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"It's important that people come down to see us," he said, noting that help also can be sought on the phone or online.
The entire contents of John Palkie's basement in the Fond du Lac neighborhood were destroyed in the June flood. The Water Street homeowner already had applied for an SBA loan but wasn't pleased with the offer, saying he couldn't afford the payments. Because the SBA has approved a loan, he's not eligible for a Quick Start loan. Palkie came to the DECC on Thursday to explore his options.
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It's important for property owners to apply for an SBA loan to become eligible for a Quick Start loan, said Drew Digby, long-term recovery coordinator for Carlton County and United Way of Greater Duluth.
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i get why they avoided him when he still had something left. at this point...yeah, maybe they both beat him, but doesn't he deserve to go out with a decent pay day against either brother? marciano fought louis when he was past his best...ali fought archie moore when he was past his best....holmes fought ali when he was past his best. give the man his last pay check!
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You got a point, Professor. Certainly, Holyfield has given the sport of boxing way too much to go out without the last payday. However, boxing is not a fairy tale and I doubt it will happen. His last fight was more than a year ago against a guy who has previously been retired for about 9 years or so? But again, this is boxing and far more nonsensical fights were made. The sad part is, the money he would have earned for this fight - win or lose, would go straight to hell - alimony, debts etc.
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You're scheduled to umpire the next game in heaven, beisbol, that is!!
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Watching those shouting matches as a kid, I never dreamed they were using language like that.
I always thought they were discussing fine technical points of the play.Bill Haller showed a lot of restraint. At least Weaver didn't kick dirt on his shoes.
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Roe Buck and the H&H Showroom.
This is a discussion on Roe Buck and the H&H Showroom. within the Hunting Europe forums, part of the Hunting Outside of Africa category; I have posted this elsewhere but would like to share it with you all. I recently took my family to ...
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Roe Buck and the H&H Showroom.
I have posted this elsewhere but would like to share it with you all.
I recently took my family to Dubai, London, Rome and the south of Italy on a holiday.
Whilst in London, my women folk went shopping along Oxford Street and I was left to my own devices. I was heading over to gaze at the Aston Martin dealership window on Park Lane via the back streets and found myself in front of H&H. I politely asked if I could look around and was shown inside. Like many day dreamers (They must get sick of us) I was offered a Kodak moment with a rifle.
Despite looking like 'a stunned rabbit in the headlights' here is the photo.
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Scope was a Swarovski.
I had previously had the opportunity to go Roe Buck stalking in Sussex and had success with a borrowed Blaser in .30-06 on a 2yo buck still in velvet. The stalk I did was through another forum member. He came Camel shooting with me last August in the Australian outback. In return he organised my chance at a Roe. Amongst all the hate and BS on some forums at the moment, this is one of the positives of the on-line hunting community.
The shot was taken over 151 yards (lasered). Entry hole of the 150 Barnes X shown.
A visit to a gunsmith in Surrey on the way home, revealed you can buy a best quality rifle 'from the trade' for about half to one third what is charged in a London shopfront, but without the name on the barrel.Time spent in Reconnaisance is never wasted.
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you do look a little overwhelmed there in the top photo c4 you must of just noticed the price tag ......
neat looking little roe deer stag did you get to eat him ?
so did you bring home an aston martin bloke ?
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Yes, a little jet lagged as well.
No. It stayed with my guide as I had to return to my London hotel. I did get a farm size full English B'fast afterwards though
I had the chance at Muntjac or/and CWD however only the Roe is indigenous to the UK.Time spent in Reconnaisance is never wasted.
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Thanks for posting Code4 thats a damn good way to spend a holiday. I have 7 of those little buggers hanging on the wall but never one in velvet. That would be nice.
Enjoy life now -- it has an expiration date.
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Thanks for posting
Some years ago I had a look inside one of the "best gun" shops in London and I really felt like the poor man I am inside there.
Great that you got to shoot a Roe buck.
I love hunting Roe deer. I never grow tired of hunting them even if I have have shot lots of them.
Last weekend I signed the lease for 2 places I will hunt Roe deer in Sweden.
There are lots of Roe deer both places.
