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Retailers are pouring more email than ever into their customers' inboxes, and they're starting to wear out their welcome. Dana Mattioli has details on The News Hub. Photo: Getty Images
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Jara-marana (Sanskrit, Pāli) is translated as "old age" (jarā)[1] and "death" (maraṇa).[2] In Buddhism, jara-marana is associated with the inevitable decay and death-related suffering of all beings prior to their rebirth within saṃsāra (cyclic existence).
Jarā and maraṇa are identified as the twelfth link within the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination.[3]
The word jarā is related to the older Vedic Sanskrit word jarā, jaras, jarati, gerā, which means "to become brittle, to decay, to be consumed". The Vedic root is related to the Latin granum, Goth. kaurn, Greek geras, geros (later geriatric) all of which in one context mean "hardening, old age".[1]
The word maraṇa is based on the Vedic Sanskrit root mṛ, mriyate which means death. The Vedic root is related to later Sanskrit marta, as well as to German mord, Lith. mirti, Latin morior and mors all of which mean "to die, death".[2]
Within the Four Noble Truths
Within the teachings on the Four Noble Truths, jarā and maraṇa are identified as aspects of dukkha (suffering, anxiety, unsatisfactoriness). For example, The Discourse That Sets Turning the Wheel of Truth states:
- ""Now this, bhikkhus, for the spiritually ennobled ones, is the true reality which is pain: birth is painful, aging is painful, illness is painful, death is painful; sorrow, lamentation, physical pain, unhappiness and distress are painful; union with what is disliked is painful; separation from what is liked is painful; not to get what one wants is painful; in brief, the five bundles of grasping-fuel are painful." – Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, Samyutta Nikaya, Translated by Peter Harvey[4]
Elsewhere in the canon the Buddha further elaborates on Jarāmaraṇa (aging and death):[lower-alpha 1]
- "And what is aging? Whatever aging, decrepitude, brokenness, graying, wrinkling, decline of life-force, weakening of the faculties of the various beings in this or that group of beings, that is called aging.
- "And what is death? Whatever deceasing, passing away, breaking up, disappearance, dying, death, completion of time, break up of the aggregates, casting off of the body, interruption in the life faculty of the various beings in this or that group of beings, that is called death."[5]
Within the twelve links of dependent origination
Jarāmaraṇa is the last of the Twelve Nidānas, directly conditioned by birth (jāti), meaning that all who are born are destined to age and die.
In the Buddhist Pali Canon's "Subjects for Contemplation Discourse" (Upajjhatthana Sutta, AN 5.57), the Buddha enjoins followers to reflect often on the following:
- I am subject to aging, have not gone beyond aging....
- I am subject to illness, have not gone beyond illness....
- I am subject to death, have not gone beyond death....[6]
In the Pali Canon, aging and death affect all beings, including gods, humans, animals and those born in a hell realm.[7] Only beings who achieve enlightenment (bodhi) in this lifetime escape rebirth in this cycle of birth-and-death (saṃsāra).[8]
Late in his life, the Buddha expresses disgust with aging and death in the Jarā Sutta:
- I spit on you, old age —
- old age that makes for ugliness.
- The bodily image, so charming,
- is trampled by old age.
- Even those who live to a hundred
- are headed — all — to an end in death,
- which spares no one,
- which tramples all.[9]
See also
- ↑ In this translation by John T. Bullit, Bullit leaves the term "dukkha" untranslated. The main article that presents this translation is The Four Noble Truths.[web 1]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Thomas William Rhys Davids; William Stede (1921). Pali-English Dictionary. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 279. ISBN 978-81-208-1144-7.; Quote: "old age, decay (in a disparaging sense), decrepitude, wretched, miserable"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Thomas William Rhys Davids; William Stede (1921). Pali-English Dictionary. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 524. ISBN 978-81-208-1144-7.; Quote: "death, as ending this (visible) existence, physical death".
- ↑ Julius Evola; H. E. Musson (1996). The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts. Inner Traditions. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-89281-553-1.
- ↑ (Harvey, 2007), as well as in his famed Mahasatipatthana Sutta Alternate translation: Piyadassi (1999)
- ↑ See, for instance, SN 12.2 (Thanissaro, 1997a) and DN 22 (Thanissaro, 2000).
- ↑ AN 5.57 (trans. Thanissaro, 1997b). Elided from this text is the recurring phrase: "... one should reflect on often, whether one is a woman or a man, lay or ordained"
- ↑ In other words, one of the significant distinctions between the cosmologies of Buddhist or Indian religions and Abrahamic religions is that, in Indian religions, even gods and hell-born beings age and die in their respective realms and are destined to be reborn, possibly in another realm (whether hell, earth, heaven, etc.).
- ↑ In the Upanisā Sutta (SN 12.23; e.g., trans., Walshe, 1985), the Buddha describes a set of conditions that leads one from birth to enlightenment. In this "transcendental" sequence that leads out of saṃsāra, birth leads to suffering (dukkha) – instead of aging-and-death – which in turn leads to faith (saddha), which Bhikkhu Bodhi describes as "essentially an attitude of trust and commitment directed to ultimate emancipation" (Bodhi, 1980).
- ↑ SN 48.41 (trans., Thanissaro, 1998a).
Web references
- ↑ Four Noble Truths Links to each line in the translation are as follows: line 1: First Noble Truth; line 2: Second Noble Truth; line 3: Third Noble Truth; line 4: Fourth Noble Truth.
- Bodhi, Bhikkhu (1980). Transcendental Dependent Arising: A Translation and Exposition of the Upanisa Sutta (Wheel Nos. 277-278). Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society. Retrieved 18 Nov 2008 from "Access to Insight" (1995) at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/wheel277.html.
- Piyadassi Thera (trans.) (1999). Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: Setting in Motion the Wheel of Truth (SN 56.11). Retrieved 2007-06-13 from "Access to Insight" at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn56/sn56.011.piya.html.
- Thanissaro Bhikkhu (trans.) (1997b). Upajjhatthana Sutta: Subjects for Contemplation (AN 5.57). Retrieved 18 Nov 2008 from "Access to Insight" at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an05/an05.057.than.html.
- Thanissaro Bhikkhu (trans.) (1998a). Jara Sutta: Old Age (SN 48.41). Retrieved 18 Nov 2008 from "Access to Insight" at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn48/sn48.041.than.html.
- Thanissaro Bhikkhu (trans.) (1998b). Sona: Mother of Ten (Thig 5.8). Retrieved 18 Nov 2008 from "Access to Insight" at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/thig/thig.05.08.than.html.
- Thanissaro Bhikkhu (trans.) (2000). Maha-satipatthana Sutta: The Great Frames of Reference (DN 22). Retrieved 2007-06-20 from "Access to Insight" at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.22.0.than.html.
