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The USS New Jersey & seeing our deploying soldier off…
March 29, 2014 by Dana Ticknor · 3 Comments
In February, our family hauled our 40′ toy hauler from sunny Floriday, to freezing New Jersey. Obviously, we had to have a really imploring reason for traveling up north during the winter, and we did! Our oldest son was deploying overseas, and we had the chance to spend some time with him before he left. We had left our home state of Montana last November, and we had not seen him since. We could text and call him anytime, but it's not the same as getting to see him, as you snowbirds who leave your families up north, well know. We knew before we left this winter that he would be deploying, and it would be from New Jersey, so even tho we 'did' the east coast last year, and did not intend to go there again so soon, we found ourselves heading that way again this year. We spent Christmas in TX, 3 weeks in Louisiana ( <3 ), then went over to FL for a few more weeks. Our son let us know the tentative dates for a 3 day pass his unit had been told they would... [Read more...]
Summer Vacation in Paradise aka Montana
March 28, 2014 by Cynthia Baum · Leave a Comment
Crave more out of your summer vacation than the norm: beaches, beaches, and more beaches? Want to see the biggest skies you've ever laid eyes on?? If the answer to those questions is "yes," then head to a little town with BIG views: Anaconda, Montana! Nestled in the beautiful mountainous southwestern region of Montana, Anaconda is eight miles north of the Continental Divide. Once a thriving industrial community, Anaconda is now visited mostly for its natural beauty, characterized by its crystal-clear lakes, towering snow-capped mountains, densely timbered forests, and immense outdoor recreational opportunities. Set up camp at the lovely Hunters RV Park (see picture above) and bask in the most gorgeous views you have ever seen! Then head downtown and visit the historic Washoe Theater for a taste of the old Anaconda. Arrange the dates for your stay for July so that you can take a stroll through Art in Washoe Park. This fabulous arts and crafts show features delicious... [Read more...]
Lost and Found on Hatteras Island Outer Banks
March 27, 2014 by Cynthia Baum · Leave a Comment
Get away to a place unlike any other…Hatteras Island is exquisitely scenic and pristine. Visit Rodanthe or Hatteras on the lush Hatteras Island in North Carolina for a one-of-a-kind vacation. Rodanthe The U.S. Coast Guard was essentially founded in 1874 in the Village of Rodanthe, on Hatteras Island, at the famous Chicamacomico Lifesaving Station. Considering this laid-back island boasts seventy-two miles of unspoiled beaches with ideal, temperate weather, excellent surf, and warm water, you'll likely find yourself enjoying some relaxing time in the sun while you are here. Whether for a fun, recreational activity in the refreshing water or to pursue a warm, relaxing spot to unwind; this gorgeous coastline offers the best wide, sheltered, and sand dune-spotted beaches, that sidle up alongside vast natural marshlands. Also nearby, for after the beach, are the Water Fall Amusement Park, 850-foot long Hatteras Island Fishing Pier, and eclectic Surf shops for your perusal. You... [Read more...]
Outer Banks Restful Retreats
March 26, 2014 by Cynthia Baum · Leave a Comment
Ready for a break from your life? Want to get away for a while? Kitty Hawk and Manteo offer just the right combination of blissfully natural settings, historic venues, rolling dunes, and endless beaches. On the northernmost beach of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Kitty Hawk is a charming town that offers a quaint, relaxing environment that boasts a traditional village, cottage-filled beach community, and the Kitty Hawk Woods, a massive maritime forest. To this day, the origin of the name of the town is a matter of local debate and happens to be where the Wright brothers opted to perform their aviation experiments. It is not really all that surprising, once you consider the ideal conditions that exist here for glider launching: steady winds, gently rolling hills, and remote sandy location. Today you can visit the Wright Brothers National Memorial Park and Museum, where for four years they experimented and finally perfected the art of soaring and controlling an aircraft, back... [Read more...]
Valley of Fire and Zip-lining– Respite from Vegas
March 25, 2014 by Cynthia Baum · Leave a Comment
Visiting Vegas and looking for more to do than the usual Vegas hot spots? Want to experience some spectacular desert sunsets outside the city? Hop off the Las Vegas strip for a respite from the crowds, lights, and craziness, for some fun outdoor adventure in this immaculate desert landscape. An hour outside of Las Vegas and only six miles from the beautiful Lake Mead, The Valley of Fire State Park is the very oldest and largest state park in Nevada. With 3,000 year-old Indian petroglyphs, ancient trees, and petrified wood, the Valley of Fire is a great place for photography, picnics, hiking, camping, and more. The red sandstone formations that make up the present landscape are what remain from a time when dinosaurs roamed the region. The scenic great sand dunes have shifted, followed by the uplifting and faulting, and then extensive erosion, over the centuries. There really is no other place quite like it and it draws those people seeking refuge from the glam and glitter of... [Read more...]
While in Las Vegas– Don't Forget Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, and More!
March 24, 2014 by Cynthia Baum · Leave a Comment
Not big on gambling, but want to go to an exciting and lively place with lots to do? Brought the kids or grand kids along with you? Not to worry, there is much to do that doesn't include stepping a foot inside a casino in Vegas. Taking the kids with you and still want to make the most of your time in Vegas? No problem–Head over to the 5-acre, indoor Adventuredome Theme Park at Circus Circus. Offering 25 exhilarating rides and attractions, this is just one of the many places along the strip that is kid-friendly. There is also the Shark Reef Aquarium at Mandalay Bay, housing North America's largest and only predator-based aquarium. Enjoy some world class golf in one of the many championship golf courses nearby. Just over a half hour away from the strip, Lake Mead National Recreational Area also offers recreational opportunities year-round to boaters, fishermen, swimmers, water skiers, and more. On land, try out some hiking and biking trails or take the family... [Read more...]
Eye Candy in Dawson City
March 23, 2014 by Cynthia Baum · Leave a Comment
Driving and sightseeing near Dawson City is a once in a lifetime opportunity you don't want to miss out on. Pack up and get ready for a bit more history and lots more eye candy! For a truly picturesque drive, take Dempster Highway to the "Patagonia of the Northern Hemisphere," where a wide range of flora and fauna are known to grow like no other place in North America. This new phenomenal park, formerly called Tombstone Territorial Park, protects 2,000 square kilometers of subarctic wilderness in the southern part of the Ogilvie Mountains. Many come from all around the world, including sight-seers, bird-watchers, hikers, photographers, wildlife viewers and anyone else who enjoys being surrounded by a stunningly natural setting filled with wondrous landforms, stellar views, and mountainous peaks. A great thing to know about this unique park is that it can be viewed and appreciated right from the luxury of your car/RV; all you have to do to witness its beauty is to literally drive... [Read more...]
More on Dawson City
March 22, 2014 by Cynthia Baum · Leave a Comment
Dawson City–a historic time capsule from days gone by when countless folks caught a bad case of gold fever and impetuously set out to strike it rich quick. Learn all about them and their lifestyle during a quick trip north of the border, in nostalgic Dawson City. While Jack London didn't strike gold here, the adventures from his time in the legendary Klondike gained him unbelievable fame and incredible wealth. His adventures were uniquely portrayed in his exciting short stories and books, which quickly made him famous. A replica of his cabin was built out of the logs from his original cabin, where he transcribed many of his books. The replicated cabin (shown above) is now conveniently located at an interpretive site right in Dawson City. Take a walk through time, in the nearby Jack London Museum, where you'll glean some amazing facts about the author's fascinating life and the stories surrounding the eventual discovery of his cabin. While you are in town, you won't... [Read more...]
Discover the Outer Banks– North Carolina
March 20, 2014 by Cynthia Baum · Leave a Comment
Rest and Relaxation await you at the gorgeous Outer Banks in exquisite North Carolina…pack up the RV, its time for a vacay like no other! Just off the Coast of North Carolina, lies a 200-mile stretch of picturesque barrier islands. With its rich history and extraordinary lay out, the Outer Banks offer unique experiences for the adventurous and the relaxed, alike. Set up camp at one of the award-winning RV resorts or stay over at a cozy bed and breakfast. You will no doubt go from frolicking in the warm surf at pristine beaches to experiencing interesting museums and historic lighthouses. The Outer Banks will take your breath away with its pristine beauty. Like a small child in a candy store, you just won't be able to get enough of each place you stop and see along the majestically scenic Outer Banks of North Carolina. From the First Flight and the Lost Colony, to the exquisite Elizabethan Gardens, there is much to discover, experience, and appreciate, including the "Graveyard... [Read more...]
Pan for Gold in Dawson City!
