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Neil called this "The Lab" and until 2011 it was kept top secret.
The Lab would tell us exactly which eBooks were the top sellers around the world.
Up until 2007 Neil was just using The Lab to find markets for eBooks however every year more and more people purchased more and more physical products over the internet from market places like eBay and less from conventional bricks and mortar stores.
Neil then asked the question.. "Could we use The Lab data to automatically find the most profitable products on eBay? Not just the top sellers, as there is software already available which can tell us that, but which items make the most profit?
A top seller means nothing,there are many hot selling items making less than 30% profit. We are only interested in items making at least 100% profit and selling at least 15 times every month.
The hardest part of any business including online and eBay businesses is finding items to sell which are in hot demand then sourcing the product for substantially less than they sell for.
If you can solve these 2 issues then you have a business.
Before Waterhouse Research, Neil like many other eBayer's regularly attended trade shows in Hong Kong and China, spending days walking from booth to booth. This one in the picture above was held by Global Sources in Hong Kong and had over 4000 booths. After your marathon walk through over 4000 booths, you then go home and research the products to analyse which products make profit and which items to sell on eBay.
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Adult products
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We are here to help you sell more products online.
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AZRainman posted a terrific educational video in the Hive (Swarm Forum). In it, David Logan discusses the 5 types, or stages, of tribes. Yes, you read that correctly, TRIBE. I really like this analogy and believe there are lessons here for all of us who mostly tend to operate in the third stage.
I know that I have worked inside of stage two Tribes, LOL, and I think that as a country the United States USED to operate on level 4. This is where creativity spawns innovation and beeing just a little bit different is not such a bad thing! Hey, what country has produced the most patents, the most innovation per capita and in the shortest amount of time? We have a lot to be proud of, but our "mojo" is slipping and we need to break the negative circles that are occurring right now and whose roots are based in a debt backed money system.
The point? Please reach out to other tribes and invite them into the Swarm! We can change the world!
Speaking of beeing different, Jennifer over at Inside the Hive supports the Swarm concept and sent me the following short video. Yes, for several years now those who have focused in on the debt have felt like we've been doing the shirtless economic debt dance on our own. Good to see others catching on, that means that we are getting closer to taking the next step in the evolution of our economy and of our nation.
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Underwater exploration robots consist of unmanned underwater vehicles, such as ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) and AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles), which are employed by various industries for exploration tasks. USVs are also known as autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs). They can be operated through remote control, or are autonomous or semi-autonomous. These vehicles are pre-programmed to perform certain tasks. Vendors that traditionally deal with unmanned underwater vehicles, unmanned ground vehicles, and unmanned aerial vehicles are expanding their scope to provide unmanned surface vehicles.
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Welcome to Project Reality: Battlefield 2 (aka PR:BF2), a modification for the retail Battlefield 2 multi-player PC game. Project Reality's aim is to create a more realistic combat environment than standard Battlefield 2, and place a greater emphasis on teamwork and cooperation. Most of the aspects of Battlefield 2 that have the capacity to be modified have been tweaked, or completely overhauled, to reflect their real life counterparts, for increased realism. Ballistics have for example also been audited to reflect those of real weapons, including characteristics such as damage, deviation and bullet drop depending on a weapon systems calibre. Since EA and DICE no longer support Battlefield 2 and is no longer being played online, the Project Reality team made PR:BF2 a standalone game. No longer is a installation of Battlefield 2 required and we have implemented our own online account system for online play.
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text: ALSA sample rate conversion 2006-08-21 10:56:22 The newer versions of ALSA (the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) enable software mixing by default. All sounds which are played are converted to 48kHz (by default) and mixed in software. When I installed the new Ubuntu and it was set up this way, I was somewhat concerned about the sound quality implications of this setup. I dove into the ALSA source and discovered some very interesting things.The first issue is the actual mixing. This is done with 24 bits of precision (32 bits are used internally, but the lowest 8 are used for saturation). The algorithm seems to be fairly good and I don't see any major quality implications are using it.The second (and much bigger) issue is sample rate conversion. Obviously for software mixing all the signals need to be converted to a single rate. This rate, by default, is 48kHz. The algorithm used by default is a very rudimentry linear interpolation algorithm. This algorithm is fast but very low quality and is likely to audibly degrade the sound quality of 44100 material played through a mixed device. I tested this SRC using a loopback cable and some generated square, sine and triangle waves of various frequencies. It appears to add harmonic distortion of around -10dB in some cases and about -20dB on music. I'll post some graphs when I get home this afternoon.There are a number of solutions to this problem.1) Install the libasound_module_rate plugin and set defaults.pcm.rate_converter "samplerate_best" in your .asoundrc. This plugin uses the SRC_SINC_BEST_QUALITY algorithm from libsamplerate and seems to offer excellent quality. The problem here is that most distributions don't package this plugin and it is only included with very new versions of ALSA. I would say this is the ideal solution and it would be nice if the ALSA developers would make this (or at least libsamplerate's SRC_SINC_FASTEST algorithm) the default.2) Set the dmix plug to use 44.1kHz. This is great if you are mostly listening to 44.1kHz material, but not so useful if you are listening to a mixture of 48kHz and 44.1kHz material.3) Create seperate plugs for 44.1kHz and 48kHz material. This works fine if you don't want software mixing to work when playing both types of material simultaneously. A good setup here would be a 44.1kHz plug for used by default and by your MP3 player and a 48kHz plug used by your movie player. System sounds and other stuff can use either (I don't generally care about sound quality when watching Google Video content, for example).ALSA by default seems to offer very dissapointing sound quality, but it is possible to set it up to offer much better quality. I will post a detailed guide in the next couple of days to explain how to set up your Linux machine for better playback and capture quality.


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Bunim-Murray Productions Casting For Season Three of Oxygen's Hit Reality Series The Bad Girls Club
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Los Angeles � May 20th, 2008 � The Bad Girls Club is looking for seven women to star in season three of the hit Oxygen reality show. From Bunim-Murray, the groundbreaking producers of The Real World, The Bad Girls Club is Oxygen's highest-rated original series ever.
Season three will bring together an all-new cast of self-proclaimed 'bad girls' in a beautiful mansion. These women recognize that their outrageous behavior has hindered their relationships, careers and lives. They have issues with anger, trust and control, and claim they want to change. Will living together help them move forward and turn their lives around � or will chaos rule?
