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I have seen a few friends posted their coconut jelly recipes in the past and this has inspired me to make my own using some fresh coconut water that I bought from a local supermarket. A fresh coconut is selling for $2-$3 in
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初次在Aunty Young的家看到一些圆圆的椰子果冻就留下了深刻的印象,告诉自己也要做些来吃。就这样便跑去超级市场买了一粒新鲜的椰子回来,做了这道<新鲜椰子果冻>。它们像不像特大的露珠?
I use this ice ball tray to shape my jellies. I have seen this mold being sold in Daiso, Chatswood last year but I'm not sure whether they are still available now.
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COLUMBIA CITY ŌĆö Columbia City High School Athletic Director Geoff Penrod is the only AD who has seen the Northeast Hoosier Conference from start to finish.
Penrod was involved in the formation of the NHC after the Northeastern Indiana Athletic Conference dissolved. The new conference, NHC, was nearly identical to the NIAC, minus Angola, South Adams and Bluffton.
The NHC took Homestead, DeKalb, East Noble, Bellmont, New Haven and Columbia City from the NIAC and added Carroll and Norwell.
Rumors of the NHC dissolving began early this year, and turned into reality this week, as the conference president announced that in 2015, the NHC would be no more.
NHC President Mark Misch said in a press release Thursday that all eight member schools agreed to withdraw from the conference due to the gap in enrollment numbers.
ŌĆ£It just got to the point where there was too much of a difference between the big schools and the smaller schools,ŌĆØ Penrod said. ŌĆ£The main reason was the enrollment numbers; it didnŌĆÖt have to do with the number of wins or conference titles.ŌĆØ
Penrod said while schools like Carroll and Homestead have had a drastic increase in enrollment over the last several years, other members of the NHC have stayed the same. ŌĆ£When the NHC was formed, Homestead wasnŌĆÖt the largest school ŌĆö DeKalb was,ŌĆØ Penrod said.
ŌĆ£It looks like Carroll and Homestead are only going to continue to grow,ŌĆØ Penrod said. ŌĆ£And it seems that the rest of us are going to stay the same or only have a slow improvement.ŌĆØ
Homestead and Carroll are the only two NHC schools that will be advancing to the new Class 6A in football next season. While Penrod said itŌĆÖs too soon to give a definite answer on Columbia CityŌĆÖs plans, his desire is that the Eagles find a new conference home.
ŌĆ£Our goal is to find a conference similar in size and competitiveness,ŌĆØ Penrod said. While there are talks of some schools staying independent and not joining another conference, Penrod said thatŌĆÖs not the plan for CCHS.
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CD/DVD player disappears after Win8 install + reg edit fix doesn't work
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Posted December 31, 2012 at 1:01PM
Having installed WIn8 for a third and final try, I now find that my CD/DVd player has disappeared from the system so I can't install any further software.
I've done the reg edit fix for this available online but it hasn't corrected the problem. Also, I've downloaded the free MS Media Centre add-on, which is also supposed to resolve the issue, also without success - I have the media centre function, but not DVD/CD player.
Can anyone help with advice on beating this bug?
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When you ran the reg fix did you get any errors? Did you run CMD as admin?
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There were no errors when I ran the edit. And, yes, I used the admin version of the prompt to run it.
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Left corner, right click, Device Manager, DVD/CD-ROM drives right click and try 'Scan for hardware changes.
Left corner, right click, Disk manager, if you scroll down do you see CD-ROM O. If it's there without a letter you will need to change drive letter and paths.
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This one is slightly different, save to notepad as Drive.reg then merge.
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I thought I had cured this fault but after a few reboots it has gone again.I tried the regedit but it didn't work for me ,I don't know if I did it correctly but I pasted it in and I used the admin command ,perhaps someone could give me a step by step instruction as I am not all that good with computers
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Tried again ,this time using
reg.exe add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Controller0" /f /v EnumDevice1 /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001 this was successful I can now see the DVD However only time will tell whether the cure is long lasting
thanks to everyone viejo
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I had this and other problems with Windows 8 and found that the easiest solution, which cured them all, was to re-install Windows 7. I liked Windows 8 but I'm going to leave it for a few months before trying again.
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Anthony Rizzo slugged his first Cubs homer on Saturday
Jul 1, 2012, 9:05 AM EDT
Anthony Rizzo made his major league debut last year as a member of the Padres and belted his first career home run in a June 11 loss to the Nationals.
Now he's on the board with his new team, the Cubs.
The 22-year-old first baseman smoked a two-run blast over the right field fence in the bottom of the sixth inning Saturday, plating Starlin Castro and pushing the Cubs to a 3-2 lead over the Astros.
It's a lead they would not relinquish, giving Rizzo his second game-winning hit in four games since arriving at Wrigley Field last Tuesday night. "It just feels good to get that win and get that monkey off my back hitting a home run and this and that," he told JJ Stankevitz of CSNChicago.com after the victory.
Rizzo is now 4-for-15 with two doubles, a dinger and three RBI — good for a .267/.313/.600 slash line.
- cerowb - Jul 1, 2012 at 9:48 AM
His defense is a lot better than I thought it would be. Kid can really handle himself around the bag, which is great to see.
- flyerscup2010 - Jul 1, 2012 at 11:21 AM
he had a monkey on his back from being in the league for three games without a homer?
- icanspeel - Jul 1, 2012 at 2:23 PM
No it's probably from the last 40 or so games he played on the Padres without hitting a home run. He started off decently on the Padres and then just slumped the rest of the year, got sent back down, came back up in September and couldn't hit again.
