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With all disability policies there are various benefits that are standard with particular insurers and other features that can be added to the policy to fit the client's particular needs. Some of these additional features will add further costs to the overall premium of the policy, they are known as "riders".
The insurance company cannot cancel the policy except in such cases when the premium is not paid. This policy can be renewed every year and the insurance company cannot make certain amendments such as increase in premium amounts or reducing the benefits.
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These contracts guarantee that the individual can keep the policy in force by paying the stated premium in the policy. The premium may only be increased on a class basis not on an individual basis.
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A policy will be in effect up until the age specified in the policy as long as premiums are paid in full; however, a provision may be added that allows a non-cancellable or guaranteed renewable policy to continue beyond age 65 at the discretion of the insurance company and at a new premium amount determined by the insurer.
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English form of Latin Io(h)annes, New Testament Greek Iōannēs, a contracted form of the Hebrew name Johanan 'God is gracious' (the name of several different characters in the Old Testament, including one of King David's 'mighty men'). John is the spelling used in the Authorized Version of the New Testament. The name is of great importance in early Christianity: it was borne by John the Baptist (the precursor of Christ himself, who baptized sinners in the River Jordan), by one of Christ's disciples (John the Apostle, a fisherman, brother of James), and by the author of the fourth gospel (John the Evangelist, identified in Christian tradition with the apostle, but more probably a Greek-speaking Jewish Christian living over half a century later). The name was also borne by many saints and by twenty-three popes, including John XXIII (Giuseppe Roncalli, 1881–1963), whose popularity was yet another factor influencing people to choose this given name. It was also a royal name, being borne by eight Byzantine emperors and by kings of Hungary, Poland, Portugal, France, and elsewhere. Among numerous bearers of note in recent times have been American president John F. Kennedy (1917–63) and British pop singer John Lennon (1940–80). In its various forms in different languages, it has been the most perennially popular of all Christian names.
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I don't mean to be callous about income inequality, asset inequality or press bias, but once one starts noticing this sort of thing there starts to be a kind of humor to it.
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Back in July, Engadget said not to be surprised if competitors launched 104-inch sets, but Panasonic is holding onto the "world's largest plasma screen" title, at least for now. Samsung's plasma TVs, meanwhile, top out at a measly 102 inches. (Sharp claims to own the biggest screen with its 108-inch LCD monster.)


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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The city of Memphis is sending cease-and-desist letter s to Uber and Lyft car services.
For now though, drivers say they are staying.
A driver who goes by VJ told WREG, "The only communication I've had is from Uber and they say we've got your back. They say they've been in this rodeo before."
This rodeo, as the driver put it, is happening in places like New York City, San Francisco, and here in Memphis.
City officials say these companies don't have the right credentials, the right permitting, or proper insurance so they banned them from city streets.
Customers use apps to order a ride, then use a credit card to give a suggested donation and/or tip the independent drivers.
Because the money is a donation, the businesses avoid operating as a business.
The drivers are checked out by the companies, cars are inspected and they are insured.
Taxi cab companies across the country, including here in Memphis, want to put the brakes on the way ride sharing services are doing business.
Owners and drivers at the cab companies don't think it's fair they face regulations that ride share companies do not.
VJ said, "The letter went to Uber and Lyft. Not to us. So as far as I'm concerned Memphis hasn't told me personally anything."
The companies are actually encouraging drivers to stay on the streets.
VJ drives for both Uber and Lyft, and she took calls all weekend.
Chris Cline said, "It's a risky move, a very risky move."
He uses these ride sharing services because they are more reliable than a regular cab, and more affordable.
"It's about one third cheaper. Very noticeable," said Cline.
As far as we know the passengers are legally allowed to request these car services.
Drivers say they are keeping an eye out for law enforcement while they are taking calls.
"If they impound my car or ticket me I know I'm covered," VJ added.
People in Memphis don't know how the city will enforce this ban, and they say the consumers are the ones suffering.
Cline told us, "It's one more thing the city of Memphis is trying to keep us from doing."
Lyft provided the following information about its safety policies and insurance:
• Lyft has a $1,000,000 commercial liability insurance policy that protects drivers and passengers while they're matched on the app.
• Lyft's $1M coverage vastly outpaces that of a Memphis taxi, which is only required to carry a $50K combined single limit policy. Lyft's coverage is 20 times greater than a Memphis taxi.
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The Nondestructive Analysis (NOVA) Center, located at the Center for Research and Development on the corner of Nashville Road and Campbell Lane, will position WKU as a leader in nondestructive analysis testing.
U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie thanked those at WKU, in the community and in the state and federal governments who had the vision to make the NOVA Center and the Center for Research and Development a reality and provide opportunities for world class research in Bowling Green.
The acquisition of the LC-SEM has positioned WKU as the only university in North America with an instrument of this type. "The Center," Guthrie said, "is no longer referred to as the old mall. Most of us refer to it as a place that's going to change southcentral Kentucky."
Other speakers at the event included WKU Vice President for Research Dr. Gordon Baylis, General Motors Corvette Plant Manager Dave Tatman and NOVA Center Director Dr. Edward Kintzel.
Dr. Baylis, Dr. Kintzel and Tatman said the NOVA Center will provide additional opportunities for collaborations and partnerships between WKU and business/industry.
The LC-SEM is a rare instrument in the United States; the only other similar equipment is at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma. The LC-SEM performs scientific, microscopic analysis of extremely large samples, allowing for investigation of components without destroying them.
Maximum sample size is 40 inches diameter by 40 inches tall, with a weight limit of 650 pounds. This allows it to easily hold a V-6 engine block. The LC-SEM has a magnification power of 100,000 times, which is 100 times that of a standard light microscope.
The acquisition of the LC-SEM has positioned WKU as the only university in North America with an instrument of this type.
"As envisioned, the NOVA Center will be a national focal point for nondestructive measurements," Dr. Kintzel said. "The capabilities of the instrument are trans-disciplinary and allow new research and industrial partnerships to be developed within the region."
The LC-SEM is an outstanding instrument because of its ability to minutely examine large manufactured objects, historical artifacts and the like without damaging them.
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SkarnWoW asked:
Are there new crafting patterns in 5.2? If so, what materials do they use? Will Blood Spirits still be useful for progression or only for catching up alts and new/returning players?
There are new crafting patterns, yes! Most of them are throwback transmog items crafted with the new Lightning Forge whatsit, using Lightning Steel Ingots, which are made with 10 Ghost Iron Bars each. However, there are some raid level crafted items with an ilevel of 522. Those don't use Blood Spirits anymore. Instead, they use the new raid item, Haunting Spirits.
Blood Spirits will be a catch-up item now, crafting ilevel 496 items.
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Was just running Auchenai for some rep for lower city and noticed there were monks and clerics in there. Of course, we have monks now in game. Do you think they could make a cleric different enough from holy paladin and priest to bother with adding them as a playable class?
