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This page answers frequently asked questions (FAQs) about Safe Travels USA, Safe Travels USA Cost Saver, Safe Travels USA Trip Protection, Safe Travels International, Safe Travels International Cost Saver, Safe Travels International, Safe Travels International Cost Saver, and Safe Travels International Trip Protection. If you don't see your question below, or need a more thorough explanation, please contact a Trawick International team member at 888-301-9289 or firstname.lastname@example.com
I want to choose the best insurance company for my international travel and international medical insurance. How do I know Trawick International insurance policies are reliable?
As for reliability, Trawick's insurance plans are underwritten by several different financially stable companies. AM Best is the insurance industry authority on insurance company financial stability, Trawick International's travel insurance plans are underwritten by GBG Insurance Limited. They rate GBG Insurance Limited "B++". Some of Trawick's domestic travel and student medical insurance policies are underwritten by Aetna. AM Best gives Aetna an "A". GBG Insurance Limited, Aetna and Trawick are "dedicated to helping people achieve health and financial security by providing easy access to safe, cost-effective, high-quality health care".
I made my own travel arrangements and did not go through an agency. Can I still get medical coverage from you?
Yes, Trawick International services clients on an individual basis, as well as through insurance agents, travel agents, missionary groups, and other entities.
Trawick International Safe Travels insurance plans can be purchased any time prior to or during your trip, with effective dates as early as "tomorrow". Trip Protection policies can be purchased any time before the trip starts however, some benefits may be more restrictive if not purchased within a specific number of days after the trip payment.
Yes, Trawick International's Safe Travels International/ Cost Saver and Safe Travels USA/Cost Saver may be purchased even if you have already departed on your trip. Safe Travels International/USA Trip Protection must be purchased prior to travel.
Trawick International's travel and medical insurance policies can begin within 24 hours. The earliest effective date is "tomorrow".
The Pre-Existing definition varies form plan to plan. Some plans allow Pre Existing Conditions to be covered in full, others pay a lessor benefit, and others exclude the conditions completely. Check the plan brochure online to find about the plan specific definition.
No, Medicare does not provide coverage while outside of the U.S. You should purchase one of Trawick's international travel insurance policies for possible medical emergencies while traveling outside of your home country.
Probably. Medigap Plans C, D, E, F, G, H, I, and J pay 80% of the billed charges for certain medically-necessary emergency care outside the U.S. after you meet a $250 deductible for the year. The deductible for Plans F and J is $2,000. These Medigap policies cover foreign travel emergency care if it begins during the first 60 days of your trip, and if Medicare doesn't otherwise cover the care. Foreign travel emergency coverage with Medigap policies has a lifetime limit of $50,000. Check your Medigap plan to determine if you are covered. Medigap plans do not cover medical evacuation or repatriation.
Yes, Trawick International offers international travel and medical insurance policies to world travelers from around the globe. Our Safe Travels international health insurance plans cover anyone traveling outside of their home country. For more information, please call a team member at 888-301-9289, firstname.lastname@example.com, or visit our Individual Policy or Group Policy page.
My travel visa requires medical and evacuation/repatriation coverage or I require a Schengen Visa letter. Does Trawick International offer the required coverage and letter?
Yes. On the Safe Travels insurance plans Emergency Medical Evacuation and Repatriation are covered. A link to a visa letter is included with every purchase confirmation.
Does Trawick offer coverage for trip interruption due to the death of a close family member - not one who is traveling on the particular trip?
Yes, Trawick International's travel insurance plans for international travel include a Trip Interruption Benefit. The Trip Interruption Benefit reimburses the cost of one way economy air and/or ground transportation ticket if your Trip is interrupted for certain unforeseen events. On Safe Travels Trip Protection, the plan can cover lost trip expenses for a family member's death with some restrictions. (See Plan for details).
Is it possible to increase my accidental death and dismemberment sum? What if I don't name a beneficiary for the death benefit?
If you are traveling to the USA we can increase your accidental death and dismemberment sum up to $500,000 on some ages and $50,000 on others.
If you are not traveling to the USA we can increase your accidental death and dismemberment sum to $1,000,000, on some ages and $50,000 on others.