- 11thstreetmafia - Jul 1, 2012 at 5:20 PM
This guy is better than I thought he would be…
- schuckme - Jul 1, 2012 at 6:13 PM
the padres are seriously gonna regret letting him go, dont get me wrong cashner is a solid flamethrower but still rizzo my become the next phenom not named harper or trout and i would rather have a guy who can smoke the ball and be and RBI machine than a guy who only pitches an inning now and then.. cashner will be a great closer one day tho
- gloccamorra - Jul 1, 2012 at 7:02 PM
Cashner is now a starter, and if he pitches like his did in his last outing, he could be an ace. Rizzo will hit 30-40 homers a season at Wrigley, but even if they moved the RF fence in at Petco, he wouldn't hit nearly that many for the Padres. Look at the slash line: the .600 slugging looks good, but some scouts, and not just on the Padres, think the .267/.313 is Rizzo's best case, with 180-200 Ks. Josh Byrnes found no takers for Rizzo, except the Cubs, now run by the guys who drafted him in Boston.
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Indian Air force's C-130J Hercules aircraft crashed 75 miles away from Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh. The C-130J was a goods carrier that started its journey from Agra as per television reports.
India had recently inducted six C-130J Super Hercules aircraft, which were bought from the US at the cost of around Rs.6000 crore ($ 1.1 billion) four years ago.
The Lockheed Martin C-130J "Super" Hercules is a four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft. The C-130J is a comprehensive update of the venerable Lockheed C-130 Hercules, with new engines, flight deck, and other systems. The Hercules family has the longest continuous production run of any military aircraft in history.
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The Nova special "Inside Animal Minds" looks at the science of animal cognition and what it's revealing about how animals understand the world around them. Diana Reiss, dolphin cognition and communications expert and professor of psychology at Hunter College, and Julia Cort, Senior Producer of Nova, talk about the intelligence of dogs, birds, and dolphins.
When it comes to animal brains, Cort says, "It's all about relative size. Relative to body size and relative to the size of brain that you would need to run your body." Seen that way, a crow's brain is the equivalent of a chimpanzee's. Apes, elephants, dolphins, crows, humans all have bigger brains that you would expect.
- Crows can tackle multi-step tasks that require them to use tools, in a specific order, to get their prize.
- Bees can communicate about the location of food sources through a "waggle dance." And researchers have found that bees can learn and even anticipate.
- "Octopuses are amazing," Cort says. In the series, an octopus picks us a coconut shell and uses it to hide behind for protection.
- Dolphins are another incredibly social animal. So much so that Dr. Reiss says, "we think now that they may even show higher social complexity than we see in some of the chimps."
- Elephants are highly cognitive, social animals and can distinguish between individuals.
In one experiment a dog and a raven were given the same task. The raven figures out the task faster than the dog with the owner trying to teach the dog. But before you conclude that dogs are dumb, Dr. Reiss warns, "We have to think about intelligence relative to the species. So dogs have evolved to…do the things that dogs need to do. Crows have certain other kinds of challenges."
The three-hour special "Inside Animal Minds" premieres April 9, 16, and 23, at 9 pm.
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Crows using tools? The Greeks knew that! See the Aesop's fable about the crow who gets the water from the jar.
Intelligence? I think it's hard to say. If they've been doing these things for possibly thousands of years, perhaps they've got specific genetic traits that have evolved into instincts.
Flying is pretty intelligent too. How did they figure that one out?
The more we learn, the smarter they get ...
Interesting that cows, chickens, turkeys, pigs, and other animals were not mentioned. Is that because they are farmed for food in the most horrible ways and it is a touchy subject for most?
I believe that Virginia Morrell in Animal Wise suggests that it is not the actual volume of the brain that indicates an animal's intelligence, but the relationship between already filled space in the brain at birth, and the capacity to fill that space with knowledge and information. Thus, the more empty space, the more room for intelligence.
Great show.
I thought brain convolutions were at least as important as brain size.
When you ask "what are they exploring" rather than "what are they thinking" a naturalist observer discovers much more about what animals are doing. I once watched water bugs (long legged striders) on a hillside stream in Tennessee for an hour. There was a "big one" and 4 or 5 small ones, the big one saying in the slow water below a fast rapids a couple feet upstream, very clearly coming up behind the little ones if they lost balance and were swept down to that slow water, then bopping them back up into the fast section, clearly as if to insist they try again. In the hour the little ones had caught the knack!
"Thinking", not sure, but "parenting" or something like it fairly clearly, and having nothing to do with "size"!
Watching Game of Thrones, I'm curious about how birds have been trained over the ages to deliver messages to places they have never been.
Among dogs, are some breeds "smarter" than others?
Also, how do mixed breeds compare to purebreds?
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Concentration! Urination! Defecation!
It's the concentration part that's hard. Do it or else, dog! Grrrr.
Amazing that such an accomplished singer has found time to study animal psychology. You'll always be my favorite diva, Diana!
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Research last year showed that elephants are able to understand human gestures. The experiment had two boxes, one with food. A person points at the box with food and usually the elephants would go right to that box.
Other recent reearch on elephants shows that they can differentiate between different African languages.
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JACKSON — Gov. Phil Bryant signed a package of bills into law Monday aimed at reducing crime and making the state's roads safer.
The anti-crime laws will help make high-growth areas like DeSoto County safer, which encourages growth from businesses considering moving into the area but having public safety concerns.