Probably not. Clerics lie somewhere between priests and paladins -- and in the lore of Warcraft, the clerics of the world stepped up to become the first paladins. Fielding clerics again would be something of a step backwards.
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I am actually worried about the length of this expansion. We have patches coming out a tad faster than before, BUT Blizzcon is slated for November. This means that Blizzcon will announce the new expansion then and begin Beta process within 3 months at the very least. This means we have a full year of Mist ahead of us, which begs the question, how many patches will we get from Mists? up until 5.3? 5.4? will we even see a 5.5?
With patches coming out faster than before, and Blizzard breaking out of their routine of only releasing content when there's a new raid ready, we can't be sure how many patches we'll get out of Mists of Pandaria. Via developer chatter on Twitter, we know that patch 5.3 will be another non-raid patch, and they could keep producing patches like that to give us something to do while waiting for the next expansion. I sincerely hope they've learned not to leave the players to entertain themselves for an entire year waiting for the next expansion to come along.
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Am I the only one who thinks Cataclysm was the best expansion? I know it receives a lot of flak for its disconnected zones and "not a lot to do" but personally I loved it and found myself playing more during Cata than any other expansion. Don't get me wrong, I love Mists and each expansion has its own merits, but I love just about everything about Cata including Goblins, Worgen, the revamped 1-60, Vashj'ir, Uldum, Hyjal, Deepholm, its talent system, the raids, the 5-mans, Deathwing...I do understand where people are coming from saying that there wasn't enough end-game content, but look back at everything Cata gave us. Also? The introduction of Transmog and Raid Finder. Not to mention Uldum and Vashj'ir are 2 of my favorite zones in the game. Of course it's all subjective, but I'm just really curious if I'm the only one that feels this way?
I'm sure you're not alone. I didn't hate Cataclysm, but I also didn't love it. I started out enjoying Cataclysm, because I was in a position of privilege to enjoy it. The heroics were pretty darn hard for PUGs through the dungeon finder early on, which I didn't realize because I had regular, stable guild groups for clearing dungeons. I was listening to so many players saying they were absolutely miserable and those dungeons and just couldn't grasp why. Then I started actually running those heroics through the dungeon finder ... yeah, every other group was a catastrophic failure. Anybody who didn't have guild groups for heroics started out that expansion at a disadvantage, so I couldn't blame them for hating it right off the bat.
Some of the zones were good. Some of them were pretty terrible. Since we're discussing our opinions here, I'm going to disagree with you on Uldum: I could not stand that zone. The constant cutscenes that served no purpose whatsoever, the bad Nazi jokes, the whole thing with it being an Indiana Jones gag ... look, I like pop culture references, I understand nerdy jokes, but the entire zone was a pop culture nerd joke. That's too much. And the pygmies?
World of Warcraft races often toe the line between culturally derivative and outright racist. The pygmies were pretty racist. They're designed to look like AC/DC roadies, but in Uldum, the writing for them was utterly vile. They were a straight up racist caricature. We beat them, caged them, and put them in a circus. Holy crap. That's something that was actually done to pygmy peoples in our world. We do some questionably moral things in World of Warcraft, but Uldum was a cesspit of that stuff and treated all of it as a big, dumb joke. There was no examining our actions, no undertone that maybe we should think about what we were doing -- no, we're hanging out with Indiana Jones, so let's be as racist as we want to be, and inflict bodily harm on Goblin Hitler's slave labor for funsies!
The flavor of the dungeons was solid. The Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep revamps were probably the best dungeon revamps they've ever done. I really enjoyed Deepholm, because it tickled that part of me that will fall completely in love with alien landscapes no matter what else is going on in a zone. Some of the old world zone revamps were just excellent, such as Swamp of Sorrows. Others were not so excellent, such as every zone where we thought the Alliance was actually fighting back against the Horde for once, but the story ended in horrific mass Alliance casualties. Seriously -- whether you play Horde or Alliance as your main character, go back and play through those revamped zones with an Alliance alt. There's a very good reason why Alliance players felt awful in Cataclysm.
The goblins were handled well and integrated fairly seamlessly into the Horde, minus that whole Thrall, why did you make our slavemaster our king? thing. The worgen were not integrated into the Alliance almost at all, and the continuation of their story arc is a Horde questline for whatever reason.
So ... uh, yeah. It wasn't great. It wasn't a disaster either.
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Be forewarned: you are entering the land of the "baseball analogy" to describe why blogging is exactly like the book "Moneyball" and movie of the same name. So, here it is: Blogging is about getting on base, not swinging for home runs. Blogging is about getting your message across and creating good content, engaging in discussion on that content, about creativity, and about debate. While getting great reach (page views) is exciting, it is a siren's song, leading many great bloggers to their ruin.
For those of you unfamiliar with Moneyball, it is the Michael Lewis story of Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane, who took an analytics approach to the game and changed the way he assembled his team. Players were generally apprised of their ability to – among other things – make the big hit, "swing for the fences." His premise was based on getting players on base, "grinding it out" one play – one hit – at a time, to efficiently build a winning team.
The first year of this practice the A's achieved the American League record of winning 20 consecutive games and finished 1st in the AL West division. Take that, establishment!
Blogging is consistency
Blogging is asking your audience to invest in you. Think of it like dating – we have all had that relationship at one point or another where we dated that fickle person who only called us when they wanted to. It may have been fun for awhile, but how many of us married that person? We ultimately want dependability; some consistency in our relationship. Bloggers make an unofficial pact with their audience – you keep reading, I will keep writing stuff you want to read.
Good bloggers have some consistency in their engagement with their readers. This doesn't mean you can't be controversial – that is actually a great part of blogging is the ability for expression and debate. But the quality of the content is consistent for the audience or, better put, we know what we are going to get from a blogger once we invest in that relationship.
Blogging is a team approach
For those of you engaged as bloggers as an individual, your burden is particularly difficult – you have to be a team unto yourself – or in baseball parlance, you have to pitch, catch, field, and hit. My "hats off" to you all. For those of us engaged in writing with others, blogging is really a team approach – everyone has a role. You need the big hitter, the Albert Pujols of the league, but you also need supporting players to round out the opinion and reach.
This is, then, a team sport and requires a broad reach of engagements and conversations. A platform with just one central voice may be exciting for a time, but soon loses steam. A well-rounded blog site, with many voices and many opinions acting as a team, is a place people visit and revisit regularly to get their insights for the day.
SAP has their share of Pujols-like bloggers, with names like Bob Evans and SAP CMO Jonathan Becher driving consistent "big hits" blogs – great content connecting in great numbers for their audiences. But, we have a well rounded team of consistent bloggers who are great at "grinding out" hits for us – Eric Lai, Tim Clark, Anthony Leaper, Kai Goerlich, Richard Howells, and on and on. Each provides their own unique voice to the site and helps raise the level of debate in their space, in their markets.
