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Starbucks may repurchase up to 25 million additional shares of its common stock.
The Seattle-based coffee company said that its board approved the plans in addition to the 12.1 million shares still available under a prior authorisation.
The company has an estimated 749.3 million shares outstanding.
Starbucks says the plan reflects its strong cash flow and commitment to return value to shareholders.
The move comes a day after Starbucks announced the acquisition of Teavana, which sells loose leaf teas, for 620 million US dollars.
Companies reward investors when the repurchase shares by increasing the value of remaining shares. The company's per-share earnings also get a boost as results are divided among fewer shares.
Shares of Starbucks fell 41 cents to 48.43 US dollars.

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I have been teaching for nine years. I taught in Virginia so most of the packets I make are aligned with Virginia SOL's. However, they could be used elsewhere.
I enjoy making the standards fun. Making these packets allow me to be creative. I like to incorporate hands on activities, written as well as visual stimulation.
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Dinner Tonight: Savory Mint Lamb Chops Recipe
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Can this really be the first time I've cooked lamb loin chops? It turns out they are awfully cute—something of a T-bone fit for Barbie. Impressively succulent and tender, the lamb loin chops were also relatively lean. At around four ounces, they are also the perfect portion size. You can devour one and still feel light on your feet.
I had an abundance of mint one night and lamb was the first thing that came to mind (well, right after a mojito). But I settled on this recipe from Bon Appetit because of the other ingredients in the rub. The cumin and coriander,in particular, haunt each bite. It all comes together so quickly.
Just mix everything up, rub it on the lamb, wait for 30 minutes, then cook. The lamb comes out perfectly crusted, fragrant, and still medium-rare in the middle. About the only thing I added was a little frisée for plating, because that little cut of meat can look awfully lonely in the middle of a plate. Some potatoes would also help keep the lamb company.
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- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons fresh mint, chopped, plus extra to garnish
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 4 1-inch thick lamb loin chops (about 4 to 5 ounces each)
- Extra mint for garnish
- Frisée (optional)
Pour olive oil into bowl. Whisk in the chopped mint, garlic, salt, cumin, coriander, cayenne, and black pepper. Smear the mixture on both sides of the lamb loin chops. Set aside for 30 minutes or so.
Preheat the broiler to high. Place the lamb loin chops underneath and cook for about 4 minutes per side, until they are browned. Remove and set atop some frisee (optional). Garnish with additional mint. Serve.
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NSP mini tuttle fin boxes are around 9cm long x 1.8 cm high x 1.3cm wide
If somebody has the blueprints+ dimensions, pls post here.
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The Mini-Tuttle foilboard struts plug can be casted in one of the mini tuttle boxes as described bellow.
Here is my favorite link from Reystos.about Tuttle box.
(From the legendary http://www.geocities.ws/reystos/ and his SW for designing kites - some 12 years ago)
Although I cannot guarantee the results of this method, you can use a finbox to cast the base. This applies to Powerbox and Tuttle (+Deep Tuttle) fins. Trimbox fins can't be cast in their box as the box doesn't have the fin's shape. Make sure your finbox is waxed well and the screw holes are sealed with plasticine before casting with thickened resin or epoxy putty. You will also have to figure out a way to keep your fin vertical in respect to the level of the finbox. Another detail you will need to figure out is how to place the screw nuts in position, since casting with the screws in place is no easy task.
Fin designer still available here: http://www.geocities.ws/reystos/fin_designer/index.html
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For our 100 or 110 mm chords, the 160mm box will clearly be over dimensionned.
3G composites (Ketos by Orana) have developped their own box based on morse cone sections around 5 degrees (versus 6 for the tuttle box wall).
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NZ judge orders compensation for 29 mining deaths
A bankrupt New Zealand coal company was ordered Friday to pay the families of 29 miners killed in a 2010 methane explosion, though they may receive just a fraction of the compensation.
A judge ruled the miners' families and two survivors of the explosion should get 110,000 New Zealand dollars ($86,000) individually, an amount in doubt because Pike River Coal went into bankruptcy soon after the explosion.
The company was convicted in April of nine health and safety violations. A government investigation found it had ignored 21 warnings that methane gas had accumulated to explosive levels in the South Island mine.
Judge Jane Farish slammed the company's actions in her ruling. In addition to ordering compensation, she also fined the company NZ$760,000.
Government lawyers had asked for compensation of between NZ$60,000 and NZ$125,000 for each of the miners.
Opposition Green Party lawmaker Kevin Hague said the government should make up any shortfall. "It is a travesty of justice that the Pike River families could end up with as little as $5,000 in compensation when they are legally entitled to much more," Hague said in a statement.
Prime Minister John Key's office issued a statement Friday saying it was too early to speculate on any government payments given that some aspects of the case are still before the courts.
Former chief executive Peter Whittall faces 12 charges in a case yet to be heard.
The victims' bodies are still entombed in the Pike River mine because the methane gas buildup that caused the explosion has made a recovery operation too risky.


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Roza Kay Rozay – Last Episode – 26th June 2017
The depiction of family issues that revolve around a newly wed couple roza and ramis, who are returning back from
america to a family bonded by strong relations of love and association. this marriage is out of knowledge of the family and the objective of both is to disclose this fact. roza is influenced by western brought-up and is trying to fast for the first time. hence the drama narrates her experience and their journey that leads towards the disclosure of the
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OTTAWA - "I have no idea what it'll do."
John Duncan's frank, if less than illuminating, assessment of the impact on aboriginal protests of Friday's hard-won negotiating skirmish may have been the most honest assessment of the day.
The aboriginal affairs minister was one of three full cabinet ministers who flanked Prime Minister Stephen Harper for more than four hours of politically fraught talks with some of the leadership of the Assembly of First Nations.
