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Overdue Technology
As technology improves, every aspect of computing will change but according to Robert Strohmeyer, some improvements are already long overdue.
WiMax: Back in 2003, WiMax was heralded as the ultimate solution to the world's connectivity problems, capable of covering an entire city with ubiquitous broadband. WiMax today, however, is little more than an IT backbone for long-distance line-of-sight wide-area networks, largely because it's not very effective for the kinds of mobile devices that most people use for wireless internet services. The basic technology of WiMax may yet evolve as part of future 4G mobile networks, but that's still a long way off.
IPTV: Oh, how we hungered for the video nirvana of IPTV, TV over the web. But broadcasters have yet to produce the amazing lineup of high-def channels, on-demand shows, integrated gaming and digital voice calling that broadband providers promised - and it's anything but ubiquitous. Meanwhile, digital cable has taken the wind out of IPTV's sails.
RFID: If early predictions were to be believed, by now we ought to be walking through supermarkets filling our trollies as tiny radio frequency identification (RFID) tags announce the contents and an RFID-enabled credit card pays the bill. The biggest hold-up has come from industry in-fighting over standardisation.
Virtual reality: Second Life boasts a 3D space in which users can buy and sell property, create objects and socialise, but its graphics still feel more virtual than real. Virtual reality as we imagined it in the 1990s isn't likely to emerge until someone invents a wearable display that people will actually wear.


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Vinery Australia announced May 11 that it has added the brilliant 2010 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (gr. IIT) winner Pluck to its stallion roster for the 2012 breeding season.
Pluck's career was cut short at 3 by injury and a twisted colon, which required emergency surgery.
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Vintage 1917 biplane propels history in skies
Jenny to highlight Fort Sill Armed Forces Day celebration
On Armed Forces Day, the Museum of North Texas History's 1917 Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" will make a return flight to Fort Sill, retracing a route that was common during World War I.
Depending on the weather, pilot David Martin and Robert Seabury, chairman of the museum's Call Field air history annex, will depart from Kickapoo Airport at 9:15 a.m. Saturday, accompanied by a chase plane.
The team will land at Fort Sill Municipal Airport, and the Jenny will be on display from noon to 2 p.m. as part of that city's Armed Forces Day events.
"Jenny flights between Call Field in Wichita Falls and Fort Sill were commonplace when pilots trained for World War II battle assignments," said Seabury, who has devoted years to the plane's acquisition, restoration and maintenance.
The Jenny has taken part in the Sheppard Air Force Base Airshow and other demonstration flights, offering everyone from military history enthusiasts to schoolchildren a better look at part of Wichita Falls' airborne history.
"Our Jenny has become a real ambassador for Wichita Falls," said Seabury. "This is just another great opportunity to give folks a chance to get a firsthand look at this special part of our city's history."
For more information on the Fort Sill flight, contact Seabury at 940-696-8783.
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What Got You Hooked On Tennis As A Kid?
I'm curious how you got into tennis, and what really made it go for you as a sport.
In my case, I liked hitting the ball with the racquet. It was a good feel. It was also a challenge to put the ball across the net and into the other court.
My dad is a decent 4.0 player and I always watched him play when I was little. I wanted to play tennis just like him, and at 6 I took my first lesson. From then on I have loved the sport. Another reason why I played tennis is that I wasn't exceptionally quick or athletic as a kid, but I was a good ball striker and had good hands at the net.
I quit tennis for about 4 months to play basketball when I was 9 (my parents were big believers in 1 sport at a time), but once spring came back around I just had to pick up a tennis racquet again. From then on it has been all tennis and to this day I can't think of much I would prefer to do than practice. Now if I could just figure out how to enjoy competing I would be in business!:)
Not sure, but my friends were all playing... good times :)
Hitting against my dad under the lights at night. Loved it. I wanted to just rally all night.
I started because my mom said that i had to be in a sport when i was in the 7th grade and i have never looked back.
Watching my dad play on these awesome clay courts that had the same courts as Roland Garros, and playing with him when I was 6,7...and hours of hitting the wall, waiting for him to finish so we can hit.
If I close my eyes, I can still smell the wet red clay / the locker room combo in that club.
That's still the best Tennis memory for me.
And beating him when I was 15. :)
Have a sob story behind me getting into tennis. I grew up in a location where tennis facilities were affordable / reserved / restricted to the upper echelons of society. I would walk past the court almost everyday and watch bald, obese, 40-something and 50-something men struggle to keep the ball in the court despite the 10-foot fence on all 4 sides. I have even been asked to pick up balls from the road and return them to court several times. At that time I longed to set foot into the court and feel the clay surface and even hold and feel a racquet.
Never got the chance until the age of 23, having moved to the US, when my then-girlfriend, current-wife dragged me to the court one summer evening out of boredom. A couple of Walmart Wilson racquets and a few used balls scoured out of the woods behind the courts is what I started out with. Two weeks later I came across a 110 sq. in, 3-grip-sizes larger racquet at TJ Maxx's, of all the places. Played with that racquet for a year until someone I met at a pick-up-courts explained to me that racquets come in different head and grip sizes.
In the last 10 years since then, my wife has wished several times that she had not dragged me to the court that fateful evening. :)
Federer vs Hewitt. Bad tv quality can't remember where but i thought guy with ponytail is bad ***
2 of my best friends picked it up in the late 80's. By 89 we were all about Rock N Roll Tennis.
