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UT System News Release
(AUSTIN) – The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System appointed William L. Henrich, M.D., as president of the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Henrich has been serving as the institution's interim president since February and was named the sole finalist for the position last month. Previously, he served as vice president for medical affairs and dean of the Health Science Center's School of Medicine. He also holds the John P. Howe, III, M.D. Distinguished Chair in Health Policy.
"Dr. Henrich is a proven leader with exemplary academic credentials and a demonstrated ability to advance excellence at the Health Science Center, which is a critical component of the South Texas Medical Center and a crucial economic engine for San Antonio and all of Texas," said Regents' Vice Chairman Colleen McHugh. McHugh also chairs the Board's Health Affairs Committee. "The Board is confident that Dr. Henrich will provide strong guidance to support and expand health professional education, patient care and research activities in the Rio Grande Valley and in Laredo."
Dr. Henrich succeeds Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D., who was officially named chancellor of the UT System in January.
"I am delighted that Bill Henrich has been named president of the Health Science Center," UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa, M.D., said. "Bill and I have worked together for years. He is an outstanding individual who will devote himself to continuing the upward trajectory of this wonderful comprehensive academic health center that I care so deeply about. He is sensitive to the needs of South Texas and addressing health care disparities and I am confident in his leadership abilities. I look forward to working with Bill in this new capacity."
"We are grateful to the members of the advisory committee for the outstanding job they did in reviewing a remarkable list of nominees and applicants and narrowing the field to a leader who is so outstanding in health and administration," said Dr. Kenneth I. Shine, executive vice chancellor for health affairs.
Prior to joining the health science center, Henrich was chair of medicine and held an endowed professorship at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. He also was physician-in-chief at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Henrich held many positions at UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, including professor of internal medicine, associate chief of staff for research and development at the VA Medical Center in Dallas and attending physician at Zale Lipshy University Hospital. He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications. Henrich received his undergraduate degree at Columbia College and his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Oregon Medical School and a fellowship in nephrology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine
About The University of Texas Health Science Center - San Antonio
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is the leading research institution in South Texas and one of the major health sciences universities in the world. With an operating budget of $668 million, the Health Science Center is the chief catalyst for the $16.3 billion biosciences and health care sector in San Antonio's economy. The Health Science Center has had an estimated $35 billion impact on the region since inception and has expanded to six campuses in San Antonio, Laredo, Harlingen and Edinburg. More than 23,000 graduates (physicians, dentists, nurses, scientists and other health professionals) serve in their fields, including many in Texas. Health Science Center faculty are international leaders in cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, aging, stroke prevention, kidney disease, orthopaedics, research imaging, transplant surgery, psychiatry and clinical neurosciences, pain management, genetics, nursing, dentistry and many other fields. For more information, visit www.uthscsa.edu.
About The University of Texas System
The University of Texas System is one of the nation's largest higher education systems, with nine academic campuses and six health institutions. The UT System has an annual operating budget of $11.5 billion (FY 2009) including $2.5 billion in sponsored programs funded by federal, state, local and private sources. Student enrollment exceeded 195,000 in the 2008 academic year. The UT System confers more than one-third of the state's undergraduate degrees and educates nearly three-fourths of the state's healthcare professionals annually. With more than 84,000 employees, the UT System is one of the largest employers in the state.


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With just a few ingredients and a little shaking, kids can make their own ice cream. This is a great group project and one that is always fun and amazing!
Items needed:
Amount Needed per Person:
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 4 cups crushed ice
- 4 tablespoons salt
- 2 quart size Zip-loc Baggie
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Mix together the milk, vanilla and sugar in one of the quart size bags. Seal tightly, removing excess air. Place this bag inside the other quart size bag, again removing excess air and sealing well. By double-bagging, you reduce the risk of salt and ice leaking into the ice cream. Put the double bag inside the gallon size bag and fill the bag with the crushed ice. Sprinkle the salt on top. Remove excess air and seal the bag. Shake and the bag, making sure the ice surrounds the cream mixture. Within 5 to 8 minutes you will have Ice Cream! If bags get too cold to hold, wrap with a paper towel. Flavorings can be added to the ice cream to make different flavors. Kids can experiment and make a different flavor every time. This is one of our favorite family activities and everyone gets involved.

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I know there's fish in my pond, how can I identify them? Dustin – Vortex, KY
Which Fish?
So you've seen some fish swimming beneath the surface of your pond. Maybe they've even taken a nibble or two at your toes while you are swimming. Regardless of how you use your pond you would still probably like to know what types of fish are swimming beneath the surface. For all of you curious pond guys and gals out there who want to be better acquainted with their fish we present to you a blog on getting to know your fish. While there are many fish in the sea, there tends to be a slightly small selection in your pond. Let's review the characteristics of some of the most common:
Bluegill / Hybrid Bluegill – Bluegill are one of the most common types of game fish introduced into lakes and backyard ponds. The body of a Bluegill is deep, robust, and cichlid-like. The mouth is small and the front of the dorsal fin is spiny. Bluegill are typically olive-green in color with five to seven dark vertical bands which fade as they approach the middle of the fish. Their belly is a creamy color and the pectoral and pelvic fins are often pigmented with white. There is a black opercular spot just behind the top of the gill and another on the back of the dorsal fin. The typical Bluegill will grow to a maximum of 10" in length and weigh in at around 1 pound, the largest caught weighing just under 5 pounds. Bluegill are a relatively hardy fish that thrive in water temperatures ranging from 39 to 72 degrees, feeding off of vegetation, insects and worms. Bluegill will spawn in water temperatures between 67 to 80 degrees in saucer shaped nests located in the sandy or gravel covered shallow areas of water. While people enjoy fishing and eating Bluegill they are also great food source for larger predator fish like Bass.
