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As Jeff and Piero mentioned yesterday, the newest version of Messenger (beta coming soon) is designed to be the most meaningful way to stay in touch with the people who matter most, keeping you connected with your friends and what they're doing across the web. We have made it possible for people to quickly see what their friends are doing on social sites like Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn. But of course, people love shopping, they love watching videos and viewing photos, and they love finding great local places to eat, relax, and spend time with others. So while the big social networks are important, there are tons of other experiences that customers want to stay up to date with.
Earlier today, John Richards and Angus Logan took the stage at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam where they announced Messenger Connect – a new way for partners and developers to connect with Messenger. Messenger Connect allows web, Windows and mobile app developers to create compelling social experiences on their websites and apps by providing them with social promotion and distribution via Messenger.
As we thought about how we designed Messenger Connect, we looked a great deal at what was happening in the industry and where our partners and developers were looking for us to add value and provide opportunities for them to enhance the experiences they are building. A few key themes emerged:
Messenger Connect brings the individual APIs we've had for a long time (Windows Live ID, Contacts API, Messenger Web Toolkit, etc.) together in a single API that's based on industry standards and specifications (OAuth WRAP, ActivityStrea.ms, PortableContacts, OData) and adds a number of new scenarios.
The new Messenger Connect provides our developer partners with three big things:
For consumers, this begins with letting you stay in touch not only from our Messenger experiences but also from the sites that our partners are building. Critical to this endeavor is that we do this in a manner that you own and control. So as we do this, we strongly believe that users own their data and should be able to share or access it from the websites and applications they want to. And we believe that the privacy of a customers' data is a critical element of a secure web and the customer should be in control. So we've built Messenger Connect with security and privacy as foundational elements. Websites cannot access any of a user's non-public information from Windows Live without prior consent from the customer, through an experience that could look like the image shown here:
And, equally important, a user can remove the permissions they have granted to websites and applications at any time.
As Chris mentioned earlier, we're in the process of broadening the distribution of our new experiences. Messenger Connect is currently being opened to a small number of leading companies that are helping to provide us with feedback and final revisions. You can look for more news about our new developer portal opening up more broadly in the coming months.
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Update: I got some questions about OData and we forgot to mention in the original post (doh!)… our RESTful endpoints will also support OData (www.odata.org). We'll share more info as we roll out the bits.
You guys need to get redirect the messengersays.spaces.live.com site to here. Its the site that clicking the Help|blog link in WLM sends you too but its content is dated and the comment sections are all full of spam.
@bkraft4637 -- thanks for reaching out, we'll follow up offline.
Hi Everyone,
I am a developer for Ping.fm and we have many requests to add live messenger status capability to our website. I have found it extremely hard to find a way to do this.
We basically need a way for a user to enter their WLM credentials (or oauth verification) on our site and allow us to update their status at any time without them having to visit our site again.
We currently have this process working for about 40 social networks, including AIM and GTalk. The service is free if anyone wants an example of the expected functionality.
Thanks in advance!
Adam (email@example.com)
I've been hearing some questions about OData, and I forgot to mention this in my original post: our RESTful endpoints will also support OData (www.odata.org). I've added an update to the post, and we'll share more info as we roll out the bits.
Hey Jamie,
We are aiming to support the latest, most expected, popular, emerging & well established standards/specifications (e.g. OAuth WRAP, ActivityStrea.ms, Portable Contacts) - happy devs make me happy. Re. Open ID specifically - we are closely involved with the Open ID community and are actively helping to build Open ID v.Next – see some of the things we learnt about implementing Open ID over here winliveid.spaces.live.com/.../cns!AEE1BB0D86E23AAC!1791.entry
Hey Ravit,
Across the company we are investing in CardSpace (I'm constantly chatting with that team), and you are right, it is a really neat way to prevent phishing. The link you had in your comment was part of a prior CardSpace beta implementation we were running (in addition to standard WLID email/password credential pairs) and we haven't surfaced it in the latest version of the sign in experience. Watch this space as we are always trying to make the sign in experience better.
Yeah I had the same question as pradeepviswav... I'd really like to know how we can log in to hotmailpreview.com! I've been hearing about it on various tech websites [liveside, mainly] but I want to know how to log in!
When i go to hotmailpreview.com,it asks for VIP login for reviewer's guide..How to get one?
7flavor - re. XP support - see Chris Jones' comment at April 21, 2010 at 12:28PM over on this post -- windowsteamblog.com/.../getting-ready-for-windows-live-wave-4.aspx
Chris - you can't take vacation. The tech industry moves too fast and you'll be behind forever :) - and to answer your question - No. the new version of Messenger isn't available yet.
Chris / Mansoor - to borrow from Jeff & Piero's post: "As Chris announced earlier, we'll be releasing this to a limited number of individuals externally in the very near future, before expanding to a broader public beta, and finally to the full public release.".
Alimaggs - (re. MSN/Zune)
Thanks for the feedback, and of course we are excited to keep partnering well with the other Microsoft services as well as 3rd parties across the web. While "Messenger Connect" per se isn't released yet, both MSN/Xbox/Bing already use Windows LiveID for their identity and permissioning, the new MSN home page (link) in many markets around the world showcases a module where you can view your Windows Live social feed, and there are Messenger applications on many smart and feature phone platforms around the world, including Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.5 –and some of the new features are integrated into the new Windows Phone 7 -- on stage at The Next Web I showed the social updates from my Messenger friends and other friends on a real device :)
nice job ! i love it..
Good news and interesting for social distribution.
"Messenger Connect brings the individual APIs we've had for a long time (Windows Live ID, Contacts API, Messenger Web Toolkit, etc.) together in a single API that's based on industry standards and specifications (OAuth WRAP, ActivityStrea.ms, PortableContacts) and adds a number of new scenarios." Does it mean that Windows Live ID is now ready to support OpenID? As Jamiet said we are waiting for a long time.
I have been on vacation, I think I may be missing something. Is the new messenger out yet?
Congrats, Ori and team! I love what this implies for where the underlying platform is going. :-) I can't wait for you to _really_ pop out from under the radar.
I think that Windows Live Messenger is the best IM available.
One thing that I just want to ask the Windows Live Developers that how can I enable the Windows CardSpace Login ??
I think that this is the best way to login where hackers are always there to hack into your account. I recently came across the link login.live.com/.../managecards.srf
This link allowed me to register my CardSpace but now I cannot figure out how to use this card for login purpose instead of entering password at the Login screen ??
Hope you are listening ... !
Good stuff. I find it weird that this sort of functionality isn't already live on Microsoft property sites (I'm thinking MSN, Xbox, Zune, etc)... Hope this arrives there eventually.
XP support please I reiterate. Don't abandon your customers from the latest and greatest.
Please mention the date, i am dying to use the newer version! I hope it would be awesome, as i have seen some leaked screenshots
Hi Ori,
Does OpenId fit into this anywhere? We've been waiting for a long time for LiveId to be an OpenId provider.


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---- — A woman who personally loaned the Gloucester Community Arts Charter School $75,000 for three weeks — and a $2,500 loan fee — 14 months ago was one of eight participants whose October 2012 observations of the school were compiled to form a site visit report state officials will consider in a discussion of the charter at a special meeting of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education today.
