. But wait... she will know that too! Let's write 970, or better 960... no, 950... no, 940...
This is the crux of the matter: if both passengers were perfectly rational and selfish they should write down 20 dollars. This is as logical as it is crazy. Game theoreticians conducted real life experiments of the dilemma in order to see if people really behave as the theory predicts. Of course they don't. The average is somewhere between 990 and 1000 dollars, far away from the Nash equilibrium, and even trained game theoreticians would never offer a meager 20 dollars. So the question is: What's wrong with game theory and how can it be fixed so that it can explain real-life phenomena?
So, how to repair game theory? The example with The Traveler's Dilemma shows that arguments about people being nice and altruistic cannot be the whole story. A large part of the problem seems to be a rather rigid definition of rationality. Gambling, for instance, is not about rationality. It is about maximizing profit.
The idea to adopt different images for different situations (Wolpert calls them 'personae') might contain an important insight by which to solve many of the existing game theoretical paradoxes. The researchers show how such a flexible adoption of strategies can account for some of the discrepancies between experimental and theoretical data - for instance the The Traveler's Dilemma: If you would take into account that your opponent won't be 'rational' in a strict sense (by only requesting 20 dollars from the company) the game theoretical predictions would end up with an average of 970-980 dollars – more or less the same as result as in real-life experiments.
Wolpert's and Jamison's model is of course still quite crude and would never be able to compete with professional poker players. It contains only two 'personae' or images: the perfectly rational superhuman and the completely randomized maniac. But by expanding the idea to a continuum of possible images, one could imagine the approach to be much more useful in real-life situations. Phenomena like anti-rationality, meaning people who consciously act as their own worst enemies, would make sense in terms of payoffs. The model even contains examples of games where all players can act as their own worst enemies and still get a better result than if they had acted rationally.
BOX 2: The Prisoner's Dilemma
My partner Kurt and I are suspects in a murder case. Placed in two adjacent interrogation rooms, we are unable to synchronize our stories. The police don't have sufficient evidence to convince a judge of our guilt, and so they offer us a bargain: If I talk, but Kurt doesn't, I will go free and Kurt will get 10 years behind bars. The same goes for Kurt. If he talks and I keep my mouth shut, he will go free and I will be incarcerated for 10 years. If none of us talks we both get one year and if we both talk, we get five years each.
I know Kurt and I know he is a sly psychopath. No matter what I choose to do, he knows that he always will get a milder sentence by snitching. Either he gets five years instead of ten (if I talk) or he will walk free instead of getting one year in prison (if I say nothing). The obvious strategy for Kurt is to talk to the police.
If I analyze the situation the same way as Kurt does, we should both defect and get five years each, even though we could have settled with only one year each by keeping quiet. Thus, rational thinking leads to a bad result for both of us. That's the dilemma. Examples from real life situations, for instance in burglary cases (but also in bicycle races, where two lone riders have a substantial lead, which is a similar situation) show that people usually cooperate. They seldom defect, even if it's a one time game only, where you cannot expect to gain anything later on.
In the repeated prisoner's dilemma things are different. Now you can develop strategies depending on what the other guy did in the previous round. I this situation it has been shown that cooperation can develop from a tit-for-tat rule. You start by cooperating, and then you do what the other player has done before. In 1978, the famous game theoretician Robert Axelrod invited researchers to send him all kinds of strategies which he let compete against each other in a computer simulation. The simple tit-for-tat rule won several times.
But if you think that you can beat Gus Hansen by reading up on Wolpert and colleagues, you will be disappointed. Mathematical game theory is still far too simple to account for the cunning of poker players, who have developed a much larger bag of tricks and techniques than just a manipulation of a table image.
• Wolpert, D. H. and Jamison, J. The Strategic Choice of Preferences: the Persona Model, Berkeley Electronic Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2011,
• Wolpert, D. H. and Jamison, J. "Schelling Formalized: Strategic Choices of Non-Rational Behavior", Evolution and Rationality: Decisions, Cooperation, and Strategic Behavior, K.Binmore and S. Okasha (eds.), Cambridge University Press, in press.


