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A renewable energy project in which the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) provided $13 million and $27 million respectively, as well as technical assistance, supported a successful initiative led by China to build a market for solar photovoltaic and wind energy technologies almost from scratch.
The World Bank-supported renewable energy development program has enabled sales of over 402,000 PV solar-home systems (SHS) to rural families in remote areas of West and North-West China. About 1.6 million people who live in tents at least part of the year and who previously had little access to electricity, now have better light, communications and entertainment, with portable systems made to fit their semi-nomadic lifestyle.
The program supported China's initiative to promote rapid growth of the PV industry, and helped improve quality of production while keeping costs low. Technical standards for PV components in China built on standards applied in other Bank and GEF-sponsored projects in Indonesia and Sri Lanka. The market for solar home systems rapidly expanded, and a network of suppliers, wholesalers and retailers was fostered. PV systems, concentrated initially on households, are now powering schools, health centers, village satellite telephones, forest protection, road maintenance, climate monitoring and Buddhist temples.
The Chinese government provided matching grants to PV companies eager to improve their business and marketing practices and improve the technical quality of their products. By the end of 2007, 34 participating companies had received nearly 400 grants worth $2.7 million, and matched them with their own investments. One company, Suntech (Wuxi Shangdu) received a grant in 2002 to develop an intelligent controller for PV systems. In 2006, it was listed on the New York Stock exchange and had placed among the world's top 10 PV cell manufacturers.
In 2004, China adopted the international standard for PV systems, required of all systems financed by the project. By helping to upgrade the quality of PV systems made in China, the project combined international technology advances with China's proven low-cost production capabilities. Improving product standards and a competitive market have reduced by half the cost of PV systems in the country, and China has become a major exporter of world-class PV systems to other developing countries. The China Renewable Energy Development Project was recognized with an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2008.1
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Companies today are looking for ways to increase their bottom line, decrease operating expenses, and run leaner – the economy almost requires it. This was the message of CEDIA EXPO keynote speaker, Tim Costello, Chairman and CEO of Builder Homesite and New Home Technologies, whose presentation focused on helping attendees learn how to cope with the new normal economy.
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A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing
~ Robert Green Ingersoll (American Statesman and Orator, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of atheism. 1833-1899)
A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and Time's busy fingers are not practiced in re splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? with the same sympathies? with the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely.
~ Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A goodbye isn't painful unless you're never going to say hello again.
A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
~ Helen Rowland
A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.
~ Irish Blessing
Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.
~ Sir John Suckling
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
~ Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, translated from French
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
~ William Cowper
Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.
~ William Shakespeare
Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting,
The parting hour is come!
And fast thy soul is fleeting
To seek its starry home.
~ Pierre Jean de Beranger, L'Adieu,free translation
And by and by, will there come a time, when souls congenial will no more say adieu?
~ Adelaide Billet Dufresnoy
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.
~ Alcibiades
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.
~ Anna Brownell Jameson
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
~ Garrison Keillor
Beware of parting! The true sadness is not in the pain of the parting; it is in the when and the how you are to meet again with the face about to vanish from your view.
~ Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
~ Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire II, l. 232)
But in vain she did conjure him,
To depart her presence so,
Having a thousand tongues t' allure him
And but one to bid him go.
When lips invite,
And eyes delight,
And cheeks as fresh as rose in June,
Persuade delay,–
What boots to say
Forego me now, come to me soon.
~ Sir Walter Raleigh (1), Dulcina, see Cayley's "Life of Raleigh", vol. I, ch. III attributed to Brydges, who edited Raleigh's poems
But still her lips refused to say, farewell: for in that word, that fatal word, howe'er we promise, hope, believe, there breathes despair.
~ Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
But what you minded most at our final parting was that in my poor rags -but was it not the costume of a beggar?- you couldn't see our tears as in a suit of armor.
~ Jaroslav Seifert
Can miles truly separate you from friends…. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
~ Richard Bach
Departure should be sudden.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
~ Henry Fielding
Don't be dismayed at goodbyes.A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.
~ Richard Bach
Don't cry because it's over.Smile because it happened.
~ Theodor Seuss Geisel, attributed
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this:
The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.
~ Ambrose Bierce (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914), Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes
Enough, that we are parted–that there rolls
A flood of headlong fate between our souls,
Whose darkness severs me as wide from thee
As hell from heaven, to all eternity!
~ Thomas Moore
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Every death is a new birth.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection
~ Arthur Schopenhauer (German Philosopher, 1788-1860)
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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The most noticeable prohibition by far was the ban on "inadvertent references" to the weather, which censors believed could help the enemy pick opportune moments to strike the homeland. It made for some comical moments during sports broadcasts. During a football game in Chicago, the fog was so thick that fans in the stadium couldn't see the action. Play-by-play man Bob Elson showed heroic restraint in never once mentioning the f-word. "This game is being played under the strangest circumstances that I've witnessed in fifteen years of being on the sport scene," he said. Another broadcaster, Hal Totten of WCFL in Chicago, was more cavalier in describing a baseball rainout: "The umpires have called the game for reasons I cannot speak of, but whatever has caused the delay is also making the spectators go back for cover, and, yes, here come the ground keepers with whatever is used to cover the ground so whatever is causing the delay won't affect the ground too much."