- Ajahn Sumedho (2002), The Four Noble Truths, Amaravati Publications
- Ajahn Sucitto (2010), Turning the Wheel of Truth: Commentary on the Buddha's First Teaching, Shambhala
- Bhikkhu, Thanissaro (1997), Tittha Sutta: Sectarians, AN 3.61, retrieved 12 November 2007
- Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2000), The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A New Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya, Boston: Wisdom Publications, ISBN 0-86171-331-1
- Brahm, Ajahn (2006), Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator's Handbook, Wisdom Publications, ISBN 0-86171-275-7
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Remembering Conservationist Mingma Norbu Sherpa
Remembering Conservationist Mingma Norbu Sherpa
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Mingma Sherpa's Last Interview
Searching for Rhinos in Nepal June 18, 2001
Mingma Norbu Sherpa was one of 24 conservationists killed in Nepal this week in a recent helicopter crash near Kathmandu.
A child of the Himalayas, Sherpa, 50, was an official with the World Wildlife Fund who helped change conservation practices around the world. NPR's John Nielsen has a remembrance.
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Give me a 7 ANY DAYPosted: May 27, 2012 Filed under: Girl distractions, Wisdom 24 Comments
Had an interesting email from a "Young college Junior". He's good looking and he's ingested the red-pill and applying it's philosophy. But he admits to having a problem: closing 8's and above. We had an exchange via email and I was able to help the fellow out. Now, I want to ask the class-
If a good looking guy is having NO PROBLEM closing 7's and below. Why would he have problems with 8's and above? Well, I'll tell you tomorrow. Let us return to the "Matrix" analogy.
There is no spoon.
It's THAT simple. Who can explain what I mean? And who knows what this young man's problem is with closing 8-10's?
Personally, I've said on several occassions that I'd prefer a solid 7 for a relationship. OH SURE, the 9 at Starbuck's probably makes a GREAT seat cover. But what if that's all she's got going for her? The problem with most women who fall into the 8 and above rating- RARELY do they have great personalities. They don't have to. There's no shortage of men worshiping at the alter of pretty. She doesn't really HAVE to be interesting. These women end up on the carousel and has a string of "player" boyfriends (players can land an 8-10 EASILY) or keeps dumping "nice guys" that supplicate to them.
And they HATE it. They grow sick of men, "I swear to God, I'm going to go lesbian. I'm SICK of guys." Can't say I blame them. The girl I wrote about in the "BJ" post is one of these women. She's an 8. EASILY.
Personally, my primary job with a new gf is "training her" her to be MY GF. She has to "unlearn" what the last bf taught her, and what I've noticed is this- most guys are fucking idiots.
Sometimes, there's no saving her. I could NEVER be a good Captain for her, because she's a shitty first Officer. And I can figure it out in less than 3 months. Often, I can tell by the 2-3rd date (if there IS one). I watched 2 episodes of HBO's show, "Girls" and was fucking both blown away and disgusted. These girls are EXACTLY what's wrong with the SMP. Zero self-respect, and complete entitlement. And sorry, but the main character and writer of the show is a 4. Seriously. She's naked often and I'd honestly rather fuck a cup of hot coals. Coincidentally the cup would be safer because her character has HPV!!!!!! And….she has NO CLUE who gave it to her. These girls are jam packed with issues that I have NO INTENTION of helping out with.
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My current girlfriend is a solid 7, petite, quite caring of her appeareance, smart, feminine, sexy and cute. I make her laugh and fuck her like no-one else. She gives awesome BJ's and moans like a little girl. She loves that I lead, lead, lead.
I doubt we are going to break-up in months-years.
And yes, I literally think it is a waste of time to aim for a spoiled pretty-girl apart from a short afrair.
Perhaps the man had trouble closing the prettier women because he wasn't as relaxed as he would have been with the less prettier women.
It is right. 8-10s aren't worth it.
Knew this girl, a 5. Funny, smart, engaging, so damn feminine she knocked my socks off. Dumped her for an 8. The 8 shit tested me within an inch of my life. Not worth it.
So, are there no nice 8-10's any more or are these women snatched up young? It seems such a waste to be that pretty and then end up used.
(I don't know if I am explaining this right, but I think you know what I mean. One is beautiful, and then at 35 . . . what? A job that couldn't care less for her? What's the point?)
By the way, Danny, Happy Memorial Day. A tremendous THANK YOU to you and your brothers.
I recently met a chick at Subway, and ill say she is about a good 7. She seems to have a very nice personality but the fact that she acts like a 10 draws me closer to her for some reason
This is probably a stupid question*, but why is submission from a woman so important to you guys? I've seen it being mentioned a million of times on various blogs, and I don't get it.
*I know it's stupid, but I would genuinely like to know; so I'd appreciate it if you'd respond
There is no spoon.
It's THAT simple. Who can explain what I mean? And who knows what this young man's problem is with closing 8-10's?
There is no "8", there is no "7", there is no "10"…there is "woman".


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The face of the U.S. military is radically changing. Technology is evolving faster today than ever before, and the U.S. military is determined to be at the cutting edge of applying futuristic technology. A lot of things that once were only in the world of science fiction are quickly making their way into the U.S. military. In fact, there are some projects in development that are so bizarre that it is kind of hard to believe that they are real. After all, creating soldiers with superhuman strength and endurance using pharmaceutical drugs, outfitting soldiers with exotic prosthetics and mechanical exoskeletons, implanting microchips directly into the brains of soldiers to give them an advantage in battle and editing the DNA of soldiers to make them the ultimate killing machines all seem more like something out of a really bad summer movie than real goals that the U.S. military should be pursuing.
But they are.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, recently released its budget for the upcoming year. DARPA has a reputation for bizarre research projects, and this year they definitely are not disappointing us. DARPA's new budget includes money for "super soldiers" with "edited DNA" and implantable microchips. DARPA explains one application for these new technologies this way….
On the other end of the size scale, a primary goal is to apply microsystem techniques to soldier-protective biomedical systems. One example is an in-canal hearing protection device that will provide enhanced hearing capabilities in some settings, but be able to instantly muffle loud sounds of weapons fire. This one example will improve inter-personnel communications and at the same time drastically reduce the incidence of hearing loss in combat situations. For these examples and many more, the goal is to bring exceptionally potent technical approaches to bear on biological and biomedical applications where their capabilities will be significant force multipliers for the DoD.
But DARPA is not alone in pursuing these bizarre new technologies. According to the U.S. Army's Future Soldier Initiative, the soldiers of the future might boost their brains with drugs and prosthetics, augment their strength with mechanical exoskeletons, and have artificially intelligent "digital buddies" at their beck and call.
