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Thu Oct 16, 2014, 7:17 PM
For anyone following me, I wanted to share my sentiments on the matter, I know that life is fast paced, and there is not much time to sit down and read, but I ask of you to for just one moment--
When I first made this account, I was hesitant, I didn't want anyone to think lesser of me for doing so, I was so afraid that by doing such a thing, I would be asking too much of people... I never thought that I would walk with people in my life who would stay by my side for lesser than a few scarce months...as what seemed to be the case. I was so excited always to meet new people, talk to co-workers, get involved in activities...but I was undesired and struggled to make any friendships. I was urged by a few people in our new group to start a page, I was still hesitant...afraid really. I had no concept of people, as I had had little contact, had no refined grace, and just didn't get it.
I still am afraid. This whole time.
I felt everyone would simply leave if I chose to show them any part of myself, as what was always the case when I tried with anyone else, finding no real way to connect. There were other reasons, there always are, but they were not the true motivator... the true motivator was that I had very little intellect, and perhaps had only one talent available to me that I was knowledgeable in and therefore could not hold a conversation. I had never been guided by a role model, I had never had any heroes, I had no inspiration in life, all I knew, was that I wanted to achieve more than what I had seen before me my entire life, I wanted to be better than the insane upbringing I had, I wanted to be like my peers, I had so little, no one to praise me, no one who cared for me truly...not really.
But I achieved that goal so quickly, and easily became lost, I couldn't afford any artschool, and even though everyone was impressed with my art, and gave me small scholarships, I couldn't shoulder the weight of tuition, housing, rent, traveling...with no help, on the paltry wage I had. No one was there to guide me, and there was so many people available who wanted to mislead me. I had no one to explain or help, I became so lost, and so many people took advantage of that. I reflect back on how many companies told me I needed full insurance for a car worth scant more than 600.00...or how necessary so many things in life where. I believed and had full trust and sincerity in everything, and everyone around me. I was a good person, so why would they be? I believed in who I was, I believed there was others like me out there....but---there wasn't.... I started to realize that just like everything else I had experienced, no one quite understood the life I've led, I felt ashamed of who I was consistently, being surpassed so easily by others, who had family, and people sourrounding them, something I didn't know how to relate to- most parents frightened me, as during my upbringing it was often times adults would sneer at me and turn me away from playing with most anyone--I simply wasn't good enough for their children to associate with.
I found that the most shameful moments of my life where when people would speak openly not but one room away about how pathetic my life was. They would laugh about it, and I could overhear them. It was apparently funny that my mother could not hold down a job beyond throwing newspapers every morning, and when they discovered these things about who I was, and where I came from, they would ridicule me when they thought I was out of earshot, but it seemed as if I always was...by some odd fate.
I tried.../everything/...
But in the end, everyone /always/ left... I just couldn't seem to interest much of anyone... I always felt this was my fault, that perhaps I was too eager to please, or make friends, I troubleshot everything, wondering what about me that was driving people away. I once lent out 180.00 dollars to someone (quite a chunk of change at that point in time) just to prove that there were people in the world who cared, who were willing to sacrifice. When I realized I had been taken advantage of, and that person was not willing to communicate with me any longer, I began to think that perhaps I just simply didn't have what it took to be worth it as an individual- I settled for less in just about everything, my job, my life, my passions, what little remained.
I had no foundation, no family, no praise...and it seemed everyone who did desire to be around me merely wanted me for some other means...whether it be financial, as I had a high wage job, or to manipulate me for a place to stay, no one realized or knew just how much adversity I had faced or how desperate I was to receive the kindness I gave. Even now it drives me to tears thinking about the hardest times of my life were those that I cared most for others, openly, with my heart on a sleeve.. No one was as interested or invested as I was in the relationships I thought I had, I was always the "option" not the priority, and people would always choose otherwise... If I opened up to them in the slightest, they would confront me with disbelief, or otherwise take advantage of the information I've given to get at things that I had gained in life, accomplishments I had achieved but didn't believe in. Each of these individual experiences were shocking, hurtful, and appalling every single time, and I was left to wonder why. I didn't believe that they were bad people, I believed that I simply was not enough for them to not hurt. That if perhaps I was a respected, or had enough of whatever it is that was desired, that for once, someone would just stay with me, a constant in my life. My relationships changed so quickly, but I kept trying, each time putting forth every effort to maintain and love, and I realize now just how much of myself I had wasted, and how much I wish I had never given.
When I was older, I reflected back on my upbringing, trying to think of a time that I felt cared for, that I felt that feeling that other people must associate with 'family'- I can think of many times, moments where I believed that someone cared for me, but just as many times that I was mistaken, hurt, and left behind.
Which is why leaving this account hurts so badly.
When I had the wedding, I was terrified, it had been a mistake, and I hadn't expected anyone to show, much less any of my friends, I had begun to realize that no matter what I did, I barely represented much to anyone else... I didn't have the impact I wanted to on others, I couldn't save the world, or change it... I could barely exist, and when I met my wife, it was the first time in my life I truly connected with another person on that level. I understand now that it was difficult to relate to me, that I truly had not been given much and life and therefore didn't offer much, but to this one person, I was their everything. They refused to let me go, even though I tried to leave, fearing a repeat performance like everything else.
For some reason, our meeting, who we were, and our interactions were of interest to the anime community- something i had barely been in contact with. I fully blame Masashi Kishimoto and his creation of Naruto, I fully believe that if it wasn't for Naruto, and if it wasn't for Sasuke, no one would have noticed us truly. Regardless of the reason, it did happen, and that day, at that wedding, I wondered, with that huge crowd that was amassed, if possibly this is what a real wedding would feel like, I swore on everything I knew of myself, that my heart could call each and every person in that crowd family...
When I made this account, a good deal of time later, I realized that this was the first time in my life that I felt valued as a person, but that I had so little to give I would be left behind no matter what...that it was only a matter of time before people would misunderstand me, or I would give too much of myself away, that people would find that discouraging, feel as though I perhaps make things up to receive attention, or worse, would call me a liar. As I began to continually post, I came into contact with many nay-sayers who had a great deal of things to say, and many situations that I was vulnerable to. I was weak to anyone I called family, which was a great many, I had given all of myself to so many people, thinking perhaps I was obligated to, since they had given me so much... even just giving a favorite, viewing the page, saying something nice, I felt... so devastated with the concept of how much I owed everyone simply for existing....and I was consistantly flustered and left in a cloud of emotions when people who I barely knew would say they cared for me, or were happy I existed...I wondered what was different from what I had done before...all my life...why was I so valuable now? I had done so little for all these people...yet they wanted to give so much to me.
Feeling in debt, and afraid to take advantage of anyone, I tried my best to live up to high ideals, to answer every message and commit to every person, because they had no idea how much they had given me, a family, a place to be, a moment in my life where I wasn't just someone who could be left behind.
But I was also so impacted by the people who had something bad to say...that I began to fear coming online. I was so heavily impacted, that I found the concept of how much people hated me, granted a great far cry less than those who expressed love, so meaningful, that I gave up, I gave up for months at a time, going back to the place that I had been before, where I wasn't worth notice, where nothing I did mattered.
My drive and ambition would die, I faced so much adversity, and there was still more to come, I still am so afraid of my future, worried I am so broken that I won't be able to be independant in time...and then I really will be worthless. Even though people thought I was good with words, I was never; they fed the belief for a short time, but I was never able to articulate it like this, how I truly felt, who I truly was, my fears...
Then came the day that I hit physical impairment...and I lost my livelihood, my job, and fell into a deep depression. The people who disliked me seemed to be endless, and I wondered what I must have done to hear the things they said---almost as if I was in another room, and a child all over again, as people laughed at my achievements, laughed away and got perverse satisfaction as I lost everything. Lost my hands, which as an artist is a huge obstacle, my job, and what felt like so much more mentally. I was losing my mind. I had never asked anything of anyone, once a fundraiser for a cat that was sick that wasn't even mine, but I tried my best to never take advantage of people who loved me, because it was such a rare quality. I never took it for granted.
Someone who I had once been friends with somehow leaked information on what I felt at the time to the wolves online, and shit really hit the fan. I was ridiculed for feeling suicidal, something that clearly is no laughing matter, as I felt very serious about the ordeal my heart was facing. People were asking for me to do it. They would feel so much better if I did. My injuries were questioned, not just online, but by my superiors, even though I faced such incredible pain and crippling inflammation, they insisted that it was an injury they were not liable for, and I was treated as sub human. However the information being leaked awashmed me with shame, and my pride whatever was left intact took such a huge blow. I once again felt I was no longer good enough as a person to be worthy anyone's time, anyone's love or effort. I truly felt Raven would leave me, that it was only a matter of time before she found out too.
