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Dr. Lundeby was raised on his family homestead in north central Idaho. He attended the University of Idaho, graduating in with a degree in Zoology. From there, he went on to medical school at the University of Washington in Seattle. Residency training in General Surgery followed at the San Joaquin General Hospital program in California. Dr. Lundeby then practiced surgery in Moscow, Idaho, Pullman, Washington and Colfax, Washington prior to moving to Coeur d'Alene and founding Reflections.
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CUMBERLAND — Remember the guy from Cumberland who fought so diligently to keep open the Valley Falls Post Office?
Despite his valiant attempts to combat both the U.S. Postal Service and the Postal Regulatory Commission, he failed, but he apparently didn't in the hearts and minds of members of the American Postal Workers Union/Rhode Island State Organization.
On Saturday, Nov. 12, APWU/RISO President James Ozanian presented Derrick Watson with a 2011 Community Service Award at Marchetti's Restaurant in Cranston.
The staff at Supreme Pizza in Cumberland (right to left),Rick, Lucy, Willie, Joey, Matt and Sandra, present Sue Tessier MacKenzie, far left, with a pizza — one of many they are donating and serving at the upcoming Italian Buffet Dinner to benefit the Milk Fund. MacKenzie is the organizer of the dinner, which will take place Thursday, Dec. 8, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Italian Workingman's Club, 947 Diamond Hill Rd. in Woonsocket.
PROVIDENCE – Twenty-eight state legislators joined with the anti-abortion group Rhode Island Right to Life (RIRTL) Thursday in a court challenge questioning the constitutionality of the Health Benefits Exchange Gov. Lincoln Chafee established by executive order earlier this year to carry out a portion of the federal "Obamacare" healthcare reform law.
CUMBERLAND — The Town Council has authorized Mayor Daniel J. McKee to enter into a three-year energy contract with Direct Energy, which is offering Cumberland and other cities and towns participating in the Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns' municipal energy aggregation program far cheaper electricity prices than they are now paying under an existing contract.
The league's current contract with Nextra Energy expires Dec. 31. Connecticut-based Direct Energy has been selected to supply electricity under the league's aggregation initiative.


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Tofino, BC, Canada is an oasis of old-growth rainforests, wildlife, solitude, recreation and exploration. Locals include whales, eagles, bears, salmon, otters, cougars, wolves, herons, ospreys, and steelhead; and visitors are migrating whales and birds. Tofino is recognized as a peaceful place where one can kick back, breathe, feed and enjoy.
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This weekend was the biggest shopping weekend of the year. Bargain shoppers were out in full force trying to get the best deals possible, and some of the shoppers are still at it.
Black Friday, and the hectic weekend may be over, but stores like Target say this year's shopping went smoother than most. Store managers say it's just the start of their shopping season.
Three days later, it's still a pretty busy day inside stores. Workers at Target in Weston, say they see a very large turn-out in the days following black Friday. It's something they're prepared for, and make sure the shelves stay stocked.
Target Manager,Mel Cottrell says the store is still pretty busy Monday morning. "Mondays are a pretty busy day for us. Coming back from the holiday weekend everyone is trying to shop and getting those last things on their list. Store wide we always have great deals. Anything from toys electronics, apparel and accessories, there is always pretty good stuff going on."
Target managers say that they saw record crowds this past weekend.
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Robert Scoble on Cloud Computing: Bubble or Revolution?
Cloud computing has evolved from the realm of novelty to a major growth industry in just a few years' time. Enterprise-level companies and startups both rely on this computing infrastructure to increase efficiency, scale more easily, and lower costs.
But how will the Cloud change in five years – or even six months? How will current Cloud providers adapt and how will they deliver for a rapidly growing customer base?
Tech evangelist Robert Scoble of Rackspace (and of popular blog Scobleizer) will answer these and other questions about the Cloud during his panel at Web 2.0 Expo New York this October. (Also on the panel: Lew Moorman, Chief Strategy Officer of Rackspace; Allan Leinwand, Chief Technology Officer of Zynga; Ari Levy, tech reporter for Bloomberg News; Brad Hargreaves, co-founder of General Assembly, a New York startup incubator.)
Scoble recently spoke to us about what they'll cover during this session as well as his own views on where the Cloud is going. Read the interview, which has been edited for length and clarity, below.
Kaitlin Pike: In your session title you have this juxtaposition – asking if it's a bubble or a revolution. Why can't it be both? If it's revolutionary, it's sort of natural that it becomes a bubble.
Robert Scoble: Absolutely. And it certainly does get over-hyped because so many companies have adopted it. The bubble part is also the industry is heating up and we're seeing that in valuations … That's what people are usually thinking of when they think of bubble… People use the word Cloud to mean so many things that the word has become almost completely useless. In fact, you had to ask me how I'm using the word, just to make sure you were clear on that.