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Code 4 this will make you laugh. the first time i went to holland and holland was way back in 1989. a friend of my brothers had a .416 rigby built by paul roberts who owned rigbys in those days, and wanted to use it, so paul booked him a 30 day hunt with luke samaras safaris in the selous. he asked my brother to go with him, but he wasnt too sure as he hadnt done much shooting. he mentioned it to me and i said "you can hunt in africa!!! i will go" so that was sorted i was going to hunt and my brother was going to be my observer. i didnt have a big calibre so went to see paul and he had a brno he had chambered to .416 rigby . it was a basic rifle he used to keep one of on the shelf in case someone wanted a cheapish working rifle. so with my .308win steyr ssg sniper rifle i was sorted gunwise. i asked paul what do you wear on safari and he said go to holland and holland and they will sort you out. now what you must picture here is that i probably didnt look like the average h&h client especially in the 1980`s!!! we had a night club in jersey and 3 of my friends also had night clubs so big party time, also in london .....so it was long hair , avirex leather flying jacket, jeans and cowboy boots....as i entered the then clothing dept downstairs at h&h the young male salesman with short hair a check sports jacket , trousers and brogue shoes on gave me a very long once up and down and ignored me. i had a look around and eventually managed to get his attention where he looked at me with serious disdain down his nose. he asked what i wanted so i said i was going to africa to do a hunt and had been told to come here to get some clothes. he asked what clothing i wanted, so i said i dont know thats why i am here to see you.!! i was getting how shall we say pissed off and the steam was rising with his attitude... his reply to me was sir we dont have anything here for you, i suggest you go to millets (a high street outdoor shop chain which isnt too bad now, but then was crap) . i didnt know if i had heard correctly , so said excuse me , so he repeated it. i now had a serious sense of humour failure , and made a comment but had to leave very rapidly before i did something to him of a rearrangement nature!! i went back to pauls who asked how i got on. when he heard he phoned the MD of h&h and told him he had sent a client of his over to get some clothes, who had just bought a rifle and was doing a 30 day hunt in tanzania, the MD said oh no i know exactly who you are talking about we have had similar with him before...i believe he had to find something else to do soon after. sorry it was a bit long winded but i had forgotten till i read your post....
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The Foresters (4-5-1, 1-1) picked up their first conference win of the season with an impressive 2-1 victory over a talented Marian College (9-2, 1-1) squad.
The Knights took an early lead with a goal 14 minutes into the first half. A few minutes later Marian generated another quality scoring opportunity on a break away, but HU keeper, Kevin Keske came up with a huge save to keep it a 1-0 game. Unfortunately, Keske was injured on the play which forced Coach Lawson to go to his bench. Freshman Matt Boyer was given the nod and he stepped up with 10 saves to help secure the win for HU.
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New Jersey must allow gay couples to marry starting Oct. 21 because the state's civil union law is unconstitutionally denying federal benefits to same-sex couples, a judge ruled Friday.
Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson sided almost entirely with a group of same-sex couples and gay rights groups who sued the state in July, days after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down key parts of a law that blocked the federal government from granting benefits to gay couples.
"The ineligibility of same-sex couples for federal benefits is currently harming same-sex couples in New Jersey in a wide range of contexts," Jacobson wrote in a 53-page opinion. Same-sex couples who include a federal employee, those who want to use the federal Family Medical Leave Act or those who file joint federal tax returns are being hurt by the state's recognition of civil unions but not gay marriage, she wrote.
By making her order effective more than three weeks from now, the state has time to appeal to a higher court and ask for a delay to the start of same-sex marriage.
Gov. Chris Christie did not immediately say whether he would appeal, but he opposes gay marriage and had his administration defend the state's current policy this far.
"The judge has issued a very thorough and powerful opinion that shows the correctness under the constitution of our claims," said Hayley Gorenberg, a Lambda Legal lawyer who prepared the lawsuit. "It shows the deep error the state's been making in refusing to let people marry on an equal basis."
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Thanks jijge! I have to admit that my pencil sketches don't actually have the range of values you're giving me credit for though. I just push the values with Photoshop before posting them to make them read better. Glad you received something out of it anyway.
Today I tried mixing 2D and 3D for the first time. I just started with a simple rectangular prism rendered in Blender and worked off of it in Photoshop. Nothing fancy.