There were also occasional loopholes in the guidelines, summed up in a pamphlet called The Code of Wartime Practices. On June 7, 1942, the Chicago Tribune published one of the most controversial stories of the war. In reporting that American forces were aware of the size of the Japanese attack force at Midway "several days before the battle began," the piece implicitly revealed that the U.S. military had broken the Japanese operational code. The story was not presented for review to the Office of Censorship because the paper's Washington bureau chief felt it didn't violate the code. He was right. Censorship guidelines included no prohibition against reporting on the movement of enemy ships in enemy waters, a slip-up that was rectified in the next edition of the pamphlet.
Meanwhile, government officials were apoplectic over the Tribune story. A grand jury was convened to consider charging the newspaper with violating the Espionage Act. It failed to indict when Navy officials didn't appear at the proceeding for fear of revealing other secrets in their testimony. In any event, the Japanese didn't seem to notice what all of Washington was buzzing about. They didn't alter their secret code.
The Office of Censorship had no real power to punish journalists. It could only recommend that the Justice Department investigate possible Espionage Act violations. To keep the press corps in line, Price used the power of shame and suasion. Even when confronted with a German-language broadcaster with apparent Nazi sympathies, Price was unable to remove him by fiat. Instead, he persuaded the station manager that his program was "contrary to the best interests of the nation." The manager was only too happy to oblige. "If there is anything wrong with the guy, let me know," he told Price's staff. "I want to shoot the gun."
The reporter who protested the code's restrictions with the greatest vehemence was Pearson, who once said that he operated by sense of smell: "If something smells wrong, I go to work." He was a kind of progressive Robert Novak with a column in The Washington Post and a national Sunday night radio program. He specialized in using anonymous quotes to skewer the nation's elite, no matter their party affiliation, often with a shaky basis in fact. FDR called him "a chronic liar." To Truman, he was an "S.O.B." Although he complied with Price's suggestion to keep the atomic bomb secret, Pearson was eager to reveal every other scoop that he discovered.
Not surprisingly, then, no single journalist occupied more of the Office of Censorship's time. From the beginning, they were watching Pearson—with a little help, as it happens, from The New York Times. After a Times reporter named Russell B. Porter heard Pearson give precise details about American military losses to a convention of insurance agents, he wrote a memo to his editors. Porter argued that "no one should be allowed to go around the country lecturing to large groups of people at public dinners, or even at one such event, and revealing as 'inside stuff' information so secret and so useful to the enemy that the newspapers and radio are not allowed to publish it." The memo made its way to Arthur Hays Sulzberger, then to Byron Price, and eventually to Attorney General Francis Biddle. The FBI investigated the incident for eight months before closing the file without further action.


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Iraqi Kurdistan, a siren song of a place with its 40bn+ barrels of untapped oil, continues to push smart people away even as it pulls them closer. For oil investors there, the tune goes something like, "Forget all the licensing disputes and political mess of today and yesterday … It will be sorted out tomorrow … The market demands it, political necessity demands it … And then there will be 40 billion barrels of oil and everyone will get rich". This tune is starting to sound pathetic.
Heritage Oil today confirmed it plans to sell its Ugandan oil stakes to Eni for $1.5bn – it was applauded as a smart move for one of the best E&Ps in the business. But Uganda was less a part of the equation than Kurdistan.
Heritage also announced today that it was dropping plans to merge with Turkey's Genel Energy. This plan would have created a regional mini-major in Kurdistan combining Genel's producing and near-producing fields and refinery with Heritage's greenfield acreage nearby. It was clear that the so-called "HeritaGE" merger, roughly valued at $6bn, blew up because the Kurdistan Regional Government has still not worked out a mechanism for paying operators like Genel. What value did Genel bring to this merger it was getting no money for its oil exports, and was not told plausibly that it ever would? Better for Heritage to cut its losses and dismiss the failure of the HeritaGE powerplay by taking Eni's cash and plotting its next move.
But its next move will be in Kurdistan it said yesterday. Much of the proceeds from the Eni deal will be reinvested in its Miran field there. Drilling results imply Miran is as promising as any of the nearby acreage in this region of whopping discoveries and fizzling optimism.
This sequence has appeared paradoxical to some media today. 1: Sell out of Uganda – the price was right. 2: Double up exploration in Kurdistan. Still looks great. 3: Kurdistan is a basketcase whose failure to pay operators is so serious that we have walked away from our own merger proposal premised on Kurdistan's glowing future.
The explanation is simple. Heritage is still hearing that old tune about the mess of today and the promise of tomorrow. By the time fields like Miran are up and running, Iraqi Kurdistan's licensing and payment issues will be sorted out. Surely. While operators like Genel, DNO, and Addax/Sinopec are taking the hit today, in other words, they are merely the vanguard preparing the way for later entries like Heritage to thrive.
Heritage is not the only company that appears to like this thinking. Any chief executive of the E&Ps in early-stage exploration there will tell you the same thing. The logic is always reasonable. A recent argument in support is that a resolution on payment awaits the installation of the new KRG government under Barhim Salih (with Ashti Hawrami, oil minister and architect of the oil deals, remaining in place).
Heritage, facing a billion-dollar cash alternative, did not believe in this story enough to stick with Genel. But it believes it over the long term. So, perhaps, did the early arrivals who told the same stories three years ago.


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"Classical puff pastry has close to a thousand separate layers of butter and dough. Blitz puff pastry doesn't puff as high, but it sure is easier to make at home!"
