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Mahatma Gandhi said "where there is love there is life" and no doubt these three couples would agree.
Forrest Lunsway, age 100, and Rose Pollard, 93, tied the knot this March after dating for 28 years. The California couple put in an application to the Guinness Book of Records, hoping to capture the title of "World's Oldest Newlyweds." Rose promised to marry Forrest on his 100th birthday, and as you'll learn in the video, she's a woman of her word:
Speaking of the Guinness Book, this May, Herbert (just 104 years young) & Zelmyra (101) Fisher of North Carolina celebrated their 86th wedding anniversary. They currently hold the record for the longest marriage of a living couple. The Fishers share the secrets to their marital longevity in this Harlem World blog post, and though each story and quip they relay makes you say, "Awww," my favorite was their response to this question: "You got married very young – how did you both manage to grow as individuals yet not grow apart as a couple?"
Herbert & Zelmyra simply replied: "Everyone who plants a seed and harvests the crop celebrates together. We are individuals, but accomplish more together."
Double awww….
And finally, a late-life love story that honors our current "digital age": Molly Holder met her groom on Match.com. Holder went for a younger man – the 90-year-old Pittsburgh native met Edward Nisbett, 82, in current hometown of Tallahassee, Florida – and the two were married on June 18th.
Molly's grandson, Russ Lentz, was a 3rd wheel for the couple's first date, just to be sure that all was on the up-and-up, given their online connection (although he fully supported his grandmother's desire to sign up for Match.com). He quickly observed that things were more than fine between the two and is thrilled for their union. Says Lentz, "they really are compatible, both being poetry fans and big drinkers of hot tea (as well as an occasional dram of scotch) … You can see that they really care about each other."
If these three couples don't make you want to get up and dance or raise a glass to lifelong love, I recommend checking your pulse…

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The 2007 Skoll World Forum. The thorny issue of CEO pay
I had the privilege of attending, for the second time, the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, in Oxford, from which I've just returned. The conference has emerged as the world"s pre-eminent gathering of social entrepreneurs.
A variety of interesting and thought-provoking issues emerged, each of which would justify its own posting. One of the most fascinating to me, and it came up at several sessions, was that of pay. In short, what social enterprise chief executives can or should pay themselves. Putting aside financial constraints, there appears to be a big question around the moral issues regarding the level of remuneration that can be justified for enterprises that claim to operate along social lines.
A CEO of one business asks how much is appropriate for her to be paid. Another social enterprise founder mentions the fact that a key staff member earns A$100,000, prompting loud groans and rolling eyes of those in attendance. (It subsequently transpires that this employee subsequently leaves for twice the money to the private sector.)
I have seen this issue surface recently outside of Skoll as well. I know a firm, which has been started by two high paid (but not independently wealthy) media executives. In their case, they are vital to make the enterprise succeed, but feel queasy to pay themselves even one third of their private sector pay packets. The business will not succeed without the skills they "bring to the table"?, but their families depend upon their earnings to bring sustenance to their family "table" as well. Another CEO pays himself a derisory salary as chief executive, even below charitable sector standards. Yet his competitors at other firms perform the same role on a voluntary basis. For this, the chief executive has come under criticism.
While I sympathize with those who feel private sector executive pay has gotten out of hand and concur with the view that social enterprise CEOs can not be mercenary in their approach to their own compensation, I think this has gone too far. Furthermore, the unwillingness to pay close to competitive wages is puritanical and short-sighted. It will inevitably lead to slower growth for social enterprises and social businesses, and cause a long delay in bringing forth the substantial social returns they can generate. It is simply a fact of life in our system that certain skills are vital to the success of fast growing businesses, and in many cases these skills are high-priced. Moreover, not everybody in an organization has the dedication or the family circumstances to carry on in the social enterprise irrespective of financial reward. I think it's vital that as the social sector matures it also "grows up" with respect to this issue of pay. Failure to do so will be like cutting off its nose to spite its face.
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President: Barrack Obama.
He won. He beat the guy with 400 million dollars that we could see, and untold, uncounted millions behind the scenes, handed out to non-profits and think tanks created for the express purpose of pumping more money into attack ads, misleading information, fraudulent "get out the vote" campaigns that told lies to the elderly and the poor, and good old fashioned racism.
He beat all of 'em. And Meade hates that so much he wants this thread title to go away. The thread title he bumped for months, just to be annoying. He wants this to just go away.
So here it is. Many apologizings to Wags, I'm sorry, I just had to do this. And I'm going to bump it now and then. Just because I know Meade doesn't want to see it.