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Made a couple of little creatures in what began as an attempt to mimic the style of Prometheus|ANJ and sort of drifted off course. If, through some strange twist of fate, you have never seen his stuff, you should feel obligated to click that link. He's definitely one of my favourite artists here.
I'm quite happy with the way the little bluish blob turned out (except for its right eye, which sticks out a bit too much). Not as pleased with the green thing.
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Two ships. I'll probably make a few more and then maybe try to program a simple shoot-em-up out of them one day.
Whoops. Letting this thread slide again. Time for another little update.
Two things:
1) Some sort of unicellular alien thing. Rather pleased with it.
2) A quick smiley face.
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A birdhouse. Roughly 1 hour of work, I think.
Really like the style shinning though your work dude, cool shit!
Dig the "unicellular alien thing" a couple of posts back, in fact all your digital works cool.
Some more characters though plz,
Thanks again Matt!
I very rarely draw people from imagination (and not too often for ref either), so I'm not very good at eyeballing anatomy. I need to break out of my comfort zone more often though, so more characters it is. Here's a homeless guy I drew ultra-speedily after reading your comment. Only spent about ten minutes on the line art and I'm not pleased with the half-assed experimental colouring job. Actually, there's very little I like about it overall, but I guess it'll make an okay benchmark to compare future character drawings too.
The second picture is another another one hour Alchemy and Photoshop thing. Looks pretty "Shadow Of The Colossus"-y in retrospect.
I think I'll try to include one character in every new post for the next little while. I'm happier with this ridiculous anti-ninja than with that homeless character, although that's mostly because of the colouring. The line art was still done way too quickly and the anatomy and pose still leave a lot to be desired. I'll use ref for the next one.
Also, snowy cliff protrusion things.
Birthday update! I am officially in my twenties now!
Here's a WIP of a somewhat gangsterly-looking fellow. I sketched the pose from Posemaniacs and put the suit on over top. I also went back and replaced the images in post #94 with slightly improved versions.
You have original ideas.Hope to see more works.Keep going.
Another Prom fan here! With those two bugs and the unicellular alien you've really caught his style.
Keep working on anatomy and clothing, studying some fashion magazines or clothes catalog may help you.
Keep up the good work!
I just browsed your sketchbook and inspected every picture carefully. Doing this, I realized 3 things:
1. Regarding content your work is very original and your technique keeps getting better.
2. You must be utterly insane.
3. This is awesome, gimme more!
WoaW O__O. I Love your stuff. The Birdhouse is my favourite.
Keep it up !!
Thanks a lot everyone! I appreciate it.
I'm done with the gangster-type fellow now.
A quick doodle of everyone's favourite Japanese-Italian-Brooklynite plumber hero, as interpreted from the original sprite. This may be one of the sloppiest things I will ever post.
great work you got here i like your spaceship drawing. i actually thought that bigger spaceship was a mask at first because i see a face in it
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hah i love your little cute designs XD
Hahahah, hahaha, I love that mario so much! That birdhouse piece is really nice too, things are looking good, keep updating!
Thanks everyone!
No characters this time, but I really like doing these little simple alien designs. I'm really pleased with the rendering on this one.
No character again. I think the idea of adding at least one character per post is dead already. Oh well, I'll still try to post them more often than before.
Here's an environment WIP.
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Update on the enviro.
Added a little bit of alien-looking foliage and a few little bugs. I'm calling it done now.
Another quick self-portrait. Not much more than 30 minutes of work, I don't think (although I'm pretty bad at keeping track of time when I'm drawing). Rather pleased with the colours, but I don't like the lines at all.
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Here's a portrait that I actually put a decent bit of work into. It's Moai!
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Thanks for the portrait, man! Great likeness! Oddly enough, when I did a self portrait from that photo, I did it on blue-tinted paper.
I'm diggin' the "ignition" image, the Prometheus-style ships, and the pixel Mario.
Sweet designs man! I really like the creatures, and Geddy Lee? yes sir!
Ignition indeed.
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"If there was a war or a battle going on, we worked on it. Vietnam and Korea, the moon walk, all of those things were going on.