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1 1/4 cups cake flour
3 3/4 cups bread flour
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 cup white sugar
1 1/4 cups cold butter, cut into tablespoon-sized pieces
1 1/4 cups cold water
1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
Beautiful recipe. I rolled it out a total of four times, and it puffed up perfectly for both a galette and some palmiers. I will certainly use this shortcut method again - making the real stuff is just too much! The recipe is right - the dough looks terrible during the first roll but it comes together very well by the second or third rolling. Thanks!
It was a mess, as the recipe owner stated. and still a mess after rolling it for a couple of times using the help of a parchment paper; the parts keep falling off and I don't know why. maybe I did something wrong? or is it because I halved the recipe? so I had to roll it for a couple of times until it looked like what a puff pastry dough should be. didn't puff so high but that was still alright. still,it's really time-consuming and not quite worth the effort. i might make it again when im more skilled or whatever.
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This stuff is awesome!! I'm now "Queen" of the kitchen says my family. They say I should open a shop and sell this!! I did use all the advice & tips from the chef Frances Crouter. She's a gem!!
It's a nice pastry, I believe even doing more folds and rolling would make it even better.
I did have a little difficulty with this pastry, and I ended up rolling it between two sheets of parchment paper (I make the bottom sheet longer so I can hold it with my hip while I roll). But the end result was very nice. I would love to watch Frances make it so mine would look like the photo! I will try again and use the pastry for cinnamon crispies!
Thanks for posting this recipe, I misplaced the copy I received in culinary school. I hate the ingredients in the store bought stuff, and this method of making puff pastry is great for making at home! I'm planning on using it for a roasted tomato tart with cheve! Yummy!
it was good ,and as the submitter mentioned it doesn`t puff high but I still have enough layers in m pastry. I used AP flour , for the bread flour I used the same mount of AP flour + 1 TBS wheat gluten, and for the cake flour I used 1 1/4 cup sifted AP flour. I hade to make mre folding and rolling coz the butter was still visible after step 3.
great recipe, I will make again. Next time I will leave out 1T of sugar and sprinkle it on top, held apples/sauce very well
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''The Wire'': When Marlo met Omar
As has been pointed out several times by numerous members of the Baltimore police department, the sinewy drug lord Marlo might not be the smartest guy, especially compared with the team of Stringer and Barksdale, who might be two of the cleverest criminals in television history. And so far, Marlo's not the most interesting guy either we know almost nothing about his personal life, his thoughts, or his background but I'll give him some credit: He's a vicious, vindictive bad guy who has a giant set of stones and might as well have a block of ice for a heart. As we learned on the fourth episode of season 4, even the tiniest bit of back talk is an excuse for Marlo to set his mismatched assassins (Snoop and Partlow) on a blue-collar rent-a-cop. And when Proposition Joe offers Marlo a, well, proposition, the young buck cuts him off before he can finish his rambling pitch the crackhead-pigeon metaphor was a nice touch with a curt response: ''Well, no one f---s with me now.'' That is, until the Robin Hood of the hood, Omar, jacks Marlo's backroom poker game, leaving the stunned card sharks with a bit of roundabout street-corner philosophy: ''Money ain't got no owners, only spenders.'' I doubt that Marlo will be able to track down the always elusive Omar, but will he be clever enough to connect the dots between snubbing Prop Joe and the stickup? If so, be prepared for war.
As for Marlo's own bloody trail, Lester Freamon is inching a bit closer to figuring out that the murder rate isn't down; the corpses just haven't appeared. ''The boy is a young lion,'' he muses while drinking one of many whiskeys with Bunk. ''The lion has to have its kill. Where's he putting the bodies?'' Don't you just want to shout into the screen and tell him? Look in the row houses, dude! I'm gonna predict that that B-More's own Sherlock Holmes will find them in the next episode; it seems like the right point in the season's narrative arc for a major event like that. And when that happens, the now dead Major Crimes Unit will have to come back to life, despite the suffocating presence of Charlie Marimow. And though Bunk seems to miss his beloved Jimmy McNulty, the hefty detective is spending some time showing homicide's newest member, Kima Greggs, the ins and outs of her new unit, while hazing her too. Bunk does impart some useful information, so we finally hear one explanation of the phrase ''soft eyes'' (which was also the title of episode 3). The question, however, is whether Greggs will be able to develop soft eyes soon enough to solve the political-hot-potato case that's just been dumped on her desk: the murder of the state's witness that Carcetti used to skewer Royce in the debate. Burrell is trying to bury the case until after the election, but he dropped the case on the wrong rookie. I bet Greggs will get this murder tied up in time for a Carcetti upset.
Each week we've been getting a bit deeper into the ramshackle world of Edward J. Tilghman middle school. This week provided more telling details: the ''janitors'' who are sent around to pick up truants, the emotional mood of the kids (they are happiest on Wednesdays, we learn), the rampant absenteeism, and the hard-nosed way that the principal gets students (Randy, in this case) to snitch on their fellow classmates. From his sheepish look, it's clear that Randy ratted out the school vandal, but he'll never admit to it. This is West Baltimore, where the omertà-like rule of stop snitchin' is both a code and a T-shirt.
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how my Graphics Card strong to games
i have Intel HD Graphics Card. (733 MB)
how that card strong for games? and what kind of games i can play on my computer? [[ System Manufacturer/Model Number H55M-D2H OS Windows 7 Ultimate x86 CPU DualCore Intel Core i3 530, 2933 MHz (22 x 133) Memory 2 GB DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM (8-8-8-22 @ 609 MHz) (7-7-7-20 @ 5 Graphics Card Intel(R) HD Graphics (751356 KB) Sound Card Intel HDMI @ Intel Ibex Peak PCH - High Definition Audio Con Screen Resolution 1152 X 864 ]] thank. |
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Sorry I was looking at your mobo specs it does not say exactly what gpu it is using so I can not tell ya anything about it. It just says it can do cross fire is it? I would guess this means if using a stand alone vid card or 2x and set up in cf.