Blogging is about singles, not home runs
When a blogger suddenly starts going for "big hits", or is only concerned with the stats of their blog, the content eventually suffers. There are several notable examples, but I will call out one recent case with TechCrunch, now an AOL Company. Since its acquisition in 2010, many of you have been watching TC "unravel before your eyes." One of the reasons is the focus on ad revenue, which is driven by page views. It causes the author to focus on generating traffic, even at the price of being a short term win.
If you wake up in the morning thinking about how you can generate bigger numbers, you are thinking about "big hits," not about blogging. There is nothing wrong, per se, with writing that piece that tops six-figure readership. We all want that. However, good blogging is about engaging audiences, not just "eyeballs." Audiences can smell this change – maybe before they can fully articulate it.
Winning team
It all comes down to "Blogging for eyeballs" vs. "Blogging like Moneyball." I will appreciate a blog engaged in consistent singles, a few doubles and a good number of home runs to keep me engaged, instead of the just occasional (albeit exciting) home run. If they turn this blog into a movie, I would like to have Brad Pitt play me, but it will probably be Brad Garrett.
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Jan 04 2011
More Black and White
I love brightly saturated, colorful photos, but lately I've been drawn to black-and-white shots more and more. In converting some of my recent shots to black-and-white, though, I realize how limited my abilities are when it comes to converting—and otherwise editing—a black-and-white photo. (On these photos today, I used the "B&W Beauty" action from PW Action set 1, as well as Boost…twice!)
In an effort to improve my own black-and-white abilities, I'll be practicing more and more with black-and-whites, posting them here as I go.
Meantime, feel free to share your favorite black-and-white editing methods—your favorite actions, your favorite methods, etc. Go ahead and post links to your own photos, if you'd like—I'm interested!
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Chase On Thursday, January 6 at 4:39 pm
I just found these two great tutorials…..one is to turn a black and white photo into color (REALLY COOL) and the other teaches you how to use Adobe Lightroom to get great B&W photos. Hope they are helpful.
P.S. – These come from a FANTASTIC site where you can learn a lot about different styles of photography as well as tips and tricks. So be sure and check it out.
Jenny On Thursday, January 6 at 7:29 pm
I agree with you about how beautiful black and whites can be. This one is probably one of my favorites! Thanks for the post..im enjoying checking out everyone's work!
Aasiya On Thursday, January 6 at 9:00 pm
I like dark and dramatic black and white photos. I recently took a photo that only looked good to me in a deep black and white contrast. Here is what I was able to do http://www.flickr.com/photos/aasiyachapman/5320848447/in/photostream/
Alexandria Smith On Thursday, January 6 at 9:20 pm
I am not a pre like a lot of your readers… but I do like to play around with pics! This is one of my favorites. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandria1289/5331543739/
Cary On Friday, January 7 at 12:41 am
I think I have the most awesomestier idea for a "contest" idea!!!!!
Choose one of OUR pictures to be edited by your readers!!!!!
Ooooohhhhhh, that would be fun!!!!
Abby On Friday, January 7 at 4:11 am
I go back and forth between B&W and color… I'm a newbie photographer so I'm still playing around but here are a few fav B&W I've taken so far
Love reading through your website
Bethany B. On Friday, January 7 at 9:57 am
In Paint Shop Pro X and higher (the program series I grew up in and think Corel has almost all but ruined, quite frankly), there's a filter for converting to B&W that lets you use a color wheel to select different color filters and intensities to play with. That usually gets me to a good starting point. Then I use my usual cast of characters for editing color photos – levels, curves, brightness/contrast, color tweaks, etc. – until I get something I'm satisfied with.
In Photoshop, which I am still new to, I tend to select one of the RGB channels, create a new image from it, and then fool around with various tools until I get something I like.
In PS and Essentials, I also like the tools that map various colors to black/white points using a gradient. It usually gets nice (or at least interesting) results. I still play with it afterwards.
robin m On Friday, January 7 at 11:42 am
Thank you-thank you -thank you!!! I was stuck in the winter ho-hum's and trying to think of ideas that I could use my new macro lens on- Christmas present., this is amazing and it sound like a lot of fun! I can't wait to try this idea out! thanks so much for this wonderful and colorful idea!
Niki W On Friday, January 7 at 2:14 pm
I love it when you guys post where you got your actions! Keep em' comin'!
Caryn Diane On Friday, January 7 at 3:25 pm
This is my #1 favorite photo that I took in 2010. The entrance to our subdivision is lined with relatively young magnolia trees and they only bloom for a short while so I consider myself fortunate to have captured it.
I used "Contrast" to literally black out the already dark background then used the B&W button from the Picnik software. There may have been other minor adjustments, but other than that there wasn't much to do. I have added textures over it since then, but this is still my favorite version!
Emily Murphy On Friday, January 7 at 6:09 pm
2 of my favorite black & whites done on photoshop elements 8 – with 'urban snapshot & 50% or so on soft-light layer'
jackie D On Friday, January 7 at 6:11 pm
I put a photo of my cat in black and white on my blog…..
Matthew Frank On Saturday, January 8 at 1:54 am
I love b&w photos. In many cases, they can convey far more raw emotion than a color photo. Something about getting out of the way of the color and allowing the purity of the image to speak for itself.
My favorite picture is a pregnancy photo of my wife on my blog at: http://onbecomingdaddy.com/photography/featured-photo/
Natalie K O On Saturday, January 8 at 4:46 pm
Well, maybe not TRUE B&W, but close!
Cheri Willoughby On Sunday, January 9 at 2:11 pm
I love your photos! B&W is always so dramatic and beautiful! And apparently I need some classes on photoshop to do as well as you all do! but here is my most recent favorite, it is of my youngest daughter, taken at the beach in Florida over Christmas, I just removed the color on the picture and blurred the background of the picture a little.
Caryn Diane On Sunday, January 9 at 6:35 pm
Because it made me laugh, because I have WAY too much time on my hands and mostly because I really, really, really need to believe this right now….that's why
Brittany Ward On Thursday, January 13 at 8:53 am
i LOVE THIS!! it is absolutely awesome!!
MacDougal Street Baby On Monday, January 10 at 5:32 am
Why not post a photography challenge where one can't use any post processing? Wouldn't that be a test for some?!
Brittany Ward On Thursday, January 13 at 8:54 am
I think that's a great idea!!
Colleen On Tuesday, January 11 at 11:31 am
Yesterday, I posted on my blog with all B&W pictures using your B&W Beauty action. They are all pictures of our new sons, adopted from Uganda. (The top two photos are in color, but keep scrolling to see all the B&W fun!)
Brittany Ward On Thursday, January 13 at 8:40 am
http://i628.photobucket.com/albums/uu4/brittanyward31/Margee.jpg – This was the most wonderful accident… we were shooting her dance pictures, and she just happened to look at herself in the mirror, I told her to hold it and snapped this gorgeous shot.
http://i628.photobucket.com/albums/uu4/brittanyward31/CarolMarissa.jpg – My cousin and her daughter.
http://i628.photobucket.com/albums/uu4/brittanyward31/ChrisShooting.jpg – Old crappy camera, but I spent so much time photoshopping it, it turned out pretty well.
