text:
I saw the new Conan the Barbarian with Jason Momoa Sunday afternoon. I wasn't able to review it until now. Here we go...
The Good
Unlike the Arnold version, this actually felt like one of the original stories, complete with exotic cities with hard-to-pronounce names and lots of fight scenes. And we see Conan's early career where he was a thief, a pirate, and a general-purpose trouble-maker rather than him escaping slavery, performing one illegal feat, and then going off on a quest for revenge. And like the stories, it's extremely entertaining.
The beginning in which we see Conan as a child and the destruction of his village, a plotline borrowed from the first movie and not from Howard or his successors, is extremely well-done. We see how Conan was born on the battlefield, per the original stories, and see how he becomes a warrior despite being much younger than the other warriors. The scene where Conan, who can't be more than 12 or so, takes down several Pictish raiders was awesome. Leo Howard did a good job as the child Conan. And the Picts' battle-cries were downright spooky.
Jason Momoa makes a far better adult Conan than Arnold did. Conan in the stories, although lacking formal education, was very intelligent, while Arnold's Conan came off as rather stupid. Later in life, he became King of Aquilonia, and rather than blow the realm's entire treasury on booze, gambling, and orgies as a younger, more foolish man might have, he became a very effective ruler. Momoa's Conan was intelligent and as his friend Artus (Nonso Anozie) said, had the heart of a king. The Conan of the stories was also lithe and agile, not a walking tank like Arnold in his younger years was.
Ron Perlman did an excellent job as Conan's father Corin. Particularly notable is his performance when the warlord Khalar Zym (Stephen Lang) interrogates him in the forge and how he kills himself to allow Conan to escape.
And Lang did a good job as Zym, who was fairly complex for a sword-and-sorcery villain. Yes, he did intend to rule the world and become a god, but he dearly loved his late wife and wanted to resurrect her. And when Fassir (Raad Rawi) told him his wife deserved to die (burning alive to be more specific) for witchcraft--an act Zym and his daughter Marique (Rose McGowan) were forced to watch--he goes convincingly berserk. He made a better villain than Thulsa Doom from the original, although Doom wasn't bad.
I liked Tamara (Rachel Nichols), who Zym and his daughter are hunting to use her blood to reactivate the mask. She's no shrinking violet needing to be rescued all the time and shows herself a capable fighter, but at the same time she's not unrealistically depicted as being the combat equal of Conan or Zym in the name of political correctness either.
Also, props to Alina Puscau, Zlatka Raikova, and to any of the other actresses from early in the film who were required to have actual conversations and act while topless. I'm referring to the scene where they're rescued from the slavers early on and later when they're hanging out with Conan, Artus, and their crew in the bar.
When I was a student at UGA, I saw a hypnotist show in which several women and one man were hypnotized and convinced they were naked in front of the spectators. The women proceeded to start screaming and covering themselves, while the man didn't seem to care at all.
I didn't detect any trace of awkwardness or fear at all in any of actresses playing the slave girls or "topless wenches" when they conversed with Conan and Artus. It was like they were carrying on an ordinary conversation, only not wearing much of anything. And points to Momoa and Anozie for convincingly acting like this kind of thing is totally normal and carrying on ordinary conversations with the actresses rather than staring awkwardly at their breasts the entire time.
The Bad
Some of the dialogue was laugh-out-loud and not necessarily intentionally. The only specific incident I can recall is whe Corin holds the infant Conan over the battlefield and roars dramatically. Narm (see TVTropes) alert.
When Conan raids the slaver camp in the beginning of the film, he tells Artus "no man should live in chains." Conan as a young man would violently object to being enslaved himself but I don't recall any moral scruples about enslaving anyone else. Conan is described as having a personal moral code, but the only part of it I can recall is that he will not, under any circumstances, commit rape.
Also, it was fairly strange that Tamara kept referring to herself as a monk when, being a woman, the proper term is nun.
Also, early in the film when Conan joins the other Cimmerian boys in an initiation ritual and they encounter Pictish raiders, it would have been nice if they had been identified. I know from the Conan mythology that these were the Picts, the Cimmerians' hereditary enemies, but it wasn't mentioned. It would have been pretty easy to have one of the older boys yell "the Picts" upon seeing them, perhaps before another boy tells the others they need to return to the village.
In the film, we see Zym's daughter essentially come onto her father and Zym rejects her. However, when Remo (Milton Welsh) gets dropped through the the roof of Zym's elephant-carried ship, it looks like they're in bed together. Maybe Marique was having nightmares of watching her mother being burned as a witch or something and needed to be comforted, but given what transpired earlier, it looks rather dubious. Even encouraging Marique's incestuous feelings would be out-of-character for Zym.
When Zym interrogates Conan's father in the forge, we see the battle is still going on outside. That seems rather strange. It would be more sensible for the enemy commander to wait until all resistance is subdued before he takes the time to torture and interrogate someone. In the film, Conan intervened and wounded both Zym and one of his commanders--had adult warriors barged in, things might have gone badly for the villains.
Of course, given how Zym's whole motivation is resurrecting his wife using the Acheronian mask and the last piece is within his grasp, him not being especially rational about the whole thing makes sense.
When Conan needs help infiltrating Zym's fortress, he seeks out thief Ela-Shan (Saïd Taghmaoui ), who owes Conan his life and freedom, at Argalon, the city of thieves. It's not made clear how far Argalon actually is from Zym's city and it doesn't seem to take very long to get there and back.
And when Zym battles Conan while wearing the activated mask, the mask who gives the wearer supernatural powers, all we see him do is try to summon his wife's soul from the underworld to possess Tamara. Granted, this would tie in with him being focused solely on reviving his wife and ignoring more immediate concerns, but it would have been nice to see him throwing lightning bolts at Conan or something.
The Verdict
This was an entertaining movie and far more faithful to the source material than Arnold's version. I'm definitely going to snag this on DVD. 8 out of 10.
5 Ways to Hook Your Readers
23 hours ago


text:
Photographer Nearly Killed in Drag Race Crash
Usually in a drag race crash the concern is with the driver, not in this case. This photographer waits to the very last second to jump out of the way as this car crashes and misses him by inches. In this video, he says he was just kind of mesmerized as the car was coming straight at him. And wouldn't ya guess...it was a woman driver.
Drag Race Crash Nearly Kills Photographer - Watch More Funny Videos

subset: commoncrawl


text:
When we last left our heroes, they were on the Monitor's satellite trying to piece together what was going on. Issue #2 doesn't pick back up at that moment; instead the issue begins during the "dawn of man." Anthro, a cave-like man, saves his village from a mammoth stampede, and as the villagers celebrate, the mammoths mysteriously disappear. WHAT HORROR! It's revealed that the mammoths time-traveled to the futuristic thirteenth century patrolled by the Legion of Super-heroes, only to disappear again to place unknown. GASP!
Subsequently, a very '80s battle between Batman of Earth-1 and the Joker plays out with multiple bad puns. I forgot just how silly the Joker was written back then and how often Batman fell for the old substance-in-the-boutonniere routine. As the Joker squirts Batman with some kind of sticky substance, he quips, "Gummed up your works, Batman? Getting old, stiff joints?" OY VEY!
The fight is quickly broken up by the Flash who appears out of some kind of vortex mumbling about the world dying. Before Batman can figure out what's going on, the Flash disintegrates. Back on the Monitor's satellite, the Monitor explains to our heroes that he is linked to all positive matter and that Anti-Monitor is not. As the Anti-Monitor destroys the Multiverse the Anti-Monitor grows stronger while the Monitor grows weaker. Our heroes decide to assist the Monitor by protecting towers that the Monitor has positioned throughout the Multiverse to prevent the advancement of the Anti-Monitor.
Batman and Superman of Earth-1 meet to discuss what the Flash said but suddenly their meeting is interrupted by Pariah. Pariah explains that he needs them and that Multiverse is dying. Then, in dramatic comic book fashion, he disappears.
Some of shadow figures last seen in issue #1 appear out of a tower being protected by some of our heroes and the Anti-Monitor captures the Psycho-Pirate for his use. (Insert evil laugh here).
At the conclusion of the issue, Harbinger (who was possessed by a shadow figure and is secretly working for the Anti-Monitor) is having a crisis on consciousness. The Monitor seems to know this and during on of his expositions indicates that the Multiverse can be saved with the help of Harbinger, Alex Luther from Earth-3, Pariah, and his band of recruited heroes. Only if, Harbinger can resist the Anti-Monitor! Consume. Review. Repeat. gives Crisis #2 a seven out of ten Joker puns.