I turned down various offers to be a guest, offers to attend events for free, get passes, all manner of financial gain, I just couldn't live with myself if I took from those who cared for me. I felt my independance would be put on trial, that I would be nothing more than a joke. A laughingstock if I took these routes. Then one day, out of no where, it dawned on me that I could take wig commissions.
The concept was frightening, but I felt as though I was a fool to reject the only financial draw that remained, that if I became good enough at it- perhaps I could survive long enough to live through the struggle I was in. Even my closest friends who were in the loop questioned the sincerity of my injury, and were simply not there for me when Raven was in the emergency room and my entire savings was purged in the interest of finding out what was wrong.
I never said anything online about this, something about just after the incident silenced me. I didn't reach out, because so many offers were pouring in already, I felt that if I cleanly expressed just how bad things were getting, that it would be difficult to explain and even harder to face disbelief. I only recently learned, that through all this, I had been working and living with a fractured elbow. Something from childhood, from neglect and abuse from my mother. It was misdiagnosed, and had a grave impact on how I functioned....but I never stopped or faltered, I simply pushed myself harder to keep up with those I felt admiration for. I had no idea just how bad off I was, and on some days, despite the pain, I almost seemingly felt euphoric in a good days work, it made me feel like perhaps I was worth it.
I just wanted to say here, I am so sorry that I did not allow all those who cared for me to truly care for me. I am so sorry that the derogatory insults a small group of people had, impacted me so heavily, that for months at a time I simply gave up. I'm sorry I didn't open up about it, and I am sorry that, until now, I couldn't be who I really was. I wanted to be someone worthwhile, and the person I truly am changed, working so diligently to be worth it to every person, and any person lost in the mix was so important, because at the time, everyone had equal value, no matter how little time they shared with me. Everyone's words, how they felt, what they said, it was simply too important to bear and I consistently hid... I truly had so little self worth...
I am very excited for how I have grown, who I have met, and now that I do not have anyone around me saying inappropriate things, who are comfortable with the core of who I am as a person, I've come to value myself. Tho it seems I am a bit late to the confidence party.
You being in my life, you as a person, if you commented, favorited, liked, or were involved with me, who I was, I thank you. Not just a small favorable word that is meant to express gratitude, but I truly thank you. I thank you for giving me faith that there are people in the world who can truly care for those they have barely known like me. That I wasn't alone in how I felt as well, that people out there are alone, and that I can still be there for them as well...how to open my heart again, and again, and again. I thank you for exposing me to so many wonderful things, and sharing with me so many stories. I thank you for asking me for advice, even if my experiences were too unique to possibly relate, even if I didn't know how to truly deal with your parents, or your extended family, or the death of a loved one, even if I couldn't hold you, or hug you, or tell you in person everything was going to be okay, even if I couldn't throw money at you, or fix you....I thank you. I thank you for talking to me about something you loved, so I could love it with you, or exposing me to experiences you didn't with anyone else...that you asked for me to keep confidential, I thank you for the honor, and the trust, I experienced with you, the love and devotion I experienced fullheartedly with you, I thank you for every time I cried with you (or in general because of you), and every time I was happy for you, overtime I celebrated your victories, and every time I mourned your loss.
I even find value in knowing that there are people out there who disliked me, because knowing how to defend myself, how to not make that a part of who I am...is such an important aspect of who I have learned to become. Even if your words were hurtful, even if you thought I was an undesirable person, I have learned from your hatred no longer to allow that sort of negativity to influence my happiness, to influence sharing with others what I do have control of, and that, despite being a most difficult and taxxing lesson, I find meaning in, because if I didn't.... then that part of my life would be so unproductive and that sacrifice I made, and that silence I lived, would mean nothing, and there is not anything worse in life than knowing that you truly, have wasted your time.
I thank every person who has ever commissioned me, you.....fed me....clothed me... -breaking down into tears....- you gave me so much, and even if you felt that it was merely a simple transaction... even if to you, it was just exchanging financial wealth for some minute talent....you taught me how to love that part of who I am. How to value it, how to believe it's desirable... you taught me not to destroy my Sora wig on the dance floor because it was not worth anything to me...you taught to carefully walk in my costumes and to store them away as if they were more important than just for fun. As if they had value to more than just a hobby, more than just something just about anyone could do...but something rare and worth your time. Worth the hours you work, the food you cannot buy, the recreation you cannot enjoy. To me, I stood a little straighter every day, lived a little more full every moment, to me that meant I was becoming someone that was worthwhile to others, I had finally, FINALLY started to believe that I truly wasn't just taking advantage of people. That I wasn't a terrible person who was not worthy of having someone leave, who wasn't worthy of respect, who was actually worthy of your life, your time, your existence- that people were actually happy with what they received in the mail, and they were actually grateful- that I wasn't just stealing.
Aughahhth the FellliNNNNGS are SOOO strong with this one.... -sighs- ... mgrmgr...hhh...
And I thank you, that even though this site is no longer something that I can find my own time for, even though this is no longer a tool I find of the same use, that I still remember it not with distaste, but with fondness for all the things I have gained, figuratively and mentally. I don't leave this feeling empty, I don't leave this feeling as though I've lost...I don't leave this thinking my following no longer cares for me, that I have once again been abandoned, that I am not capable of obtaining your presence in my life for longer than but a few scant years... more than anything I've ever dared to believe I was worth when I was young...
every single one of these favorites, and likes, and follows...and that's not just something that I say lightly. It may have taken years for me to believe you loved me, or to believe people were really there for me, but you all always were, and you all still live, never left, still remember me, always will.
No matter how many views or followers or popularity, it means nothing unless you own it, feel you are worth it...and work it meant nothing to me until I really believed that I wasn't going to abuse you somehow, that I wasn't just another person that was going to be left behind, I leave with the firm belief that I am UNFORGETTABLE. That if people leave my life, that is their loss and they best be gone for good unless they appreciate the value I place upon my time, and my effort and my real genuine love. I leave here as a completely different person than who I was when I joined....
I leave here whole.
Healed and loved.
This is a story of victory, one that I want to share with you all, one that I was so hesitant to speak out about, one that I only just recently learned how to articulate...
Because of you.
-Cyril U. Winter
If you still desire to follow me, thank you for the journey, and if you still want to travel the road with me, you are /always/ welcome to numbers mean very little to me, but the idea of someone staying with me, who has followed me for so long...that...that is irreplaceable. I will //not// remove or delete this site, it simply represents far too much to me...so you may come back and browse the works I have made in the past, and live those days with me, for everyone who wants to spend our future together, I value that, of course it's your choice, and your decision who you want to devote yout time to, but I thank you either way for reading this, for being here with this last part, where I wrap everything up with feelings I've never known how to express. If you don't wish to walk with me, know that I appreciate the time you chose to do so, no matter how short or long that was, for those of you who do, let's do this life together, I have very little time to express anything else right now, so I am sorry for the mess of links, I will likely come back, re-write this mess of feels, (I have so many tissues now....gross sobbing mess literally...gross ew..........I'm so so so sorry....I cannot even tell you how long this has all bee repressed...I really forced myself to write this....) perhaps, shorten it, so it's not so overwhelming to everyone, including myself, and get ready to go to the hospital to get a cat scan for this break, but in the meantime, for those of you who want to come with me:
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Wow, just wow. I am speechless.
I don't think i have word's to say, but i personally would love to continue to love you. To continue to watch you grow, even from Australia, to just be there with you & for you.
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It is Sunday Post time again and this week Jake has chosen the theme: Reflection.
It is Sunday Post time again and this week Jake has chosen the theme: Reflection.
Beautiful! Like fairy dust.
Thanks Anita. :)
Great image Jo i like your sun reflection shines to the ocean impressive ,Thanks for sharing :)
Thanks Jake…I liked how it turned out myself. :)
That is inspirational. Lovely!!
Thank you Angeline !!!!
OOH sparkly! I like!
I like sparkly too…hehehe ;)
Gorgeous! :)
Thank you :) :)
Aw, lovely! Just in time, when the summer is going away…….
