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Erik Mona, Publisher at Paizo Publishing LLC, unveiled today a new "unboxing video" on the forthcoming Pathfinder RPG Beginner Box, with a street date of October 26, 2011.
The Beginner Box, aimed at teens aged 13 and up as well as adults of any age, provides a large assortment of products intended to permit players to start playing Pathfinder about 15 minutes after opening the box. A solo adventure is provided so that a GM can get a taste for the game without having anybody else on hand to play with.
The Beginner Box includes: a full set of red polyhedral dice; 20 plastic slotted character bases; approximately 100 heavy cardstock pawns for use with PCs and monsters; a 64 page Heros Handbook for players; a 96 page Gamemasters Guide for GMs (with rules, instructions on how to run the adventure, magic items and about 100 monsters); 4 x pre-generated character folder sheets and 4 x blank color character sheets; a flip-mat with a pre-printed dungeon on one side and a blank pre-gridded on the reverse for use at the table.
The product is in glossy full color and is lavishly illustrated.
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In addition to the several adventures included in the GMs book, more are expected to be posted online at http://paizo.com/beginnerbox, including another character class for players, the Barbarian.
The rules set featured in the Beginner Box is Pathfinder RPG, albeit a slightly stripped down version. There are no attacks of opportunity and no combat maneuvers. Some spell descriptions have been simplified. Rules and spells are presented in the material to enable the players to play until achieving 5th level using the four core classes of Fighter, Rogue, Cleric, and Wizard.
For the most part, the Beginner Box is a fulsome presentation of the Pathfinder RPG intended to teach people how to play the game and make it accessible in a way that the Core Rulebook, which is intended principally as a reference guide, simply does not accomplish.
The Beginner Box is intended to be set on its side when put on the shelf, with an illustration on the box cover in "landscape" mode, not in a portrait format as has been typical of such starter boxes in the past. Mona explains that "Part of the reason was that other games that we've done in a similar format--Kill Doctor Lucky, Save Doctor Lucky, and Key Largo--all had the landscape approach. So in a certain sense, when I think of boardgames, I think of landscape boxes. I very definitely wanted this product to have a "boardgame" vibe to it, so that connection was very important to me. I also thought a lot of retailers would display the box on its side, with the cover facing out, and I figured a landscape box would be less likely to fall over on bookshelves."
If there is anything which distinguishes the Beginner Box from its predecessors at TSR and WotC, it would be the philosophy behind the product. Erik Mona explains that previously, most manufacturers have set a price for the product and then determined what could go inside a box at that price level. With the Beginner Box, Paizo chose a different approach, electing to decide what needed to be in the box in order to present a good game experience, teach players the game and provide those players with everything they would need to play. The idea is to give them enough to get them playing for five levels of play and get them hooked. Only after determining everything that had to go into the box in order to achieve that aim did Paizo then set the price for the Beginner Box.
What wont be included in the box are the new pre-painted figures from Wizkids. Releasing on or about November 9, 2011, WizKids Beginner Box Heroes provides 4 pre-painted plastic miniatures for each of the four pre-generated iconic heroes in the Pathfinder Beginner Box.
Check your local FLGS for bundled pricing on the Beginner Box and Beginner Box Heroes and you can expect an announcement later this October concerning promotional events at your local store to celebrate the release of the Beginner Box.
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Those monster stat blocks sure look 4e ish
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So in order to get the four minis that they said was going to be in it originally, I would have to shill out another $13 for them? Bringing the grand total up to $48?
Not impressed.
My first D&D boxed set at least came with an audio CD and four blue heroes for $20.This is what Yoda would probably say about it:
"No, no different. Only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned (about D&D)."
By approaching the new game without ego or bias, I do feel like it's 1990 all over again and I just discovered that awesome black boxed game with the huge red dragon in it.
D&D is not an edition. D&D is not my D&D. D&D is not your D&D. D&D is D&D. -Androlphas
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ø Ignore DragonhelmErik Mona's head is never seen. I suspect he is a victim of the Medusa Plague, turning his face into the visage of a medusa. If they showed his face, we would have turned to stone!
This product looks really good. Everything I wanted in a beginner's box. I wasn't sold before, but I am now.
And as far as a crayon goes, check out the intro box for Castles & Crusades!
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What Czak said. The minis were never going to be a part of this box.
Visit Lemuria Press.
