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After all the excitement, all the build-up, the highly anticipated Sex and the City 2 debuted on Thursday. I'll allow BuzzSugar to size up the plot but the wardrobe was beyond fantastical. Carrie even made a record-breaking number of outfit changes: 48! Did you catch the the flick yet? What did you think?Photos courtesy of Warner Bros.
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Kathleen2955203 3 years
I loved this movie and thought it was much more fun than the first....more like the series with the girls hanging out and having their fun "girl time." The first moving was too depressing to me with Steve and Miranda and Carrie and Big. I miss the series and all the great girlfriend stories and escapades and thought the second movie was more like that. Pure fantasy in the middle east and I loved it!
5 years
To Sarah: I have been for some way to get a notion to you. Unless anyone has worked in film or fashion...I say not qualified to critique. As a fan, I am amazed at how much you say in your work!!I study your films in detail, I am a fashion stylist and LOVE what your work has done for society!!..and FASHION!!!! I loved your humor regarding the girl who wanted "a carreer in fashion" but does not lift boxes! Regarding the first movie I was is similar life situation at the time...I actually put "Meet me in ST. Louis" in to watch and stopped when you did(BEFORE YOUR FILM HIT PUBLIC) HOW IN TUNE ARE YOU!!! Regarding your next film, please, bring "Smith" back to take "Samantha" a la "White Palace" Can you bring Marlo Thomas to the table...you are the master! THANK YOU, your loyal stylist, fan and married to a younger man. PS. I came from a nine children family and am now 50 and fabulous. I would work very hard for you in any capacity to use my talent and experience. WE LOVE YOU..NEVER GIVE UP and take care of you! I realize this is silly, but you are untouchable and maybe someone will read this. I am personally responsible for two groups seeing your films on opening day here in Microsoft land, Bellevue, WA I would love to see you at Microsoft Studios, my dear friend is an Executive Producer for Bill Gates. YOU ARE FASHION'S BILL GATES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME! Mary Ann 425 830 5218
5 years
Loved it! It made me miss curling up on the couch every Sunday to watch them on HBO every week. The fashions were phenomenal! The key word for the movie was "vintage". I really enjoy Samatha or should I say "classic" Samantha and her constant quest to stay young and her sexcapades. It was great to see how everyone progressed but loved how they still managed to incorporate a little fun in for Carrie even though she's married now. Wonderful movie! I love them so much. I hope they do another movie every couple of years....they've definitely kept me hooked.
rockprincess 5 years
Loved the movie; it was pure fantasy. Exactly what I go to the movies for!
risqueredhead 5 years
I could not care less about Sex and the City.
5 years
in what kind of world a woman cheats on her husband while on hloiday and when she gets back her punishment is a huge diamond ring?the only normal one is miranda
shortcutstofabulous 5 years
I loved the movie...favorite part was went Samantha went crazy in the market! I will be watching that part over and over again on DVD!!! I think if you never understood why Carrie was still with Big after everything he did to her will understand with this movie. I was always in the "She should've been with Aidan" camp until this movie. www.shortcutstofabulous.com
5 years
I've been an avid fan of SATC since the very start but I too was very disappointed with this movie. To me it just felt like the writer had run out of ideas with what to do with the girls so sent them away to another country for a few laughs. The fashion was too extreme as well. What on earth was on Samantha's shoulders in the nightclub scene and would anyone in their right mind wear a type of ballgown to roam around an outside market in steaming hot weather?? I hate to say it but I really hope there is no SATC3.
myystque 5 years
I like SATC but the previews for this movie look awful. I have absolutely no desire to see it.
5 years
It was awful! I was so disappointed. As the fug girls said, it should have been called SATC2: Doing it for the money. Anyone that's interested can check out my review (and beauty bits and bobs) here: curveinthemode.blogspot.com
tpage 5 years
I'm a big SATC fan and I didn't like the movie. I don't think it helped that I watched a couple of the seasons of the TV show this week while I was home with a sinus infection. In comparison to the tv show (and even the first movie) I think there was definitely something missing, and if I heard one more lame pun during the movie I was going to scream. I like the series because the writing was smart. witty, and sexy, but that's definitely not how I'd describe the second movie. There were some funny, touching parts (like Charlotte and Miranda talking about motherhood) but they were too far and few between to make up for the rest of the movie. I'm wondering it the fact that Michael Patrick King wrote the movie himself w/o a team of writers who included women who shared their life experiences had something to do with the movie falling flat (if you listen to the commentary on the dvds of the series you find out that a lot of things that happened to characters on the tv show happened in some form to one of the writers).
barbiesugar 5 years
It was so much better than the first! I like how it was a bit more low key, and less immature. I also like how it was more like the tv show.
BellaTorro 5 years
Loved the fashion that's about it wish the story line was better.
hfxshopgirl 5 years
i hated it...it didn't do the series justice. it was a fun, girly movie, but disappointing in the context of the series
5 years
Loved it. A fun, dazzling romp, albeit a superficial 1. I'd hoped for more depth like the previous movie, but satisfying nonetheless. It was rather like seeing your angsty goth friend wear pink for the 1st time. & smile. The fact that any movie w/ women (who aren't secondary characters under 30 & the camera only trains on their boobs) as the focus w/out car chases, aliens et al is worth the price of the ticket for me.
RosaDilia 5 years
The movie was OK, I think Samantha made the movie worthwhile. I Was not impressed by the fashions and the whole Aidan storyline was weak and I was expecting Smith Jarrod to have a meaningful role in the movie. The movie was long and the dialogue was boring.
5 years
It was FABULOUS. I cannot believe people aren't impressed. They captured the essence of married women, not including Samantha, who are living their lives despite what society would typically expect. Also, as an Arab woman I am proud that they showed Arabian women in such a stylish and fabulous light. Normally, we're shown as oppressed America hating gnomes. This movie was fabulous, I only wish it could've been longer!
5 years
While I enjoyed most of the movie, the writers forgot a vital part of what made us love the TV show: New York. The ladies spent too much time in the desert; Aiden was not necessary; several issues were left up in the air; not enough Smith Jarrod. And, I have nothing against kids, but Charlotte's daughters are both brats.
justkategia 5 years
Honestly, I didn't like it. The movie was visually pleasing, but the story was so contrived and stereotypical. It was also way too long. I was a big fan of the show, but this movie was just bad bad bad.
5 years
The movie was just okay. I am a huge Sex and the City fan, however, this movie just didn't have what the tv show and last movie had. You know I think they spent too much time in the desert. I would give it 3 out of 5 stars.
nibbie17 5 years
I thought the movie was OK, even as an avid SATC fan. There were a lot of corny scenes and I feel as if they were relying on the glitz and glamour to carry the movie instead of the story line. I loved Samantha tho, she was TOO funny.