Bass – The Largemouth Bass is considered to be one of the most prized game fish in North America. Largemouth Bass are similar to the spotted bass and small-mouth bass but can be distinguished by the deep curvature of its dorsal fin and an upper jaw that extends past its eye. They are a rather slender and streamlined fish with colors that range from dark green on top, silvery green to yellow flanks, to a yellowish-white belly. Their sides are commonly accented with a dark and irregular strip. The average Bass will grow to around 16" in length and weigh in at or below 10 pounds with the worlds largest weighing a little over 22 pounds. Largemouth Bass are best suited for temperate or warmer water flourishing in temperatures around 80 degrees. Though tolerant of turbid water, Largemouth Bass favor clear water, sandy shallows, and abundant rooted aquatic weeds or slow moving rivers and streams with soft bottoms. Many species of pondweeds, water lilies, coontail, elodea, cattails, and bulrushes provide excellent cover. It has a widely varied diet that emphasizes on bluegill, minnows and other small fish as well as frogs and smaller animals like birds or young muskrats. Its predatory nature helps to keep bluegill from overpopulating. Bass spawn in early May and into June in firm sandy areas 2' to 6' deep when water temps are in the 60 degree range.
Perch – While they don't grow large enough to be considered a prize game fish, the Yellow Perch is most sought after for its excellent table fare. Yellow Perch have bright yellow or yellow/green oval shaped bodies with a back ranging from a bright green to a golden brown. They are accented by seven dark, tapering, vertical bars, running from their back down to their grayish belly. Yellow Perch range from 6 to 12 inches in length and weigh in between 6 to 16 ounces with the largest catch weighing 4 pounds 3 ounces. Perch prefer cool clear water and should be stocked in lakes where the water temperatures remain below 80 degrees year-round. Yellow perch feed on zooplankton, insects, snails, and other small fish and are considered a prey fish rather than a predator. Yellow Perch become sexually mature at 5 to 7 inches and spawn in the early Spring when the water temperatures are between 45 to 55 degrees. The yellow perch makes an excellent forage fish for cool-water predators such as walleye, smallmouth bass, and northern pike.
Catfish – Channel Catfish are growing in popularity among sport fishermen due to its large size, hard fighting ability, and tasty flesh. Catfish are characterized by scale-less skin and barbells, better known as whiskers, about their mouth. Channel Catfish can be distinguished from other catfish by the presence of dark spots on its body and a deeply forked tail. Channel Catfish have awesome growth potential reaching lengths of 4 feet, the world record catch in South Carolina weighing in at 58 pounds. Channel Catfish prefer clear slow moving water but can also tolerate muddy water. Channel Catfish are scavengers and will eat just about anything it can find including live fish and game fish food. They are sensitive to light and will typically reside at the bottom of ponds and lakes. Channel Catfish usually become sexually mature when they reach at least 11" but do not generally reproduce in ponds due to the absence of an adequate spawning structure. A suitable structure can be installed by placing buckets or drain tile in depths of 3 to 4 feet of water along the pond bottom. They tend to spawn from May to July when water temperatures reach 75 degrees.
Walleye – One of the most popular game fish in North America, the Walleye is second only to the Largemouth Bass. While it is not the most spectacular fighter, Walleye are quite tasty on the table. Walleye sport an elongated torpedo shaped body with highly variable coloring. Their bodies can range from olive green to brown to yellowish gold often marked with brassy flecks. They have no distinct markings or bars but instead an overall mottling of brown or black and a white belly. Walleye grow to be anywhere from 13" to 25" in length and weigh in between 13 and 22 pounds. The maximum recorded Walleye measured 42 inches in length and weighed 25 pounds. Walleye are considered a cool water fish preferring warmer water than Trout but cooler water than Bass and Bluegill. They enjoy water bodies with sand or gravel bottoms near vegetation though they don't reside within it. Walleye have a special reflective layer of pigment in their eyes to help increase visibility in their favored dark and turbid waters. Yellow Perch, Whitefish and minnows are the food of choice for Walleye but they will also eat insects, frogs and small mammals. Walleye will spawn in early Spring when water temperatures are around 42 to 50 degrees. They tend to choose locations with rocky or gravel coated substrate in 1' to 6' depths where moving water is present. Neither parent cares for their eggs in any way.
Crappie – Another popular sunfish behind the Bluegill, the Crappie is considered an excellent game fish when taken on light tackle and its flaky white flesh is considered very tasty. Crappie are similar in body shape to other sunfish but can be differentiated by connected dorsal fins that lack a notch and contain seven or eight spines. They also have a large anal fin consisting of 6 spines that is nearly as large as their dorsal fin. Their bodies range from dark olive or brown to a metallic green with a silver or blue cast with black mottling throughout. Crappie grow close to a foot in length and can weigh between 2 to 4 pounds. The largest Crappie caught weighed in at just over 5 pounds. Crappie prefer clear water with plenty of aquatic vegetation and mucky or sandy bottoms. They are highly intolerant of turbid water. Crappie eat insects and their larva as a primary food source but will also eat small fish and minnows as well. Like Bluegill, Crappie nest in sandy areas or places with fine gravel in depths of 3 to 8 feet of water. They typically spawn in May to June when water temperatures are within the 58 to 64 degree range.
