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Scripps Unveils Strategy to Take More Control of Its Programming
Two New Shows to Debut This Fall
CINCINNATI, May 22, 2012 -- Extending its long-standing commitment to high-quality programming and innovative storytelling, The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP) is producing two original shows with national appeal that will begin airing September 17 in seven of the company's 13 television markets.
The new shows are replacing the company's current lineup of syndicated programming in the time periods before the networks' primetime lineup (the "access" hour) or before early evening local newscasts (the "early fringe" hour).
Scripps worked with a market research firm to conduct the most-comprehensive national consumer study of the access hour in more than 20 years. Surveys and market analysis revealed specific information categories desired by today's access audience. After generating and reviewing dozens of demo reels of shows in those valued categories and testing the most-promising concepts with broad-based focus groups, Scripps has given the green light to a pair of 30-minute daily shows:
Scripps will launch a brand new game show called "Let's Ask America." Unlike other game shows, the contestants are not in the same studio; they instead are linked digitally from the comfort of their own homes to answer questions that - consistent with the Scripps mission as a journalism company - are weighted toward current events. In other words, Let's Ask America gives contestants the chance to win cash and prizes from their couches. The format of Let's Ask America, powered by contemporary technology, reflects the audience desire for new twists on the game show concept. The show is produced by Telepictures and paraMedia inc and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. The format will be distributed internationally by Warner Bros. International Television Production. The show is helmed by executive producer Jim Paratore, who is president of paraMedia inc and the highly successful creator and an executive producer of TMZ and a former executive producer of The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Lopez Tonight.
In keeping with the news and journalism mission of the company, Scripps also will launch "The List," a nightly news magazine at the intersection of news and pop culture. The show's design is to entertain and pull back the curtain on the top-trending stories of the day delivered in the user friendly and popular form of lists. The List delivers water cooler buzz with a light edge, keeping you up to date and in the know with money-saving tips and inspiring stories. The List will give the viewer takeaway advice to make life better, and include videos and tips to be shared with friends and family. The List gives viewers what they need to know - with an attitude - and great storytelling aimed squarely at wallets, hearts and funny bones. The List will use an ensemble cast of national and local vloggers (video bloggers), web content experts, and multimedia journalists covering national topics with availabilities for localized content. Additional programming will come from the national investigative unit of the Scripps news service in Washington, D.C., as well as local Scripps affiliates. Rick Joyce, the executive producer of The List spent 10 years as News Director of "Entertainment Tonight" and created and executive produced an entertainment website called HollywoodIntel.com.
The series will be made available outside of the Scripps markets through Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution for a fall 2013 national launch and prior thereto as appropriate time periods become available.
"This is an important step in our strategy to take more direct creative and economic control of the content that serves our viewers and supports our advertisers across the country," said Rich Boehne, Scripps president and CEO. "There's no more important place to be an entrepreneur than in the creation of programming for the growing menu of screens that carry our brands."
Scripps has a long and successful history as a content producer for television. In addition to extensive local news and information programming, Scripps also spent 15 years producing content for its own and other cable TV networks. The cable network division, which included Home & Garden Television and Food Network, was spun off into a separate company, Scripps Networks Interactive, in 2008.
More recently, Scripps has collaborated with Cox Media and Raycom Media to produce RightThisMinute, a daily, 60-minute program that tells the news and stories of the day through cell phones, webcams, digital cameras and Skype accounts. RightThisMinute launched in fall 2011 and will expand to more than 50 markets by this fall.
"We launch these new shows with great confidence that they will engage a broad audience that will be attractive to advertisers," said Brian Lawlor, senior vice president of the Scripps television division. "We have invested many months of research to find winning formulas that will inform and entertain audiences. Our extensive testing convinced us that we have the ingredients for some of the most-appealing new content to be introduced in the access and early-fringe hours in many years."
The new programming begins in September in the Scripps markets of Phoenix, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Tampa and Tulsa. When contracts for other syndicated shows expire in the remaining Scripps markets (Detroit, Denver, San Diego, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Mo., West Palm Beach, Fla., and Bakersfield, Calif.), Let's Ask America and The List will move into those timeslots.
About Scripps
Scripps is a leading media enterprise that embraces its rich history in delivering high-quality journalism through television stations, newspapers and the Scripps Howard News Service, while developing and expanding its digital strategies, including social gaming, for multiple platforms. The company provides community-changing breaking news, story-telling, investigations and interactive outreach at 19 television stations in major markets such as Denver, San Diego, Detroit, Phoenix, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Tampa, and 13 newspaper markets, including Memphis, Knoxville, Naples, Fla., and Corpus Christi, Texas. Since 1941, Scripps has operated the National Spelling Bee, one of America's most-enduring celebrations of academic excellence.


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Tr:HOWTO: Samba foldersharing in Dolphin or Nautilus the smooth way
NASIL: Dolphin ve Nautilus'da Dosya Paylaşımı Yapmanın Kolay Yolu
1. make shure you have installed samba, kdenetwork-filesharing (for KDE SC) or nautilus-share (for Gnome)
2. open a terminal and become su
3. add a group called sambashare by running
<syntaxhighlight lang="'"`UNIQ--pre-00000000-QINU`"'" enclose="none"></syntaxhighlight>
4. add your user to the group sambashare
<syntaxhighlight lang="'"`UNIQ--pre-00000001-QINU`"'" enclose="none"></syntaxhighlight>
5. run these three commands:
<syntaxhighlight lang="'"`UNIQ--pre-00000002-QINU`"'" enclose="none"></syntaxhighlight>
<syntaxhighlight lang="'"`UNIQ--pre-00000003-QINU`"'" enclose="none"></syntaxhighlight>
<syntaxhighlight lang="'"`UNIQ--pre-00000004-QINU`"'" enclose="none"></syntaxhighlight>
4. add these at the end of the [Global] section in /etc/samba/smb.conf
<syntaxhighlight lang="'"`UNIQ--pre-00000005-QINU`"'" enclose="none"></syntaxhighlight>
5. make sure all entries in
<syntaxhighlight lang="'"`UNIQ--pre-00000006-QINU`"'" enclose="none"></syntaxhighlight>
are commented out
6. For sharing folders in you home folder, make sure that the homefolder of the user is readable to others, otherwise samba can't make the folders there accessable.
7. run
<syntaxhighlight lang="'"`UNIQ--pre-00000007-QINU`"'" enclose="none"></syntaxhighlight>
so the samba daemon is startet on systemstart (only if samba is not running at startup, for ubuntu or debian this should not be needed, but for Sabayon this is necessary).
8. And as some people will experience that after reboot the nmbd is not started and the shares are not shown you can add to the
<syntaxhighlight lang="'"`UNIQ--pre-00000008-QINU`"'" enclose="none"></syntaxhighlight> this
<syntaxhighlight lang="'"`UNIQ--pre-00000009-QINU`"'" enclose="none"></syntaxhighlight>
and if you still get problems using this you could try it with the sleep command to enshure that nmbd really can open a socketand if you still get problems using this you could try it with the sleep command to enshure that nmbd really can open a socket
<syntaxhighlight lang="'"`UNIQ--pre-0000000A-QINU`"'" enclose="none"></syntaxhighlight>
this lets the system wait for 20 seconds and then does the restart of the samba service. You should find out what is the best time youself, for me the 20 seconds are good working.
9. And the
<syntaxhighlight lang="'"`UNIQ--pre-0000000B-QINU`"'" enclose="none"></syntaxhighlight> should also be edited because the aliases are confusing smb.
So I changed it from
<syntaxhighlight lang="'"`UNIQ--pre-0000000C-QINU`"'" enclose="none"></syntaxhighlight>
<syntaxhighlight lang="'"`UNIQ--pre-0000000D-QINU`"'" enclose="none"></syntaxhighlight>
10. finally reboot, now you can use the foldersharing by rightclicking within Dolphin or Nautilus
Perhaps this should be implemented in Sabayon as default, so the user experience gets more comfortable.