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Bunim-Murray Productions is the leading independent producer of innovative entertainment content. The company is widely credited with creating the reality television genre with its hit series The Real World (now airing its 20th season on MTV). Bunim-Murray's other current programming includes Murder (Spike), The Bad Girls Club (Oxygen), Dr. Steve-O (USA), Keeping Up with the Kardashians (E! Entertainment) and America's Psychic Challenge (Lifetime). Launched in 2006 to better reach the Digital Generation, Bunim-Murray's M Theory Entertainment is a spin-off entity focusing on new media initiatives. Bunim-Murray also recently launched BMP Films, a documentary film division, which premiered its first documentary, Autism: The Musical, at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. Autism: The Musical premiered on HBO in April. Bunim-Murray Productions is based in Van Nuys, CA. It was founded in 1987 by Jonathan Murray and the late Mary-Ellis Bunim.
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Oxygen is a programming service of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment and is currently available in over 73 million homes. The network was launched in 2000 to fill a void in the television landscape � creating a network targeted to younger women. Oxygen is rewriting the rulebook for women's television, with a vast array of unconventional and original programming including �The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency,� �The Bad Girls Club� and �Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.�


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Researchers See Potential for Common Core to Boost Learning
A new research paper offers what amounts to a spirited defense of the Common Core State Standards in mathematics, making the case that the standards are, in fact, consistent with those in high-achieving countries and suggesting their faithful implementation holds considerable promise to improve student learning.
The paper bases that optimism about the new standards' potential on a look at the achievement of states whose prior math standards most closely aligned to the common core.
"The simple translation is that those states with standards that are closest to the Common Core ... did better," based on national test data from 2009, said William Schmidt, an education professor at Michigan State University who coauthored the study.
That said, Schmidt emphasized (repeatedly) that this particular finding is merely suggestive, and does not establish causation.
"I want to be very clear about this," he told me. "This does not prove anything. ... It's a reasonable approximation of what might be possible."
The study was set to be publicly released at a press conference this afternoon co-sponsored by Achieve, a Washington-based group that helped to develop the standards, as well as Chiefs for Change and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education. Here is a link to a slide presentation derived from the new research.
The new research also finds that prior state math standards reveal a wide degree of variation from the common core, and that while the new standards adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia have a lot in common with certain states, they reflect a big change for others.
On the question of quality, the standards deserve recognition, Schmidt contends.
"It's pretty clear that these standards are world class and very coherent, focused, and rigorous," he said in an interview.
(Although not part of the team that developed the common-core standards, Schmidt's prior research was considered influential in its development, and he served on a validation committee that reviewed and approved the final standards.)
For the new study, Schmidt and his colleague at Michigan State Richard Houang developed a statistical measure of "congruence" among standards. They compared the common core in several ways to the standards of the highest-achieving countries as measured by performance on TIMSS, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study. (Drawing from an earlier study from Schmidt, this list includes Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea.) Basically, mathematicians developed what is called the "A+ profile," a composite of the standards of those countries.
The new paper concludes that the common core is closely aligned with the A+ standards, with about a 90 percent degree of similarity when it comes to focus and coherence. Also, the report finds a high degree of consistency in math topic coverage between the A+ standards and the Common Core, a point it uses to make the case that the common standards are "rigorous" and "implying that [they] are internationally competitive."
For a contrarian view on the standards, check out this 2010 paper published by the Pioneer Institute, a think tank in Boston. In it, Ze'ev Wurman, a former education official in the George W. Bush administration, argues that the common standards fall short of prior standards for California and Massachusetts, as well as "our international competitors." The paper suggests that the final standards "miss chunks of content" recommended by a national math panel and "leave large holes" in high school math curriculum.
[UPDATE (5/8/12) Two days ago, Wurman published a blog post that offers a sharp critique of the Schmidt/Houang analysis, calling it "just another piece of misleading advocacy."]
Meanwhile, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute has defended the math standards, giving them a grade of A- and suggesting they are "clearly superior" to pre-existing standards in 39 states (and not identifying any state standards it deems clearly superior to them).
[UPDATE (5/8/12) Kathleen Porter-Magee from Fordham also has blogged about the Schmidt/Houang research since I first wrote this post, suggesting it makes an "important" contribution. However, echoing Schmidt's own caveats about the potential of the common standards, she cautions common-core advocates to "keep the champagne on ice," given the heavy lift ahead in implementing the standards.]
The Michigan State researchers also examined the level of congruence between prior state math standards and the Common Core, looking at both coherence and focus.
"The results show that many states have a long road to travel in order to implement the CCSS, but some have had standards which are quite similar to the CCSS," the report says. Among the eight states most closely aligned were California, Florida, Michigan, and Washington State.
Schmidt, by the way, recently released preliminary findings from separate research suggesting some mismatch between current math instruction and the common core. It finds, based on educator surveys, that many math teachers currently teach key concepts at higher or lower grade levelsand for more yearsthan is called for in the common core.
Schmidt said the new research was aimed in part at pushing back against those who suggest that high-quality standards bear no connection to improved student achievement. On this point, we blogged earlier this year about a report from the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
Schmidt and Houang looked at state math achievement on the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress. They find a "statistically significant positive relationship between the degree of congruence between a state's standards and the CCSS ... and achievement as defined by the 2009 NAEP assessment."
(The Brookings paper looked at growth in NAEP scores over time, and found no connection between the quality of state standards and improved learning.)
Ultimately, the research paper argues that the new standards merit a big push from states to realize their potential. (Or, to paraphrase John Lennon, "All we are saying, is give [them] a chance...")
"What is clear to us is that the new Common Core State Standards for Mathematics deserve to be seriously implemented," the report says.
Or, as they put it earlier: "Standards are not self-executing, and states could easily have strong academic goals that are never seriously pursuedstandards that exist only on paper."


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As every year, i'm gonna summarise what i found most interesting about this year's I/O. Sadly, there isn't a lot of public material relevant to game developers. According to the schedule there have been a few hands-on talks with Intel, Nvidia, ARM etc. on performance tuning, but no videos are available on that. So, breaking with the tradition a little, i'll highlight what i found interesting from a more general point of view. Here's the keynote (danger, very long, very robotic, kinda boring):
New Android version "L"
Now, hold your horses. The new version is still in the making and will be released this fall. However, you can get preview release images for the Nexus line of devices and emulator images. A lot of new features went into this one, some are quite interesting for us libGDX folks:
- Dalvik's out, ART is in. Starting with L, ART is the new default VM on Android. Dalvik has been completely removed from L, which is a good thing. Preview builds of ART didn't work with libGDX due to some JNI issues on ART's side. Those have been resolved and merged into L.