If you die due to a covered event, any accidental death benefit will be paid to the beneficiary on record with us. If no one was named, the payment will be paid to the first surviving class in the following order-
1 Your. Spouse; 2. Your Child or children (in equal shares); 3. your mother or father; 4. your estate.
If you apply online the website automatically calculates their age and rates by using their date of birth. If you apply on paper use 0 or <1.
Some policies cover you and some don't. Some that do may require you to pay for a doctor or hospital visit and then submit a claim to get reimbursed. Check your policy wording or call your agent. Most U.S. medical insurance is not accepted outside the United States and does not provide emergency evacuation or repatriation benefits. Obtaining medical treatment and hospital care abroad can be expensive, and medical evacuation to the U.S. can easily cost more than $50,000. If your insurance policy does not cover you abroad, it is a good idea to consider purchasing a Sate Travels Individual Policy which does.
Refund of total plan cost, minus the processing fee, is considered, if a written request is received by Trawick International prior to the effective date of coverage. If written request is received after the effective date of coverage, the unused portion of the plan cost may be refunded minus a cancellation fee of $10, provided no claim has been submitted. If you purchase the Safe Travels Trip Protection coverage you have a 10 day free look. If during that 10 days you decided you do not want the coverage you need to return the certificate to us for a full refund. After the10 days the premium is considered fully earner and not refundable.
I am traveling with a friend, life companion, domestic partner or group of people. Can we be on the same application?
Yes. There is no limit to the number of people on one application as long as they have the same travel dates, destination and policy choices. You do not have to be a family member or live in the same house, but they must not be traveling in their home country. They must however meet the eligibility requirements for the plan.
No. You only pay the rate listed. There are no fees or dues to enroll. There are no fees to renew either.
No. We cover terrorism up to the policy maximum.
I am traveling to a country which is on the US government Travel Warning list. Will I be covered there?
The Safe Travels International and Safe Travels International Cost Saver offer War Risk AD&D coverage for some high Risk countries. It covers you if you travel to one of these locations and suffer accidental death or dismemberment. You will not be covered unless this extra coverage was purchased at the time of enrollment. Medical issues, in high risk counties, which are not excluded by the policy would be covered.
Yes on plans that offer Political Evacuation benefit. We cover up to $25,000 due to an event which could cause grave physical harm to you.
I noticed the Safe Travels Plans says it is Primary coverage and the Safe Travels Cost Saver plans are Excess. What does that mean?
Primary means it pays an eligible claim before any other coverage you may have. Excess means you have to file it with your other insurance first and then we will process whatever is left after they pay or deny the claim.
Yes, on some plans. We cover emergency medical treatment for pregnancy up to $2,500 on Safe Travels International/Safe Travels International Cost Saver and $1,000 on the Safe Travels USA/Safe Travels USA Cost Saver. The plans do not cover scheduled pre natal visits or the delivery of the baby.


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Homicide Detective David Bagini awakens in a strange world only to discover that he is, in fact, the 42nd clone of the Bagini line. With no memories of why his Prime entered into a clone contract, he wants answers. The first problem is his Prime is dead and Bagini 42 is in charge of the investigation. The second problem is all the clues point at a clone from his line and they already know all his tricks. How can he solve his own murder when every suspect has his name and face?
©2012 Jim Bernheimer (P)2012 Jim Bernheimer
Born with earbuds.
"We have met the enemy and they is us."
This is a clever little SciFi book.
You're a detective--one of the best--expected to solve a murder. Failure to do so may cost you and everyone related to you their existence. The murder victim is you. The murderer may be you. You may also be an accomplice. The police chief is interfering in the investigation (also you). And there probably isn't any move you can make that the murderer(s) can't anticipate.
Perhaps the best aspect of the book is it's glimpse into the essence of individuality and self-discovery. It's a nature versus nurture experiment taken to the extreme.
"Best Clone Detecive Book Ever Written"
Okay, I've only read one Detective Clone book - but this was such a great science fiction romp, it merits a lot of superlatives.
David Bagini wakes up as the 42nd clone in a line of top notch homicide detectives in a clone colony. He is imprinted with the memories of David Prime when the original was at the peak of his career. One of those memories is a distaste for ever cloning yourself as he learns his other self sold out his moral code for a comfortable life.