March 19, 2014 by Cynthia Baum · 2 Comments
Looking for a fun destination for a road trip this summer? Want to experience a pristine environment plum full of fascinating history and natural beauty? The exquisite beauty of the Yukon wilderness is strikingly prominent in Dawson City, the heart of the famed 1898 Klondike Gold Rush. With the Gold Rush, came a huge influx of newcomers, also known as "Cheechakos," into Dawson City. Gorgeous stately homes that were built in town at the turn of the twentieth century boasted the latest modern amenities, including electricity, running water, and telephones. Henceforth, Dawson City became quite the refined city seemingly overnight, which is where the name "Queen City of the North" comes from. Newcomers will want to experience the thrilling, yet tedious task of panning for gold in this gorgeously rugged wilderness where so many have dug before you. Venture out to the famous goldfields of Dawson City, where you can learn how to pan for your own gold. Claim # 33 is located... [Read more...]


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Can someone make the map where Brock and his crew come out at the beginning sequence for UT2K3's SP? I would like it as a DM match so that I can make it into a part in a movie I have an idea for. Thanks in advance.
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the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and
the Pentagon, and the heroic actions of the
passengers that brought their own plane down
near Shanksville, PA. Imagine an alternate
reality where all that never happened.
Be Different If 9/11 Never Happened
9> Groping Grandma would be a felony, not a job description.
8> The funny man would have finished reading those kids the story
about a pet goat.
7> "Live with 100 other guys in a deposed dictator's multimillion
dollar mansion" would still be on your bucket list.
6> The number of Americans who know where Kabul is would be 3
instead of 17.
5> "Waterboarding" would be a synonym for "surfing."
4> The Coast Guard would still come oh-so-logically under the
Department of Transportation.
3> To most Americans, "Jersey barrier" would just mean Snooki's
2> Vice President Cheney would not have been camping out in my
backyard for several years.
witnessed the breathtaking beauty that is Helmand Province.
Selected from 39 submissions from 8 contributors.
This week's list authors are:
Glenn Anthony, San Carlos, CA — 1, 7 (2nd #1!)
Marty McCullen, Gettysburg, PA — 2
Kevin Dopart, Washington, DC — 3
Jeffrey Contompasis, Ashburn, VA — 4, Banner tag
Bob Dalton, Arlington, VA — 5, 9
Edmund Conti, Raleigh, NC — 6
Peter Casper, Brisbane, Australia — 8
Colonel Howie, The Pentagon, VA — Topic
Kilroy, Washington, DC — Graffitist
their many insights into the policy-making process.
(Bob Dalton, Arlington, VA)
Dubya would be back in AA and our bonds would still be AAA.
(Kevin Dopart, Washington, DC)
George "Slam-Dunk" Tenet would be forever known as "Who?"
(Bob Dalton, Arlington, VA)
Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11″ would have been a work of
fiction. Oh, wait …
(Bob Dalton, Arlington, VA)
More people would be wearing Afghans, rather than Afghans wearing
out people.
(Edmund Conti, Raleigh, NC)
People would have a harder time remembering "What's that 3-digit
number to call for emergencies?"
(Marty McCullen, Gettysburg, PA)
President and Commander-in-Chief Condoleezza Rice.
(Jeffrey Contompasis, Ashburn, VA)
Rudy Giuliani would be a talking head…but just on AM radio.
(Kevin Dopart, Washington, DC)
Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden would be in the middle of an
online "Call of Duty" grudge match.
(Glenn Anthony, San Carlos, CA)
Vice President Obama, having replaced the disgraced John Edwards
in President Kerry's second term, would be gearing up for a
primary battle with Hillary Clinton.
(Kevin Dopart, Washington, DC)
Wall Street wouldn't panic over the least little thing. What? They
always have? Well, never mind…
(Marty McCullen, Gettysburg, PA)
You wouldn't have to wear clean socks to the airport.
(Kevin Dopart, Washington, DC)


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Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Destiny by Hill Harper
Youll love it if: You want a guys point of view on dating, self-confidence, and more.
The scoop: This spin on traditional self-help books is written in the form of a series of letters to an anonymous young woman, with Hill (CSI: NY and author of 2006s Letters to a Young Brother) dispensing honest but still uplifting advice on everything from finances to relationships. Hes smart about it too: Between each of his letter-chapters are shorter e-mails and quotes that offer encouragement and advice from cool women like Zoe Saldana, Ruby Dee, Kirsten Dunst, and Michelle Obama.


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The Chefs Move to Schools program, founded in May 2010, is an integral part of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! initiative and its goal of solving the childhood obesity epidemic within a generation. This website creates a platform for chefs and schools to create partnerships in their communities with the mission of collaboratively educating kids about food and healthy eating.
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Posted: Wednesday, January 02, 2013
(South Lake Tahoe, CA) – The fourth annual Lake Tahoe Festival of Trees and Lights is growing. During its inaugural year in 2009, the Festival saw about 1,800 attendees, and raised more than $45,000 for the expansion and renovation of Barton's Community Clinic. This year, the Festival was host to nearly 4,000 attendees, raising more than $55,000 for the future home of Barton Memorial Hospital's Level III trauma center.
"Festival attendance continues to grow," Barton Foundation, Executive Director, Kindle Craig said. "Doubling attendance within four-years is an amazing feat. It's becoming a household name and family tradition for many locals and visitors … and the money raised will impact the creation of a much needed trauma center in our community at Barton."
Since Barton Memorial is a rural hospital, located in an alpine environment, many of the injuries that come through the Emergency Department (E.D.) are trauma related. The cost of the staff's extensive training, new equipment and an entire remodel of the E.D. for a Level III trauma center is more than $200,000. The trauma center designation will allow Barton Memorial's trauma team to evaluate, assess and treat more trauma patient's right here in the basin, thus saving lives.
"This Level III designation will make a huge difference in Barton's ability to care for patients in emergency situations, when every minute "literally" counts," Craig said. "Our families and visitors will benefit tremendously from this added level-of-care [Barton's Level III trauma center]. The Foundation is very proud of the money we were able to raise to support this very important initiative at the hospital."
For more information about Barton Foundation and Lake Tahoe Festival of Trees and Lights, please visit www.festivaloftreeslaketahoe.org.
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Derrick Rose is the best basketball player in Chicago (when healthy) and Kanye West is the most famous rapper from Chicago (when not everyone hates him for doing something dumb on TV), so it's kind of surprising that Kanye's never shouted out his hometown's MVP in a song. Sure, Jay-Z did it for him on "N—– in Paris," but that doesn't really count.
But the wait is finally over. Kanye West has finally shown Derrick Rose some love on digital wax, name-dropping the injured Bulls point guard on his hotly-anticipated G.O.O.D. Music remix of Chief Keef's "I Don't Like." (The track is at the bottom and the Derrick Rose part is at 1:38, but if you've never heard a Chief Keef song, be warned that it's VERY loud.) Let me tell you, it was worth the wait.
Shoutout to Derrick Rose
Man, that n—- nice
That's it. That's the entirety of what Kanye West has to say about Derrick Rose. True musical genius at its finest.
I mean, he's right that Derrick Rose is nice, but that's a pretty underwhelming statement. That's like saying Bill Gates is rich or Noam Chomsky is smart or that Eddie Murphy makes bad movie choices. I'd have liked a little more substance when the faces of Chicago basketball and music finally stare each other eye-to-eye.
Then again, the last NBA player mentioned in a Kanye West song was Kris Humphries. Maybe it's best not to follow in his footsteps.
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(518) 580 - 5460
(518) 580 - 5409
Office Location: Ladd Hall, Room 210
Michael Arnush, Professor and Chair
(518) 580 - 5463
Ruby Grande
2008-2009 Activities and Events
Date: Friday, May 1, 2009
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Location: TBA
Event: Annual Classics Department Picnic
Freefood from our friends, the fabulous PJ's BBQ!
- Fond farewells to former freshmen, finally seniors!
- Fun flying frisbees with favorite faculty!
- Brave bocce-ball battles and boisterous banter!
- Meet many majors, minors, and miscellaneous menschen!
Date: Friday, April 17, 2009
Event: Parilia Conference
Location: Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Spring 2009 witnessed the fourth iteration of Parilia, the joint undergraduate Classics conference involving students from Colgate University and Hamilton, Skidmore and Union Colleges. Parilia reinforces our commitment to helping our students develop their research skills and showcase the results; and, as in 2006-2008, Skidmore sent three students plus our faculty to the conference.
This year, student presenters included Ross Jaffe '11 on Herodotus' philosophical outlook, Amanda Paret '10 on a comparison between Homer's Iliad and Wolfgang Petersen's 2004 film Troy starring Brad Pitt, and Jim Ryan '09 on a close reading of Catullan poetry. Our students acquitted themselves superbly and Parilia yet again provided an opportunity for faculty and students from all four institutions to strengthen our upstate NY Classics community. Spring 2010 we will return to Union College with another Skidmore contingent and look forward to more exceptional work from our students.
