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Toshiba Satellite M50-A-11Q
SpecificationsNotebook: Toshiba Satellite M50-A-11Q (Satellite M50 Series)
Processor: Intel Core i3 4005U
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 4400
Display: 15.6 inch, 16:9, 1366x768 pixels, glossy: yes
Weight: 2.2kg
Price: 600 euro
Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)
Reviews for the Toshiba Satellite M50-A-11Q
Source: PC Advisor
The M50-A-11Q provides very respectable performance, battery life and build quality at a competitive price. It's not perfect, and the screen's limited viewing angles are a clear weakness. Even so, it's well worth considering if you're on a tight budget and looking for a good, basic laptop that can handle most day-to-day computing tasks for less than £500.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 02/07/2014
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 60% features: 80% workmanship: 80%
Intel HD Graphics 4400:
ULV integrated GPU (GT2) with 20 EUs found on certain Haswell CPU models.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
4005U: Haswell-based ULV dual-core processor clocked at 1.7 GHz without Turbo Boost support. Offers an integrated HD Graphics 4400 and a dual channel DDR3 memory controller.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15.6": 15 inch display-variants are the standard and are used for more than the half of all notebooks. 15.4 inch display with 16:10 are the standard for notebook displays. However nowadays, more and more 16:9 displays with 15.6 inch appear. The reason why so many people like displays with medium size is, that this size is not exhausting for the eyes, does not need too much energy and the laptops can be kept quite compact.» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.2 kg: These sub-notebooks weight less than the average of all notebooks, but represent a heavier class of weight among the sub-notebooks. 13 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.
Toshiba: Toshiba Corporation is a multinational conglomerate manufacturing company, headquartered in Japan. The company's main business is in Infrastructure, Consumer Products, and Electronic devices and components. Toshiba-made Semiconductors are among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders. Toshiba is one of the biggest international notebook-manufacturer. There exist many reviews for Toshiba models.
80%: This rating is not convincing. The laptop is evaluated below average, this is not really a recommendation for purchase.
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Connecticut has a three-tiered certification continuum that recognizes the progression of a teacher's professional career and issues three certificates: the initial educator, the provisional educator, and the professional educator.
For a list of assessments for different certifications required by the State Dept. of Education, as well as the corresponding passing scores, please visit their page for additional information.
How to Obtain Information Regarding Certification
There are several avenues through which teachers may obtain information regarding certification:
- Applicants may check on the status of their applications at any time through an interactive voice response (IVR) telephone service by calling (860) 713-6969.
- State Department of Education staff members are available by telephone for general technical support between 12:00PM - 4:00PM, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at the telephone number listed above.
Applicants may put their specific questions in writing and mail or fax them to the Bureau of Certification and Professional Development.
The fax number is (860) 713-7017. The address is:
CT State Department of Education
Bureau of Educator Preparation, Certification, Support, & Assessment
P.O. Box 150471, Room 243
Hartford, CT 06115-0471
- Teachers can email the State Department Certification Bureau: email@example.com
- Teachers may call the Connecticut Education Association office for assistance at (860) 525-5641.
CEA, as one of two teachers' associations in the state, does not have access to individuals' certificates or records; that information can be obtained by contacting the State Department of Education in one of the following ways:
Mail:Bureau of Educator Standards and Certification
Connecticut State Department of Education
P. O. Box 150471 - Room 243
Hartford, Connecticut 06115-0471
For express mail services:Bureau of Educator Standards and Certification
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Hartford, CT 06106
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Phone: (860) 713-6969 between the hours of 12 and 4 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
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Please remember that program administrators spend a considerable amount of time and money processing your application materials and arranging your program. If you withdraw from the program, administrators reserve the right to pass the financial impact of irrecoverable expenses on to you.
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"Should Participant fail to pay any fee or debt owed to the University or any host institution arising in relation to Participant's involvement in or actions taken in the course of the program, the University may place a "hold" on Participant's University records and ability to register until the debt is satisfied in its entirety, in addition to any other recourse available.
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Google not officially supporting Opera is just like program developers not producing a Linux version in that they both have tiny amounts of market share and it potentially would be a waste of resources to fully support the little players.
I disagree somewhat. The browser market has IE, Firefox, Chrome/Chromium, Safari, Opera all of which are free to download. Also two of these are also open source as well. The majority are cross-platform as well. They are also all "feature complete"/"stable".
In operating systems, we really have Windows, Mac and Linux. All three are "feature complete"/"stable" at the kernel level, but one isn't at the GUI level (cough X on Linux cough). This one is the only free, and also open-source OS. Once somebody makes a move (thanks Valve), then the unstable parts will get the attention/funding it so badly requires - but many ***** out (or even get scared on the legal front). The point is, the infrastructure like buggy/incomplete APIs also stop development on this platform, not just because it has 1.5% of the desktop share.
Opera is in a saturated market where it isn't standing out in terms of license, features or standards support (though I know they stood out well in that department in the IE6 days - everyone is much more on level in that aspect now). Why support the rendering engine when it will need it own tweaks (which cost a lot of man hours), when they are so many other alternatives as well as the market share. Anybody can build a browser with Webkit or Gecko don't forget.