text:
Naturopathy- a way to a new, healthier lifestyleSubmitted by Piyush Diwan on Thu, 03/16/2017 - 18:27
New Delhi [India], Mar. 16 : Living in harmony with nature can help us improve our overall health in ways more than we can imagine.
Today people across the world are struggling with increasing health issues, rising healthcare costs and dipping immunity and vitality levels. A significant contributor to this worldwide epidemic is the poor lifestyle followed by people all over.
There are alarming trends that should make us sit up and take notice:
- As per a WHO study done in 2014 over 52% of adults worldwide were overweight or obese;
- By 2020 India will have the highest number of Diabetics in the world;
- 28 percent of obese women worldwide develop ovarian cysts; alarming rise in India;
AIFW AW '17 brings glimpse of Indonesia on stage, courtesy Novita YunusSubmitted by Pankaj Mathur on Thu, 03/16/2017 - 18:18
New Delhi [India], Mar. 16 : The national capital, yesterday, saw a small glimpse of the Indonesian Fashion at the Amazon India Fashion Week Autumn-Winter 2017, courtsey designer Novita Yunus.
NY, by Yunus, is a premium brand of Batik Chic, created under the framework of 2013 Indonesia Fashion Forward program of Jakarta Fashion Week 2014.
Her collection, titled 'Bumi-Langit,' prepared for Amazon India Fashion Week 2017, is inspired by the idea of balancing colour palettes of the autumn leaves and cold winter sky.
Speaking on the same to the media here, Novita said, "My concept is Bumi-Langit. It's an Indonesian language, meaning the sky and the Earth. Sky symbolizes the sun and the earth symbolises the eco-print I use, using the leaf material from Indonesia."
Very little volatility in Indian market post Fed rate hike: Arvind SubramanianSubmitted by Ashok Rawat on Thu, 03/16/2017 - 18:08
New Delhi [India], Mar 16 : Hailing the decision of the US Fed to overnight increase the funds rate to a target range of 0.75 percent to one percent, Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian on Thursday said that it was anticipated with a probability of 100 percent and added that this move should not be seen as a surprise.
Talking about the affect of the rate hike on the Indian market, Subramanian said there is very little volatility in the market, adding there is, however, pressure on the rupee to strengthen in the coming weeks.
"There is very little impact on India and Indian rupee in terms of capital outflows because export numbers have been good so far," added Subramanian.
Snapdeal, Japan Trade Organization tie-up to bring Japanese products to IndiaSubmitted by Ashok Rawat on Thu, 03/16/2017 - 18:04
New Delhi [India], Mar 16 : Online marketplace Snapdeal on Thursday announced its partnership with Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) for an exclusive partnership to showcase products from popular SME brands from Japan on Snapdeal.
Customers can now purchase JETRO products across various categories including electronic devices, accessories, kitchenware and personal care directly from Snapdeal.
The partnership is a step forward for Snapdeal in its quest to expand its portfolio with international brands which are acclaimed for excellence in their product quality and standards. Via the partnership, JETRO also hopes to create a niche space for these companies and their products in the Indian market as well as reach out to a huge customer base of over thousands of Indians.
US-India Business Council convenes innovation driven expansion of healthcare access in IndiaSubmitted by Ashok Rawat on Thu, 03/16/2017 - 17:48
New Delhi [India], Mar 16 : The US-India Business Council (USIBC) in partnership with the Ministry of External Affairs, and Invest India convened policymakers, global experts, industry leaders, and relevant stakeholders on March 14, 2017 in New Delhi for a conference entitled, "The 2nd Annual Conference on Innovation Driven Expansion of Healthcare Access in India".
"India has proven to be a leader in the global life sciences space," said Dr. Mukesh Aghi, President of USIBC. "If the barriers to increasing R&D and innovation are removed, India has the potential to rank up even higher in the areas of IPR, disease prevention, and drug and medical device manufacturing."
NEC joins US Department of Homeland Security "AIS" Initiative for Sharing Cyber Threat IndicatorsSubmitted by Ashok Rawat on Thu, 03/16/2017 - 17:32
New Delhi [India], Mar 16 : NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced its participation in the "Automated Indicator Sharing" (AIS) initiative implemented by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that swiftly shares cyber threat indicators between the government and the private sectors, aligning technologies and human resources in the cyber security businesses and bolstering cyber intelligence as an important source of information.
US Fed raises rates at March meeting with high expectations of economy boostSubmitted by Ashok Rawat on Thu, 03/16/2017 - 17:15
New Delhi [India], Mar 16 : The Federal Reserve on Wednesday increased its benchmark interest rate a quarter point amid rising confidence that the economy is on the path of robust growth.
It for the second time in three months that the Fed has increased its interest rates, which is widely anticipated by the financial markets as it has taken the overnight funds rate to a target range of 0.75 percent to one percent and set the Fed on a likely path of regular hikes ahead.
"The market was bracing for a much more hawkish tone from the Fed. The early reaction looks to be one of relief, that the market's worst fears were averted," said Michael Arone, the chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors.
GST implementation: Govt. announces compensation to states for five yearsSubmitted by Ashok Rawat on Thu, 03/16/2017 - 17:03
New Delhi [India], Mar 16 : The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday announced the panels' consensus on significant issues including fixing the threshold limit for registration and full compensation for five years to the states for losses on account of the GST implementation.
The GST Council is expected to endorse the remaining two crucial bills including the State GST (SGST) and Union Territory GST (UTGST) here today.
The Council's nod will act as another decisive step in the run up to the implementation of the overhauled tax regime from July 1.
Trubore, a new inception for a popular brand in MumbaiSubmitted by Ashok Rawat on Thu, 03/16/2017 - 16:59
New Delhi [India], Mar 16 : 17th of January 2017, was the day when the city of Madurai observed Trubore's maiden launch event called Tru-Go. This event empowered the brand to enter into the pan-India market. Despite its familiarity in the South, Trubore took a rebirth in a completely bold new form. The company revealed its new-age logo in a spectacular fashion at the event, attended by over 300 dealers and distributors from across Tamil Nadu.
Google Maps 'transit feature' now enabled in seven more Indian citiesSubmitted by Darpana Kutty on Thu, 03/16/2017 - 14:42
New Delhi [India], Mar 16 : Google India on Thursday announced expansion of the transit feature on the Google Maps to seven more Indian cities including Chandigarh, Lucknow, Vadodara, Indore, Mysore, Surat and Coimbatore.
The new transit feature will help users better plan their commute around the city, and make it easier to get an overview of public transportation around them.
With today's update, the transit feature is now available in sixteen Indian cities including the new ones.
"Google Maps is your guide to the world around you, and this launch is part of our effort to reflect the real world and provide you with relevant information about your surroundings," said product manager Google Maps, Sanket Gupta.
SBI, CREDAI sign MOU towards development of Real Estate SectorSubmitted by Ashok Rawat on Thu, 03/16/2017 - 13:51
New Delhi [India], Mar. 16 : The State Bank of India (SBI) and the Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Associations of India (CREDAI) on Wednesday inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly conduct various initiatives towards the development of the Real Estate Sector for a period of three years.
SBI and CREDAI have a common objective of providing housing for all.
Each of them will leverage their individual strengths and collaborate in areas which will be beneficial to the sector and the consumers at large.
The MOU was exchanged between Rajnish Kumar, Managing Director SBI and Geetambar Anand, President CREDAI at the CREDAI National Conclave held in Delhi on March 6 and March 7.
Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu was also present for the occasion.
Organizations around globe becoming better at detecting breaches: ReportSubmitted by Darpana Kutty on Wed, 03/15/2017 - 16:46
New Delhi [India], Mar. 15 : FireEye, Inc., the leader at stopping today's advanced cyber attacks, recently released the Mandiant M-Trends 2017 report.
The report shares statistics and insights gleaned from Mandiant investigations around the globe in 2016, as well as specific to the EMEA and APAC regions.
Additionally, they have included insights from their FireEye as a Service (FaaS) teams for the second consecutive year.
Some of the key points include:
•Organizations around the globe are becoming better at identifying breaches. The global median time from compromise to discovery has dropped significantly from 146 days in 2015 to 79.5 days in 2016.
LG's #KarSalaam initiative achieves a 'Guinness World Records' titleSubmitted by Ashok Rawat on Wed, 03/15/2017 - 16:00
New Delhi [India], Mar 15 : LG creates a 'Guinness World Records'® feat for its #KarSalaam initiative launched at the start of this year. The initiative involved the whole nation to come forward and send in their good wishes to the Indian Armed Forces for their undying spirit of bravery.
With this campaign, LG breaks the Guinness World Records by getting more than 114741 handwritten messages from the Indian citizens.
Through this initiative, LG salutes the soldiers' spirit of generous contribution and service towards the nation. The company aims to stand in gratitude for the Indian Armed Forces for assuring that we lead a fearless and safe life in this country while they protect our borders.
OLX releases new brand campaign; urges India to take six-month break-up challengeSubmitted by Ashok Rawat on Wed, 03/15/2017 - 15:57
New Delhi [India], Mar 15 : OLX, India's number one classifieds announced the launch of its latest brand campaign today that has gone live on television and digital, and will be amplified across radio, social media, and out-of-home in the coming weeks.
The campaign, known as the 'Six Months Break-Up Challenge' urges people to sell pre-owned goods that they haven't used for at least 6 months. The campaign is based on the insights gathered from CRUST (Consumer Research on Used-Goods and Selling Trends), OLX's annual consumer survey to understand user behaviour towards used goods, as well as other consumer trends.
A Campaign Derived Research Insights:
Bariatric surgery ideal to address acute obesitySubmitted by Deepan Chawla on Wed, 03/15/2017 - 15:44
New Delhi [India], Mar. 15 : Obesity in India has been increasing at an alarming rate over the past three decades.
India is under siege; junk food, alcohol and sedentary lifestyle are leading us to silent self-destruction, making one in every five Indian men and women either obese or overweight.
According to a study published in the noted journal Lancet, India is just behind US and China in this global hazard list of top 10 countries with highest number of obese people.
Inflation soars to 3.65 per cent in FebruarySubmitted by Ashok Rawat on Wed, 03/15/2017 - 12:48
New Delhi [India], Mar. 15 : Retail inflation rose to a four-month high of 3.65 per cent in February this year, mainly due to an increase in the prices of food items.
Inflation measured in terms of the Consumer Price Index had stood at 3.17 per cent in January this year. Retail inflation was 5.26 per cent in February last year.
According to data released by the Central Statistics Office, retail inflation in food items rose to 2.01 per cent in February, from 0.61 per cent in January.
But prices of vegetables declined by 8.29 percent and of pulses by 9.02 per cent.
The increase in prices may weaken the case for an immediate interest rate cut by the RBI, which had kept lending rates unchanged at the last review in February, citing risks to inflation. (ANI)
India Innovation Growth Programme (IIGP) 2.0 to support Industrial and Social InnovationsSubmitted by Ashok Rawat on Tue, 03/14/2017 - 18:27
New Delhi [India], Mar 14 : Strengthening its commitment to foster innovation and entrepreneurship, the Department of Science and Technology launched the India Innovation Growth Programme 2.0 on Saturday.
The programme has been running since 2007 with the support of Lockheed Martin Corporation and has supported close to 500 innovators, start-ups, creating an economic value of approx. USD 900 million.
The programme has been administered by the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum and implemented by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
Through a wide outreach campaign undertaken by FICCI over the last 10
Sales leader appointed to head up Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise APAC SalesSubmitted by Ashok Rawat on Tue, 03/14/2017 - 18:24
New Delhi [India], Mar 14 : ALE, operating under the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise brand, today announced the expansion of its senior leadership team in Asia Pacific, a key region for the company, with the appointment of Pierre Samson as Vice President of Sales. Pierre will assume his role effective immediately and will be based from Singapore. He will report to Matthieu Destot, Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing, ALE.
Pierre has over 12 years of experience in the industry and has held senior leadership positions as Head of the Unified Communication and Collaboration Business Unit for Large Accounts at Orange Business Services and most recently as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Sales Officer at Lexsi, a cyber security specialist which was acquired by Orange in 2016.
Air Freight Bazaar launches services globally; aims at meeting all needsSubmitted by Ashok Rawat on Tue, 03/14/2017 - 18:14
New Delhi [India], Mar 14 : India's first global Air Cargo aggregator platform Air Freight Bazaar has announced the launch of its services in India here today.
The platform is world's first air freight aggregator that provides freight forwarding rates and information related to the overall air cargo industry in real-time. Air Freight Bazaar's unique, single, global platform aims at addressing all the needs and requirements of the air cargo Industry bringing transparency, simplicity and efficiency into the process.
BSA appoints Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy as Country ManagerSubmitted by Ashok Rawat on Tue, 03/14/2017 - 18:03
New Delhi [India], Mar 14 : The Software Alliance BSA on Tuesday announced the appointment of Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy as its Country Manager, India.
Venkatesh will lead all BSA activity in India with initiatives aimed at furthering BSA's policy priorities relating to software, managing software licensing compliance programs, and related enforcement strategies.
As Country Manager for India, Venkatesh will work closely with BSA
members to invest in areas that promote the continued progress of technology innovation so that India can capitalize on the opportunities of both today and tomorrow.


