text:
Notes & Outlines 1 PETER"By Dr. J. Vernon McGee © Thru the Bible Radio Network,http://www.ttb.org. "
(Audio index:MCGEECOMMENTARYAUDIO 1Peter )
WRITER: Simon Peter ( kjv@1Peter:1:1) Peter has been called the ignorant fisherman, but no man who had spent three years in the school of Jesus could be called ignorant, and the epistles of Peter confirm this. A great change is seen in the life of Peter from these epistles. He had been impetuous, but now he is patient. The transforming power of the gospel has wrought this change in his life.
DATE: A.D. 64-67 Peter wrote his two epistles and was put to death sometime during this period. First Peter was written, evidently, around A.D. 64 and 2 Peter a short time later.
PLACE: Babylon Although the place from which it was written has been the preeminent problem of this epistle, it is given as Babylon ( kjv@1Peter:5:13). Many treat this in a metaphorical sense as meaning Rome. However, the legend that Peter was in Rome for 25 years preceding his martyrdom is grounded in the apocryphal writings of the heretical Ebionites. The list of countries in kjv@1Peter:1:1 is from east to west, which suggests that the writer was in the East at the time of writing. Furthermore, Babylon is directly mentioned as the origin, and this epistle was written before Rome was called Babylon in a symbolic way in the Book of Revelation. Also, the direct manner of Peter's writing, to the extent of bluntness, contradicts the theory that he used Babylon in a symbolic way. If Peter had meant Rome, the chances are that he would have said Rome. There was at this time a large colony of Jews in ancient Babylon who had fled Rome due to severe persecution under Claudius, and at the time of writing bloody Nero was on the throne. This is in harmony with the theme of the epistle. In spite of the fact that Papias mentions the death of Peter as occurring in Rome, there is no substantial historical basis for this supposition.
THEME: Christian hope in the time of trial Peter deals with doctrine and handles weighty subjects. This is seen in his treatment of the great words of the gospel, many of which are gathered together at the outset ( kjv@1Peter:1:2) — elect, foreknowledge, sanctification, obedience, blood, and the Trinity. He used some of these words several times. Added to these are: salvation (used three times), revelation (with cognate words, used five times), glory (with cognate words, used sixteen times), faith (five times), and hope (four times). Peter has been called the apostle of hope; Paul, the apostle of faith; John, the apostle of love. The word that conveys the theme, however, is suffering (which, with cognate words, occurs sixteen times). The word hope is tied to it — the Christian hope in the time of trial.
I. Suffering and the security of believers produces joy, Chapter kjv@1Peter:1:1-9
II. Suffering and the Scriptures produces holiness, Chapter kjv@1Peter:1:10-25
III. Suffering and the suffering of Christ, Chapters kjv@1Peter:2-4 A. Produces separation, Chapter kjv@1Peter:2 B. Produces Christian conduct, Chapter kjv@1Peter:3
1. Conduct in the home, kjv@1Peter:1-7 2. Conduct in the church, kjv@1Peter:8-17 3. Christ's suffering preached by the Spirit in Noah's day, kjv@1Peter:18-22
C. Produces obedience to the will of God, Chapter kjv@1Peter:4
IV. Suffering and the Second Coming of Christ, Chapter kjv@1Peter:5 A. Produces service and hope, kjv@1Peter:1-4 B. Produces humility and patience, kjv@1Peter:5-14
I. Suffering and the security of believers produces joy, Chapter kjv@1Peter:1:1-9
kjv@1Peter:1:1 — "Peter"— his name was Simon, but the Lord gave him a new name. It is appropriate that he use it. (Also, Saul of Tarsus became Paul.) "Sojourners scattered" is properly elect who are sojourners. This epistle is directed to Jews out of Palestine, located in Asia Minor.
kjv@1Peter:1:2 — "Elect "— kjv@John:6:37 is the test of your election. "Foreknowledge" is God's side of salvation. Here we have the work of the Trinity in salvation: • "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God" — God the Father; • "Sanctification of the Spirit" (practical sanctification) — God the Holy Spirit; • "Blood of Jesus Christ" (proof of election), "obedience" — God the Son. "Sprinkling" is a picture of Passover when blood was sprinkled on doorposts. "Grace" and "peace" — same formula as used by Paul.
kjv@1Peter:1:3 — Looks to past. "Blessed" — a paean of praise. Only believers have a songbook. "Begotten" refers to the new birth (see kjv@1Peter:1:23). "Living hope" — Jesus Christ is alive because He arose from the dead. Peter was sure of resurrection kjv@Luke:24:34).
kjv@1Peter:1:4 — Looks to the future. Israel was journeying to the Promised Land. The church is journeying to the New Jerusalem. Each believer has an inheritance. "Incorruptible" is non-destructible — no germ, rust, moth, or enemy can destroy it. It will always be new, it will never decay. No night ever comes, it will always be day. How it gladdens my heart with a joy that's untold To think of that land where nothing grows old. "Undefiled" is not stained or not defiled. Our inheritance is not received illegally. "Fadeth not away" is not withered. The loveliness of our inheritance is not withered; no season, change of weather, nor drought affects it; it is in perpetual spring. "Reserved in heaven" is guarded kjv@John:17:11-12).
kjv@1Peter:1:5 — Looks to present. "Kept" — a Scotsman who was economical had this one word placed on his tombstone. It was enough. "By the power of God" (see kjv@John:10:27-28).
kjv@1Peter:1:6 — This is the key verse of the epistle. Rejoicing in trials (or "temptations in the KJV) and suffering is a strange combination. Testing produces joy — it is the end result kjv@Hebrews:12:11). Suffering occurs sixteen times in this epistle. Another outline of 1 Peter is:
(1) Suffering and rejoicing — kjv@1Peter:1:1-13 (2) Suffering and holiness — kjv@1Peter:1:14—3:22 (3) Suffering and fellowship — kjv@1Peter:4 (4) Suffering and glory — kjv@1Peter:4:1-4 (5) Suffering and others — kjv@1Peter:4:5-14
kjv@1Peter:1:7 — "Precious" occurs seven times — the big fisherman uses this word. As metal is subjected to the furnace in order to draw off the dross and refine it, the child of God is permitted to suffer for the purpose of refinement.
kjv@1Peter:1:8-9 — Simon Peter had seen Christ personally, but most of the believers had not. The Holy Spirit had made Him real to them, and they loved Him. Think what it will be when we do see Him!
II. Suffering and the Scriptures produces holiness, Chapter kjv@1Peter:1:10-25
kjv@1Peter:1:10 — Salvation was a subject of prophecy. Prophets and apostles bore witness.
kjv@1Peter:1:11 — Prophets did not distinguish between the first and second comings of Christ. Grace — suffering ( kjv@1Peter:1:10; kjv@Isaiah:53; kjv@Psalms:22) Glory — sovereignty ( kjv@1Peter:1:11; kjv@Isaiah:11; kjv@Psalms:45) The prophets saw these as two great mountain peaks. They did not see the valley between. We live in that valley. We can look backward and forward.
Cross (Suffering) (We are here) Church Age Crown (Glory)
kjv@1Peter:1:12 — The apostles delivered the gospel. Although angels desired to, they were not permitted to preach the gospel.
kjv@1Peter:1:13 — "Hope" — Peter is the apostle of hope. The Scriptures give hope.
kjv@1Peter:1:14 — The Scriptures also lead to obedience (see v. 2).
kjv@1Peter:1:15 — Holiness is to the spiritual life what health is to the body. Be mature. Grow up.
kjv@1Peter:1:16 — The only holiness we have is in Christ. God wants us to grow that we may be like Him. This is the ideal.
kjv@1Peter:1:17 — The second reason to be holy is that the Lord Jesus Christ is also the Judge.
kjv@1Peter:1:18-19 — Is the life I am living worth the price He paid for my redemption?
kjv@1Peter:1:20 — "Foreordained" is foreknown. "The sovereign choice of God in foreordination, election, and predestination logically originated in the divine decision based on His eternal omniscience of all possible plans of action. The order logically, not chronologically, is omniscience, divine decision (foreordination, election, predestination), and foreknowledge. As God's decision is eternal, however, so also His foreknowledge is eternal. As foreknowledge extends to all events, it includes all that is embraced in election, foreordination, and predestination. Election is, therefore, according to foreknowledge, and foreknowledge is according to election, meaning that both are in perfect agreement." (The New Scofield Reference Bible, Oxford University Press, 1967)
kjv@1Peter:1:21 — "Hope" — the resurrection of Christ is the basis of hope.
kjv@1Peter:1:22 — Transforming hope leads to obedience of the Scriptures and love of the brethren.
kjv@1Peter:1:23 — "Being born again" is having been begotten again. The Word of God is the instrument of God for producing the new birth. The Word of God is not sterile; it is living and powerful.
kjv@1Peter:1:24-25 — Man's feebleness and frailty is compared to the grass in contrast to the Word of God that is life-giving and eternal kjv@Psalms:119:89).
III. Suffering and the suffering of Christ, Chapters kjv@1Peter:2—4
A. Produces separation, Chapter kjv@1Peter:2
kjv@1Peter:2:1 — "Malice" is congealed anger. It is an unforgiving spirit. "Guile" is the spirit of using cleverness to get even. Real separation is from the works of the flesh.
kjv@1Peter:2:2 — "Pure milk" is spiritual milk. Just as a hungry baby reaches for the bottle, a believer is to desire the Word.
kjv@1Peter:2:3 — At the moment of salvation a person is born with an appetite for the Word.
kjv@1Peter:2:4 — The living stone is Christ kjv@Matthew:21:42-44). Peter identifies the stone as Christ: This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. kjv@Acts:4:11)
kjv@1Peter:2:5 — Believers are living stones that are built on Christ kjv@Ephesians:2:19-20; kjv@1Corinthians:3:11). They constitute a living temple in which spiritual sacrifices of praise, possessions, and one's person are presented.
kjv@1Peter:2:6 — This is a quotation from kjv@Isaiah:28:16 (see also kjv@Romans:9:33).
kjv@1Peter:2:7 — A better translation is "For you therefore which believe is the preciousness." "Disallowed" is rejected. It refers to a tradition at the time of building Solomon's temple (see kjv@Psalms:118:22; kjv@Matthew:21:42; kjv@Exodus:17:6).
