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Conservative filmmaker Ami Horowitz is absolutely furious about the way the United Nations has responded to genocide, terrorism and other international crises. And to effect change, hes determined to make you laugh about it.
Its the goal of his debut documentary, U.N. Me, which was released to theaters and on digital on-demand services in June.
Horowitz calls the genre docu-
tainment. The film mixes hard-hitting foreign policy questions with physical comedy and comedic spoofs, all designed to show viewers that the United Nations has not lived up to its founding ideals.
Think filmmaker Michael Moore meets the Weekly Standard, with a little of MTVs Jackass mixed in.
Take this scene, for instance: While investigating misconduct among peacekeepers in Côte dIvoire, Horowitz barges up to U.N. headquarters in the country, demanding to speak with Abou Moussa, who led the mission at the time. Denied entrance to the facility, Horowitz starts to walk away, then turns and does a running dive into a U.N. guard and the gate behind him.
Or this one: To emphasize what he describes as a lack of discipline within U.N. peacekeeping forces, Horowitz created a Peacekeepers Gone Wild skit a parody of the popular and sexually explicit Girls Gone Wild series. After the skit, the film cuts to a segment about sexual assault and exploitation within the peacekeeping ranks.
Its a very fine line between humor and pathos. And juxtaposing horrific stuff with funny stuff heightens both, he said in a recent interview.
Channeling Moore
Horowitz said the idea for the film came as an epiphany while he was sitting in his Upper West Side apartment on a Saturday night, watching Moores 2002 film, Bowling for Columbine.
I was drifting off. I cant tell you why, but I was sitting on the couch, thinking about Rwanda, he said. This wasnt like other genocides. This happened when I was sentient.
He thought, Whose job was it to stop this? Its the U.N.s.
Horowitz said he felt infuriated, small and compelled to act. And then he looked over at his TV and found inspiration from an unusual source (for a conservative, anyway): Whatever you think of Michael Moore, you cant ignore what hes saying, Horowitz said.
Within weeks, he had quit his job as an investment banker and set out to make his first documentary film.
It was a rare call to action. But for Horowitz, there was even more at stake. He saw a need for conservative voices in an entertainment-based genre dominated by liberal commentators.


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Renishaw to address manufacturing's need for process control at IMTEX 2011
At the IMTEX exhibition taking place in Bangalore, India, from 20th to 26th January 2011, Renishaw will highlight a range of process control solutions that help tackle the increasing drive to lean manufacturing.
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At the IMTEX exhibition taking place in Bangalore, India, from 20th to 26th January 2011, Renishaw will highlight a range of process control solutions that help tackle the increasing drive to lean manufacturing, from new technologies for pre-process machine calibration, to on-line and off-line post-process measurement.
New pre-process calibration tools include the QC20-W wireless ballbar, as well as Renishaw's latest advancement in fast 5-axis CMM measurement – the motorised PH20 probe head with "head touch" capability. Rounding out the exhibit will be the company's CMM retrofit service, encoder technologies and demonstrations of software for calibration, machine tool probing and CMMs. Major highlights include:
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Cardinal Healthcare Group is a family run business in the East of England, which provides healthcare services to the older generations either nursing homes or sending carers to the clients house. I joined the Group as a Finance and IT Manager in 2006 with the remit to improve financial reporting processes and the use of IT.
In England older people can choose public or private healthcare. A proportion of their healthcare is funded by the local Council and the NHS (the National Health Service) –robust financial processes are required to ensure clients are correctly invoiced and that revenue from a variety of sources is collected and accounted for.
As the client base grew, manual processes had to be automated. For the operational side, UK-designed proprietary software applications were deployed which interlinked with existing client record databases and automatically generated invoices – but by 2007 our core financial system (intended for smaller businesses) was no longer fit for purpose. it was prone to bugs and data corruption, support was slow, and the program was unfriendly to use. However, the Group did not have the budget for thousands of pounds to upgrade to finance systems intended for larger businesses, nor the servers required.
I discovered OSF; and after a short test and evaluation period transferred the smaller of our two companies to the system. I was amazed at how much functionality was provided, and how it preserved the good features of older accounting applications (such as being keyboard as well as mouse-based) whilst offering much more flexibility. It is equivalent to some UK software costing £1500 (€1800!).
By 2008 I had all three of our main companies on OSF. Our auditors were impressed with the greater quality of our financial data, and OSF made it much faster to produce monthly management accounts. In 2009, our business expanded further, with the construction now in progress of an even larger nursing home.
Yet more financial data and transactions, and now I have other admin staff to assist me, but they work in a different office. And sometimes I work from home.
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Within a few weeks we were set up (Domé working very hard to deal with some minor problems and I initially encountered the language barrier of some Windows menus being in Dutch – but these were soon overcome and now both myself and the purchase ledger clerk can input data across sites.
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'Saving Grace': Seeing stars
News flash: Grace spends much of this episode of Saving Grace not sleeping with a guy she's interested in. I know! I was shocked, too!
Behold: The patron saint of spoilers!
The Crime of the Week is particularly upsetting, as it involves someone manipulating developmentally disabled adults into committing crimes for them. That's just low. A number of businesses off the same bus route were hit by a man in a paper-plate mask who waved a gun, emptied the register, and took some sweets with him as he went. The last crime went wrong -- the robber was shot by a patron at a diner when he tried to steal a root beer float. (Dude, don't mess with a man's root beer float in Oklahoma -- they will shoot you down.) The poor guy committing the crime didn't have a clue what he was doing, and never had a chance. He didn't even have a real gun -- it was carved out of wood.
