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Jyothi Mamidi Juarez, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Jyothi Mamidi Juarez, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Director, UTMB Medical & Surgical Specialties
Division of Endocrinology
Department of Internal Medicine
Friendswood Specialty Care Clinic
121 W. Parkwood,
near FM 528 & 518.
Friendswood, Texas 77546
Phone: 281.482.0303
Fax: 281.992.2909
Personal Overview
Dr. Juarez is a full time Endocrinologist at the Friendswood clinic location. She has an interest in all parts of general Endocrinology including common diabetes and thyroid care as well as pituitary disorders, osteoporosis, and parathyroid disorders. She is able to also perform thyroid ultrasounds as well as some thyroid nodule biopsies in the office. She has the advantage of working full time in one office which offers patients very personalized and accessible care as well as enjoy the academic affiliation with UTMB. She believes in thorough, compassionate, quality care of all her patients. She has enjoyed being a part of the Friendswood community both in her professional as well as personal life. She is married with three children and happily settled in Friendswood.
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The department of internal medicine is developing evidence based clinical protocols which will be available in EPIC (as order sets) for use when admitting patients with these diagnoses. Their AIM is to standardize care and decrease length of stay and readmission rates.Currently available protocols are:
- CAP - Community Acquired Pneumonia Order set
- Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Diabetic Ketoacidosis Adult, ICU
- General Medicine Admission
- Immunodeficiency Flow Panel
- MICU/CCU Admission Order Set
- Oral Analgesic Medications
- Parenteral Opioids
- Sepsis, Adult ICU
- 111 - Stroke Alert
- 112 - Stroke Activation
- 300086 - Stroke Floor Admission
- 3000000001 - Stroke Critical care without tPA
- 300088 Stroke - Transfer from Critical care to floor
- 3004002 - Stroke Discharge
All protocols can be found in the EPIC order set section.
The department of Internal Medicine has a large role in the Meaningful Use Initiative. Our participation is key for the success of the initiative. Please visit the meaningful use website for important communication and updates from the Meaningful Use Initiative.


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Alyssa Milano Not Revealing Due Date to Keep Paparazzi Stalking to a MinimumWendyM
Alyssa Milano had fans on Twitter questioning how close to her due date she is… but she's not telling!
Alyssa Milano tweeted a helpful reminder to her Twitter followers: "Don't forget to breathe. Deeply."
Natually, the curious wondered if Milano was dropping a hint to breathe deeply because she was in labor!
Alyssa was quick to set the record straight, sharing, "And no, I'm nowhere near giving birth. We have quite a bit of time left."
For those curious to find out when Alyssa Milano's due date is, she is careful not to reveal the exact timing to keep the paparazzi at bay, explaining: "FYI – we are not releasing the due date for fear of the paparazzi stalking the hospital. But… I'm under 8 months…"
And for those asking if Alyssa Milano is having twins, she assures, "And no, not having twins. Just carrying big."
I hope Alyssa is able to maintain privacy and keep the paparazzi out of her personal life. Best of luck!
Learn more about Alyssa Milano's attack on the paparazzi and bloggers, plus find out where she got the great maternity dress in the photo.
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The Flying Goose Ranch is a legacy property that has been owned by the same family for 70 years (3 generations). The property is located off Gros Ventre Road in Teton County, Wyoming, and is a forest in-holding situated on 1/2 mile of the Gros Ventre River. Surrounded by the Bridger-Teton National Forest and the Gros Ventre Wilderness Area, the ranch has easy access to over one million acres of continuous forest and wilderness lands for snowmobiling, hiking, horseback riding, hiking and more.
The improvements on the property consist of a 2 bedroom, 1 bath cabin with deck overlooking the river, an 1,100 sq. ft. 3-bay shop with tack room and small apartment, and a 200 sq. ft. wood shed. A conservation easement exists and allows the property to be split once into two separate parcels, each with development rights.
The Flying Goose Ranch consists of approximately 119 acres. The terrain varies considerably from a riparian corridor to open knolls and aspen groves interspersed with stands of conifers. With the famous Gros Ventre Red Hills and the Gros Ventre Mountain Range as a back drop, the view from every angle is spectacular and rich with contrast. Onsite fishing, abundant wildlife, privacy, and close proximity to national parks and the Town of Jackson make this a very unique opportunity.
One of Sellers is a WY real estate licensee.
Jackson Hole, Wyoming expertly pairs the romance of the Old West with a lifestyle tailored for creative individualism. A gateway to three national parks, Yellowstone, the National Elk Refuge and the magnificent Grand Tetons, this lush 60-mile-long high mountain valley is surrounded by some of the most breathtaking scenery in the United States--if not the world. En savoir plus sur les maisons de luxe Jackson Hole


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2008: Utility player who saw action in 20 games, starting eight. ...Her 12 appearances as a reserve was second highest on the team. ...Batted .103. ...One double and two singles for four total bases with singles at Tennessee (Mar. 25) and against USC Upstate (April 19) and a double against Florida Gulf Coast (Mar. 30). ... Longest hitting streak of the season was two games. Perfect four-of-four in the field in putouts. ...Member of Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team.
2007: Played in 16 games last season, started seven. ...Scored five runs. ...Had one hit against Belmont March 17 that produced her only RBI of the season.
High School: Four-year letterwinner at Sarasota High...named team MVP as a sophomore...earned the team's Pitcher's Award as a junior, and the Defensive Player Award as a senior...also earned the team's Leadership Award as a senior...competed for the Sarasota Quicksilver club team who were the 2006 Florida State Champs.
Personal: Majoring in Mass Communications with a minor in Journalism...Sports editor for school newspaper. ...Career goal of becoming an anchor on ESPN SportsCenter..Hobbies include getting pedicures, going to the beach, muddin, watching Trucks Gone Wild, slip n' slides, eating Superman ice cream, going to the rope swing, and looking for doves...Enjoys watching SportsCenter, Sharkweek, and Oprah....Favorite singers are Tim McGraw and Jack Johnson...Enjoys eating tacos, and her favorite movies are Empire Records, The Notebook, and Mean Girls...Would like to one day go to Australia and surf with the sharks...Says even though she loves muddin and camping, she is definitely a beach girl...Believes that no one knows how much she actually likes it when her roommate turns on the Disney Channel...Her nickname is Chief Little Hand...cites her iggest sports thrill as watching Kellie Sirus get a line drive to the face that broke her nose...Believes the best thing about Lady Bison softball is "the cult-like atmosphere!"...Most admires her parents for "always doing everything they could to make sure I succeeded, even if it made it harder on them"...Played high school softball with Lady Bison Kellie Sirus..Chose Lipscomb because her youth minister went here and because of the DI softball program...Has one sister, Niki (21)...Parents are Ken Haab and Donna Ham...Kaitlynn Victoria Haab was born on Oct, 23, 1987 in Margate, Fla.
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The Horseman is one decent actor drowning in a sea of hammers, knives and Queenslanders.
When a grieving father is anonymously sent a porn tape starring his dead daughter, he hunts down those involved with the sole intention of fucking them up. The result is an hour and a half of beatings, tormented screams and genital-based torture set against the hot and grimy Queensland environment.
In the film's favour, Peter Marshall is thoroughly convincing as the self-harming father who, in between his bouts of sadistic violence, manages to forge a friendship with teenage hitchhiker Alice (Caroline Marohasy). But apart from this, The Horseman ignores any deeper moral questions to follow an ugly, linear path of violence, suffering and, oh, more violence.
Ultimately, it's not the actual content that is disturbing, more the motivation of writer and director Steven Kastrissios in making such a sickening film.
Violent dad revenge thriller. Have any been good?
Blood plus screams plus mutilation equals seat squirming.
One decent actor drowning in a sea of hammers, knives and Queenslanders.
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Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
Posté le 10.16.2014 dans par wcie.
Thanks to the technologies developed in the area of OTEC, DCNS will ensure that tropical marine regions that are not connected to continental power networks will be able to achieve energy independence.
Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) is based on the principle of exploiting the temperature gradient in tropical seas between the surface seawater (around 25°C) and the waters at depth (around 5°C at about 1,000 metres). This temperature gradient allows the continuous production of electricity. In the medium term, OTEC will help to respond to the growing need for electricity in regions located in the tropics and ensure their future energy independence. This innovative solution is effectively a green alternative to so-called "fossil" fuels (gas, coal), which are still used extensively on isolated sites that are not connected to continental power networks. DCNS is now able to offer two complementary turnkey ocean thermal energy conversion solutions: one floating offshore solution that allows the production of 16 MW, and a land-based solution with a capacity of 7 MW. The Group is developing a floating OTEC power plant in Martinique, in the frame of the NEMO project (New Energy for Martinique and Overseas), which obtained a European grant in July 2014.