Pike: So because of this, does it matter how many players there are in the space?
Scoble: I don't think so although, you know, when I go around and interview startups, I only hear two names, [Rackspace] and Amazon, for the most part. In enterprises, you hear more of the infrastructure players like VMware or Citrix, or Microsoft. And then there's a bunch of lower players like GoGrid and so forth. Generally people are coalescing around a few names.
Pike: Many companies who might want to move to third party Cloud services simply can't because of security and privacy concerns, the control, support, or even regulation issues. How do you address these concerns – particularly security and regulatory questions – before companies, you know, from finance and health care can use a third party Cloud system?
Scoble: Well, you can address it a number of different ways. At Rackspace, we have traditional hosting as well as Cloud, so we can segment the kinds of services that are mission critical and that you feel can't be shared with anybody else, but you really have some security concerns or whatnot. Usually people are okay with that being in a third party data center. They just might not want those resources shared because that gets into a new kind of risk. If it's talking about Cloud services, then we can get into the whole discussion of how protected are these services from bad neighbors, how protected are they from hackers, how protected are they from a bad actor at a host company? … It will be interesting to see what Lew says on all three of those and how he takes on some of the fears that existing enterprises have.
The other ways… you can keep doing your own data center but move to Cloud technologies internally so that you get the energy efficiency and other cost savings that comes from sharing resources internally. And that's when we will talk about OpenStack for instance and the advantages of going with that technology – open source technologies – inside your own data centers. It'll be interesting to see the panel talk about that – what other choices that they have for internal data center systems.
Pike: That's actually a great segue to one of the other questions I had, talking about making it more open source. One current problem is that once you use a service, you tend to be locked into it. So for instance, if I wanted to use Rackspace and Amazon, it's not exactly easy. What are different services doing, obviously including Rackspace, to create standards that allow me to use multiple services?
Scoble: Amazon is trying to create a de facto standard just because everybody is using it. And Rackspace is trying to compete with that by doing the OpenStack and the open source OpenStack. The OpenStack advantage is it's completely open source; you can run it on your own servers. You can't run Amazon's infrastructure on your own servers. So there is a pretty big divergence between those two systems. One is an open standard that you can actually see the code underneath. One is a closed standard, which is the de facto style standard. Are there players who are trying to get standards like that? I don't think there's that many that have that kind of market power. Google is trying to do its own big table sales standard. I very rarely hear about Google or Microsoft in this world. I almost always hear Amazon or Rackspace as the choice that people are making, or OpenStack and Amazon.
Pike: Do you think it would be smart to have someone like Google or a different organization work on these standards because I mean it's, I don't mean this to sound insulting, but it's sort of a conflict of interest for Rackspace and Amazon to be working on standards because it's part of your interest to keep people within your own system.
Scoble: Google has the same interest.
Pike: That's true.
Scoble: And so does Microsoft, you know. At Rackspace we welcome… anybody who's interested in an open source standard to sit down at the table. And I think that's pretty open. And we have NASA, we have Dell, we have at least fifty different companies now at the table. So, yeah. I don't think we're saying "stay away" to Microsoft or Google. I think they would be welcomed in this kind of effort, and certainly they would be welcome in proposing different kinds of APIs that they feel their customers would need.
Pike: Okay. And then, from these things you need to standardize, what do you think will get standardized if it hasn't been already, and what do you think will never be standardized?
Scoble: That's an interesting question. It seems like the file sharing, the databases, the standard APIs are fairly open at this point. The stuff that I think is going to be tougher to standardize is billing systems. Rackspace has its own billing system that's worked on or some support network. We're not going to share that probably with the rest of the world and that's going to be how different companies differentiate. You know, Rackspace made a very strong choice to give away the infrastructure but compete on service and that's what people pay us for: The ability to call at 2 in the morning and get a human before it rings three times and that's where the proprietary stuff comes in.
I mean, if you look at the latest investment we made in Cloudkick, it's management systems also. You know, being able to keep these systems up and running and make them accessible to customers in a different way. Those might be places where we stay a little more proprietary, you know, while the whole cloud stack is actually open sourced. But it's pretty easy, you know, to look at our code and see where everything is open. And then you can say, "Okay the billing systems aren't here so we need to build our own billing system. We need to build our own support network if we're going to offer support. And we're going to need to build in maybe analytics." And it will be interesting to see what Lew says to this question and we'll see where the conversation goes.
Pike: Do you have any idea of where it's going to be, say, five years from now? Do you have any expectations for what the standards would be like?
Scoble: I don't. That would be a question over my pay grade. Yeah, that would be a good one for Lew. And certainly I think the people who are building, you know, bleeding edge infrastructure, the guys at Zynga, would probably have a better idea of where the cloud is moving because they're having to manage, you know, many, many thousands of servers and huge loads and they're having to innovate and come out with new things that will help them keep on top of their business and save costs and they're going to be the ones who are going to come out with some interesting new things over the next few years. I'm sure Lew can tell you about what Rackspace is investing in and where we see the customer needs. But I think Zynga's going to be the one to really talk about their needs, because they're hitting walls that most of our customers are not yet hitting.