Grace and Ham track down the group home where the robber, George, lived, and also find another man there with the same type of carved wooden gun. Andrew was George's roommate, so Grace turns to him to try to find out where Andrew and George got the guns. Problem is, you can't do a straightforward interrogation with Andrew, so Grace befriends him and trails him on his regular routine.
And that's where you start to realize just how cruel the crime was. Andrew is incredibly friendly and trusting. Tell him you like his jacket and he'll offer it to you. Everyone is his friend, and he'd do anything that a friend told him. What sort of a monster would take advantage of a person like that?
Unfortunately, the answer is his sister and her boyfriend. She's penitent. No one was supposed to get hurt! And what's going to happen to Andrew now? You should have thought about that before you started using his friends to steal for you.
In other news, Grace has met a nice guy -- the guy she doesn't immediately sleep with. Lest we think she's being too normal, as Rhetta claims, take comfort in the fact that she met him because he's the nephew of the old neighbor she routinely strips for by the bathroom window. That was creepy.
Grace seems smitten with Jack, although that may be in part because he's an atheist -- and what better man can she find to piss off Earl? Earl is relatively unfazed, much to Grace's dismay. Rhetta is much more excited, but she doesn't get to meet Jack. Earl does -- they discuss theology, and Earl offers to take him to the fourth planet from Rigel, a star in the Orion constellation. Jack dismisses him. Oh, Jack -- you're missing out. But he doesn't miss out entirely, because by the end of the episode, Grace and Jack get it on.
Highlights, thoughts and odds and ends:
- Big Bang, telescopes, blah blah blah -- seriously, no more cosmological innuendo, ok?
- I love Grace's sense of humor. What's the best way to help her nephew study saints? Obviously, it's to make him a gory costume complete with gaping wounds, exposed ribs, and halo, then douse him in ketchup. Hee! (It's for a play, but still -- nice work.)
- Rhetta says she'll know Grace is serious about a guy when she doesn't sleep with him at the drop of a hat. Uh-oh.
- Did you notice that Grace has "Wash Away Your Sins" hand soap in the bathroom?
- I loved Earl's French charge getting pissy that he was going to see Grace again. "Grace, Grace, Grace -- I'm so sick of her? What about me? I have needs!"
- I kind of love the idea of Sergeant Gumshoe, and wish the cartoon was real.
- Once again, we see how natural and easy Grace is with people when she's trailing Andrew. I wonder how much of that is the job, and how much of it is because she genuinely loves people, collects them and adores their quirks and failings.
- I also wonder whether she keeps in touch with people after the investigation is over. I hope she does -- Andrew will be devastated if she just disappears. I think she will -- did you catch her talking to a perp who was hauled into the station while she was there? "What are you doing back here, man? What happened to getting your real estate license?"
- Clay asks Grace if she thinks the saints know all about the stars. Grace: "Hey, if you get ripped apart by mat hooks, you better have a payoff."
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The kindness of strangers led to fraud charges against the mother of a child allegedly murdered by her father.
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Dick Van Patten, 86, the genial comic actor best known as the patriarch of TV's "Eight is Enough," has died.
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Chris Slade pled guilty to one count of malicious wounding and one count of malicious wounding while part of a mob.
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Wine: Join the club
Jun 30, 2009
Wine lovers with a wealth of experience and expertise get as much enjoyment out of researching, discussing and choosing a wine as they do drinking it. But for the less hard-core, the seemingly endless choice of styles, brands and vintages can be daunting. Enter the wine club, delivering your wine without your having to read a review or guidebook, or even the back label.
"We provide value and at-home convenience," says Brad Banducci, CEO of Australia's largest direct wine seller, Cellarmasters. "When we talk to our members the entire purchase history is all there. Our biggest issue is knowing what customers don't like."
But just who selects the wines? Most clubs claim an "expert panel", but bear in mind that in-house experts might often have to base their selections on whether there is a large enough quantity available.
In Australia, wine clubs offer essentially the same service, but all have their marketing idiosyncrasies. The Wine Society is the only club with a $50 joining fee, which gets you a "welcome" sixpack of mixed wines, refunded if you choose to quit your membership. This society, started by Dr Gilbert Phillips and a few mates in 1946, has a membership of about 55,000 and turned over $46.5m in the 2007/2008 financial year. You need to spend $100 a year to keep your membership active, delivery is less than $6 per case and insurance is free. There's a monthly magazine/catalogue and a 100 per cent money-back guarantee on all wines. The Wine Society buys in widely, as well as making and sourcing a number of its own wines, many of which are truly first-rate. Access to wide-ranging events and wine education is a bonus and profits are funnelled back into the club.
Cellarmasters was purchased from Fosters by Archer Capital, a private equity company, in 2007. It reports a turnover of $125m and an active membership of 220,000 (those who have purchased in the past 12 months). What it offers is along the lines of what the local liquor barn sells, with a few more colourful additions. You pay for delivery of up to three cases, insurance is an additional charge and Cellarmasters, too, has a 100 per cent money-back guarantee.
Wine Selectors (originally the Hunter Valley Wine Society), privately owned by Greg Walls, claims to be Australia's largest independent direct supplier of wine. Its $63m annual turnover via some 120,000 active members is about half that of Cellarmasters, but Selectors claims that Cellarmasters makes much of the wine it sells, whereas Selectors buys it all in, hence the independence qualifier.