Trout – One of the largest of the freshwater fish, it is endowed with a flesh of superb eating quality and is eagerly sought by commercial, sport, and subsistence fishermen. Trout typically grow to be around 27" in length and weight between 3 to 9 pounds but are known to grow to lengths exceeding 4' and weigh over 100 pounds. The largest on record weighs 102 pounds and measures 49.6 inches in length. Lake Trout are the least colorful of all Trout with a light green, grey, brown or blackish torpedo shaped body covered with irregular lighter colored spots. Lake Trout sport a deeply forked tail and reddish-orange pectoral, pelvic and anal fins. Lake Trout are truly a cold water fish preferring water temperatures around 50 degrees. Most anglers fish for Trout in the cooler early seasons via fly or spin fishing and have to resort to long lines and heavy lures in the warmer months as the fish retreat to cooler waters. Lake Trout feed mostly off of other fish, insects and small mammals. It takes around eight years for Lake Trout to sexually mature, meaning heavy fishing demand can dramatically deplete the Trout population. They do not build nests or beds by simply scatter eggs among large cobble or boulder substrates in depths of up to 40' in late autumn.
You may have a harder time finding Trout or Bass in your pond in comparison to Bluegill as they tend to be a bit less social. You can take inventory of the fish in your pond by trying to fish them out or by using a Fish Trap. When stocking or manipulating your fish population be sure to provide adequate habitat for smaller prey fish to hide from predators and grow. You can achieve this by installing Fish Attractor Spheres or by providing aquatic plants. Take a look at our Pond Stocking Blog and Fish Habitat Blog to learn more about predator/prey ratios and implementing habitat.
POND TALK: Which types of fish are present in your pond? Which do you feel are the best to fish or eat?
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Vikings Get Their Big Cheese
The Minnesota Vikings landed a top free agent wide receiver after much speculation over the last few days.
The Minnesota Vikings signed free agent wide receiver Greg Jennings to a five year contract worth a reported 47.5 million dollars.
Jennings spent seven seasons with the Green Bay Packers and had 425 catches for 6,537 yards in 96 games. Last season he had a career low 36 grabs for just 366 yards and missed half the season with a groin injury.


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Tuesday, April 7 "Delving into research for my Pop Conference presentation on Urszula Dudziak and the Papaya Dance. I'm not mad for the Papaya Dance, I'm mad at it. It should've made Urszula famous, at least for 15 minutes. Instead, all the attention went to the TV game show host who invented the dance, andRead more…
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I began loving/studying fine art/high fashion very young, I became a regular reader of GQ, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Taxi,etc...,and admirer of Ritts, Newton, Avedon, Mapplethorpe, Warhol, Leibovitz, Gorman, Webber, Scavullo, as well as La Chapelle and Pierre et Gille, etc.....I believe there is interest in every image , given the right model, a photograph can make you do many things, it can make you think, laugh, smile, cry, want, need, and of course it can make you wanna be the "model"! My main interest is male photography, . I do fashion, fitness, editorial style, commercial style, artistic, and nudes. I believe in the experimental, and think everyone should be photographed at least once in their life.
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Hello everyone,
I have been using ownCloud on my server for a while and everythings works fine.
I am just curious to know if there are other opensource projects like owncloud and your comments.
I had never looked into it, but a quick search reveals that there are some available out there, though I have no experience with them. Are there ones you are interested in, or have you not looked at all?
All the best,
"All errors are ᴘᴇʙᴋᴀᴄ errors—It's just a matter of narrowing down which keyboard and chair." -Trilby
I did a quick search but no one has the same features as owncloud.
I am looking for a self-hosted cloud server with files sync(with android app support), calendar, music streaming and a gallery for the photos.
So far I can do everything described with owncloud, and I was wondering if there are similar software.
I use BTSync. It's not "the same" as ownCloud, but it does have android support. In fact, I really like how it works on android. Plus you can easily get it up and running on about any linux system. I had it running on my Pi for a while.
Actually, there is an "alternative", it is called Seafile: http://seafile.com/en/home/.
The source is here: https://github.com/haiwen/seafile
And the aur files: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/seafile-server/
I have not tried it yet, though, but considered trying it in the future. A friend of mine, who did test it, said that it was not as "polished" as OC is now..
Competition is good though, I hope they share a lot of knowledge
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There are quite a lost of alternatives on prism-break.org.
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I'm still using DropBox because I'm not (yet) exceeding the free diskspace requirements. I'll probably continue to use it until I'm finally happy with the reliability of whatever other tools I'd be using.
I tried ownCloud. Unfortunately I've had far too many issues with ownCloud that I haven't yet stopped using DropBox (random re-upload, random re-download, random deletion!! (1)). In looking into oC's issues on github I've realised that ownCloud has no built-in transactionality and has sub-par metadata. When I tried to promote the issue (2) where hashing the content would help, I got lots of excuses that it is a) unnecessary, b) won't help much, and c) will cause other issues. This despite that there are a few elegant solutions and proposals floating throughout the respository.
Unfortunately, as a result of the above, I just don't yet see oC as a reliable tool.
I got btSync going on Friday (took about an hour to set it up on 2x Windows PCs, 1x Arch Desktop, 1x Ubuntu server, and even my Android phone!). I've found it to be pretty awesome. The only thing I'm not too happy with is that you can't (yet) deploy your own personal tracker. You can currently bypass this requirement (3) on all but the Android app so it isn't *that* bad. Bittorrent's track record indicates it is *possible* (however unlikely) that they will release the source - but at the very least that they *are* likely to release the tracker spec.
Other apps I'd like to check out still before finally picking one (I like btSync so far - but that doesn't mean its the one I'll stick with):
Bitcasa (not sure if you can host this yourself)
1) In South Africa, bandwidth at home is limited!
2) https://github.com/owncloud/mirall/issues/110
3) Setting a "predefined" host allows peer exchange to sort out the rest - if you have a (generally) publically-addressible server this then allows the sync to work very well (even remotely) without a tracker.