Pike: What is wrong with cloud computing today, what do you want to see changed?
Scoble: I'd like to see it become more programmatic. I think that's something that I keep hearing. For instance if you get on, if you're building a business for let's say Major League Baseball. And then the World Series comes on, you're going to see a spike in traffic and you don't really know how big that spike is. So you have to either have to have people sitting, watching systems and spinning up servers and moving things around or you can have a system that programmatically opens up servers and then when the traffic dies down the next day it starts killing servers and starts reconsolidating. It would be interesting to see how that innovates. Again, that's a question really for Zynga to talk about because they're hitting that kind of spike problem much more than the average startup is. I mean the day after Christmas when everyone gets their new iPads, the first thing they do is start playing games and they see huge spikes and they have to deal with that, and it will be interesting to see what kinds of problems they're hitting.
Everybody always wants lower cost. So, how can we save electricity, how can we save on server space, how can we make things more efficient and cheaper? We are always interested in that, that's why I loved visiting SeaMicro, which is making these really small, very energy efficient servers. That kind of innovation will allow new kinds of cloud infrastructure to be built for lower cost and less utilization of electricity and other resources.
Pike: So, I have question to follow up with from that. How "green" is the Cloud? It's obviously a concern that we have.
Scoble: It depends how you look at it. On one level if you just look at how much electricity these data centers now use it's a huge amount, and it's growing at a huge rate. Both us and Amazon are seeing growth that's astounding and so we are faced with demand, customer demand, that is forcing us to buy more data center space and build out and use more electricity and more heat, more cooling systems, stuff like that. On the other hand, if you look at it the other way which is comparing an old data center inside some company or a few servers in a closet, inside a work group or something like that. Those servers are only being used – I believe the industry averages around 15 to 20 percent – so if you move those workloads to Cloud computing, you see a huge environmental impact because you're sharing those resources with other projects and other companies and your utilization on the server goes from 15 to 20 percent to 80 percent and that's great for everybody.
And it also means building these massive data centers. You saw my tour of the Facebook data center. Well that's a small one compared to the data centers that are down in Las Vegas and elsewhere. Centralization of everything makes them more efficient and makes it possible to upgrade equipment to something like what SeaMicro was doing with microservers that used a quarter of the electricity with four times the compute power in the same rack space.
So that's very exciting and that's going to bring the whole industry as a whole more energy efficiency. But this industry is growing like a weed, and it's demanding a lot of energy, and that is a big problem for us.
Pike: What do you think is the next evolutionary step in the cloud? Is it just interoperability and address security, that sort of thing?
Scoble: I was just at the VMware's announcement and their evolutions are hundreds of little things that are memory management, that are memory utilization, newer architectures that take advantage of SSD instead of using hard drives. So that's allowing the guys who build these virtual machines to make optimizations that weren't possible before: New kinds of database architectures. We invested a lot in the MySQL or MySQL Drizzle, which is a lighter weight database engine, optimized for these internet workloads, these Cloud based workloads, and that makes everything more efficient and makes systems – scalable systems – possible. Does that answer that?
Pike: That definitely answers that.
Scoble: So there's a good infrastructure on the hardware innovation that's going on, like the SeaMicros, there's good innovation in database architectures like my SQL Drizzle and then the Cloud stacks getting more efficient. For instance, as NASA started working on OpenStack they found optimizations that they could put into the code and [then you all can see] optimizations and the whole stack is evolving very quickly on all three fronts. It's pretty exciting.
Pike: What have you always expected someone to do with the Cloud that you haven't seen yet?
Scoble: I don't know that I would have expectations. I certainly see where the bleeding edge is, you know, the Twitters. Twitter is only four or five years old, and it just this past year got robust in dealing with all these messages, and you can see there's billions of tweets being generated every day. I'm following 32,000 people, and I see the tweets just streaming down my screen like the Matrix. We haven't yet seen the end of that, because, you know, Google just came out with Google Plus which has very good circle management. But that's just the start. We need to be able to see trends in those circles and we need to be able to say, "Which items have been shared the most here?"
We haven't even gotten to that point. So I would say the stuff that I hope to see the Cloud move toward is much better real time information about what is going on on our screens.
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Pike: Okay. I have a couple questions that I got from Twitter and Facebook when I mentioned that I was going to be interviewing you. So, first question from Twitter: What is your Google circle strategy?
Scoble: Survival. For right now, I'm just watching the usage pattern that people are putting in there. For instance, I started a search for venture capitalists. And the venture capitalists are not talking about anything I'd expect them to. They're not talking about funding or economics or term sheets or strategies of dealing with entrepreneurs or anything like that. They're talking about all their fun vacations. And Joi Ito is showing his scuba diving photos and other people are posting fun photos and stuff like that.