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Antler/Gourd Wallhanging - by Cara Rivera Banana Bottles - by Lynne Slack Birdhouse with Ivy Design - by Gita Landwehr Candle Holder - by Bonnie Gibson Enameling on Gourds - by Judy Cunningham Luffa Soap - by Roger and Karen Manasco Pine Needle Rims - by Ronna Wuttke Sculpture on Gourds - by Sue Sizemore


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Whenever God gives a vision to a Christian, it is as if He puts him in "the shadow of His hand" (Isaiah 49:2). The saint's duty is to be still and listen. There is a "darkness" that comes from too much light— that is the time to listen. The story of Abram and Hagar in…Read More »


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Have you checked out the free agent market lately? Ouch. Might as well re-read "The Bell Jar." Depressing. Only one real star: Josh Hamilton. We definitely won't sign him. (But the notion does make you smile. Imagine Hamilton's drunken breakdown in NY: Photo on the Post pissing in an alley; dating Madonna; hanging with A-Rod's pro wrestler ladies; cameo on "Celebrity Apprentice" with Trump; out on the town, beating up male models with Tim Tebow.) Only one real pitcher: Zach Greinke. We definitely won't sign him. (Imagine the cops trying to talk him out of jumping off the George Washington Bridge; the oxy bust; the rehab appearance on Ellen; the unsolved serial killings that finally result in the shoot-out on the Deegan) And right now, the Yankiverse is pondering Torii Hunter - a great idea! Five years ago. Now, what's the point?It's time for the Yankees to establish the Chris Dickerson Production Baseline, which simply asks: How much better will this guy be than Chris Dickerson, to...
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50 Cent Cuddles With Stuffed Animals in Hospital: Stomach Virus or Mixtape Plug?
If 50 Cent did share photos of himself in the hospital as a publicity stunt, we hope it's really for a Madagascar sequel. Otherwise ... why is the rapper surrounded by a stuffed giraffe, elephant, and lion? Does that scream "Gangsta Grillz: The Lost Tape is coming out this Friday!" to you?
Anyway, 50 is definitely getting publicity. He first tweeted on Wednesday, "I'm in the hospital but my gangsta grillz LOST TAPE is done so it will be out on time."
He added, "I don't want to go into surgery. @FloydMayweather call my phone why your phone off." Then on Thursday he tweeted, "I'm feeling better today I think I'm gonna get out of the hospital soon. EMINEM called me last night I love him that's my boy."
With each tweet he shared photos of himself in a hospital bed. Friend DJ Drama told XXLMag.com (via Chron.com) that 50 is battling a "stomach virus" but he planned to be up in running in time to promote their new mixtape, "Gangsta Grillz: The Lost Tape."
"First they wanted to keep it quiet," DJ drama said, "but he's not a quiet guy. He should be cool. It's nothing that serious. We still gonna do our promo run stuff."
However, a source told People that this was all just a publicity stunt for the mixtape, which comes out tomorrow.
This seems like an odd way to get publicity — especially the stuffed animals, which kind of send an anti-gangsta message — but that would be better than him really being hospitalized with a stomach ailment. Either way, good luck, Fiddy!
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11.3.11 VOLLEYBALL: Balanced Attack Leads Cavs Past Carlow in Four
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Walsh (23-6, 8-1) used a balanced attack to defeat Carlow University (8-18, 0-9) in four sets tonight in an American Mideast Conference match. The Cavs won their 23rd game by the scores of 25-11, 20-25, 25-8 and 25-13.
Julianne O'Donnell (Jr., 5-10, Willowick, OH/Lake Catholic) led the team with 17 kills, while adding nine digs. Paige Chandler (R-So., 6-0, Cincinnati, OH/McNicholas) and Kristen Sokol (OH, 5-9, So., Akron, OH/Archbishop Hoban) each had 11 kills. Sokol also added a team-high three blocks.
Hannah Duran (Jr., 5-9, Grafton, OH/Midview) passed out 45 assists. Kristen Rohlfs (Sr., 5-8, Loveland, OH/Mount Notre Dame) led with 18 digs, with Natalie Phillips (5-10, Sr., Wooster, OH/HS) adding nine.
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DealNN deals for today include a variety of deals on Apple products, storage devices and more. Currently MacConnection.com is offering the unibody 15.4-inch, 2.4GHz MacBook Pro for $1849 which is already $150 off the MSRP of $1999, and for a limited time a mail in rebate offer is available that drops the price down to $1699. Apple's online store is offering deals on refurbished white MacBooks starting at $849. Two refurbished iPod videos are being offered at eCost, the 30GB model for $119.99 and the 60GB model for $146.99. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 is available at Amazon.com for $189.99. For today only Newegg.com is offering the Western Digital My Passport Essential 160GB external hard drive for 49.99.


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I wonder whether the idea of the robot inquisitor (9 February, p 21) could be extended.
Consider a robot to which anyone can make a report and answer questions anonymously: call it "Sherlock". It could accumulate data and alert the human authorities to any patterns that indicate serial offenders. Since no accusations would be based on a single report, the accused would not know who exactly to intimidate. And single false accusations would not lead to Sherlock causing damage to innocent reputations.
If victims of sexual crimes find it less stressful to give details to a machine than to a human, however sympathetic, more people might feel able to report, and serial offenders could be identified earlier.
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> On Monday 08 December 2003 09:17 pm, Rob Rogers wrote:
>> > Take this one, for example:
>> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2770648713
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>> > In order to make it a total multimedia station, just add a TV tuner
>> ($50
>> > - $75), IDE DVD/CD RW combo drive ($50), and a video card with TV out
>> > ($50), and you're all set. If you have a wireless network that you
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>> > to connect to, then you can add that card for < $50. (I just looked up
>> > these prices on newegg.com. Refurbished hardware would be less.)
>> From my experience (and that of many others on the MythTV mailing lists
>> and chat) that box will be unuseable with a standard TV Tuner. I've got
>> a
>> standard Hauppauge bttv card, and my 1.4 GHz (not a 1400, and actual
>> 1.4GHz) could record and play a single stream (or watch TV "live") with
>> the processer at 80-95% capacity.