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Album vinyl 12 songs + MP3 coupon.
New album from the duo Mansfield Tya, which combines lyrics in French and English, an evanescent sound or a totally rock one. The meeting between the new French song as Dominique A, the hot-tempered rock of Shannon Wright, marked by a kind of Sebastien Tellier or These New Puritains. A concept album about the night you should listen to carefully, or at least with passion.
Listen here.
pour écouter, vous devez disposer du plugin flash player :


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Stuart Cloete's first novel sold more than 2 million copies and, more than thirty years after his death, his books are still widely read. He appeals to the modern reader because his themes, love and war, are timeless and universal. Cloete had authentic knowledge of both; he entered adulthood in the trenches of the First World War and, by his own account, 'had been in love with one girl or another since he was six years old.'
When he began writing in the 1930s Cloete recognised that, despite his lack of formal education, he had something to say. He was nearing fourty and he had lived! He was the archetype 'global man' who was born in France, fought for England, lived in America and died in the land of his ancestors, South Africa. The war and his knowledge of Africa gave him enough subject matter to support a prolific career, and almost all of his novels were bestsellers.
A literary friend remarked that he stood out from his high-brow peers as something 'real' and this quality makes his vivid narratives highly evocative, his autobiography astoundingly honest.
Cloete was a critical observer of the changing times. He was sentimental about his Victorian childhood but avoided delusions about the past. He could criticise the modern world, while welcoming a new attitude that allowed him to indulge his sensuality in his writing. He was even post-modern; a man who could give up God and yet still think that those who had Him were better off.
Cloete left no children behind. But he did consider one young man to be like a son. Cloete was a friend and mentor to this man when he arrived in South Africa from America, and was willing to vouch for him and help launch his career. It is this man, Warren Wilmot Williams, who has commissioned this site and holds the rights to Cloete's literary estate; a 'kaleidoscope of memories, hopes and regrets.'


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American Incomes Finally Stabilize, and More
What's News: American household incomes stabilize for the first time since the recession. Grand Theft Auto V debuts with strong sales. The NFL is doubling prices for Super Bowl XLVIII tickets. Joanne Po reports.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the house for Americans the least bit allies ... and this is this still depressed ... this is what's news I'm WS J live I'm Thailand Co ... the income of the typical U S family studies for the first time since the recession ... the Census bureau's new report says that the median income of fifty one thousand seventeen ... is essentially unchanged from the previous year ... that follows two annual declines report is viewed as a gauge of American prosperity ... it suggests that consumers may soon start to feel the benefits of a steady but slow growth in jobs ... any pickup in income growth ... would give Americans more spending power and boost the economic recovery ... it's not all good news though family incomes are still either cent below two thousandseven levels ... when the recession began and far from the all-time peak in nineteen ninety nine ... consumers are spending when it comes to popular videogames though hard core gamers staying up all night to get their hands on the fifth instalment of Grand Theft Auto ... the action packed video game was five years in the making ... and is expected to easily Clearwire billion dollars in sales ... the game has garnered nearly universally ... positive reviews from critics and suggests a strong start to the TV seasons industry holiday season ... and get ready to dig deeper in your pocket if you're planning to attend the Super Bowl this February football's biggest night would be at MetLife Stadium ... and the ... Alice close to approving a plan that would ... more than double the prices ... will be charges for the most coveted Super Bowl tickets ... the NFL wants to close the gap between the face value the ticket and the true value ticket ... so club level seats the NSA and ... he'll have to pony up twenty six hundred box ... it kept it open to fifty dollars last year ... and if you're looking for the cheap seats ... the good news is that ... those prices are going down to a near ... five hundred dollars ... bookie keep us in all the way this is about as rapid and what's news I'm WS J last I'm Joann Co ...


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Florida Brown Snake
Scientific name: Storeria victa (HAY 1892)
* Currently accepted name
* scientific names used through time
- Tropidonotus dekayi – HOLBROOK 1842
- Tropidonatus [sic] dekayi – HALLOWELL 1847
- Storeria dekayi – BAIRD & GIRARD 1853
- Ischnognathus dekayi – DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854
- Storeria tropica – COPE 1885
- Storeria victa – HAY 1892
- Storeria dekayi victa – CONANT 1958
Description Average adult size is 7-10 inches (17.7-25.4 cm), record is 19 inches (48.26 cm). Adults are small, thin, and may be rusty-brown or grayish, with a faint light mid-dorsal stripe and fleckings on the sides. There is a light band across the back of head. There is a dark spot on the upper lip scales under the eye. The belly is tannish to pinkish, with black dots along the edges. The scales are keeled and there are 15 dorsal scale rows at midbody. The pupil is round.
A. Top of the head
B. Underside of the head (chin and throat)
C. Front (face view) of the head
D. Side of the head
E. Keeled scales
F. Elongated scales below the tail (subcaudal scales) are typically divided
Range:In Florida, the Florida Brown Snake occurs throught the peninsula and Upper Florida Keys, there are disjunct populations in the Lower Florida Keys. Outside of Florida, it occurs into southeastern Georgia.
Habitat: Commonly found near hardwood hammocks, pinelands, bogs, marshes, ponds, swamps, and sloughs.
Comments: HARMLESS (Non-Venomous). The Florida Brown Snake is a terrestrial burrower, found under logs, rocks, and other debris. It feeds on slugs, snails, and earthworms, but occasionally eats small fishes, frogs, and salamanders.
Comparison with other species: The Midland Brown Snake (Storeria dekayi wrightorum) may have dark lines across the back connecting the black spots along the mid-dorsal stripe. The Redbelly Snake (Storeria occipitomaculata) has a light spot under the eye, a light band across the back of neck (not head), and sometimes a red belly. The Ringneck Snake (Diadophis punctatus) is solid grayish-black, with a complete neck ring and black spotted yellow-orange belly.


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Eurofound publishes its work in a range of publication formats to match audience needs and the nature of the output. These include flagship reports on a particular area of activity, research reports summarising the findings of a research project and policy briefs presenting policy pointers from research projects or facts and figures relevant to policy debates. Also included are blog articles, regular articles on working life in Europe, presentations, working papers providing background material to ongoing or already concluded research, and reports arising from ad hoc requests by policymakers. Other corporate publications include annual reports, brochures and promotional publications. Web databases and online resources such as data visualisation applications are available in Data and resources.
UK: Plans to outlaw exclusivity clauses for zero hours contractsA bill banning exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts was introduced to parliament in July 2014 (although the government has resisted calls for an outright ban on such contracts). Exclusivity clauses stop workers from seeking work with other employers, even when no amount of work is set out in the employment contract.
Italy: Performance-related pay tax breakThe Italian government has agreed to favourable taxation of performance-related pay in companies that have signed decentralised collective agreements. The favourable rates will apply to up to €3,000 gross of performance-related pay for employees in the private sector, provided their 2013 income did not exceed €40,000, and has been extended for a further year.
Cyprus: Guaranteed minimum incomeIn Cyprus, a draft bill to establish a guaranteed minimum income (GMI) benefit was voted on by the House of Representatives in July 2014. The GMI is seen as the cornerstone of current reform of the social security system, simplifying benefits and giving assistance to those most in need.
Netherlands: New Act on work and securityThe Netherlands' new Act on Work and Security will change employment and dismissal law. The aim is to create a new balance between 'insiders' – permanent employees who have high levels of protection – and 'outsiders', flexible workers who have little or no protection. The act was passed in July 2014 and comes into force in 2015.
Norway: Two-year wage deals renegotiatedIn April 2014, social partners in Norway's export industries, which set the trend for wage bargaining, concluded a new collective agreement for 2014–2016. The pay increase for all employees covered by it is estimated at 3.3%, but this will not be confirmed until 2015 when company negotiations are concluded.
Portugal: Employment protection weakenedAfter the troika intervention ended in Portugal in May 2014, important changes were made to employment rules. These allow companies to dismiss workers for 'unsuitability', and companies in crisis to suspend collective agreements. They also reduce the period for which expired collective agreements remain valid, and extend exceptional measures that undermine collective agreements on overtime pay.
Romania: Reduction of undeclared work and contributions to social securityUndeclared work has been a major issue in Romania for many years. One of the latest laws to try to tackle it has reduced social security contributions by five percentage points. Social partners cannot agree whether this will have the desired effect; some suggest that reducing VAT may have been a better solution.
Romania: Vacation vouchers for public sector employeesVacation vouchers, which public sector employees had been expected to get in 2014, will now be available from 2015. The vouchers can be used to purchase domestic holidays worth up to RON 5,400 per fiscal year (€1,219 as at December 3, 2014). The social partners see these vouchers as useful in developing Romanian tourism.
Croatia: Outsourcing of non-core services to the private sectorThe Government of Croatia announced a proposal to outsource non-core services to the private sector. After strong resistance by trade unions and others, the government then suggested the creation of a spin-off publicly owned company to take on the employees and deliver the services. In the face of continued opposition, the government finally withdrew both proposals.
France: Donation of leave to employees with seriously ill childrenCertain French companies have traditionally allowed employees to donate some of their leave to colleagues with seriously ill children. This tradition is sometimes implemented informally and sometimes enshrined in a company-level labour agreement. The French National Assembly has now passed a law providing a framework for companies to manage this practice.