And ours is coming…I actually spring cleaned on the last day of winter here…and it has done nothing but rain since. Might just leave the house dirty if that's what happens. :)
Fabulous, Jo.
Thank you !!!!!!
loved those sparkles :)
Thanks Joshi…rather partial to them myself. :)
Sparkles!! So pretty!
Aren't they !!!!!!!!
It sure looks like stars! And fairy dust as someone else said…
Glad you think so Sue…it was pretty to see for real.
ooowa pure magic, how did you do that then? i'm seriously jealous :-)
Nature did it Gilly. I just took the picture…though I did tilt it in Picasa and crop the photo. But that's all I did…oh and press the button. That place just keeps serving up beautiful moments like this to anyone who wants to take the time to look.
A million stars on the water surface :). Magic!
Thanks Paula. I thought so when I was sitting there watching them. It is one of the place I go to to find peace. :)
Nature is bountiful
She sure is and bountiful in her willingness to share it with us. :)
Like me huh Hook !!!!!!!
:) :)
I like you !!!!!!!!!!!!
Look at you with your 277,000 blog views, and then telling me I'm popular while your such a WordPress Celebrity. Can I get your autograph?
Hahahahahahahahaha…I can't stop laughing. You're sooooooo funny Rommel. :lol: :) :)
Still ROTFLMAO
Bwahahaha :D :D :D
I am still laughing…feel like one of your jellyfish about now. :lol:
Wow how did you get the water to sparkle like diamonds!!! Beautiful!
The water did that all by itself Nicole. All I did was tilt and crop the photo a little. The rest was all Mother Nature.
Wow, that is really unbelievable Jo. What a magnificent picture!
I put the original up in the comments because Madhu was not convinced it was all nature's doing…if you want o see it.
Very nice! I love it.
I must admit I am partial to this image myself. ;)
The first thought that came to mind was Peter Pan. such a magical photo. Nice work.
Thanks TBM…it made my day when I saw it.
Ooooh, I'm jealous. I wish I had taken that photo.
I am proud of it…and no tweaking at all other than cropping and tilting it. Those stars were just there on the surface. Isn't nature amazing?
Yep. Truly. I like the untouched photos best I think.
You sure have a point Isobel. I think they make you [the photographer] feel the best.
Like TBM my first thought was Peter Pan! :D This is such a cool picture, Jo! I love it that you captured it just like this. Momma Nature was definitely sending you a gift that day – so glad you had your camera out to catch it!! My "inner magpie" is going nuts at all the sparkles…lol.
I think there is actually a little of Peter in me. I never ever want o grow up an miss seeing life's sparkles.
Wow! That is the most amazing reflection of sunlight I have ever seen! Surely not as easy as you make it out to be :-)
Thanks Madhu. It was that easy really.
This is the original…all I did was just straighten the photo and crop it.
Wow! It WAS that easy! Only I would never have caught this in the first place. Thanks Jo :-)
Oh yes you would have. I've seen your photos remember…you'd have caught it all right. :)
Edited Freddie's post…with a Madhu mention for pointing me in the right direction ;)
It looks like sprinkles of fairy dust ready to create a sparkling day.
I love that you see it like that. It is fast becoming one of my favourite images. :)

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April 9, 2012
Vol.27, No.12
Leadership in Government: Remarks from Congressman Kevin McCarthy
LUNCHEON 11:30 a.m.; LECTURE 12:00 p.m.
LUNCHEON 11:30 a.m.; LECTURE 12:00 p.m.
Congressman Kevin McCarthy has represented the 22nd District of California since 2006 a district which spans Kern, San Luis Obispo and Los Angeles counties and has served as the Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives since 2010. He is committed to policies that give small businesses and entrepreneurs the confidence they need to hire, expand, invest and innovate.
McCarthys career is characterized by early success; he started a deli business before he was 21, became active with then-Congressman Bill Thomas while in college, and in 2002 was elected to represent the 32nd Assembly District in the California State Assembly, where he remained until winning a Congressional seat in 2006. McCarthys talk will explain how he advanced so quickly in his career: what has been important to his success, the lessons he has learned, and the various challenges and opportunities he has experienced along the way. McCarthys talk is jointly sponsored by the Rose Institute of State and Local Government and the Kravis Leadership Institute.


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Richard Yu, CEO of the Huawei consumer unit, plans to bring the company into the top three biggest mobile brands by the end of 2015
In an interview with The Telegraph, Yu speaks of the company's amibition to produce the best smartphone in the world and the weaknesses in other big names such as Apple and Samsung.
Huawei announced its new device, the Ascend P6 earlier this week, winning the title of the world's thinnest smartphone at just 6.18mm in thickness.
Speaking about rival Samsung, Yu states that the company has built its success on having the ability to spend large amounts of money on marketing and branding.
"If you invest in marketing and branding then people will always buy no matter how good the products are. The Samsung Galaxy S4 is just a so-so smartphone."
Yu goes on to say that Apple are slipping with downfalls such as its lack of a large-screen phone and that Huawei want to go higher than them.
The Ascend P6 which will run on a simplified version of Android with an Emotion UI on top for a different look, added microSD storage, IMAGESmart engine to help improve the environment for photos, and encased in an all-metal framework.
The Emotion UI is an addition Yu feels is necessary to the Google OS. During his interview with The Telegraph Yu states, "We want Android to be more user friendly, so we have made a lot of enhancements. Google is good for an engineer but it's not good for the consumer. It's a little bit too complicated."
Sir Charles Dunstone, CEO of Carphone Warehouse spoke out about Huawei's new device, "I think it'd be hard to displace Samsung and Apple. But with products like these priced like they are, I think Huawei has very credible aims," The Telegraph reports.
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There will be no tax increase in the City of St. Marys' 2012 budget. On Monday evening, St. Marys City Council approved to publish the 2012 budget, which includes the same millage rate as last year at 18.3.
City Manager Dave Greene explained the city will see a 42 percent increase in hospitalization for 2012. This will result in the city going from paying $600,000 in insurance premiums to just under $1 million.
ST. MARYS - The Elk-Cameron Board of Realtors recently gifted the Bodien family of Ridgway with various household goods to replace items destroyed in an Aug. 13 house fire at their Fremont Avenue home.
In addressing unfinished business matters, the Fox Township supervisors discussed the request from Jay Township to form a partnership in sharing a Code Enforcement Officer and Sewage Enforcement Officer. Jay supervisors noted they have three other proposals to review, but were awaiting Fox Twp.'s response.
The supervisors agreed to inform the Jay Twp. supervisors that they are not interested in the partnership at this time, but may revisit the topic in the future.
HERSHEY – The Elk County Catholic High School and St. Marys Area High School cross country teams each had a runner medal in the AA Girls' 5K race at the PIAA Finals in Hershey on Saturday. ECC's Kennedy Weisner finished second in a time of 18:52, while SMA's Adair Gennocro was third in 18:58. Angel Piccirillo, a senior at Home-Center, finished first in 18:31.
CLARION - The St. Marys Area Lady Dutch volleyball team competed in the District 9-AA volleyball championships at Clarion Area High School on Saturday.
The Lady Dutch finished tied for first place with a 2-1 record after pool play along with Bradford and Punxsutawney, necessitating a three-team playoff to decide the District 9-AA champ.


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Betty E. Ohler
Betty E. Ohler, age 77, of Scio, passed away Friday June 7, 2013, in Carrollton.
Born July 10, 1935, in Parkersburg, WV, she was a daughter of the late William and Virginia (Harper) Crousser.
Betty was a Carroll County resident for the past 35 years and was a member of Wesleyan Methodist Church in Robertsville.
She is survived by four daughters and a son-in-law, Sandra Ohler of Carrollton, Karan and Roland Ledford of Carrollton, Kathy Church of Canton, and Darlene Thomas of Sandy Valley; three sons and daughters-in-law, Charles and Pearl Ohler Jr. of Canton, Thomas Ohler of Florida, Jack and Tammy Ohler of Canton; 13 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Ohler in 1989; two brothers and four sisters.
Funeral services will be Tuesday June 11at 11 a.m. in Kreighbaum-Sanders Funeral Home, S. Cleveland Ave., Canton, with Terry Bailey officiating. Interment will be in Evergreen Memorial Gardens. Friends may call one hour before services Tuesday 10-11a.m. Condolences or fond memories may be shared online at www.sandersfuneralhomes.com.
