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Brittney Griner arrives in Valley, introduced by Mercury
And you thought you had a busy week.
Five days after being selected with the first overall pick in the 2013 WNBA Draft, Brittney Griner finally made her way to Phoenix, where she was formally introduced by the Mercury at a Saturday press conference.
"I'm excited to be here," she said with her mom and dad in attendance. "I'm ready to start; wish I could move in tomorrow and start playing. Hope I can live up to everything that everybody is expecting me to live up to. Hope I can bring those alley-oop dunks, block shots and just give you all a good season."
Griner, a three-time All-American and two-time national player of the year out of Baylor, has been the center of attention -- quite literally given her 6-foot-8 frame and 7-4 wingspan -- since Monday when the Mercury drafted her No. 1 in the most anticipated draft class in league history.
"It's definitely been a whirlwind," she said.
Here's but a snapshot of her week's worth of appearances:
ESPN "Car Wash" (Mike & Mike, SportsCenter four times, ESPN Films, ESPN Deportes, First Take, The Mag, Executive Lunch, Coach and Company Radio Show, ESPN.com Chat)
Lunch at the NBA offices, NBA TV
Forbes magazine interview
Diamondbacks game at Yankee Stadium, where she was presented with a personalized D-backs jersey during batting practice prior to appearances on both the TV and radio broadcasts
Huffington Post, NY Times, AP, NBC Sports, SI, SI.com, SI Kids interviews
Knicks game vs. Hawks at Madison Square Garden
10:30 a.m. land in Phoenix
11:30 a.m. press conference
Mercury fan rally
Two-hour video/photo shoot at arena
Coin flip at Rattlers game
Celebrity judge at Mercury Hip Hop Squad auditions
Evening sports shows tour
Morning news hits
11 a.m. leaves for L.A. for more media, meetings and Clippers playoff game
"Every single day and every single time I think it might be too much, she's great," Griner's agent, Lindsay Kagawa Colas said. "She's really having a lot of fun and just enjoying the process."
And Griner never got tired?
"She's leaving all of us in the dust," said Colas, who noted Griner drinks a lot of Red Bull. "She sets the pace and you've got to keep up."
The first NCAA player to record 2,000 points and 500 blocks in a career has enjoyed every minute of the attention.
"I definitely took it all in," Griner said. "At one point there wasn't this much coverage so I was definitely just soaking it in, just keeping a smile on my face. I'm just happy that ESPN and everybody were covering the girls, so definitely happy."
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- Jim Pitman, Phoenix Mercury General ManagerPhoenix Mercury general manager Jim Pitman joins Paul and Wolf.
- Jim Pitman, Suns Executive Vice President & Phoenix Mercury GMThe Mercury GM says the team will stay competitive even with no Diana Taurasi this season.
- Brittney Griner, Phoenix MercuryPhoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner speaks on WNBA uniform changes and her new memoir.


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E-Mail Administration
Final Academic Exercise
Instructions: Please answer the questions below and deliver or email them to me by Thursday, November 20th.
1. How would you set up your TC email account to send a copy of email that you receive to your email account at home?
2. How can you have an event show up more than once on your 'Calendar' without manually entering it each time?
3. What do you need for two sites to be able to replicate directory information?
4. How can an Administrator limit a recipient's mailbox? Describe.
5. Can Moe assign a permission that gives Bill the right to read mail in his mailbox and send messages on his behalf? How?
6. Is a trust relationship required to use a Site Connector?
7. What software must you have installed BEFORE you install Exchange 2000 Server?
8. When we installed Exchange 2000 Server, what 6 changes did it make to Windows 2000 Server?
9. What is the difference between a 'forest', 'domain', and a 'tree'?
10.What are the limitations of Web Access Outlook?
11.How would you perform a complete disaster recovery for Exchange 2000 Server?
12.Describe how you would configure a USER object for Instant Messaging.
13.You have been hired by Company XYZ to create a messaging solution for them. What information would you need to gather in order to design a solution?
14.Choose two management tools for Exchange 2000 Server and describe how they would help you manage your server.
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Josh Beckett, like many major leaguers this time of the year, has been placed on waivers, according to a report. CBSSports.com's Jon Heyman reports via Twitter that the Red Sox have placed the veteran right-hander on waivers, but he's not expected to be claimed. Josh Beckett is on trade waivers now. Competing execs don't expect him to be claimed. #redsox — Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) August 23, 2012 If Beckett does go unclaimed, the Red Sox would be able to openly explore trading him before the Aug. 31 waiver trade deadline. If the sources are wrong, and a team does claim...
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Virgin Megastore's employees hold placards reading "Yes to culture, No to the closing" as they take part in a protest against Virgin Megastore planned job cuts in front of Paris' Trade courthouse on January 14, 2013. AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL MEDINA
PARIS: Patrick Zelnik, the owner of French music label Naive Records, is considering an offer to buy retailer Virgin Megastore France, which is undergoing a court-ordered restructuring, according to newspaper Les Echos on Monday.
The news comes as British media report that restructuring specialist Hilco is the frontrunner in the battle to save music retailer HMV from administration, with music labels and film studios also preparing a rescue package
Zelnik, who co-founded the first books-to-music Virgin Megastore in France on the Champs-Elysees in Paris in 1988 with British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, told Les Echos he would submit an offer "within two to three weeks".
Zelnik hopes to get backing for his offer from the French authorities, including the sovereign wealth fund FSI.
Virgin Megastore France filed for bankruptcy on Jan. 9.
A court on Jan. 14 ordered the firm, which operates 26 Virgin-branded stores in France, to be restructured.
Butler Capital Partners bought a majority stake in Virgin Megastore France in 2007 from media-to-aerospace group Lagardere , which itself bought the chain from Branson in 2001.
Zelnik could not immediately be reached for comment.
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PANAMA CITY — Police are investigating after a man's body was pulled from the bay Wednesday morning.
The body was found behind No Name Lounge at the foot of the Hathaway Bridge off U.S. 98. The body was a white male, but police would not release any other information about the identification of the body, which has been taken to the Medical Examiner's Office.
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Swan was chosen by the Mets in the third round of the 1972 draft. He spent most of to in the minor leagues with only brief (and poor) stints in the majors. One of his better early performances came on May 11, 1974 when he personally out-played the opposition by collecting a career-high three hits, knocking in one run, and scoring another at the plate while allowing no runs on four hits over six innings on the mound. Later that season, he broke his elbow and missed significant playing time. He returned successfully and, in , was named the International League Most Valuable Pitcher.
In , Swan's numbers declined slightly but so did the rest of the team's as number one starter, Jerry Koosman, lost 20 games and the Mets sank into last place in the division.