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24 hour lock out is pretty stupid honestly. If people want to play normal and do not want to even bother with hardcroe servers whats the issue? Lately, we've been forcing this "hardcore" style of gameplay on people. I mean sure you had your carebear 12 year old releases like GW2... but I think that lockout is dumb.
So if some dude just walks by and wants to force me to not play for a day he'll just shoot me up. If thats the case, I'll just play hardcore and lose my loot.
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^Complaing about the lockout is stupid as it is PART OF THE GAME, don't like it? Go play Tetris.
How about instead of trying to change a unique game and being little care bears, you go play another game, there is LITERALLY hundreds of thousands to choose from, a lot of them are perfect for the carebears in this thread, bye now.
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Joined: 11/28/07
Originally posted by Drolkin
Name another online survival game that falls under the categorty of onlinezombie survival horror. You can't, and there are a lot more than just hardcore PvP'ers that actually want to play this game. Calling people stupid for wanting a game that suits their playstyle is stupid in itself. That is the exact type of mentality that makes a bad gaming community.
The lockout is actually set to 1 hour. It is not working at all to prevent meaningless PK'ing.
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Joined: 11/28/07
Originally posted by roo67
Supposedly private servers will fix this. If you own a private server and you screen your applicants based on the rules of the server and what they are looking for, it seems like a really good option for the players. However, Hammerpoint or whatever they are called are seemingly trying to block this. It appears that they are afraid of private servers becoming farms for the public servers. They also seem to want to limit to high end loot from the private servers, so that you can't actually obtain them unless on a public server.
Many people are suggesting a separate global inventory for private servers. Also, to track items based on where they were obtained. So if you were to take a character to a private server, found some loot, then switched to a public server, those items would not carry over. It seems like a relatively easy fix, but maybe it's not. Or maybe the designers just don't know how to do it.
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Joined: 7/23/12
Meaningless killing???? Wehn i hear that i am laughing so much :) What you except guys in one survival mmofps? Solving puzzle or what? War Z is about killing and surviving. I can see that my son enjoying this game very much . Guys if you are to long in ''old people games'' like eq,gw,wow you need time to adopt because it is different style of playing. Same was with me in PlanetSide 2, first i was killed every few seconds and score was about 20-80 in favor of my death but after week i got 400 -380. You need to gain reflexes to survive. There is not much of survival mmofps on the market and just leave this game to hardcore pvp players. I know that most of you want to be part of that comunity but for most of you guys it is just to hard, leave it and find some other shooter where you get instant respawn
Originally posted by DAS1337
The problem is that these people DON'T want to play this game. They want to play the game that LOOKS exactly like this game, but suits THEIR suited playstyle / difficulty level.
I'd like to play Mario brothers with all the f**cking annoying Ghosts removed, but I doubt Nintendo will comply.
If you don't like an aspect of a game, find another, or wait for a similar one which suits your preferred playstyle more. Don't try get the game changed for those of us who enjoy it just as it is, thankyou.
Just try accept that some of us don't want meaningless, consequence free PvP. Saying that a game will not survive with harsh consequences for death is simply wrong, as can be shown by Eve: Online, which can be very harsh at times yet maintains a large playerbase.
-Edit- Argh, sorry!! Didn't mean to dig up an old thread the American date format threw me and I thought this thread was more current. Apologies! :]
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Joined: 2/10/07
I have lost all hope for this game
5 characters 24 hours deaths a newbie with nothing gets killed 5 times then what?
The developers are morons they need to listen to what I have said and design the game there is no reason to have 5 minute respawn timers or hardcore mode it serves no purpose unless its a hardcore only server and there is a difference between normal and hardcore.
In addition spawn timers should be like 30 seconds and it should spawn u somewhere else.
Normal kills HardCore = Perma Death
Hard Core kills normal no Perma Death?
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Originally posted by Renoaku
Why are you commenting on old facts? Play the fucking game or at least do your due diligence instead of spouting shit. Its a 1 hour lock-out first of all. Second of all, delete your character and make a new one if you don't want to wait around or play hardcore. 30 Second spawn timers? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard, whats the fucking point of this game if you just go balls out like its call of duty. The difference between hardcore and normal is that you get to keep your experience and skill tree (which isn't implemented yet, the exp is however) on normal.


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Weather in St. Louis has been spectacular this holiday weekend. Off work for this past week and after all my company left on tuesday i began my second Kirrmaier sweater on wednesday while sitting out by my pool.. Its her free pattern called Simple Summer Tweed, Top Down V-Neck. I am knitting this one with Classic Elite Yarn's Classic Silk that I picked up earlier this year on sale for only $4.00 a ball. Progress so far - Raglans are compete, V-neck joined, depth of armhole done. Sleeves are on scrap yarn, front and back joined and I have just started knitting the 18" to complete the body. Hope to have it done in a couple of weeks.
Regards to All,
Looking good and loving the natural, the shaping and small detailing, looking forward to seeing it done.
Looking good! Can't wait to see the finished piece.
Looks great.
Very nice, looks like it's knitting up pretty fast. That's one of the things I enjoy about a top down raglan.
It is a free download on Ravelry.
It looks great! Might I ask where you got the pattern from?


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The Joker zet Arkham Asylum op stelten.
Naar een verhaal van Paul Dini (Batman: The Animated Series, Detective Comics).
Met de enige echte Mark Hamill als The Joker.
As the game begins Batman is personally delivering his nemesis, The Joker, to the asylum at Arkham Island, but he is uneasy. Although the Arkham asylum is well fortified, he has a nagging feeling that all is not well, which proves to be the case when seconds after turning The Joker over to the guards, the master criminal breaks free of his captors. Even more surprising than this quick turn of events is the revelation that it was never The Joker's intent to escape the vault-like facility, but instead to trap Batman there. Surrounded by an asylum full of dangerous criminals, many of which he put there and all at the beck and call of the Joker, can Batman survive and discover what is behind the Joker's intricate plot?