kjv@1Peter:2:8 — Christ is either a stepping-stone or a stumbling stone. Christ in the Word of God is a stumbling stone to many.
kjv@1Peter:2:9 — A Christian is to live a life commensurate with his position in Christ. This is normal Christian living. "Chosen generation"— these are believers who belong to a chosen generation because of the new birth. If you want to know if you belong to the elect, the real test is: Have you come? kjv@John:6:37). "Royal priesthood"— believers are priests (see notes on Hebrews). Israel had a priesthood; the church is a priesthood. "Holy nation"— believers are holy because of their position in Christ. They are a nation because they are a new entity in the world ( kjv@1Corinthians:10:32). "Peculiar people" (KJV) — not oddballs or weird. It literally means a people for acquisition, a people for God's own possession. "Show forth the praises" is publish or tell abroad His virtues.
kjv@1Peter:2:10 — The same statement is made concerning the Gentiles in kjv@Ephesians:2:11-12.
kjv@1Peter:2:11 — Christians are to publish His praises by not manifesting the works of the flesh.
kjv@1Peter:2:12 — Believers who are in business show forth His praises by honesty.
kjv@1Peter:2:13-15 — Believers who submit to governments and those in authority reveal the praises of God.
kjv@1Peter:2:16-17 — A believer's relationship to others speaks louder than the pulpit. We are to treat all men equally.
kjv@1Peter:2:18-20 — Christians in labor relationships also reveal the praises of God when their attitudes and actions are mild and fair.
kjv@1Peter:2:21-23 — The suffering of Christ is the theme of the remainder of this chapter. Christ suffered vicariously to set us an example as well as for our sins.
kjv@1Peter:2:24 — Christ suffered a vicarious, substitutionary death for our sins. "By whose stripes ye were healed" is a quotation from kjv@Isaiah:53, which reveals that Isaiah is not speaking of physical healing, but that which is more important and profound — healing from sin.
kjv@1Peter:2:25 — Humanity (both lost and saved) is called sheep.
B. Produces Christian conduct, Chapter 3
1. Conduct in the home, kjv@1Peter:3:1-7
kjv@1Peter:3:1 — "Be in subjection" is submitting yourselves. This is a voluntary step, not a command. Obviously this refers to an unsaved husband who will not hear the Word of God, but who might be won by the conduct of the wife. This is real personal evangelism.
kjv@1Peter:3:2 — "Conversation" (KJV) is behavior.
kjv@1Peter:3:3 — This is a reference to Roman styles of arranging the hair and wearing of jewelry, which is very similar to modern styles. A Christian woman may win a husband by sex appeal, but she can never win him to the Lord by sex appeal.
kjv@1Peter:3:4 — Inward, not outward, adornment wins the lost husband.
kjv@1Peter:3:5-6 — Sarah and the wives of the other patriarchs did not hold their husbands by sex appeal.
kjv@1Peter:3:7 — Christian husbands are to love and honor their wives because of their intelligent understanding of the marriage relationship. The apostle indicates that the prayers of a family are not answered when the marriage relationship is not right.
2. Conduct in the church, kjv@1Peter:3:8-17
kjv@1Peter:3:8 — Believers are to be like-minded, sympathetic, tenderhearted, and courteous (which means humble-minded).
kjv@1Peter:3:9 — This is turning the other cheek.
kjv@1Peter:3:10-11 — For the one who loves life and really wants to live, here is the key.
kjv@1Peter:3:12 — God has not guaranteed to hear the prayers of those who do evil, but He has guaranteed to hear the prayers of His own (see kjv@Psalms:34:15-16).
kjv@1Peter:3:14 — Suffering for the right should bring joy to the child of God.
kjv@1Peter:3:15 — By our lives and lips we can sanctify God in our hearts. Our lives should bring glory to God. Also, the believer should be able to explain his position in Christ.
kjv@1Peter:3:16 — Be sure that those who speak evil of you are in error.
kjv@1Peter:3:17 — Be sure our suffering comes to us because of doing good, not evil.
3. Christ's suffering preached by the Spirit in Noah's day, kjv@1Peter:3:18-22
kjv@1Peter:3:18 — Again, Christ's suffering for our sins is cited as the hope in our suffering.
kjv@1Peter:3:19 — When did Christ preach to the spirits in prison? In His day or in Noah's day? The next verse answers it.
kjv@1Peter:3:20 — "When" is the key word. It was in the days of Noah. Noah preached the gospel in his day. In Christ's day, the spirits of those men to whom Noah had preached were in prison, for they had rejected the message of Noah.
kjv@1Peter:3:21 — "Baptism" is identification. "By the resurrection of Jesus Christ" is salvation — a believer is identified with Him.
kjv@1Peter:3:22 — We are seated in Christ in heaven.
C. Produces obedience to the will of God, Chapter kjv@1Peter:4
kjv@1Peter:4:1 — God permits us to suffer sometimes to keep us from going into sin. A child of God with a new nature longs to please Christ in all things.
kjv@1Peter:4:2 — The child of God can no longer be satisfied to live in the flesh.
kjv@1Peter:4:3 — This is the life of the unbeliever.
kjv@1Peter:4:4 — The unbeliever cannot understand what has happened to a sinner when he is saved.
kjv@1Peter:4:5 — The believer knows that he must come before the judgment seat of Christ.
kjv@1Peter:4:6 — These were dead in trespasses and sins (see kjv@John:5:24 kjv@John:11:25; kjv@Ephesians:2:1).
kjv@1Peter:4:7 — The coming of the Lord is an incentive to living in obedience to Christ.
kjv@1Peter:4:8 — See kjv@Proverbs:10:12.
kjv@1Peter:4:10 — Every believer has a gift.
kjv@1Peter:4:11 — Gifts are to be administered in the power of the Spirit.
kjv@1Peter:4:12 — "To try" (KJV) is literally trying; "happened" is were happening. These believers were already being tested by suffering. Suffering is not accidental, but it is normal Christian experience. "Fiery trial" is literally smelted in a furnace.
kjv@1Peter:4:13 — The believer is partaking of Christ's sufferings in his own suffering (see kjv@Romans:8:17).
kjv@1Peter:4:14 — The believer is to rejoice if he is reproved for Christ's sake.
kjv@1Peter:4:15 — The believer should not suffer as a sinner.
kjv@1Peter:4:16 — He is to suffer as a Christian. v. 17 — Believers are to appear before the judgment seat of Christ ( kjv@2Corinthians:5:10).
kjv@1Peter:4:18 — The righteous are saved only by their faith in Christ.
kjv@1Peter:4:19 — This is the comfort of a suffering saint.
IV. Suffering and the Second Coming of Christ, Chapter kjv@1Peter:5
A. Produces service and hope, kjv@1Peter:5:1-4
kjv@1Peter:5:1 — Peter calls himself a fellow elder. He never claimed a superior place above his brethren.
kjv@1Peter:5:2 — The business of the elder or minister is to feed the flock of God. He is to do this willingly and not for money. The test of any cult or Christian organization is how much money it is spending on itself. Is it a religious racket?
kjv@1Peter:5:3 — The leader is an example.
kjv@1Peter:5:4 — The Chief Shepherd will reward His own for service.
B. Produces humility and patience, kjv@1Peter:5:5-14
kjv@1Peter:5:5-6 — In view of the coming of Christ, humility should be the attitude of the child of God. Christ will establish justice and make things right when He comes.
kjv@1Peter:5:7 — "Care" is anxiety (see kjv@Matthew:6:25).
kjv@1Peter:5:8 — "Be sober" is be intelligent. The believer is in an evil and dangerous world.
kjv@1Peter:5:9 — See kjv@James:4:7.
kjv@1Peter:5:10 — Suffering is on God's agenda for the believer.
kjv@1Peter:5:11 — This is a benediction.
kjv@1Peter:5:12 — This is a personal P.S.
kjv@1Peter:5:13 — "Babylon," thought by some to be a figurative name, is, in our judgment, literal Babylon.
kjv@1Peter:5:14 — This is the final benediction.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS: Barbieri, Louis A. First and Second Peter. Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1977. (Fine, inexpensive survey.) English, E. Schuyler. The Life and Letters of St. Peter. New York, New York: Our Hope, 1941. (Excellent.) Ironside, H. A. Notes on James and Peter. Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers, n.d. Kelly, William. The Epistles of Peter. London, England: C. A. Hammond, n.d. Leighton, Robert. A Practical Commentary on First Peter. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Kregel Publications, 1845. Lumby, J. Rawson. The Epistles of Peter. (Expositor's Bible.) Grand Rapids, Michigan: W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1943. McGee, J. Vernon. 1 Peter. Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1991. Meyer, F. B. Tried by Fire (1 Peter). Fort Washington, Pennsylvania: Christian Literature Crusade, n.d. (Rich, devotional study.) Robertson, A. T. Epochs in the Life of Simon Peter. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, n. d. Smith, Thornley. Expository Lectures on the Epistles of Peter. London, England: R. D. Dickinson, 1878. Stibbs, Alan. The First Epistle General of Peter. Grand Rapids, Michigan: W. B Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1959. Thomas, W. H. Griffith. The Apostle Peter. Grand Rapids, Michigan: W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1956. (Excellent) Wolston, W. T. P. Simon Peter — His Life and Letters. London, England: James Nisbet and Company, 1896. (Excellent.) Wuest, Kenneth S. First Peter in the Greek New Testament. Grand Rapids, Michigan: W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1942.
SAMPLE SUMMARY FOR EACH CHAPTER (for your personal study)
1. Theme of chapter—
2. Most important verse—
3. Most prominent word—
4. Teaching about Christ—
5. Command to obey—
6. Promise to claim—
7. New truth learned—
These notes, prepared by J. Vernon McGee, are for the purpose of giving assistance to the listeners of the THRU THE BIBLE RADIO program. They are to be used with the Bible and will be more meaningful as you look up all the Scripture references. Due to the necessary brevity of both notes and broadcasts, a list of recommended books is included for those wanting a more detailed study. These books may be obtained from a Christian library or bookstore or ordered from the publishers.
THRU THE BIBLE RADIO NETWORK Pasadena, California 91109-7100 #16217-ABAAEg
Return to: McGee
Child Threads:


text:
Saturday May 28
8:00 - 8:30 Attendee
Free Free Free Free Register here!!!!! http://www.propowerwash.com/meetings/ky.html
Derby City Networking Event Schedule:
9406 Old Bardstown Road
Louisville, KY 40291
check in
8:30 - 12:00 Guest speakers
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch catered by Shack in the Back BarBQ
1:00 - 5:00 Roundtable discussion
Sunday May 29
8:30 - 12:00 Live demos to include:
Wood cleaning & brightening
Fleet washing
Siding & gutter cleaning
Wet sandblasting
Sirocco vacuum recovery surface cleaning
Best rig contest judging
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 Skid giveaway, Best rig contest award, Q&A session, wrap up
Check that OUT!!
No we where just there for the day.
Hey Kory, sorry, just saw this message today... you still in town?
No baby yet, should be here in the next 2 weeks!!
Lori at pwp or dultmier
Where did you buy the tips for roof cleaning I am making a new wand and would like to try them
Ms Awesome
Exterior Restoration Specialist

subset: commoncrawl


text:
One of the nation's leading experts on the impact of technology on business and society, Michael Rogers is an interactive media pioneer, novelist and journalist. He currently serves as Futurist-in-Residence for the New York Times Company.
For ten years he was vice president of The Washington Post Company's new media division, helping guide both the newspaper and its sister publication Newsweek into the new century, as well as serving as editor and general manager of Newsweek.com. Now his New York-based consultancy, Practical Futurist, works with both startups and major media companies.
Rogers is also a best-selling novelist whose fiction explores the human impact of technology. His five books have been published worldwide, optioned for film and television, and chosen by the Book of the Month Club.
After a decade as a writer for Rolling Stone, Rogers co-founded Outside magazine. He then joined Newsweek to create the magazine's Technology section, covering topics ranging from Chernobyl and genetic engineering to computers and the Internet, earning numerous journalism awards for his work.
In 1993 he produced the world's first CD-ROM newsmagazine for Newsweek, described in the media as a prototype for interactive television, going on to develop interactive areas on Prodigy, America Online and then a series of Internet sites. In 1999 he received a patent for the bimodal spine, a multimedia storytelling technique, and is listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering.
Rogers is a frequent guest on radio and television and regularly addresses audiences worldwide, ranging from venture capitalists and corporate executives to educators, students and the general public. In 1989 he was founding chairperson of the European Technology Roundtable, an annual CEO gathering, which he continues to moderate along with the newer Asian Technology Roundtable.
Rogers studied physics and creative writing at Stanford University with additional training in finance at Stanford Business School's Executive Program.
To get an RSS feed of Rogers' work on MSNBC, click
For more information, please visit http://www.michaelrogers.com/


text:
Keeping An Eye On: Celebs Who Were Rumored To Dance On DWTS
Just some brief mentions on some celebrities we've been keeping an eye on that were rumored to dance in some previous seasons of Dancing With The Stars. First of all, let's not forget about "Deadliest Catch" star Sig Hanson. This past June, he was reported as saying he will participate on Dancing With The Stars in the Spring. Here is more from Reality Blurred at the time…
Deadliest Catch star and Northwestern captain Sig Hansen said he'll participate in Dancing with the Stars next spring.
The St. Pete Times' Eric Deggans reports that "the possibility Hansen might fulfill his longtime dream of competing on Dancing With the Stars in March 2012" is "the kind of success they could scarcely have predicted when [executive producer Thom] Beers first suggested putting a film crew on their boats for the first time."
Specifically, Sig said, "So they're looking at it for next March and I'll do it. I think it'd be good for the brand, once-in-a-lifetime thing, and it's fuckin' cool, you know? Why not, you know? … I think it'd be fun. It's just, you know, why not? I'm living life. It's been fun and as long as it doesn't hurt my relationship with my wife, I'm good with it." (That quotation didn't make the story but Deggans provided it to me from the transcript of his interview.)
Also, did you note how Lee Meriwether was in the audience watching the show one night this past season?? She tweeted about it and was an avid supporter to J.R. through out the season. As you might know if you are a follower to this site, Lee has been very interested in dancing on the show for the past two seasons. Let's not forget she's made it a point to 'follow' a lot of Dancing With The Stars fans at twitter. Will Dancing With The Stars Season 14 finally be her time to dance? As you can see from her twitter account, she's nutty about Tom Bergeron too as many of us are. 🙂
Then there is pro woman wrestler Velvet Sky. She and her fans have been campaigning hard for her through out the Summer and Fall! I thought this recent tweet made by her on Oct. 1st was especially interesting….
Just wanna thank all u guys for the continued support in voting for me for DWTS! It's lookin good! Please keep voting. http://t.co/BJPbgzG8
— Velvet Sky (@VelVelHoller) October 1, 2011
Let's get Heidi's thoughts:
Heidi: Velvet was never a rumor, she was a campaigner who made it sound like she was in the running. Big difference…and I kinda doubt she will be successful. But, you never know. 🙂
Speaking of campaigns versus actual rumors – Lorenzo Lamas was claiming not too long ago that he was on the "short list" to do the show…yet he (and Donna D'Errico) urged all his fans to vote for him at abc.com. So, is this a rumor, wishful thinking on his part, or a savvy (kinda) campaign?? Who can tell – it's Hollywood!! Clearly some are not above stretching the truth and there is no way of telling when someone is. 🙂
What about rumors that seemed pretty solid?? Celebuzz said that Kim Richards was all signed up to do the show – wrong. So, was she signed and got bumped?? Or did she tell Celebuzz what she was hoping for?? Either way, maybe she'll show up on this coming season of the show. 🙂
Then there are those tweeting a list of people who are "going to participate" and they actually get half of them right. Well, what do you do with the other half of their lists?? Were those people in contention and got bumped or decided not to do it?? Or were they culling rumors like we do and just managed to get half right?? The Henry Winkler and Tiffany Thiessen rumors seem to fall into this category. Don't know what to make of it, actually.
Christina Milian is a rumor that I could get behind…if she was dancing with Derek. 🙂 So much pretty on the dance floor. :::sigh::: 🙂 She seemed kinda solid for last season, but we know how that turned out…but never say never. Shawn Marion actually said he was offered, but didn't want to take a chance with the lockout – as we know, Ron Artest didn't mind taking the chance. This makes me think that we won't see Marion any time soon – current basketball players two seasons in a row? Probably not.
Who else seemed like a possibility recently?? Well, Davy Jones, Evelyn Lozado, Matthew Finley….well, the list is too long, really.
Of course, this is where the internet noise machine becomes a problem – one person mentions a name as a "wish" then someone sees it and thinks it's rumored….and before you know it it's all over the freakin' internet as a "fact". Let me tell you, sorting through all that crap to find the real deal is nearly impossible. But at least we'll tell you when we're not sure. 🙂 Which is MOST of the time. And this is the time that I chuckle as I remember all the Hope Solo fans who told us, categorically, that Hope was NOT doing the show after we reported she was. So, all the talk is hard to decipher.
There are probably several hundred other people who were rumored in the past who we should be keeping an eye on – but this is a start for now. 🙂


text:
Price On Request
Hoarding Advertising At Nr Bus Depot, Surat
- Bangalore | Bangalore
- Outdoor
- Multiple Ad Options
Nonlit Hoarding is clear visibility without any obstruction.
No. of Units : 1
Facing : Sachin
Illumination : Nonlit
Installation Cost : 3200
Production Cost : 1200
Display Type : Traditional
Media Type : Outdoor
Size : 400 ( 20 X 20 ) Sq.ft
Venue : Commercial Area (Workplace/Residential)
Ad Options
Hoardings are a creative and powerful outdoor advertising option because of their sheer size and grandeur. These ads attract potential customers and allow the message to seen vividly and clearly.
Additional Details
Nonlit Hoarding is clear visibility without any obstruction.
Mediaseller Details
Ahmedabad | Bangalore | Bhopal | Jaipur | Surat
Various options like hoardings, digital billboards, bus shelters, unipoles, pole kiosks etc.
#outdoor# outdoor advertising# outdoor advertising services# best outdoor advertising
Disclaimer: Gainbuzz.com has not independently verified any of the information in this listing and makes no warranty as to its accuracy or completeness


text:
I know what you mean about dian wei.I had to be him to get the platinum trophy.He is unplayable on harder difficulties.Same with meng huo.Half of the weapon/moveset changes from 5 were for the worse.
I know what you mean about dian wei.I had to be him to get the platinum trophy.He is unplayable on harder difficulties.Same with meng huo.Half of the weapon/moveset changes from 5 were for the worse.
I think the idea of editing generic officers is good, I'd probably do something incredibly nasty like make Zhen Ji short and fat...
Bottom line is, don't give your hopes up. I'm sure KOEI has a few more things to place on the downloadable list for this game.
why did koei take out the strategy that allows you to choose rulers for each state and distribute reinforcements when a battle occurs this takes away alot of strategy and hurts the game in my opinion. it is still fun to play but it is disappointing these features are gone.
I liked the ambush and fire attack system from Dynasty warriors 5 Xtreme legends if they made bases hard to capture like in XL then empires would be more fun, and If they had some sort of skill system, I.e. depending on your level you can unlock 1 ability for example a strategy one, a fighting one, and a secondary one : Fire attack, Evo attacks, Resist arrows etc.
Online Play:
I think the online idea should definitely be given some serious thought. The logistics may be hard to work but seriously in this day and age some form of online play should be available. Besides the first try could give way to more improvement in future installments.
Generic Officer Edit:
I like this idea a lot as long as it does not take up CAW slots.
This works ok in DW6E but it is still far from perfect. More options are needed. I also think that one should have the option to choose both weapon and moveset which could differ. Example you choose Cao Cao's weapon but Lu Bu's moveset. Plus some new weapons would give more depth to CAW. Also it would be really ace if you can have moveset from SW as well. This would make CAW truly awesome. Finally players should have the ability to share their CAW officers like in ModNation Racers.
Other Ideas:
Yes the strategy part does need more depth in my opinion. One should also be able to capture officers. Also there should be a limit to how much a general returns to the battlefield after he is defeated which corresponds with the number of units he has.
I would like mercenry thingie like on dw5 empires you could order certain people like beast masters or whatever and not just have random juggernauts sometimes
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)


text:
Go undercover
Track down the Invizimals
When the Alliance HQ is overrun by the ruthless robot army of Xtractor Industries, the world's entire knowledge of the Invizimals is in danger of being lost forever. The Alliance's leader, Keni, has been kidnapped; the Invizimals themselves are under threat. It's up to you to team up with The Resistance and defeat the Xtractors.
Grab your PlayStation Vita and go on undercover missions to capture 150 Invizimals hidden in the world around you. Use the built-in camera to detect and capture the secretive creatures, train them to become mighty fighters and then take the fight to the Xtractors – or your friends – in explosive Battle Arenas.