In 1978, the Mets struggled to a 66-96 record but Swan started the season with a five-hit complete game shutout, the third of his career. In the second game of a July 4, 1978 doubleheader, Swan logged a career-high 13 strikeouts but surrendered two ninth-inning runs to lose the game 3-2. The loss dropped his record to 1-5 despite a very good 2.66 ERA. Swan's ERA continued improving and he won his next seven decisions. On September 16, he allowed one run and three hits over nine innings but was again denied a win. At season's end, Swan had the best ERA in the National League as well as the second-best WHIP and second-best hits per nine innings. His ERA was only 1.67 at Shea Stadium. Despite his excellent statistics, he finished with only a 9-6 record, the Mets were the third-worst pitching team in the league, and they finished with the worst record in the N.L. was another good season for Swan and was also his most active. He set career highs in innings pitched, games started, complete games, shutouts and BFP. Swan was the lone bright spot for the Mets' pitching staff. His 14 wins were not only a career-best but were more than any two of his teammates combined. The Mets finished with 99 losses, again last in the National League.
After his two good seasons for the Mets, Swan signed a contract which made him the highest paid pitcher in Mets history at the time. In response, he began with an even better ERA than either 1978 or 1979. In mid-June, he was 5-4 with a 2.21 ERA for another terrible Mets team. After losing his next four decisions, Swan was placed on the disabled list in mid-July with what turned out to be a torn rotator cuff. He made two more starts a month later but pitched poorly in the first start, left the second start after only two innings, and was done for the season. He started with a loss but left his second game after only one batter in a freak play. Swan fractured his rib when Ron Hodges -- the Mets' catcher at the time -- nailed him in the back with a throw when the second batter of the game attempted (successfully) to steal second base. As a result, Swan landed on the disabled list. He returned more than a month later and made two relief appearances before the 1981 Major League Baseball strike cancelled the next two months. When play resumed, Swan was back on the disabled list and made only one more start the rest of the season.
After missing almost all of 1981 with a rotator cuff injury, and the aforementioned broken rib and a baseball strike, Swan returned well in and finished second to Joe Morgan for the N.L. Comeback Player of the Year Award. His 11 wins were again the highest total on the team and he was the only pitcher on the team with a winning record and more than three decisions. For the first time in his career, he accumulated significant time as a relief pitcher and managed a fantastic 1.30 ERA in the new role. Swan even hit the only home run of his career on August 4 (although the event was drowned out when his teammate, Joel Youngblood, made history the same day by becoming the only player in major league history to play for two teams in two cities in one day).
Swan lives in the Stamford, Connecticut. In 2002, he had two children in college and he credits Mets executive, Fred Wilpon, with helping to get his daughter into the University of Michigan.


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About Pilates
The Pilates method was developed over 100 years ago by Joseph Pilates 1881-1967. His technique unites mind and body to improve strength, flexibility, mobility, overall health and a sense of well-being. The Pilates method is designed to restore balance to the body and develop efficiency in movement. The technique is particularly helpful in uncovering areas of imbalance in the body, working to correct this can help to prevent injury. Classes will focus on specific areas individually, whilst also using exercises that integrate the whole body to re-educate and restore it to optimum function.
'Pilates develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind and elevates the spirit.' Joseph Pilates
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We Specialise in personalised private, semi-private and small group classes on the Pilates equipment.
Using all the apparatus in the studio we can suit the individual needs of each client. The equipment provides resistance to challenge the body, increasing strength and flexibility. It can also be used to rehabilitate and provide support after injury. It is suitable for all fitness levels and abilities.
Regardless of age, ability or fitness level Pilates can help everyone.
Benefits of Pilates
·Develop muscular flexibility and strength
·Improve balance and co-ordination
·Rehabilitate after injury, surgery and illness
·Improve posture and body alignment
·Reduce tension and stress
·Complements training for athletes and performers
·Enhances pre and post natal care
Pilates can address issues such as:
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Trains could be prevented from going through red signals by a device being patented by Intelligent Cab Systems of Kent (GB 2356277). British trains have an automatic warning system that sounds an alarm if a driver passes a red or yellow signal. It does not stop the train. The AWS is activated by a magnets in a box beside the track. The new device superimposes an alternating magnetic field on top of the fixed field of the existing magnets. This can encode a range of specific messages from "clear" to "danger", and brakes the train if the driver fails to act. The advantage of this system is that it can be bolted onto the existing warning system without interfering with it.
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Another Smoke Free Apartment Building Coming
In May of last year, David Birdd, general contractor of Birddseye
Development, built and opened a 42 unit apartment building in West Salem. Every unit smoke free. Now almost a year to the date, a La Crosse 40 unit apartment building will open. Also smoke free. Jason Alberty with Pointe West Investments says his clientele is first and foremost when thinking about going smoke free on May 1st.
He says he hopes other apartment building owners consider building smoke free. Alberty says resources are available for landlords and property managers interested in learning about voluntary smoke free policies by visiting the Wisconsin Smoke free Housing website.


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To commemorate the 40th anniversary of John Berger's influential Ways of Seeing, the groundbreaking book and television series which have become staples of art critcism, the British Film Institute is staging a series of screenings and events based upon the author's small-screen films.
Berger's stunning series explored the history of representation in Western art, interrogating well-worn tropes of classical art education with a razor-sharp Marxist critique. The book and series cemented Berger's role as one of Britain's most lucid and engaging cultural critics, a role he continues to fill today with his challenging, sharply-written books on aesthetics, culture and contemporary politics, including Hold Everything Dear and Bento's Sketchbook.
As well as screening the original Ways of Seeing in it's entirety, the BFI season also features his early television work for BBC's Monitor and Granada TV, and runs throughout April. A selection of Berger's books will also be on sale at the event.
Visit BFI Online for more information on the series.
As the year draws to a close, newspapers have been asking the great and the good which books have most impressed them in 2011. Here we have collected the Verso books that were featured.
In the New Statesman, Guardian and Observer Books of the Year round ups, Hari Kunzru selected two Verso books as standing out from other books published this year. He explained the appeal of the titles to the New Statesman:
Hari Kunzru
With the Occupy movement gaining ground throughout the world, McKenzie Wark's smart overview of the situationist movement, The Beach Beneath the Street: the Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International, feels particularly timely. For years, Laura Oldfield Ford, who is very influenced by situationism, has produced a fanzine, based on her derives around London, with words and beautiful, confrontational line drawings of the city's forgotten people and neglected places. Now, Savage Messiah has been collected in book form. It is a wake-up call to anyone who can only see modern cities through the lens of gentrification.
In the Guardian feature on the Best Books of 2011, a number of Verso titles were selected by those asked.
Eric Hobsbawm
Among the 2011 books that came my way I particularly welcomed Owen Jones's Chavs, a passionate and well-documented denunciation of the upper-class contempt for the proles that has recently become so visible in the British class system.
John Lanchester
I loved two very different books of criticism...[one was] Owen Hatherley's furiously pro-Modernist A Guide to the New Ruins of Britain
Pankaj Mishra
Liberalism: A Counter-History by Domenico Losurdo stimulatingly uncovers the contradictions of an ideology that is much too self-righteously invoked.
Ahdaf Soueif
I'm reading Chris Harman's A People's History of the World. It's really helpful to zoom out from time to time when you're living massive events at very close quarters.