The actions of Diana Lam, head of school at Conservatory Lab Charter School in Boston, are spurring questions about the legality of the loan on several fronts, including that it was never publicly discussed by the charter school's Board of Trustees, and whether it was proper for the school or Lam to exchange the cash.
Lam confirmed Monday that she had personally loaned the school money after a "financial person" who works with both the Conservatory Lab Charter and the Gloucester Charter school told Lam the school was in need of a loan, and said she sees no issue with its legality or any perceived conflict of interest.
"We share the same financial person and that's how that came across," Lam said in a telephone interview Monday, referring to Cynthia Goncalves. "I actually had not invested in the school. I had never met the director or anything. It wasn't based on friendship. I just thought they needed a loan, and that's how it happened.
"I didn't pass any judgment on whether it was a good school or not. It was a situation that we are sometimes familiar with," Lam said. "I knew about how difficult it had been (for the Gloucester Community Arts Charter School) to get started, but not much more than that."
According to documents provided to the Times, the "promissory note," dated Sept. 14, 2011, is signed by the Gloucester school's former executive director, Tony Blackman and Lam, with a witness signature from Carol Kennedy Hurley, then special education teacher at the school. The note is not signed off by the school's Board of Trustees, though Blackman, as executive director hired by the board, was and remains a trustee.
Had the school not paid the loan back by Oct. 5, 2011, the document shows, Lam would have collected an additional charge of $500 each month.
The balance of the school's loan from Lam was secured by a $590,000 payment from the state, due to the school by Sept. 20, 2011, according to the promissory note.
Lam said that sometimes the charter schools need to go to banks for transition money while they await scheduled allotments of state money. And James Caviston, who chairs the Gloucester Community Arts Charter School's Board of Trustees, told the Times Monday that neither he nor the full board had any say in borrowing money from Lam because the board had signed off that power to Blackman — authorizing Blackman to make financial decisions on his own — at a prior meeting. There is also no mention of the loan during any publicly accessible meeting minutes.
Caviston said that at the time of the September 2011 loan, the school had undergone difficulty in attempts to secure loans.
"That's his power to do that," Caviston said of Blackman. "How he decides to activate that power is his purview."
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This past October, when it came time for Lam to review the Gloucester Community Arts Charter School as one of eight participants chosen by the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Lam said her previous loan to the school had no effect on her objectivity.
The report to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, and to Commissioner of Education Mitchell D. Chester, is being cited today when the board discusses the school's status and adherence to past conditions. The report found several sweeping problems within the school including a lack of a documented curriculum and a lack of dealing with a number of student behavioral issues.
Chester, in his preliminary statement to the board, noted that the school still has not met at least one condition of its probation of 2010, and warned sternly that, "despite the school's progress in meeting some of the conditions, evidence shows that (the school) faces substantial challenges to its ability to implement a viable and effective school program."
The school has faced financial and budgeting problems from its September 2010 start, due in large part to significant enrollment shortfalls that have brought gaps in the state's per-pupil charter school funding formula. And Chester noted that this year's October enrollment of 123 students, is below last year's 136 — and dramatically lower than the projected 212, leading Blackman to eliminate his own executive director's job to avert further teaching cuts.
Caviston agreed that Lam's loan to the school would not have impacted her ability to observe and record what she saw and heard at the school, the tasks required of reviewers.
"She took down quotations, she observed. That's all she did," Caviston said. "As an observer she would have no influence. She's there to take down notes."
Lam, meanwhile, has a lengthy history in the field of education, serving as a schools superintendent in San Antonio, Texas, and then as deputy chancellor of New York City's public school system under then-Chancellor Joel Klein. But she was fired in 2004 after an investigative report found that she improperly helped her husband, Peter Plates, gain employment with the school district as a regional instructional specialist.
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Let's visit this week some more on the useful understanding of body language in the terms of our professional conversations. I had several comments of interest to learn more on the topic, so let's spend some time learning about the eyes.
Our ability to "read" people's eyes without knowing how or why seems to be inborn. Humans are able to make eye contact from about 100 to 130 feet away well past the distance where we can really see the detail of someone's eyes. We can see whether someone is really focused on us or not, and we can detect the difference between the glazed blank stare, the drop dead look, the embarrassed awkward glance or the moist eyes of fighting back tears.
When we additionally consider the eyelids, and the flexibility of the eyes to widen and close, and for the pupils to enlarge or contract, it becomes easier to understand how the eyes have developed such potency in human communications.
One subtle measure is the widening of the pupils when someone of emotional interest walks into a room.
Eyes tend to look right when the brain is imagining or creating, and left when the brain is recalling or remembering. This relates to the right and left sides of the brain. Broadly stated, the parts of the brain handling creativity and feelings dwells in the right while and facts and memory hang out in the left. The research behind this is called Neuro-linguistics Programming (NLP) theory was developed in the 1960s and has its range of skeptics and supporters.
In general, NLP delves into the idea that there are patterns of behavior and patterns of thought that underlie them. The research and theory is used today in organizational development strategy and organizational change management. In this example it centers on the idea that under certain circumstances "creating" can really mean lying. So if a person looks right when asked a question requiring a recall of facts, they may be making those facts up. Or it could mean that the person isn't really lying, but is uncertain of the answer, and is creatively speculating.
Either way it may be good to know that a look right in search for an answer to a direct question means that the person is probably lying or guessing according to this theory. What you really want to see is a direct straight on look with the direct straight on answer.
NLP theory and the Mehrabian's model that we discussed here in a previous article are both seminal pieces of work in understanding behavior, and it's amazingly helpful in explaining the importance of careful and appropriate communications. And like any model, care must be exercised when transferring it to different situations.
The idea may not work as cleanly when you consider communication via email, telephone or video conferencing when so much of the communication "package" is eliminated. Imagine how you feel when you receive a text message with a request that is followed by multiple question marks and exclamation points as opposed to a :-), or the message that you send when you pause a long time before speaking on the telephone.
The reader or listener in each example gets the message loud and clear that the sender or speaker is irritated, anxious or impatient.
One suggestion here for you is to put a mirror by the phone if you do a considerable amount of phone work to check your facial expression while speaking. You may surprise yourself to see what you are really saying.
Here is a suggestion on texting for you too: Don't do it while driving. Enough said.
Remember, take care of your customers, or someone else will.
You can find additional readings on my blog at http://businessadvise4u.blogspot.com. Teresa Vise works for Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceuticals and supports the Fultondale Chamber of Commerce.
The next meeting of the Fultondale Chamber will be held for lunch on August 24 with Logan Hinkle, attorney with Burr and Forman. He will present on Health Reform legislation and how to prepare your business for the impact. Location and sponsorship by the Holiday Inn in Fultondale.


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Tuesday, June 3, 2014
SeniorsLa Comida lunch program
La Comida invites adults age 60 and over and their guests to enjoy a nutritious and affordable three-course lunch accompanied by music, activities and camaraderie. Meals are also held at two other Palo Alto locations. See website for details. Monday-Friday, year-round (except on some holidays), 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. $3 donations accepted for adults 60 and over; $8 adults under 60. La Comida Dining Room at Avenidas Center, 450 Bryant St., Palo Alto.
Family and KidsYMCA summer camps
Summer programs at the Palo Alto YMCA are designed to keep kids physically active and mentally engaged with a variety of activities. See website for specific programs and dates. June 2-August 4, Prices vary (financial assistance available). Palo Alto Family YMCA, 3412 Ross Road, Palo Alto.