"It's hard for your economic growth to continue if you've got an area with high crime," Bryant said after the bill-signing ceremony in his Capitol office.
"DeSoto County doesn't, but what we want to do is maintain that security for people who move there, who are putting their warehouses in and moving their families and CEOs into that area. So it'll be of particular benefit to high-growth areas like DeSoto County."
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There are seven human sins that keep us from being angels, but not quite devils. Lust, Gluttony, Envy, Sloth, Pride, Greed, and Wrath. It is said that when we overpower these sins we can cleanse our souls. That is when you can be an angel.
Jesus Christ, Ghandi, and the Dalai Lama are one of the few that have achieved this, which may be why they are so great. But of all the sins that we have, the hardest obstacle is almost never passed. This obstacle hinders our ability to 'forgive and forget'. Pride.
If you cannot forgive those who have wronged, you can never truly cleanse your soul. Pride and Wrath, sometimes even Envy, are the causes of a grudge, and a grudge can lead to revenge. Revenge is not vengeance, for you have wronged the sinner. And so begins the cycle once again.
As I, and many before we have said, we are merely human. Not quite angels, but not quite devils either. We are the bridge between dark and light, bad and good. And for this reason, we make mistakes. Forgiving one another of their mistakes is not the same thing as loving them. Not everyone can love every and all things.
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Nevertheless, chronic pain affects more than 70 million Americans.
Pain is the body's way of sending a warning to the brain that something is wrong. Aches are felt when pain messages, carried by chemicals called neurotransmitters, travel from the nerves, along the spinal cord to the brain. In the brain, pain messages are meshed with thoughts, emotions and expectations that shape our interpretation and response to pain.
Both emotions and drugs can change the perception of pain because both affect neurotransmitter levels. Both emotions and chemicals also alter the amount of endorphins, the body's natural pain relievers, which block the relay of pain messages to the brain. Depending on your mood and mental state, pain messages can be slowed, strengthened or stopped entirely. For example, fear, anger and worry can mask or heighten pain, while calming, positive thoughts can ease it.
There are two types of pain. "Nociceptive" pain is pain caused by tissue damage in the skin, muscles, bone or internal organs. Joint pain caused by arthritis, for instance, is an example of nociceptive pain. "Neuropathic" pain involves the nerve cells that transmit pain messages to the brain because either the nerves themselves are damaged or because they are not functioning properly and are sending out persistent messages.
You may hear nociceptive and neuropathic pain referred to as "acute" and "chronic" pain. Pain specialists prefer the terms nociceptive and neuropathic because they better define the parameters of the pain experience. The more scientific terms enable clinicians to zero in on where and how to begin diagnosis and treatment.
These newer classifications are important because they are based on current understanding of pain pathophysiology of the nervous system. The terms, "acute pain" and "chronic pain" are not accurate because there is no time relationship between when pain changes from being acute to being chronic. An arbitrary time frame--typically three months--was identified as the point at which the pain experience changed from acute to chronic.
But time has no relationship to changes in the nervous system. For example, phantom pain, which is an excellent example of neuropathic pain, can occur within 24 hours of an amputation and be permanent. The newer classification helps us better understand complex pain problems.
Understanding Nociceptive and Neuropathic Pain
Nociceptive pain basically represents pain associated with a pain receptor. This kind of pain is a signal to the body that it's being damaged in some way that needs immediate attention. Trauma, infection or illness can cause nociceptive pain. Toothaches, sprains, backaches or a broken bone are other common causes. Although unpleasant, most injuries resulting in nociceptive pain are short-lived and are easily treated with rest or medications.
Neuropathic pain refers to pain that is not associated with specific pain receptors and probably represents damage to or sensitization of the nervous system (this is when pain becomes the disease process itself, rather than representing a "warning" of underlying pathology). It is constant, often lasting for months after an injury or trauma and can be disabling.
Neuropathic pain can cause fatigue, concentration problems and appetite changes and lead to suppression of the immune system, depression, anxiety and even suicide. Conditions that cause such pain include osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia, and are more common in women than in men. This form of pain is also associated with progressive illnesses such as arthritis and cancer. Cancer pain is, more often than not, nociceptive, due to a tumor invading bones or organs or certain cancer treatments, such as surgery or radiation therapy.
While undertreated nociceptive pain can lead to neuropathic pain, not all neuropathic pain needs to have been preceded by nociceptive pain, and there is no specific timeframe for when it can occur. Perhaps the worst aspect of either persistent nociceptive or neuropathic pain is not knowing how long it will last or what can relieve it, which makes coping with it difficult.
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Winther-Jensen, Bjorn*, Forsyth, Maria*, West, Keld*, Andreasen, Jens Wenzel*, Bayley, Paul*, Pas, Steven* and MacFarlane, Douglas R.* (2008) Order–disorder transitions in poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene), Polymer, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 481-487, Elsevier Ltd., Oxford, England [C1.1]
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Essayist and poet Lia Purpura teaches the craft of writing across the U.S., including at the Rainier Writing Workshop in Washington, and, this fall, at Columbia University. But she has called Baltimore home for more than 20 years, and right now serves as writer in residence at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. "I have to say, it's rare to be at an institution and in a department that so values writing, writers, and the production of creative work," she says. A winner of three Pushcart Prizes and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Purpura's writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, among other publications. Her most recent work, a compilation of essays called Rough Likeness, was published in 2011; forthcoming in 2015 from Viking/Penguin is her collection of new poems, It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful. Purpura will be reading at the 11th annual CityLit Festival at the Enoch Pratt Central Library on Saturday. City Paper caught up with her via email to talk to her about her new residency and literary life in Baltimore.