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pacman russian roulette: yes | pacman -Rcs $(pacman -Q | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))
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Dropbox, i have 56 GB
I deleted 99% of my dropbox the weekend - its down to about 15MB. I find the "Share Dropbox link" feature very convenient so I'll probably continue using Dropbox for that.
I still want to check out some more of the alternatives - but BTsync is still working awesomely.
pacman russian roulette: yes | pacman -Rcs $(pacman -Q | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))
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Start as young as you can, in any capacity. For directing music videos and commercials, the window opens around age 23. For features, the best you can hope for is to start in your late twenties. But the window closes too. If you haven't directed a feature-length Hollywood picture by the time you're 35, you probably never will.I was curious to see how animation directors stacked up. They generally skew older. One reason is that in the early years, animated features didn't exist and for decades they were relatively rare. However, even in the modern era, it's rare (as you'll see below) for directors to start in their 20s.
Certainly there are directors in their 20s working in TV and in the old days on shorts. However if directing live action features is a young person's game, directing animated features is for the middle aged.
So here are some ages of directors for their first animated features. There are omissions here because the IMDB doesn't have birth dates for every animated feature director, which is why something as big as The Lion King is not listed.
David Hand was 37 when he directed Snow White. Ham Luske was 37 and Ben Sharpsteen was 45 when they directed Pinocchio. Dave Fleischer was 45 when he directed Gulliver's Travels. Jiri Trnka was 39 when he directed The Emperor's Nightingale. Jean Image was 43 when he directed Johnny the Giant Killer. John Halas was 43 and Joy Batchelor was 41 when they directed Animal Farm. Paul Grimault was 52 when he directed The Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird. Wolfgang Reitherman was 53 when he directed A Hundred and One Dalmatians. Bill Hanna was 54 and Joe Barbera was 53 when they directed Hey There, It's Yogi Bear.
George Dunning was 48 when he directed Yellow Submarine. Bill Melendez was 53 when he directed A Boy Named Charlie Brown. Ralph Bakshi was 34 when he directed Fritz the Cat. Richard Williams was 44 when he directed Raggedy Ann and Andy. Bruno Bozzetto was 44 when he directed Allegro Non Tropo. Don Bluth was 45 when he directed The Secret of NIMH. Will Vinton was 38 when he directed The Adventures of Mark Twain.
John Musker and Ron Clements were both 33 when they directed The Great Mouse Detective. Gary Trousdale was 31 and Kirk Wise was 28 when they directed Beauty and the Beast. Henry Selick was 41 when he directed The Nightmare Before Christmas. John Lassetter was 38 when he directed Toy Story. Brad Bird was 42 when he directed The Iron Giant. Peter Lord was 47 and Nick Park was 42 when they directed Chicken Run. Chris Wedge was 45 when he directed Ice Age. Sylvain Chomet was 40 when he directed The Triplets of Belleville. Richard Linklater was 41 when he directed Waking Life.
I wonder, given that the majority of the movie audience is under 30, if this is one of the reasons that animated features have a problem capturing the teen market. The age of animation directors is very appropriate, though, for family films, as most of the directors above likely had children of their own at the time they got their first feature assignment.


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New plan would limit Charlotte's funding for stadium renovations
New plan would limit Charlotte's funding for stadium renovations
A state lawmaker from Charlotte has offered a bill that would likely limit the money the city could offer for renovations for the Carolina Panthers stadium.
The Charlotte Observer reported Republican Rep. Ruth Samuelson offered the bill Thursday to allow the city to use only existing taxes to pay for improvements at Bank of American Stadium.
Charlotte wants state lawmakers to give the city authority to double its prepared food tax to help pay $144 million of a planned $250 million in renovations.
Samuelson's plan apparently would leave the city more than $30 million short of the amount it wants to provide. She says there is no support for a tax increase.
Her bill does not address the team's request for about $62 million in state funding.


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half the battle of installing any equipment is knowing how to use the menu system. with this in mind, the menus of the new generation pro-view dvrs are exactly the same as the original pro-view units. it's not just the menus that are the same either; the new pro-view dvrs use the same socatch app for android and apple devices and can be incorporated into the same cms software as original pro-view units.
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Texans Break World Record With Frito Pie
I have to admit, I didn't try the delicacy that is Frito pie until I moved to Texas. Growing up in Nebraska we sometimes mixed chili, cheese, and saltine crackers together, but the genius of replacing the Saltines with Fritos just didn't occur to us.
Texans are onto something! Frito Pie is delicious, and who cares how fattening.
We Texans broke a Guiness World Record on Monday with a Frito Pie that weighed over a thousand pounds. Some states might be ashamed, but in Texas its a badge we wear proudly. We just may need a Tums to go with our badge.
With the East Texas Fair behind us, it might be worth our while to head to the Texas State Fair in Dallas. That's where this wild record was broken yesterday.
The 1100-pound Frito pie made of chili, shredded cheese and Fritos was dumped into a giant trough at the State Fair, to make the world's largest Frito Chili Pie.
That should be enough to make it into the Guiness Book of World Records, but the Guiness people will have to verify it. All that pie fed five thousand people.
This is the 80th anniversary of Fritos, by the way. Those snappy little corn chips were born in 1932 in San Antonio when Elmer Doolin bought a corn chip recipe from a local businessman. Fox 4 in Dallas says his mother is credited with creating the Fritos Pie recipe for gradeschool lunches.
Kinda makes a gal want to head to the vending machine at work. If only we had some chili and cheese to go with it.


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Demolition Inc. HD v22.67219 +data | 208 MB | Android 2.3 +
... is a new action strategy game: Assume the role of the daring demolition worker Mike and start a devastating chain reaction on earth. Use cool tools and weapons and expand your destructive powers!