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Toyota recently displayed a new concept vehicle they've been working on. This is what it looks like -- a lounge chair that will suck your brain out while you're cruising. With lots of neon-ish lighting thrown in for good measure. The thing stands upright at slow speeds and then reclines at higher ones. You can even adjust the color of the thing to whatever suits your fancy with the push of a button. Apparently it can drive itself on special highway lanes in Japan. No word if those 'special' highway lanes are kin to the 'special' bus I used to ride to school, but if they are you'll probably have to wear a helmet.
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Circuit Breaker is a component that helps discovering externals resources failures and adapting application behavior.
If my database is overloaded and times out after 30s or a web service is broken i do not want to waste time connecting to it. I prefer to use long lived cache or even show a user friendly message instead. Circuit breaker helps by encapsulating this logic and allowing developers to simply ask "is my resource available?" before using it. CB manages statistical data to give the appropriate answer. Statistical data is stored using persistence adapter as an internal data structure. This information is gathered after every request to the external service so that CB would know is the external service healthy or not. Storage and retrieval of the data has to be very fast (apc/memcached preferred).Zend Framework: Zend_CircuitBreaker Component Proposal
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1.0 - 20 November 2010: Initial Draft. (wiki revision: 4)
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- This component will allow configuration of thresholds per service name.
- This component will allow configuration via array/config object.
- This component will allow replacement of persistence storage adapters.
- This component will provide persistence storage adapters for zend cache, dummy and database.
- This component will keep very simple API.
- This component will be ported to ZF2 as soon as zend cache 2 is fully implemented.
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- Zend_Exception
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This component should be used close to the service call implementation. To decrease code duplication and end user envolvment it would be beneficial to create decorators (or some extensions) to database and web service components. This way calls to Circuit breaker could be handed by Zend Framework. It is not required for a standalone use though.
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- Milestone 5: Initial documentation exists.
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- Zend_CircuitBreaker
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I've been waiting half my life for the phrase "in your face!" to finally die. Now that it seems to be fading, I may have to contend with the rise of "On your face," as in "I'm gonna kick your ass, on your face!"
It's all thanks to a new technology that allows game players to actually fight their digital battles on their own faces. The iOS game Skinvaders uses an augmented-reality (AR) platform to take advantage of the devices' front-facing cameras and transform players' faces into the game terrain on which alien invaders must be defeated to save the world, or your face, or whatever... … Read more


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01 April 2003
Inside and out
Math model allows for greater production speed, cost savings.
By Francesco Pompei
Infrared temperature measurement methods of production processes are limited to material surfaces and thus have a serious limitation in thermal process monitoring, particularly when considering speed increases.
To overcome this limitation, a heat balance equation is derived in which the material surface temperature data is combined with other noncontact temperature data to calculate the internal temperature of the product, which in turn is used to optimize control to increase speeds. The derivation, via a mathematical model of unsteady heat transfer, is derived using an application of the LaPlace Transform method, which is shown to be an easy form for the design of measurement systems to estimate material internal temperature by noncontact means.
The model results are in agreement with experimental data in tire manufacturing, where hundreds of actual installations of such noncontact systems are successfully increasing tire production speeds by optimizing the vulcanizing time to the initial conditions of the green tire. The method extends to any thermal process such as food processing, printing, and laminating.
Tire success
A common problem in thermal processing in production is lack of control of the initial condition of the materials to be processed. They may be stored in a cold or hot warehouse, depending on the climate and season. Or the material may have just come in by truck, and there is no certainty as to bulk temperature. Or the materials may have come from another process in the same plant but with a completely unknown time at room ambient.
If you know the initial bulk temperature, you can reduce the total time in an oven by increasing conveying speed and adjusting oven temperature distribution. Without this temperature information, the oven time must be sufficiently long to accommodate the worst-case initial condition. For nonmetals, surface temperature alone, which you can obtain with infrared sensing devices, is insufficient, due to the large gradient from the material surface to the interior. Accordingly, a more sophisticated technique is required based on easily measured variables yet is robust enough to work under real world factory conditions.
A specific application actually researched and installed was for tire vulcanizing for a major tire manufacturer. The process consists of "cooking" tires under heat and pressure in special molds one at a time in individual presses. By measuring the "green" tire temperature immediately prior to vulcanizing, press time could be adjusted to maximize throughput and thus increase plant capacity with almost no capital investment—a significant accomplishment compared with adding capacity to a $100 million plant conventionally.
Initial experimental work immediately indicated that employing surface temperature alone would result in unacceptable errors. A new method could solve a simple steady-state heat balance equation at the tire surface and thus provide the internal temperature with a simple noncontact device.