> That's odd. I've used a FuturePower all-in-one computer that had 800Mhz,
> 128
> MB RAM, and an included Prolink TV tuner that Linux supported -
> http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-108-108&catalog=47&manufactory=BROWSE&depa=0
That reminds me, anyone looking for a capture card, other than the
PVR-250/350 from hauppauge
> That machine wasn't exactly uber-powerful, but I didn't get the
> performance
> issues that you described. Perhaps a processor upgrade would be
> recommended
> for the Ebay link above, but 800MHz PIII's aren't exactly expensive. Not
> to
> mention, the Celeron in question is (apparently) easily overclockable.
Now that you mention it, I forgot to mention that choice of codec, bitrate
and capture resolution make a definite difference in processor you need.
The DivX codec is more processor intensive than rtjpeg. The above
described performance was in 480x480 Divx and I forget the bitrate.
480x480 is a pretty standard resolution. For the people with machines that
will handle it, most people seem to prefer 640x480. You can also go lower,
480x320 not being too bad of a drop, but slightly noticeable quality
difference. Much lower than that, and you definitely start to notice the
difference. To get MythTV to work on a P3-500 the recomened resolution
(for "live" TV) is about 352x240. From the mythtv.org documentation:
* A PIII/733MHz system can encode one video stream using the MPEG-4
codec using 480x480 capture resolution. This does not allow for live TV
watching, but does allow for encoding video and then watching it later.
* A PIII/800MHz system with 512MB RAM can encode one video stream using
the RTJPEG codec with 480x480 capture resolution and play it back
simultaneously, thereby allowing live TV watching.
* A dual Celeron/450MHz is able to view a 480x480 MPEG-4/3300kbps file
created on a different system with 30% CPU usage.
I'm not sure why they included the mention of 512MB above... The general
rule seems to be that 128 is usually good enough, and anything over 256 is
unnecessary if you're running a single encode (and you can only run one
encode per capture card)
Of course, at that $50 price, if you had a beefier box you could use for
the backend, that box would make a nice frontend for MythTV.
For those who aren't familiar, MythTV works with any number of boxes,
backends being any box that does encoding, and a frontend being any box
that does displaying. You can actually set it up with a backend box with a
beefy processor and tons of disk space sitting in a closet doing all the
encoding (get a fast enough processor and a couple bttv cards, or multiple
PVR-250/350 cards and you can encode multiple streams at the same time)
and you'll never hear those fans and drive spinning. Then you can build a
couple of lower end computers with a nice slim case and uber-quite fans
that look good in your entertainment center for the front ends.
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Plant & Sing! Returns on October 11
Sylvester Manor is excited to announce that the Wainwright Sisters featuring Martha Wainwright & Lucy Wainwright Roche will headline this year's Plant & Sing Festival. Opening for Martha will be Bluegrass sensation The Deadly Gentlemen hailing from Nashville and Boston, as well as five other critically acclaimed bands, and a collection of nationally recognized food writers, poets and thinkers.
Plant & Sing is a festival of bluegrass and traditional american music celebrating local food & community on Shelter Island, NY.
Each October at the Plant & Sing Festival at Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island, NY, people gather to plant garlic and harvest fall crops, transforming the fields and the work itself with festive songs, dances, recitations and meals. After the work everyone kicks back for a world-class music festival on the expansive waterfront lawn of historic Sylvester Manor.
It's the community harvest festival tradition made new, preserving old traditions and exploring how to create a new culture of food that is joyful, alive with people, and rooted in place.
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Walt: Now, the CO2 freezes the liquid, crystallizing it. Which gives us our finished methamphetamine.
from Breaking Bad (Ft. Thomas Schnauz) – Say My Name on Genius
Probably using so-called "Dry Ice" (solid CO2), a material that sublimes itself : ice becomes gas without even being liquid.
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FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a light emitting diode module showing our new design;
FIG. 2 is a front view thereof;
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barrel vault back wall arch
In the Alan Scott oven, one builds the back wall first and then attaches the first arch directly to the back. I understand that this makes the wall vulnerable to cracking between the arch and the wall. Would it be better to built the arch first and fill in the wall below it, or build the wall and cut it in a curve so that the arch can be built over it? Which would be a better approach for a beginner?
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It is easier to build the wall first, but better to build the arch first and then key in the wall.
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Tscarborough- We went with building the wall first, but cutting the bricks one by one to fit under the arch.
Also, I contacted someone today to see if I could get them to build the bracing system out of steel that you suggested (having your photo was very useful in describing what was needed). The brace seems a much simpler solution than anything else for the wall weakness problem.
Thanks for all your help!
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What kind of iron is used in that brace? What is it called so that I might describe it? Thanks, Sarah
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Angle Iron and all-thread.
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YES. It's a Movie
Studio: YES Snowboards
Digital Release Date: 2011-10-17
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 886788201873YES. It's a Movie follows the legendary YES. Crew as they travel the winter globe in search of untouched lines, deep powder, and good times. In the trend conscious, hero-fickle world of modern snowboarding, YES. remain true to their passion, and steps up their game to show us all how to have a blast on a snowboard. Locations include Coastal BC, the Kootenays, Alaska, Japan, Arctic Norway, Kamchatk, and Eastern Canada.


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INTERESTING STUFF – 24 May 2014
As a result of a new voter ID law in Texas, 92-year-old Ruby Barber who was born in Tennessee and has voted all her life was refused an ID because she has no birth certificate:
"'I'm sure (my birth) was never reported because I was born in a farmhouse with a coal oil lamp,' Barber [told the Waco Tribune]. 'Didn't have a doctor, just a neighbor woman come in and deliver me.'"
Many states have recently enacted extremely restrictive voter ID laws reminiscent of Jim Crow. It will mainly affect elders, people of color, people who don't drive and the poor. Hmmmm – I wonder which political party thought up these new laws.
Ms. Barber now has a temporary voter ID card but most people denied the right to vote won't be getting the publicity to nudge authorities to do something.
