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We picked up all of our flowers at the local wholesale florist and arranged all of the table settings, aisle decorations, corsages, and bridesmaid bouquets at the absolute last minute before getting ourselves ready for the ceremony. It was crazy but we pulled it off with the help of our wonderful wedding party and family…. Read more »
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Jordyn and Bradley II
Don't you just love how so many of the elements from this wedding can be sourced from a local thrift store or made by hand? Whether its their collection of old radios or vintage coca cola crates, I adore all the quirky and unique details they decided to use for decorations. More from Jordyn… The… Read more »
Jordyn and Bradley
When Tec Petaja sent me the link to Jordyn and Bradley's wedding it literally took me all of two seconds before I decided to switch gears and change posts for the day. I was planning to feature their wedding on Monday, but I couldn't wait another second to post their beautiful celebration on Once Wed…. Read more »
The Free Wedding Finale
Craig of Bus33 Films did a fabulous job of filming Sam and Kaitlyn's oh so fun wedding with Super 8. I would definitely suggest checking it out below. The beginning part of the film involving the invitation box is so cute! I wanted to give one last shout out to all the wonderful vendors involved… Read more »

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With a debt owed to Dadaism and even the deadpan bliss of Buster Keaton, Andy Warhol shocked the art world with the introduction of his factory-made screen prints. Using found imagery, commercial clippings, and celebrity portraits—and allowing others to produce his prints—Warhol subtracted personality from his work, crafting his own utterly original persona via that very lack. For Warhol, creating such art equated to a sincere dialogue with consumer culture: If commercial art is hollow, to wear a lack of substance on your sleeve means you're finally being honest.
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if i flash stock rom will the phone go back as if i just got it from the shop and re locked
Well, what I can say is, yesterday I used an official update tool from ZTE Portugal, the one for Optimus Barcelona (it's a ZTE P736E) listed here, and my phone got back to "out of the box" state. No root, no recovery, etc.
When I downloaded that tool, and while running the application, it downloaded me a zip file. Inside that zip the stock rom should exist in order to flash it other way besides that tool. If I knew what to look for, I would gladly post the rom here. It's quite recent -> 28-12-2012.
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text: What a wonderful dilema Are you scanning the offset print and posting the scan or just uploading the file you sent to the printer? I guess if it was deemed "forbidden" you could just host the image on your web site and post a link. Either way I'd love to see it so just PM me with it.Originally Posted by gandolfi


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Syndicated yacht ownership pioneer Yachtshare has announced a new boat in its Brisbane fleet with shares at less than $27,000 each.
Family fun on board the Yachtshare Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 36i.
The Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 36i is currently being fitted out with a range of additional equipment including a barbecue before official launch into the company's Brisbane fleet in October.
Yachtshare CEO Barry Pares said monthly ongoing of just $650 will cover all the costs of valet cleaning, management, insurance, berthing, antifouling and much more.
'All our new owners need to bring to the marina are their clothes, their food and maybe some music for the sound system on board,' said Pares. 'The boat will be fitted with crockery and cutlery. There is even a hair dryer standard.'
Pares said the up-front price for a one-tenth share provides a family with 33 days use of the boat every year plus stand-by days. Weekends, holidays and other popular times are evenly and fairly divided among owners over the three-year term.
'At the conclusion of three years, we sell the boat and each owner receives a share of the sale price equal to their share in the yacht,' he said. 'This makes for incredibly economical boating.'
This business model ensured a pride of ownership and duty of care among the owners not seen in other models of shared boat usage, he said.
Yachtshare has selected a shoal draft keel version of the Jeanneau for Moreton Bay with a draft of less than 1.5 metres.
Yachtshare's two Jeanneau 39i Sun Odysseys sold out in record time and are both berthed in Manly Harbour in Brisbane. The new Jeanneau 36i Sun Odyssey will also be berthed at Manly.
The Yachtshare boating program has proven ideal for both experienced and beginner sailors as each owner and their crew are provided with a comprehensive – and fun – two-day RYA sanctioned training course in the basics of safe yacht handling and sailing. Yachtshare employs Southern Cross Yachting exclusively for training of all owners to ensure competent and safe use of their yacht.
Yachtshare's new Jeanneau is fully equipped for family sailing on Moreton Bay.
'This is a vital component in Yachtshare's syndication program as owners can have absolute confidence in their co-owners ability to handle their yacht,' said Pares.
For more details about the new Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 36i, contact Wayne Woodward on 0438-722-888 or Barry Pares on 0437-836-434 or go to www.yachtshare.net.au.


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Vulnerability and Poverty in a Global Economy: Report of the Committee for Development Policy on the First Session (26-30 April 1999)
Release Date: March, 2000
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Globalization has created many opportunities to increase living standards. Yet, it has also led to increased income inequality and higher vulnerability in many countries and has had a profound effect on the structure of labour markets. This publication addresses some of the manifestations of globalization focusing on the role of employment and work in poverty eradication. The report emanates from the discussions of 24 experts in the field of economic and social development, and environmental protection.