42 has been created to solve a rather unique homicide. It seems that the original David Bagini has been murdered and the most likely suspects are one or more of the other Bagini clones. 42 couldn't have done it because he was created after the crime was discovered. Clones are disposable items in this new world and a human that murders one is given a slap on the wrist for something akin to property damage. Murdering a human or prime is another matter and the entire Bagini line is in danger of being disposed of and restarted if the perpetrator cannot be found.
So can this newest Bagini clone outwit the killer clone? How can you go up against another version of yourself who can anticipate all of your moves? Actually another interesting wrinkle employed by Berhneimer is to explore how another version of yourself could actually get on your nerves. All the clones in the Bagini line do not get along. They try to alter their appearance to gain individuality and one of them (no 11) even went with religion to cope with the clone life provoking puzzlement and disdain from the rest of his duplicates.
The twists we usually expect with a mystery novel are enhanced with the clone perspective - a version of you looks like he committed the crime, but really it was a different version of you - no wait it was that other version who did it. And, why is the clone you report to (number 2) not telling you everything you need to know to solve the case.
I loved this book and would like to see a sequel. You will too.
1*=I didn't like it..... 2*=It was OK...... 3*=It was good but I will never read it again.......... 4*=Maybe I will read it again in the future.............. 5*=I will definitely read it again(maybe more than once)
"Agatha Christie Style"
Science fiction detective story
in the best traditions of Agatha Christie.
The best is to compare it to Hercules Poirot style of investigating.
Try to imagine that you were so good at your work ( Homicide detective)
that you were offered a contract to create copies of yourself
with all your skills and memories.
And now it's time for the best part:
you were just awakened in some strange place,
you are told that your number is 42(funny)
and you have to solve a murder of yourself committed by yourself,
you have 40 suspects and all of them know everything you know
and more,everyone of them knows your every skill and trick up your sleeve.
It's a great book I highly recommend it.
"Another great book from Jim!!!"
The Author does a great job mixing in little tidbids of his/my favorite quotes, characters of other novels. He actually mixed in some funny quips about Hitchhickers guide to the galaxy. He includes these in most of his bokks, hhis little pop culture references are great.
In this book he does a good job keeping things straight so you don't get lost with the mass of clones in the story. Some people seem to have a couple hundred clones of themselves in the city/planatoid. very twisty plot and hard to figure out who dunnit. Great writing style with some snarky comedy referenced in. Must read!!!
"Clever concept!"
The concept is fantastic! The duplicitous notion of the same basic man cloned into so many different aspects of the same murder mystery (hard to answer w/o giving things away here!!) was extremely well thought out, especially in the notion of how each starts at the same point but develops some differently defining characteristic, making them not so clone-like afterall, yet all thinking on the same vein, creating complications along the way
His interaction with Victoria and Carol at Victoria's apartment
Yes, a non-fiction piece. This was different. I'll admit that I went into this already of the opinion that Kafer is a strong narrator, having heard his rendition of Age of Context, but not sure what to expect from fiction. I had high expectations. I think he met them, but not the way I expected him to, which I liked even more. In every narrator you can gleam something different, some strength they have. Kafer has a real knack for the subtle. He was not broad with his characters (ironic given they were clones, right?), but painted them together somewhat seamlessly so you rarely had trouble differentiating them and in the end I think that paid off rather nicely. Seriously 42 people of the same genes? It takes a Kafer to make that come across in audio!
"Keeps you guessing."
I enjoy a good story that keeps you guessing. Yes, some of it was predictable. But it does not let on who did it until the final reveal. Loved that part!
Hello, my name is Teresa and I'm an addict.
"Me, Myself and 42."
I really liked Confessions of a D-list Super Villain and the Dead Eye series so I went ahead and took a chance on this book. While good, detective stories are just not my thing. Mostly this is about coming to term with being a clone. I was hoping it would be funnier, in which case I wouldn't have cared what the main story line was about. There is no humor in this book. Only me, myself, 42 and a bunch of other clones that have vastly different personalities. Narrator was a little dry, but overall he was okay.
"Witty and entertaining."