Some wines that Wine Selectors sells are either made by or affiliated with members of its expert tasting panel, but by and large the selections are reliable and offer decent diversity. Wine Selectors also charges a $22 membership fee that includes a copy of the quarterly magazine and regular communications about offers and events.
Retailers such as Vintage Cellars and Kemeny's run wine clubs that account for a significant slice of sales in both volume and value terms. Many wineries run cellar door mailing lists (some call them wine clubs) with special wines and limited production bottlings. All of which makes it hard to pin down the value of the direct wine sales market, although Alex Meijnen, Wine Selectors' general manager of marketing and planning, suggests it is around $400m per annum.
Joining a wine club is about more than just finding the cheapest price. Some look to build loyalty through offering wine education, food and wine experiences, and hosting special events. According to Cellarmasters' Brad Banducci, "It's about stories and places – and that's what our customers really want."
Clubbers' choice
2005 Dutschke St Jakobi Shiraz $41
One of the Barossa stalwarts from the southerly Lyndoch
area, this is certainly one to age. Terrific balance and buckets of red and dark berry fruit rolling in all directions on smooth, supple tannins, long and resolute finish.
2008 Peter Lehmann Eden Valley Riesling $14
A perennially stunning Eden Valley riesling, trading on intense citrus fruit appeal, some lime blossom lift and masterful precision. The palate delivers mouth-watering acidity, it's a lesson in line, length and ageing potential.
Chandon NV Brut $25
Impressive, complex and authentic bottle-fermented character with bready yeast aromas, fresh pears and apple. Smooth palate texture, some rich pinot flavours, bright chardonnay citrus and savoury biscuit finish.
2004 Penfolds St Henri Shiraz $90
A modern classic in top form here, oozing understated style and measured power. Gracefully matured in larger oak, the palate trades on focused blackberry fruit flavour and gentle, elegant tannins. Retro-chic.
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So called Kettlebell experts have created and labeled so many different Kettlebell Swing variations that things have become confusing, to say the least. There is the GS Swing, Russian Swing, American Swing, Two-Handed Swings, Double Swings, Towel Swings, Hard-Style Swings, Soft-Style Swings and the list goes on. How do you choose which one is right for you?
Valery Fedorenko, Chief Advisor for World Kettlebell Club, has probably done more Swings than anyone in the world. He once did 115 reps Swing (EACH HAND) with a 48kg/106lb Kettlebell, with only one switch of hands! Valery was doing this long before anyone in the USA had even heard of the Russian Kettlebell. You should probably listen to him when it comes to Kettlebell swinging.
Actually VF doesn't recommend any of these variations mentioned above. His Kettlebell Swing concept is very simple, but that doesn't mean it's easy or without careful consideration. He simply calls his "style" of Swing a Swing. Are you more confused yet? It's ok if you are, as sometimes it takes a complete dismantling to build things back and make things right.
First of all, the Kettlebell was designed for one hand. Stop swinging a single bell with two hands. There are ideal mechanics of movement that allow for the most power and efficiency. Isn't that what you want from this ballistic exercise? Safety is another consideration. Your max weight swinging with one hand might challenge your grip strength, but use two hands and you can really load yourself up to put your body at risk.
Most of the Swings Valery sees "experts" teaching are what he calls Primitive Swings. They are using old technology, or uneducated "natural reaction" Swings. What they are doing is not ideal. They are inferior to how he uses the Swing whether it be for Fitness, general conditioning or Kettlebell Sport. That's what maybe bothers him the most, is out of marketing hype he feels you've purposely been confused. Equating his Swing to a "GS" Swing, or only for Girevoy Sport (Russian for Kettlebell Sport) Athletes is foolish. This is a complete marketing fiction designed to keep you from finding what we already know to be true. That is, the same Swing fundamentals that benefit the best in the world can benefit the average healthy individual no matter what level they are.
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Corpus Christi Army Depot command handed to civilian for first time
CORPUS CHRISTI - History was made Thursday as command of the Corpus Christi Army Depot was handed over to a civilian for the first time.
William Braddy will serve as interim commander of the depot at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi until the new commander is installed in July.
Meanwhile, outgoing commander Col. Christopher Carlile will serve at the Army Material Command headquarters as special assistant of organic industrial operations.
Carlile, who assumed command of the Army Depot in 2010, made it his mission to drive down costs and increase productivity while still meeting the overall mission of the depot — to provide support for soldiers in the field.
As commander, Carlile has decreased man hour costs by 33 percent while also increasing production by 40 percent, Maj. Gen. Lynn Collyar said.
"In today's economy everyone has to play their part," Collyar said. "We have to be good stewards of the taxpayer's money. Chris and the depot have done that well."
Braddy joined Corpus Christi Army Depot in 2010 as deputy to the commander for support operations. While a civilian employee, he also has an Army history. He retired after 26 years with the Army in 1998 and served as the division chief of staff and aviation brigade commander in the 101st Airborne Division and on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon.
He said that by entrusting the depot to a civilian, Army leadership is affirming the great leadership team in place.
"We have a great team here," Braddy said. "The way we will get through this time is with our excellent leadership team."
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Aliens vs. Predator has had a somewhat spotty history. First appearing in the form of a crossover comic series in the early nineties, its expanded to nearly every major realms of entertainment over the past two decades. Following the comics (as well as a quick nod to the Aliens franchise in Predator 2 there were toys, action figures and books. On film, the talentless hand of hack director Paul W.S. Anderson has tainted the property, and the film adaptation was somehow able to earn a sequel despite the originals PG-13 rating.