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http://middletown-ct.patch.com/articles/scam-alert-did-you-receive-fake-delta-flight-confirmation Agile Financial News You open your work email in the morning and see a confirmation from Delta for your roundtrip flight from New York to California. Unless your employer is sending you on a last-minute business trip, you never booked a flight to San Fransico, so you panic that your business expense card was compromised. But do not click on links or attachments in the email to find out more information. It's a known phishing scam that Delta Air Lines has alerted its customers about on its website. "We have received reports from customers of fraudulent emails, social media sites, postcards and Gift Card promotional websites claiming to be from Delta Air Lines," Delta states on its website. "These messages may claim that you have purchased a Delta ticket, a credit card has been charged, order has been completed, an invoice/receipt is attached to an email or website may offer free flights for following or liking an account. If you see or receive one of these messages, do not open attachments as it may contain potentially dangerous viruses or harm your computer." The Office of the Attorney General in Connecticut hasn't received any complaints about the scam from residents, according to Communications Director Susan Kinsman, but she said that "this is no different than any other email scam where the scammers are trying to get you to click on a link so they can gain access to your personal information and/or install malware." Avon Patch received one of the emails March 4 confirming a coach flight traveling from "NYC - Kennedy" to San Francisco on March 11 and returning from Los Angeles to "NYC - Kennedy" on March 15 that we never booked.The first three sentences also had links that seemingly went to delta.com/itineraries, asking you to click on the hyperlinks if you needed to "contact Delta or check on your flight information," to "exchange, reissue and refund electronic tickets," or "take control and make changes to your itineraries." While the hyperlink we included above does redirect to Delta's flight confirmation page: https://www.delta.com/mytrips, the link in the scam email could be a virus. The email Avon Patch received came from firstname.lastname@example.com, not an official Delta email address. The subject line also said "DELTA CONFIRMATION," as opposed to "Delta Air Lines" like an official email from the airline. There also was no Delta signature or copyright in the email like "© 2013 Delta Air Lines, Inc. All rights reserved." Rest assured, Delta says on its website that the emails don't come from Delta and the airline has not charged your credit card as the fake email may indicate."These messages did not originate from Delta, nor do we believe that any personal information that you provided us was used," Delta says on its website. Delta advises customers to do the following if you received an email like this: Change the PIN and/or password for your SkyMiles account and "monitor your account for any misuse."Don't click on the links "in an email message, unofficial page or open any attachments." Delete the email and "disregard the website promotional claims."Delta posts information about known scams on its "Alerts & Advisories" page, which you can view by clicking on the link provided. Agile Financial News
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The Rifflsee ski resort is located in the back part of the Pitztal and is accessible by lifts and slopes up to 2800 m. The ski resort has slopes of all difficulty levels, some with elevation differences of more than 1000 m. The slopes are integrated very interestingly into the landscape and offer an expansive panorama view of the surrounding mountain world and the glacier. A ski connection enables access to the Pitztal Glacier ski resort, which together with the Rifflsee ski resort offers 68 km of slopes. The area surrounding the Grubenkopf offers an expansive freeriding terrain. There are sunny slopes here, but also shady northern-facing slopes that offer many powdery off-piste possibilities even when the snow on the sunny side isn't so good.


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Representationalists often use intuitions about the transparency ofexperience to defend their view that qualitative content isrepresentational content. According to these intuitions, wecannot attend to our experience except by attending to theobject of that experience. Although the transparency intuitionappears to be widely shared, even among non-representationalists,in this paper I suggest that there are two ambiguities inherent indiscussions of transparency. One concerns the strength of thetransparency intuition, while the other concerns its scope. Oncewe bring these two ambiguities to the surface, we can see that therepresentationalists' claim that experience is transparent turnsout to be considerably more controversial than ordinarily supposed.While the phenomenological data may support some kind of experientialtransparency, I argue that it does not support the kind of transparencyneeded for representationalism.
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- What's so Transparent about Transparency?
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Philosophical Studies
Volume 115, Issue 3 , pp 225-244
- Cover Date
- 2003-09-01
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- 0031-8116
- Online ISSN
- 1573-0883
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- Kluwer Academic Publishers
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- Amy Kind (1)
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At first thought, it sounds appealing and intriguing — a fixed-rail streetcar system for downtown Sarasota. How cute and quaint.
But then the next thing that comes to mind is: How much will it cost, and from where will the money come?
Oh, yeah, the money.
No problem, the streetcar's proponents and city officials say. We'll get the federal government (taxpayers) and the state government (taxpayers) to pay for it. After all, look at what the city of Fort Lauderdale is doing. It's building a $125 million streetcar system with $83 million from federal and state taxpayers and the remainder from local taxpayers.
Now stop and think about that — Fort Lauderdale's sucking up taxpayer money for a streetcar system and Sarasota wanting to do the same.
What's worse, these projects are progressing in the midst of horrible fiscal conditions for all levels of government (taxpayers). Consider the picture:
U.S. taxpayers are drowning in federal government debt — around $16,000,000,000,000 and climbing); the federal government's annual deficit is running about $1,200,000,000,000 a year; and the federal government is borrowing between $3,000,000,000 and $4,000,000,000 a day — $1,460,000,000,000 a year.
