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My papaw-kitty, 14 year-old Atticus is not well. Over the past six months he's been losing weight and though his bloodwork looked okay at that time, he's gotten skinnier. The pic is of him before he started to lose weight.
So I took him back and he's in renal failure and has a heart murmur...and has liver problems. I didn't expect to hear any of that and left with two meds, special kidney diet food, IV fluids and a bag of needles to do sub-cutaneous fluids daily.
I really hate poking him on a daily basis. I get through it, but I think it traumatizes me more than it does him. He does seems to feel a little better with the fluids, though. I really hate to lose my Atticus-man. He's a really special, kind of spunky/cranky kind of cat that steals your heart. I don't know how much longer I'll have him, but I'll try to enjoy the time we do have.
I'm going to try to post a little more often...it's a crazy time for me. I have four cell phones between my personal, internship and work equipment...every day is a battle against getting confused as to whether I'm coming or going.
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As mr_mischief has already pointed out, Perl scripts are first compiled to an internal form, ensuring syntax errors are caught at compile time rather than run time ... and considerably speeding up script execution at run time.
To give a specific example of where shell can be slow, consider the common task of running an external command recursively on all files under a given directory. In shell, you could use the find command with its -exec option, but that results in a new process being created for every file. I've measured cases traversing thousands of files where such an approach proved to be hundreds of times slower than using Perl's File::Find module in harness with a Perl function performing the work of the external command. The performance difference is especially noticeable when the external command doesn't do much work. Of course, the way to solve this performance problem in shell is to use find in harness with xargs, but there are portability pitfalls for the unwary, namely when the filenames might contain spaces or other unusual characters -- as indicated in this response to a gnat use.perl.org journal entry.
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I will be phasing this blog at the end of December, 2011.
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Speaking at an event hosted by SugarCRM and IBM Social Business this week, I informally polled the audience.
"How many of you are NOT on facebook?" No hands were raised.
"How many of you have a twitter account?" Most of the room raised their hands.
"LinkedIn?" Most of the room again raised their hands.
I repeated the same questions, referencing the people in the room's businesses, and a slightly smaller number of folks raised their hands, but more than half still did.
I then asked – "How many of you know what to do with them?" Giggles. Laughter. Very few hands.
This is where we collectively find ourselves. It's representative of a number of organizations that I have the opportunity to work with and speak to.
I didn't even think of asking if any organizations in the room had created a tactical plan to listen and engage with customers and create a seamless (and amazing) experience across multiple channels and domains. Most companies are still trying to get the fundamentals right (as Filiberto Selvas pointed out here)
It's easy to join a social network. It's harder to engage. What should I say? What will they think? Do I have permission?
It's even harder to engage with a coordinated strategy and accurately measure the results of your efforts. Blend activities on the social web with what's happening in the rest of the organization…across departments…across silos?
If we're not even on the same page internally, how can we communicate a unified message to the world that hasn't been careful crafted by our marketing team and the agencies that they work with?
My anecdotal observation is that many companies get here and then acknowledge that it's just too big of a challenge to tackle…at least for now.
"If you've got to start somewhere, why not here? If you got to start sometime, why not now?" – Toby Mac
New landscape.
New customer.
New roles.
New communication mediums.
New expectations.
New corporate culture.
New Focus.
New Critical Success Factors.
It's quite a bit to digest when people are trying to keep their jobs and help keep the company profitable, when they've already just absorbed the jobs of 1-2 people who were laid off over the past few years. However, only focusing simply on the here and now is the path to extinction.
Those who understand how these new changes are affecting their marketplace (which in most cases is larger, more complicated, and more diverse than it was just a few years ago) will be hyper-rewarded. Those who fail to admit, understand, and adjust to these rapidly evolving new realities will be destroyed, or more likely die a long, slow, painful death.
Below are a few highlights from the presentation.
While there's no notes or audio to the full deck, I've provided it below. Hopefully it provides value, and helps to stimulate some interesting conversations on the social web and for you in your respective organization(s). Interestingly, Mike Fauscette touched on many of the same themes in his blog post "Customer Service – the new Marketing in the era of the Social Customer". It's definitely worth a read.
One other final fascinating tidbit from the event was that I met and had a good chat with a Director of Marketing from a Silicon Valley startup. I meet and talk with plenty of Directors of Marketing. What was interesting about this one was that she said that she was actually a social anthropologist. My ears perked up. Seems like someone is paying attention. While the roles of social anthropologist and Director of Marketing may seem to be world's apart, they're not. Here's a link to an article I wrote highlighting why it might be the perfect fit.
It's fun to be part of the greatest transformation since the industrial revolution? Are you in?


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PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Researchers operating NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, after three months of living on "Mars time," have switched to more regular hours, the space agency says.
The Curiosity team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has been working on a schedule based on martian day, called sols, which are about 40 minutes longer than Earth days.
That's meant the start time of their work day has been moving a few hours later each week, often resulting in the team working overnight hours on Pacific Time.
Starting this week, most of the team's work will be fixed on a schedule of 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. PST, a JPL release said Tuesday.
"People are glad to be going off Mars time," said Richard Cook, JPL project manager for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project.
"The team has been successful in getting the duration of the daily planning process from more than 16 hours, during the initial weeks after landing, down to 12 hours. We've been getting better at operations."
A simultaneous change this week begins more dispersed operations for the scientists on the rover team, with hundreds of scientists who have worked at JPL headquarters returning to their home institutions, where they will participate in operations through teleconferences and Web connections.
"The phase that we're completing, working together at one location, has been incredibly valuable for team-building and getting to know each other under the pressure of daily timelines," said Mars Science Laboratory Deputy Project Scientist Joy Crisp. "We have reached the point where we can continue working together well without needing to have people living away from their homes."


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My first attempt at time-lapse. This is a personal research project exploring how best to capture and manipulate time-lapse photography.
Location was the lake district in England in March so plenty of snow dotted around, but quite unpredictable conditions with some pretty fierce winds, changing colours/temperatures and lighting. Some of the locations included, Buttermere, Coniston, Ullswater, Keswick, Castle Rigg, Ennerdale and more, but not all shots made this edit!
Filmed with a DSLR Canon 60D and multiple lenses over 4 days in multiple locations. The basic technique employed was to shoot 1 frame every 5 seconds for around 20-30 minutes, this was captured at over 5k resolution to provide flexibility in the edit.