"When Jimmy Carter was president and the hostages were taken in Iran and they had the plane crash, we did work on that location.
"They went up to the moon with all their cameras and photographed ... all that stuff and brought it back to us, and we made maps out of it.
"At the bottom of the map, there was a name of the place, but not the name they really used. They were afraid we would say something we weren't supposed to say. Beulah is one of the names they used. That was Egypt.
"They would give the maps numbers, and that's what you would call it among yourselves. You would say, 'I'm working on No. 50.' Even in the office, you used the code.
"We learned to draw these maps by hand. Terrain analysis is what they called it. We had to take some math courses. They took pictures from planes flying over and some from surveyors. They would give us the pictures for mapping.
"See the black squares on this map? Anything manmade, like a house or hospital or school was put on in black. The brown is the hills, the water is blue. All of this in brown or tan is vegetation. Everything had its own color.
"We would put in blue water and sometimes it would be too wide, and we would have to scrape it out. I made some of my implements. That's what I used this one for.
"We sat on tall stools at a long table. Everyone had a different job. Some in one room worked on vegetation. Some in another room worked on culture, like the houses.
"I would have been a higher federal grade if I had gone to one of their colleges because they were beginning to work with computers. But I was through with it. I didn't want to go to the University of Louisville to get a little extra grade. I finished as a Grade 9.
"It was tedious work. Sometimes you would feel like you didn't want to go back in the next day. But I lasted 30 years.
"I worked a lot of overtime, evenings and Saturdays. But nothing got in the way of a job that needed to be finished. We knew it was important. And I didn't mind more money.
"They were about ready to close the place down. They had each of us come in at separate times and they told us we couldn't talk about what we did for 70 years.
"I didn't tell anybody anything I'd done. We would go out for some special occasion, and everybody would be jabbering. If they asked me what I did, I changed the subject. Nobody had any idea. Even Edgar didn't know anything.
"After I retired, we traveled a lot and worked on chartering the Hurstbourne Baptist Church and Hurstbourne Country Club in Louisville.
"The mapping is what made me so interested in geography and traveling to other countries. We've been to maybe 16 countries, including some of the places I'd drawn. When we went on road trips, of course, I was the one who would read the maps.
"Who would have thought that somebody from Petroleum, Ky., would get into this mapping stuff? Or that they would have enjoyed it? It took a lot of patience, but I was good at it. I was proud of my job."
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By Ina Fried
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June 24, 2008 4:00 AM PST
REDMOND, Wash.--If you ask Bill Gates what life will be like when he stops working full time at Microsoft, he'll have to get back to you.
That's because, a week away from the transition, he still hasn't slowed down his pace. If anything, things have picked up as he tries to have one last meeting with all the leaders and projects that are important to him.
Gates, who dropped out of school more than 30 years ago to run Microsoft, steps down from full-time work on Friday. He'll remain chairman and a part-time Microsoft employee.
The Microsoft co-founder did take some time out of his schedule recently to sit down with CNET News.com's Ina Fried and offer some reflections on the early days of the PC market as well as thoughts on where Microsoft is now and what technologies he will need in his new role, working full time for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In the interview, Gates shared some little-known stories from the company's early days, including the fact that Microsoft seriously entertained combining with Lotus, but talks ended when that company's chief executive pulled out. Gates also noted that Microsoft was invited and then uninvited to the launch event for the first IBM PC.
"We'd been invited, and then they decided not to invite us," Gates said. "Well, we had been working night and day. I had told people, yeah, we had this invitation that said, yeah, we're going to go, there's going to be a big deal. And then they decided, nah, we don't want you to come to the thing. That was a little bit of a downer."
Q: As you've been thinking about the transition, what are the kinds of things that have been on your mind the most?
Gates: Well, for 33 years I've worked at Microsoft and come in every day, and thought about what are the new things we need to do, and what's my personal role in that, a lot of e-mail, lot of meetings, lot of product reviews. So, in a sense it's hard for me to project what it's going to be like for me or Microsoft when I'm not here.
As long as I'm here, I'm still sending a lot of e-mail and in a lot of meetings, and so the real change in terms of people having an opportunity to step up and do things, to some degree it's after July 1 when my involvement is only a very specific involvement on particular projects as opposed to the overall strategy thing.