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Trade concidered for:BPL cocoon hoody mens large or X-lrgRAB xenon mens X-lrgRegards,John
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I didn't realize non-mbrs were no longer able to post. If a non paying mbr is interested, send me an email@example.com,Johnlooking for: cocoon hoody in large or x-large rab xenon hoody in med or large mld duomid
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Will also like to trade for zpacks hexamid
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I'm assuming that this only includes the outer shelter, and not the inner mesh nest, correct?
Hi Adam,You are correct. Per the listing "Shelter, pole and stakes" Thanks for your interest!Regards,John
Still have this tent for sale? Is it the old bright orange Hex 3? Or the first wave of the Shangri La in the bamboo yellow? Hard to tell from the stuff sack pic what color it is.
Forgot to add, I have an XL MontBell Alpine Lite down parka I'd trade for it. Worn a few times, but mostly hangs in my closet, its like new.
the SL-3 is bamboo yellow. Price drop to $150.00 shippedin the CONUS Regards,John
Sent you a PM.Thanks,Nick
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Last year, after the now infamous string of suicides that took place at one of its factories (not that such things didn't happen again), Foxconn decided it would be better off with robots as employees.
Exorcisms, increased pay, transfers and safety nets failed to solve the problem, so the company started making Foxbots.
That brings us to this: the first 10,000 Foxbots have been activated, and the company intends to have 20,000 more by the end of the year (2012).
After that, the company will keep outfitting its Chinese factories with the robots until it has replaced at least 1,000,000 human employees.
We suppose some employees will be fired, with a token few kept to maintain the robots themselves.
No doubt, the company would like to replace everyone somehow, but the robots can only perform repetitive and relatively simple tasks, like lifting, selecting and placement.
Smartphones, tablets and other devices that need intricate assembly will keep demanding real workers for a long time.


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Leslie Alexander
Leslie Alexander assumed ownership of the Houston Rockets on July 30, 1993, and over 20 years has devoted his efforts to making his teams champions both on the basketball court and in the community. Alexander's dedication to winning has resulted in two NBA championships with the Rockets and four WNBA titles during his 10-year (1997-2006) operation of the Houston Comets, giving Houston its first major professional sports championships. Only three other NBA teams have posted more winning seasons than the Rockets (16) during Alexander's tenure as owner. Additionally, Houston's winning percentage (.557, 886-706) is the seventh best in the league over that same 20-season time frame. Off the court, the Rockets franchise has set the standard for community involvement.
"I've always believed that sports teams are in the unique position to make a real difference in their communities," Alexander said. "When I bought the Rockets, that was my dream. I hoped to make a difference for the people of Houston, both emotionally and financially."
In 2008, Forbes recognized the integral role Alexander has played in his team's success by naming him the NBA's best owner. Alexander was also named by SI.com (Sports Illustrated) as one of the five best owners in the league in 2008-09. Alexander, who has held the longest ownership tenure in franchise history, continues to strive for peak success both on and off the court.
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Daryl Morey
General Manager
Daryl Morey enters his eighth season with the Houston Rockets and his seventh as the team's head of all basketball operations. Morey, who officially assumed his current position on May 10, 2007, previously served as the team's Assistant General Manager after joining the organization on Apr. 3, 2006. He was re-signed as the team's General Manager and Managing Director of Basketball Operations on Sept. 25, 2009.
Since moving into the role of General Manager, Morey has built a Rockets team that has gone a combined 272-204 (.571) over the last six seasons and has set a number of team records. Morey, who has spearheaded an innovative integration of statistical analytics into the evaluation of NBA talent, has earned votes from his peers for 2008-09 and 2012-13 NBA Executive of the Year. He earned selection to the SportsBusiness Journal Forty Under 40 Class of 2010, which honors the most promising young executives in sports business under the age of 40. In 2010, ESPN.com named the Rockets Basketball Operations as one of the two best management teams in all of basketball. Morey's ability to manage and bolster the Rockets roster earned him YAHOO.com Executive of the Year accolades in 2008-09. He was named "Top 50 Most Influential in Basketball" in 2009 by HOOPSWORLD. Morey was also recognized in 2009 as one of "The 10 Most Creative People in Sports" by Fast Company magazine. His articles on sports analytics have been published in leading publications such as Harvard Business Review, The Economist and Grantland.
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Tad Brown
Chief Executive Officer
Thaddeus "Tad" Brown enters his 12th season with the organization, and his eighth as Chief Executive Officer of the Houston Rockets and Clutch City Sports & Entertainment. Brown oversees all facets of the organization's business operations relating to the Rockets and Toyota Center. He also works with Owner Leslie Alexander to set strategic goals and analyze future growth opportunities for the franchise, and serves as Alexander's representative and Alternate Governor on the NBA Board of Governors.
During his tenure, Brown has been instrumental in forging strong relationships with community leaders, as well as developing and building the organization's key partnerships. The business team has thrived under Brown's guidance, setting Toyota Center records for sellouts, attendance, total events and customer satisfaction. His efforts to make the organization an industry leader in customer service and convenience also led to the introduction of Flash Seats, an innovative paperless ticketing system that allows season ticket holders and concert goers the ability to manage their tickets online.


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We are now finishing an thematic world atlas on which I have worked for the last 2½ years. We are doing the French and English version simultaneously and it's meant to be translated in a number of foreign languages.
Sometimes, when I don't have the place to put the entire name of a country or to identify the country who "owns" a territory, I have to put the ISO code instead. So, we have "Greenland (DK)" or "BIH" instead of Bosnia and Herzegovina. I know well that it's not always easy to decode (Croatia's code is HRV...), but it allows us to have an unique identifier no matter what is the language since it's from the International Standardization Organisation.
Like they say themselves: The existence of various country codes developed by different organizations can be confusing if you exchange goods or information in our ever more integrated world. To make sure that communication works you need an accepted, up-to-date country code standard. and it's the reason why we chose it.
I though it was settled, but I just visited their website to chech something and found this statement:
All rights reserved. The material on ISO Online is subject to the same conditions of copyright as ISO publications, and its use is subject to the user's acceptance of ISO's conditions of copyright for ISO publications, as set out below. Any use of the material, including reproduction in whole or in part to another Internet site, requires permission in writing from ISO.
All ISO publications are protected by copyright. Therefore and unless otherwise specified, no part of an ISO publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, microfilm, scanning, without permission in writing from the publisher.
What do you think? Is our utilisation of the codes on our maps illegal? If we put a list with the mention of the ISO, is it ok? Both my head and my heart tell me that we couldn't use it, but my 3 weeks deadline tells me that it would be the worst 3 weeks of my existence if I had to change everything because I already don't have enough time to re-check everything like I should...


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SUE PEAKS. The Sue Peaks are just inside the Big Bend National Park boundary fifteen miles northeast of Panther Junction in southeastern Brewster County (at 29°25' N, 102°59' W). The higher of the two peaks has an elevation of 5,854 feet above sea level; its neighbor to the northwest has an elevation of 5,845 feet above sea level. The peaks rise 2,050 feet above Telephone Canyon, two miles south. Shallow, stony soils support oak, juniper, and some mesquite.
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article."SUE PEAKS," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/rjs66), accessed October 06, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.


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Family Dollar plans to close 300-plus stores, according to the company website.
The company is working to finalize the store closure plan and will disclose information on impacted locations at the appropriate time, according to Bryn R. Winburn, public & media relations manager for the company.
"Family Dollar is taking decisive action to better position the Company to succeed in an adverse operating environment," Winburn said in a statement to Daily Tribune Media."The company recently conducted a comprehensive review to identify measures to provide customers with more value, increase operational efficiency and improve financial performance.
"As part of this review, Family Dollar has made the decision to close approximately 370 stores across the country."
Central Wisconsin stores include Adams, Mosinee, Wild Rose, Wautoma, Iola, Westfiled, Wausau, Mauston, Neillsville and Tomah, according to company website.