- Separate rendering thread. Previously the UI toolkit thread did both processing and rendering. Not anymore, there's a separate rendering thread to which the UI toolkit thread is sending display lists essentially.
- 64-bit support. This has been long coming, and it must have been pain to fix up the class library which used 32-bit ints to store pointers to native peers. While this mostly opens up the possibility of more addressable RAM, it also may give us some new instructions/registers ART and native code can exploit.
- OpenGL ES 3.1 support and Android extensions pack. It appears that most GPU vendors in the Android ecosystem are now pushing for OpenGL extensions for tessellation, geometry and compute shaders (and still not OpenCL…) as well as things like ATSC texture compression. We'll see how that pans out, i'm not sure it's to relevant for libGDX at this point.
- USB audio. Not sure if they finally fixed the audio latency, which i guess is part software/driver part hardware related.
- Project Volta. Aims at giving users more control and insight into battery usage. There's also a method level kind of battery profiler called Battery Historian which is really awesome! Here's the talk on Project Volta which i haven't seen yet.
There's of course a metric ton of other additions, but i didn't feel that those were to relevant for game devs. Check out Chet Haase and Adam Powell's talk on what's new in Android L:
Material Design
Most of Android's current design was introduced with Ice Cream Sandwich, with iterations in Jelly Bean and and KitKat. With the new Android release called 'L' we get a new iteration called Material Design. Apart from the nitty gritty design principles you should follow, the big obvious things for non-designers like me where:
- Shadows: every view now has an elevation value (z-coord), based on which the framework can draw orthographic soft shadows. It looks awesome, and gives us a back a bit of the the feel before everybody went insane with "flat" designs.
- Animations: everything is animated. I'm not a super big fan of this as it's easy to overuse it. But the things presented so far looked very non-intrusive while giving things a nice natural touch. I especially like the new activity transitions, which can take a few of the activity that's being left and animate it into the activity that's being started.
Quite a few talks have been given on Material Design. My favourite is of course the Romain Guy/Chet Haase. They are giving a bit of a behind the scene talk, with Romain explaining how the shadow rendering works. They also tell us why Romain was fired from the Android team and is now working on boring robots instead.
Chet Haase and Adam Powell also gave a nice round-up talk on how to write Material Design apps for Android. Adam will likely replace Romain in upcoming I/Os, which is sad, sorta.
Android Wear, TV and Auto
Introduced in the keynote, Android Wear is what you expect: smart watches that can hook up to your Android devices and desktops/laptops. Definitely not for me, but some people seem to like to order their pizza with those things (as demonstrated in the keynote video). Android TV is a bit more interesting, as it means that TV set vendors may start using Android as the OS running the TV. This is sorta like a death blow to Ouya and other micro consoles and may indicate that Google is not interested in playing the console game after all. Android Auto must have been the most underwhelming thing next to wear. While Google was able to round up a few manufacturers that will ship their 2015+ line ups of cars with Android Auto, i can't really find the appeal. Similar to wearables. You hop in your car, then have your phone hook up to the console of your car. Maybe i'm just to old, so all i really need is Android TV.
Android Fireside Chat
I always look forward to the fire side. Some insights:
- Java 8, no comment. This led me to believe that Google may pull a Swift on us (though very unlikely given the investment in Java within the framework)
- Google's not gonna pull a Swift on us, so says Dianne Hackborne. Neither will Scala become the new lang for Android.
- Eclipse support is on it's way out according to Xavier Ducrohet and David Burke, though improvements in the Gradle Eclipse integration should keep Android working in Eclipse. Somewhat.


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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Immaculate Heart Novitiate - Calabasas - vintage postcard - gift to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley by Gerald Fecht 2009
Over my years in the San Fernando Valley, the Claretian Seminary in Calabasas has changed hands many times. We'll need a Calabasas expert to fill us in on the several organization who have called the property in Malibu Canyon their home. For some years people referred to the place as Claretville. It was in actuality a novitiate (training school) for the Claretian Order of the Roman Catholic Church.
This postcard in the Religion Collection of The Museum of the San Fernando Valley (Chaired by Liane Schirmer) shows the main chapel of the Immaculate Heart Novitiate. The Claretians were founded by Saint Antonio Maria Claret in 1849. Their initial work began as missionaries in Catalonia and the Canary Islands. San Antonio Claret became the Archbishop of Cuba and focused the order as missionaries in Spain and Latin America.
How and when the Claretians came to California and Calabasas isn't known by your Museum at this time.
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RE: CLARETVILLE @ King Gillette Ranch ......Historical Timeline
7,500 B.C.E. - 1780s A.C.E.
- 'Talepop' - the Chumash village, thriving for 9,000 years until European conquest takes away their land, spiritual customs, and ways of life and livelihoods - but gave diseases, enslavement, persecution, and deaths of genocidal proportions.
Anyway....MUCH LATER......
1952 - The Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Rome, aka: the Claretian Order or the Claretians, purchase the central 120 acres with the buildings.
The Order had come to L.A. by way of Mexico, working in inner city missions. They were (and are again) based at the Dominguez Seminary near Long Beach. They also bought the remaining
Gillette land under the corporate name 'Cala Ranch.'
1954 - The Dominguez Seminary and Cala Ranch deeded all the Calabassas land to the Claretian Theological Seminary of Claretville. It was located here for 25 years.
1962 - the Claretian Theological Seminary deeded portion of estate to the Immaculate Heart Claretian Novitiate. The Novitiate Building had already been built in 1960.
1971 - Thomas Aquinas College opened at Claretville. Previously locations were Columbia Univ. in NYC and Dominican College in San Rafael, Calif. Around 1975 they moved to a permanent campus in Santa Paula.
1960s-70s - Impacts of Vatican II and social activism affect American Catholics, and so the Claretians too - with declining monastic resident counts and less participation at the Seminary.
1977 - the Claretians sell the property to Elizabeth Clare Prophet's "the Church Universal and Triumphant" or CUT. Site was renamed 'Camelot'. Poor stewardship prevailed, most of the property's lost integrity occurred during CUT's 9 years here.
2004 - Soka University sells property to a consortium of local, state and federal park agencies and open space organizations.
2007 - The King Gillette Ranch Park opens to the public.
2009 - The Park's many public events and programs are very succesful. Research is done for registered historical designations and both architectural-landscape-cultural and natural habitat restoration master planning. An interim stewardship program to stabilize the historic and natural elements is in development and implementation.