The new method called for constructing infrared (IR) thermocouples with a heat balance circuit, calibrating them to the correct "K" value, and then installing them in the tire plant with very good tracking of actual internal temperatures. Hundreds of tire presses were placed under the control of this method, and they have produced with excellent results, increasing throughput about 10%. This is especially effective in the summer, when green tires warm up just by storage in hot warehouses prior to vulcanizing.
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Probing tires thermocouple probe developed with built-in capability to solve the steady-state heat conduction duration for the tire. Calibration probe goes in initial setup to determine the value of the coefficient K. |
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Despite the success, the underlying analysis was largely empirical, with no theoretical support for the simple steady-state model. Thus there was considerable uncertainty as to whether the method may apply to other processes or even to other tire plants. Because of that uncertainty, a more complete analytical model was required to provide the design parameters necessary for a successful application and to minimize the time and cost of empirical investigations in actual plants.
The more analytical model comes by constructing the unsteady differential equations governing heat conduction. The form of the solution includes all the attributes needed to apply to the problem of determining internal temperature by noncontact measurement and a simple calculation:
1) The coefficient K1 necessary to program the IR device is clearly identified.
2) The coefficient K2, which represents an uncontrolled initial condition error, is clearly identified.
3) The coefficients now emerge with conventional dimensionless heat transfer groups: the Fourier No. (Fo) characteristic heat conduction time and Biot No. (Bi) ratio of surface transfer rate to conduction.
The variation of K2 , K1 with Fo at the Bi is calculated for the thermally processing tires and, for comparison, for food. Note that the experimental value K = 0.31 is directly predicted.
Extending the model to the case of employing the IR sensors for speed increase, we employ the result
Because we wish to keep the surface temperature and internal temperature the same (or with a fixed relation), set Tc = Ts, which results in
Because K2/K1 is a function only of material properties and characteristic time tau, where tau at constant material properties depends only on process speed, a new ratio can be formed as
This expression, called the Speed Boost Equation (SBE), can then be a control algorithm to maintain correctly balanced thermal input to produce consistent product temperature profiles from the surface to the center, at various speeds V. For large speed changes—>10%, for example—material and heat transfer characteristics may become nonlinear and thus require renormalization of the value of K2/K1 at more than one point until the final desired speed is reached.
The physical interpretation of the SBE is that the ratio of energy supplied by the heat source at T∞ to the product with surface temperature Ts, divided by the energy level difference between the initial state To and final state Ts, must hold constant at a constant speed. Accordingly, if the product temperature Ts is to be constant, and the speed is constant, the initial and source temperatures must remain controlled to maintain the balance in the SBE.
For speed increase consideration as in the case of tires, with vulcanizing estimated at 200°C, if the initial temperature elevates by 20°C, you can immediately compute the speed increase as 10%, which agrees with the experimental result.
Note the importance of the denominator, or preheat term, for speed increases. As in the case of tires, the source temperature for many thermal processes is limited by equipment or materials, while the product temperature is to be precisely held. The only variable available for speed increase is preheat (i.e., reducing the quantity [Ts–To]).
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For tires, K1 (= K) asymptotes to the experimental value 0.31 at Fo~2. For food, K1 is nearly independent of Fo. |
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Applying the SBE to laminating processes, a 25% speed increase may occur by increasing the heating roll temperature from 105°C to 120°C, holding all else constant. The same increase could be achieved by providing preheat to 48°C without changing the source temperature.
In an example of a high-speed color copier, which has as the heat source the fuser roll temperature, the product temperature is the copy itself, and the initial temperature is at the feed paper. Inks for color copies are particularly temperature sensitive, due to the strong viscosity dependence on temperature. Accurate control is very important to maintain quality at maximum possible speed (a highly competitive selling point for manufacturers). Applying the SBE with the appropriate IR sensors allows maximal speeds under all conditions, especially if a preheat stage is fitted to the design.
In the graphics industry, you can show how to control the temporizing roll in waterless printing by using the SBE with the appropriate sensors. Manipulating the SBE and expressing the result as a control algorithm with conventional proportional-integral-derivative (PID) parameters gives the new equation
for controlling the cooling water temperature Tw. This form is expressed as controlling differences because an attribute of the preferred IR sensor types, infrared thermocouples, is that they can be wired differentially to produce an extremely accurate ?T. For many applications, the required accuracy would limit the use of conventionally amplified IR devices, especially in the very sensitive denominator terms in the SBE, where small differences have a large effect.
Employing IR sensing to accurately control thermal processing—especially to increase process speeds—must include provisions for the difference between the surface temperature, which you can directly measure, and the bulk material temperature, which you must indirectly measure.
By employing a simple result of a complex mathematical model, you can estimate the bulk temperature from surface temperatures, ambient temperatures, material properties, and speed.
