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The Health Systems Research Institute (HSRI) is an autonomous state agency established by the Health Systems Research Institute Act B.E. 2535 (1992), at about the same time as the Thailand Research Fund (TRF) and the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA). Its organizational structure and management system are designed to focus on flexibility so as to be able to respond to the goal of "better knowledge management for better health systems".
One of the strengths of HSRI is its networking approach and creation of "subsidiary agencies" that are institutional mechanisms working collaboratively with allied organizations. Later on, many subsidiary agencies have been established as autonomous agencies such as the Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth), the National Health Commission Office (NHCO), and the Healthcare Accreditation Institute (Public Organization). At present, HSRI has seven subsidiary agencies called "affiliated institutions" as follows:
- Central Office for Healthcare Information (CHI)
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- Health Insurance System Research Office (HISRO)
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McIlroy seeks solution, Tiger finds one
June 2, 2012 — Updated 1508 GMT (2308 HKT)
- Rory McIlroy seeking to reverse poor run of results ahead of U.S. Open starting June 14
- Northern Irishman has missed three cuts in a row in buildup to his title defense
- He will play in Memphis next week in the last tournament before the season's second major
- Tiger Woods was one shot behind leader Rory Sabbatini at halfway stage at Memorial event
(CNN) — Three starts and three missed cuts. Rory McIlroy has a lot of hard work to do before he begins the defense of his U.S. Open title later this month.
The world's No. 2 golfer crashed out of weekend contention at the PGA Tour's Memorial Tournament after a second-round 79 on Friday that left him 12 shots behind halfway leader Rory Sabbatini of South Africa.
"I don't feel like the scores are actually reflecting how I'm hitting the ball," the Northern Irishman told reporters. "I was able to string nine good holes together yesterday.
"I just need to keep working on it and try and string 18 good holes together and then try and string two days together and obviously three days and ultimately four.
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Japan's Ryo Ishikawa is the youngest male player to win a professional tournament. He was 15 when he triumphed at the Munsingwear Open in 2007, and has since gone on to become a top-level tour competitor.
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"But I hit some good shots out there. I'm definitely hitting the ball better than I did last week, so I can see an improvement there. But I've still got a long way to go."
The last time McIlroy missed three cuts in a row was in 2008 as a 19-year-old playing on the European Tour.
He has committed to the U.S. circuit this year and next week will play the St. Jude Classic in Memphis, a tournament he added to his schedule only after his second-round 79 at the European Tour's flagship PGA Championship last weekend.
After Memphis comes the U.S. Open at the Olympic Club in San Francisco for the second major tournament of the golf season.
'Mentally fatigued' Mickelson withdraws from Memorial
The event's course layouts are notoriously testing, but Luke Donald — who has swapped the No. 1 ranking regularly with McIlroy this year — believes the 23-year-old is close to regaining the form that has led many pundits to describe him as the next Tiger Woods.
"He's obviously frustrated — this game does that to you," the Englishman said.
"He's not far away. He made a couple of careless errors, but I'm sure once he posts one solid run of maybe a couple of rounds or a tournament this will be a blur and he'll forget about it quickly."
Donald, who played the first two rounds at the Memorial's Muirfield Village with McIlroy, was six shots behind Sabbatini in a tie for 27th after a 73 on Friday.
Sabbatini, seeking his seventh PGA Tour title after a poor start to 2012, had a one-shot lead after carding a second successive 69.
That scored was matched by Woods, who is hoping to tie Jack Nicklaus on 72 wins at a course designed by the "Golden Bear."
Woods was tied for second with fellow Americans Spencer Levin (72) and Scott Stallings (73) on five-under 139 overall.
"The things that I'm supposed to be doing for the past few tournaments, I was able to do," said Woods, who has struggled in his past three starts since ending his long wait for a 71st title at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in late March. However, he has never missed successive cuts in his professional career.
"This is the way that I hit the ball at Bay Hill and the way I hit it at the end of last year. That's what's exciting about it," Woods added.