King Gillette Ranch Park LINKS...............
HomePage: Park master planning & historical resources Link: http://www.lamountains.com/planning_king_gillette.html
Map of Bldgs. & Park Link: http://smmc.ca.gov/KGRP/King%20Gillette%20Ranch%20Site%20Plan.pdf
King Gillette Ranch Historical Study [ detailed ] Link: http://smmc.ca.gov/KGRP/Gillette%20Ranch%20Historical%20Study%20April07.pdf
General Info,
King Gillette Ranch Park Links: http://smmc.ca.gov/KGRP/guide.html and........................ http://www.lamountains.com/parks.asp?parkid=670
For additional information, Contact the King Gillette Ranch at (310) 589-3200.
Info FROM:
Preliminary Determination of Eligibility
(for National Register of Historic Places)
Gillette-Brown Ranch
March 2007 - draft review copy [via pdf download]
National Park Service, Pacific West Region,
Cultural Resources Division
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During the 2012 election year, the Internal Revenue Service delayed the application of a conservative Christian group in Ohio that was seeking 501(c)3 tax-exempt status to register Christians to vote and to oppose the ACLU in court in First Amendment cases.
"We have suspicion that the IRS delayed our application for nearly 13 months due to the selective targeting of Ohio conservative groups that Congress is now investigating in both the House and Senate," stated Chris Long, president of the Ohio Christian Alliance, told WND.
Long said his group's original application made it clear that the new organization would go into Christian congregations with a non-partisan effort to register voters in the battleground state of Ohio during the 2012 presidential election.
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Long pointed out that the non-partisan Ohio Christian Alliance Educational Fund, operating as a 501(c)3 organization, would have registered both Democrats and Republicans.
The group has operated as a 501(c)4 since 2004, but only 501(c)3 groups can accept tax-deductable contributions.
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The ACLU has both a 501(c)3 and a 501(c)4 organization. The 501(c)3 group pursues legal cases, and the 501(c)4 advocacy group engages in legislative efforts.
Long suspects the IRS was attempting to block the Ohio Christian Alliance, or OCA, from forming a 501(c)3 organization because it didn't want the organization to counter the ACLU in court.
He noted that at the time of OCA's application, the Obama administration was pushing forward the Obamacare mandate that would require even Christian organizations to pay for abortion and contraceptive services in employee health care plans.
"My suspicion is the IRS knew the Ohio Christian Alliance would appear in court to oppose the ACLU and the HHS mandate," he said.
"It did cause us to wonder after these reports surfaced if there may have been some motive behind the additional questions to our application and the delay in its processing."
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Long said it's now up to Congress to further investigate what the motives of the IRS officials might have been.
In a formal letter, Long and OCA have asked the House Ways and Means Committee to investigate how the IRS handled their request to form the Education Fund as a 501(c)3 organization.
The group wants the House panel to find out how the applications of other organizations with missions similar to the Education Fund were processed last year.
Sarah Swinehart, a House Ways and Means Committee staff member, was shown a copy of OCA's letter to the committee and said she had not seen it. She promised to pass it on to appropriate staff.
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The committee has established a page on its website titled "The IRS Political Discrimination Investigation: Share Your Story," inviting organizations that alleged discrimination by the IRS for political reasons to tell their story and file a complaint with the committee.
IRS timeline
The Ohio Christian Alliance provided WND with documentation, including copies of IRS correspondence, that establishes the following timetable:
- OCA filed a Form 1023 application with the IRS on Feb. 8, 2011, to create the Ohio Christian Alliance Education Fund as a 501(c)3 tax-exempt group in which contributions would be tax-deductible;
- On March 17, 2011, the IRS responded to OCA, saying within 90-days it should receive a response from the IRS;
- Months went by with OCA receiving no response from the IRS, despite repeated efforts by the group's lawyers to determine the status of the application;
- Then, on Dec. 12, 2011, OCA received what amounted to a two-page demand letter from the IRS, dated Dec. 8, 2011;
- The IRS demand letter required OCA to file "additional information" to a detailed series of questions by no later than Dec. 30, 2011, 18 days after the receipt of the IRS demand letter, or the IRS would conclude OCA no longer wanted to pursue the application;
- The IRS informed OCA that if it did not respond by the deadline, the IRS planned to treat the Ohio Christian Education Fund as a taxable entity.
"The IRS gave us only 18 days during the holiday season in December to respond to a long list of intrusive questions when the it knew it would be difficult for us to get the time required from our lawyers," Long said.
He believes the IRS's motivation was political.
"I believe the IRS wanted to block the Ohio Christian Alliance from being effective registering Christians to vote in the 2012 election, especially because Ohio was considered such an important battleground state," he said.
Long's lawyers were available in mid-December 2011, and OCA was able to expeditiously answer the IRS.
Finally, on Feb. 21, 2012, OCA received a determination letter approving 501(c)3 status for the Ohio Christian Alliance Education Fund, nearly 13 months after the original filing.
Long explained to WND that OCA lost several substantial donations from contributors who wanted to make tax-deductible contributions.
"Each month the application was delayed put the Ohio Christian Alliance Education Fund at a distinct disadvantage in fundraising capability," he noted. "Most grant dispersements to organizations with missions similar to that of the OCA Ed Fund were distributed in November and December 2011 and January 2012. By the time we got our determination letter, that money from the large contributors had already left the barn."
IRS questions 'opposing anti-Christian bigotry'
The questions submitted in the IRS demand letter of Dec. 8, 2011, caused OCA to wonder about the IRS's motivation, Long said.
"The IRS narrative suggested that somehow it was objectionable to oppose anti-Christian bigotry and defend the rights of Christians."
The IRS letter read:
"The narrative [of the Ohio Christian Educational Fund] indicates the organization ' … opposes anti-Christian bigotry and defends the rights of Christians." Please describe how the organization achieves this purpose. For example, will the organization engage in legal action against activity the organization interprets as Christian bigotry, or are the actions of the anti-Christian organization against anti-Christian bigotry more accurately classified as educational in nature."
Long instructed his attorneys to inform the IRS that the Ohio Christian Educational Fund did intend to file legal actions in court.
"The ACLU is a 501(c)3 organization and they file legal suits in court all the live-long day," Long countered. "We are opposed to the positions the ACLU holds, we are at the opposite end of the spectrum. But why would we not have access to the courts to defend the First Amendment rights of churches, Christians, and institutions that hold with religious beliefs?"
The IRS also asked OCA to supply a complete description of all activities planned for the Ohio Christian Alliance Education Fund for the next 12 months.