The state government is in much better shape compared to the federal government, but all of us are all too familiar with that situation as well. The fiscal strains on state revenues are such that, if truth be told, there is no money for frivolous spending — especially on such luxuries as charming fixed-rail streetcars in downtown Sarasota and Fort Lauderdale.
And then consider the state of the city of Sarasota's finances. City Commissioner Terry Turner has been trying in vain for the most part the past two years to persuade his fellow commissioners to address the city's own coming fiscal cliff.
Earlier in the year, Turner and city Finance Director Chris Lyons produced a spreadsheet projecting annual city deficits growing from $3.3 million in 2012-13 to $16.9 million in 2016-17, if the city maintains its current trajectory of income, population stagnation and expenses. Turner projected those deficits even after allowing for increasing the city property-tax from 2.9 mills to 5.4 mills (an 86% increase!).
On top of that, the city has about $151 million in long-term debt that taxpayers are servicing, and — here is the Big One — city taxpayers are facing $142.2 million in unfunded pension liabilities, an amount that continues to rise. In fiscal 2010-11, for instance, the unfunded liabilities increased $28.7 million. And the City Commission has yet to figure out how it will quit digging this hole deeper.
Put all three fiscal parts together — federal, state and city — and most sane, responsible household managers would say constructing a fixed-rail streetcar system makes zero sense. Constructing one and then subsidizing its operating costs makes even less sense.
We know the counter argument, and it's weak: If we don't go after those state and federal grants, some other city will get that money.
That is not justification, especially not a moral justification. Sarasota taxpayers should not be complicit in sinking U.S., Florida and Sarasota taxpayers deeper into debt with frivolous wants.
Mayor Suzanne Atwell should derail this desire … this streetcar named Frivolous Desire.
+ What's good for St. Armands
No good deed goes unpunished.
But first, let's start with the good deed:
Although it took too long for common sense finally to prevail, Sarasota city commissioners should be acknowledged for fixing an unnecessary mess on St. Armands Circle — namely, the city's anti-business, "Customer Prevention" parking policies.
At last, the commission:
• Eliminated parking enforcement after 6 p.m. from Monday through Friday. Previously, customers and merchants fumed over the city enforcing the three-hour limit up to 8 p.m.
• Eliminated parking enforcement on Saturdays.
• Removed "box" parking lines around the Circle. This one was a doozy. The city ticketed dozens of motorists whose cars weren't parked precisely within its striped rectangles on the circle. Again, St. Armands Circle shoppers and tourists erupted over this, often spitting venom or throwing their tickets at St. Armands Circle Association Executive Director Diana Corrigan.
• Removed the three-hour limits from some of the neighboring side streets to allow merchants' employees to park with impunity.
Sanity at last. Now leave it.
But no sooner did the city make these changes for St. Armands businesses, a few downtown business owners took notice and rightfully raised this most pertinent question:
If those policies are good for St. Armands Circle businesses, why don't they also apply to downtown merchants and downtown parking, or everywhere for that matter?
Said Kenny Barr, owner of the Sports Page Restaurant on Main Street, in a letter to Commissioner Paul Caragiulo:
"… The city puts downtown and other areas at an economic disadvantage to St. Armands.
"For years they have had two large free lots and three-hour parking. We have two-hour parking. If anyone downtown parks over the lines, a ticket is a sure thing.
"We finally received a garage, [but it] was built backward for Main Street businesses — no entrance or exit on the southeast side of the building where all the businesses are. [I] realize that was done to highlight the new places under the garage, which in other words meant no one cared about us. [I'm] not even going to mention the parking meters and their selective placement.
"The city starts enforcing the parking laws on St. Armands, as it has been enforcing them downtown forever, and that now becomes a bad thing.
"We are trying hard to keep our employees from using on-street parking. On St. Armands, the city is now going to set up one of the streets for employee and resident parking. No more Saturday enforcement, and six o'clock instead of eight o'clock limitations.
"The parking laws need to be enforced the same citywide. It is very unfair to have the city give special breaks to certain areas.
"If every area were treated equally, there would be far fewer problems."
What works for one commercial area may not necessarily work for another. But Barr is right. What works for St. Armands Circle should be applied to downtown, Southside Village and beyond.
Perhaps JP Knaggs, owner of the Bijou Cafe, put in a clear perspective in his response to one of Barr's emails:
"Why should there be different rules for different neighborhoods? Our businesses are on the line, too.
"How are people supposed to go to a restaurant and then the opera or a play and only be allowed to park for two hours? Especially on a Friday or Saturday night.
"Let's start this conversation. I can't believe we just put the meter fiasco to bed, and now we have to start all over again battling with the parking authority. Who is working for whom here?"
Sarasota City Commissioner Terry Turner recently suggested a paid-permit parking program for downtown employees:
1) Allocate space in the State Street surface lot, the Whole Foods garage and the Palm Avenue garage to paid-permit employee parking.
