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Out of the Box Collective, Los Angeles's premier farm-to-table home delivery service, specializing in locally sourced and sustainably produced ingredients, has been selected to present its business model at the 4th Annual Slow Money National Gathering Entrepreneur Showcase.
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Slow Money is a forward-thinking organization which has started a new conversation about money that is too fast, about finance that is disconnected from people and place, about how we can begin fixing our economy from the ground up… starting with food.
The Slow Money National Gathering celebrates emerging food entrepreneurs who are working to revitalize local food systems across the United States and offers them access to monetary support. Since 2010, the Slow Money national gatherings have funded more than $22 million to small food enterprises with progressive thinking. The conference is being held in Boulder, CO, April 29-30, 2013. Out of the Box Collective is one of two dozen food entrepreneurs selected from across to the nation to propose opportunities to key investors at this trend-setting event. Out of the Box Collective was chosen by members of the Slow Money network for their quality of vision and business acumen.
"We are thrilled to be sharing the stage in Boulder with some of our greatest food heros — from Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food, to Tom Philpott, one of the most influential food writers in the country," says Jennifer Piette, OOTB's founder. "We're on the lookout for partners who can help propel the business to the next level and where better than at this gathering of the leaders in the national movement to rebuild our food systems?"
Out of the Box Collective has been making the news this month, featured in the Wall Street Journal's Off Duty section for its delectable gift bags, containing beautiful assortments of artisan-made treats. A recent segment from Los Angeles´ KABC praises the affordable and healthy meal service for its customizable box orders and themed recipes.
About Out of the Box Collective:
Out of the Box Collective is located in Chatsworth, California. Founder Jennifer Piette and her team have been exploring, tasting and foraging the best of Californian pastures, wineries and farmer's markets, from L.A. to Sonoma County and beyond, collecting a Round Table of the Sons and Daughters of the Food Revolution. These dedicated Good Food fighters produce veggies, fruit, pastured meats, cheese, pasta, jam, wine and more, the old way, with love and without chemicals, and Out of the Box Collective home delivers weekly selections of these foods, accompanied by meal plans and recipes, to its LA customers.
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The instructor for the following class will be Daryl Skinner. He graduated from London High School. He put together and ran a chess tournament at London Coffee Peddler two years ago. He has been in over 40 chess tournaments, beaten a master in rated play and finished second in the state of Ohio his sixth grade year. His current rating is 1,603. He is a class B average strong tournament player.
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IBZL - infinite bandwidth zero latency - is a thought experiment that asks: what will happen when bandwidth (for connecting to the Internet for example) is so great, and latency so small, that it no longer matters? What will be the applications and services that become widespread? The IBZL programme was started by the Open University and Manchester Digital in the UK around 2010. [1]
Next Generation Access (NGA) was promoted by policy makers for future economic growth. Few examples are given for how NGA will be used, or innovations that may come about as a result of widespread access to NGA. A parallel can be drawn with the advent of first generation Internet access (which is often called "broadband" by policy makers) which created conditions for Wikipedia, YouTube and Facebook and others. The most innovative aspects of these - open source knowledge, video sharing and always-on social networking - were not foreseen.[citation needed]
The IBZL programme used a process (Imagine/ Triple Task Method) to explore the potentially novel applications of NGA and provide some ideas as to the key components of the future inter-networked landscape.
Three elements are usually considered essential to a 'next generation' network:.[citation needed]
- NGA will provide a significant increase in the transmission speeds available to the domestic or small-business end-user. The speeds cited vary widely from 25 Mbit/s (e.g. What is Digital Region? 2009) to over 200 Mbit/s. The 'Digital Britain' report refers to 'next generation service up to' 40 Mbit/s, and more recently UK ministers have referred to 50 Mbit/s and faster.[2][3] To put this in context, in early 2010, the Google Fiber plan was announced for experimental community networks operating at 100 Gbit/s.