So in one word:
After picking up a racquet and playing with my friends, i was hooked for life.
THAT is a winning volley of a post - nice share!
Funnily enough I wasn't a kid. I wish I had been though. I played socially with friends in doubles and one time I nailed a serve, which I'd never done before, and it was the best feeling. I had to get that feeling back!
A combination of this man right before he retired
and this epic match
Edit: copied wrong url, but don't get me wrong Edberg is in my top 3.
My dad married a tennis pro.
Tennis pro stepmom = free lessons!!
We had a tennis court next door and three doors down that my mum played social tennis on when I was a kid. So at the age of 4 or 5 she let me hit with her wooden Dunlop racquet. Was never a natural athlete but had great hand/eye coordination so I stayed with tennis.
when I was 5 my dad went to play at an indoor club in my hometown with a few of his university friends. he brought me along because my mom was busy so he just had me sit on the bench and watch them for two hours. I kept bugging him to let me play but he never did. didn't actually touch a racquet until my early teens, when I got into it after watching epic matches at the US Open (el aynaoui vs moya & pete vs andre in 2002) and Wimbledon (Federer's finals in 03 and 04)
funny enough, I ended up becoming friends with a girl from my hometown who is roughly my age and became a WTA pro (she's around #130 in singles and #35 in doubles). we talked once about how she got started (dad was a pro soccer player, mom was a pro volleyball player, she was kind of forced into playing tennis when she was 4 or 5) and my missed connection with the game. turned out she's a bit jealous that I had a normal life - school, friends, job, etc. while I'm obviously very envious that she gets to travel the world and play tennis for a living. guess that's life.
Yeah, most tennis kids, even if successful in tennis, are intriqued by someone who plays tennis for fun, and does other sports for fun also.
They are pressured to play tennis. They see the other side too.
When I was 13, I told my friend in tennis: "I'm joining tennis so I can beat you".
After school, I grabbed a racquet my current-coach's "club" of a racquet and played with him. We only played three games and I lost 0-3. :)
A year later, I beat him to be the #2 player on the team. I quickly developed more than other players due to intense workout and practicing for hours with other coaches and pros. I even won a few singles tournaments too! :D
As all children did where i grew up i played a lot of football (the foot kind)... ever since i can remember really. playing the neighbourhood, school, etc... and as a young child played table tennis daily with my brothers and friends. sometimes i played against the adults in my family for snacks as prizes, but mostly we competed for pride. I was hooked on competing.
pestered my parents into signing me up for group tennis (not the table kind) lessons at the national academy one summer. first time i noticed that there were kids that could hit harder than me. was quite the hit to my ego, so i swung harder! the problem was there was no competition. just drills. we didn't play sets, on a few points occasionally and lots and lots of drills. I wanted to compete*.
I remember agruing with my friends about grips. continental vs. eastern. having one grip vs. changing for each stroke. hitting closed face vs. flat... my racquet felt so heavy.
used to play with my cousins and friends at a club my uncle was a member of. that was more fun, competing. i remember having a buggywhip forehand when on the run** (some strange amalgam of my football and table tennis habits); i remember people trying to coach me out of it, telling me to stop and set up and to swing across to my shoulder not above my head, but the ball seemed to keep me in points so i stubbornly stuck with it.
but that was defense, i was mostly an attacking player. i used to take everything on the rise until i got to the net. wanted to end every point with a smash, sampras style. i remember the nerves when girls were watching us play. i remember how cold the pool was when we'd jump in after practice and i remember the end of day barbecues.
fast forward to my 30s... most of the friends i used to play with are busy child rearing. i still go to the courts to hit, practice and play whomever. i still swing all out. still take the ball on the rise, still have that buggywhip forehand when on the run. still love to compete. still stubborn about how i play tennis.
* I had no idea that there were tournaments for children, or teens. i thought only adults played those.
** My regular forehand was very flat and was either a winner or in the back fence.
I was attending a week-long summer camp that required campers to attend two "tracks" during the week. These tracks consisted of sports, music, crafts, and so on. My best friend saw a pretty girl sign up for tennis, so he asked me to sign up for tennis with him as his "wingman" of sorts.
While he tried (fruitlessly) to flirt with the girl, I began learning the fundamentals of the game. As soon as I returned home, I went to Walmart and bought a Wilson Mach 3.
12 years later, I'm absolutely obsessed with the sport.
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With 23 years of banking experience, Tim has been a pioneer and leading proponent of cross-border asset-based lending in Europe. He was an integral part of the team that founded the J.P. Morgan London office in 2005. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Tim launched Bank of America's European asset-based lending operations. During his career, Tim has held positions in various capacities in Portfolio Management, Operations, Underwriting and Syndications. He has extensive experience in European cross-border transactions.
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One of the long-standing mysteries in solar physics is why the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is millions of degrees hotter than its surface.
Now, scientists claim to have finally solved the mystery after they discovered a major source of hot gas that replenishes the corona — jets of plasma shooting up from just above the Sun's surface, the Science journal reported.
Scott McIntosh of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, a member of an international team which carried out the NASA-supported research, said, "It's always been quite a puzzle to figure out why the Sun's atmosphere is hotter than its surface.
"By identifying that these jets insert heated plasma into the Sun's outer atmosphere, we can gain a much greater understanding of that region and possibly improve our knowledge of the Sun's subtle influence on the Earth's upper atmosphere."