I checked out your cpu specs it says intel graphics on board but not what gpu exactly- so again no help there. Being i5 Id guess it is near same as a nv 8800 g92 [9400 maybe which is about the same as the 8800 g92 gpu] so is dx10 able but will share system memory. You should be able to play most all games out- but maybe not at most high settings.. If you have performance probs and or lag in games you can maybe drop to dx9 and should run better.. The 94-9600 nv was less powerful than the 8800 g92 less cores etc. If I remember right the 94-9600 was 96 cores my 8800 g92 is 128 cores. But on board graphics shares system memory and will give less performance than a stand alone vid card with its own memory. Best I can tell that 733 is not amount of memory but is the speed of the gpu and is lil help- that should maybe be mz not mb. 733mz. You will game better with a stand alone card in your pcie 16x slot versus built in stuff.. Hope it helps ya some- See ya.. |
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ok thank you. i think about buy a new card
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Brazil finally came to life in the Copa America to beat Ecuador 4-2 and win Group B.
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The Selecao did not have it all their own way in Cordoba, however, and were twice pegged back by Felipe Caceido after Alexandro Pato headed in the opener and then set up Neymar to make it 2-1.
Brazil went ahead for a third time when Pato netted in the 61st minute and Neymar then secured victory when he finished from close range.
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Salomon Rondon fired Venezuela into an early lead with a well-struck effort but Paraguay drew level when Antolin Alcaraz scored on 32 minutes.
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Reproduction of Jacques Le Moyne's map of Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas.
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Nasreddin is a satirical Sufi figure who is believed to have lived during the Middle Ages (around 13th century), in Aksehir, and later in Konya, under the Seljuq rule. Nasreddin was a populist philosopher and wise man, remembered for his funny stories and anecdotes.
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Spend a few minutes at the controls of Iowa's first da Vinci™ Robotic Surgical System, and you will quickly see why this robotically assisted surgery is revolutionizing "minimally invasive" surgical techniques.
On the outside of the body, the incisions are tiny.typically less than one-half inch. Inside the body, the da Vinci's tiny surgical instruments execute the surgeon's commands with precision and minimal disruption to the body's tissue and organs.
Because the incisions are so small and there's no need for surgeons' hands to disrupt body tissue and organs, this type of surgery is called "minimally invasive." And it helps patients recover much faster, reduces lengths of hospital stays and ultimately lowers the costs associated with surgery.
How Bequests Helped The da Vinci™ surgical system was made possible by many generous donors who made unrestricted bequests to UnityPoint Health - Des Moines Foundation and the hospitals during the last couple of years.
Unrestricted bequests are gifts made by will in which the donor names UnityPoint Health - Des Moines Foundation, or one of the hospitals, in his or her will but does not specify the exact use of the bequest.
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[IMGW]http://www.1up.com/media?id=2309533[/IMGW]Quickly, third-party publishers have moved from platform exclusivity to supporting Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 simultaneously. [Register or Login to view links], once a Sony-exclusive series, is suddenly appearing on both this fall. Last generation, Xbox would have received the port six months later. Now, it's at the same time. Rumors suggested the same fate's falling on one of PS3's biggest hitters, [Register or Login to view links].Sponsored Links
1UP's James Mielke, Ryan O'Donnel and Shane Bettenhausen joined Ryan Payton's [Register or Login to view links] podcast this week in Japan, where the four debated the ups and downs of multi-platform production, SIXAXIS support and more. You can subscribe to the podcast [Register or Login to view links], [Register or Login to view links] or keep tabs on the [Register or Login to view links].
Payton knows fans have legitimate concerns about Kojima Productions possibly compromising the game's ambition due to issues arising from concurrent Xbox 360 development -- divided resources, less disc space, etc. -- and he addressed those directly:"I can tell you honestly at this point, we have not changed the game in any form with the idea of 'oh, we got to do this on 360.' Put aside whether or not we're developing for 360 or not, the game is built on the PS3 hardware, as you guys have known for the past two years or so."
In other words: if MGS4 comes to Xbox 360, it has not affected the game's development. This is the same game Hideo Kojima decided to produce from day one. Make sure to listen to the podcast for more from Payton and the 1UP boys about Snake, Xbox 360 vs. PS3 and more.
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The Rubin Educating Rita
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Educating Rita
1983, UK, Lewis Gilbert, 110 min.
Featuring: Michael Caine, Julie Walters, and Michael Williams.
Introduced by Professor of English Education, Sarah W. Beck
Free ticket with a $10 K2 minimum.
Tickets are available for pick-up after 8:00 p.m. at the will call table in the K2 Lounge (limited capacity).
Mind Over Matter Trivia:
- In the original stage play, upon which the film is based, Frank and Rita are the only two characters ever seen on stage. Other characters that appear in the film exist by name only in the play.
- Michael Caine has acknowledged this film as his personal favorite and regards his performance as Frank to be his best.
- Willy Russell, who wrote the film, also wrote the novel and play upon which the movie is based.