The talks essentially led to agreement for more talks — which in the constipated world of First Nations' advancement in this country was portrayed as success, if not exactly a breakthrough.
"The prime minister agreed with the need to provide enhanced oversight from the Prime Minister's Office and the Privy Council Office," Duncan told a hastily arranged news conference on Parliament Hill.
"And the prime minister agreed to debrief the members of his cabinet and government on today's discussions and agreed to meet with the national chief in the coming weeks to review next steps."
Canadians can be forgiven if they feel they've seen this movie before.
Almost exactly a year ago, what was billed as an "historic" meeting between Ottawa and First Nations ended with a joint statement ... promising more talks.
"We cannot undo the mistakes of the past, but we can learn from them and affirm that they will not be repeated," said the statement issued at end of a day-long meeting last Jan. 24.
"As partners in the Crown-First Nations gathering, we will maintain the relationship through an ongoing dialogue that outlines clear goals and measures of progress and success."
By October, however, the promised dialogue was so frustrating the First Nations leadership that Shawn Atleo, the accommodating national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, wrote a series of heated letters to the prime minister and his aboriginal affairs minister to complain of a "loss of momentum."
"This is exacerbated by the federal government's broader legislative agenda, which has the potential for harmful impacts on First Nations, including changes to environmental regulation, fisheries and criminal justice," Atleo wrote Harper in a letter obtained by The Canadian Press.
Those same issues have since helped fuel the grassroots fire that is the Idle No More protest movement.
At the time, Atleo complained to Duncan that talks with officials from Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada were going nowhere.
"First Nations leadership have keenly engaged in good faith to begin a dialogue only to be met by AANDC officials indicating that they have no mandate to even enter into discussions,'' he wrote the minister in October.
By that measure, Friday's talks — although boycotted by chiefs from Ontario, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories — moved the goalposts, in the words of former national chief Matthew Coon Come.
Having the PMO and PCO, the nerve centres of any federal government, promising to actively oversee native files should clear the cobwebs of bureaucratic inertia and impotence.
Duncan, pressed on the meaning of the promised "high-level dialogue" that Friday's talks delivered, responded that PMO and PCO attention would assist "those sticky items which are identified which could use some direction from the centre."
In other words, the squeaky wheel gets the grease — a fitting aphorism given all the drama that preceded Friday's sit-down, which included street protests, hunger strikes and boycotts.
Ian Brodie, Harper's former chief of staff, noted earlier this week that any chiefs contemplating a boycott were misguided.
"I offer this as advice to anyone who thinks you accomplish more by not meeting the PM than by meeting him," Brodie wrote on Twitter.
"You don't."
Critics will say its a piece of advice that should work both ways for the prime minister.
"It shouldn't even be a big deal," Bob Rae, the interim Liberal leader, observed of the meeting just before the talks began Friday.
"It should be a regular occurrence, it shouldn't be something that causes headlines ... It is truly preposterous in our country at this point that we're allowing things to get this stage of confrontation where just the most fundamental premises of civility are not able to be observed."
Atleo emerged from the meeting wounded by internal divisions in the native movement and, like the aboriginal affairs minister, unwilling to predict an end to native protests.
"The voices of our people, they will not be silenced," Atleo said in an interview, adding First Nations will be demanding that promises are followed through.
"I believe that sense of urgency was heard by the prime minister."


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Date Night: Le Bateau Ivre
Spots for every kind of date.
Named for a poem by Arthur Rimbaud, Le Bateau Ivre is a French wine bar in Midtown. It offers more than 250 types of wine, many arrayed around the burgundy- and dijon-colored, leather- and brass-decorated room. It does not offer any interpretation of the poem, in which a boat speaks about what it has seen on the water, or the life of the poet, which included being shot in the wrist by his lover Paul Verlaine, hard living in Paris and London, and composing some of the great works of symbolism, all before the age of 20. But you can't have everything.
We all know that French women don't get fat, but what about French school kids? The brie and miel tartine ($9.50), which we ordered as an appetizer, would make a fine after-school snack. Thanks to the tiny open kitchen, we watched the chef's preparations, memorizing each step so we could attempt it at home: two slices of country bread go into the broiler, then get drizzled with honey and topped with chunky rectangles of brie. Back into the broiler they go, and then out they come, transformed into excellent iterations of sweet creaminess. Enough of these, and we'd certainly start to pop our waistbands. Worth it.
The pâté de campagne ($12) had the look and feel of potted meat. Made on site, the pâté came with cornichons, bread, and mustard. We weren't wild about the consistency (denser than Une Saison en Enfer), but the nutty, tangy flavor made amends.
American bars have nachos and potato skins; French bistros have croque-monsieurs. The open-face croque vegetarian ($9.50) lightened the classic by swapping ham for eggplant and zucchini. The layer of béchamel covered in cheese—here, emmental cheese gone to gooeyness—remained. A fine sandwich, although a few slices of tomatoes would have been most welcome. If you're going to commit what some might call sacrilege, you might as well go all out.
The poulet roti ($22) could have fed a family of five. As it was, it easily fed our family of three, we two plus the cat at home. We prefer our roast chicken a little on the dry side, so this version worked well for us, but many will want an extra splash or two of the rosemary jus. Unlike the veggie sandwich, this dish offers no new takes, no attempts to put a unique stamp on roast chicken. Innovation is a good thing, but so is familiar done more than fine.
From 6-6:30 pm, Le Bateau Ivre offers a wine tasting. Everyone, from server to chef to maître d' to, of course, those at the short bar and in the dining room, stands around a table as a sommelier gives a brief lecture—a friendly gathering of folks coming together to learn about fermentation. The restaurant itself is open from 8 am to 4 am.
Cynics will say there's no romance in midtown, unless you count the relationship between people and money, but late at night this place offers its own charms, especially if some of those wines sampled earlier have been given time to breath and be imbibed. It's best for: a lyrical date.