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April 26, 2012 — Updated 1649 GMT (0049 HKT)
Former world No. 1 Ernie Els is throwing his weight — and his millions — behind a cause close to his heart as he seeks to build a new research center.
April 10, 2012 — Updated 1658 GMT (0058 HKT)
From Santa Claus outfits to leaping into jacuzzis and smashing lettuces, there's no antic too crazy for new Masters champion Bubba Watson.
Bubba Watson's Masters triumph heralds the arrival of a much-needed breath of fresh air for golf, says CNN's Shane O'Donoghue.
April 6, 2012 — Updated 1147 GMT (1947 HKT)
CNN's Masters rookie reveals that his first trip to Augusta conjures up images of theme parks more prevalent in another U.S. state.
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When Arnold Palmer drove up Magnolia Drive on the eve of the 1962 Masters, he was in a confident mood. This was to be his "Annus Mirabilis."
CNN's Patrick Snell says it is anyone's guess if Augusta National will bow to pressure and admit female members to the exclusive club.
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Schleifer, Arthur, Jr. "Mackintosh Chocolate Co. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 177-164, January 1977.
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Marijuana waste helps turn pot-eating pigs into tasty pork roast
OLYMPIA, Washington - With Washington state about to embark on a first-of-its-kind legal market for recreational marijuana, the budding ranks of new cannabis growers face a quandary over what to do with the excess stems, roots and leaves from their plants.
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Prague metro plans to launch love train for singles
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Jon Stewart's humor a hit with millions of envious Chinese
SHANGHAI - Humor may not always translate well, but Jon Stewart is picking up millions of fans in China, where his gloves-off political satire is refreshing for many in a country where such criticism is a rarity - especially when directed at their own leaders.
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Germans blame euro zone crisis for Eurovision debacle
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Hastings man dies at Pourerere Beach
A Hastings man has died while diving at an isolated Central Hawke's Bay beach last night.
He was Barney Leon Akurangi, aged 34 of Hastings.
The man, thought to be in his 30s, got into trouble between Pourerere and Aramoana, about 40km southeast of Waipawa, and was pulled from the water by his diving partner.
They drove some 4km along the beach to Pourerere Beach Caravan Park and raised the alarm.
Ambulance central-east acting district operations manager John Plastow said an ambulance had to park at the caravan park and paramedics were driven to the scene in a 4WD.
Police, three fire crews, and a nurse living in the area also made there way to the scene in the dark.
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I seem to be one of the few people who found The Left Hand of Darkness worthy of a response paper, so maybe I read (oh God, the unintentional pun) too much into this one. However, I found Le Guin's novel extremely entertaining, and I actually thought that it raised some interesting questions not only about gender, but also about sexuality in general. Obviously, the most blatant issues deal with gender, but I feel like there are some other things that we didn't have the chance to touch on in class.
Some of the most interesting parts of the novel were those that Le Guin almost completely brushed over. The concept of incest was especially intriguing: why did the author choose to insert this interesting bit of information into the lives of the Gethenians? In many ways, she presents a relatively utopian society--there is no war and, sexually speaking, the roles are remarkably equalized. However, in addition to this liberalized sexuality, she also makes them incestuous. In the Gethenian world, incest is not only not frowned upon, but is entirely acceptable. However, there are exceptions to this rule: "Incest is permitted…between siblings, even the full siblings of a vowed-kemmering pair. Siblings are not however allowed to vow kemmering, nor keep kemmering after the birth of a child to one of the pair" (Le Guin 92). However, I could not completely understand why this restriction is so important to Gethenian society. If incest is entirely acceptable, why would it be bad for the parents to continue kemmering even after the birth of their first child? Obviously, there is some degree of taboo to incest that is inescapable, even on another world. In addition to the restriction against the continuation of kemmering after the birth of a child, there is also the ban against incest between generations. Children seem to have a certain innocence about incest that the adults do not: they cannot witness it in their parents, and their parents cannot act out incestuous feelings with them.