Natalie K O On Monday, January 17 at 9:18 am


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Can there be free will in a world where pre-destiny exists?
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Re: Can there be free will in a world where pre-destiny exists?
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If we can agree that all absolutes are a form of perfection...from what I understand, perfection just does not exist in nature. So there is no absolute anything in our universe.
Perfection is an opinion. Most of the religious crowd might argue that God created nature; God is perfect, therefore nature is perfect. I would argue that the perfection of nature is largely irrelevant. The laws that govern our universe are what they are; life on Earth is the way it is because those laws are they way they are. There isn't much more to it than that. edit: not trying to get the thread closed, just speaking generally...
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Now, if you take those two words away (absolute x 2) it changes things right? To a point where they could co exist?
It depends on how we are defining absolute. In my mind, having absolute freewill makes you an all power genie. I will myself to become a dragon. I will myself to levitate. I will myself to breathe underwater. My will be done.
The only other absolute freewill I could think is simply within the confines of the universe's physical laws. But I think thats already what we've been talking about.
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If people think and believe they have free will, how would they know if they really didn't?
What if we were pre-destined to have free will? Is that even possible?
There is an excellent Futurama episode on this, fyi.
The point is we don't know if we have freewill or not. More to the point, if we were somehow turn our freewill on and off, would it make our lives any different? No. We act in our daily lives as if we have freewill. Whether our freewill an illusion or isn't a question we can answer. The "future" isn't a place we can experience. There is no way to verify whether your choice at some point in time altered your future, or whether you are simply playing a part in a story that has only one ending regardless of what you think you choose.
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The novel It's Superman! is modern retelling of Clark's origin, /w one BIG difference: It takes place during Superman's actual comic debut, in 1938. And y'know what? That's exactly what Snyder and co. should do /w the forthcoming The Man of Steel! That era perfectly frames Clark's boyscout morality, and plays it off one of the darkest periods in American history, name the Great Depression (and since we're in the midst of the Great Recession, the framing is perfect). Since there's no Internet, and no 25-hour news networks, Clark's chosen profession makes perfect sense, just as originally planned. And MOST IMPORTANTLY, no Smartphones means the glasses won't look like a complete joke on film. Clark's superspeed means no one can snap a good picture, and no imaging means no shmuck /w some rendering software can reveal Superman's secret to the world. Clark's use of a typewriter also won't be a dead giveaway to Lois, since she, and everyone else for that matter are also using one! Honestly, in today's world of Smartphones that let you download entire books and post pics directly to Facebook, Clark's efforts to keep his secret will look like a complete JOKE to the audience. It will DESTROY any atmosphere the film builds, if its set in a modern-day world.
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In my 2013 book, Chinese Astrology 2013 Year of the Water Snake, I warned people born in the Year of the Dog that working overtime wasn't the solution. Things this year will just take a little while longer to take hold. I suggested to Ajay that he add some sea shells to his desk to represent the powerful energy and flow of the ocean. Ajay's job takes him on the road so he didn't have a desk at the office but he had a desk at home. There he placed a few nice specimens, shells that were 3-4 inches in diameter. I told him, when the tide is out, it can feel like there's no progress but wait, soon the tide will come in and there will be lots of business and opportunities. Ajay is starting to get into the flow of things. In a few months he will start to see some real financial proof that he made the right decision.
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Former University Provost Phil Hanlon calls on Dartmouth to fix 'extreme behavior'
Former University Provost Phil Hanlon, the president of Dartmouth College, berated the Dartmouth community in a speech last week for failing to uphold the institution's values amid the increasing prevalence of damaging behaviors.
"It's time for Dartmouth to change," he said. "And as your president, I will lead that change."
Hanlon cited an array of issues that have dogged Dartmouth for decades, including sexual assault, excessive drinking and hazing.
Though Dartmouth's challenges have been at the forefront of national attention, many institutions, including the University, have struggled with similar problems.
The University, like Dartmouth, is currently under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights for alleged violations of Title IX.
In the fall, the Theta Xi fraternity came under fire for hosting a party branded with a racialized theme, later leading members of the University's Black Student Union to launch the #BBUM Twitter campaign. Hanlon specifically mentioned similar incidents with racist and sexist undertones as a concern at Dartmouth.
"It is time for us to act in order to preserve what is unique, joyous and fun about the undergraduate experience at Dartmouth and to end the extreme behaviors that are in conflict with our mission and fundamentally harmful—to individuals, and to the fabric of our community," Hanlon said. "This is the right thing to do, and the time to do it is now."
He added that the behavior has also reflected negatively on the school's reputation. Last year, applications to Dartmouth declined by 14 percent.
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Pacific's Washington Semester Program Delivers Once-in-a-Lifetime Experience
During his Washington Semester internship in fall 2008, Political Science student John Orofino met with then-Presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Every year, several students from Pacific spend a semester interning in Washington D.C. Without exception they consider it the most memorable experience of their college years.
"Students returning from Washington can't contain their excitement," said Dr. George Condon, Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Internships Director for the Jacoby Center, who directs Pacific's Washington Semester program as well as the Sacramento Experience internship program. "They enthusiastically report on the experiences they've had and people they've met through their seminars and internships. Many hope to return to Washington or work in other capitals after they graduate."
Through the program, students spend a semester at American University in Washington D.C. and participate in a combination of internship, academic and seminar experiences. They intern for a wide range of organizations, including government agencies, lobbying organizations, political parties, media outlets, foreign embassies and non-profit institutes.
Each student chooses an area of concentration, such as American politics or economic policy, and takes a related seminar course that includes guest speakers such as political figures, lobbyists, think-tank scholars and journalists. Students also have opportunities to participate in field trips, including travel to other states and even other countries.
When living on the American University campus, which houses over 400 program participants each semester, students are in close proximity to the unique resources of Washington D.C.
"The students really get to know Washington D.C.," said Dr. Condon. "They go all over the capital area on weekends, taking in the sights, visiting historic places and experiencing the culture."
Below are highlights from three recent participants in the program.
Ty-Licia Hooker '12
Ty-Licia at a holiday tour of the White House
Political Science major with a self-designed minor in Education Policy
Ty-Licia was a Youth and Leadership intern for the Children's Defense Fund (CDF). Some of her tasks included:
Planning the YALT (Youth Advocacy Leadership Training) conference for some of America's most talented leaders in child advocacy and community issues.
Putting together a college guide for CDF's Beat the Odds campaign—a program that provides scholarships and recognition to extraordinary high school seniors who have overcome tremendous adversity.
Helping to create an access database of the Children's Defense Fund network.
Referring to the Transforming Communities seminar she attended, Ty-Licia said, "By far this has been the best seminar course I have ever participated in. As part of the course I was able to visit every ward in D.C. and case study each community with my class."