By extending the model, a result called the SBE can directly work with appropriate IR sensors to increase production speeds while maintaining material temperature characteristics. TT
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Infrared thermocouples wired differentially (top) and with contact t/c to provide highly accurate T. |
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Dr. Francesco Pompei founded Exergen Corp., where he now serves as president, in 1980. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University, where he has an appointment in the physics department.
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Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society
Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society | |
Abbreviation | LASFS |
Motto | De Profundis Ad Astra ("From the Depths to the Stars") |
Formation | 1934 |
Type | NGO |
Purpose/focus | Social |
Headquarters | 6012 Tyrone Ave. Van Nuys, California 91401 |
Coordinates | 34°10′21″N 118°22′59″W / 34.1725°N 118.383°WCoordinates: 34°10′21″N 118°22′59″W / 34.1725°N 118.383°W |
Region served | San Fernando Valley |
Website | http://lasfs.org/ |
The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, Inc., or LASFS is a science fiction society with its headquarters in Van Nuys, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, in the San Fernando Valley, north of L.A. city. LASFS HQ is located at the corner of Tyrone & Aetna streets, near the Van Nuys Orange Line station. LASFS is the oldest continuously operating science fiction club in the world,[1] helped considerably in that record by being one of the few to own a clubhouse. The organization continues to hold regular weekly meetings on Thursdays. The club maintains a private lending library of books, videos, and other genre-related materials, for use by members.
The club has hosted the World Science Fiction Convention several times, initiated the regional science-fiction convention Westercon, and hosts a yearly science fiction convention called Loscon.[2] It maintains a web site and discussion forum, publishes (at irregular intervals) an amateur magazine called Shangri L'Affaires, and hosts the collations of a weekly amateur press association, APA-L. The LASFS monthly newsletter, De Profundis, is named for the club motto, De Profundis ad Astra ("From the Depths to the Stars"). DeProf is available (in PDF format) for reading at the LASFS web site, and can be obtained by writing its editor/publisher, Marty Cantor.
In 1934 Hugo Gernsback, editor of the then-prominent science fiction magazine Wonder Stories, established a correspondence club for fans called the "Science Fiction League." Local groups across the nation could join by filling out an application. Early meetings were held first at the Pacific Electric Building, then moved to Clifton's Cafeteria. Forrest J Ackerman later wrote, "The first meetings of the club were held in what was called the Pacific Electric Building in downtown Los Angeles. I think that once a month, a man who worked there was able to get the seventh or eighth floor free for us. Then we moved to Clifton's Cafeteria, a feature of which was their free limeade and lime juice. Some of the members who didn't have more than a nickel or dime to spend guzzled a lot of that free juice.[3]
By 1936, the League had begun to fail. New management was less interested in the League, and the members grew up and lost interest. Charter group number four, in Los Angeles, had an active member in Forrest J. Ackerman, who missed the first few meetings (he was living in San Francisco with his parents), but whose enthusiasm and imagination provided a focus for the group. "Forry" and a cadre of other members kept it alive as the science fiction and fantasy genres developed. Local authors (and sometimes those from out of the area) also helped by coming to meetings from time to time.
In 1939, the group broke with the Science Fiction League, changed its name to the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, and begun to meet every Thursday.[1] In this decade, the club began publishing the fanzine Shangri L'Affaires. Nicknamed "Shaggy", the zine has died and been revived many times over the decades. When published now, it is photocopied, but originally it was done on a mimeograph machine. One of the ways to earn your dues was to crank the machine and collate the sheets.
World War II was a very busy time for the club, though few major changes were made. Most members were either below or well above draft age, and many fans from around the country visited en route to the war in the Pacific. Some moved to Los Angeles to work in defense industries.
In the 1940s, some members such as Ray Bradbury began writing professionally, and an increasing number of professional science fiction authors visited meetings or joined as "Members at Large" elsewhere in the world. For some years, the club sponsored "Fanquets" for members who had made their first professional sale.[4]
In the 1950s, the club became embroiled in controversy, partly from taking the stand that if they didn't address controversies, they would fade away. Ackerman was still the mainstay of the club in the first part of the 1950s, but marriage and work needs led to his attending less frequently. One of the live wires of the club at this time was Bjo Trimble, a former WAVE who met her husband John under Ackerman's piano (at a crowded party).
In the 1960s the club continued to grow, with the effects of the counterculture of the 1960s adding new members from the surrounding suburbs of Southern California. Many members became fans of the newly created Star Trek television show, and in 1968 Trimble and other members of LASFS were instrumental in organizing a nationwide letter writing campaign which saved the show from its announced cancellation by NBC at the end of its second season.