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Kelowna Obituaries
PETERS, Peter (Pete)
Passed away on November 3, 2012 at the age of 97 years. Dad was sadly predeceased two and half months ago by his loving wife and companion of almost 72 years, Maria. He is survived by five children: Gorden (Shirley) Peters, Martha (Harry) Koop, Frank (Shirley) Peters, Gloria (George) Boyle, Frances (Albert) Lemire; eleven grandchildren; numerous great grandchildren; one great great grandchild; his sister, Suzanna Peters and brother Abe Peters. Many thanks to the staff at Sutherland Hills for their excellent care of our Father. A Memorial Service will be held on Friday, November 16, 2012 at 10:30am at The Church of God, 3705 Mission Springs Drive, Kelowna.
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At MOO we've always considered creativity important, and we're constantly amazed at the creativity of our customers.
As you know, we share ideas through our blog and in the MOOsLETTER (you can sign up in the box on the right). We also share speedy links we've spotted on Twitter – and keep a long-term library of links on Delicious.
Part of the reason we like to share all this, is because – like you – we know ideas don't just generate themselves! We can all use a little inspiration sometimes.
So, whether you are looking for new marketing ideas – perhaps a refresh for your email newsletter or new stand for a trade show – passion, …Continue reading this article…
Those of you who follow us on Twitter will be aware that over the past few months we've been looking for a steady stream of people to come to MOO HQ to help us test new developments on the site. We're sure it doesn't take a genius to add two and two together and figure that we've got lots of changes planned, to roll out over the next few months.
There will be lots more information on that to follow but in the meantime, the first fruit of this major update is ready to be unveiled…
Photo Enhancement
Our motto is "We love to print". And we mean it. More importantly though, we love to print at the highest quality possible, making …Continue reading this article…
We're rather lucky here at MOO because we get to meet a load of interesting people. One day we're meeting MOOsters (like illustrator and designer, Ookhah) who generously provided feedback on an upcoming product. Other days, we're meeting professional photographers like Ian who shared his insights on setting up an exhibition. Other times, our offices become a meeting point for start-ups looking to exchange ideas or even challenge us in a snowball fight.
A month ago, I met Michelle from another Providence-based business, BatchBlue, who help make running a small business a little less stressful. She told us about what she and the BatchBlue crew had been up to. Rather than explaining it myself, we …Continue reading this article…
As you may be aware, a large volcano erupted in Iceland yesterday, halting air traffic across most of Northern Europe. Sadly this does have a negative impact on some MOO deliveries.
All international mail, leaving our UK warehouse, is subject to 24-48 hour delays. Please be a little extra patient in waiting for your MOO's to drop through the door – they will arrive as soon as they can!
We do try extremely hard to fix problems as they arise, but even our mighty MOO warehouse crew can't fix an erupting volcano.
Around this time of the academic year, final year degree students in the world of art, design and photography start thinking about the future. Usually, it's the very near future – end of year shows are looming large. The hard work and late nights will start to kick in, along with the questions. What work to show? How best to present it? How to get noticed in a show full of classmates, friends, and sometimes rivals?
Advice from those in the know
We spoke to Ian Macaulay, photography tutor at the …Continue reading this article…
We love it when people share their creative tips for using MOO – like this one, from Jeannie, at Equinox Photography. She mailed in to tell us about her Fortune Cookie MiniCards, and we thought it would be nice to share them with you too.
She says: "I wanted something different that would be a great conversation starter to use on cards promoting my photography business. So I came up with a few 'fortunes', some from existing fortunes that I had saved and some I just made up. I thought it would look cool to mimic the printing of a fortune paper that you'd find in a cookie, so …Continue reading this article…
As many of you have already guessed, yes, we were kidding when we said we were launching new, limited edition 'Back to Front' Business Cards. If you would like such a card, feel free to flip your regular Double Sided Business Cards over and hand them out with your details presented face up, picture on the back. Magic!
Thanks so much for all the great responses to our little April Fools' Joke. We had a lot of fun making it.
One thing we weren't joking about was the discount. We really have got 10% off ALL MOO Business Cards – the 'Classic' matte laminated card, and the new Green stock.
Simply place your order before Midnight …Continue reading this article…
There's been much excitement in the MOO office of late. It's been hard not to tweet about it, but for once we've managed to keep our excitement under wraps. The Business Card world is a cut throat market – as soon as word of a new product gets out, other companies go for imitation not innovation. This time we wanted our latest innovation to arrive on the market as fresh as the proverbial daisy.
The recent past: MOO's exciting range of products
For a long time now, MOO has championed the cost effective, double sided Business Card. You can upload up to 50 different images on the front – your photography, your designs, your clever marketing slogans or your product …Continue reading this article…
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Cool video of NYC and David Byrne. Stylish, a rock star and a positive person on a bicycle.
Another David, a friend of mine, once said to me my positiveness was intense*
I know I'm not alone.
I have not *yet - posted the book review, lecture, but that will come. Like slow cooking, this is slowly coming, k?!
That kick-stand background beat, was the also the soundtrack for me, in the first part of the Marin recent ride. Clank-clank what is that?!.... clank.
:) enjoy!
GoogleReader tip/hat to GoodProblem
Thursday, October 15, 2009
We will get there.
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DVDxDV Pro for Mac User Reviews
Very good
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"Outstanding Product and support"
Version: DVDxDV Pro 1.082
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
DVDxDV is a fantastic piece of software. It's easy to use and it has helped me build my show reel by takeing clips from various DVDs. The quality is superior to other so called DVD converters.
It's helped me get jobs! Keep up the great work guys!
"Can't Live Without it!"
Version: DVDxDV Pro 1.082
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
We use the product everyday to pull video from DVDs and bring it into our editing system. It's an amazing product that saves us hours of work we would otherwise have to spend capturing the video from a DVD player. The quality is amazing.
"Garbage Software"
Version: DVDxDV Pro 1.082
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Garbage Software I downloaded the demo and it kept crashing on a dual G5tower with 1.5g ram running OSX 10.4.7
"Prompt support; easy to use product"
Version: DVDxDV Pro 1.08
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I had a 500 G La Cie hard drive (2 weeks new) fail mechanically with about 300 G of avi files on it. Fortunately I had some DVDs with the unedited files compressed on them. I was able to easily extract the filesfrom the DVDs and make the movies I wanted to make.
This was very important to me because i'm taking the movies to two elderly relatives. The files were of 8MM movies over 60 years old. My movies will bring them great joy, and I was able to make the movies in spite of the HD disaster.Thanks DVDxDV !
Tech support was VERY prompt when I had a question about the program.
"Saved my butt"
Version: DVDxDV Pro 1.033
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
A client just brought me 6 DVDs of source video material, and needed a new edit, burned on a new DVD, the next day. In a desperate search, I found this app, and honestly, I would not have been able to meet the deadline without it. Each DVD (about 1 hour and 45 minutes of content each) took about an hour and a half to rip. The interface could use a little aquafication, but it's completely manageable. The ONLY gotcha is the resulting file sizes. The files ripped by this app are pretty big (i.e. a 1 hour DVD ripped into a 14gig file). As long as you've prepped the room on your drive, this app will save your data, and your butt.
"Support now back on track"
Version: DVDxDV Pro 1.022
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Am now getting excellent support regarding further updates through mac.com. My previous email server must have somehow been blocking their support messages, but I certainly cannot figure out why. Excellent product, and now excellent support.
"DVDxDV Pro Support is Excellent"
Version: DVDxDV Pro 1.022
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Every issue I have e-mailed them about has elicited a prompt, courteous and professional response. This has been a terrificly useful app for me and it just gets better and better.
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Mariel Fiori holds a copy of La Voz.
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Her resume says journalist, but to call Mariel Fiori just a journalist is like calling Penelope Cruz just an actress.
True, she started her personal journey by using her considerable talents and experience as a writer and radio and television producer to make a living in Argentina. Those skills gave her meaningful work when the road took her to Spain as well. But the real story for Mariel began when she came to the Hudson Valley in 2003.
Limited in her ability to earn an income due to her visa status, Mariel volunteered to write as a Spanish-language columnist for The Citizen, a monthly magazine ...