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New Norcia - DSA 1
The New Norcia station, DSA 1 (Deep Space Antenna 1), hosts a 35-metre deep-space antenna with transmission and reception in both S- and X-band and is located 140 kilometres north of Perth, Western Australia, close to the town of New Norcia. DSA-1 is designed for communicating with deep-space missions and provides support to spacecraft such as Mars Express, Rosetta and Gaia for routine operations.
The station is located about 8 kilometres south of New Norcia, which is about 150 kilometres north of Perth.
Facilities & technology
The technical facilities at New Norcia comprise S- and X-band uplink and downlink equipment, a ranging system, a frequency and timing system, a monitoring and control system and a communications system. The site is equipped with a no-break power plant.
The antenna radio frequency system is composed of a beam-wave guide system with a frequency-sensitive (dichroic) mirror and S- and X-band feeds, cryogenically cooled S- and X-band low-noise amplifiers and 2- and 20-kilowatt S- and X-band transmitters.
There are plans to upgrade the station for data reception in the Ka-band (32 GHz), which will become the future international standard for deep-space missions.
DSA-1 at New Norcia provides routine operations support to ESA's ongoing deep-space missions Mars Express and Rosetta, as well as to other missions including Gaia and Cluster II. DSA-1 also supports Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP), and provides support to missions operated by other agencies under resource-sharing agreements.
The antenna and terminal infrastructure were newly completed in 2002 with successful pointing tests conducted with NASA's Stardust mission, and the station entered service as ESA's first deep-space station in March 2003.
The mechanical movable structure weighs 580 tonnes. Engineers can point it with a speed of 1 degree per second in both axes (horizontal and vertical). Its Servo Control System provides the highest possible pointing accuracy under the site's environmental, wind and temperature conditions.
The New Norcia antenna is one of the largest in the world for telemetry, tracking and command (TT&C) applications. It is essential for high-performance communications with spacecraft far out in space and missions in highly elliptical orbits which take them far from Earth.
ESA's Mars Express and Rosetta scientific missions fall squarely into that category. The antenna allows scientific data being collected by Rosetta, for example, to be reliably received on Earth when the spacecraft is hundreds of millions of kilometres away.
The station is also used to communicate with BepiColombo, ESA's mission to Mercury.
The station's location was carefully chosen to provide the necessary satellite visibility, the required radio-frequency clearance for data transmission and reception, the best-available weather conditions, which influence station performance (rain attenuation, wind speed), and to satisfy the need for cost-efficient operation and maintenance.
The station is remotely controlled from ESOC.
Delta DOR, GPS-TDAF, radio science
The station is also equipped with Delta DOR (Delta Differential One-Way Ranging), a new technology enabling highly precise spacecraft location and tracking.
A GPS-TDAF (GPS Tracking and Data Analysis Facility) dual-frequency receiver system with geodetic accuracy is installed on the site, which delivers continuous measurements to the ESOC Navigation Facility.
The station also hosts facilities enabling scientists to analyse received signals to perform radio science experiments.
NNO-2 dish antenna
In 2015, a new 4.5 m radio dish was installed at New Norcia to replace the satellite acquisition capability previously provided by the station at Perth, which was retired. It is designated NNO-2, while the existing 35 m antenna becomes NNO-1.
NNO-2 offers a wider field of view than the 35 m antenna and can acquire signals from newly launched spacecraft even when the its position is not precisely known. It can also 'slave' point the NNO-1 antenna.
NNO-2 transmits and receives in X-band, and can receive telemetry downloaded in S-band for launcher tracking.
Access & contact
The ESOC point of contact is:
Head of Ground Facilities Operations Div.
ESOC, Darmstadt
Tel: +49-6151-900
Station address:
ESA New Norcia Tracking Station
10353 Great Northern Highway
Western Australia


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Men's Anger & Stress Management Drop-in Group
Event Dates:
A weekly drop-in group for those who want support and education in dealing with relationships. No pre-registration required.
- Men who are facing charges related to assault are encouraged to get these charges dealt with in court before attending this group.
- The Centre will not provide a letter of progress for lawyers. If requested, a letter of attendance may be provided, but personal progress information is not included.


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Here's some added detail on the biggest patent litigation settlement in history: Microsoft ordered to pay Alcatel $1.5 B based on its Windows Media Player infringing the French telecoms' MP3 technology. The jury found Microsoft infringed the RE39,080 patent for a "rate loop processor for perceptual encoder/decoder" and
US 5,341,457 on "perceptual coding of audio signals". The jury set a royalty of 0.5% for each of the two patents infringed (1.0% total) for sales on Windows Media Players back to version 6.1. If you asked yourself exactly what this case is about, keep reading…
Alcatel received the highest award ever for a patent infringement based on Microsoft's use of Alcatel's patented MP3 technology. The $1.5 B settlement is significantly more than the previous high of $909mm Kodak was ordered to pay to Polaroid in the early '90s for violating patents related to instant cameras.
The case was originally filed in federal court in Virginia pitting Lucent against Gateway and Dell over patents related to color memory, video-search functions and controlling a computer with a stylus. Microsoft joined the case as it was obligated to indemnify and reimburse Gateway and Dell. Then Lucent, Dell, and Microsoft filed various other actions against one another in numerous jurisdictions ultimately leading to the cases being combined all in one jurisdiction – the Southern District Court for California. Judge Brewster then broke all the merged actions into several cases (all in his jurisdiction) based on technology. The case on the patented MP3 technology was the first one decided. Alcatel acquired Lucent last year resulting in the Alcatel v. Microsoft dispute.
Though difficult to track down, here is a folder of the Alcatel and Microsoft patents involved in the various disputes against one another. For this specific case, the jury found that Windows Media Player infringed claims 1, 3, and 4 of the '080 patent and claims 1, 5, and 10 of the '457 patent. In case you're wondering, and we were, here's a couple exemplary claims…
Claim 1 of the '080 patent reads as:
Claim 1 of the '457 patents reads as:
Considering that Alcatel paid $11.6 B for Lucent last year – receiving $1.56 B back on 2 patents could go a long way towards justifying the acquisition. With several more cases still pending, the end result may be even bigger.