Family and KidsMarine Science Camp
The Marine Science Institute is hosting a camp that offers hands-on activities, live animals and educational field trips including a day aboard the Marine Science Institute research vessel. Week-long camps run from June 16Aug. 15; each day starts at 10 a.m. Registration opens Feb. 1. Starting at $375. Marine Science Institute, 500 Discovery Parkway, Redwood City.
Exhibits'Stonewalled in Jerusalem'
Santa Cruz mixed media artist Sara Friedlander will have on display her visually arresting and socially focused artwork, which contemplates the Israeli/Palestinian impasse. Using original and archival images, she explores both sides and welcomes viewers' ideas about moving forward. May 16-August 25, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Oshman Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto.
Art Galleries'Capturing Light'
"Capturing Light: The World as We See It" is a judged exhibit and sale of 50 prints by members of the Palo Alto Camera Club, including 12 photos taken in Havana, Cuba. A percentage of proceeds from print sales will go to Cultural Kaleidoscope, a City of Palo Alto program supporting art in local schools. Monday-Friday, March 10-August 28, 8 a.m.-noon; 1-5 p.m. Free. Los Altos Hills Town Hall, 26379 Fremont Road, Los Altos Hills.
VolunteersSilicon Valley Tour de Coop preparation
Neighbors Helping Neighbors will hold a variety of volunteer activities leading up to and during the Silicon Valley Tour de Coop, a bike ride between chicken coops and home gardens on September 21. Volunteer opportunities include putting up fliers and posters, doing test bike rides, organizing other small events to spread the word and staffing locations on tour day. The organization also seeks community members with chicken coops, beehives and home gardens to host stops. June-September, dates and times vary. Free. Neighbors Helping Neighbors events, various nearby locations, Palo Alto and Mountain View.
Clubs/MeetingsPalo Alto Toastmasters
Since 1924, Toastmasters International has been helping people around the world to improve their communication and leadership skills. The Palo Alto Toastmasters Club meets each week in city hall's Council Chambers. Club membership is diverse, and guests are welcome. Tuesdays, through December, noon-1 p.m. Free. City Hall, First Floor, Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto.
Clubs/MeetingsSRI Organon Toastmasters
Toastmasters focuses on improving the communication and leadership skills of its members. Each week covers a different skill related to public speaking. Club membership is diverse, and guests are welcome. Tuesdays, through December, 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. SRI International, Building G, Laurel Avenue, opposite the Menlo Park Police Station, Menlo Park.
Classes/WorkshopsFor the Love of Dance classes
For the Love of Dance offers training in ballet, jazz, tap and other styles of dance. Serving Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos and Sunnyvale, it is a family-owned studio that teaches dance to children and adults at all levels of ability. Visit website to learn about specific offerings. March through December. Prices vary. For the Love of Dance, 2483 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View.


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The Sunset Empire Park & Recreation District terminated its free shower voucher program in the name of public safety, but anyone still can pay $2 to shower at the district's pool facility.
The speculation is over. Don Larson, the longstanding mayor of Seaside, officially announced he will be running for his fourth term in the general election Nov. 5.
The Seaside School District has hired a new principal for Gearhart Elementary School to fill the vacancy left by Melissa Linder.
Salmon fishing does not often bear a strong connection to stifling hunger and homelessness in the community, but Helping Hands' Clatsop Salmon Classic is out to change that for the second time around.
Participants in the American Cancer Society Relay for Life began the weekend event with the first lap around the Seaside High School track last Saturday. Twenty-six teams, 316 participants and 87 survivors participated in the relay. They raised an estimated $62,000 for the cancer society. Donations for the 2014 Relay for Life can be made until Aug. 31, but donations to the cancer society will be accepted any time.
Susan "Sue" Grenon, 70, of Seaside, OR, passed away peacefully on July 15, 2014, at Marquis Autumn Hills memory care unit in Portland, OR, following a long battle with dementia.
Lorraine Minnie Spillman, of Seaside, Ore., died July 18, 2014, at home, with her family by her side. She was 89. Lorraine was born Dec. 8, 1924, in Albert Lea Freeborn, Minn., to Oscar and Clara (Rushfelt) Hamburg.
Shirley Jean (Wilson) Frandsen passed peacefully on June 28, 2014, at the age of 84, in Seaside, Ore.
The USA Jump Rope tournament is only a hop, skip and a jump away for Seaside's Tsunami Skippers.
For the first time since 1975, the Seaside High School boys golf team has brought home the state championship.
The District 1/4A boys' golf title is finally back with Seaside.
Two thousand golf balls were dropped from a helicopter over the Astoria Golf & Country Club May 10 as part of a fundraiser for the Assistance League of the Columbia Pacific. The balls were marked with donors' numbers, and those that landed closest to the designated pin won prizes. The league raised $10,000 to buy clothing for kids in need in Clatsop County.
Classic Soccer team tryouts for all boys and girls entering fifth to eighth grades are from 4 to 5:30 p.m. June 1 and 6 to 7:30 p.m. June 3 at the Warrenton Soccer Fields.
On June 18, a young deer hopped the fence in my back yard and stumbled into the grass. It seemed as though she had been running – maybe crossing the highway.
Seaside has a long and storied past, and it's something we often celebrate and reflect on with the fantastic old-time photos found throughout our community.
The more time I spend in Seaside, the more I realize how many amazing things we do as a small town. As part of the city's visioning Seaside for 2034 project, people ask me what I have been seeing as a pattern for the future.
On the last day of May, we attended a birthday party for Rosie Thiers at the home of Debbie Vail and Laurel Adelman. Such a fun time. Those girls are great hosts.
I am writing this just before Father's Day, and, as is usually the case at this time of year, which also happens to be near my father's birth date, I spend a great deal of time reminiscing about him.
A small group of students meandered through the Sunny Pool Community Garden last week, intently listening as their program leader, Mary Blake, stopped in front of various plots to release exclamations of excitement and share information about various fruits, vegetables and herbs growing there.
Hannah Garhofer, daughter of Neal and Liza Garhofer, a junior at Seaside High School, is a member of the Astoria Regatta Festival Court.
Those who want to know more about Seaside's colorful downtown gardens will have the opportunity to ask questions during a garden tour on Sunday, July 27.
Oregon painter Judith Fredrikson, who captured a butterfly in a watercolor painting, is the featured artist at the Trail's End Gallery in August. Fredrikson will discuss her work during a reception beginning at 5 p.m. Aug. 2 in the gallery during the Gearhart Art Walk.
Painter Carmela Newstead will be featured at an opening artist reception from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 25 at Fairweather House and Garden.
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Tattoo shop owner told to take shop sign down after planning permission refusal (From Bucks Free Press)
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Tattoo shop owner told to take shop sign down after planning permission refusal
1:10pm Friday 22nd February 2013 in News By Rebecca Cain, Reporter
A TATTOO shop owner said he believes the planning system is flawed after he was forced to take down a £2,500 sign.
Anatomy Tattoo opened in November in Duke Street, Princes Risborough.
Gary Johnson who runs the shop with Simon Smith, said they put up a new shop sign, unaware that they had to get planning permission.
Once they found out they applied for restrospective permission but this had been refused.
Wycombe District Council planning department told Mr Johnson the sign's size and scale has a detrimental impact upon the character and appearance of the existing building, street scene and the Princes Risborough Conservation Area.