There is another taboo in Gethen that is hidden much better than incest: homosexuality. Although to a naïve Earth reader the interactions between Estraven and Genly would seem homoerotic, they would not be regarded as such on Gethen. After all, Estraven "was a woman as well as a man" (Le Guin 248). Genly is obviously a difficult case, because of his "perversion," but their relationship is not overtly homosexual due to the androgyny of Estraven. However, actual homosexuality was certainly almost a moot point in Gethenian society: "If there are exceptions, resulting in kemmer-partners of the same sex, they are so rare as to be ignored" (Leguin 90). This is the only mention that readers get of homosexuality as the Gethenians would see it. To me, this seemed very strange in such a boundary-breaking novel. Obviously, Le Guin chose to brush over the subject of homosexuality in Gethenian culture, but she thrusts the homoerotic relationship of Genly and Estraven directly into her readers' faces.
However, it is important to remember that all of our descriptions of Gethenian sex acts come from outsiders' perspectives. Any commentary on taboos and customs must be filtered through a non-Gethenian mind. Obviously, this calls into question the reliability of the information--since the speaker has not undergone kemmering, they cannot personally know all of the details. Assuming the reliability of the information, Le Guin seems to imply that there are limits to taboo-breaking. She can make a society that accepts incest, but it will not infiltrate into the minds of its children. She can present a pseudo-homoerotic love scene, but it is not REALLY homosexuality because one of the characters is simply androgynous. The Left Hand of Darkness breaks down some interesting walls, but it also suggests the presence of other, more inflexible ones.
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Alright, Queers (which I say in the most lovingly way)! Let's revitalize this group.
Here's a question for you:
When you meet a new group of people (let's say you're starting a new job or introduced to a new circle of friends), which do you tell them first? Do you tell them that you've got diabetes or that you're a member of the LGBQT community? Why?
I'd like to say that neither my sexuality or my diabetes DEFINE me...but my sexuality and my diabetes sway my character much more than say my hair color or height. Additionally, these influential attributes are things that people can't necessarily see unless their told.
I haven't been "in the closet" about any part of my life for at least ten years. That being said, I don't wear "I'm a homosexual" or "I've got Type 1 Diabetes" t-shirts (unless you count my Big Blue Test shirt). Many times I just allow either topic (my homosexuality or my busted pancreas) to just come out on it's own.
I started a new job in 2011 and diabetes came up first, but the rest of me came out soon after. I'm working in a tech-related job and my blog and YouTube channel were quickly found by my internet-savy coworkers.
It's strange but I feel that gay-myths are easier to dispell and control than diabetes-myths. So if I had to choose, I'd come out of the gay closet before the diabetes closet. Either way, closets are too stuffy for me!
Diabetes comes up first. I started a new job in October last year, and on the 3rd day I felt a low blood sugar coming on, fortunately being a pastry chef, there was lots to eat. The head chef wasn't happy that he didn't know, and called me in to ask me questions about it, "how do you control it? how often do you get these lows? do I need to keep an ambulance on standby for you? what special treatment does it demand?" told him about my injection times, 2ce in the morning, once in the afternoon, and once in the evening, not often at all, no need for an ambulance, and no special treatment, I might occasionally take an apple to munch on.
The kitchen team says they suspected that I'm gay, because I'm in pastry(lame excuse) but I only actually told them in beginning November. Now I have nicknames like fairy, and princess... immature peeps! hehe
I've always told my bosses about my D too. But I always feel strange telling EVERYONE particularly because I hate the Diabetes Police and I don't want ignorant people making comments every day at lunch.
Are there a lot of gay pastry chefs? I'm not familiar with that stereotype.
Well, everyone now knows what to do if I have a low, sometimes you just get to busy to eat, or since I'm such a goldfish, I forget(time flies when you have a very long prep list to work through and service is starting in an hours time).