- In contrast with currently widespread ADSL technologies, it is generally assumed that NGA will offer a step-change in upload as well as download speeds, reflecting the demands of increasingly user-generated content. For some, NGA bandwidth should be symmetrical, though others have a more relaxed view, such as OFCOM in 2009.[4]
- NGA is widely taken to offer improved 'quality of service' (QoS).[5] QoS here is taken to mean not only service reliability and availability, but also indicators of network performance including latency (the time taken for data packets to travel from source to destination), jitter (the variation in latency among data packets) and data loss (the loss of data packets due to network congestion). Latency, jitter and data loss are important aspects of the usability of applications such as Internet telephony or video, in addition to 'raw' bandwidth.
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The Infinite Bandwidth, Zero Latency (IBZL) initiative was proposed to identify new applications that will be made possible by NGA as it evolves and that may contribute to the continuing development of innovative digital industries.[1] 'Infinite bandwidth' and 'zero latency' are not meant literally; they are a shorthand for networks where bandwidth and latency cease to be limiting factors. IBZL addresses a gap in policy and strategic thought, where relatively little attention has been given to what kinds of novel application are made feasible by networks which are relatively free of speed and latency capacity constraints. The IBZL process is intended as a means to explore and speculate on potential future technologies. To facilitate the process the Imagine methodology was adapted and applied as a form of future workshop for deep reflection on possible scenarios.[6]
The first IBZL workshops were held in Manchester, UK in May and October 2010, organized jointly by the Open University Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology and Manchester Digital, a trade association of creative and digital companies in Manchester and the North West of England. They brought together invited public sector, private sector and academic participants, to imagine a digital future.
Since then there have been workshops in several parts of the UK, including some 'Phase 2' workshops where ideas from the 'Phase 1' workshops were developed further. An example is the 'Flying Shepherd' project, which emerged from one of the first workshops.[7]
Five example outputs from workshops are briefly summarised below.
'Always on social space' - virtual spaces in which the connection is always on/perpetual, supporting the kind of occasional, informal, spontaneous, real-time social encounters ('collisions') that happen when people are co-located, between people living and working remotely. This would not only allow a new level of remote working and collaboration but also the sense of living in proximity with friends and relations could transform the lives of older people who need to stay longer in their homes as the population ages.
'Intelligent matchmaking' – bringing suppliers and consumers together optimally for business, social and educational interactions. Behind this would be a thorough analysis of organizations, products and people, made possible by next generation networks, in order to synthesize high quality informational and other connections.
'Real artisans in a virtual world' - the networked production of artefacts by artisans in multiple locations. Next generation technology could support real-time collaborative generation of product ideas followed by the process of design, development and distributed fabrication. This could turn the conventional trading pattern on its head with artisans in the developing world crafting products for "3D printing" in the developed world, effectively re-engineering (or at least, challenging) current craft value chains.
Peer-to-peer processor time-sharing - projects like SETI@home use the spare processor capacity of millions of personal computers to process batches of number-crunching tasks, co-ordinated among volunteers by a central 'master' application. Next generation networks could allow real time peer-to-peer sharing so that when an application needs additional capacity for processor-heavy tasks like video rendering it could have access to effectively limitless extra computing power.
Latency mapping - the evolution of next generation networks will be uneven, resulting in a 'geography of latency' and the disruption of 'simultaneous time'. The kinds of networked application that are feasible between two network locations will be a function of a range of factors including spatial distribution, network infrastructure and the network of relationships between service providers. Latency maps would be an enabling tool to identify the kinds of applications possible within/between, technical/geographic, or commercial spaces.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Infinite Bandwidth, Zero Latency (IBZL) project website
- ^ Department_for_Business_Innovation_and_Skills (2009). Digital Britain: Final Report. London, Department for Business Innovation and Skills and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Page 54
- ^ INCA (2010). INCA Policy Briefing No. 1: Broadband Delivery UK - Industry Day, Independent Networks Cooperative Association
- ^ OFCOM (2009). Delivering Super-Fast Broadband in the UK: Promoting investment and competition OFCOM
- ^ OFCOM (2009) Delivering Super-Fast Broadband in the UK: Promoting investment and competition OFCOM
- ^ List, D. (2006). "Action Research Cycles for Multiple Futures Perspectives." Futures 38: 673 - 684.