Date: Saturday, April 4, 2009
Time: Departure 7:30 AM, Returning 11:30 PM
Location: Meet at Case Center
Event: Trip to Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Each spring students in CC200 The Classical World travel to NYC to study and present objects in the Greco-Roman galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This year the students began this project at our own Tang Museum, where three members of the class (one major and two first-year students, who developed their presentation skills in Prof. Mechem's SSP Den of Antiquities class in the fall) gave faux talks on works of art in the current Oliver Herring exhibition. Those presentations, intentionally designed as excellent, mediocre and poor, illustrated to the rest of the class the key components of a successful presentation. Accordingly, the group presentations by the CC200 students were particularly strong, the result of careful collaboration and thoughtful research.
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Time: 7:00 PM - ?
Location: Saratoga Room in the Spa
Event: Homerathon!
A marathon reading of Homer's Odyssey with musical accompaniment provided by students in CC200 The Classical World.
Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 PM
Location: Davis Auditorium
Event: XIII Annual Classical World Lecture: Guest lecture by Prof. Hans-Friedrich Mueller, Classics Department, Union College
Topic: "Roman Law and Roman History: Debt-Bondage and Sexual Politics"
Prof. Mueller will examine the historical evidence for the abolition of debt-bondage in ancient Rome, visiting fundamental issues in Roman historiography, the fragments of the Twelve Tables, the introduction of metal coinage, same-sex desire, forced-sex work, and the intersections of sexual politics with the history of Roman law.
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2008
Time: 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Location: Home of Professors Michael Arnush & Leslie Mechem
Event: End of Study Break Get Together
The Classics faculty invite you to an end-of-study break open house for apple cider, cheddar cheese, and other treats of the season.
Date: Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008
Time: 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Location: Emerson Auditorium - Palamountain Hall
Event: Guest lecture by Prof. Rachel Friedman,
Classics Department, Vassar College
Topic: "Derek Walcott's Odyssey and the Postcolonial
Recovery of Classical Greek Texts"
Prof. Friedman will examine Derek Walcott's "Stage Version" of the Odyssey, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and first performed in 1992, specifically Walcott's characterization of Odysseus as a wandering hero extremely ambivalent about his return home to Ithaka. Friedman will consider whether Walcott's reading of Odysseus might be seen as emerging from Homer's poem and will suggest some of the ways such a reading can help us access aspects of the ancient texts from a postcolonial perspective.


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If you thought I had concluded my blog series on demonstrating how Ubuntu is the best environment to write up "connected" or "cloud backend" Android Apps, think again!
So far this is what we covered:
The next step is "How to test that it all works on a production environment". If you have tested to death both your Android application and your web service locally, it is time to check if they will still work in real life. How do we do this? With few simple commands, we are going to deploy the same web service into the Amazon Cloud, and the application in a mobile phone. All managed from the comfort of my Ubuntu Desktop.
Deploying to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The only pre-requisite here is that you do have an AWS account. Once you are logged into the AWS website, you can find the credentials that you will need to set up your juju environment. You can find a tutorial on how to set up your Elastic Compute Cloud (ec2) environment –> here.
The required information for Juju is stored in the environment.yaml file in the ~/.juju folder. In the following sample file you can see that two environments have been defined:
default: local environments: aws: type: ec2 access-key: YOUR-ACCESS-KEY-GOES-HERE secret-key: YOUR-SECRET-KEY-GOES-HERE control-bucket: juju-faefb490d69a41f0a3616a4808e0766b admin-secret: 81a1e7429e6847c4941fda7591246594 default-series: precise juju-origin: ppa ssl-hostname-verification: true local: type: local control-bucket: juju-a14dfae3830142d9ac23c499395c2785999 admin-secret: 6608267bbd6b447b8c90934167b2a294999 default-series: precise juju-origin: distro data-dir: /home/victorp/myjuju_data
With my environments now configured, it's time to deploy my services. This first step is to bootstrap my environment:
juju bootstrap -e aws
With the command completed successfully, I can check the status and I will see that the juju control instance is now up and running in Amazon:
juju status -e aws 2012-09-19 11:43:34,248 INFO Connected to environment. machines: 0: agent-state: running dns-name: ec2-75-101-189-208.compute-1.amazonaws.com instance-id: i-0e4f7174 instance-state: running services: {} 2012-09-19 11:43:35,322 INFO 'status' command finished successfully
Lets continue deploying the services. As I am only doing testing, I want to pay the minimum for it, it will ask juju to set a constrain to only use micro instances. Then I will deploy a mysql and a lamp service:
juju set-constraints instance-type=t1.micro -e aws juju deploy mysql -e aws juju deploy --repository ~/mycharm local:lamp -e aws juju set lamp website-database="android_todo" -e aws juju set lamp website-bzr="lp:~vtuson/+junk/mytodo_web" -e aws juju expose lamp -e aws juju add-relation lamp mysql -e aws
With all my services now running I can go to the Amazon EC2 instance console and see how they have been deployed as micro instances. I can now also enter the public address for my lamp service and see the ToDo list table as expected.
Testing the Android App on a real phone
Running Juju status, I can retrieve the public url for the lamp service and I replace the uri vairable in the TodoSourceData class with "ec2-107-22-151-171.compute-1.amazonaws.com/database.php". The next step is to plug a HTC Desire set up on debug mode into my laptop's usb port. The rest is taken care by the Android Eclipse plug-ins. When I click the run project button, I am presented with a choice of targets:
I just need to press "OK" and my ToDo app is launched in the handset. Opening the menu options and pressing "Sync" fetches the ToDo data from the Amazon services, as expected:
That is all for today! Let me know if you have any suggestions on what else I should cover on this blog series.
Just a brief post to say that I will be talking at DroidCon on 26th October in London. This is what I will be covering:
Most Android apps nowadays are a front or local client for online services, from backing up data to the cloud to providing a cross platform service. This requires developers to have access to not just an Android environment, but also to a staging server that they can mess with. This requires the app developer to either gain knowledge of how to set up this complex web, or wait for someone to do it for them.
Juju is a service orchestration tool that allows you to deploy cloud applications like WordPress or Mysql to live clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Juju Charms package the wisdom of experience Dev Ops so anyone can deploy a complex apps with few simple commands. This can first be done to a local environment running in your laptop, and once you are confident on the service, deploy it to a live cloud. Ubuntu ,the leading linux desktop distribution, brings together the best support for Android app development (used by the Google Android team) with an easy to use cloud deployment toolset.
This talk will explore the simplicity of developing an android app that needs to talk to a cloud service. The talk will be framed around an example of a "TODO list" android app that locally stores information into a SQLite database, and then backs-up user data to the cloud. The talk will show how a android developer can deploy, in his or her laptop, a complex web service with just a handful of commands, and then get the application talking to the service form within the android emulator. Join us to grasp how Ubuntu can provide android developers a full test environment in a box.
Time for the next chapter of my blog series about demonstrating how Ubuntu is the best environment to write up "connected" or "cloud backend" Android Apps. As you might know, the Android SDK allows you to set up a sandboxed environment to develop Mobile apps in your desktop, using Juju you can do the same for Cloud apps.
To walk you through how to put these great development tools together, I set out to accomplish:
Today I am going to cover the bottom two bullet points in one go! For this post, I am going to assume that you know a bit of Android development. If you want a great source of introductory material check Lars Vogel's website.
I have created a simple ToDo Android application that can store tasks into a local SQLite db and allows you to "Star" important items. The code for my Simple Todo app is hosted in Launchpad. I have written my application for Android 2.3, but you can use a later version.
Reading remote data from the MySQL server is confined to a small class that retrieves a JSON object and translates it into a TodoItem object. Equally , the server code that prints that content table into a JSON object is extremely simple. Beyond this, you can go crazy and implement a RESTfull API to sync the databases.
At the moment, I am just inserting Server side data into the Local database and making sure I don't add duplicates.Here is a video that shows how easy is to work and test both environments:
The same environment should then work if you are running the Android application on an external phone. But that is another blog post
It is time to continue with my blog series on demonstrating how Ubuntu is the best environment to write up "connected" or "cloud backend" Android Apps. As you might know, the Android SDK allows you to set up a sandboxed environment to develop Mobile apps in your desktop, using Juju you can do the same for Cloud apps.
To walk you through how to put these great development tools together, I set out to accomplish:
Today is time to set-up our own Cloud environment in a PC. A good starting point for a web application is a LAMP stack. If you hope for you service to get popular, you might want to split out the database service and the web service into their own instances so they can be scaled easily.