John Berger guested on BBC Radio 4's "Front Row" show yesterday to discuss Bento's Sketchbook, and how his relationship with Britain has changed since he moved to live in France.
Visit the BBC to listen to the interview in full.
Susan Mansfield interviews John Berger for the Scotsman. Discussing the relationship between Spinoza's philosophy, Berger's drawings, and ways of understanding the world, Mansfield questions Berger's understanding of hope:
Spinoza has been a favourite of Berger's since he was a teenager, "when I read not always understanding, perhaps very seldom". In the writing of the book, he regarded the philosopher more as a "companion" than a "master". Both Berger and Spinoza share a fascination with the nature of looking: Bento worked as a lens grinder in the new science of optics; both men liked to draw. "Right from the beginning, I didn't think it was a book about Spinoza. I thought of it as a book about the world we are living in, and which so often we refuse to look at, for the good and the bad. The project was to try to see the world today in which we are living."


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Kevin Olsen, Greg's Brother, Top QB Prospect
Wayne Hills (NJ) High School coach Chris Olsen is a veteran football father. We're sure that allows him to be a calming influence on his youngest son, blue-chip QB prospect Kevin Olsen.
According to recruiting guru Tom Lemming, who released his Class of 2013 Top 100 on Monday, Olsen is the 37th overall player in his class and the fifth-best quarterback. Rivals.com has him ranked as the seventh-best signal-caller.
Olsen is also the third of Chris Olsen's sons to become a sought-after recruit. Older brothers Christian and Greg, a tight end at Miami (FL) and now the Carolina Panthers, came before him.
"It's always humbling when it's your kid," Chris Olsen said, according to The Record in February. "But if I remove myself from that position and he was just a player of mine, I think when you watch him on film I understand what they're looking at.
"I think he's that good. I think that's what they're looking for."
As The Record detailed, the elder Olsen is familiar with the process. In addition to being a high school coach, Chris Olsen watched Christian (Class of '02) and Greg (Class of '03) both commit to Notre Dame. Christian transferred to Virginia, while Greg left for "The U"; the fact that the brothers departed South Bend, their original choice, certainly should ensure careful consideration by Kevin Olsen when it comes time to make his decision.
According to CBSSports.com, the Hurricanes are considered front-runners for the youngest Olsen, who threw for 1,686 yards, 20 touchdowns with just six interceptions during his junior campaign.
But the 6-foot-3 Olsen (left) has drawn interest from many of the nation's other football blue bloods, which reportedly includes Alabama and Oklahoma, and doesn't seem to be in a rush to make his final pick. He also has fielded offers from Arkansas, Florida State and Wisconsin among a host of others that includes Rutgers - New Jersey's state university.
The youngest Olsen told The Record that all the attention is flattering.
"It's awesome knowing all these big-time schools are coming to see you," Olsen told the newspaper. "When big-time schools like Alabama and Oklahoma start to come in to talk to my dad, it makes me even more excited about it.
"I didn't really expect it to blow up like it did."
CBSSports.com reported Wednesday that there's a newcomer to the Olsen sweepstakes, Michigan State, which can sell to Olsen the benefit of a pro-style offense, the web site said, and perhaps the opportunity to play right away with stalwart QB Kirk Cousins gone for this month's NFL draft.
A look at Olsen's high-school highlights on YouTube (below) makes it clear that the QB would eventually earn playing time no matter where he decides to go. He has touch, accuracy and an ability to move within the pocket and outside it - in many cases, unleashing throws into tight spaces while on the move.
And he's just getting started.
"There's a lot of room for improvement," Kevin Olsen told The Record. "There are a lot of games that I wish I could've made some throws that I didn't make, but overall I thought I played all right.
"The biggest thing is getting bigger and stronger, working on my footwork and drops and play-fakes and stuff like that."
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Armageddon at the Top of the World: *Not*!
This article originally appeared on TomDispatch.
WHAT, what, what,
What's the news from Swat?
Sad news,
Bad news,
Comes by the cable led
Through the Indian Ocean's bed,
Through the Persian Gulf, the Red
Sea and the Med-
Iterranean--he 's dead;
The Ahkoond is dead!
--George Thomas Lanigan
Despite being among the poorest people in the world, the inhabitants of the craggy northwest of what is now Pakistan have managed to throw a series of frights into distant Western capitals for more than a century. That's certainly one for the record books.
And it hasn't ended yet. Not by a long shot. Not with the headlines in the US papers about the depredations of the Pakistani Taliban, not with the CIA's drone aircraft striking gatherings in Waziristan and elsewhere near the Afghan border. This spring, for instance, one counter-terrorism analyst stridently (and wholly implausibly) warned that "in one to six months" we could "see the collapse of the Pakistani state," at the hands of the bloodthirsty Taliban, while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the situation in Pakistan a "mortal danger" to global security.
What most observers don't realize is that the doomsday rhetoric about this region at the top of the world is hardly new. It's at least 100 years old. During their campaigns in the northwest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, British officers, journalists and editorialists sounded much like American strategists, analysts and pundits of the present moment. They construed the Pashtun tribesmen who inhabited Waziristan as the new Normans, a dire menace to London that threatened to overturn the British Empire.
The young Winston S. Churchill even wrote a book in 1898, The Story of the Malakand Field Force, about a late-nineteenth-century British campaign in Pashtun territory, based on his earlier journalism there. At that time, London ruled British India, comprising all of what is now India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, but the British hold on the mountainous northwestern region abutting Afghanistan and the Himalayas was tenuous. In trying to puzzle out--like modern analysts--why the predecessors of the Pakistani Taliban posed such a huge challenge to empire, Churchill singled out two reasons for the martial prowess of those Pashtun tribesmen. One was Islam, of which he wrote, "That religion, which above all others was founded and propagated by the sword--the tenets and principles of which are instinct with incentives to slaughter and which in three continents has produced fighting breeds of men--stimulates a wild and merciless fanaticism."
Churchill actually revealed his prejudices here. In fact, for the most part, Islam spread peacefully in what is now Pakistan, by the preaching and poetry of mystical Sufi leaders, and most Muslims have not been more warlike in history than, for example, Anglo-Saxons.
For his second reason, he settled on the environment in which those tribesmen were supposed to thrive. "The inhabitants of these wild but wealthy valleys" are, he explained, in "a continual state of feud and strife." In addition, he insisted, they were early adopters of military technology, so that their weapons were not as primitive as was common among other "races" at what he referred to as "their stage" of development. "To the ferocity of the Zulu are added the craft of the Redskin and the marksmanship of the Boer," he warned.
In these tribesmen, he concluded, "the world is presented with that grim spectacle, 'the strength of civilization without its mercy.'" The Pashtun were, he added, excellent marksmen, who could fell the unwary Westerner with a state-of-the-art breech-loading rifle. "His assailant, approaching, hacks him to death with the ferocity of a South-Sea Islander. The weapons of the nineteenth century are in the hands of the savages of the Stone Age."