2) Employees who are issued a parking permit should be issued a large sticker to place on their car in a prominent location. As a condition of the permit, employees would be required to acknowledge that they are not to park in time-limited spaces. The sticker could serve two purposes: to allow them to park in the permitted area and enforce their agreement not to park in time-limited spaces.
Turner says the city "may be able to draft an enforceable ordinance, which would allow the city to issue tickets to employees who have accepted a permit and who then park in time-limited spaces. Even if the city cannot enforce the prohibition against parking in time-limited spaces, the prominent stickers could be used by employers to self police their employees."
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- Daniel,
Please get informed about the Portland Streetcar situation.
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- Anyone who thinks that a street car is a good idea for Sarasota needs a serious dose of reality. Rail project proponents always over promise and over deliver. The number of examples are too numerous to cite.
For those that think it's a good idea do some research. It's embarrassing that this idea is even up for debate. We live in the information age and no one seems to take the time to do any research.
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- Re: Derail the Streetcar
Your editorial discusses nothing; it condemns the streetcar as a frivolous expense and nothing more. Like all conservative republican budgetary arguments it offers nothing in substance.
The fact that a a streetcar trunk line would become a value added attraction to the growth of the city, the population of downtown and ultimately to the demographics of an urban-suburban area of continuing growth is one of the many issues not addressed in condemning it with regard to nothing but the thrill call of fiscal doom.
There is currently a vitality at either end of Main St between S. Washington and 5 points and the block or two heading to Bayfront Park. Very few people walk from one end to the other. One of many scenarios would put people on either end having parked at a nearby garage (or eventually transferring from another line) happy to get on a streetcar and get to the other end. Should there be a motivation to make the middle of Main St attractive to walkers, shoppers, eaters-all the more reason to have a streetcar line. And that would be a trunk-that once successful I'm sure would increase demand for feeder lines. Sarasota has the ability to be in the forefront of civic development in the 21st century provided it has leadership not mired in the early 20th.
We as a nation have become exceptional in that we no longer lead, innovate, look to the future or think in advance. We have our heads mired in fixing things after they're broken rather than working to prevent them beforehand, which I might add costs much more and provides much less. It's possible that as Fort Lauderdale prepares for the future, Sarasota will be a monument to the past.
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- Still waiting to see my comment posted from yesterday...?
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- With all due respect…you are totally wrong about most everything concerning the proposed Sarasota streetcar.
The streetcar being built in Fort Lauderdale is a much more expensive Modern style streetcar system. The one being proposed by Sarasota Streetcar Initiative has a 2.3 mile route; the heritage style cars are totally electric and do not use overhead catenary wires. The estimated total cost, according to the SSI web site is 19.1 million. Once you factor in the many economic benefits…attracting 100's of Millions in private investment… thousands of jobs… huge increases in ad valorem tax revenue…focused density where we desire it to be…reduced urban sprawl…a more walkable city…huge tourism benefits…significant advertising revenue…reduced fossil fuels…increased retail sales tax revenue… The Streetcar will bring downtown Sarasota the economic stimulus it needs to compete with the many retail centers and housing developments that are so abundant in our surrounding markets. A streetcar system is an economic stimulator with transportation benefits! Don't take my word for it. Every single metropolitan area that has reintroduced the streetcar since Portland Oregon got the ball rolling has either expanded their systems, or is in the process of expanding. Not one city has removed or downsized their operation. Facts are facts…
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Week 2! I think I'm getting the hang of this, though we're not quite in the swing of things yet. It seems like the schedule's shaken down a bit and I'm definitely working on developing habits for myself already.
The biggest change in the last week is that I started running. First I was doing running/walking (ralking, as it were) and was proud of myself for getting up to 4 miles. But then J started doing 6 am runs and inviting us along and telling us to just keep running and all of a sudden I found myself running 3.04 miles this morning without stopping (with hills!). I think that's been the biggest surprise for me. If I can make a change like that in a week, imagine the kind of runner I'll be by Thanksgiving….


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King Bee Rocks Transit This Thursday
Categories: Concert Preview, Local Music
In a city counting itself lucky to have a nifty little local alt-rock-punk scene these days, there really isn't a home for the sort of rock that King Bee champions, tending more toward the Skynyrd-Zepplin-CCR variety than the modern flavors. Though theirs is an updated version. But that's just fine with them. Not only are they not apologetic about it, they're proud to kick it old school, proclaiming "King Bee is a band lavishing in an uncool world."
You can catch them at what is certainly a departure from their usual venues this Saturday, when they hit Transit Lounge, and no doubt offer tracks off their latest highly touted EP, Howl.
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DKFurs is an IRC channel, forum, and Twitter for Danish furries.
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Mwanza Bennett listens to a judge after being sentenced Monday in a Wake County court. The slaying victim, Lorrielle Watkins, had broken off her relationship with Bennett before she was killed in May 2007.