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If you have ever had the experience of being blamed for something you weren't responsible for you can know what a terrible experience that can be. Anyone with a sibling knows exactly what I am talking about. Well if you have ever worked with a QuickBooks file where more than one individual uses the same username you probably have felt the same pain. Maybe someone changed a transaction in a prior year and nobody is coping to it. Well that is a scenario that is easily avoided.
QuickBooks provides you with three tools that help make it possible to know exactly who is responsible for what in your QuickBooks file.
- User name and passwords for each user not just each file.
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User names and passwords must be set up by the file administrator. This function can be found under the company drop down menu. Creating a username with a unique password for each person who may require access to the bookkeeping file will help you track who did what, when they did it, and who changed a transaction last. Once someone has moved on from your company don't delete their user or it will show as unknown user on the audit trail reports. Instead restrict or remove their access to the computer that sources the file.
Not all older versions of QuickBooks have audit trail that is automatically turned on and can't be turned off so in some versions you may need to go to Edit and Preferences to turn this feature on.
The audit trail report can be found under reports and Accountant Reports. The report can be narrowed to a specific transaction by using the report modification options that you use with all other QuickBooks reports.
At the end of the day these tools help not only determine who is responsible for what if there is a question within the office, but all can help with proving theft cases, audits and time tracking for bookkeeping staff. As a professional bookkeeping office we obviously utilize these features both to protect ourselves and the client. If your QuickBooks ProAdvisor, accountant or bookeeper doesn't currently utilizes these features maybe it is time to ask why not.
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NOTE: Due to poor weather conditions, the slalom will take place on Saturday morning with the opening runs at 9 a.m. Mountain Time. The Nordic Mass Start Freestyle will still start at 10 a.m. with the men's 20K race on Saturday.
SOLDIER HOLLOW, Utah --- The New Mexico Nordic Team got a great performance from freshman Eva Severrus, who finished third in the 5K Classical to earn First Team All-America honors, and three solid races from the men's team, but the squad slipped to fourth place after day two of the NCAA Championships.
Denver, which was tied with New Mexico after day one, catapulted themselves into the lead with a magnificent showing in the Classical, getting five All-American performances on the day to capture 169 points. New Mexico actually had the fourth-best Nordic day with 101 points, but it couldn't keep them in second. Despite that, UNM is in decent shape heading into the final two days, both of which feature the stronger of UNM's two disciplines; the slalom and the Mass Start Freestyle.
New Mexico has 231 points, just 8.5 behind third place Colorado and 17 from Utah. Denver has a commanding 51-point lead over second place and the midway point, and a 68-point advantage over UNM. New Mexico has a nice 44.5-point cushion over fifth place Vermont, and 100 over sixth-place Dartmouth.
For Severrus, finishing in the top three is getting to be old hat, as it's her fifth top-3 finish in a Classical race in a row. She picked up 34 points for UNM and became UNM's fifth All-American of the meet, and second First Team honoree (joining Armin Triendl in the giant slalom). Anni Nord, who usually is UNM's number two Nordic racer, is still bothered by an injury that forced her to miss her final race of the RMISA/West Region meet, and she finished an uncharacteristic 32nd on the day.
Andrea Lee, who has been picking up momentum during the season, did well in the race, finishing 21st and garnering 10 points.
The men's Nordic squad bunched their finish, with a ninth place showing by Aku Nikander, a 12th place finish from Aljaz Praznik, and a 15th place finish from Mats Resaland, giving UNM 57 points, fourth-most on the men's side.
For Praznik, it's his second straight top-10 finish in the discipline, and he became the sixth All-American of the meet for UNM, earning second team status.
While the Lobos are not in the best of spots for a national title, second is well within reach, and UNM still can't be counted out with its top two disciplines coming up. Friday will showcase the slalom, where UNM has the defending national champion in Joonas Rasanen. UNM's other alpiners for tomorrow are Armin Triendl, who finished second in the giant slalom on Wednesday, and Sean Horner, who finished seventh.
Triendl is coming off a seventh-place finish in the RMISA/West Region meet, and Horner has had four straight top 10s. On the women's side, Karoline Myklebust hasn't finished lower than sixth in a slalom this season, Mateja Robnik has five top-10s, and Courtney Altringer is coming off an All-American performance on Wednesday.
The slalom races can be watched here: http://www.ncaa.com/championship/liveplayer/player?gameId=442785&date=2014/03/07
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Posted by Anonymous on 10/29/2005
Do not let the velvet rope decieve you, this place is not what the reviews make it out to be. The service was poor- we waited 15 minutes for WATER. The food mediocre and overpriced. The only thing decent are the tagines. The atmosphere is nice at first but superficial.
Posted by Anonymous on 09/16/2005
I think I counted 38 seats, it's a small cozy place. My seared tuna was excellent, it was made just how I like it, and one of my companions who ordered it too, wanted it a little more well done, and hers was done just how she'd asked too. Also, try the mint moroccan hot tea, it comes in the little glasses and tastes delicious. The staff was very friendly, I look forward to going back.
Posted by Samantha on 07/22/2005
Barbes has a compelling atmosphere and decor, cozy yet exciting even on a sweltering evening. The green salad with vinaigrette I started with was subtle and the freshest it could be. The vegetarian couscous was light on the palette, although probably not the best choice here. My companions enjoyed their tuna and salmon far more. And the traditional Moroccan dessert was fantastic - a cross between a baklava and a crepe. For me, the best part of dining here was the birthday celebrations at neighboring tables. Instead of the ole standard, the waiters dimmed the lights, brought out candles, and turned up a Moroccan "Happy Birthday Song", which is far, far cooler than the US version. The whole room, a few curmudgeons excluded, was caught up in the well-wishing. One fellow sang along. After a decent interval, the dining area went back to normal. But it energized and relaxed us all. As for tipping, the last reviewer, author of "Gratitude" obviously isn't familiar with our ways in NYC. She should read her Fodors. With the paltry wage and lack of benefits that waiters receive, tipping here is near to mandatory, and 10% is stingy for any NYC restaurant. A 20% tip is what the nice wait staff deserved, and what they got.
Posted by Zeena on 07/18/2005
The food was wonderful. However, there was a small nitch that dampened our mood when it came to the bill. All the waiters (2-3) were attentive, my companions and I gave a little over 10% of the charge in gratitude as we thought it was totally unnecessary to be served by three people on a slow Sunday evening. What really alarmed us was when the waiter proposed that if we loved the service so much, a decent gratitude would be 18-20% of the bill! I know waiters do not earn much but my understanding is that gratitude is not mandatory in NYC, but rather a mutual understanding between the parties for courteously rendered services. We got the impression that waiter was terribly upset and in return we were completely turned off -- there goes inviting our other friends... what a shame on the loss for Barbes!
Posted by Rebs on 06/19/2005
We went with a party of 7. Most people really liked their meals. A couple people thought their meals were just so-so. Don't order soft drinks. They charge $4 for a mini coke. Atmosphere was very nice.
Posted by Anonymous on 06/06/2005
It was such a surprise to come across Barbes and see what a great little restaurant this is. Great atmosphere, amazing food and friendly service. Just a relaxing, romantic place to go with a date for interesting drinks and creative food. Love this place and will be back often.
Posted by Anonymous on 05/01/2005
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As part of our celebration of what is typical in Constanza (and the Dominican Republic), we feature an interpretation of a Japanese garden.
A small, tear-shaped area contains a representation of sea and islands. Created using black pebbles (the sea), rocks (the islands) and small while pebbles (waves tumbling on the island shores), this small ornamental garden took one person 3 days in a crouched position to place each pebble (and twice that time for his knees to recover!).
As the pebbles represent water, the garden is not intended to contain any real water.
The Japanese garden is a tribute to the contribution made by the significant Japanese community in Dominicana, especially those of the local Colonia Japonesa, near Constanza.
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"This is a great dish that is quick and easy and reheats well. Mild green chiles are filled with cheese, and wrapped in tortillas, then baked with a creamy enchilada sauce."
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3 (4 ounce) cans
mild whole green chiles, drained
2 cups
shredded Pepper Jack cheese
9 (8 inch)
flour tortillas
1 (19 ounce) can
enchilada sauce
1 cup
sour cream
chopped fresh cilantro
This recipe calls for 12 ounces of canned whole green chiles. I only found the chiles in 7 oz. cans, so I used two (14 oz. total). It wasn't enough. Next time I will use at least four cans. These were easy and very tasty. I think plain monterey jack cheese would work fine.