When I set out to do this, I wanted to write an extremely simple PHP page that would expose a data table from a Mysql server. I looked up the available charms on the store. I found that you had a lot of charms for existing apps, but none that had the bare bones of a LAMP stack and just allowed you to install your own web pages. However, I did find a charm to deploy Mysql and a very handy tool to manage it (phpmyadmin). Taking this as a starting point I developed a generic LAMP charm.
The first thing the LAMP charm does is to install and configure a new instance with Apache and PHP5 in an LXC container. The new charm will then copy any files under /website inside the charm folder structure, into /var/www. It also allows you to specify a Bazaar branch. It will clone the branch into the webserver and copy the contents to /var/www. I keep my TODO application for this exercise here.
Using juju, you can set up a relationship with a Mysql service. A Mysql database is created by default at this time. You can change the name of the database as a configuration options. If you provide a file called mysql_config either on the /website folder or in the root of you Bazaar branch, this will be used to configure further the Mysql database.
The charm will store the details of the relationship in /var/webconfig. In there you can also find opendb.php, a basic script that will open the connection to the MySQL database for you.
So lets get started! Clone the Lamp branch to a folder of your choice. I have it under "~/Mycharm/precise/lamp". (If you need to get started with juju check my previous post here)
juju bootstrap
#step1 - deploy Mysql as a service.
juju deploy mysql
#step2 - deploy phpmyadmin tool
juju deploy phpmyadmin
juju set phpmyadmin password="password"
#this makes phpmyadmin public - exposes port 80/tcp
juju expose phpmyadmin
#step3 - link phpmyadmin and mysql so the can talk to each other
juju add-relation phpmyadmin mysql
#step4 deploy lamp from your local folder
juju deploy --repository ~/mycharm local:lamp
#step5 set up your bazaar branch and publish your website
juju set lamp website-bzr="lp:~vtuson/+junk/mytodo_web"
juju expose lamp
#step6 configure your database and link lamp and mysql services
juju set lamp website-database="android_todo"
juju add-relation lamp mysql
Once Juju has completed all the commands, run "juju status". Now go to the ip address for the LAMP services and visit the databaseweb.php page (e.g. http://192.168.122.174/databaseweb.php) , you get this rather ugly table:
Id | Todo | Is it starred |
1 | hello this is a sample | 1 |
2 | yes it works! | 0 |
This table is displaying the contents of a Mysql database. You will get the same data if you visit your Myphpadmin service:
So there you are a full and scalable LAMP stack in your PC!
If you want to update the web service by pulling the latest version of the Bazaar branch, just run the following commands:
juju set lamp bzr-update="yes"
juju set lamp bzr-update=
With my web developer "hat" on, I can now hand this charm over to my Android app developer. They will be able to set up exactly the same environment locally to test their app without using expensive server time.
So "Using a few charms from the charm store plus a custom one, set up a MySQL database that can be exposed through a web service with simple commands/steps" – DONE!
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Just like RoC's Multi Correxion Nourish Stress Repair Eye Cream, this nighttime moisturizer is a lackluster formula that contains nothing research has shown can reduce signs of stress from a hectic lifestyle. With a formula that's mostly water and thickeners, getting a good night's sleep and regular exercise will go a lot further toward reducing signs of stress than this moisturizer ever could!
The teeny-tiny amount of beneficial ingredients (it's really shocking how few anti-aging ingredients this contains) won't remain stable once this is opened because of its jar packaging (see More Info for details).
Just like the eye cream version (and really the only difference between the face and eye version of these products is that the face product has fragrance), this contains cosmetic pigments for a brightening effect. While that may be attractive, it's merely a cosmetic effect, not a skin-care benefit. If brightening is what you want, you can get that, and much more, from other products whose formulas run anti-aging circles around this option from RoC. The only thing this can correct is minor dryness, and that is hardly unique or noteworthy.
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The fact that this night cream is packaged in a jar means the beneficial ingredients won't remain stable once it is opened. All plant extracts, vitamins, antioxidants, and other state-of-the-art ingredients break down in the presence of air, so once a jar is opened and lets the air in, these important ingredients begin to deteriorate. Jars also are unsanitary because you're dipping your fingers into them with each use, adding bacteria, which further deteriorate the beneficial ingredients (Sources: Free Radical Biology and Medicine, September 2007, pages 818–829; Ageing Research Reviews, December 2007, pages 271–288; Dermatologic Therapy, September-October 2007, pages 314–321; International Journal of Pharmaceutics, June 12, 2005, pages 197–203; Pharmaceutical Development and Technology, January 2002, pages 1–32; International Society for Horticultural Science, www.actahort.org/members/showpdf?booknrarnr=778_5; Beautypackaging.com, and www.beautypackaging.com/articles/2007/03/airless-packaging.php).
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Originally the brainchild of a French pharmacist, RoC does its best to convince women concerned with wrinkles that using RoC products will erase those pesky lines and, of course, that RoC is the only company that keeps its promises. That doesn't bode well for the other J&J product lines Aveeno and Neutrogena—wouldn't that mean they must be lying about the promises they make for their products? Regardless, the promises RoC makes, including all of the same old same old "you will look younger too" rubbish, aren't viable and don't hold up under closer scrutiny. None of what they assure you their products can do is possible beyond a cosmetic extent, and moreover the majority of RoC's U.S.- and Canada-sold formulas are either boring or one-note. They don't even come through with distinctive or interesting moisturizers.
For example, RoC is big on retinol, and includes it in products with and without sunscreen in the United States. Retinol is a cell-communicating ingredient as well as an antioxidant, and its benefits for skin are many (Sources: Archives of Dermatology, May 2007, pages 606–612; Skin Pharmacology and Physiology, March/April 2005, pages 81–87; and Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, December 2005, pages 237–244). However, for the most part, the amount of retinol in RoC's U.S.-sold products is barely a dusting, and so your skin won't receive much, if any, benefit from it. Ironically, although RoC promotes retinol much more than Neutrogena and Aveeno (all are J&J-owned companies), the latter two lines sell better retinol products! Several of the moisturizers with retinol sold by RoC in Canada also have much better formulations.
Another ingredient RoC has been touting lately is DMAE (dimethyl MEA). This ingredient is described in detail in the reviews below, but suffice it to say that DMAE isn't a panacea for wrinkles or skin that has lost firmness. Lastly, soy is promoted by RoC as an anti-aging powerhouse. Soy has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits for skin, but once again RoC shortchanges the consumer by including barely any of it. And it's probably no surprise that sister company Aveeno (and, to a lesser extent, Neutrogena) offers better (and less expensive) options if soy is what you want to try.
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Where Does a Christian Belong on Halloween?
Faithful participation in our communities is a powerful church value.
Halloween. Who would have thought that a national costume party would be such a complicated endeavor and an unexpected opportunity for Christians?
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Rod Hewitt
if or not originally a church thing I am not sure, I will say that in the U.K now children dress up in all kinds of terrifying costumes, ,a lot of focus now is on Zombies, and other horrific ideas to do with Death and Evil ,I am not sure what we are trying to do to our youngsters here, I do not find any of it good just evil. I for one would like to see it banned, there are other good ways surely to meet people, not by dressing up in wicked costumes to terrify the old and threats of horrid things if they do not get treats. .Just my opinion.
Marshall Shelley
An odd thing happened last night as I sat at home waiting for trick-or-treaters. Only 5 showed up at the door all afternoon and evening! My Kit-kats are still in the bowl this morning. What's odd is that last Saturday, literally thousands of trick-or-treaters were at the mall, going store to store for treats. And at our church's "Trunk or Treat," there were hundreds there in the afternoon. Makes me wonder, Tony: if fewer parents are taking kids door to door for Halloween, and more are willing to go to the community's "safe places to trick or treat," then where is the best place for Christians to be on Halloween? I'm stumped.
audrey ruth
Daniel did not study magic and astrology. This is what he DID do: "And the king spoke with them, and among all of them none was found like Daniel [and his friends]. Therefore they stood before the king. And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom." NOTE the words "wisdom and understanding" were BETTER than what the world had to offer. Yes, Tabitha's (Dorcas') Greek friends loved her. This does not mean that she violated God's Word in any way to be their friend. Jesus said we are to be IN the world but not OF it. I can see giving out candy with child-friendly Gospel messages if one has no children, but when my children were young I didn't find it appropriate for them to see horrific masks and sounds at our door all evening long. The Lord led us to focus on October 31 as Reformation Day, the day Martin Luther's 95 statements made history.
Daniel Fender
To be more specific we do two things: 1. While we trick or treat we give buy 2 dozen roses & with an invitation to a neighborhood Christmas party. We focus on neighbors we know and those closest to our home. This last year we had a great Christmas party. Not one car pulled up but the house was packed with 35+ neighbors! Halloween is one of those rare times when you can expect your neighbor to not only open the door but give you & your kids time to meet & enjoy the sweetness of being neighbors! Of course that sweetness involves candy as well! The counterintutive part of giving an invitation & a rose is that people don't expect it, are surprised & love it. Ironically my kids remember Halloween as the time we invite neighbors to celebrate Jesus' birth! 2. We then come back home & set up a fire pit in the front yard & a canopy if the Portland drizzle has begun. We share hot cider with neighbors & hang out late into the night. We usually invite a handful of neighbors a few days before.