The club's meeting place (called 'Freehafer Hall' by the members after member Paul Freehafer) was usually in a public meeting hall and so it would be forced to relocate from time to time. Over the decades it moved from central Los Angeles further west until it reached Santa Monica, "as far west as it could go and remain dry."
In 1964, member Paul Turner made what seemed to some like a frivolous suggestion, to others a brilliant idea: that the LASFS establish a building fund, generated from weekly meeting dues and fund-raising events such as auctions, with the idea of eventually purchasing its own permanent clubhouse. Members quickly began taking the idea seriously, and by the late 1960s, after a period of hesitation, Bruce Pelz became the building fund's most fervent supporter.
In 1973, less than 10 years after its inception, the LASFS building fund had enough money in the bank to purchase a small private residence on Ventura Boulevard in Studio City and convert it into the weekly meeting hall. By 1977, the club needed a newer, larger clubhouse, and so it sold the Ventura Boulevard property and purchased a property at 11513 Burbank Boulevard, about two blocks west of Lankershim Blvd in North Hollywood, with two buildings: Freehafer Hall (the rear building), and "Building 4SJ" (fronting the Street). Building 4SJ was named after Forrest J Ackerman, and contained the society's lending library, furnished rooms for socializing, and a pay telephone.[5]
On September 1, 2011, the organization moved to a new building at 6012 Tyrone Avenue in Van Nuys, which formerly housed a cabinet-making shop and a poker school.[6]
Cultural references[edit]
In the Hugo-nominated science fiction novel Fallen Angels by LASFS members Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (with Michael Flynn), LASFS' unofficial motto "Death Will Not Release You" and its even more unofficial countersign "... even if you die" play a pivotal role in plot development.[7]
Murder victims[edit]
In the 1970s, LASFS member Ed Baker was shot dead in his car. Years later, in an unrelated event, LASFS members John and Linda Sohus, were murdered. Christian Gerhartsreiter/"Clark Rockefeller" was alleged to have been responsible.[8] On April 10, 2013, Gerhartsreiter was convicted of the murder of John Sohus.[9]
- ^ a b Martin, Sue (November 1, 1984). "Science Fiction Club Looks Ahead at 50". Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA: Tribune Company). p. V-2. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
- ^ "Brilliant Literature is Unearthed in Cherryh's Novels". Los Angeles Daily News. November 29, 1987. Retrieved April 10, 2012. "CJ Cherryh will be the guest of honor at LOSCON 14, this year's annual convention for Los Angeles-area science fiction and fantasy fans."
- ^ Ackerman, Forrest J. "Through Time and Space with Forry Ackerman: Part VIII". Mimosa 23: 31.
- ^ McNamara, Kevin R. (2010). The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles. Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Joe, Siclari; Craig Miller (2007). "LASFS". fanac.org. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
- ^ LASFS Home Page (Brief) accessed August 29, 2011
- ^ Fallen Angels Chapter 20 "A Fire in the Sky"
- ^ Girardot, Frank C. & McIntire, Nathan "Rockefeller saga: Linda Sohus' fate baffling" Pasadena Star-News August 16, 2008
- ^ "Clark Rockefeller Impostor Found Guilty of 1985 Murder" ABC News April 10, 2013


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HeterogeneousTable Class
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Represents a table on a non-Microsoft SQL Server Publisher.
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Assembly: Microsoft.SqlServer.Rmo (in Microsoft.SqlServer.Rmo.dll)
The HeterogeneousTable type exposes the following members.
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HasPrimaryKey | Gets or sets whether the table has a primary key. | |
HasUniqueConstraintNullable | Gets or sets whether the unique constraint allows null values. | |
IsPublished | Gets or sets whether the table is currently being published by Microsoft SQL Server replication. | |
IsTransPublished | Gets or sets whether the table is published in a transactional publication. | |
Name | Gets or sets the name of the table object at the non-Microsoft SQL Server Publisher. | |
Owner | Gets or sets the owner of the table at the non-Microsoft SQL Server Publisher. | |
UserData | Gets or sets custom user data for this object. |
The HeterogeneousTable structure is used to return data on a table at a non-SQL Server Publisher. The data is used in SQL Server Management Studio to enable users to select tables to publish from an Oracle Publisher.
This namespace, class, or member is supported only in version 2.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework.
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Bring your own linen! Nice place to stay in the city. It is a bit of a walk to the city center it was ok, I went walking to the city center everyday. Right next to the best swimming pool complex in town. Good kitchen facilities. Not a lot going on so for solo traveler might be a bit too quiet.