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Pic from one of my older posts , still completely obsessed with this tunic... Beautiful view of Malibu Pier... Feeding my obsession with flo...
|Pic from one of my older posts, still completely obsessed with this tunic...
|Beautiful view of Malibu Pier...
|Feeding my obsession with flowers, hoping I could order a larger size print to hang in my bedroom...
|Another pic from an older post, hanging out at Malibu Country Mart.
|Celebrating Emil's Birthday: margaritas and crab cakes at BLT steak house.
|Can't get enough of my sparkling animal print Ava pumps.
|Desert time! Rocky road caramel apples!
|Beautiful Alexander McQueen De-Manta clutches.
|Taking a walk on the wild side in my dalmatian print Laura sandals.
Twelfth Street by Cynthia Vincent printed tunic - cute ones here & here, Kitson floppy hat - similar here, J Crew sunnies - similar here | Joe's Jeans beaded top and Planet Blue lavender denim shorts - similar here | Pink & Pepper Ava animal print pumps | Pink & Pepper Laura dalmatian print sandals
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This means roughly 1% of the articles in the Turkish Wikipedia have featured pictures. One featured picture can illustrate multiple articles. That comes out as a far higher ratio than at any other Wikipedia of substantial size.
What's really interesting is how one medium sized Wikipedia developed a featured picture program that's 25% larger than the German program. A core of perhaps half a dozen Turkish editors have been scouting other language projects' featured picture programs, translating the captions into Turkish, and adding the images to articles on their Wikipedia. Featured picture content at the other projects is different enough from one site to another that the Turkish editors could amass three or four thousand featured pictures if they just keep doing what they're already doing.
Of course I hope they also knock on the doors of museums in their home country. Also very curious about whether this generates synergies with text edits and improvements at their Wikipedia.
Two things happen universally when people from other parts of the world see restored featured pictures about their own culture:
- They're delighted.
- They want to share information.
The Turkish editors have created a model that can be emulated. And I'm very interested in trying a pilot project with another Wikipedia to see whether a caption translation and featured picture drive would provide a shot in the arm in terms of editor participation and article growth.
One place where I'm proposing a pilot program is the Irish language Wikipedia. They already have a small featured picture program (two dozen images, a quarter of which I restored) and I know one of their administrators (hi there Alison) and have done a few restorations specific to her country and culture. A few days ago President Kennedy came up in conversation and I asked whether she knew en:wiki has a featured picture of his brother.
There's Robert F. Kennedy at a CORE rally in 1963: the Attorney General of the United States speaking from the steps of the Justice Department in favor of racial equality.
Very cool.
Right now the Irish Wikipedia is the ninety-second largest Wikipedia with 9,274 total articles. If their editor community is willing I'd like to help them emulate the Turkish featured picture program.
Although I can't speak a word of either language, if a picture is worth a thousand words we can hold a conversation.


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I am back! Jamaica, Costa Rica, Colombia, and Panama. Of all places, never did I imagine that I would be in Colombia.
Starting out – This cruise adventure started in Ft. Lauderdale, making the first stop in Jamaica. Here, we had the opportunity to really talk to the locals and get an understanding of their lives. After touring the island, the driver took us to a nice beach and we got some jerk chicken. But to my surprise, it tasted like BBQ chicken – not authentic as I imagined…still good though and I ate every bit of it (LOL)!!!
Costa Rica – We got off the boat and secured a taxi to take us on a tour of Port Limon. The highlight of the tour was going on a jungle boat ride. As we sailed through the swamps, we saw sloth, iguanas, and other creatures along thick foilage of the jungle. What a treat!!
TIP – This same trip cost about $75 per person on the boat, but we got it for $20! When going on cruises, the excursions offered by cruise lines tend to be way more expensive. Plus, they leave too early in the morning for me. I suggest negotiating with a local taxi or tour driver at the port. Just ensure that you settle a rate before you begin your ride.
Colombia – We landed at the Santa Marta port and got a taxi to take us to Tayrona National Park. Check out the pictures of this park to see the most beautiful coastline and beaches ever! Once we got to the park entrance, I started to get a bit uncomfortable. The "guards" at the gate wanted an extreme amount of money to enter the park. Thank goodness our fellow cruiser was fluent in Spanish!
We then went to Cartegena. I love this place! The culture, beaches, people, and architecture were just amazing. One thing about Colombia – it was HOT!! You definitely need a hat, sunglasses, and water.
Panama – The ship docked in Colon, Panama. We got a taxi to take us through the city and onto Panama City, but not before seeing the Panama Canal. Actually seeing a ship go through the locks was interesting. By this time, we were all running out of money. One good thing, most of all the cities we visited took the US dollar. Panama actually uses our currency. But, things were just a little bit more expensive.
Fin – The trip ended with an overnight stay in the Panama City Marriot. The hotel was really nice. It had a huge gym – which I didn't use of course. But, I did get in the hot tub!
Inspiration – Don't let disappointments, strained relationships and job challenges tell you who God is; let His Word speak for Him. (Joel Osteen).
Peace & Blessings!!