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MassBio Partners with Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)
Members save on cutting-edge video publications
October 23, 2012 (CAMBRIDGE, MA) – MassBio members can access a peer reviewed, PubMed indexed journal devoted to the publication of biological, medical, chemical and physical research in a cutting-edge video format through a new partnership with the Cambridge-based Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), MassBio announced today.
"In the life sciences industry saving time and saving money leads to faster cures and more lives saved," said Robert K. Coughlin, President & CEO of MassBio. "I am thrilled to partner with the team at JoVE whose video experiments offer our members easier and faster access to critical knowledge as they build on past research on the way to new innovations."
JoVE, established in 2006, is the first and only journal to publish scientific research in a video format. Using an international network of videographers, JoVE films and edits videos of researchers performing new experimental techniques in labs, allowing scientists to learn them much more quickly. As of October 2012, JoVE has published video-protocols from an international community of nearly 6,000 authors.
"The complexity and breadth of life science research has increased exponentially in recent years and research progress and the translation of findings from the bench to clinical therapies rely on the rapid transfer of knowledge," said Moshe Pritsker, co-founder of JoVE. "Over 70% of experiments fail to be replicated so it's clear that written word and static picture-based traditional print journals are no longer sufficient to accurately transmit the intricacies of modern research. JoVE was designed to help solve this problem."
In joining the already robust MassBio Purchasing Consortium as the Primary Supplier of Video Methods Journals, JoVE offers MassBio members access to more efficient, more effective research and discovery, at a discount.
The JoVE/MassBio partnership features an average 25% discount on subscriptions for MassBio members, a fixed subscription rate (no increase at time of renewal), access to all back issues, as well as a 15% discount on scientific video production rates. JoVE has also created a special discount program for MassBio's small member companies (20 employees or fewer) with a flat journal subscription fee of $3,000.
JoVE will host an information session on their services for MassBio members on November 9, 2012. Members can watch the presentation via webinar or attend in-person and can register here.
The MassBio Purchasing Consortium leverages the power of the collective membership to negotiate contracts with vendors that save member companies significant amounts of money. Current consortium contracts include bulk gases, packaged cylinder gases, chemical and biomedical waste removal, lab supplies, office supplies, lab equipment maintenance, travel services, shipping services, and mobile solutions.
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Tokyo Station Hotel Guide
Grand Opening October 3rd, 2012
Tokyo Station Hotel's 150 guestrooms and suites are located in the iconic Tokyo Station Building and are designed with classic European decor, high-vaulted ceilings and expansive windows. Each guestroom blends sophisticated elements of European classic and contemporary design, while conveying the property's rich heritage and historical significance.
The Tokyo Station Hotel's guestrooms and suites range from spacious double and twin guestrooms, to the Dome Side and Maisonette accommodations - which offer a unique two-storey layout.
Guest Rooms
Classic Rooms provide ample space for relaxation or business, ranging from 23 square meters to 47 square meters in size. Each guestroom features classic European decor, vaulted ceilings, and expansive windows.
Palace Side Rooms overlook the dynamic cityscape of the surrounding Marunouchi area. Palace Side rooms feature a view of the Imperial Palace Gardens, and range from 26 square meters to 58 square meters in size.
Dome Side Rooms are situated alongside North and South Cupola domes of Tokyo Station, these guestrooms feature 4 meter ceilings and curtains that part to reveal spectacular views of the reliefs on the Cupola dome ceiling of Tokyo Station, as well as the station itself. The Dome Side guestrooms range from 30 square meters to 44 square meters in size.
The spectacular Maisonette Rooms are the highlight of The Tokyo Station Hotel. Each Maisonette room consists of two stories, divided into a living room and bedroom and living and dining area overlooking Marunouchi. Each Maisonette room is 65 square meters in size.
Standard room amenities include:
- Flat screen LCD TV
- VOD In-room entertainment
- Air purifier/humidifier
- Light control panel
- In room massage
- iPod dock
- Mini bar
- Complimentary wi-fi and high-speed internet access
- In-room personal safe
- Laundry (Regular and Overnight Service)
Tokyo Station Hotel features a variety of fine and casual dining restaurants. Guests can entertain business clients or enjoy a special celebration at the hotel's numerous restaurants
Fine Dining: Blanc Rouge
Casual Dining: The Atrium
Bars & Lounges: The Lobby Lounge, Bar & Cafe Camellia, Bar Oak
Hotel Location
Tokyo Station Hotel is located in the heart of Tokyo, Japan. The hotel is surrounded by numerous attractions including the Imperial Palace, Marunouchi business area and Ginza luxury shopping district. The hotel's rich history, convenient location and luxurious accommodations and amenities make it the premier destination for both business and leisure travelers.
- JR Tokyo Station - just steps away, connected through Tokyo Station Marunouchi South Exit
- JR Tokyo Station - 1-minute walk from Shinkansen bullet train Central Exit
- Tokyo Station - 1-3 minute walk from Metro subway Marunouchi Line
- Tokyo Station - 60-minute train ride from Narita Airport via JR Narita Express (N'EX)
- Tokyo Station - 30-minute monorail and train ride from Haneda Airport
The hotel is conveniently located near the following Tokyo landmarks:
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David Newbery
Speaker - 10 May, 9.00 – 10.40
SESSION 3 – EU Energy Policy
Panel 1 – Achieving the Internal Market
David Newbery, PhD, ScD, FBA, is Emeritus Professor of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, a Director of the Cambridge Electricity Policy Research Group and a Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London. Educated at Cambridge with degrees in Mathematics and Economics, President of the European Economic Association in 1996, President-elect for the IAEE 2012, to be President in 2013. Occasional economic advisor to Ofgem, Ofwat, and ORR, former member of the Competition Commission and chairman of the Dutch Electricity Market Surveillance Committee, currently member of the academic panel of environmental economists, DEFRA, and of Ofgem's Low Carbon Network Fund. He has recently advised DECC and the House of Commons on Electricity Market Reform, Ofgem on transmission access pricing and DG ENER on Transmission Rights.
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Jethro Tull Announce Deluxe 'Benefit' Reissue
Jethro Tull's third album is getting the deluxe reissue treatment this fall.
Jethro Tull's third album is getting the deluxe reissue treatment this fall.
By 1978, Jethro Tull had been running for 10 years, and though their commercial fortunes and profile had soared with albums like 'Aqualung' and 'Thick as a Brick,' the band was still at its creative peak, as its 11th album, 'Heavy Horses,' proves.
I love to make up my own interpretations of song lyrics, you know, to mold them around my own life experiences. But sometimes a song title perks you up and makes you say "what the heck?" Such is the case with Jethro Tull's 'Locomotive Breath'.
A big happy Birthday going out to Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson, who turned 64 this week. In recent interviews he's been lamenting his age and promoting the fact that Jethro Tull still exists as a band and that he still enjoys doing solo shows
Ian Anderson makes his return to the USA with his band "Jethro Tull", starting June 8th in Denver, CO and ending on the 27th in Chicago, IL. The group features longtime members Ian Anderson (flute, vocals, acoustic guitar) and Martin Barre (guitars), Doane Perry (drums), as well as David Goodier (bass) and pianist John O'Hara


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Alexandra Aimee • April 16th, 2014 at 11:08 am
I can't get into these sort of Herman Munster shoes! The dress is adorable and she always looks lovely, though.
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I love her look she looks so natural and young she's amazing and he is good looking as well…
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Tess • April 17th, 2014 at 5:01 am
Say what you will about me, but other than the dress and shades, just no. The shoes and choker are too 90's for me. And then the tiny bun on the top of her head makes her look too alien-esque for me. I don't know….I'm just not a fan! Sorry Kate! I wanted to like this!
Morgan Brown • April 17th, 2014 at 10:38 pm
How cute is she!