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Ministers should consider scrapping the oldest and dirtiest diesels in the UK to improve air quality.That's according to the RAC Foundation, which has called for the most polluting models – those around 10 years or older – to be taken off the road.
In a new report, the Foundation claims that there are 29,000 premature deaths every year due to air quality. And now it's calling on the Government to do something to lower harmful pollutants, which can cause serious illnesses like asthma, heart conditions and cancer.
The popularity of diesel cars has soared in the last 20 years. Lower CO2 emissions and better fuel economy, plus Vehicle Excise Duty and company car incentives, have seen numbers rise from 1.6m in 1994 to 10.1 million in 2013.
• Congestion Charge up 15 per cent
But older diesels typically emit more nitrogen oxide and particulate matter than petrol cars, and these are linked to poor air quality and health issues. "Many people believed that by buying diesels they'd get better fuel consumption and help fight global warming through low CO2 emissions," Prof. Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, explained.
"But such was the focus on the planet that policy makers missed the impact older diesel models in particular have on health in urban areas. The car industry has risen to the challenge of cleaning up diesel engines but we need to deal with the legacy of the dirtiest diesels."
• Hybrid car servicing on the up
A spokesman from the Department for Transport told us that there are no current plans to introduce such a scheme and that other projects were already helping to improve air quality. He said: "There have been major improvements in air quality over the past two decades, and we're investing £2billion on a range of actions to improve it further. These include promoting ultra-low emission vehicles, greener public transport, walking and cycling."
Do what China are doing and scrap 6 million cars that are old and rubbish on the mpg and destroying the air quality. Anything below £1500 should be scrapped asap
Quite a few interesting statements in this article.
"But older diesels typically emit more nitrogen oxide and particulate matter than petrol cars" - whilst true if focused on old v old. It is not so clear cut when we start focusing on modern cars as well.
The statement about cleaning up diesels is not 100% true. Many diesels still have issues surrounding NOx emissions, even modern ones as has been proven by many studies. The focus was on particulates for Euro V not so much on NOx emissions. Plus additionally because of the changes in technology from manufacturers for petrols the EU has put particulate limits on petrols to for Euro VI.
Additionally the other post about getting rid of cars below £1500 because of low MPG's is actually somewhat hilariously inaccurate there are some old cars with excellent MPG's 106 1.4 not fast or luxury but silly MPG same goes for the original MK1 Honda Insight can achieve 90 + MPG.
Maybe im being dumb here, current/new diesel cars are lower tax due to lower CO2 etc,ok..... then again diesel emit more nitrogen oxide than petrol cars so how can diesel cars be cleaner than petrol ?? i dont agree with anything below £1500 should be scrapped as my car a 2003 Lexus IS200 may not even be worth that, if it is now then i wont be when i change cars next year. if government want to do that, they can always pay for my upgrade to lets say a 2009 Lexus IS250 :) didnt think so ! LOL
Scrapping old dirty diesels is not such a bad idea. I see old diesel cars quite often spewing visible smoke and stinking up the whole place.
Quite recently I've seen a Polo 1.9L diesel and a Ford Ka. Small cars causing big damage to the air quality. It is absolutely disgraceful!
However the government probably should do something about the new diesel cars as well. Lower (CO2-only-based) taxes add appeal to diesel cars in addition to their apparent lower running costs. That means another few years down the road we'll be talking of another scrap scheme.
Not much point in this really, as don't most cars get scrapped around the 9-10 year old mark anyway?
Most stuff past 2005 has a DPF fitted as standard too.
I suppose it wouldn't hurt to get rid of non-DPF equipped diesels, but then where does it end, getting rid of Euro IV with DPF too? Arguably they're quite dirty, but still quite new cars in most cases.
So what about old trucks and construction equipment, mobile cranes, are currently running on red diesel, are not limited to drivers hours and dont need tachographs, they dont get mot'd so their emission are not checked, and they are classed as plant vehicles and as such are only £165 a year to tax, so remember next time you see one belching down the road, he is not paying duty on the fuel he is using, he may have been behind the wheel for a long time, and his road tax is probably cheaper than yours..
so first time drivers and buyers have to drive around in expensive to buy and expensive to insure cars because you want to see every car under 1500 scraped, what a load of bull
No they don't have to buy expensive new cars. what am saying is that those cars under 1500 are a danger. No one knows what history the car has and also the cost of the insurance is worth more than the car. Also many of those cars the owners have no insurance and are a liability to those that pay insurance.
Diesels go on far longer than petrol cars - little A2 TDI has just passed 200,000 miles on same exhaust system, no engine trouble and still gets 80+ mpg (UK). There are not many petrol cars that owners keep throwing money at past 10 years if they do lots of miles.
Let's not forget the 1999 VW Lupo 3L and 2001 Audi A2 1.2 TDI (81 g/km CO2 and genuine 100 mpg UK if you are careful!)
I'm sorry but you can't judge a car by how much it costs thats just stupid & a inaccurate assumption, I can find many cars For Sale on the used car Market that cost less than £1000 with Full Service history Receipts in immaculate Condition with Plenty of years Trouble Free Motoring Life in them, So what you are Saying is total utter Rubbish sorry & How can you Say that anyone who Drives a car worth less than £1500 is Driving around with no insurance What a Senseless Statement.
**The Government & The Car Manufacturers are The Biggest Bull***** in the World, They Make Out they Care about People & The Environment Ha Your Kidding Me Aren't You, All they both Care about is Making Money & Lots of It, The Car Manufacturers want Everyone to keep Buying there Latest Cars & They Don't care if you can't afford it or get in Debt, & As If they Care About The Environment if they Did they Wouldn't be in the Car Manufacturing Business, it is Much More Environmentally Friendly to keep Older Cars going Than Keep putting More & More cars on the Road, The Amount of Damage Caused to the Environment by Disposing of Cars There Engines/Oil/Metal/Glass/Plastic & Other Non Recyclable Parts is Enormous, yes Alot of people will Argue Alot of these Parts are recyclable but it costs alot of Money & Pollution to do this Recycling in the First Place, & Then there Putting Millions of Cars on the Roads That all give out Tones of Pollution & Lie & Make out there Cleaner than they Actually Are There Oil Burning Combustion Engines they Pollute The Air Tremendously No Matter How Many Filters you put on them & The Government Just Wants all Your Money & They Won't Stop Thinking of New Ways to get it either, They'll just keep Making New Taxes & Fees & Insurances & So called Safety Laws Resulting in Fining People.
**There's Already a Scrappage Scheme For All Cars Petrol & Diesel included It's Called the Scrappage Scheme.
Instead of hiding behind an Identity. Tell me your name. Tell me what car do you drive if any. I'll put this too you. The vast majority of cars the police pull over and mainly destroy on the campdown of uninsured drivers etc are these such vehicles and also why do the insurance companies charge more for older vehicles compared to newer ones
It's pretty pointless getting sanctimonious about people using their real name. doing so is usually a barrel scraping ad hominem argument that people use when they've go nothing else. A real name makes zero difference to the point being made, and there is nothing to prove that "Michael Simpkins" is your real name anyway.
So come down off the high horse.
There are relatively very very few large plant vehicles, and taking them all off the road today would make negligible difference which is why the mass use vehicles are being addressed.
Diesel = dirty carcinogenic sooty stuff being carried right into town centres and being blasted out directly onto our faces.
What a stupid statement... My 2005 Astra 1.6 is probably worth £1500 at most, its got 90k miles on it, is serviced and MOTed every year and is still as flawless as the day I bought it. Yes it gets at most 40mpg but my round trip to work is only 14 miles and I'm not exactly in a position to get a newer car...
They might be capable of going on for much longer (although newer designs with high BHP figures can be more temperamental), but our collective obsession with new metal still means that perfectly good, serviceable cars go to the crusher because they're not worth anything. Just check out the figures for mainstream cars on the How Many Left website.
The car industry has risen to the challenge of cleaning up diesel engines
No they haven't - then just store up all the soot and then boot it out when you're in the countryside! Our emissions based road tax should be on ALL emissions, not just CO2 - look at the reviews of diesel cars in this very mag to see how much CO2 diesels ACTUALLY put out rather than the lying claims. Compare this to the relatively accurate petrol figures.
What a ridiculously elitist attitude to have, given the running costs of a vehicle in the UK many people have no option but to run low value cars. It doesn't necessarily mean they are dangerous. Personally I have recently bought a 2002 SAAB 9-5 Aero Estate with 70K miles on the clock, one owner and full SAAB service history for the miniscule sum of £1350. Its fantastic value and a safe family load lugger. I bought the car out of choice rather than necessity as its more important to me to have a functional and safe car than a fancy phallic symbol in some sort of attempt to impress other around me.
Er how do you believe large structures are built, or roads are repaired, or rail lines are laid, how many large plant vehicles where used in the centre of London to build Olympic Park or Wembley, or what about HS2, every time you see events televised with an ariel view, its most likely from a large cherry picker, and as I stated they are all running on agricultural diesel, with no emission regulations in place whatsoever, at least a car or HGV or a bus have to comply to pass an MOT.
its surprising how we haven't yet switched to hydrogen, with all the technology we have.