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Earth : Europe : Russia : Siberia : Eastern Siberia : Zabaykalsky Krai : Zabaikalsk
Zabaikalsk (Russian: Забайка́льск zuh-bigh-KAHL'SK) is a city in Zabaykalsky Krai in Russia.
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By Train[edit]
Zabaikalsk is the final stop on the Russian side of the Russia-China border on the Trans-Manchurian route from Moscow to Beijing. Trains from Russian stations, Irkutsk, Ulan Ude and Chita stop regularly at Zabaikalsk with a weekly service from Chinese stations, Manzhouli (Mandschuria), Harbin and Beijing. The service from Irkutsk decouples from from a Irkutsk-Kharbarosk at Chita waiting six hours before coupling with the Chita-Zabaikalsk service. It is possible to look arround Chita during this break or stay on the carriage in the shunting yards. Toilets are closed for the full 6 hours with the station a 15 min walk away.
The route Chita-Zabaikalsk is serviced daily. If you get off in Zabaikalsk, you need to take a bus to cross the boarder to Manzhouli but you have to buy the train ticket at Manzhouli at the spot(no pre-booking service).
http://www.poezda.net/ can be used to check train schedules.
By Bus[edit]
The bus station is located 800 m from the train station. After leaving the train, head along the platform in the direction from which the train came. Take the footbridge out of the station then follow the station fence in the direction the train was heading (ie China). Look out for the flashing lights on the giant welcome gate.
Expect no one in Zabaikalsk bus station or officials on either side of this border to speak English.
Several busses run daily between Zabaikalsk and Manzhouli, China. The last bus from Zabaikalsk bus station (located near the train station) leaves 15:10 so it might be a good idea to arrive there earlier as Zabaikalsk is not propably a place where you are interested to stay overnight.
Busses arrive at the city centre of Manzhouli.
Bus tickets for this route are 300 rubles plus 100 rubles for baggage. An additional fee of 200 rubles is paid on the Chinese side of the border.
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Zabaikalsk is almost more a village than a city. The main reason you are here is propably because you are either going to cross a border to China or you've come from China to Russia.
There most likely isn't much to do for a tourist here.
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Button's, magic buttons
"That odd man Buttons may be made fun of for his weird, hobby and obsession. But one of his magic buttons could save your life one day".
"Hey see that man over there,
no not him
him, the one with all the buttons yea that's him,
him, the one with all the buttons
yea that's him,
That peculiar man Buttons, runs a button shop at the edge of town. The shop has buttons of all kinds and fashions, heck he will even make you button out of whatever you bring him. But you better get in good with that there Buttons, for he may take you into the back of his shop. Where he has his treasure trove of only the most rare, and mystical of buttons".
The Distractle is a bronze, gear shaped button with tiny gems around the edges. When the button is spun or a command word is spoken, the button seems to spin, making a whirling noise and emiting bright little pink, blue, and green flashes to draw the eye of the opponent to the button, loosing sight of the tip of your sword.
Recolor is an ivory, triangle shaped button. The button is separated into three parts by a black band. Each section is inlaid with different colors. The first is red, the second blue, the third yellow. When any of the sections of the button is pressed it changes the color of the clothing that it is attached on to, a different hue, depending on the colors or combination of colors pressed.
Sol Servo
The Sol Servo is a Silver, sun shaped button with the runes of sun and save embedded in gold in the center of it. When the runes on Sol Servo are pulled up from the button, the button emits or blazes a complex pattern of yellow flashes and flares that seem to be known worldly as a signal of distress.
The Illac is a rough, tarnished iron button, shaped like of a oval. The button has an arrow engraved in it off center. When the Illac is touched the owner always appears to know the direction they are facing.
Recordatio is a petrified wooden button, cut and polished in the form of a hexagon. If one looks closely their is a tree with the runes of memory and recall on the tips of its branches, carved into the center of the button. When a memory is concentrated on and the user holds the button, a memory is copied into the button allowing the user to recall that memory whenever the button is held. (The memories placed into the button can last forever but new memories can only be placed into the button once every day)
Time Tracker
This glass button was blown into the shape of the hourglass. The time tracker to others appears to be just a button shaped like a hourglass, but to the owner it is so much more. To the owner there is blue sand in the hourglass, and when it is looked at the owner can know the exact time. But there is also a ability that is usually not discovered until they have owned the Time Tracker for a while. When the owner concentrates on a specific time and taps the top part of the hour glass, a thin layer of sand according to that time on the hourglass will turn a bright red. When the red layer passes though the top portion to the bottom portion the button will shake, vibrate, and the owner will gain a sense of urgency.
feather carrier
This brass, common looking button is shaped like a circle. It has 10 tiny feathers spread in a fan engraved on its surface. When the user writes a message on a small piece of parchment and speaks a certain command word, one of the feathers will come off of the button and carry the message to its designated target. Once it reaches its target it disappears.
Orienting twins
The orienting twins button comes in pair of two. The buttons look exactly like common buttons except one difference. One of the buttons has a word on the back for seek, while the other has the word for found. When these buttons are split from each other the one with the word seek can tell the general direction of the button with the word found.
This brass dowsing rod shaped button. Does exactly what its looks and name implies, it dowses for water. When this button is held it gives the user the same effect as a simple dowsing rod would.
Sun Start
The sun Start is simply a yellow clay sun shape with a clay violet heart shape, molded onto one another. When the Sun Start is held in the early morning after the owner wakes up, it gives the user a small burst of energy, getting them out of there half-sleep and ready to greet the day.
Nocens is a skull shaped silver button with a closed mouth. Nocens has a emerald in one eye and a ruby in the other. The button is usually seen on the collar of a coat or shirt of a priest, paladin, or other follower of good. When a Zombie is in a 50ft raduis from the owner, the green eye of Nocens glows that of the greenest greens, without emiting off to much light. When a vampire enters a raduis of 25ft from the owner Nocens emits a red light, bright enough to alert others. Also when a were creature happens to be in a 20ft radius Nocens opens its mouth and emits a faint pale light.
A metallic, rust-colored button with four eyes and shaped in a square. The button is actually made of two separate pieces attached by a copper band. When tapped twice, the two halves will grind against each other back and forth very rapidly. The result is a small rain of sparks, enough to start kindling or cause a distraction.
This button is covered by cloth that is many times sewn over by threads of many colours, and strongly sewn to the garment. If any ordinary button is ripped from this garment, or becomes lose and falls, it gives off a cracking sound that the wearer is sure to notice. If this button is cut off or torn violently by someone, it gives the person a minor jolt of static electricity. No harm, just a little ouch.
This brilliant green jade button has intricate runes inscribed into it. When tossed onto the ground a small, green kobold will appear armed with a club and attack any enemies of the button-bearer.
Time spinner
Made at the same time as Time Tracker, Time spinner is circular rather than hourglass shaped with an intricate spiral design on it's shiny surface.
When spun upon a flat surface time spinner can slow time within a radius of 20 feet for everybody but the person who set it in motion.
When time spinner finally stops spinning time will return to normal.
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The button is made from a piece of glass that was discarded because it contains bubbles. It has to be processed into shape, with many more tiny bubbles carved on its surface. When it breaks, whether by accident or say by throwing against a hard surface, it expands into a great colourful bubble, persists for a moment, only to *pop* into nothing. It is utterly harmless, but can be a great diversion.
The Lin Kuei button #1
This seemingly plain black button made from a naturally shaped river stone when touched creates a field of silence for three feet around it. Thesee buttons are generally worn at the legs of close fitting pants so that the zone of silence covers the sounds of walking. (Signifigant bonus to Move Silently)
The Lin Kuei button #2
This black button, made from a piece of resin sealed coal turns the wearer's clothes black as soot for a short amount of time. Useful for hiding in shadows and avoiding notice.
Blackie's Little Sneaks
Fashionable buttons carved of a black unicorn's horn, and inlaid with silver, they go well with a noble lady's dress.
Once, they belonged to Samantha 'Blackie' Sehraine, a witty noble who sought to take especially the jewelry, but also the secrets or spouses of her rivals.
Several of them hold tiny intruments, like finest lockpicks, files, or long thin wire.
A few can be thrown on the floor to release smoke, or sleeping gas.
One transmits sound to its twin, making it excellent for eavesdropping.
Another can be tossed into a drink, making it into a love potion with a short duration if it contains alcohol.
One can produce a sharply cut diamond that is able to cut glass, or produced mightily unpleasant scratching sounds.
One can produce a mild curse of bad luck if oyu manage to sneak it into the possessions of the individual to be cursed.
All of them share one property: whereever they may be, the one holding the master button can call all the other buttons to him, whereupon they start hopping, rolling, sliding and bouncing towards him. This is also how Samantha was caught: having become careless, she called her buttons back too soon, and a clever spy tracked her thus...
The Cooler
This button is a bright blue and when pressed three times it cools any water within three feet of the wearer for a short time only. So the person can walk through hot springs and hot water in general without being scalded,and his or her water is cool when drunk even in deserts.
The Drinker's Friend is a red button shaped like a bottle which when touched will stop alcohol from affecting a person as long as the piece of clothing with the button on it is being worn. But if the user after drinking too much takes the clothing off or has it taken off him or her-ping-instant drunkenness.
This red, cloth button will grow to a large, 2' diameter cushion when removed and placed on the ground. When picked up it will revert to it's button form.
Button of Weight
This small, dull-grey pewter button is fairly heavy normally, but 5 seconds after it is activated, it's weight increases to about 100lbs. No change in the buttons size occurs. It functions well to hold items down, or suddenly impede someone should the button be slipped into a pack or boot before activation.
This brown, leathery button has two possible uses: When put into a pot of boiling water, it will produce enough gruel to feed four persons for a day. It is, however, rather bad tasting. If only a little water is used, then the resulting substance is instead usable as a very strong hide glue.
This button is green and when pressed, for a few seconds only the user will appear to be three feet from where he or she is. Useful to dodge an arrow or a sudden attack.
These buttons of carved bone, inlaid with glyphs of bright gold, generally come in sets of six to eight (Although a set of 23 was once found). Each is decorated with a number written in an ancient script: Once sewn to a garment, they hold a potent levitation magic. Solidly pressing the first button will elevate the garments' wearer approximately ten feet. The second button gradually brings the wearer 20 feet from the ground, the third, 30, and so forth. If the wearer steps forth from his position, the spell ends immediately. In any case, the enchantment lasts for only a few seconds, may only be used once daily, and has no inherent protection against falling. If the wearer presses a number higher that he can move without resistance, due to ceilings, tree branches, or other obstacles, the spell raises them as far as possible and then immediately fails.
Pressing a lower-numbered button when one is more than the specified distance from the ground will cause the wearer to gradually sink to the preferred elevation, so the buttons may be used to reduce the risk of falling great heights. Some sets have a 'ground level' button, but this is not universal, even in sets that appear to be complete. More common are partial sets that are missing some numbers, or in which the missing numbers have been replaced with non-magical replicas.
The Flasher
A few seconds after being pressed this button lets off a bright blue flash, enough if in darkness to dazzle an opponent or animal for about ten seconds.
The Carmelli comes from the Hillfolks tribal past. This small round wooden charm appears to be a button. It is the perfect size and thickness. The small carvings are decorative and easy to copy. The enchantment on the button charm is of a low difficulty and requires little power to execute. The "button" gives the wearer a small tingle when passed over possible foodstuffs that are not "good to eat". This charm was normally used by gatherers to check for toxic or hard to digest food. As the tribal peoples have become village folk, they brought the charm with them. Now it is used to detect poisons, contaminated grain, or if the slightly turned food are still safe to eat.
Button of Mind Draining
Not all the buttons are good ones. The Button of Mind Draining is a purple button that is activated when it is done up.In the short term it makes the wearer feel and indeed be stronger, but it at the same time drains the wearer's mind so they suffer dementia within a matter of days and at the same time become strong and a danger in their demented state to themselves and others. For them to get their memories restored (at the coat of their extra strength) the button must be smashed.
By touching this small silver button any itchy skin on the wearer is scratched. It causes the same damage to the skin that normal scratching and picking does however.
Multiple button
When pressed twice this button acts like 10 buttons in keeping a shirt done up.
This big wooden piece (for a button) is quite soft to the touch. When detached from its base and dropped from a small height, or gently thrown down, it will jump back again, and again, and again, always precisely to the height it fell from. It makes a nice effect for street comedians, clowns, minor sorcerers and the like.
Even more interesting it is to musicians, its perfect rhythm serving as a good focusing tool. Some of better entertainers change the speed of their play depending on its speed. Starting in a slow tempo, with the occasional tap, they speed up the hopping until they achieve a truly outrageous performance or fail, both to the great amusement of the viewers. If you can do that, you can earn some decent money from the nobility.
The button can hop for no longer than an hour, then it must rest in its socket for at least a day.
The Three Buttons of Envy
Whoever made them, it must have been an evil person; perhaps they were born as a reflection of their personality.
Kink: this pastel-colored ivory piece has a little point. If rubbed against an item with intention, it can quietly scratch almost anything. It can't really destroy or damage, but it will ruin the beauty of a mirror or other polished surfaces.
Spoil: the green painted wood button will despoil perishable goods quickly. It doesn't take much effort when it is dipped into a jar of milk, but to sour a closed barrel of wine would require genuine, burning hate.
Smudge: the black stone material, when concentrated on, is revealed to be coal and it rubs itself onto anything with ease. It makes everything dirty and attracts more dirt, good to use on clothes or furniture.
The buttons are powered by the envy and/or hate of their user, the stronger they feel it, the stronger the effect will be. After some diligent use, the user will feel exhausted (but vindicated!). If all three are used at once, they can cause actual damage to objects, straining their malicious wielder. The perfect set for a little covert vandalism.
Button Of Truth
This ornate button, decorated by soft wire, blinks when the wearer speaks what he feels is the truth and is certain of that. The button does not blink in all other cases - whether he is unsure or telling outrageous lies. Some claim it is possible to cheat the button. Most are quickly annoyed by the constant blinking.
Strength Burst
When pressed this button allows one action to be done with great strength, but it can only be used once every 24 hours and the effect only lasts for five seconds.
This dull grey button is the ultimate for the fashion conscious: when held and concentrated on, all other buttons change their color to whatever the wearer wishes, for a night. This button must stay drab for contrast; so it is usually sown on the inside.
It is a very reliable button, but it is said, that one user vomited on it after too much partying, and was cursed for years with always mismatching buttons. That's what they say about it, honestly.
This button is a vague triangular shape, with a light blue background and a yellow star on it. When activated, generally by pressing it twice, it generates enough force to propel an average sized person a good 20 feet forwards. (i.e. The direction the star is facing.) It helps if you need to run away or change directions very quickly, as the button can be used to compensate for forces of inertia when turning around bends. It can even be used to slow down a falling object to relatively safe speeds.
Unfortunately, the force is entirely concentrated on the button itself, so if it's not secured, it might just rip itself free of whatever surface it's adhered on, instead of pulling the owner's weight. For this reason, it's usually worn on more lasting materials than mere fabric, (Plate armor and the like). Also, due to the force generated, the button can be uses to add some extra force behind a person's blows (Flying sword, anyone?) and stronger versions can even be used as a propellant for some projectile weapons.
Whistler: this bronze button looks more like a cheap brooch in the shape of an elephant. Usually sown into undistinct clothing of someone that needs to hide, one can blow into the trunk and whistle. Once per day, the owner may produce a much louder tune, and concentrating on a person will make him or her really feel it - usually producing a headache making them think again about doing whatever they were doing. Sometimes that's enough to escape trouble or call for help.
Tumble: this button appears to be a flower formed from several pea-sized beads. When removed from an object of clothing the beads which form the petals fall off, creating a slightly treacherous five-foot square for those who do not tread carefully. Concentrating on the button will recall all of the beads, but only within thirty feet.
Arsonists Button
This button, when consumed, will count as 1 days meal.
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Hey for any mods im not done with this yet and the in work buttons not working for me.
Moved to the in work section for you Eclipse.
Thank you very much kind sir.
The character Buttons was taken off of Muromets sub Inn Ye' Go.
Sweeeeeet...Buttons, Buttons, and more Buttons...oh and I LOVE what you're doing for samples, Eclipse! The names of the buttons especially, Kudos.
This is really good and I look forward to more submissions from you. 5/5
Very cool! It's like a bag of minor enchanted items that might crop up on various masterwork or looted garments. I bet you could make a table of these and randomly attach a button to a garment found in a dungeon or treasure trove. Can't wait to see more like these from you, Eclipse!
You know, this reminds me a great deal of the 'Captain's Magic Buttons' from the Wiggles (my son watches these folks like crazy!) and even more strangely, I was thinking that there was a sub there.
There definately was! I'll be adding to this scroll!
Great idea! I _do_ love weird little magical effects... there will be more to this, I assure you.
This looks like fun, I think I shall have to add to is as well.
Also added it to the Generic Magic Items Codex
Updated: added freetext
Why did this pop into Awaiting Approval (again)???!!!
on that note...why do Exile's subs keep going back here? I have personally removed another one of his subs from here 3 times.
I dont get it...bug?
I like rhis thread.
While this got 'trickle-bumped' by the Generic Magic Items codex being bumped, it deserves it's own particular bump.
I love it, and will probably implement it in at least one game I GM.
Someone really needs to tell me how to trigger boldtext in here.
(It is good ole HTML, I have added it for you. Nice button!)
*bookmarked* Fantastic work by everyone.
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No, I'm not plotting. I promise.
But as I've been thinking about the direction of Murder She Writes, I can't help but think to do this right, I should have a loose idea of what I want to accomplish.
1) Nurture and grow the community that is already here.
2) Write blogs that interest both me and my readers.
3) Provide a forum to talk about things that interest me and my readers.
I have a few interviews scheduled with fun and exciting authors; I will of course talk weekly about television or movies. But I want to know: are you interested in a weekly blog about writing? For example, I have a partial draft of a blog about character motivation. I was too tired to finish it now, but plan to post it later this week or early next week. Is this something you'd like to see more of?
What about excerpts? Complete short stories? My misadventures as a mother of five? Interviews with authors? Industry folks (agents/editors)?
I suppose I'm looking for guidance. Of course I'm not going to blog about anything I don't want to … I'm 44. While I'm not as old as my grandmother was when she died–where she was old enough to say whatever she wanted to whoever she wanted!–I'm getting to the point where I really just want to do what I want to do … which is playing with my kids and writing. 🙂 But I like blogging, and I like talking. So what do you want me to write about? If it's something I'm even remotely interested in, I'll blog about it 🙂
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Since the pastor and elders make up the Session, which is the shepherding group of men in that church, go to one of these men and express your desire to join them as a communicant member. Ask him—the pastor or an elder—what you must do to join.
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The Republicans have political rising stars like Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, but Eli Olivarez says the Democrats have something better.
The Hispanic vote.
"I haven't seen the Republicans do anything to get us on board and include us. Just because they have [Florida Sen.] Marco Rubio does not make them a Latino outreach party," said Olivarez, a McAllen resident and the state Democratic committeeman for District 20.
As Olivarez, the chair of the Texas Stonewall Democrats, spoke in the back of a ballroom in Charlotte the proof was right behind him — the first meeting of Latino delegates to the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
About 13.6 percent of delegates at the Democratic National Convention are Latinos — nearly three times the estimated 5 percent at the Republican National Conference in Tampa last week. The number of Latino Democratic delegates has increased to 658 four years ago to at least 759 in 2012, according to an internal email sent to Latino Democrats in Charlotte.
Latinos also broke records at this year's convention in terms of leadership at the committee. Five of 18 top positions for the conventions standing committees such as platform, rules and credentials are held by Hispanics this year.
And the chair of the National Democratic Committee, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chose 19 Latinos among the 75 convention official positions. In past years, that number ranged between zero and seven.
There is also a record number of Hispanic groups participating. Four years ago, five national Hispanic organizations attended the Democrats' quadrennial gathering. This year, there are 43.
It's no secret the Hispanic population leans Democratic. Various polls conducted in the last year give Obama up to 70 percent of the Hispanic vote, while Romney has garnered between 17 percent and 26 percent. Republicans have tried to win Hispanics to their side by showcasing Hispanics in top leadership positions, emphasizing their "pro-family" and "pro-life" views on social issues, touting Romney's tax cut proposals for entrepreneurs and even talking about Romney's Mexican heritage. (His father was born in a Mormon community in Mexico and his son has spoken Spanish in ads aired by the Romney campaign.)
Some Latinos have been disappointed that Obama did not pursue comprehensive immigration reform in the first year of his presidency and has presided over a record number of deportations of illegal immigrants. But harsh anti-immigrant rhetoric from some Republicans — and Romney's hard-right position on illegal immigration during the 2012 GOP primaries — has increased Hispanic support for Obama and other Democratic candidates.
Because delegates are elected by those in their community, the number is a good reflection of the growing importance of Hispanics in the electoral process, said Gloria Hefner, a San Antonio resident who was a state delegate in 2008 and is a volunteer at the national convention this year.
"It's just like running for an office," she said. "More Hispanics are getting more involved in politics and our voice counts."
And with numbers comes influence, Olivarez says.
"We've mobilized," he said. "We've had an administration that's allowed us to be a part of the agenda. We've had a place at the table."