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|Nu-Flare is one of the best quality compact flashlight using the 3rd generation Luxeon Rebel 90 LED from Silicon Valley (San Jose, California, USA). The new Rebel 90 has improved battery efficiency, generates less heat, and higher brightness than the Luxeon V. It has the tactical tail switch and a patented zoom focus from 1X to 4X. You should notice that this is the one of the first flashlight on market offer the zoom head. This one is small in very compact size. We saw one having a big head of 2 inches diameter. This is one of Best American Technology. Warning: There are some non-Luxeon made counterfeit 1W, 3W, and sometimes even claim 8 Watt LED on the market. They are half as bright at best and have a bluish color beam. Their light will be greatly reduced after just few hours of use due to poor quality and poor heatsink property. They are much cheaper but they are definitely not the quality of Luxeon. They are usually shipped out from Hong Kong. They are also subject to patent infringement problems. - Long battery life - 13 hours total (6 hours at maximum output). It will output less light after 6 hours but still fairly bright until it the batteries run out. - Accessory: Carrying Strap - Water resistant, very durable aluminum housing - Up to 50,000 hours LED life - Very well focus adjustable zoom beam (1x to 4x). It is very good for police work. Manufactured in ISO 9000 certified factory with latest CNC machines and Surface Mount Technology robotic equipments. Ultra high quality finish Patented design with patented US made Luxeon LED, it is not a cheap copycat version. Battery: 2 x CR123A Lithium batteries (2 Duracell batteries included), you can use rechargeable NiMH batteries or rechargeable Lithium Ion CR123A batteries. Weight: light weight 84.5g with batteries - Gunmetal Silver Color
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I was amazed with this little flashlight--Very bright
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Small flashlight , very bright fit nicely in the palm of your hand . Overall best flashlight I've owned and I have bout a whole lotta flashlights. If you want a bright flashlight that is easy to carry around this is it. One thing is the batteries are unusual , if I'm not able to recharge them , I would totally reverse this review. So far very satisfied. Highly recommended
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This flashlight is very small, but seems really well built. The casing appears to be made of metal (aluminum?) but is not that heavy. The light has 2 different settings. One is for a wide light path, the other is a much more concentrated narrow beam of light. the narrow beam is much brighter, but both beams give off plenty of light. I am very happy with this flashlight.
Works well. I bought 7 more after I bought the first one.
Small but powerful8/22/2013
smaller than it looks, but a very powerful light. Note that the entire light is only 4.5" long. If you are looking for a good hefty light to fit in your hand, this one's not for you. But, if you are looking for a small, lightweight, overly powerful light for the size, this one's for you.
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Nifty little flashlight, good quality batteries, (Duracell) . Flashlight has strong white light with adjustable pin point focusing. Aluminum housing is well made. No roll configuration. Great light for the price.
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If you are like me, you need multiple flashlights. The NuFlare Rebel 90 is a very handy tool indeed. Although made in China, it appears well made. The design may not match the $100+ alternatives, but the shape and size are suitable for ease of use. The specs are good: 210 lumens, 13 hours of battery life (due to LED), and focus ranging from 1x (flood) to 4x (spot). It's not a Streamlight, but at $20, it is worth having. Only "neg" is that it uses CR123A batteries.
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Vodafone Ordered to Send Egypt Messages to Confront 'Traitors'
Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Vodafone Group Plc was ordered to send mobile-phone text messages by the Egyptian government, urging people to confront "traitors and criminals" as demonstrators demanded the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.
The Egyptian authorities can instruct the local mobile network operators, which also include Etisalat and France Telecom SA's Mobinil service, to send messages under emergency powers provisions, Vodafone said today. The messages were not written by the mobile-phone operators, it said.
"The Armed Forces urge Egypt's loyal men to confront the traitors and the criminals and to protect our families, our honor and our precious Egypt," said a Feb. 1 text message sent on Vodafone's network and obtained by Bloomberg News.
A Vodafone spokesman declined to comment on the details of the messages it was ordered to send. Spokespeople for France Telecom and Emirates Telecommunications Corp., also known as Etisalat, couldn't immediately be reached to comment.
Egyptian Internet services were restored yesterday after protests by demonstrators demanding the ousting of President Mubarak had led to five days of closure. Mobile-phone voice services at units of Vodafone and France Telecom SA were restored Jan. 29.
The world's biggest mobile-phone operator has protested to the authorities that the current situation is "unacceptable," Vodafone said. "We have made clear that all messages should be transparent and clearly attributable to the originator."
Egypt's largest opposition group today rejected talks with President Mubarak after at least six protesters were killed in Cairo's Tahrir Square overnight, and vowed to stay at the scene of the fighting until he steps down.
Street Fighting
Fighting broke out again today in Tahrir Square, where the army set up a barrier after more than 800 people were injured in yesterday's clashes. Al Arabiya television reported heavy gunfire from around the square. Mubarak loyalists rode horses and camels into Tahrir late yesterday, swinging whips and clubs, and both sides hurled rocks, bottles and concrete chunks.