Team member Rich Behnke of the National Science Foundation, which funded the research, said: "These observations are a significant step in understanding observed temperatures in the solar corona.
"They provide new insight about the energy output of the Sun and other stars. The results are also a great example of the power of collaboration among university, private industry and government scientists and organisations."
In fact, for its research, the team focused on jets of plasma known as spicules, which are fountains of plasma propelled upward from near the surface of the Sun into the outer atmosphere.
For decades, researchers believed spicules could send heat into the corona. However, following observational research in the 1980s, it was found that spicule plasma did not reach coronal temperatures, and so the theory largely fell out of vogue.
"Heating of spicules to millions of degrees has never been directly observed, so their role in coronal heating had been dismissed as unlikely," said Bart De Pontieu, the lead scientist and a solar physicist at Lockheed Martin's Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory.
In 2007, De Pontieu, McIntosh, and their colleagues identified a new class of spicules that moved much faster and were shorter-lived than the traditional spicules. These "Type II" spicules shoot upward at high speeds, often in excess of 100 kilometers per second, before disappearing.
The rapid disappearance of these jets suggested that the plasma they carried might get very hot, but direct observational evidence of this process was missing.
In its latest research, the team used new observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on NASA's recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory and NASA's Focal Plane Package for the Solar Optical Telescope on the Japanese Hinode satellite to test their hypothesis.
"The high spatial and temporal resolution of the newer instruments was crucial in revealing this previously hidden coronal mass supply. Our observations reveal, for the first time, the one-to-one connection between plasma that is heated to millions of degrees and the spicules that insert this plasma into the corona," McIntosh said.
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New DLC this week...Judas Priest.
From RS website:
"Next week well be releasing a new Rocksmith Song Pack featuring the Metal Gods themselves, Judas Priest. In celebration, here's the video for Painkiller," one of the songs featured in next weeks release! Click the links below to discover what the other two tracks will be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L397TWLwrUU&ob=av3e
"Once I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken".
Been waiting for this pack since the dlc leak. Can't wait to jam out Painkiller.
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Been playing them... :D
Breaking the law is easy, 100% on that.
Living after midnight, haven't played.
Painkiller. *takes painkillers*
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I got the game just because of this pack <_<
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I got the game just because of this pack <_<
That's because you are awesome
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My fingers are in pain from playing Painkiller
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Painkiller is certainly one of the hardest songs I've ever tried to learn. I knew most of the outside solo stuff before the game came out. When the game came out I mastered most of those sections pretty quickly. I don't feel comfortable though with the speed that everything is played.
Actually just completely re-strung my floyd rose, put it in D tuning (DGCFAD) and adjusted the truss rod. Going to start playing some Death and such. I'll use my other guitar as my E standard and Standard/Drop d.
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PRLog - May 28, 2009 - LONDON -- Kraft, the second largest food and beverage company in the world, decided that it was time to renew its mission for the 21st century. The challenges confronting change in such a large company were intimidating:
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- How do you settle on a new higher purpose which reflects the aspirations of your employees?
- How do you implement real change without alienating the people who have to realise it?
- How do you achieve buy-in across such an enormous organization?
Nitro, who led the Kraft "repositioning"
In order to solve this challenge, Promise Communities developed 'Big Talk Online': a private online collaboration community that enabled the simultaneous participation of thousands of employees over an extended period to debate, develop and decide ideas. Promise launched a bespoke internal marketing campaign, inviting Kraft's top management to the community, across all countries and brands. In the ensuing three months over 4000 employees from over 50 countries collaborated on designing, debating and filtering the future mission, vision and values of the company.
The approach to Kraft's challenge comprised of four stages on the community:
1. Warming up: introducing the global workforce to one another, preparing the ground for co-creation and initiating trust-building exercises. The community was also asked about Kraft's strengths and weaknesses.
2. Idea generation: the community was then tasked to develop a number of different 'higher purposes' for Kraft. Employees discussed, debated and developed what they thought the biggest idea Kraft could own was? Through detailed analysis, 15 territories where identified, which were then narrowed to a remaining 5.
3. Probing: quantitatively and qualitatively input was provided on the 5 'territories'
4. Bringing to life: community members were asked to describe how they would act differently to 'bring to life' the higher purpose they had co-created. This generated implementation ideas and validated the final higher purpose.
The results achieved by Big Talk Online were as follows:
- A co-created new corporate mission, vision and values, signed off by the board in under three months. What's more, the community de-risked change, by providing a mission which emerged from within the organization.
- High levels of buy-in were delivered across the organisation:
- Cultural and linguistic barriers were clearly identified that would not have been uncovered using conventional methods. The community was able to engage with groups on an individual basis, recognise their concerns and ensure these were incorporated into the development process.
- Insights on how to achieve change were provided at the grass roots, and informed Kraft's implementation strategy by bringing frontline market information into the process: staff were close to the realities of their markets.
Perry Yeatman, SVP Corporate Affairs at Kraft Foods in Chicago said of the process: "Using co-creation was one of the single most important decisions we made. It was key to developing a higher purpose that was resonant and compelling to employees around the world."
Kraft can now legitimately lay claim to being the first multinational corporation to have co-created their mission, vision and values.