The goal of these drugs, prosthetics and exoskeletons would be to give soldiers "superhuman" abilities that they would not otherwise possess. For example, the ability to effortlessly carry a very heavy weapon into battle would be a significant advantage on the battlefield.
Some of these exoskeletons are absolutely amazing. Just check out the following video news report which contains footage of a soldier demonstrating a prototype of an exoskeleton…..
But will these changes go too far? In the pursuit of creating "ultimate killing machines", will we create monsters who show no hesitation and no remorse when killing other humans? Will we create beings that are half human/half machine that have no place in society once their battlefield careers are over?
The future is going to be a very strange place, there is for certain. Let us hope that our military leaders think things out very clearly before implementing these ideas. Sometimes changes that are thought to be "good" can have very bad, and very unintended, consequences.


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Valley Garden Park is located on the Wissahickon formation of the Delaware Piedmont- an area of sediment deposition from the Appalachian mountains. The earliest record of land use history I could find was the account of the property being owned by the most prominent family in Delaware- the DuPonts. According to a plaque in the […]
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Social factors: in addition to cultural factors, a consumer's behaviour is influenced by such social factors as reference groups, family, and social roles and statues.
Reference group: generally speaking a reference group can designate to any person or group that serves as a point of comparison (or reference) for an individual's informing either general or specific values, attitudes or behaviour. Every human being because of his sociable nature prefers to evaluate his abilities and his opinion based on the comparison of the other abilities and other opinions.
According to the Philip Kotler, "a person's reference group consists of all the groups that have a direct (face to face) or indirect influence on the person's attitudes or behaviour". Reference groups are of different types.
According to the Herbert Hyman," reference group is "the type of a group that an individual uses as a point of reference in determining his own judgements, preferences, beliefs, and behaviour".
Classification of the reference groups
a. Normative reference group: reference groups that directly influence general or broadly defined values or behaviour are usually called normative reference group. For example, a child's normative reference group will be his family.
b. Comparative reference group: reference group which will serve as a benchmark for certain specific or narrowly defined attitudes are called comparative reference group. Such a group serves as a point of the comparison especially for evaluating one's own status.
c. Contractual group: another way to classify reference group will be in terms of a person's membership or degree of involvement with the group and in terms of the positive or negative influence they are able to evolve on the person's attitudes, behaviour and values. One such reference group is the contractual group. These are the groups with which the person interacts and has the regular contact.
d. Aspiration group: an aspiration group is one to which the disclaiming group. This is a group whose values or behaviour does not appeal to the individual. Here is a person may have membership or face to face contact but he disappears of the groups values, attitudes and behaviour. Here his behaviour will be the opposite or reverse to the norms of the particular reference group.
e. Avoidance group: this may be group with which the person may not hold membership nor have face to face contact and also of whose values, attitudes and behaviour, the person totally disapproves. Here the person will tend to avoid the group and will adopt values, attitudes and behaviour which will be in the opposition to that of the group.
People are significantly influenced by their reference groups in at least three ways:
a. Reference groups expose an individual to new behaviours and lifestyles.
b. They influence attitudes and self concept.
c. They create pressures for conformity that may affect actual product and brand choices.
Family: family members can strongly influence buyer's behaviour. The family is the most important consumer buying organization in the society, and it has been researched extensively. Family is of two types:
a. Family of orientation: from parents a person acquires an orientation towards religion, politics, self worth etc. In countries where parents live with their grown children, their influence can be substantial.
b. Family of procreation: this involves a more direct influence on every buying behaviour it includes one's spouse and children. Marketers are interested in the roles and influence of the husband, wife, and children on the children on the purchase of different products and the services. Husband wife involvement varies widely by product category and by stage in the buying process. Buying roles change with evolving consumer lifestyles.
c. Roles and status: a person participates in the many groups' family, clubs, and organizations. The person position in each group can be defined in the terms of role and status. A role consists of the activities that a person is expected to perform. Each role carries a status. A Supreme Court justice has more status than a sales manager, and a sales manager has more status than an office clerk. People choose products that communicate their role and status in the society. Thus company presidents often drive Mercedes, were expensive suits, and drink chives regal scotch. Marketers are aware of the status symbol potential of products and brands.
Personal factors: a buyer's decisions are also influenced by the personal characteristics. These include the buyer's age and stage in the life cycle, occupation, economic circumstances, lifestyle and personality and self concept.
Age and stage in the life cycle: as a person passes through different stages of his life he needs different set of products. Further the tests, habits of person change with the age. They eat baby food in the early years, most foods in the growing and mature years, and special diets in the later years. Taste in the clothes, furniture, and recreation is also age related. Consumption is shaped by the family lifestyle. Some recent work has been identified psychological life cycle stages. Marketers pay close attention to changing life circumstances divorce, widowhood, remarriage and their effect on consumption behaviour.
Occupation and economic circumstances: occupation also influences a person's consumption pattern. A blue collar worker will buy clothes, work shoes, and lunch boxes. A company president will buy expensive suits, air travel, country club membership, and the large sailboat. Marketers try to identify the occupational groups that have above average interest in their products and services. Product choice is greatly affected by the economic circumstances; spendable income (level, stability, and the time pattern), saving and assets (including the percentage that is liquid) debts, borrowing power, and attitude towards spending versus saving. Marketing of the income sensitive goods pay constant attention to trends in the personal income, savings, and interest rates. If economic indicators point to a recession, marketers can take steps to redesign, reposition, and reprise their products so they continue to offer value to target customers.
Life style: people from the same subculture, social class, and occupation may lead quite different lifestyles. Life style is the person's pattern of the living in the world as expressed in these activities, interests, and opinions. Life style portrays the "whole person" interacting with his or her environment. Marketers search for the relationship between their products and life style groups. For example, a computer manufacturer might find that most computer buyers are achievement oriented. The marketer may then aim the brand more clearly at the achiever life style.
Personality and the self concept: each person has a distinct personality that influences buying behaviour. By personality, we mean distinguishing psychological characters that lead to relatively consistent and enduring responses to the environment. Personality is usually described in the terms of such traits as self confidence, dominance, autonomy, deference, sociability, defensiveness, and adaptability. Personality can be a useful variable in analyzing consumer behaviour, provided that personality types can be classified accurately and that strong correlations exist between certain personality types and product or brand choices. For example, a computer company might discover that many prospects show high self confidence, dominance, and the autonomy. Related to personality is self concept (or self image). Self concept is the totally of the person's thoughts and feelings with the reference to himself or herself as the object. Marketers try to develop brand images that match the target market's self image. It is possible that a person's actual self concept (how she views herself) differs from her ideal self concept (how she would like to view herself) and from her others self concept (how she thinks others she her).
Psychological factors: a person's buying choices are influenced by the four major psychological factors motivation, perception, learning, beliefs, and the attitudes.