Edited in Final Cut Pro, the graphics were added in After effects along with some tracking, and colour correction. The graphical overlays represent the topography of hills and some of the hikes.
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Body found on shoreline near I-435, Missouri River
Remote location made it difficult for investigators to reach site
A man's body was found on the shoreline of the Missouri River near Interstate 435 Thursday morning.
A fisherman called Kansas City, Kan., police after making the discovery along the north shoreline about 10 a.m.
Police described the area as being near the Platte County line between Parkville and Waldron, about two miles west of Interstate 435.
"Seeing it from the air is one thing, but getting to it on foot, through some brush and trees and that sort of thing in the field, they're gonna spend some time just getting out there on foot," said Sgt. Jerin Almond of the Platte County Sheriff's Office.
Crews brought in all-terrain vehicles to make the trek to the site. They said they couldn't remove the body until they have checked the scene for evidence and taken plenty of photographs.
KMBC's Peggy Breit reported that investigators were not sure who the person was, how he got to the site or how he died.


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Lithograph by de Lemercier after de Sainson, of a house supported on carved wooden posts in human form. Illustration from 'Voyage de decouvertes de 'l'Astrolabe': execute par ordre du roi, pendant les annees 1826-1827-1828-1829' by French navigator Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), published in Paris in 1833. The book, (in English, 'Voyage of discovery of the 'Astrolabe': undertaken by order of the king, during the years 1826-1829'), is an account of a scientific expedition to the Pacific. Illustration from the atlas section of the book.
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In May of 2005 Cream returned to London's "Royal Albert Hall" - to the same stage where they had completed what was thought to be their final performance in 1968. It was one of the most eagerly anticipated, hard-to-get tickets in rock history. With the exception of a brief reunion set at their 1993 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cream had not played together in nearly four decades. This 2-disc DVD documents Cream's momentous London shows. Performances from each of the four nights are featured and much more. Also included are alternate performances and interviews with Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, and Eric Clapton. Cream formed in 1966 and disbanded in 1968. The band were a prolific and thrilling live act and toured incessantly in their short but remarkable history.
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VICTORIA — When Shui Lee arrived in Kelowna for his first day of school, it didn't take long before he experienced the kind of racism toward Chinese-Canadians that haunts British Columbia's history.
"The first day when I go to school, someone got a rock and smashed my forehead and said, 'Go home, go back where you come from," Lee said. "And he spit on my face."
It was 1969, and a 12-year-old Lee, who had just arrived from Mainland China, saw first-hand the discrimination that his great-great-grandfather had seen when he'd arrived in B.C. in 1914 to help build the Canadian Pacific Railroad.
Lee took his story and his great-great-grandfather's $500 head tax certificate
to the legislature Thursday
to hear British Columbia's
official apology for discrimination and racism toward Chinese-Canadians.
He met Premier Christy Clark, told her about his family, began to cry, and was embraced.
"On behalf of the Province of British Columbia, on behalf of the entire legislative assembly, we sincerely apologize for the provincial government's historical wrongs, " Clark said in the house.
"We are sorry for the discrimination legislation and racist policies enacted by past governments. We will ensure that this never happens again."
B.C.'s long-awaited apology covers more than 100 discriminatory laws and policies enacted by the province since it entered into Confederation in 1871. The federal government formally apologized for the head tax in 2006.
Thursday's formal apology recognized that Chinese people in B.C. were in the past denied basic human rights such as the right to vote, hold public office and own property. They were also subjected to imposed labour, education and employment restrictions, and as well as health and housing segregation.
"These blatant acts of discrimination are shameful," said Clark. "They are a stain on our history."
The apology came with a promise to boost public education campaigns, historical sites and "legacy initiatives" to celebrate the place of Chinese-Canadians in B.C.'s history. But it did not include individual compensation for the descendants of those who paid the head tax.
For Lee, now 58 and the chairman of the Kelowna branch of the Chinese Freemason Club, the money wasn't necessary.
"I lost my dignity and respect," said Lee. "I (felt) so ashamed of myself. But today, finally, thank you B.C. government to apologize to all the people who work in the CP Railway and the head tax. When I walk out this door today, I feel so proud and I can put my head up and tell everybody I'm proud to be Canadian and proud to be Chinese."
Opposition NDP leader John Horgan also apologized for the "drastic actions" taken by MLAs in the province's history to suppress Chinese people.
The apology helped provide closure for Victor Wong, 88, a third-generation Canadian who volunteered to fight overseas in the Second World War for a country that wouldn't even allow him to vote.
"We had town hall meetings saying why should we fight for a country that doesn't recognize us?" said Wong, who was born in Victoria. "But 99 per cent of the Chinese that were called, volunteered for overseas operations."
The hope was that they would fight and, if they survived, return to B.C. with enough influence to win their rights.
"That's exactly what happened," said Wong, now president of the Chinese-Canadian Veterans Association of Victoria.
Thursday's provincial apology was a long time coming, said Wong, whose grandfather paid the head tax when he arrived in B.C. in 1886.
"I don't think any of the veterans wanted the money," said Wong. "To us Chinese, we just say apology is fair enough. And it gives us closure. At least it's a history that's settled."
1872: British Columbia's Qualification and Registration of Voters Act "disqualifies" Chinese people from voting in provincial elections.
1885: Chinese Act is introduced to "restrict and regulate Chinese immigration.'' Head tax of $50 imposed on every Chinese person entering the country.
1900: Head tax doubled to $100.
1903: Head tax rises to $500 per person.
1910: $200 required as landing tax for Asian immigrants. For Chinese immigrants, this was over and above the $500 head tax.
1923: Immigration Act, also known as the Chinese Exclusion Act, passes in Parliament, effectively barring Chinese from Canada.
July 1, 1923: Canadian Chinese Exclusion Act takes effect; it is known as "humiliation day."
1947: Chinese Exclusion Act repealed. Chinese-Canadians permitted to vote and hold professional occupations.
1967: Final elements of the Chinese Exclusion Act are completely eliminated.
1984: MP Margaret Mitchell (Vancouver East) raises issue of compensation for the head tax in the House of Commons. Chinese Canadians rally to demand redress, and more than 4,000 payers, widows and their families sign up with the Chinese Canadian National Council.
1994: The federal government rejects a call for redress on Chinese head tax.
2000: CCNC backs a class-action suit against the federal government, arguing the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act contravenes the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
2004: A United Nations representative recommends that Canada strongly consider paying reparations for the Chinese Head Tax.