- ^ BBC (2011) Flying shepherd drone takes to the skies above Cumbria


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Holiday Celebrations (Celebrating Chanukah, Kwanzaa and Christmas) composed by Traditional. Arranged by Bob Phillips. Orchestra. String Orchestra. Belwin Very Beginning String Orchestra. Chanukah; Christmas; Kwanzaa; Winter. Grade 1. Conductor Score & Parts. 68 pages. Published by Belwin Music (AP.29643).
Celebrate three holidays with one song! A simple medley for beginners that includes "The Dreidel Song," an African melody known in the USA as "Let Us Break Bread Together" and "Jolly Old Saint Nicholas." Just for fun, the familiar strains of Jingle Bells close the tune. With the exception of a few notes on the violin, all notes are found on the D and A strings and there are no eighth notes. Truly perfect for beginners! (1:35).


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Essential Keyboard Repertoire, Volume 4
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Essential Keyboard Repertoire, Volume 4 (85 Early / Late Intermediate Selections in Their Original Form - Baroque to Modern). Edited by Maurice Hinson. For Piano. Graded Standard Repertoire; Masterworks; Piano Collection. Alfred Masterwork Edition: Essential Keyboard Repertoire. Masterwork. Early Intermediate; Intermediate; Late Intermediate. Book. 128 pages. Published by Alfred Music (AP.4556C).
ISBN 0739008862. Masterwork.
This excellent volume contains 85 selections that are essential for pianists at the early- to late-intermediate level. Spanning the Baroque through Modern eras, all of the selections have interesting melodic and rhythmic qualities, good design and formal structure, and excellent aesthetic value. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance.
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'The Voice': 'I Want to Know What Love Is' pits Jamar Rogers against Jamie Lono - did the right one win?Add to Favorites | The Voice
For Team Cee Lo's battles on Monday night's (March 12) episode of the "The Voice," Jamar Rogers and Jamie Lono faced off on Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is," which we are not ashamed to admit is one of our favorite power ballads. We also can't help but be rooting for Jamar - we remember how great he was on "American Idol" three years ago.
Remember his group performance with Danny Gokey? They did "Somebody to Love" in what was possibly the best group performance of the season. Jamar didn't advance, but he did return in Season 9, only to drop out of the competition to pursue music his own way.
So who sang it better between Jamar and Jamie? Blake said that he loved Jamie's vibe, but the other judges were more complimentary of Jamar - Adam Levine even points out that Cee Lo was the only judge who turned around for Jamar at the initial auditions and that makes the rest of them now look like an idiot. Cee Lo ultimately passes Jamar on to the live shows.
Did the right crooner win? We're tickled to see Jamar get a shot on "The Voice" after getting cut on "Idol," he and Danny's Season 8 storyline was one of our favorites.
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Two bits from me at ESPN.com Page 2 as we close out the season. First, a list of ten random Super Bowl stat tidbits. You'll recognize some of these from the FO Super Bowl Preview, but they're updated to reflect what happened in the game. Also, the final Snap Judgment of the season asks what we can learn about the future of quarterbacking from this year's Super Bowl, and includes my thoughts on the most incredible play that Terrell Owens made yesterday.
For some reason the DPAR ratings didn't make it into Snap Judgment. For those curious, Brady scored 10.2 DPAR, McNabb 2.7 DPAR. Three interceptions are a killer.
I'll be doing a chat at ESPN.com at 2pm EST today. I hope to see some FO readers over there.
The Vikings need offensive line help, while the Bears, Lions, and Packers have significant defensive concerns.


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Welcome to the Sierra Club Iroquois Group
The purpose of this site is to enhance communication and participation of Sierra Club members and concerned citizens in preserving our environment.
Position Statement on Proposal to Import Trash
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By Vicki Baker
At the time of publication, the Onondaga County legislature had not yet voted on a proposal to import trash from Cortland County in exchange for that county accepting ash from the Onondaga County incinerator (also known as the waste-to-energy facility).