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Promise Communities specialises in online co-creation. They build and manage private online communities to solve brand, innovation and research challenges. Through these online communities, Promise Communities have revolutionised the way organisations and brands problem-solve, by bringing together customers, staff, stakeholders and experts to generate insights and to co-create solutions and innovations.


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Critical Review by Verlyn Klinkenborg
SOURCE: "A Self-Made Man," in The New York Times Book Review, October 9, 1994, pp. 1, 33.
In the favorablereviewbelow, Klinkenborgpraises O'Brien's ambitious efforts in In the Lake of the Woods, especially his characterization of John Wade.
"What stories can do, I guess, is make things present." That's how Tim O'Brien put it in The Things They Carried, which was published in 1990 and which is one of the finest books, fact or fiction, written about the Vietnam War. I don't remember ever hearing a novelist make a more modest claim for the power of stories, at least not a novelist of Mr. O'Brien's stature. The statement itself—stories make things present—is unassuming and it is offered to the reader diffidently, as if the writer were about to deny the possibility of saying anything useful at all about stories. Perhaps it suggests the discomfort of a storyteller who has, for the moment, slipped outside his story, except that outside his story is where Tim O'Brien has nearly always been, taking refuge—as he says in his striking new novel, In the Lake of the Woods—"in the fine line between biology and spirit," between some literal, if unknowable, truth and the truth whose only evidence is the story that contains it.
These are important matters in Mr. O'Brien's previous works. In the 1978 novel Going After Cacciato, the reader comes to worry about the difference between a story that is merely impossible—a platoon of soldiers following a man on foot from Vietnam to Paris—and a story that is unbelievable precisely because it is true, a story of the Vietnam War itself, a war that seemed to contain every likelihood of improbability. In The Things They Carried, the storyteller's indeterminacy has grown. The narrator of those stories distinguishes between "story-truth" and "happening-truth," and he plays one against the other. For Mr. O'Brien, as for many other Vietnam veterans, the "happening-truth" is a terrible thing: it is too powerful to look at, though you are forced to witness it. And yet, in Mr. O'Brien's case, it has dwindled over time into what he calls "faceless responsibility and faceless grief," which story-truth has the power to help him accept and alleviate.
In his new novel, he turns these matters of truth, time and responsibility inward, letting them weigh on an individual character in a manner he has never done before. This is a story about a man named John Wade and his wife, Kathleen, who disappears one day from the cottage they are renting at the Lake of the Woods in northern Minnesota, an enormous reach of water and wilderness that divides the United States and Canada. Wade is a Minnesota politician, and he has just lost a primary election for his party's nomination to the United States Senate. He lost big because his opponent uncovered the fact that Wade was present at a massacre in the Vietnamese village of Thuan Yen, which is the local name for a place better known to history as My Lai, where on March 16, 1968, between 200 and 500 civilians were butchered by a company of American soldiers commanded by Lieut. William Calley. Wade's presence there was a secret Wade had kept from his wife, from his campaign manager and, in a sense, from himself.
At Thuan Yen, Wade had been responsible for the deaths of one old man and an American soldier. But in this novel, it is never clear whether culpability can be parceled out like that, whether it belongs to the deed or the doer or merely to what the narrator calls the poisonous sunlight of Vietnam. In the end, Wade also disappears on that northern lake, gone in search of his wife, leaving behind only a sympathetic narrator, an author who tries to reconstruct the tale after it has already come to its mysterious close.
There are three kinds of story in In the Lake of the Woods. The first is a conventional, remote third-person account of plain facts, the events that can be reconstructed without conjecture, more or less. The second kind of story appears in several chapters called "Evidence": collections of quotations, excerpts from interviews and readings that bear on the Wade case. The third kind of story appears in chapters called "Hypothesis"; it tries to suggest what might have happened to Kathleen Wade in the days after she disappeared. But with these stories, Mr. O'Brien is also building a character, John Wade, whose inner architecture is more emblematic than personal. Wade is the son of an alcoholic father who hanged himself in the family garage. As a child, Wade consoled himself—isolated himself—with magic. In Vietnam he came to be called "Sorcerer," and one of his last acts before returning stateside was to make himself vanish from the company rolls. To become a politician was an act of atonement for him, but it was also the practice of magic by other means. Mr. O'Brien quotes Dostoyevsky: "Man is bound to lie about himself." The lie John Wade constructed, as man and boy, was intended to avert the loss of love.
At the center of Wade's character is a problem of vision. When he was young, he practiced magic tricks in front of a mirror perfecting illusions. When his father died, Wade discovered that he could escape from his rage by slipping behind a mirror in his head, making himself invisible. And that was precisely what he did on that climactic day in Vietnam, when he found himself lying in a muddy trench while all around him, in some too-explicable exorcism of small-arms fire, an entire village was put to death. Mr. O'Brien has always insisted on the special quality of the things that happened in Vietnam, not to deny their reality, but to suggest that seeing was never adequate proof. You could look and look and look, staring down a trail where a platoon member had just that moment been killed by a mine, and yet seeing would register no reality, at least none that could be accounted for emotionally in that instant.
Incapacity to register reality has become a principle of character in In the Lake of the Woods. "We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others," says the narrator, who appears from time to time in footnotes. "And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible."