2005: Outgoing Prime Minister Paul Martin acknowledges head tax was racist, but offers no apology or compensation.
2006: Stephen Harper offers an apology for the head tax imposed on Chinese immigrants and includes $20,000 in compensation for families or surviving people who paid the tax.
2014: The province of British Columbia formally apologizes to Chinese Canadians for historical wrongs and racism dating back to Confederation. The apology covers more than 100 pieces of discriminatory legislation passed by the B.C. legislature in the 1800s and 1900s.


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This is a fairly broad request for references. I've tried a few hours of googling, but the usual process of chasing names and references doesn't seem to be converging on any must-read books or obviously state-of-the art articles/surveys, and I was hoping an expert around here might point me in the right direction.
Are there any good/state-of-the-art references for invariance principles (also called functional limit theorems and possibly other names) which relate to convergence to stable (but not Gaussian) processes? I'm particularly interested in papers that provide some grounding relative to the 'standard' $\alpha = 2$ case, such as when something like the Skorohod embedding theorem can hold (I have seen it for $\alpha > 1$, but am not sure what happens below there), or how methods change in the 'nicest' categories, such as iid variables, martingale difference arrays, strongly mixing stationary processes, etc. At the moment, I care most about the asymmetric, $\alpha \leq 1$ case but would be grateful for any reading suggestions.


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Outdoor Advanced Camp 4 (ages 10-15) participants perform activities similar to Outdoor Adventure Camp, but are encouraged to achieve goals in each activity consistent with their age group.
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Soccer Camp is an excellent way for children to improve their skills in "the beautiful game," especially with the guidance of OliverSoccer instructors. Each morning participants work on skills such as shooting, dribbling, and passing, while playing various games designed to improve foot-eye coordination in a fun atmosphere. All campers receive a t-shirt and soccer ball, which they bring to camp with them each day.
Tennis Camp
Tennis Camp teaches and refines basic tennis form and techniques including forehand, backhand, volley, serving and footwork. With the help of USTA instructors children enjoy games in the USTA's 10 and under format to improve their skills and earn the title of "Court Champion!" All campers receive a camp t-shirt as well as a camp themed visor to keep the sun out of the eyes of our future tennis masters!
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Theatre Camp introduces campers to theatre with fundamental acting techniques and methods. Stage fright be gone; camper thespians find their voice! With the help of the Young Actors Guild, campers learn acting techniques, theatre terminology, and explore character creation through fun and games. The camp culminates on Friday with an original showcase performance. All campers receive a camp t-shirt as well as sunglasses to keep the Sun out of the actors' eyes while on stage!
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At Camp Wilson, campers engage in a variety of games and activities while getting to know Wilson Park. From kickball to volleyball, tennis to four square, swimming to a dance-off; Camp Wilson has it all! Campers bring their swimsuit, a towel, and tennis shoes to camp each day. Each camper receives a camp t-shirt and a themed drawstring backpack perfect for daily camp needs.
Inclement weather notification is sent by text no later than 8 am each day of camp. Go to www.fayetteville-ar.gov/recweather to view our inclement weather policy as well as find instructions on how to sign up for text notifications. Updates are also posted on social media including Facebook (Fayetteville Parks and Recreation), Twitter (@fayparksandrec), and Instagram (@fayettevilleparksandrec).
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At the intersection of a good read and good intentions stood one obstacle: the "F-word."
The controversy started with a parent's simple request that a Delaware school district examine one of the book choices for the rising freshman class' summer reading list. A critically acclaimed young adult novel may not sound like cause for concern, but after some examination, the Cape Henlopen Board of Education decided the language was too strong for 13 to 14 year olds.
The district then voted in June to remove the book "The Miseducation of Cameron Post," by Emily M. Danforth, from the summer reading list.
The book is a coming of age story about Cameron Post, who loses her parents in a car crash at a young age, before realizing she is gay. Her conservative Aunt Ruth and old-fashioned grandmother act as her guardians. When they learn about her sexuality, they send her to a religious conversion camp in an effort to "cure" her.
The book has been celebrated in published reports in outlets like NPR, The Los Angeles Times, and Entertainment Weekly. It has been named to five best books lists and won the 2012 Montana Book Award and the 2012 Afterellen.com Visibility Award for Best Book.
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Danforth's debut novel was also a 2013 Blue Hen Book Award Nominee. Though not the winner, its status as one of the 5 nominees qualified it for the list of summer reading books for rising freshman in Cape Henlopen School district. There were ten books in all, including five nominees from 2013 and 2014.
But Danforth's novel was the only one challenged and removed from the list.
Three days before a board meeting in June, parents challenged the book. An email was sent to the board asking members to read the book. Sargeant Spencer Brittingham, president of the board, said he found more than 100 instances of expletives in the book, which is almost 500 pages long.
For him, it was unacceptable.
"We don't allow profanity in our schools. It is against our code of conduct and there is discipline for those actions," Brittingham said. "I thought it would be appropriate to not have it in our books as well."
A discussion about policy allowing parents to challenge materials was being held when board member Sandi Minard, who had obtained the book from a library, read aloud some pages from the book.
In those pages the "F-word" was used several times. The author of the book acknowledged the explicit language, but said it shouldn't overshadow the story itself.
"There certainly is profanity," Danforth said. "[But] it would be very surprising to me [if] after you read my book your only reaction was to focus on the profanity."
Danforth was made aware of the board's decision by a local fan who had read her book, and then tweeted at the author. She is aware there were objections made to passages from her book, but has not been told which passages specifically.
"You can't reduce a 500 page novel to a few passages from that novel," Danforth said.
The vote to remove the book from the summer reading list took place that night, which Board of Education Vice President Dr. Roni Posner says goes against policy.
"It was an illegal process to begin with," Posner said. "We should never have been taking that vote in the first place."
The policy gives a committee 20 school days to make a decision, but board member Jennifer Burton said it doesn't apply.
"If we had waited and complied with the policy," Burton said, "then we would have had children reading the book prior to the board's decision."
"In this particular instance, we thought time was of the essence," Burton said.
The vote to remove the book was 6-1. Posner was the only board member to vote against the motion to remove the book from the summer reading list.
"It's really a stunner to me that we did that," Posner said.
Brittingham and Burton, however, believe they made the right decision.
"I'm not ready to gear our school towards profanity," Brittingham said. "If I had to do it again, I would do the same vote."