text:
Ian Engle entered Olde Tymer's Cafe at lunchtime Tuesday with a large party of activists with disabilities.
Soon he had to urinate.
To avail himself of the downstairs bathroom, Engle, who is wheelchair-bound, had to hoist himself backward down the narrow, steep staircase, risking injury. Onlooking kitchen staff gasped as the wheels of Engle's chair thumped against every gradation like a heavy roller suitcase.
Going down turned out to be easier than going up.
Once downstairs, Engle had to wait 10 minutes while Olde Tymer's staff called 911, hoping to enlist the fire department's help to extract him from the bottom level. Finally, a group of off-duty La Plata County sheriff's deputies intervened and carried Engle up a concrete stairway that led to the patio – the only staircase wide enough for the feat.
Durango – a place preoccupied with plastic bags, the evils of cigarette smoking and the correct disposal of dog poop – is easy to mock as a bastion of social sensitivity.
But Tuesday, a protest organized by the Southwest Center for Independence in which about 20 people, many wheelchair-bound and bearing placards that said access is a civil right, made a tour of Main Avenue's businesses and revealed downtown Durango to be anything but disability-friendly.
"If you don't have to deal with it, it's just out of sight, out of mind, you know?" said Jason Ragsdale, the protest's organizer and a Center for Independence employee.
Ragsdale said the protesters hoped to show business owners that current accommodations for the disabled often are inadequate and to secure follow-up meetings to discuss useful and cheap architectural modifications – often to doorways and bathrooms.
Part guerrilla political theater, part gentle shaming, the protesters – who whipped out a portable, foldable metal ramp whenever confronted by businesses with inaccessible doorways – mounted a withering social commentary of downtown Durango's frequent oblivion to the disabled.
When the protesters tried to enter Poppy's sandwich shop – which, because of its two-step entrance, couldn't be overcome with their ramp – owner Matt Scott, who appeared embarrassed if not flabbergasted, explained that disabled people usually entered on a ramp in the back that led into the kitchen.
Without missing a beat, Engle whipped out a hand-made sign that read: "Cripples use the back door."
"I've been through so many dirty alleys – what if I want to go on a date?" Engle asked.
Engle and Poppy's owner agreed to meet later to discuss how Poppy's might become more accessible.
Engle said the group's tactics, while confrontational, were a last resort.
"We try to come to a common understanding after the initial embarrassment. You can call places up like that, but you just get blown off," Engle said.
Ellinda McKinney, an independent living coordinator with the Southwest Center for Independence, said recent reports of disabled tourists being stranded at Durango-La Plata County Airport without suitable transportation and even being charged more by taxi companies to get into Durango provided the impetus for the protest.
But she said downtown's capitalist ethos could present challenges, too.
"People in Durango are so focused on their business and getting tourists in. They don't think about the other half of the population who is disabled," she said.
Some businesses took the protesters' criticisms in stride.
At Derailed Pour House, management readily accepted that the staircase to the bathroom, though short, was far too steep for a ramp, and protesters praised the staff at Olde Tymer's as being "really cool" and thoroughly supportive.
As the group passed Lady Falconburgh's Barley Exchange, protester Christopher Ray said, "That's terrible – no access at all."
Fellow protester Carla Vigil said, "It isn't fair. That's why we need to change it."
Maria's Bookshop, meanwhile, got a thank-you card from the protesters.
"They even have a ramp to go over the hump in the door!" McKinney said.
For their part, the protesters said they were pleased to bring the issue to the forefront.
"Durango has a lot of handicap-accessible issues that aren't going to go away," Vincent LaDue said.
Able-bodied locals joined the protest.
Janet Thompson said she was there in solidarity.
"I could have disability issues in the future, too," she said.
Shafi Majeed, walking beside her, said he was "just supporting my human brothers and sisters."
"If we just worked these problems through with engineering, it wouldn't be an issue," Majeed said. "Instead, we want to go to the moon and all this weird stuff."
Merry Anne Nelson, who lives at Four Corners Health Care Center, said she became wheelchair-bound four years ago after a spate of surgeries and a spinal virus.
"But I love to go places," she said.
Dolly Gingrar whooped encouragement as the protesters passed by.
"I think it's wonderful, what they're doing, and more should be done," Gingrar said. "They should be able to go anywhere we go."


text:
IBM has unveiled an initiative to bring more functions to mobile devices. The program will entail a number of efforts to bring easy-to-use services to people who have bypassed using personal computers as their primary method of accessing technology, instead using their mobile phone to access the web.
"The world is entering the 'Era of the Mobile Web.' In many countries, the mobile phone has become an electronic wallet, the window to the World Wide Web, an education device and more, and globally, mobile devices outnumber PCs, credit cards, and TVs," said Daniel Dias, Director, IBM India Research laboratory. "Today, we are launching projects that will make a mobile device an even easier to use than the PC, allowing you to do everything you can with a PC and much more."
The projects include the "Spoken Web" project, which aims to transform how people create, build and interact with e-commerce sites on the World Wide Web using the spoken word instead of the written word. The Spoken Web is the World Wide Web in a telecom network, where people can host and browse "VoiceSites," traverse "VoiceLinks," even conduct business transactions, all just by talking over the existing telephone network.
For example, an average person on the street does not need a PC, but needs access to information such as:
- Fishermen need weather info before heading out to sea
- Farmers need to look up commodity prices
- Plumbers can schedule appointments, set up transfers to partners, use advertisements
- Grocery shops can display catalogues, offer order placement, display personalized targeted advertisements or reminders
Such locally relevant information is not available for a majority of world population. Computer access is not enough because there is a need to know what to look for, how to access it and how to use it.
Other additional innovative mobile web solutions, including:
- Universal Mobile Translator. IBM's researchers are developing new technology to facilitate speech between individuals who speak no common language with the goal of free-form dialogue facilitated by a PDA. IBM real-time translation technologies will be embedded into mobile phones, handheld devices and cars.
- Portable Power in Your Pocke. IBM's SoulPad software lets PC users separate a computer's "soul" -- the programs, settings and data it holds -- from its body, the disks, keyboard, screen, processor and other hardware from which it is comprised. Once a computer's soul is stored on a storage device like a portable USB hard drive or iPod with SoulPad software, it can be carried around and reincarnated in any other computer simply by plugging in the storage device and starting the computer up.
- Social Networks Go Mobile. Consumers can communicate with their social network friends regardless of where they are with voice and SMS from either a PC or a mobile phone. For example, young shoppers looking at purchasing clothes in a store are increasingly looking for immediate feedback via their social networks, and the easiest way to make this happen is via mobile devices.
- Healthcare Goes Mobile. IBM Research has brought together mobile phones and "presence" technology combined with health records to provide a potential "good samaritan" with information on how to aid people in critical medical situations.
Much of the world's population is looking to mobile devices to tap into online resources to fulfill basic economic needs -- in banking, e-commerce, education, transportation and government.
The World Wide Web (WWW) enabled quick and easy information dissemination and brought about fundamental changes to various aspects of our lives. However, a very large number of people, mostly in developing regions, are still untouched by this revolution.
Compared to PCs, the primary access mechanism to WWW, mobile phones have made a phenomenal penetration into this population segment. Low cost of ownership, the simple user interface consisting of a small keyboard, limited menu and voice-based access contribute to the success of mobile phones with the less literate. However, apart from basic voice communication, these people are not being able to exploit the benefits of information and services available to WWW users.
For the first time ever, more people will have a mobile phone than a regular telephone. Mobile devices outnumber PCs by three to one, credit cards by two to one, and TVs by two to one. IBM predicts the number of mobile Web users will grow by 191 percent from 2006 to 2011 to reach 1 billion. This proliferation of mobile devices and mobile Web users signals an incredibly lucrative growth opportunity for businesses.