Le Bateau Ivre
230 East 51st Street, New York NY 10022 (map)
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Women in Ohio kidnap case thankful for support
Three women who police say were held captive in a Cleveland home for roughly a decade have issued a video thanking the public for the encouragement and financial support that is allowing them to restart their lives.
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Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight broke their public silence in the video posted Monday night on YouTube. None of the women had any visible scars from abuse they say Ariel Castro inflicted on them. Castro has pleaded not guilty to a 329 count indictment in the case.
Knight says she is building a brand new life, adding that she is, "strong enough to walk through hell with a smile" on her face.
DeJesus' parents also expressed thanks for donations to a fund set up to help the women, who went missing separately between 2002 and 2004 -- when they were 14, 16, and 20 years old.


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This will significantly enhance the crisis response and coordination activities of Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency (FDMA): the AS365 N3 helicopter. Delivered by Eurocopter Japan, this is the world's first helicopter equipped with the Helicopter Satellite Communication System - a high-speed, real-time data transmission system, using Earth-orbiting relay satellites.
The HSA transmits data without being disturbed by the helicopter's moving rotor blades. It furthermore allows for perfect transmission even when mountains or tall buildings hamper line-of-site broadcasts, or when ground-based networks are interrupted.
The Eurocopter AS365 N3, equipped with HSA, will presumably be operational in early April of this year. Then it will support the organization's services in dispatching and coordinating rescue team responses to disaster situations.
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Best birthday eva! (I know it seems like I pick the complete opposite to you BD butt I'm changing my name to Moonrise Dude after the film I saw last night....; )RoyalDude wrote:Do any of you realize that Shane 'bible belt' Doan will turn 36 on October 10th? Must be careful here, could be another version of past their prime, geriatrics Messier, Sundin playing in Vancouver.
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Super Replay – Cyberia 2: Resurrection
I don't know how it happened, but here we are again. Cyberia is the worst game that I've ever beaten (watch our Super Replay to see for yourself), and somehow the Replay crew has cornered me into playing its god awful sequel. How did that ever get greenlit? I didn't even want to write this post describing how anyone who enjoyed laughing at/along with us during the original Cyberia Super Replay is going to want to tune in. Does it play better? Is it shorter? Is the dastardly "Mike" lurking in the shadows? There's only one way to find out, and that's to dive into Cyberia 2 alongside us.
Cyberia 2: Resurrection released for the PC in 1995, which means the primary controls are mouse and keyboard. This is a most welcome change of pace from the original, which we played 90 percent of with a PlayStation controller. Using the d-pad to play Cyberia's fast-paced, terribly designed shooter sections made some sections nearly impossible. But does using a mouse and keyboard out of the gate in Cyberia 2 make it a cakewalk by comparison? Strap in for what's sure to be an excruciating experience with Dan Ryckert, Jeff Cork, Andrew Reiner, and myself to find out. A very special guest joins us for the first episode: long-time GI community member Zachary Pligge (PliggeTheFallen). Zach was in town to graciously help with our Extra Life 2013 marathon and we invited him on to help kick things off.
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Of all the vaccination questions I receive, the most common one is from folks questioning whether or not to vaccinate their dogs for Leptospirosis. And I am so pleased they are asking- I love when people recognize that simply handing their dog over for "the works" in response to a vaccination reminder card (or these days, perhaps an email reminder) simply doesn't make sense.
Unlike canine distemper and parvovirus- infectious bad guys that are ubiquitous in the environment and against which all dogs should receive vaccine protection- not all dogs come into contact with Leptospirosis. Exposure is truly dependent on where you and your dog live and his or her extracurricular activities- in medical jargon this is referred to as "biolifestyle". Leptospirosis organisms are bacteria that thrive in warmer, wetter climates. Wild animals (particularly deer and rodents) and some domesticated animals (cows, sheep, pigs) can be Leptospirosis carriers. Although infected, they manage to maintain good health while shedding Leptospirosis organisms in their urine. Dogs can develop the disease by coming into contact with the infected urine or urine contaminated soil, water, food, or bedding. So, if your dog's biolifestyle includes roaming on rural property or drinking from creeks, streams, lakes, or rivers the potential for exposure to Leptospirosis is far greater than if your pup is a couch potato and your yard is devoid of trespassing wildlife.
Not all dogs become sick when exposed to Leptospirosis, but for those that do, the results can be devastating. Symptoms associated with kidney failure (lethargy, vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite) are most common. The liver and lungs are also targets for this disease. Your veterinarian will suspect Leptospirosis based on the history your provide, abnormal kidney and/or liver enzymes on blood testing, and specific blood and/or urine testing for Leptospirosis.
Successful treatment ideally consists of aggressive round the clock intravenous fluids and antibiotics. If the kidneys become so inflamed that urine production diminishes, temporary dialysis may be recommended. Infected dogs should be housed in an isolation ward to protect other hospitalized patients and personnel are advised to wear protective garb (gloves, gown, goggles) as Leptospirosis is considered a zoonotic disease (humans can become infected via contact with infected urine). Yes, such therapy is expensive- far more costly than the price of a vaccination- and in spite of everyone's best efforts, some dogs do succumb to Leptospirosis.
The Leptospirosis vaccine provides adequate protection for one year and, in theory, the risk of adverse reactions is no different than reported with other vaccinations. However, some vets feel strongly that the Lepto vaccine is more likely to produce transient "post-vaccine blues" than are other vaccinations.
Is the Leptospirosis vaccination appropriate for your dog? Talk to your vet to find out whether or not the disease has been reported in your neck of the woods. Next consider your doggie's biolifestyle. Does your pup live in a pristinely kept environment or does he go camping and hiking with you? If your pup lives in an environment with no standing water or exposure to wildlife, the risks of vaccinating clearly outweigh the benefits. If you and your best buddy love to hike and camp together, vaccinating may be a no-brainer. As I routinely advise whenever discussing vaccines: Administration of vaccinations is no different than any other medical procedure- they should not be administered without individualized discussion and consideration of the potential risks and benefits.