"We did not ban the book, we did not take it from the library," Burton said. "If parents want their children to read it, that's great, but we don't need it to be a part of our materials."
The board acted in what they believe is the best interest of the students. Danforth disagrees.
She said she has heard from readers, who told her "it would have been such a comfort to me and a learning experience to me and would have made me feel a sense of community if I had this book in high school."
Groups like Afterellen.com and the National Coalition Against Censorship have also spoken out in support of the book.
Afterellen.com posted a story about the ban on their site and sent the board of education an email criticizing their choice. They invited their readers to do the same.
The Coalition also reported the school board's decision as well as a response from the Kids' Right to Read Project warning the school board they could be liable for infringing the First Amendment rights of students.
Danforth is thankful of the support.
"I think it shows you how many readers have been passionately affected by this book."


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Among Grade A office buildings located in Seoul's three major business districts, 76.3% were identified as leasable assets, a 2.2%pt increase from the previous year. The disposal of properties by several owner-occupiers resulted in more office buildings being made available for lease.
The ongoing trend for landlords to convert lower office floors to retail space led to an increase in the proportion of retail space in Grade A office buildings to 13.7%, representing growth of 0.4%pt y-o-y.
Co-working operators occupy a total of 1.2% of space in Grade A&B office buildings in Seoul. Their main presence is in the GBD, where they account for 2.3% of total leased space, followed by 0.8% and 0.5% in the CBD and YBD, respectively.
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LEGO BATMAN 2: DC SUPER HEROES begins in suitably spectacular style, as wealthy playboy Bruce Wayne turns up at Gotham City's glitzy Man of the Year Awards with a couple of gorgeous starlets in tow.
Wayne is a favourite to win the award and the crowd outside the theatre loves him – much to the chagrin of his rival, Lex Luthor, a billionaire businessman from the city of Metropolis. But if both men think that the night's big struggle will be over a mere award, they've got a surprise in store – because behind the scenes, a bunch of Gotham's baddest, brashest villains are preparing to cause chaos.
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Controls are easy to get to grips with and combat is neat and intuitive – as well as enjoyably high impact. And while there's no blood and gore here, it's sweet to watch defeated enemies explode in a shower of lifeless LEGO bricks. You can switch between playable characters with the tap of a button – invaluable when you need to use a certain character's powers to overcome an obstacle – and every so often the pace slows while you solve a physics-based puzzle or hunt for the correct route to take.
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Michael Schumacher's 250 MPH Le Mans race car may be turning 20 this year, but you can still see it on well-endowed public roads. Only now it's a street car.
In the spring of 2006, I sat down for an interview with Horacio Pagani, founder of the eponymous Modenese hypercar shop and designer of the delightfully garish 25th Anniversary Countach. Talk at one point turned to Pagani's sources for inspiration:
My Zonda was inspired by race cars, not road cars! Mainly from the late Eighties. From back when race cars were still quite elegant and romantic, and not designed through aerodynamics like they are now. There have been other sources of inspiration outside of cars, like Patek Philippe watches, Riva speedboats and fighter jets. All these components have combined to make the Zonda as it stands today.
Although he didn't refer specifially to Group C cars during our conversation, he has mentioned them in other interviews. Four years later, his comment got me thinking as I was researching my piece on the Mercedes–Benz C11, which happens to be the only official Group C car from the manufacturer who supplies the V12 engines for the Zonda. Even though the C11 is very much a car of aerodynamics, the resemblance is uncanny, most evident from a lateral view of blueprints.
Two decades after the C11 reigned supreme on the race tracks of Europe, America and Japan, the crazier iterations of the Zonda are right on par with it in horsepower if not in top speed.
If your driving needs do not call for top speeds of 250 MPH and you can live with a big V12 instead of a smaller turbocharged V8, the Zonda might be the better option to pursue. Getting your hands on a C11 would require nothing less than a raid on Mercedes–Benz's factory museum:
A feat perhaps more expensive to execute than the $1-2 million you'll have to come up with to drive off in a Zonda.
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KALAMAZOO—Gifts to Western Michigan University during the 2012-13 fiscal year surpassed $64 million, as private donors supported the University at record levels, the WMU Board of Trustees learned at its July 18 meeting.
During the last fiscal year, which ended June 30, nearly 22,000 private donors chose to support WMU with $64,871,813 in cash gifts and pledges. The 21,944 private donors who made gifts last year included 10,996 alumni, 629 corporations and 84 foundations, as well as 10,169 private individuals and 66 other organizations. The year-end gift figures were reported as part of a series of reports trustees received at their formal public meeting.
Gifts to every part of the University, including its new School of Medicine, were reflected in the figures. And with nearly 75,000 individual gifts recorded, many donors made multiple gifts.
"There's not a corner of the University that has not been made stronger and more vibrant by the generosity of our donors," says WMU President John M. Dunn. "They have strengthened student access; increased campus life options available to our students; and provided our faculty, staff and students with the tools and resources they need for discovery and public service. We are enormously grateful for each and every gift."
One of the significant outcomes of the increase in gifts is a series of new scholarship opportunities for students. Gifts for student financial support increased by 58 percent in 2012-13 compared with the previous year's total in that category. Some 29 new endowed scholarships were set up, many by alumni eager to "pay it forward" by offering current and future generations of students access to the same level of instruction they enjoyed.
"One of our alumni and his wife, Dr. and Mrs. Hashem Akhavan-Tafti, set up three endowed scholarships for precisely that reason," says Jim Thomas, WMU vice president for development and alumni relations. "Those three scholarships are named for two chemistry professors—emeriti Donald Berndt and Robert Nagler—and the late John Orr, who was an English professor. All of them had a profound impact on Dr. Akhavan-Tafti's academic and professional development. He wanted to ensure other students enjoyed that same kind of opportunity to be mentored by outstanding faculty members."
Akhavan-Tafti, who earned a master's degree in chemistry from WMU, is today vice president of research for Beckman Coulter's immunoassay and molecular diagnostics business group in Southfield, Mich.
Another major infusion of scholarship dollars came from alumni around the world who chose to honor the late Dr. Michitoshi Soga by making scholarship donations in his name. Many of those gifts came from generations of Japanese students who were welcomed into the Soga home during their years at WMU. Soga, who died in March, worked tirelessly during his decades at the University to strengthen ties with Japan. WMU's Soga Japan Center is named for him.