text:
Excellent facility. Highly professional Doctors and staff. Thanks .
Excellent service and excellent references.. The tests which I need would have cost us nearly 10000rs but with help of doctor c, it cost us nearly 4500rs only, which is less than half.
First come first serve is not good, fix appointment and time, so that v come on time and get the services without waiting long.
Lot of waiting though we went 40 min before..
Good response and friendly .
Good service
Test centre staff are not very friendly. Why do they needed paiteint details while I have given the same on this app?
Bad. Diagnostic was very old and didn't have proper registration desk members, nurse and doctor was in a hurry to leave to her home. The report was very generic and was not in detail. Went for Ultrasound KUB scan and report stated 2-3 renal calculi of size 6-7 mm are present. They couldn't even tell whether 2 calculi or 3 calculi. Pathetic experience. Better avoid this diagonistic centre and go to Vijaya diagonistic for quality reports
super service
Cost high
Very good performance
But there is No female doctor at that time ..we planned for tomorrow 9.30 am
Good Response & Excellent Service.
it was good and reasonable
I have a recommendation, for OGTT patient has to carry a glucon d pack of 75 gms (min) and for Quadriple marker ( ultrasound scan report) is required. If you can let the patient know about these requirements while confirming the appointment, it will save a lot of time and effort.
Good service...and we are happy to Dr. C...thanks


text:
A Yoga WOD
September 2, 2014
September 2, 2014
A Yoga WOD
That's right. A Yoga WOD.
We are happy to announce that we will be teaching yoga at Bayou City CrossFit! Please join us on Saturday, 9/20 at 10:15 AM. If you're looking for max performance, join us at 9 AM for a CF WOD first! We will follow the WOD with a Yoga session. All are welcome and the event is FREE!
Post WOD we will have a special sign up rate for future yoga classes at BCCF! You don't want to miss out!
Bayou City CrossFit
3622 Golf Dr, Houston, TX 77018
(713) 230-8299


text:
Do you remember that time you lost a month of your life to the iPhone game Dots? You'd better clear your schedule: developer Betaworks One has just launched its sequel, TwoDots, with the promise of 85 new challenging levels to conquer.
The App Store description seems to promise a variety of new features, from "adorable Dots" like Yetis and Squids to gameplay mechanics that will see you sinking anchors, making bombs, putting out fires and more.
Like the original, this one is a free download. Get it on the App Store here, and stay tuned for our full review early next week.


text:
Little remains of the vast factory in which some of the world's premier locomotives were built.
Coveted steam engines such as the Flying Scotsman and Mallard were once crafted by thousands of skilled workers at Doncaster Plant Works in Hexthorpe in pre-war Britain.
Most of the old factory has since been flattened, and many of Doncaster's former rail powerhouses have long-been scrapped or sit as exhibits in museums.
But loco enthusiasts are steaming ahead with ambitious plans to keep the town's railway heritage alive - by constructing an updated version of the famous Cock O' The North locomotive, built in Doncaster during the golden age of steam.
The Doncaster P2 Locomotive Trust wants to raise £6 million to re-build the streamliner, which members hope will thunder on the tracks again one day and form the centrepiece of a new railway museum.
Trust chairman and former steam driver David Court, 68, of Sprotborugh, says: "Cock O' The North is perhaps the best of the lot. It is an elegant shape and screams power. To see it working again would be a dream come true."
Since the campaign launched 15 years ago, trustees have spent years looking over old blueprints, raising funds and figuring out how to tackle what will become a major engineering project.
But the cause is starting to shift through the gears, as initial building work for the loco's mainframe has been completed, along with new blueprints, and trustees are planning to organise a series of fundraising events and exhibitions to raise the profile of their plight. The first of which was held at Doncaster's Mansion House last Saturday.
At a fundraising convention, attended by rail enthusiasts from across the country, trustees issued a rallying call for people to get on board to ensure their dream becomes a reality.
Mr Court adds: "We have raised less than £100,000 but there has been a lot of background work going on. We are now starting to move forward with it - and there is more to come.
"We have the resources, we just need the funding so please support us."
The trust was set up when a group of former engineers, railway workers and businessmen gathered in a town pub and decided to set about how to build the first steam engine in Doncaster for more than 50 years.
Cock O' The North was first built in 1934 but was modified to make it more streamlined in 1938.
It was the first of the new P2 class built for the Edinburgh to Aberdeen route. Only six were made, but none have survived and Cock O' The North was scrapped in the late 1950s.
However, the original designs by Sir Nigel Gresley survived and the trust paid £5,000 for copies from the National Railway Museum in York, which is also the home of the Flying Scotsman and Mallard, the world's fastest steam loco.
Over the last several years, an estimated 800 original plans have been adapted into a modern, computerised format, which a team of today's engineers could use to re-build the loco.
Neil Waller, 64, of Bessacarr, a loco engineer in Doncaster for 30 years and project advisor, says: "You have to play detective by finding ways to adapt some of the old parts for modern use, such as new safety and signalling systems.
"But as much as possible will be the same as the original. Sir Nigel Gresley is one of the greatest engineers. It is exciting to be working form his designs."
The loco's mainframe was completed in the spring at a cost of about £25,000 and is being stored in Didcot Railway Centre in Oxfordshire. The next phase will be to start putting stretchers on, which will add shape to the engine.
Mr Court says: "Each time we raise enough money bit by bit, then another part can be constructed. This may be done in different parts of the country, but the loco will be assembled in Doncaster, it's true home."
Trustees hope to raise further funds at a week-long convention at the Mansion House due in February, in which memorabilia from the town's rail heritage will be put on display.
This will also serve as the launch-pad for a £1m funding appeal within their wider cause to build the loco's boiler. The group hopes to have the loco finished and operational within the next decade.
Trustees are looking at different premises in the town, which they hope to use as a base to build it and then transform the space into Doncaster's very own railway museum.
The loco would be exhibited in between making tourist trips along existing steam railways, such as the York to Scarborough and Leeds to Carlisle routes.
Mr Court says: "We haven't got any formal plans as it is still early days.
"But we have seen an old depo near the railway station which would be ideal.
"When we get to the point of building the loco, our senior engineers would look to recruit apprentices and trainees to help out.
"It has the potential to be a fantastic project, we just need to raise the money."
*To support the trust, visit www.cockothenorth.co.uk


text:
We use cookies on our website to give a better user experience. By continuing to browse this website you are agreeing to the use of cookies.
Thanks to all our visitors at Offshore Europe in Aberdeen, UK. The exhibition was a success with many interesting and valuable meetings, both with old and new contacts.
Thanks to all of you!