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RALEIGH - Chandra Wells learned more Monday about the May 2007 stabbing death of her daughter than she ever knew -- or wanted to know -- before.
She learned that neighbors of the Trees and Leaves apartment complex on Kent Road heard Lorrielle Watkins scream repeatedly for help as she was stabbed more than 200 times with a knife and an ice pick. One neighbor even saw Watkins' bloody hand clutch at her window blinds in a futile attempt to get away from Mwanza Bennett, the single mother's ex-boyfriend and killer.
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Small businesses lost $3.2 billion to workplace fraud over the past year. However, it's not just money that companies lose because of fraud. A CBC News article reports on the findings from a recent survey from the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada:
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San Francisco is a wonderful place to visit with site seeing and activities scattered all over the city. When making our plans to visit, we purchased City Passes on line. We flew in and took BART to our hotel on the Embarcadero. Upon arrival we picked up our City Passes which included 7 days of unlimited travel on the cable cars, city buses, street cars and trollies. It also included passes to the California Academy of Sciences (Aquarium and Planetarium), De Young Museum (the King Tut exhibit is currently at the Musuem for a nominal extra charge), the Museum of Modern Art, Aquarium of the Bay, and a choice of a bay cruise or a boat trip and tour of Alcatraz Island. All for a fee of $59 per person. With this pass it turned out that almost all of our activities were prepaid. The visit to Alcatraz (run by the National Park Service) is really fascinating. Also you can opt for the Exploritorium in lieu of the De Young Museum. One evening we ate at a small cafe "Hotel i" in Japantown which was fantastic and so inexpensive. It cost about 1/3 of all of our other dinners and was one of the best meals we had while there. It is a short walk from Golden Gate Park. I can hardly wait to go back to San Francisco! report a problemPosted on: October 16, 2012 at 3:03AM
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Award-winning musician Ne-Yo spends the day at Aki Kurose Middle School in South Seattle where he served as Principal for the Day.
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BACKGROUND: NPR1 is a gene of Arabidopsis thaliana required for the perception of salicylic acid. This perception triggers a defense response and negatively regulates the perception of jasmonates. Surprisingly, the application of methyl jasmonate also induces resistance, and NPR1 is also suspected to be relevant. Since an allelic series of npr1 was recently described, the behavior of these alleles was tested in response to methyl jasmonate. RESULTS: The response to methyl jasmonate of different npr1s alleles and NPR1 paralogs null mutants was measured by the growth of a pathogen. We have also tested the subcellular localization of some npr1s, along with the protein-protein interactions that can be measured in yeast. The localization of the protein in npr1 alleles does not affect the response to methyl jasmonate. In fact, NPR1 is not required. The genes that are required in a redundant fashion are the BOPs. The BOPs are paralogs of NPR1, and they physically interact with the TGA family of transcription factors. CONCLUSIONS: Some npr1 alleles have a phenotype in this response likely because they are affecting the interaction between BOPs and TGAs, and these two families of proteins are responsible for the resistance induced by methyl jasmonate in wild type plants.
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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - What We Know So Far
by Jeanine Celestin, posted on 11 March 2011 / 3,856 ViewsOK, the title might be a little misleading. There is a lot known and a lot to know about The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings to date. So while I won't be covering everything, I will be covering some the latest and greatest news on The Witcher 2 since our last foray into the wonderful world of Geralt of Rivia. To make up for the wait, I've added some eye candy for you: A gallery of some of the newest screens and a gameplay video so you can see The Witcher 2 in action. Ready? Let's go.
What we know: We know that that it's coming out on May 17th, 2011, conveniently just after finals and the beginning of summer break for students. We know there will be a collector's edition of the game with so many goodies even the most hardcore Witcher fan will be satisfied. It will have items like a making-of DVD, art book, Temerian coin, a unique in-game item called the Vernon Roche Commando jacket that boosts the player's sword-fighting ability, and a plethora of other articles for $129.99 USD.
Some good news for console gamers: last month, CD Projekt Red told us that The Witcher 2 is possible to play on current gen consoles, which almost certainly means that it will appear on the PS3 and Xbox 360 after it debuts on the PC.
As for the story itself, a fact sheet was released last year detailing much of the game, but in short, perhaps the biggest changes are that the game will have three different plot threads and that choices with in-game NPCs will mean more to the story now. The storyline will once again be thoroughly engrossing and mature and will likely define non-linear game narration. The combat system is more fluid and dynamic, and of course the graphics are further advanced, and frankly gorgeous.
Something that made The Witcher so famous (infamous?) were the sex scenes and sex cards. While the sex cards have been removed due to the controversy of the collectible nature, romance is more tied to the storyline and still abounds. Still worried if you won't get to have off-road romps as Geralt? Don't fret. When asked in an interview if Geralt would be too busy in The Witcher 2 for afternoon delights, senior producer Tomasz Gop responded "He [Geralt] wouldn't be himself if he was too busy for sex."