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43 Quick Breakfast Recipes We Love
With school days back upon us, we're all feeling that morning crunch. Here are 43 of our favorite quick breakfast recipes—eggy things, muffins, pancakes and waffles, pastries, hash, and breakfast sandwiches—all ready to hit the table in 30 minutes or less!*
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- Son-in-Law Eggs: Thai Fried Hard-Boiled Eggs in Tamarind Sauce
- Anda Bhurji (Spicy Indian Scrambled Eggs)
- The Creamiest Scrambled Eggs
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- Lemon Poppyseed Scones
- Dried Blueberry Biscuits
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- Spicy Potato, Bok Choy, and Shallot Hash
- Smoked Fish Hash
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- Chive Biscuit Sandwich with Cheddar Spread, Canadian Bacon, and a Fried Egg
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Žlahtina: The Perfect Under-$20 Wine For Oysters
Our hunt for great-tasting affordable wine.
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I'd been hiding this quirky, slender, delicious looking bottle in the fridge for a special occasion. I don't mean a fancy dinner or holiday, or even an evening with important company. I mean a special occasion...
"HOG ISLAND," I'd scribbled on the Post-It I stuck on the bottle after doing a quick bit of research on the wine importer's website. One sentence was all I needed to know exactly the special occasion I'd drink this on: "It should be easygoing, relaxed, breezy; the sort of wine best sipped lazily with briny hors d'oeuvres," the website instructed.
Enter: the northern California coast, a sliver of land with too many wonderful things about it to count. One of them is the stunning scenery, on par with some of the most beautiful places I've witnessed on any continent. Another is the glorious fact that there is almost no cell phone reception once you veer west onto Highway 1 after crossing the Golden Gate. A third important bit: there are fresher-than-fresh oysters available from water just footsteps away, doled out by the bag-full with little accompaniment besides sunshine and a shucking knife. Perfect, briny hors d'oeuvres ready and willing to pair with "the sort of wine best sipped lazily."
With glee, I shoved the beeping/buzzing/flashing outside world deep into the glove compartment and crunched my way down the shell-strewn walkway to the picnic tables on the peer at Hog Island Oyster Company in Tomales Bay. We ordered about ten dozen oysters. Then I cracked into this beauty: 2011 Šipun Žlahtina.
6,000 miles away, the Croatian island of Krk is one of the biggest in the Adriatic Sea, clocking in at over 150 square miles. At one point, about 60% of Krk was covered with native grape vines, mostly Žlahtina. Today? There's barely one square mile of vineyard land left.
But if winemakers like Ivica Dobrinčić (and oyster lovers everywhere) have anything to do with it, that number should steadily rise again. Dobrinčić is perhaps Žlahtina's biggest proponent, working with this local grape that Jancis Robinson and her coauthors explain is part of a local "revitalization project involving clonal selection and replanting."
Sign me up for the revitalization project. This wine, Dobrinčić's Šipun Žlahtina, threw open a window of lilies and gardenias in full, raucous bloom. The intense aromatics took me by surprise, as did the plush and creamy texture that played perfectly off our oysters. I was expecting a cold slice of acidity and fierce minerality, but what the wine delivered was a gentler dose of each, buffered by juicy white peaches, Golden Delicious apples and marzipan. (Yes, I said it: marzipan!) We couldn't decide if we liked it better with the raw oysters, the smoked oysters hot off the grill, or the ones smothered with brown-sugar butter and chipotle sauce. So we ordered a dozen more of each. And poured ourselves another glass.
2011 Šipun Žlahtina
The Grape(s): Žlahtina
The Region: Krk, Croatia
Retail Price: $17
The Importer: Blue Danube
About the Author: Stevie Stacionis is a wine writer and Certified Sommelier based in San Francisco. She's currently drinking her way through the 1,368 varieties included in the new Wine Grapes tome. Follow her on Twitter @StevieStacionis and check out her snobbery-free wine videos at A Drinks With Friends TV.
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Obama without his script
The Obama campaign has for months pursued the odd strategy of having the junior senator from Illinois act as if he were already kinda-sorta president of the United States. In June, it tried sticking a quasi-presidential seal on his lectern. Then in July, he conducted what seemed like official state visits with foreign leaders and delivered something like a "prenaugural" address in Berlin, inviting comparisons to JFK and Reagan.
It's an understandable ploy. More than most candidates, Barack Obama needs to appear like a plausible commander in chief because he's not only inexperienced (during the last Summer Olympics he was still an Illinois state legislator), he's novel. The name, the skin color, the cosmopolitan upbringing: Fair or not, all of these things give Obama the aura of otherness that is both part of his charm and a potential handicap.
If the would-be president can seem plausibly presidential, voting for him might not seem like such a crapshoot. It all makes sense, even if it fosters an air of presumptuousness.
(David Letterman recently offered a list of the top 10 signs Obama is overconfident. Among them: "Asked guy at Staples, 'Which chair will work best in an oval-shaped office?' "; "Having head measured for Mt. Rushmore;" and "Offered McCain a job in gift shop at the Obama Presidential Library.")
Now fate has given Obama a chance to be presidential rather than pretend. Taking advantage of the Olympic distraction in Beijing, the Russians invaded South Ossetia, a territory on the north side of Georgia, a democratic U.S. ally. Out of the blocks, the Russians bombed civilians, rolled tanks across an internationally recognized border and threatened to launch an all-out, destabilizing war. Now it looks as if their army has cut Georgia in two.
Moreover, Russian bombs reportedly targeted the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, which runs through Georgia on its way to the Mediterranean -- the only oil pipeline in Central Asia not under Russian control. Russia is tightening its chokehold on oil and gas at precisely the moment energy costs have become the paramount domestic issue in the U.S. presidential campaign.
Obama's response?
First, late Thursday evening, he gave a conventional written statement calling for calm, U.N. action and "restraint" from both sides -- followed an hour later by a slightly stronger condemnation of Russian aggression and a call for a cease-fire.
The invasion of Georgia elicited a wan written communique instead of the sort of exciting rhetoric we've come to expect from his make-believe presidency. But he did make it in front of the cameras the next day for a rally celebrating his vacation in Hawaii. He promised "to go body surfing at some undisclosed location."
During Obama's make-believe presidency, we've heard about bold action, about the courage to talk to dictators. When faced with a real "3 a.m. moment," Obama -- who boasts about 200 foreign policy advisors, broken into 10 subgroups -- proclaims, "I'm going to get some shave ice."
Now, of course, this is a bit unfair in that Obama had planned his no doubt well-deserved vacation for a very long time. But presidential vacations are always well planned -- and often interrupted.
Indeed, President Bush's jaunt to the Olympics as a "sports fan" should also have been cut short the moment tanks started rolling over a country he'd proclaimed a "beacon of liberty" during his visit there in 2005. By Monday, both Bush and Obama were playing catch-up to Sen. John McCain, who seemed to have grasped the gravity from the get-go and whose support for Georgia is long-standing. He took the lead from the outset, demanding on Friday morning an emergency meeting of NATO and Western aid to the fledgling democracy.
The geopolitical significance of Russia's invasion of Georgia at this stage is hard to gauge. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin may not wish to revive the Soviet Union or the Cold War, but he clearly seeks to restore Russia's imperial stature. And Item One on that agenda is to crush Georgia's independence and smother hopes for NATO's expansion to Russia's "near abroad."
The campaign significance for Obama is easier to calculate. He has been playacting at being presidential in order to convince voters that we live in a "new moment" with "new challenges" -- and that he is the president we need for this new era.
This moment calls for more than playacting, yet Obama looks lost without a presidential script. Events in the Caucasus -- and, for that matter, in Beijing -- suggest that the times aren't so new after all. Two powerful antidemocratic foes are once again flexing their muscles at a moment when America seems weak and distracted.
That is not a new challenge but a very old one. Perhaps this is not a time for a novice spouting grand rhetoric about a new page in history, but for someone who's actually read the pages of some old, but still relevant, books. Perhaps this is not the time for playacting.
Perhaps it is not the time for body surfing?