This past October, the Iroquois Group and the Jamesville Positive Action Committee (JAMPAC) sponsored a program by Neil Seldman, Ph.D., co-founder and president of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) in Washington D.C. Seldman discussed the many challenges posed by Onondaga county's waste incinerator and municipal waste stream, as well as the highly controversial Ash for Trash Proposal. Attendees also learned about communities across the country who have invested in jobs from recycling.
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Pack a lunch, grab a friend and join us as we explore this beautiful area abundant in balsam fir, swamp-meadow grass and alder patches. We'll meet at the main parking area for the Yellow Trail, located just off seasonal/dirt Bear Swamp Road (just off Iowa Road). Look for the tan Hyundai with the Sierra Club sign.
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Help us promote recycling at this popular Syracuse event. Contact Lisa Daly at (315) 428-1384 for more information.
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How will climate change affect our forests and ecosystems? Syracuse University environmental engineering professor, Charles Driscoll, will summarize his research to assess past climate-change and project future climate-change impacts. His work is based at the US Forest Service Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in New Hampshire, a member of the National Science Foundation Network.
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover – Mark Twain
Growing up, travel meant visiting our grandparents or relatives and spending time with them. Sight-seeing was only an afterthought and was always done in a by-the-way manner in the cities they were based in.
By the time I started working, both sets of grandparents had passed away, relatives had been scattered all over the globe, and my older siblings were married with their own families. My parents and I still travelled, but now it was with the intention to explore, experience and enjoy new places. Travel began taking an entirely new meaning.
The first non-family trip I undertook was to Vellore, Mahabalipuram, Pondicherry and Chennai in May 1996 with a friend and a Kodak point-and-click film camera.
The next trip was travelling down India's West Coast from Honnavar (Karnataka) to Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala). It was a trip that saw the itinerary evolving as we travelled. Then, it was a trip to Santiniketan and Kolkata… and so on.
Over the years, travel has become a fun break from routine, a stress-buster, a history lesson, an opportunity to meet new people, a university of learning, a spiritual experience, and much more than can be put in simple words. Travel has been a re-affirmation of life itself as each trip, and photograph taken during my travels have revealed.
Travel has been life itself and this blog is part recording and memories and part sharing my experiences with a larger audience like you. For your convenience, I have created sub-categories of all my travel posts. You can find all my travel posts in any one of these pages: India, International, Museum Treasure, Photostory, Travel Shot. You can access these pages by clicking them here or from the tab given just below the header image.
PS: I write because I travel. I do not travel to write. Just saying. :-)
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Here is a birthday card from Posh Impressions with a serenely elegant design. A Japanese-inspired design is stamped on a fan-shaped card.
- Fan-shaped cardstock by Stampendous
- Crane stamp from the Posh EZMount Japan set
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- Purchase fan cardstock or make your own from stock that has a subdued background.
- Ink Bamboo Branch with Memories black ink and stamp once or twice on scrap paper to remove some of the ink, and then stamp on cardstock once or twice. Repeat as many times as you wish.
- Ink Crane stamp with Memories black ink and stamp on opaque Crack & Peel sticker paper. Colour in the selected areas with the Sparkling H2Os and go over the white dots on the crane with the Sakura white gel pen to give the dots some dimension.
- When the paint and the gel are dry, cut the crane image out as close to the outline as possible.
- Decide where on the fan you want to place the crane then remove the backing from the image and affix to the cardstock.
- Write or print your sentiment above the slots in the fan.
- Lastly, cut a length of coordinating ribbon and weave it through the slots and glue down the tail in a nice manner. Put some clear tape on the back of the ribbon to keep it from moving in the slots.
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Problem with AllowSHMPixmaps in KDE 4.1.1
Today, after upgrading to KDE 4.1.1, Kwin effects stopped working. Moreover, it was impossible to change the compositing type from OpenGL to Xrender, i got an error message saying that my xorg.conf was broken.
these are my custom options:
Option "PixmapCacheSize" "1000000"
Option "AllowSHMPixmaps" "0"
Option "OnDemandVBlankInterrupts" "true"
Later I noticed that after commenting the line of "AllowSHMPixmaps" Kwin effects were back. Can anyone confirm this? I also noticed that the Kwin effects added in KDE 4.1.1 (3D cube and similar) does not work, they simply show a black screen.