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I've just looked at some 100% crops from DX images using a D5100 and that 28mm F/2. Nothing appears amiss, either focused at infinity or at the closest distance of 0.25 meters. In fact, I'm damn pleased with what I see. If I were shooting Kodachrome or Velvia or a new Ektachrome or techpan or something like that, on a tripod, with the mirror locked up, I might, might, give the nod to the f/2.8. But I shoot Tri-X so it's a non-starter. Plus I like that extra stop and the veiling at f/2. I've never been inclined to pixel peep and I'm less so every time I conduct one of these (for me) pointless little tests.
I still don't like that rattle but it doesn't appear to be causing any problems. For me. YMMV. Good luck and post if you take any action and what the outcome is.
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Each season we start off with trail cams over corn piles, trail cams along travel corridors, trail cams over freshly planted clover patches and various other protein rich tasty "greens" to entice the deer to come out in the field and feed.
We are making a "concerted effort" to determine where the deer are at on various parts of our property or lease. We are attempting to "pattern them". We are finding out their favorite feeding spots, bedding spots, and their preferred travel routes to get from bedding to food and back again. Then, the big buck we saw on the trail cam over and over in the pre-season suddenly vanishes. We lament that somebody on an adjoining property must have killed him but, they are keeping it quite to reduce their poacher numbers. Maybe he got hit by a car, or maybe he trailed a "hot doe" across a river or across several miles off your property and he is never seen again.
That could and does happen but, sometimes if you leave your trail cam up in February with another corn pile in front of it to see what deer are "left". Then, what do you see? That dog-gone big buck that left in October has done come back!
IT is a very distinct possibility, that he never left ! Now I know some of you are saying he must have left or somebody would have seen him at some point during the season, or you think to yourself, "I hunted almost every day and sat in every stand at various times all season and he just was not on our property! Well, I agree to a point but, hate to admit that my experiences in the deer woods for over 50 years now have not all been positive ones.
I have had more than one big buck show me that I am the visitor to his "neck of the woods" and I might think I am smarter than him but, he is craftier than me. After all, if I am unsuccessful in bagging that old big buck, I just shoot a couple of does and a "cull" buck and I have plenty of venison for my freezer. If he is unsuccessful, he winds up with a hole in his chest and it is "game over" for him! To use the old cliche' "he's got more skin in the game than me" is a vast under statement from his view point! The situation is best described as hunters aren't the only ones to pattern animal movements, the older bucks learn to pattern the hunter's movements. Learn this part of deer hunting and use it to your advantage.
Here an example, several years back I partnered with two other guys to lease a 1500 acre tract over in west Alabama and the location,our scouting, and trail cam information proved the property had a good many deer on it. There was a couple of places on the access dirt road where deer trails crossed over it that looked like cattle trails! One such trail was between the front gate and the main body of woods with only a few patches of cedars and scrub brush along the 3/4 mile path across an old pasture on the way to the hardwoods. One morning, right after a big rain,I did not want to run the risk of sticking my 2wd truck so I parked at the gate and walked the dirt road for over a half mile to where the first deer trail crossed the road. The rain had washed away all the deer tracks so the path was swept clean. About 10:00 a.m. another member of our lease trio drove in from Birmingham and drove all the way to the "big woods" where I was hunting. I hunted until noon and as I was walking back to my truck at the gate I noticed the deer trail across the dirt road was again populated with dozens of sets of deer tracks and the lone set of truck tracks across them. I am not claiming to be Sherlock Holmes but, I quickly surmised what was happening. The deer were bedding out in the cedars and scrub brush up near the gate and anytime a vehicle came through it on the way to the woods they would flush far enough ahead of the vehicle to not be seen and then cross the dirt road to the big woods. Later that day, I spoke with Robert who was the other hunter that had came in and asked him if he was hunting the next day. He said he was so I got down there an hour before daylight and again walked in on the dirt road, sneaking to a good vantage spot to watch the deer trail where it crossed the road.
About 6:45 I heard the gate swing open and clang against the iron pipe that was the gate stop and I heard Robert's truck as he pulled through the gate, got out and closed it behind him. He started to approach my position but, before he got within a quarter mile the deer started appearing out of the scrub brush and slipping across the road. More than a dozen deer, does, yearlings and a couple of "basket sixes" came across and then there he was, the 10 point buck that had eluded us since October! He came across the road with his head down, sniffing out the scent trails left by the does to determine which escape route we was taking, until he felt that 150 grain bullet in his right shoulder and his route changed to the back of my truck! Later that year I took a couple of other deer by stalking around in the scrub brush near the gate with my shotgun in some places so thick a rabbit would get burrs.
Often to survive, bucks, especially old ones, will find parts of the property that you would not expect them to be in and they hide out for as long as you are on the property. They pattern you and know when you come in and when you go out! While you are trying to pattern them, they are often doing the same thing to you!
Get out of your "pattern" and surprise that old buck by being unpredictable!
Good Luck in bagging a good buck!


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Zinc functions in more enzymatic reactions than any other mineral, making it indispensable to the immune system, which is involved in reactions and signaling all the time. In particular, zinc enhances the function of helper T cells, which are important in identifying foreign antigens and alerting other cells of the immune system to invaders. Even a mild zinc deficiency can have adverse effects on the immune system, particularly in children and the elderly.
But too much zinc can be toxic and will inhibit immune function. The FDA recommends about 11 milligrams of zinc per day.
Lean meats such as beef, chicken and seafood are the best sources of zinc. Nonmeat eaters may have a harder time getting enough of the mineral because zinc in plant proteins is not as available for use in the body as zinc from animal proteins. Some options for getting zinc into a vegetarian diet include pumpkin seeds, beans and mineral-fortified cereals.
Broccoli, with its intense green color and dense florets, just looks healthy. Derived from the Latin word for "branch" or "arm," broccoli belongs to the family of cruciferous vegetables which includes cabbage, brussels sprouts, cauliflower and turnip.
"These would, for sure, be foods with extremely potent antioxidant compounds to help fight disease," Blatner said.
In the winter, when some of the more exotic fruits may be of lesser quality than the summer, broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables are an excellent -- and cheap -- source of vitamins A, C and E. In addition, broccoli is high in glucosinolates which stimulate the body's immune system.
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Bankrupt woman's designer goods fetch £100k at auction in Lincolnshire
Posted: October 01, 2011|
A PRIVATE collection of designer handbags, jewellery and luxury goods has fetched just £100,000 at auction in Lincolnshire.
The items were being sold off after the woman who owned them was declared bankrupt.
They included 60 handbags, evening bags, purses and wallets by designers ranging from Hermes and Lana Marks to Louis Vuitton, Judith Leiber and Chanel. The handbags originally cost up to £10,000 a time.
There were also 48 jewellery lots by names including Cartier and Tiffany & Co.
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Ohio First Lady Karen Kasich is launching a program to feature artists' work at the governor's mansion in Bexley.
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Furthermore, the TCG set of which it is a part, Fires of Outland, has not been released yet; it debuts on August 22nd. This card was apparently obtained at pre-release event. Still, two grand is a lot of money; that would buy you over 11 years of game time, or (in my preferred money visualization scheme) 150 pounds of really good coffee.
We gave away this very same mount not long ago (don't say WoW Insider never gave you anything) -- a $2000 value, apparently! But if you're not our lucky winner, and you simply must have a translucent cat to ride on, there are still a few more going on eBay.
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Student group to host video game social Saturday
September 13, 2010
The MSU Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will host a video game social event Saturday, September 18th beginning at 10 a.m. The highlight of this event will be a sixty-four man, one versus one, double elimination Starcraft II tournament fund raiser held in the Butler Computer lab.
There will be a ten dollar entry fee for the tournament, and cash prizes will be awarded to the top three Starcraft II players. Runners-up will receive eight gigabyte USB drives courtesy of MSU alumnus founded corporate sponsor, Navagis.
The event is open to the general public and spectators are welcome. Guests may bring their computers to Butler 100. In addition to the tournament, the MSU-LSU game will be shown on the projector, and XBox and Wii consoles will be set up on the big screen televisions in the student lounge.
Participants and additional volunteers may sign-up for the tournament this week in the Butler Hall lobby. For more information about the event, rules for the Starcraft II tournament, and times the sign up desk will be open, visit http://acm.org.msstate.edu. Attendees may RSVP for the event online or by emailing email@example.com. For further information regarding the event, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.


text: 2010-08-08T18:55:42Z PunBB http://www.ontheminute.com/forums/topic/3541/kaka-out-for-2-months/ correction, they spent 56 million on him and yes with one go-to-guy in ronaldo, they will play better, just like manyoo did.]]> http://www.ontheminute.com/forums/user/125/ 2010-08-08T18:55:42Z http://www.ontheminute.com/forums/post/6945/#p6945 it would probably just as good for real. Kaka was very weak last season and i believe Real will manage without him available! but omg. it is crazy to think about the £50million they spent on him!!!]]> http://www.ontheminute.com/forums/user/57/ 2010-08-08T09:32:25Z http://www.ontheminute.com/forums/post/6894/#p6894 With that all the rumours of him being offloaded by real madrid should die. No one is going to take a gamble on an injured 50 million pound player.]]> http://www.ontheminute.com/forums/user/124/ 2010-08-05T14:10:34Z http://www.ontheminute.com/forums/post/6859/#p6859


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Timeline: 1990s
Operation Desert Storm is authorized by the U.N. U.S. part of 30-nation coalition.
U.S. sanctions China, Iran, Cuba, and Kuwait for sponsoring terrorism, engaging in proliferation of WMDs, and human rights abuses.
April 29, 1992: Los Angeles erupts in riots after acquittal of officers who beat Rodney King. They are retried under civil rights laws, and two are found guilty.
1993. U.S. adopts "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which allows the government to remove open homosexuals from the army.
1994: North American Free Trade Agreement.
1995: Student-led campaign delivers the Environmental Bill of Rights to Congress with 1.2 million signatures.
1996. Controversial "Back to Work" Welfare Reform.
1999. U.N. Human Rights Commission Resolution Supporting Worldwide Moratorium on Executions. The U.S. does not sign.