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How to play Roulette
This article explains the basic rules of Roulette Written by Jim Green
Roulette wheels have either 37 (European) or 38 (US) coloured and numbered slots around the outside. Players place their bets, the dealer spins the wheel, drops the ball in, and eventually the ball comes to rest in one hole. Some people win and some lose. Bets are paid out and it happens all over again.
Most wheels in the United States have the numbers from 1-36 (red or black, with 18 of each), a zero and a double zero (green).
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The first trailer for director Francis Lawrence's (I Am Legend) highly anticipated sequel The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is set to debut during the MTV Movie Awards later this month, and now a promo for the event has been released online that gives us our first look at footage from the film. The video teases a look at the "Victory Tour" that Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss and Josh Hutcherson's Peeta embark on at the beginning of Catching Fire as part of their duties as Hunger Games victors. Liam Hemsworth will introduce the two-and-a-half minutes of footage during the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday, April 14th at 9pm ET/PT, so check back here on Collider at that time to watch the full trailer.
Hit the jump to watch the promo. The film also stars Sam Claflin, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jena Malone, Jeffrey Wright, and Amanda Plummer. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire opens on November 22nd in IMAX and traditional theaters.
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THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE begins as Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) – a competition that could change Panem forever.


text: This course examines how we as consumers in the "Western" world engage with musical difference largely through the products of the global entertainment industry. We examine music cultures in contact in a variety of ways-- particularly as traditions in transformation. Students gain an understanding of traditional music as live, meaningful person-to-person music making, by examining the music in its original site of production, and then considering its transformation once it is removed, and recontextualized in a variety of ways. The purpose of the course is to enable students to become informed and critical consumers of "World Music" by telling a series of stories about particular recordings made with, or using the music of, peoples culturally and geographically distant from the US. Students come to understand that not all music downloads containing music from unfamiliar places are the same, and that particular recordings may be embedded in intriguing and controversial narratives of production and consumption. At the very least, students should emerge from the class with a clear understanding that the production, distribution, and consumption of world music is rarely a neutral process. Fulfills College Cross Cultural Foundational Requirement.


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UFO Update (links to Aviation Audio live feeds)
Posted by dandare on June 6, 2007
First off today (a bit late i'm afraid) …….Planet-hunters find bonanza of new solar systems (may 29th,2007).
Whilst looking around for American Aviation Air Traffic control, i came upon several Aviation Audio live feeds… at liveatc .
There were several interesting links on this site…one in particular was an experimental link to world communication on a planet globe, with links to other aviation links in other countries.
It does mention however….. " NOTICE
If you link from your web site to any of these audio feeds you must give credit to LiveATC.net and
provide a prominent link to http://www.liveatc.net from your site. Direct linking without prior approval
is strongly discouraged".
Other interesting Aviation links were found at atcmonitor , and amfly also links to airport monitor sites and inks at passur to radar airport sites available.
Canadian Air Traffic control can be found here , and
links for NASA satellite tracking, and also other things like tracking of international space station can be found here .
I did notice the link for O'Hare airport down however….mmm.
I'll give these a try/listen in the near future………..
for funny ufo webcam site….. try this