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Ty-Licia lived off campus in WISH Housing on Capitol Hill rather than the American University campus. "I had lived on Pacific's campus where I felt like I was well taken care of. I had a meal plan, RA, and home only 20 minutes away. In D.C. I did not have those privileges. This opportunity taught me how to grow up fast—I learned how to become an adult."
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"The most memorable part of my job was attending the YALT conference, where I met other youth leaders who were just as on fire about issues in their community as I was."
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"This is by far one of the best experiences I have ever had. My seminar, my internship, my community service and the friends that I made have changed me for the better and impacted my life and my future beyond what I could have asked for. After being in this program I am much more socially and politically conscious of the crises we are facing domestically and abroad."
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Julia riding a bike at the Mall.
Political Science major and Pacific Legal Scholar
Julia interned with six other California students in Senator Barbara Boxer's office. Some of her tasks included:
Sorting mail and other office work
Organizing invitations addressed to the Senator
Checking and noting voice mails
Answering phones and explaining policies to constituents
Giving Capitol tours to California constituents
"The best part of the internship was attending congressional hearings and press briefings for different staffers in the office and preparing memos," said Julia. "I attended many hearings on Internet safety and how to protect youth online."
She also enjoyed the social aspects of the Washington Semester program, such as playing softball on the Mall with her office staff, in the summer senate softball league.
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"Bring an umbrella and be ready to be caught in random downpours!"
Memorable Moment
Julia was honored to watch Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan be questioned before Congress, but she faced difficult situations too. While discussing unemployment bills with constituents, a woman said she had no point in living anymore and planned to commit suicide. She was in her fifties, had no family, couldn't get a job after sending out 700 applications, and could no longer afford her medication.
Julia transferred the woman to the care of the Capital police. "Listening to the hard realities of unemployment was one of the most difficult, but eye-opening, experiences I had while in D.C."
Lasting Impressions
"I recommend this program 100%. My college experience would not have been the same without it. Living at American University was very fun and I made some great friendships!"
Michael Morris '11
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Mike served as a research intern for The Polling Company in Dupont Circle. His responsibilities included:
Working on public opinion polling, surveying and market research.
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During his Economic Policy seminar, Mike heard speakers from the Federal Reserve, the Indian Embassy, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). "It was a great way to get an inside look at economic policy in D.C.," said Mike. "The Washington Semester Program let me see how the theories I learn in class play out in the real world and to figure out how I can become part of that world."
Almost a quarter of the students in the Washington Semester Program at American University are from countries outside the United States, so Mike felt it was a great way to get an international perspective while still staying in the U.S.
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"My roommates were great and most of the people in my program would hang out on weekends and after class—we were all pretty close." Mike admitted that he was having too much fun to be homesick, except when he wanted Mexican food. "The west coast certainly has D.C. beat there!"
Memorable Moment
As part of the Economic Policy concentration, Mike spent a weekend in New York City, where he met with people from Standard and Poor's and saw the floor of the New York Mercantile exchange.
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"I loved the program! I needed to figure out what I wanted to do with my life, and the Washington Semester Program allowed me to get out into the world and explore the career opportunities that Washington D.C. offers. The experience has motivated me to want to find a job there and move back."
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Sing Out for the GulfMay 25th, 2011 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
There are many ways to raise our voices for environmental and economic justice on the Gulf Coast, and I'm thankful for the recent contribution of Dan Schatz, a Unitarian minister and folk-singer who calls for a clean energy future through his songs. His most recent song, "The Promise of the Sowing," recounts the horrors of the BP spill and other dirty energy disasters. Check out the video today and share your thoughts on how you speak out – or sing out – for what you care about in the comments section.
Thanks to the Unitarian Universalist Association and Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth for sharing this inspirational video and the work of their Sacred Waters campaign.


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Listed here are major disasters that occurred in 2012. The list includes natural and nonmilitary mechanical disasters that claimed about 15 lives and/or resulted in significant damage to property.
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March 16, Kabul, Afg. A Turkish military helicopter goes down onto a three-story house; at least 12 of the service members on the helicopter and 2 civilians inside the house perish.
April 2, Siberia. A UTair turboprop plane carrying 43 people crashes shortly after takeoff from Tyumen, Russia, and breaks apart; 31 of those aboard are killed. It is thought that icing of the wings may have brought the plane down before it was able to make an emergency landing.
April 20, Pakistan. A Bhoja Air Boeing 737-200 flying from Karachi to Islamabad during a thunderstorm crashes into a wheat field outside Islamabad; all 127 people aboard perish. Bhoja Air had begun operations only a month earlier after an 11-year hiatus for failure to pay fees.
May 9, Near Jakarta. On a demonstration flight of a new Sukhoy Superjet 100 aircraft in Indonesia, which has plans to purchase several of the jets, the plane, carrying 45 people—including Indonesian businessmen and journalists and Russian officials, pilots, and technicians—crashes into Mt. Salak; there are no survivors.
May 14, Western Nepal. A two-engine Dornier plane operated by Agni Air crashes at Pokhara Airport after the pilot reported technical problems; 15 of those aboard, including both pilots and Indian and Dutch tourists, are killed, and 6 people survive.
June 3, Nigeria. A Dana Air MD-83 passenger jet crashes in a residential neighbourhood of Lagos, tearing through several buildings on its way down; all 153 people on board and an unknown number of city residents are killed. The pilot is said to have reported engine trouble just prior to the crash.
June 6, Peru. A helicopter carrying international passengers, many of whom are part of a South Korean group exploring the potential for a hydroelectric project, crashes and explodes in the Madre de Dios mountains; all 14 aboard die.
July 20, Brunei. A Bell 212 helicopter carrying military cadets who have just completed training crashes on its journey to the capital; 12 of the 14 military personnel aboard are killed. A later investigation blames pilot error for the disaster, which was the worst in Brunei's defense history.
August 16, Afghanistan. A Black Hawk helicopter crashes in Kandahar province, killing all 11 aboard; the dead comprise seven U.S. soldiers, three Afghan soldiers, and an interpreter.
August 19, Sudan. An airplane attempting to land in bad weather in the town of Talodi in the Nuba Mountains crashes, killing all 32 aboard; the dead include Sudan's minister of guidance and endowments, two members of other government ministries, and a television crew.
September 28, Nepal. A twin-engine propeller Dornier airplane operated by Sita Air carrying tourists to the Mt. Everest area crashes shortly after takeoff from Kathmandu as a result of a bird strike, and all 19 aboard, including British, Chinese, and Nepali passengers and crew, perish.
October 7, Sudan. A Russian-made Antonov AN-12 transport plane carrying personnel and equipment to the war-torn Darfur region suffers an engine failure and then crashes as the pilot is attempting an emergency landing a short distance from Khartoum; 15 of those aboard die.
November 10, Siirt province, Tur. A Sikorsky military helicopter carrying soldiers to their mission fighting Kurdish rebels goes down in heavy rain and fog. It crashes into Herekol mountain, and none of the 17 soldiers survive.