City Paper: Tell me about the UMBC residency. Why did you take it?
CP: Some of those students will be with you at CityLit this year, right?
LP: This is UMBC's first appearance at CityLit. I'll be reading with my very talented colleagues Mike Fallon and Holly Sneeringer, and with three terrific English majors, and we'll be covering all genres.
CP: What makes the CityLit Festival special? Why is it important to the city?
LP: CityLit is a totally unique, homegrown, but in no way provincial event-it presents nationally known authors alongside emerging voices and local talent, and it represents writers of all genres. In one day. And it's free.
CP: In Rough Likeness there's an essay, "There Are Things Awry Here," where at one point you lament the fact that you teach writing-that if you had your choice, you and all the students would just be writing and reading great works of writing.
LP: When I wrote that essay, I was in Alabama teaching a grad class and I was struck by how impossible it can feel at times to talk about the things you're trying to do, and how internal most of the important questions you wrangle with as an artist really are. ... At times, it's really best to just read and find your answers therein-in the writing of others that you aspire to.
elrodeotowson.com You grew up on Long Island but have been in Baltimore for a while. Why write here, as opposed to New York?
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On Aug. 21, several local businesses, Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) board members and coaches, who brought their teams to Starkville, kicked off the high school football season by showing the movie "When the Game Stands Tall."
After testimonies before the movie and the movie's showing, Oak Hill junior Kaleb Darnell committed his life to Jesus Christ. He was baptized last Wednesday at the Oak Hill football field in West Point. Darnell was one of 26 high school players that committed their lives.
With the score even (12-12) after the opening round of best ball and alternate shot in the ninth annual ISPS Handa Cup, the title came down to the final day, in which the U.S. and World teams squared off in 12 individual matches.
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Hebron (4-2) used three turnovers and Landon Hill's big individual night to down Delta Academy (2-4), 38-14, in a non-district 8-man game Friday at Hebron Christian School in Pheba.
"A pretty good effort on all our parts against Delta," Hebron Head Coach David Foster said. "Defensively, we did well not giving them the edge, and we caused some turnovers."
When momentum swings, anything can happen.
The Oxford Chargers made major things happen as they rode a huge upward swing to a road win.
No. 6 Oxford (4-1; 1-0 District 1-5A) scored 35 unanswered points in the final 26 minutes, dispatching West Point, 43-22, in both teams' division opener Friday at McCallister Field in West Point. The win was Oxford's second consecutive victory over the Green Wave after losing eight straight games when the series started in 2005.
Two-time Women's U.S. Open champion Juli Inkster has a lot of fondness for Old Waverly Golf Course. One of those memories is winning her first U.S. Open at the course.
The good memories associated with the West Point golf club could continue to build as Inkster, competing in her first LPGA Legends Tour event, and foursome partner Meg Mallon helped fuel a seven-point rebound for the USA team at the ninth-annual ISPS Handa Cup Saturday at Old Waverly in West Point.
For many high school coaches, the season is broken into three seasons.
There's the preseason or non-district slate. After non-district portion, the overall records become obsolete as the division schedule opens up where teams jockey for positioning in the postseason bracket. By the postseason, the records are thrown out the window again, as everybody hopes to make dreams come true.
When players have interactions off the gridiron, at church and social gatherings, a sense of familiarity begins to flourish between opposing forces.
Oak Hill Academy and Heritage Academy are well aware of this situation.
With many being friends off the field, bragging rights will be up for grabs when the Raiders (3-2; 1-1 District 2-AA) and the Patriots (3-2; 1-1 District 1-AAA) battle in a non-district game beginning 7 p.m. tonight at OHA in West Point.
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SCOOBA — Having reached the midpoint of their regular-season football slate, the No. 1-ranked Lions of East Mississippi Community College travel to Fulton to meet MACJC North Division foe Itawamba Community College Thursday evening on the ICC campus. Kickoff at ICC's Eaton Field is set for 7 p.m.
The West Point Green Wave might have found its identity as a second-half team in the past two weeks.
The Wave used 19 unanswered points in the final two quarters to defeat the Noxubee County Tigers, 33-19, Friday at McCallister Field in West Point.
Trailing at halftime, senior Quincy Starks scored two rushing touchdowns, a 10-yarder in the third quarter and a 46-yarder to begin the fourth quarter. Senior Kadarius Fordside scored the knock-out blow with a 4-yard touchdown carry at the 3:47 mark.
The final two quarters were not for the faint of heart.
Despite four turnovers, three during the second half, Oak Hill (3-2; 1-1 District 2-AA) avoided a disastrous Homecoming game as the Newton County Academy Generals missed a go-ahead field goal with less than 10 seconds remaining in a 29-27 decision Friday at Oak Hill Academy in West Point.


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Clinton clinched the out Four County Conference regular season championship on Saturday as they defeated Wallace, at Wallace, 67-52. Michael Boykin led Clinton in scoring with 16 points.
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Pardon the typo's-Theres a baby in my lap!
Love my happy family of seven!
Jessica - happy wife to JJ (met in 4th grade married 6/4/2011) and loving mommy to JT (11) and Joleigh (5/5/12)
Jamie & Kyle 5.1.2010 Kylee 5.25.2012 Carter 10.27.2013
TTC #3 since 05/2014. 03/2015 First Round of Clomid 50mg. 04/2015 Second Round of Clomid 100mg.