It really wasnt that quick to make. I would suggest putting some enchilada sauce inside the tortilla with the pepper and cheese, as well as pouring it on top of the whole dish itself.
21 Ratings
I used fresh chiles (not canned) but recipe still worked great. I would leave in the oven longer to get the fresh chiles softer. I also added an extra can of chopped green chiles to the sauce and it was very good that way.
I would consider these more of a cheese enchilada than a chiles rellenos. They are however good. I used the 10 minutes enchilada sauce recipe from this sit that I added low fat sour cream too. I also used 50% low fat pepper jack to cut back on some of the calories and low fat tortillas. You never would have known it was a lot fat dish. Very easy to make and very tasty.
I made this recipe and it is great. I only had a 10 oz can of red enchilada sauce so mixed it with a 10 oz can of green sauce. It reheats well which is good as there are only two of us and it makes a lot! Will certainly make this one again, a good company recipe too. C Hope
These were so good! I never thought about putting a whole green chile inside of my enchiladas. I used fresh green chiles, charred them over an open flame, peeled, removed seeds and veins. I also added some shredded beef I had leftover from another recipe on this site. I just melted cheese over top of the enchiladas while baking and left the sour cream and salsa to be added on the side.
Made this recipe for my co-worker's birthday. My family wanted me to leave it home for them as they were my taste testers. Delicious! I guess I am going to be making it again tonigth for my family. The only change I made was to add some ground beef cooked with onions and chile powder.
I made this thought its was rally good I added string cheese with the pepper Jack my tortillas were kinda big so I also added extra fresh peppers that I broiled and pealed I did not have red enchilada sauce so I used a jar of green chile salsa I added chopped onions. After I cooked them I toped with sour cream. If your tortillas are a little stiff I put them in the microwave for 13 seconds before you add any of the peppers, that way they rolled up nice. If your are a chile rellenos fan you will love this reciepe!
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There are a bunch of handy damage control diet strategies that you should employ to best prevent yourself from overdoing it at the dinner table this holiday season. Use the tips below to allow yourself to stay social and to be able to indulge in moderation without splitting your pants before the New Year:
1.) Perform High-Intensity Activity Before and/or After a Big Meal or Holiday Feast
I know, I know. I promised diet strategies, but I simply cannot go without recommending some activity. Your body is most receptive to higher calorie and/or carbohydrate meals within 30 minutes before and within three hours following high-intensity activity. Ideally you would want to workout out before AND after a big meal, but if you can only do one, that will suffice. It is less important when you do it and more important that you do it. Your best options will be 20-40 minutes of circuit resistance training or cardio interval training. Even a 20-30 plus minute walk a few hours afterwards can serve as a bit of damage.
2.) Do NOT Fast in Preparation for a Big Meal or Holiday Feast
Fasting in preparation for a free meal will not only lead to overeating, but worse: overeating foods that are extremely high in sugar, fat, or both! Your body is a survival mechanism. If it hasnât had food in a while it anticipates a famine state. This means that the next time that you eat your body will use as much of the incoming food as possible to store as body fat (survival energy) in anticipation that it wonât see food again for another long period of time. Do yourself and your body a favor by eating every two to four hours as you normally should to prevent yourself from becoming a ravenous, fat-storing beast this holiday season!
3.) Do NOT Gorge Yourself
Eat until the point of satisfaction, not discomfort. Remember this: binge eating is not the habit of lean individuals. It is imperative to understand that that holiday meals are not a ticket to eat as much as you can in as little time as possible. However, listen to your body and make sure to enjoy the foods you are craving in moderation and only eat when you are hungry.
4.) Eat a High-Fiber, Protein-Rich Meal An Hour Before a Holiday Event
A meal high in fiber and protein before a big holiday meal will help prevent overeating by making you feel more full which in turn means less calories consumed during the ensuing feast. My favorite strategy is to drink a protein shake with added fiber and healthy fats (e.g. 2-4 Tbsp. flax meal) and 1 liter of water before such a meal to help keep me nice and full upon arrival. This way you wonât lose any friends by eating their entire dinner platter and youâll save your midsection from a fluffier existence!
5.) Eat Leans Proteins and Fruits and Vegetables FIRST
Just because itâs a holiday meal doesnât mean you canât eat any nutritious food. Make sure to load up on healthier food choices first and try to eat as much lean meat, fish, and fruits and veggies as possible at the start of each holiday event. This will leave less room for the unhealthier, higher calorie treats. At least this way you know your body is getting in some good nutrition and you are not putting yourself at excessive risk for sickness and/or other health concerns.
6.) Drink, Drink, Drink Water!
Water competes for space in your stomach and truly helps decrease appetite. For every plate you eat, try to drink at least 1-2 glasses of water. After that second plate, when you have 1 full liter of water in your stomach, I bet you might just throw in the towel!
7.) Do NOT Eat Again Until Hungry Following a Large Meal
Now I know I already told you to eat every 2-4 hours, but there is one exception to this. If you eat a huge meal, it is important not to eat again until you are hungry and/or no longer full. If your body is not used to eating such a big meal, then it will take a much longer time to digest all that food and the worst thing you can do is put more food into an already full stomach, unless you goal is to do the stop, drop, and roll drill. Only when you are hungry again should you resume your normal eating plan following a big holiday meal.
8.) Immediately Resume Your Normal Eating Schedule at the Next Meal
Whatâs done is done. Now it is time to get back to your regular eating plan. Remember weekly caloric intake is far more important than daily caloric intake. For example, letâs say that you need 3,000 calories per day to maintain your current body weight. Well, all that you need to do is make sure the average daily caloric intake each week is 3,000 calories per day. This means that you can fluctuate your daily caloric intake and yield the same results as if you ate that same amount each day. So if you have one day of big eating where you eat 9,000 calories (just an example, not a recommendation), but you only eat 2,000 calories per day the rest of the week, you will still end up at the same caloric balance. Again, I am not recommending that you eat in such an extreme manner; rather I am suggesting that you do not have to obsess about being perfect. Enjoy some indulging in moderation at your various holiday festivities knowing that the week in review trumps a day in review, even when you are particularly naughty on any given day.
9.) Never Eat Junk Food for Breakfast or Before Bed
Eating a highly refined carbohydrate meal first thing in the morning will make your blood sugar levels go crazy for the rest of the day resulting in greater junk food cravings and uncontrollable hunger. On the other hand, eating a big meal before bed will result in a bunch of unused energy that will be stored as body fat and you very well may have trouble sleeping with all of that extra food volume in your stomach!
10.) Control your Portions
Try to eat only half of all the servings of unhealthy food that you choose. Half of the portions equal half the calories!
11.) Avoid Empty Liquid Calories and Alcohol
One can easily consume over 1,000 calories per day from liquid calories alone. This means that in one week, you will gain 2 lbs of body fat from just fluids! Opt for regular solid food calories versus empty liquid calories (e.g. juices and soft drinks), for at least the food will fill you up and provide some nutrition where as liquid calories, particularly alcohol, have no such effect.
Rather, sugary and/or alcoholic drinks tend to make you hungrier in general and often hungrier for junk food in particular. Furthermore, your body cannot burn fat until the alcohol is processed out of your body in addition to the fact that alcohol consumption actually lowers leptin levels thus defeating one of the main purposes of this flexible eating (decreased leptin levels increase hunger and decreases your bodyâs use of fat for fuel). Thus over-consumption of alcohol can prevent the fat burning process from resuming until several days later and/or even cause unwanted fat gain and thus set you back as little as a few days to as long as a full week!
12.) Use Lower Calorie/Carbohydrate Substitutes Whenever Possible
Instead of using sugar, opt for zero calorie alternatives like splenda or stevia. They can deliver a similar taste without all of the extra sugar and calories. Even try replacing yeast with protein powder when you bake. The extra protein and reduced carbohydrates will result in a slimmer you while still providing some great tasting treats! Your goal should be to find the minimal amount of calories that can provide the same great taste that makes the holiday treats enjoyable rather than simply overdoing it because you can!