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USI professor develops app to aid grad students' research
A University of Southern Indiana faculty member has developed a new smartphone app called WTF.
The initials don't stand for what you suspect they might.
Wendy Turner-Frey, an associate professor of social work, used her own initials when inventing the apps for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad called WTF Research and WTF Statistics.
"Students often point out what my initials can stand for, so I thought, 'I'll name my application that — it'll at least get students interested,'" Turner-Frey said.
According to USI, WTF Research is a decision-making tree for graduate students conducting research. It walks students through a process that helps them determine which research methods and tools to use for their chosen topics.
"I don't want to have to carry my students through the program," Turner-Frey said. "This teaches them to think logically and make connections."
USI officials say the app then stores all the data a student inputs, making it easy to reference research ideas.
"So often, a student will approach me and say, 'Now what research method did I decide on?'" Turner-Frey said. "With this app, students don't have to continually question their methods and tools."
Students can email results to professors.
Turner-Frey is teaching two research classes this semester and will offer the app as an option for her students to help them with their research.
"The app is applicable to all students doing research in the social sciences," she said.
WTF Statistics is a more elaborate decision-making tree which Turner-Frey said, "will help students decide what stats to run and how to calculate and interpret findings."
The app "will assist in making sure students are calculating the data correctly and, more importantly, that they understand what it means."
Turner-Frey, with help from computer sciences instructor Scott Anderson, is developing additional apps, including WTF Ideas, which USI officials say will assist faculty in storing research ideas.
"There are so many times when I'll be riding in my car and think of something that would make a great research question," Turner-Frey said. "This app will allow faculty to quickly store those ideas and help guide their research."
She's also developing what she calls a mood log, designed for patients to use with therapists to evaluate effectiveness of treatment.
WTF Research and WTF Statistics are available in the iTunes App Store for $2.99 each.
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State seeks more clients in mortuary investigation
FINDLAY -- Investigators from the Ohio Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors have met with more than 100 customers of the former Routson Funeral Home here to have their prepaid funeral accounts reassigned to other operating funeral homes.
None of the more than $2 million in prepaid accounts was unaccounted for when investigators closed down the Routson Funeral Home on June 14, board spokesman Jennifer Baugess said. However, another 50 to 75 clients with assets in Routson's prepaid accounts still must be found after investigators spent three days last week at Findlay-area senior centers.
"We are making another attempt to contact consumers," Ms. Baugess said. A court-appointed receiver is overseeing the process.
The Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors immediately suspended the licenses of Gregory Routson and his Routson Funeral Chapel on Osborn Avenue in June, citing allegations that he allowed unlicensed staff to meet with families to sell and arrange funeral services, that he was "habitually intoxicated, or addicted to the use of morphine, cocaine, or other habit-forming or illegal drugs," that he kept refuse and soiled linens in a public area, that he failed to keep the preparation room and floor clean, failed to sterilize embalming instruments, failed to cover refuse containers, and failed "to treat at least one body with proper care and dignity by partially embalming and leaving the body unrefrigerated for a period of 13 days."
The allegations also accused Mr. Routson of threatening or harassing employees, being in the funeral home "naked or partially clothed" during business hours in a public area, putting on the jacket of a deceased man in front of his family, and misappropriating memorial contributions.
"The bottom line is to protect the consumer, and the state board has taken the steps necessary to do that," said Terry Reardon, president of the Ohio Funeral Directors Association, which supported the enforcement action.