Feher Isten is a new movie from Hungary about a pack of 200 wild dogs terrorizing a city. It has made a big stir at the Cannes Film Festival but not for the subject matter. Instead, all the talk is that the 200 dog actors are all strays, not a single animation among them.
"You know it's unheard of to think of doing 200, 250 dogs running together through the city of Budapest," [the trainer who prepared the dogs for the movie] told Reuters."
A professional dog actor plays the leader of the pack, explained the director, but the rest are rescues from a pound.
"Filming them was like working with four- or five-year-old child actors, but he got what he wanted, the director said.
"'There are really harsh and heavy scenes which were simulated by playing, he said, speaking of how the dogs were prepared for filming."
Here is the trailer:
All the rescue dogs were found homes after the film was finished shooting.
From old friend and TGB reader, John Brandt.
I love this. It amazes me that those tiny, little ducks are playing exactly as two-year humans would and know to walk back up the ramp for another go. And look how they each wait their turn.
I cannot recall the last time I saw a "You know you're old when" joke that didn't offend me. This adaptation sent by Sunday's TGB Elder Music columnist, Peter Tibbles, is really funny and in an unexpected way.
About a year ago, I told you about the gorgeous high resolution images of Dutch masterpieces available online for free use from Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. A handful of other museums have made their collections similarly available and now the U.S. granddaddy of such museums, The Metropolitan has joined them.
As the Met's press release notes, the initiative is called Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC) and it
"...provides images of art in its collection that the Museum believes to be in the public domain and free of other known restrictions; these images are now available for scholarly use in any media."
You'll find the collections at this page of the Met's website. Images that are included for free use can be recognized by this OASC bug below the images:
It's my favorite nut (which, I just learned, is technically a seed) and I sure didn't know. Here's a little video about cashews:
Just as I was getting ready to prepare this Saturday post yesterday, a serendipitous message popped into my inbox from the Clinton Foundation:
"See how our new project with PepsiCo is taking the cashew fruit, which typically goes to waste, and sourcing it as a new, vitamin-rich ingredient for PepsiCo's local juice business in India - simultaneously improving the livelihood of thousands of cashew growers in the process."
Here's the Clinton/Pepsi promotional video about their initiative:
Remember Tara the cat I told you about last Saturday who saved the little boy she lives with by bodychecking an attack dog? Last Tuesday, Tara tripled the usual attendance at the Bakersfield Blaze baseball game when she "threw out" the first ball. Take a look:
You have probably heard that the Republican Party has lately recognized that they have more than a few difficulties communicating with women and have dedicated themselves this midterm election year to improving.
Here is how that effort went down on Tuesday at a debate with candidates for governor of Colorado that was meant to reassure women. The name of the debate was "Women and Colorado's Future." (Hat tip to Daily Kos)
At the end of every episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart includes a "moment of Zen" and this video from Darlene Costner seemed a good candidate for our own Zen moment.
The Iguazu in Argentina is the largest collection of cataracts in the world. There are 275 individual water falls that run together in this panorama.
Interesting Stuff is a weekly listing of short takes and links to web items that have caught my attention; some related to aging and some not, some useful and others just for fun.
You are all encouraged to submit items for inclusion. Just click "Contact" in the upper left corner of any Time Goes By page to send them. I'm sorry that I probably won't have time to acknowledge receipt and there is no guarantee of publication. But when I do include them, you will be credited and I will link to your blog if you have one.
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Jaw-dropping the ick-factor blindness of the speaker at the Colorado GOP debate. Give that man the hook!
OTOH: I just had to send the Snoopy cartoon to a friend who has always had a problem with the concept of (her own) aging!
The New Yorker cartoon really hit home. There are people here at the asylum who, when something new or foreign sounding like Quiche or Lo Mein are on the menu they won't even try it, opting for a tuna sandwich instead.
Thank you for the Zen Moment, Darlene. Awesome!
The Republicans especially those in CO, are a lost cause. They just don't get it which seems to be a common factor in many cases with most men (in politics). Have a great w/end. Dee
I will have to watch the videos later (I have no earphones now). Love the ducks waiting their turns - we could take a lesson!
Also love the cartoon; I live with someone who has closed his mind to new experiences...lol
"A professional dog actor plays the leader of the pack, explained the director, but the rest are rescues from a pound."
I just loved the concept of the lead dog in the Hungarian film being a professional actor.
Did they check his SAG card before they gave him the part?
So they want some 'gals' to decorate the panel do they? Everything today is wonderful! For one reason or another....
I got an earful yesterday during my shift at the thrift shop where I volunteer. Apparently, Obama is evil akin to nothing we've seen before, and Obamacare has some surprises that will horrify us and ruin the country. And of course the only place you can hear the truth is Fox News. I asked him if he'd verified any of what he'd 'heard', and of course that just led to the next revelation. Oh my.
PS I live in a small community, but I rarely hear that kind of blatant ignorance.
Seriously? It would be "more ornamental" to have the women participants on stage with the men? Republican men are hopeless, I tell you. Hopeless.
What a great variety of Interesting Stuff. I loved the ducklings, "How do you know when you're middle-aged," and the Iguazu cataracts.
As for the Republicans, how condescending can they get? "Ornamental"--give me a break. Apparently, it never occurred to any of those guys to get some feedback from an actual woman before making total fools of themselves. Again.
Humor is just an exaggeration of the truth and I am not offended by "You know you're old when -- " jokes. I think that it's better to laugh at ourselves than cry because a joke makes fun of, and exaggerates, our infirmities (such as incontinence). I do see how they contribute to stereotyping, however. That said, I do think that Peter Tibble's contribution is much funnier.
The Met site is wonderful. One could spend hours there just as one could spend days in the physical Metropolitan Museum. I just spent some time looking at Manet's paintings and the of "the Lady In the Blue Mantle". The texture and the way the paint is layered on the portrait is fascinating.