Students yet to begin their studies at the new WMU School of Medicine will reap the benefits of both scholarship opportunities and the chance to learn from world-class visiting professors, thanks to a series of gifts from Kalamazoo's James R. Ryan Foundation. One scholarship fund and two visiting professor funds will be established through three Ryan family gifts. Dr. James R. Ryan was an orthopedic oncologist who practiced in the Kalamazoo area. His nephew and his nephew's wife, Dr. Thomas and Mrs. Debra Ryan, are WMU alumni, and Thomas Ryan also is an orthopedic surgeon.
Additional gifts to the University addressed a wide range of campus and community needs, says Thomas. They include very visible items like enhancements to the Seelye Center and Waldo Stadium, new pianos that helped the University meet its goal of becoming an All-Steinway School, artwork commissioned for Sangren Hall and the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and support for science programs that serve West Michigan children.
"Our donors also have generously supported less visible but incredibly important initiatives like research on cochlear implants and Multiple System Atrophy as well as work aimed at improving community sustainability," Thomas says. "Gifts of every size and from every donor are being leveraged across this campus to produce results that will have an impact for years to come—not just on our students but on the communities we serve. I can't say enough about how important donor support is to every member of our campus community. We'll continue to look for ways to thank our donors and show them just what their gifts have allowed us to do."


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Not to pile on, but the buzz about Microsoft's new Zune continues to be anything but chipper. Despite a determined pushback from "Micro-softies," who support the new product, the clear trend seems to be down.
Consider this rant from the Chicago Sun Times. Or, this spit take from the Financial Times blog that not only points out, as many others have, that the Zune is ranked way down in below the 90th best selling electronic gadgets in the U.S.,
it is actually below the American Red Cross's emergency radio. That's even worse when you realize that the Zune debuted at number seven on the Amazon list just two weeks ago.
To say it isn't making much of an impact is an understatement. Business Week reports that a survey of store clerks at big box stores found that not only are they not recommending the Zune over the iPod, a depressing number of them had never heard of the Zune.
Needless to say, Microsoft continues to stay the course. The numbers, they insist, are right where they thought they would be. Really? They were hoping to take this kind of pounding?
OK, fun's fun, and it is always easy to poke fun at the giant computer mega-company. Microsoft recognized that the MP3 market was hot, that Apple was hurting them with the iPod, and rushed to launch its own version. They were late to the party and may not have had a chance to fully think this through. That's no crime. The next version of Zune will surely be better.
The problem is, this was a window (so to speak.) You only get to launch a brand new product once. Zune came out right before the biggest buying frenzy of the year, perfectly poised to hit the consumer sweet spot. Now, more and more, it is starting to look like it is tanking.
That's not good news across the board. It makes Microsoft look out of touch, and it hurts the carryover image to its PC's and laptops. Clearly not what they had in mind.
As for Apple? We will see what happens in the long view. Is it possible we will look back some day and say this was the moment when the momentum changed? Hard to predict. But we do have this story from Bloomberg.com. You can read it yourself, but given the Zune's problems, the headline speaks volumes: "Apple Shares Rise to Record as Mac, IPod Sales Surge."


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(CareerBuilder.com) -- Let's be honest: A fair share of unemployed workers are taking jobs that they don't necessarily want or find interesting. These workers aren't bad employees and they're not attempting to waste a company's time. They just don't want to be unemployed, and any paycheck is better than no paycheck when bills are piling up.
These fall-back jobs aren't necessarily what workers want to do for a long period of time. These workers are obviously qualified and capable of doing a good job in order to get hired in the first place, but they're not looking at the long term. They know it when they accept the offer.
But how should they approach their day-to-day work when they probably have one eye on the door from the start? Attempting to find any sense of fulfillment during this tenure could lead to frustration, but it could also lead to personal growth which could pay off in the long run.
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When you accept a fall-back job, you know you're not signing up for your dream gig. It's a way to earn money and pass the time until you find a job you actually want.
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In the interim you might be compelled to go on autopilot and fulfill your duties without looking beyond payday. Although you might never grow to love the job, you should let it make you feel better about yourself while you're there, says motivational leader and recruiter Wayne Weiner of Bella Business Solutions.
"It is not the job that defines the person, but what the person gets from the job," he says.
"I have had jobs that paid me over $200,000 a year and I have had jobs in which I was paid less than $20,000. I got the same satisfaction out of each job. Sure I could buy more and do more with more money, but the knowledge that I was relevant to my bosses and co-workers was the key to my satisfaction."
While that sentiment is not only positive but also a good way to impress a boss, it can be difficult for someone who isn't that concerned with their employer. Ideally all workers want to help their organizations achieve success, but many disheartened employees can't bring themselves to look past their lackluster job situation. That's when they should turn the focus on themselves, says Donna Lubrano of corporate sales and training for comedy theater Improv Asylum.
"My thinking is that each job is an opportunity to find or create a relationship that could move you forward -- directly or indirectly -- so you leverage your position," Lubrano says. "Start looking for opportunities and, believe me, they come by you all the time. The problem is that we are so focused on what we don't have, what we used to have, or what we lost. We don't see what is directly in front of us."
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According to Lubrano, simply thinking about what you want can help you. You don't need a formal outline of your future; just play around with the possibilities.
"Look for elements that are fulfilling and elevate those to a higher status in your thinking. Identifying those elements -- focusing on them [via Twitter, Facebook or writing an article ] helps a lot as well."
And if you do have an on-the-job success that earns you accolades or makes you feel accomplished, use that to inspire you. It might lead to a realization that you are at a job that you could excel at.
What you can do
According to Lubrano, you can take a few steps to find some fulfillment in your fall-back job. And even if you can't find something to enjoy about it right now, it could lead to a better job down the road. Here are her suggestions for dealing with a fall-back job:
1. Learn as much as you can
"Look for ways to learn new skills that could help you, even though they are not in your field of choice," she says.
2. Find a connection between your current job and the one you want
"Look for [and] identify inroads to other areas that you do want to be in. They are out there. Don't overlook those small ones; those are the best. In this economy, [small inroads] are a lot easier to come by than the big ones," Lubrano advises.
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3. Don't slack off
"Do a fantastic job at whatever position you have. That goes a long way: It impresses people," she says. "If you have a good work ethic in all things that you take on, it gets people's attention."
4. Remember that you never know who can help you out
"The person who appears to be the least important [or] unimpressive usually turns out to be the one that has a lot to offer, so keep your eyes open."
You might take this position as a fall-back job, but it could lead to something better than you expected. Approach your job and the people you meet with respect and you won't be wasting your time.