Can anyone confirm this?
I'm running KDE 4.1.1 from the Factory repository on opensuse 11 x86. Driver version is 177.70
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Transgression as Addiction: Religiosity and Moral Disapproval as Predictors of Perceived Addiction to Pornography
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Perceived addiction to Internet pornography is increasingly a focus of empirical attention. The present study examined the role that religious belief and moral disapproval of pornography use play in the experience of perceived addiction to Internet pornography. Results from two studies in undergraduate samples (Study 1, N = 331; Study 2, N = 97) indicated that there was a robust positive relationship between religiosity and perceived addiction to pornography and that this relationship was mediated by moral disapproval of pornography use. These results persisted even when actual use of pornography was controlled. Furthermore, although religiosity was negatively predictive of acknowledging any pornography use, among pornography users, religiosity was unrelated to actual levels of use. A structural equation model from a web-based sample of adults (Study 3, N = 208) revealed similar results. Specifically, religiosity was robustly predictive of perceived addiction, even when relevant covariates (e.g., trait self-control, socially desirable responding, neuroticism, use of pornography) were held constant. In sum, the present study indicated that religiosity and moral disapproval of pornography use were robust predictors of perceived addiction to Internet pornography while being unrelated to actual levels of use among pornography consumers.
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- Transgression as Addiction: Religiosity and Moral Disapproval as Predictors of Perceived Addiction to Pornography
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Volume 44, Issue 1 , pp 125-136
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- 2015-01-01
- 10.1007/s10508-013-0257-z
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- 0004-0002
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- 1573-2800
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- Springer US
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- Internet pornography
- Religiosity
- Addiction
- Morality
- Sexuality
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- Julie J. Exline (1)
- Kenneth I. Pargament (2)
- Joshua N. Hook (3)
- Robert D. Carlisle (4)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Psychological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, 44106-7123, USA
- 2. Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA
- 3. Department of Psychology, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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`Last Lecture' Author Joins Those Who Wrote With End in Sight
CHICAGO _ The best writers' retreat of all may be a place where nobody really wants to go: the valley of the shadow of death.
That is where many memorable and popular works have been created, as their authors come to terms with their imminent demise. Randy Pausch, who died Friday at 47, is the latest in a line of writers whose words burn with a special intensity, whose observations glow with an irrefutable poignancy, because they are written with the certain knowledge that death hovers near.
Pausch's "The Last Lecture" (Hyperion), co-written with Jeffrey Zaslow and published in April, is based on a public talk Pausch delivered in September 2007 at Carnegie Mellon University, where he taught computer science. Pausch had been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, and the lecture, he said, was intended for his three young children. "But if others are finding value in it," he added on his blog, "that is wonderful."
Just as his speech _ recorded and viewed thousands of times on YouTube and other web venues _ caught fire, the book was an instant sensation. Filled with insights and homilies about retaining a sense of optimism and childlike wonder, but never maudlin, "The Last Lecture" still holds the No. 1 spot on many non-fiction bestseller lists.
Before Pausch, there were other writers whose works achieved a solemn grace and unassailable dignity from their authors' impending death. British dramatist Dennis Potter, author of the acclaimed work "The Singing Detective," who died in 1994 from cancer, announced in his final months that he was working frantically to finish two scripts before he passed away: "My only regret," he said during a BBC interview, "is if I die four pages too soon."
Many writers and artists pass away close to the release date of a major work. Actor Heath Ledger died from an accidental overdose of prescription medication in January, after filming his role as the Joker in "The Dark Knight," now in theaters. But Ledger presumably did not know his life soon would end. What gives "The Last Lecture" its extraordinary radiance is that Pausch most definitely did know _ and because he knew and wrote anyway, he touched millions.
So did Cornelius Ryan. The Irish-born author of historical and military fiction such as the "The Longest Day" (1959) and "A Bridge Too Far" (1974), died from cancer as he struggled to finish the latter. He succumbed two months after publication. In "A Private Battle," a 1979 memoir that includes his diary entries, his wife, Kathryn Morgan Ryan, detailed his fervent desire to write "The End" on his dramatic fictional version of an ill-conceived assault during World War II. He often refused medication that would have eased his pain, she revealed, because he wanted to keep his mind clear to write.