December 25, Kazakhstan. A twin-engine Antonov AN-72 military transport used for the border patrol crashes after beginning its descent near Shymkent; all 27 aboard, including the commander of the border guard, lose their lives.


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Steven Gerrard has backed Liverpool teammate Luis Suarez to be player of the year for 2012-13.
The Uruguayan has been in supreme goalscoring form throughout the campaign, extending his tally to 23 in all competitions with his strike at home to Swansea on Sunday.
Suarez trails only Robin van Persie in the race for the Barclays Premier League Golden Boot and has created 74 chances for his colleagues to date.
Those performances have led Reds captain Gerrard to name Suarez as not just the best in England, but further afield too.
"For me he's been player of the year, across this league and a lot more leagues," the 32-year-old told BBC Radio Merseyside.
"There are probably only one or two people who you could say have been better than him this season."
The No.7 has notched 44 goals in 88 appearances since arriving at Anfield in January 2011.
Suarez signed a fresh long-term contract with Liverpool in August of last year and Gerrard is excited by the prospect of the 26-year-old improving further.
"How much better can he get? I'm not sure, but it's a scary thought if he does improve on how he's been performing this season," he added.
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Comment Winning the Battle, Losing The War (Score 1) 267 267
SOPA and PIPA might not pass, but something will, and whatever passes in their place will no doubt be worse. We know the intent of these companies, and we know that they will not give up. Still, we give them our money. We give them our money knowing that they will use that money to try and take away certain freedoms that we hold dear.
Imagine any other industry doing that. Telling their customers to their face that they want to censor them, and expecting those customers to keep patronizing them. For some reason, the big media companies don't seem care, though. They openly sponsor these bills, and they don't fear any retribution from the consumer.
Face it, as long as consumers continue to give these companies their heard-earned cash, these companies will continue funneling that hard-earned cash into lawyers, legislators, and laws designed to benefit them and harm us.
Eventually, they are going to get their way.
Submission + - NBC Universal Violates SOPA->
The Weather Channel, however, robbed me of all of that. They unilaterally overruled me, and decided how my photo would be used. They took my photograph without asking, chopped off my signature, put ads beside it, and to try and stay on the right side of fair use gave me the most obscure credit they could muster.
Talk about a slap in the face.
It's a letdown, but not one I can do much about.
Let me try to turn a negative into a positive, though. Let this be a teachable moment.
It's important to remember that, in an age of bills like SOPA, it's not always the little guy that engages in "piracy".
According to their own website:
The Weather Channel Companies are owned by a consortium made up of NBC Universal and the private equity firms The Blackstone Group and Bain Capital.
That's right NBC Universal a company which supports SOPA just nabbed my photograph.
Irony, eh?
I suppose they'll be the first to pull the plug on The Weather Channel website. After all, piracy in all its forms, is wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
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Submission + - Suing Apple->
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Comment Re:Ah, America! (Score 1) 562 562
Miles/points and other gimmicks mean nothing to me.
Oh, but they do.
They mean something to all of us, even those of us without credit cards.
I used to be a small business owner, and I stopped taking "points" credit cards altogether.
Do you know who pays for those points and gives you the cash back?
The merchant. That's right, points cards always cost the merchant a larger percentage in transaction fees, and the credit card companies offer this difference (usually only a fraction of the difference) as THEIR GIFT TO YOU
Swell guys, eh?
Sheeple spending points is like sheeple spending tax "refund" checks. They think it's free money from the heavens above, but it comes about only through their own assfucking.
Points/rewards credit cards are a pretty big factor behind the increasing costs of goods/services. The credit card companies take it from the merchant, take a slice for themselves, and give you whats left.
In turn, the merchants raise their prices to cover the "rewards", and prices go up for everyone, regardless of how they pay. Next time you take you credit card to the store, prices have gone up 20% to cover this atrocity, but you gladly buy it anyway because you get more points on your card. And the cycle continues.
Rewards/points cards are in the top 10 scams of the century.
But hey, enjoy your 49 cents cash back. You earned it.
Comment Re:Democracy. (Score 4, Insightful) 356 356
In order for democracy to work, the populace must be of sufficient intellect to make the best decisions for itself. The masses cannot do this, and this reality is unchangeable.
That which we call "critical" or "abstract" thinking generally requires an IQ of 110 or greater. The average IQ of the U.S. citizen is 98. This means that the majority of Americans have an IQ of less than 100. Those with IQs of less than 100 tend to make decisions based on repetition and consensus rather than critical analysis, and even "smart" people have a difficult time resisting the lure of basing conclusions on "common knowledge".
As such, people can be fairly easily persuaded to vote against their own interests time, and time, and time again.
Democracy as a means of preventing tyranny and corruption is fairly useless, for democracy is 3 geniuses, 20 bright people, and 500 idiots voting on a course of action. The numbers are made up, but you get the gist, and they are probably not far off. When someone with an IQ of 65 has an equal influence on important matters as does a person with an IQ of 140, the Achilles heel of of democracy becomes evident.
A benevolent dictatorship, to whatever extent one can truly exist, would be a far better, more fair, more efficient, more humane form of government than is democracy.
GoDaddy will be fine, because even though Slashdotters know what SOPA is, 90% of people have no clue as to what is going on.
Despite nearly 18 months of seeming outrage over the TSA's backscatter and groping, airline travel was up this holiday season. Bloggers and talking heads were pissed, but Joe and Jane Soccermom remained oblivious. Were it put to a vote tomorrow, the TSA's groping policy would be overwhelmingly approved by American voters.
Similarly, when SOPA or a SOPA-like law is passed, and it will be, Slashdot will blow up with comments, but the legislators who pass it will be re-elected without issue.
3 geniuses, 20 bright people, 500 idiots.
The government will once again act against the interest of the citizens, while 3 people scream, 20 people complain on Slashdot, and 500 people watch Monday Night Football.
Democracy. It doesn't work.
It never did.
It never will.
Comment Re:Was planning on buying one (Score 1) 333 333
I don't expect that love to be universal, though. Arguing interfaces is like arguing flavors of ice cream.
I have a Galaxy Tab, and while I love it most of the time, it memory leaks like hell. I use it a great deal, which means that at a minimum, I have to reboot once daily. I can somewhat see that the 512MB of RAM is too tight for any more candy.
It seems pathetic, though, considering that 20 short years ago my PC had 4MB of RAM and ran Windows 3.1 just fine (well, not "fine", but I'm sure you get the point). Now, I've got 128x that, and I can barely run a mobile operating system with a pretty shell.
It does seem wrong on so many levels.
Comment Eh? (Score 1) 543 543
Submission + - Google Plus Bans Seattle Rex Violates Law->
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Submission + - Mobile Internet to Overtake Desktop Usage by 2014->
86% of mobile users are watching TV while using a mobile phone, 200+ million (1/3 of all users) access Facebook from a mobile device and 91% of all mobile internet use is "social" related."