In major interactive media, there was the SNES game adaptation, as well as one on the Jaguar (the latter of which has the somewhat dubious honor of being perhaps the only decent game for Ataris 64-bit system). Then we had Rebellions first crack at the series with 2000s Aliens vs. Predator and its sequel, neither of which made it to consoles. So you might say that given the increasingly narrow gaps between video games, film and other media steadily, Rebellions new 2010 iteration of AvP is the first major release for the series, and unlike many of the hit-or-miss incarnations of the past, this ones actually pretty good.
From a design standpoint, AvP is very similar to its PC predecessor, only polished up and streamlined somewhat to meet contemporary design standards. To any fans of the PC title, the idea should be familiar: the game takes place over the course of three separate campaigns, meaning youll get a chance to play as an alien, a predator and a member of the colonial marines. No matter who you play, the first thing youll notice is that Rebellion has really taken their time on this title. The entire conceit of being able to play as your favorite species is pure fan service, but the devil is really in so many details the team has put in to give AvP an authentic feel. Enter an alien hive and youll be assaulted by black, organic Giger-esque environs. Messages from an orbiting Predator ship are quickly translated to English from the Predators original symbolic language, and grabbing a defenseless research scientist will allow an alien to impregnate them with a well-rendered face-hugger, to give a few examples.
Core gameplay varies in an authentic way as well. Naturally in the alien campaign you cant use firearms of any kind. Only your claws and mouth will work to attack your foes, although you do have the ability to crawl all over any surface in the game, use darkness as cover and automatically see outlines of enemies by sensing their pheromones. Although its initially very disorienting to play as an alien, once you get used how the species operates, crawling around and slashing up marines is pretty fun. Like Aliens vs. Predator 2 for PC, the three campaigns are all interrelated, telling a different side of the same story; the alien campaign is sadly the shortest, though given the events of the story and the species' inability to speak, it makes sense.
The game gives you the option to choose which campaign you want to play in what order, tracking overall story progress both through narrative exposition as well as a percentage meter. I personally recommend playing the alien campaign first, then following up as the marine before finishing out under the mask of the predator.
Interestingly, the marines campaign is both the longest and the focal point of AvPs narrative. It makes sense in terms of plot, as humans are the only species whose language is universal rather than xenolinguistic, but still surprising given Segas focus on the two extraterrestrial campaigns (and more specifically the graphic deaths visited upon the marines themselves) before the games release.
Frankly, I wouldve pegged the marines campaign as the weakest of the three, considering a soldiers weakness against such aggressive and powerful alien foes. This is hardly the case, however. Dont worry, youre not some hulking superhuman. In fact, as a lowly private, you can easily be torn limb from limb (albeit more or less offscreen). But despite the relative vulnerability of soft, human flesh, you can hold your ownat least with the right firepower and some stim packs. But the most surprising thing about the marine campaign is that its set up like an FPS survival horror title. Unlike the alien and predator campaigns, the lighting and atmospherics are dialed up to eleven. Even environs you trek through with other species will be darker and more foreboding as a marine. While not as scary as say, Doom 3, your tiny flashlight coupled with wall and ceiling crawling aliens skittering through the darkness can yield a few jumps. Its in the marine campaign that its the most obvious that AvP is something of a throwback shooter, like one that existed before cover systems or depth-of-field aiming a la Call of Duty and countless others. Rather than being a detriment, though, this actually is a bit refreshing. Weapons are simplified, with only a handful available to the marine, but Rebellion put enough polish into the finished product that it hardly matters; youre not going to play this game if youre not a fan of either Aliens or Predator anyway.
Finally, the predator campaign is something of a mixture of the other two campaigns: its the second longest, the predator has a limited arsenal of weaponry (like the marine campaign) and technology tools like stealth and vision filters (similar to an alien). The level design, though as linear as with the other two species, is more fun with the predator due to a streamlined jumping system. Basically you can target any area within a certain distance, hit A and youll automatically jump to it, making traversal across levels faster and more efficient as a tribal hunter. Thankfully, not all of the predators weapons use energy (which can be siphoned from human power supplies), although for most of the game I focused heavily on the beasts powerful melee attacks as well as its unlimited stealth camo, which aided in finishing off soldiers with graphic stealth kills after luring them away from a post or lookout point.
Ultimately, if you dont like either film franchises that this game is based around, theres not going to be much for you to enjoy in AvP. But Id posit that most gamers like either one series or the other (or, at the very least, the idea of science fiction). Now perhaps its clear why Rebellions Rogue Warrior sucked so muchall of the studios time and budget were going into this game. It's not the deepest or longest game, with any given campaign lasting between three and five hours, but if you play through all three the time adds up, and theres always multiplayer. For the fans that AvP was very obviously made for, however, the high production values, attention to the universes detail and generally smooth gameplay make it a worthy addition to the franchise. At the very least, we can be thankful that the godawful marine dialogue that made Aliens so (at times) cringe-inducing is in short order. Thank god for that.


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We all know we need it, yet none of us actively drink it. Make it a habit. Start with a glass a day and work your way up. Whatever it takes, being hydrated can actually help you stop sweating! I know it's not a novel idea, but the cooler your body is, the less you will sweat. Even room-temperature water will help, but cold water is preferable to combat the sweat.