Have you considered vaccinating your dog for Leptospirosis? If so, whereabouts do you live and how did you (will you) decide whether to say "yea or nay" to the vaccine?
Best wishes for good health,
Nancy Kay, DVM
Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine
Author of Speaking for Spot: Be the Advocate Your Dog Needs to Live a Happy, Healthy, Longer Life
Recipient, Leo K. Bustad Companion Animal Veterinarian of the Year Award
Recipient, American Animal Hospital Association Animal Welfare and Humane Ethics Award
Recipient, Dog Writers Association of America Award for Best Blog
Recipient, Eukanuba Canine Health Award
Recipient, AKC Club Publication Excellence Award
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Please visit http://www.speakingforspot.com to read excerpts from Speaking for Spot. There you will also find "Advocacy Aids"- helpful health forms you can download and use for your own dog, and a collection of published articles on advocating for your pet's health. Speaking for Spot is available at Amazon.com, local bookstores, and your favorite online book seller.


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Secret - Transfer Your Stuff to a New Character
Since the update, you can no longer use a certain duplication glitch. However, you can create a second Gamertag, use a second controller to make a new character appear in your main file (Just press START), and then GIFT all your weapons, clothes, money to the new character. Now, use that character to gift all that stuff to your brand new one. It will take a while, but you get to pass on your leveled-up weapons (Except Hero Sword/Hammer/Rifle/Pistol )and all those Legendary weapons you might have not gotten this time around.
Easter Egg - The East Hare Egg
In Millfields, below the graveyard, you will find some graves. Read the first three on the left: Walter Coen, Stabbed in broad daylight. Jeffrey Coen, Burned at sunrise. Theodore Coen, Shot in the dead of night. There are statues hold spyglasses around Millfields. Go out of that little grave area and you should see a statue standing ahead of you. If you read it, it says: Theodore Coen. Wait until midnight than keep shooting the statue, it should glow for a second and you should hear the sound of someone dying. Now head to the gazebo in the middle of the lake and look down the bridge that leads to it. You should see the Jeffrey Coen statue. Equip the fire spell, wait until morning then keep shooting it at him. He should glow and make the sound of dying. For this last one, go to the Demon Door and you should see another statue. This one is Walter Coen. Wait until noon and keep hitting him with your sword. He will do the little glow and sound of death thing, then you will see the pull right trigger prompt. Pull it to see that an egg appeared in the gazebo! Pick it up to see that it is the "East Hare Egg". (The East Hare Egg does nothing, gives you nothing and will not appear in your sanctuary. It is just for a little fun.)
Unlockable - Infinite Gold
To get as much Gold as you need, simply purchase some land and upgrade it to 100% and then save and exit the game. Go to your Xbox settings and set the date forward as far as you can (e.g. 1/1/9999). Start the game again and save. Remember to save if you wish to keep repeating this -- if you don't save, you won't save the money you've earned (since you get money over time).
Secret - How to shoot enemies easy!
Most in-world creatures will only pursue you so far - move away from them till they stop. Shoot them with Ranged weapon and they won't come after you - may not work with ARENA, or Main quest events - Great way to upgrade ranged weapons. Stay out of their attack range, snipe them easy!
Secret - How to shoot enemies easy!
Most in-world creatures will only pursue you so far - move away from them till they stop. Shoot them with Ranged weapon and they won't come after you - may not work with ARENA, or Main quest events - Great way to upgrade ranged weapons. Stay out of their attack range, snipe them easy!
Code - Treasure chest find
go to your sanctuary and go to the map then got to millfields and fast travel to the demon door when you get there take left and then the next left walk down that road to find a hidden chest the prize is for to to find out
Unlockable - Big Blue Box Crate
Any time after you witness Reaver's cruelty outside of his main factory you'll have access to it's entrance. Directly to the left as you enter is a pile of boxes with a small opening around the side. Head around to the back of it and you'll find a small crate with the Big Blue Box logo (a development studio) on the sides of it.
Unlockable - Fable 2 Gargoyle Reference
In Bowerstone Market, go under the main bridge to find a Dive Spot (where you found the Gargoyles Trove in Fable 2). Diving there will reveal a Royal Left Leg Tattoo and you'll hear a familiar laughter, as if there was a Gargoyle there from Fable 2.
Unlockable - Portal's Companion Cube
Once you've become King/Queen, you get a royal quest where you have to go meet Page down in the old resistance HQ to go track down the local crime lord. Inside his hideout there is a door in a hallway that has a bunch of cells. Around some crates, there is a cell that has a Hobbe worshiping a wooden version of the beloved Constant Companion Cube.
Secret - The Special Gold Key and Chest in the Sanctuary
Once you are the Ruler of Albion, enter the treasure room in The Sanctuary (your pause menu) and look up and you should be able to spot a Gold Key. To reach it, you'll need to make some 5,000,000 Gold. The Scrooge McDuck-like pile will lift you to the key. One way to do this is to buy shops early and often to start turning a profit. High-priced shops turn higher profits. You can get a cool million from the Sunset House Demon Door as well. A special chest to match this key lies at the very bottom of your Gold hoard. To reach it once you have the key, transfer ALL of your funds to the Albion Treasury. This will take 5 transactions of 1 million Gold. Now, return to the Sanctuary and open the chest for a Legendary Weapon.
Easter Egg - Tribute to The Legend of Zelda
In the graveyard in Milifields there will be a tombstone that reads "It's dangerous to go out alone. Take this". Your dog will bark and start digging right in front of the grave. Your prize? A powerful "Toy Sword".