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DLTK's Discussion Group Archives - Jul/01 to Dec/01
From: Leanne
Date: 12/4/2001
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Decorate the cup like a flower pot -- this can be done by covering it with paint, with wrapping paper, coloring it with markers, gluing images cup from old cards, clipart, magazines, or stickers. I like to provide a variety of materials and prepare a number of pre-made examples then let the children make their own way (though you'll want to have an adult or older child handy to help out children who aren't familiar with crafting)
Make red (Chrismas-y) tissue paper flowers -- you can just accordian fold tissue paper and tie it in the center, or you can make more complicated petals -- see http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/spring/mtissue_flower_vase.htm for inspiration
Take recycled styrofoam meat trays (clean, of course) and cut circles that fit inside the paper cup. You want the circles to go about 1/2 way down the cup, but not all the way to the bottom, so trace around the top of one of the cups and then cut INSIDE the line you traced. Punch holes in the styrofoam circles (2 to 4 holes -- enough for each flowre) Put the circle inside the cup and put the flower stems through the holes in the circle (the circle just helps keep the flowers from flopping about too much. As an alternative you could put a clump of playdough in the bottom of the cup.
Test before hand to make sure the tissue flowers don't tip your cup (depends on the size of the flowers you make compared to the size of your cup) If this is a problem, drop a rock or two into the bottom of the cup before you put the flowers in. (you can even have the children paint/decorate the rocks in Christmas-y colors


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After a strung-out courtship that apparently lasted 10 years according to Navy Athletic Director Chuck Gladchuck, the Midshipmen are finally part of the Big East (/Country/Continent/Least, etc.)… in 2015. While I'm always one to applaud the tradition of our service academies as major college football programs, it's still difficult to see what this addition truly gives the "country's first national football conference" (source: John Marinatto, who also believes Syracuse, Pitt, TCU and West Virginia were wrong in leaving). While Navy surely adds more tradition than most of the current conference schools, what it lacks is success to go along with it. Yes, the Midshipmen have been to eight bowl games in the last nine years, but just nine bowl games during the previous 125 years of play. And if for some reason, their triple-option attack just can't measure up anymore (we saw glimpses of this during 2011), Navy could end up as an annual bottom-dweller.
So now what? For the conference to truly be a "national," coast-to-coast league, the final addition almost HAS to be west of the Mississippi. Remember, the Big East will likely have 13 teams in 2013, but then drop down to 10 in 2014 with the departures of SU, Pitt and WVU. Navy bumps them back up to 11, but with seven teams in the Eastern time zone, two in the Central, one in the Mountain and one in the Pacific, any "Western" division likely needs another team in the western part of the country. Still, we'll dissect some quick odds on the remaining candidates, taking an open look at the country:
Temple (Odds: 10/1): In spite of the league's push to the west, former conference member Temple is still probably the best bet. A rising football program, big city and a historically competitive basketball team give them an edge most other candidates just don't have going for them.
Air Force (Odds: 12/1): Sure, Air Force said no, but that doesn't mean this is over. Another team in the Mountain time zone makes travel easier for the other western teams and adding the Falcons gives Navy a little more scheduling flexibility, too.
BYU (Odds: 15/1): The Cougars also said no, but with a lot of success, a national brand and the allure of more television dollars, maybe the two sides can figure out a way for both to get along when it comes to BYU's TV network. If they do, both have a pretty solid future ahead.
UMass (Odds: 40/1): What better way for the Big East to shoot the ACC right across the bow than come into their own backyard? Plus, UMass has a strong enough basketball program to join for all sports. It's a risky move just a year into the school's FBS history, but it's worked out before.
ECU (Odds: 42/1): The Pirates' only-game-in-town stature and passionate fan base make them a perfect replacement for West Virginia and another foray into ACC territory. Best of all, they'll contend right away and help the conference keep its BCS status (if that still exists).
Toledo/Southern Miss/Hawaii (Odds: 60/1): All of these are far-fetched, but at this point, any will do in order to add a quality program and improve the conference's national stature. With San Diego State already in the mix, it's no longer a stretch to imagine the Warriors in the fold, along with their well-known brand.
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Life isn't normal when you live with a chronic disease. Some days are bad, but some days are really good. Faith Miller has been living with a chronic disease since she was first diagnose in the fourth grade. She has Cystic Fibrosis.
It has been five years since Faith's last hospitalization. She has 57 percent of lung capacity and is in therapy twice a week.
Cystic Fibrosis is an inherited chronic disease affecting a person's lungs and digestive system, causing the body to produce "usually thick, sticky mucus that: clogs the lungs and leads to life-threatening lung infections; and obstructs the pancreas and stops natural enzymes from helping the body break down and absorb food."
You first came to know her when she was granted a wish last year through the Make-A-Wish- Foundation and a story this newspaper did on her Broadway experience. The mission of the Make-A-Wish Foundation is to enrich the lives of young people with life-threatening medical conditions through wish-granting work. Faith had an amazing experience and said she will remember it forever.
She and her family received a call late spring of this year for another amazing trip. On September 21, Faith, along with her family, embarked on a dream vacation to Orlando, Fla., with 38 other courageous children with life-threatening medical conditions for a week filled with fun and delight at the "Give Kids The World Village." The trip was made possible thanks to the Something mAAgic Foundation's annual marquee event, mAAgic flight, which has given the same amazing experience to more than 400 children from around the world for the past 17 years.
The send-off party took place at Dulles International Airport with festivities that included a themed celebration with volunteers and former and current employees of American Airlines, American Eagle and American Airlines Federal Credit Union.
The Something mAAgic Foundation sponsors children from several wish granting organizations each year. With mileage donated from Miles for Kids in Needsm, mAAgic flight enables children and their families to experience the village and all that Central Florida has to offer.
With only three weeks into the new school year, Faith's mom was a little concerned about missing school. "We found out about the trip in June and we were all excited, but forgot all about it until they called us in August," said Carol Miller, Faith's mother. "My concern was about missing school. We are just three weeks into the new year."
She was happy that the whole family was going. Faith has a younger brother, Andrew, 14, and he understands that Faith's medical condition takes priority in the household.
"Sometimes siblings get lost in the shuffle," said Miller. "It is real nice that they [organizations like mAAgic] take care of siblings too."
Faith will be 16 in November. She is in her junior year and finds it demanding. She was happy to get a break, even after only three weeks. "I am just happy to be getting away from school," she said. Junior year is hard." Faith is in all honor classes. Along with preparing for college, she continues her ninth year with piano lessons, loves acting and is involved with the Christine Youth Theater, enjoys singing and writing.


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Photos: Brooklyn Vegan Showcase at Music Hall of Williamsburg
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One of my most anticipated CMJ shows was the one that happened last night at Music Hall, mainly because I've wanted to see the Pains of Being Pure at Heart for quite some time now (just couldn't bring myself to see them at Siren Festival; too huge of a venue for an intimate band). They didn't disappoint, either, in their one hour set, especially on "Come Saturday" and the first single for their new album, "Heart In Your Heartbreak," although they could have played a little louder. On both the self-titled album and their various EPs, Pains are at their best when they sound like Feed Me With Your Kiss-era My Bloody Valentine. That's not an easy task, but most of the time, last night included, Pains succeed.
As for the rest: Young Man played a solid, occasionally Dirty Projector-ish 30 minute set; every Suuns song should feature loud wailing from a random dude playing the saxophone; Screaming Females continue to blow away everyone who has seen them this week at CMJ; and the Blow, well, the Blow is a one-woman band with a pre-recorded backing track. Think Lady Gaga, circa 2007, before she had any money. I'm not saying the Blow is as good as Gaga, but it's the same kind of performance art.
Photos from the show:
Young Man
Screaming Females
The Blow
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
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Give your work shirts a rest and pair a knit tie with a casual cotton shirt (one made from, say, chambray). The shirt's texture will complement the tie's knit while a good pair of unpressed chinos keeps things low-key.
Cotton chambray shirt ($200) by Woolrich Woolen Mills; silk knit tie ($125) by John Varvatos; cotton trousers ($50) by Nautica; leather belt ($184) by Oliver Spencer.
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They dress up real nice with a suit and a pocket square, but you can loosen up these striped collegiate staples with dark jeans and a cardigan. Bonus points for matching the color of the tie's thin stripes (in this case, white) with the main color of the shirt.
Cotton-and-wool cardigan ($75) and silk tie ($50) by J. Crew; cotton shirt ($80) by Brooks Brothers; jeans ($310) by Diesel.
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It ain't for everyone, but for the man who wants to make a big statement, this is the way to do it. Keep the tie simple and the rest of your outfit bone simple. Think a blue or white solid shirt with gray pants.