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If you're trying to make your way in the corporate world, there are numerous pitfalls that you're probably aware of. We've already mentioned the nonsensical jargon that business people use, and then there's the office politics.
One that not many people will warn you about is the old "having to faff about on your laptop while trying to give a presentation and displaying everything to a room full of people" scenario.
There you are, slowing suffocating a little more of your soul by using PowerPoint in a room full of suits and suddenly iMessage decides to pop your most intimate messages up on screen. Or Microsoft Office Reminders helpfully chimes in with that "offsite meeting" at the Rose and Crown you had been discreetly trying to organise. We've even heard a horror story about somebody's more, ahem, "recreational" surfing habits being displayed thanks to Chrome's synchronisation settings.
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Building Information Modeling, or BIM, is one of the most rapidly emerging technologies within the AEC (Architectural, Engineering and Construction) industry. Development of a comprehensive building model offers a multitude of advantages to the design team, construction team and to the owner of the facility following completion of construction.
BIM is the process of generating and managing building data. Three-dimensional, dynamic building modeling software is employed in the creation of the model encompassing building geometry, spatial relationships, structural components, mechanical electrical and plumbing systems and the other various elements of the building. As the design process progresses, the building model is updated and refined ending in a comprehensive model used by all parties for coordination, estimating, planning and even future maintenance.
A few advantages of Building Information Models that have lead to the rapid acceptance and increased utilization in the construction industry include:
Currently, SKA Consulting Engineers, Inc. has multiple projects, most with our state universities and health care facilities, which are utilizing BIM services.
As a multi-disciplinary consulting engineering firm, the use of BIM modeling allows our experienced team of engineers and designers from each of the different disciplines to coordinate designs and building components with increased accuracy and detail. The model also allows the Owner to visualize the building as an entire facility rather than individual components early on in the design process, helping to ensure that the end product meets or exceeds the intended use and expectations. Increased design detail and a clearer understanding of the project development result in reduced construction time, conflicts and cost.


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Another great place to show off your
Halloween decorating skills is your deck. You can decorate your
deck for Halloween as impressively as you could your home,
driveway, sidewalk, or front lawn. A deck is often visible to
neighbors and anyone driving by.
You don't need to spend a lot of money to
decorate your deck for Halloween. There are cheap Halloween
decorations you can put on your deck creatively and they will
look impressive and spooky.
An inexpensive way to decorate your deck for
Halloween is to use lanterns. Solar lanterns are great if
you already have them.
Carve a lot of pumpkins and
light them from within with candles or
flashlights and set them up on the steps of the
deck and on the posts if they can safely sit
If you're a skilled carver
you might try a theme of designs, faces or
monsters or spider carvings. Drape every
surface in fake spider web.
The further you stretch it the better it
looks. Secure it with thumbtacks or wind around railings.
You can make a trail of creepy footprints.
Make stencils and spray them with something you can remove
later such as aerosol snow.
If you have a stereo system you can hook up,
pipe some scary music to go with your Halloween deck
decorations. General Halloween prop stores sell sound
effect tapes for this purpose.
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Deans Council
Deans Council Meeting
April 6, 2011
Note: At times, issues of confidentiality may require that some items discussed in these meetings be excluded from these minutes.
Members: Bill Barnes, Dave Caudill, Tom Currin, Alan Gabrielli, Steve Hamrick, Ruston Hunt, Joyce Mills, Jeff Orr, Nikki Palamiotis, Jeffrey Ray, Han Reichgelt, Zvi Szafran
Members Absent:
Item 1. Updates
Dr. Szafran updated the Council on the following:
- Budget – slightly better outlook
- Tuition – bill to give authority to legislature to determine tuition has gone nowhere
- New Degree Proposal – Middle Georgia submitted a proposal to the BoR different than we reviewed – will follow up
- Website – delayed going live until mid-summer. Han will email Jim Cooper that the campus needs to be notified that the deadline has been extended.
- TargetX and Axiam - should go live soon
- PeopleAdmin – will go live in July for graduate assistantship applications. Nikki Palamiotis will be contacting departments in the near future.
- Key Card Access – Han Reichgelt will serve on a committee to review and purchase key card access software.
- Events on Campus – Auxiliary Services and Academic Affairs will share the expense to hire a new person to be responsible for announcing events on campus. This position will coordinate with Leigh Ann Soublis and Kasey Helton.
- Ad Astra – It was suggested that Ad Astra be used to enter room allocations for classes and Banner be used to enter the class schedule. Some objection to using two different programs. Leigh Ann Soublis and Kasey Helton will be asked to come to a Deans Council meeting to discuss this.
- Graduate Assistantships – Palamiotis distributed a proposed budget showing prior allocations and student enrollments. There was a long discussion on how to allocate graduate assistantships and the need for a methodology to do this. The current allocation for stipends is $182,000. Szafran asked the deans to review their areas and to let him know what their true needs are and why and to bring their recommendations for adjustments to the April 20th Deans Council meeting. Palamiotis suggested the need for a student/supervisor orientation as well as a conversation about what graduate assistants should and shouldn't be doing.
Item 2. Capital Budget Spending
Szafran met recently with Bonnie Chamberlin and Bill Prigge about the state of our current budget and determined that the surplus he anticipated is correct. The Council discussed additions/deletions to their prioritized equipment lists and determined "must haves." Based on this Szafran will release approximately $600,000 as the first round of equipment money. Szafran asked if any of the requests were also submitted as tech fee proposals and there were none. He also asked if there were any IT implications in any of the requests and if so were EDP forms attached to those departmental requests. Some will need EDP forms and will be done as soon as possible.