Ironically, given Churchill's description of them, when four decades later the Pashtuns joined the freedom movement against British rule that led to the formation of independent Pakistan and India in 1947, politicized Pashtuns were notable not for savagery, but for joining Mahatma Gandhi's campaign of non-violent non-cooperation.
Nevertheless, the Churchillian image of primitive, fanatical brutality armed with cutting edge technology, which singled Pashtuns out as an extraordinary peril to the West, survived the Victorian era and has now made it into the headlines of our own newspapers. Bruce Riedel, a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst, was tasked by the Obama administration to evaluate security threats in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Arnaud de Borchgrave of the Washington Times reported breathlessly on July 17 that Riedel had concluded:
A jihadist victory in Pakistan, meaning the takeover of the nation by a militant Sunni movement led by the Taliban...would create the greatest threat the United States has yet to face in its war on terror...[and] is now a real possibility in the foreseeable future.
The article, in true Churchillian fashion, is entitled "Armageddon Alarm Bell Rings."
In fact, few intelligence predictions could have less chance of coming true. In the 2008 parliamentary election, the Pakistani public voted in centrist parties, some of them secular, virtually ignoring the Muslim fundamentalist parties. Today in Pakistan, there are about 24 million Pashtuns, a linguistic ethnic group that speaks Pashto. Another 13 million live across the British-drawn "Durand Line," the border-- mostly unacknowledged by Pashtuns--between Pakistan and southern Afghanistan. Most Taliban derive from this group, but the vast majority of Pashtuns are not Taliban and do not much care for the Muslim radicals.
The Taliban force that was handily defeated this spring by the Pakistani army in a swift campaign in the Swat Valley in the North-West Frontier Province, amounted to a mere 4,000 men. The Pakistani military is 550,000 strong and has a similar number of reservists. It has tanks, artillery and fighter jets. The Taliban's appeal is limited to that country's Pashtun ethnic group, about 14 percent of the population and, from everything we can tell, it is a minority taste even among them. The Taliban can commit terrorism and destabilize, but they cannot take over the Pakistani government.
Some Western analysts worry that the Taliban could unite with disgruntled junior officers of the Pakistani Army, who could come to power in a putsch and so offer their Taliban allies access to sophisticated weaponry. Successful Pakistani coups, however, have been made by the chief of staff at the top, not by junior officers, since the military is quite disciplined. Far from coup-making to protect the Taliban, the military has actually spent the past year in hard slogging against them in the Federally Administered Tribal Area of Bajaur and more recently in Swat.
Today's fantasy of a nuclear-armed Taliban is the modern equivalent of Churchill's anxiety about those all-conquering, ultramodern Pashtun riflemen with the instincts of savages.


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Reception staff very good and explained exactly what and where, ( our 1st visit ) Food & staff in restaurant for evening dinner and breakfast 1st class. Nothing too much trouble,& food well presented by everyone
Can't say anything that would be detrimental, we enjoyed our stay over !
Inclusive buffet breakfast and 3 course meal. Lobby/Reception/Restaurant decor was modern.
Rooms and corridor/stairs look a bit dated - needs a refresh as looks old.
Friendliness of staff, delicious breakfasts. En suite shower eco friendly.
Room near main road and quite noisy at times.
Location is perfect. Parking and breakfast are included in the price of the room!
The room was tiny and there was no A/C.
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Like other people, I heard that there was work in the UK and I thought it would be worth having a look, at least. I had a degree when I came but English people didn't seem to think it counted for much and they laughed at the way I spoke English. I worked as a bus conductor for a while, while I was studying in night classes and doing exams for British qualifications.
I'm a computer engineer now and we can afford quite a nice house, but there was a time when there was only one area of the town we could afford to live, and even then some people wouldn't sell to an Indian family. That's against the law now. None of what we went through will be worthwhile if Anand doesn't do well at school, so he has to work hard.


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GNU Linux writes:
> Found a very interesting page on md5sum. It's:
> http://hills.ccsf.org/~jharri01/project.html
> "So why does MD5 seem so secure? Because 128 bits allows you to have
> 2128=340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 different
> possible MD5 codes"
> Lots of good reading for insomniacs.
It still shouldn't be relied upon, however, that two identical MD5
checksums are sufficient evidence that the corresponding files are
identical; I've heard more than one person claim to have encountered
identical MD5 sums for different files, and its certainly not
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Echinacea purpurea (eastern purple coneflower)
Echinacea purpurea flower
Species information
Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench
eastern purple coneflower, purple coneflower, echinacea, snakeroot
Not assessed according to IUCN Red List criteria.
Rocky open woodlands; occasionally in prairies.
Medicine, ornamental.
Preparations containing Echinacea species have a long history of safe use, but rarely some people may experience immediate allergic reactions of varying severity.
About this species
Echinacea purpurea is a member of the daisy family (Compositae) or Asteraceae (APG III, 2009). The generic name comes from the Greek word for hedgehog (echinos) inspired by the spiky projections in the centre of its flower head in the seed stage. The specific epithet purpurea refers to the purple colour of the flowers.
Echinacea purpurea was previously placed in the genus Rudbeckia, so appears in historical literature under the synonym Rudbeckia purpurea. Members of the genus Rudbeckia always have yellow or orange ray-florets (the outer parts of the flower head) whereas the ray-florets of Echinacea flowers are normally pink, purple or white. An exception is E. paradoxa variety paradoxa, which has yellow ray-florets. Selected hybrid lines of this species have bred to have yellow to orange-red flowers.
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Cultivated as an ornamental in temperate areas, Echinacea purpurea is also grown for cut flowers by those who appreciate its large, late summer daisies with their prominent, orange cone.
Although the related species E. angustifolia was the most widely used medicinal plant by the Native Americans of the Great Plains, the rhizome of E. purpurea has also been employed in Native American medicine. European research on the effectiveness of Echinacea-containing products has primarily involved E. purpurea, and more than 800 products containing it (and to a lesser extent E. angustifolia) are marketed in Germany alone. Medicines made using Echinacea species have been shown to have antiviral effects and to stimulate the production of white blood-cells and are marketed as products to relieve the symptoms of colds and to aid wound-healing.
The fresh juice of the above-ground parts of E. purpurea has also been approved in Germany for use in restoring damaged tissue and for assisting the human body in fighting infection. Controversy remains over the effectiveness of Echinacea preparations in the treatment of upper respiratory tract infections, and research in this area continues.
Rudbeckia purpurea L.
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Geography and distribution
Native to North America, Echinacea purpurea is distributed from the states of Georgia to Louisiana and Oklahoma and northwards to Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri. It inhabits rocky, open woodlands and prairies and is sometimes found on wetter soils adjacent to rivers and streams.
Overview: Echinacea purpurea is a perennial herb growing up to 1.8 m tall and has a rhizome (underground stem). Above ground it has rough stems, which often branch near the top and bear soft, short hairs.
Leaves: Leaves arise from the base of the stem and are 15×10 cm with coarsely, irregularly toothed margins. Leaves arising from further up the stem are tapered towards their base.