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INTRODUCTION 1) This matter is before the Superintendent of Insurance, after notice and opportunity for hearing, pursuant to a Petition to REVOKE the resident insurance producer license of Antoinette P. St. Hilaire, dated January 5, 2006, and filed by the Staff of the Maine Bureau of Insurance. 2) The Maine Insurance Code regulates persons who offer or sell insurance products in the State of Maine. The Superintendent of Insurance has jurisdiction over this matter pursuant to the Insurance Code generally, Title 24-A Maine Revised Statutes Annotated, and in particular, 24-A M.R.S.A. §§211, 220, 1417, and 1420-K. FINDINGS OF FACT 3) Antoinette P. St. Hilaire was first licensed in Maine as a resident insurance producer on April 17, 2003. Her license number in Bureau records is PRR 94400. Her National Producer Registry Number is 7661274. Effective April 13, 2005, she voluntarily surrendered her license. 4) Ms. St. Hilaire's last known address is: 5) Ms. St. Hilaire's last business address of record, as specified in the Bureau of Insurance license records, is: 6) In December of 2005, Ms. St. Hilaire was convicted of a Class C criminal offense of Theft in Maine Superior Court, Androscoggin County, Docket Number CR-05-53. 8) Ms. St. Hilaire has not requested a hearing on this matter, and the time period allotted for the filing of any such request has expired. CONCLUSIONS OF LAW CRIMINAL CONVICTION AS STATUTORY BASIS FOR REVOCATION 9) Under 24-A M.R.S.A. §1417 and §1420-K(1)(F), the Superintendent may, after notice and opportunity for hearing, revoke a producer's license based upon a conviction in court of any offense under Title 5 M.R.S.A. §5301, which includes among the convictions for which such actions are authorized: "Convictions for which incarceration for one year or more may be imposed." 10) Ms. St. Hilaire's Class C conviction of Theft constitutes a conviction for which incarceration for one year or more may be imposed, and the conviction occurred within the time limits established under 5 M.R.S.A. §5303. 11) Ms. St. Hilaire's Class C conviction of Theft establishes statutory grounds for revoking her producer license under 24-A M.R.S.A. §1417 and §1420-K(1)(F). FEDERAL PROHIBITION BASED UPON FELONY CONVICTION INVOLVING DISHONESTY OR BREACH OF TRUST 12) Title 18 United States Code §1033 prohibits any individual who has ever been convicted of a felony involving dishonesty or breach of trust from engaging in or participating in the business of insurance unless the person has secured a waiver (written consent) from an appropriate insurance regulatory official, and provides for Federal criminal and civil penalties for violations of this prohibition. 13) Ms. St. Hilaire's conviction involves dishonesty or breach of trust. A Class C offense under Maine law is within the category of offenses referred to by the Federal statute's reference to a felony. The Bureau's records therefore reflect that, lacking a specific waiver from this prohibition, Ms. St. Hilaire is prohibited under Federal law from engaging or participating in the business of insurance under 18 USC §1033, and accordingly is ineligible to maintain an insurance producer license under State law. EFFECT OF VOLUNTARY TERMINATION 14) As specified in Paragraph 3 above, Ms. St. Hilaire voluntarily surrendered her license April 13, 2005, which was during the pendency of the criminal proceeding. 15) Under 24-A M.R.S.A. §1417(3), the Superintendent may, after notice and opportunity for hearing, deem the license suspended or revoked of a previously licensed person who voluntarily surrendered an insurance license. ORDER REVOKING LICENSE of Antoinette P. St. Hilaire The Superintendent of Insurance, after notice and opportunity for hearing, hereby finds that Antoinette P. St. Hilaire has been convicted of a criminal offense which constitutes statutory grounds for revoking her producer license under the Maine Insurance Code as more specifically stated in the above Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law. Therefore, Maine resident insurance producer license # PRR 94400, which Antoinette P. St. Hilaire previously held and voluntarily surrendered, is hereby deemed REVOKED pursuant to 24-A M.R.S.A. §1417 and 24-A M.R.S.A. §1420-K. The effective date of this Order is February 15, 2006. NOTICE OF APPEAL RIGHTS This Decision and Order is a final agency action of the Superintendent of Insurance within the meaning of the Maine Administrative Procedures Act. It is appealable to the Superior Court in the manner provided in 24-A M.R.S.A. §236, 5 M.R.S.A. §11001, et seq., and M.R.Civ.P. 80C. Any party to the proceeding may initiate an appeal within thirty (30) days after receiving this notice. 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This year we encourage our AP and IB students to buy their textbooks because of the many advantages there is to owning your own textbook.
1. You can highlight important information that you need to know.
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The links below have all AP and IB textbooks, the publishers, editions and ISBN numbers that are used in your classes. There are also suggested links through which you can investigate the prices of the books. If you choose not to take advantage of this option, the school will provide you with a textbook for your use during the school year as we have always done in the past.


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Crab as a child.
Is he in a wind tunnel?
Before Ratt, the Angel City Outlaws, Union, Motley Crue, and The Scream, there was Angora! These photos are from 1987 and show Crabby without facial hair or dreadlocks.
Corabi is on the far right. Lets take a closer look….
Looks like somebody was wearing a little lipstick!
Last week we exposed current Ratt singer Jizzy Pearl, and this week it's current Ratt rhythm guitarist John Corabi. Hmmm, wonder what Ratt member will be exposed next?


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World 25, #6
June 21, 2010 in World 025 News, World News
Good Morning Word 25, it's time for your weekly update. Unfortunately we don't have any new additions to the Blog this week, but we do have a great interview with razdds2, the new Number 1 in world 25. We also have the usual breakdown of the wars and stats going on in World 25.
First up though a quick bit of information, there will be some new updates introduced into the game between 10:00 and 14:00 on Monday the 21st of June, these are;
- TAB key can be used in tribal forums now
- Combined overview: Changed some inconsistent texts and graphics
- Awards: Also give players "Resurrection award" if they were nobled
- Some fixes and improvements to in-game help
- Minor visual improvements
- "Ennobled" report now contains the custom name of the attack
- If account deletion is in progress, premium accounts are not prolonged anymore
- PA: Attacks can be renamed in the confirmation page
- Fixed some issues with forwarded reports
- Fixed map pop-up layout for some versions of Internet Explorer
- Bugfix: Browser offers to save password again
- Bugfix: Publicized reports: Troops can be transferred to simulator again
- Bugfix: Clicking link in a publicized report does not link out of sitted account anymore
- Bugfix: Paladin does not get new weapon also if no statue has been built anymore
- Bugfix: "Spied" hint was not displayed correctly
- Bugfix: "Manage groups" was displayed without having a group
- Bugfix: Queue in smithy did not show up correctly
Now I doubt many if any of these will affect you but I thought you would like to know.
Moe's Summary of the Week!
Since Moe is still on holiday and is being Lazy we have No summary this week.
There is no real change in the Map this week, except for the disbanding of -TIF- and the formation of [TL].
First up is the Recent Wars Section.
Obviously we are going to start with the SubV Vs TDR war, (SubV are first as they declared, from 2010, April 9th) now first are the stats. Note all stats are taken from the day before on the Sunday.
Another Good week for SubV with over 200+ Nobles on TDR, will the onslaught continue or will SubV win yet another war, I personally know that TDR have some fight left in them so lets see how it looks next week?
Well SubV seem to have well and truly moved into K36, with fighting still fierce in k35. TDR seem to be still pushing SubV back in K27, And K28 seems to look like it's about to be removed of all TDR presence like K46 which now has almost been removed of TDR except for 5 villages. Will lnlsban be able to hold onto those 5 for another week?
Now on to the Top Noblers in the SubV Vs TDR War.
- slick94153-TDR= 212
- Alexmichie-SubV= 150
- gougework1-SubV= 133
- DipsyDixie – SubV= 132
- Penthesilia –TDR= 116
- The Intimadater– SubV= 113
- Hero Boom-SubV= 106
- Princess Di -SubV= 95
- Moe/ hanibalI-SubV= 90
- Uk Patriot – SubV = 70
- Realistica-SubV= 67
- naga162 –TDR= 60
- loststryk –TDR= 60
- Gr869- SubV= 55
- Chapyri -SubV= 53
- ISMAniatico– SubV= 51
- Immunesoul– SubV= 41
- Merabgeo- TDR = 40
- Lord A J Quinn– SubV= 38
- SilkSword- SubV= 35
Slick seems to have reawakened, as has Realistica and Gr869, so this war is now bringing in new hitters each week, any suggestions on who will be the top nobler at the end of the war and who will be the most influential in the down fall of the winning side?
Pack Vs Morph
Now onto the Pack Morph war, and let's see what's going on with the other major powers of this world. I will be taking the stats from back when the war started unofficially not when it became official as both sides prefer that, the date of that is 11th Apr 2010.
Well this war has got interesting, Pack seem to have really stepped it up this week, will we see a response from Morph next week or has the numbers game overwhelmed them? But the overall stats are still close.
The Map backs up the stats, Pack seem to be pushing Morph back all along the frontline. Is this due to them finding inactives or is this Pack flexing its muscle and giving the world a show of what is to come, and them trying to finally shake of the reputation about them only being good defenders?