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This is the 1982 Wilton #502-3754 Huggable Teddy Bear includes shipping
This is a greyware baking pan of the classic Christmas Tree. includes shipping
This is Wilton pan #2105-8101. It is baking pan for 6 -4 in. Christmas Tree Cookie Pops. We have 2 in stock.
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We need say no more-it's a Santa Claus (face) cake pan.
This is a unique Holiday Baking/ cake pan from Portugal. It's a full face of Santa. This pan is heavier and is new in excellent condition. The "spots" in the picture are actually flashbacks from the camera
Here are Wilton's Singles---individual baking pans. This is the Christmas Winter Set- Candy Cane, Christmas Tree, Snowman and Xmas Stocking. They are priced individually at $2.25 OR bake them all for $8.00.
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From the 1980's Disney's Wuzzles, this is Wilton's # 2105-1875 - Bumbleion. includes shipping
Directly from Sesame Street, still in his nest-this is Wilton's #2105-805, Big Bird includes shipping
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This hammered aluminum fruit bowl is stamped "hand forged" and is 12 in. diameter. It has is a multi-fruit design on the bottom center and scalloped scissored edges.
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This6in. diameter Lazy Susan's outer motif alternates fruit and floral. It is in excellent working condition and is a great addition to any retro Eames kitchen.
This is a vintage 1987 Wilton cake pan 2105-2435, Sunny Bunny.
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This is a rare Wilton find. It is a larger "smiling" lamb (not a stand up 3 dimensional one)that could easily go from a storybook themed party to Easter. It is stamped 1986
Festive coppertone double bell baking pan appeared in the Nordic Ware catalog through 1971. Using your imagination it does cakes (or molds) for many occasions - Christmas, New Year's, Weddings, Showers etc.!
With this great tube you can turn ordinary refrigerated bread dough into fun and fancy shapes for snacks, appetizers, desserts and so much much more!
This is a Pampered Chef Bread Tube - Heart Shape. Not only can you bake fancy bread, it can be used as a cutter to cut sliced cheese, deli meat and cookie dough. It can also be used to shape ice cream for a great dessert.
This is Wilton's 1988 Big Bird Happy Birthday 1-2-3 #2105-9407 includes shipping
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This is a vintage aluminum 1 quart size casserole/serving bowl stamped as Buenilum. This is the trademark of designer Fredric Buehner (1908-1971). Buenilum was made from 1933 to 1969. Our bowl is typical of the 1950's Eames Era with which Buenilum is most associated. This bowl is sold elsewhere for $45.00
This is 1986 Wilton multi-cavity pan that makes 6 individual cakes or 6 extra large cupcakes/muffins. includes shipping
OVENEX was produced by Ecko starting in the 1920"s. It was marketed as "The New Baking Material". Ours is a regular size loaf pan with the OVENEX star pattern. It's in good condition showing the signs of its age.


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May 9, 2007 - UK developer Team17 has confirmed that it has no plans to create new 3D Worms titles, instead favouring to stick to the franchise's 2D roots.Sponsored Links
Speaking to IGN, studio director Martyn Brown said: "We have no current plans for a fully 3D Worms game. Player response has indicated that fans of the series truly appreciate the 2D roots of this title, so we plan to continue delivering great gameplay experiences in this format."
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Google URL Shortener Launches Website
Google URL Shortener, aptly named Goo.gl, has been available for use for almost a year, and it finally has its own website. In the past, you could only use it through the Google Toolbar, or through specific Google products such as Feedburner, News, Blogger and Picasa. Now you can get all your Google URL shortening needs done on their recently launched webpage.
Google went about things in a somewhat back-to-front fashion, launching the service itself before the website. Now, with the new website, you can get access to statistics on all URLs you've shortened using Goo.gl, provided you're logged into your account. These stats include traffic, referrers and visitor profiles.
As far as features are concerned, that's pretty much all you're going to get. Google have chosen to focus instead on stability, security and speed. According to their blog, their priorities are uptime and spam detection. They've also managed to double the speed of the service since its launch, and want to keep it that way.
There are a few unofficial browser add-ons already available to use with Goo.gl, like Chrome's goo.gl URL Shortener and Firefox's goo.gl lite, and Google will be releasing the Goo.gl API in the future, making it easy to incorporate their URL shortener in other third party applications.
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She lived fast, sang her heart out, and OD'd at 27. Now, more than 30 years later, Janis Joplin is one hot Hollywood heroine. Renee and Pink (no last name needed; no last name period) are playing the raspy-voiced rocker in two separate biographies. The pair of pics represent the latest in Hollywood groupthink, with studios cueing up dueling projects on warriors, authors, and shorties. If history is any indication -- remember Frida Kahlo? -- one project will self-destruct. Here's a breakdown:
1 Janis Joplin
FAVORITE The Gospel According to Janis, starring Pink
Even with the rights to Joplin's music and the Joplin family seal of approval, producers couldn't get this party started till pop wild child Pink signed on last week. Recalls producer Peter Newman of his first meeting with the singer: ''She got six inches from my face and said, 'There is no f -- -ing person in the world who can play Janis Joplin other than me.''' One screen test later, he was convinced. Directed by Penelope Spheeris (Wayne's World), the pic starts production in Louisiana and Canada this summer. ''Pink's got the acting ability and that element of being on the edge,'' says Newman. ''It's also scary how close her vocal performances are to Janis'.''