All of the aspects that made The Witcher so memorable and innovative are still present, only more advanced, with additional depth and sophistication. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings seems to be a game well worth waiting for.
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Lawnmowers, some still caked with grass clippings, and others, shined and ready to mow, were in the spotlight Saturday morning as Fort Hays University Students hosted their first Lawn Mower Clinic and Safety Fair.
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Lawnmowers, some still caked with grass clippings, and others, shined and ready to mow, were in the spotlight Saturday morning as Fort Hays University Students hosted their first Lawn Mower Clinic and Safety Fair.
By 10 a.m., more than 40 mowers had been turned over to the leadership studies team and members of FHSU's Agri-Business Club for maintenance services, including changing oil and spark plugs, sharpening blades and cleaning or replacing air filters.
Jennifer Lewallen, leadership class member, gave a tour of the industrial technology shop Saturday morning, pointing out the various stations of maintenance set up for the clinic. As a member of the "Green Team," comprised of other members Elizabeth Koch, Betsy Koons, Jennifer McGonegal and Zach Meyer, Lewallen said public response to their project had been "awesome."
"We were a little on the nervous side, with as many mowers as we had, wondering how it would all come together," she said. "We also got excited to see that all the hard work pays off."
Her sentiments were reflected by fellow team member, Koch, who also serves as Agri-Business Club president.
"It's going very smoothly," Koch said as she looked around the shop. "I'm very grateful to the guys in there that are working so hard. We were planning on 20 mowers, and last night, they just kept coming in."
The process of having two club members working on each mower took about 15 minutes from start to finish. Approximately 12 club members pitched in to perform mower maintenance for the Saturday event.
"It's pretty efficient," said Craig Smith, Agri-Business Club sponsor. "We've got a lot of old farm boys here ... shade tree mechanics, so we get it done pretty quick."
Although spring appeared to hit a little sooner than Smith had anticipated, the timing of the event still seemed to work out well, providing a learning opportunity for students on several levels, from marketing to economics.
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7.12.2011 Paris Autolib EV rental scheme goes live
A new electric car rental scheme has gone live in Paris this week – the new Autolib system allows you to rent a vehicle in a similar way to London's 'Boris Bikes' scheme.
The project went live on Monday with 250 electric vehicles. The small EVs are called 'Bluecars'; 4-seater pure electric citycars that can be docked at a number of bays around Paris, each equipped with charging facilities.
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New electric cars are to be added each month, with the target of having 3,000 cars and 1,200 charging stations in operation by 2012. The scheme will encourage a network of charging points to be installed across the French capital, which will be a bonus for other electric vehicle owners and likely to give confidence to those considering buying an electric car.
Autolib is a collaboration between Italian car designer Pininfarina, the regional council and French conglomerate Groupe Bollore, which hopes to use the Bluecar to showcase its Lithium Metal Polymer battery, which powers the car. Other French cities have car rental schemes, but the Autolib scheme is the first to use all-electric vehicles with a new generation of electric batteries. A fully charged Bluecar will return a 250km driving range of inner city driving.
Groupe Bollore estimates that 80,000 subscribers are needed for the programme to make a profit – a target that they expect to reach within seven years of operation. More than 2,000 people have already signed up and the scheme has only been in operation for a couple of days.
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"I admire and appreciate the way she has really drilled down on some of these crises that have come up, from the Pakistan floods to the earthquake in Haiti, even her handling of the Kyrgyzstan turmoil – she's working herself ragged on these things and you can see it in her face," says Steven Clemons, publisher of the widely read Washington Note blog and a foreign-policy specialist. "But what we need is an innovator – not an incrementalist, but someone who envisions the strategic leaps that can get us out of these holes we're in, and I just haven't seen it in Hillary Clinton."
What Mr. Obama got when he insisted his former rival for the Democratic presidential nomination take on the job of applying his foreign policy and running US diplomacy was an indefatigable advocate for America with a work ethic that astounds admirers and critics alike. She has proved her loyalty to Obama, some say to a fault, matching her pragmatic vision of 21st-century American leadership to his. She has put her unmatched star power to good use, commanding the stage whether with a room of colleagues, with young leaders like those Africans assembled in Washington, or with the many television audiences she has engaged with, Oprah-style, while abroad.