You navigate Mike's UFO over the cities of Earth and unfold complete chaos with your tools and weapons: Cars which drive into tower blocks and make them collapse; high-rises which fall onto other high-rises, exploding cows which make whole streets of houses come tumbling down!
DEMOLITION, INC. is 100% physics technology: nothing is predetermined, and nothing is pre-animated. Your actions alone decide what happens and what you see!
Because of this, every time you play will be a unique experience and you won't get enough from those explosive chain reactions you make by yourself.
Ground-breaking technology - Car and building physics is fully simulated. Everything is destructible and nothing is pre-animated. No game round is like another.
Combining action and strategy - Use the endless possibilities of combining your tools and weapons to make devastating chain reactions. Only this way can you manage to tear down whole cities!
Tools and Weapons - Use you tractor beam to take control of cars, place anti-gravity ramps to maximize damage, use the huge wrecking ball to clear your path.
Improve your skills on the way and unlock breathtaking and crazy new tools and weapons!
Exciting levels - 6 cities and 27 districts are waiting to be demolished by you and led to their fate!
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To the Editor:
Since my appointment by then-mayor Joseph Carrigan 10 years ago, I have had the honor and privilege of serving the community of East Rockaway as its acting village justice. During my time on the bench, I hope I dealt with those who appeared before me in a fair and open-minded manner as I tried to dispense justice tempered with mercy.
As my time serving the village in this capacity has now come to an end, I wish to thank the residents for their patience and understanding during the times they came before me, and I hope they will continue to demonstrate the same courtesy and respect to our village justice and to whomever replaces me as the acting justice.
To the residents, I thank you for allowing me the pleasure to serve you in the past, and I look forward to being granted another opportunity to serve you in the future.
Hon. Thomas Chojnacki
East Rockaway
Congratulations, Brian
To the Editor:
Congratulations to the Herald's Brian Croce, who received second place for Rookie Reporter of the Year in the New York Press Association's 2012 Better Newspaper Contest.
Here in Valley Stream, we know of and appreciate Brian's excellent journalistic skills. It's nice to see that his work has received such broad-based recognition among the professional newspaper community. This is truly a great honor for such a deserving individual!
Keep up the good work, Brian, and kudos to the Herald as well for the excellent tutelage that has helped guide Brian along the path to this award.
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|09 Dec 2010
Building pc with win7 64bit OEM
whats with the OEM version? It's apparently for system builder who make then sell the pc.
So, will i be able to use it and keep the pc for personal use?
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|09 Dec 2010
Prior to win7, the system builder EULA used to say its meant for assemblers and manufacturers and not for the end user UNLESS the end user actually assembles his own rig. But in win7, that crucial part has been removed and now as per the EULA, the system builder license can only be used on a PC meant for resale. So technically it does appear you would be breachibg the EULA by installing it for personal use.
However, let me state at the risk of annoying some people that here again there is a gap between idea and practice. System builder copies are freely available at respected stores, if MS didnt want them to be there, they wouldnt be there. MS doesnt care whether you are an assembler or not provided you buy a genuine copy and install it on a single computer.
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|09 Dec 2010
My 7 Home Premium 64 bit OEM, that I bought at Tiger Direct, was a system builder version. I used it on a bare bones system also bought at Tiger Direct, but not at the same time. I've activated it several times on that PC since I've owned it, with no problems. The price was right and I didn't have to buy any other hardware with it, so it was a good deal for me. :)
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thanks for the info, i will just use the oem version since its readily available to the public and its cheaper, it ms didnt want people to buy it, they wouldnt have allwed people to sell it commercially to the general public.
Also, one more thing, i heard that the OS records the serial number or something of your MOBO, is this true? And if so will it mean that if i were to change MOBO's later on, the windows that i bought wouldnt work?
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|09 Dec 2010
Yes, OEM license is tied to the mobo its first installed on. Thats the advantage of buying a retail license since it is freely transferrable to another PC after its uninstalled on the first. True, system builder is the cheapest option out there but if you plan to switch machines/mobos anytime, go for an Upgrade license, if you possess any of the qualifying, underlying OSs (Vista, XP).
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|09 Dec 2010
Yes like Bill2 said, OEM once activated cannot be transfered to another PC. If your motherboard failed and you couldn't find an exact replacement, I think you could plead you case to Microsoft. If the new one had the same chip-set or very similar you could probably swap them without any hassle. So far I've upgraded my video card, went from the onboard to a PCIe. Upgraded from an IDE to Sata II hard drive. Added 2 more gigs of RAM and a DVD-ROM drive. The only time I had to activate again was after the hard drive swap and that was only because I did a clean install.
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|09 Dec 2010
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 RTM + SP1
Yep. Same here and (I guess within EULA) i bought one for a PC i built my mum.
I give her the help she needs as well.
@OP - With a OEM you will NOT be able to get support from microsoft if something happens generally like a windows issue. I am afraid its down to you to sort that problem. Apart from major issues, like stated above, you need to transfer the license. Or at least that what the T&C's say in the license.
I get mine from Amazon, cheap as chips imo.
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|09 Dec 2010
I forgot about that little tid bit. If you buy a system builder edition, and you are the system builder, you are your own tech support.
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|09 Dec 2010
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
Many times, the upgrade is only about $10 more over the OEM.
(or at least at NewEgg At the time of this posting)
You may want to consider just going the Upgrade route.
If for some reason you decide to upgrade the MOBO, (or you have to to) , build another PC whatever, it will make things much easier in the long run.
As these are not limited to 1 PC only. Upgrade can be any PC you want to put it on so long as its only active on 1 PC at a time.
Worse case scenario you need to call MS and say, I moved to a new PC help me activate.
Plus, as mentioned, you'll get MS support.