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Experts urge to reduce number of SOEs
At a conference on a draft plan to restructure the state-owned enterprises held yesterday, experts said the number of the state-owned enterprises should be reduced because of their poor economic effectiveness.
At the conference, which was held by the Ministry of Finance, Doctor Nguyen Ngoc Tuyen, head of the Institute of Financial Economics, said the return on equity of the SOEs in the period between 2007 and 2009 was only 4.3 percent, while the figure for the foreign direct investment (FDI) sector was double that.
He said the restructuring should aim at reducing the number of SOEs in an effort to increase their economic effectiveness.
"[The restructuring] should be conducted on a large scale for all 86 of the state-run firms," he said.
"We should ask the SOEs to end their involvement in the banking and finance sectors, amend certain incentive policies they are enjoying, and remove their monopoly in the power, coal and fuel sectors."
Hoang Tran Hau, a member of the board that drafted the SOE restructuring plan, agreed that the economic effectiveness of the SOEs' operation had slumped.
He cited statistics from the Ministry of Planning and Investment as saying that the SOEs are holding as much as 70 percent of the economy's total capital, 60 percent of lending from commercial banks, and 70 percent of ODA loans, but their contribution to the GDP was only 38 percent.
He said many state-run enterprises lacked transparency in their operation, adding that some do not even have records of their actual profits or losses.
"Some have operated with losses and the government has had to set aside a big sum to offset for them," he said.
He said the SOEs had invested $7.3 billion, or 10 percent of GDP, into non-core businesses.
"In just the last quarter of 2007 and the first of 2008, the state-run firms sunk as much as $1.4 billion in the real estate and securities sectors," Hau said.
Professor Truong Moc Lam, former chair of Bao Viet Insurance Corporation, said many SOEs had created a complex system of affiliates and subsidiaries under them.
For instance, he said, oil and gas company PetroVietnam set up a subsidiary working in the insurance sector, and that subsidiary then created another subsidiary to operate in the property sector.
"They have just messed things up," he said.
"SOEs should be allowed to set up just one subsidiary."
Doctor Nguyen Minh Phong said SOEs are accounting for 60 percent of loans and 70 percent of bad debts of the commercial banks.
Phong stated that SOEs currently account for 40 percent of GDP, while in other developed countries, the rate was only 5 to 20 percent.
"Vietnam's ratio should thus be reduced to these rates," he suggested.
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BPW Approves Preservation Of Forests And Wetlands Along Pocomoke River
And Purchase To Improve Access To The Youghiogheny
ANNAPOLIS, MD (January 6, 2010) — Governor Martin O'Malley today announced
the Board of Public Works (BPW) approval of the acquisition of 290 acres through
Program Open Space (POS). The property, which contains forested wetlands, wooded
uplands and shoreline, is located on a tributary to Nassawango Creek directly
adjacent to Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) lands. It is part of
the Pocomoke River North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) Partnership
project and contains 53 acres of forested wetlands and 237 acres of upland
forest located along the Pocomoke River in Worcester County.
"This project is an excellent example of how we can identify and preserve areas in Maryland that will benefit water quality and wildlife," said Governor O'Malley. "This land will be forever protected as a significant component of the Pocomoke River Watershed."
The forested bottomlands of the Pocomoke River Watershed support numerous local and national rare species, including the Swainson's Warbler, Delmarva Fox-Squirrel and the American Bald Eagle. This property serves as important stopover and nesting habitat for migrating waterbirds and shorebirds, including woodcock and waterfowl such as the Wood Duck and American Black Duck. This parcel lies within the designated Pocomoke River Focus Area and the Target Ecological Area and has received a high ecological ranking of 112 under the new Program Open Space Targeting System.
The Pocomoke River originates in Delaware and flows south through Wicomico, Worchester and Somerset Counties in Maryland prior to discharging into the Chesapeake Bay in the Tangier Sound.
State and Federal partners, with the help of The Nature Conservancy, have secured funds to protect and restore eight properties on the Pocomoke River. The total cost to protect all eight properties is $4.6 million, including $1.4 million of Federal grants from the North American Wetlands Conservation Act and $750,000 in private funds from The Nature Conservancy. This $899,000 acquisition, funded solely with POS funds, is part of the State's match to leverage other federal funding in accordance with the Federal Grant.
"This has been a great partnership between The Nature Conservancy, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the State of Maryland in reaching a mutual goal to protect this property as part of the Pocomoke State Forest system as well as restore wetland and upland habitat for several rare species," said Liz Zucker, conservation director of the Eastern Shore for The Nature Conservancy of Maryland/DC.
The BPW also approved the acquisition of 10.2 acres of upland forest that will provide better access to the Youghiogheny Scenic and Wild River Corridor in Garret County. This acquisition is made possible through Program Open Space funding. The property was purchased for $117,614.
Since 2007, Governor O'Malley and the BPW preserved more than 26,015 acres of natural areas for public recreation, watershed and wildlife protection across Maryland. Since 1969, Program Open Space has provided funding for acquisition of 346,743 acres for open space and recreational areas. Most Maryland residents live within 15 minutes of an open space or recreational area funded by Program Open Space.
The three-member Board of Public Works is comprised of Governor O'Malley (Chair), Treasurer Nancy Kopp and Comptroller Peter Franchot. The BPW is authorized by the General Assembly to approve major construction and consultant contracts, equipment purchases, property transactions and other procurement actions.
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BRENHAM, Texas -- The Buccaneer Alumni Lettermen Association will host its annual golf tournament Saturday, Aug. 9 at Brenham Country Club to benefit the Blinn College Athletic Department.
The 18-hole, four-person modified scramble includes a meal ticket, green fee, mulligans, cart and putting and hole-in-one contests for $500 per team. The shotgun start is set for 1 p.m.
The first 36 paid teams will be accepted. Individual and team entries must be received by noon on Aug. 4. Handicaps must be pro-attested or committee-approved.
For more information or to register for the tournament, visit www.buccaneersports.com or contact Dr. Kyle Merten, Blinn College director of alumni relations, at 979-830-4495.
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Johnson City police charged an East Holston Avenue man Wednesday with lying to police about stolen iPads in his possession.
Christopher B. Rowe, 30, 1305 E. Holston Ave., was arrested as a result of an investigation into a recent burglary at 116 Tipton St., police said in a news release.
In a court document, Johnson City Police Department Patrolman Adam Lunceford said he contacted Rowe March 24 about an iPad he had recently purchased. Rowe told Lunceford he did not know the iPad had been stolen and only bought one iPad from a friend of a friend for $180.
Lunceford reported, however, that he had charged Jennifer Harris with the Tipton Street burglary, and in cooperating with police, Harris said she had sold two iPads to Rowe and he knew they were stolen.
She told Lunceford Rowe would only pay $100 for the first iPad because it was stolen and contacted her the next day to buy the second for $75.
Rowe was charged with theft over $500 and false reporting. He was jailed in the Washington County Detention Center on $10,000 pending a Sessions Court appearance today.
Lunceford reported that more than $7,000 worth of property was stolen in the burglary.


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Wine-Tasting Fundraising Ideas
Wine-Tasting Fund-raising
Hosting a wine-tasting fundraiser is a fun way to raise money for a good cause. And with careful planning, teamwork, and execution, you can have a successful wine-tasting fundraiser. You're success is only limited by your imagination. Let's look at some ideas.
Meet with your team of volunteers and start brainstorming. Start by asking questions and encourage others to do the same.
Clearly define your fundraising goals in financial terms, how you want it to run, and what kind of experience you want the guests to have. Think of quality not just quantity. Strive for a classy event. After all, you may want to run this again the following year if it's successful.
What can each team member bring to the event? What are their skills? Do they have contacts in the wine industry? Contacts in the media? How could/should each person contribute?
Where will you get your wine? Where will you host the event? Restaurants, museums, cultural centers, public gardens, etc. all make nice venues.
How much will you charge for tickets? What will that include (wine samples, formal dinner, casual cocktails, etc.)?
Who can you solicit for prize donations?
Set up committees: promotion, event preparation/set-up, servers, etc. Then have people volunteer for these committees. And then let them run with their tasks. Set up a schedule for follow-up meetings where you discuss progress and any issues that may come up. You can also send out emails with periodic updates.
The Wine
This is an important piece to the fundraiser. Talk to wine merchants and distributors about your event. Who is willing to provide nice wines at below retail prices? This is a win-win for both because the wine merchant can sell their wine at the event. And you can negotiate what percentage of the sales will go back to the charity.
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You'll also want someone who is willing to talk knowledgeably about these wines at the event. Is the supplier able to do this? Or will you have to find someone outside?
Will the supplier offer the guests a discount?
This is one of the keys to a successful wine-tasting fundraiser. The more seats filled the bigger opportunity for success.
First, write a press release that explains the who, what, why, when, where, how much of your event.
Go to newspapers, TV, and radio stations with your press release. The media will usually run an ad at no charge for a non-profit event.
Go to wine bars, wine shops and any other related businesses and ask to post a flyer for your event. Ask these merchants if they will sell tickets.
If they're employers allow it, ask your volunteers if they'll distribute the press release at their work using an email, flyer in the break room, or mention in the company newsletter.
Use social media like Facebook to advertise. Ask your volunteers who have accounts if they will send out a personalized press release for the event to their friends.
The Event
Here's where the rubber meets the road or better, where the cork is finally pulled.
Have a wine expert who is able to talk about how to taste and appreciate wine. This person will usually be the one who explains each wine.
A celebrity emcee (master of ceremonies) is a classy touch that will keep the event lively and moving along. The emcee is also good at keeping the guests aware that it is a charity event. "We still have a wonderful 3-night Caribbean vacation available in the silent auction. The last bid is only $100!"
Local TV and radio personalities as well as local civic leaders make excellent emcees because of their public speaking experience.
Consider having a local jazz band or ensemble to perform.
Sell raffle tickets for your nicest donation. Be sure to ask everyone when they walk in and are paying at the cashier.
Silent Auctions
Your months of preparation can pay off here. Solicit businesses quality items to be auctioned. Dinners, spa days, hotel stays, trips, gourmet accessories all make nice desirable items for your auction.
But don't limit yourself here. Any business who wants to generously donate should be fair game. You'd be surprised at how popular some auction items are.
Final Thoughts
There really is no limit to how you can host a successful wine-tasting fundraiser. Plan the event well in advance (3 to 6 months). Get your volunteers excited and their excitement will insure a lot of guests. Find a good wine merchant who is also excited. Strive for a classy but not snobby event. Make your guests feel they got good value for their money.
Build on these ideas and you're sure to have a fun and triumphant wine-tasting event.