"Remember, we had already filed with the IRS a detailed and comprehensive application in which we went through the entire narrative of what the Education Fund would be about, as well as the details of how it would be organized, how it would be structured and what activities the 501(c)3 would be conducting," he said.
Long said his organization's lawyers found the IRS's handling of the application very unusual, expecting the application to be accepted in five or six months, at the most.
"We had already answered all those questions in the original application," he said. "Our lawyers have had some three decades of experience filing tax-exempt applications with the IRS, and they were surprised."


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|Runs a CHP program. Like runCHP but discards the output.
Allows embedding of the CHP monad back into the IO monad. The argument that this function takes is a CHP action (with arbitrary behaviour). The function is monadic, and returns something of type: IO a. This is an IO action that you can now use in the IO monad wherever you like. What it returns is the result of your original action.
This function is intended for use wherever you need to supply an IO callback (for example with the OpenGL libraries) that needs to perform CHP communications. It is the safe way to do things, rather than using runCHP twice (and also works with CSP and VCR traces -- but not structural traces!).
|A convenient version of embedCHP that ignores the result
|A helper like embedCHP for callbacks that take an argument
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It handles the poison and does not rethrow it (unless your handler does so). If you want to rethrow (and actually, you'll find you usually do), use onPoisonRethrow
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Land Division and Final Plat Reviews
A Land Division Review is required to divide an existing property to create additional lots, parcels or tracts. A land division may also be required to legalize a lot that was created outside of the legal process (such as through deed).
All land divisions require two steps:
1. Review and approval of the preliminary plan and
2. Review and approval of the final plat.
- To begin the land division process you may submit for an Early Assistance Appointment. These optional appointments are available for feedback on your land division prior to submittal of the land use review application.
- In addition, Pre-application conferences are required for Type III Land Divisions prior to submittal of the land use review application.
- Following approval of the preliminary plan, the applicant must submit a final plat for review and approval. The final plat shows the final surveyed layout of the land division, including all lots, tracts, easements and rights-of-way.
- Once the final plat is recorded, building permits can be submitted for the newly created lots.
Other Reviews
- A Property Line Adjustment allows for minor changes to the location of existing property lines between existing legal lots.
- A Replat allows for removing and reconfiguring existing lot lines within a site, resulting in up to three lots.
- A land division may be combined with a Planned Development Review.
- Land Divisions are processed as a Type Ix, IIx or Type III procedure. See Overview of the Land Division Process for review thresholds and Process and Timelines for summaries of the procedures.
- The final plat is the final technical review to determine if all the conditions of approval imposed during the preliminary land use review have been met. It is also a review of the plat survey to determine if it matches the preliminary approved site plan. The final plat review is an administrative review.
- Application for Final Plats - Complete this application to apply for a final plat.
- Application for Land Use Reviews - Complete this application to apply.
- David Douglas School District Review Form
- Early Assistance Application - A Pre-application conference is required for all Type III land use reviews. Optional pre-application conferences are also available to discuss other projects. You may also request an optional appointment to discuss your land division.
- Expedited Land Division Acknowledgement - An expedited land division provides an alternative procedure for land division applications.
- Land Division Application Requirements
- Land Division Approval Criteria - Multi-Dwelling Zones (R2, R3, R1, RH and IR Zone)
- Land Division Approval Criteria - Open Space, Commercial, Employment and Industrial Zones (OS, C, E and I Zones)
- Land Division Approval Criteria - Rights-of-Way, Chapter 33.654
- Land Division Approval Criteria - Single-Dwelling Zones (RF, R20, R10, R7, R5, and R2.5 Zone)
- Waiver within 120 days - Sign this form within 21 days of application date to allow submittal of new information if a Type III decision is appealed.
Process Handouts
- Neighborhood Contact - Completing these steps is required prior to submitting an application for some land divisions.
- Overview of Land Division Process - Summary of process and review requirements for dividing land.
- Summary of Procedure Types - Summarizes all procedure types.
- Type Ix Procedure - Outline of timeline for Type I Procedures.
- Type IIx Procedure - Outline of timeline for Type IIx Procedures.
- Type III Procedure - Outline of timeline for Type III Procedures.
- Amending Land Division Decision - Process is described for changing an approved land division.
Density and Lot Dimension Requirement Handouts
- Density and Lot Dimension Requirements in Multi-Dwelling Zones - An explanation of how density (allowed number of residential units) is calculated on a site and how lots are measured.
- Density and Lot Dimension Requirements in Single-Dwelling Zones - An explanation of how density (allowed number of residential units) is calculated on a site and how lots are measured.
- Flag Lot Regulations - Learn under which circumstances a flag lot may be created.
- Housing on Narrow Lots - This information describes additional development standards that apply to proposed new residential lots that do not meet minimum lot width dimensions.
- Lot Dimensions in Commercial, Employment and Industrial Zones - An explanation of lot size standards and how lots are measured.
- Options for Land Division in the "a" Overlay Zone - Options are available to create smaller lots and/or use different housing types in the "a" overlay zone.
Special Situation Handouts
- Flood Hazard Areas - Information about land division requirements for sites that have the potential of flooding.
- Phased Land Divisions & Staged Final Plats - Options to phase division of large sites.
- Sites in Potential Landslide Hazard Areas - An explanation of requirements if site is within designated potential landslide hazard area.
- Landslide Hazard Study - Requirements for preparing a Landslide Hazard Study
- Solar Access Regulations - Information about requirements for creating lots that provide solar access required for detached single-dwelling homes.
- Streams, Springs, Seeps and Wetlands Protection - An explanation of requirements for identifying and protecting streams, springs and seeps on sites that are located outside of an environmental overlay zone.
Tree Preservation and Identification Handouts
- Tree Preservation on Your Land Division Site - Information about tree preservation requirements for land division applications.
- Tree Review - A special review is required to amend an approved tree preservation plan.
Streets, Stormwater and Tracts & Easements Handouts
- Private Right-of-Way Administrative Rules - If access or connections are allowed to be in private rights-of-way, specific design standards must be met. Link to these document for a description of the requirements.
- Private Street Garbage Collection Requirements - Helpful information when considering garbage collection options for properties with private right-of-way access.
- Right of Way Regulations - This handout explains requirements for new streets as part of a land division review.
- Stormwater Management Requirements - Overview of requirements and sample utility plan.
- Tracts and Easements - A description of the purpose/function of tracts and easements and requirements for creating and maintaining them.