That alone is worth the extra $10 IMHO.
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|10 Dec 2010
sorry but an upgrade isnt an option for me, im building it from scratch and therefore have no previous OS installed.
I also lost my xp disc a while ago.
I'm definitely not going to buy the retail version as im on a tight budget and the retail version costs almost double ($200 instead of $100) so i think im going to have to take the risk and get the OEM version and hope the MOBO works (it probably will). Also, i don't really plan on upgrading my computer that much 'till a few years at least and by then another windows version will probably be out.
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Almshouse Records
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This article originally appeared in "Business, Institution, and Organization Records" by Kay Haviland Freilich, CG, CGL, and Ann Carter Fleming, CG, CGL in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy
Almshouses were established over one thousand years ago, and since that time most societies have made provisions of some type to care for the citizens who could not care for themselves. Depending on the time period, the location, and the type of care provided, the facility might be known as an almshouse, a house of refuge, a poorhouse, or a poor farm. More often than not, they are government funded and operated, frequently on the county level.
Our ancestors may have resided in of one these facilities for any number of reasons. In some cases, their stay was brief; in others, it may have lasted for a number or years or even for most of their lives. Many times they had no family in the area to take over their care. One group of residents was the elderly, who because of illness or the effects of aging simply could not care for themselves any more. Another group was those who suffered from a debilitating illness or handicap that prevented them from working. Still another was children whose parents could not care for them.
Just as the type of support offered varies with the individual institution, so do the records vary. Most of them include the name of the occupant, sex, age, race, and dates of admission and discharge. The record may include health information and date of death if the resident died at the facility. More detailed records might also add marital status, names and birthplaces of parents, personal habits, and amount of education. Typical of the records are those of Shelby County, Illinois. Published abstracts show name, age, sex, state or country of birth, and date of admission (see the attached image). The original Almshouse Register for Shelby County, Illinois also shows occupation before admission, marital status, birthplace of parents, ability to read or write, health, habits, property brought to the almshouse, authority for admission, and cause of pauperism.<ref>Phyllis Hapner and Judy Graven, Almshouse Register for Shelby County, Illinois (n.p.: typescript, 1985).</ref>
The current location of the records will of course vary. Many remain in the custody of the county, either in the courthouse or an archives facility. Others are found in the offices of the institution that replaced the almshouse. If the county nursing home of today occupies the site of the former county poor farm, the farm's records may well be at the nursing home. Still other records may have been retained by the last director and are now in the hands of descendants. Some records have been microfilmed by the Family History Library and can be located by searching for available county records. Others are identified and located by searching the county's own Web pages or a genealogy list for the county.
A wide variety of records are available online. Some examples follow:
- Pauper information is available in census records as displayed in this Page County, Iowa, example.
- Mercer County, Illinois, almshouse records, 1858'1948, at the Illinois Secretary of State website.
- Morgan County, Colorado, old age pensions, 1933'36, at http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/oap/morgan.html.
- Warren County, New York, poorhouse records at http://www.co.warren.ny.us/records.
A typical entry from the Warren County records shows that Homer Jackson was a seventy-year-old black male, a widower, who was admitted to the almshouse in 1880 and died in 1882. Homer stated his father and mother were slaves in Arkansas before they bought their freedom.


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Why Leave Church?
OK, so who says we can't leave the faith because of the misdeeds of the Church?
On a more personal level, I can honestly and accurately say that I have never felt, both before joining or since leaving, that I have ever been treated as badly as I was while in the Church. I think it has something to do with the Christian idealism that I was indoctrinated with that caused me to put aside a healthy amount of suspicion toward those who were supposedly my brothers and sisters. Perhaps this made me more vulnerable than I would have been otherwise. But I was told that these people were filled with God's Holy Spirit and were truly seeking to imitate Jesus. Was I wrong to let my guard down around them? It appears so.
We all know of the televangelists who fleece the flock, but what of that which is has now been termed spiritual abuse? What of those who have their self esteem crushed, their decision making skills diminished, their critical reasoning skills stunted? We're not talking here about cults. No, spiritual abuse is something Evangelicals admit goes on in their churches all the time. Authoritarianism, manipulation, guilt and shame, are, and have always been, rife in the Church. So is the Church really such a good place for anyone to be? More than that, where is the Christian God in all this? If the Church is truly his body, then why are so many people so badly damaged by it? Where' does the Christian God's responsibility lie in all this?
I think disillusionment with the Church was the starting point for many of us who have walked away. Why? Because the Church is where the gospel is supposedly lived and worked out. The Church is where the gospel rubber hits the road. For many of us, it was when we admitted how broken, defective and beyond repair the Church was that we began to question the basic tenets of the faith itself. It was then that we went on to explore why the Christian message doesn't work.
I would say that those who say, 'one cannot leave the faith because of the Church,' have found a convenient way to ignore that which is blatantly obvious to anyone who cares to look: the Church is one of the main reasons why Christianity should be debunked.


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Kourtney Kardashian said bye-bye to baby fat.
The brunette beauty, showing off her svelte figure in a skimpy bikini on the cover of OK! magazine, revealed that she's lost 45 lbs. since giving birth to her son Mason last December.
"They say it takes a full year to really get your body back," she told the magazine. "I believe that. I was 140 pounds when I gave birth and I'm 95 now."
Kardashian said she stuck to a strict workout regimen and had frequent, portion-controlled meals to work off the baby weight. The "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" starlet even found ways to bring baby Mason along.
"I'd take him on walks when he was a baby and do squats while holding him," she said, according to the New York Daily News.
Still, Kardashian gives into her cravings once in a while.
"I'll eat Oreo Double Stufs, but I will have two instead of a whole box. And I love chips," she said.