Ohmygod! The table would be more ornamental with the ladies sitting there? It's just amazing that they can't get it right what they're doing wrong.
Thanks for the link to the museum. Love that tidbit and the Moment of Zen as well as the video about cashews.
I am horrified yet still amazed at how the GOP can continue to stick its foot firmly in its mouth as regards Women and Colorado's Future. Why can't they just learn to shut the men up and let a few women talk for a change? I know there are intelligent and thoughtful women in Republican politics (though I have to wonder why) yet they sit back and allow themselves to be 'ornamental'.
The final blow to reality was The Dating Game theme.
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Great "interesting stuff" column today. But i am troubled about the rescue cat video--and maybe this has been addressed. How come the father is standing there making a video instead of racing to the rescue? I can imagine a momentary freeze--but filming?!
The father is not standing there in the original cat/dog video. The video was retrieved from surveillance cameras. That's also why there is more than one angle on the video.
Other than the narrator and the music, the cataract falls were definitely a zen moment. Beautiful and majestic!
Loved the middle age input on Peter Tibble's part.
Poor kitty cat, hero that she was, being placed on display in an environment foreign to her every senses. We humans are very strange with what we think is normal behavior!
The whole clinton/pepsico ad actually put me off, those subtle shifts from unhappy looking people to happy looking people to emphasize what a good thing Pepsi is doing for THAT community. the logo Pepsico sticking out at the end. And I have no doubt that this wonderful new juice full of vitamins needed by the workers who are doing this tedious task day in and day out is probably loaded with sugar. Sorry. I am more and more concluding that the Clintons are, what we used to say in the day, sell outs.
Thanks Ronni. I really wanted to know!
The Iguazu is one of the most mystical, inspirational places I've ever visited. Orchids grow wild on the banks of these falls along with many other tropical flowers. Also, you are invited to go the the near by "dam" show which is almost as memorable. It serves as a power source for that part of the world; you are presented with a light show to accompany the slides. Needless to say, they are proud of this dam.
I wanted to respond to May 21 article on "finding your passion". I did just that by getting my MA in Clinical Art Therapy at the age of 50 (my youngest child was 21 and ready to move out). This was after 4 years of teaching high school art. I also got my license in Marriage,and Family therapy after several years of accumulating intern hours.
I was only interested in art all my life and got my BA in Fine Art (painting) when I had 3 children ages 9, 6, and 4 years old. I say go for what you love and there will be a way to make a living. It worked for me as I retired with an adequate income at the age of 68 - am now 74 years old. (sorry I was unable to find a "comment" spot for the May 21 article).
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On February 28, Kim wore a blue flannel shirt as she headed into the gym for one of her daily workouts. But this isn't just any blue flannel shirt. It's one she's wearing to support her baby daddy, Kanye.
The blue and green checkered flannel is from Pyrex Vision, a fashion line created by Kanye's Creative Director, Virgil Abloh. The shirts are similar to any other flannel you could probably buy for less than $50 — except for these ones cost well over $500!
With the simple addition of the words "PYREX 23," screenprinted on the back, Kanye's shirt is sold for $550.
That may seem like a lot for us common folk, but considering that Kim recently dropped almost $400 on a designer keychain — yes, keychain — for her niece, Penelope, we're guessing $550 doesn't faze her in the least.
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> > With ALSA you need an init script to restore saved mixer
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> I have a bunch of snd-* in my lsmod, so I guess I'm using ALSA. I have
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> I still don't have any sound :(
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J.R.R. Tolkien's classic, epic fantasy sequel to "The Hobbit", originally published in three volumes in 1954-1955.< read all 48 reviews
There are many great fantasy writers. You have to like older guys like Sir Walter Scott and Michael Moorcock (which caracterizes how diverse the books really are). then there are the modern guys like Robert Jordan and Terry Goodkind.
The best of these guys write in a fantasy world, but tell stunning real-life human tales. Moorcock's Elric struggled with inner demons and presented the question of how much of your own humanity is already written in and how much we can control, while Goodkind is an almost Ayn Randian struggle between persoanl individual freedom vs. tyranny and totaliarianism. Jordan created a messianic character in Rand, in which the world and it's various faction turn themselves upside dowm, throwing the world into chaos and dis-order
Tolkien is about the struggle of good aginast a seemingly insurmountable evil. It's the story of how four hobbitts and their allies take on a huge evil. both within themselves in the guise of the ring, and also around them, with Sauron's orcs and sorcerers. Much of it was written in the dark days of WW2 Britain, so the reader, can guess where much of the imagery can come from.
Frodo inherits Bilbo's ring, and it slowly changes everything about him. He is joined by his three friends Sam, Pippin, and Merry, along with the powerful wizard Gandalf and a few other allies, most notably Strider, a great warrior. They travel through wars, are chased by monsters,and are split up. There is treachery and differeing motives among their allies, and they run into obstacle after obstacle in a mission to destroy the ring.
One of the beauties of LOTR is the characters. You notice the transformation of Frodo from a simple hobbitt to a dark , obsessed and moody character the ring turns him into. There is the powerful wizard Gandalf, locked into his own struggle against evil,and there is also the reluctant hero Aragorn, who while avoiding his destiny, draws closer and clser to it.
Even better is the prose. Tolkien did not write the catchy prose that would instantly draw readers in. LOTR was only a part of a larger milleu of Tolkien, Middle Earth. Life existed long before the hobbitts, and their struggle is merely the culmination of many, many years of struggle over the ring and between good and evil. There are many references toi things that happened in other biiks and stories, and the prose is dense. You need to be committed and dedicated to reading this, much like Frodo is to getting rid of the ring. But once you are in Tolkien's grasp, you are his. It is an unforgettable reading experience.