So my strategy right now is to keep the number of circles down to smallest possible. Don't go crazy because your assumptions right now are probably going to change over the next month. And just keep watching people and then watch how the usage pattern evolves. … I've already added a circle for photographers because I'm noticing some really wonderful photographers on Google Plus.
I'm just watching what happens and how it's different from Twitter and Facebook. I'm trying to build circles that accurately reflect the usage that's going on.
Pike: Next twitter question: Can you talk about the Scoble Effect? This person is referring to the recent TechCrunch article talking about celebrities quickly dominating conversations on new social networks.
Scoble: Yep, yeah cause I move in and my crowd does too. And we play with it, and we all react to each other. I think that's an effective network system that we're part of.
If you're a popular person in society or in this case, early adopter geekdom, you can cause funny things to happen, you know, when the system is new. Usually people call it the Scoble Effect when I drive a lot of traffic to their company and their servers go down or something like that. It's more like the modern Slashdot Effect.
And that's sort of funny, but it's not really true. What's going on is, if I only have, let's say I have forty followers, and I say something really outrageous, those forty followers will push my message out to their followers and so on and so forth and if something is really interesting that I say, by the end of the day it hits a million people.
That's not necessarily due to the network that I have following me, but it's due to the fact that I'm pretty good at causing conversations to happen and those conversations spread to go viral. It's not something I can predict. For instance I was one of the first people that talked about Flipboard, and everybody saw that post tried it out and said, "Yes, this is right. This is awesome."And they kept pushing it to their followers, and yeah, within a few hours, their servers were going down. I've tried that with other companies that I thought were cool and everyone's like, "Nah Scoble, you missed the boat this time." And, you know, they only got a couple thousand visitors.
I can't always predict when things are going to really resonate with people and when they're not. But I do have a lot of followers. I can't deny that anymore. And those followers tend to be people who are very early adopter, very passionate about technology, very passionate about trying things. And so that causes a big bang effect that everybody notices, and sometimes it pisses people off.
Pike: Speaking of that, pissing people off, other question I have is "When are you going to retire?"
Scoble: When I'm dead. I mean, I've done this before I got paid. This is my life. When I was in junior high I got a tour… I walked up to the front door of Apple Computer when it was one building and said, "Give me a tour."And I was that way when I was in junior high and I'll be that way when I'm 80, you know, if I can still walk.
I don't understand that concept of retiring. I mean, I would like to take some more trips as I get older and slow down a bit. But I will still be sitting around the pool going, "Hey, did you read what happened on TechCrunch today?" or whatever it is.
Pike: So this next question I think is my favorite. It started off as a joke, but then we Googled it and it turned out that tons of people are asking this question. And it is "Are you a Cylon?"
Scoble: Yes.
No, you know, I have biased my entire life to being public and causing conversation, so my behavior looks robotic-like at times. Ask my wife that question, and it'll get you a different answer.
About the author: Kaitlin Pike is the Marketing & Community Manager of Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @kcpike.


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Seven medical departments at the University of Virginia Health System are being nationally recognized.
They are listed in the 18th annual survey of America's Best Hospitals from US News and World Report.
Health system officials say these rankings validate what they have been working so hard for.
"Be the best in health care, teaching and research. It's really a team approach. It's the physicians, it's the hospital together, working to provide the best care we can and this was really a nice certificate to establish that," said Dr. Jonathon Truwit, Chief of UVa's Pulmonary Medicine Department.
In the past year, UVa Health System has also attained nursing magnet status.
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Food culture is one part of travelling the world that is impossible to avoid no matter how many Western burger joints continue to spring up throughout the developing world. An eating culture is what affects attitudes towards food, social interaction and health that bears a great importance in influencing eating habits.
I've kicked around the publishing game for a while. In the past decade I've had two books published by traditional publishers, and four by digital publishers. On the flip side, I've collected more rejections than I can count. I've experienced the high's and the low's, and now I'm going to share with you some of what I've learned...
This particular Bill is something of a behemoth... with a colossal 50,000 page environmental impact assessment to accompany it. Within those 50,000 pages lies the future of Camden Town. Every single road closure, bridge widening and business affected is supposed to be taken into consideration within the report. It's why it's so big. However, we don't think they've taken the impact on Camden seriously enough.
Simply put, London is rubbish at food markets. Yes, we have Borough Market (inexplicably only open three days a week) and we have some very decent farmers' markets in suburban car parks, but there is nowhere in the capital that comes even close to the glorious Rialto Market in Venice or the sumptuous San Miguel Market in Madrid or the vibrant Cours Saleya Flower market in Nice.
I've written previously about 'green' non-governmental organisations and their penchant for protectionism. But as the European Environmental Paper Network met over the past few days in Portugal (my invite must have been lost in the post), I thought I'd bring to you a video worth watching and sharing.