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The name Teheran (Tehran), as well as the small, radiant flowers in the foreground, indicates that the print is an interpretation of a Persian carpet. The lobed leaves in varying colours are reminiscent of the plant dye colours madder, wild mignonette and indigo. Teheran was designed in the 1940s, but it was printed for the first time in 1991.
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Home | The Animals | Emu
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This mysterious WORLD of flightless birds is represented by the Emu, considered
the largest flightless bird with smallest wings.
Common Name: Emu
Genus/Species: Dromaius novaehollandiae
Australian mainland.
Natural Habitat:
Eucalypti forest, woodland, mallee, heartland and desert shrublands and
Physical Appearance:
Physical appearance may slightly vary depending on geographic area. World's second largest living bird, 5 - 6 feet tall. It is the largest flightless bird
with the smallest wings. Sexes are similar, brown to black plumage, except during the
egg-laying period when the female's head and neck which are normally naked and
bluish in color, are densely covered with black feathers. The body feathers form a loose,
hair-like covering because the barbs of individual feathers do not interlock. No uropygial (oil) gland. Legs are long, unfeathered, with
nine-foot stride when running.
Three-toed feet, the underside of each toe flattened with a broad pad. Wings are very small. In hot conditions, wings are held out
from the side and the bare underarm with its blood vessels, is exposed to
facilitate evaporative cooling. Bill is broad and soft, adapted for browsing and
grazing. Guttural grunt and a throbbing drum (called booming), most commonly
used by the male in the two to three months prior to egg-laying. Female produces drumming sound
towards end of incubation. Both
sexes drum when alarmed. Life span is up to 30 years in captivity.
Breeding season is usually May - August in Australia. Most breeding units are a single
pair. Nest is a low platform of
twigs or leaves, generally placed so that the bird has clear outlook, often
downhill. The Male does not begin
incubation until 5 - 9 eggs are laid.
Clutches average 9 - 12 eggs, each weighing 1 to 1 ½ pounds. The Male incubates the eggs for 8
weeks and hardly leaves the nest to eat or drink during this time. The young are
precocial and leave the nest in 2 – 3 days, feeding extensively on vegetation
and insects. Males become very
aggressive when the chicks hatch driving Females and other intruders away.
The young are cared for by the Male
exclusively for about 5-7 months. Emu are of breeding age at 2-3 years old.
STATUS in Natural Habitat:
Diminishing to threatened and stable in its natural habitat.
Cool Fact:
Emus can run at speeds of up to 30 miles per hour.
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I'm starting with ExtJS so my question may very well already been answered somewhere in these forums, but I couldn't find it. I want to start a web app to show some stock prices on some grid. The catch is, the stock prices will change (in the end, in realtime) and when the server knows that a price has changed, it needs to send that change to the client (no polling every X seconds from the client side). So, the server needs to invalidate the store the client is using, somehow. And the client needs to know exactly what price has changed, so that it can change the background color of that cell for a brief period of time. How do you start this? I'm quite certain this can easily be done in ExtJS, but I'm not really sure how.