I'm not real big on the idea of clones, but I have a hard time turning down a sci-fi mystery. I loved the main character's point of view. From the very beginning I was intrigued by his insights. The descriptions of the other clones and their antics kept me rolling. The plot line in the story had some good twists and will keep you guessing. Narrator Jeffrey Kafer did a good job and I'd listen to other books performed by him. A very entertaining little book.
"A great mix of humor, nitty-gritty, and tough cop."
While I have not read the print, I would say yes because the narrator, Jeffrey Kafer, did such an excellent job.
Blade Runner by PK Dikc, Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams, Nightside series by Simon Green.
His sarcasm and how he pulled off the smart-ass jokes.
When you suspect yourself, break out another duplicate to find the culprit.
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. In a world where clones are dispensable and are little more than slave labor, David 42 must muddle his way through with less than cutting edge tech. He's a copy of a younger, still idealistic David Prime, and hence doesn't have some of the moral flexibility as some of his other 'brothers', such as the partyer, the drug addict, or even the religious commune dweller. For every clone working, the Prime gets a piece of their paycheck, allowing him or her to live in luxury. The clones live and mostly work in this section of the city, in low-rent crappy housing and eating at cheap, vomit-inducing diners. The Primes live and play in Prime City, serviced by mask-wearing clones (makes it easier to ID them as 'servants'). Most clones have to take on second jobs to have the money to upgrade their living arrangements, such as working as a mall cop. Yes, the quality of life for clones is not all that for the vast majority of them.
A great mix of humor, nitty-gritty, and tough cop makes this an exciting mystery adventure. David Bagini was once one of the best detectives in the galaxy. Not only does 42 have to go up against swamp thugs, a therapist, bureaucracy, and a steep learning curve, he also has to be far more clever than all the other Bagini clones; they all know the tricks of the trade – how to catch a murderer, but also how to avoid being caught.
Since clones are dispensable, they tend to have lots of casual sex. With that statement, you might think there was plenty of that in the book. Nope. Well, not in detail. The orgies are referenced just often enough for the reader to understand that is not what David 42 is looking for. Sadly, he is stuck in a society where casual sex is the norm and long-term, in depth relationships is a deviation. Not like the guy needs that added frustration to his already full agenda of catch the murderer(s) of David Prime and quickly before Those On High decide to scrub the entire Bagini line. Every. Last. Bagini. Clone. Yeah, gone for ever.
While the pacing of this adventure was pretty quick. David 42 was a multi-tasker, such as interviewing a potential suspect while taking the time to learn the latest police-issue firearm at the range. I really liked that 42 didn't simply wake up and know everything; he had to learn, and learn quickly, as he went. The guns, the hoppers (flying vehicles), the scroll (kind of like a PDA but much, much cooler), and even all the things clones do to individualize themselves. There's tatts, piercings, constantly changing hair colors, etc. David 42 had a whole culture to learn.
Of course, 42 is a nod to Douglas Adams and there are some jokes through the book that fans of Adams will get. Towel!
All that goodness in less that 5 hours of reading time. My one minor criticism, and it is small, is that I would have liked to see a few more female cops. The novel has female lovers, waitresses, therapists, and finally, 1 female cop. Most of the ladies had well rounded characters and individual traits and the main character did not treat them as sex objects. Yet, it is far future SF and do like to think that certain jobs will balance out in the future – like lady cops and house husbands. Still, minor negative comment on an otherwise very worthy novel.
The Narration: Jeffrey Kafer was a treat to listen to, pulling off the sarcasm, the asshole remarks, the tough cop that is secretly lost and trying to bluff his way through this freaking mess. Yeah, Kafer delivered.
Kente M'Bulu
The concept alone. A clone trying to find the killer of its prime. Not to mention the subtle twist that could throw you off of the plot!
Number 11! He was interesting!
His voice. Rough. Like the voice of a 1980's private investigator. The Dick Tracy, Magnum P.I. feel to his voice!
Number 42's epiphany and transformation.
Awesome read!