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How to navigate the eBill site
Instructions for making profile changes
From My Account tab, choose My Profiles.
In Personal Profile Tab
You can enter an alternate email address. Emails will be sent to both email addresses.
In Communication Tab
You can choose to get optional text messages about new bills and upcoming payments. By entering your mobile number and choosing your mobile carrier, you will receive text messages regarding the new bills or reminding you of upcoming payments.
In Saved Payment Methods Tab
You can edit or delete stored payment methods. To edit a stored payment method, click on edit. Here you can change the Account type, Name on account, and Save payment method as. Click on Save to keep changes. You will receive a message that your changes have been saved. To delete a stored payment method, click on Delete for the appropriate payment method. If you click OK, you will receive a message telling you that your payment method has been removed.
In Add New Payment Method Tab
Click on the drop down arrow and select Electronic Check, which is a checking or savings account. You cannot save a credit card or debit card payment method.
Instructions for using the Select Student Tab (for Authorized Users)
If more than one student has given you access to their accounts, you can switch between them by clicking on the name of the student.
If you have more than one student at the college, but do not see both accounts, make sure that you have been set up as an Authorized User on all accounts. Only the students can set up their Authorized Users.
If you are planning on being an authorized user for a student at the College of Saint Benedict and a student at Saint John's University, you will need to go through the process of becoming an authorized user twice, once at each respective site.
At the bottom of this screen you will see a Pay All button. The Pay All functionality is not available at this time.
Viewing your latest transaction from the eStatement Tab
Click on the View link under the Action header under Most Recent Billing Statement. You will see your bill with charges and credits for the month listed. If you are looking for a list of more payments than just for the month, click on View All Activity. This will link you to the Account Activity tab and allow you to see an itemized list of all payments and fees that have been made on the account for the semester.
Instructions for viewing and understanding the eStatement using the eStatement tab
Click on the eStatement tab from the top ribbon of tabs. By default, the page should open to Most Recent Billing Statement. You will find the following information: Account Description, Statement Date, Statement Amount, Current Balance, and View or Pay Action. The difference between statement amount and current balance is that the statement amount reflects the status of the account on the day the bill was posted. Current balance, on the other hand, has the same charges and credits that would be accounted for in the statement amount, but it also includes payments and charges that have occurred since the bill was posted. To view the current statement, either click View under Action, or click the green Go box. For previous statements, click the drop down menu for select the statement to view, select a billing date, and click Go.
On the eStatement itself
In the upper right corner, you can find a quick overview of the information that is on the bill: the date the bill was posted, the due date, and the amount that is due.
The contact information for the Student Accounts Office can be found to the left under the shield. Please direct questions you have regarding your bill to our office.
Below this, you will see current charges and current credits. These include any charges or credits that have occurred since the last billing statement. By subtracting the credits from the charges, you will calculate the Current Billed Balance. This will be the Total Amount Due on the specified date, unless there is Authorized Aid listed. In that case, you can also subtract the Authorized Aid from the Current Billed Balance.
You may see a divider line below Current Billed Balance and an Authorized Financial Aid heading. Authorized aid means that the funds are on their way, but they have not been received by the Financial Aid Office yet. The difference between the Financial Aid Balance and the Current Billed Balance will appear below as the Total Amount Due.
You may also see a section titled Memo Items. If something is listed as a Memo Item that means there is a step in the process of procuring the funds that has not yet been taken care of: the funds will not arrive until those items are taken care of.
Current Balance: The Current Balance is calculated by taking the Previous Billed Balance, adding the charges, and subtracting the credits. This reflects the balance shown from the billing period without taking into account Authorized Aid or Memo Items.
Total Amount Due: The Total Amount Due is the Current Balance minus Authorized Financial Aid (not Memo Items). This is the amount you should pay.


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The Film Features an All-Star Cast Including Maggie Grace, Stephen Amell, Three-Time Emmy Winner Jean Smart, Lori Loughlin,
Daniel Sharman and Poppy Drayton;
Based on the Canadian West Book Series by Bestselling Author, Janette Oke
Hallmark Channel announced today the premiere of "When Calls The Heart", a Hallmark Channel original movie, on October 5 @ 9p.m. ET/PT, 8C, which serves as a two-hour sneak peek of the newest primetime series greenlit by Hallmark Channel, premiering January 2014.
"It's a very exciting time at the network as we greenlight our second original primetime series based on the works of award-winning author, Janette Oke. With the success we have had from Oke's 'Love Comes Softly' movie adaptations, this anthology of When Calls The Heart books, also by Oke, are a perfect fit for Hallmark Channel," said Michelle Vicary, Executive Vice President, Programming.
Based on Janette Oke's bestselling Canadian West book series, the film stars three-time Emmy(R) Award-winner Jean Smart ("Designing Women"), Lori Loughlin ("90210"), Maggie Grace ("Taken 2"), Stephen Amell ("Arrow"), Daniel Sharman ("Teen Wolf"), and newcomer Poppy Drayton.
"When Calls the Heart" is the story of Elizabeth Thatcher (Drayton), a young teacher accustomed to her high society life, who receives her first classroom post in a prairie town in the Western Frontier lead by headstrong coalminer widows Abigail (Loughlin) and Frances (Smart). She is determined to prove to her family that she is brave enough to live on her own, but struggles with her own fears and doubts. When she discovers her late Aunt Elizabeth's (Grace) secret diary, Elizabeth learns she was a pioneer woman herself, a teacher in the frontier who struggled with prairie life and fell in love with a Royal Canadian Mountie (Amell). Inspired by her aunt's hopeful words and unfaltering determination, Elizabeth decides to embark on her own adventure, using the diary as her guide and family friend Edward, another Mountie (Sharman), as her support.
"When Calls the Heart" is a Believe Pictures Jordan Films and Brad Krevoy Television production. Brad Krevoy, Brian Bird, Michael Landon, Jr., Roman Viaris, Francisco Gonzalez, and Jimmy Townsend are executive producers. Laurette Bourassa and David Kappes are producers. The film is based on the novel by Janette Oke, and written and directed by Michael Landon, Jr.