Vodafone Chief Executive Officer Vittorio Colao said earlier today that SMS services in Egypt had not yet been restored. "It's not in our power, it will be restored when we are authorized to restore it," Colao said on a conference call with reporters.
Egypt has one of the most advanced telecommunications markets in the Middle East and Africa. About 95 percent of Egyptians, or 74.9 million subscribers, are clients of a mobile phone network, according to analysts at Cairo-based AlembicHC.
"This is a country where there is still a curfew and extraordinary legislation in place," Colao said today, adding that antennae had been damaged as part of the protests. "We are in a continuous dialogue with government."
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Today I saved my friend's life after she tried to commit suicide but..
Today I was planning on going to workout as I usually do, but for some odd reason my conscience kept telling me to stay home. Before I was about to... Show More
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It's amazing that you saved your friend. A part of me wishes I had someone like you when I was in darker times and I think that just by showing you cared, you helped her immensely. Just try to be supportive. Try to be there for her so if she needs help, she can go to you. But if her mind is truly set on death, there is only so much you can do. In the worst case scenario, it is still her choice and her life. Just do the best you can to show her she isn't alone. Hanging out with her and being there in person will help too.
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Easy. Don't talk to her about it, because it will go straight through one ear and out the other. Instead, talk to your friends mother. Tell her about your concerns and ask her if there is anything that she would be willing to do, like send her daughter to a psych or something. I think approaching her mother is the best and most effective way to help your friend, because no one else cares about her or would be willing to do more to help her than her own mother.
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The best thing you could have done is to let her mom know, which you've done, so someone who lives with her can watch out for any unusual behavior on a daily basis. You did a really brave thing by rushing to her house and alerting her mom- which certainly saved her life. It's best not to tell her that you alerted her mom because doing so may prevent her from telling you about suicidal thoughts in the future. I'd try to talk to her to find out what is so bad that life is not worth living anymore, and be there for her 100% like you already are. If she tells you anything that her mom may need to know in order to protect her from herself call her mom- I'm sure she'd understand if you said you wanted to keep the conversation secret. You're not betraying her trust by keeping her mom in the loop, you might be saving her life, again. You should be really proud of yourself, a lot of people wouldn't have known to act that way. Best of luck to you :)
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text: I received my D.A.M. Quick reels that I sent to my friend Lionel to perform his fantastic talent with a milling machine. The reel models are a 220, a 331 and a Super 270. I hope you guys will enjoy the pictures as much as I enjoy having these reels. I will treasure them and am so pleased with the results. the reels are as beautiful on the inside as they are on the outside. The 331 and the Super 270 have aluminum spools so they were drilled out, the 220 was plastic so it was not drilled. He polished all the inside parts. Lionel replaced the bearing in the 331 and hand crafted brass bushings for the reel. Now it is smooth as silk. The paint on the 331 was chipped so he glass beaded it. I don't know if I will paint it later or leave it as it is. I think it looks cool the way it is. Lionel told me he had a reel he blasted and he keeps it coated with gun oil and it stay looking good.The paint on the 220 and the Super 270 was good so we left them as is. He made new custom handle knobs for the 331 and the Super 270. I don't know if I should call them DAM Staals or Van Quicks but I know they are without a doubt DAM GREAT! Thanks Lionel!!!


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2009-09-17 by David Howell
the lay discussion at Pastor Talk To Me About... Amy Malick has just shared a real life story that goes with part of the gospel text this week.
and thanks to Kim Justice and Stephen Schuette for their good work here!
Welcome the "Child"
2009-09-16 by Kim Justice
Dislocated Exegesis. That's what seminary professors call it when you take your text out of the comforts of your cozy office, and out into the "real" world. The idea is that your encounter with...well, whatever it is that you encounter, changes how you see the text.
When I was supply preaching, and had weeks with which to wrestle with an upcoming sermon, I faithfully wrote my text out by hand and carried it to as many places as I could. But now that preaching comes every Sunday, and I have all the other things to do that come with being a pastor, all the things I "should do" don't always get done. But today, I had the opportunity to do some dislocated exegesis as I sat with a church member undergoing her first chemo treatment.
As I looked around at the people there, in their various stages of treatment-- some really sick and some just worn out, some talking with friends or family and some sitting quietly-- I tried to think about Mark's Jesus, and greatness, and servanthood, and welcoming the child. The immediately obvious servants were those nurses and doctors who were so kind and gentle and diligent. What impressed me about them wasn't how well they were doing their respective jobs, but rather, the ways that they just added such a dignity to something that isn't dignified at all. They treated each patient in such a way made it obvious that they weren't working with fragile sicklings. Instead the people who were there were real people who have lived real lives filled with real joys and hurts. The cancer center wasn't the morose, somber place I envisioned it to be, and I really think that might be a direct result of the staff attitudes. I guess in some ways, these folks are servants just by virtue of occupation. But in other ways, these folks reminded that servanthood is about much more than what one does. The attitude with which these folks approached what could've been just a job made them true servants.