The sign is 900mm high by 4790mm width and 50mm depth.
He said: "If we had been a cafe would we have had to take it down? It just seems a bit severe.
"It looks rubbish now we have taken the sign down. We have got a £2,500 sign sitting in the back garden."
Planning permission was given for the Gorgeous Giggle sign in February 2011 but the sign was smaller at 520mm by 4000mm by 50mm.
Boots Opticians gained permission for a sign in August 2010 of 650mm by 650mm and 70mm.
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1:37pm Fri 22 Feb 13
Slacker says...
1:41pm Fri 22 Feb 13
pebrey says...
2:07pm Fri 22 Feb 13
Good Life says...
pebrey wrote:Why does a tattoo establishment need a shop front anyway and with a massive sign thought these body abuse establishments were more suited to the back streets of major towns!
Good to see that in times when the high streets are full of empty shops, the council are doing their best to promote new businesses.
2:17pm Fri 22 Feb 13
buser says...
3:38pm Fri 22 Feb 13
buser says...
Good Life wrote:Like it or not, approve or not, body-art is now extremely popular and no longer a 'back street' business. It might well be a passing fashion, but it has certainly been around for a long time to the point where somebody believes that even 'posh' towns like a Princes Risborough, can support this business. The query here is not the business but the size of the sign which was erected without the necessary permissions.
pebrey wrote:Why does a tattoo establishment need a shop front anyway and with a massive sign thought these body abuse establishments were more suited to the back streets of major towns!
Good to see that in times when the high streets are full of empty shops, the council are doing their best to promote new businesses.
3:44pm Fri 22 Feb 13
dawnellis says...
leave these small business to grow and flourish and go and fill some pot holes !
3:48pm Fri 22 Feb 13
Swains says...
5:32pm Fri 22 Feb 13
Yorkshiretyke1 says...
That was an awful sign
5:56pm Fri 22 Feb 13
buser says...
Yorkshiretyke1 wrote:Sure, but you would expect to put your own name/ sign above the shop. Probably, thinking it out, and in view of the planning permission, you would have made your sign approximately the same size as the existing shop sign or at least those on adjoining shops rather than going super size. As always, it is easy to be wise in retrospect.
The original planning permission, available to all on the WDC website clearly stated that there would be no change to the shopfront. Pretty clear!!
That was an awful sign
6:24pm Fri 22 Feb 13
bayriver says...
7:55pm Fri 22 Feb 13
Mr Totterdge Hill says...
Nope, they let deluxe back garden sheds built all over the place, but they got to wrangle over a sign...
sorry very petty
8:25am Sun 24 Feb 13
Malc London says...
I'm sure even the supporters would object if it was a neon sign with a 40ft arrow pointing to the door.
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A CTR, is a currency transaction report filled out on any transaction more than $10,000. Robinson filled one out on this transaction. Keeps track of any large dollar amounts that come through.
Made mainly in $100 increments, about 98% of payments made by Kwame, the rest in $50 bills.
Exhibit shows a cash deposit for $9,000. This transaction was for the purchase of a cashier's checks.
Exhibit 4A-11- a cash in deposit for a cashier's check. The amount was for $15,000.
Exhibit 15-2- a document to keep track of the bank's transactions.
10:00AM Jerome Robinson, second witness, sworn in.
9:59AM Next witness is called Jerome Robinson.
9:59AM Ron Sauer steps down
9:59AM Gerald Evelyn, lawyer for Bobby Ferguson redirects
9:56AM Jim Thomas redirects. Prior to becoming mayor, Kwame's house payments were $400. Thomas says they could have been accumulating money in a variety of manners. Maybe a mattress or even big shoes as Kwame has big feet.
9:52AM Government redirects. Asks if money is sitting in a safe could it be later deposited in account? Yes says Sauer.
$1,200 dollars was in shoe at the Kilpatrick house. $25,000 Rolex watch gifted to Kwame was not included in calculations.
Sauer says when people generally withdraw cash; they typically use it to spend not put in another account. Sauer says Carlita's income could not account for the cash deposits. She made a total of $100,000 in the period between 2001-2008, no income after 2003.
Bullotta asks if bribes are taxable. Sauer says yes.
9:52AM No other defense questions
8:45AM First at the defendants' table this morning is Bernard Kilpatrick conservatively attired in a dark suit.
Next in is Victor Mercado who sits quietly next to his lawyers.
Last to arrive in the courtroom this morning is Kwame Kilpatrick who goes over to talk to longtime friend Bobby Ferguson before taking his seat.
First witness expected to testify this morning is Internal Revenue Service agent Ron Sauer.
9:36AM Jim Thomas questions the witness.
Allegations that Mr. Kilpatrick was receiving bribes when agent Ron Sauer came on. Rowen Shook was the other agent involved in the investigation. There were probably 4 to 6 other agents involved in the file.
There were other FBI agents involved in the case. Bob Beckmann was the primary case agent for the FBI.
Search warrants were executed in related cases. There was a wire tap on the case and the understanding there are agents monitoring wire taps. It's outside of the area of IRS expertise though. Cash activity seemed to pick up in late 2002 til the end of Kwame's administration. Did not look at cash deposits before 2001. Mrs. Kilpatrick was working up to 2001-2002. IRS not able to identify any of Carlita's funds going into the State Employee account. There was income for Carlita but did not identify where her money went in 2000 and 2002. Sauer does not believe Mrs. Kilpatrick was operating a cash business but concedes her money could have been cash in deposit back in 2000. There was evidence that there was cash accumulated in a shoe at the Kilpatrick residence.
Sauer reveals he does not have extensive training in tax but financial investigations. Sauer says gifts are something given you that are not taxed. But he is not an expert. Sauer's investigation attempted to rule out gifts. There were people not called to grand jury who might have given gifts. Sauer didn't get involved in case in 2006. Doesn't recall knowing about party where Kilpatrick received a gift. There was another party when he became mayor where he was gifted money. There was another party when he turned 35 that he received a watch and some gift money. If it's a gift of money given in a box it is possible that it is not taxable. Sauer stresses he is not an expert though. Thomas asks if Sauer correlated Bobby Ferguson's withdrawals to Mr. Kilpatrick's cash deposits. On a daily basis, Sauer says, there was not a direct correlation he could find.
9:02AM Jurors file in and take their seats. Judge Edmunds welcomes jurors. Jurors are given pictures of witnesses and pads to take notes of witness testimony.Government calls IRS agent Ronald Sauer- special agent with IRS investigation for 14 years. With Bank of Chicago as examiner prior to that. As special agent, he acts as a financial investigator. Investigates tax violations and money laundering.


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Geri Stengel, Contributor
I write about the success factors of women entrepreneurs.
As Liz Elting co-CEO of TransPerfect put it, "No one likes to be thought of as a 'bitch.' If you want everyone to like you, you will have a hard time doing what is necessary in hard times."
Or, as Gayle Brandel, CEO of Professionals for NonProfits puts it, "Some women need to be liked by the team … They don't want to seem to be nasty." As a result, she says, they'll be indirect and unclear. Or indecisive as they try not to offend anyone … which usually means they offend everyone. Employees like to know what's expected of them and what the rules are.
I think it's time to redefine terms here. "Tough" is not a synonym for "bitchy." Nor is it a synonym for "mean." "Indirect" isn't a synonym for "nice" nor is it an effective management tool.