13.) Avoid Eating Meals that are High in Both Fat and Carbohydrates
The absolute worst thing that you can do is to eat a meal that is high in both fat and carbs. The high amount of carbs will lead to a rapid increase in blood sugar levels and thus large increases in the potent fat-storing hormone Insulin. The high amount of fat will lead to a large increase in free fatty acids in your bloodstream. Since Insulin is already present in large amounts, in addition to there being a large amount of free fatty acids now available in your blood, the stage is set for all those free fatty acids to be gobbled up and stored by your fat cells. This is the equivalent of becoming the next Goodyear blimp, so it is imperative to use caution at your holiday meals when it comes to combining fat (particularly saturated and trans fats) and carbs (particularly starches and refined sugars). In general, it is best to choose one over the other. But since most people crave carbs at their free meals, it is essential to keep the fat low at this meal. Want pasta? Instead of alfredo sauce, opt for marinara sauce with whole grain pasta. Want pizza? Make your own pizza with whole grain crust and low fat-cheese. Want mashed potatoes? Well then be sure to skip the gravy and go easy on the butter. These small changes can literally save you hundreds, even thousands of calories, and more importantly will prevent your holiday feasts from creating the optimal fat-storing environment that will set you back from achieving your health and fitness goals.
Let me know if you have any strategies that have worked for you during the holidays!
Happy Holidays!
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- We found that the experimental results on transverse mass spectra of kaons produced in central Pb+Pb (Au+Au) interactions show an anomalous dependence on the collision energy. The inverse slopes of the spectra increase with energy in the low (AGS) and high (RHIC) energy domains, whereas they are constant in the intermediate (SPS) energy range. We argue that this anomaly is probably caused by a modification of the equation of state in the transition region between confined and deconfined matter. This observation may be considered as a new signal, in addition to the previously reported anomalies in the pion and strangeness production, of the onset of deconfinement located in the low SPS energy domain.


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For me this the best music app.
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no excuse better than stock music player , try this one if u affraid for full version
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A powerful audio player, supports multiple formats, downloads missing album art, and much more.
Poweramp is a powerful music player for Android. Follow us on twitter @PowerampAPP to get instant updates on app development progress, feature spotlight, theme sharing, take part in giveaways and even chances for free copies of Poweramp.
Please check Common Questions/Answers below in the description.
Key Features:
- plays mp3, mp4/m4a (incl. alac), ogg, wma*, flac, wav, ape, wv, tta, mpc, aiff (* some wma pro files may require NEON support)
- 10 band optimized graphical equalizer for all supported formats, presets, custom presets
- separate powerful Bass and Treble adjustment
- stereo eXpansion, mono mixing, balance
- crossfade
- gapless
- replay gain
- plays songs from folders and from own library
- dynamic queue
- lyrics support, including lyrics search via musiXmatch plugin
- embed and standalone .cue files support
- support for m3u, m3u8, pls, wpl playlists
- OpenGL based cover art animation
- downloads missing album art
- custom visual themes, lot of skins available on Play
- 4 widget types with many selectable styles, advanced customization; Android 4.2 lock screen widgets
- configurable lock screen
- headset support, automatic Resume on headset and/or BT connection (can be disabled in settings)
- scrobbling
- tag editor
- fast library scan
- high level of customization via settings
This version is 15 days full featured Trial. See Related Apps for Poweramp Full Version Unlocker or use Buy option in Poweramp settings to buy Full Version.
Common Questions/Answers for Poweramp v2.x:
Q. My songs are missing from folders/library.
A. Please ensure you have all your folders with music actually checked in Poweramp Settings => Folders and Library => Music Folders.
Your original Android Library is not changed, nor any files deleted.
Poweramp library is a separate, completely independent library. When you installed Poweramp 2.0, it just got filled with the files scanned from your sd card/other flash memory, as specified in Music Folders.
Q. Volume too low. Volume changes weirdly. Other volume issues.
A. Try to disable Direct Volume Control in Poweramp Settings => Audio => Advanced Tweaks.
Poweramp 2.x uses Direct Volume Control by default on 2.3+ mid-to-high end devices. On stock ROMs this produces much better audio output. But many custom/buggy ROMs, while supporting DVC, can fail with it.


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Archive for the 'bots' Category
JBotSim Library
JBotSim is a simulation library for prototyping distributed algorithms in dynamic networks. The style of programming in JBotSim is event-driven: your algorithms are defined as subroutines to be executed when some particular events occur (e.g. ring of an alarm clock, appearance/disappearance of a link, arrival of a message, movement of the underlying node, etc.). Movements of the nodes can be either controlled by the algorithm itself (e.g. mobile robots), by an independent algorithm (e.g. mobility model), or by means of mouse-based interactions during the execution. Besides its features, the main asset of JBotSim is its simplicity of use. ( read more The JBotSim Library )
More information:
JBotSim Library at Source Forge
Buddhabot converts to Christianity
This story was too rich to leave be, Buddhabot has been converted to Christianity at the hands of his developer. Keeping with current church traditions Godsbot requires a $10 tithe while Buddhabot is still free. I expect it won't be long before Satan follows suit and develops his own line of chatbots.
Today, an AI software program known as godsbot was announced by inventor Ron Ingram. "godsbot", says Ingram, "was activated Christmas day and announced today, Epiphany, for the purpose of bringing peace on the world-wide-web and goodwill to all beings."
"godsbot is a personable and engaging friend accessible to anyone with an Internet connection," says Ingram.
The technology is deemed family-friendly and is designed to educate and entertain. According to Ingram godsbot is capable of entertaining children for hours at a time. "If you are looking for an inexpensive and educational way to keep the kids entertained then this is it," says Ingram.
Powered by open source artificial intelligence technology, Ingram says godsbot is capable of simulating intelligent conversation with adults as well as children. According to the inventor, godsbot is equipped to answer and discuss basic questions about philosophy, science and religion. godsbot not only is interactive but learns and remembers information like names, birthdays and favorite movies about individual subscribers. [ read more Got godsbot?]
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Spam bots advance to stealing web 2.0 identitities
Porn is, as always, leading the internet in new techniques, not just video now, but dataming as well. A porn company in Canada, SlickPay aka Istra Holdings sent out bots to collect information about Facebook users and then sent them porn spam. Facebook is claiming identities were stolen from it.
So is it identity theft if a bot steals your data from a company? What if that bot starts impersonating you online? Can one computer steal from another? And is your online id and the data that goes with it yours, the company who collects the data's, or not anyones? Not much of interest technology wise here but it brings up lots of interesting legal issues.
The issue of data security on the worldwide web has reared its ugly head yet again. Yet another lawsuit has been filed against another errant company trying to device innovative ways of luring traffic to its website. This time its Facebook, the popular social networking website that has sued Istra Holdings, a Canadian company, and 17 other persons for creating bots that stole personal data of Facebook users. Bots, by the way, are software applications in which an automated script fetches, analyses and files information from web servers at many times the speed of man (Thank you Wiki!).
[read more Who stole my identity?]
Facebooks disabled my account – Scobleizer
Phishing kits take advantage of novice fraudsters
Are swarms chaotic and why should you care?
The zoologist and his colleagues discovered that when a swarm contains between 25 and 74 locusts per square metre, the locusts are almost always aligned but exhibit rapid and spontaneous changes in direction. There were almost no directional changes above that range of densities. [read more Sychronising the swarm]
So what does this mean for software and robotic swarms? Are there densities of particles in the swarm that will drastically change the behavior? Are swarm systems chaotic and if so what does that mean for designers of swarms? Many of the same simple rules we are using to program our swarms are based on insect swarms. So it isn't a far reach to think that perhaps some of the odder previously thought to be unexplained behavior of insect swarms may show up in our software and our robot swarms at specific densities.
Swarms are being used in more real world applications. What happens if the swarm balancing network traffic on your server all aligns and sends all the traffic to one machine? Or more troubling what happens when US Military swarm based robots suddenly evolve new unexpected behaviors?
This is clearly an area that needs serious research in the very near future.
All is not bad, we can also use studies like this to predict crowd behavior in crowded situations using swarm models. Knowing at what crowd density the behavior changes can help us better design buildings and infrastructure preventing tragedies like the Rhode Island night club fire a few years back.
More information:
Boids ( Flocks, Herds and Schools: a Distributed Behavior Model )
The Application of Computational Models for the Simulation of Large-Scale Evacuations following Infrastructure Failures and Terrorists Events
Swarm-bots project
Why Locusts Abandon a Solitary Life for the Swarm
CyberLover swindles the willing
Well this was just a matter of time. Many chat bots have been trolling the internet doing a very good job of passing themselves off as humans. The easiest way to do this is of course to find a willing victim. CyberLover does just that.
CyberLover is fast and loose establishing up to 10 relationships every half hour. CyberLover then extracts personal information from the unwitting but willing victim.