I have been trying to decide where the ambition lies in this grim, telling novel. It does not lie in reconstructing the events at My Lai, although it is deeply unsettling for the reader to find them reconstructed from within; nor does it lie in a particularly vivid grasp of the political impulse Mr. O'Brien has allowed himself only to suggest the magnitude of the story here, the nature of its psychological and historical depths. The quotations that appear in the chapters called "Evidence"—quotations from the court-martial of William Calley, from biographies of politicians, from magicians' handbooks, from the other characters in the novel—are like tentacles reaching into the unknown, adumbrations of a fuller narrative.
But it may be that In the Lake of the Woods is the kind of novel whose ambitions are less important than its concessions. Joan Didion has said that narrative is sentimental, and in his own way Mr. O'Brien concurs. One of the most powerful chapters in The Things They Carried is the one called "How to Tell a True War Story," which is, in effect, an essay, with examples, on the limits of narrative. The one question that chapter doesn't ask is: Once you've learned to tell a true war story, how do you tell any other kind? In the Lake of the Woods asks that question in a different way. It is a novel about the moral effects of suppressing a true war story, of not even trying to make things present, a novel about the unforgivable uses of history, about what happens when you try to pretend that history no longer exists.
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It said too much gas was being diverted into Egypt's domestic market instead of being made available for exports. The issue will contribute to output this year being around 590,000 to 630,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, compared with 650,000 forecast in the City. Shares fell by around 15% as the company also cut its guidance for production next year.
BG chief executive Chris Finlayson said: "Despite the good progress we have made in 2013, we face short term issues which are reflected in our revised 2014 guidance."
He pointed out that key growth projects in Brazil and Australia remain on target but that BG's growing asset base was leading to higher unit operating costs in 2014.
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- 52 yds. White Red Heart 4-ply yarn
- 35 yds. Lime Green Red Heart 4-ply yarn
- 20 yds. Hot Pink Red Heart 4-ply yarn
- 9 yds. Yellow Red Heart 4-ply yarn
- 9 yds. Parakeet Red Heart 4-ply yarn
- G crochet hook or size needed for gauge
- Tapestry Needle
- Boutique Tissue Box
GAUGE: Side square measures 4 ¾" x 5 ¼" (before bottom edging)
STITCH GUIDE: Chain (ch), Single Crochet (sc), Half Double Crochet (hdc), Double Crochet (dc),
Slip Stitch (sl st)
Special Stitch: Shell – 2 dc, ch 1, 2 dc
SIDES: (make 2 hot pink and 1 each yellow and parakeet)
Rnd 1 – With white ch 2, 8 sc in 2nd ch from hook, join to beg sc.
Rnd 2 – Ch 4, dc in same st, (dc, ch 1, dc) in each st around, join to 3rd ch of beg ch 4 and
fasten off.
Rnd 3 – Join color with a sl st in any ch 1 sp, ch 2 (dc, ch 1, 2 dc) in same sp, *ch 1, Shell in
next ch 1 sp, rep from * around, join to top of beg ch 2 and fasten off.
Rnd 4 – Join green with a sc in ch 1 sp of Shell, *5 dc in next ch 1 sp, sc in ch 1 sp of Shell, rep
from * around, join to beg sc and fasten off.
Rnd 5 – Join white with a sl st in center dc off any 5 dc cluster, sc in next dc, hdc in next dc,
(2 dc, ch 3, 2 dc) in next sc, hdc in next dc, 1 sc in each of next 9 st, hdc in next dc,
(2 dc, ch 3, 2 dc) in next sc, hdc in next dc, sc in next dc, sl st in next dc and fasten off.
Rep pattern along opposite edge of square.
Rnd 1 – With green ch 14 to form a ring, work 24 sc in ring, join to beg sc and fasten off.
Rnd 2 – Join pink with a sl st in any sc, ch 2, (2 dc, ch 2, 3 dc) in same st, *ch 1, skip 2 sc,
3 dc in next sc, ch 1, skip 2 sc, (3 dc, ch 2, 3 dc) in next sc, rep from* around, join
to top of beg ch 2 and fasten off.
Rnd 3 – Join white with a sl st in ch 2 corner sp, ch 2 (2 dc, ch 2, 3 dc) in same sp, *ch 1, 3 dc
in next ch 1 sp, ch 1, 3 dc in next ch 1 sp, ch 1, (3 dc, ch 2, 3 dc) in ch 2 corner sp, rep
from * around, join to top of beg ch 2 and fasten off.
1. With corresponding color whipstitch sides together.
2. With white whipstitch top to sides.
3. With white work 1 sc in each st around bottom.
4. Weave green strand of yarn around bottom.
5. Using 1 strand of white, pink and green attach bows to center of each side at top seam
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Taxis, Bahrain
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Find online the Nearest / Available Taxi to your location using TaxiFinder service on the Bahrain Taxi site ( http://www.bahtaxi.com ) . For best mobile browsing open/bookmark the url: http://www.taxicc.com
Bahrain TaxiFinder works as messenger where to locate the listed taxis by location / status.
Taxis rule in Bahrain and can become quite expensive if you are not careful. I have found that it is best to find a driver that you like and who will take care of you to have for a night out instead of waiting for whatever taxi you can find. I have used a driver named "Shaker" at Road Master and he is very good. Not only does Road Master run taxis in town, they will also drive you to Qatar or Saudi Arabia if you need it.