Another thing that struck me during the time I was in the cancer center is that these might be the "children" Jesus talks about welcoming. I don't think Jesus was being metaphorical by choosing a child, but I do think that child was representative of all those whom society considers powerless, the ones who don't have a lot of "market value". In my world, days are marked off by meetings and the things I've accomplished. One of my shortcomings is that I place a lot more value on "doing" than I ever will on "being". Not to be Captain Obvious, but cancer patients aren't the most "productive" people out there. What I noticed was an absence of date books, cell phones, laptops, and leather portfolios. No one was frantically checking a watch, wondering if that all-important meeting was about to be missed. Some folks, I learned, would spend the greater part of a day in that same chair. And I saw no one who seemed to care two cents about impressing the other people. By virtue of the cancer, these folks have, at least for a while, been knocked out of the rat race. What their bodies will allow them to do mostly fully and consistently is rest.
Children, as far as I can tell, don't much get the whole rat race thing. They think about the things they like doing, and order their worlds around those things. But adults feel those pressures to be "great", and work and work and work to that end. We roll out the red carpet for those who are like us, the ones who have accomplished things similar to what we have accomplished. (But not the ones who might have accomplished more, because that would make us feel inferior.) When, though, was the last time you rolled out the proverbial red carpet for a homeless person, or someone who had done jail time, or that teenager who checks you out in the grocery line? I know I've driven past my share of the "Will work for food" signs.
What Jesus is getting at when he tells folks to welcome the child is in essence, "Get off your high horse--adjust your values because this child is as precious in my sight as you are. This child, who doesn't "add" to society, who hasn't yet earned his way is beloved. Treat him as royally as you would treat me."
I thought about what my life would be like if I couldn't measure my worth in units of productivity--what if something knocked me out of the rat race, and the only thing I had enough strength for was to rest in someone's arms. Unfortunately, I think that might be as great a grief to me as anything else. Jesus doesn't say it, but I wonder if I hear an unspoken sort of challenge in Jesus' words about welcoming the child: welcome yourself as a child. Maybe as much as Jesus challenges us to welcome and love the one who is weak and powerless in society, maybe Jesus also asks us to welcome and love ourselves and simply rest in his arms. Maybe we're being asked to quit floundering about, trying to earn our way.
For some, the task of loving the one who isn't "earning" his way is really tough. But for some others, perhaps that part will be the easy part. For them, the hardest task will be allowing themselves to sit playing at Jesus feet, and believing that it is enough.
Silence Interrupting the Argument
2009-09-15 by Stephen Schuette
I'm fascinated with what the disciples (and we) want to talk about and don't want to talk about – the engagement with each other about things we are anxious to express, and then on the other hand this strange silence and loss for words, even remoteness.
They're interested in who is the greatest. They're interested in position. They're interested in how the order is established. They're interested in getting "ahead" – ahead always implying that someone is behind you trying to overtake you while still others are in front of you who need to be overtaken. We can be obsessed by the competition and can discuss the game endlessly. I know I can get pulled into such discussions, since "right" and "wrong" and "winning" the debate begins to generate its own energy – never mind that the point is meaningless. Anyone who's ever had a brother or sister or spouse must know about the unregulated energy of such discussions. My how the words can fly while the listening fails! "Is too." "Is not!" "Is too!" "Is not!"…
So who wants to be called out to see things from a larger perspective when they're right in the middle of the game? Who wants to give up their point when you think you are so close to winning?
After all that energy the silence must have been deafening. The silence arises from what they don't want to talk about. It's that uneasy silence when there are really meaningful things to be said but everyone avoids saying them. Jesus' question pulls them into that silence. With his words everything that they had been invested in falls away. Suddenly they are speechless.
Looking ahead real speech, meaningful speech from the disciples doesn't catch fire until Pentecost, following the fulfillment of what Jesus taught in vs. 31.
Reminds me of the old church school song: "O be careful little mouth what you say…O be careful little ears what you hear."
What is a servant, anyway?
2009-09-15 by Kim Justice
If Jesus was talking to people today, would he think of people like doctors, nurses, firefighters as servants or does he think only of servants as those who are promoting the kingdom of God? Preachers could help us understand "servanthood" in their sermons this weekend. (From the Pastor, Talk to me about... board)
Good question, friend.
I'd sure like a little more definition, too. I like things that are neatly set up with "If you _____, then ______ ". Jesus, to my great dismay doesn't seem to be too terribly interested in giving me formulas to follow. So I flounder around, and wonder if I'm headed in the right direction, or if I'm missing the mark completely.
But what strikes me as the Grace of God on this particular morning, is that Christ's definition of servanthood isn't nearly as limited as mine might be.