Some of the best computer hacks done have been through social engineering rather than with clever code. This brings the best of both worlds together.
Right now CyberLover has been targeting Russians almost exclusively, the rest of the world is expected to be targeted in time for Valentine's Day.


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The Bradenton Times Events
Beerfest Mardi Gras
Date: February 2, 2013Time: 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Old Main Street
Bradenton, FL 34205
Can't make it too New Orleans for Mardi Gras? Don't worry, it's coming to you! Beerfest returns to downtown Bradenton on Saturday and this year's theme is Mardis Gras! More than 80 beers from over 40 breweries will be on hand to sample, as well as Cajun and Creole-themed foods prepared by the best of the Tampa Bay area.
Beers from Sweetwater Brewing Company, Goose Island, Cigar City and other local and regional craft beers will be available, as well as gumbo, jambalya, crawfish etouffee and other New Orleans favorites on 10 food trucks. Music will be provided by the Gumbo Boogie Band. Tickets are $30 ($25 in advance) for beer tasting, and $10 for food tastings.
A special VIP ticket is available for $50, which includes a 1-hr pre-event tasting and food at the Lost Kangaroo Pub. Proceeds will benefit No Kill Manatee. More information is available at www.CraftBeerExpo.org.


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Posted by ChristopherGirl on 03/06/2005
Don't come here if you don't want to wait. The wait is the best part though, because the crowd is fun, and I always end up meeting interesting people. By the time you are seated, any food will taste good.
Posted by UES who loves LES on 01/03/2005
This is a great restaurant to visit when you want a fun night out. It's not for just eating. If you are looking for food, and you are hungry, have a snack b/4 you go... b/c after 7pm, there is a wait... But the drinks and the bartenders make it worth while. I always meet interesting people at the bar, while we all joke about the wait.... and then you sit. And the food is really good for the price. It's very well priced. I love the experience, but it is that, an experience... better for friends, than for couples... ** Side note, don't be thrown off when you walk in the bathroom, there are unisex sinks, so will see men and women washing their hands... stalls are separated...
Posted by Anonymous on 10/04/2004
I've worked in the restaurant business for many years and never had I been in a more unprofessional place in my entire life. We were there for over 2 hours when they told us it would be a 45 minute wait. We asked the hostess several times about our table since parties that were bigger then us were sitting and FINISHING before we were seated. When we sat, I don't think that I'd ever had a faster meal. The waitress was so confused and the kitchen is a factory just cranking blah food. Mussels were overcooked and so salty. Same goes for the calamari. Definitely nothing to wait around for. If I didn't have to stay because it was a friends birthday, I would have been out of there much sooner. This place is NOT Balthazar and really needs to get over itself.
Posted by ML on 07/29/2004
Good food and good service. I think it's a great place to have dinner with friends because of its relaxing atmosphere.
Posted by Anonymous on 06/06/2004
Great place to go for good food and great atmosphere when on a budget. A+
Posted by mm on 04/20/2004
This place is somewhere you can drink with friendly people, served by amazing bartenders, eat a truly delicious meal for a very inexpensive price, and sit back and enjoy the eclectic atmosphere. It is a place that easily can become your "regular" hangout. This is a rare thing in the nyc restaurant scene. During the day, the windows are all open wide. You can relax, even with children, while the cool breeze wafts inside. Try it!
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The chicken actually tasted of something. The steak frites was fantastic. The 1/2 carafe was a little smaller than normal. The espresso was perfect.


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'Relishing' the holidays after Relish Cooking Show and Expo
CORPUS CHRISTI - One of the particular delights of the Christmas season is the amazing food that is an integral part of all of the parties and family meals that punctuate the holidays. I had the pleasure of attending the Relish Cooking Show and Expo on Dec. 11 at the Congressman Solomon P. Ortiz International Center, where I was inspired by chef Christopher Koetke and his team to do some fun things in the kitchen.
I went early so I could stop by the VIP party that kicked off the event and meet the chef. He said this show in Corpus Christi was his last of the tour, so he was excited to finish off with a bang. Die hard foodie Sami Cameronalso was at the party, and she and I had fun talking about food fun. This resulted in Sami sharing her famous rémoulade sauce recipe with me, but I am bound to secrecy so don't even ask!
Lisa De La Fuentewas also there, with her adorable son in her lap. They both were enjoying all of the delish hors d'ouvres that were circling the room.
"I'm excited to see what they cook up!" she told me. Charles Doraine and Claudia Lobelland I then found ourselves chatting near the bar, and before too long it was time to head to the main event for the show to begin.
This was definitely one party my family was glad I attended because between the fun ideas and the cookbook I brought home from the event, there's been lots of good eats around our house lately to spice up the season.
Hispanic Chamber ANNOUNCES Award Recipients
The Corpus Christi Hispanic Chamber of Commerce's ¡Nuestro Exito! Annual Gala and Awards Ceremony will be at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 24 at the Congressman Solomon P. Ortiz International Center. The event will feature a Noche de la Cultural del Arte silent auction, dinner and awards ceremony.
The evening's featured speaker will be J.R. Gonzales, president of the National Hispanic Professional Organization and founder and president of JRG Communications. Gonzales' knowledge and expertise in analyzing Hispanic markets and trends have earned him local and national recognition as a leading authority on reaching Hispanic markets and his extensive experience in running local, state and national organizations have given him a unique perspective on the growing Hispanic market.
The event also provides the Hispanic Chamber with an opportunity to honor community and business leaders from within its membership that have demonstrated outstanding success in 2012.
The recipients include:
Business Person of the Year: Priscilla Boren, D&P Photography
Chairman's Award: Mark Avelar
Community Advocate of the Year: Omar Lopez
Corporation of the Year: H-E-B
Dora Cervera Mirabal Women's Leadership Award: Nelda Martinez
Embajador of the Year: Hilda Lamas Garcia, Latin Soul Entertainment/Outside the Box
Green Business Award: Clean City Committee
Nuestra Culturas Award: Downtown Management District
Small Business of the Year: Gold Master Jewelers
Information/sponsorships: Amanda Elizondo at 887-7408 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Tour of Homes, Island Style
The Port Aransas Garden Club will host its 25th annual Tour of Homes on Mustang Island on Jan. 26. The tour originates from the Port Aransas Community Center. This year's tour of historical and architecturally significant homes include cozy old and new cottages, a remodeled older island home, spectacular beachfront homes and new construction.
Morning bus tours will be available at 9a.m. and 11 a.m. Self-guided tours are offered between 1 and 5 p.m. The self-guided ticket tour maps will be provided at the Community Center. Bus tours and self-guided tickets can be purchased at Island Art Gallery, Gratitude, and Susan Castor Collection in Port Aransas and in Corpus Christi.
Tickets, refreshments, and silent auction items will be available at the Community Center during tour hours starting at 8:30 a.m.
Port Aransas Garden Club formed in 1964 to encourage interest in beautification of the city. Proceeds from club activities are used for landscaping, various civic projects and scholarships for Port Aransas High School seniors.
Cost: $20/ bus tours; $15/self guided tours. Information: www.PortAransasGardenClub.org or 361-834-4031.
Sembradores celebrate with Christmas Social
Members of Sembradores de Corpus Christi celebrated their seventh Christmas Social at the Yacht Club where they presented $10,000 to Del Mar College, $10,000 to Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, $5,000 to Texas A&M University-Kingsville and $2,000 to the Corpus Christi Ballet. Three special guests representing their respective schools attended the gathering: Mary McQueen, Del Mar College; Kimberly McNierney, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Leonides G. Bazar, Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
The club raised the $27,000 in donations through its annual Fall Style Show. The fundraiser is coordinated with the voluntary support of a local fashion establishment that provides the show's clothing. The club, which supplies the models, credits the show's success to those who attend each year.
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Each representative or salesperson of any wholesaler licensee in this state must obtain a permit from the commission before soliciting orders from retail licensees. No other person shall be allowed to solicit orders for alcoholic beverages from retail licensees, and retail licensees shall not give an order to anyone other than the holder of a wholesale salesperson's permit. The wholesaler's representative permit must be on the person of such employee or upon the premises of the licensee at all times, subject to inspection by the commission or its duly authorized agent.