I'm not sure, but mostly pastry chefs are women. because it is finer detail work, cakes, desserts, breads, petit fours, macaroons and lots of other sweet stuff. I'm Pastry Chef de Partie, the head pastry chef is a lady, and there is another pastry chef de partie, also a guy, but he is straight, he just likes sugar and chocolate, and it gives him an edge with girls, they love the stuff we make in pastry....
The other guys in the kitchen are all about the big chunks of meat, and starters main courses etc...
This is one of the desserts: Pistachio nougat, with strawberry mousse, turkish delight, pistachio dust, strawberry dust and rose geranium ice cream.
Wowzer!! Looks awesome. I've never had Turkish Delight...but I know of it because the Ice Queen in The Chronicles of Narnia used it to lure kids into her sleigh. :)
Strawberry Meringue: strawberry ice cream covered with vanilla creme pat, dried strawberries, deep fried mint, meringue, and pepper shortbread biscuits, with fresh strawberries and strawberry granita.
This one has been taken of and changed, but I liked preparing the components and plating it. Double malt Ice cream sandwich, with mascarpone mousse, carob sauce, carob and parsnip cake, dried carrot dried parsnip and carob jelly
Being LGBT, for me, is definitely more prominent. I have always been super low-key about my diabetes, though not always for the best reasons. These days, at least in the circles I run in, being gay is no big deal. But being diabetic? That gets responses of confusion, pity, or "should you be eating that?"
But in both cases, i think the more we can share the reality of our lives and our struggles, the more people will be educated. Something for me to work on with diabetes, for sure!
I live in SF, so the queer thing is pretty much assumed, plus talk with me for five minutes and you'll pretty much nail me as a Kinsey 6. I do disclose the diabetes right up front. That way, if I seem to be a whole lot of nutty to my friends, they know to hand me a soda. But in a situation where I'm not sure of the leanings of my audience, I will dislose the diabetes first. The gay thing doesn't usually follow too far behind that. I'm lucky given my geographic location.
Totally understandable.
I worked at Disneyland for a few years in my younger days and it was the same. People just assumed everyone was gay unless you gave them reason to believe otherwise. I remember hushed conversations where people were gossiping about someone they thought "might be straight."
Kind of the opposite of the real world.
Thanks for sharing, Pete.
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Interested in seeing Lincoln Park Zoo's amazing animals after hours? Join us for an evening encounter or overnight campout!
The night begins with pitching tents and having dinner. Then visit some of the zoo animals, enjoy a campfire and s'mores, and learn the basics about spending time in the wilderness. Spend time relaxing at your campsite before you—and the rest of the zoo—turn in for the night. Wake up to the calls of gibbons and flamingos and grab some breakfast before taking a leisurely morning hike to Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo.
Families can choose to attend just the evening activities OR they can stay for the entire program and sleep over at the zoo.
Evening Encounter (6–10 p.m.) $42 ($35 for members)
Includes dinner and evening activities
Full Overnight (6 p.m.–8:30 a.m.) $70 ($60 for members)
Includes dinner, evening and morning activities, and continental breakfast
For families with children 5–12 years old
Listed price is per person, not per group. Active Lincoln Park Zoo members at any level receive a 15 percent discount on registration. To be eligible for the member discount, membership must be active at the time of the campout you attend. (To check your membership status, log into our donor website or call the membership hotline at 312-742-2322.)
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Mega Man 9 Review
- Posted October 11th, 2008 at 20:01 EDT by
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Review Score
- PSU Review Score
- 8.0
- Avg. user review score:
- 4.9
Mega Man 9 is a great game with a huge amount of old-school appeal. Unfortunately, it is unlikely to resonate with everyone, primarily due to its excruciating difficulty.
We like
- Excellent level design
- Classic gameplay
- Old-school music and graphics
We dislike
- Excruciating difficulty may turn some off
- Main game is fairly short
See PSU's review on Metacritic & GameRankings
In recent years, Capcom has been doing a lot of fan service, and Mega Man 9 is no different. The Blue Bomber returns to his roots in this 8-bit sequel to the original Mega Man series. With a brand new 8-bit engine, Capcom promised a return to the golden age of the original series, and more specifically, Mega Man 2. In the end, is it a brilliant coup, or a horrible cash in?