What's "nice" about being unclear, indecisive or letting your business stagnate because you won't cut deadwood from the product line or the staff?
It isn't nice to keep people on staff who don't pull their weight, which means their co-workers have to pick up the slack.
It isn't nice to allow someone to keep working at a job for which they are ill-suited.
It isn't nice to be unclear about what you need and what you can do.
It also isn't nice to put someone on probation or fire them without giving them clear goals to meet and the resources to meet them.
Honesty is nice.
Tough-love is nice (even if you didn't like when your parents grounded you).
Building an effective team is nice.
A fine thin line, ladies have to walk. Be decisive and you're bitchy. But hey, if it gets the work done, then it's a thank you.
I like Ms. Stengel's headline:
"Being Tough Isn't the Same as Being a Bitch."
I really don't think we get enough of that sort of clarification. Although I'm really strongly against using the "b" word, I've got to acknowledge the fact that there's still quite a bit of growing and acclimating to be done, in general, to stop calling tough and authoritative women outside of their names.
That should be treated in the category of an offense for termination in the work place. It should be a firing offense.
Of course, there are cohorts of mine who aren't so agreeable that. I've the accusation to that effect is that I'm sucking up to the female genre among us.
However, there's never a reason to. Ask my wife. For me, she's the only woman worth it. As for all the others, depending on who they are and what they do, it's variations of respect. The higher the authority, the higher the respect.
Personally, I don't think a lot of women in authority, especially in business, are being tough enough about this. More heads have to roll.


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HOUSTON – An 18-month-old baby was playing in a southeast Houston apartment complex parking lot when a car hit and killed her, police said.
It happened Tuesday evening near the intersection of Dover and Grafton.
According to investigators, a man in a minivan was trying to park when he ran over the toddler. Police have not determined if he was under the influence of anything, but sobriety tests were conducted.
Police questioned the baby's mother, asking her where she was when the child was hit and killed. Neighbors told police that the 1-year-old was not being watched.
Police said the mother could be facing negligence charges. Investigators say they were still trying to gather witness statements Tuesday night.
"The next thing we know, she disappeared all of a sudden and someone came from around the corner and said the little girl was hit," said neighbor Churlonda Fletcher.
Fletcher did not see the accident; however, she said she saw the little girl shortly before she was hit.
"She was dancing to Beyonce songs with her little pamper on. She was a happy baby and it just don't make no sense. In a blink of a second, your baby's gone," Fletcher said.
A friend of the man who hit the girl came to the scene for support. He said his friend contemplated running away, but then came back.
"He tried to run. I said, 'no, no, stay there,'" explained William Gutierrez, who said his friend called him right after the accident. "I'm worried, yes, because he's a good friend."
Some people were having a hard time blaming the driver because of what they saw. That includes a man who said he almost hit the little girl while trying to back out.
"Anyone could've hit her in the blink of an eye because she's so little, and you would've (not been) able to see her in that back parking lot. They was playing underneath the cars and stuff, and running behind cars that are back there," said Keith, who was visiting his father at the complex.
Neighbors wondered if there was something they could've done to save the baby girl's life.


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When Garett Beaver got the call that he won a worldwide lottery to be able to buy a 2012 Chevrolet Central Office Production Order (COPO) Camaro — one of only 69 in the world — he "felt like a kid with a new bike on a rainy Christmas morning."
Rainy, because Beaver plans to sell the car to the first buyer who meets his asking price; rainy because drag race season, which the car is designed for, is over for the year.
Beaver hopes no one matches his price before race season resumes in March, so that he can give the car a ride (it is designed for drag racing only, not street use), but since it's No. 39 out of only 69 of that model made, the chances of Beaver racing it are slim.
"I've got to sit here and look at it till spring," said Beaver, who lives in Dalton. "I'm excited to take it out if I get the chance. It's going to be a thrill of a lifetime to race it if I can. It was already a thrill when they called me and asked me why I wanted one and I said, 'My dad was a drag racer.' I grew up around racing all my life. It's a passion of mine to go fast and I got lucky."
Beaver said his father, Gary, passed away 12 years ago.
"I grew up with my dad, racing his '59 Chevy Jeep on the weekends," he said. "Getting this (car) brings up a lot of memories. My own kids think the COPO is amazing, but they respect it enough to know they can't handle a car of that magnitude. They're still blown away by the power of the thing."
And the power of their father's decision to sell the car to fund their college education.
"It's probably one of the most selfless things someone could do," Blane, Beaver's son and a Dalton State College student, said. "Any person who has any car knowledge knows having this car puts you in an elite class. Millions of people put their names in to get drawn. The fact that he is going to give up this car up for me, my brother (Chance) and my sister (Maci) turns the word 'Father' into the word 'Dad."
Garett Beaver believes it "wouldn't be right" for him to keep the car while his kids pay for college.
"I'm going to try and sell it between $275,000-$300,000," he said. "I've got collectors from New Mexico, Nevada and Pennsylvania talking with me so far. If it sells before springtime, it sells. If it doesn't, I've got enough of my father's genes in me that it will go to the drag strip (at East Brainerd near Chattanooga or Calhoun)."
Selling the car will also help the family get back to financial stability, Blane said.
"We went through a situation that pretty much put us out of a house," he said. "I don't know how we made it, but my dad ... kept getting up every morning to go to work. This car really represents the idea that something good can happen if you keep working hard."
Though Garett Beaver calls the car "a dream come true," Blane said "pursuing a dream means you might have a realistic chance at getting it."
"My dad is not a big multi-millionaire," Blane said. "He's a local car salesman (at Edd Kirby Adventure Cars). If there was a meeting right now of all the owners of a COPO, my dad would meet with a very selective group of people from all over the world. There's a lot of power and icon status with that. Chevy will never make a car like this again. The fact that my dad got selected to have this car is incredible."
The car is the first Camaro to be designed for a drag strip, says the Chevrolet website, and can reach a speed of 160 miles per hour in nine seconds with a 550-horsepower engine. Garett Beaver believes it can go faster.
"They rated it at 550, but if you calculate the total track times the car has been getting at the (National Hotrod Association) races, along with the weight of the car, it's north of 800 horsepower," he said. "It's louder than any car I've ever heard. It's a sonic boom. The sound of the car is completely nuts and it goes fast."
Fast enough to lift off the ground.
"If you don't get traction, your front will go up," Garett Beaver said. "I'm talking not just a little bitty pop-a-wheelie — it will lift up and stay up. That's what's making it so collectible. It's a real race car and very rare."
Car stats: Supercharged 5.4-liter V-8 engine, 550 horsepower (possibly as high as 800), 3,175 pounds, chrome body, 160 miles per hour in nine seconds.


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01:30 AWST on Thursday 24 July 2014 | Cloud/surface composite, Australia
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Issued at 5:00 am EST Thursday on 24 July 2014
A large cloud band over southeastern Australia is from a low pressure system over the eastern Bight combining with a broad upper level trough.
Low cloud in the wake of this system is over southern Western Australia and southern South Australia.
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Nadia Hotel Amsterdam is a large hotel, offering plenty of rooms. If you are looking for a budget stay, a 2-star room can be found here. Amsterdam Central Station is a station close by. The area is rich in museums: Anne Frank House and Madame Tussaud Wax Museum are popular features in this catergory. Westerkerk is 0.1 km (0.1 miles) from here. Artis Zoo is not far away and offers plenty of fun.