I'm a SAHM, CDing, EPing, CoSleeping, Babywearing, Couponing, and DIY Momma!
Vanessa (26) & Ben (30)
Our Favorite Person---> Blake Anthony 5/6/12
Avery Patricia 7/2/2010 (7lb 7oz)
Harper Joy 5/11/2012 (9lb 5oz)
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Of Geeks: HighLand Fantasy Poster with Fawkes and Codex
Non cosmetic Musings ahead.
Just a public service announcement for the l33t Guild watchers among us, the Fawkes and Codex Highland Poster is available for sale at www.thinkgeek.com
Not quite on sale.
It's actually backordered! But no worries those damn monkees are working hard to restock shortly.
The poster is $19.99 plus shipping with various coupons hanging around for $5 to $10 off of $30 buck purchases so have a little search around Google to save some cash.
I'm still shaking my head that I paid near $30 for a poster but hey, I NEED this framed, hanging over my gaming box.
It's a must.
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P.S. 100% of the proceeds go to Child's Play to buy games, books, toys and videos for sick kids in complex pediatric care worldwide. Vork isn't going to be too happy that the monies aren't going to a new guild hall….
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I was about 7 years old when I saw my first episode of the original Star Trek series. Since that time I've watched and rewatched all of the series so many times that I'm actually uncomfortable admitting that I can actually play a part in some of the episodes considering I know the bloody dialogue so well.
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Anyone see the new Lush Rub Rub Rub?
Here's the deal, I've never been a fan of Rub Rub Rub. At first I loved it, simply because it smelled like my beloved Sakura but later in life I got irritated with it's grainy texture in a bottle. The packaging just threw me for a curve for some reason. An exfoliating shower gel in a bottle never truly felt right to me.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. and PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Centaur Animal Health, is pleased to announce the appointment of Jeffrey Boily as President, CEO, and Director effective September 1, 2013.
Mark Metrokotsas, who has been the CEO, will become Chairman of Centaur's Board of Directors.
Boily brings over 30 years of global life sciences experience in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, drug delivery and animal health and will be instrumental in accelerating plans toward Centaur becoming a major animal health company. Centaur has established a track record of successful execution on product initiatives and is aggressively looking to in-license additional products.
"I'm delighted to lead Centaur Animal Health as we embark on the next phase of growth," said Boily.
"Jeff's background as an entrepreneurial leader and his experience in fund-raising and partnering with large and small firms is a perfect fit for Centaur," said Mark Metrokotsas, Board Chair for Centaur Animal Health.
Jeffrey Boily is non-executive Chairman of ProteaPex Therapeutics, a firm researching and developing innovative animal health therapeutics. Most recently he was President and CEO of the Center for Animal Health Innovation which focused on identifying and funding breakthrough technologies. Previous to this, he was CEO of BioWizard, a VC funded research and information firm for biomedical scientists. He gained large company executive experience at Abbott, Rogers and Wyeth including Fort Dodge Animal Health. He holds an M.B.A. from the John Molson School of Business, Concordia U., Montreal and a B.S. in biology from the U. of Ottawa. He also serves on the Board of Directors of variou
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"Our basic position on nuclear deal has not changed"
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NEW DELHI: "The Left gives support on the basis of a policy framework. This government is stable because we are supporting it. It will last its full term. If the government falls, it won't be because of us," Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat has said.
In an interview to Outlook magazine, Mr. Karat explained why the Left finally allowed the Manmohan Singh government to hold talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) although it had threatened to withdraw support if any such meeting took place.
"From July 2005, we were constantly being presented with a fait accompli [by the government]. But [in November 2007] when indications came that the government was willing to bring back the IAEA draft to the UPA-Left committee, we agreed. The government showed flexibility, so we showed flexibility. But our basic position has not changed — the government cannot go ahead with the nuclear deal," Mr. Karat was quoted as having told the magazine. The interview is to appear in the latest issue of Outlook.
On efforts to forge a third front, he said: "After our United Front experience and earlier efforts to form a third front we decided we would first draw up a programme, create a secular platform and gather forces inside and outside the UNPA. In that process, a third alternative will emerge. In 2006, we decided to start by working with parties not with the NDA on issues of common interest. We accepted the UNPA invitation to join in its campaign on the farmers' issue, but we are not in the UNPA. Currently, we are focussing on joint action on common issues."
Mr. Karat also dismissed the hardliner tag given to him, saying any other CPI(M) leader would have acted the way he had.
"A secular government at the Centre, depended on the Left, provided us with an opportunity to project our policies. Anyone else in the CPI(M) leadership would have also utilised the situation to put forward the Left's policies strongly. We are translating our [electoral] gains to go forward," he told the weekly.


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- 1/2 cup(s) milk
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- Cook noodles using package directions; drain. Combine noodles, tuna, mayonnaise, onion and salt in a 2 quart casserole dish.
- Blend the soup and milk in a small saucepan; heat through. Add the cheese; heat and stir until cheese melts. Add to noodle mixture. Bake uncovered at 425 degrees for 20 minutes.
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A campaign to help sick people in need of unaffordable medicines is clashing with forces in the global pharmaceutical industry.
The death penalty needs to be thought through by liberals, and its acceptance or rejection cannot be á la carte.
The former FCC chairman says he's bitter about the effective dismantling of his low-power radio plan. Under his successor, such an idea won't even get raised.