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Michigan Judge Dismisses His Own Traffic Tickets
Did you hear the joke about Jackson County, Michigan speeding tickets? Here it is:
What is a foolproof way to get out of any speeding ticket in Jackson County?
Become a judge.
According to a story from mlive.com, Jackson County District Judge James M. Justin used the power of his office to dismiss nine traffic cases against himself and his wife. Here's an excerpt:
Court records show Justin, who faces an ongoing judicial misconduct investigation, dismissed four illegal-parking tickets he received from 2002 to 2004.
The tickets were "dismissed after explanation" to himself.
Justin also dismissed five traffic tickets, most for speeding, received by his wife, Kim R. Justin, between 1999 and 2009.
The nine tickets carried potential fines and costs of $751, according to court documents.
Not surprisingly, the judge is looking for a slap on the wrist:
Justin acknowledges he was wrong but his actions warrant no more than a reprimand, said Dennis Kolenda, a Grand Rapids attorney and retired judge who represents Justin in the misconduct case.
Interestingly, the excuse that the judge used confirms that the current system sets up roadblocks to fighting tickets:
Justin decided to rule on the tickets himself to avoid the practical difficulties of "doing it the right way," Kolenda said.
The judge probably isn't sweating his ethics review too much though:
Justin continues to collect his $138,272 salary during his suspension.
These kind of stories and the popularity of other types of professional courtesy (police officers letting other police officers out of their tickets) feed the public's distrust in the traffic enforcement system.
One of the key promises of the judicial system is that everyone is treated equally. We can't accept actions like these from anyone, especially a judge.
You deserve every speeding ticket you get. You can complain all you want after the fact, but it's true. Find out why.
It's one of the "great" American past times: complaining about unfair speeding tickets. There are two types of people when it comes to complaining about this particular type of traffic ticket. Which group are you in?


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That's what I was thinking about...
Thanks man.
PS-I'm opening console all the time to reconnect.Game doesn't load on it's own anymore.
That's what I was thinking about...
Thanks man.
PS-I'm opening console all the time to reconnect.Game doesn't load on it's own anymore.
That sounds like a server side issue with the game that can't be fixed until the bug is reported in your area. If I were you, I would go into the bug section of the forum and look for similar problems. If you can't find it you should start a new thread explaining your issue in full so quake live techs can fix your issue.
That hud changing collapsed on one simple thing:before command loadhud,there is a symbol ; but on Czech keyboard this is also the button for opening/closing console...
Anyway,thanks for your time.
instead of using ; just hit enter after each command. You will have to do 1 command at a time instead of all at once.
cg_hudfiles ui/hudname.cfg (press enter)
loadhud (press enter)
*close console and join game*
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Nope,it says unknown command.Look I am getting tired sick of this sh!t,it is not THAT important to have it.
Regards,Yodocq out.
It's been along time since I have use windows but i think the files are in program files, you can use the search tool. Also if you can't change your hud through console do it via quakelive folder, in repconfig replace cg_hudfiles with your hud name. Good luck!
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dont change weapon bar position, who konws console command?
help plz)
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It crashed automaticlly LOL
Anyone here play Q3? Eh, I am not FULLY into it but it has its times. Anyway I am always on the Raz3r Fr33ze Server. Name: Kenny
Name of blog will be ExKennyKiller
Consists of: Maps for QL and Q3, Full Version of Q3 (not pirated) just have to pay a bit in some way.
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The Scandinavian Human Rights Committee has handed Alliance Defending Freedom the 2012 Human Dignity Award, saying ADF has "truly become a global force."
According to an ADF press release, the award is presented to a person or organization that has made a special contribution to human rights. Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Roger Kiska, who lives in Croatia, accepted the award on behalf of his firm.
"The protection of freedom, life and family are essential to human dignity in any society," he contends. "That's what's behind the work of Alliance Defending Freedom and why we are humbled to receive this award.
"The work we do worldwide to protect and preserve religious freedom, the sanctity of human life and marriage and family is a great honor and responsibility."
ADF has worked tirelessly in an environment not always friendly to Christians in courts and in legislatures in Europe to defend the faith and work for passage of legislation to protect religious freedom, the rights of conscience and other fundamental human rights.
News stories each weekday from reporters you can trust without the liberal bias found in much of "mainstream" media.
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Jostens has presented the 2009 Elmer Duerst Award to Jostens representative and Ooltewah, Tennessee resident, Beth Mahaffey. Mahaffey was selected for her innovative spirit and extraordinary commitment to serving schools. Jostens also cited her team leadership, delivery of services to educators and new product introductions to help students recognize achievement and affiliation as reasons for the award.
Jostens' Area Manager Steve Rossi says, "Beth has absolutely been outstanding this year in all aspects of her job serving schools. She is identified as a leader within the Jostens' sales organization in the way she helps schools reach their mission."
As a Jostens' representative, Mahaffey helps support the mission of each school she serves, working with educators to inspire and motivate students to make the most of their school years through graduation.
"We have a great opportunity to make a positive difference and are involved in some of the most important events in the lives of students and their families," said Beth Mahaffey, Jostens. "Receiving the Elmer Duerst Award from Jostens only reinforces the importance of education, educators and our schools."
Nominations for The Elmer Duerst Award are made by the Jostens' Sales organization and management team. While a number of representatives are nominated each year, only one individual is recognized with the Elmer Duerst Award. Elmer Duerst devoted a lifetime to helping schools, students, and Jostens' representatives become successful. He served first as a teacher and coach, then as a long-time Jostens representative in Wisconsin and Nevada, and finally as a legendary sales trainer for Jostens.
About Jostens
Minneapolis-based Jostens is a provider of products, programs and services that help people inspire achievement and preserve memories. The company's products include school yearbooks and memory books, OurHubbub™ brand MemoryBooks, scholastic products such as class rings and graduation products, and products for athletic champions and their fans. Jostens is a subsidiary of Visant Corporation, a marketing and publishing services enterprise servicing the school affinity, direct marketing, fragrance and cosmetics sampling and educational publishing market segments.