text:
Center for Science and Public Policy
Learn more from the Center for Media and Democracy's research on climate change.
This group may have largely morphed into the Science and Public Policy Institute, also headed by Ferguson; please see that page - particularly its timeline - for details, and consider the information below as largely historic.
The 'Center for Science and Public Policy is described on its webpage as "a non-profit, non-partisan public policy organization."[1] However, it is not a separately incorporated non-profit group but a project of the corporate-funded group, the Frontiers of Freedom Institute. (In 2006 one FF media release referred to it as "Frontiers' Center for Science and Public Policy".[2])
On its website, the project claims that it "relies on scientific experts in many nations and the vast body of peer-reviewed literature to help lawmakers, policy makers, and the media distinguish between scientific findings that are agenda-driven and those that are based on accepted scientific methods and practices. In a timely manner, the Center's Science Watch Team alerts policy makers, the media, and the public to unreliable scientific claims and unjustified alarmism which often lead to public harm. We strive for a fair and balanced examination of science."[2]
At the time of its launch in March 2003, the institute had great ambitions for the center claiming that it "will enlist the help of world-renowned scientists to serve as a resource for Members of Congress, administrative agencies, and the media to evaluate the deluge of scientific findings that so often drives public policy." The Institute's President, George C. Landrith, bemoaned that "not a day goes by that we don't hear a claim in the media that a product we use every day an artificial sweetener, a pesticide, our cell phones is harmful to our health or safety". The center, he said, would "help lawmakers distinguish between good science and bad science, between the kind of science that is driven by an agenda and engineered to produce certain results, and the kind that is based on sound scientific principles and techniques."[3]
However, what Landrith did not mention was that Exxon had provided $100,000 in 2002 specifically for the "Center for Sound Science and Public Policy" (sic) as well as a further $97,000 for "Global Climate Change Outreach Activities", and a further $35,000 for "Global Climate Change Science Projects";[4]
The earliest submissions from CSPP date from approximately May 2003.[5] These submissions did not mention Exxon's funding.
If the institute had high hopes for the Center at the time of its launch, its subsequent performance has been less than spectacular.
Between March 2005 and August 2007 CSSP published a weekly bulletin titled Climate Weekly, then Climate and Environment Weekly and finally Climate and Environment Review.[6] Robert Ferguson, the previous Executive Director of the CSPP and director of Frontiers of Freedom, was the editor of this from the initial edition until the May 10, 2007 edition.Robert Ferguson was the previous Executive Director and is the [7] After Ferguson ceased editing it, Paul Georgia, the new Executive Director of the CSPP edited it until August 2007 when it was discontinued.
Its only other activities on global warming have been five presentations by institute staff or others, mostly in 2007 with only one in 2008;[8] six media releases or columns[9] thirteen "articles"[10] and 39 commentaries on global warming issues which are touted as "papers".[11]
- Paul Georgia is the Chief Economist for the institute and Executive Director of the Center for Science & Public Policy.
Former Personnel
- Robert Ferguson was the previous Executive Director and is the founder and President of the Science and Public Policy Institute, another global warming skeptics group.
Articles and Resources
Related SourceWatch Articles
- Frontiers of Freedom
- Science and Public Policy Institute
- Robert Ferguson
- Global warming
- Global warming skeptics
- ↑ "The Center for Science and Public Policy", Frontiers of Freedom Institute website, accessed February 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "News Corporation's Unfair Conduct is Holding Rural America Hostage: Innocent Rural Consumers Will Lose Their Distant Network Signals", Media Release, September 5, 2006. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "CSPP" defined multiple times with different content
- ↑ "Frontiers of Freedom Institute Opens 'Center for Science and Public Policy'", Media Release, U.S. Newswire, March 17, 2003. (Sub req'd for full text).
- ↑ Exxon, "Public Information and Policy Research", Exxon website, 2002, page 3.(Pdf)
- ↑ Frontiers of Freedom, "Specific Comments on Menendez Climate Change Amendment Findings", Frontiers of Freedom website, May 2, 2003.
- ↑ Center for Science and Public Policy, "Climate and Environment Weekly Archives", Center for Science and Public Policy website, accessed February 2009.
- ↑ Frontiers of Freedom, "Climate & Environment Review May 10, 2007", Frontiers of Freedom website, accessed February 2009.
- ↑ Frontiers of Freedom, "Global Warming - Presentations", Frontiers of Freedom website, accessed February 2009.
- ↑ Frontiers of Freedom, "Global Warming - Press Releases", Frontiers of Freedom website, accessed February 2009.
- ↑ "Global Warming - Articles", Frontiers of Freedom website, accessed February 2009.
- ↑ Frontiers of Freedom, "Global Warming - Papers", Frontiers of Freedom website, accessed February 2009.
External Articles
|This article is a stub. You can help by expanding it.


text:
The local area will be represented in New York City at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show this weekend.
Coshocton Veterinarian Dr. Catherine Darr will be showing her dog in the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Feb. 11-12.
Dr. Darr will be exhibiting a three-year old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Grand Champion Orchard Hill Play For Keeps or "Parker." Dr. Darr said the male dog is also referred to as "Barker," for obvious reasons.
The tri-color dog will be shown in the Best of Breed Class. There are 34 dogs entered and the winner of that class will be the only Cavalier King Charles Spaniel shown in the toy group. That judging will be seen on television, USA Network, Monday, Feb. 11.
Best In Show at Westminster, the most-coveted award in the dog show world, was given for the first time in 1907. The dog show, which serves as a symbol or standard for purebred dogs, has survived power outages, snowstorms, a national depression, two World Wars and a tugboat strike that threatened to shut down the city, in the process becoming the second longest continuously held sporting event in the country. Only the Kentucky Derby has been staged longer -- but by just one year.
"At this level of competition, I do have a professional handler (Leonardo Garcini) who will groom and show him (Parker)," said Dr. Darr.
To get to this level, a dog must first qualify by being a champion.
Parker has gotten the first award of merit at the AKC National Specialty in Wisconsin in April and the Eukanuba Show (which was to be televised Feb. 2) in Florida in December.
Parker just won Best of Breed at the regional specialty for Cavalier King Charles Spaniels in Atlanta, Ga.
Dr. Darr is no stranger to the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. This marks Dr. Darr's third dog to be shown in this prestigious event.
"I show dogs to help satisfy my competitive drive but also to be able to genetically improve my breed," Dr. Darr said. "Showing helps me compare my puppies against other breeder's progeny."
And her breeding lines continue to improve.
"It is very exciting to go to New York City with my dog and show in the second oldest sporting event in history," Dr. Darr said.
Westminster has become America's Dog Show and our area will be represented on its grand stage.


text:
'Melrose Place' actress gets 3 years for deadly crash
- Amy Locane-Bovenizer starred in %27Melrose Place%2C%27 %27Cry-Baby%27
- The 41-year-old actress killed a woman while driving under the influence in 2010
- A judge sentenced her to 3 years in prison%2C the minimum allowed by law
SOMERVILLE, N.J. — Helene Seeman's two sons lost their beloved mother June 27, 2010, in a car crash caused by a speeding, drunk driver.
Amy Locane-Bovenizer's own daughters on Thursday saved their own mother from a long prison sentence for her conviction of Seeman's death more than two years ago.
Locane-Bovenizer, 41, a former TV and film actress who married and became a stay-at-home mother, was sentenced to just three years — the minimum allowed by law — to state prison by presiding Superior Court Judge Robert Reed, even though the prosecution had requested a sentence of up to nine years.
She will serve less than 31 months before she is eligible for parole, followed by three years of post-release supervision and a driver's license suspension of more than five years. The 81 days she has spent in Somerset County Jail since her conviction in November will be counted as part of her sentence.
Locane-Bovenizer also may be eligible for a halfway house in six months.
"I'm shocked. No one saw this coming," Somerset County Assistant Prosecutor Matthew Murphy said afterward. "The county prosecutor is contemplating an appeal."
She also must pay more than $12,900 in fines, including four motor-vehicle violations for driving while intoxicated in Montgomery and Princeton on the night of the accident.
The sentencing in the packed Somerville courtroom was the latest emotional chapter in a two-year legal saga that brought no closure to the families torn apart by the 2011 crash.
The case drew public attention in part because Locane-Bovenizer starred in the original 1992 season of the TV drama Melrose Place and played opposite Johnny Depp in the movie Cry-Baby.
The Locane-Bovenizer family still must defend against a federal lawsuit filed by the Seemans.
Before making the unusual move of downgrading a second-degree offense to a third-degree sentence, Reed said that Locane-Bovenizer's children, particularly her 4-year-old daughter Avery, who suffers from Crohn's disease and requires a feeding tube to be inserted up her nose, should be considered a mitigating factor. Also taken into account was Locane-Bovenizer's relatively clean record, with only a 2001 arrest for simple possession of marijuana.
"With all due respect, I cannot, considering of all the factors that stand here, treat innocent children as collateral damage," Reed said, addressing the Seeman family and their friends.
"I have no sympathy for an adult who chooses to drink and drive," Reed said, turning to Locane-Bovenizer. "The harm caused to your daughters is caused by you. The dilemma this court faces is whether the crime of the mother shall be visited upon the children."
Locane-Bovenizer initially had been facing five to 10 years for vehicular homicide, a second-degree crime, and another three to five for third-degree assault by auto for the injuries suffered by Seeman's husband, Fred.
She was convicted by a Somerset County jury, which acquitted the actress of aggravated manslaughter, for which she could have faced 30 years in prison.
The sentence was met with disbelief and anger by the Seeman family.
Fred Seeman and his son, Ford, shouted at the judge and stormed out of the courtroom.
"Having a sick child doesn't give you a pass to kill my wife!" Fred Seeman said. "What were you thinking of judge? You don't understand it!"
Locane, who wore a simple black dress but not her usual makeup, was quickly taken into custody. Before the sentencing, she addressed the Seeman family for the first time in the trial. She had declined to testify during her trial.
"I made a terrible choice to get behind the wheel. I put the general public, Helene, you and myself at risk," she read from a prepared statement that lasted nearly four minutes. "Please know that the reality that I did cause you such loss haunts me every day and will continue to haunt me for the rest of my life.
"I pledge to you that I will spend the rest of my life making sure that people understand the tragic effects of drinking and driving so that Helene Seeman will not have died in vain."
Seeman's wife, his high-school sweetheart and wife for 38 years, was killed almost instantly when Locane-Bovenizer rammed her SUV into the passenger side of the Seeman's Mercury Milan, just as he was pulling into the driveway of their seasonal Montgomery home.
Locane-Bovenizer was traveling up to 18 mph above the posted 35 mph speed limit on the winding, residential Cherry Hill Road. Her blood-alcohol level later was recorded at nearly three times the legal limit of 0.08 percent. She was coming from a family friend's barbecue, where she had been drinking wine. Earlier in the evening, she drank some beer and wine at a community theater cast party.
The defense never denied Locane-Bovenizer was drunk, but did try to shift some blame onto a woman who tailed Locane-Bovenizer for nearly 4 miles after being rear-ended by her. The defense also made much of the fact that Fred Seeman made a left turn into his driveway, crossing Locane-Bovenizer's lane when she had the right of way.
Helene Seeman's 86-year-old mother addressed the court and delivered an abridged but proud biography of her late daughter's life. Helene Seeman worked for Prudential, purchasing art for the company's properties, before starting her own art business. She survived the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but she and her family were shut out of their Battery Park City home for months.
"She never complained," Marcia Zucker said about her daughter, bringing Locane-Bovenizer's own mother to sobbing tears. "My only regret is that I was not there that weekend. Had I been, I would have been in the passenger seat. Why should I be here and she not be here?"
"I feel that people have forgotten who the victims truly are," Ford said in his statement. "The defense in this case blamed the tragic death of my mother on my father and other good Samaritans who were trying to do the right thing by getting a drunken maniac off the road. My mother was murdered and the woman who did it tried to blame it on my dad."
After the sentencing, a crying Helen Locane said that her daughter was "a good girl" and expressed remorse for the Seemans.
"I'm glad that the girls will have their mother back sooner."