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Perhaps I underestimate the joy of being given a silly nickname by the Leader of the Free World, but I'm having a hard time understanding why media big feet are so taken by the nation's new Charmer in Chief. Leave aside the extreme right-wing agenda he's pursuing when by any fair measure of voting he lost the election. Forget that he began his term by breaking his key campaign promises. And ignore his frequent and unapologetic lies about his commitment to bipartisan governance. What about the fact that, perhaps more than any President since Nixon, Bush holds the media and its denizens in utter contempt?
Take for example Bush's decision to appoint Otto Reich to head the Latin American office in the State Department. As Peter Kornbluh discusses elsewhere in this issue [see "Bush's Contra Buddies," page 6], Reich's job in the Reagan Administration was simply to lie to (and about) the media. He did it very well. According to Walter Raymond--the CIA propaganda specialist whom William Casey transferred to the National Security Council in order to circumvent the 1947 National Security Act, which restricted CIA involvement in domestic propaganda operations--the purpose of Reich's Office of Public Diplomacy was to "concentrate on gluing black hats on the sandinistas and white hats on the UNO [contras]." Staffed by senior CIA officials with backgrounds in covert operations, military intelligence and psychological warfare, the OPD offered privileges to favored journalists, placed ghostwritten articles over the signatures of contra leaders in leading opinion magazines and on Op-Ed pages, and publicized nasty stories about the Sandinistas, true or not. In its first year, it sent attacks on the Sandinistas to 1,600 college libraries, 520 political science faculties, 122 editorial writers, 107 religious organizations and countless reporters, right-wing lobbyists and members of Congress. It booked advocates for 1,570 lecture and talk-show engagements. In just one week of March 1985, the OPD officers bragged in a memo of having fooled the editors of the Wall Street Journal into publishing an Op-Ed about Nicaragua penned by an unknown professor, having guided an NBC news story on the contras and having written and edited Op-Ed articles to be signed by contra spokesmen, as well as having planted false stories in the media about a visiting Congressman's experiences in Nicaragua.
Among the OPD's lies were stories that portrayed the Sandinistas as virulent anti-Semites, that reported a Soviet shipment of MIG jets to Managua and that purported to reveal that US reporters in Nicaragua were receiving sexual favors--hetero- and homosexual--from Sandinista agents in exchange for pro-Communist reporting. That last lie, published in the July 29, 1985, New York magazine, came directly from Reich.
Perhaps OPD's most important effort was to convince Congress and the media of the contras' democratic bona fides. They did this by pretending that the men handpicked by North as front men were operationally in charge of contra political and military operations. In addition to signing the names of these men to fake Op-Ed articles, Reich and company coached them on how to lie whenever they were asked about being on the US government payroll, as well as about their aims for their US-funded armies. Together with top officials of the State Department, the CIA and the National Security Council, the OPD spent millions to paint civilians as the true leaders of the contras. The United Nicaraguan Opposition (UNO), founded in San José, Costa Rica, in June 1985, thanks in large part to the efforts of Oliver North, was designed to manufacture an acceptably "democratic" face for the contra leadership. According to a private 1985 memo by Robert Owen, North's liaison with the contras, the UNO was entirely "a creation of the USG[overnment] to garner support from Congress." Its leaders were "liars" and "greed and power motivated."
Reporting on Reich's appointment has been decidedly unsensational. The LA Times has ignored it. The New York Times and the Washington Post assigned to the story knowledgeable reporters who covered Central America, but the results reflected the strictures of journalistic objectivity as much as the outrageousness of Reich's activities. Raymond Bonner and Christopher Marquis wrote in the Times that "a government investigation concluded that Mr. Reich's office engaged in prohibited acts of domestic propaganda." (In a backhanded tribute to Bonner's brilliant Central American reporting of the 1980s, Reich called the Times editors with a vicious personal attack on the journalist hoping to get him taken off the story.) Karen DeYoung noted in the Post that the OPD "used what critics called legally questionable means to promote favorable publicity and political support for the U.S.-backed contras in Nicaragua in their war against the Cuba-backed Sandinista government." The Economist was even more generous, insisting that Reich "got marginally caught up in the Iran/contra scandal when his office was accused of engaging in covert propaganda activities to get Americans' support for the Nicaraguan contras." No major paper has yet addressed the issue in an editorial.
Most reports on the appointment have focused on it as payback to extremist Miami Cubans and brother Jeb for their instrumental role in helping Bush hijack Florida and hence the election. (Reich regularly likens Cuba to Auschwitz and to an antebellum slave plantation.) Perhaps it is. But Reich's appointment ought to be recognized as an intentional kick in the teeth to the media, as well as a testament to its lack of institutional memory.
When Kornbluh and Robert Parry first revealed the activities of the OPD in Foreign Policy magazine in 1988, Reich, according to a Boston Globe report, compared the fully accurate article to Hitler's "big lie" technique regarding the Final Solution. It's hard to imagine a more offensive manipulation of the murder of millions than using it to slander journalists and lie to the country about an illegal war--but hell, the Bush people are just getting started.
Attorney General John Ashcroft says he does not want Timothy McVeigh to "inject more poison into our culture"--a striking statement, given the method of McVeigh's execution. Accordingly, he intends to deny permission for television interviews during the Oklahoma City bomber's final weeks on federal death row. (The Oklahoma legislature had a similar purpose in mind when it passed a resolution condemning a new book about McVeigh--thus bringing it more publicity, as a dissenting legislator pointed out.) At the same time, Ashcroft has made a dramatic cultural intervention of his own, authorizing the closed-circuit telecast of McVeigh's execution to perhaps 200 family members of his victims.