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Selena Gomez has captured the hearts of many teenagers through her beauty and fashion styles.Selena Gomez became famous for her acting talent as well as lovely fashion style reason why many teenagers are trying to adopt her style.
A true girly girl, Selena Gomez is very feminine with all of her outfits.
It might be her cute petite body, gorgeous facial features or lovely hairstyles that enhance her femininity, but her style is truly admirable.
Being a woman implies having a personal interest in looking good and emphasizing femininity and it seems that Selena Gomez keeps count of this well known fact. Fashion, make-up and hairstyles are the things that emphasize women's feminine side and it is very important to keep count of them as they can bring out the best assets one possesses, taking women from simple to fabulous in an instant.
Selena Gomez fashion style leans towards very feminine, every outfit she wear emphasizes her beauty. Selena has a very clean fashion style, she has never been seen wearing outfits that are inappropriate for her age.
For casual wear Selena loves her jeans. Jeans not only offer the comfort every woman yearns for but they also offer a stylish look, which appeals to everyone. There are a variety of jeans styles suitable for all body types, and Selena seems to be attracted by skinny jeans. This type of jeans work beautifully with her slim body and can be worn casually with sneakers or more formally, with high heels. Jeans, printed T-shirts, feminine blouses, tunics and strapless tops are all a part of Selena's wardrobe. She combines baggy shirts with beautiful feminine blouses and she looks spectacular.For more formal occasions Selena Gomez fashion style transforms and leans towards elegant. Elegant short or long dresses, skirts and vaporous elegant blouses help Selena Gomez fashion style stand out. She is a young woman who looks outstanding in elegant outfits and you can see why. She always makes sure her hairstyle and make-up suit her outfit, and that is worthy of admiration.
Selena Gomez has a cute and lovable fashion style so don't hesitate to copy her style if you think it would suit you perfectly.


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Racist Arabism & fascist Islamism: Anti-Copt
The word Copt is an English word taken from the Arabic word Gibt or Gypt. The Arabs after their conquest of Egypt in 641 A.D. called the indigenous population of Egypt as Gypt from the Greek word Egyptos or Egypt. The Greek word Egyptos came from the ancient Egyptian words Ha-Ka-Ptah… The word Copt or Coptic simply means Egyptian, however the Muslim population of Egypt calls themselves Arabs. In contemporary usage, the word Copt or Coptic refers to the Christian population of Egypt. The Arab's oppression led the Copts to several rebellions, , Coptic: an Afro-Asian language descended from ancient Egypt, and spoken by the Copts.
During the rise of pan-Arab nationalism in the 1950s and 1960s, the economically prosperous Copts, who then represented 20 percent of the population but held more than 50 percent of the nations's wealth, saw their businesses and factories nationalized under the socialist government of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Many of them left as a result.
Cairo's poor Copts are known as "zabaleen", an Arabic name for garbage man. In Cairo there is an area with the same name where those Copts are living together with the garbage that has been collected. Copts reached this level of poverty due to the regime ruling the country in the past sixty years.
From early writings, many medieval Arab writers, tended to include unsubstantiated and racist negative commentaries about the Copts. A Copt — i.e. a descendant of Egypt's now subjugated, ancient, pre-Arab Christian people
In a statement by 'copts-united' it decries: discrimination takes place through security harassment and media campaigns against Shiites, Copts and Bahais…
Critics argue that a Pan Arabist will always suppor Arab unity and "Islam" at the expense of non-Arab and non-Moslem peoples. one would direct and manipulate the Western taste for self criticism, and all that does is deflect the world's attention from Arab and Moslem atrocities committed against Christians, Kurds, Jews, Israelis, Coptic Christians, non-Arab Sudanese, etc.
Though, current actively Anti Copt attacks stems more often from Islamism, especially by Islamic groups , and persecution comes often even from Egypt's government. , Egyptian Reformist Thinker Tarek Heggy: 'Egyptian Copts are Oppressed, Oppressed, Oppressed'
Racial Arabization of Copt
From a Lecture Delivered by a Coptic Bishop In Hudson Institute, Washington (July, 2008) entitled: "The Experience of the Middle East's largest Christian community during a time of rising Islamization", where he talked about how the Arab invasion of Egypt in 639 A.D. has altered the identity of Egypt through Arabization and forced conversion to Islam, and the lasting impact on the Christian minority in Egypt. He said, "The Copts have been always focused on Egypt; it is our identity, it is our nation, it is our land, it is our language, it is our culture. But when some of the Egyptians converted to Islam, their focus changed away from looking to their own [language and culture]. They started to look at the Arabians, and Arabia became the main focus," adding that, "if you come to a Coptic person and tell him that he's an Arab, that's offensive., reemphasizing: We are not Arabs, we are Egyptians. Declaring: "I am very happy to be an Egyptian and I would not accept being an "Arab" because ethnically I am not." The Bishop went on to say, "that means shifting the identity of the nation, to belong to Arabism and to the widespread Arabic area …and this is a big dilemma for the Copts who kept their Christianity, or, I rather say, that they kept their identity as Egyptians [who have] their own culture, that of old and real original Egypt trying to keep it, The process of Arabization and Islamization are still actively working till now upon Copts, The Bishop argued that the Egyptian culture has been taken from the Copts and attributed to the Arabs, that the process of Islamization is still on-going, and that the Christian child has "to study the history of the victorious Islamic invaders, which means that as a little kid you have to praise the Arabic troops that came to your country." … , like Assyrians, Armenians & Jews, the Copts are of the very few middle eastern indigenous communities to be surviving the Arabs/Muslims' forcible assimilation of non-Arabs, Non-Muslims.