text:
转载请注明: Linux人社区> 英文资讯翻译专版.编译
英文原文: Does WebKit face a troubled future now that Google is gone?
posted by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Apr 2013 16:59 UTC
Peter Bright has summarised some of the post-fork discussions on the WebKit mailinglists. "Now that Google is going its own way and developing its rendering engine independently of the WebKit project, both sides of the split are starting the work of removing all the things they don't actually need. This is already causing some tensions among WebKit users and Web developers, as it could lead to the removal of technology that they use or technology that is in the process of being standardized. This is leading some to question whether Apple is willing or able to fill in the gaps that Google has left." There's a clear winner and loser here.


text:
Servicios Personalizados
Links relacionados
- Citado por Google
- Similares en Google
SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
versión On-line ISSN 2078-5135
versión impresa ISSN 0256-9574
SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.99 no.12 Pretoria dic. 2009
Retained glass fragments in body tissues
D J Emby*
A 34-year-old man presented with a fragment of glass protruding from his scalp after having been struck with a beer bottle that had broken on impact. The glass was visible on plain film radiographs, but its degree of penetration could not be determined. A computed tomography (CT) scan showed a fragment of glass penetrating the calvarium, glass shards in the scalp and intracranially, and tiny intracranial bone fragments and small air loculations (Fig. 1). A flap containing the embedded glass fragment was removed and the wound debrided.
The medical literature frequently fails to distinguish between different types of glass as a foreign body, and often states that all glass is visible on X-rays.1 However, small shards of glass may not be visible on plain film radiographs because the radio-densities of different types of glass differ qualitatively.2 Beer bottle glass is usually visible on plain radiographs, but is much less dense than on a CT scan (Fig. 2). Shattered windshield glass is clearly visible on plain radiographs, as its manufacture renders it significantly radio-opaque (Fig. 3). Windowpane glass appears to be the least radio-opaque and can be difficult to visualise in the soft tissues on plain radiographs.
To demonstrate the advantage of CT over plain film X-rays, a saline bag simulating soft tissue was placed over a sample of windowpane glass and a plain film radiograph was obtained (Fig. 4). This glass, which is faintly visible on either side of the bag, merges in density with the saline and can only be differentiated from the bag at its lateral edges. On a CT scan the thin layer of glass is clearly visible underneath the saline bag (Fig. 5), illustrating that the CT scan is much more sensitive than plain films in differentiating ranges of density. CT also has superior spatial resolution within soft tissue, and within bone (as shown in Fig. 1). CT is therefore the preferred imaging modality for detecting shards of glass in the soft tissues when these are not clearly visible or inadequately anatomically defined on plain film radiographs.
The greater sensitivity of CT is useful in clinical conditions that previously presented diagnostic dilemmas, e.g. ureteric calculi of insufficient density to be visible on plain films and impacted fish bones in the hypopharynx and cervical oesophagus, which may not be visible on plain films (Fig. 6).3
1. Rothschild MA, Karger B, Schneider V. Puncture wounds caused by glass mistaken for with stab wounds with a knife. Forensic Sci Int 2001; 121: 161-165.
2. Andrew WK. Sonographic diagnosis of foreign bodies of the distal extremities. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1987; 149: 864.
3. Watanabe K, Kikuchi T, Katori Y, et al. The usefulness of computed tomography in the diagnosis of impacted fish bones in the oesophagus. J Laryngol Otol 1998; 112(4): 360-364.
Dr Emby graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand and trained in radiology on the Durban circuit. He subsequently became Consultant Radiologist to Rand Mutual Hospital and the Chamber of Mines and is currently Consultant Radiologist to AngloGold Ashanti Health. Special interests include trauma, industrial chest disease, and optimal use of imaging modalities in order to contain radiation exposure in medical imaging.
* Corresponding author: D J Emby (firstname.lastname@example.com)


text:
The Civil Courage Prize honors civil courage — steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk — rather than military valor. The acts that the Prize recognizes should have taken place deliberately, over time.
The Civil Courage Prize is awarded annually by the Trustees of The Train Foundation. By increasing awareness of civil courage, the Foundation's Trustees hope to encourage that virtue.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
-Edmund Burke
We particularly encourage any use of the term "civil courage." The term "Civil Courage Prize" is registered under United States Trademark Law, but we welcome its use by others along with the identifying registration symbol, Civil Courage Prize®.
Follow the Civil Courage Prize
Download a PDF version of the current issue [PDF 2MB] of our newsletter.
Documents in PDF format require Adobe's Acrobat Reader.


text:
High turnout expected for last day of early voting in Benton County
Sept. 16 is the last day for early voting for a proposed second Bentonville high school.
A Benton County Clerk told 40/29 news they have been pretty busy since early voting started Sept. 10.
Benton County Clerk Tena O'Brien said since early voting started, the Bentonville office alone has seen around 600 early voters per day. She said that is about 200 more early voters than last year.
She said Sept. 12, they saw their largest numbers of voters, but that could change by the end out the day.
"The tendency is yes, the first day of early voting and the last day is the heaviest traffic times," said O'Brien
Early voters have from 8 a.m. til 4:30 p.m. Monday afternoon to vote in Rogers, Siloam Springs or Bentonville.
Starting Sept. 17, voters will need to head to their designated polling station, not the county clerks office.


text:
Please read before ordering to insure you understand our policy on shipping
All items priced $50.00 and greater are shipped free of charge using FedEx or UPS ground or USPS and does not include freight if freight items apply such as scaffolds,5 gallon items ect. All items priced under $94.99 will be charged domestic and or International going rates.Some items qualify as freight shipped and freight charges will be calculated upon checkout.
Orders are shipped same or next business day after they are received via UPS Ground or FedEx or USPS ground. No orders will be shipped on the weekends or holidays. Orders placed on the weekend will be processed the next business day. The majority of orders will be shipped directly from the US manufacturer or our wherehouse. We pick the fastest route to you.. In the event an item is out of stock, you will be notified of the approximate delivery time (to the best of our knowledge).
Overnight shipping: means next business day for items in stock and or when we receive in our wherehouse. If you place your order after 4:00 pacific time, it will not ship overnight until following day. Overnight shipping on full sets of tools does not apply here,there is a set price for all items but not bulk items. We will pick the closest vendor from you anywhere in the United States so you can get an overnight set of tools within 48 hours for the cost of a single item. This is the only way this can be done because of bulk and weight would be far to costly for anyone to pay. Drywall Zone Inc sells worldwide and we keep most items in stock for next day shipping, however during busy season you may not get complete orders overnight. We will make every effort to get backorder items as fast as we can to you.
We do ship to PO boxes
and we ship to APO boxes.
Fuel surcharges may be applied to your invoice upon checkout from time to time depending on what is charged to us from FedEx-UPS and USPS at a rate from 1.25% to 3%. Drywall Zone will always charge half, meaning if we are charged from FedEx 2.5%, we will charge 1.25%.
Free Shipping only applies to the contiguous 48 United States. Orders placed to Hawaii, Alaska, Canada and Puerto Rico will incur a small shipping fee.
International Shipping Information
All international orders will have a 1 pound minimum weight, it is best to get several parts or other items combined to help save on shipping costs. 1 pound to 5 pounds are the same costs up to 10 pounds for most areas around the globe
Import/Export Duties/VAT taxes:
International customers are responsible for any import/export duties and/or VAT taxes (varies by location). Payable at time of delivery to the customs broker.
We ship international daily.
Normal costs for out of USA are 19.00 usd and above usd. Most cases are under 100 usd. Our compeditors will lower there prices and make it up on shipping-for example we checked one compeditor for a set of tools for $457.00 usd shipping and ours $180.00 usd shipping outside USA.This is a $277.00 usd difference!!All weights are calculated threw UPS-USPS and FEDEX servers. Drywall Zone can save you up to $250.00 usd over our compeditors just in shipping alone...
In most cases our UK and Australia customers are receiving our orders within 7-12 days. Customs may prolong items a few days but is rare.
We ship to APO boxes
Out of Order!:
view all
Submit e-mail address to receive free updates and promotions:


text:
Mill Park Publishing of Eagle, Idaho was created in 2003 by author Elaine Ambrose.
The company facilitates fee-based book publication and marketing for local authors
and organizes writer's retreats.
We remember with fondness the sweet advice of our dear mothers:
"Haste makes waste."
"Don't make me stop this car!"
"You're running away? Let me help you pack!"
"Just because Grandma farts at the table doesn't mean you can, too!"
Mother Knows Best - Wit and Wisdom from Idaho Moms will warm your heart and tickle your funny bone as several Idaho women and men recall words of advice they heard from their mothers. Proceeds from this book will benefit the Women's and Children's Allliance in Boise in celebration of 100 years of public service for women and men escaping domestic abuse and sexual assault. Quotes were compiled and edited by Patti Murphy.
Patti Murphy, an award-winning writer, is the author of more than 100 newspaper and magazine articles. Her feature story, "Memories of Minidoka," about Idaho's WWII Japanese internment camp, has received statewide and national awards. She owns Murphy Media Services, a public relations and freelance writing agency in Boise.
Purchase each book for $8.99 (plus Idaho sales tax) from the author.


text:
Enemy disadvantage means there's a person or group of people out to get you. One of the modifiers for this disadvantage is:
Unknown: You know you have an Enemy, but you have no idea who it is. Tell the GM the power level of your Enemy. He will create the Enemy in secret and give you no details whatsoever. The advantage of surprise increases your Enemy's effective power level, and hence its disadvantage value. -5 points
It seems pretty clear that the GM will determine the enemy's intent and frequency.
My question is, do the multipliers for intent & frequency affect the points I get from this disadvantage? My GM argues that it will take him a while to come up with the enemy, so I just treat it as a 1x multiplier for both intent & frequency, and he'll come up with intent & frequency later without applying them to the points I get. He points to the "give you no details whatsoever" part of the description.
I argue that character creation can wait a bit, and depending on the enemy I might end up deserving considerably more or less points than I would get for assuming a cumulative 1x multiplier. Even knowing the multiplier won't really tell me anything about the enemy: a low multiplier could represent an enemy with no real harmful intent but a very high appearance frequency, or it could represent a deadly foe who only shows up rarely.