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Google Chrome - Google's new browser - First Look
During the install process, Google Chrome asks to import your bookmarks, browsing history, and passwords. This allows you to switch to using Chrome almost instantly. Interestingly, Chrome asks whether you would like Google to be your default search engine, or if you would like to specify a different one. Kudos to Google for this; when supplying their own browser, it would be tempting to say "using a Google browser, use Google's search".
Here's a quick walk-through of the Chrome user interface.
The interface for Google Chrome is sparse, with browser tabs at the top of the window rather than underneath the other browser elements such as the address bar:
The browser certainly feels snappy, opening Gmail about as quickly as it opens using the WebKit nightlies on a Mac. New tabs open instantly, and rather than being greeted by a blank window you are given a quick launch window showing your most frequently visited sites:
While the main user interface is sparse, the options panes are even less busy. There are only three tabs of options, and none of them change the user interface in any major way. People that like to tweak the heck out of their browser probably aren't going to be thrilled by the lack of exposed settings:
You've gone incognito. Pages you view in this window won't appear in your browser history or search history, and they won't leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be preserved, however.
Going incognito doesn't affect the behavior of other people, servers, or software. Be wary of:
- Websites that collect or share information about you
- Internet service providers or employers that track the pages you visit
- Malicious software that tracks your keystrokes in exchange for free smileys
- Surveillance by secret agents
- People standing behind you
This mode, a feature which has also recently been announced for Internet Explorer 8, has colloquially been come to be known as "porn mode", though as Google states there are numerous valid reasons to use it that have nothing to do with browsing porn. For example, if you're using a shared machine, accessing your email using an incognito window would certainly be wise.
Other interface comments
The team at Download Squad has noted that Google Chrome doesn't appear to have an F11 full-screen option, nor does it do text zoom, but rather can only do full-page zooming. It appears to work much better with Google Docs than it does with competitor Zoho's office suite.
Strangely, capturing screenshots in Google Chrome is a bit of a hit-or-miss affair. For this post we've been using Chrome in both VMWare and Parallels virtual machines, and have used a few different screen capturing utilities, including Skitch, InstantShot, and the venerable Photoshop. In each instance, some weirdness was found where black text and UI elements would show up as white, and in cases where it was being displayed on a white background would completely disappear. We're not sure if this has to do with the virtual machines, or is a quirk of Chrome itself.


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The Namibia Football Association (NFA) is the governing body of football in Namibia. It was founded in 1990, and affiliated to FIFA and to CAF in 1992. It organizes the national football league and the national team. Our Vision To create a football culture and industry that provides entertainment and economical benefits for all; to become a dominant national association within the confederation via the professionalism of the game's administration ; to promote education and development programmes in all aspects of the game, particularly regarding youth and women's football.


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Leadership Longview graduating class of 2010-2011 recently finished their class project at the Arc of Gregg County. The Class took an overgrown backyard and turned it into a vegetable, herb and flower garden. In addition, they built a patio for those who cannot work in the dirt to sit and enjoy the beauty and bounty …
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Take some time to ask someone if they're OK
Deb Kennedy I've never liked what I call Hallmark days - those days we're forced in to buying a card or a present for someone, just because the calendar says it's time to show them some non spontaneous affection.
Buying Elvis' undies - a step too far?
Deb Kennedy How much is too much when it comes to collecting?
Harry the hoot follows a long family tradition
Deborah Kennedy I tell you what, if I was a royal, with a penchant for parties, I'd ban anyone with a camera from joining any private social gathering I ever got involved in.
Just a little can help a lot
Deborah Kennedy A friend of mine has the idea that if every Australian taxpayer was asked to donate two dollars a week to a fund set up solely for charity it would go a long way towards eradicating poverty.
Curls cost – but they're worth it (I think!)
Deborah Kennedy Curly-haired people, this one's for you but straight-haired people you can read it - just to feel happy about how much money you're saving.
Lines on media grief intrusion need to be set
Deborah Kennedy In my days as a print journalist, it was known as "the death knock"; that awful intrusion reporters were asked to make into the lives of the grieving, to discuss their dead.
It's the qualification that counts, not the quantity
Deborah Kennedy Sorry sport fans but I'm just not interested in the Olympics. I wish I could pretend to be even the tiniest bit enthused, but I'm not.
Will culling sharks cull their instincts?
Deborah Kennedy It's the inevitable conversation that comes up when you're sitting on a deserted beach at an excellent break that only the keenest surfers know about.
Perth can't be choosy about its beggars
Deborah Kennedy Well, just back from three weeks under the raging Tuscan sun – pushing 40 degrees most days – and so much to write about.