text:
The evaluation of hot-site backup processing locations, processing and contract terms and conditions is perhaps one of the most crucial aspects of completing a Disaster Recovery plan. Hot-site evaluation and selection often suffers the lowest priority of any of the contingency planning efforts.
Many individuals, groups or teams have spent countless hours identifying the crucial processing requirements of your company. All critical files and programs have been identified and documented. Fail-safe techniques have been implemented. Off site storage of critical files backup have been contracted and utilized. There remains one major task to complete the contingency plan: the selection of an appropriate place to process data and carry on the company business in the event of a major interruption or disaster. This effort may determine the corporate viability (survival) of your company.
Selecting a hot-site is one of the final steps in the contingency planning process. Let's first define a hot-site. A hot-site is a remotely located computer facility that has business and computer systems of sufficient capacity to meet your companies' business needs for an extended period.
When evaluating or selecting a hot-site there are several factors to consider. First, there is location. The remote hot-site should be sufficiently distant to insure processing capability should an area or regional disaster occur. In the central United States, for example a company in St. Louis would probably not want to select a hot-site that is also built in close proximity to the New Madrid faultline.
A hot-site should be selected that will prevent abnormal or excessive travel and transportation requirements. After all, you may have to transport your whole company to the hot-site depending upon the level of disaster. If access and travel requirements present a problem you may need to weigh the high cost of access and transportation against a more accessible but perhaps more expensive hot-site.
Transportation of critical files and documents to a hot-site should be contracted to a commercial carrier. They are insured and the nature of the goods being transported are generally less known. In addition, experience of the employees regarding the protection of critical items is much greater than most company's delivery personnel.
An important thing to remember is that time and the expedient utilization of all available personnel is critical to continued operation and must be well planned.
Capacity of the hot-site is another critical issue in the evaluation and selection process. There is little value in selecting a hot-site that has only a portion of the business and computer systems that your company will need to continue operation. In addition to computer resources the hot-site must have sufficient environmental resources to conduct business on a continuing basis. Adequate housing of personnel must be considered. How many of your most knowledgeable employees will be needed to conduct your business at a remote site? The work space required will be an important factor.
Voice communication is another important consideration and just as important as data communication. If your daily business requires 10 local telephone lines under normal conditions, in a disaster situation that requirement may double or triple. You will need to communicate with clients, customers, suppliers and a host of others in addition to the almost continuous communication with the hot-site personnel and vice versa.
Data communications is a paramount issue. If facilities are not available when you select the hot-site, you can be certain that they will not be available when you move into the hot-site and adequate resources may take months to install.
Air conditioning should be carefully evaluated. A computer system will fry itself in a relatively short time if cooling is not adequate for the system, files, tapes, personnel and all the support equipment that are needed.
Contracts are the most difficult to evaluate because of the differences in terminology between vendors.
embership fees may be called subscriber fees, annual fees, or any number of other terms. However, all hot-site vendors charge several fees, one of which is an annual fee to subscribe to the hot-site as a potential user. These funds are generally used to offset the cost of building and maintaining the facilities and equipment and are shared among a number of users . The larger the group of users, the less time available to utilize the systems, should multiple disasters happen concurrently. At the same time, the fewer users, the more expensive the annual fees will be. Assuming that all annual fees have been paid, there will be an "emergency notification" fee. This is a fee that is charged to a hot-site subscriber when the hot-site is notified that an emergency has occurred. The notification fee generally serves two purposes, it prevents subscribers from overreacting to unsavory situations rather than true emergencies and it reserves the hot-site for it's subscribers in the order in which the checks for the notification fees arrive.
Beware of "greeks bearing gifts". Some hot sites have established "levels of subscribers". If a level 1 subscriber pays $15,000 per year for annual fees and a level 3 subscriber pays $5,000 per year the following scenario can occur: Level 3 subscriber has an emergency and has notified the hot-site. In addition, the level 3 subscriber has transported personnel, files and documentation to the hot-site. After a period of uneventful processing, a level 1 subscriber notifies the hot-site of an emergency. Where does that leave level 3? A level 3 subscriber can be "bumped" or evicted in lieu of the level 1 user. The level 3 subscriber then receives a prorated reimbursement of processing fees.
Processing fees are the fees charged for the actual utilization of the facility. The fees charged by a hot-site in one area may be significantly different than those charged by a hot-site in another area depending upon availability of services, utility rates and other factors. There may also be damage fees imposed if equipment is damaged or destroyed by your company's employees. Some hot sites may also charge an initiation fee. The initiation fee is a charge for first time subscribers in addition to annual and other fees.
Rarely should a vendor be selected that offers a single hot-site facility. The single location hot-site can be an insurmountable problem if any unforeseen circumstances limit the ability of the hot-site to provide adequate resources. If the hot-site is prone to extended power outages, for example and an outage occurs while processing in an emergency mode you are now faced with the second disaster. Emergencies or disasters are cumulative in nature and therefore the recovery is compounded and may prove fatal for your company.
The following list may help you in selecting a hot-site to complete your contingency plan:
1. Location
- Remote enough to be safe in area wide or regional disasters.
- Easily accessible to your staff.
- Adequate for all your business needs.
- Multiple location hot sites.
- Data communications adequate.
- Voice communications adequate.
2. Contracts
- Avoid "levels" of classification of subscribers.
- Avoid "initiation" fees.
- Obtain and compare actual copies of contracts.
- Insure that a "test period" is included in annual fees.
- Insure that your equipment vendors have
- Adequate space for delivery of additional equipment and supplies.
Most companies will feel safe when the contingency plan is written and filed safely away in the corporate catacombs; having been approved by whatever auditor may have glanced through it. However, the obligation to the board, or stockholders is by no means complete until the plan has been successfully tested. The corporate officers fiduciary liability begins when the contingency plan fails. A contingency plan is acceptable only after it has been tested and proven in simulated emergency conditions.
William Langendoerfer is an editor with the Disaster Recovery Journal.
This article adapted from Vol. 2 No. 1, p. 6.


text:
FIPPA -Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act Information
Welcome to the UTM FIPPA website. Please refer to this page for UTM's Privacy Policy.
For more information about the University's protection of privacy resources, policies and procedures, including training resources, please visit the University of Toronto's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Office website.
Questions about UTM's Privacy Policy should be directed to UTM's Freedom of Information Liaison:
Cindy Ferencz Hammond
Director of Governance, UTM
Assistant Secretary of the Governing Council


text:
WTL Helper
About author
WTL Helper
is addin for Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 helps insert and delete message handlers and compose DDX maps for WTL. It cant also add and remove functions.
Easy dialog interface for insert and delete message handlers.
Support of DDX variables.
Full support of ALT_MSG_MAP, so you can add handlers or delete handlers and remove or add new ALT_MSG_MAP's.
Support of RANGE handlers.
Support one function per more than one message.
Support inline (in header file) and general (in cpp file) insertion.
Support crack (for more details see my article on
) or common handlers.
Automatically include all needed header files and add needed parent classes.
Add or remove macro FORWARD_NOTIFICATIONS, REFLECT_NOTIFICATIONS and DEFAULT_REFLECTION_HANDLER by one click.
Add itself in a few context menus.
Override some method of base classes easier.
Handler highlighting
Support of extended macros of message reflection (WTL 7.5 and above)
In version of the addin 0.9.0.0 I've changed user interface. Special thanks for Alexey Shafransky who have made toolbar images.
There are screenshots for
WTL Helper
version 0.9.9.0.
Handler's page:
Variable Page
Since version 0.9.9.0 I've added menu items in context menus
Class view context menu
Resource view context menu
Menu editor context menu
Dialogue context menu
To create new dialog class the
WTL Wizards
of version 1.1 and above should be installed.
You can the same from resource view context menu like on following picture
Control context menu
You can also setup handlers highlighting. On
dialogue you should press the "Setup Handler Colours" and in the following dialogue select colours you like
And overriding of methods. If you make custom draw control (inherited from CCustomDraw) you need to override one of it's methods you should look in sources and look for necessary method name and it's parameters. Specially for that I add button to toolbar where you can choose necessary method and add it.
Example above is for child of CSrollImpl. In this one you can override methods DoScroll and DoPaint.
This addin is described more detailed in my article on
Download on
download page
You can
this project.


text:
Anything Goes
February 12, 2015
Thursday at 07:30 pm
All Aboard for the saucy and splendid production of ANYTHING GOES, winner of three 2011 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival and Choreography! This Cole Porter classic may be the quintessential musical comedy.
When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention get tossed out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love with a little help from a crew of singing sailors and some good old-fashioned blackmail.
Get your first-class ticket to enjoy memorable standards such as "I Get a Kick Out of You," "You're the Top," and of course, "Anything Goes." Don't miss what the AP exclaims as, "So DELIGHTFUL, So DELICIOUS, So DE-LOVELY!"
"Musical-Comedy joy" New York Times
Sponsored by Southern Ohio Medical Center
Tickets for lower tier seating are $55 regular, $50 senior, $42 students, $20 children under 12. Prices lower in upper tier. Discounts for families.


text:
But of course he did not forget and here i am, with freshly arrived mail from Jamie with two gorgeous cards of his collection, i feel extremely grateful for his thoughtfulness and his generosity that the least i can do is to introduce you to his incredible neat, smart, funny, cool and good looking work:
You got to love sellers like him! please visit his Etsy shop to see more of his stationery collection and giggle a little with his funny descriptions! Having some of his work here i vastly recommend it: it's so neat, cool, of an awesome quality and so original!
Thanks Jamie!


text:
Club marathon places
We are likely to be given just 1 place in the London Marathon this year (to be confirmed by December 12th).
Places will be prioritised in the following order:
- Must be a fully paid up club member
- Those who applied and were rejected in the public ballot
- If we don't get 3 applicants who qualify under 2, then will open up to other club members
If we have more than 1 applicant at stage 2, a ballot will be held in the clubhouse to allocate the place.
If we have only 1 applicant at stage 2, that person will get the place.