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General Policies
Team Restrictions: Each Res Hall or Commuter Team can have up to 4 students represent their Hall in this tournament.
Gender Restrictions: None
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House Rules
- Walls are in. The sides of the table are in.
- You can lose off a serve.
- Serves must bounce cross table.
- Best of 3 to 11 points, switch every two serves.
- Hands are allowed.
- A point is won by a player when the opponent cannot hit the ball with a racket over the net and onto the other side of the table.
- A game is won by being the first player to win 11 points, and be at least 2 points ahead of his or her opponent.
If both players have won 10 points, then the first player to get a 2 point lead wins the game.
- A match is the best of 7 games in the Mens Singles and Womens Singles events, and the best of 5 games in the Mens Team and Womens Team Events. In the team events, the first team to win 3 matches is the overall winner.
- The score begins at 0-0, and the server will serve first. Each player gets to serve for two points in a row, and then the other player has to serve.
- The server must serve the ball so that it touches his side of the table once, then bounces over or around the net, and then touches his opponent's side of the table. A serve that touches the net assembly (the net, net posts, and net clamps) on the way, but still touches his side first and then the opponent's side on the second bounce, is called a let serve (or just let) and must be replayed, with no change to the score. There is no limit on how many lets the server can serve in a row.
The receiver will then attempt to return the ball over or around the net so that it bounces first on the server's side of the table. If he cannot, the server wins the point. If he does, the server must hit the ball over or around the net so that it bounces first on his opponent's side of the table. If the server cannot, the receiver wins the point. Play continues in this manner until either the server or the receiver cannot return the ball legally, in which case the other player wins the point.
- When a point is won, that player adds one to his score. If a score of 10-all is reached, both players will only serve 1 serve each until the game is won. The score is called out with the server's score first.
- In the final possible game of a match, when the first player (or doubles team) reaches 5 points, the players must change ends.
Service Rules
- The intention of the service rules is to give the receiver the ability to see the ball at all times in order to have a fair chance of reading the spin put on the ball by the server. In order to make this happen, there are several rules that are enforced during the serve, including:
- The ball must always be visible to the receiver throughout the serve - it must never be hidden.
- The ball must be always be behind the endline of the table, and above the level of the playing surface.
- The ball must be throw up near vertically at least 16cm (around the height of the net), and must be hit on the way down, not the way up.
- If the umpire is doubtful whether a serve is legal, he may warn the player. If any more of the player's serves are of doubtful legality, the umpire will fault the player and award the point to his opponent.
- If a serve is clearly illegal, the umpire will fault the player and give the point to his opponent.
Obstructing the Ball
- An obstruction only occurs if a player touches the ball (with his bat, body or anything he is wearing), when the ball is above the playing surface, or traveling towards the playing surface, and has not yet touched his side of the court. (Law 2.5.8) It is not an obstruction if the ball has passed over the endline, has passed over the sideline going away from the table, or is moving away from the playing surface - Point 9.7 ITTF Handbook for Match Officals (HMO). So you can be hit by the ball in front of the endline and still not obstruct the ball, provided the ball is not over the playing surface and it is moving away from the table.
Hitting the Ball
- It is legal to hit the ball with the fingers of your hand that is holding the racket, or even the racket hand below the wrist, provided that only one contact is made. Double hits are not allowed, so you may not hit the ball with the fingers of your racket hand, and then hit the ball with your racket.
- It is legal to switch the racket between hands during the point, although it is rare to find a player that does this.
- A player may not throw the racket at the ball in order to hit the ball.
- If a player drops his racket, he must pick up the racket in order to hit the ball. The ball must be hit by a racket held in your racket hand, so if you drop the racket, you no longer have a racket hand!


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They'll include 1,500 in-game gold, 200,000 in-game silver, premium vehicles and a pass for three days of premium account time, which gives players a 50 percent boost to silver and XP earnings. The bundle, dubbed the Combat Ready Starter Pack, also includes a 30-day Xbox Live Gold membership, a continued requirement for free-to-play games on the platform.
Developer Wargaming West also plans to launch what it calls its game's largest update, Soviet Steel, for free. The update adds 29 USSR vehicles of varying class and/or destruction and a pair of new maps.
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World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition to Be Updated With Soviet Steel and Combat Ready Starter Pack
Largest tank release to date and special retail package on the way
May 29, 2014 - Wargaming today announced details for its upcoming Soviet Steel Update for World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition, as well as information on the Combat Ready Starter Pack that will offer players a tremendous value and exclusive items for the console free-to-play title.
Representing the largest single content update so far for the title, the Soviet Steel, slated to go live on June 3rd, will enrich the game's roster with 29 iconic USSR tank destroyers, light, medium, and heavy tanks, bringing the in-game vehicle total to over 150. The intimidating IS-3; a brutal close quarters and urban combat icon, the ISU-152; a high tier tank destroyer, and more will clash on two new battlegrounds-Komarin and Ensk.
The company also announced the Combat Ready Starter Pack, containing a war chest's worth of in-game gold and other goodies at a discounted price of $19.99. Included in the package are:
The premium Panzer 38H Tier II German light tank, famously known for its heavy armor and quick firing gun.
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The recently completed Kentucky General Assembly session was a relatively bipartisan and productive one. But partisanship and special interest politics prevented passage of some good bills. Senate Bill 176 was one.
Arne Duncan, the U. S. Secretary of Education says, "When a school continues to perform in the bottom five percent of the state and isn't showing signs of progress or has graduation rates below 60 percent over a number of years, something dramatic needs to be done."
SB 176 would have done something dramatic to improve Kentucky's persistently low-achieving schools, or "PLAs." The bill, co-sponsored by Republican Senators Mike Wilson of Bowling Green and Dan Seum of Louisville, would have let local school boards, parents, or certified staff and teachers initiate a process to transform PLAs into charter schools.