Although this is Mega Man 9, it is actually the tenth game in the original Mega Man series, with Mega Man and Bass being the ninth entry. Confusingly though, Mega Man and Bass is supposed to be an alternate entry according to canon, even though it is directly referenced in the end of 9.
Let's be honest, though; story has never been the franchise's strong point. Here's all you need to know -- there are eight Robot Masters, and you have to go kick their asses and take their powers before making an assault on the final level. This Mega Man starts with a twist, as all the Robot Masters were built by Dr. Light, the good guy, and he is quickly arrested. It's up to you to clear his name and stop the maverick robots in the process.
For being rendered in all 8-bits of graphical glory, the cutscenes are fantastic. They're static for the most part, but the clean and cartoony design of the characters means they are all lovingly recreated in some of probably the best 8-bit cutscenes ever rendered. The rest of the game is exactly how it was back in the NES days, including the option to turn on 'sprite flicker' when more then so many things are on screen at once.
But here is the problem. You have in front of you a PS3, a machine so powerful it could probably host a Skynet-like entity and destroy the world. However, the game is presented lovingly in 8-bit, 4:3, 256 by 224 resolution, with low-grade music to match. There are definitely naysayers complaining about the old-school style. However, the game is so much the better for it.
Back in the days of the NES, memory and graphics were very limited. Graphic design would take the better part of a week, with the rest of the time spent on actually making the game. These days, with the constant expectation for high definition graphics that reach out and grab you by the family jewels, more and more time is spent making Solid Snake's mustache look even more bristly, or getting Ivy's chest to overfill her brassiere. Pure gameplay is not the forefront of the equation. Effectively, Mega Man 9 is going back to the highly creative mindset of the 1980s (at least by video game terms), with the production values and time of a game made today. (Just to make it clear, that was not a jab at either MGS4 or SCIV. Both are awesome games.)
The music is worth a mention, and while it's going to be pretty much impossible to beat Mega Man II and Mega Man III as an 8-bit soundtrack, Tornado Man and Splash Woman's level music are particularly awesome, along with a load of the Wily's Castle music.
On the subject of gameplay, Mega Man has lost his ability to slide or charge his Mega Buster. Actually, let's just stop for a moment. What is the Japanese obsession with the word 'Buster'? You have the Buster Sword in Final Fantasy VII, and the Buster Rifle in one of the Gundam animes, not to mention the Proto Buster, Roll Buster, X Buster and so on in the Mega Man games. Weird. Anyway, no chargeable Mega Buster this time round, which is a strange thing to remove. Although, Mega Man 2 did not have it, and they are going for that sort of gameplay. The game is no worse for it, though, as the standard shot has been powered up to compensate.
The running and jumping mirror that in past titles in the series. Tricky jumps and plenty of enemies hamper your attempts to get to the Robot Master in some of the finest designed 2D levels in a ... (continued on next page)
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- 3:13pm EDT - October 11th, 2008
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I played the demo, the controls were just as horrible as they were back in the day, and not taking advatage of the other buttons on the controler, just because you are trying to be retro, is just stupid.
I would buy a Megaman X sequel in a heart beat, but I wont even consider this one. Nostalgia can only take you so far.
I do give Capcom props for doing something different though, its an interesting change of pace, but with so many great modern games being released this month, my money is best spent elsewhere.
- 3:38pm EDT - October 11th, 2008
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When I first started the demo, I loved the game. 2 seconds later, I realized it was hard. Really hard. I eventually got tired of dying so I stopped playing. Still fun though...
- 3:52pm EDT - October 11th, 2008
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It has been quite a while since I played any of the mega man games, but when I played this one it wasn't fun. I used to really like the mega man games. This just felt different to me, and not in a good way. I'm punting.