Top 15 Noblers
- red.scouser –Pack =56
- Billsmith –Morph=52
- Heavenly hell –Morph=51
- tormos11- Pack= 38
- coopes –Pack =37
- mystic2004 – Pack = 34
- ROSCOMMON1- Pack= 34
- African A –Morph=27
- glassman6419 –Pack= 26
- Lucky seven- Pack= 22
- chende9- Pack= 18
- killardan – Pack = 18
- Mjborch1–Morph= 18
- xcomputerx –Morph=18
- CouchyNZ–Morph= 14
Wow and a few members of Morph have been removed from the list, and a number of new Pack members have jumped well up the list, a special congratulations to Roscommon and red.scouser who seem to have found a new lease of life?
SFM Vs TDR
Last Week—SFM= 13 TDR= 21
Last Month—SFM =47 TDR=79
Since Declaration (6th of May 2010) – SFM = 61 TDR= 113
It is still close in this war, but it does seem to be half of SFM against 1 or 2 members of TDR, will SFM's numbers and Unity overcome the Size Difference?
–TIF- Seem to have disbanded so a well done to OTL.
Alex: Introduce yourself to us.
Matt: My name is Matt; I am 17 years old and will be going to college in the fall. I enjoy strolls through the grocery store and romantic dinners at Wendy's.
Tris: I am from India, aged 16, currently playing Razdds2, Matt's co-player, People Call me Tris.
Alex: How long have you been playing TW? W25? And what other worlds have you played?
Matt: My first world was w25; I started on January 5th 2009. Two of my friends from school were playing this game, one of them being Mjborch (quit but acct still alive). They got me into this, and it was a real joy seeing me outgrow them!
Matt: I have not dedicated myself to play any other worlds, although I've been on 36,38,42,44, and 50 as well as two UK worlds. I'm notorious for agreeing to co-play someone and then never really log onto the account!
Tris: Joined TW at November 2005 so almost 5years now. I started World25 with a few friends, but then quit. Got to know Matt (Razdds2) and started helping him around. Well I have played World 10.de, World 1-20, World 24, World 26, World 28, World 32, World 38, World 39-42, World 47-50.
Alex: Can you give us an idea of your w25 history? (Past tribes, etc).
Matt: My life on w25 began on the rim in K94. The first major tribe I was in was called O.N.E. It was a real fun time; we were fighting INH and the frontline pretty much stayed the same for the entire time. That is when I met our dear Dave (UK). He still remembers (I hope :D) that little rim noob that wanted to join his tribe. And the real turning point in my history on w25 was the day I joined INH; I learned so much about the game by participating in operations. I've met great friends; some are still here and others have moved on, but none the less each one of them made me a better player and a smarter person.
Tris: Was a part of Auskilla's Tribe Click.
Alex: So you are now the Number 1 in W25, Well Done! Some people are calling you a pointwhores, what is your take on this?
Matt: They can call me pointwhore as much as they like, but I highly doubt a pointwhore would be able to get #3 ODA. I haven't nuked anything for ages and I'm still in the top 15 for ODA, so pointwhore isn't the right title. The reason for the 12k average village is that I wanted to achieve the highest achievement in Tribal Wars; rank 1. There was no other way except to wait and wait for the people above me to go inactive, but I don't have that kind of time. Since they all have way more coins than I do, the only choice was to build villages. It took between 20-22 days to gain 2.6 million points and grab that #1 spot.
Tris: Well we have a decent ODA and ODD, so there goes your proof then we are not pointwhores!
Alex: You do have maximum village builds, how do you find this beneficial?
Tris: yes, there are 2 benefits actually, 1. I am ranked #1 because of it 2. Even after having full builds i have decent amount of troops to defend myself or noble others, so it really doesn't matter.
Alex: You have recently been in your own little tribe for a long time; do you not want to be in a big tribe?
Matt: I have nothing against big tribes; after all I did spend a lot of time in INH. There is not much joy that I get from this game anymore. All of my personal enemies are gone, so there is no one that I can fight with any authentic passion. I get joy from creating tribe names, pictures, and slogans. By being in a big tribe that is something that I would not be allowed to do. Most of my friends have left as well, a few still remain, and the rest have just been two-faced. So that is the reason why I stay in my little tribe, for the joy that comes with customizing it.
Tris: Well its Matt's decision and I honour it.
Alex: Tris you are Blog Staff the same as me, which world do you Blog for and do you have any suggestions for W25 Blog?
Tris: I blog for World 48 and I think you should take out more inside information on these wars. E.g. how did they really start etc?
Alex: Any Predictions for this world? And who do you think will win the current wars?
Matt: Once SubV is finished with TDR, they will move onto Pack. Between the war with TDR and Pack, SubV will most likely suffer from inactivity due to player boredom. This will be THE ONLY obstacle for them in SubV's quest to conquer the entire world.
Tris: Well honestly I think SubV after nobling TDR and finishing them off will turn their attention to Pack. Well that's the war I can't really predict because SubV are strong but not very active.
Alex: Other players- best attacker, Best Defender, Best Politician, funniest player and most annoying?
Matt: Best Attacker – I am very unsure about this, since no one has had an individual opportunity to really show their skills.
Best Defender – It is also difficult to decide on this, since a person's ODD does not mean they are good at defending. For example, having OTHER PLAYERS send you stacks of defence is not a sign that you are good at defending. Anyone can stack villages, but few people can actually snipe 150ms trains.
Best Politician – I will have to go with UK on this. He knows his stuff and usually has good awareness of the situation. This category was not offered, but I will say Superwief is by far the worst politician I have ever seen. She fails to analyze her tribe's situation and it will cost her in the future.
Funniest Player – He is no longer on this world, but the funniest player I have met is Redice King. Back in O.N.E when we had some of our tribe in this chat room he would just make me laugh so much; it was a really great time.
Most Annoying Player – Johnloomis, period. This guy caused me stress and incited inter-tribal issues like it was his job. He made fun of my friends and got me in trouble with my tribe (INH) several times. Sacerdoter and UK remember well
Tris: Sorry can't answer this one
Alex: Tris you are Blog Staff the same as me, which world do you Blog for and do you have any suggestions for W25 Blog?
Tris: I blog for World 48 and I think you should take out more inside information on these wars . Eg. How did they really start etc
Alex: Favourite things aside from TW.
Matt: Aside from TW, I really enjoy hanging out with a few of my good friends. I'm a fairly simple guy. Food, my family, and a few friends are all I really care about.
Tris: Football
Alex: Moe or Alex?
Matt: Alex because needs a boost on the scoreboard, but also because Moe hasn't been too good lately.
Tris: err Alex?
Milestone Corner.
This is for the recent milestones of the world just a little congratulation's to certain people in the world for their recent efforts. So far we are thinking about anyone who has just turned 10 million as we feel this is a good standard to get to and worth a bigger than usual acknowledgment and people who just got 100 million ODA and then top nobler of the week plus anything you can think of, I will add if it is relevant.
The first congratulations to people who have reach 10 million recently are;
Saint Pauli
A Really Big well done!
And the Hitters of the Week are;
No New Hitters this week
But a special Well Done to;
Muad`Dib and Uk patriot, who both got to 200 Million ODA today, unlucky Maud for being just 2nd.
Top Tribes- From the last 7 days Conquered Villages
1 SubV 1400
4 =BoB= 329
Top Players-From the last 7 Days Conquered Villages
1 Muad`Dib 136
2 immunesoul 97
3 bernard 2485 72
4 gougework1 70
5 DipsyDixie 68


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The U.S. Navy partnered with ATK to develop a Multi Stage Supersonic Target system (MSST) that can represent a family of threat systems with an extremely wide variety of flight parameters and representation.
The MSST design is comprised of a two-stage, unmanned aerial target, a launcher, and associated support equipment. The equipment includes a subsonic bus stage that will tumble and fall into the sea at stage separation and a supersonic sprint stage that continues to the desired end point. The minimum cruise altitude is 50 feet, with the separation event occurring at altitudes from 50 feet to 3,000 feet.
The MSST target can simulate various of the U.S. Navy's identified threat requirements over a wide range of speeds and altitudes. The fielded system will provide unparalleled threat representation for developmental and operational testing of major Department of Defense and international weapon systems.
ATK is the prime contractor for the MSST 50-month SDD program. The MSST vehicle includes the subsonic bus vehicle (a derivative of CEi's BQM-167X), the sprint-vehicle rocket motor (a derivative of ATK's MK-114 VLA), and the sprint-vehicle front-end system, which contains a proven, multipurpose guidance and processing electronics system that is currently being used on multiple target platforms.
The MSST system will be introduced to additional domestic and international markets in the future. Launch locations will expand beyond Point Mugu, Calif., to better serve the DoD and international customers. The lower-cost MSST will replace higher-cost supersonic threat simulators, and MSST will grow from the training and experience requirement to a more robust operational target.