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Remember in 1997, when you'd had just about enough of bands that would step on the distortion pedal and yell at the top of their lungs for the choruses, then everything but the bass and drums would drop out for the verses and get all spooky like the Pixies? Sure you do. I bet most of you have reached a similar saturation point with the gurgle and gripe contingent of nü-metal and industrial. It's kinda cute the first 100 times to hear someone sound like the underlord of Hell and then switch to the kid that delivers your newspaper, but once you've established where the dynamics are, it's as predictable as an amp that goes from 1 to 11. If you're not listening carefully, you might want to relegate Selfless to that scrap heap. But they have a secret weapon it's the keyboard player who isn't listed as a member on their Web sites but still figures in some of the band pictures and on their recent CD, Clarity. Known only as "Kevin," this guy's orchestral flourishes makes Selfless sound like Norwegian black metal on cuts like "Wasted Life" and "Clarity," Europop on "The Unforgettable," and some evil cross between acid house music and Greg Hawkes of The Cars on "This Won't Take Long." It's as if he showed up with only one Eno strategy card that read, "Play the most opposite thing to accentuate the rest of the band" and, by gum, if it doesn't work every time. And just a listen to the savage joy of "This Won't Take Long" proves that this is a band that knows what it's doing at all times.


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An Abilene man claims a young girl killed his dog after she was involved in a fight near his home.
According to a police incident report, the victim told police several juveniles were fighting Wednesday near his home on Beech Street. He said one of the girls involved in the fight said she would kill one of his dogs that was barking in his yard at the time.
When the victim filed the police report on Thursday, he said he found his dog dead with no visible cause. He plans to press charges.
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Jonathan Stewart was a full participant in today's Panthers practice, news that the run oriented offense needed. In Stewart's absence, Carolina rushed 13 times for 10 yards against an average at best Bucs run defense. Can you name the Panthers leading rusher in week one?
The ink is still wet on Stewart's 5 year extension, and the fact that he is "progressing nicely", should encourage Stewart's fantasy owners. We've seen athletic QB's (see Vick, Mike) miss considerable time due to their reckless style, leading me to believe that Carolina will not employ Cam Newton as their goal line back this season. This isn't an elite passing team, and with Stewart's ability to not only catch the ball out of the backfield but to find the endzone, he is only RB to own in Carolina.
That being said, I am not touching any of the Panthers RB's this week. They square off against a motivated Saints team that will be determined to make this game a shootout. But if you're in a tough spot, Stewart is "optimistic" about his chances to play, and should be the player from this backfield to produce the most.
For those scoring at home, Kealoha Pilares led the Panthers in rushing against Tampa Bay. He is a 3rd year WR from Hawaii.


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Wednesday 22 February 2012: old postcards
Found a loads of blank postcard for 10p each in the local charity shop bargain most seem to be from the 1950,s mainly depicting scenes Europe think my favourite one is of the "young gray seal on the Farne island this is a real photograph" also got a really cool lead crystal vase for £2.50
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It's an ability proc (ie. you have to press it to use it), what it does is it lets your devastate and heroic strike have the ability to refresh your shield slam CD so you can SS again. There is no new "button" or "skill" so to speak. When Sword and Board procs, you'll hear a blocking sound, and Shield Slam will immediately finish its CD.
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February 2013 | Volume 11 Issue 2
Becoming a social business is no longer an option, it's a necessity. Social businesses integrate social media in to every aspect of the organization. They are more agile and adaptive and they provide real business value by creating a more engaged workforce and a closer connection between the organization and its customers. A key element of a social business is that all employees are empowered to engage in social media. In this issue of CW Bulletin, our experts look at the barriers to becoming a social business and offer tips for training and engaging employees to become stellar ambassadors for your organization's brand in social media.
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It's not just well-known leaders and celebrities like Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Virgin Group Founder Richard Branson, and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh who are embracing social media. More and more organizations and companies are empowering employees to use social technologies to make their brand more visible, engage with customers and understand marketplace perceptions.
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Syosset's new indoor trampoline park, Bounce! Trampoline Sports, is expanding its offerings to include hip-hop cardio class Kerboomka, a unique workout routine developed by Long Island native and fitness guru Kershel Anthony.
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Anthony, a personal trainer and dance choreographer, describes Kerboomka as "a cardio dance fitness program that targets the major muscle groups while infusing hip hop inspired movements in a high- energy, jammed-packed hour!"Kerboomka is different than other fitness routine, says Anthony, because it stimulates both the body and the mind by utilizing dance steps and choreography taught in a fun and easy-to-learn style.
The steps are taught in sections and in counts of eight, then repeated so you can remember them easily. The songs get faster so you push yourself and work harder and faster, says Anthony, ultimately burning more calories.
While in Florida in 2007, Anthony came up with Kerboomka while teaching a group fitness class at his local gym. It was a way for him to fuse together dance and fitness and create a fun and effective workout.