He never gets overly heavy-handed about his writing philosphy, avoiding the sometimes heavy-handedness of Goodkind, and he never loses control of the various threads, as Jordan seemingly does. It reads like an old history book not a mere story.
It is the standard for all fantasy writing. as fantastic as the battles and sorcery are, he never forgets the muman angele of it. The huge struggle against seemingly invincible odds, the battle between good and evil, and the tough lessons of self-realization, among others. it is all here, and is in a grand scale.
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Florence Welch took the stage twice to receive two prizes at this year's NME Awards. "The Shake It Out" singer was happy to relive the success she had at last year's awards, so at the Troxy in East she picked up London, the prize for Solo Artist and Best Dancefloor Anthem for her collaboration with Calvin Harris, "Sweet Nothing." 'I really didn't expect to get this again, especially because it's debatable whether I'm a solo artist,' she said at the star studded-bash.
The famous One Direction also took home two awards, but the boys were not as thrilled as Florence from Florence and The Machine to receive them. The boy band grabbed the awards for Worst Band and the group's Harry Styles was named the Villain of the Year at 2013 NME Awards.
The other winners at the UK magazine's annual ceremony were: The Killers for the Best International Band, Rolling Stones for Best Live Band and Best Music Film, rising act Palma Violets for the Best New Band, Biffy Clyro for Best British Band. The Maccabees went home with the award Best Album for their record Given To The Wild, Foals' "Inhaler" was awarded the Best Track, Blur's 21 was honored as the Best Re-Issue, Arctic Monkeys' "R U Mine?" as the Best Music Video, while Muse was awarded for Best Fan Community.
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The city of Santa Monica filed suit Thursday against the Federal Aviation Administration in a battle that could shape the future of Santa Monica Airport.
According to the suit, filed in Federal Court in Los Angeles, Santa Monica seeks to have the court rule that that the city holds the clear title to the land and can do with it what it wants once a 25-year-old agreement with the FAA expires in 2015. The suit asks the court to declare unconstitutional an FAA claim that the city must operate the airport in perpetuity.
The airport, wedged in a residential area and populated by private jets, is a hot-button issue in Santa Monica. Many residents want it closed for issues of noise and safety. The issue moved to the forefront earlier this month after a jet crashed at the airport, as Los Angeles Times reporters Dan Weikel and Angel Jennings reported.
FAA spokesman Ian Gregor declined to comment on pending litigation. But yes, the FAA has in the past advocated that the airport stay open. Here's why, according a statement the FAA has been using for several years:
In the FAA's view, the City is obligated to keep Santa Monica Airport open through 2023 under assurances it gave in exchange for federal Airport Improvement Program grants. The FAA also believes that the City is separately obligated to operate Santa Monica Airport beyond 2023 because it acquired the land on which the airport is located cost free from the Federal Government in 1948 under an instrument of transfer pursuant to the Surplus Property Act. The FAA is fully committed to preserving the federal investment and keeping this airport open and operating, including specific performance of these obligations.
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The film, "1971," tells the story of eight Americans who broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania in 1971 with the hope that they would uncover files showing the FBI had infiltrated and spied upon activist communities. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on April 18.
I sat down with the film's director, Johanna Hamilton, the day after the premiere. She discussed what makes the story of what these Americans did so powerful, the renewed relevance the story has because of Edward Snowden, contemporary examples of domestic spying she considered when making the film, trying to get someone who was involved in the FBI investigation to appear in the film, the decision to film reenactments with actors for the documentary, and more.
The PEN American Center in New York is holding a screening and discussion at 7 pm on April 30 with Hamilton, Bonnie and John Raines, two of the Americans involved in taking the FBI files, Larry Siems and Betty Medsger, the author of The Burglary, which is the definitive book out there on this incredible story and period in history.
To coincide with that event, here is the interview I conducted with Hamilton.
GOSZTOLA: When I think of this story, it seems like one of these perfect, timeless universal stories. If you're a filmmaker, you really appreciate this story because it seems like it could be told almost any time and people would be very engaged with it.
HAMILTON: Totally. I mean, you completely encapsulated part of what was so fantastic about this story. There are so many other elements obviously that are so great but that's what makes stories so enduring. These universal threads that are particularly astonishing in this story and in so many other stories.
I did feel it would have universal appeal. I thought it would. I hoped it would have international appeal. But again my fear was—Obviously, it was a big thrill to be able to tell this piece of untold American history. But I did fear and I had people tell me at the beginning we know about COINTELPRO. How is this interesting? I had someone who is very high up at one of the networks tell me it's just history. So, definitely there were those times, as an independent filmmaker seeking financing, it can be a little challenging.
I definitely felt that there was an audience out there for this story, but my big concern was that people would be like,oh yeah, forty years ago. It's very quaint, very nice, potentially interesting but potentially not interesting at all. And then with the Snowden and Laura [Poitras] stuff happening that is extraordinary…
GOSZTOLA: You have Snowden and then you have Glenn [Greenwald], Laura [Poitras] and Barton [Gellman]. You have journalists who were in the same position as Betty [Medsger]. And that changes everything for you. It's probably a lot easier if you are a producer because you can sell the film now.
HAMILTON: Yes, although to be honest the film was already made by the time the Snowden revelations happened, thankfully. I was almost at the end of the editing process, which was really a blessing. For a brief moment, we contemplated what do we do. We're faced now at this crossroads, but I knew that I had Laura as one of my team and I knew her film was coming so in an ideal world perhaps our films live as companions to one another. So, we thought about it for a millisecond, whether or not to go down the road of Snowden. But there was Laura so there was no point.