Easter Egg - Portal Tribute
During the Hideout mission of bowerstone when going to capture Nigel Ferret. You will come across a room with a silver key. At the far end of the room there is a path around the boxes to the other jail cell. In the cell is a hobbe worshiping the companion cube from portal and on the table next to the cell is a cake.
Unlockable - Gold Key Door Locations
Gold Keys can be used to open Gold Key Doors. These doors, scattered throughout Albion, each require one amount of Gold Key to open. Treasure can be found on the other side. Collecting all Silver and Gold Keys will also land you the I Am The Keymaster Achievement. Any key can be used for any door, so choose wisely! A special fifth Gold Key can be found in the Sanctuary, scroll to the bottom of the page to learn about this super-secret key and its special chest.
Unlockable - Avatar Awards
Glitch - Duplicate anything
There's a quick, easy glitch that allows you to dupe gold or anything else. You just need a 2nd controller with a 2nd character logged into your game. Then use player 1 to "gift" player 2 whatever you want to dupe, then leave player 1's sanctuary. Have player 2 go into his sanctuary and find the gift. Now have him reject the gift to send it back to player 1. Immediately have player 2 leave his sanctuary then immediately drop him from the game. Now player 1 has a rejected gift in his sanctuary and player 2 will not be saved, meaning when you reload him, he will also have a gift the game didn't save as being rejected. Dupe! You can dupe up to 100k gold at a time using this.
Unlockable - Demon Doors
Unlockable - Gold Key Locations
Unlockable - Achievements List
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Unlockable - Zelda Reference
At Mourningwood Cemetery, as you enter the cemetary form the fort, check the left side. In the front row, walk to the final grave stone. It reads "It's dangerous to go alone. Take this." Dig here to find a toy sword. this is similar to the beginning of The Legend of Zelda, where the old man gives you your first sword.
Unlockable - Easy Gold
1. Have the Controller 1 load the game.
Easter Egg - Lionhead Logo
If you swim out into the ocean in the Driftwood area, once you hit the boarder where you can't swim out any further if you tilt your camera to look down into the water there is a Lionhead Studios logo on the sea floor.
Unlockable - Tattoo Dye
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Kia gains maximum five stars.
The Kia Picanto is the first sub-$19,000 car to score a maximum five stars in the latest Australasian New Car Assessment Programme (ANCAP) safety tests.
The latest Ancap ratings, just released in New Zealand, place Kia's smallest car as a leader in its class, in terms of occupant protection in the event of a crash.
The result also puts the New Zealand Picanto ahead of the same vehicle sold in Europe, where the car has garnered a four-star rating - the higher score is due to the additional safety equipment that is standard for all variants in this market.
"A five-star safety rating for small cars is very difficult to achieve, particularly in the tough Ancap and Europe Ncap systems, but this result proves beyond a doubt that the Kia Picanto is a leader in its class and buyers should feel very reassured," says Todd McDonald, Kia NZ's general manager.
The Ancap five-star rating was awarded based on crash tests in Europe, as the Picanto is not available in Australia, where testing is usually carried out for local vehicles, even though it has been on sale on this side of the Tasman since June last year. And while the test car in Europe was a left-hand-drive model with a slightly smaller engine, information provided to Ancap showed our Picanto to have a comparable safety structure.
The Ancap test report noted that all New Zealand Kia Picanto models feature dual front airbags, side airbags and head-protecting side curtains as standard, with antilock brakes (ABS), electronic brakeforce distribution (EBD) and electronic stability control (ESC).
A driver knee airbag is standard on the EX variant but was not deemed necessary for the five-star rating. Intelligent seatbelt reminders are fitted to all seats, as well as active front-seat headrests.
In developing the new Picanto, Kia Motors aimed to make the bodyshell stronger to better withstand frontal, offset and side collisions. This included greater use of high-tensile steel and more reinforcing, which included increased protection in the doors.
Together with the airbags, those measures have been very effective in protecting occupants, as demonstrated by Ancap scoring the Picanto 15.12 points out of 16 in the offset crash test, where it commented that the passenger compartment held its shape well and there was only "slight risk of serious injury" to the driver.
In the side impact, the Picanto similarly impressed, with a score 14.14 points out of 16 and slight risk of serious injury. And it earned maximum points for the pole impact test, with the head-protecting side airbags doing their job well.
Kia has even gone to great lengths to try to avoid third-party collisions by including a system called Emergency Stop Signal (ESS), which detects sharp deceleration in emergency braking conditions and flashes the brake lights three times to warn other drivers the car is braking sharply, giving following motorists more time to react to a potentially hazardous situation.
The Kia Picanto model range starts at $18,590 for the 1.25-litre manual, which also includes the fuel-saving Idle Stop n' Go (ISG) technology.


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When can we write about something else than Trump being unhinged?
Ethicist and lawyer Jack Marshall's blog.
Last month: Terry Tao's blog
My photo blog is here. +++ Links to all the several dozen articles I cross-posted to Daily Kos with comments are here.
|Ethics Alarms
Weds, August 17, 2016
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2,200 shrinks diagnosing Trump: The Goldwater rule goes mainstream (in the New York Times):
"The Psychiatric Question: Is It Fair to Analyze Donald Trump From Afar?"
Count me among the mental health professionals (as a retired clinical social worker and mental health center director who was licensed to diagnose and treat patients) who disagrees with the Goldwater Rule under special circumstances. These exceptions occur when a candidate offers ample evidence that he has one or more psychiatric diagnoses that make him or her unfit or even dangerous to be president.
Now, while Republican physicians are speculating about Hillary Clinton's physical fitness to be president while Trump himself has started not only saying she is (mentally) unhinged, but that she looks like she had a stroke, and has trouble walking up a flight of stairs unaided, and needs to sleep between brief speeches.