text:
Breakfast Nook with Storage Benches
You have probably read elsewhere on this site about one of the benefits of a breakfast nook set being extra storage space. The most common way that a breakfast nook can give you storage is if there are storage benches. The seats of your breakfast nook bench seating will lift up like a lid revealing storage compartments beneath. There are two different varieties of storage benches in the breakfast nook and this post will look at both.
The first variety of storage bench is one that resembles a large storage chest. In other words, the storage area goes all the way to the floor and gives you a very deep storage container. One example is the Hampton Bay breakfast nook set by Home Decorators Collection. This kitchen nook set is a corner breakfast nook with storage in the corner bench seat. The lid is equipped with safety hinges so that is closes slowly and you do not run the risk of little fingers getting caught in a closing lid. The furniture from Home Decorators Collection comes in a hazel brown color pictured here as well as white and natural wood. The corner breakfast nook style turns a square table for four into a table for five or six because of the spacious corner bench seats. The biggest benefit of this variety of breakfast nook with storage benches is the large amount of storage space. However, the chest like benches are large and bulky and would not work well in a modern kitchen where open space is a theme.
Another kind of breakfast nook with storage benches is one where the storage does not go all the way to the floor. Instead, the breakfast nook benches with storage are only four to five inches of storage. One example is the Soho Delfino breakfast nook set. This breakfast nook with storage benches is also a corner nook style. The corner bench setup actually comes in three pieces. The corner piece does not include storage, but the two and three person bench seats include storage. This breakfast nook with storage comes in a variety of colors for the microfiber upholstery. The picture below shows the eggplant color but it also comes in red, brown, and white as seen to the left. While you do not have as much storage space, this variety of breakfast nook with storage benches is more subtle. It is not as obvious to the common observer that there are storage compartments and that can be important for a modern kitchen nook.
The Delfino Corner Seating Set has all you need to provide plenty of additional seating and bonus storage space. It includes one corner unit, a two-seat storage bench and a three-seat storage bench.Each piece in this set is constructed of durable solid wood framing. The padded seat cushions and backs are covered in velvety, stain-resistant microfiber. Order your set today. Actual size is 35.5″H


text:
Houston Design Center Annual Designer Sample Sale
The Houston Design Center Annual Designer Sample Sale gathers design and decorative professionals, interior designers, architects, manufacturers and builders under one roof — all of them offering unprecedented savings on antiques, art, accessories, floor samples, furniture, lighting, rugs, and more.
Showrooms and designers participating in the sale include Bunch & Shoemaker, Charlotte Nail Antiques, Design House, Inc., Jann Wisdom Designs, Johnson Simon Resources, Lighting Treasures, Pride of Persia Rug Company, Postmodern Traditions, Scene One Interiors, Teri Pugh Studio, and other acclaimed industry specialists.
Noted interior designer Ben Johnston kicks off the three-day event on Friday, August 25 at 10 am with "Design 101," an informative presentation exploring the benefits of working with a design professional. Space is limited; advance reservations are available at www.thehoustondesigncenter.com/sale.
Popular food trucks Bubba's Texas Burger Shack and Cousins Maine Lobster will be on hand to provide tasty lunch bites from 11:30 am - 2 pm in the Center Gazebo.


text:
- Creative
- Animation
- Film Production
- Fine Art
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Music Production
- Photography
- UI/UX Design
- Writing
Here's the orignal poster. I love this vintage print, I have it hanging in my living room.
Uploaded the poster to http://www.colorcodepicker.com/ and grabbed the colors I needed.
Downloaded some fonts from https://www.fontsquirrel.com. They don't match exactly, but they are very close and FREE. ;) I had a really hard time finding one that matched the signature at the bottom because it was too blurry to use the Font Identifier tool.
Also finished the basic outline. Used the ellipse tool and Pathfinder to create the umbrella shape. The original was obviously painted by hand, so I used the paintbrush tool to get that effect on the table legs and highlights/shadows.
Done! I took a few artistic liberties to save time, and I'm not happy with the way some of the things turned out, but I learned a lot! And that's the point, right? ;)


text:
Sorry, but your comment of 8988 characters exceeds the maximum length of 4300. Please try shortening it and then post again.
title: Five Times Avery Knows He's Lucky
rating: idk TV PG lol
fandom: Murphy Brown
word count: somewhere around 1,500
notes: for our superfuntime 5 things ficathon going on now at murphy_fans, holla at a balla. This is one of atlashrugged's prompts.
The security guard unceremoniously flings them out of the building and bangs the doors shut behind them.
"I don't think I've ever seen an old woman's face grow as white as her hair before," Eldin says.
Murphy folds her arms across her chest and glares. "She had her facts wrong."
"She was eighty."
"Oh, like that's an excuse! The '82 hostage thing went for ten hours, not eight, and I should know because we covered it!"
"And a difference of two hours is enough to incite a riot inside the Washington Monument?"
They bicker for a few minutes before realizing that Avery hasn't said a word. They both turn to look at him and see him with his head down, silently fiddling with his little disposable camera. Murphy kneels down and gently puts a hand on his shoulder.
"Listen, uh… we'll wait it out for a few weeks and then come back; I'm sure it'll have blown over by then. You're not too disappointed, are you?"
When he looks up at her, he's grinning from ear to ear.
"No way!" he gleefully exclaims. "Everybody's gonna be so jealous when they hear about this!"
"Hey, Mom, can I dye my hair again?"
"Really? You still want to go around looking like a walking carrot?"
"Actually, I was wondering if we could make it green this time!"
"Oh, please. Green is so last Thursday. How about blue with a streak of red in the shape of a lightning bolt?"
Stern eyes peer out from behind square black glasses as the woman skims over the Post-It in her hand.
"Mrs. Schroeder," she flatly reads. "Please excuse Avery for being tardy. He had nothing to do with it. I forgot my notes for the story I'm working on and when we finally got back on the road… well, I'm sure I don't need to go into it, but there was definitely a cop involved."
Mrs. Schroeder glances up at Avery. His cheeks grow slightly pink.
"Again?" she asks him.
"Again," he replies with a sigh.
Mrs. Schroeder rolls her eyes and rips off a pink note from her stack. As she scribbles on it, she says, "All right, you're excused." She watches him exhale with relief as she hands over the slip. "You go on to class," she continues, "but when you get home today, tell your mother to come and see me during the next parent-teacher conference."
She scowls and shakes her head as Avery scampers down the hall.
Avery peers into the bubbling cauldron that is the pot containing tonight's dinner. Corky swiftly sprinkles the tiniest bit of salt on the gumbo and stirs it with a quick and graceful dexterity that's usually unbeknownst to this kitchen.
She stares at it intently for a few moments before putting her hand out again. "Pepper," she says.
"Pepper!" Avery replies as he places the pepper shaker into her hand. Once again it goes in like it's some kind of magic powder, with Corky as its sorceress. Avery continues to watch it steam and bubble with wide eyes. This kind of food, the edible kind, is only made in this house once in a blue moon. He knows it's only appropriate to savor the moment.
Corky moves the spoon handle toward him. "Go ahead, give it a taste," she says with a smile. "But be careful, it's hot."
Avery's only too happy to oblige, and when he gets the spoon to his lips and the taste hits his tongue he sees stars has to remember to stay standing. Corky grins as his eyes light up. Clearly, her work here is once again done.
"And with that," she says, giving her creation one last stir, "we wait."
Avery jumps off of his stepstool and asks, "How'd you know to put all that stuff in there?"
"Well, that's easy," Corky tells him. "Intuition!"
Avery ponders that for a moment. "Hmm… intuition, huh? For food? Mom definitely doesn't have that."
"Noooo, she most certainly does not."
Their giggling is quickly overshadowed by the voices outside. They mosey toward the sink and peek out the window. The first thing they see through the leaves is Murphy waving a Redskins helmet around.
"C'mon, put it on," she teases. "You can be the quarterback and the rest of us'll just tackle you!"
"N-no." The voice is unmistakable. Corky sighs as she watches Miles darts away from Murphy. "You can keep the helmet; I don't want to play," he says nervously.
"Oh, don't be such a killjoy, Miles!" This time it's Kay who sprints after him. "It'll be fun; I don't tackle very hard, I promise!"
"She promises, Miles!" Murphy gleefully declares.
"Oh, great! Promises from the hellhounds! I'm going back inside."
As the chatter outside peters off into discouraged murmuring, Corky chuckles and shakes her head. "He hasn't been able to fly in for five months; you think she'd let up just a little bit."
Before Avery can reply, he's interrupted by a rush of pounding footsteps. Frank, holding the football helmet, skids into the kitchen.
"AVERY, MY MAN!" he shouts. Corky winces and glares at him, but he doesn't notice. His face is lit up with childlike excitement. "How'd you like to be our new quarterback?!" Excitedly, he plops the helmet on Avery's head. It's so large on him that it swallows him right down to his chin.
"Wow!" he exclaims, his voice muffled by the helmet. He seems ready and raring to go, but suddenly stops short of flailing excitedly. "Aww, but I can't," he says dejectedly. "I'm helping Corky!"
Corky smiles proudly while Frank crinkles his nose. "What?" Frank approaches the pot and peers inside. "It looks fine; you've got it under control, right?" As he starts to poke a finger inside, Corky immediately smacks his wrist hard with the spoon handle. He backs off immediately, cradling his arm like a wounded animal.
"Look at you, trying to take my assistant away!" Corky frowns and wields the spoon like a sword.
"Oh, come on," Frank whines. "We need another player! Miles wussed out, we got Eldin to man the video camera, and Jim and Doris are too busy feeding each other your hors d'oeuvres. …Although," he says, staring off into the distance, "I didn't see them on the couch when I came in. I guess they're… doing other things now."
Avery turns from Frank to Corky and back again while the helmet teeters around on his head. He doesn't bother to take it off or move it so he can see.
"FRANK!" Avery can hear more and more of Corky's accent slipping out. "Avery's right here; why are you talking about that?!"
"Just let him come play!"
Corky rolls her eyes and sighs loudly. She glances over at the pot, which is steaming and bubbling appropriately. She sighs again. "Fine," she says, throwing up her arms. "Go! But," she turns to Avery and taps the spoon on the helmet, "I'm sure I can count on you to come back for your taste-testing duties when it's ready."
"YEAH!" Avery practically jumps with excitement. "Don't worry, Corky, I won't let you down!"
"All riiight!" Frank claps his hands together and begins guiding the still-blinded-by-helmet Avery out of the kitchen.
"What?!" Miles exclaims as they near the door. "What is this?!"
"I'm gonna be the quarterback!" Avery triumphantly declares.
"WHAT?! No! No, no, no! Murphy, you can't put your child in that kind of danger!"
"Relax, Miles!" Murphy hollers. "We have Madden '99; Avery kicks my tail every time!"
"Better than earlier when she tried to claim it was art," Eldin flatly offers.
It's all noise to Avery as he takes his first steps onto the grass. With the helmet still swaying proudly on his head, he lifts both arms into the air and lets out a cheer.
He may not have any blood-related aunts and uncles to call his own, but there's nothing better than the days when he and his family can all be together.
The dream is dark. Cold. Vivid. Everything looks and feels so real, from the chill that runs through his body when he enters the room to the voices of the doctors who tell him that they're sorry.
"She fought with everything she had," they say to him. And all he can do is stare at the still form lying in the bed and listen to the long beep that won't end.
He wakes up with tears in his eyes and immediately throws off the covers so he can make a beeline for her room. He's shaking when he gets there and approaches the bed as quietly as possible. He just wants to make sure- no, he has to make sure that it was really just a dream.
"Mom," he whispers. "Mom?"
She begins to stir and turns over towards him.
"Mom?" he asks again.
"Hmm?" Murphy answers, tiredly running a hand over her face. "What is it, what's wrong?"
"I had a bad dream," Avery says. He swallows the lump in his throat and hesitates. "It was about the cancer. It came back and… and you didn't…"
He doesn't need to say anything more. Murphy makes room for him and pats the space next to her, a space that he wastes no time filling. She gently puts her arms around him and he clings tightly to her shirt.