UNDERDOG Paramount's Piece of My Heart, starring Renee Zellweger
In development for eight years, Heart seemed to get the jolt it needed when Zellweger, a Joplin fan from the singer's home state of Texas, signed on to produce and star last June. But with Zellweger shooting The Cinderella Man opposite Russell Crowe this summer, a start date is a long way off. (Paramount declined to comment.) Plus, producers have rights to just one major Joplin hit (the title track), so it's unclear how they'll handle concert scenes.
BOTTOM LINE Pink may be a thespian newbie, but she's no stranger to rock & roll.
2 Alexander the Great
FAVORITE Alexander, starring Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie; directed by Oliver Stone
The $150 million movie wrapped in February for a November release. Says Stone of the rivalry: ''It was a distraction. Not that I know I succeeded, but our movie did end up getting made.''
UNDERDOG Baz Luhrmann's Alexander project, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicole Kidman
Luhrmann told EW in August 2003 that he did not intend to race against Stone, whose film will likely be in theaters before Luhrmann's is even in production. David Hare is at work on the script, which a source says is ''due any day.''
BOTTOM LINE Whatever the outcome for Stone, Luhrmann's in for a helluva battle.
3 Napoleon
FAVORITE The Monster of Longwood, starring Al Pacino
Set to begin production this fall, Longwood deals with the diminutive emperor's relationship with adolescent Betsy Balcombe. After a reading last fall between Pacino and the film's then costar, Scarlett Johansson, producer Zvi Howard Rosenman questioned whether the actress was too old to play 14-year-old Betsy. Rosenman claims Johansson and her mother/manager, Melanie, then shopped the same story to Lions Gate Films. ''They went with our first writer, Rebecca Kennedy, and said they're coming up with a new story,'' Rosenman laughs. ''It's stupefying beyond belief.''


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One of These Dresses Looks a Lot Like the Other
When we spotted Michelle Obama on the cover of this week's Newsweek wearing a blue Narciso Rodriguez cap-sleeved dress, we thought, Where have we seen that frock before? It turns out it's the same dress the First Lady wore when she greeted the First Lady of Greece, Ada Papandreou, in the Yellow Oval Room of the White House, on March 9, 2010. Perhaps Mrs. O's two-for-one outfit was a nod to style icon Daphne Guinness, who proved last summer that recycling is totally en vogue. [Mrs. O]


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25 Things We Learned from the 'Fast & Furious 6' Commentary
Commentary Commentary By Kevin Carr on December 12, 2013 | Comments (2)After fourteen years, the Fast & Furious franchise has gone through quite a few changes. The first three films struggled with changing casts and somewhat unconnected storylines. However, after Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift, director Justin Lin took the series in a very different direction. He brought back the original cast, then morphed the series from some street racing flicks to a bona fide action franchise complete with international villains and bigger-than-life action sequences. This second trilogy (!) in the series culminates with Fast & Furious 6, which was one of the highest grossing movies of 2013. Lin lends his voice to the commentary track on the film, which was recorded before the tragic death of Paul Walker. Similarly, the DVD and Blu-ray of the film were produced before this event, making a lot of the matter-of-fact comments in the film, the bonus features and the commentary naturally bittersweet. Still, there's a lot to be learned from Lin's commentary, which serves as a look back not only at the film, but the franchise as a whole with a great emphasis on the dynamic of those involved behind the scenes.
Conclusive Evidence That Dominic Toretto from 'Fast & Furious 6' is Actually Superman
Features By Kevin Carr on December 12, 2013 | Comments (6)Whether you get into the Fast & Furious franchise or not, there is no denying its massive popularity and ability to rule at the box office. A lot of the success of the franchise has come from the fact that in the past three movies, it has moved from a street racing series to basically a mix of muscle-car James Bond with the Oceans Eleven films hopped up on NoS. This past summer, Fast & Furious 6 went head-to-head in the summer box office with some of the biggest names in blockbusters, including Iron Man, Superman, and Gru's Minions. While there's no comparing the characters in Fast & Furious 6 with the Minions (although Ludacris and Tyrese Gibson try their hardest to be that charming), Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) gave Superman a run for his money. Not only did Fast & Furious 6 best Man of Steel's international box office, Dom performed his own Superman-like stunt to save his amnesiac lover Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) from certain death. This got me thinking: Is Dominic Toretto actually Superman?
'The Fast and the Furious 6′ Lands an Ass-Kicker From 'The Raid'
Movie News By Rob Hunter on July 28, 2012 | Comments (1)It should be news to no one that a sixth film in the Fast & the Furious franchise is heading into production. The last film, Fast Five, is the highest grossing installment in the series, and regardless of the film's quality that's one hell of a feat. Happily, under the guiding hand of director Justin Lin, Fast Five actually managed to be a damn entertaining movie. (Stupid, but entertaining.) Lin is returning to helm the sixth film, and many of the usual suspects are along for the ride including Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson and Fast Five's MVP Dwayne Johnson. Previously announced newcomers include the charisma-free Luke Evans (Death Race 2) and Haywire's kick-ass leading lady Gina Carano. It's assumed that both will be playing for the bad guys. If that assumption is correct, they've just found themselves a third team member.
Kevin Carr's Weekly Report Card: April 29, 2011
Features By Kevin Carr on April 29, 2011 | Be the First To CommentThis week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr gets in his car and hits the road with a can of NOS energy drink and his shaved head. Too bad his car is a 2006 Dodge minivan with collapsible seats and a back-seat DVD player for the kids to use. He didn't stand a chance in the street racing against Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. After recovering from the cold, hard truth that The Rock stole his look for Fast Five, Kevin goes stag to Prom and suffers through the direct-to-DVD theatrical release of Hoodwinked Too!: Hood vs. Evil.