- 5:47pm EDT - October 11th, 2008
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It's crazy how far nostalgia will go towards a review. Wasn't Super Stardust an 8.0? Wasn't Madden and Tiger Woods an 8? I'd rather play those. This game is nostalgic yes, but it's not an 8. Maybe as gamers we should start using a different scale for downloadable games. Like this is a "Downloadable 8" or "D-8".
- 6:09pm EDT - October 11th, 2008
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I haven't played a Megaman game in my life, so I really don't care about this game, what I REALLY admire is what Capcom did with this game by using an 8bit engine instead of using a nex-gen one. Look what happened to Sonic, they tried so hard bringing him to the nex-gen consoles and still those games don't even mach the originals. So I really hope that more developers follow this example and make more sequels for their original games, I would LOVE to see a brand new Sonic game in all his 16 bit glory!!
- 7:05pm EDT - October 11th, 2008
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capcom should all the Megaman X collection. i always wanted to have the whole collection but sadly the only Megaman X game i got is Megaman X4.
- 8:21pm EDT - October 11th, 2008
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agreed bro,def agreed on the fact that i think they should ALSO,creat some sort of different rating system for the downloadable games.
its like giving the same rating of a game on the ps3 as the wii.. just not ok (shakes head).
other then that,i think the game was funtasticly horrible.. yep thats right,it was fuuuuuuuuu-untill i died,then it sucked anuz.
- 9:25pm EDT - October 11th, 2008
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the game is so hard its bad i was only able 2 beat 1 boss the add on character is even harder than playing as megaman if capcom thought it was a joke 2 make a hard fn game harder their dumb as$e$
- 7:41am EDT - October 12th, 2008
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What Capcom should do is make a Megaman MEGA Collection for PS3 with all the megaman games (9 included) and all the Megaman x games (X7 & X8 included) I'm sure they can pull that off fairly easy what with Sony's Blu-Ray monster and all. If they wanna make a quick nickle & dime profit, That's the way to go!
- 10:33am EDT - October 12th, 2008
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It seems some of us are forgetting just how hard NES games were, they were often more difficult than splitting the atom. Megaman ranks pretty high in that category. I remember the bragging rights, "Oh yeah well I just beat so-and-soman" Unfortunately that sort of gaming is over, I'd recommend this only for nostalgia and maybe a high time with friends. I agree that you can't really give it a number rating that has anything to do with todays game quality or enjoyment factor, it is just too far removed from what we are all used to now.
- 12:34am EST - November 5th, 2008
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fun game but its too damn hard i really gotta focus when playing this
- 11:17pm EDT - April 4th, 2009
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Reading this review, or at least the Dislikes for this review I was stupified. "Excruciating difficulty may turn some off" and "Main game is fairly short". Anyone who was born during the NES times or have ever played an origan Mega Man knows its difficult. Also this game is no smaller than any of the orignals. I just thought that idiocy was worth commenting on. Personally I thought this was the eaisest Mega Man yet. Mabey it because im better at vido games or mabey its just because I am good at Mega Man. They added the first EVER women "Splash Women". While im not sexist, I think it kinda ruined the whole Mega Man flow. Overall the game I think deserves an 8/10. If you where a fan of the Mega Man series you will like this. For $9.99 its well worth it.
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Bryan County Commissioners held a special meeting on Tuesday March 19 to discuss additional proposals for the Bryan County Jail project.
With the project near completion and public tours already held, commissioners approved five proposals for last minute details to the jail.
The first proposal discussed was the placement of stainless steel splash guards in the jail kitchen. This proposal was suggested by health inspectors.
Upon inspection it was announced that to pass health inspection these guards would be necessary. The guards would be placed in such areas as behind the stove and sink.
According to Monty Montgomery, some reasons for this are that the guards are easier to clean than painted walls and will prevent the presence of grease, food particles and mold on kitchen walls.
This mandatory health precaution will cost approximately $1400. The second proposal was the installation of two additional stools in a visitation area.
The visitation area in question is used by the public for interaction with inmates through telephone and video feed.