Perhaps the best-known example of a writer whose work is imbued with the author's knowledge of his oncoming death is President Ulysses S. Grant. His "Memoirs," still praised for its modesty and clarity, was written while Grant sat on the front porch of his home, bundled up against the chill induced by his throat cancer. Financially broken, his family in dire straits, Grant yearned to finish the work before he died. Critic Edmund Wilson offered this portrait of the doomed, scribbling general:
"Humiliated, bankrupt and voiceless, on the very threshold of death, sleeping at night sitting up in a chair as if he were still on the field and could not risk losing touch with developments, he relived his old campaigns."
Grant's "Memoirs" was completed just days before his death on July 23, 1885. Its publication was a huge success, earning almost half a million dollars for Grant's needy family.
Author Carol Shields, the Chicago-area native whose 1993 novel "The Stone Diaries" won a Pulitzer Prize, lived in Canada most of her adult life. But learning that she was dying of cancer, she returned to Chicago in April 2003 to research a final novel, "Segue" _ a novel she was not able to finish before her death, which came four months later: "I feel when I write," Shields told the Chicago Tribune, "as if I'm doing the only thing I can do, with this illness."
Pausch felt the same way about his diagnosis: It was an inspiration to keep going, not a reason to quit.
The same spirit moved British poet John Keats, whose final book _ written as he began to realize that tuberculosis would put him in an early grave, as indeed it did, in 1821 when he was 25 _ includes such masterpieces as "Ode on Melancholy": "She dwells with Beauty _ Beauty that must die;/And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips Bidding adieu …"
When it comes to death's effect on words, though, it is hard to top poet Wallace Stevens' line: "Death is the mother of beauty."
And sometimes, it seems, it is also the mother of bestsellers.
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The 1/1 scale Gundam is going to be back on display in Shizuoka this time. You will be able to see it while riding the Shinkansen? That would be a cool view from the window. Mt Fuji on one side, Gundam on the other.
It will be on display from July 2010 until May 2011, and will then move to other Prefectures in Japan before returning to the Bandai factory in Shizuoka.
This looks like the location from google maps.
More details at dannychoo.com, Yahoo.co.jp.
You can see more pictures of Gundam when it was on display in Odaiba, and the wedding event that was held at the base of Gundam. Also, some extra photos on my flickr account and wallpaper.
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McEnroe Meldown in Memphis...LOL !!!!!
LOL !!!!!!!! What a jerk !!!!! LOL !!!!!
Haha what a tool, he's still funny though
People come out to see McEnroe pitch a fit, and he obliges. That's show business.
It would have been interesting to see that live. :rolleyes: But I would have loved to be there more because of Wayne Ferreira. ;) I'm glad he won the match and I hope to see him play again in the future. :D
All part of his master plan :)
Based on McEnroe's TV tennis commentary and his book, I thought he had matured. However, he was a totally immature jerk at a similar Senior roundrobin championship held in April (I think) in the Boston area. His behavior was bad at most of his matches, but he took it to a new level of disgrace playing against an injured Pat Cash. He was extremely uptight right from the start of the match and was so totally intent on winning that he was like a 5 year old throwing a temper tantrum for virtually the entire match, blaming everyone but himself whenever he lost a point. He unfairly and continuously berated linesman for good calls that went against him. What an embarrassment to the sport. It became very painful to even watch him. This was not some premeditated act for the paying customers, most of whom were disgusted by his behaviour, especially the ones who brought their kids. The guy's temper is very seriously out-of-control.
I like McEnroe's tennis commentary and I really enjoy watching him play (when his behavior is in-check), however, I would ban him from playing unless he can clean-up his on-court behaviour.
lol Love him or hate him it's what the fans pay to see.
He was trying to cheat his way out of a loss, as he has been doing all his career, along with Connors. I am glad it didn't work.
Sit down for a few mintues and then play on? I was once victim of that tactic. I was up 3 match points in a league match tie-breaker when this jerk was "injured" and rested 15 minutes, and then decided to come back to play. Getting to every ball and beat me.
watching johnny mac sometimes is like watching hardcore tennis.