Taxis in Bahrain will rip you off. From the minute you arrive at the airport, and anywhere you try to travel, they try to overcharge you. Meters routinely don't work, and they even try to charge you to turn on the AC. It's much easier and cheaper to rent a car. There is no public transport to talk of in Bahrain, and it's too hot to walk, so a car is a must if you are here for any length of time. If you don't fancy this, or want a taxi for a special occasion, then phone either Speedy Motors (17682999) or Bahrain Limo (17266266). Their taxis are all metered and clean and very cheap, but you have to book well in advance and in busy times, forget it.
When booking a hotel, check which provide free transport to/from the airport. Paying an extra 30-40 $ a night may be worth it, if you get a better horel PLUS free transport (which saves you the 30-40 dollars that you will pay for the taxi return fare)
The best way to avoid being stung by taxi drivers is to ask the hotel reception to arrange for a taxi. The taxi's used by them are usually cleaner and in a better state than the ones you flag down on the street. They will also be able to tell you how much a trip should cost (on average).
If the taxi driver way over charges, mention it to the person in the hotel who booked your taxi on your return. Most taxis at hotels get their business from people they know at reception desks or at the door. If they get complaints they won't be used any more.
A lot has been said about Bahraini taxi drivers and how they rip people off. Like with any tourist area you need to be on your guard and use your common sense. Most taxi drivers will put a cloth over the meter when a western person gets in their taxi. Just ask them to remove it and put the normal meter on. If they refuse, just get out and flag down another taxi, you would be amazed how quick the cloth dissapears. It really is as simple as that.
there are two types of taxis in bahrain:
1 - the usual four seater, you'll spot these easily because they have bright orange wheel hubs.
2 - the pick up trucks - see picture - these are usually cheaper and you'll share them with other people.
those taxi drivers are terrible. last week my car broke down and i had to use the taxis. the drivers do not want to use the meters - even when i threatened to get out of the taxi he couldn't find his meter. please don't accept this - leave the taxi - it really is a problem here. i wouldn't mind so much if the taxis were in working order, but they are knackered!
At Least Do This:
don't accept their first offer, second or even third offer. ask for the meter to be turned on and keep asking until the taxi driver does turn on the meter. otherwise, leave the car at the first available point.
the limo taxis appeared to be more expensive - but they are clean, new mercedes. very nice! if you tel 17 801999 they'll come and pick you up. you'll find that if you're new to bahrain, and in manama town, these taxis will probably work out to be cheaper and definately will be far less hastle than using the waiting taxis.
One of my worst memories of Bahrain and a disgrace to the overall fraud-free country: TAXI FRAUD! I stayed quite long in Bahrain and had to use taxis on a regular basis. See below what's important:
It is mandantory for official taxis (orange-white / orange-gold colour) in Bahrain to use their meters and fixed fares.
However, most drivers first try to fool new vistors by stating completely overpriced fares for a route. Many visitors agree as they do not SEE the installed meter as it is often HIDDEN by the driver (e.g. behind a cover or the infamous box of Kleenex ;)
Insist on a metered fare or you will be ripped off!! Repeat it 1 or 2 times and you'll see it works (oops, there IS the bloody meter...:)
Generally, stopping one of the many taxis from the street is cheaper than taking a waiting taxi as they charge you also for their "waiting time".
Especially during praying time (see newspapers), on Fridays and around the mega malls it can be difficult to find a taxi.
To be sure you make it in time, you can order a RADIO TAXI. There is only one company offering this service, so its recommendable to order in time.
Telephone 682999 in Manama. Fares a slighly higher, ca. 20%. Still, mostly hassle-free.
By the way, make sure at least YOU know approx. where to go. Many drivers don`t know the city very well or young cousins take over uncle's car for a while - double-check that the driver knows the area you head for! Otherwise you might end up with some extra Dinar on the meter.
Have fun exploring Bahrain!
Taxi rides can be cheap or expensive.
Bahraini taxi drivers are sometimes rude and will always refuse to use the meter. They will attempt to charge 3, 4 or even 5 times the metered fare. You should be able to get anywhere in Manama for 1-3 Bahrain Dinars (BD) if the cab ride is metered - that's about $3 to $8 US. Bahraini cab drivers will try to charge 5-8 BD ($13-$20 US).
If you're going somewhere by cab, try to use Radio Taxi. Their drivers, usually Indian, always use the meter, speak English and are extremely polite. Radio Taxi dispatch can be reached at 682-999. Call an hour or more in advance if possible since their taxis are in high demand.
Taxis are easy, so is renting a car. Traffic can be a little bad at times, but nothing like other places in the world. There's even a causeway (bridge) that goes to Saudi Arabia. You can drive halfway across if you don't have a Saudi Visa.
If you are female then the best way to get to Bahrain is by plane. There is a bridge from Saudi but women are not aloud to drive on the Saudi half.
Taxi is by far the best way, car hire is available at compairable rates to the UK. If you are staying out of Manama remember most of the streets have numbers not names if may be worth writing your adress down before you go out.
There is a causeway from Dahran in Saudi, but let's assume that you are going to fly in.
There are taxis that look like normal yellow cabs, but the way to get about
[the few busses are for workers only, so forget it!] is by pickup.
When I was in Kuwait before moving to Bahrain, they were called 'wanette',
but when I tried this word in Bahrain , the pick-up drivers looked amused.
I found out later the origin of the term: the first pickups in the gulf were Chevy 1.8's,
soon to be known as 'one-eight's'. Hence, 'Wannette'.