Review: 'Fast Five' Mates Spectacular Action With A Stupid Script, Gives Birth To Big Bald Babies
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Tyrese Gibson is coming back for Transformers 3. This should come as no surprise to anyone. In a world where news is farmed from the bowels of Twitter (not being condescending here, I'm about to do it myself), Tyrese let out the word via his account, the aptly named @Tyrese4ReaL.
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As God loses faith in mankind once again, the angel he entrusts with the task of setting off the Apocalypse (Paul Bettany) breaks rank in order to protect mankind's only, last, greatest hope – a small child carried in the womb of a truck stop waitress (Adrianne Palicki).
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I´m very satisfied when it works, but sometimes for no reason it´s just fails exporting anything
Since IM does the best FBX import/export I ever seen when it works, I wonder why this happens?, the same terrain exports perfect if no geolocated satelite image (it´s all correctly aligned in IM) reason I want´t it so badly to export with the terrain.
It´s a 46mb hires geotiff, and terrain is a 2,5 mb 5m geotiff, I tried with a 1m 70mb also, if there was lack of info in the small one.
This is a brilliant tool, if can be better documented, and consistant when export for Vizwork..
It even has me floored with the roadtools, and wonderful import of Landxml for sites, would be even better if simple sitetools was around like the great roadtools.
So driveways would join up with a site if sloped, so on.
Most of all this is a great tool as it is, but can always get better.
It was related to an error in geolocation in the ground imagery, after relocate/reference it in Qgis it worked fine
Even managed to export 500mb of 1m data, with roads, into Max, very nice mesh exports from IM, 12million polygons, but all of them needed, very little unneeded subdivision , impressed.
This sounds great. Would you mind posting a pic?
I will do that, just need to get my SSD rig up, add some details, I already tested it with IM, and it´s just a huge relieve to get rid of the endless Hd acces times, and rattle rattle sounds.
No buildings, yet though, only terrain/high res sat, and roads, so not to exiteing.
But it do export very nicely, so I´ll post a nitro shot from Max, but real goal is to get it into Octane Render, and 3gb GPU is needed, and lots of ram, I think 16gb, will install 32 just to be sure.
I see a powerful ver of Cityscape growing from this, some dimtools would be nice since neven Civil3d hurts if go into 3d detail like possible in IM, very promising for future.
I´ll posted it right know if I could locate it, but migrated 3tb of Os/data files, and got a lock on all my important folders, need to figure out some owership rights I guess.
I got this 300mb fbx to import very nicely, and renders very fast (less then a minute a frame).
The larger ver grown to 1gb+, imports just fine too, but the roads dont cut into the terrain, or fill , so needs more testing.
The roadshoulder is even included, even if difficult to notice since most of it is in the terrain itself.
Some errors from the OSM file I used, the autogen of roads work great, but this is just a test so I never checked it before import.
Thanks for posting those shots. Very nice!
Getting roads to fill can be tricky if you want some to fill and others to drape on the terrain. It works best if you have known elevations for all of your roads, then you can use that absolute elevation and you'll see some filling and cutting.
If you change a road through manual editing, you shoudl also be able to create some cut and fill effects.
Not sure exactly what you're looking for.
I´m thinking it might be LOD related, need to test some more.
When select a smaller area, more zoomed in everything perfect!, wonderful software, even the trees look great, and dont add much polygons.
Hmmm... I agree, if that's an LOD thing, it's not too pretty. Thanks for the positive comments though! Let us know if you need any assistance.
Thank´s for the offer for help, I will ask for it in abundance if my former boss will venture into this.
He is an engineer, and into architecture he he, but will jump the IM wagon anyday if can get a combo ala the Revit rchitecture Suite, with subscribtion to hires elevation data etc.
No youngsters wanna do the old style infrastucture civil engineering work, He got 2 Sons that will love this in 5yr
I waste waay to much time in IM, that should be used in Revit, but it´s so powerful I need to find an exuse for the http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=1
I also know Adesk will deliver in the connection to Revit series in time, so just for the perfect translation of Revit materials to FBX I´m feeling IM is worth it, then I could go on and on for the rest of it, I´ll keep the speach for my Friends he he, they will love it.
Got 4x4km to work with zooming into each corner when choose area to export.
The fog/color is to hide the cut, the beauty of the IM winter trees/roads terrain is clear, only 9million poly´s.
Closeup of green ver not to bat at all!, still supriced by FBX format also, not only IM
My comfort is IM, will get attention in time, like Revit, so will FBX format, I love it.
1,2 gb, is there a limit?, if don´t need to adjust in Max, just render I guess only IM
The trees never was ment for close up, but with some adjustment they will look amazeing!, but define the areas of greenery is more important, then export em as draped independent polys, I worry they import with wrong elevation though, so perhaps it´s best to just happer it out in one big file, FBX is supposed to support instances, so of exported like that!, very powerful indeed.
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I ve got a shapefile with building footprints and a height attribute. I extruded the buildings using this height attribute in AIM. Works fine. Now I'd like to export my model to ArcGIS.