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The College Hotel Review: Built in a stately, nineteenth-century school building, The College Hotel is located in Amsterdam's fashion and museum district. It embraces its scholarly past with its heavily populated student staff, managed by more experienced professionals. Don't let the budding pupils fool you, though. Employees are friendly and attentive, as proven by the hotel's many celebrity visitors. Brooke Shields, Jamie Oliver, Janice Dickinson and even Fatboy Slim have enjoyed stays in this boutique hotel. The restaurant, located in the schoolhouse's former gymnasium, offers diners international dishes embedded with classic Dutch elements. Cocktails can be sipped in the hip, sensually colored lounge or on the terrace. Stylish design disguises the building's old roots; large windows, dark wood and romantic dim lighting pervade the hotel. Free wireless Internet, direct-dial telephones, flat-screen TVs with video on request, safes and mini-bars are provided in each of the cozy beige, white, dark brown or gray rooms. Numerous salons are available for special events and meetings, as well as weddings. Services include private car, massage, concierge, currency exchange, dry cleaning/laundry, bicycles, scooters, parking and valet.


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Chena Hot Springs Resort offers a selection of packages as a convenience to guests. They make it easy for guests to determine where their interests lie, and purchase the package with those elements included, i.e. Aurora Viewing or Dog Sled Rides. Due to the costs associated with creating, marketing and selling packages, some packages may be higher priced than if the guest planned their own itinerary and purchased the elements a`la carte online or at the resort.
Treat your special someone to an all inclusive package at Chena. This specially tailored package includes an overnight for two in our Moose Lodge including unlimited swim & soak passes during your stay, Aurora Ice Museum tour, 2PM geothermal renewable energy tour, delicious dinner and breakfast for two in the resort restaurant, a welcome champagne basket (champagne can be substituted for non-alcholic beverage) and a late 1PM check-out.
Offered year round. Advance reservation & 24 hour cancellation notice required or one night Moose Lodge rate will not be refunded.
The Romantic Package makes a great Gift Certificate idea. Please contact our Corporate Office at (907) 488-1505 to request a gift certificate in any amount. We will be happy to mail it for you too!
Romantic Getaway
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Pricing valid until September 30, 2017
Must be booked at least 72 hours in advance
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Double Occupancy
One night accommodation Moose Lodge, unlimited swim passes during stay, Welcome basket with champagne or sparkling apple cider, 1PM late check out, Aurora ice museum tour, Dinner and Breakfast for two in resort restaurant, Geothermal renewable energy tour
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3:00 PM Arrive Chena Hot Springs Resort on own and check in
5:00 PM Aurora Ice Museum Tour (parkas provided in entry way, bring hat & gloves)
6:30 PM Hosted dinner for two in Resort Restaurant
8:30 PM Remainder of evening free to swim or soak (towel included) in natural outdoor hot springs adult (ages 18+) rock lake or indoor family swimming pool & hot tubs
Morning & Afternoon
9:00 AM Hosted breakfast for two in Resort Restaurant
10:00 AM Explore Resort or take a soak
1:00 PM Late check out
2:00 PM Geothermal Renewable Energy Tour (power plant & Chena Fresh greenhouses)
3:00 PM Depart Chena Hot Springs Resort via own transportation
4:15 PM Arrive Fairbanks
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How To Play Twister Outdoors on the Lawn – Make Your Own Twister Game
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The classic Twister game never fails to elicit laughs and fun at parties. Check out this version you can play outside. Just a cardboard box, scissors and spray paint are all you need.


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Health Hazards Companies in South Korea
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OSH Technologies Pte Ltd
based in Singapore, SINGAPORE
OSH Technologies Pte Ltd Provide Safety, Health and Environmenal protection related training programs as well as consulting services to various industries. We too provide EHS audit to manufacturing, chemical and other industries. Our specialist can assist industries on risk assessment, HAZOP studies and Pollution control studies.
OHS Inc.
based in Vancouver, BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA)
OHS Inc. is a registered company in British Columbia since 1990. WHMIS trainer: has conducted training sessions for over 700 trainers in Alberta and British Columbia Occupational Hygienist: has conducted Occupational Hygiene surveys in government, industry, sawmills, schools and hospitals in British Columbia and Alberta, was the WHMIS Coordinator (Occupational Hygiene ...