1. Motivation: a person has many needs at any given time. Some needs are biogenic; they arise from psychological factors states of tension such as hunger, thirst, discomfort. Other needs are psychogenic; they arise from psychological states of the tension such as the need for reorganization, esteem, or belonging. A need becomes a motive when it is aroused to a nonsufficient level of relation to the surrounding field and on the conditions within the individual.
2. Perception: a motivated person is ready to act. How the motivated person actually acts as influenced by his or her perception of the situation. Perception is the process by which an individual selects, organizes, and interprets information inputs to create a meaningful picture of the world. Perception depends not only on the physical stimuli but also on the stimuli's relation to the surrounding field and on the conditions within the individual.
3. Learning: when people act, they learn. Learning involves changes in an individual's behaviour arising from the experience. Most human behaviour is learned. Learning theorists that learning is produced through the interplay of the drivers, stimuli, cues, responses, and reinforcement. A drive is a strong internal stimulus impelling action. Cues are minor stimuli that determine when, where, and how a person responds.
4. Beliefs and attitudes: through and hearing, people acquire beliefs and attitudes. These in turn influence buying behaviour. A belief is a descriptive thought that a person holds about something. Beliefs may be based on knowledge, opinion, or faith. They may be based on knowledge, opinion or faith. They may or may not carry an emotional charge. Manufactures are very interested in the beliefs people carry in their heads about their products and the services. An attitude is a person's enduring favourable or unfavourable evaluations, emotional feelings, and action tendencies toward some object or idea. People have attitudes towards almost everything: politics, clothes, music, and food. Attitudes put than into a frame of mind of liking or disliking an object, moving toward or away from it. Attitudes lead people to behave in a fairly consistent way toward similar objects.
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SANDY, Utah - Will Johnson scored a late goal and Real Salt Lake beat nine-man
Chivas USA, 1-0, at Rio Tinto Stadium on Saturday. However, they lost playmaker
Javier Morales to an apparent broken ankle in the process.
Morales was stretchered off following an awkward tackle by Chivas' Marcos Mondaini in the 38th minute. The referee initially appeared to show a yellow card to Mondaini, but the striker was eventually ejected with a straight red.
Johnson supplied the go-ahead goal in the 87th minute after RSL had played with a man advantage throughout the entire second half. The score was created by substitute Collen Warner, who put a cross in front of goal that defender Nat Borchers got a foot on. Johnson then blasted it into the net from close range to seal the win.
Chivas USA defender Andrew Boyens was also ejected, receiving his marching orders in the 28th minute after picking up a second yellow card.
RSL had started the game aggressively, but Chivas initially held their shape well. However, in the 15th minute it appeared RSL's efforts would pay off as Alvaro Saborio chased down a seemingly harmless ball over the top. He managed to beat Boyens for position but was taken down by the defender just outside the penalty area.
Boyens drew his first yellow for the play, despite the home team's insistence that it was an "imminent scoring threat" and that a red card was deserved.
That would become a moot point ten minutes later when Boyens earned a second yellow — and the accompanying ejection — for again taking Saborio down outside the area.
It appeared that RSL were set to take control of the match with the man advantage. In the 33rd minute goalkeeper Dan Kennedy came way off his line to meet Fabian Espindola before deciding to retreat. Espindola sent a nice cross through the goal mouth that just missed connecting with Saborio.
But in minute 38th disaster struck for RSL. Morales sealed off a defender in the final third and began running toward goal with the ball, but Chivas striker Mondaini made a clumsy two-footed tackle from behind, scything down the RSL playmaker.
Morales was in visible physical pain following the challenge as RSL players surrounded the referee. Initial reports suggested a fractured ankle, and Morales was rushed to a nearby hospital while Andy Williams subbed in for the home team.
Coming out in the second half, it seemed as though Chivas were set on riding the game out to a 0-0 scoreline. RSL countered by bringing in Arturo Alvarez in favor of defender Robbie Russell.
Though most of the second half was spent in the Chivas end, RSL seemed to be missing their playmaker's inspiration as they tried to break down their opponent's compact defensive formation. However, the visitors were able to maintain their shape and absorb the pressure.
As the frustration mounted, it seemed likely that the game would end in a scoreless draw, but RSL finally broke through in the 87th minute allowing them to collect all three points.
Real Salt Lake 1 : 0 Chivas USA
Rio Tinto Stadium
Attendance: 14,365
Chivas USA (2-3-3)
Real Salt Lake (5-1-0)
Scoring Summary:
RSL -- Will Johnson 1 (Nat Borchers 1) 87
Misconduct Summary:
CHV -- Andrew Boyens (caution; Tactical Foul) 15
CHV -- Andrew Boyens (caution; Tactical Foul) 24
CHV -- Andrew Boyens (ejection; Second Caution) 24
CHV -- Marcos Mondaini (ejection; Serious Foul Play) 37
Chivas USA -- Dan Kennedy, Zarek Valentin, Andrew Boyens, Heath Pearce, Ante
Jazic, Ben Zemanski, Simon Elliott, Nick LaBrocca, Jorge Flores (Justin Braun
57), Marcos Mondaini, Alejandro Moreno (Mariano Trujillo 72).
Substitutes Not Used: Victor Estupinan, Gerson Mayen, Francisco Mendoza, Michael Umana, Zach Thornton.
Real Salt Lake -- Nick Rimando, Robbie Russell (Arturo Alvarez 54), Jamison Olave, Nat Borchers, Chris Wingert, Ned Grabavoy, Kyle Beckerman, Javier Morales (Andy Williams 44), Will Johnson, Alvaro Saborio, Fabian Espindola (Collen Warner 65).
Substitutes Not Used: Jean Alexandre, Tony Beltran, Chris Schuler, Kyle Reynish.
Referee: Paul Ward
Referee's Assistants: -Anthony Vasoli; Chris Strickland
4th Official: Allen Chapman
Time of Game: 1:54
Weather: Sunny-and-69-degrees


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King of the Foulweald
|Murgut's Totem
|Senani's Banner (Provided)
DescriptionMy research has paid off.
I believe that with a show of force, we can diminish the furbolgs' aggressiveness.
Take this banner a short ways northeast and place it on their totem mound. They will try to destroy the banner, but hold your ground until their chief, Murgut, appears to save face for the tribe. Bring me the totem he carries.
Gather your allies, <name>. This is no task for a single <class>.
Did you defeat Chief Murgut, <name>? Did you retrieve his foulweald totem?
Good work, <name>. Issuing that challenge to the Foulwealds and defeating their leader sends them a strong message:
The Horde is not to be trifled with.
I don't believe that tribe will be giving us much trouble for a long time.
The Horde is not to be trifled with.
I don't believe that tribe will be giving us much trouble for a long time.