Obviously the physicians that speculated on this have scant evidence to go on. Physical diagnosis requires an examination and often tests. Psychiatric diagnosis is usual accomplished with a face-to-face interview or two, and infrequently psychological tests like the Rorschach and MMPI.
However, because Trump has been unscripted in so many of his rallies and demonstrated a wide variety of symptoms of disorders that make him temperamentally unfit to be president. Even if we don't count his lack of empathy (a characteristic of narcissistic personality disorder), there's his pathological lying (pseudologia fantastic) and fantastic confabulation and his impulsiveness. Add to this that his narcissism makes him highly unlikely to heed advice that challenges his beliefs.
While not showing enough symptoms to make a likely diagnosis of paranoid personality disorder he does seem to believe a lot of conspiracy theories. Also not a true anti-social personality (aka sociopath) he seems to relish being a bully and his NPD lack of empathy is also a characteristic of this with anti-social personality.
If Trump was somehow persuaded to undergo a psychiatric examination knowing the results would be public he'd be guarded and I'd wager figure out that he'd better not let his unhinged stream of conscious and word salad speech take over. I wouldn't be surprised if he took some Xanax prior to his interview. In fact, if I was his campaign advisor I'd suggest he do so.
Here's an excerpt from the New York Times article:
The 2016 Republican nominee's incendiary, stream-of-consciousness pronouncements have strained that agreement to the breaking point, exposing divisions in the field over whether such restraint is appropriate today.
Psychiatrists and psychologists have publicly flouted the Goldwater Rule, tagging Mr. Trump with an assortment of personality problems, including grandiosity, a lack of empathy, and "malignant narcissism." The clinical insults are flying so thick that earlier this month, the psychiatric association posted a reminder that breaking the Goldwater Rule "is irresponsible, potentially stigmatizing, and definitely unethical."
Putting a psychiatric label on a candidate they oppose can be a "seemingly irresistible tool for some in the field," said Dr. Paul Appelbaum, a professor of psychiatry, medicine and law at Columbia University who disapproves of the practice. "This year, perhaps more than most, they're persuaded they're saving the nation from a terrible fate."A group of professional mental health therapists have a website, citizentherapists.com , with a manifesto which over 2,000 therapists have signed:
A Public Manifesto
Citizen Therapists Against Trumpism
As psychotherapists practicing in the United States, we are alarmed by the rise of the ideology of Trumpism, which we see as a threat to the well-being of the people we care for and to American democracy itself. We cannot remain silent as we witness the rise of an American form of fascism. We can leverage this time of crisis to deepen our commitment to American democracy.
What is Trumpism?
Trumpism is an ideology, not an individual, and it may well endure and grow after the Presidential election even if Donald Trump is defeated. (Variants can be seen all over Europe.) Trumpism is a set of ideas about public life and a set of public practices characterized by:
- Scapegoating and banishing groups of people who are seen as threats, including immigrants and religious minorities.
- Degrading, ridiculing, and demeaning rivals and critics.
- Fostering a cult of the Strong Man who:
- Appeals to fear and anger
- Promises to solve our problems if we just trust in him
- Reinvents history and has little concern for truth
- Never apologizes or admits mistakes of consequence
- Sees no need for rational persuasion
- Subordinates women while claiming to idealize them
- Disdains public institutions like the courts when they are not subservient
- Champions national power over international law and respect for other nations
- Incites and excuses public violence by supporters
At the political level, Trumpism is an emerging form of American fascism, a point being made by social critics across the political spectrum, including Robert Reich, Robert Kagan, and Andrew Sullivan. As journalist Adam Gopnik points out, whether or not the term "fascism" fully fits, it's clear that the American republic faces a clear and present danger when the candidate of a major political party embraces an anti-democratic ideology. At the cultural level, the Urban Dictionary has defined Trumpism as "the belief system that encourages pretentious, narcissistic behavior as a way to achieve money, fame, and power."
What are the Effects of Trumpism?
- Fear and alienation among scapegoated groups, beginning with Latino immigrants and Muslims, and then other groups who become identified as threats
- Exaggerated masculinity as a cultural ideal, with particular influence on young people and economically insecure men
- Coarsening of public life by personal attacks on those who disagree
- Erosion of the American democratic tradition which has emphasized the agency of we-the-people instead of the Strong Man tradition of power
Where Did Trumpism Come From?
This question is bigger than Donald Trump. The next public figure to capture the wave of Trumpism may be less clownish and have a better set of movement-building skills, and thus be even more dangerous. Following is a partial list of forces that underlie Trumpism:
- Economic insecurity, particularly among working-class Americans
- The threat of terrorism since 9/11
- Fear of immigrants (related to economic insecurity and threats of terrorism)
- Distrust for government and politicians at a time of polarized gridlock
- Growing distrust for other institutions such as religion, the press, and the courts
- Rapid cultural change that has left many people confused and alienated
Why Therapists Must Speak Out
We must speak out for the well-being of people we treat and care for in our work. Trumpism will undermine the emotional health of those seen as the "other" in America—both historically denigrated groups and those whose turn will come. And it will compromise the integrity of those who are seduced by the illusion that real Americans can only become winners if others become losers. The public rhetoric of Trumpism normalizes what therapists work against in our work: the tendency to blame others in our lives for our personal fears and insecurities and then battle these others instead of taking the healthier but more difficult path of self-awareness and self-responsibility. It also normalizes a kind of hyper-masculinity that is antithetical to the examined life and healthy relationships that psychotherapy helps people achieve. Simply stated, Trumpism is inconsistent with emotionally healthy living—and we have to say so publicly.
We must speak out for the well-being of our democracy, which is both a way of living and acting together and a set of political institutions. Therapists have taken for granted how our work relies on a democratic tradition that gives people a sense of personal agency to create new narratives and take personal and collective responsibility for themselves, their families, and their communities. Reliance on a Strong Man who will solve our problems and deal with internal and external enemies is a direct threat to the democratic basis of psychotherapy. Therapy only flourishes on democratic soil.