The rush to convert every web page over to have direct mobile compatibility is growing, but from an honest perspective do you really think that these "predictions" are actually realistic?"
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Submission + - Game Consoles Biggest Netflix Streamers->
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Submission + - Linux, Apple, and the Lurid Allure of Consumerism->
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Comment Re:AntiReusedJoke (Score 1) 166 166
In other other new, bad looking women don't seem to notice the change.
Leave your mother out of this.


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Comment Re:They skipped IE support on their ADMIN pages (Score 2) 273 273
Comment Re:Curious (Score 1) 445 445
Knowledge of how to implement a search algorithm is pretty much useless in most real world applications in businesses especially when most people would just leverage what is already present in a framework like
.NET's linq or use the power of a RDMS to sift through data. There is often no need to "reinvent" the wheel and even if there was such a need, chances are, someone on the team would have already written a generic common library function for the most efficient search algorithm if you happen to be using a framework poor language such as C/C++.
If I may extend your use of "reinventing the wheel" a little further, it's like expecting a modern-day auto mechanic to know how to give a Model T a tune-up. Sure, he could figure it out eventually (especially if you illustrate it to him), but it's probably not something he's ever been exposed to let alone know off the top of his head. All of his normal diagnostic toolkit would be gone (computer, standardized gauges, timing gun, even the humble timing torque wrench).
Comment Re:This is getting ridiculous (Score 1) 68 68
Comment Re:Eric Schmidt, master of non-answers (Score 0) 431 431
iOS minimised the problem by limit[ing] the number of devices that developers need to target and test against
You were quite convincing until this statement. If we're down to splitting hairs, Apple does not "limit" the number of iOS devices. Apple clearly states that only Apple can make hardware to run it on and only Apple can make the tool chain to construct your application. If they allowed even just one other vendor, I would buy your phrasing. The way it is, that seems like an apologist way of saying "they enforce their own small-scale monopoly".
Comment Carrying on a geeky tradition (Score 5, Funny) 52 52
Physicist A: "We need to make something cool out of them... like one of those tiny violins or the art on a microchip..."
Physicist B: "Let's make boobs! Every sculptor makes boobs eventually! Quantum boobs!"
Physicist A: "OK, but they gotta be HUGE! Then we can use normal particles for the nipples!"
I've been hanging around lonely geeks too long.
Comment Re:Lost All Respect (Score 1) 215 215
Comment Re:Sometimes suggestions reveal real public opinio (Score 1) 343 343
Comment Re:Sometimes suggestions reveal real public opinio (Score 1) 343 343
Comment Re:troll post (Score 4, Funny) 343 343
Comment Sometimes suggestions reveal real public opinion (Score 4, Informative) 343 343
Frankly, I like having the suggestions pop up (and not just for the fun factor). There have been times that a suggested result reveals the truth of something when the marketing and SEO have worked to whitewash the search results themselves. When people run into problems with a product, they will search for their problem rather than the marketing speak. I wish I could give my real examples, but I'm contractually/legally obligated not to. I'll contrive a working one instead (though the contrived one is not as solid as my real examples...).
Contrived example: Pop the words "MS Antivirus" into google search. "MS Antivirus" is a name of a piece of malware posing as security software. For me, the third suggested search is "MS Antivirus malware". Without having that there, the search results for "MS Antivirus" that declare it as malware are all below the fold. The results for "MS Antivirus malware" have the wikipedia entry for the malware itself as the first result.
Comment Re:double-edged sword (Score 4, Informative) 528 528
Here in California, abolishing write-ins gets proposed every couple of years and there. Many states have some severe hoops to jump through before a candidate can be written in. Regardless, the funding in many campaigns for the two major parties ensures that the populace only really knows their names and not any information about "fringe" candidates. Even the people themselves cast allegations of "throwing away votes".
I ask: Do you know who you will write-in if your congress-critter votes to pass SOPA? Can you name who you will vote for instead to your critter when you complain/threaten?
Comment Re:double-edged sword (Score 1) 528 528
Comment Re:Iran Encounter Grimly Echoes '02 War Game (Score 1) 969 969
Comment Re:Iran Encounter Grimly Echoes '02 War Game (Score 1) 969 969
After the Blue force was sunk, the game was ordered to begin again, with the Blue Team eventually declared the victor.
Interesting way to spin avoiding the issue of such an attack altogether.


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Who wants a 2010 Tundra for $100?
To help raise money for the Rey Feo Scholarship Fund, Toyota of Boerne has teamed up with Baltazar "Walter" Serna, a Rey Feo candidate, to raffle off a 2010 Toyota Tundra. The truck is a double cab, with a 5.7-liter V8 engine, and the funds will help support local high school seniors with college scholarships. […] [Read More]
IBC Bank launches new Web site
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In Downturned Economic Times, Outdoor Recreation Brings Promising Growth
Call it what you will: an economic downturn, a recession, the second great depression — these are relatively rough times. But as it turns out, in the midst of the economic madness, outdoor recreation is actually booming by creating the likes of $6.1 million in direct American jobs and $646 billion in consumer spending each year. Add to those numbers that a recent OIA Outdoor Recreation Economy shows that outdoor recreation has created $39.9 billion in federal tax revenue and $39.7 billion in state and local tax revenue and you have solid (and seriously impressive) proof that the outdoor industry is darn good for our faltering economy.