text:
Monday, May 31, 2004
Sunday, May 30, 2004
A lovely story in the Miami Herald yesterday on local Iraq war veterans: How combat reshaped seven lives, by Phil Long and Dan De Vise. There's not enough pixels or paper to tell all the stories that could be told on Memorial Day, whether of soldiers living or dead. This one's pretty special, though. More photos and audio are online.
Also in The Herald today: Dave Barry reports from the set of his new movie, Complete Guide to Guys. And:
Continuing coverage of the tragic floods in Haiti and Dominican Republic.
I'm away for a couple weeks (including attending the Special Libraries' Assn. conference in Nashville next week). Posting will continue during this time but maybe not as often. I'll also try to post during the conference to the NewsliBlog, where others may contribute too.
The links....
Reference :
Governments, Politics:
Florida, Business, Public Records: no links this week
Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:
Friday, May 28, 2004
I've always been impressed by the work Michael Jesse and staff do in creating local reference resources on the Indianapolis Star's Web site. Here's their latest, on The Indianapolis 500. Great job! (This Factfile was featured in LII's New page this week.)
Good news for Thomas Wolfe (and Asheville) fans: the Thomas Wolfe house, the boarding house his mother ran, once called Old Kentucky Home but immortalized as "Dixieland" in "Look Homeward, Angel", has been restored four years after a devastating fire. The Asheville Citizen Times has a fine feature on the reopening, including videos, a timeline, more. The Memorial's Web site.
Thursday, May 27, 2004
I loved the poinciana photos so much at the top of the page I'm loathe to add a new posting. The photos were an experiment, I'm still deciding whether to keep adding them here or to set up a separate photoblog. I have learned that linking to the photos from Bloggerbot doesn't work...I tried duplicating them on my home page but the links are mostly dead. So this won't be a subsitute for permanent linking photo storage.
Of interest today: The Marshall Pitch, by 'Graeme S. Marshall', actually two freelance writers:
"...we decided to pitch nonsensical story ideas and apply for jobs boasting wildly bogus and inappropriate credentials. Using the 'Graeme S. Marshall' moniker, we e-mailed dozens of editors at every level of the profession, in the hope that we could somehow stir them out of that special sleep that only a steady stream of coffee in the bloodstream brings."
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Via Michael Froomkin (who knows about this because his brother Dan's involved with it), a link to the Neiman Foundation's Neiman Watchdog. According to the site,
The goal of watchdog journalism is to see that people in power provide information the public should have.
The Nieman Watchdog Journalism Project grows from this premise and this goal: to help the press ask penetrating questions, critical questions, questions that matter, questions not yet asked about today's news.
I'm excited about finding this site because I discovered that among its contributors are several people who I'm proud to have worked with in a long-past life: Morton Mintz! Murray Marder! Barry Sussman! John Hanrahan! I'm so glad to find that these voices from my past are still around. So many are just memories now....
Note, also, Dan Froomkin's Showcase page, with good journalism links.
(Later): Note a press release on Neiman Watchdog.
Saturday, May 22, 2004
If you read my other blog at the Miami Herald, you'll see some duplicate links here. I posted a bit more there than here this week, but since some readers may not want to register at the Herald site, don't want to deprive you.... :-)
The links....
Reference :
Governments, Politics:
Business, Journalism, Public Records: no links this week
Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:
Friday, May 21, 2004
Another thing I wanted to mention: Blogger has annouced a partnership with a new service called Hello, where you can set up an account to upload and store photos for displaying on your Blogger blog, using IM. Looks like 'Bloggerbot' can make it pretty easy to get your photos into your blog. Since my 10 mb. storage on Earthlink sometimes runs out when I have lots of photos to display (which is why some of my photos on old blog posts aren't there anymore), I'm dying to get started with Bloggerbot. It looks like an easy way to turn a blog into a photoblog. Blogger has a Knowledge page on Bloggerbot, too.
Oh, and did I mention that it's free?
Oh, and another thing: says here you can also use it to send/display screenshots of a Web page. Cool!
Thursday, May 20, 2004
I've been deep into training at work (it's new intern time! and we have other new hires, and I've started a long-threatened program to offer brushup training for whoever wants it). Along with that, I needed to update lots of instruction/directory pages on the Intranet. So sorry, but work has interfered with my blogging life.
I've been noticing that Blogspot sites are occasionally AWOL since the redesign; I can always make them reappear by hitting 'refresh' -- sometimes twice or more. If you've been having trouble with this site, just keep trying. Hit refresh. But of course if you can't see this, nevermind.
Note the NewsliBlog for/by news librarians and researchers has been updated with a new design. By changing the template, I finally got Comments to work there. Wonder if it's time for a design change on this blog?
Since I posted that I was trying out Gmail, I've gotten a couple emails from total strangers, asking me to invite them. Please don't take offense if I haven't responded to you. I just don't feel right about inviting people I don't know. Nothing personal.
Oh, and FYI, if you are looking for a Gmail account, you're not alone. E-Media Tidbits reports that "Gmail lust" is so common that people are selling accounts on EBay.
Library Envy:
Just take a look at The new Seattle Public Library. The Times has created a nice package with panoramic tours and a slide show. Wow!
Can't resist this:
OK, just one more thing. I haven't blogged this but have been following the 'Washingtonienne' blog scandal, in DC. See Wonkette for the sleazy "staff ass" details if you haven't read about this yet. The blog has been shut down (but Wonkette saved the archived posts so you can still read them), and now the Washingtonienne.com domain name has been picked up......by MoveOn.org! What a slick trick!
(Via Political Wire.)
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
I grew up about 10 miles from the little upstate New York Erie Canal town of Palmyra. It's the place where Joseph Smith was given the revelation (buried gold tablets on the moraine called Hill Cumorah)that resulted in the founding of the Church of Latter-Day Saints. Today I found a story in the Maryville, TN newspaper about a movie being filmed in the nearby town of Vonore. In the movie, Vonore becomes Palmyra, in 1826, and the film, "Pillar of Light" tells the story of the early days of the Church.
Interesting. I can't imagine an East Tennessee town resembling Palmyra. I've driven through Vonore, it looked pleasant and vaguely familiar...but it's close to the Smokies. Palmyra is FLAT, except for some drumlins and moraines south of town. The film's producer says "By filming it here in Tennessee, we didn't have to wait for upstate New York to thaw. And we have people working on the set who grew up in upstate New York.
The landscape here looks so similar that they say they half expect to turn the corner and see their favorite fishing hole from back where they grew up."
May be. They do wonders with location shooting but to me a film about a place I know never looks right when it's not shot at the real location. It's one reason I've put off seeing "Cold Mountain". I just can't imagine Romania looking like the real thing.
One thing: living in Miami you get spoiled. When you see a movie that's set in Miami, there's a really good chance it was filmed in Miami, too. (Something about that constant warm weather.....)
Lots of attention being paid to the new book by Siva Vaidhyanathan, called The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System . Sounds like something librarians everywhere should be reading. Here's part of a description from Amazon.com:
- On one side, trying to maintain control of information, are corporations, judges, the military, and global institutions. On the other side, trying to liberate information, are educators, hackers, civil libertarians, artists, consumers, and political dissidents.
Which side would news librarians be on?
If you don't have the book yet, the Website (Sivacracy.net)also has a blog. Some interesting links here as well as some of the ideas from the book.
(via Doc Searls and others.
Sunday, May 16, 2004
I haven't cruised a lot of blogs today, but I expect there's quite a buzz about the latest Seymour Hersh report in New Yorker. U. of Miami law prof. Michael Froomkin, at Discourse.net has lots to say and links to some other comments; one blog he links to looks worth a bookmark: Is That Legal? from UNC law prof Eric Muller.
It looks like just about every topic at Memeorandum has something to do with Gitmo/Abu Ghraib, or its repercussions. Looks like we've just seen the tip of the iceberg.
An incredible story about the prevalence of rape in Haiti today, by the Miami Herald's Joe Mozingo, with amazing photos by Peter Andrew Bosch. Don't miss this one. We worry about the treatment of women in Arab countries? Let's look closer to home.
And, a lovely story by Cara Buckley on daughters of lost Bay of Pigs pilots getting together to figure out what happened, mentions Miami researcher Gordon Winslow. Winslow is behind the amazing and mystifying Cuban Information Archives at cuban-exile.com. This site has intrigued me for years. It has an amazing collection of source material on Cuba, Cuban exiles, the JFK assassination, and lots more. There's a complete list of Bay of Pigs participants. Miami police files on Cuban exiles connected to the 1963 Dallas tragedy. Lots, lots more. This site is wonderful.
Saturday, May 15, 2004
Via Jessica Baumgart, a link to an aspiring news librarian with a very nice blog: Confessions of a Mad Librarian, by Eli Edwards.
J also found a problem with the permalinks on NewsliBlog, which probably happened when I tried to enable comments there. Something screwy....I'll try to fix.
Events releated to Iraq have dominated the things I've linked to during the week. Many have already been posted to the Herald blog, but here are some of the most interesting (more are linked below under other categories):
The other links....
Reference :
Governments, Politics:
Public Records, People: no links this week
Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:
And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on. "
Thursday, May 13, 2004
Carole Leita has a blog: "InfoJones: This librarian's place to act out her addiction." (Leita is the retired founder of the respected Librarians' Index to the Internet.) (via Shifted Librarian.)
She recommends this: Google Guide, with good tips for searching Google.
What's making blognews? list of political stories or files most bloggers are linking to. (via J.D. Lasica.)
ISerenity.com environments: Need a break from the noise around you? This page generates ambient noise, from thunder to rain to bird songs to -- a typewriter.
Not fun:
I posted a link to this yesterday on the Herald blog, but should post it here too, in case you haven't seen it: Newsdesigner has great discussion and statistics on how papers used the Nick Berg photos, as well as a link to the discussion on the TestyCopyEditors forum.
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
After posting lots of commentary/links on the Iraq situation on the other blog, I need a break.
And this Wicker motorcycle on Lakelandcam (taken by Tony Richards on holiday in Wales) brings a smile to my face.
(Thursday noon: Sorry, photo is no longer on the site. It may show up when Tony updates the "This week on the cam" page. There are some new lovely photos here from Pembrokeshire though....)
And here's something else:
American Newsroom: nice photo essay by Sean Hemmerle in CJR.
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
David Shedden at Poynter jumps in again with a very useful compilation of Links on the Geneva Conventions and other information for stories on the Abu Ghraib problem.
For more information on Abu Ghraib and the connection to the detainees at Guantanamo, Sheila Lennon at Providence Journal has Background on Rick Baccus, former Guantanamo commander (and Taguba's testimony).
Sheila has also compiled Lots of links on Nick Berg and the story behind the beheading story.
The comments look a little better now. It's amazing how much I have to tweak the HTML to make things work the way they're supposed to....isn't all this supposed to be automatic?
Monday, May 10, 2004
So in case you tried to leave a comment, it seems it's not yet set up right. I've tried changing and republishing but it hangs up on an old, old post. Bear with me.......
Blogger had a giant redesign over the weekend. Among the new features, lots of new templates, a comments feature, lots more. I haven't investigated it all yet (this is my first time trying it) so haven't activated any new features yet. It's all explained here.
(Update: I did activate comments, just to see if it works. So far so good except for the font size.......)
Sunday, May 09, 2004
The links....
Reference :
Governments, Politics:
Public Records:
See Public Records.
Business, Journalism, People, News: no links this week
Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:
Friday, May 07, 2004
It's really sad to lose a blog you've gotten used to looking at regularly. I know a few of the blogs I list on my links page don't get updated much any more, but I still hate to delink them in case they somehow come back.
So it's especially sad to see a favorite photoblog go, since there are so few good ones. A Smoky Mountain Journal will no longer be, as its proprieter, Jim Fletcher, is moving to Texas. Maybe there'll be a good Hill Country Blog coming out soon?
But how will I get along without my daily fix of beautiful Smoky Mountain pictures? I'll depend more and more on Marie at Blue Ridge Blog, and my long-time favorite English photo blogs, Cornwallcam and Lakelandcam.
Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Haven't been updating here much but have added lots of stuff to the other blog.
Note I also posted links to a couple Washington Post researcher credits on the Newslib blog.
Blog news:
Saturday, May 01, 2004
This week was dominated by politics and Iraq, lots of which I posted on the other blog. A shorter list here than usual:
The links....
Reference :
Governments, Politics:
Public Records, Tools, Journalism, People: no links this week
Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:


text:
IBM has made much of the performance of its new Power6 chip. What it hasn't shouted about is how the new chip has affected its software pricing -- and instead, has created a mess that looks set to confuse users. The only clue has been a letter to users.
At the processor's launch, IBM's product manager Ross Mauri said that the Power6 beat all its competitors in standard benchmarks, while returning twice the performance of the Power5 processor for the same energy consumption. It also claimed that the chip is now the fastest-running Unix processor -- IBM makes variants that run as fast as 4.7GHz.
So far so good. But it's in the processor's performance that the problems lie -- not from a technology perspective but because of what it's done to IBM's price list.
All software vendors are struggling to find an equitable way of pricing products in a world where the terms 'socket' and 'processor' have lost their meaning. So in July 2006, Big Blue launched a new method of software pricing that it said took account of how different chips perform. It invented the PVU or processor value unit. Rather than being priced on a per-socket or per-processor basis, you pay for your software according to the functionality and performance extracted from the hardware and software combination.
This all sounds fair enough until you start to look at the detail. To arrive at a PVU for each processor type, IBM has to assign to it a value that reflects its performance. It does this using benchmarks -- but how it decides which benchmarks to run and how the systems are configured is known only to IBM. As anyone with benchmarking experience knows, there's no such thing as a perfect or universal benchmark, only one that measures the performance of a given system running under a particular set of circumstances.
It might appear that the system is intended to make the relationship between functionality, performance and price equitable to both parties. In practice, IBM doesn't want you to pay too little for its software and get more performance out of its software than before simply because chip vendors now sell processors with multiple cores.
So in fact, the new pricing model serves mainly to obfuscate. The main reason for this is that the metrics used to calculate the PVU are not open. You can't ensure that you're getting good value for money, and you can't compare price performance across platforms.
That's because the system doesn't just concern IBM's own Power chips, as IBM's software also runs on CPUs from Intel, Sun, HP and AMD. So a comparison of the PVUs attached to different processors is revealing. The Power6 is king of the mountain at 120 PVUs per core, while IBM's Power5 and System z, Sun Sparc IV, and Intel Itanium are priced at 100 PVUs per core. Intel and AMD's x86 server chips languish at 50 PVUs while the UltraSparc T1 squats at the bottom of IBM's performance pyramid at 30.
How IBM arrived at this formula is unknown but users haven't been slow to denigrate it. According to one commentator on a story in The Register, IBM's formula suggests that the best value for money is obtained by buying an x86, rather than an IBM Power6.
"DB2 is thread sensitive and you can buy 2.2 x86 threads for the same price as each Power 6 thread you purchase, essentially getting over 1.5 times as much real world work done," he says.
Another response suggests however that the Power6's parallel processing capability makes this an unfair comparison, while one points out: "The term you are looking for is Confusopoly which is becoming a standard response by large corporations when the product they sell is a commodity with no discernable differences."
IBM's not alone in this type of software pricing: Oracle uses a processor metric akin to IBM's in pricing its higher end products.
What's clear is that this kind of pricing is inequitable because it's not transparent: it's based on benchmark results, which can be neither verified nor repeated in the real world. As one commentator points out: "For fairness, the derivation of the core performance factor should be transparent and validated by a third party. IBM, as a processor and systems vendor, as well as a software vendor, has the power to manipulate software licenses [sic] to benefit their [sic] own servers."
The history of the software market suggests that users are intolerant of apparently unfair and opaque pricing. If IBM can't clarify the basis on which it allocates PVUs, it may find the whole exercise counter-productive in the long run.


text:
The big, smelly, fat ogre that lived in a swap. He set off to find the most beautiful princess in all the land. He found Princess Fiona; a red-haired, porcelain-skinned, absolutely stunning princess. But then what happened? Turns out, she's really an ogre like Shrek. She's funny, she's brave, she's packs a hell of a punch, but she's not the same stunning princess anymore. She's bigger now and smellier. No one wants to be with her besides Shrek because he knows who she is deep down, but who wants to flirt with personality, right? In her heart and in his eyes, she is still just a gorgeous as she was when Shrek rescued her.
Shrek is real.
I mean, ogres may not be roaming the streets, or bumping into me at Walmart type of real, but the meaning of it is so genuine and inspiring. I want my kids to be Shreks and Fionas. Yeah, it sounds weird, but think about it.
When your daughter comes home crying because she'll never be as skinny as models in a magazine. Do you want her to look up to those size 0 models that starve themselves? Do you want her shoving her finger down her throat and only eating once a week because she wants to be thin like those glorified sticks? (No offense to sticks, I'm just trying to get my point across.)
I want my daughter to watch Shrek. The first one. I want her to see how Fiona goes from being socially beautiful and envied to being loved and admired. I want her to see that Shrek loves Fiona for who she truly is and I want her to know that she will be loved. If she's tall and thin, if she's short and chubby, or if she's somewhere in between I just want her to know that someone somewhere is going to point their nose up at her, but right around the corner she'll find someone who loves her.
I want my son to realize that when he goes on quest for love, even if he returns with nothing but bruises and a broken heart, he can come back to the swamp. He'll have his family, his friends, maybe even a little side kick with the voice of Chris Rock.
I guess what I'm trying to say is:
Whether you're a skinny, blonde super model or a chubby girl with braces, you're a Cameron Diaz.
If you're a tall, ripped CEO or a middle aged guy with a bald spot who still lives with his mom, you're a Mike Myers. Or you can be a Cameron Diaz.
Whatever floats your battleship. That's not right, is it? Oh well.
Be a Shrek. Be a Fiona. Be a Donkey too if you want; even he found love.
But don't lose hope. You'll find her or him or whatever one day. Just give it time and never give up.
Love, a Fiona.