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Friday, September 21, 2012
Astrology, Magic and Self-Knowledge
3 comments:
great article l enjoyed it!
could it be that sometimes you don't know who you are or what you want because you are in a transition space..?
we are living in a very saturnian world where you have to know all the time what you want and go and get it etc..there is not space for finding the true you
l wonder if you always have to know what you want, l belive there are fases in life when your wanting is on hold l experience this now, like when you feel your mars is inactive...or blocked
for me the solution to the inner conflict is stop fighting what i belive i should do/be and what i need so it can become one and manifest somehow
my progressed moon is in pisces just passing the DC and about to square natal neptune so that might explain it all but the real magic to me is giving in to it, going with the flow ;) and accept this coocooning fase for what it is.
- 7:51 am, September 22, 2012
- Barry Goddard said...
Yes, I agree, not knowing is often an important part of the process, like when you're in the middle of a major transit. And that can be confusing for people, because we are 'meant' to be clear about what we want and what we're doing.
- 8:17 am, September 22, 2012
- TheDeepGoat said...
I have been watching with interest this 'money magnetizing' craze for a while and at first i was annoyed with it...shining gurus offering a way of thinking to create happy positive wealth...it just smacked too much of a fast food approach....then it got me thinking more..obviously a lot of people have jumped on board this bandwagon judging by the proliferation of info on the web about it, so that means a lot of people are trying out new ways of thinking about reality, which is a progression of sorts. I see it now as a bottom rung, a step on the ladder of magical thinking, for it seems preoccupied with monetary wealth, where i would suggest that more noble things tomanifest would be peace or healing and the like. however, a bottom rung, if persised with can lead to the next rung, and so on and so on...and i think in time, a lot of the monetary magnetizers will get bored with their cash and try to manifest some more 'real riches' we shall see....
- 8:41 pm, September 23, 2012