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A holiday tradition. Inez and Brenda look forward to this dish on Rosh Hashana
Preheat 375 F. Wash chicken and dry thoroughly. Season with salt, pepper, ginger and ancho powder. Place skin side up in a shallow pan. Spread the marmalade over the chicken and pour the apple juice and orange juice into the pan. Bake 20 minutes.
Remove from the oven and add the apricots and currants to the pan, mixing the fruit evenly. Sprinkle the chicken and fruit with the brown sugar. Bake and baste often, until the chicken is golden brown and shiny on top, 40-45 minutes.
Remove the chicken and fruit to a platter. Pour some of the pan juices over and serve the remaining sauce on the side.
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This is a quick easy and elegant entree.
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Rank Landscape Reports allow you to design specific SEO campaign targets based on real keyword ranking data.
In other words, it's one very big step closer to answering:
"What, precisely, do I need to do to rank well for these keywords?"
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With Ontolo Rank Landscape Reports, we help you design specific SEO campaign targets based on real keyword ranking data.
First, we collect the top 1,000 web pages that rank for your top keywords.
Next, we crawl, collect and store dozens of key metrics for those ranking pages, including PageRank scores, SEOmoz scores, keyword density scores, and more.
Finally, we give you the tools to analyze that data in dozens of ways. As you analyze the data, you will be able to create specific link building and content optimization targets for your SEO campaigns.
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When creating Rank Landscape Reports,
there are four simple settings to configure.
Most often, you will choose a group of keywords that you are targeting on a single page of your web site. For this demo, we will choose the three "gear"-related keywords:
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Next, you choose which report you wish to run. Each report will generate charts and graphs based on the collective, top-ranking search results for the keywords you have selected. For this demo, we will analyze SEOmoz's Authority scores.
Next, you choose how many of the top search results to analyze, anywhere from the top 10 to the top 1,000. To start we will set this to the top 1,000 search results.
Finally, once you have several months of reports - and Rank Landscape Reports are a monthly subscription - you may choose the date of the report you wish to analyze.
Focusing & Narrowing Your Analysis
Because Rank Landscapes change from keyword to keyword, you will want to drill down into specific reports to interpret the best SEO campaign targets.
Here is an example of how you might drill down into SEOmoz's URL Authority score in order to find the most effective URL Authority Target to set for your SEO campaign.
Here, you can see that the distribution of URL Authority follows a particular trend when analyzing the top 1,000 Results.
Narrowing in to the top 100 results, you see an even stronger correlation.
Finally, looking at the top 20 results, you can see the strongest correlation and target - 59 - to use for a link building campaign.
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After identifying the range of search results which is most useful for your SEO campaign target, you can find the specific value by running the Metric Targets report for those same keywords and number of search results.
Here we see that our target for SEOmoz URL Authority is a 59. What this means is that we will want to build high-authority links directly to the "Rock Climbing Gear" page of our website until we obtain an SEOmoz URL Authority score of 59.
Finally, the Metric Targets report allows you to see how your scores compare to your competitors.
Here, we can clearly see that REI is performing well on this keyword, while bouldering.com is falling short.
To thoroughly design an SEO campaign, you would then go through this same process for each of the other most important metrics you decide on for your SEO campaign.
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'The Leopard': An Intimate Epic's Unlikely Grace
By TERRENCE RAFFERTY
Published: June 6, 2004
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IT was an age of epics. In the late 1950's and early 1960's, with television on the rise, and the film industry fearing the decline of its power, the movies decided to puff out their chest, draw up to their full height and remind their audience just how big they could be. Hence, "Ben-Hur" (1959), "Spartacus" (1960), "El Cid" (1961), "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962), "Doctor Zhivago" (1965) and too many others.
In 1963, Luchino Visconti's historical drama "The Leopard" ("Il Gattopardo") — out this week on a triple-disc Criterion DVD, its first appearance ever on home video — seemed to fit right into the era's prevailing aesthetic of gigantism. It was set in Sicily in the early 1860's, toward the end of the long, turbulent period of revolution, civil war and national unification known to Italians as the risorgimento. The movie's cast was headed by a major American star (Burt Lancaster), a dashing young Frenchman (Alain Delon) and a ripe Italian lovely (Claudia Cardinale); it had a stirring battle — Garibaldi's victory at Palermo in 1860 — and an eye-popping fancy dress ball; it ran, in its original version, just a shade over three hours.
But "The Leopard," imposing as it was, was never the same sort of beast as the other so-called epics of its time. Its bearing was different: stately, self-assured, yet strangely uninsistent. The movie, like its complex hero, the Prince of Sabina (Lancaster), seems to understand that self-assertion is ultimately useless — that there's really not much point to strutting around, sticking your fat finger in everyone's chest and bellowing "Do you know who I am?," which is essentially what the movies were doing in those panicky days.
Watching the film today, you can't help wondering what the executives at 20th Century Fox — which released it in the United States — said to themselves when they realized that they had bought not an action epic like "Ben-Hur" but a three-hour meditation on mutability and mortality, with a middle-aged, profoundly fatalistic aristocrat as its hero. They must have looked at one another, nodded and said, "Let's cut it," because that's what they did. The third disc of the Criterion edition contains the "Leopard" that American audiences saw in 1963: poorly dubbed, trimmed by better than 20 minutes and equipped with an introductory note explaining (sort of) who Garibaldi was. It seems clear, 40 years later, that nothing the studio could have done would have made much difference in the film's commercial prospects. And, surprisingly, although the American-release "Leopard" is less fluid and enveloping than the full-length version, the film's delicate, almost fragile sensibility somehow survives the studio's strenuous efforts to coarsen it; the picture, it turns out, has a tough, stubbornly unalterable core. All Fox proved — inevitably — was that "The Leopard" could not change its spots.
The complete, Italian-language "Leopard" (the first disc of the DVD) is distinctly an old man's film, ornery, a little set in its ways: it moves at its own pace, and, if it is not entirely serene in its wisdom, it is at least resigned to the idea that this vision of life is the fullest it will achieve. Actually, it's a film whose vision is prematurely aged: Visconti was 56 when "The Leopard" had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival — where it won the Palme d'Or — and Lancaster was not quite 50. The Prince is just 45. He seems older, though, not only because he carries the responsibility of a patriarch (he has seven children), but also because he looks at the world with such extraordinary detachment; he's an avid amateur astronomer, who enjoys gazing at the stars and contemplating the infinite. He's not a romantic (he is, he says, "completely without illusions"), and not an ascetic, either. If at times he seems remote, not fully present in the life swirling around him, it's simply because he suffers, as the great 19th-century poet Giacomo Leopardi did, from a too acute and too constant awareness of transience. "We were the leopards, the lions," he tells an earnest politician, and "those who take our place will be jackals, hyenas." But even that bitter-sounding statement isn't offered as a defense of his class, for he continues: "And all of us — leopards, lions, jackals and sheep — will go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth."
That's a scarily disinterested perspective to have on oneself, and the Prince shows that it's more than an attitude: most of the plot of "The Leopard" concerns his attempts to facilitate the marriage of his favorite nephew, Tancredi (Mr. Delon), to the daughter (Ms. Cardinale) of one of the bourgeois "jackals" to whom, he realizes, the future of Italy belongs. Tancredi, a cheerful and unselfconscious opportunist, is the embodiment of the aristocracy's will to survive, and the Prince — conscious, as always — does all he can to help. What an unlikely character to build an "epic" on; the Prince makes the mercurial, enigmatic Lawrence of Arabia look like a regular guy.


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Yeah, i'm behind on new cosplay sets. Been sidetracked with the book, video, expanded second print/ebook…trying to get all of these finally done over the weekend. Check back monday, there should be news and new stuff.
Yeah, i'm behind on new cosplay sets. Been sidetracked with the book, video, expanded second print/ebook…trying to get all of these finally done over the weekend. Check back monday, there should be news and new stuff.
I'd Flux that for an Aeon.
(Someone had to say it.)
The book is often mentioned of course, and at some point it was sold out. But I don't see on the site (maybe I'm an idiot 😉 a description of the book, where to go buy it.. how many pages, colour or not, the usual sorts of stuff a site would have about it. So I had no idea where to buy it, and then it sold out, and then no idea its been up for reprint, etc?
The main blog page is not really clear about it?
You may w2ant to change that
This picture of Kat more than makes up for any delinquency in posting.
Yeah, thank you. I should learn not to assume people know what i'm talking about.
The cosplay photo book, Cosplay Tetherball, was a Kickstarter project limited to 35 copies, all of which were sold through the kickstarter site. (This was an incredibly dumb decision on my part – on par with making a movie that you only intend to show to the handfull of people who financed it.)
Did not have much on it here, as a limited 2nd print run really wasn't a definite until recently. Now that the sold out first run are finally ready to print, i'll have details up on #2 next week, and cover the site with ads on how to buy.
And yeah, it's definitely in color, but don't know the final page count yet, as these reprints will feature some additional/alternate content.
That booty brought a tear to my eye. It's like a sunset as viewed from a volcano where a tyrannosaurus is lava surf-racing a giant ninja made out of five ninjas combined together while Buckethead shreds as hard as he can while hanging from a helicopter firing a lightning gun at a rampaging cyclops*.
It is a spiritual experience, is what I'm trying to saying here.
As for a second printing: fucking yes, I'll grab me a copy of that one for sure.
*not the X-Man, the greek mythological beast**.
**also not the X-Man.
Kat is proof there is a god. I love this site
that is a beautiful girl.
I'm dying to see more Kat. Bring it!
Oh, yeah. I knew there was a reason there are so many Kat sets.
sometimes when you lose you really win, like if you were playing musical electric chairs…
So…… we waitin'
When we gonna see more?
To be fair, she didn't specify WHICH Monday… 😛
uhh…i had a whole week get away from me, between trying to finish stuff, having a camera stolen and losing a shoot worth of pics, and the dark knight thing last night.
Uploading pics now, so new set is imminent. For real. Look in my eyes.
this is awesome when are the other pictures be posted awesome site btw everything that a guy like me would love videogames toys comics and cosplayer girls
But it's a nice bum, so worth the wait 😉
More Kat! More Kat!