There are four stations set up in the room but only two stools. The proposal calls for one stationary stool and one wall mounted movable stool to be placed in the room.
The wall mounted stool will be able to swing to and from the wall as to remain out of the way of people walking by while not in use. This proposal is estimated to cost $1,000.
The third proposal discussed was the installation of three additional cameras. One camera is to be placed inside the intoxilyzer and breathalyzer room.
The second is to be placed on the exterior of the jail on the southwest corner as to watch two exterior doors as well as the gate to the fenced in area of the jail.
The third camera is to be place in the "observation tower," a room that overlooks the dormitory areas in the new jail.
This camera will ensure that the guard on duty is safe and staying on task.
This proposal is estimated to cost $7,846.95. Commissioners attribute the high cost of this proposal to the distance the company has to travel to install the technology.
Sierra Detention Systems out of Colorado installed the current camera system and will install the additional cameras.
"Electronics in jails is very specialized" said Montgomery. He revealed that there are not many companies in the country to choose from when it comes to these matters.
The fourth proposal was the installation of a new conduit for the three cameras. This will cost $316.39.
The final proposal discussed was changing of a lock on a guard restroom. The restroom in question currently has no lock, allowing entry to any trustees or inmate workers.
This also does not provide privacy as the door may be opened with a person inside. New locks for such a door will cost $304.
Commissioners stated that these proposals will not go over the set budget for the jail project. It is predicted that inmates will be moved into the new jail in early April.
An open house and ribbon cutting will be held for the facility on Thursday, March 28 at 4 p.m. Commissioners invite city representatives from every city in Bryan County to be present for the events.
In other news, Durant City Council also held a special meeting on Tuesday. This meeting was to accept the 2011-2012 Annual Financial Statement and auditor's report for the city.
LaDonna Sinning of Arledge & Associates presented the report. She informed council that there were no findings and no adjustments that had to be made.


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The All Blacks were met by muted scenes upon their arrival in Buenos Aires on Sunday.
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Obama's Attack on the Middle Class
By Paul Craig Roberts
March 30, 2009
Obama and his public relations team have made it appear that his trillion dollars in higher taxes will fall only on "the rich." Obama stresses that his tax increase is only for the richest 5 percent of Americans while the other 95 percent receive a tax cut.
The fact of the matter is that the income differences within the top
5% are far wider than the differences between the lower tax brackets and the "rich" American in the 96th percentile.
For Obama, being "rich" begins with $250,000 in annual income, the bottom rung of the top 5 percent. Compare this "rich" income to that of, for example, Hank Paulson, President George W. Bush's Treasury Secretary when he was the head of Goldman Sachs.
In 2005 Paulson was paid $38.3 million in salary, stock and options. That is 153 times the annual income of the "rich" $250,000 person.
Despite his massive income, Paulson himself was not among the super rich of that year, when a dozen hedge fund operators made $1,000 million. The hedge fund honchos incomes were 26 times greater than Paulson's and 4,000 times greater than the "rich" man's or family's $250,000.
For most Americans, a $250,000 income would be a godsend, but envy can make us blind. A $250,000 income is not one that will support a rich lifestyle. Moreover, many people prefer lesser incomes to the years of education, long work hours and stress of personal liability that are associated with many $250,000 incomes. In truth, those with $250,000 gross incomes have more in common with those at the lower end of the income distribution than with the rich. A $250,000 income is ten times greater than a $25,000 income, not hundreds or thousands of times greater. On an after-tax basis, the difference shrinks to about 6 times.


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the_Monk you refer to a feeling and opinion of the forums that has built up over a period of years. I'm under no illusions that situation and the feelings surrounding it exists, and understand why. It is changing however and that is what others here have referred to. Of course you don't have to agree with this but resorting to name calling really won't benefit anyone least of all this discussion and is quite unnecessary.