No wholesaler employer shall employ in the sale or distribution of alcoholic beverages, any person, who within ten (10) years prior to the date of employment, shall have been convicted of a felony involving moral turpitude, and in case an employee should be so convicted, the employee shall immediately be discharged; provided, however, that this provision shall not be applied to any person who has been so convicted, but whose rights of citizenship have been restored, or judgment of infamy has been removed by the court of competent jurisdiction.
The cost to obtain an off-premise permit card is $20.00 and it is good for 5 years from the date it was issued.


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The intersection where the new guardrail will be installed. (Lee Talbert/Johnson City Press)
About one week after a woman charged with drunken driving veered off Hamilton Street and crashed into a home, Johnson City's Public Works Department Director Phil Pindzola said guardrails will be installed at and near the residence in an effort to improve safety at the site.
On Thursday, an 8-month-old child's life was narrowly spared when a vehicle driven by Jonesborough resident Jessica A. Myers, 21, crashed into a family's bedroom at 510 Hamilton St. Myers had been drinking and hit a curb twice before her green 2007 Chevrolet HHR left the roadway, went over the sidewalk and crashed into the left side of the home, according to a police report.
Property owners Debi Posadas, who is the mother of Shaunda Swartz who lives in the house with her family, and Ronnie Peters said they now fear the house will need to be torn down. Posadas said city officials ignored requests for a guardrail prior to the incident.
The home is positioned at the crux of a curb on the newly added stretch of University Parkway connecting West State of Franklin Road to West Market Street. Posadas and Swartz said they are disappointed that something had to happen before action on putting up a guardrail is possibly or finally taken seriously.
"I'm not sure I've seen a work order on that," Pindzola said Tuesday. "I'm not refuting that they called. Nevertheless, we are putting up a guardrail in the wake of the issue that arose there. The way it was designed did not meet the criteria for a guardrail. I don't know the exact dimensions, but it will tie to their driveway, wrap around the corner and continue for about 50 feet."
Before she was taken to Johnson City Medical Center, Myers was trapped inside the vehicle with an incapacitating injury and had to be extricated, according to the report.
Swartz and her young son, Daniel, were inside the home when Myers' car barreled into the home, knocking it off its foundation. The child was thrown across a bedroom and into a dresser. Swartz said she had placed him on her bed to feed him 20 minutes prior to the crash instead of leaving him in his crib.
Her husband, Garrick Swartz, was watching a movie in the living room. But other than a knot on Daniel's head, no one inside the home suffered serious injuries.


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Gas Prices Down Seven Cents
By Jessie Wang
Both the wallets and the gas tanks of Austinites might be a little more full this weekend. Gas prices are down by more than seven cents since last Friday.
A gallon of regular unleaded is now selling for an average of $3.521 in Austin, according to AAA. The national average is $3.606 a gallon.
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The problem with laptop and cell phone screens is that in direct sunlight, they don't show images very well. Actually, this was the case until a short time ago. Now the screens can get bright enough to be seen under most bright conditions.
Unfortunately that wonderful feature comes at a hefty price. A brighter screen sucks the juice out of your battery very quickly. Samsung has developed a new screen that will detect the amount of light in the area and automatically adjust the screen's brightness accordingly.
The screen measures 2.1" which is perfect for a cell phone. These should begin production sometime in the second half of the year.
Samsung Mobile LCD screens with automatic brightness adjustment [via akihabaranews]
Everyone, and I do mean everyone that has owned a CD has come to the sad realization that one of their favorite or most important disks has somehow gotten scratched enough to hinder playback. So what do you do about it? Most people will either give up and throw it out, or use one of those devices that attempt to buff out the scratches. But if that fails, what do you do?
It would seem today is a video day for me, I rarely post any videos but today I found two that I just couldn't resist writing up. This one features a man in the UK playing the violin. It seems normal enough and even a little dull, however, the guy owns one bad ass violin. You have to take a gander at this one. I apologize in advance; it would seem the camera man has ADD as the cameraman apparently has a wandering eye.
I think a book light is probably the dorkiest gadget ever. I mean what self-respecting person would be seen with one?! Okay, so I own one. What? I like to read at night once everyone has gone to sleep. When I was much younger I had a night light and I would curl up in the floor to read by it. Yes I am a dork.


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Maharashtra MAHA TET Answer Key 2013 Download
Maharashtra State Council of Examination(MSCE) has been successfully conducted the Maharashtra State Teacher Eligibility Test (MAHATET) on Sunday 15th December, 2013 at various examination centres in the state of Maharashtra. This year around 6 lakh of candidates have been appeared for MAHA TET December 2013 Examination. Now the candidates who are appeared for MAHA TET 2013 are looking for official answer key of Maharashtra TET 2013 Exam.
MSCE has plans to publish the MAHA TET Paper-I and MAHA TET paper-II answer keys by set wise on its official website www.mahatet.in. So the candidates are suggested to log on to the official website to download MAHA TET 2013 answer key or Maharashtra TET Answer Sheet 2013. Here you may follow the simple steps to download Maharashtra TET paper 1, paper 2 Answer key 2013.
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- Candidates may log on to the official website - www.mahatet.in
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- Is it is in pdf format save it, check it with your answers
The Maharashtra State Council of Examination will announce the mahaTET 2013 cutoff marks soon. You can directly download the answer key for Maharashtra State Teacher Eligibility Test (MahaTET 2013) from the below link.
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1 Getting oriented … in a vintage automobile Several tour companies offer this service, but I recommend Prague History Trips. They'll arrange for an English-speaking driver to pick you up at your hotel in a classic 1920s-era, Czech-made open-top car. Spring for the "big" tour (about $75), which lasts approximately one hour and takes in all the major sites, including Wenceslas Square, Old Town and Prague Castle. praguehistorytrip.com; 603-720-290
2 National Gallery Housed in a functionalist masterpiece built in 1928. This bewilderingly large museum's major attraction is Alfons Mucha's "Slav Epic" mural, but many miss the permanent collection's remarkable socialist realism section on the second floor–a unique blossoming of talent in a dark era. ngprague.cz; 224-301-111
3 Vitkov National Monument Okay, definitely not for everybody. The Vitkov, formerly a mausoleum, incorporates 29 different types of marble and granite, features fabulous Art Deco furnishings in the Presidential Suite and is capped with the world's largest equestrian statue. There is also the creep-tastic "Basement of Gottwald's Mausoleum" with the equipment used to embalm the communist leader's corpse (once on view here). nm.cz; 222-781-676
4 Villa Müller Adolf Loos was one of the fathers of classical modern architecture; whether you're a buff or simply interested in how the upper class lived in late-1920s Prague, this is worth a trip out of the city's center. Loos' interior is surprisingly luxurious given his famous essay, "Ornament and Crime."
mullerov avila.cz; 224-312-012
5 Vrtbovská Garden One could easily walk right by the gorgeous Vrtbovsk? Garden, the Italian terrace-style garden built in the 1720s, marked as it is by a rather modest doorway on Malá Strana's Karmelitská Street. Designed by Prague native Frantisek Maxmilián Kanka, the garden is much loved for its sculptures and frescoes and for stunning views down into Malá Strana. vrtbovska.cz; 272-088-350
For the complete Bohemian Rhapsody: Prague series, see also:
- Five Great Stops For Czech Style
- Five Places In Prague Fit For A Celebration Dinner
- Five Places Locals Love In Prague
- Four Hotel Room Gems In Prague


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Whenever you write a blog post, there's a big chance your blogging platform automatically pings a dedicated server. This way, a blog search engine (like Technorati or Google Blog Search) can discover new stuff to index.
If you create a standard web page, and upload it to a server, no search engine will find out unless there's a link to that page somewhere or you manually submit it. Sitemaps protocol, developed by Google, and supported by three major search engines: Google, Yahoo and MSN, wants to overcome this problem.
"A Sitemap is an XML file that can be made available on a website and acts as a marker for search engines to crawl certain pages. It is an easy way for webmasters to make their sites more search engine friendly. It does this by conveniently allowing webmasters to list all of their URLs along with optional metadata, such as the last time the page changed, to improve how search engines crawl and index their websites.
Sitemaps enhance the current model of Web crawling by allowing webmasters to list all their Web pages to improve comprehensiveness, notify search engines of changes or new pages to help freshness, and identify unchanged pages to prevent unnecessary crawling and save bandwidth."
There are many tools that can help you generate a sitemap for your site, including a Python script created by Google.
The fact that Yahoo and Microsoft support this protocol is a big step towards a wider acceptance.
Here are the announcements from: Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
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