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Very helpful and friendly staff. The hostel was far nicer then we expected, really lovely atmosphere, decoration and facilities. Got upgraded room without asking. Definitely recommend
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The staff were really friendly and very helpful, nothing was too much trouble for them and they were knowledgeable about the area so were able to recommend appropriate things to do. The hostel had a really relaxed atmosphere everyone talked to everyone. It was a little out of the way but I'm so glad that I stayed there!
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i like this hostel very much! They r very friendly,
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The staff was extremely helpful to us. The hostel is places outside the city center, but there is a bus stop next to the hostel so it didn't bother us.
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Breakfast buffet was great - 1450ISK is worth the selection. I would recommend it most for guests who have early morning tours and need a good breakfast before heading out. The hostel was quite a walk from the city center - great fitness, but not during winter. Downtown HI hostel is much better located. Staff are helpful - will answer questions, but HARDLY seem enthusiastic when offering support. I would recommend doing your own research/booking tours online yourself, before asking for help.
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Sophomore Year (2012): Played in and started all 17 games… Scored two goals on the season… Attempted six shots, placing two on frame… Went 2-2 on penalty kicks… Scored first career goal against Kennesaw State… Played 110 minutes on three occasions… Played all 90 minutes five other occasions…
Freshman Year (2011): Became Lipscomb's first Atlantic Sun All-Freshman team honoree since Katie Wood in 2009... Started all 17 matches she appeared in and played every minute, logging a team-high 1,553 minutes... Helped hold conference leaders Jenna Caudle (ETSU) and Ashley Ciesielczyk (FGCU) scoreless against Lipscomb... Involved in Lipscomb's shutout of USC Upstate (Oct. 2), the first conference shutout by Lipscomb since 2009.
High School: Played for Stewart Brown at Highland Park High School... State Cup champion twice, finalist three times on the club level... All-State and Region in 2009 and 2010... District Player of the Year... All-Freshman team in 2007... Won Highland Park's Cornerstone Athlete Award, for athletic, academic and community service excellence.
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- Faithful to regional architecture, Aristoteles Beach Hotel has been operating since 1991 and is a point of reference for Chalkidiki, and especially Kassandra. It offers the closest proximity to Thessaloniki, while at the same time providing access to the crystal clear waters and the sandy beaches of Toroneos gulf.The hotel complex comprises of 8 separate amphitheatric buildings. As a result, almost all of our rooms have a magnificent view of the sea. ... more less
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Dear Cindy,
My insurance company has a benefit called SilverSneakers, and I know it's about exercise. I am 68 and I'm in pretty good shape for an old bird. I usually walk, but right now have a minor foot problem and haven't been able to get my walks in. I wouldn't mind going to a gym, though I have never done that. I'm not sure I could always get to a class because I still work part time and my schedule changes each week, but I would like to know what the class is like. Thanks for any information you can send me. -- Betty
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You're right, SilverSneakers Fitness Program is about exercise. In fact, it's the leading fitness program in the nation for older adults and is offered by leading Medicare health plans and Medicare supplement carriers throughout the country. Certain insurance providers have SilverSneakers as a member benefit, which means they are given a free fitness facility membership. This is a great perk when you consider how positively physical activity will impact your health. You can find SilverSneakers in more than 9,500 facilities such as YMCAs, YWCAs, senior centers, private fitness clubs and churches.
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obama is fucking done with all this bullshit in that last gif
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The 62 senators on the top represent about one-fourth of the people in the United States.
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Overrepresentation in the Senate is among the reasons why the smallest states (and their local governments) received more federal aid per capita in 2010.
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The "fiscal cliff" is a a metaphor for a government that no longer responds to the biggest challenges we face because it's paralyzed by intransigent Republicans, obsessed by the federal budget deficit, and overwhelmed by big money from corporations, Wall Street, and billionaires.
If we had a functional government America would address three "cliffs" posing far larger dangers to us than the fiscal one:
The child poverty cliff.
Between 2007 and 2011, the percentage of American school-age children living in poor households grew from 17 to 21%. Last year, according to the Agriculture Department, nearly 1 in 4 young children lived in a family that had difficulty affording sufficient food at some point in the year.
Yet federal programs to help children and lower-income families – food stamps, aid for poor school districts, Pell grants, child health care, child nutrition, pre- and post-natal care, and Medicaid – are being targeted by the Republican right. Over 60 percent of the cuts in the GOP's most recent budget came out of these programs.