The larger overarching thing was to what extent—We wrestled with this throughout the process because we had inklings of this in the four years that we were making the film. I think it was in 2011 the raids on the environmental groups and animal rights groups throughout the Midwest and in Pennsylvania. It was so reminiscent. I remember Brian Williams on the evening news being this is reminiscent of the '70s. It was quite extraordinary so there were these moments so we had these hesitations in the editing room as to what degree to we seize upon this and we definitely cut together scenes that had much more contemporary [archival footage] like the scenes I just described.
In the end, we decided not to and decided to let it live more as an under current. And that's a choice. The choice is in the documentary and story telling, which are endless. So in the end it was a choice I made, and I think it is the right choice. I think some people will complain that I should have hit the contemporary angle more. Hopefully, it will live as a very powerful story, but perhaps as an allegory as well.
GOSZTOLA: I wanted to have you talk about using actors to dramatize and reenact what happened. Can you talk about that choice?
HAMILTON: Yes, it's a slightly controversial choice. I realize that. It's not an easy choice. I think my strong feeling was that there was nothing that existed from the time and if I didn't go that route was this then a short film.
There was always the enormous political ramifications that happened, but in the absence of them describing—Such a large part of the story is the actual heist, how they did what they did, what persuaded to do what they do and how they pulled it off. It's just extraordinary, and the fact that they evaded the FBI all these years.
Very quickly, I decided that was what I wanted to do because I really did want the story to live in all its glory. And so then I sought Maureen Ryan, my recreations producer, who I think is at the top of her game and who co-produced Man on Wire and Project Nim and [had] done incredible work. I admired her a lot. I persuaded her to come on board with a miniscule budget and hopefully it works.
GOSZTOLA: It works. It definitely makes the movie a stronger film.
When you say Man on Wire, knowing that movie, I guess they are comparable in a way, but when I think about the story, it seems like you could give this to somebody at a Hollywood studio and they could easily de-politicize the story of people performing a heist on an FBI office. I guess these people who entrusted you with their story found someone they could trust and you really do keep that social justice perspective in the story.
HAMILTON: Really, I am so glad to hear you say that. Hopefully, we have preserved the huge political overtones and the moral and civic courage and the times. I mean, the upheaval that was going on in America at the time was just extraordinary and potentially something America has not gone through since. Perhaps, today it's more undercover.
At the same time, I wanted to make it a more appealing film to a general audience so to have it be this thriller.
GOSZTOLA:I think to appreciate what risks they were taking it helps to see it play out on the screen. Because otherwise just to hear them talk…
HAMILTON: That's right, and what's remarkable about them is that they are so matter of fact. They're different from Philippe Petit, for example, who is in Man on Wire, who is incredible, dramatic and everything he describes he can take you back in the moment, and they just they melded back into their ordinary lives after the heist. They were done. There's no drama about them in that way. They did this unbelievable thing.
There's a reason that they stayed underground. Someone could have easily bragged about it. I'm just astonished that Keith [Forsyth] or Bob [Williamson] didn't brag about it to some future girlfriend. Something like that. There's just sort of an absence of ego in all of them that is just sort of astonishing, but in this case was perhaps going to make for a slightly less dramatic film.
GOSZTOLA: It is very difficult when you look back 40 years to get anybody to put a defense to film, but you did find Terry Neist. Talk about having him be a part of the movie.
HAMILTON: It was really tricky. We were very careful about the story. We never went through the front door of the FBI to say that this is what we were doing. [Betty] never had in all the years of research that preceded the film, that went into the book. It was only at the tail end that we really engaged the FBI. We engaged the historian John Fox, Betty did. She tried to get on my behalf the crime scene pictures. And they couldn't find them supposedly for eighteen months, and then literally as we closed the edit room he comes back and all of a sudden here are the crime pictures. He said they got misfiled. I was like, really?
I talked to Mike German (former FBI agent). I interviewed Mike because in the realm and the world of bringing it right up to the present, when I was thinking of making it more contemporary, he was wonderful. And he is a fantastic voice. He said some amazing things and he is incredibly knowledgeable, but again I didn't go the contemporary route. So I was looking for people who lived it. I was looking for agents in the office, Media office, or people who had been very directly involved in the investigation.
Betty had been able to a man called Frank McLaughlin, who was the deputy in the office. Unfortunately, by the time the film started, he was too ill for me to interview.
I remember I was having coffee with Betty one day and lamenting the fact that there was nobody to talk to and what was to be done. She incredibly, sweetly, pulled out an old contact of hers from the Camden days and tracked down a junior agent in the Media office. [*Note: Hamilton requested this agent not be named.]
I phoned this junior FBI agent and he was wonderful. And he would have been fantastic on film because he was exactly a true blue FBI agent. You know saying these guys are criminals. They should be in jail. We had this great conversation and during the course of it he said, are you in touch with the people? What's your scope? I said well it's a very broad look at this unknown event, etc. I didn't feel at that time I needed to give him the full story. And he very directly asked me if I knew the people and I said well I am talking to a lot of people.
He seemed persuaded and he said he wanted me to get approval from FBI headquarters in DC, which is not necessary for a retired FBI agent. Really not necessary, but he did because he's that kind of guy. And he called me back with their number so he was seemingly initially enthusiastic and then Betty and I sort of got a little scared by this question and so we felt that we should lay off for a little while. By the time I eventually went back to him, he decided he didn't want to go on camera, which is terribly, terribly, terribly disappointing.
So, Neist came to me through Sam Green, who made [documentary] The Weather Underground. A long time later Sam became interested through making The Weather Underground in Media and went and did a couple of interviews on his own [for] a few years like in the mid-2000s, including Terry Neist. And so I knew this and so Sam loaned me his material. That interview was actually done by Sam, which he loaned me for the film.