That's what makes Johnny Mac, Johnny Mac. Quit whining about his antics.
I know other people that change personalities in competition. They need to win at all costs. We use to joke that my brother would kill our mother to win. I'm not sure it was a joke. He seems to have gotten better, but Mac hasn't.
whoa, Mac is better commentating then playing, lol
I think much of his antics now is an act to draw in crowds to the senior events. I rmember when he did an exhibiton vs. Vilas where I lived as a kid people were upset he didn't carry on. Puts butts in the seats and gets people talking.
So he injures his eye but still insists he sees line calls perfectly? Yeah, right. I saw that early match in Boston against Ivanisevic---at one point, he yelled at the ump, "I'll bet you $10,000 that ball was out, and you only have to put up one dollar!!" He was intimidating umps and linesmen during the whole tournament. After he lost in the final against Todd Martin, he blamed the linesmen. What a sportsman....
You can't be serious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)
I AM serious, Stevie Ray! I'm glad I saw that match on TV for free, cos I wouldn't pay a dime to see him in person.
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Companies hire lawyers for a reason. Hopefully, they do so for more than one reason. Lawyers provide several important benefits, contrary to all the jokes and ridicule against the profession.
The attorney-client privilege encourages confidential communications between business actors and attorneys. As the Supreme Court has stated, "[t]he purpose of the privilege is to encourage clients to make full disclosure to their attorneys." In addition, assuming a business acts on the basis of the attorney's advice, the client has an added protection under the law – an advice of counsel defense.
Compliance programs should include procedures which build in proof of advice of counsel in resolving a compliance decision. How would this work?
When conducting due diligence of a potential third party, a file should be assembled which includes all the information and documentation developed during the due diligence process. At the conclusion of this process, in-house or outside counsel should review the file, prepare a brief memo analyzing the issues, and reach a conclusion as to going forward with the third party agent, couched in appropriate words.
This last step is critical. The company is relying on the attorney's advice in deciding to go forward. It has an extra layer of protection by documenting and acting on the basis, in part, of the attorney's conclusion.
An advice of counsel defense can be effective. If established, the defense shows that the defendant lacked the necessary criminal intent, or mens rea, to commit the crime. The advice-of-counsel defense is only available if the alleged crime requires specific intent. A large number of crimes require specific intent – e.g. obstruction of justice; fraud; false claims. The defense has never been raised in an FCPA case, but there is no logical reason why it could not be raised.
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The advice of counsel defense does not come without risks and legal complications. The advice-of-counsel defense waives the attorney-client privilege protecting communications between a client and their counsel. A defendant may not both use the advice-of-counsel defense as both a sword and a shield. The question of the extent of such waiver is often litigated and a significant risk when relying on such a defense. Courts are reluctant to extend the waiver of the privilege far beyond the specific question of the advice at issue in the case.
In this risky enforcement environment, compliance programs have to integrate practical steps to ensure that advice of counsel can be raised as a possible defense. Criminal cases are extremely hard to prove when there is evidence that the company believed that the legality of its actions was unclear, sought advice of counsel, and then relied on that advice before engaging in the alleged criminal conduct.
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The village of Dolgeville is looking to implement a ban on the sale and possession of synthetic drugs.
During Monday night's meeting of the village board of trustees, Police Chief Richard Congdon proposed implementing a local law banning the sale and possession of synthetic drugs, including bath salts.
The village of Dolgeville is looking to implement a ban on the sale and possession of synthetic drugs.
During Monday night's meeting of the village board of trustees, Police Chief Richard Congdon proposed implementing a local law banning the sale and possession of synthetic drugs, including bath salts.
Recently, the village had a scare after an incident that involved bath salts.
On June 25, Daniel Nellis was apprehended by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office after he was found armed and running around the village yelling. Police sized over 170 weapons at 53 Dolge Ave., several of which were loaded. Nellis underwent a mental health evaluation after the incident.
Congdon said the 39-year old confessed to using bath salts.