Hallmark Channel, owned and operated by Crown Media Holdings, Inc., is a 24-hour basic cable network that provides a diverse slate of high-quality entertainment programming available in high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD) to a national audience of 87 million subscribers. Hallmark Channel is the nation's leading destination for quality family programming with an ambitious slate of original TV movies and specials, as well as some of television's most beloved sitcoms and series, including The Golden Girls, Frasier, and Happy Days. The channel is also home to a range of lifestyle programming, anchored by Home & Family, a daily two-hour live show shot in a fully functional house located on the Universal Studios lot, and Marie, a one-hour talk show hosted by iconic entertainer, Marie Osmond.
Hallmark Channel's sibling network, Hallmark Movie Channel, also available in HD and SD, focuses on family-friendly movies with a mix of original films, classic theatrical releases, and presentations from the acclaimed Hallmark Hall of Fame library.


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Rachel Getting Married
So, I'll go ahead and use a fussy distinction, and call Jonathan Demme's film cinéma direct, rather than cinéma vérité, since it calls more attention to its subject than itself. It's grueling enough to deserve the three accent marks, however. Unlike the use of the shaky-cam in Blair Witch Project or Cloverfield, Demme and his cinematographer, Declan Quinn, always keep the camera in the objective, 3rd-person tense. They also, thankfully, keep it more transparent than Paul Greengrass's more navel-gazing camera eye. While moving room to room, the audience floats along, but when the wedding party guests are talking, the filmmakers fix the shot, remembering that modern cameras can re-focus on stuff in the background without having to move. Whatever you call it, Rachel Getting Married is realism at its squirm-inducing most direct.
Jenny Lumet's script rarely hits a wrong note in analyzing a particular bourgeois Connecticut family's power struggles that are inherent to most families. Whereas my family get-togethers center on frito-pie and football, Rachel's wedding involves Indian attire and cuisine with Robyn Hitchcock and Cyro Baptista supplying the entertainment. All attention is being paid to Rachel (Rosemary DeWitt) until her younger sister, Kym (Anne Hathaway), shows up with a weekend pass from court-mandated rehab. What follows is the gentrified version of the Electra Complex. The sisters compete for attention from Dad (Bill Irwin) using what they have: Rachel is the perfect daughter with some undefined perfect job, perfect friends (successful musicians and writers) and a perfect fiancé, whereas Kym is the classic second-child fuckup, with drug addiction being her calling card.Continue Reading


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If you do not have Ubuntu, you can skip the apt-get part and install it from your current package manager or from source.
You also need to have a kernel/module that has support for TAP-devices. Ubuntu already comes with support for this.
You can get more information from http://www.openvpn.net on how to install it for your system.
First you need to install the OpenVPN package. You can do this by using the apt-get package manager.
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Answer yes to any questions about installing all package dependencies.
Next you need to set up the configuration file in /etc/openvpn.
For example you can name it openvpn.conf, that way it will be automatically started on boot.
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I have some questions; I hope you can answer them.
1. In Surah Hujurat, v.9, Allah, in the Holy Quran says:
A. Is there a Madd on ?
2. In part 1, p.52 of Tajweed Rules of the Qur'an, it says: "Mim Idgham is 'Idgham Sagheer' because the first letter is Sakin and the second letter has vowel." Can we call Nun Idgham 'Idgham Sagheer' because in this situation Nun is Sakin and the next letter has vowel on it? Could you kindly give examples of Idgham Kabeer.
3. Can I confirm that the articulation points for Nun Iqlab and Mim Ikhfa are the same. For instance, in Nun Iqlab,we would:
A. Replace Nun with Mim
B. Pronounce Mim by closing the lips
C. Nasalize the sound
D. Open the lips by pronouncing Ba
In Mim Ikhfa, we would carry out the above b – d steps. Is this correct?
Look forward to hearing from you.
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
1. If you are are stopping on the word , which is preferred, there is a two vowel count lengthening of ; if you do not stop on and continue reading there is now which is lengthened 4 or 5 vowel counts in the way of Hafs 'an 'Aasim by the way of Ash-Shatibiyyah.
2. Yes, this would hold true for anytime there are two of the same letter, the first saakin the second voweled; such as two noon or two ba' or two laam (as examples):
Idghaam kabeer is when both letters of the same kind are voweled, but there is an idgham. This does not occur often in the recitation of Hafs, but is very common in the way of As-Soosiyy 'an Abi 'Amr. Please see the link below for further explanation and examples of the few cases of idhgaam kabeer for Hafs 'an 'Aasim:
http://www.abouttajweed.com/al-mutamaathilayn.htm .
3. Yes, the mechanisms of the iqlaab and ikhfaa' shafawee are the same after the noon saakinah has changed into a meem and the steps b-d listed in the question are the same for both.
Wa assalaam alaikum wa rahmatullah.


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The Best Place to Retire Overseas on a Budget
If an affordable cost of living is your priority in choosing where to retire, take a look at Cuenca, Ecuador. This city is one of the world's best places to retire overseas on a budget.
Cuenca is a beautiful colonial city in an interesting and diverse country. The health care is high quality, honest, and inexpensive. The climate is spring-like and pleasant 12 months of the year. And Cuenca's large and growing expat community is one of Latin America's most diverse and well-blended.
There are other colonial cities in Ecuador, but Cuenca is the cultural heart of the country. In this center of art and literature, you can attend the orchestra, a play, a tango show, or an art opening, and these activities are usually free.
Cuenca is also a popular destination for international tourists and language students, offering many super-affordable options to study Spanish. The tourists and students bring vitality to the city and help support Cuenca's developed infrastructure for amenities and services.
However, perhaps the biggest draw to Cuenca is its cost of living, which is extremely low, especially considering the quality of life that you find here. The falling dollar has caused prices to go up sharply for overseas retirees whose retirement incomes are denominated in U.S. dollars, but who are living in places where goods are priced in the local currency. But this exchange-rate concern does not exist in Cuenca, because Ecuador uses the U.S. dollar.
The $1 fixed-price lunch is still alive and well in Cuenca (although $2.50 is more common), and the city is awash with fresh tropical fruits and vegetables for pennies on the dollar. Fresh fish and shrimp arrive daily from the coast, and much of the local poultry is free-range. A bus trip through the city is a quarter, taxis start at about $1.50, and gas is only $1.48 per gallon.
You could rent a furnished apartment for as little as $400 per month, an unfurnished apartment from $300 per month, or buy a small condo outright for less than $40,000. Thanks to the comfortable year-round climate in Cuenca, you won't have to worry about heat or air conditioning, which is another important reason why retirement in this city is as affordable as it is.
Cuenca is very walkable and boasts an excellent public transit system, as does all of Ecuador. You could live easily without a car, which shaves even more costs from your monthly budget.