Neil Welch, who is on the tape recorder, who is also wonderful. He wasn't though directly involved in the investigation. I hesitated to interview him. I had a tiny, tiny bit of hesitation about his memory and how accurate it was going to be. Low budget, I thought. Thankfully, Betty's tapes still existed and that tape had been twenty years prior.
GOSZTOLA: At the world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, was it the first time the subjects had seen the film?
HAMILTON: No, I showed John, Bonnie, Keith and David Kairys the film last June when we were at the very tail end of editing because I wanted to make sure that everything was factually accurate. There was one piece of archival footage which somebody was seeing that was particularly problematic so I am very glad that I was able to run that by them. And I was very trepidatious about them seeing it, but the film ended, they were like—Keith [said] good job. Very matter of fact.
GOSZTOLA: Generally, what would you like the impact of this film to be on viewers? On its own, it could be inspiring to a new generation of people. On a more personal and specific level, I know Snowden has found it rather profound to see these people come forward. So, it probably means a lot to him that this story is going to be told to a lot of people here in the US.
HAMILTON: Yeah, and I have been struck by the very sort of informal kinship, which I think is very nice. They feel very strongly that he should be allowed to come back and shouldn't spend decades behind bars.
I really do hope that it has cross-generational appeal. I am hoping it does. I trust that it does. Judging by the people who are following us on Twitter, it is having [cross-generational appeal], which I am thrilled by.
I think the takeaway is hopefully an inspirational story—regardless if you strip away everything else—an inspirational story of what it means to be an engaged citizen in a democracy and we need government accountability, transparency, etc, etc, across the board.
And with the Snowden revelations, I think the film is poised to insert itself in the national conversation in a way that it never could have four years ago so in a new and potentially powerful but safe.
It's like Keith was saying [at the world premiere] it's easy to see people in action forty years ago and a bunch of septuagenarians no longer as radicals whereas had they been arrested at the time—Hoover wanted to charge them with espionage.
GOSZTOLA: It strikes me as in today's world that if you were thinking about this story they actually might be more comparable to a group of hackers. Like, if you found a group of idealistic young people, who knew how to use technology and decided to pick a virtual target, that could be the direct analogy for their story.
HAMILTON: I think that's true. I think that's right. I do view them as the analog version. They really are.
The film is currently playing at film festivals. It will eventually air on PBS. For more information on the film, here is the website.


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After Congress approved the 19th Amendment in June 1919, the amendment had to be ratified by three fourths of the states. Fortunately, suffragists were well organized at the local level to pressure state legislatures into approving the amendment. To keep track of the amendment's progress, the National Women's Party created a "ratification flag", sewing on a star for each state that ratified the amendment. When Tennessee became the 36th state to approve the amendment—and the final of the necessary three-fourths of the states—triumphant suffragists, led by Alice Paul, hung the flag in Washington, D.C on August 18, 1920.
"Upon the word that Tennessee had ratified, Alice Paul unfurled the Woman's Party ratification banner with its thirty-six victory stars, and from the balcony of the headquarters it proclaims the triumph of the cause for which the Woman's Party was founded--the national enfranchisement of the women of America."
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The call came through late one February evening, on the shouting-volume-only wireless phone that links a tiny patch of land just above the mess tent to the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited network, and through it, to India.
Amit Bhatkande's father had died — and the young soldier was needed at home in Kolhapur. For his boss, Subedar Dattasahib Patil, this wasn't bad news: infiltration through the northern reaches of the Line of Control (LoC) falls to nothing in the winter, and one soldier on leave is one man fewer to keep warm.
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Patil's problem was different: to get Bhatkande back home meant despatching dozens of his comrades on a journey that might have led them straight to their own funeral pyres.
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"I loved my time on Siachen," says Subedar Patil. "The first thing I did before I came here was buy myself a pair of decent shoes from the market, and a good jacket."
Earlier this month, just after the troops at Khanabal Post had finished repairing the giant stretches of LoC fencing brought down by winter avalanches, they set to work preparing for the most important winter challenge: staying alive. Each company needs 30,000 litres of kerosene to survive the winter, hauled up the mountain by porters and ponies, one 10-litre can at a time. Food and ammunition have to be hoarded, enough to last for the six months that posts in the northern LoC have been known to be cut off.
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The Ontario Airport Hotel's complimentary area shuttle service operates to Ontario Mills Mall, Scandia Amusement Park, and other destinations within 5 miles. Parking is free. On-site facilities include a large outdoor splash pool and spa tub set in a tropically landscaped courtyard. Blu Bar & Grill serves contemporary American cuisine for lunch, and dinner, and a lobby bar pours beer, wine, and cocktails.
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A large, rectangular outdoor pool and spa tub are located in the hotel's central courtyard, surrounded by landscaped lawns. A 24-hour fitness room provides two treadmills, a stair machine, a stationary bike, and strength-training equipment.
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NYMEX July platinum slided $58
NYMEX July platinum PLN9 slides $58.00, or 5.0 percent, to $1,092.30 an ounce, after hitting a session low of $1,071.10, which marked the weakest price since March 19. For full story, click here
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Platinum declined last week; and continued the trend this Monday as uncertainty over the future of US automaker GM put the metal's near future demand outlook into question. In the current state of the economy, the auto industry is unable to lend support to platinum; but the metal may get some relief from rising safe haven appeal.
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Colossus Minerals Inc. announced today the closing of its bought deal offering saying that a total of $24.7 million has been raised including 1.5 units of the over-allotment. Proceeds of the financing will mainly be used to advance the Serra Pelada gold and platinum group metal project in Brazil.
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From the submitter: "On 4/16/12 we had a thunderstorm with high winds hit our area. I worried that my neighbors tree would hit the roof of my garage. Instead it took out the stairs to his upper level apartment. This is how they "fixed" it."
This is the main staircase at my school's new $65 million library.