Both of Ashcroft's announcements show clearly how capital punishment is coarsening American institutions. Although most of the press coverage did not mention it, the Attorney General's diktat banning broadcast interviews applies not only to McVeigh but to all federal death-row inmates. However repellent the thought of a McVeigh TV interview, the ban is one more step in a repressive, systematic national clampdown on press coverage of prisons, which in some states, like Virginia, has led to a virtual blackout of inmate interviews. In the future, Ashcroft's interview ban could deny broadcast access to a federal inmate far different from McVeigh, someone with a legitimate claim of innocence or discrimination--a real likelihood given the nearly 100 death-row inmates in state prisons exonerated by new evidence and the large percentage of capital convictions overturned for grave constitutional error in the original trial.
The question of a public telecast of McVeigh's lethal injection is now moot with Ashcroft's closed-circuit plan, though the drumbeat for public executions continues--with some support among notable death-penalty abolitionists and civil libertarians like Sister Helen Prejean and Nat Hentoff. Televising executions, their argument goes, would either sicken the public or at least make Americans more accountable for what goes on in their name. We disagree. We see telecasts of executions as a fundamentally different matter from death-row interviews. Today's executions by lethal injection are exercises in the engineering of death, the institutionalizing of death, the bureaucratizing of death. Far from shocking America, viewing lethal injections through the distancing glow of a TV screen will further normalize state killing--as television ultimately normalizes the forms of violence it depicts.
Ashcroft did not invent closed-circuit telecasts of an execution--it has been tried at the state level--but it raises disturbing questions. For one thing, as several technological experts have pointed out, the phone-line transmission may not be immune to hacking or decryption--raising the prospect of a McVeigh snuff film in the near or distant future. More important, it makes this first federal execution, one moving forward even as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joins the call for a death-penalty moratorium, a spectacle of individual vengeance for McVeigh's victims--a dangerous turn toward privatizing justice.
Far from shifting the spotlight to the survivors of Oklahoma City, Ashcroft's decision heightens the perverse amplification of McVeigh's voice initiated by his death sentence. The press spent the early weeks of spring speculating about how large a crowd would watch McVeigh take the needle. Instead of fading into anonymity, McVeigh has kept himself on the front page until his final moments and turned the chronicle of his last months into a testament for the militia fringe, who will make him a martyr. This is justice neither for McVeigh's victims nor for the country--and that is the real poison seeping into our culture from the federal death chamber in Terre Haute.
Congress is poised to reauthorize fearmongering "abstinence-only" sex ed.
The current President George Bush, whose very name evokes a dark era many would prefer to forget, seems determined to resurrect the ghosts of America's scandal-ridden past. A number of his foreign policy appointments are former Iran/contra operatives who are being rehabilitated and rewarded with powerful foreign policy posts.
John Negroponte's nomination to be US ambassador to the United Nations is a case in point. Bush has named him to represent the United States at an institution built on principles that include nonintervention, international law and human rights. Qualifications for the job: Negroponte was a central player in a bloody paramilitary war that flagrantly violated those principles and was repeatedly denounced by the institution in which he would now serve. As ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985, Negroponte was the acknowledged "boss" of the early covert contra operations; he also acted as a proconsul, working closely with the Honduran military commander, whose forces aided the covert war while his embassy consistently denied or misrepresented politically inconvenient evidence of atrocities and abuse.
The nomination of Otto Reich to be Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere is even more offensive to international and domestic principles. A longtime anti-Castro Cuban-American, Reich is backed by Senator Jesse Helms and the hard-line exile groups that want political payback for giving Bush his real or imagined margin of victory in Florida.
Like Negroponte, Reich was a key player in the illicit contra war. In 1983 a CIA propaganda specialist named Walter Raymond handpicked Reich to head the new and innocuous-sounding Office of Public Diplomacy. Housed in the State Department, Reich's office actually answered directly to Raymond and to Oliver North in the White House. A General Accounting Office review showed that Reich's office repeatedly provided sole source contracts to other members of North's network, including those involved in illegal fundraising for arms. More important, a Comptroller General's review concluded that Reich's office had "engaged in prohibited, covert propaganda activities designed to influence the media and the public."
Among those activities, as revealed in declassified records, were "white propaganda" operations--having contractors plant articles in the press or influence print and TV coverage while hiding their government connection--and using US military psychological warfare personnel to engage in, as Reich put it, "persuasive communications" intended to influence public opinion.
Reich himself engaged in a crude form of "persuasive communications," personally berating media executives and harassing reporters if news coverage was not favorable to the Reagan Administration's position. When NPR's All Things Considered ran the first major investigative report on contra human rights atrocities, Reich demanded a meeting with its editors, producers and reporters, at which he informed them that his office was "monitoring" all their programs and that he considered NPR to be biased against the contras and US policy. A Washington Post stringer remembers that after a contentious briefing from Reich in Managua in which the stringer and a reporter from Newsweek questioned the truthfulness of the Administration's assertions, an article appeared in a right-wing newsletter put out by Accuracy in Media calling him a "johnny sandinista" and falsely asserting that the Nicaraguan government was providing the two reporters with prostitutes. Reich's office, the then-US Ambassador to Managua told the Post reporter, was responsible for the rumors.