Even if these programs are preserved, they don't go nearly far enough. But the Obama Administration doesn't talk about reducing poverty in America. It talks only about preserving the middle class.
Yet unless we focus on better schools, better health, and improved conditions for these poor kids and their families, in a few years America will have a significant population of under-educated and desperate adults.
The baby-boomer healthcare cliff.
Healthcare costs are already 18% of GDP. Between now and 2030, when 76 million boomers join the ranks of the elderly, those costs will soar. This is the principal reason why the federal budget deficit is projected to grow.
The Affordable Care Act offers a start but it isn't nearly adequate to limit these rising costs. The President and the Democrats have to lead the way in using Medicare and Medicaid's bargaining power over providers to get lower costs and to move from a fee-for-service system to a fee-for-healthy outcomes system of healthcare.
But we can't avoid the fact we have the most expensive and least effective system of health care in the world that's spending 30 percent more on paperwork and administration than on keeping people healthy. The real healthcare cliff can only be avoided if we adopt a single-payer healthcare system.
The environmental cliff.
Global emissions of carbon dioxide jumped 3 percent in 2011 and are expected to jump another 2.6 percent this year according to scientists, putting the human race perilously close to the tipping point when ice caps irretrievably melt, sea-levels rise, and amount of available cropland in the world becomes dangerously small.
Yet Republicans (and their patrons, such as Charles and David Koch) continue to deny climate change. And the Administration is no longer pushing for a cap-and-trade system or a carbon tax.
Yet unless we act to reduce carbon emissions, other major emitters won't do so. The only binding pact so far is the Kyoto Protocol, which the U.S. never joined. And we're taking no leadership at the international climate talks now taking place in Qatar.
Yes, America does face a cliff — not a fiscal cliff but a set of precipices we'll tumble over because the GOP's obsession over government's size and spending has obscured them. And Democrats so far haven't been able or willing to sound the real alarms.
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"There are, let's face it, some people in our political life who pine for the days when minorities and women knew their place, gays stayed firmly in the closet and congressmen asked, "Are you now or have you ever been?" The rest of us, however, are very glad those days are gone. We are, morally, a much better nation than we were. Oh, and the food has improved a lot, too. Along the way, however, we've forgotten something important — namely, that economic justice and economic growth aren't incompatible. America in the 1950s made the rich pay their fair share; it gave workers the power to bargain for decent wages and benefits; yet contrary to right-wing propaganda then and now, it prospered. And we can do that again."
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Rachel Maddow explains the 2012 election and its result
"Ohio really did go to President Obama last night. And he really did win. And he really was born in Hawaii. And he really is legitimately President of the United States. Again. And the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not make up a fake unemployment rate last month. And the Congressional Research Service really can find no evidence that cutting taxes on rich people grows the economy. And the polls were not skewed to oversample Democrats. And Nate Silver was not making up fake projections about the election to make conservatives feel bad. Nate Silver was doing math. And climate change is real. And rape really does cause pregnancy sometimes. And evolution is a thing. And Benghazi was an attack on us, it was not a scandal by us. And nobody's taking away anyone's guns. And taxes have not gone up. And the deficit is dropping, actually. And Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction. And the moon landing was real. And FEMA is not building concentration camps. And UN election observers are not taking over Texas. And moderate reforms of the regulations on the insurance industry and the financial services industry in this country are not the same thing as Communism." —Rachel Maddow
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ok who the fuck cares though? if we're "trying" to be equal why should we bring up peoples races or sexuality? George Washington isn't known as "the first white president" what is the constant need to bring race and sexuality into every little thing? im sure there have been gay senators in the past they just weren't openly gay. who the hell cares if she's gay? is she going to do a better or worse job based on her sexuality, race or gender? no probably not! stop giving a shit and then we'll all be "equal" cause we all already are equal.
100% agreed. I couldn't say anything on FB about it because some of my gay friends would have been offended but like really if we want to get rid of discrimination between races and genders and sexualities then STOP POINTING THEM OUT.
I think the reason it should be pointed out is because there are still people that are scared of 'coming out' as being gay/lesbian/bi-sexual, and this isn't just about equality.
The more it's seen that being having a, what some may consider 'different' (and I use that term very loosely, so don't bite my head off) sexuality or race, especially when they are people with power, or that are in the public eye often, the more likely it is that they it will become accepted as an average occurrence.
When a celebrity comes out and says they are gay, or support gay marriage, they're applauded, and cooed at. Why should it be different for politicians?
'I'm sure there have been gay senators in the past they just weren't openly gay'
I'm going to come right out and say, this is why it's a big deal for it to be made clear that they are gay. It shouldn't be something anyone has to hide. It should be something they can talk about openly and that everyone can know.