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Condo, 2 Bedrooms + Other (See Description), 2 Baths, (Sleeps 4-5)
Enjoy a relaxing vacation on the beautiful, white sandy beach of Half Moon Bay in Akumal ('Place of the Turtle' in the Mayan language). Walk out your patio door and be directly on the beach. Wake up to the songs of tropical birds and the soothing sounds of the waves. Watch spectacular sunrises from your patio or bedroom each morning. Sip margaritas while digging your toes into the sand and watching the sea turtles pop up their heads above the beautiful turquoise water. Enjoy beautiful star-gazing at night.
Akumal is a quiet, residential beach side community located about 50 miles south of the Cancun Airport on a well-paved highway. This small town and the nearby area offer many fine restaurants and plenty of opportunities for snorkeling, diving, swimming, caving, biking, bird watching, or just plain relaxing on the beach. That is the beauty of this place - you can enjoy many activities or simply relax on a beach chair under the palms.
From our airy and spacious condo at La Bahia, you can walk barefoot to two restaurants/beach bars, relax and read under the palms or one of our palapas with 180-degree views of the sea, or snorkel in the bay, only yards from your patio, where sea turtles and tropical fish abound. The sandy beach is never crowded.
This newly updated and decorated two-bedroom/two-bath unit of 1,125 square feet includes new appliances as well as new air conditioning and ceiling fans, although tropical breezes often make these unnecessary. The condo has been renovated recently with all new tile floors, newly painted rooms, curtains, and upholstered sofa cushions. The open floor plan includes large windows on three sides of the living room and is decorated with live tropical plants and palms and Mexican artifacts. The Caribbean Sea can be viewed from all rooms.
The master bedroom (king-sized bed) and guest room (two twin-sized beds) both have ample closet space. Daily maid service is available, and beach towels are provided. Cell phone and wireless Internet service are available, so bring your cell and laptop, if you wish. There is also a satellite TV, DVD player, and iPod docking station.
The town of Akumal, a short walk from the condo, has two markets (with ATM machines and enough food items to meet your needs); seven restaurants (one with live entertainment a few nights a week during high season); three dive shops; travel office; fresh produce market twice a week; several shops and boutiques; yoga classes and fitness center; bike rentals; laundromat; and more. Two small convenience stores are located just a block or so from La Bahia.
The CEA (Centro Ecologica Akumal) provides information on sea turtles and other marine life. Akumal is ecologically protected and well known for its sea turtles and their nesting grounds. In fact, turtles nest on our beach. The season lasts from April-October, and the CEA can arrange viewing tours for an incredible experience. Try snorkeling or diving in one or more of the area's many beautiful freshwater cenotes.
Playa del Carmen (22 miles) has great shopping and restaurants, two large supermarkets, golf courses, and a bird sanctuary in nearby Playacar. You can swim with the dolphins at Puerto Aventuras (12 miles), which also has manatee and sea lion shows, restaurants, and shopping. Tulum (about 20 minutes south) has restaurants, shopping, sightseeing, and five miles of pristine beaches. Don't miss the Tulum Mayan ruins, a unique sea-cliff site; the entrance is on the left shortly before the town. Just south of Tulum is the fantastic Sian Ka'an Biosophere. Drive there yourself (check on road conditions first) or arrange a tour through our reception office.
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About Generation X Catholics
by Tom Beaudoin
I have spent the last few years investigating the spirituality of my own generation -- the so-called 'Generation X.'
The first characteristic is what anyone who pays any attention to my generation's culture will notice as a widespread suspicion of institutions. I have learned from the many responses to my book Virtual Faith that suspicion may not even be a strong enough word. Indifference is at least as common as suspicion.
Whether from the culture of cynicism in which we came of age, the irrelevance of church teaching to much of our daily lives, the denigration of our experience in the formation of that teaching, or simply the overwhelming palette of religious options before us in the age of post-modernity, many in my generation have a spiritual identity that regards institutions with an underwhelmed dismissal: "Whatever."
This suspicion of institutions is fueled by the second characteristic of my generation: a widespread conviction about the importance of experience. The most obvious and controversial evidence of the centrality of experience is the saturation, the super-saturation even, of our popular culture and sexual images. Any pop culture event that lasts more than a few seconds is now almost required to make a sexual reference.
One experience among others is repeatedly expressed in Gen-X pop culture and is an important explicit or implicit part of our spiritual identities. That experience, the third characteristic of Gen-X spirituality, is suffering. The suffering is both psychological and spiritual, born of a fragmented existence, the experience of fractured families. It is a state expressed in the quintessential Gen-X musical Rent, a word that means both leased and torn. A generation without a theme is confronting its own theme-absence.
Some of this suffering is a result of the fourth characteristic of Gen-X spirituality: wrestling with ambiguity. Uncertainty does not permeate just one or two areas of our lives; it seems no segment of our existence is untouched. This ambiguity is evident in the uneasy relationship of many X-ers to their families, to church, to one's own future, and even towards one's sexual identity. The experience of 'temping' becomes emblematic of a generation's situation: ephemeral commitments, plural and versatile lifestyles.Reprinted with the permission of Tom Beaudoin and America Press, Inc., 106 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019.