Final Plat Handouts
- Application for Final Plats - Complete this form to apply.
- Final Plats - This information identifies the submittal requirements and process for finalizing a land division that has received tentative approval.
- 33.663 Final Plats
- Fee Schedule for Land Use Reviews - A list of all land use fees.
- Fee Schedule for Land Use Reviews in Unincorporated Multnomah County


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Career change: How to make it happen
These days, everyone is a career changer. No one is going to keep the same career for 40 years. How boring. People change, so careers should change.
But why do people have to be so incompetent about it? There are a lot of ways to orchestrate a career change. You should do it in a way that doesn't undermine your first career, and you should look like you're running toward something instead of away from something.
Make a list of the reasons for changing careers. What do you want from your new career that you're not getting from your current one? The list will be very revealing.
Here are some bad reasons to switch careers:
You hate your boss. (Switch jobs, not careers.)
You want more prestige. (Get a therapist you're having a confidence crisis, not a career crisis.)
You want to meet new people. (Try going to a bar, or Club Med. What you really want is to get a life. Pick up a hobby.)
Here are some good reasons to switch careers:
You need a more lucrative field.
You want a role that is more creative, more analytic, or more management-oriented.
You want to live in a location that does not accommodate your current career.
You want more flexibility or fewer hours.
Okay. So let's say you do have a reason that warrants changing careers. If you can help it, do not dump everything you've been doing in the past and start completely new. For one thing, you'll get paid more at the beginning of your new career if you can make some of your old experience relevant.
For another thing, you're going to have to explain the reason for switching careers every time you show someone your resume. Your explanation should empower you. You cannot say, "I was bored, bad at my job, mad at my boss," etc. You need to have an answer that does not negate the experience you had before the career change, and ideally you should be able to discuss your work history as if the two careers build on each other.
Here's an example from my own career: "I played professional beach volleyball and I was great at getting sponsors to put their name on my bikini, so I decided to go into marketing." I could say instead, "I was really poor when I played beach volleyball, and my boyfriend was making a lot of money in the software industry, so I asked him for a job." Both explanations would be true, but one sounds better, right?
A career change should leave you room to market yourself like you were really happy in your first career, and you were successful; otherwise, the change will haunt you in every interview you do. Once you show people you were very unhappy in a given career, it's hard to believe you'd be happy in another one. Think marriage statistics: One unhappy marriage is usually followed by another.
Maybe you are thinking you cannot make up a good story. Maybe you're thinking you have done nothing to prepare you for your new career. But then what on earth makes you think you will like doing the new career?
Which brings me to my next piece of advice: If you're thinking of doing something completely new, volunteer first, to get a taste. And by all means, do not enter a degree program for a career change until you're positive that you know what you'll be doing with the degree. If you don't know that, how do you know you need it?
So let's say you do have a decent reason for wanting to change careers. Try to do it at your current company. Ask for a department switch. Figure out how to get yourself into a different role without having to send out your resume to new companies– because getting your first job in a new career is hard.
When a career change is right, though, it's worth it. A career change is a chance to address a change of heart by building on proven skills. Done right, this is a chance to show another side of your successful self.


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MUMBAI – As Monty Panesar made a triumphant Test match return something nagged away at England's sense of well-being. That something was Cheteshwar Pujaraand by the close of an absorbing first day in Mumbai even Panesar had to play second best to India's new batting sensation.
Pujara has now batted for more than 15 hours without England discovering how to dismiss him, following his unbeaten double century in Ahmedabad with another hundred – and the promise of more to come – at Wankhede Stadium as he countered a turning pitch with another innings of poise and certainty.
The first new ball unveiled a story of Pujara's watchfulness as Panesar made a jubilant return with four wickets and half India's side were dismissed for 119. But the second new ball suggested that the batsman had emerged the stronger when to chants of Pu-ja-ra, Pu-ja-ra, he moved off 99 by pulling James Anderson's second delivery resoundingly through square leg. It is only the second Test of a four-Test series but there is a sense in Indian cricket of a changing order.
Pujara's tranquil progress has echoed throughout the early stages of this series. There was some bounce to excite England's pace bowlers and predictably he was tested with the short ball, but he emerged comfortably enough to suggest he will be an India batsman who can also prosper overseas. An unbroken stand of 97 with R Ashwin, whose unbeaten 60 took only 84 balls, completed India's escape.
Anderson was inches away from having Pujara caught at point by Nick Compton, plunging forward, on 17, and he also survived a hard chance to Anderson at gully when 60, this time off Panesar. His most prolonged discomfort came on 94 when England appealed, legitimately enough, for a catch off Alastair Cook's toe at short leg but the umpires called for TV evidence which showed that the ball had also struck the ground.
MS Dhoni unashamedly wants Indian Test pitches to turn from the outset and the captain got just what he wanted – an old Wankhede pitch, used only three weeks ago, ragging and bouncing. It was to Indian cricket what a blatantly green seamer at Trent Bridge might be in England, a deliberate attempt to take the opposition out of their comfort zone.
"If it does not turn, I can come and criticise again," Dhoni had chirped prior to the game as he warned that he did not expect the sort of slog faced by India's spinners in Ahmedabad. There will be no angry exchanges with the groundsman, no disappointed email to the BCCI.
But if Dhoni would have found this dry, threadbare surface, with the ball going through the top on the first afternoon, much to his liking, England's spinners were uplifted by the surface, with Panesar, who, after being controversially omitted from England's Test side in Ahmedabad, ending the day with 4 for 91 in 34 overs. It was quite a collection, with Virender Sehwag, in his 100th Test, and Sachin Tendulkar bowled in successive overs.
It is rare to see Panesar and Graeme Swann in tandem and the contrast was an engrossing one: Panesar, bowling his left-arm spin with a deliberative air, as if any lapse in accuracy would startle him; Swann, forever jack the lad behind the dark glasses, his own concentration never quite overcoming the suspicion that he had just emerged from a crafty cigarette behind the bike sheds.
Swann played his part, bowling Yuvraj Singh for a second-ball duck by coming wide of the crease and straightening one, but it was Panesar's return that captured the attention. He began nervously, conceding two boundaries in his first over and initially overpitched, but soon found a pace and control that allowed him to settle.
If the removal of Sehwag was commonplace, a full delivery which bowled him off his pads as he flicked lazily to leg, his dismissal of Tendulkar was a gem, turn and bounce to strike his off stump, ensuring that there would be no rush into Churchgate Station on the Mumbai trains as the day progressed. Pujara's legside steers have yet to bring the worshippers flocking.