Why speak collectively? Our responses thus far have been primarily personal—and too often confined to arm-chair diagnoses of Donald Trump. But a collective crisis faces our nation, a harkening back to the economic depression and demoralization of the 1930s (which fed European fascism) and the upheaval over Jim Crow and Black civil rights in the 1950s. Fortunately, the resolution of these crises led to a deepening of American democracy, not the abandonment of it. Martin Luther King, influenced by his mentor Bayard Rustin and by theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, didn't just critique unjust systems from the outside. He called for strategic, collective work to take back an American democracy that belongs to all the people. As therapists, we have been entrusted by society with collective responsibility in the arena of mental, behavioral, and relational health. When there is a public threat to our domain of responsibility we must speak out together, not just to protest but to deepen our commitment to a just society and a democratic way of life. This means being citizen therapists who are concerned with community well-being as much as personal well-being, since the two are inextricably joined.
Where We Stand as Citizen Therapists
We understand the draw of Trumpism and we acknowledge that some of our fellow citizens, and some of our clients, may vote for Donald Trump not because they embrace all aspects of Trumpism but because they are frustrated with their circumstances and fed up with the current political system. We are against Trumpism and its architects, not against those who are inclined to give it a chance to change the direction of the country.
But we reject the false equivalence of saying that because there is dishonesty and demagoguery on all political sides, why not support someone from the outside? Trumpism is qualitatively different. To repeat: Trumpism undermines the core of American democracy by promoting the idea of a single leader who will bring greatness to the nation by battling Those People. Democracy requires personal and collective agency so that we can work together across differences to solve problems and develop a shared way of life. Psychotherapists must be firmly on the side of democracy and work in solidarity with groups directly threatened by current and future versions of Trumpism. This work will not end with the election in November 2016. The wake-up call has been received. Our first response is this manifesto. More to follow.
Therefore, as citizen therapists we stand united against the dangerous ideology of Trumpism, and we encourage others to join us in a deepened commitment to a democratic way of life that engages the talents, yearnings, and capacities of all the people.
Here's another excerpt from the New York Times article:
Dr. Steven Buser, a psychiatrist who with his colleague, Dr. Leonard Cruz, coedited a new book, "A Clear and Present Danger: Narcissism in the Era of Donald Trump," stressed, "We are careful not to make a clinical diagnosis here, to say that Donald Trump has narcissistic personality disorder." The contributing writers include psychiatrists and psychologists, but Dr. Buser said, "We are focused on the image he projects, on TV, in tweets, in quotes."
Dr. Appelbaum ( a professor of psychiatry, medicine and law at Columbia University who disapproves of diagnosing politicians) calls this distinction a convenient splitting of hairs. "It takes a skilled therapist months, sometimes longer, seeing a person regularly and asking probing questions to make a determination of whether a disorder is present," Dr. Appelbaum said.
My previous and controversial articles about Trump's likely diagnoses, all published on Daily Kos, which combined I call Trump derangement syndrome:
Tuesday, April 16, 2016
Just a thought: Trump wants extreme vetting for VISA applicants. How about requiring extreme vetting for presidential candidates? Start with requiring they release their income tax returns. A Rorschach Test and MMPI should also be required.
|Not fit enough to fight World War II?
In what was billed as a major foreign-policy address in Ohio, Donald Trump suggested—as he has in the past—that Hillary Clinton is somehow secretly ill. This time though, he said Clinton lacks the "mental and physical stamina" to take on ISIS, a declaration that comes just a week after conspiracy theories bubbled to the surface once again saying that the Democratic presidential nominee has some terminal ailment. Daily Beast
Monday, August 15, 2016
A rare gift to the electorate from Donald Trump
Simply put, Donald Trump has demonstrated his dark side more that any other candidate in this election and possibly in history. The only candidates in my memory that come close are George Wallace and Pat Buchanan. Add to this that we have seen so many examples of his bullying and mean and/or threatening reactions to slights that even without making a psychiatric diagnosis we can make judgments about his temperament.
Trump believes in himself with such conviction that he sees no need to heed advice from those who want him to win that he has to "act" presidential. Give Trump credit for refusing to act a role that would be dishonest.
As an evil Popeye, he proudly lives by the credo "I yam what I yam." And that is good for us!
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Three Districts Test Model Common-Core Unit for ELLs
Seventh and 8th grade English-learners in selected urban schools will soon dive into some of the most celebrated speeches in U.S. history. They'll dissect, for example, Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream," and Robert F. Kennedy's "On the Death of Martin Luther King."
Though their English-language skills are still developing, the students will read the original texts, not watered-down versions.
This brand-new English/language arts unit on the use of persuasion was designed to show how reading complex, informational texts and writing arguments—a key requirement in the new common-core standards—can be used with English-learners to deepen their learning of content and concepts as well as language.
Called "Persuasion Across Time and Space," the five-lesson unit is the first major classroom resource produced by the Understanding Language team, a group of English-language-learner experts led by Kenji Hakuta, an education professor at Stanford University, to help educators grasp the central role of language in the rigorous Common Core State Standards and to give teachers resources for providing higher levels of instruction and demanding content to ELL students.
The efforts are underwritten by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (Carnegie and Gates help support coverage of business and innovation in Education Week.)
The unit—to be piloted in the coming weeks in classrooms in Charlotte, N.C.; Chicago; and Denver—is meant for middle school students with at least an intermediate level of English-language proficiency. It's designed for 7th and 8th grade classes with a mix of native speakers and English-learners, or just ELLs. A small number of teachers in New York City and Oakland, Calif., tested the unit with English-learners in summer school last year.