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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Television for the Female Palate
I have very exciting news: I was asked to participate in a radio show for
KPFA Women's Magazine
! The segment discusses women on TV in various shows including The Mindy Project, Revenge, Nashville, Glee, Girls and more.
The episode aired on Monday, November 26th and is now available online. The discussion on TV
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
We Call It a Right. But It's Also a Duty.
Sometimes it takes me long enough to write something that someone literally takes the words out of my mouth. Such is the case with this
video number
by the New York Times. As with every election, I sit back as a bystander and watch the country divide itself. As a permanent resident, I pay taxes, work full time, am married to an American, and have inevitably placed the future of my children in our nation's hands. But I don't get a say in anything. I am comforted by thoughts like: "in my state, my vote
make a difference" or "what's the point after Florida." Then it
to me that people who
vote may
because of these same thoughts. Surrounded mostly by responsible citizens, I nearly fell off my chair when a friend mentioned a conversation in which a fellow registered voter shared that he "would not be voting this year," loosely based on the same reasons I mentioned. That was when the bubble burst, where I pretended things had changed since young people rallied to put Obama in office. I thought for sure things were different, after it became clear that a handful of people could have changed the state of the nation had they voted in
. And before that in
. Right?
At the very core of democracy is the opportunity for people to pay attention, participate, and speak up. What keeps me awake at night is knowing that the far right is
very organized politically
. Their youth is mobilized when it comes to issues on abortion and medical marijuana and they will be voting. Voting and probably carrying signage. Voter bystander apathy is too common, and I speculate that it comes from people whose views may not be reflected directly in either party, who prefer to stand back than choose the lesser of what they see as two evils. I hope this time around it is clear that there is a worse evil we could be stuck with if they don't settle for the lesser. For anyone who is undecided, I highly
excellent article from when the New Yorker endorsed Obama
What I also hope people understand is that, while I don't hide my views, I do believe
vote still counts. It may not feel as though it literally counts, thanks to the electoral college, but it does on many other levels. I for one would like to see where the popular vote lands. I think that number provides great validity to who is elected and provides an argument for a future without an electoral college (if only). In addition, while the absence of social issues in the debates was disappointing, you will find
very intriguing measures at the state level
. Depending on where you live, you may be asked to vote on legalizing medicinal marijuana, legalizing the recreational use of marijuana, physician-assisted suicide, same-sex marriage, abolishing affirmative action (that's right) and the labeling of genetically modified foods, now being fought off by $41 Million of Monsanto money (yes, they are also very organized).
So please, re-schedule your planned parenthood appointment, put down your medicinal marijuana, and bring your gay-rights-supporting friend to the polls on November 6. Why not make a lunch date out of it? Let's make the
rest of the world
And since I can't vote I'd be happy to join you for that lunch.
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Sunday, September 2, 2012
Hope for the Living in The Walking Dead
This week's
Entertainment Weekly
features the upcoming new season of
The Walking Dead
on the cover (or FOUR different covers to be exact). I am eagerly anticipating the premiere and have high hopes for what will happen in one of TV's most surprising hit series. I am excited to see the plot develop, especially with the subtraction of chauvinistic Shane and the addition of a
badass female character
, Michonne.
Season 2 had a slow, slow, crawling pace, and focused on the group's attempt at rebuilding a normal life on Hershel's farm. Aside from a severe lack of zombie action, the more unsettling part of their colonization was the return of all too familiar gender roles. We all witnessed Lori hounding Andrea for not wanting to help out with household chores and her resentment upon Andrea's decision to take a "male" role, but can't we all relate to a post-apocalyptic desire to do more than laundry? When the group convened to make a democratic decision, a few female characters literally gave up their right to vote and deferred the decision to the men. And although their world may hold a higher stake at new human life, Lori was judged by many men around her for contemplating abortion.
Despite some faux pas in the gender role arena, there is lots of promise for The Walking Dead. The show is based on a comic book that has plenty of female characters with empowering traits. I am counting on Michonne's TV appearance as an indication that the writers get that girls also like zombies and perhaps it's time to bring in and develop those characters. The existing characters are also promising, and I particularly hope they spend more time on Maggie, the feisty farm girl who was the only one to admit that she wanted to have sex before the world ended. Other ladies who have been trapped in emotional spaces have also been given opportunities to move on: Lori from the dueling of Shane and Rick, Carol in the closure of what happened to Sophia, and Andrea will finally have a worthy female sidekick.
Season 3 premieres on AMC on Sunday 10/14 at 9/8c.
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
Breaking the Bad News
With the start of the latest season of AMC's stellar series Breaking Bad, I continue to enjoy the meth producing adventures of Walt and Jesse. However, their male dominated business is getting more and more tiresome. So many of the great stories of ascending drug lords portrayed women as trophy wives, but they usually demonstrated a complexity, be it through complications of drug abuse or the moral dichotomy of a quick ascension to money and power. While they brush this surface in Breaking Bad, the women are even less complicated and interesting than the old stereotype of the mobster wife.
Skyler, Walt's wife and main female character has always been tough to relate to. Since finding out what her husband does, Skyler takes on a role to protect the family, either by opening a business to launder money, by covering for Walt with stories of illegal gambling, and now by removing her kids from the home. While her guilt and disdain for the business has been evident, she has also displayed an obvious euphoria at the idea of being rich. When Walt won't give her a divorce, she has an affair that ends poorly when she discovers he is being audited by the IRS. In season 5, all previous indications of strength and intelligence have settled. Skyler is now a suicidal chain smoker, choked by fear of her husband, and also incapable of defending herself or doing anything to remove herself from the situation. It sounds all too familiar like a classic story of domestic abuse to me.
The next female character with enough screen time to mention is Skyler's sister Marie, for whom the writers have added superficial character layers. She supposedly works as a technician at Kleinman Radiology Center, but yet we have never seen her at work and she seems to have plenty of time in the middle of the day to appease her kleptomania at the mall. Marie is also always in purple, surrounded by purple objects, and sitting in purple chairs, but there doesn't appear to be any greater meaning behind this.
In season 5 we meet a new female character, Lydia Rodarte-Quayle, the first to be involved in the meth business. Instead of seizing the opportunity of introducing a strong female leader, her character development is limited to being described as neurotic by three different people, ordering hot water with lemon, and getting upset over accidentally wearing two different pairs of shoes. Eventually, under threat, she comes up with a flawless plan that ensures the success of Walt's newest business venture, but instead of being praised for her resourcefulness, she is simply spared of being killed. Her character has since disappeared.
While I am a fan of Breaking Bad, I would love to see them passing the Bechdel test. Coined from a comic strip by Alison Bechdel in 1985, the test states that a narrative worth watching has: 1) at least two women in it, 2) who talk to each other, 3) about something other than men. While mobster movies may not have excelled at female empowerment, the flatness of these characters makes me yearn for someone as crazy and complex as Sharon Jones in Casino or Penelope Cruz in Blow. Let's hope Breaking Bad finds space for a female drug queen to take on Walt. Or maybe it's time to send Walt to therapy, I hear Dr. Melfi is seeing patients again.
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Tiffany Shlain Connects Us
Tiffany Shlain
brings us full circle and back to human connections with her
TedxWomen talk
. She only speaks briefly for about 10 minutes before presenting her short film
A Declaration of Interdependence.
Conceptualized as a rewriting of the U.S. Declaration of Independence,
A Declaration of Interdependence
is a 4-minute global-participatory film that shows an exhilarating montage of user-generated videos and graphics. To the music of Moby, we get to experience a global mash-up of images, words, and languages, demonstrating the vast potential of creative collaboration in the 21st century.
Honored by Newsweek as one of the "Women Shaping the 21st Century," Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards, and co-founder of The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. A celebrated thinker and catalyst, Tiffany is known for her ability to illuminate complex ideas in culture, science, technology and life through her unique films, dynamic talks, and innovative projects. Her last four films premiered at Sundance, including her 2011 acclaimed feature documentary,
Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology
, which The New York Times hailed as "Examining Everything From the Big Bang to Twitter," and the US State Department just selected as one of the films to screen at embassies around the world in their 2012 American Film Showcase.
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Talk the Walk
Alabama does Shake