You will be able to choose one of these rewards:
|Boorguard Tunic
|Cobalt Legguards
|Feral Vestment
GainsUpon completion of this quest you will gain:
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It serves 2 main purposes:
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I recently discovered a small gap in my education in nuclear energy. It concerns LFTR reactors. They seem to be reconsidered after uranium based reactors were favored after world war 2 and the during the cold war due to their dual use in energy production as well as the generation of byproducs for nuclear weapons.
There are several videos on the google tech talk channlel, just two of those:
The blog was started under the title "mi facki lei cinri zasti" which translates to English as "I discover (all the) interesting things". It features my discoveries as well as my musings on them.
Sonntag, 27. November 2011
Freitag, 18. November 2011
Contemporary Physics
Just some physics stuff from recent news: An article at wired about recent findings at lhc/cern regarding the charge party violation and a confirmation about the (too) fast neurino measurements at the lhc.
Dienstag, 15. November 2011
Machine Learning (lecture) Videos
I haven't watched them all yet, but since I have only little background in machine learning, I find this to be highly enjoyable: Link to Machine Learning Videos. The videos were taking during a summer school: Link to the Summer School Website
Freitag, 11. November 2011
CogSci: The Role of Dreams in Great Discoveries
An article from scientific american about an "alternative state of consciousness" we enter when dreaming, allowing us to tackle problems we cannot understand consciously
Donnerstag, 10. November 2011
CogSci: A Map of the Brain
Just a quick link to a short TED talk.
Montag, 7. November 2011
Patent wars
A recent interview with a google lawyer on the patent system.
And I added another link to the last post on CogSci...
And I added another link to the last post on CogSci...
Samstag, 5. November 2011
CogSci: Embodied Cognition and Consciousness
Arguing against a Descartian dualism and for a interconnection between brain and body, the article at scientific american blogs gives nice pointers and references for an embodiment point of view of cognition. It's interesting to see if there is some "mind" kind of core in the biomachine that the human being actually is. The normal bio-chemic interconnection between mind and body seems to be quite natural as the mind needs the body to survive (and stay healthy) in order to do so itself.
At the thoughts on thoughts blog you'll find a 3 part post on the possible functions of consciousness which is an interesting topic to think about, especially keeping in mind the aforementioned article:
At the thoughts on thoughts blog you'll find a 3 part post on the possible functions of consciousness which is an interesting topic to think about, especially keeping in mind the aforementioned article:
- http://charbonniers.org/2011/10/20/possible-functions-of-consciousness-1-leading-edge-of-memory/
- http://charbonniers.org/2011/10/29/possible-functions-of-consciousness-2-gate-to-meaning/
- http://charbonniers.org/2011/11/04/possible-functions-of-consciousness-3-working-memory/
[edit] Slightly related, there is another article on the work our subconscious does for us at the discovery magazine. [/edit]
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RuneScape 2014 - Power to the Players
The new year's almost here, and we're resolved to make 2014 the best year in RuneScape's history. For that to happen, though, things need to change. We've taken stock of 2013 - what went well, and what not so well - and our new year's resolution is clear.
In 2014, we're taking RuneScape back to its roots – making it a truly collaborative effort between developers and the community. I don't just mean things like picking the results of in-game battles or the occasional content poll – it needs to be more radical than that. I want to give the power to the players to decide what we do and when it happens.
The New Poll System
In mid-January, we're going to launch a new in-game poll system, which will give members at least one new content poll to vote on each week. In total, there will be up to seven guaranteed content polls each month, covering a range of topics including quests, minigames, combat updates, skills, bosses, reworks, core gameplay changes and much more besides. Polls dealing with the biggest questions might last as long as a month, whereas smaller polls might run for seven days.
These polls will decide which content we work on first and what direction to take while developing them. You won't need to worry if your favourite option doesn't quite make the cut – valid content will appear again in future polls.
The polls will also focus on things that really mean something to you: high-level content; important game storylines; and the everyday mechanics of the game that you spend much of your time with.
It's not possible to ask all the big burning questions straight away so we've tried to get a real mix of things in for each month. So - what are the polls we're launching with in January?
- Invention vs Elf City: our biggest and most anticipated updates. Which do you want first?
- What type of Easter event do you want? Traditional fun with bunnies and eggs, or a comedy 6th Age event featuring Marimbo and Brassica Prime?
- Which group of creatures should receive a drop table rework first?
- Which new dragon would you like to be added to game?
- Decide on a themed map for the brand-new, secret minigame we're working on!
- Should we change the quantity and type of game worlds?
These are just the very start, but give you an idea of how wide-reaching the polls will be. Each week there will be another important decision for the community. In time, I'm keen on having your suggestions to go into the poll system too.
Polls - when completed - will be commissioned as new projects, and work will begin on them straight away! Each piece of content will have an ETA, and we'll keep you updated as development progresses.
We'll Handle the Rest
There will be a few things we won't be asking for votes on. We're focused on the future, so we won't be polling things from the past like EoC, or things essential to the day-to-day upkeep of the business, such as microtransactions. While we do need your feedback on these things, they're not what the new poll system is for - you'll be able to give us your thoughts on the forums, as always.
We also still need to make updates for smaller groups of players, or updates that attract new players to the game, which won't be appropriate for large-scale polling.
Overall, though, the majority of content updates - and all major updates - will have been selected by you.
Here's to the Future
The Power to the Players poll system is the cornerstone of our plans for RuneScape in 2014, but we've got some other important changes in the works, too.
- Firstly, we want to increase emphasis on high-level content. New content from last couple of years has been aimed at quite a wide spread of player levels, so we're going to focus more specifically at higher level content and activities for veterans.
- Secondly, we need to increase the number of quests we release. This year we really upped the fidelity and depth of quests, but in doing so sacrificed quantity. So we're going to have more of a mix: from epic quests full of innovative content and high production values, to traditional, more story-focus quests like we've made in years past.
- Thirdly, we're going to improve the everyday gameplay experience by having our Ninja Team focus on fixing niggling issues, implementing quick-win features and listening to your suggestions for small-scale improvements. This should improve everyone's quality of life within RuneScape.
As always, we're being ambitious, but with hard work and your help, everything here can be achieved. Above all else, we're determined to make RuneScape the game you want it to be.
I'm sure that you've got lots of questions after that little lot. For now, take a look at our Power to the Players FAQ, and look out for more info leading up to the launch of the polls in the week of January 13th!
Thanks for reading. See you in 2014!
Mod Mark
RuneScape Design Director
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Hike Cascade Mountain, Banff NP
Rate this Adventure 7.5 miles 4800 ft gain - Out-and-Back Trail
Added by Janet Maclean
This is an iconic mountain adjacent from the town of Banff in Banff National Park. The summit overlooks the town site, Lake Minnewanka and provides a 360 degree view of the surrounding Rocky Mountains.