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Gaming smartphone faces delays in New Zealand as launch stock is stolen
Having got off to a rocky start following its UK launch last month, Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play handset faces further woes as the shipment of launch units for Vodafone New Zealand is stolen en route.
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Whilst it is currently unknown exactly how many Sony Ericsson Xperia Play handsets were stolen in the heist, Vodafone New Zealand has officially announced that the theft has caused unexpected delays and as such will result in the handset's release being pushed back.
Making the announcement via its official Twitter feed the New Zealand network provider announced: "Vodafone New Zealand regret to advise the Xperia Play launch will be delayed. Major security breech. The shipment of phones has been stolen."
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play was hotly tipped as a mobile gaming revolution prior to launch offering PlayStation controls on a smartphone. Following its arrival, however, the colloquially known PSP phone has failed to ignite much interest in the crowded mobile market with a limited run of dated games not able to draw in a core gaming audience.
Have you splashed out on the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play or were you left disappointed by the gaming phone? Let us know via the T3 Twitter and Facebook feeds.
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Though it hasn't always been a happy ending for the chain of historic Fox West Coast theaters. Built in 1925, the Fullerton Fox Theatre in downtown Fullerton was closed and abandoned just 62 years later—and it remains closed. The Fullerton Historic Theatre Foundation has been attempting to raise proper funding for a full restoration of the theater for three years now.
But now that the Fox has been restored to its full glory, it also means an equally hefty amount of apprehensiveness for the Tessier brothers on whether or not the venue can possibly stay afloat in this tough economy. The challenge from day one, says Tessier, was making the project work financially, but they and everyone involved remain more than hopeful.
"My son is 5, and Perry's daughter is 12 or 13 now. They'll still be running this place and paying it off 30 years from now, but it was all worth it," Tessier says with a laugh. "I was online the other night, and a real odd moment happened while looking at Wilco's tour [dates]: They're playing Barcelona, Madrid, London, Dublin, New York . . . and Pomona."
He pauses.
"That really brought it home. We've re-created a building that's really put our hometown back on the map in a great way. It's going to be a complete treat for concert-goers for years and years to come," he says. "It's going to be a place for people to have phenomenal memories. They'll remember performances there for the rest of their lives; they'll meet their spouses for the first time. The way my dad's generation talks about seeing Bob Hope or Spencer Tracy at the Fox, you know, my kids, my 5-year-old is going to be talking about that completely amazing Gogol Bordello show he saw."
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Sue Stewart to receive Susan B. Anthony Award (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle © 01/31/2013)
Stewart eventually became managing partner of the firm — now called Nixon Peabody LLP — and went on to become the University of Rochester's top lawyer, while remaining active on the boards of various community groups. "She is a pioneer in the legal field for advancing women. And I can't imagine how lucky a board of directors would be to have someone of her experience and intelligence," said Catherine Cerulli, director of the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership at UR.
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Anthropologist Yolanda Moses, a former president of the City College of New York and a leading scholar on the origins of social inequality, will receive the University's Frederick Douglass Medal during a ceremony at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6 in the Hawkins-Carlson Room. A founder of the traveling exhibition "RACE: Are We So Different?," currently at the the Rochester Museum & Science Center, Moses will also present the lecture "Social Justice and its Challenges." A panel discussion will follow.
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Diversity Award Recipients Inspire Success in Students
The Teen Health and Success Partnership (THSP) and Lynne Maquat, the J. Lowell Orbison Chair and Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics and at the University of Rochester Medical Center, were honored as the 2013 Presidential Diversity Award recipients. They were publicly recognized during the University's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address, held the evening of Thursday, Jan. 17.
Both awardees were chosen for their commitment to helping underrepresented minority students achieve their academic goals. Led by Suzanne Piotrowski, THSP develops employment opportunities at the University for urban teens who are at risk of dropping out of high school. Maquat was honored for her work with the University of Rochester Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) initiative, which provides outreach and mentoring for women scientists and scientists-in-training.
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Ban says he asked the U.N. Security Council on Monday to raise the ceiling for the force, which currently has about 7,000 troops and 2,100 police. He says the extra troops would be needed for six months.
France's U.N. Ambassador Gerard Araud says he expects the council to approve a resolution Tuesday raising the ceiling.
Ban told reporters after briefing the council on his trip Sunday to the Haitian capital that two challenges stand out - unclogging bottlenecks to deliver aid quickly and coordination.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. - NC State took a one run deficit into the bottom of the ninth, but rallied to capture a 3-2 walk-off victory over Miami in the Wolfpack's ACC Tournament opener Wednesday at NewBridge Bank Park.
Erickson also took a no decision after scattering nine hits over seven innings to hold NC State to one earned. Eric Nedeljkovic (0-2), the fourth of five pitchers used by Miami in the game, was tagged with the loss on two runs, one earned, on three hits over 2/3.
The ACC's longest active hitting streak came to an end as Ryan Mathews went 0-for-4 on the game, but his patience at the plate resulted in an RBI on the game-winning walk. Mathews also contributed in the field, gunning down a runner at the plate in the eighth to prevent a run that would have made it 3-1.
Miami broke a scoreless tie in the top sixth with Mack's two-run homer to right. Dale Carey came aboard on a one-out double to the left center gap, setting the table for Mack's home run. Through 6 1/3 innings, Ogburn had retired 16 of 19 batters faced and allowed only two hits.
State trimmed the lead to 2-1 in the bottom half on Fincher's RBI groundout. Danny Canela sent a one-out single bouncing up the middle to get the inning going. Ciencin doubled to the left field corner behind him, putting two in scoring position. Fincher hit a chopper to the right side to bring in Canela, but the inning came to an end one batter later.
The Hurricanes loaded the bases with two away in the seventh, but Williams entered an extinguished the potential rally. Ogburn hit a batter and gave up a single after getting the first two outs of the inning. Williams relieved him there, and walked Stephen Perez to fill the bases, but struck out the next swinging at a high fastball to strand three.
The Pack roared back in dramatic fashion in the bottom of the ninth to take the win. After a called strike three for the first out, Austin and Gianis hit back-to-back singles to put runners on the corners. Turner drew a walk to load the bases with the Wolfpack down a run. Diaz hit a towering chopper to third, allowing Austin to score, and made it to first when a low throw across the diamond squirted free of the first baseman's glove. With the bases still loaded, Mathews drew a walk on five pitches to push across the game-winning run.
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The Lost Religion of Jesus: Simple Living and Nonviolence in Early
By Keith Akers
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2000, 260 pages, $20 (paper)
review by Leena Isac
Rochester Vegetarian Society
Like many ethical vegetarians, I have felt that Christianity does not
"care" about values like compassion, nonviolence, and
environmentalism. I explored other religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, and
Jainism, searching for one that had compassion at its core instead of dogma and
rigid belief systems. So, like many, I have held onto a loose belief in God, and
a deep spiritual interconnectedness between all sentient beings, feeling
uncomfortable calling myself a Christian. Over time, the Christian church has
not been a leader in tolerance, simple living, and nonviolence. Keith Akers
believes that this is a distortion of what Jesus actually taught. Akers' new
book, The Lost Religion of Jesus, uncovers a whole new definition of
Christianity, a religion that he believes is completely misunderstood.
The focus of Akers' work is on the original followers of Jesus, the Jewish
Christians. He shows that from the time of Jesus' life until roughly 400 years
later, the Jewish followers of Jesus understood and practiced true Christianity.
Due to many different events, these people and their beliefs died out, leaving
only distorted versions of Jesus' teachings. Akers shows that the revelation
given by Jesus was an uncompromising ethical demand, not some mythological
belief system. To the Jewish Christians, it was Jesus' ethics of simple living
and nonviolence, rather than a new theology, which distinguished him and his
followers from other Jews. They believed that his teachings were about simple
living, pacifism, and vegetarianism, and that he never intended to create a new
religion separate from Judaism. Modern Christianity has misunderstood the
message of Jesus. Akers writes:
When the larger gentile Christian church drove out Jewish Christianity . . .
it also lost the core of Jesus' teachings. The values of simple living and
nonviolence became increasingly marginalized in a church that came to accept the
very materialism and violence against which Jesus had protested.
Akers argues that Jesus preached against animal sacrifice. It was his
objection to killing animals in God's name that caused him to create the scene
in the temple that eventually led to his crucifixion. Akers documents the many
religious writings he uses as references. He makes a convincing case that the
teachings of Paul, which are largely the basis of the current Christian
religion, are in error with Jesus' original message. For example, Akers points
out that orthodox Christianity is preoccupied with guilt and sin, but that
"original sin" had no place in the teachings of Jesus. Teachings of
Jesus that were inconvenient were discarded, such as the emphasis on pacifism.
Roman soldiers were baptized in the new religion, ensuring the status of the
military in Christianity. This was one of the many changes in the Roman Empire
made in Christianity because of its political interest in maintaining a strong,
united church.
The moral teachings of Jewish Christianity, which included a firm emphasis on
the necessity for a simple lifestyle and the objection to bloodshed of either
animals or humans, are just as uncomfortable and awkward for us to follow today.
Christianity focuses on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and that we're
absolved of our sins if we simply "believe." Instead of urging us to
adhere to an ethical lifestyle, it takes the much easier path of demanding that
we profess to have certain beliefs. The Nicene Creed, for example, has not
ethical content at all, but it just a succession of theological statements
regarding the virgin birth, crucifixion, and resurrection. There is no mention
of the need to live simply and nonviolently, and to completely change one's
life. Akers says the message of Jesus "has been eliminated. Modern
Christianity has given us a Messiah without a cause."
I highly recommend this book to anyone who cares about compassion,
nonviolence, and simple living and thus feels disconnected from Christianity.
Akers helps us see that being a Christian means we should change our lives to be
in keeping with God's will. He points out that this would involve, among other
things, environmentalism, non-consumerism, and vegetarianism. Some might argue
that Akers is using scripture to further a "liberal agenda," but I
would urge everyone to read this well researched book before turning away from
what could be a spirituality that would truly "save" us all.
Leena Isac is a member of the Rochester Area Vegetarian Society and the owner
of Leena's Garden Specialty Baking
She is the mother of eight-month-old Meena, who was born with a Vegan Revolution
bumper sticker on her bum.
VegNews, November / December 2001, pages 28, 31.