Free breakfast is offered to all guests staying in Nadia Hotel Amsterdam. A baby-sitting service is part of the list of services that you can benefit from here. This accommodation consists of 52 rooms. Paid parking is a handy option you can benefit from when you come by car. Need to get around? A paid airport shuttle bus is provided for your convenience.
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Today, I ordered a jar of Nikki's Coconut Butter in Macadamia Nut Cookie. The butter is gluten and dairy free and made with organic coconut.
The plan is to make Paleo Macadamia Pancakes this week (or whenever my jar arrives). The recipe is posted on the Nikki's Coconut Butter website. To read it, CLICK HERE.
I want to start focusing more of my attention on what I eat for breakfast. Lately, that hasn't been much of anything, maybe a banana or another piece of fruit. I really want to get more creative with my breakfast, while still keeping it healthy.
So in addition to trying some new things with Nikki's Coconut Butter, I am going to mix a variety of smoothies until I find one I really like.
Below are some of my options ...
Also this week, I am finally going to make Tina Haupert's Two-Ingredient Pancake (which she eats most mornings).
The pancake is simply made with an egg and a banana. Sounds easy enough.
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Event: GEICO PBA World Series of Bowling IV
Tournament: PBA Viper Championship. Third tournament of the World Series of Bowling and second Tour event of the season.
Where: South Point Hotel and Casino Exhibition Hall, Las Vegas
Finals Format: Four-player stepladder
Television: ESPN (Sunday at 1 p.m. ET)
In the opening match of the second "animal pattern lane condition" Tour event of the season, two-time Player of the Year Mika Koivuniemi of Finland will bowl against four-time Tour titlist Mike Fagan of Dallas.
Fagan is coming off a Player-of-the-Year-contending season in 2011-12 in which he won his first career major (USBC Masters) and also collected a win in the Brunswick Euro Challenge. He also made telecasts in three other majors including a second-place finish to Pete Weber in the U.S. Open.
After a 2010-11 season where he made the TV finals in all four majors, won the 2011 PBA Tournament of Champions and earned Player of the Year honors, Koivuniemi is hoping to rebound from a 2011-12 season in which he made only one TV appearance.
The winner of the opening match will then advance to meet five-time Tour winner and reigning Player of the Year Sean Rash of Montgomery, Ill.
Rash did just about everything at the 2011 World Series of Bowling except win a title. He made the TV finals in all four animal pattern events, the World Championship and Mark Roth/Marshall Holman Doubles event. However, his three second-place finishes in the WSOB along with a win in the season-ending Tournament of Champions contributed to his winning his first PBA Player of the Year title.
The winner of the semifinal will take on no. 1 seed Brad Angelo of Lockport, N.Y., who hopes to break a four-year winless streak that dates back to 2008 when he won the Viper Championship for his only Tour title.
The next three consecutive Sundays after the Viper telecast will feature World Series of Bowling finals with all 90-minute programs airing at 1 p.m. ET. The Chameleon Championship will air on Dec. 30, the Bowlers Journal Scorpion Championship on Jan. 6, and the PBA World Championship on Jan. 13.
Each ESPN telecast will be preceded by a special pre-game show on PBA's online bowling channel, Xtra Frame, and each will feature a post-game show on Xtra Frame with an interview with the tournament winner.
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HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review the case of a Texas death row inmate who's set to die next week for an East Texas slaying more than two decades ago.
The high court made no comment Monday in rejecting the case of 50-year-old Rickey Lynn Lewis.
The Tyler man was on parole for a third burglary conviction when he was arrested for breaking into a Tyler-area home in September 1990, fatally shooting the man who lived there and raping the shooting victim's wife. He also stole the woman's truck and killed her dog.
She managed to climb out a bathroom window after the attack and call police. Her testimony at his capital murder trial helped send Lewis to death row.
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How China, an Emerging Superpower, Will Test the Obama Administration
An economic partner, yes, but also a rival for resources and global influence.
China's continuing rise as a likely future superpower will be an overriding feature of the foreign policy landscape that Barack Obama will need to maneuver through after Inauguration Day.
Though U.S. dealings with the world's most populous nation did not play a significant role in the 2008 presidential campaign, China's growing heft in international affairs—and its importance in the current global economic crisis—assure that such scant attention will not continue.
In a development unthinkable before Richard Nixon went to China in 1972, China has become a key partner of the United States. It remains under Communist Party rule but is running a mixed economy with plenty of room for capitalist enterprise, though not for what the West regards as political freedom.
The remaking of a once hostile relationship between Beijing and Washington constitutes one of the most significant diplomatic breakthroughs of modern times and means that Barack Obama will inherit a still-evolving partnership upon which American officials, consumers, and businesses have come to depend.
The gains from three decades of increasingly market-oriented reforms and historic growth of about 10 percent annually have ushered China onto the world stage. That partial transformation of a developing society was the subtext for the summer's Beijing Olympic Games. The event signified both Beijing's rising self-confidence and its willingness to carry on a measured opening to the world. "It was a watershed moment for China—their coming out to the world," says Derek Mitchell, a China specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
China now offers the world's fourth-largest economy and may surpass the size of the world's biggest economy (America's) by 2027, according to a Goldman Sachs study. It has become a key supplier of affordable manufactured goods to America and other developed countries, netting in the process the world's largest holdings of foreign reserves, at $2 trillion. It also holds about $1 trillion in U.S. government debt, a posture that helps enable U.S. deficit spending and deepens the mutual interdependence. Its recent fiscal stimulus package is being touted as a lift for a sagging world economy. Says C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, "China will be at the center of the global economic system."
That economic clout is also being reflected in ways that could spur tension during the Obama White House years: China's defense buildup, its more active foreign policy, and its rapid push for trade, energy supplies, and aid deals everywhere from the Middle East and Africa to South America and Asia.
Still, U.S.-Chinese relations have moved to a far better place than where they seemed to be headed early in George Bush's presidency. He had called China a "strategic competitor." His first foreign policy crisis, in 2001, arose when a U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane collided in midair with a Chinese fighter, killing its pilot and triggering nationalist outrage in China. The American crew members were briefly held on China's Hainan Island, until a deal for their release was negotiated.
That outcome, along with China's support for the United States after 9/11, tempered the administration's initially hard-line instincts, and pragmatism took root. Ultimately, Bush visited Beijing four times, seeing in China a partner not only in the fight against terrorism but in trying to curb the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran. U.S. policy was revised to encourage China to become a "responsible stakeholder" in international politics and economics, as its role expands.
Yet U.S.-Chinese ties will, in all likelihood, be tested at times in the Obama years. Beijing's human-rights record, along with its handling of problems in Tibet, will remain recurring issues, with Beijing essentially telling Washington to mind its own business. United States support for Taiwan will also remain an irritant, with China continuing to oppose arms sales for the island, which it regards as a breakaway province wrongfully separated from the motherland during the 1949 revolution.


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SAN DIEGO, CA – April 24, 2013 – Monarch School will soon be able to serve its students in a whole new way. The new Monarch School Nat & Flora Bosa Campus for children impacted by homelessness celebrated its grand opening with a ribbon cutting ceremony today. The new school, located just south of Petco Park, at 1625 Newton Avenue, is five times the size of the school's current facility and will allow the school to double enrollment, maximizing educational opportunities for children affected by homelessness in San Diego.