text:
Exclusively only ever involved in Lettings and Management.
Never any Renewal Fees and also a Commission Guarantee!
All areas covered in West & North West London and Southern Middlesex.
Concentrating on the highest levels of service, the most reliable professional Family Tenants, in return for reasonable and competitive Fees.
Independently Owned and Managed, having a dedicated very experienced team to assist in all areas, allows us to be very friendly but totally professional!
Furnished Studio: 1 bed
Monthly Rent of £800
Furnished Ground Maisonette: 1 bed, 1 bath, 1 reception
Monthly Rent of £1,095
Unfurnished Maisonette: 1 bed, 1 bath, 1 reception
Monthly Rent of £1,145
eg. Sudbury or HA1
Property AppraisalFree no obligation appraisal
Contact UsReceive properties to your inbox
TestimonialsRead what our clients say
The average tenancy in Britain is 20 months, and the trend shows
that tenancies are tending to last longer (up from 18 months just 3
years ago).
Related Articles:
170 Greenford Road Sudbury Hill
Greater London, HA1 3QX
Tel: 0208 864 5775
Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Disclaimer | Cookies | Site Map
Copyright 2001-2019, Resource Techniques. All Rights Reserved. Version:4.2018.627.1 AWS-RST-WEB02
Here you can log in or sign up to the members area of our website. Once logged in you can amend your personal details, add/amend/delete email alerts and access your saved properties. New property alerts are sent to your requested email address at your selected frequency once an agent publishes a new property or a price change takes place. To manage your alerts, click on the members icon at the top of the screen once you are logged in alternatively you can access this from each and every property.
Cookies We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. To find out more about our cookies policy,
our cookies policy here
or in the footer.


text:
Canyon Cove Resort is located in Nasugbu, Batangas. Its a beautiful place wherein you can relax and enjoy with your friends, family and loved ones. Its amazing and luxurious rooms will definitely have your state of peace and harmony. Their staff will always serve you at their best and with a smile. Cleanliness is also a big campaign on this resort because they preserve their place for the pollution of the City where the local and foreign guests came from.You will see and experience a cool breeze and sparkling water in the ocean view. The proud owner introduces the guests the natural white sand beach that you can enjoy with your friends and loved ones.
- Superior P4754.00
- Deluxe P6393.00
- Suite P7786.00
- Swimming pool with adjoining bar and kiddie pool
- Island Café restaurant
- Blu Bar
- Al fresco grill
- Children's playground
- Game room with billiard tables, air hockey, and videoke
- 2-tier beach
- Beach volley area
- Boutique and gift shop
- Water sports – kayak, snorkeling, pedal boat, skim board, jet ski, banana boat, scuba diving with lessons, etc.
- Island hopping, sunset cruise
- Business center
- Ballrooms, boardrooms
- Packages for weddings, conference, team building, seminar, and family excursions
- Fitness gym (soon to open)
- Health and wellness spa (soon to open)


text:
Welcome To Amazing Grace Personnel (AGP). We are a private provider specializing in delivering quality training for employees and employers. At AGP we believe that learning is achieved best when your learning inspires you to do well. Please take a look around this website for our services: Training … [Read More...]
Amazing Grace Personnel provides comprehensive training for all their staff and members of the public who wish to take this opportunity. In-house … Read More >>
We operate from our Main Office at 207 Jhumat House, 160 London Road, Barking IG11 8BB. We maintain and are constantly adding to, a register of … Read More >>
The courses that we currently have available at AGP are as shown below: Level 3 Award In Preparing To Teach In The Lifelong Learning Sector Level … Read More >>


text:
"When Bob Vozzella first opened his winery, La Cantina, in 2013, part of his mission was to give back to local charities and causes.
"Small local-run family businesses count on local support. I feel it's important for business owners to find ways to return the favor and look for ways to support others in need," Vozzella said.
Over the July 4 weekend, Vozzella launched a new wine, a special edition Malbec to benefit the Matthew Pucino Foundation.
Staff Sgt. Pucino was 34 on Nov. 23, 2009 when he was killed by an improvised explosive device in the vicinity of Pashay Kala, Afghanistan. Pucino was a Special Forces Operational Detachment-Alpha Intelligent Sergeant who grew up in Bourne and Plymouth."
Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
For more information about the La Cantina Winery here in Franklin http://www.lacantinawinery.com/.
For more information about the Matthew Pucino Foundation https://www.matthewpucinofoundation.org/
|Franklin's First Winery


text:
Dear lord, eBay is my best friend and my worst enemy at the same time.
Skirt for work, new McQueen look-a-like clutch bag, and then found a nice seller with a lot of Japanese clothing that's super cute in kind of cheap.
Bugger, i'ma be soooooo skint and i have two weeks until next pay day at the end of the month.
However i am excited to go and pay a bit for my holiday to Turkey soon.
Which also means, HOLIDAY SHOPPING.
Ciao x


text:
Firefox For iPad Under Development, Says Mozilla
Looks like Mozilla wants to spread their dominance in the browser world to the spaces of your iPad screen too.
According to the latest official information from Mozilla, the team which worked behind the desktop version of the popular open source web browser is going to challenge the dominance of Apple's Safari browser on iPad by designing an iPad version of Firefox.
Dubbed as Junior, the new browser, according to Mozilla, will make browsing more fun. As per the information from developers who work in the team, the new browser focuses on boosting up the ergonomics and has redefined the very concept of browser use from the bottom.
The result is a browser that will take over the full screen of the iPad, to give a magazine feel to the user. The Mozilla browser team's desire to re-invent the browser has made it a unique one with no toolbar but just two buttons to navigate.
Though earlier the team mulled over putting in gesture based controls, they have later zeroed in on the two button navigation.
Among the two, the left button functions as a back button while the other which looks like a plus button offers the list of recent pages and a search screen.
Though attempts to challenge Safari are not entirely new since Yahoo and Opera and a couple of firms have already tried it in the past, it is for the first time that the second most popular browser taking up such a fight.
Well, no clues on the launch date.


text:
Another long-running soap opera won't flatline after all.
ABC has renewed "General Hospital," canceled talk show "The Revolution" and has a few more new shows in the works for daytime TV audiences, reports On The Red Carpet.
When ABC canceled soaps "One Life to Live" and "All My Children" last year, the network announced that the shows would be replaced with cooking show "The Chew" and lifestyle program "The Revolution."
During the last week of March, ratings for "The Revolution" were at 1.33 million and were at about 2.21 million for "The Chew," says OTRC.
"The Revolution" will end in July. ABC will begin airing "GMA In The Afternoon," a spinoff of the long-running "Good Morning America."
Katie Couric's daytime show, "Katie," will premiere on Sept. 10. It will take the time slot that was once dominated by "The Oprah Winfrey Show."


text:
- For the Dark Souls II variant, see Repair (Dark Souls II).
- For the Dark Souls III variant, see Repair (Dark Souls III).
Repair is a Sorcery in Dark Souls.
In-Game Description
- Ancient sorcery of the lost land of Oolacile. Repair equipped weapons and armor.
- This sorcery was part of everyday life in Oolacile. Its effects resembles Repair Powder, which must have found its way into the culture of this lost land.
- Sold by Dusk of Oolacile in the Darkroot Basin for 10,000 souls.
- Sold by Elizabeth for 10,000 souls.
General InformationEdit
Repairs equipped weapons and armor by 150 durability. It does not repair weapons and armor in the player's inventory. It won't repair crystal weapons, but it will repair the Crystalline Set.
While it is possible to use Repair simply to save cost of regular bonfire repairs, it is more useful when used to extend the life of fragile weapons (such as the Washing Pole) or weapons that use durability for special abilites (such as the Drake Sword). Due to its single use, it is possible to have the spell equipped in the attunement slot granted by a Darkmoon Seance Ring or White Seance Ring, casting the spell and removing the ring (and instead, equipping another desired ring) effectively gives the player a free Repair at no expense.


text:
Jenny Bates
Senior Vice President, Marketing & Press
Jenny has been in love with the theatre industry since she first stepped on stage in The King and I in 1987. She began her "behind the scenes" career in theatre with Broadway/San Diego – A Nederlander Organization and served as the Press & Marketing Manager for many Broadway national tours at AWA Touring Services. Jenny graduated Magna Cum Laude from San Diego State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Telecommunications and Film. She has served on the Board of Directors at Christian Community Theatre in San Diego, CA and has worked artistically (both on stage and off) at The Old Globe, The Zipper Factory, Starlight Musical Theatre, HERE, Swing 46, La Jolla Stage Company, San Diego Chamber Orchestra and NYU. Favorite role on stage: Sheila in A Chorus Line. A proud member of ATPAM. email@example.com


text:
PowerPoint 2003 Books
All links below are for online purchase on Amazon and other sites. If you actually buy something, I do get a reward for that. Thank you for supporting Indezine.com
See Also:
PowerPoint 2013 Books
PowerPoint 2010 Books
PowerPoint 2007 Books
PowerPoint 2002 Books
PowerPoint 2000 Books
PowerPoint 97 Books
PowerPoint for Macintosh Books
Generic Presentation Books
Free! Extracts from my book Cutting Edge PowerPoint for Dummies --
look here.
About the book: Okay, you've PowerPointed before, right? And you knew there must be more cool things you could do? Here they are! This handy guide gives you pointers on what makes a powerful presentation, tips on using the right formats and templates, and directions for dressing up text, wowing 'em with color, adding action, and much more.
Covers PowerPoint 2000, 2002 and 2003 for Windows!
Cutting Edge PowerPoint For Dummies
How To Do Everything with PowerPoint 2003
Special Edition Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
PowerPoint 2003 for Dummies
PowerPoint 2003 Bible
Absolute Beginner's Guide to PowerPoint 2003
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Step by Step
PowerPoint 2003: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks
PowerPoint 2003 Personal Trainer
PowerPoint 2003 for Windows & Macintosh Visual Quickstart Guide
Show Me! PowerPoint 2003
PowerPoint Advanced Presentation Techniques