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well you can read all about that here at Random Thoughts. This however was dinner tonight, When the girls sat down and saw cupcakes they got so giddy! Then once Diva tasted the "frosting" she said, "this is mashed potatoes!" So she pulled off the liner and later tells DH on the phone "I knew it couldn't be cake because it wasn't crumbly, it was greasy" LOL. The cupcakes are meatloaf with pink mashed potatoes, I also sprinkled some glazed carrot flowers on top. For dessert I made mock sushi with rice krispie treats, I used star bursts that I warmed in the microwave to flatten out and shape as the ginger, I didn't have any green star bursts to make the wasabi, the soy sauce is grape jelly. Fruit leather and fruit roll ups were used as the nori, but really since they aren't nori colored, I would say they are flavored soy wraps which I prefer to nori hands down on my sushi rolls.
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Hanging on a 20" chain, this beautiful cast of a real Stag Beetle's head is one of our new favorites!Stag Beetles have played a part in myth and folklore throughout human history. They are named for their oversized, often elaborately branched mandibles, which vaguely resemble the antlers of a stag. In Britain they were associated with thunder and lightning, and in Germany they were believed to start fires by carrying around burning embers. The heads of stag beetles have long been worn as amulets.This lovely piece - along with our other insect jewelry - speaks to that tradition, while adding a little of our modern love of science.
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Around 2,400 personnel from the Japan Ground Self-Defence Force were involved in a live-fire exercise staged near Mount Fuji earlier this month. This spectacular image shows two of the service's Boeing/Fuji Heavy Industries AH-64DJ Apache attack helicopters in action, with pyrotechnics supplied by the land vehicles. Flightglobal's HeliCAS database records Japan's army as having only […]
Friday's slightly abstract image
As it's nearly the weekend, I thought I'd go for somethingf slightly different. So here's a picture of a Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor reflected in a crewman's visor while refueling. Credit: US Air Force
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Thanks to a lack of captions on the Canadian defence images website we're at a bit of a loss to explain what's going on in this picture. It's likely that its an interdiction training exercise using this de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter and the Bell 412 Griffon, but without independent verification, we're just guessing, […]
One from the archives – de Havilland Comet
Back from when aircraft were aircraft and photos were photos – complete with scratches, dust, noise and other associated lo-fi goodness – is this little gem from our archives of this de Havilland DH106 Comet. Lovely and from before we had colour too. Credit: Flightglobal
United's Boeing 787 takes to the skies
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The Wonderful World of (Very Expensive) Playhouses
Now that it's (more or less) getting warmer outside, the kids' cabin fever (and yours) is getting a little alleviation, and thank gosh. If you have a tree- or playhouse, now's the time to go in and sweep out all the winter leaves and mice and anything else that hibernates in those noninsulated outdoor spaces. […] [Read More]
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First saw these on Decor8, a fabulous design blog you should bookmark yesterday…seriously. They're made by Young & Battaglia for Mineheart. Evocative of childhood rocking horses, this lamp would look terrific on just about any side table. It's made in England by traditional wood turners and lampshade makers, and is available in a table model and […] [Read More]
Yes! Your Laundry-Room Makeover
I was thinking recently about that weird, damp dust-lint stuff that shows up on your washing machine and on the top of the dryer. It's like a detergenty soot, a softly sticky gum that gets all over the bottles and boxes of dryer sheets. It builds up around the rim of the washer, under that […] [Read More]
Duvet Dreams
I came across this design blog, DENY Designs, that's pretty alternative, and super neat. (Check out this interesting-but-probably-impossible 3-D screw-art portrait idea.) Duvets are funny things. They're one of those domestic necessities that totally stumped me when I was leaving college and Becoming A Woman. At first I couldn't believe how EXPENSIVE they were! How […] [Read More]
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You might think a white vase — indeed a white pottery/porcelain/ceramic anything — would be boring. You would be wrong, as is so clearly shown in these stunning numbers created by Frances Palmer. The clean, white lines create the perfect backdrop for bouquets of any color. Her vases are deliberately asymmetrical, which I just love. […] [Read More]
Where to Get Your Retro/Vintage Fix
My colleague Emily sent me a link to this extremely helpful blogpost at Apartment Therapy, which lists some good resources for people looking to begin, augment or browse a vintage- and retro-appliance collection. (There are also energy-efficient "retro" appliances that have the vintage aesthetic you want,as well as the updated technology, which, let's face it, […] [Read More]


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Scoop neck cami with cute pointelle knit detail. Made from extremely soft and slinky bamboo/cotton blend fabrication. Lovely dove grey colour. Small gold signature 'Deshabille' logo on the bottom left corner.
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Slim fit stretch cotton babyfleece track pants. Elasticated waistband with drawstring ties. Gold embroidered logo on front. Great for lounging around the house and keeping warm this winter.
A cute scoop neck tank top with low back styling. Black and cream stripy pattern with contrast cream trims. Made from soft and luxurious bamboo blend knitwear. Versatile wearability during day or night!.
Full length pyjama pants with a retro black and cream polka-dot print. Adjustable drawstring waistline. Red and pink stripy ribbon tie at the waist. Also available in a matching polka-dot night dress.
Light sweater knit top with 3/4 length sleeves. Soft and stretchy bamboo/rayon blend fabrication. Stylish wide scoop neckline and sexy low back styling. Lovely cream and black stripy pattern. Gold embroidered 'Deshabille' signature logo on the bottom left side. Made from luxuriously soft bamboo viscose blend knitwear Note: this yarn naturally stretches after wear, so we suggest ordering down a size if you are in between sizes. Yarn returns to original size after each gentle hand wash.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo first announced the creation of the North Country Regional Economic Development Council July 28 at SUNY Potsdam. On Dec. 8 in Albany, he announced that the North Country Council was to receive $103.2 million, the second highest of the 10 economic development councils in the state.
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From Behind the Bar: What Makes a Good Bar?
I drink an Old Fashioned at Clover Club in Brooklyn, and drink Coronas while eating $1 tacos on the porch at The Sire in Riverside, California. I love both places for very different reasons; the only thing they have in common is that they have successfully crossed the boundary that separates places that merely sell drinks from what can generally be termed a good bar. More