Flowers: The flower heads (capitula) are up to 15 cm in diameter. The central disc-florets are orange. The outer, sterile, ray-florets are red-purple with green tips and 3–8 cm long. The flowers are pollinated by flying insects, including bees, wasps and butterflies.
Fruits: The fruit is an achene (small, dry, thin-walled fruit).
The common name, coneflower, relates to the cone-shaped receptacle (the base of the flower head, bearing the florets).
How many species in the genus?
The most recent review of the genus Echinacea, by Binns et al. in 2002, follows the practice of 'lumping' (putting plants together in the same group despite minor variations) and only recognises four species. For example, E. angustifolia is not recognised at species level, but is instead considered to be a variety, E. pallida variety angustifolia. Many botanists consider McGregor's 1968 revision, which recognises nine species of Echinacea, to be more practical, and both the Flora of North America and this plant profile follow this scheme.
Threats & Conservation
Although not assessed according to IUCN Red List criteria, Echinacea purpurea is considered to be 'critically imperilled' (according to NatureServe Conservation Status criteria) in Kansas, Florida and North Carolina. The main cause of population decline in these areas is thought to be loss of habitat.
Millennium Seed Bank: Saving seeds
The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership aims to save plant life worldwide, focusing on plants under threat and those of most use in the future. Seeds are dried, packaged and stored at a sub-zero temperature in our seed bank vault.
A collection of Echinacea purpurea is held in Kew's Millennium Seed Bank based at Wakehurst in West Sussex.
See Kew's Seed Information Database for further information on Echinacea purpurea seeds
A hardy plant for temperate gardens, Echinacea purpurea is a splendid subject for the open herbaceous border or can be grown for cut flowers. Plants do best when well spaced and benefit from additional soil moisture. They can be propagated by seed and division.
Several good cultivars are available, including E. purpurea 'Abendsonne', which has rosy-red ray-florets, E. purpurea 'Bressingham Hybrid', which has bright rose-red ray-florets surrounding a darker central cone, E. purpurea 'Earliest of All', with deep pinky-purple ray-florets and E. purpurea 'White Lustre', which has white ray-florets surrounding a yellowish cone.
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Echinacea purpurea can usually be seen growing in the Plant Family Beds and the borders around the Grass Garden at Kew.
Pressed and dried specimens of eastern purple coneflower are held in Kew's Herbarium, where they are available to researchers by appointment.
Kew at the British Museum - North American Landscape
Coneflowers (Echinacea sp.) were one of 12 star plants featured in the 2012 North American Landscape - the fifth in the series created by Kew for the British Museum's West Lawn.
North American plants have global ecological and economic importance and have been utilised by native peoples for thousands of years. Many were introduced to Europe following the colonisation of North America in the early 1600s. Grown for their medicinal uses, as food crops and for other economic purposes, some species have also become familiar ornamental garden plants.
The landscape was designed to evolve throughout the seasons - from a carpet of colourful daisies in the summer to spectacular orange and red maple leaves in the autumn. Other plantings included cypress, echinacea and carnivorous pitcher plants.
References and credits
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161: 105-121.
Binns, S. E., Baum, B. R. & Arnason, J. T. (2002). A taxonomic revision of Echinacea (Asteraceae: Heliantheae). Systematic Botany 27: 610-632.
Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2006). Flora of North America, Volume 21 - Magnoliophyta: Asteridae (in Part): Asteraceae, Part 3. Oxford University Press, Inc., New York.
Hind, [D. J.] N. (1987). Echinacea purpurea. The Kew Magazine 4(1): 34-35.
Huxley, A., Griffiths, M. & Levy, M. (eds) (1999). The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening. Volume 2 (D to K). Macmillan Reference, London.
Kindscher, K. (ed.) (2006). The Conservation Status of Echinacea Species. Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas.
Mabberley, D. J. (2008). Mabberley's Plant-book: a Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classification and Uses. 3rd edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
McGregor, R. L. (1968). The taxonomy of the genus Echinacea (Compositae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 68: 113-142.
NatureServe (2011). NatureServe Explorer: An Online Encyclopedia of Life. Version 7.1. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available online (accessed 3 April 2012).
Kew Science Editors: Nicholas Hind and Emma Tredwell
Copyediting: Emma Tredwell
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Jul. 8, 2014 - Jul. 8, 2014
7:30 p.m.
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Location: Performance Center at Saint Mary's University
First Prize winners of the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2011, top prizewinners in the 2011 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and winners of the Alice Coleman Grand Prize at the
Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in 2006, the internationally-acclaimed Attacca Quartet has become one of America's premier young performing ensembles.


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Longevity Conference this weekend
Here's our little mashup video this weekend from Seattle! Where shall we go next?? Tell me!
Here's our little mashup video this weekend from Seattle! Where shall we go next?? Tell me!
Tags: David Wolfe, video
Please come to Nashville, Tennessee! Our state is in desperate need of quality nutrition education. We are centrally located and Nashville is a great place to visit!
when you come to Grand Forks, North Dakota, the whole country will see you are here and pay attention! North Dakota gone RAW! I am an IIN student and love you!
Cheryl Harlow
Portland, OR!! Or somewhere w/in 150 miles
Portland, OR!!
Robyn….we'd love for you to visit the Kitsap Penninsula…we are across the water from Seattle….there's a Central Market food store there, and I bet they'd make a date with you to speak! This place is wonderful…they promote a healthy eating lifestyle.
Think about it!
Thanks, Cynde
Please come to St George, Utah.
Eugene, Oregon!
come to orem!!! need ideas of how to incorporate with weight watchers plan…
come to Chicago!
Hi Robyn,
I found this video kind of sad for me…I really liked you – now that you are linked with David Wolfe, I have to raise my guard a bit…he has a reputation for praying on people's wallets…when we all know health is free – and when sick people look for help and people push 'products' that heal as the 'answer', well, I think that is very unfortunate. I could share more about this – but this is the nutshell.
After hearing your story of what you went through with your son, I would have hoped you would have heeded this desperation of people and let them know that the answers are free – no product (or superfood)-purchase required – simply greens and a blender.
Now that you are linked up with Mr. Marketing, I am sad.
Best of luck down this new road…
Joy: here's the deal. I'll always be me, and he'll always be him. Don't be sad. There's room for everybody. My message resonates with a different crowd than his, somewhat, but he certainly is a wealth of knowledge on plants, herbs, superfoods, micronutrients, and nutrition in general.
I live in San Francisco and sometimes we get overlooked because ther is this perception that we are all healthy foodies here! NOT TRUE! Yes, we have amazing restaurants with global cuisines on every corner and a reputation for being hippie granolas. I know so many people that have never heard of a green smoothie(until jamba juice recently added a sad version to there menu). For a city that prides itself on being open minded and healthy. You wouldn't believe how many people turn their noses up at my offer for them to try my AMAZING(I've been told the best ever) green smoothies. The ideal of health and affluence here is sustainable, organic, free range, grass feed animals. Please, we still need guidance building our nutritious path. xoxo
Come back to San Diego. We loved you last night and doesn't David still own a business he could check on?