Since AIM unfortunately only knows the fbx export format, I have to use Autocad Map 3D or Civil 3D for the conversion to 3ds or dae or 3dshp or whatever. Unfortunately, the export from AIM to Autocad Map3D does not work at all. The buildings are appearing, but the Coordinate system gets lost after FBX imnport in Autocad and the model is somehow damaged - I am not able to measure the objects. When I try to export to 3D Shapefile, it always filteres all my objects, so the export would turn out empty.
This is a pity - AIM seems to be a very intuitive program, but its limited export capabilities and the errors and detours via Civil or Autocad Map 3d make it impossible for me to export my model.
Any suggestions?
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Medications in the benzodiazepine family exert calming and sedative effects and are used to treat anxiety and insomnia. Benzodiazepines are also used as muscle relaxants and anticonvulsants. They work by increasing the effects of the neurotransmitter (a chemical messenger) GABA. Benzodiazepine drugs include:
- Alprazolam (Xanax)
- Chlordiazepoxide hydrochloride (Libritabs, Librium, Limbitrol, Lipoxide, Mitran, Reposans-10, Sereen)
- Clonazepam (Klonopin)
- Clorazepate dipotassium (Gen-XENE, Tranxene-T, Tranxene-SD)
- Diazepam (Diastat, Valium, Valrelease, Vazepam)
- Estazolam (ProSom)
- Flurazepam hydrochloride (Dalmane, Durapam)
- Halazepam (Paxipam)
- Lorazepam (Ativan)
- Oxazepam (Serax)
- Quazepam (Doral)
- Temazepam (Razepam, Restoril, Temaz)
- Triazolam (Halcion)
- and others
Grapefruit Juice
Possible Harmful Interaction
Grapefruit juice slows the body's normal breakdown of several drugs, including some benzodiazepines, allowing them to build up to potentially dangerous levels in the blood.1A recent study indicates that this effect can last for 3 days or more following the last glass of juice.2
Because of this risk, if you take benzodiazepines, the safest approach is to avoid grapefruit juice altogether.
Hops, Kava, Passionflower, Valerian
Possible Harmful Interaction
The herb kava ( Piper methysticum) has a sedative effect and is used for anxiety and insomnia.
Combining kava with drugs in the benzodiazepine family, which possess similar effects, could result in "add-on" or excessive physical depression, sedation, and impairment. In one case report of a 54-year-old man hospitalized for lethargy and disorientation, these side effects were attributed to his having taken the combination of kava and alprazolam for 3 days.3
Experimental studies suggest that kava, similarly to benzodiazepines, exerts its sedative effects at binding sites in the brain called GABA receptors.4,5,6
Other herbs with a sedative effect that might cause problems when combined with benzodiazepines include ashwagandha ( Withania somnifera) ,calendula ( Calendula officinalis) ,catnip ( Nepeta cataria) ,hops ( Humulus lupulus) , lady's slipper (Cypripedium), lemon balm ( Melissa officinalis), passionflower ( Passiflora incarnata), sassafras (Sassafras officinale), skullcap ( Scutellaria lateriflora) ,valerian ( Valeriana officinalis), and yerba mansa (Anemopsis californica).
Because of the potentially serious consequences, you should avoid combining these herbs with benzodiazepines or other drugs that also have sedative or depressant effects unless advised by your physician.
Supplementation Possibly Helpful
Melatonin is a natural hormone that regulates sleep.
Many people who take conventional sleeping pills (most of which are in the benzodiazepine family) find it difficult to quit. The reason is that when you try to stop the medication, you may experience severe insomnia or interrupted sleep. A double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 34 individuals who regularly used such medications found that melatonin at a dose of 2 mg nightly (in a controlled-release formulation) could help them discontinue the use of the drugs.7
Warning: It can be dangerous to stop using benzodiazepines if you have taken them for a while. Consult your physician before trying melatonin to help handle benzodiazepine withdrawal or before trying to stop benzodiazepine medication under any conditions.
Supplementation May Decrease Effectiveness of the Drug
The hormone pregnenolone is widely sold as a kind of "fountain of youth." However, the only direct evidence that pregnenolone supplements have any effect at all relates to a potential interaction between the hormone and benzodiazepine drugs. In a carefully designed clinical trial, regular use of pregnenolone was found to greatly decrease the sedative effects of diazepam (Valium).9 The reasons for this interaction are not known. However, people who rely upon benzodiazepine drugs may find them less effective if pregnenolone is added into the mix.
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Although they are highly effective for anxiety, benzodiazepine drugs can cause unpleasant and dangerous withdrawal symptoms when they are discontinued.
A 6-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of 40 people who had been taking benzodiazepines found that use of kava significantly reduced withdrawal symptoms and helped maintain control of anxiety.8
Note: This trial involved close medical supervision and very gradual tapering of benzodiazepine dosages. Do not discontinue anti-anxiety medications except on the advice of a physician, as withdrawal symptoms can be life threatening.
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Dries Van Noten Spring 2013
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Dries Van Noten Spring 2013
It's no secret that Dries Van Noten has a way with mixing prints, textures, and colors. For Spring 2013, he put that skill to stellar use with a collection that blended languid, vaguely '90s silhouettes with mis-matched patterns in refined fabrics. Plaid featured heavily; it came in the form of airy chiffons and crepe du chine. Layered with metallic-threaded floral jacquards and an oversized lurex herringbone in softly-tailored shapes, it made for a collection that felt free-spirited, yet rooted in an utterly wearable and refined reality. "I wanted to go back to having fun with clothes," the designer explained. "It's everything that I love. It has that kind of menswear/womenswear, kind of grungy, spontaneous feel."
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