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Every four or five years large numbers of snowy owls, those majestic white birds that haunt the Arctic tundra, migrate south and invade the northern United States. It's happening right now—big time.
"Already we can see that this year is one of the biggest irruption years ever for snowy owl," says Chris Wood, a Cornell University ornithologist and the project leader for Cornell and Audubon's eBird, an online database of avian observations.
Through eBird, people around the country are reporting snowy owl sightings. Mapping those data points reveals a flurry of snowies in the Great Lakes region, with smaller numbers of birds being spotted from Washington to Maine, and south as far as Oklahoma and Hawaii.
At least a few snowy owls appear south of the Canadian border each winter, says Kenn Kaufman, bird expert and Audubon field editor. "For example, there are always some wintering at Boston's Logan Airport, which superficially mimics the appearance of coastal tundra in the Arctic." But "this is an exceptional season for snowy owls," he says. Kaufman suspects that there are more individual owls on the Great Plains than around the Great Lakes, but a lower percentage of them are being reported because they're never seen. "There's just a lot of good habitat out there that isn't close to any roads."
The search for food drives the birds—mostly young owls—south. Snowies subsist mainly on rodents, primarily lemmings, throughout the frigid winter months in the far North. Irruptions are typically thought to occur when lemming populations crash. Curiously, that doesn't appear to be the case this year, writes Sam Galick, eBird data reviewer:
|Arctic researchers suggest an interesting twist, however, that the lemmings this year were at historical population highs allowing for a very successful breeding season for Arctic raptors, including Snowy Owls. The resulting population boom causes overcrowding and competition at typical wintering grounds pushing inexperienced birds farther south into the Lower 48. In years when Snowy Owls irrupt, watch for Rough-legged Hawks too—their similar prey choices could create similar patterns of occurrence.
Wood emphasizes the importance of entering sightings into eBird. Each one, he says, is like a puzzle piece. "The idea behind eBird is that by bringing these puzzle pieces together, we can get for what that entire puzzle looks like—in this case to try to understand how and why Snowy Owls are moving south," Wood says. "It will be very interesting to see how the winter unfolds, something that will be made much easier if people enter their observations into eBird—even when they don't see a snowy owl."
To catch a glimpse of the magnificent birds, Wood suggests checking harbors and rocky piers around the Great Lakes, and checking grasslands and reservoir edges on the Great Plains.
Kaufman urges anyone who does see a snowy owl to enjoy it from afar. "The birds that come farthest south tend to be the young birds. These inexperienced birds are often hungry and stressed, and we should encourage people to enjoy them from a distance, not to pursue them for closer looks or photos."
So make sure to grab your binoculars before you head out. If you do spot a snowy owl, we'd love for you to share your story in the Comments section below. I've only ever seen one, in June 2009 on the tundra just outside of Dead Horse, Alaska. Its bright white feathers were impossible to miss against the green-brown grasses. Even now, it's still thrilling to think back on it.


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There is something about a child singing. Particularly a young child, who is still working on perfecting his speech in the first place.
In this case, I am talking about Ethan. I can't get enough of his little voice.
Remember his original song about obeying his parents? I laughed about that one for days. (If you want a good chuckle on this Friday, I'd suggest watching that 90 second gem!)
A couple of Wednesday nights ago, the boys' teacher at church taught a lesson on the 12 disciples of Jesus. Being the music buff that I am, I thought we'd take all of those hard Bible names and make them easy for the boys to learn--by putting them to music. I remembered a song from when I was little that had a catchy tune, and, frankly, is probably the only reason I can still remember all 12 to this day!
12 disciples
{sung to the tune "Bringing in the Sheaves"}
There were 12 disciples Jesus called to help Him
Simon Peter, Andrew, James, his brother John,
Philip, Thomas, Matthew, James the son of Alpheus,
Thaddeus, Simon, Judas, and Bartholomew.
Jesus calls us too
Jesus calls us too
We are His disciples--I am one and you!
So, here's Ethan's version. He still gets a little confused on the chorus, but overall, I think he does a bang up job.
Enjoy--have a great weekend, everyone!!
Friday, September 24, 2010
12 disciples -- Ethan's version
There is something about a child singing. Particularly a young child, who is still working on perfecting his speech in the first place.
2 comments:
- Julie said...
ACK, that was SO CUTE!!! He's adorable!
- September 24, 2010 at 8:59 PM
- Leanne said...
That boy!!! He's sooooooooo stinkin' awesome!!
Good job, Ethan!!
- September 25, 2010 at 10:35 PM


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