Please, please, please come to Tucson, AZ or at the very least PHX. I live in southern AZ and would love to hear you speak and attend you workshop! It's such an impowering expereince to learn first hand. Your book is awesome but it's never like the real thing!
Idaho Falls, Idaho!! My family just started drining green smoothies two weeks ago and would love to hear you! Loved your book!
Billings, Montana!! The largest city up here!
Please come to New York! I would love to meet you both and hear what you have to say in person as opposed to the internet!
Rosemary, we're working on a trip to NYC too….I hope….!
Wow, just now reading the message! Hope im not too late.
Memphis, TN by far absolutely needs you guys… I keep hearing, reading, and seeing our city listed as the most unhealthiest city in America… There are a few awesome people in our city that dedicate their lives to bringing awareness to healthier food choices, toxic effects of medication and vaccinations, and effective burst or surge training exercising… How awesome would it be if there could be further collaborated efforts to help the city of Memphis, surrounding city and states, the entire US, geeeezee, while I'm at it, the entire world :o)
Please please please come to Mesa, Az! We need you!
Long Island needs you both!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just traveled to CA to David Wolfe's Longevity Now conference to bring home more of his genius to my clients back here in NY – would love it if you could be here in person! I'll take NYC if that's the closest you can get to us
I made a delicious rainbow salad with the following ingredients:
Juice of four fresh lemons
1 beet peeled and grated
1 sweet potato peeled and grated
6 cucumbers grated
3 stalks celery grated
1/2 onion grated (or spring onions, or chives if in season)
3 sprigs of fresh mint chopped
5 sprigs fresh Italian parsley minced
1/4 tsp freshly grated young (baby) ginger root
2 Tbs raw grapeseed oil
3 cloves minced garlic
1 kholrabi peeled and grated
18 leaves of Romaine lettuce broken into bite-size pieces by hand
Accompanying the above, ate some flax seed crackers some of them topped with either raw tahini, or others with coconut butter!
I spent a couple of weeks at Mitzpe Alummot overlooking the Sea of Galilee, and highly recommend one day when you venture as far as the Holy Land to come and give a talk there, it is a RawFood Kosher Vegan Health Farm located inside a Kibbutz and is very peaceful, like heaven-on-earth!
Orlando, Florida would be a great place to come!!! Beautiful weather, beaches, Disney – you name it, we've got it here!!!
Here is another East Coast GS girl! We would love to see you in Syracuse, NY. We are right in the middle of NY state, an airport and lots of places to speak.
Thanks for considering us.
Peggy Ginniff
Please come to Kennesaw, GA or Marrietta, GA
Hi, I say come to Sacramento CA.please I love you both : )
Boca Raton, Florida…PLEASE!
Somewhere in south florida!!!!
Madison Wisconsin would welcome you with open arms!
Denver please!!!
how about midway- or heber
How about St. George, Utah!
Utah for sure!!!
Robyn, please come to Northern Virginia/D.C. We would LOVE to host you! You could even stay with me. My girls would DIE to meet the real GSG and could help out at an event or two, as well!
Draper, South Jordan Utah area
We would love to have you come to Houston, TX.
Utah, please!
Please come to the the LA area…LA or Pasadena would be great!
Atlanta! Yes, yes, yes!
Bountiful, UT
Please come to Tampa, Florida!
Denver, CO!!!!!
Denver, CO!!!
Tampa, FL please!
Central Valley Area of California. Please, please, pleeeez!
Austin, TX!
Portland, Oregon! Portland, Oregon! Portland, Oregon! (Does that count as three votes? 😉 )
Denver, please!
Grand Junction, Colorado! Denver would be great if not!
Portland, OR 😀
I'm pretty sure I threw in a vote up there for anywhere in Florida, but imagine my surprise today to hear that you are doing a class RIGHT HERE in my little town of Ocala, FL! I already have my tickets and plan on telling all my friends about it on facebook as soon as I get home from work. Thank you! And thanks to Franck's Pharmacy and Lemire Clinic for bringing you to us! See ya in July.
Hmm. I'm confused. David Wolfe's emails I received said the Longevity Conference was in Costa Mesa, Calif. Oh, I was under the impression it was a once yearly conference so this is the same exact conference with the same speakers such as Ron Teeguarden but several locations?


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The reason a young man Hong Gil-dong was chosen
rather than a boy Hong Gil-dong was in order to
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Walker Art Building, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ca. 1910
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Roone Arledge Auditorium, Lerner Hall
The Fall Career Fair will include organizations from many industries including finance, consulting, consumer packaged goods, media, marketing, advertising, and more and is open to undergraduate and graduate students and alumni. We welcome students who are interested in internship as well as full time opportunities. It is a unique and productive way to meet employers looking to hire students and alumni from Columbia University.
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Micheletti's not kow-towing to Yankee bullying–SEND IN THE MARINES!!
"Zelaya's supporters are lobbying for the suspension of a trade agreement between the United States and Honduras, curbs on remittances sent home by Honduran workers in the United States,....
"The goal is to get Micheletti to agree to the seven-point plan, the threat must be stated very explicitly, now," said Julia Sweig a senior Latin America analyst at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington.
Entire amazing thing here.
I've always heard that curtailing remittances "hurts the people" and "divides families" and atrophies any "hope of dialogue"??!!!
"Come on people now, smile on your (Honduran) Brother...everybody get together, try to love one 'nother right now...right now....
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The National Organization for Women convenes its annual conference this weekend in Bethesda against the backdrop of a presidential race that, according to NOW President Kim Gandy, has been underlined not only by one woman's historic campaign but also by an extraordinary amount of sexism. Gandy, who's serving her second term at the helm of the feminist advocacy group, talked with The Sun about those and other topics. She lives in Silver Spring with her husband and two daughters.
Your theme for this weekend's conference is "No Capes, No Masks, No Boundaries: Feminist Super-Women Unite!" What does that mean?
It's a recognition that women are a lot like the superheroes in the comic books in that we are breaking down barriers. We're taking care of people, we're taking care of our families and our kids, and often without much recognition.


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Yoshisaburō proved his drawing talents at age 12, quickly attracting the attention of the famous ukiyo-e print master Utagawa Toyokuni. He was officially admitted to Toyokuni's studio in 1811, and became one of his chief pupils. He remained an apprentice until 1814, at which time he was given the name "Kuniyoshi" and set out as an independent artist. During this year he produced his first published work, the illustrations for the kusazoshi gōkan Gobuji Chūshingura, a parody of the original Chūshingura story. Between 1815-1817 he created a number of book illustrations for yomihon, kokkeibon, gokan and hanashibon, and printed his stand-alone full color prints of "kabuki" actors and warriors.
Despite his promising debut, the young Kuniyoshi failed to produce many works between 1818 and 1827, probably due to a lack of commissions from publishers, and the competition of other artists within the Utagawa School. However, during this time he did produce pictures of beautiful women (bijinga) and experimented with large textile patterns and light-and-shadow effects found in Western art, although his attempts showed more imitation than real understanding of these principles.