Item 3. New Business
- IT Issues – Gabrielli brought up a memo from UITAC stating that they are not able to approve the Biology Lab because of lack of support personnel. Szafran met recently with Ron Koger and David Stone regarding this issue. One possible solution was giving IT a percentage of tech fee to help cover expenses as we grow. Koger is gathering the numbers for this.
- Russ Hunt brought a concern to the Council of a history of departments (faculty) contracting services for donations. Hunt stated as an example a customer approaches the school to have students do a project at no cost to the customer and after the work is completed, the customer makes a donation to the department's foundation account. Hunt also stated that in some cases the students and or faculty members may be receiving compensation from the customer. Hunt stated that faculty are signing contracts, non-disclosure agreements, no-compete clauses, etc., and should not be doing this in his opinion. He further stated that by doing these types of transactions, SPSU is potentially losing money. Hunt stated that we need a policy about what faculty can and can't do regarding contracts involving or representing the University. He further stated that our P&P on consulting and extra-compensation needs to be separated.
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by Milan Rupic
Wam (Croatia) Summer, 2000
To make children with not such a great appetite eat something from time to time,
parents are ready to resort to all sorts of tricks, from imbecile grinning, singing,
or standing on their heads, to feeding a spoiled brat showing a lack of
enthusiasm for swallowing chunks of food while it is sitting on the toilet bowl,
accompanied by background music featuring periodic flushing of the toilet and
similar foolery. However, this is all harmless and understandable in a way
because, as crazy as all of it may seem, this is still our progeny, a helpless
human being, incapable of understanding the necessity of opening the mouth and
pushing the chunks of food to the stomach for the purpose of mere survival. But
what to say about a man, a grown-up person, supposedly normal and sane, who
uses similar gimmickry to make his/her audio system, i.e. its individual
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The Leisure and Cultural Services Department announced today (June 3) that the grass pitch of Tuen Mun Tang Shiu Kin Sports Ground will be temporarily closed between July 2 and August 31 for turf maintenance. The running track of the sports ground remains open.
During the closure, the public may use Siu Lun Sports Ground in the same district.
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We Found This Recipe On Pinterest and We Nailed It!
{Remember, I'm not that great at pictures, but man-oh-man, you have to make these!}
This is the Chocolate version of this...
Source: sweet-verbena.blogspot.com via Fern on Pinterest
A Two Ingredient Recipe From Pinterest
The Chocolate version needs one more ingredient, chocolate chips.
So here is my fuzzy picture.
1 box of chocolate cake mix
1 can of Pumpkin
1 big 'ole bag of milk chocolate chips!
Preheat oven to 350°.
In a large bowl mix cake mix with pumpkin filling using a hand mixer or a stand mixer.
Beat on medium for 2 minutes.
Fold in chocolate chips.
Using an ice cream scoop, put one scoop into each muffin paper.
Bake for 25 - 30 minutes or until tooth pick comes out clean.
Cool completely, serve plain, with powder sugar or icing.
Makes 48.
With Powdered Sugar!
Also, you couldn't taste the pumpkin, so as I was Googling it to find the time and temperate, I read a few different blog posts about it being healthier & good for Weight Watchers, since the pumpkin is fiber and lower in fat than milk, eggs and butter!
We dressed poor Anna up in an old Key West T-Shirt while they baked and tried to get her to pose under the Christmas tree, thinking Merry Christmas from Florida....NOPE, she was bent out of shape and wouldn't move...our poor dogs! :)
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Abu Qatada is to replace Roberto Mancini as the next Manchester City manager
He knows a thing or two about staying in Europe!
So Becks is looking at potentially owning an up and coming MLS team. There are a couple of options for teams looking to get entry to the MLS in 2016.
Could be an interesting venture for him, plus it keeps him in the American spotlight which I'm sure his missus will love. :D


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Brazen Careerist, a social networking site geared towards "next-generation professionals," has raised about $1 million in a funding round, according to an SEC filing. As the name implies, no fun and games on this site. Instead, it's specifically designed to help young people advance in their professions — a role that the company contends Facebook and LinkedIn are not fulfilling for Gen Yers. Members create profiles complete with resumes and then share "ideas" (i.e. updates). It's all supposedly accessible to recruiters, reporters looking for expert opinions and entrepreneurs seeking collaborators.
I reached out to the company Monday to get details about the funding round but never heard back. The filing does list Alice.com and Jellyfish.com co-founder Brian Wiegan as a director.


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Teva Sued Over HIV Medicine Patent
August 9, 2011
According to Bloomberg, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., the world's largest generic-drug maker, was sued by a joint venture of GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Pfizer Inc. for infringing a U.S. patent for the HIV drug Epzicom. Teva has applied to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for permission to sell generic Epzicom tablets in violation of a 2002 patent, lawyers for ViiV Healthcare said in an Aug. 5 complaint filed in federal court in Wilmington, Del. Teva's FDA submission "constitutes infringement" and "ViiV will be irreparably harmed" by the low-cost version of Epzicom if it's sold before the patent expires in 2016, according to court papers.


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UNIVERSITY PARK - University Park Airport announced Monday that United Airlines will provide service to Chicago O'Hare International Airport beginning January 7, 2014.