"This celebration recognizes more than a decade of work by committed and dedicated individuals who have made this campus a reality," said Erin Spiewak, Monarch School CEO.
Andrea Chacon no longer dreads the question.
"Where do you live? I have no problem answering any more. I live in a shelter," said Andrea, 15, a student at the Monarch School for homeless youth. "No one judges me here."
More than 25 years after a drop-in center for homeless students opened in San Diego with a single teacher, a gleaming $15 million campus for transient youth will make its debut in downtown's East Village Wednesday.
Monarch will move out of its cramped Cedar Street quarters and into a 51,000 square foot complex near Petco Park that includes a health center, computer lab, gym, playgrounds and gardens.
It will be a bittersweet celebration.
The students who painted the mural at a temporary wall in Horton Plaza were able to see their completed creation for the first time on Wednesday. Students from Monarch School, which serves kids whose families have been impacted by homelessness, helped design and create the mural that covers major construction in downtown San Diego.
The mural features their favorite places in San Diego, from Balboa Park to Coronado. The children painted the mural at school, and then each piece was transported to Horton Plaza to cover the wall.
It is fitting that when translated into Spanish, La Jolla means "the jewel," because La Jolla truly is the diamond of the West Coast. La Jolla has become the embodiment of luxury, class and style in San Diego. The chic allure of La Jolla's avenues has drawn the finest automobiles to this coastal town for the ninth year at the La Jolla Concours d'Elegance and The La Jolla Motor Car Classic at the Concours. The La Jolla Concours d'Elegance features various types of fine automobile gems. Past years have showcased horseless carriages, Italian marques, British marques, Woodies, 50's classics, American sports cars (with a salute to GM on their 100th anniversary), and the automobiles of Carroll Shelby. Spectators from all over the nation come to the breathtaking shores of La Jolla to view their favorite classics.
Ragnar is a 200-mile relay race from Huntington Beach to San Diego in which teams of 12 test their athletic stamina and rely on each other for support over the course of 2 days. Team members run 3 legs of the race; difficulty and distance vary from 3-8 miles. All types of runners participate each year so whether you are a novice or a world class athlete, please join us! Last year 10 teams raised $60,000 for Monarch. This year we are creating 25 teams with the goal of raising $200,000. Each team is asked to raise $6,000 and is provided with a link to set up a customized fundraising webpage that accepts and tracks donations.


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Instant Minecraft Designs How-to [Instant]
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- Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
- Build structures quickly and efficiently using World Edit CUI
- Learn the most useful functions of Voxel Sniper to build complex and aesthetically pleasing architecture
- Packed with illustrations to guide you through each project
Book DetailsLanguage : English
eBook : 76 pages
Release Date : March 2013
Author(s) : Mephisto Waltz
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Instant, Other, Games
Table of ContentsPreface
Instant Minecraft Designs How-to
- Instant Minecraft Designs How-to
- Tudor-style house (Simple)
- Airship (Simple to intermediate)
- Octagonal Chinese pagoda (Intermediate)
- Futuristic city (Advanced)
This book will give you precise instructions on how to download the mods THE FIRST TIME and get them installed right.
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What you will learn from this book
- Create and modify selections using World Edit CUI
- Use Voxel Sniper to alter pre-existing blocks or add new ones at the click of a button
- Effectively use the copy, rotate, flip, and paste functions of World Edit CUI
- Create geometric structures of almost any size in the blink of an eye using World Edit CUI and Voxel Sniper
- Fix areas of water instantly
- Quickly stack duplicate objects in any direction without having to build each and every one manually
- Build strikingly attractive structures in a fraction of the time it normally takes in Minecraft
In Detail
The Voxel Mod Pack is a suite of mods that adds powerful new functionality to Minecraft, helping you to create beautiful and engaging structures faster and more easily than ever. In this book you'll learn how to use World Edit CUI to create and edit geometry selections.
"Instant Minecraft Designs How-to" will help you achieve advanced architectural feats by working through a series of exciting, practical projects. Each chapter is a standalone exercise that you can integrate into your current projects, or use as inspiration for future ones.
In this book we cut out all of the unnecessary chit chat and get straight into building. Each exercise is designed to improve your building skills by introducing new and useful functions in a hands-on way.
We'll start with a Tudor-style mansion, getting you used to using the basic functions and applying them in a practical way, working up to finish with a futuristic city, by which time you'll be accustomed to using World Edit CUI and Voxel Sniper commands.
Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. Get the job done and learn as you go. A how-To book with practical recipes accompanied with rich screenshots for easy comprehension.This a Packt Instant How-to, giving the reader practical, step-by-step instructions to make impressive Minecraft architecture.
Who this book is for
This book is great for beginners who wish to get a jump start on their building dreams in Minecraft or the seasoned veteran who wishes to improve their current skills.


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Any opinions on this amp? It appears it is basically the same unit as the 200.5 but without the balanced outputs. I might pull the trigger on a deal locally here, but would love to hear anyone's experience with the amp before pulling the trigger.
I'd be using these to power my LSIs. So, first hand knowledge of how B&K mates with the LSIs would be great!
One really important question: How long can an amp be expected to last? I'd hate to spend over a grand on an amp that is 6 years old and have it die on my in a year or two.


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Vol. 2 No. 4, Winter 1997/1998 (#8)
Perspectives On Ergodic Literature
Espen J. Aarseth
Johns Hopkins University Press ($14.95)
by Rudi Dornemann
In this book, Espen J. Aarseth has created a key text for future critical and creative work in the field of electronic writing. It's a particularly brave undertaking, since there are so many different kinds of electronic texts, most continually mutating and evolving. In succeeding, Aarseth has created a particularly valuable guide. What he does right is simple: he's general when he should be general and specific when he should be specific. Cybertext's strength is in the balance it strikes between those two perspectives; its future utility is in the bridge it builds between them.
From the first line, Aarseth marks out the territory he'll examine, defining the title neologism. In the term cybertext, Aarseth is not using cyber in the popular connotation "computer-" or "machine-". Instead, he's returning to the sense of information theorist Norbert Wiener's coinage cybernetics, where cyber means "control"--in particular, control through the give and take of feedback loops. Aarseth, then, shifts emphasis away from the text's inner software mechanism and onto the complete system of text plus user. Nothing inherently electronic or necessarily high-tech in this idea; Aarseth sees the I Ching, Apollinaire's Calligrammes, Queneau's Cent mille milliards de poèmes, and various other works on paper as cybertexts just as much as anything currently being done on computers.
Aarseth examines various terms and approaches to electronic literature, carefully testing what really is and isn't useful. Out go familiar (and overhyped) terms like "nonlinear" and "interactive;" in comes the suggestive concept of "cyborg aesthetics." He also finds some value in certain semiotic approaches to electronic texts and constructs his own descriptive typology of cybertexts, electronic and otherwise.
The book moves through entertaining and informative close discussions of four kinds of electronic texts: hypertexts, computer adventure games, computer-generated texts, and the collaborative environments called MUDs. With a strong of sense of the history and development of each, Aarseth provides insight into the dynamics of these species of cybertext. He does not settle for easy applications of, for instance, poststructuralism to hypertexts or narratology to adventure games. Instead, he works out where such methodologies are valid and where they fail, then develops new approaches as needed.