'A Potent Lesson'
"This is a good, potent lesson that can be scaffolded in diverse degrees of intensity, depending on the level of support needed for the English-learner," said Aída Walqui, a member of the Understanding Language team and a main author of the unit. "This unit shows students what they are capable of intellectually, and that they can deepen their conceptual [skills], academic skills, and their communication skills at the same time."
Ms. Walqui, the director of teacher professional development for WestEd, a San Francisco-based research group, said targeting the team's first common-core instructional unit to middle school made sense because both elementary and high school teachers "can see themselves" in how a unit like this could work in their classrooms.
More importantly, Ms. Walqui said, the middle school years are a critical transition period for ELLs. "It's in this period that the types of texts really start to perceptibly shift" to more complex readings, she said. The team designed a unit around persuasion, in part, to counter misconceptions that persuasive writing appeals only to the emotions, Ms. Walqui said.
"Persuasion begins with an argument that appeals first to intellect," she said. "For students who are beginning to grapple with issues of justice in the world, persuasion would be the perfect anchor for them as they start to see an actual role for themselves in society."
Students will be exposed to divergent perspectives. They will read "The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham and Hoax," a speech delivered in 1964 by Alabama Gov. George Wallace, and a speech on race relations written and delivered by Barbara Jordan, the late congresswoman from Houston.
George Bunch, an education professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who advised Ms. Walqui and her co-authors in their efforts, said teaching the unit requires fundamental instructional shifts for ELL teachers. One critical one, he said, is that the unit has an "explicit focus on language" at the same time students are engaged with complex texts.
Broken into five lessons, the unit's texts and multimedia materials start with familiar content—television advertising—and move into less familiar works, such as the Barbara Jordan speech. Each lesson includes activities to draw students into the material. It outlines levels of supports teachers may use to bridge linguistic, cultural, and historical gaps for students who are learning English.
Central to the unit is the second lesson, which features Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. It starts with interactive activities, such as discussions of photos from the era, to build students' background knowledge about Lincoln, the Civil War, and the battle fought at Gettysburg, Pa., before they read the 267-word speech."The power of that lesson is that it gives students a fighting chance to understand the speech without taking away their opportunity to engage with the text through close reading," said Mr. Bunch.
In the fifth and final lesson, students view a 1992 speech written and delivered to the United Nations by Severn Suzuki, an 11-year-old Canadian girl. It's meant to inspire them to write and deliver their own persuasive texts, Ms. Walqui said.
Susan Pimentel, a lead author of the English/language arts common standards—which 46 states have adopted—and a member of the Understanding Language team, said the persuasion unit is especially strong in its "range and quality of text." During a webinar on the unit last month, she called it a "model in what the common core means" by selecting text that is connected by purpose and topic.
Charlotte, Chicago, and Denver were named as pilot sites, in part, because they are in different parts of the country and serve a broad cross section of ELL students, said Martha Castellón, the teams' executive director.
The team will provide professional development to teachers, and then monitor implementation and collect feedback to hone the lessons. The results will inform forthcoming efforts to develop instructional resources in math and science, as well as in English/language arts, for use by educators nationwide.
Vol. 32, Issue 17, Pages 1, 15Published in Print: January 16, 2013, as Model Common-Core Unit Piloted for ELL Teachers
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Week of 12/26/11 - 1/1/12
* Portland Development Commission
* Amalia Alarcon de Morris, Director of the Office of Neighborhood Involvement
* Tresa Horney, Oregon League of Conservation Voters
* Jack Graham, Chief Administrative Officer
* Kathleen Saadat, Diversity Manager, Bureau of Human Resources
* Commissioner Saltzman
* Barbara Walker, constituent et al, World Arts Foundation
* Lisa Turley, Director of the Bureau of Emergency Communications
City Council is cancelled this week. Monday is a City Holiday. Happy New Year!
Dinner with family all week - yay!


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An emerging house feature we've noticed on homify is the blank brick wall façade. It's a look that may divide opinion, however, no matter if you like it or not, few can deny that the look of the blank brick wall is something unique. So why are people choosing to go for this design feature on their new homes? Firstly, there's something pure about the appearance of brickwork. Not to mention they can be used as an effective means of emphasising a homes shape, form, and architectural style. Lastly, some people genuinely like the appearance.
From the street-view, despite its appearance, the home still manages to fit comfortably amongst its more traditional neighbours. Perhaps, this is due to the fact that both neighbouring homes utilise bricks as their main material choice. In isolation, the new homes minimalist design is undeniably sophisticated. The blank brick wall is devoid of any detailing resulting in a greater appreciation for the homes symmetry.
From this perspective we can greater appreciate lipton plant architects design. Take note of the position of the window of the nearest side. This window was made possible by the building being set-back by a certain distance away from the neighbouring properties border. By working the angle effectively, internally the home can receive light from an angle that would normally not be permissible if the home design followed conventional design.
As with the exterior of the residence, the living spaces were designed to keep a focus upon clean symmetrical looks. Shades of light tones are prominent, while an introduction of bolder shapes have been made through the built features such as the working surface and staircase at the rear. At this stage the living room has been kept open to create the feeling of space.
Joining the two levels of the home is a fascinating custom-built staircase. Its twisting and folding form combines the look of natural timber for the barriers and pure white paint of the steps.
Half way up the stairs you will find a landing. It's only a small space, but as you can see in the photograph, it's a perfect space to sit with a book in hand and to make use of the natural light from the tall window.
Overall it's a home that certainly doesn't conform to the standard design processes. If homes such as this one interest you, then perhaps click the link below to see another home that pushes the boundaries of home design.


text: Today I was driving down (well actually up) a one-way street in front of Bangor's City Hall when a woman in a large van was driving down the one way street . . . I rolled down my window and politely informed her that she was driving the wrong way down a one-way street to which she replied (and I kid you not), "My Tom Tom says to go this way" . . . to which I glibly replied, "Well I'm JJ and JJ says not to go this way." :D