What does "promoting the kingdom of God" look like, anyway? If you asked most people, they'd probably say, "preaching!" or "teaching Sunday school", or "living into the great commission." But the feeling I've always gotten from Jesus is that service is more about having your heart in the right place than it is about the actual job one is doing. I think our definition of "promoting the kingdom of God" might just be too narrow. Maybe it looks like not rushing the elderly lady with the 18 billion coupons at the grocery store. Maybe it means noticing the other people around us, and really appreciating the fact that they are beloved children of God just like we are. Maybe it means letting someone else have the good parking space.
I'm getting ready to start a study of Richard Foster's Celebration of Discipline at my church. Foster has a marvelous chapter on service (that I'm hoping to be able to reread before I do this week's sermon). In this same chapter, he has a section on "Self-Righteous Service versus True Service", which has been rather helpful to me. Foster writes, "True service finds it almost impossible to distinguish the small from the large service... True service ministers simply and faithfully because there is a need." He also makes a good point about the difference between choosing to serve and choosing to be a servant. He says, "If we choose to be taken advantage of, then we cannot be manipulated. When we choose to be a servant, we surrender the right to decide who and when we will serve. We become available and vulnerable."
The question was raised about firefighters and nurses and similiar professions, and if Jesus would consider those people as servants. I think that Jesus would absolutely consider these folks to be servants, so long as it wasn't about their own glory. The scripture that comes to my mind that seems to speak of servanthood is "Whatever you do, whether in word or in deed, do it all to the glory of God in Christ Jesus your Lord." Service, as far as I can tell, is as much about the One who is served, as it is about the work that we do.
That's just great...
2009-09-15 by Kim Justice
When the Holy Spirit woke me up (at 4 this morning...grrr, Holy Spirit, grrr), it wasn't visions of sugar plums that were dancing in my head. I won't lie, I was replaying every brilliant and every dumb thing I've done since becoming Sherwood's pastor a year ago today. I was praying that my brilliant moments outweighed my dumb moments, but I'm not sure it panned out that way. In one of those weird serendipitous moments, I realized that my life was falling on the pages of my Bible, which was still open to the Mark passage from yesterday. (Or maybe, the pages of my Bible were falling on my open life. Either way, they're colliding.)
Mark's Jesus has been stepping on my toes this morning, in surprising ways. If you had asked me, I would've told you that I know I'm not great. I would've told you what I tell my congregation when they say nice things about me: "I don't have any idea what I'm doing, but I'm sure having fun doing it." As a solo pastor who is quite young, the times when I feel grossly incompetent seem to far outweigh the times when I'm bubbling over with confidence. Great? Who me? Noooo.
But what I realized this morning is that while I find the idea of me being great laughable, the idea that I might someday be great is no laughing matter. I want to go to the right conferences, and meet the right people, and read the right books, and write for the right journals.
And here is Jesus--telling me that these things aren't nearly as cool as being childlike. Excuse me? Children have done nothing-- they aren't anybody. They don't pray like rockstars. They've never even heard of the Spiritual Disciplines. If you googled a child's name, you'd probably come up with little, besides maybe a birth announcement.
Yesterday, I would have yelled at the silly disciples for arguing about which of them was the greatest. I would have piously looked down my nose at them, because their hearts aren't in the right place. After all, if they were so busy seeking after that position, they probably weren't doing a great job of following after Jesus.
Yesterday, I shook my head at Jesus for talking about welcoming a child as if it was such a hard thing to do.
Today, I realize that my heart is no more holy than the disciples' hearts. Today, I realize that the problem isn't in "welcoming" a child, it's really in seeing the child as possessing the same God-given potential that you see so abundantly in yourself.
We strive and strive, trying to be, and do, and achieve. But by choosing to uplift someone who "contributes" so little to society (at least in the ways that society expects to be contributed to), Jesus reminds us that those pressures are ones we place on ourselves.
Who is great among you? I think Jesus would say, "the one who stops "working" long enough to dance with me, the one who looks at me with wide eyed wonder, the one who plays well with others."
I'm pretty sure this text will be my companion in what has become a weekly wrestling match. It will be interesting to see how the other texts fit in.
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Michael Cohen: Memphis-UConn has the makings of a fine rivalry
Austin Nichols stood to the side of the interview room in the underbelly of FedExForum on Thursday night, the sweat still drying on his forehead minutes after an 83-73 loss to Connecticut. He fielded questions from a reporter fresh off his first Memphis Tiger basketball game, his first in-the-flesh experience amid the exuberance of a fan base Josh Pastner called the best in the country.
In reality, Nichols, a true freshman, had only a handful more Forum experiences than the reporter in front of him. He's played just eight regular season games in the building that will host the American Athletic Conference tournament come March, but that didn't stop him from making an observation on Thursday.
"I don't think I've ever heard the Forum that loud," Nichols said. "I was telling Nick (King) on the bench that it got pretty loud tonight, and it did. It felt like a tournament game. I definitely think some rivalry could be started."
It sure felt that way, didn't it?
Thursday's game between Memphis and Connecticut was a superb display of college basketball that showcased two of the titans of the newly formed AAC. And with the departure of Louisville next season ― the Cardinals are jumping ship for the Atlantic Coast Conference ― it was a glimpse at the primary torchbearers responsible for the integrity of the league moving forward. They will be joined by Cincinnati as the flagship institutions in the latest bit of realignment fallout.