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· the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; "the average return was about 5%"
Synonym(s): return, issue, takings, proceeds, yield, payoff
Hypernym(s): income
2. take - noun
· the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption
Hypernym(s): filming, cinematography, motion-picture_photography
3. take - verb
· carry out; "take action"; "take steps"; "take vengeance"
4. take - verb
· require (time or space); "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time"
5. take - verb
· take somebody somewhere; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace"
Synonym(s): lead, direct, conduct, guide
6. take - verb
· get into one's hands, take physically; "Take a cookie!"; "Can you take this bag, please"
Synonym(s): get_hold_of
7. take - verb
· take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables"
Synonym(s): assume, acquire, adopt, take_on
Hypernym(s): change
8. take - verb
· interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression; "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"
Synonym(s): read
Hypernym(s): interpret, construe, see
9. take - verb
· take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point"
10. take - verb
· take into one's possession; "We are taking an orphan from Romania"; "I'll take three salmon steaks"
Antonym(s): give
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· travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route; "He takes the bus to work"; "She takes Route 1 to Newark"
Hypernym(s): use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ
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Hypernym(s): decide, make_up_one%27s_mind, determine
13. take - verb
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14. take - verb
· assume, as of positions or roles; "She took the job as director of development"; "he occupies the position of manager"; "the young prince will soon occupy the throne"
15. take - verb
· take into consideration for exemplifying purposes; "Take the case of China"; "Consider the following case"
Synonym(s): consider, deal, look_at
Hypernym(s): think_about
16. take - verb
· require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
Synonym(s): necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, involve, call_for, demand
17. take - verb
· experience or feel or submit to; "Take a test"; "Take the plunge"
Hypernym(s): experience, receive, have, get
18. take - verb
· make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie"
Hypernym(s): record, enter, put_down
19. take - verb
· remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"
Synonym(s): remove, take_away, withdraw
20. take - verb
· serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
Synonym(s): consume, ingest, take_in, have
21. take - verb
· accept or undergo, often unwillingly; "We took a pay cut"
Synonym(s): submit
Hypernym(s): undergo
22. take - verb
· make use of or accept for some purpose; "take a risk"; "take an opportunity"
Synonym(s): accept
23. take - verb
· take by force; "Hitler took the Baltic Republics"; "The army took the fort on the hill"
24. take - verb
· occupy or take on; "He assumes the lotus position"; "She took her seat on the stage"; "We took our seats in the orchestra"; "She took up her position behind the tree"; "strike a pose"
Synonym(s): assume, strike, take_up
Hypernym(s): move
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· admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"
Synonym(s): accept, admit, take_on
Hypernym(s): accept, take, have
26. take - verb
· ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial; "take a pulse"; "A reading was taken of the earth's tremors"
Hypernym(s): receive, get, find, obtain, incur
27. take - verb
· be a student of a certain subject; "She is reading for the bar exam"
Synonym(s): learn, study, read
28. take - verb
· take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her"
Hypernym(s): necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call_for, demand
29. take - verb
· head into a specified direction; "The escaped convict took to the hills"; "We made for the mountains"
Synonym(s): make
Hypernym(s): head
30. take - verb
· point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards; "Please don't aim at your little brother!"; "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent"
Synonym(s): aim, train, take_aim, direct
Hypernym(s): position
31. take - verb
· be seized or affected in a specified way; "take sick"; "be taken drunk"
32. take - verb
· have with oneself; have on one's person; "She always takes an umbrella"; "I always carry money"; "She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains"
33. take - verb
· engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"
Synonym(s): lease, rent, hire, charter, engage
34. take - verb
· receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day"
Synonym(s): subscribe, subscribe_to
35. take - verb
· buy, select; "I'll take a pound of that sausage"
36. take - verb
· to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort; "take shelter from the storm"
37. take - verb
· have sex with; archaic use; "He had taken this woman when she was most vulnerable"
Synonym(s): have
Hypernym(s): sleep_together, roll_in_the_hay, love, make_out, make_love, sleep_with, get_laid, have_sex, know, do_it, be_intimate, have_intercourse, have_it_away, have_it_off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie_with, bed, have_a_go_at_it, bang, get_it_on, bonk
38. take - verb
· lay claim to; as of an idea; "She took credit for the whole idea"
Synonym(s): claim
Hypernym(s): affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear
39. take - verb
· be designed to hold or take; "This surface will not take the dye"
Synonym(s): accept
Hypernym(s): be
40. take - verb
· be capable of holding or containing; "This box won't take all the items"; "The flask holds one gallon"
Hypernym(s): be
41. take - verb
· develop a habit; "He took to visiting bars"
42. take - verb
· proceed along in a vehicle; "We drive the turnpike to work"
Synonym(s): drive
Hypernym(s): traverse, track, cover, cross, pass_over, get_over, get_across, cut_through, cut_across
43. take - verb
· obtain by winning; "Winner takes all"; "He took first prize"
Hypernym(s): win
44. take - verb
· be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill"
Hypernym(s): sicken, come_down
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Nickleson's shot in final seconds lifts Moody girls past Ray
Trojans remain undefeated in District 31-4A
CORPUS CHRISTI - More than two hours and two gyms later, Moody finally finds itself in the driver's seat in District 31-4A.
Post Adrienne Nickleson scored the game-winning basket with 1.6 seconds remaining to push the Trojans past rival Ray, 45-43 and into sole possession of first place in the 31-4A girls basketball standings.
Moody (15-11) improved to 6-0 in district play, while the defending 31-4A co-champion Texans (19-7) fell to 5-1.
"We finally broke the dry spell against Ray and got the win we needed," said Nickleson, a senior. "Hopefully, we can continue on and win the district championship."
The game was stopped late in the first quarter with Ray holding an 11-point lead because of excessive moisture on the court — which possibly came from an air conditioner in that gym, said CCISD athletics director Brenda Marshall — and so it was moved to Moody High School's other gym.
"I don't like the outcome," Ray coach Roy DeLaPena said. "We were on fire (in the first quarter) and then we have to come over here and it changes everything. No excuses, though. It was a great game and Moody did a good job."
The Trojans used a 33-19 run to erase a 13-point first half deficit and take their first lead of the game one minute into the second quarter.
Moody later held a three-point lead, before the Texans briefly tied the game at 43 on Jasmine Gomez's 3-pointer from the left wing with 13 seconds remaining.
The Trojans threw a quick pass down court to set up Nickleson's game-winning layup, which bounced several times on the rim before going in.
"We played so bad early; it's just a great feeling," Moody coach Myra Nerios said. "We trailed until the fourth quarter. They started playing hard and started rebounding and executing. I'm just so proud of my girls."
DeLaPena said the Texans may have let their emotions get the better of them after Gomez's clutch 3-point shot near the end of the game.
"I think we celebrated a little early," DeLaPena said. "We needed to come back and play some defense."
Moody forwardTaylor Williams scored seven of her game-high 15 points in the second half, while Nickleson finished with 10 points and 10 rebounds for a double-double.
Moody point guard Alyssa Salinas, who is trying to overcome an early-season shoulder injury, scored seven of her eight points in the second half and had seven steals.
Guard Taylor Garcia and Salinas combined for the Trojans' two 3-pointers.
Jazmen Williams' nine points led Ray, which also eight points each from guards Dori Bonilla, Kathleen Bell and Gomez.
Bonilla and Gomez also combined for the Texans' four 3-pointers.
The Trojans outscored the Texans 28-18 in the second half.
The teams play again Jan. 29 at Ray High School.
Tuesday night's Ray vs. Moody 31-4A boys basketball game was rescheduled to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Ray High School because of excessive moisture on both gym floors at Moody High School, CCISD athletics director Brenda Marshall said.
Tuesday's girls freshman basketball game between those teams also wasmoved to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Ray.
Ray— Julia Benavidez 3, Kathleen Bell 8, Shanell Stewart 2, Dori Bonilla 8, Jasmine Gomez 8, Jazmen Williams 9, Erin Longoria 2, Sarah Perez 3.
Moody—Alyssa Salinas 8, Yliana Salinas 4, Adrienne Nickleson 10, Taylor Williams 15, Taylor Garcia 6, Lauren Leavell 2.
3-pointers—R, Bonilla 2, Gomez 2. M, Garcia 1, A. Salinas 1.
Records: Moody 15-11, 6-0. Ray, 19-7, 5-1.
JV:Ray won 57-36.
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