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The School of Arts and Humanities opens its spring season by examining the relationship between sound and art with the mixed-media exhibit Sonic Architectonic.
Curated by visual arts faculty member Lorraine Tady, the exhibit features both local and national artists who work directly with noise or frequency, examining what is heard or felt through sound waves, and some who work with images that suggest sound. Other artists in the exhibit anticipate our relationship to sound by addressing our expectations and cognitive reflexes.
96-Tears no. 3 by John Pomara, professor of visual arts in the School of Arts and Humanities.
"In contemporary art, sound is a medium used as a separate tool, or is intertwined with other mediums," said Tady. "Some artists infuse their own open, hybrid visual forms and multimedia explorations with sound. This exhibit considers these approaches and more."
Artists utilizing real sound with their visual works or as their artwork include Jill Auckenthaler, who, in collaboration with Sarah Phillips, will display What My Schedule Sounds Like. The work is both an instrumental score for an atonal sound piece and a watercolor and graphite work on paper.
Brad Tucker is creating Bagdad Bass Club, an interactive sound and object installation that combines videotaped music performance, customized audio equipment, handmade plastic records, ambient music and thumping intermittent bass sounds.
Dr. Frank Dufour, assistant professor of sound design at UT Dallas, and adjunct art professor Stephen Lapthisophon, will, in separate works of art, direct sound into the gallery to inhabit and transform the architectural space of the gallery. Lapthisophon interprets Karl Marx through a disembodied voice reminiscent of German lieder. Dufour collaborates with David Searcy and Nancy Rebal to create an interactive soundscape alluding to world peace.
Paul Slocum offers his iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch app Magic Carpet. Visitors are invited to install the free app "carpet lite" to experience the hypnotic and meditative graphics in synchronization with the app's generative music synthesizer.
Artists who will study sound in various visual ways using painting, drawing, and sculpture include John Pomara, professor of visual arts in the School of Arts and Humanities. Included are computer ink jet drawings by Robert Ortega, who is interested in patterns and "how to graphically relate light wavelength to audio frequency," and Diane Fitch's realist paintings of casual living room musicians.
The show opens with a reception on Friday, Jan. 27 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. in the Visual Arts Building. Visiting artist Brad Tucker will share a lecture of his work Friday Jan. 27 at 10 a.m. in AS 1.116. The group exhibit will on display until Feb. 18, 2012.
Mezzanine Exhibit: Glean by Kerry Ann Hennigan
Grad student Kerry Ann Hennigan will be exhibiting her show Glean, a series of photographs, in the Mezzanine Gallery of the Visual Arts Building. The exhibit will be on display from Jan. 27 to Feb. 18.