And though Thursday's matchup was the first between the two schools as league mates, the atmosphere pulsed with the electricity of a rich rivalry. More than 18,000 rowdy fans contributed to a physical tone established from the opening tip, and it took Shaq Goodwin and DeAndre Daniels fewer than three minutes to engage in some post-whistle contact in the paint.
All game long the teams traded punches, with Memphis surging in front toward the end of the first half only to watch its defense crumble in the second. Aggressive defense and big-time shots kept the crowd enthused and the players juiced, and they'll do it all again a month from now in Hartford, Conn.
"The crowd was excellent," Pastner said. "The fans were terrific. I thought they did a great job."
The high-quality basketball coupled with the fans' enthusiasm defined the first chapter in what is likely to become a heated series. That the Huskies snuck out of FedExForum with a win only strengthens the case for a rivalry between two schools with their fair share of similarities.
Both Memphis and Connecticut are led by young, passionate head coaches who have guided their programs through off-the-court issues stemming from their predecessors. Both schools have established pedigrees built on postseason success. And at both institutions men's basketball is the premier athletic attraction.
Just as Memphis is Hoop City, Connecticut is a hoops state.
"Memphis is a hotbed of talent, so they're going to keep getting players," UConn coach Kevin Ollie said." I respect Josh for the job he's doing taking over a tough situation and making it back to where it was before. They're not going anywhere, Cincinnati is not going anywhere, we're not going anywhere.
"Hopefully it will become a rivalry."
I have a suspicion that it will. And Thursday was a fun way to start.
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The Zeiss colours were cleaner, more contrast, with less chromatic aberrations. This is in no way to say the Nikon lens was not excellent but once you saw the two together, the Zeiss was much better.
But! This is like drinking a 50-year old scotch and then having a 25-year old scotch - the 25-year old will be terrible. On the other hand, if you had a cheap blended malt beverage and switched to the 25-year old scotch, you would think it was wonderful. Putting the two pictures together, I could see the difference (two other employees in the store could not see the difference at all, neither could his wife who thought it was an expensive toy) but if you just stuck one picture in front of me today and asked which lens was used, I couldn't tell you; the difference could only be seen in direct comparisons.
If you never used one, you will never miss it; if you use one, expect that 90% of photographers (and 99% of non-photographers) will never be able to tell the difference. If, as an artist, you can see the difference and that difference is important in your art, then it would be worth it. As a B&W photographer, the increase in contrast would be nice (since the colour and CA does not affect my photos) but not for triple the price.


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#34 - John Cena (07/22/2013) [-]
YES!, I love seeing fat people fall over, especially if they hurt themselves. Take that you fat sack of **** !. Stop eating and go for a jog.
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#61 to #34 - mrhotwings (07/22/2013) [-]
It's not normal to be mean to yourself.
#59 to #58 - smittywrbmnjnsn (07/22/2013) [-]
It's not that hard to stop eating when you're not hungry.
It's not that hard to stop eating when you're not hungry.
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Then good on them for doing something about it, buts its still funny. I love seeing fat people jogging. I think its great because theyre taking steps to get fit, but the fact of the matter is that they still look like a recording of a lava lamp sped up. But thats the price you pay for years of eating delicious food. I did It. I used to weigh 23st, but I woke up one morning and though....thats it. Now I weigh 15st. It realy isnt hard if you want to do it. Its a choice you make.
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The American in me just wondered what the **** you were saying, but then I remembered that other countries use different measurements
I still dont know what you said
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I've been working on this piece for the last few days and now I got to the point where I think it's finished. However, that is usually the time when there are still things that can be worked on, so, I would like to ask your help to tell me what you think could be improved in this piece. Thanks.
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Well, I might ask what's with the poses of the characters? Their legs are really far apart as if they're stretching and in general they look like they're either going to have a kung-fu fight or get their Saturday night fever on (that's what the right side figure reminds me of, it's nearly the exact Travolta pose).
If these two are the titular saboteurs, I'd have them possibly running towards the place or having them sneaking around (like, the other figure behind the round thing while other makes a run for the tower) or something like that.
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yeah, they do look like they are about to fight and that's what I thought they are going to do. That really has nothing to do with the title so change that according to previous comment. Maybe add something in very close foreground would add more depth? Love the colors and distance portrayed in this piece as well as light. I think it would be interesting to see ray of light actually be visible and shining on the figures.
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August 6th, 2011 #5
Thanks for the suggestions. Here is an update (I put in the first for comparison):
August 6th, 2011 #6
Hey this is really cool. The atmosphere is fantastic. The figures look cartoony. It looks like a legitimate style but just FYI. Kinda reminds me of 9.
August 6th, 2011 #7
Please give them lightsabers
August 8th, 2011 #8
Simply awesome!