Sehwag had been in contented mood before the start, fielding congratulations on reaching his milestone, but his innings – 30 from 43 balls – never convinced. Twice in one over, Anderson almost defeated two uncertain half-bat pushes, Sehwag first inside-edging past leg stump and then beating second slip off the outside edge. Panesar removed him at the start of his fifth over, moving his short leg to gully and perhaps benefiting as Sehwag sensed the ball fired in at his pads represented easy pickings on the legside.
Panesar's third wicket was that of Virat Kohli. By mid-afternoon, the pitch was already turning, and with reasonable pace. A puff of dust as the ball broke through the surface was a forewarning for Kohli that his drive to short extra cover was about to end in disaster. Anderson's inswing had removed Gautam Gambhir second ball of the day. Anderson had a half-decent day; Stuart Broad did nothing to allay doubts about his worth on Indian pitches.
After their nine-wicket defeat in Ahmedabad, England had at least indicated that another lost toss would not automatically heap more misery upon them. They have never lost more than eight Tests in a calendar year, but in 2012 they have already lost seven and their shortcomings in Asia have been largely responsible.
For a side which began the year ranked as the No. 1 Test side in the world, it is a rapid reversal. With three Tests remaining in the series, their reputation is on the line. At least by selecting Panesar the balance of their side possessed some logic rather than the Englishman Abroad stereotype they had relied on in Motera, but the last hour did not go well for them. They need to find a way to break Pujara's tread.
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An 18-year-old Palestinian man died on Tuesday, succumbing to wounds sustained after being shot by Israeli forces late Monday in the village of al-Araqa in western Jenin.
Palestinian security sources said that Muhammad Murad Muhammad Mustafa Yahiya died Tuesday morning in the Rafidia Government Hospital in Nablus. He was reportedly shot with live ammunition in his lower stomach near Israel's separation wall, local media reported.
According to residents of al-Araqa Israeli forces also detained two brothers—Ayman and Aymad Yaqub Saleh Yahiya—before leaving the village.
An Israeli arm spokeswoman confirmed the shooting, saying that a group of Palestinians had been "attempting to breach the security fence." When Israeli forces allegedly ordered them to stop, the men "refused to halt" and the soldiers opened fire "at their lower extremities," she said.
Muhammad Yahiya is the third Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in the last several days.
Over the weekend, 17-year-old Ali Abu Ghanam was shot and killed in outside Al-Zayyim checkpoint in East Jerusalem after he allegedly attempted to attack Israeli security personnel with a butcher knife.
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This fresh summer salad couldn't be easier. We sliced the peaches pencil thin, and let them marinate in the equally sliced thin red onion slivers. The slivered basil was last to be sprinkled on top right before serving. If serving with a dairy meal, you can crumble feta or goat these on top, and if serving with a meat meat, you can choose to place sliced grilled chicken as a side. We couldn't stop eating this salad given the low fat and low calorie bonus! Inspired by MarthaStewart.com.
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A study conducted by market research firm In-Stat indicates that video game consoles are the preeminent device for delivering web video to televisions in the U.S., generating $2.9 billion in revenue by 2013.
A few years ago, analysts predicted that media-center PCs would be showing up in huge numbers across the country as more people became computer savvy, but analysts didn't bet on the gaming industry offering a much simpler solution to getting web-based content to your television. According to In-Stat, 29% of U.S. 29 to 34-year-olds owning game consoles use said consoles to watch video streamed or downloaded from the internet. Game consoles as in-home content delivery networks are quickly gaining on the more traditional cable outlets, with a forecast of 10.7 million consoles making up a portion of the 24 million homes viewing web-to-TV content come 2013. http://www.instat.com/catalog/mmcata…
"Currently Web video is largely additive to traditional TV revenue streams," says Keith Nissen, In-Stat analyst. "However, ultimately web video to the TV will force a complete restructuring of today's video distribution ecosystem."
I have to admit that when the ability to watch video on the console was first introduced I was a bit skeptical, but last night I was up until 3am watching Dexter via Netflix on my Xbox 360, so I'm just a number now.
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Icewind Dale (series)
video game series
(Redirected from Icewind Dale II)
Icewind Dale is a series of role-playing games developed by BioWare and published by Interplay.
Icewind DaleEdit
- Narrator: They say that history is the greatest of all teachers, and that tales of past deeds define who we are in the present, and what we shall be in the future. It is said that such tales shall with each telling illuminate us all with the light of truth.
- Yxunomei: So it has come to this, has it? I did not expect a group of natives to interfere with my vendetta. Why have you come here killing my minions?
- Player: [Option 2] What vendetta do you speak of?
- Yxunomei: My vendetta is none of your concern. Your involvement in this matter is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. A molt of dust floating for a small moment in the sea of time.
- Player: [Option 3] Why do you need the heartstone gem?
- Yxunomei: My interest in the heartstone gem is personal. I have been waging a war for quite some time. This world is simply another battlefield. The gem is one of several instruments I use to fight my battles.
- Reverend Brother Poquelin: You again. I admire your persistence, but come now... I think it is time that you accepted the fact that it is not within your power to stop me.
- Player: [Option 1] Why don't you step away from that stone and I'll show you just what I am capable of?
- Reverend Brother Poquelin: There is no need for such empty threats. The only reason you are still alive is because I want you to witness this historical moment.
Icewind Dale: Heart of WinterEdit
- Wylfdene: Why are you here, outlander? I see no shaman for you to hide behind this time.
- Player: [Option 1] I have seen the Seer of the ice caverns. She sent me to you.
- Wylfdene: I see... you lose one shaman that shielded you and now you hide behind another. So tell me, why did she send you?
- Player: To bring you a gift, Wylfdene. A mirror of ice.
- Wylfdene: Gift for me, a mirror? You humor me, outlander. Neither I or my people have use of such a thing. It is a toy of your people. It plays upon the vanity of fools and females. Why would she give me such a thing? No more likely this is some outlander trick designed to slay me. You seek to succeed where your previous assassin failed.
- Player: You say that I hide behind a shaman and all the while you hide behind a curtain of words. What is it that you fear?
- Wylfdene: I am Wylfdene, guided and blessed by the spirit of Jerrod. I fear nothing, outlander.
- Player: So you say. Yet you find a simple mirror to be daunting. I will gaze into the mirror without fear... See?
- Wylfdene: Hmph. And what is it that you see? What truth is revealed to you?
- Player: I see a man that accepts who he is, good or evil. A man who does not fear the truth of his own reflection.