text:
Select a topic or year
With a 48 hour timeframe, 55 Cornell business and computer science students worked as part of mock IBM Watson commercialization teams, each charged with selecting an industry and developing an application that could best use the IBM Watson system in a real-life business environment.
Since its historic victory on Jeopardy!, Watson has ushered in a new era of cognitive computing systems that can answer questions and then learn and become more accurate over time. Cognitive computing systems have the ability to arrive at optimal decisions by processing information in ways that mimic the human brain, and to understand natural language and all of its nuances. By culling through vast amounts of big data, this new class of analytical systems will help transform business decision-making by providing specific recommendations and actionable insights to complex issues, from healthcare to financial services.
Similar to the case competition hosted at The University of Rochester this past spring, the IBM/Cornell contest challenged students to submit proposals outlining how the Watson technology could be applied to solve complex challenges in professional fields including human resources, customer service and R&D. The 17 teams comprised a diverse range of skill sets, including students with backgrounds in marketing, computer science, engineering, economics and entrepreneurship, among other fields.
Three winning ideas were selected by a panel of judges comprised of faculty and IBM experts. Team evaluations were based on the ability of the students to clearly articulate the business case including market research, tactical planning and feasibility while exhibiting an understanding of how to harness data for strategic outcomes.
· First Place: Customer Service: Say Hello to Watson - Every day, consumers with urgent questions about their electronic devices, call, e-mail, post and chat with customer service representatives. The answers to their questions are often elusive and require long wait times with less than 50% of first calls being resolved. The first place team created a case for Watson to look at unstructured and structured information to help consumer electronics firms answer inquiries with greater accuracy and faster response times ultimately creating happy customers.
· Second Place: Watson Helps You Plan Your Next Beach Getaway Faster - Today's traveler has access to an overwhelming amount of information for planning business trips and vacations, including websites that aggregate flight and hotel rates, tourism sites packed with things to do, and millions of online reviews from fellow travelers. The second place team developed a system that would help travelers make better, faster decisions, using Watson's ability to analyze massive amounts of information and recommend the best options.
· Third Place: You're Hired! Big Data Helping HR - The Harvard Business Review points out that as much as 80% of employee turnover is due to bad hiring decisions, so with no margin of error for hiring quality candidates, businesses need a smarter approach to attracting skilled, experienced workers. The third place team developed an adaptive human capital management model that calls upon Watson's ability to quickly comb through data and make informed recommendations, to help businesses match open jobs with the best candidates.
"The competition was an excellent exercise in bringing together two very important worlds here at Cornell - the business student world and the technical student world. We connected and learned how to work together through this roll-up-your-sleeves case study format," said Evan Maclin, a Junior in the undergraduate business school at Cornell University. "One of the greatest takeaways was the brainstorming and research aspect, where we brought together use cases for Watson, because as we quickly learned, the possibilities are endless."
The Watson case competition supports Cornell's commitment to incorporating analytics and evidence-based reasoning across all areas of business ranging from marketing to economics and brand development to entrepreneurship. The initiative is part of IBM's ongoing collaboration with educational institutions to strengthen science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills.
"The Watson case competition provides a very unique way for students to bring forward some game-changing ideas while providing them with the opportunity to hone their skills in important areas such as analytics and cognitive computing," said Rhett L. Weiss, Executive Director, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute and Lecturer of Management, Cornell University. "Our goal is to inspire the next generation of business leaders to think differently about how technology can be used to transform business and redefine industries, and the work we did this past weekend with IBM was just that."
The case based approach may help shape how IBM applies cognitive computing capabilities to client challenges across a variety of industries in the future. IBM is already putting Watson to work in the health care and financial services
The IBM Watson academic case competitions are the latest example of how IBM is helping universities to prepare students in new areas of computing and business leadership. The Cornell effort is in keeping with IBM's Academic Initiative which delivers coursework, case studies and curricula to more than 6,000 universities and 30,000 faculty members worldwide to help students prepare for high-value job opportunities in the future. IBM worked closely with academic institutions during the development and introduction of Watson. Eight leading universities around the world participated in the development phase of the system; and more than 10,000 students watched Watson triumph on the Jeopardy! quiz show in February 2011. IBM has also recently completed the first-ever Watson internship program.
IBM Awards Universities for Developing Watson Based Curriculums
As part of today's news, IBM also announced the winners of its 2012 Watson Solutions Faculty Award Program where ten university professors from across the country will each receive $10,000 grants to implement Watson based curriculums that mix business and technical skills. The ten winning proposals include introductory-to-graduate level courses designed to apply cognitive computing technologies to solve challenges in such areas as healthcare and environmental sustainability.
The Watson faculty awards come are part of an ongoing effort to expand and strengthen student skills and understanding of cognitive systems like Watson, including big data and analytics, in order to meet the growing demand for highly skilled analytics workers. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there will be a 24 percent increase in demand for professionals with management analysis skills over the next 8 years. While the McKinsey Global Institute projects a need for approximately 190,000 more workers with analytics expertise and 1.5 million more data-savvy managers in the U.S.
"Recognizing that a practical understanding of analytics is key for 21st century jobs and firm competitive success, we continue to work hard to inspire universities and students around the country to engage in the many programs we have to offer such as case competitions and faculty awards," said Manoj Saxena, general manager, IBM Watson Solutions. "IBM is leading the way for a new generation of thinkers by helping these academic institutions expand curriculums that enhance kills in analytics and cognitive computing. Graduates will enter the workforce with a unique set of skills giving them an early advantage as the next era of cognitive computing and analytics continue to impact every facet of business."
Watson Faculty Award Winners
Raja Sooriamurthi, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) - An elective course in Information Systems that challenges interdisciplinary student teams to apply big data, analytics and IBM Watson's technology towards advancing environmental sustainability.
Andrew Rosenberg, City University of New York City (CUNY) - A new graduate course called Advanced Natural Language Processing introducing students to state-of-the-art NLP methods, while challenging them to present critiques and conduct practical experiments applying the techniques to problems.
Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame - An inter-disciplinary course through which students learn to apply technical concepts to health care problems, while local healthcare providers, health exchanges and researchers provide real world perspective.
Wullianallur Raghupathi, Fordham University –A new capstone course to be launched as part of the university's M.S. in Business Analytics Program, enabling group-based learning around specific industry/domain areas such as healthcare and finance, utilizing the Watson architecture/framework.
Heng Ji, University of New York City (CUNY) - A new course providing a knowledge foundation in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Computing, also providing skill development at the intersection of NLP and Machine Learning via cognitive computing.
Andrey Soares, Southern Illinois University –Carbondale - A new introductory course to help prepare healthcare and IT professionals to support the process of representing healthcare knowledge for use with cognitive systems.
Diego Klabjan, Northwestern University - As part of the emerging Master of Science in Analytics program, a new course focusing on big data analytics based on Hadoop, specifically devoted to Watson.
Girish Punj, University of Connecticut (UCONN) - A new experiential learning course through which students from a variety of academic disciplines work as a team on a semester-length project focusing on the potential business applications and capabilities of Watson.
Zsuzsanna Fluck, Michigan State University (MSU) - an interdisciplinary program introducing students from business, science, engineering and other fields to cutting-edge disruptive technologies, their business applications, and how new technologies can transform businesses, industries and lives.
Noushin Ashrafi, University of Massachusetts - Boston –Courses that incorporate the building blocks of the Watson framework, offered via the Information Architecture track within UMASS Boston's Information Technology undergraduate program.
IBM is working with more than 200 academic organizations around the world specifically in the area of analytics, big data and cognitive computing. Schools include universities such as Fordham, Yale School of Management, University of Rochester, Northwestern University, Michigan State University, University of Southern California Annenberg, DePaul University, University of West Scotland, Deakin University, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Xi'an Jiao Tong University, University of Ulster, IAE Aix-en-Provence, EDC business school in France, Ottawa University Telfer School of Management, among others.
For more information on IBM Watson, please visit www.ibmwatson.com.
For more information on IBM University programs please visit https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/university/academicinitiative/.
To join the social discussion about Watson include the hashtag #ibmwatson
Follow Watson on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ibmwatson.
Related resourcesSite links
Flickr Set: IBM Announces Student Winners of Watson Case Competition at Cornell University
|XML feeds
News about IBM solutions for K-12 and higher education
|IBM Analytics
News about IBM solutions that turn information into actionable insights.
|IBM Watson


text:
About PreschoolFirst
PreschoolFirst is a research-based, online assessment system designed to build program quality in a variety of settings. PreschoolFirst connects developmental progress with educational decision-making, using assessment information to offer play-based learning experiences - for children from birth through 66 months - appropriate to both class and individual child needs. PreschoolFirst's targeted reporting features provide teachers, families, and administrators with a common understanding of every child's progress, so that each can be actively involved in supporting that child's growth and development.


text:
Charlotte Police Search for Missing Elementary School Teacher
Elementary school teacher Bianca Tanner, 31, last seen by boyfriend on Sunday.
June 11, 2014 -- Authorities in Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Department are searching for 31-year-old Bianca Tanner, an elementary school teacher who vanished in Charlotte, N.C., on Sunday.
Family and friends called Tanner's disappearance out of character, Detective Faulkner of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department told ABC News.
"We have received several tips, though nothing that would provide any closure," Faulkner said.
Tanner taught second grade at the Fork Elementary School in Greensboro, N.C., school officials told ABC News.
Tanner was last spotted Sunday on Druid Circle in Charlotte by her boyfriend, who also lives in Charlotte, Faulkner said. Tanner's boyfriend reported her missing to authorities at 12:37 p.m. on the same day. His identity has not been released at this time.
Tanner recently moved from Greensboro to Charlotte, and may still have ties in the area, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said in a statement.
Tanner is described by authorities as 5-feet-3 inches tall, weighing 110 pounds, with brown hair and eyes. Police say she was last seen wearing a red tank top, black shorts and black flat shoes.
A woman identified as Raleta Chanel on her Instagram account, has jump started a social media campaign calling for the public to help shed light on Tanner's disappearance, and also asks people to pray and keep an eye out for the elementary school teacher.
When reached by ABC News via Instagram and Twitter today, she declined to comment, instead uploading comments that authorities advised her not communicate with the media nor "speak anything that may hinder" the investigation. Posts on Chanel's Instagram account claim that Tanner went for a walk on Sunday with her cellphone and debit card and hasn't been heard from since. The posts state she "is a mother and an educator who was working on her doctorate degree who would not abandon her child."
It was unclear what her relationship is with Tanner.
Detectives are now digging into Tanner's phone records to see if there are any clues that can lead to her whereabouts, police said.
Anyone who sees or has information about Tanner are urged to call Detective Faulkner at (704) 336-8970.