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August 17th, 2011 #9
love the detail you put in, it looks so good!
the stuff on your site is amazing btw
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No need to repost the original image. We remember what we saw a bit higher up in the thread.
Loving the composition and execution so far! The new poses are a huge improvement! Maybe they're just a sketch so far, but with so much detail given to the surroundings I'd like to see them a tiny bit more fleshed out and realistic!
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The Singleton implementation in the snippet I posted works fine as a lazy, thread-safe Singleton as it ensures only one thread can create the instance. However, there's a big performance hit caused by the fact that we acquire a lock each time the Singleton's instance is requested. Yoav, suggested to fix this performance problem by checking for null twice – outside the lock and inside the lock:
public static Singleton Instance { get { if (Singleton._insatnce == null) { lock (_syncRoot) { if (Singleton._insatnce == null) { Singleton._insatnce = new Singleton(); } } } return Singleton._insatnce; } }
This code, known as "Double-Check Locking" doesn't work in the presence of either an optimizing compiler or shared memory multiprocessor. The main reason for this (as explained by Brad) is that the CLR's memory model allows non-volatile read\writes to be reordered as long as that change cannot be noticed from the point of view of a single thread. This means that the compiler can reorder write to _instance during initialization and its construction write, causing another thread to see _instance as set even though it wasn't initialized yet (appears on stress testing). To prevent such optimizations we can declare _instance to be volatile or by explicitly specifying a memory barrier before accessing the data member using System.Threading.Thread.MemoryBarrier(). Using Thread.MemoryBarrier() is more efficient than volatile as it allows compiler optimization when barrier is not required:
public static Singleton Instance { get { if (Singleton._insatnce == null) { lock (_syncRoot) { if (Singleton._insatnce == null) { Singleton newInstance = new Singleton(); // Ensure all writes used to construct new value have been flushed. System.Threading.Thread.MemoryBarrier(); Singleton._insatnce = newInstance; // publish the new value } } } return Singleton._insatnce; } }
Another way of doing the same thing is using System.Threading.Interlocked.CompareExchange() which also enforces a memory barrier.
Omer, suggested creating the instance of Singleton in the static constructor (which is guaranteed to be thread-safe) rather than in the Instance accessor. While in this implementation you lose some of the flexibility of controlling exactly at which point in time the Singleton instance is created, this kind of control is not really required in most cases and giving up on it allows making the code shorter and less confusing…
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Chan | March 28th, 2009 at 2:30 am
I am using static constructor as below, it hit error if Eval() is called by more than one person at the same time. It works time if I added lock(). However, as you mentioned static constructor should be thread safe. Shall you please explain about this ?
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public class Evaluator { private static object _evaluator = null; private static Type _evaluatorType = null; private static readonly string _jscriptSource = @" package Evaluator { class Evaluator { public function Eval(expr : String) : String { return eval(expr,""unsafe""); } } }"; static Evaluator() { CodeDomProvider provider = CodeDomProvider.CreateProvider("JScript"); CompilerParameters parameters = new CompilerParameters(); parameters.GenerateInMemory = true; CompilerResults results = provider.CompileAssemblyFromSource(parameters, _jscriptSource); Assembly assembly = results.CompiledAssembly; _evaluatorType = assembly.GetType("Evaluator.Evaluator"); _evaluator = Activator.CreateInstance(_evaluatorType); } public static object EvalToObject(string expression) { object result; try { result = _evaluatorType.InvokeMember( "Eval", BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, _evaluator, new object[] { expression } ); } catch (Exception ex) { throw new Exception(string.Format("Evaluator: Failed to evaluate expression {0} - {1}", expression, ex.Message)); } return result; } public static string Eval(string expression) { object o = EvalToObject(expression); return o.ToString(); } }
ekampf | March 28th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Hi Chan,
As specified in MSDN C# spec (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa645612.aspx) static constructors run at most once per app domain. Its even more specific in "Managed Threading Best Practices" (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1c9txz50(VS.80).aspx):
"A class is not initialized until its class constructor (static constructor in C#, Shared Sub New in Visual Basic) has finished running. To prevent the execution of code on a type that is not initialized, the common language runtime blocks all calls from other threads to static members of the class (Shared members in Visual Basic) until the class constructor has finished running.
For example, if a class constructor starts a new thread, and the thread procedure calls a static member of the class, the new thread blocks until the class constructor completes.
This applies to any type that can have a static constructor."
So, static constructors are definitely thread safe and you'll probably hitting some other error… What kind of exception are you getting?


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Prior to the official start of the 2012-13 season, Rick Pitino had some interesting comments about the outside shooting of this year's team. Pitino said perimeter shooting wouldn't be this team's strength, but it also wasn't going to be a huge weakness. He described his team as a good scoring team, but not a good shooting team. I realize we're only two games into the regular season and it's entirely too early to overreact, but with that said, I'm not exactly confident in this team's ability to shoot. We all know that Rick Pitino teams always have the green light when it comes to perimeter shooting. Regardless if we like it or not, this team is going to continue to shoot three pointers', but throwing up 31 per game is a little much. Louisville's 31 three point attempts per game ranks third in the country. Not exactly what you'd expect from a team that isn't built for outside shooting. RK TEAM GP 3PM-Average 3PA-Average 3P% 1 Virginia Military 4 11.0 34 .326 2 Mi
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Biographies have always been alive and well in the field of youth literature, but the past two years have seen some outstanding examples in the genre. Here is the best biography for juvenile readers that I have read in a long time.