Everybody likes to pick the current competitive battles that we're in, and kind of think, OK, those are the big things. For me, I'd pick like tablet or interactive TV that are, according to me--but I've been over-optimistic before--on the verge of big, big impact. So, I've been sending a lot of mail to the tablet and interactive TV team, sort of sending the mail I would have sent three months from now, now, just giving them encouragement. Because, you know, all the big successes, whether it's Office integration or Windows, it takes a long time for those things to get established.
We thought it would be a good idea for me to go to the Windows 7 group and go see the work, and I was thrilled. Steven Sinofsky took me around, showed me what they're doing.
So, you're going to product group by product group?
Gates: Well, in terms of big meetings, that's pretty much done. Like the Windows group had a meeting, and the Surface group had a meeting, but this is more just sitting down with the top executives, so Stephen Elop, Craig Mundie, Kevin Turner.
The timing is actually pretty good. We just did our business reviews. We do the business planning, which is for the next fiscal year, which starts July 1. So, we have the plans in place, and I sat through that last set of reviews, but it's a perfect example of something that as just a board member working on projects I won't sit in those business plan reviews in the future. I mean, Steve (Ballmer) may ask me to sit in on one that touches directly on something I'm doing, but the default is that I'm not there at all.
I hear search is one you're still pretty enthused about.
Gates: Yeah, that doesn't mean I'd necessarily go to their business plan review, but I've developed a relationship with them where brainstorming and thinking about what things we'd pick and how we do it.
You know, it's another good example of something that breakthrough work is not--doesn't happen in a day; it happens in many years. Now, many of those years fortunately are the years we've already put into it, but to really help that keep on track, and just to give them the positive feedback as they're going through it, that group, that's actually the only one that's truly concrete at this point where literally we've scheduled out a bit this summer and even some into the fall when and how I'm going to look at various aspects of their work.
Can you think of a time when the company really sort of behind the scenes was coming from behind? I mean, we've all heard sort of the early days of developing the first version of DOS, but are there other times where it was kind of a mad scramble?
Gates: Well, we weren't that well-known publicly until sometime in the 1980s, and one of my favorite articles was where they wrote that there were four software companies, and none of them was that much different than the others. But we knew at that time that the other three just weren't long term, hiring the right people, thinking globally.
It was ourselves, Ashton Tate, WordPerfect, and, I guess, Lotus. There were many software companies that were bigger than us. VisiCorp was bigger than us at a point in time. MicroPro (publisher of WordStar) was bigger than us at a point in time. And then each of those three--WordPerfect, Lotus, and Ashton Tate--were bigger than us at a time.
But the way we were going about it and just thinking about software and how was the chip going to change and how did the pieces come together, and how did you do business in Europe and stuff, we were just different, we were just a long-term company.
So, it was funny to me that the article was written right as if somebody had really looked carefully, they would see that we were quite different than those others. And then it was only about four years later that there was a spoof article in InfoWorld where they said Microsoft announced today that Ashton Tate never existed, which is kind of an over-the-top thing. But that was a period where we came to the fore.
There's a lot of interesting twists and turns. There was actually a point where we talked with Lotus about getting together with them, but it wasn't a good cultural fit there. It was actually (Lotus CEO Jim) Manzi who--I mean, it wouldn't necessarily have happened--but it was Manzi who ended the discussions.
There was one day that was rather funny. IBM didn't invite us to the introduction of the PC. We'd been invited, and then they decided not to invite us. Well, we had been working night and day. I had told people, yeah, we had this invitation that said, yeah, we're going to go, there's going to be a big deal, and then they decided, nah, we don't want you to come to the thing. That was a little bit of a downer. Now, who cares, but...
Looking back at those early days, if you could give that 21-year-old you just starting Microsoft some advice, what would you--is there something that you know now that you didn't then that would have been useful?
Gates: Not really. I mean, you can say, hey, you're going to be successful, so don't work so hard or something like that, but then it might completely erase the whole thing. Or learn that you're going to need a mix of skills, not just engineering skills. But at first the fact that we were just over-the-top engineering-centric wasn't so stupid.