They will be two scheduled departures days from Chicago O'Hare and University Park Airport.
The times are designed to allow for easy connections to the West Coast and Far East.
Flight reservations are available immediately.
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"a wash or lotion for the eyes," 1866, from eye (n.) + wash (n.). Colloquial use for "blarney, humbug" (1884), chiefly British, is perhaps from the notion of "something intended to obscure or conceal facts or true motives." But this, and expression my eye also may be the verbal equivalent of the wink that indicates one doesn't believe what has been said (cf. French mon oeil in same sense, accompanied by a knowing pointing of a finger to the eye).
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Accrington office opened in 1976 by Mike Ramsbottom who is still the resident Director today. With over 30 years experience, this market leading branch is situated on the commuter belt of northern Manchester and boasts an enviable portfolio of property for sale. Ranging between typical 'investor type' buys to terraced, to semi's to modern estate homes to luxury 'one off' finds, this office, quite simply, has it all. Offering assistance in residential sales, surveys, Energy Performance Certificates and Compulsory Purchase orders, the team of 8 staff are proactive and committed to selling and as a result, have clients returning time and time again.
Accrington is easily accessible, close to the motorway network and within a stone's throw of Manchester, yet on the periphery of the Ribble Valley. With competitive priced first time buys and money-spinner investor style properties, this town is one to watch!
Monday: 9.00am - 5.00pm
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THE male praying mantis must be the most stressed animal on Earth. If he tries to mate with a female, there's a good chance she'll bite his head off. Thankfully, he has a handy camouflage tool: the wind.
Male Chinese mantids (Tenodera aridifolia) are more likely to move towards a female if the branches and leaves they are standing on are shaken by the wind. So Hiroshi Watanabe and Eizi Yano of Kinki University in Nara, Japan, wondered if the males were using the shaking vegetation to camouflage their movements.
They placed male and female mantids on leaves that were sometimes buffeted by the breeze from a fan and sometimes still. The males reached the females significantly faster with the fan switched on. To make sure the fan was not affecting the result in some other way, the team repeated the tests but held the leaves still. The females were more likely to detect males, even if the fan was on (Entomological Science, DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8298.2012.00535.x).
Watanabe suggests that the males used the cover provided by the wind to sneak up on the females. It's not just about sex, either. In a separate study, Watanabe and Yano observed mantids of both genders hunting German cockroaches (Blattella germanica). They captured the cockroaches faster when it was windy (Entomological Science, DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8298.2012.00536.x).
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May 4, 2009 My spring tennis season was over, and for the first time since spring break, I was at Hamilton for a full weekend. Needing a break from my exhausting workload, I decided to devote the weekend to intramural sports competition. Although I had not been able to play with my softball, volleyball, or soccer teams for the entire season due to tennis, I was glad to rejoin the crews just in time for playoffs. A lot of people are involved in the (coed) IM sports at Hamilton because it is a great way to get some good athletic competition, but also a great way to relax among friends. Intensity of the games varies depending on the sport and league (most sports have "A" or "B" leagues based on skill level), but one thing I've noticed about IM at Hamilton is that, no matter the intensity or high stakes of a game, everyone maintains the upmost respect for one another and realizes it's all in good fun.
The first playoff was for "B" league softball. Softball is the only IM sport I play that I actually played in high school (although here it's slowpitch), so I always enjoy the opportunity to put on my glove again. Unfortunately, our playoff run ended in the semifinals--possibly in part to my novice pitching abilities. However, I redeemed myself in the beach volleyball games. The main core of our volleyball team has been together since the beginning of our freshman year, and have consistently improved our individual games and our teamwork since then. Together, we had already amassed three IM championships, and on Sunday we were set on adding a fourth (haha, get it..."set"?)
We won our first two games without the aid of our team captain. However, he arrived just in time for the championship--a game which proved to be an epic match-up of two teams hungry for free t-shirts. The match went the full five games, with plenty of spikes, dives, and laughs along the way. The last game was a nail-biter, with the score constantly going back and forth. Finally, after fending off a match point, we pulled through with the victory and took the beach volleyball crown!
My IM soccer final did not go as well as the volleyball final. To be honest, I'm not so big on soccer, but I'm often asked to play to meet the requirements (two girls need to play for a team in "B" league), and I enjoy most any sport when in the company of friends (except for golf--I hate golf). The soccer final itself was a bit frustrating (the other team kept scoring when they weren't supposed to!), but we kept the score close and played with positive spirits until the very end. Even though my last playoff game of ended in defeat, I'd say one championship and one second-place finish is not so bad for a weekend's work. And there's always next fall...


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RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono says the central bank is working on measures to ensure increased lending to high-growth potential areas, including small and medium enterprises and agriculture.
Dr Gono was briefing journalists in Harare on Saturday on the bank's areas of focus next year and the cocktail of measures the RBZ would adopt to ensure financial stability.
He said measures were being devised to ensure the financial sector disbursed more funding to key economic sectors, especially SMEs and agriculture.
Dr Gono said the central bank would include measures targeting priority areas under a battery of measures to ensure the financial stability announced by Finance Minister Tendai Biti.
"We may make additions to those measures by way of complementing them or in a way refine them by coming up with an approach that seeks to ensure that banks support the priority areas of the economy to given (prescribed) levels," he said.