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The Viola finished fourth in the table and reached the Coppa Italia final.
"This year Fiorentina have done great things despite the many injuries we had during the course of the season.
"The club doesn't just want to keep hold of this good group, it also wants to look to improve it.
"With the recovery of our best players and with a bit of luck, I am convinced that next season we can reward ourselves with great happiness.
"More than anything, I really hope I can see Giuseppe Rossi and Mario Gomez play together. Given the injuries they have had, they really have been unfortunate.
"I am very pleased for the two young attackers Babacar and Bernardeschi. Soon we will see them in Serie A and I hope one of the two of them can stay at Fiorentina next season."
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29 year old man | Kennesaw, GA, USA | Seeking men 21-35 within 50 miles
Looking for someone who likes to have fun and enjoys good conversation. Life is short...let's laugh!
I enjoy living life to the fullest....I have an amazing career and great friends. I graduated from college 5 years ago and have been working my way up the corporate ladder. I am very happy and fulfilled with my career. I realize that everything is good except I do not have someone to share it with. I am looking for someone who I can really connect with and not only have a partner but a best friend as well. I am a giving and kind person who pays attention to the details. I would love to meet someone who I can workout with...someone who wants to do lunches and dinners. Travel together and really experience life and explore new things. I am a firm believer in really getting to know people and being honest.
Coffee and conversation , Dining out , Movies/Videos , Museums and art , Music and concerts , Exploring new areas , Nightclubs/Dancing , Performing arts , Wine tasting
Aerobics, Cycling, Dancing, Other types of exercise, Running, Swimming, Walking / Hiking, Yoga
I exercise 5 or more times per week.
I like Birds, Cats, Dogs
Middle of the Road
I love hanging out on the beach especially Lincoln road. I also enjoy hanging out in Midtown, the ambience is amazing! I generally just love Miami...it's an amazing city with many great places to explore and enjoy!
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
I really like sushi and Thai food.! I love trying new restaurants. I like all music. I don't watch that much TV....
I enjoy trying new restaurants and going to the movies. Also recently took up hiking especially around kennesaw mountain
I enjoy reading vanity fair
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|What he is looking for
|5'11" (180cms)
|3'0" (91cms) to 8'11" (271cms)
|Body type:
|Athletic and toned
|About average, Athletic and toned, A few extra pounds, Stocky
|Black, Blue, Brown, Grey, Green, Hazel
|Auburn / Red, Black, Light brown, Dark brown, Blonde, Salt and pepper, Silver, Dark blonde, Grey, Platinum, Bald
|No Way
|No Way
|Social Drinker
|Social Drinker
|Retail / Food services
|No preference
Executive management
|$75,001 to $100,000
|$50,001 to $75,000, $75,001 to $100,000, $100,001 to $150,000, $150,001+
|Never Married
|Never Married, Widow / Widower, Currently Separated, Divorced
|Have kids:
|Yes, and they sometimes live at home, No, Yes, and they live away from home, Yes, and they live at home
|Wants kids:
|Not sure
|Not sure
|Latino / Hispanic
|Asian, Black / African descent, East Indian, Latino / Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Native American, Pacific Islander, White / Caucasian
|Spiritual but not religious
|Agnostic, Atheist, Buddhist / Taoist, Christian / Catholic, Christian / LDS, Christian / Protestant, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim / Islam, Spiritual but not religious
|English, Spanish
|Bachelors degree
|High school, Some college, Associates degree, Bachelors degree, Graduate degree, PhD / Post Doctoral
Bachelor degree from the University of Florida


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i'm making simplicity 2451 sewing.patternreview.com/Patterns/3.... Style B (the knee length one). Following the directions on the pattern I measured my self (31 waist, 39 inch hip). It said I should make the size 16. Seemed a bit much since I usually wear size 8 in store bought clothes, but i chalked it up to vanity sizing and went for it. Well, I'm part way done and the waist of the skirt is measuring 40 inches around! i am swimming in it. should I just take all the seams in a little or what?
Simplicity skirt turning out HUGE-advice?
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How is it fitting through the hips?
Olivia-4/04; Savannah-7/06; Dylan-9/09; Nathan-11/11
It's really roomy through the hips too.
Kids, Costumes, and PTSO, it's what I do.
Pattern sizes are totally smaller than modern dress sizes. Dress sizes have changed over the years, and I think pattern sizes might still reflect vintage sizing. Also, make sure you're measuring your waist at the right point! Many people measure their waist too low.
Proud to be a CD, BW, BF mama!
Agree with PP about measuring waist correctly- for a pattern, the "waist" is where you bend (usually about an inch above the belly button). Even for non-curvy women, it's normal to have 10" or more between waist and hips.
My pattern size is 2-6 sizes above my store size.


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LONDON, May 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- At the 2011 European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO) exhibition, 8-12 May at the ExCel Centre in London, Elekta will demonstrate advanced solutions that provide clinicians with the tools to save and improve lives of cancer patients worldwide. This includes Elekta's new RFID system, Identify*, which is designed to increase staff confidence in the integrity of patient identification and set up.
Identify harnesses precision radiofrequency identification technology and will ensure the right patient is being treated at the right location and with the correct set up and equipment. Identify will feature complete integration with Elekta's MOSAIQ® Oncology Information System, enabling patient queuing, selection of patient details in monitoring of set-up position, optimizing workflow and enhancing safety. Identify will be a scalable solution – from the treatment room to the entire department – allowing centers to grow as needs change.