His economic situation turned desperate at one point when he was forced to sell used tatami mats. A chance encounter with his prosperous fellow pupil Kunisada, to whom he felt (with some justice) that he was superior in artistic talent, led him to redouble his efforts (but did not create any lingering ill-feeling between the two, who later collaborated on a number of series). During the 1820s, Kuniyoshi produced a number of heroic triptychs that show the first signs of an individual style. In 1827 he received his first major commission for the series, One hundred and eight heroes of the popular Suikoden all told (Tūszoku Suikoden gōketsu hyakuhachinin no hitori), based on the incredibly popular Chinese tale, the Shuihu zhuan. In this series Kuniyoshi illustrated individual heroes on single-sheets, drawing tattoos on his heroes, a novelty which soon influenced Edo fashion. The Suikoden series became extremely popular in Edo, and the demand for Kuniyoshi's warrior prints increased, gaining him entrance into the major ukiyō-e and literary circles.
He continued to produce warrior prints, drawing much of his subjects from war tales such as Tale of the Heike (Heikei monogatari) and The rise and fall of the Minamoto and the Taira (Genpei seisuki). His warrior prints were unique in that they depicted legendary popular figures with an added stress on dreams, ghostly apparitions, omens, and superhuman feats. This subject matter is instilled in his works The ghost of Taira Tomomori at Daimotsu bay (Taira Tomomori borei no zu) and the 1839 triptych The Gōjō bridge (Gōjō no bashi no zu), where he manages to invoke an effective sense of action intensity in his depiction of the combat between Yoshitsune and Benkei. These new thematic styles satisfied the public's interest in the ghastly, exciting, and bizarre that was growing during the time.
The 'Tenpō reforms' of 1841-1843 aimed to alleviate economic crisis by controlling public displays of luxury and wealth, and the illustration of courtesans and actors in ukiyō-e was officially banned at that time. This may have had some influence on Kuniyoshi's production of caricature prints or comic pictures (giga-e), which were used to disguise actual actors and courtesans. Many of these symbolically and humorously criticized the shogunate (such as the 1843 design showing Minamoto Yorimitsu in bed, haunted by the Earth Spider and his demons) and became popular among a largely politically dissatisfied public.
During the decade leading up to the reforms, Kuniyoshi also produced landscape prints (fūkeiga), which were outside the bounds of censorship and catered to the rising popularity of personal travel in late Edo Japan. Notable among these were Famous products of the provinces (Sankai meisan zukushi, c. 1828-30)—where he incorporated Western shading and perspective and pigments—and Famous views of the Eastern capital in the early 1930, which was certainly influenced by Hokusai's 1831 Thirty-six views of Mt. Fuji (Fujaku sanjurokkei). Kuniyoshi also produced during this time works of purely natural subject matter, notably of animals, birds and fish that mimicked tradition Japanese and Chinese painting.
In the late 1840s, Kuniyoshi began again to illustrate actor prints, this time evading censorship (or simply evoking creativity) through childish, cartoon-like portraits of famous kabuki actors, the most notable being "Scribbling on the storehouse wall" (Nitakaragurakabe no mudagaki). Here he creatively used elementary, child-like script sloppily written in kana under the actor faces. Reflecting his love for felines, Kuniyoshi also began to use cats in the place of humans in kabuki and satirical prints. He is also known during this time to have experimented with 'wide-screen' composition, magnifying visual elements in the image for a dramatic, exaggerated effect (ex. Masakado's daughter the princess Takiyasha, at the old Soma palace). In 1856 Kuniyoshi suffered from palsy, which caused him much difficulty in moving his limbs. It is said that his works form this point onward were noticeably weaker in the use of line and overall vitality. Before his death in 1861, Kuniyoshi was able to witness the opening of the port city of Yokohama to foreigners, and in 1860 produced two works depicting Westerners in the city (Yokohama-e, ex. View of Honcho, Yokohama and The pleasure quarters, Yokohama). He died at the age of 65 in March 1861 in his home in Genyadana.
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Can anyone tell me why ArcGIS10 will not print to my Adobe9 "printer" in a Windows7Pro environment. Multiprocessor system, huge memory. Makes a .ai but crashes when i try a "print". ArcGIS10 also crashes when I try and use the native export to pdf function. Arc is up to date. Thanks ahead of time to those who respond.
As Jakub notes Arcmap has had problems with exporting, and printing which is related to exports, since 8.x. It get's better with every release, I've not personally run into them with v10, but I'll wait a year or so before I fully relax about it.
I'm not sure of all the details and I may have some of the acronyms wrong, but here's my understanding of the process: Printing and exporting both use the same method. First the map is rendered to EMF in the system temp directory, then the EMF is converted to WMF (can't remember if this happens in the system temp or ArcGIS temp dir), and then finally the WMF is converted to the desired output format (or sent to the printer driver).
This means you need at least 3 times the rendered E/WMF file size in temp space for the processing AND at least one third of that must be on C: no matter what your ArcGIS settings are. I also remember someone saying that big chunks of this space must be contiguous (so try a disk defrag, using a utility which can defrag free space).
In my experiencing exporting to vector formats like PDF, EPS & WMF is more often problematic than image formats like JPEG and TIFF. I don't know why a pdf export will fail while a tiff export does not. My speculation is that the WMF is converted to an intermediary format like postscript before being finally rendered to PDF.
To make troubleshooting these issues even more complicated, things like changing the layer order, marker symbols, or transparancy settings all can make failed vector exports appear/disappear seemingly at whim. So if making more disk space available and defragmented doesn't help start simplifying your map. This includes things like not using bitmap symbols, avoiding transparencies, and reducing the number of objects/layers/text on the map.
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Selectman Ken Bellevue said he was heartbroken. He last spoke to Maloney Monday night, and recalled that the chief was looking forward to his retirement and perhaps starting a new job down the road.
"We're going to make sure we get through this," he said. "This is our town."
The two detectives who remained in the hospital after being shot in the chest were both wearing bulletproof vests, according to an official with knowledge of the investigation who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.
Dr. Timothy Pike, chief medical officer of Portsmouth Hospital, said both were comfortable, in stable condition, and were with their families.
Lee Miller, who lives next door to where the shootings took place, said she heard at least six shots on Thursday.
Fearing for her 12-year-old grandson who was visiting her, she said she went to the window and saw someone on the ground.
Moments later, police knocked on her door, telling them to run outside and take cover behind a police cruiser.
Miller told The Associated Press that she had complained to police repeatedly about suspected drug activity at Mutrie's house and had been told it was under investigation.
"The neighborhood was raped by him. He came in and took over. And that was the end of our lives. There were fights out there at three, four o'clock in the morning," she said. "I moved my bed all around the room to get away from the window that faces the driveway. I said the next place I'm going to be sleeping is the bathtub."
Miller said Mutrie had lived in the house for seven years. The Portsmouth Herald reported in February 2011 that Mutrie and had been arrested and charged with possession of anabolic steroids.