This woman could inspire more people to be open about their sexuality, just by being open about her own.End rant.
It's a big deal because even as far back as FOUR YEARS AGO she might not have been elected solely because she's openly gay. It's a big deal because in the past people of the lgbtq community have had to HIDE in order to be able to be members of mainstream society. We DO NOT have equality and to see us making leaps towards achieving that is WORTH celebrating. We DO NOT have equality and we never will if you disregard it as no big deal and think that it shouldn't be addressed because it is a big deal. When you're gay in this country, it is a struggle. Some people lose their entire families. They lost their friends. They can lose their jobs. They aren't granted the same civil rights as heterosexual Americans and people who aren't in that position can never fully understand how that feels. They can be denied so much and to have someone elected to office who is openly gay, it says ACCEPTANCE and it's starting on EQUALITY and it's a HUGE DEAL. If you have any experience having to hide from the world, from any person in your life, for fear of rejection and/or discrimination, you might understand.
And George Washington wasn't celebrated for being a white president because it wasn't a big deal. Being the first president? HUGE deal, but being the first white president? NOT SO MUCH. because of this thing. It's called white privilege. Back then there wasn't even a question as to what race the president would be. We've come so far since then and we still have far to go. Erasing a persons race and sexuality doesn't do anything. Accepting someone doesn't mean denying individuality. It doesn't mean denying race, sexuality, etc. It means finally understanding that diversity is NOT something to be afraid of and to get rid of the ignorance that surrounds these issues. We're at tolerance and we need to reach acceptance. We need to stop turning on the television to hear someone say 'marriage is only supposed to be between a man and a woman' or that they 'don't believe in homosexuals.' With Tammy in office as an OPENLY GAY WOMAN, for the first time the Senate will have to talk about gay issues WITH someone who is gay instead of talking ABOUT it without anyone there who really knows. It's a HUGE DEAL. Don't belittle or erase it. Tammy is the first openly gay woman to take office and it is a fantastic, wonderful, glorious thing. As a gay woman, I am above and beyond happy about this because it is a giant step in our society.
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Local unions, including the Rochester and Genesee Valley Area Labor Federation, protested the $1.2 trillion dollars in spending cuts.
They held a press conference Wednesday calling on Congressional representatives to bring their frustrations to Congress.
Protesters say Congressional Republicans are taking the economy hostage and worry that these cuts will devastate local families.
James Bertolone, a union representative, said he is concerned about the effects the cuts will have on Social Security and physician shortages.
"They continue to threaten Medicare, Medicaid, working families, food stamps, workplace safety, education, everything except where the money is. Sequestration will cause another quarter where the economy shrinks, if it happens three quarters in a row we are officially in a recession," Bertolone said.
Congress has eight days to act before the sequestration takes effect.
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Idelle D. (Cloutier) O'Brien, 92, of Duluth, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, at the Benedictine Health Center.
Idelle D. (Cloutier) O'Brien, 92, of Duluth, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, at the Benedictine Health Center.
She was born on Sept. 2, 1920, in Duluth to Edward and Lillian Cloutier.
She graduated from Denfeld High School and was a member of the Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity. She left Duluth in 1961 to join her daughter, Joan, in Washington, D. C. and worked for the Department of Agriculture. She stayed two years and met her future husband, John O'Brien there. They returned to Minneapolis and married on St. Patrick's Day 1963, and they shared many happy years.
She loved traveling, reading and shopping, but most of all, her family.
She was preceded in death by her parents; Diane and Joan's father, Carl Eisenach; her husband, John; a brother, Donald Whallon; a sister, Glendora Thoreson; a grandson, Christopher Black.
Idelle is survived by her daughters, Diane (Tom) Black and Joan (David) Crawford; grandchildren, Mark (Mary) Black, Bryan (Jennifer) Black, Joan and David's children, Susan (Eden) Forsythe-Copping, Patrick Crawford, Daniel Crawford (Colleen), Andrea Potterton (Keric) and a special granddaughter-in-law, Sharon Black; great grandchildren, Tony, Jacob, Joshua, Spencer, Evan, Avery and Isabella; a special niece, Carole Veron and many other nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.
VISITATION: 10 a.m. until the 11 a.m. memorial service Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in the Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, 2701 West 3rd St. Pastor Greg Daher officiating. Burial at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. In Lieu of flowers, memorials to Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity would be appreciated. To sign the guestbook on-line, visit www.wlbfuneralhome.com. Arrangements by Williams Lobermeier Boettcher Funeral Home.
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