Alabama Shakes has been creeping up on us for the last 6 months and the force behind their success is undoubtedly the vocal power of Brittany Howard. Their story begins in a high school psychology class in Athens, Alabama, where the first members of the band met. As the group formed, they worked together to find their identity. They spent most of their time on new material, but also tried to cover classics including James Brown, Otis Redding, and Led Zeppelin. To this, Howard says "We had to find music we could all agree on and figure out how to play together, and that had a lot of influence on how we play now." Their first single, the hypnotic, show-stopping plea "
Hold On
," grew out of an on-stage improvisation.
It was only in late 2011 that band members, overwhelmed with requests to open for major headliners, and play gigs themselves, were able to quit their day jobs. Since then they have released their first album and played sold out shows all over the country.
Alabama Shakes
has also landed gigs with major festivals this summer, including Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Eurockennes, and Outside Lands. I certainly hope to catch them at some point this year!
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
Inspired by a screening at the San Francisco International Film Festival, I am dedicating this month's art section to
Marina Abramovic
. The Serbian-born artist made work in the 1970s concerning the limits and conceptions of the body that changed performance art. Still, she pushes at boundaries; check out what she did at
last year's L.A. MOCA gala
, when centerpieces were replaced with rotating human heads and naked bodies (one guest was surprised when his centerpiece returned the napkin he had accidentally dropped on the floor).
Co-presented by SFMOMA, the film in question is
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
, a documentary that takes us inside Marina's world, following her as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major retrospective of her work, taking place at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. As part of the exhibition, she presented a new piece, aptly named
The Artist is Present.
For three months, she spent every day sitting at a table in the museum's atrium, allowing visitors to join her, one at a time, at the opposite end of the table. There was no talking, no touching, and no overt communication of any kind. Her objective was to achieve a luminous state of being and then transmit it, engaging in what she calls "an energy dialogue." As always, her art creates intimacy with the viewer, and in our continued search for connections, lines winded around the block in New York to experience just that.
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The Government was accused of being "callous" after announcing that hundreds more disabled workers at Remploy factories are at risk of losing their jobs under fresh closure plans.
A further 875 employees, including 682 disabled people, have been told they face compulsory redundancy, some hearing the news by email.
Unions attacked the decision as "cruel", warning of the difficulty disabled workers face when looking for work.
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GigaomAgricultural-tech startup FarmLogs raises $10M
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A Path Space Extension for Robust Light Transport Simulation
A novel light transport simulation framework that allows a sound combination of unbiased Monte Carlo path integration and photon density estimation.
Toshiya Hachisuka, Aarhus University
Light Transport Simulation with Vertex Connection and Merging
Our novel formulation of the photon mapping method in the path integral light transport framework allows us to build a new consistent rendering algorithm that is more robust than both bidirectional path tracing and photon mapping, allowing us to efficiently render scenes with diffuse and specular lighting.
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We introduce a new error metric for irradiance caching based on a new derivation of occlusion-aware irradiance Hessian that significantly outperforms previous approaches such as the split-sphere and adaptive caching.
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We propose a novel adaptive sampling and reconstruction method by introducing SURE for error estimation. The incorporation of SURE enables us to use more effective kernels, select optimal filter and sampling distribution. We demonstrate significant improvement over state-of-the-art methods.
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The Case for Solyndra
September 29, 2011
Ever since the Solyndra story broke, I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop. And … I'm still waiting. The Washington Post unearthed some e-mails suggesting that Obama Administration officials lobbied the Energy Department to expedite approve of a loan for the solar panel company, which eventually went bankrupt. Obviously that was a bad idea. But corruption? Impropriety? No signs of that yet. More damning information could still emerge.
Don't Abandon Federal Clean Energy Lending
September 27, 2011
With the bankruptcy of the California solar-gear manufacturer Solyndra, the Department of Energy's loan program has been excoriated for wasting tax payer money under suspicious circumstances. The program's website refers to 63,000 jobs created with $38.6 billion of loans. Some, like those at the Washington Post, see this number and incorrectly conclude that the government has spent $600,000 per job.
Slow Down on the Solyndra Criticism! Of Course Government Can Foster Innovation.
September 16, 2011
The bankruptcy of Solyndra, the solar energy company that received a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, has touched off the predictable partisan food fight, with the Obama administration on the defensive. The release of an August 2009 financial analysis commissioned by the Department of Energy suggesting that the company could run out of cash by September 2011 hasn't made the administration's task any easier. This episode fuels the growing sense that "green jobs" is a slogan in search of a policy.
How to Scale Up the Clean Economy
July 20, 2011
Great jobs, if only there were more of them. That, in a sentence, captures one of the main themes of our new report "Sizing the Clean Economy: A National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment." And that's why we need smart policies to overcome the financial barriers to scaling up the clean economy. On the first part, it turns out that a disproportionate percentage of green jobs are in decent-paying occupations that employ high percentages of workers without college-degrees, at a time when many of them are out of work.
Shale Gas Isn't Actually Evil. But the Shale Gas Industry is Behaving Stupidly.
July 18, 2011
In the marquee scene from the 2010 documentary Gasland, nominated earlier this year for an Academy Award, a man is shown warily holding a lighter underneath his running kitchen faucet. The flame quickly ignites the tapwater, briefly producing a fireball in the sink. Something appears to have gone wrong—and the culprit, the film inveighs, is the sinister local shale gas industry. Gasland's incredulous depiction of flammable drinking water is but one expression of the anti-shale gas sentiment that is increasingly permeating American popular consciousness.
Core Curriculum
June 23, 2011
In the fall of 2008, EnergySolutions Foundation, the charitable arm of one of the world's largest nuclear-waste processors, began approaching nuclear utilities with an offer. Guided by a team of science teachers and industry p.r. staffers, the organization had developed a trove of materials on nuclear power for use in sixth-through-twelfth-grade classes.
The Trouble with MOX
April 07, 2011
Last August, workers at Japan's now infamous Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant loaded the first batch of mixed-oxide fuel, or MOX, into one of their reactors. The event went largely unnoticed in the United States; but in Japan it was deeply controversial. Unlike traditional nuclear fuel, which is pure uranium, MOX is a far more dangerous blend of both uranium and plutonium (the latter is among the most carcinogenic substances on Earth).
Budget 2012: 'Cut to Invest' at DOE
February 16, 2011
The Obama administration's FY 2012 budget is all about arguing--perhaps somewhat rhetorically given political realities--the role of investments in growth despite the imperative for austerity. Such tradeoffs are everywhere in the budget. And yet, in no domain are those twin stances more sharply visible than in the Energy Department (DOE) outline, which proposes a classic "cut-to-invest" strategy to maintain progress on key imperatives when retrenchment appears likely. Overall, the new budget request proposes growing the DOE budget (see a detailed press release and Sec.
America COMPETES: Pass It, Nevertheless
December 21, 2010
So it's time to get this done. Late last Friday the Senate passed a severely edited version of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 to continue funding for a number of science, education, and technology programs and agencies. That means HR 5116 now heads back to the House for a vote as early as today—a vote that, while in some ways frustrating, remains essential.
'Wastebook' Is a Waste
December 21, 2010
There's a reason politicians are always loath to cut government budgets: It typically means hacking away at programs people like, and painful cuts lead to scary headlines. In Arizona, the state legislature recently cut off organ transplants for Medicaid patients, and the press responded with tales about sick patients who could die as a result. Not pretty. That's why, when House Republicans pledged this week to cut federal spending by some $88 billion when the budget comes up for renewal in March, they shied away from specifics.


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Colourful paintings by Syrian artist Dia Elhamawi
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By Hameed Elmissawi in New Art on Tuesday 12 June 2012
Influenced deeply by the wonders of nature makes Dia Elhamawi's colours come alive. You feel the flowers, birds, trees and the calligraphy in vital combinations and it makes you feel as if you have stepped into natural surroundings. Even more so with the larger works. He is one of Syria's leaders in modern art and has participated in an array of domestic and international art exhibitions.
Dynamic sculptural art by Peter Lakatos
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By Hameed Elmissawi in New Art on Friday 8 June 2012
Peter Lakatos creates dynamic sculptures, playing with shadows, in an exciting interplay between metal, art, and modern cubism.