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Two Colorado Army National Guard UH-60 Black hawk Helicopters prepare to land during the June 12, 2010, combined-arms live-fire exercise held at Ft. Carson in Colorado Springs, Colo. Live fire exercises are used by the armed forces as an opportunity to use real ammunition in a simulated combat situation. The purpose of this type of exercise has two goals: One, it offers Soldiers and Airmen an opportunity to gain experience with their weapon systems. Two, it provides the public a chance to see what the National Guard and joint forces are capable of doing. (Official Air National Guard photo by Capt. Darin Overstreet/RELEASED)
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CONTACT: RSVP and gate access: Army Maj. Earl Brown719-526-7525
Event site escort:Army National Guard 1st Lt. James Goff720-470-8212
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (6/6/12) – The Colorado National Guard in partnership with Fort Carson will conduct a combined-arms live-fire exercise and public demonstration, Saturday, June 9 at 11 a.m. at Fort Carson Training Range 141.
The event will be open to the general public.
It will feature, artillery fire from M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems and M109A6 Paladin Cannons, UH-72 Lakota helicopters simulating a combat medical evacuation, a demonstration of reaction to enemy contact, F-16 Fighting Falcons providing close air support and other special demonstrations and displays from both the Colorado Army and Air National Guard.
Several static displays will also be there to showcase other wartime and community-based capabilities in the Colorado National Guard and U.S. Army. These will include vehicle and weapons simulators.
"So rarely do we get to demonstrate our combat power for those we serve," said Maj. Gen. H. Michael Edwards, adjutant general of Colorado and commander of the Colorado National Guard. "As a community-based organization, we repurpose our combat training to protect and serve the citizens of Colorado."
Live fire exercises are used by the armed forces as an opportunity to use real ammunition in a simulated combat situation. The purpose of this type of exercise has two goals: One, it offers Soldiers and Airmen an opportunity to gain experience with their weapon systems. Two, it provides the public a chance to see what the National Guard and joint forces are capable of doing.
"The Soldiers you will see Saturday have been combat tested," said Brig. Gen. Dana Capozzella, assistant adjutant general for Army and commander of the Colorado Army National Guard. "All of the units participating in this demonstration have deployed overseas – many of them have deployed more than once. These are truly the finest our nation has to offer."
For more than 150 years, the men and women of the Colorado National Guard have served in defense of the nation and as the first military responders in support of civil authorities during domestic emergencies. Colorado Guardsman have also served in every federal military contingency since the Civil War.
· Gate 6 will open at 9 a.m. All visitors will be expected to depart the event by 1:30 p.m.
· Valid government issued photo identification is required to enter Fort Carson.
· Drivers must have proof of insurance.
· Back packs, food and drinks are allowed, but alcohol is prohibited.
· Food and drink will be available at the event site, some will require purchase.
· Soldiers will greet you at the gate and provide additional instructions and directions to the event site.
· Directions to Gate 6 (from Denver)
o Take I-25 South from Denver to Colorado Springs.
o Take Exit 140 on to Highway 115/Nevada Ave.
o Drive approximately 9 miles south on Highway 115 to the Gate 6 entrance to Fort Carson.
o Gate 6 is the fourth entrance to Fort Carson as you travel south on Highway 115.
Media interested in covering this event should RSVP to the Fort Carson Public Affairs Office at 719-526-7525 by 4 p.m. Friday, June. 8 for meeting times and locations.
Media contact at the event site will be Army National Guard 1st Lt. James Goff, firstname.lastname@example.com, 720-470-8212. Please contact him if any special arrangements are needed.
This event will occur in a remote training area. No electricity will be available. Please come prepared with sufficient batteries, closed-toe shoes and adequate supplies. Roads from the entry gate are unpaved. We highly recommend driving an all-wheel drive vehicle with high clearance. Please do not bring top-heavy ENG trucks.
Media must check in at Fort Carson Gate 1 no later than 9 a.m. Saturday, June 8 for escort directly to the demonstration site.
· Directions for Media to Gate 1: (from Denver)
o Drive approximately 5 miles south on Highway 115 to the Gate 1 entrance to Fort Carson.
o Gate 1 is the second entrance to Fort Carson as you travel south on Highway 115.
o Soldiers will greet you there to provide escort and any additional instructions.
Please help us ensure accuracy by noting the following terms and their correct usage/associations:
Colorado National Guard: Refers to both the Colorado Army National Guard and the Colorado Air National Guard. It can be used collectively.
Colorado Air National Guard: Refers primarily to the 140th Wing, 120th Fighter Squadron, 137th Space Warning Squadron, and the 200th Airlift Squadron. The Colorado Air National Guard operates F-16 Fighting Falcons and C-21 Learjets. IT DOES NOT operate helicopters.
Colorado Army National Guard: Refers to the Army component of the Colorado National Guard and its numerous units. For the June 9 demonstration, it refers to all helicopters, including the MEDEVAC, which further represent the 2nd Battalion, 135th General Support Aviation. The 169th Fires Brigade will be firing the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems. Other COARNG units will also be participating in this exercise.
U.S. Army active duty: 3rd Battalion, 29th Field Artillery of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team from the 4th infantry Division will be firing the M109A6 cannon system in support of the 169th Fires Brigade during the CALFEX. This will demonstrate the close cooperation between the active component and the National Guard. One team one fight.