"Elekta has spent decades continually improving our radiation oncology solution, based significantly on customer input and collaboration," says Olof Sanden, Executive Vice President, Europe and AFLAME. "The result has been products that combine increasing technological capabilities with easier, more confident use. The addition of Identify to our portfolio will address the desire of our customers to confidently use the most advanced therapies while also ensuring that these treatments are as safe as possible."
Other meeting highlights
Throughout the five major solution areas at Elekta booth #020, the company will demonstrate how its digital platforms offer robust upgrade paths to accommodate a wide range of clinical requirements. The solution areas are:
|SOURCE Elekta
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Chris Brown released after assault charge reduced
He was not charged in any of the incidents, but they have kept his public image tarnished, even as legions of fans continue to support him. Many of Brown's more than 13 million Twitter followers continue to come to the singer's defense and attack his critics on the site.
The release of singer's latest album, "X," was delayed earlier this year and is due to be released in the coming months. Brown's career since the Rihanna attack has been a mixed bag: his 2009 album "Graffiti" bombed but he found success with the back-to-back pop hits "Yeah 3x" and "Deuces," which was - one of 2010's top R&B songs.
He also earned his first Grammy win for his album "F. A. M. E." and received several nominations for his follow-up "Fortune." The album featured 2011's most popular rap song, "Look At Me Now."
While jail time would put a dent in his career, others - from the ultra-successful Lil Wayne to T.I. - have made it to the top of the charts after prison stints.
Brown faces an August 2014 deadline to complete 1,000 hours of graffiti cleanup or other community labor. The additional service was added earlier this year after prosecutors accused Brown of failing to properly complete his service in his home state of Virginia.
In addition to penalties Brown would face if convicted in the Washington case, he also faces the possibility of up to four years in prison if a Los Angeles judge determines he violated his probation for the Rihanna attack.
Probation officials would need to investigate the new arrest for it to become an issue in California, which could happen before Brown's next probation progress hearing on Nov. 20.
Judges typically wait to see if a person on probation is convicted in a new case before imposing new punishments, said Los Angeles defense attorney Steve Cron, however Brown's notoriety may prompt earlier scrutiny.
LA prosecutors cited the "Good Morning America" and Miami cellphone snatching incident in court filings earlier this year seeking modifications to Brown's probation. The office had no comment on the Washington arrest.
Cron said while Brown's fate depends on the facts in the Washington case, the singer's history might lead to some more time behind bars. "If the guy got hurt at all, I think he's looking at some jail time," he said.
McCartney reported from Los Angeles. Entertainment Writer Mesfin Fekadu and Writer Eric Tucker contributed to this report.
Follow Jessica Gresko at http://twitter.com/jessicagresko and McCartney at http://twitter.com/mccartneyAP .
The Associated Press


text: Sports CorrespondentThe Hazard Bulldogs hosted the Paintsville Tigers in district football play this weekend. The winner of the game would remain undefeated in district action and stay at the top of the hunt for home field advantage in the playoffs.Neither team could get their offense in gear in the first quarter, and the frame ended without a score on the board. However, midway through the second period, the Bulldogs "caught" a break. Tyler Olinger was able to find Joey Meehan over the middle for a short 10-yard pass. However, by the time Meehan stopped running, the Bulldogs were 60-yards away on the Tigers' 20 yard line. Olinger then completed the drive with a 20-yard pass play to Colby Hoskins. Austin Delpont added the extra-point for a 7-0 Bulldog lead.The Bulldogs' air attack struck again in the third period as Olinger hooked up with Josh Kidd on a pattern that netted Hazard a 45-yard touchdown. Again, Austin Delpont added the extra-point, giving the Bulldogs a 14-0 advantage.Hazard pushed the margin to 21-points early in the fourth quarter. After a stellar defensive stand, the Bulldogs got the ball back with good field position. They quickly moved the ball deep into the Paintsville red zone. This time, Tyler Olinger picked up the touchdown with his legs as he crossed the goal line from one yard out. The Delpont extra-point raised the Bulldog tally to 21 points, while the Tigers were yet to score.The Tigers, however, would get on the board before the final horn sounded. With time running out in the game. Paintsville was able to manufacture a touchdown as Dodder threw a 12-yard pass to Puge, and Puge ran in the extra-point conversion. The score would be, too little, too late as Hazard went on to win the game by the final tally of 21-8, leaving them atop the district standings with Pikeville.Hazard will take on the Panthers next week on the road. Several attempts were made to get stats, but none were provided.8th District Class A standingsHazard 4-0 Pikeville 4-0Paintsville 3-1Allen Central 2-3Jenkins 2-3Phelps 1-4South Floyd 0-5


text: I've seen several posters recently refer to Healthy Families. I applied last week, as DD lost her ins. because of her idiot father - due to the budget crisis in California, they will no longer accept applications after Dec. 12 - so if you need to apply - DO IT IMMEDIATELY!!!


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Backstory: The Jobs Bill
Thursday, March 15, 2012
On today's Backstory, ProPublica's Jesse Eisinger talks about what's inside a jobs bill-- The Jump-Start Our Business Act --that just passed in the House of Representatives. We'll also look at how the Federal Reserve has dealt with the country's largest financial firms.
Guests:Jesse Eisinger
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