From Banff, follow the Norquay Road (the west access road to Banff) up to Mt. Norquay Ski Area. The trail begins from the day lodge at the far end of the first parking lot on the right.
Walk by the front of the day lodge and follow a service roaddown through the ski area past the base of three chairlifts. A fewmetres beyond the Mystic Chair pick up the trail headingdownhill to Forty Mile Creek.
At the creek, turn right at the junction and follow the Elk Laketrail for another 2.5 km to a sign for CascadeAmphitheater where the trail branches right. This forested trail climbssteadily up a series of steep switchbacks.
You will come to a fork in the trail, if you keep going straight you will go to the cascade amphitheater, take the trial to your right for the cascade summit. The trail to the right is marked with a yellow flag tape. You will follow the trail to the end of the tree line.
From the last trees, continue along the ridge up and over theFirst Peak. There is a footpath to the right of the trees, but remain on the ridge—the footing is better and,despite appearances, it is easier. This is also the best route forthe descent.
Look towards the False Summit. Careful route-finding starts here! Follow the cairns and blue or yellow flag tape. Make your way towards the false summit but do not go up the trail on the false summit, there is a distinct trail to the right that leads you horizontally around the false summit. This trail will lead you all the way to the real summit.
You will hike up through loose scree and will need your hands from time to time for balance.
Make note (look back) along the ascent to help you find the trail for the descent, it is very easy to take a more difficult route down then necessary. There are orange squares spray painted on some rocks to help you stick to the trail on your descent.
Bring something warm to wear at the top of the mountain. If you are an intermediate hiker with strong cardio you will be fine on this hike. If not, plan to take lots of little breaks. This is a strenuous hike and will take around 9 hours.
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Artists have used some pretty strange materials over the years — but we don't think it gets much stranger than bacteria.
Artists have used some pretty strange materials over the years — but we don't think it gets much stranger than bacteria.
The first person to start making art out of germs was the father of penicillin himself, Alexander Fleming, who scratched out images in Petri dishes. That method is still employed today, but, increasingly, artists and microbiologists are exploring the microscopic world of bacteria in ever more exciting ways.
JoWonder, 2009
Modelled after the 1852 painting Ophelia by Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais, this tiny re-creation by British artist JoWonder is painted in bacteria. The work shows a time lapse as the bacteria grew over the painting, over which voices paid tribute to Ophelia by way of poems, songs and messages delivered to the artist via voicemail. The video below shows day four; the image above shows days one and three.
JoWonder said of the work:
I wanted to paint an Ophelia who finds her true self while drowning in a place between life and death. I've always been fascinated by the idea of death and dying. Chromobacterium violaceum, a bacterium that inhibits the growth of other bacteria, was used like the black lines in a colouring book to shape the painting. Bacillus mycoides was used to depict Ophelia's soul and breath in the animated painting.
Dr Niall Hamilton
This three-dimensional apple tree was painted in fungus: Scopulariopsis brevicaulis, candida sake and Cladosporium herbarum.
Joao Lima, John Wilson, Paola Pierossi, Nick Jeffery and Tyler Elliott
Scientists with a sense of humour! We'd be willing to bet that Charles Darwin never expected his portrait to be rendered in E. coli on agar.
Professor Eshel Ben-Jacob
If you have never heard of Eshel Ben-Jacob, you should go read about him. He's a pretty big deal in microbiology and physics, and he's made some important contributions to various scientific disciplines. He also has an artistic soul, as is evidenced by his colourisations of microscopic bacterial growth patterns in Petri dishes. Each image shows a colony of billions of microorganisms that have evolved in response to various stresses, such as antibacterial hand gel.
You can see more of his work on his Facebook page.
Hunter Cole
Dr Hunter Cole draws abstract pieces in bioluminescent bacteria growing from DNA — what she calls a "living drawing". As the bacteria dies, the light fades; a process documented in the video below, set to a piece of music based on the protein sequence found in the bacteria.
iGEM Team Osaka
As part of the annual International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition, the team from Osaka University created a way of colouring bacteria using fluorescent proteins and organic pigments. The system is called "colacoli", and was used to create the glowing Mario above. You can read more about their methods and research here.
BioMario, animated.(Credit: Osaka University)
Susan Boafo, 2009
Susan Boafo creates gorgeous organic photographs by laying a photographic negative over aquatic algae spores. As the algae grows, it moves toward the light, bringing the negative into a short-lived existence as a photograph made entirely from living organisms.
Dr Roger Tsien
Dr Roger Tsien was one of the researchers responsible — and awarded the Nobel Prize — for identifying and developing Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP), a protein that glows when under ultraviolet light. It has been used by researchers in biochemistry and molecular biology to observe processes that were previously difficult to see, such as nerve growth, gene expression, cell division and chromosome replication. The above sunset scene was drawn by Tsien, with several colours of bacteria containing fluorescent proteins.
Zachery Copfer, 2012
Like Boafo, microbiologist Zachery Copfer creates photographs out of living organisms. He spreads agar in a Petri dish with bacteria, then places a negative over the top and zaps it with ultraviolet rays. The bacteria exposed to the rays die, leaving behind a bacterial photograph. The works are not as transient as Boafo's; after a couple of days, when the image has grown, Copfer preserves it in acrylic and resin. The above image of Albert Einstein was created with Serratia marcescens, a bacteria responsible for human urinary tract and wound infections.
Simon Park, 2012
Microbiologist and artist Simon Park produces some truly stunning works of bacterial art, exploring the way bacterial microorganisms react to objects and stimuli in the world around us. His work with bioluminescent bacteria is particularly beautiful — and funny. We love the bioluminescent Christmas tree.
The above "tweet" is made entirely out of living bacteria, and is absolutely worth viewing in high res. Park made the first-ever bacterial tweet earlier this month, the text of which reads:
Hello! We are the dark matter of the biological world. Let it be noted that without the unacknowledged legislation of microbes, inside and outside of you, there is no you
Sonja Bäumel, 2012
Using a giant Petri dish spread with agar as her canvas, German artist Sonja Bäumel has found a way of showing our "invisible skin": the bacteria that coat us. Assisted by bacteriologist Erich Schopf, she laid her own body in an agar-filled Petri dish measuring 210x80 centimetres. Within a few days, the imprint of her body could be seen in living, growing bacteria on the surface of the agar.
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The nuclear tests conducted by the Pyongyang leader have generated the most devastating side-effect among the North Koreans.
Apparently, a "ghost illness" is slowly but surely killing the North Korean people suggests an NBC report.
The area where the regime uses to carry their experiments, the Kilju region has become a cursed place, where children are born with malformation, says Lee Jeong Hwa in a report.