Today, as you get a large company, having a push that says, hey, we've got to stay somewhat engineering-centric, even as you have all these different skill sets, you know, I could have told myself that guys' IQ, it's not as fungible to learn other things. If they show IQ in domain A, you know, I always thought, well, then just use them in domain B.
And that worked a bit. You even see another company in the industry doing this bit where you'll hire somebody who's a good scientist, and you say they can be a programmer, and you only--you interview them on sort of their--the depth of knowledge about the field they've spent in, and assume they can come to the other field. Some of that is true. But when you go into, say, management-type things or dealing with people-type things, then the number of people whose IQ is fungible is surprisingly low.
I mean, that's the greatest surprise to me of all in my whole business career is that you find people who are so good at one thing, and where the principles and models and approaches in that and in the other area are actually very similar, very similar, and yet they're very poor at the one and just beyond brilliant at the other.
What do you think--if that same 21-year-old you could see where things have gotten, what do you think would be most surprising? Because it sounds like you had the ambition all along.I'd come into this office and meet myself and I'd say, well, are you still reading all the code? I mean, these guys could ship some really crummy code; I hope you're still reading it. And I'd be like, are you kidding? It's been a decade since I took anybody's listing home and read it. It would be like, well, then how do you keep it good?
The thing that I would drool over is to walk over to Microsoft Research and see that here are people spending full time on vision, full time on speech, full time on machine learning, full time on software proof, where at early Microsoft we couldn't give back to the intellectual base. We drew on the base that the universities and Xerox had done, and we used it in a fantastic way, as did Apple and the whole personal computer industry.
Now we are very significant. In fact, if you leave universities out of it, we are probably the most significant computer science research thing. I mean, we're rated No. 1. We have the most papers.
So, I would be in awe of the hard things that this kind of scale and success lets you do, and I'd be really torn--geez, should I go over to that research group and just go help those guys, or should I learn that chairman's office-type thing where you kind of have to give people positive feedback, negative feedback, balance that well, think about people. To have a time warp would feel like such a discontinuity, like, hey, if you haven't seen code, you're not me. So, it would be confusing.
Do you have a sense of what technologies are going to be important to you personally in your new role?
Gates: Well, immunology is very important, because that's the science that teaches us how to make vaccines. Vaccines teach your immune system how to block the diseases. And so in the biggest foundation program, global health, the key miracles we're looking for are vaccines, a vaccine for malaria, a vaccine for tuberculosis, a vaccine for AIDS, a vaccine for pneumonia, a vaccine for the various diarrheal diseases.
If you take something like education, the whole way that teachers improve and learn from each other, and what is an effective teacher and how do you encourage them to adopt best practices, that's a very complex area that I want to learn a lot about. To some degree online video can come in and play a role there, particularly as you get up to college and community college.
"I wish him good luck. I think he is a very smart guy. It will be nice not to have him beating up on me, but I'm glad he is doing something good. I think he has a big job ahead of him."
"We shook hands, and I came here as the general manager of a nonexistent division to do non-PC computing, and the rest is history, as they say."
"Back in the 1980s, Comdex was not just an industry confab, it was the ultimate party. I was dancing at one of the many events with a couple of girls who were clearly out of my league. All of a sudden, one of their friends comes over to us and tells me they are leaving to go to party with some guy named Bill Gates because he was worth like 60 million dollars...True story."
Through the years, Microsoft's leader has hobnobbed with everyone from the Queen to Bono--and the Albuquerque police.
Bono, George Clooney, and Steven Spielberg get some laughs at Gates' expense in this spoof video from CES 2008.
News.com's Ina Fried and Kara Tsuboi take a look back at Gates' career and serve up some highlights from his recent speeches.
Gates talks at CES 2008 about how Microsoft can beat rivals as software moves to the phone, TV, other devices
In the coming years, the conference table, the whiteboard...everything will be a computer, Gates says.
At CES 2007, Gates talks about how Microsoft's recent moves will trump Apple in the digital living room.
Microsoft co-founder plans his future as "the world's greatest philanthropist."
At a 2001 event celebrating the PC's 20th anniversary, Gates and Compaq founder Rod Canion reflected on the events that created the modern PC business.