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Operating a new restaurant is a real bitch, and making a profit while doing so is damn near impossible. Still, there are certain things rookie restaurateurs can do to increase their odds of success. For instance, answering the phone is helpful. When I recently dialed the month-old Stone Grill 95 in Surfside to make reservations, the telephone just kept ringing and ringing. At all hours. For five days (and continuing as of this writing). We never made contact, instead taking a gamble of a drive. It was open. And if they answered the phone, there might have been more than two other patrons on a Saturday evening. (Adriana and Specchio restaurants next door on Harding Avenue were bustling.)
Stone Grill's website promises to bring "an archaic style of cooking to the new millennium," by which it means, "using lava rock to sizzle meat at the table," leading to "an experience, not just a meal." Okey-dokey, I was in — even if the gimmick of preparing one's own dinner at a restaurant tends to make me anxious about doing the dishes later. And even if the person who runs the kitchen here is a Texan called Punchy. I mean, if nothing else, it sounded like fun.
"Punchy" Ryan began as a butcher, working with chefs John Suley and Jeff McInnis at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach and then helping to open Café Joley with Suley in Boca Raton, according to a bio. When Shore Club SkyBar manager Donato DeMartiis and philanthropist Linda Rinaldi needed a toque to tackle their new Stone Grill 95, they picked Punchy and his "global gastronomy."
9487 Harding Ave.
Surfside, FL 33154
Category: Restaurant > American
Region: North Dade
The 34-seater is cheery thanks to bright-red leather banquettes lining the right side of the rectangular room and large, color-splashed portraits by Parisian artist Caroline Herail that adorn the white wall above. Dark cherry wood panels cover the opposite wall. Beer and wine are poured at a marble-topped bar in back.
A predinner breadbasket contained a few thinly sliced circles of French bread (sans butter, olive oil, or anything else) — hardly enough to sop up the flavorful juices of the best dish we sampled here: über-plump mussels spicily steamed with pickled jalapeños, chopped chorizo, tomatoes, and peppers. Another starter, tempura vegetables, was not "seasonal" per se, but the disks of eggplant and yellow squash were tastily battered and served with sweet chili sauce. Pulled pork "bruschetta" brought tenderly braised strips of meat tossed in a sugary, Open Pit type of barbecue sauce sweetened with mango purée; there were puffy rounds of rosemary focaccia beneath and melted provolone on top. It was filling and satisfying in a school cafeteria sort of way.
For main courses, we ordered the signature mixed stone grill, a grilled seafood assortment, and spaghetti with veal meatballs (one of three pastas proffered). We were surprised to see waiters carrying plates of food to our table with no lava stone in sight; already-grilled meats on the stone grill platter confirmed our worst suspicions. When we questioned the waiter about the lack of rock, he summoned Ms. Rinaldi, who came over and explained, in lengthy detail, why only a certain number of guests may partake of the volcanic stone-sizzled dinner each evening (limited size of kitchen and ovens) and why they must reserve that right — by phone! — in advance (it takes more than an hour to properly heat the lava rock and then quite awhile to cool it for the next round). She apologized, said she would change the website's wording, didn't charge us for the meat platter, and had our waiter bring two rounds of chilled port wine after dinner. This went far in terms of atonement but didn't begin to describe how a restaurant concept could have gone so wrong. The motto ought to be "All fired up and not ready to go!"
Which brings us to another note for novices in the dining game: Do not base your entire menu conceit on a particular dish or cooking style that you are incapable of preparing.
During her talk at the table, Ms. Rinaldi complained that the Nice Palms blog post about her eatery had been misleading ("If you can't afford the airfare to Akita, try Surfside's newest ishi-yaki-style restaurant, Stone Grill 95, where a searing lava rock is placed on your table to flash-grill steaks, chops, and sausages"). She didn't say why Stone Grill 95's site still links to it, as well as to other similarly deceptive posts by Thrillist Miami ("a hot volcanic stone from Vesuvius is plopped on the table for you to cook your own thinly sliced skirt steak, lamb chops, or merguez sausage, searing it with 'special volcanic flavor'") and Urban Daddy ("servers will come out with this big, sizzling lava stone on a wooden board, put it on your table, and you'll toss your strips of meat on the stone for about 40 seconds on either side"). Then, of course, there's the name of the restaurant: Stone Grill 95.
Be that as it may, the so-called stone grill brought a very skinny flank of nicely charred skirt steak, two exceedingly insubstantial lamb chops, and a pair of lukewarm merguez sausages the size of Jimmy Dean breakfast links. Dabs of roasted red pepper purée spotted the plate, but we weren't offered a choice of accompanying sauce mentioned on the menu (Dijon, horseradish, red wine jus, or cognac peppercorn). Nor were we informed of blackboard specials that, upon our exit, we noticed posted outside. The staff was otherwise competent and inarguably hospitable.


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