Until the woman managed to fly from North Korea in 2010, she lived near the nuclear center and she is now suffering from "endless chronic pains".
However, her physical misery cannot be compared to the misery suffered by those who are trapped in the country.
"So many people died, so we started to call the cause <<ghost disease>>. At first, we thought we were dying because we were poor and unharmed. Now, I know the radiations are to blame", explained Lee.
Lee is part of the group of 30 North Korean people from the Kilju region that have been constantly tested in recent years by the Seoul Ministerial Unification, who wants to measure their contamination level.
Another North Korean 60-year-old escapes in 2013, Rhee Yeong Sil, tells NBC that one of his neighbors gave birth to a child without genitalia, stating that newborns are often killed even by their parents.
How do these testimonies appear inside the Korean scientific community?
Suh Kun-yull, professor of nuclear engineering at Seoul University, argues that it is difficult to prove the veracity of these claims because researchers are currently facing a "total lack of data" regarding the impact of the Pyongyang nuclear program on public health.
However, the South Korean professor points out, "I do not think that (these people – n.r.) are lying."
"We have to believe the word, but I have no reliable information."
The center where North Korea performs the nuclear tests would have turned the region into a "radioactive wasteland," The Telegraph reported last month.
Approximately 80% of the trees have dried, the wells have dried, and the area now looks like a huge desert.


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Ring in the New Year at one of your favorite downtown hotspots. From dance parties to dinners, there will be something for everyone!
1. New Year's Eve Party at The Golden Pony
Harrisonburg's premier New Year's Celebration Party is upon us! We will celebrate with great music, dancing, champagne, delicious food and some GOOD CHEER! 2018 will be welcomed with hopefulness, happiness and good faith that we are all headed for greener pastures. Come celebrate with us and DJ Ryan Clark. We promise you'll have a wonderful evening. So lets be elegant, hopeful and fun loving and expect the best from 2018! Get here early to get some cool 2018 glasses and other fun swag! 21+ /$10
2. New Year's Eve dinner at LOCAL Grill and Chop House
Start your New Year's Eve Celebrations with dinner at the Local Chop & Grill House! Join us for a creative four-course menu with tempting choices at each course! The menu features creations form executive Chef Brian Bogan and House Pastry Chef Alicia Barger. Reservations start at $65 per person and are limited so call (540)801-0505 today or book online with OpenTable.com
3. Clementine & Ruby's New Year's Eve Party with DJs Barkley & Fayo
Two Floors of DJs! Ring in the New Year right with DJs Fayo and Barkley. Formal Garb strongly encouraged! Champagne Toast at Midnight! 21+ /$10
4. NYE Disco Dance Party with DJ Zach Taylor at Billy Jack's Wing and Draft Shack
NO COVER DISCO DANCE PARTY!! When's the last time you got your boogie down at BJ's? That's about to change. DJ Zach Taylor will be spinning on the 1's and 2's and get 2017 out of here with a bang! We'll also be serving up Monday Brunch to cure all of your bubbly-induced hangovers!
5. Cocktails and Classics New Years Rockin' Eve at The Artful Dodger Coffeehouse & Cocktail Lounge
$5 "Cocktails and Classics" event 8-10:30
$10 Advance Ticket for "Cocktails and Classics" event and New Years Eve Party (make your reservation now with eventbrite)
$15 At the door
Join the Artful Dodger family this New Year's Eve and dance your way into 2018! Throwback a few Cocktails to Classics from 8PM to 9PM. Rock n Roll with "1964" as they perform hits from their namesake's era, and dance from '64 to '18 from 9PM-10:30PM. DJ U4IQ dropping in at 10:30 PM until 2 AM. Catch your breath and raise your glass with a Champagne Toast while watching the Live Stream of "New Years Rockin' Eve" Times Square Ball Drop.
6. Lafah Cafe's New Year's Eve Party
Come celebrate with us! Kids will eat free with paying adult. We will have kids activities and happy hour specials until 8pm. Half-priced bar bites all night!
7. NYE Party with The Sustainers at Pale Fire Taproom
Ring in the new year at Pale Fire! We're staying open late to welcome 2018 so plan to spend your evening with us. We'll have live music from 10pm until 12:30am – The Sustainers, a local rock and blues cover band, are sure to entertain. Festive attire and dancing shoes are encouraged!
We're providing party hats and noisemakers, plus we've aged our Naive Melody Nelson Sauvin Saison on champagne lightly toasted oak for a midnight toast! (There are rumors of an Auld Lang Syne performance, too!). No cover, no tickets.


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Discussion in 'Group B - Brazil, Ecuador, Haiti, Peru' started by sidspaceman, May 31, 2016.
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I predict a hat trick from Superman.
These first 7 minutes are already better than the whole other 3 games.
I really like this Ecuador's team ...
Come on Superman!!
Brazil look like a different team than we've seen recently. Much more confident and structured.
Tightass game. Makes the Copa fun and makes up for the lackluster matches prior. Also Univision has the Brazilian Portuguese audio on SAP, which I enjoy and HUEHUEHUE at. Life is good for today.
Yeah, this is the most fun game until now ...
This game is far more entertaining than all the other games combined
unless you're Colombian or Peruvian
For me this game is more entertaining than the Colombia game, lol honestly
That looked like a gol
Wow the goalkeeper got saved by the offside. That was embarrassing.
Ouch! bad call I think...
They didn't call offsides they said it went over the line.
The goal should have counted, the ball didn't completely go out.
Yeah I don't know why I said offside.
Besides if it were brazil, they most likely would count that as a goal..
no I meant that the matches with a definitive result were fun for those who were Colombian or Peruvian
almost pulled a Rob Green haha
It's also possible that the goalkeeper was distracted by whistle blowing and maybe contributed to the mistake.


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There were interesting details in a recent Times article about the approach Antonio Conte has taken to management since joining Chelsea.
One of the things he has focused on is watching and learning from videos of training sessions.
"My players were not used to the videos at first," he said. "It was very difficult and after five or ten minutes they would drift off. But then we started to see it in the right way. We watch games not to find out who was at fault but because we can improve."
This highlights a point that is as true of the charity sector as of football: the need to constantly be thinking about how things have gone so you can learn to become better.
But while celebrating success is straightforward, it can be hard to talk about what hasn't gone well. It is all too easy for a sense of blame to come into it.
Take the Chelsea example – the videos can be a fantastic way for players to learn from what they're doing wrong. But they might also, quite rightly, be evidence Conte uses when it comes to deciding who to leave out of his next team.
It's the same with leading a communications team – your role involves both holding people to account and also building a learning culture. Both of those things are important, but they can also sometimes feel in competition with each other.