Ph (212) 581- 4640. Originally published in America, November 21, 1998.
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The federal Minister of Transport, Denis Lebel, is proposing changes to the Navigable Waters Protection Act under an omnibus Bill C-45. On October 18, the minister said that the amendments to the Act are intended to make it easier for the provinces and municipalities to approve bridges and other infrastructure on waterways, so that the projects are not held up with "unnecessary red tape."
The proposed regulations will limit the number of waterways that will require federal approval to a list of 40 or so. Under the current Act, which dates from 1882, every bridge or similar project on a waterway must receive federal approval, even on waterways only wide enough for a canoe to pass.
The name of the Act will be changed to the Navigation Protection Act. The government selected the waterways that will continue to come under the Navigation Protection Act's jurisdiction according to which are the most actively used by either freight or recreation purposes. The list includes the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean shorelines, the Great Lakes and large waterways like the St. Lawrence and Mackenzie Rivers, but it also includes lakes of the size like Lake Rosseau and Lake Couchiching in central Ontario. For the full list, click here.
The government stressed that the Act is intended specifically for the safe and efficient movement of marine traffic so the new regulations will not compromise the environment. Transport Canada's website says, "Thee will be ... no reduction in the environmental protection of Canada's waters as a result of these amendments.... Through federal legislation such as the new Canadian Environmental Assessment Act 2012, environmental protection will continue to be assured."
However, environmental groups including Greenpeace, Environmental Defence, and the Sierra Club, issued a joint statement expressing concern over the proposals. Some are afraid that if municipalities have the final say on development, they will cede to the pressure of developers and economic interests.
The Canadian Construction Association, on the other hand, praised the proposed changes. In a statement, Michael Atkinson, CCA president, noted that currently delays in getting approvals on projects can take 12 or 18 months, which makes it difficult for construction companies to predict their costs and mobilize their work force. Atkinson said in a statement: "We believe this [proposed legislation] strikes the right balance between the regulatory oversight Canadians expect, and the needs of the business community for greater regulatory efficiency."
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A suspect of a cold case robbery learned his sentence Thursday in Elkhart County Circuit Court.
The crime happened almost exactly five years ago, on Nov. 12, 2008. According to the Elkhart Truth, two men whoed up at a home in the 13,000 block of C.R. 34, knocked on the door and pointed a gun at the homeowner.
The man holding the gun apparently touched the victim's throat with the gun and demanded money.
The case remained cold until a man named Richard Miller contacted the Elkhart County Sheriff's Dept. with information. He told officials that his sons, Jesse and Devon Miller were responsible.
Devon died in an accident in 2011 but had already confessed to the victims.
Thursday, 25-year-old Jesse was sentenced to 16 years for robbery with a deadly weapon. Miller entered a plea of guilty and told the judge he had personally apologized to the victims.
In an attempt to point out mitigating circumstances, Miller noted that it was his brother, not him, who pointed the gun at the Amish victims.
The prosecution explained Miller's criminal history warranted an enhanced sentence. Miller has had two juvenile cases, nine misdemeanors, five violations of probation, four instances of failing to appear in court, and three felonies.
Elkhart County Circuit Court Judge Terry Shewmaker handed Miller an enhanced sentence of 16 years, a $7,000 fine and 50 hours of community service.


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There are just a few last things I need to wrap up at school and then it's all about grading and grades from here until next Friday! I have a plan for how much I want (well, need) to accomplish each day so I am keeping it posted where I will constantly see it and be reminded that I am on a deadline now. Once I finish my black bean soup I'll be settling down to that. What a crazy month April has been!
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This side dish has a nice sweet-and-sour balance, and bacon adds a tasty accent. Sprout lovers will definitely approve of this flavorful treatment. —Barbara McCalley, Allison Park, Pennsylvania
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Prep: 10 min. Cook: 25 min.
1/2 pound sliced bacon, diced
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1 medium onion, finely chopped
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3 tablespoons sugar
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1/2 teaspoon ground mustard
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Welcome to the strange and wonderful world of shoe designer extraordinaire, Christian Louboutin. Last Friday we ended the week with a rather tantalising teazle of Monsieur Louboutin's latest endeavours – a celebrity filled circus!
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Heh, here is an interesting idea for a non-Canon RP. You fall asleep one day and wake up to find yourself in the Vice Verse...in the body of one of your characters! The main objective is to figure out how to use that character's powers, and find a way back to normal Earth. I also think if you get close to another one of your characters, you can send your mind over to control their body instead, bringing the last character back. It would kinda be like how would we fare in our own universe xD.
Anyone interested, or is this idea just garbage?