- Wylfdene: What indeed... Wylfdene shall see the truth of his reflection, outlander. He shall see a king raised from the dead, the forming of a great nation and the triumph of his people as the ten towns are erased from the face of Faerun! Hold forth your mirror and see such a King among men!
- Player: Gaze deep, Wylfdene. Reveal to us the truth of your words.
- [Wyledene is given the mirror of ice.]
- Wylfdene: Bah. Your mirror is nothing more than I expected a simple toy that... No... NO! It cannot be!
- Wylfdene: What have I done? This hideous form defiles the majesty of my being! ENOUGH! Put away your mirror!
- Player: Majesty of your being? Wh—?
- Seer: Ah, sight is painful is it not, Spirit? Such pain is well-known to me.
- Seer: And seeing yourself as you truly are, the most painful thing of all. Look into the mirror creature that is Wylfdene. See truth... See yourself.
- Wylfdene: What do you know of pain, HAG? I held the north in my claws! When I spread my wings, I shadowed the face of the world! I WAS A GODDESS!
- Player: Icasaracht, I'd rather we come to some sort of agreement than fight. Can we do this?
- Icasaracht: Never! My heart was shattered long ago and all mercy bled from the wound!
- Icasaracht: I lost my love, my life and my kingdom. I shall reclaim it all or I shall pass into oblivion like most of my kind.
- Icasaracht: Draw your blade let us end this now!
- Player: So be it.
Icewind Dale IIEdit
- Caulder: I'll just need to borrow the hammer for a moment... oh, and you might want to take a few steps back.
- Player: Step back? Why?
- Caulder: DAMNABLE NAILS! MAKE A FOOL OF ME, WILL YOU? I'LL SMASH YOU INTO THE HELLS! TAKE THIS, AND THIS! NOT SO SMART NOW, ARE YOU? NOW STAY IN! STAY IN!
- Player: [Dialogue option 1] Whoa. Someone's obviously married.
- Olap Tamewater: You see this bit of wall here? Well, I can't patch it with air.
- Player: Really? I'm beginning to see why they made you the engineer.
- Isair: Ah, yes, Nym... It seems he'll help anyone as long as it profits him. In any case here we are.
- Player: [Dialogue option 1] What do you mean?
- Isair: Hush, hush, bold one. There's much for me to do. No time to bandy words.
- Isair: You seem to be under the impression that you're saving the ten towns, but you see those cruel-minded ill-mannered louts are in no need of saving.
- Isair: The new order my sister and I will bestow upon the North will benefit all. No more will the outcasts of your so called civilization of hypocritical mundanes be forced to huddle in the shadows, feed on scraps or be banished to lands barren and unwanted.
- Drow Male: Make sure to keep me out of the sunlight. This book says my powers will fade in "one dee-six months"... whatever that means.
- Male Bard: My cunning so strong, my savvy great. While I laugh and jest, you meet your fate.
- Male Rogue 1: Murder most foul crafts victory most fair.


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MOSCOW — NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted permission to stay in Russia for three more years, his lawyer said Thursday.
Snowden last year was granted temporary asylum of one year in Russia, but that ran out on Aug. 1.
His lawyer, Analtoly Kucherena, was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying Snowden now has been granted residency for three more years, but that he had not been granted political asylum.
That status, which would allow him to stay in Russia permanently, must be decided by a separate procedure, Kucherena said, without specifying if Snowden is seeking it.
Snowden was stranded in a Moscow airport last year en route from Hong Kong to Cuba, shortly after he released extensive documentation about National Security Agency's surveillance programs. He reportedly spent a month in the airport before receiving the temporary asylum, but was seen only at one tightly restricted meeting with human rights representatives.
Since receiving the temporary asylum, his whereabouts have not been made public.
The case has been significant contributor to the tensions between Russia and the United States.
"I don't think there's ever been any question that I'd like to go home," Snowden said in a television interview in May. "Now, whether amnesty or clemency ever becomes a possibility is not for me to say. That's a debate for the public and the government to decide. But, if I could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home."
Kucherena said Snowden is working in the information-technology field and that his holding a job was a key consideration in extending his residency. He did not give details of where he is working.
He also said Snowden is under the protection of a private guard service.
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INSPIRE data experiments
At FOSS4G2009 we held a Bird of a Feather session to brainstorm how to demonstrate to potential users that the OSGeo software is suitable to publish data in compliance with the INSPIRE directive data schemas.
With one or two working use cases we can demonstrate that OSGeo software meets the requirements of INSPIRE.
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Jeroen: I would like to add a working example to the default GeoNetwork opensource installation, providing an INSPIRE compliant data service through the embedded GeoServer.
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- Create a workflow based on an ETL. Options here are Talend ETL and GeoKettle
- GeoServer 2 serving two cross-boundary road maps as INPIRE Transport networks data.
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German Zimtsterne (cinnamon almond cookies)
I always wanted to make these, and finally got the guts — oh boy, I wasn't really prepared for the amount of nitty-gritty with making these. I started with original German recipe that called for 500g of almonds, but that ended up being 2 full baking sheets and lots of sneaky snacking between steps ;-) But the result is good, and these cookies are worth the effort.
Simple chicken teriyaki bento
This recipe is very easy and fast to cook, because it requires ready-made teriyaki sauce. Still, it's a really tasty alternative to sausages and pork, and chicken made in teriyaki style is juicy, tender and full of aroma! It also takes just few minutes, because the meat is first fried quickly, and then glazed with sauce. Fast food like a boss ;-)
Teriyaki salmon bento
I think life is too short to keep the frozen salmon in the fridge! :-) So I made a teriyaki salmon bento, which was so fast to cook, that I had too much idle time in the morning... Just be careful not to overcook the teriyaki sauce, because it may have a burnt taste. Also, optional lotus root slices will keep the fish tender and juicy for the time when you can finally devour every last bit of it ;-)
Teriyaki pork strips with shallots bento
This simple recipe requires only 3 ingredients: sliced pork loin (already mentioned minute steaks or easy steaks), shallots and teriyaki sauce. It's also one of the lazy recipes — part of it you can prepare evening before, and finish it quickly before serving or packing your bento box. Plus, marinating for a long time allows increased flavors to transfer easily across the meat!
Marinated beef and pasta bento
Bento is not only rice, but also other ingredients, like... pasta. This recipe came to life when I had some uncooked beef left-overs and just wondered what to do with them. Cooking them as a part of bento was a great idea!


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