At a 2001 event celebrating the PC's 20th anniversary, IBM engineer Dave Bradley talks about how the keystroke came to be, quipping that, though he invented it, Bill Gates made it famous.
Gates-Ballmer rifts marked Microsoft power shift
(June 6, 2008)
Will Microsoft be directionless without Bill Gates?
(May 17, 2008)
Bill Gates' to-do list
(January 31, 2007)
With Vista, seeing is believing, says Gates
(January 29, 2007)
Gates stepping down from full-time Microsoft role
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July 19, 2007
Book benefits Art Department
Augusta, Ga. – A world-renown artist who has lent his expertise to Augusta State University's Department of Art for more than a decade just keeps giving. A book featuring his life's work will help provide for the education of ASU art students for years to come.
A group of donors gave to help the publication of Philip Morsberger: A Passion for Painting. In the process, the group also provided an endowment in the name of the Morris Eminent Scholar Emeritus that will be used to establish the Philip Morsberger Collection, of which one framed student work of art will be added each year.
"If they chose well, they could end up with some quite important work," Mr. Morsberger says, adding that he is pleased with the ongoing nature of the book's benefits for the art department.
Mr. Morsberger says the overage from the book's sponsorships – a check for $10,000 – was earmarked for ASU's art department, as were future royalties from sales of the book. Any unsold copies of the book will also become property of the university.
"ASU got what we hope is a very helpful check," Mr. Morsberger says.
According to ASU Art Department Acting Chairperson Kristin Casaletto, the benefits of Mr. Morsberger's book topped off a very successful year for her department in which it was also moved into its own building, Washington Hall.
"This has felt like a year of firsts for the Department of Art, a historic year, even," she says. "We became an independent entity; we moved part of our operations into a beautiful new facility, and now we receive our first gift to the new department. We're very grateful to each of the donors and to the Morsbergers."
The book itself consists of 80 plates of Mr. Morsberger's works and many biographical photographs. The author, Christopher Lloyd – a freelance art historian and curator – once served as the Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures at the Royal Collection in London. The book also contains eight appreciations by Mr. Morsberger's fellow contemporaries.
ASU continues to receive worldwide acclaim from the book. It is for sale in many places across the Atlantic as well in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. It can be found locally at the ASU Bookstore, the Mary Pauline Gallery on Broad Street, the Morris Museum of Art Museum Store, Barnes and Noble, and Borders. It can also be purchased online at www.amazon.com.
Mr. Morsberger has held numerous prestigious teaching positions, both in the United States and Britain. Among them, he was the first American to hold the distinguished Ruskin Master of Drawing chair at Oxford University in England; he served as artist in residence at both Dartmouth College and Rochester Institute of Technology, and was a fellow of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. His work – which spans a wide range of styles – can be found in many public and private collections around the world.
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You're beautiful on the outside and the inside in the officially licensed Shrek Princess Fiona Deluxe adult womens costume. The blue, green and gray, 100% polyester, belted gown comes complete with a matching character headpiece.
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Comments: I am petite and dress fit pretty well. Needs improvemnt on back closing. Velco was very scratchy! I was able to wash this dress in the washing machine on delicate or hand wash, held up just fine. I would have liked it if they included the wig and crown with it. Had to buy wig and crown. |
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Comments: This is a nice costume. Nicer than I expected, actually. The fabric is heavy -- much better quality than the typical polyester costume for the same price. It works as more of a compliment to the Shrek costume. I don't think you could wear it without a Shrek and expect people to know what you are. The Shrek ears (mine came without a tiara but the site does warn you that the headpiece is up to their discretion) help a little. As a bonus, it can be used as a basic Renaissance type costume as well. |
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Comments: The costume was perfect for Princess Fiona; however, it was not the one shown above. You need to change the photo on your website to show the costume you actually sent me. Shannon in Customer Service did an EXCELLENT job working with me to get the correct costume to me in time for our party! She deserves a bonus for going above and beyone! |
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Comments: The design and fabric of this costume is very nice, but when it says it'll fit up to a size 12 they didn't mention how you were going to be able to breathe. This costume runs about a size small, so if you're a in-between size or a busty gal, you'd better look for something else as this costume is for the cute little human Fiona...not the thick Ogre. |