Reich's role as a revolving-door lobbyist is also likely to be a factor in his nomination hearings. As a partner in the Brock Group, a lobbying firm that according to Justice Department records represented the anti-Castro liquor giant Bacardi, Reich advised Jesse Helms's office on the drafting of the Helms-Burton legislation, which tightens the embargo against Cuba. Since passage of the law in 1996, Reich's own lobbying firm, RMA International, has received $600,000 in payments from Bacardi. Another Reich organization, the US-Cuba Business Council, has received more than $520,000 in US Agency for International Development money for anti-Castro work supporting the goals of the Helms-Burton law. If he's confirmed, Reich would become the key policy-maker interpreting and implementing legislation on Cuba, which he was handsomely paid to promote--a clear conflict of interest.
Reich's only diplomatic credential is his 1986 posting as Ambassador to Venezuela, to which officials in Caracas repeatedly objected. While there, Reich became responsible for the case of notorious terrorist Orlando Bosch, jailed in Caracas on charges of masterminding the bombing of an Air Cubana flight that killed seventy-three people in 1976. In September 1987 Bosch wrote a letter in which he thanked the ambassador as "compatriot Otto Reich" for support--a letter that, after it became public, Reich described in a cable to Washington as "a case of Cuban-Soviet disinformation." When a Venezuelan court ruled that Bosch should be released in late 1987, Reich sent a short "Clearance Response" cable to the State Department's visa office--apparently a request for Bosch to enter the United States. Bosch subsequently entered the United States illegally and was detained on parole violation charges related to terrorism and threatened with deportation because, according to the Justice Department, he had "repeatedly expressed and demonstrated a willingness to cause indiscriminate injury and death." Reich's nomination hearings will provide the first public forum for him to explain the purpose of his "clearance" cable and what role, if any, he played in the first Bush Administration's clearly political decision to drop charges against Bosch and allow him to stay in Florida.
Negroponte has already survived confirmation hearings for two ambassadorships since the Iran/contra scandal and is unlikely to face significant opposition, but Democrats say they are drawing the line at Reich. Senators John Kerry and Christopher Dodd are leading the opposition to Reich on the grounds of his "questionable history." According to Senate aides, opponents plan to put a "hold" on the nomination--a tactic perfected by Helms against Clinton appointments--which will provide time for an investigation, access to classified records and organization of support from farm belt Republicans who understand that Reich's hard-line policy on the trade embargo against Cuba will hurt agricultural interests in their states. The political effort to line up votes against Reich and to seek full disclosure of documents on his public diplomacy operations, ambassadorship and corporate lobbying will begin in earnest after the Senate returns from Easter recess.
In a campaign reminiscent of the successful effort twenty years ago to block Reagan's anti-human rights appointee Ernest Lefever to be Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, the Center for International Policy, the Institute for Policy Studies and the Washington Office on Latin America, among others, are mobilizing to stop the nomination and are confident they can win. "With so much muck connected to his name and his past," suggests CIP director William Goodfellow, "Reich is an inviting target to show that the Democrats are not dead."
Indeed, failure to block Reich could open the door to ever more noxious foreign policy appointees. Senator Helms's top aide, Roger Noriega, is Bush's lead candidate to be ambassador to the Organization of American States. And at least one conservative religious group is touting pardoned Iran/contra criminal Elliott Abrams as a nominee for a human rights post--ambassador at large for international religious freedom.


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Linux enterprise Red Hat reports a revenue of $166 million in its fiscal year ending February 28, 2009. The fourth quarter revenue was $16 million.
Red Hat's revenue grew by 18% in the fiscal year 2009 fourth quarter when compared to that of a year ago, although it lost $6 million in net income to make it $16 million for the quarter. Part of the loss comes from about $4 million in special one-time gains in net income reported in the third quarter as well as a year ago, but which were not included in the current fourth quarter.
Subscription revenue for its Linux products showed a sharp increase of 14% over last year to $139 million for the quarter. The end of fiscal year results show a total revenue of almost $563 million and net income of almost $79 million. This means an annual revenue growth of 25%. However, net income remained about the same, with last year's being $77 million.
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Harry Styles appears to have made himself a mini cele-nemy at the BRITs 2013.
After apparently snubbing Boy George by not knowing who he is, Harry appears to have awoken some rage in the legendary singer.
Taking to Twitter this morning, Boy George decided to tell that world that he thinks Hazza will be the first to leave One Direction.
He tweeted: "I reckon Harry Styles will leave One Direction! You heard it here first!"
I reckon Harry Styles will leave One Direction! You heard it here first!— boygeorge (@BoyGeorge) February 21, 2013
Erm, we're pretty sure we've heard that kind of rubbish before, Boy George.
Regardless, One Direction's fans were quick off the mark to respond to his tweet, sending a reel of abuse at the star.
He later tried to simmer the feud, adding: "Don't hate on me for keeping the spirit of @onedirection very much alive!
"I come from a place of love! Tweets are asides! Nothing more! Public sneezes!" [so many exclamation marks!!!!!!]
It later emerged that Harry apparently had no idea who Boy George was when the star asked for a picture with him for his niece.
And after the debacle this morning, he added: "At least next time we meet he will have have a vague idea of who I am! Lol!"
The feud had already kicked off during last night's BRITs, when Liam Payne reportedly refused to pose with Boy George and the boys' minder asked him to leave.
He received a barrage of abuse after tweeting: "Top marks to Harry Styles for stopping for a picture with my niece and Bo**ox's to Liam and the disrespectful w**ker of a minder!"
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We do not provide an API for IP blacklist status as the information can be easily obtained by performing a simple DNS query against the blacklist's name servers.
Other Data
All other data points are not available from us via an API and at this time we do not expect it made available in the near future.