"For instance, we have in mind a desire to see banks supporting priority areas or sectors, such as agriculture, beneficiary areas such as SMEs. We would be trying to tighten the definition of SMEs to ensure those resources (next year) go to beneficiaries whom we think have the greatest potential of creating more jobs, greater value and be able to spearhead development."
Dr Gono said banks would be directed to disburse prescribed amounts of loans to SMEs of specified sizes in terms of revenue and head count. This follows the realisation that while big companies were able to secure requisite financial resources; SMEs were unable to do so and yet had the greatest potential for job and value creation.
"I believe that it is more beneficial to support 5 000 small-scale miners who require US$10 000 to US$20 000 each than to support one (large) company that is going to take the same amount of money. We want to go into practical economics, which makes sense and integrate that with the limited resources we have," he said.
The current situation where banks are generally told to support priority areas left room for creative lending, where the banks decided to lend to only a few large and low-risk companies but with less economic impact.
In terms of support to agriculture, Dr Gono said, banks would also be required to extend most of the loans to targeted farmers -- for instance, the rural or resettled A1 farmers.
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FACTS & STATS: Site: Convocation Center (8,784) -- Ypsilanti, Michigan. Television: None. Home Record: Akron 12-0, EMU 11-2. Away Record: Akron 5-3, EMU 0-10. Neutral Record: Akron 2-1, EMU 0-0. Conference Record: Akron 10-0, EMU 4-5. Series Record: Akron leads, 20-19.
GAME NOTES: The Akron Zips put their perfect league record on the line as they venture to the Convocation Center for a Mid-American Conference matchup against the stingy Eastern Michigan Eagles.
Akron is currently riding a 15-game winning streak, which is the longest in the nation. The victories have not all come easy, as the Zips needed a big second half comeback to arrive at a 54-50 decision at Miami-Ohio on Saturday. Coach Keith Dambrot's team is 10-0 in MAC play for the first time in school history since joining the conference prior to the 1992-93 campaign. The team's strong effort is beginning to yield votes in both top 25 polls. During the current winning streak, Akron is outscoring its opposition by 14.5 ppg while holding a +9.6 edge in rebounding.
The Zips' success starts in the middle with superstar center Zeke Marshall. The 7-foot senior center has become a legitimate NBA prospect while producing 12.5 points and 6.8 rebounds per tilt as Akron's anchor inside. Marshall is the MAC's all-time and NCAA's active leader in career blocked shots with 327. He is surrounded by a very efficient supporting cast that features Demetrius Treadwell, Alex Abreu, and Nick Harney. Treadwell is a solid post player as well with averages of 11.0 points and 7.5 boards per tilt while Abreu's point guard play is netting 9.9 points and 6.0 assists per contest. Abreu went 1- of-8 for five points in the close win over Miami after making 12-of-19 from the floor to produce 18 points and 9.0 assists per game over his previous two outings. Harney adds 9.3 ppg to the fold.
The Eagles are 11-12 on the campaign after suffering a 60-52 setback at Toledo on Saturday. For the game, EMU went 20-of-59 from the floor (.339) and 4-of-17 from beyond the arc (.235), while the Rockets were limited to make just 34.6 percent of their field goal tries and finish with 11 turnovers to 13 assists. The stifling defensive performance was not enough to help Rob Murphy's Eagles drop to 4-5 in the league standings, which pits them in third place in the West Division.
Although EMU is leading the MAC and has one of the lowest allowed scoring averages in the nation at 59.6 ppg, it has failed to rack up victories due to its troubles on the offensive end, where it posts just 57.3 ppg. Coach Murphy's team has lost all 10 of its true road tests, but it has been strong at home with 11 wins to two losses, including a 47-44 decision of Purdue. Senior guard Derek Thompson is leading the way offensively for EMU, tallying 10.7 points per game. Pacing the Eagles in rebounding is junior center Da'Shonte Riley, who is posting 6.3 boards and 2.3 blocks per game.
In the loss to Toledo, Daylen Harrison registered a double-double with a career-high 19 points and 10 boards for EMU, which also received 13 rebounds and four blocks from Da'Shonte Riley. The backups played a huge role as Toledo's reserves outscored the Eagles' bench, 29-11. EMU outrebounded Toledo 43-36 while also converting 19 second-chance points. However, 19 EMU turnovers turned into 19 points for the Rockets.
Much like a football team that relies on its defense to keep itself in games, EMU cannot afford to frequently commit turnovers to pursue its ideal style of play. The Eagles will be tough to beat if they limit miscues, but Akron is going to be difficult to upset regardless. The combination of Treadwell and Marshall inside will give the Zips an edge over any of their MAC foes in addition to the schools they face going forward once in the postseason.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Akron 66, Eastern Michigan 53
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In the open ocean, the ebb and flow of the tide is barely noticeable, but in certain V-shaped bays or inlets, the tide enters the broad end and literally piles up as it moves up the bay. This buildup occurs in the Bay of Fundy, 77km/48mi wide at its mouth, narrowing and becoming shallower along its 233km/145mi length. Thus, the tide is squeezed as it travels the bay, a ripple increasing to a wave several feet high as it enters the rivers emptying into the bay. This wave is known as a "bore," a tidal wave of unusual height. At Moncton the bore varies from a few inches to nearly two feet. The highest bores occur when the earth, moon and sun are aligned. The tidal bore and changing levels of the Petitcodiac River are best viewed from the park. A small stream at low tide, the river lies in the centre of a bed of red mud. At high tide the river widens to 1.6km/1mi and the water level increases by up to 7m/23ft.
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