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Wine Description
We select the best grape and obtain the best wine after a painstaking process, producing long-lasting wines, in which the aromas and taste of ripe fruit mix together with balsamic sensations. Because of the necessary demands of quality in the production of these wines, there are years that are not suitable for obtaining a Gran Reserva. They are aged for a minimum of two years in oak casks and three years in bottles. The casks used at Beronia are manufactured from a mixture of French and American oaks.


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This brand-new Corvette Grand Sport, spotted by a Corvette Forum member outside a dealership in his local town, has something wrong with it. Can you spot what's wrong?
If you guessed that the Grand Sport's hash marks are pointing the wrong direction — you are correct.
CorvetteBlogger tells us the ironic part of this story is had the stripes been installed incorrectly on the Grand Sport at the factory instead of the dealership, you would have a 1 of 1 collectible. D'oh!
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Something I would love to see added (*even if only to test how it plays/feels) would be an option to have observer wards and sentries be on the top layer in the minimap. Currently as it stands, if a hero walks next to a ward, the hero will be on top of the ward on the minimap. There should be an option in the minimap settings to make wards be on top, but disabled by default.
As a support player, if you have a sentry and observer placed down, you can clearly see an enemy approaching that place (unless smoked), either to deward, ward, or both. However, depending on the order and how fast this is done, it is possible that the player(s) can deward before it can be seen precisely what they do. If the player plants a sentry and ward in the same location, you won't know it. You will have true sight, and normal vision, but on the minimap you are not given full information because their hero/color icon is on top of it.
If you are proficient enough, the usual case is that you have already moved your minimap on top of that to see on screen what occurs (also their inventory). This suggestion also means there is more time spent looking at the minimap, so it may be a bad thing. It also forces players to deward the sentry or observer first before placing their own observer(if they wanted to do that in the first place), but I think that is a positive personally.
Are there any other negatives/positives from this? Does it create an unequal playing ground (more than any other option that currently exists)? I only just thought of this recently so I haven't thought of the benefits/issues entirely, please share any opinions.
Also, are there other instances of people discussing/suggesting this before? (I personally have not found any.)


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Tais Plus
SWAN member since 2006
Weak participation of communities is one of the main problems in curbing the HIV/AIDS epidemics in Central Asia. Nongovernmental organization Tais Plus was established in 1997 to address that problem. It was founded upon an initiative and financial support from sex workers.
The NGO is doing a lot to raise the awareness of the Kyrgyz population through various seminars, training, and fieldwork - which consists not only of distribution of the information materials and condoms, but of provision of education sessions as well. PR activity with national and international mass media played a significant role in their work, so they could develop unique materials on protection of human rights of persons with HIV/AIDS.
The main objective of Tais Plus is to develop a community organization capable to advocate for the interests of sex workers and for the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS.
After a preliminary evaluation of the situation in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, a group of sex workers put forward in 1997 a goal to establish a "trade union". In 1998 they began working on HIV/AIDS prevention, and in 2000, an NGO was officially registered and received a status of public organization. Today the organization has 23 employees, only 4 of which do not have experience in sex work or are not family members or clients of sex workers. The Board of the organization consists exclusively of sex workers.
Participation of sex workers in managing the organization ensured protection of their interests being an organizational priority. It was crucial in many delicate situations, such as HIV testing in remote Kyrgyz regions. The decision to have maximum possible financial independence allowed the organization to survive in the times of unstable funding. A unique system has been developed, motivating the employees to work on voluntary basis.
It is estimated that about 90% of street sex workers in Kyrgyzstan have been reached out by the organization during the period of 6 years of its existence. Declared level of condom use has risen to more than 90%. As a result, only 9 HIV+ cases have been registered among 2500 sex workers since the very beginning of the HIV epidemics in Kyrgyzstan.
The advocacy campaign, launched by Tais Plus in the beginning of 2006, was recently successfully completed by decriminalization of sex work, in spite of the opposition from the parts of the Government and reactionary clergy. This achievement is a result of Tais Plus working directly with selected Members of Parliament and parliamentary commissions.
Says Gulinara Kurmanova: "Tais Plus is an umbrella organization and a national methodological resource center in the sphere of bringing sex workers into the HIV/AIDS prevention programs.Our experience demonstrated the potential of the community initiative even in the conditions as hard as they are in Kyrgyzstan.We would like to offer our methodology and know-how to other communities and countries of the region."


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This entry examines why our nation's Social Security system was built, what it does, and what must be done to maintain and improve this foundational system for current and future generations. After a discussion of the social insurance approach to economic security and its underlying principles and values, the evolution of America's Social Security system is reviewed—beginning with the enactment of the Social Security Act of 1935, through its incremental development, to the changed politics of Social Security since the mid-1990s. Next, program benefits and financing are described and contemporary challenges and related policy options are identified, in terms of both the program's projected shortfall and the public's need for expanded retirement, disability, and survivorship protections. The entry concludes by noting that social workers have an important role to play in shaping Social Security's future.
Keywords: social security, social insurance, economic security, income maintenance, generational equity, aging policy
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At the occasion of the World Championships in Marseille, they wanted to know how petanque is doing in ... America (in French of course).
Great people to deal with. What struck them most is how we promote the "icebreaker" spirit of the game, i.e. that folks who have never met can be high fiving, even bantering and hugging, within minutes.
The 30 min interview, by phone from Amelia Island at 3:00 AM EST, was edited and cut into 5 x 3 min. segments, then broadcast one a day, Monday to Friday Oct 1 to 5.
Here they are, in five mp3 sound files:
Part 1 - petanque in America, how and why.
Part 2 - the USA team in Marseille, the PA Open,and new friendships.
Part 3 - the links with petanque and Provence, and making friends.
Part 4 - about Fernandina Beach, old Florida and its French heritage.
Part 5 - more about the Open, and the "everyone plays together" formula.
Some of the dates in the history of Petanque America got mixed up in the editing, but it doesn't affect the story.
October 14, 2012
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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
1832 - 1918
Historical Period:
The 19th Century
White was one of the cofounders of Cornell University. He was a professor of history and English at the University of Michigan, the first American ambassador to the newly unified Germany in 1879, and an early president of the American Historical Association.