text: China Corn Glut No Barrier to Farmers as State Buys April 8, 2014 06:38 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Bloomberg Email Even after four years of record corn harvests left China with the world's biggest surplus since 2002, Zhang Fengyou and millions of farmers in the northeast provinces are planting more. That's because they know the government will buy corn at above-market prices, stockpiling enough to supply the 28 nations of the European Union for a year. State reserves are a strategic asset for China, the world's most-populous nation, where corn used to feed hogs, cattle and poultry surged 44 percent over the past five years as meat consumption climbed. "Nothing compares to corn for giving a stable and good return," said Zhang, 39, who plans to fill his entire 11- hectare (27-acre) farm in Baiwu, Heilongjiang province, with corn this year, a reversal from 2009, when most of the land was used for soybeans. Rising corn production in China has dashed forecasts that economic growth and increased meat demand would make the nation the largest importer of the grain and send global prices higher. Instead, China's self-sufficiency eased the strain of climbing world consumption. Futures on the Chicago Board of Trade are down 41 percent from a record in 2012. Since government subsidies began in 2008, when global food prices tracked by the United Nations jumped to the highest ever, Chinese farmers boosted corn output by 43 percent, collecting a record 217.7 million metric tons in 2013, the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated in March. Before the harvest starts in September, stockpiles will reach 72.2 million tons, almost twice the 37 million tons held in the U.S. and about as much as the 73.5 million the EU will use this year, USDA data show. Paying More The government paid farmers in Heilongjiang 2,220 yuan a ton ($9.08 a bushel) in 2013, up from 1,480 yuan in 2008, according to the State Administration of Grain website. Price gains were similar in the rest of the northeast, the main growing region, including the provinces of Jilin, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia. On Zhang's farm, outside the city of Suihua, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) northwest of Russia's far eastern port of Vladivostok, last year's corn crop earned him 10,950 yuan ($1,763) per hectare, twice the 4,000 yuan for soybeans. Zhang said he keeps 30 percent of his harvest to raise 50 pigs. "China has reaped much more corn than we had realized, and as the government tries to deal with the glut, imports are not seen as necessary," said Li Qiang, chairman at research company Shanghai JC Intelligence Co., who has studied China's agriculture industry for 30 years. He estimated the country will grow more corn than it uses for at least another two years. Meat Lovers Because output can be hurt by weather, pests and natural disasters, the government determined China needed ample supply to sustain livestock herds that feed a growing population. The country will have 1.356 billion people this year, or about 19 percent of the world total, U.S. Census Bureau data show. Rising incomes are increasing demand for protein in China, where the economy doubled in five years to displace Japan as the world's second-largest in 2010. About 72 percent of the corn China uses this year will be consumed as livestock feed, with the rest made into ethanol, starches and sweeteners. Already the world's largest pork-consuming nation, with a herd of 475.9 million hogs, or about six of every 10 on the planet, demand is up 11 percent since 2011, according to a November USDA report. China ranks fourth in beef consumption, has the third-largest cattle herd and is the second-largest milk producer. For chicken, only the U.S. eats more than China, the data show. 'Protect Farmers' The State Administration of Grain, in a 2009 statement, said government stockpiling would "protect farmers' interests" and "stabilize market prices," which the previous year dropped from a record during the global financial crisis. In a March 2010 report, the agency urged "building agricultural infrastructure, increasing technological investment and promoting high-quality, high-yield corn" while "increasing the size of state corn reserves." The temporary stockpiles would be sold later "at prices in line with the market," according to the report. With the government as a buyer, growing corn became more profitable. Farmers on average earned 2,965 yuan per hectare in 2012, after all costs including labor, twice the return from soybeans of 1,543 yuan, according to the Compilation on Costs and Returns of China Agricultural Products, a report published last year by the National Bureau of Statistics. 'Social Stability' "The Chinese government has always viewed stable grain prices as a foundation of social stability," including the cost of rice, wheat and corn, said Feng Lichen, the Dalian-based general manager at Yigu Information Consulting Ltd., a provider of crop data to farmers and traders. Stockpiling policies for rice were introduced by the government starting in 2004, and wheat was added in 2006, according to the National Development and Reform Commission. With the help of subsidies, corn output last year increased by the equivalent of total imports for the previous six years, USDA data show. That's limited demand for imported grain even as China became the world's largest corn consumer after the U.S. While the USDA projects imports of 5 million tons in the 12 months ending Aug. 31, actual purchases may be less as orders are canceled, said Yigu's Feng. Rabobank Groep NV in 2010 predicted China would overtake Japan as the world's largest importer by 2015, buying as much as 25 million tons. The USDA said in February it may take until 2021 for China to top Japan as the top importer of corn. Cheaper Imports Government stockpiling can be expensive for consumers because imports are cheaper. Corn from the U.S., the world's largest grower and exporter, was trading at its widest discount ever to cash grain on China's Dalian market on Jan. 9 at 1,394 yuan a ton, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. While the discount has narrowed as Chicago prices rose this year, it's still up about 39 percent from a year ago. Corn futures on the Chicago Board of Trade closed yesterday at $4.9925 a bushel (1,221 yuan a ton), compared with a record $8.49 in August 2012. On the Dalian Commodity Exchange, the contract for September delivery closed at 2,352 yuan today, up about 40 percent from five years ago. Soybean futures on Dalian are up about 20 percent since April 2009. China also uses a quota system to keep out cheaper corn imports, with grain processors in southern provinces required to buy from northern producers, according to Li of Shanghai JC. The central government provides transportation subsidies of 140 yuan per ton for companies that ship corn out of the northeast provinces, the grain administration said in November. Shipping Soybeans The picture is different for soybeans, which as an oilseed is seen by China as less strategic than rice, wheat and corn. Imports of the crop, used as feed and to make food and cooking oil, have doubled in six years as