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This section is for people like friends and family who are interested in what is going on with me personally, outside the music and the life. I'll collect the things that relate to me personally as they come up, though I don't expect there will be a lot here. If you just wandered over here, that's fine, there's nothing private here. This is just space for things that are personal, relating to Brian the person rather then Brian the Folksinger, though I'd admit they are hard to seperate. Still I believe that music is independent of the person making it, it flows through them, changes them, but they are still just another person too. I don't believe that the person should be judged by the music they make, or the music judged by the person who makes it.. art isn't really like that. A study of the personal lives of artists can be very interesting, yet for me it only shows that whle the lives of artists are tangled up with their art , for better or worse, but they are also people, though their lives flowed in and around their art, driven by it or burdened by it, yet behind that gift, and the art they make, there is still a person sometimes struggling to have a life beyond the demands of their art.
For most of my life, I haven't even tried to have a "personal" life, it didn't seem very important or necessary. I could live in the moment, in the music, in the magic, in the solitude of the natural world.. places where there is no need to "be" anyone, where none of that matters. You are your self, at a deeper level somehow beyond "personality", you just are. And when you are come back to the "normal" world, somehow all the pomp and show of image and impression, the roles and games and characters people play seem just that, and unreal, unnescessary, and unimportant. You look at the personality almost like the clothes someone is wearing, but what you see is the heart and soul, the spirit that is meeting yours, while the words and conversations swirl like colorful birds, pleasant, yet often insignificant. You listen for the music in the words, the spirit trying to speak behind the words, through the words, that is important and significant, the energy in the words. . Sigh.. I don't know if I can explain something that is so clear, yet in many ways, it is another world, a different perception. As I dwelt in that world, perhaps my personality just faded away a bit, un-needed. I'm not sure I have the answers to a lot of personal questions, because I never gave them much thought, at least, not in a long time.
My life is entwined with the music and the mystic, even when it doesn't show so in the News sections and tour-journals, so many things happen I just don't mention. I don't try to seperate the "personal" events from the music, I can't. I try to escribe my life in more normal terms so that people relate, though its not as much the way it works in my head or in how I live. I've often said to people that my life doesn't make any sense unless I include the music. Most often it is easier to pull the dulci out and just play for someone, let them experience what it is, and then my life makes more sense. They can understand how I'm caught up in this strange dance with the dulcimer and the music, and maybe even sense the mystic-magic too. It's hard to explain but undeniable, so I won't, though I can't always explain.. quite often I can't explain it to myself, I just know from long experience. Its like these scenes I've been through so many times it's funny, yet I still can't explain them. But there are things i want to talk about that aren't directly about the music, but about myself, so this is where I'll put them, for those for who want to know about me, things I can't talk about in explaining some aspect of the music, though they relate to the music and the music relates to them.


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Question for the community. While I've had plenty of occasions to use a single database & single transaction manager with Spring, I've come across a situation where I need to use Spring's JtaTransactionManager with two database connections, and ensure that their transactions are committed atomically. The two databases are both Oracle, but they have completely different schemas & are on completely different servers. Further, I'm not using a traditional JEE container; this is in an OSGi environment, so I'll be using a third party standalone JTA implementation: candidates are Atomikos, JBossTS/Narayana, JOTM and Bitronix.
If I define a single JtaTransactionManager (configured to manage my two Oracle database connections) and use JPA, how do I ensure that I get references to the "right" EntityManager when I need it? Can I write a single DAO that receives transactional injections of two EntityManager instances for the current distributed transaction?
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Aydree turned ONE!
November 11, 2008I had a lengthy paragraph written for this post but my computer gacked and erased it all… SO … I don't know if I should try and remeber what I had all written or just keep it short and sweet and just share the photos!
Aydree made a trip down to Willmar to meet me so I could photograph her in the studio for her one year photos. I love watching her at this age. She just seems so smart, and personality filled ever since she started walking. She isn't a little girl anymore. She seems so big now that she is running all over the place. I had a fun afternoon with you Aydree. I hope you aren't sick of me torturing you with my camera yet, cause I know that I am not even close to being done with photographing you!
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