One of the great unsolved mysteries of modern times is the focus of author Candace Fleming's newest book, "Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart."
Told in alternating chapters, Fleming pairs the story of Earhart's early life and her rise as America's premier aviator during the 1930s with a nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat account of the efforts to maintain radio contact with her and navigator Fred Noonan during the last hours of their fateful flight in July 1937 and the futile attempts at their rescue by the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy.
Raised in a family of respectable means in the Midwest, Earhart and her younger sister, Muriel, saw their comfortable lifestyle disintegrate when their father lost his cushy position with the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad because of his addiction to alcohol. (The family at one time had a private railroad car and chef.)
As a young woman, Earhart yearned for a life beyond what was then the norm for women, marriage and motherhood. She kept a scrapbook filled with clippings of women who had exciting, unusual careers.
While working as a nurse's aide in Canada during World War I, Earhart watched the air corps planes perform takeoffs and landings and felt "(the) first urge to fly."
Her first flying lessons enthralled her with the freedom of the air. As she logged hours in the air and her skill as a pilot increased, Earhart purchased several planes, each bigger and better than its predecessor.
When "Lucky Lindy" (Charles Lindbergh) flew solo nonstop across the North Atlantic in 1927, the race was on for aviators to attempt new aerial feats, try new routes and gain fame and fortune.
That meant Earhart, too, as she was now an accomplished pilot. In 1928, five women tried to repeat Lindbergh's famous flight — some with disastrous results.
Earhart become the first woman to fly nonstop over the Atlantic — just not solo. The public was squeamish about a woman flying that distance alone. About this time George Putnam, a successful publisher, became Earhart's promoter and arranged publicity tours and photo shoots and helped plan the flight across the Atlantic.
Earhart would captain the flight, meaning she made the decisions, but Bill Stultz was to pilot the plane, and Lou Gordon was hired to be the mechanic.
Despite adverse weather, Earhart and her crew reached Burry Port, Wales, in "twenty hours and forty minutes" and with less than one hour's fuel.
Earhart was now uber-famous and the darling of America. Putnam also began a campaign of his own to woo and wed Earhart, which he did, but only after several years and several marriage proposals.
Earhart and Putnam became friends with many of America's movers and shakers of the time, including President Franklin Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor.
A charming account in Fleming's book tells of Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt's flight over Washington, D.C., one night after a White House dinner.
Earhart and Putnam's friendship with the Roosevelts would have an impact during her preflight plans in 1936.
One "prize" remained for Earhart: a round-the-world flight. No woman had achieved that. Using Putnam's considerable wealth, Earhart and her husband planned the 27,000-mile journey.
Funds were secured for a special plane designed for longer flights. A Lockheed Electra was purchased for about $80,000 (about $1 million in today's money, according to Fleming).
Earhart wrote that she could "write poetry about that ship."
Permission had to be secured for Earhart "to fly over or land in every country along her route." Gasoline and oil would be needed at more than 30 points along the route, not to mention the stops where the plane could be overhauled before continuing on.
Here is where President Roosevelt entered the picture, agreeing to "do what we can" to expedite such matters.
The original flight plan was for Earhart and her crew (Harry Manning, navigator, and Noonan, a pilot and navigator who had experience with celestial navigation) to fly east to west around the equator. However, less than three days into the journey, an accident during takeoff heavily damaged the plane.
The delay cost them several months' time and Manning, who had to return to his regular job. It also meant that the flight plan would have to be altered due to changing weather patterns (storms and winds).
They would now have to fly west to east.
However, this new voyage proved glorious — the sights, the adventures.
Everything went smoothly until early July 1937. Earhart is quoted as saying, "My Electra now rests on the edge of the Pacific ... somewhere beyond the horizon lies home and California ... 7,000 miles to go."
And so, Earhart and Noonan took off from Lae, New Guinea, for a tiny speck of an island called Howland.
The account of those last few hours of the flight is filled with the tension and hopelessness aboard the Coast Guard cutter Itasca as the crew (especially Chief Radioman Leo Bellarts) strains to hear any radio contact from Earhart.
The hours pass in agony, as only static remains.
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Last week, we challenged the Diablo III community to create art using an online tool called Silk, with its spectral brush-strokes seemingly summoned straight from the High Heavens.
Players across Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit took this challenge in stride, producing dozens upon dozens of images that illustrated everything from familiar angelic faces from Diablo lore to demons, monsters, and heroic Nephalem in action. Here are some of our favorites. Make sure to click the images below so that you can watch the creation of each of these pieces in real time!
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