The newspaper reported that the steroids were found in the home when officers went to confiscate guns after Mutrie was arrested on domestic assault charges.
According to a police affidavit, the steroids were found in Mutrie's living room on July 24, 2010, but were not verified by the state crime lab until Jan. 18.
The other officers shot were: Detective Gregory Turner, 32, a six-year veteran of the Dover police department, who was treated for a gunshot wound to the shoulder and released; Detective Eric Kulberg, 31, a seven-year veteran of the University of New Hampshire police department, who was treated for a gunshot wound to the arm and released; Detective Scott Kukesh, 33, a 10-year veteran of the Newmarket police department, who was hospitalized for a gunshot wound to the chest; and Detective Jeremiah Murphy, 34, a seven-year veteran of the Rochester police department, who was hospitalized after surgery for a gunshot wound to the chest.
Delaney said he was proud of the work investigators have done under difficult circumstances.
"The law enforcement community in New Hampshire is certainly grieving this morning, but they have come together - federal, state and local agencies - to do the job that law enforcement officers do every day, secure the safety and protection of our citizens."
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I should point out that I came to the area assuming that animals didn't have personalities, so I was myself "converted". I trained as a personality psychologist for humans and I was trying to understand human personality by looking at a case where I thought personality clearly didn't exist - animals. But as a believer in the theory of evolution I found it hard to maintain that argument. Darwin wrote about emotional states in animals so the idea had important beginnings. And early psychologists such as Pavlov looked at personality in non-human animals.
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Extremely odd that I also don't like the taste of beer haha
Hate beer,love fighting,go fig.
Its easy to be ripped at 125,lol. Even guys that dont work out,its just no fat their,lol.
Question: Do you think fighters enema themselves to drop even more weight? Or drink colon blow,something like that? I dont know any fighters that do,but I dont train with anyone under 155.
lol im 5'9 198 =) but i lift many a weight
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The small, mainly black and white Red-cockaded Woodpecker is associated with mature southern pine forests. The male has a small red mark (cockade) on the side of its nape. This species, one of the few endemic to the continental United States, was originally found throughout the southeast, but is now limited to isolated populations, the largest in South Carolina and Florida.
This species requires open pine forests with large, old trees for nesting, a habitat normally maintained by periodic natural burns. Decades of fire suppression and removal of large trees by European settlers destroyed much suitable habitat and brought populations of Red-cockaded Woodpecker dangerously close to extinction. The species was listed as Endangered under the Endangered Species Act in 1970.
Unlike most woodpeckers, which nest in dead wood, this woodpecker excavates its nest cavity only in living pines that are at least 70 years old and affected with red heart disease. This fungus softens the wood and allows the bird to dig out a cavity. The live pine then "bleeds" pitch around the nest hole, which helps keep tree-climbing snakes away from the nest.
The Red-cockaded Woodpecker is a cooperative breeder, living in small family groups composed of one breeding pair and several helpers that assist in raising young. The entire family often forages as a group, moving together from tree to tree.
On public lands, managers now set controlled fires to mimic the natural burns which maintain suitable habitat for this woodpecker. Maintaining older trees in the landscape, along with building artificial nest cavities and translocation programs, have also helped boost populations and establish new colonies. These conservation measures have helped stabilize and increase populations.
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With the distributor cap off you will see the points and condenser. The condenser is an electrical capacitor that can store a small amount of current. When the points begin to open, current, flowing through them, seeks an alternative path to ground. It will try to jump across the gap of the points as they begin to open and this would eventually cause damage to them. To prevent this from happening the condenser provides an alternative path to ground. It's not really a ground but functions as one for a short time. By the time the condenser is saturated with this residual electricity the points are far enough apart so that the small amount of remaining voltage won't be able to jump across.
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There are many modern alternatives out there that eliminate the troublesome variables inherent in a mechanical system. As mentioned earlier, the Pertronix Ignitor is just one of several available that will eliminate dwell and gap concerns completely. This photo shows a complete Pertronix replacement distributor for a 351W engine.
Another factor that affects service life of the points is mechanical wear. There is a rubbing block on the points that is in contact with the distributor cam and this block wears down over time. Hence, the points require periodic adjustments to compensate for this. There are two ways that the points can be measured to see if they need an adjustment. One way is by measuring the gap between the open points when the rubbing block is on the high point of the distributor cam. The other way is by measuring the dwell electrically. The dwell is the length of time measured in degrees of distributor cam rotation that the points stay closed. On our classic Ford cars there is no dwell window in the distributor cap to allow for an adjustment while the engine is running. The points are adjusted with the engine off and the distributor cap removed. A feeler gauge is used to measure the point gap at the open position. The points are loosened and moved slightly to achieve the desired gap adjustment and then retightened in the correct position. Once the distributor is reassembled, the engine is run with the dwell meter attached. Any further adjustment will require a repeat of the procedure. Measuring dwell is much more accurate than setting the points with a feeler gauge alone.
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On a complete tune-up for a classic Ford car, the points, condenser, and spark plugs would be replaced. With the new equipment in place the point gap would be set manually, the dwell checked, and the engine timing set to specifications. The timing is set by loosening the distributor hold-down clamp and rotating the body of the distributor. A timing light connected to the No. 1 cylinder is used to determine the timing adjustment. The light flashes each time the cylinder fires and the light is directed at the engine timing pointer, which has the harmonic balancer rotating beneath it. Marked on the balancer is a scale showing degrees of advance or retard of the engine timing in deviation from top dead center. A timing adjustment set "before top dead center" or BTDC, is an advanced setting. An adjustment with the engine running after top dead center, or ATDC, would be a retarded setting.
With the engine on TDC the No. 1 piston is at the top of its compression stroke. Rotating the distributor body changes the position where the points contact the distributor cam. Because the cam is geared to the engine rotation, this adjustment changes when the sparks occur with respect to the rotation cycle. Engine base timing on our classic Ford cars is usually set advanced (BTDC), between 4 and 16 degrees. While setting the initial or base timing is important for an engine to run properly, the timing needs to change depending on the speed of the engine and the load that it's under.


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There is always a downside to these "automatic" features. The most direct
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In the paragon-of-stupidity department: One of the more irritating
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-Listen to music you enjoy to keep you alert and entertained you can also watch T.V. but make sure you focus on answering all of your questions in a timely fashion.
-Accept this is a job though it doesn't feel like one and with most jobs comes very tedious and uninteresting work.
-If you feel yourself becoming frustrated or uninterested take a break. Watch some T.V., play a video game, check Facebook, or like what i do have a smoke break.
-Don't give up! When i first started "Vetting" for ChaCha after one hour of cramming question by question and seeing that i only made 1 dollar well i'll admit that annoyed me but you need to realize with a steady pace and a consistent schedule those dollars add up and the rate at which you answer questions adds up.
-ChaCha does review you answers so if you give a lousy response to a legitimate question they will notice and the rate at which you get questions will suffer.
-Play off the stupid questions like "Hey there I'm single" or "Do you like guys?" as a joke and just give a semi-serious response to them to keep questions answered count at a high percentage.
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