text:
Major progress in tackling child undernutrition in some of the world's toughest countries is under threat as military and security funding takes precedence, a new report from aid agency World Vision warns.
The number of children under five who die every year has decreased by half since 1990. Yet, World Vision's Fragile but not Helpless report (PDF) finds that this progress is under threat. Countries marred by conflict or fragility have some of the highest rates of acute and chronic undernutrition in the world.
In Africa alone it is on average 50 percent higher in fragile countries than in more stable ones.
"Striving for peace is vital but that shouldn't mean pooling all our resources into security and sidelining basic needs like nutrition. Undernutrition kills many more children than conflict, and we need to do a better job of getting the balance right between the security needs of fragile states and the nutrition needs of fragile infants in a tight fiscal environment. When the proposed increase in defense spending by both Congress and the Administration is about double the size of the total amount the U.S.
Government spends on international humanitarian assistance, the balance can be improved within existing resources, it just requires political will and focus," said Robert Zachritz, senior director of Government Relations and Advocacy at World Vision.
Though in many cases child undernutrition is well above acceptable thresholds, nearly two-thirds of fragile and conflict-affected states have not joined up to the global movement to tackle nutrition, known as Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN).
Undernutrition contributes to the deaths of more than two million children every year. Globally, 165 million children, or one in four of all children under five, are stunted due to undernutrition, chronically undernourished and at risk of long-lasting damage to their cognitive and physical development.
|Contact: Holly Frew
World Vision


text:
After the recent snowfall, I took my camera out for a walk to find evidence of wildlife around the Learning Campus. The first animal tracks I found were those of at least one coyote running across the snow.
The individual track was not a clear footprint, but it was the right general shape and size to be a coyote.
The tracks formed a few paths across the campus.
The tracks did not follow the paths that people walk, but tended to run closer to trees. This makes sense for an animal that is trying to stay hidden from other animals. I also found a spot where the coyote seemed to run up, do a little turnaround, and take off in another direction.
This isn't the clearest picture, but you can still see that the coyote came from the wooded area toward the front of the picture, then it turned around and sank its front paws in the snow where you see two clear side-by-side holes in the snow. It turned and ran to the right of the picture frame. You can imagine a spirted puppy running excitedly as it plays in the new snow, and leaving tracks like these.
I was hoping to find evidence of animals interacting. The closest thing I found was this set of rabbit tracks.
Here the rabbit hopped to the corner of the building, stopped, and then turned around and went back the way it came. Did it possilby see or smell the coyotes that were running around and decide to go back to hiding?
On my walk I found squirrel, bird, and mouse tracks. And then I found these strange marks in the snow.
What could these strange lines be? "It's elementary, Mr. Watson!" These "fingerprints" were left by elementary school students as they dragged their hands along the snow at the Learning Center this morning.
If you want to find animal tracks in the snow and figure out what stories they tell, here are some tips:
- Go out and look when the snow is fresh.
- Think about which animals you have actually seen around, and where you have seen them. Look there.
- Search around trees and shrubs, especially if there are places a small animal might crawl into for shelter.
- Be alert for sources of food; the snackers and nappers may be out looking for a meal, and they will leave their marks.
Good luck, and remember not to eat yellow snow.
©2013 Chicago Botanic Garden and my.chicagobotanic.org


text:
Chief | 03/12/10
A loved up couple cavort on a picturesque Pacific coast beach, a woman decked out in plaid rides her horse across a classic Western setting and American football players run up and down their high school fields. Nope this isn't a commercial for the United States tourist board, it's the video for Chief's new single, 'The Minute I Saw It', which is released on 13th December, from their debut album Modern Rituals.
Fear not if this all sounds a tad dull though because things are not as they may initially seem. It won't take long to pick up on the fact that something is indeed amiss in all this beautifully shot footage of a quintessential American life, which is interspersed with live action of the band jamming out in front of a young audience.
What this mysterious, subtly melancholic clip means is anyones guess, but perhaps half the enjoyment comes out of not knowing. What we do know for sure is that it compliments Chief's cosmic Cali sound just perfectly.


text:
Yo! Liverpool's urban explorers have been out and about finding the normally unseen parts of our urban environment. Have you got any pictures and reports to share?
For daily updates, to support us further or to join in the conversation: Follow us on Twitter @YOLiverpool / Like our Facebook Page: @yoliverpoolpics / Join the Facebook Group: YO! Liverpool Pictures


text:
To migrate the zone successfully, use the -u option to zoneadm attach.
Verify the system architecture on both systems.
host1# uname -a
If the architectures are different, use the -u option to zoneadm attach to perform the attach.
host2# zoneadm -z my-zone attach -u
For more information, see How to Migrate A Non-Global Zone.


text:
This is not an offer for credit and should be used for estimation purposes only based on the information you provided. You should not base your decision on this estimate alone. Title, registration, tax and other fees, and personal circumstances such as employment status and personal credit history, were not considered in the calculations.
Front - Two four-piston hydraulic calipers with 310 mm disks; ABS
Rear - Single one-piston hydraulic caliper with 256 mm disk; ABS
Front - 90 / 90-21
Rear - 150 / 70R-18
Standard position - 34.3 in.
Low position - 33.5 in.
Honda Selectable Torque Control
Throttle by wire
*Price, if shown, does not include government fees, taxes, dealer vehicle freight/preparation, dealer document preparation charges or any finance charges (if applicable). MSRP and/or final actual sales price will vary depending on options or accessories selected.
Honda Products
*Suggested Retail Price (SRP) excludes destination charge. Visit powersports.honda.com to view applicable destination charge amount.


text:
see the biggest brown bootys getting lubed & fucked @
like these free pix? get access to the hottest ebony ass movies on the web!!!
enter roundandbrown.com
get your reality kings pass today & get access to our entire network of 23 sites including roundandbrown.com for 1 low price!!!
get instant access here>>


text:
Polish climber dies on Mount Hood
A Polish military officer visiting the United States for training with a drone manufacturer fell about 1,000 feet to his death while recreationally climbing Oregon's Mount Hood, authorities said.
The body of 32-year-old Sebastian Kinasiewicz was spotted from the air Tuesday by a National Guard helicopter, ending a search that started a day earlier.
Sgt. Pete Hughes of the Hood River County sheriff's office said it was too dangerous to immediately recover the body because boulders were falling nearby. He could not provide an estimate for when it would be safe.
Kinasiewicz decided to climb Mount Hood because several members of a military unit from Poland did so last year and planted the country's flag.
"He wanted to go up there and see that. That was his reasoning behind wanting to climb," Hughes said. "And if it wasn't there, then he was going to plant another one."
Kinasiewicz arrived in the Pacific Northwest about a week ago for training at the Insitu company in Bingen, Wash. The company offered condolences in a statement, saying: "We are extremely sorry to learn of the passing of our colleague Warrant Officer Sebastian Kinasiewicz. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends during this difficult time."
According to its website, Insitu instructors have trained more than 2,000 drone operators and maintenance technicians from across the world.
Poland, an Insitu customer for several years, has plans to expand its use of unmanned aerial vehicles.
Kinasiewicz was married with at least one child, Hughes said. Websites in Polish say he was a warrant officer and had a background in photography. His work is displayed on a Facebook page dedicated to combat photography.
The novice climber used an off day to go up the mountain Sunday, and was reported missing by a roommate the next morning. Crews found his vehicle at a trailhead, but a daylong search of two routes that start at that point failed to find him.
Thousands of people climb the 11,239-foot peak each year, mostly in the spring. Summer climbing is more dangerous because warmer temperatures melt the ice and loosen rocks.
"If you're not a climber, you might not understand that," Hughes said. "You might think, `Oh, it's nice out. It's a good day to go climbing.'"
A snowboarder from Colorado died on the mountain earlier this month when an ice tunnel collapsed. In July, searchers found the body of a Salem, Ore., dentist who suffered a fatal fall during a solo climb.
The Polish climber's military unit has been in contact with Hood River County authorities, and his commanding officer is expected to arrive in Oregon on Friday.


text:
In deference to the way that every medium can be improved by being slow-simmered in Cranston, Bryan Cranston has been hired to host this year's Television Critics Association Awards, which is sort of like ice cream being asked to host the Fat Person Awards. Cranston joins a lineage of past TCA emcees that includes Conan O'Brien, Nick Offerman—and, according to the press release, anyway—other "luminaries" like Dax Shepard. The ceremony takes place on July 28; ironically, it is not televised, as no one who watches TV cares about what a bunch of TV critics like, obviously.
More from The A.V. Club


text:
Brooke says:
Start your own video chat session or join an open room? It's up to you. Meet other sexually like-minded adults to play with and see where things go.
Bare all or share as much or as little as you like. Video chat on Sex Play Cam is an experience like no other.


text:
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre would like to congratulate Parks Canada on its 100th anniversary, and for receiving the Gift to the Earth award from WWF.
The Gift to the Earth is WWF's highest accolade to applaud conservation work of outstanding merit. In recognizing a conservation action as a Gift to the Earth, WWF highlights both environmental leadership and inspiring conservation achievement which contributes to the protection of the living world.
The Gift to the Earth Award recognizes Parks Canada's conservation leadership, and its globally outstanding track record in creating new protected areas and in embracing precedent-setting Aboriginal participation, targeting terrestrial, marine and freshwater realms, and reintroducing endangered species.
When the Government of Canada ratified the World Heritage Convention in 1976, it designated Parks Canada as the State Party Representative for leading implementation of the Convention in the country. There are fifteen Canadian sites on the World Heritage List, ten of which are wholly or partially managed by Parks Canada.
For more information about Parks Canada: http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/index.aspx
For more information about the Gift to the Earth award: http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/how_we_work/gifts_to_the_earth/