processors take advantage of cheaper supplies from the U.S. and Brazil. "China is not as efficient in producing soybeans as other nations," Chen Xiwen, deputy head of the Agricultural Work Group of the Communist Party Central Committee, said at a State Council press conference in February 2012. "It's better to increase imports to spare the land grown to soybeans to other crops, producing high-output, high-value crops. This is good for the development of China's agriculture." Better returns on corn are helping to increase investment in farm machinery, fertilizer and higher-yielding seeds, according to Yigu's Feng. Production improved without the use of genetically modified seeds more common in the U.S. "The development of rural cooperatives has also led to consolidation of farmland in the northeast," Feng said. "You'll see one farmer plowing fields with tractors that used to be manned by a thousand farmers." Better Yields On average, Chinese farmers produced 6.028 tons per hectare last year, up 2.7 percent from 2012, while soybean yields dropped 2.1 percent to 1.78 tons, according to China National Grain & Oils Information Center. The nation's corn yields are up 25 percent in the past decade, compared with 12 percent in the U.S., where farmers still are more productive at 9.97 tons per hectare on average, according to the USDA. Heilongjiang farmers increased corn planting by 41 percent from 2010 in 2013, according to a statement on the provincial government website. China's inventories may expand even more next year. A report yesterday from the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service predicted another record crop in 2014 that will leave corn stockpiles at 87.14 million tons before the 2015 harvest. Food-Makers The subsidies are having the desired result for government policy makers, at least for now, as they try to preserve a portion of China's food-making ability as rapid economic growth draws more people to the cities and away from the farm. While domestic corn prices are 6 percent lower than their peak in 2012, they're still about 50 percent higher than six years ago, according to data compiled by Shanghai JC Intelligence. Zhang said he continues to make a good living off the land. Because he expects the government to keep buying corn, he plans to convert three hectares he planted with potatoes last year so that all his land will be used to grow the grain. "I earned money through my own hard labor, but it's far better than working as a migrant worker in the cities," Zhang said. Back to news


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Is your shiny new smartphone from the holidays being put to use? While there is still some downtime until planting, now is the perfect time to fire it up and download some agricultural apps that may help you out a lot this growing season. But where do you start?
There are dozens of apps out there that offer many different services to growers. Here, we take a look at some of the top apps we saw throughout 2013 and break them down for you by their function. We don't list every ag app that's available, but we give you a good selection to choose from. Work with your local dealers for apps that help with input selection, since many companies offer their own brand-specific apps. But here we focus on apps in groups by calculators, scouting/identification and overall farm management. Open up your app store and get ready to search for the ones that you think you'll need most this year.
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Luis Suarez: I will be at World Cup
Luis Suarez said he is working to be 100 percent ready for the World Cup after the Uruguayan FA (AUF) confirmed he had undergone an operation to remove damaged meniscus from his left knee.
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Liverpool striker Suarez, 27, felt pain in the knee during training on Wednesday with his international squad in Montevideo, and after an immediate scan the procedure took place at the Medica Uruguaya hospital in the Uruguayan capital.
"Be calm -- I am going to get there," he told Ovacion. "Thanks for all your support. I am going to work really hard in the coming days to be at 100 percent and help my teammates!"
AUF president Wilmar Valdez said Suarez could return to training in just over a fortnight.
"We know the surgery was a success and that the injury is not serious. We have to wait and see how he recovers," he told media including Ovacion. "We had very little time to react and, without knowing the extent of the injury, we didn't want to raise the alarm to the public.
"These are injuries that, considering Suarez's fitness and if the recovery is good, will not take long for him to return to play. We have to calculate if he will arrive for the first, second or third [group game at the World Cup].
"We know that normally the recovery period, if all goes well, is around 15 days to return to training. We all know what Luis represents to the national team and more so, considering the great form he was in. Considering how valuable he is to the national team, it is a big concern for us."
An official statement released by the AUF on Thursday had earlier confirmed he was still in contention for the World Cup.
"The AUF medical service states that yesterday, Wednesday May 21, the player Luis Suarez, after a normal warm-up, suffered intense pain in his left knee while working with the football," the statement read. "An MRI scan confirmed a partial injury to the external meniscus in his left knee. This morning, a partial removal of the meniscus was carried out via arthroscopy. There is no confirmation of other issues in the knee. His participation in the World Cup in Brazil is not ruled out."
The statement also suggested that the meniscus issue was related to an incident that occurred during Liverpool's final Premier League game of the 2013-14 season at home to Newcastle.
"It should be highlighted that the player received a direct blow to his left knee in the last game of the Premier League season with Liverpool, on Sunday May 11, with pain that eased with rest from sporting action after the season had ended," AUF added.
Suarez, the PFA and Football Writers' Player of the Year after scoring 31 goals for Liverpool, now faces a race against time to be fit for his country's group games against Costa Rica on June 14 and then England five days later.
The player's sister, Giovanna Suarez, admitted that at the very least his preparation for the tournament would now be severely complicated.
"The problem is that these days he won't be able to play, and will only be able to do physiotherapy," she said. "He underwent a magnetic resonance and it came out that he had to undergo surgery. It was that quick."
The loss of Suarez for any of their three group games would be a blow to Uruguay's hopes, especially given they must also face Italy in their final opening stage game on June 24.
Real Sociedad's Gonzalo Castro and Nacional's Alvaro Fernandez are the stand-by strikers for Oscar Tabarez's squad, which currently has 25 players and must be cut by two for the finals.
Information from The Associated Press and Press Association was used in this report.
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