Also, while it's very obvious how well you've done at football – have you scored more goals than the other team? – in the charity sector it's usually much more subjective. Just through selecting the metrics you focus on most, it's often easy to present defeats as wins. And when your own manager, board and supporters are eager to hear about success, it takes courage to focus on the things that didn't go so well.
It's also important to get the balance right. I agree with another football manager, Alex Ferguson, who wrote in his book Leading that "the old adage that you learn more from defeat than you do from victories has certainly been true from me". But too much focus on failure can start to negatively affect the culture.
This is all difficult stuff, and I don't have any great advice on how to do it well, other than to be aware of how difficult it is.
The best you can do is to regularly ask yourself whether your evaluation and reflection is consistently informing and changing how your team works.
If not, then it's worth thinking about why this is.


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It seems like the updater missed the kb4103720 patch for 2016. I copied it to the ~w100-x64\glb folder too BUT when I rant the update it did nto apply. I was able to manually install it. Also if I go to Windows updates , it shows that kb4103720 is essential. It also did not install the kb4132216 patch although it was already present in the ~w100-x64\glb folder.
If we have updates that are not installed, can we configure it in any way so those additional custom updates are applied once this software is done with the ones it seems to want to install?
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VIDEO: Alameda's Dreidel Factory
VIDEO: Alameda's Dreidel Factory
When Anne Lipow became frustrated about her inability to find anything but cheap, plastic dreidels she decided to design and manufacture her own, starting The Dreidel Factory in 1974. Her daughter, Stephanie, has fond memories of the time they spent together at street fairs, selling the wooden tops Anne and her business partners made in the family's Berkeley garage.
Nearly four decades later, Stephanie Lipow decided to re-start her late mother's business, hand-crafting dreidels from salvaged redwood in her garage in Alameda. The Hebrew letters are individually burned into the four-sided tops, which are sanded and sealed with non-toxic linseed oil and beeswax.
Videographer Donna Eyestone caught up with Lipow recently, and she put together this story about her work; the dreidels are available for sale on the new Dreidel Factory website, linked about. Meanwhile, with Hanukkah set to start this week, we've got a graphic that explains how to play the dreidel game.


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text: Again, while on the subject of BUSINESS, you creative types out there may also find this Creative Business website informative. The Creative Business people have free forms that you can download as PDFs and print out to use for all sorts of the business aspects of your freelance life that probably make your head hurt. Many of them are good starting points for you to create your own materials from and some are good to use as is, such as the estimating worksheet, creative brief questionnaire and illustration questionnaire. Creative Business also has written several books on the subject of Creative Business running, and published a bunch of downloadable articles that they do charge nominal fees for. (Previously mentioned here).


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Reported: 9/22/2013 5:05:15 AM 05:05
Posted: 9/30/2013
Location: Lititz, PA
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It was around midnight and we were driving home and noticed red lights in the sky, I didn't think anything of it because I was driving but my husband said STOP and I stopped right in the middle of the road and could not believe what I was seeing. I couldn't stay in the middle of the road so I turned into a neighborhood and parked,got out and looked up. We watched 1-3 flying objects turn into about 9 and they all flew in different directions. As we stood there I made sure to watch closely to see if they were falling or flying and they certainly were flying. After about a minute they started disappearing,however 4 of them remained for another 3 minutes. 2 of the objects stayed very close together,the other 2 were not very far behind. We watched them just disappear and stood there for a few minutes in disbelief.
Yes we live near LANCASTER AIRPORT, I know what aircraft looks like in the day and at night and this was not a PLANE.


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Tyler Farrar wins final Vuelta a España stage as Vincenzo Nibali secures overall
Farrar wins the final stage in Madrid and Nibali secures the overall
American Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) won the final stage of the 2010 Vuelta a Espana on Sunday, his second win of this year's Tour of Spain. Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas), claimed the overall victory.
Nibali, a 25-year-old all-rounder from Sicily, becomes the first Italian since Marco Giovannetti in 1990 to win the three-week race. He succeeds Alejandro Valverde as race champion.
The Italian finished with a 43-second lead on Ezequiel Mosquera after managing to counter a series of attacks by the Spaniard, notably on the mountainous penultimate stage.
Mosquera took that stage victory on Saturday and eventually finished in second place overall, with HTC-Columbia's Peter Velits finishing third having hoisted himself up the standings with victory in the final time trial.
Having placed a solid seventh overall in last year's Tour de France, Nibali's status as a potential winner of the Grand Tours was polished with a third place finish in the 2010 Giro d'Italia, won by teammate Ivan Basso.
A number of top stars were missing from the race — three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador opted not to compete and Valverde is currently serving a ban.
And arguably Nibali was given a helping hand when he took over the race lead on stage 14 after Euskaltel's Igor Anton was forced out due to a crash.
Nibali, however, showed class and composure for the final week that was made even more difficult by the aggressive tactics of Mosquera and Spanish climbing specialist Joaquin Rodriguez.
Rodriguez then took an option on overall victory after taking possession of the leader's red jersey after stage 16, after which Nibali dropped to second overall at 33 seconds.
However the diminutive Katusha rider paid the price for his lack of time trialling prowess. The next day Nibali produced a solid time trial performance over 46km on stage 17 to take command of the race.
With Rodriguez almost four minutes adrift, it became a duel with Mosquera with the final round taking place on Saturday's 20th stage to the summit of the Bola del Mundo.
Mosquera had promised to give it his all, and the Spanish rider kept to his word. Nibali was equal to the challenge, however, finishing spent but happy in the Spaniard's wake to vitrually secure his first three-week race win.
In the final stage Farrar finally got the better of triple stage winner Mark Cavendish, the American leaving the HTC-Columbia rider in second with Allan Davis of Australia in third.
France's David Moncoutie, of Cofidis, won the polka dot jersey for the race's best climber for the third time.
As well as three stage wins Cavendish, who has 15 stage wins from the Tour de France in three years, also secured the race's points jersey.
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In an age when the puppet masters behind global financial collapses pay fewer and fewer consequences and commit class warfare on everyone else, artists and writers will sometimes dream up a little retribution. Bennett Fisher's "Hermes" is inspired in part by the role global investment banking and securities firm Goldman Sachs played in the current Greek economic collapse. Bread & Water Theatre will present the play, which follows four derivative traders seeking to benefit from the Greek financial meltdown, but their acts of greed and deceit bring unexpected consequences when they attract the attention of Hermes, Greek god of commerce, thieves, and fraud, who, according to B&WT's provided info, "goads them into bolder action through slippery logic, tantalizing visions of immense wealth, and an occasional punch in the balls."
"Hermes" opens Friday, October 26, at 8 p.m. at 243 Rosedale St. The show will continue Fridays-Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. through November 18. Tickets are $12 or $6 for students and seniors. To purchase tickets or learn more, call 271-5523 or visit breadandwatertheatre.org.


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