The night before the incident Nellis was involved in a motor vehicle accident in Fulton County and was issued a traffic ticket, said Congdon, adding no charges were filed against Nellis for the incident that occurred on June 25.
The village plans to use the same law banning synthetic drugs implemented by the city of Rome.
Congdon said he will work with Village Attorney Norman Mastromoro to create the ban.
He added he hopes to have the law completed and ready for board approval in August.
In other business, Mayor Bruce Lyon allowed public comment at the end of each department head's report. Lyon said by adding the extra public comment period it allowed for those in attendance to have their questions answered more quickly and efficiently. "If someone has a specific question for a department they can ask the department head right after their report. This way questions can be answered directly from the department head and the person does not have to sit through the entire meeting waiting to ask one question," said Lyon. The extra comment period was agreed upon by the board in April, but hasn't been used due to the previous lack of public attendance.
•Resident Barbara Boucher talked about a dog that had been left outside of a Dolgeville residence from Friday night until Sunday morning. Although the dog was given food and water by police, Boucher said she found it frustrating to watch the dog remain outside in the summer heat.
The dog was later reunited with its owner.
Congdon said the owner was in the process of moving and left the dog at the residence.
No citations were given to the owner.
Congdon said there has not been too many dog complaints and this was an unusual circumstance.
Boucher suggested the village and the police department become more knowledgeable of animal control situations and area dog control officers since a dog control officer had not been called to the residence and no citations were given. Currently the village of Dolgeville does not have a dog control officer. For those living in the township of Oppenheim the dog control officer is William Lints and those under the township of Manheim the dog control officer is Keneth Decker.
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Houle said the village is doing its part to keep up the trail that goes through the village. Recently, the village received a $11,950 grant from Herkimer County HealthNet for trail maintenance. The trail has been closed off to motor vehicles since May 1, and will open to snowmobiles on Dec. 1.
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Arif Ejaz Majeed, one of the four young men from Kalyan near Mumbai who were thought to have joined insurgents of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has reportedly been killed in fighting in Iraq.
Arif, an engineering student, was one of four men from Kalyan who went missing from their homes in May. Arif's family — along with the families of the other three men, Fahad Tanvir Sheikh, Aman Naim Tandel and Saheem Farooq Tanki — went to the police some days after they disappeared.
The Indian Express first reported the disappearances on July 14.
Iftikhar Khan, an uncle of Fahad Sheikh, said the news of Arif's death in Iraq was conveyed by Saheem Farooq Tanki, who called his family in Thane on Tuesday night.
"Saheem called us at 6 pm on Monday and told us about Arif's death. He was sobbing throughout and asked us to go and inform Arif's family. He later called us at once again in the night to check if we had informed his (Arif's) family," Kashif Tanki, a relative, said.
Saheem's family passed on the information both to Arif's family and to the Kalyan police.
Friends of Arif's family said that his father, who is a doctor, was shattered by the news and was inconsolable. The family performed Arif's last rites in absentia on Wednesday.
The Indian Express first reported the disappearances on July 14.
"The Ghaibaana Namaaz-e-Janaaza, which is a funeral prayer for times when the body is not available, was offered after the Zuhr (afternoon) namaaz by the family," said a resident of the housing society in which the Majeed family lives. Members of the families of the other three youth were present at the namaaz, neighbours said.
The Bazaarpeth police have recorded the statements of Saheem's family, and were on Wednesday attempting to verify the report of Arif's death. "Saheem said that he had made inquiries about Arif's whereabouts and well being, and learned that he had died. Saheem did not have any more details. There has been no official confirmation yet from any of the investigating agencies," Iftikhar Khan said.
The four families live in the same Dudh Naka-Govindwadi area of Kalyan (West). The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad had picked up laptops and pen drives from the youths' homes on the evening of July 14. Late on July 18 evening, Arif's father, Ejaz Badruddin Majeed, had met Home Minister Rajnath Singh in Delhi, and handed him a letter, reportedly seeking action against the people who had radicalised his son and persuaded him to join the jihadis in the Middle East.
Before leaving home, Arif had left behind a letter saying "fighting has been enjoined upon you", and telling his mother that …continued »