All that said, Cuenca is not the most affordable place to live in Ecuador. In small towns like Cotacachi or Vilcabamba, you could retire on an even more modest budget of as little as $650 or $700 a month. But the cost of living isn't the only factor you should consider when choosing a retirement spot. You want to balance the cost of your retirement against the quality of retirement life you'll be able to enjoy. Part of the reason the overall cost of living in places like Cotacachi is so low is because there's simply not much to do, meaning there's not much to spend money on. You could live quite frugally in Cotacachi, but also very simply.
Cuenca, on the other hand, is a fully developed city, where you could enjoy a rich and full life. To be able to enjoy all that the city has to offer, plan on a budget of $1,500 a month per couple if you're renting and $1,100 per month if you own your home. You could certainly live here for less, but these estimates will allow you to make the most of your new life in Cuenca.
Kathleen Peddicord is the founder of the Live and Invest Overseas publishing group. With more than 25 years experience covering this beat, Kathleen reports daily on current opportunities for living, retiring, and investing overseas in her free e-letter. Her book, How To Retire Overseas--Everything You Need To Know To Live Well Abroad For Less, was recently released by Penguin Books.
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The Perfect Advent Calendar for The Alcoholics In Your Life
Think advent calendars filled with candy are too kiddy? Well then, why not try filling them with booze instead? With the Whisky Advent Calendar, you get 24 shot-sized bottles each featuring a different sample of whisky. While the company won't tell precisely what is in the box ahead of time, they do give you one hint:
Behind one of the doors is a sample of 50 year old Scotch whisky, the full-sized bottle of which is worth £350!
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Sampler and analyzer production: ergonomic and flexible
Careful planning and modern equipment enable high production precision
The production of our samplers and Liquiline System analyzers is optimized in every respect. The concept was developed in a simultaneous engineering process in close cooperation with R&D, Marketing, Logistics, Industrial Engineering and Production. All manufacturing steps and processes were simulated during the planning phase to make the workstations as ergonomic as possible.
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Following the 2018 V2 World Cup Paul was interviewed on BBC Radio York where he took the opportunity to announce, live on air, that he was going to retire from competitive V2. He will not be competing in the first Masters V2 European Championships in October and will no longer compete in the National Finals or World Cups.
Since the Masters category was started over 5 years ago Paul has been unbeaten in the category, despite it being the fastest-growing category. Paul said: 'It's not about me and how many times I can get my name on the trophy. It's about what is best for the sport.!
Paul will still be fully-involved in the sport and will still be playing - just not in the formal competitions.


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Admin Announcements are now enabled for both Members & Managers.
We will also be creating an Announcements system that Managers can use for notifications to topsite Members.
More Features & Functions - Coming Soon!
Here is a short overview of things are are currently working on..
Merge Simple & Advanced Interface
The Easy Setup Interface will still be available & will overtime be turned into a Step By Step Setup Process.
We are working to Simplify the Advanced Interface, merging options that relate to each other such as ranking methods / options aswell as re-arranging & other options under more approriate headings.
We will be removing the Static "Important" text you see when logging into your Manager or Member account & will be replacing this with a dynamic "Announcement" system that will enable us to notify you of Updates, System Notifications or other Important Information.
The current "Ban List" option on your manager panel is very basic only allowing you to specify a website address or email address which you wish to block.
We are removing the Ban List and Introducing the following "Tools"
This will enable you to block a URL, Email, Username or IP Address using an Exact phrase or Global phrase.
Profanity Filter:
This will enable you to censor keywords or phrases again using an Exact or Global phrase.
Ranks & Stats
We are overhauling the Ranks & Stats options & pages to enable a seperate page for each member that will show detailed information & statistics, Plus give you more options on how you wish your sites to rank.
Banners / Links
We are working towards adding Default Banners / Buttons for your members to use, which will range from a static banner to a Dynamic banner shows ranks and other stats, with the option to choose specific colours and formats.
Userbase API
We are building a Userbase API that will allow us to Sync the main database with the external systems we plan to Integrate which Include; Facebook, Twitter, vBulletin & WHMCS.
Admin Announcements are now enabled for both Members & Managers.
We will also be creating an Announcements system that Managers can use for notifications to topsite Members.
Did the new template come out yet?
I noticed that we have a new announcement or post on our manager login about premium membership. My question is... those of us that has premium membership already, are we going to get these new benefits or features or a new upgrade is required (more payments)?
webspromote, all premium members will get access first & will have access to all available plugins.
regular topsite managers will eventually get access to plugins once everything has been tested, but they will have access to a limited amount of plugins.
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Shawne Merriman -- Appeared Incredibly Sober ... After Alleged Medical Emergency
Shawne Merriman Appeared Incredibly Sober After Alleged Hospitalization
8:20 AM PT -- Merriman is now acknowledging he was hospitalized, and tweeted that he was just "dehydrated" -- which might explain why he looked so sober and coherent in our video.
Dehydrated. @tmz got me good though this morning lol m.tmz.com/#Article/2013/…@shawnemerriman
Mystery solved?
For a guy who was allegedly hospitalized at 9:30 pm Sunday night, retired NFL star Shawne Merriman appeared incredibly SOBER when TMZ shot him out just 3 hours later.
The whole situation is bizarre ... considering law enforcement has confirmed with NFL.com that the former NFL All-Pro was transported to an L.A. hospital for an undisclosed "medical emergency" around 9:30pm Sunday night.
In fact, law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... officials responded to a "possible overdose" at Colony nightclub with a caller reporting a man who was "barely conscious."
Sources tell us ... the 29-year-old former NFL All-Pro had been inside the club -- but was "escorted out" after people inside believed he appeared like he was going to pass out.
In short -- our sources are ADAMANT Merriman was hospitalized last night.
Which brings us to the video ...
Our TMZ photog noticed Merriman leaving Greystone Manor (a short cab ride from Colony) around 12:26 am on Monday morning ... and struck up a normal TMZ conversation with the guy.
In the footage, Merriman appears lucid, conversational ... and in no way like a person who was "barely conscious" just 3 hours before the video was shot.
At one point in the video, Merriman asks us "So, what's up?" Our guy responds, "Just livin'."
Merriman quickly jokes back, "Yeah, me too."
Plus, Merriman was tweeting around 2:40 am ... telling people he was partying with rapper The Game.
So, what REALLY happened Sunday night? Seems the jury is still out.
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