Even though it's unlikely that the field of electronic literature will reach a stasis point anytime soon, the ideas Aarseth develops (including the hypertext dynamic of aporia and epiphany, the "intrigue" at work in the adventure game, and the general concepts of cybertext and ergodic literature) will continue to be useful in the future. While new forms will emerge, existing forms will continually shift and change, and some forms will fall away (as the chapter on adventure games reminds us), what Aarseth has discovered about current forms will help us to understand--and create--the forms of tomorrow.
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There is no question that QB Brett Favre made a significant impact in his first year in Minnesota. In fact, in many ways he transformed the Vikings' offense from a run-based unit to a pass-dependent one. Nowhere was this most evident than at season's end when the Vikings failed to establish RB Adrian Peterson in the first half of the Week 16 game against the Bears. From the second half of that game through the Week 17 blowout of the Giants, the Vikings threw the ball with exceptional prowess without leaning too hard on the run game.
So let's play the chicken-or-egg game: Was it Favre who made the receivers what they have been this season, or the other way around?
WR coach George Stewart, being diplomatic, says it's a little of both. But there's no question that WRs Sidney Rice and Percy Harvin did some serious growing up prior to this season to make it to a proper level to allow the offense to flourish as it has. And it's no surprise that Harvin's presence helped Rice develop.
"Sidney always has been a special player, but I think drafting Percy Harvin may have had something to do with it," Stewart said. "I am not saying that is the total case, because working closely with Cris Carter and Larry Fitzgerald allowed him to see where he was at. (Rice) worked hard before, but he saw those guys and knew he had to step it up.
"Plus, getting Brett Favre ... that doesn't hurt."
As for Harvin, Stewart sees a player with boundless talent and potential. He's just beginning to see what the young player can do with the ball in his hands.
"The bar for Percy Harvin is as high as he wants to set it," Stewart said. "The young man has done a great job of coming in and learning everything we have asked of him."
Harvin's late-season mini-slump shouldn't be too shocking. Stewart, a former special-teams coach, said he has seen only one other rookie receive the kind of treatment that Harvin did, having been kicked away from for the better part of six games, and that was Devin Hester. But another factor was Harvin's migraine headaches, a problem he has dealt with since he was 10. They caused him to miss the Bengals game and made going to work a terrible chore.
"He's such a physically tough and mentally tough young man," Stewart said. "He passed every challenge we threw at him, but those migraines? They took their toll. But he's getting treated for them, and he's back to himself now.
"But those were debilitating. Just to see him struggle to come to work and to try to pay attention, try to learn and try to go to practice, it was awful for him."
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FRIDAY -- Powerful duo: With backgrounds in acoustic, world-inspired music, guitarist ERIKA LUCKETT and jazz singer songwriter LISA FERRARO create powerful music together. The pair will play at 8 p.m. Friday at Traditions Café and World Folk Art, 300 Fifth Ave. SW, Olympia. Get your tickets for $15 general admission, $10 student/low income by calling 360-705-2819.
FRIDAY -- Use your words: Head out for a night of improvised lyrics at For MCs By MCs Battle Leagues 360 VS 206 FREESTYLE RAP BATTLE PRELIMINARY at Capitol Theater, 206 Fifth Ave. SE, Olympia. The competition will determine who fills the last open spots on an eight-man team set to compete against the 206 in Seattle. The battling begins at 7 p.m. Friday. Admission is $5, and tickets are available at olympiafilmsociety.org or at the box office night of show.
FRIDAY-SUNDAY -- Making a spectacle of itself: The seventh annual LORD FRANZANNIAN'S ROYAL OLYMPIAN SPECTACULAR VAUDEVILLE SHOW, produced and hosted by Olympia storyteller Elizabeth Lord, includes music, comedy, acrobatics and dance. Showtimes are 8 p.m. Friday through Sunday, plus 10 p.m. Saturday at The Midnight Sun Performance Space, 113 N. Columbia St., Olympia. Tickets are $15 in advance; $15-$25 at the door (no one will be turned away). For more information, go to professionaltalker.com/vaudeville-show.html or brownpapertickets.com/event/456351. This weekend's shows are recommended for ages 16 and older. (An all-ages show is planned for Sept. 29.)
FRIDAY-SUNDAY -- Give peace a chance: Its going to be a weekend of singing, dancing, and creating peace banners in multiple languages at the free INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE celebration at Heritage Park, Fifth and Water streets in downtown Olympia. The three-day observance also will include memorial displays, tribal blessings, a singing bowl concert, evening luminaries, a meditative peace walk around Capitol Lake, and other family friendly activities. The event kicks off at 4 p.m. Friday, then runs 11:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. For more information, call 360-754-3998.
FRIDAYSUNDAY -- Love connection: Olympia Little Theaters production of Neil Simons comedy LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS continues with showtimes of 7:55 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 1:55 p.m. Sunday. The theater is at 1925 Miller Ave. NE; tickets are $12-$15 and are available at Yenney Music or online at olympialittletheatre.org. For more information, call 360-786-9484.
SATURDAY -- Inside the Artists Studio: Discover the creativity of artist CHRIS MAYNARD when he hosts an Open Studio from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday. The feather artists inner sanctum features beautiful feathers, and new and old art shadowboxes. The studio, Featherfolio, is at 8211 Ayer St. SE, Olympia. Refreshments will be served.
SATURDAY -- Calling knitters and crocheters: Knitters, crocheters and other textile artists are invited to join forces with a group called the SPECTRAL SPIDERS to build giant knitted bridge cozies for the 36 lamp post bases on the Olympia Yashiro Friendship Bridge in time for Fall Arts Walk Oct. 4. Yes, you heard that right -- Olympia is joining the worldwide "yarn bombing" craze. The group is holding a KNIT-IN FIBER-FEST from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Olympia Timberland Library at Eighth and Franklin streets. Participants can drop in anytime, or stay as long or as briefly as they like. And there's free yarn available for cozy projects. For more information, contact firstname.lastname@example.com or join the public group on Facebook. A second knit-in is also planned for noon Sept. 28 at the Lacey Timberland Library on College Street.


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A lot of the preparation going on this week with the Monroe County Falcons has included more than just offensive or defensive schemes. Head coach John Petett and his staff have watched a lot of film on Metcalfe County, their next opponent, and they have their scripts ready for both sides of the ball.
But the most important thing the Falcons have been focusing on this week has been, according to Petett, the players' mindset.
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Public Art + Social Conflict: The Street Art of Joel Bergner
Show Date: August 19 – September 17, 2013
Artist Reception & Mural Unveiling Date: Friday, August 23, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Film Screening of My Tribe is Kenya: Friday, August 23, 8 pm
Location: ArtStreet Gallery Studio D, located on the 300 block of Kiefaber Street
Sponsor: ArtStreet
Contact: Brian LaDuca
Phone number: 937-229-5101
Website: ArtStreet
Joel Bergner is an award-winning mural artist whose work, focusing on issues of culture, diversity and history, explores a variety of local and international social issues. Joel's artwork is heavily inspired by his community-based work in many U.S. cities and abroad, where his murals are currently on display. This exhibit will feature photographs of his work, as well as a custom mural created during his weeklong residency at UD.
This event is free and open to the public.