Total Hazardous and Integrated Solutions (THIS)
based in A. Banglamung, THAILAND
Total Hazardous and Integrated Solutions [THIS] a privately owned service company based in Thailand providing a focused range of HazMat Products & Services to the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical Industries worldwide. Our aim is to provide all of our customers, and even our competitors, with a single point, one-stop-shop for Toxic Contaminant issues and in particular Mercury. ...
IMO & Marine Surveys Pte Ltd
based in Singapore, SINGAPORE
IMO & Marine Surveys Pte Ltd (IMOMS) provides specialised Asbestos and Inventory of Hazardous Materials surveys. IMOMS also provides dedicated services to the Marine Industry, including Noise & Vibration surveys and asbestos removal.
MSDS Writer, L.L.C
based in Skokie, ILLINOIS (USA)
The need to communicate hazards of chemicals to users is of the utmost importance. The widespread use of chemicals, the development of new chemicals, and the need to re-evaluate the hazards of pre-existing chemicals contribute to the importance of MSDS Compliance. In the United States, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has created the Hazard ...
Dynamic Adsorbents Inc.
based in GEORGIA (US) (USA)
Dynamic Adsorbents, Inc. is a global industry leader in the separation and purification sciences. Dynamic Adsorbents, Inc., is a company dedicated to advancing chromatography and separation science. We formulate and manufactures proprietary and specialized chemical adsorbents used for the purification of industrial compounds.
ADOS GmbH
based in Aachen, GERMANY
ADOS gas analysis and gas warning systems have been established in industrial and domestic installations for more than 100 years. ADOS gas warning systems can be used for sensing numerous toxic and explosive, organic and inorganic gases. ADOS analyzers for biogas, hydrocarbons and fluegas complete the company production line.
The BioSolve Company
based in Lexington, MASSACHUSETTS (USA)
BioSolve is a proprietary, water-based, biodegradable formulation of surfactants and performance additives that work together to address hydrocarbon clean up in a broad range of settings: at sites with contaminated soil, in industrial repair and maintenance, and in emergency response. Biosolve has become the leader in hydrocarbon clean up because it is BOTH easy to use ...
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QUA® is an innovator of advanced membrane technologies that address the most demanding water challenges. Headquartered in the USA, QUA's products enable its OEM partners to provide cutting-edge solutions to end users in industrial and infrastructure markets worldwide. The company's diverse product portfolio includes FEDI® (fractional electrodeionization), Q-SEP® (hollow ...
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"PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale" doesn't quite roll off the tongue, but after a quick glimpse, you'll get an immediate impression of what it's all about. Challenging Nintendo's superstar stable with a franchise lineup of its own, it brazenly approaches a familiar format with the sole intent of doing it better. It seemingly has all the working parts of a hit in the making, but does it have the hidden corporate magic that makes it all work?
When it comes to baring its inspirations, this multiplayer franchise fracas hides in plain sight. You'll see more than a few conspicuous nods to Smash Brothers, though the developers would rather have you take note of the technical liberties that set it apart. With a concerted effort at bringing combos, counters, and more to the chaotic realm of four-player combat, it's clear that above else, Battle Royale wants to be taken seriously as a fighter.
This much is evident in the game's assortment of modes, which resembles that of a traditional fighter. Battle Royale keeps it simple: tutorial mode gives a comprehensive look at the nuts and bolts of the combat system, while training mode provides a solo venue for self-study and practice. You'll come away with a few ideas for combo crafting thanks to the game's preset list of examples, but you're on your own from there. Save for a couple of drills that hinge on a unique skill, the so-called character trials are redundant and homogenously constructed. There isn't an in-game movelist aside from running through each character's separate skill trials, and the documentation fails to give sufficient insight into the nuances behind the 20-strong cast.
The most disappointing thing, however, is the game's arcade mode. Far be it that story in a fighting game should matter, but given the circumstances, Battle Royale squanders a good chance at promoting itself with shoddily put together slideshows and scattered rival cutscenes. It's just one of many missed opportunities that seem to ring resoundingly throughout--where are the bonus games, or for that matter, the Team Ico or Final Fantasy characters?
And what of the ringouts, only possible here in a select few stages, that made Smash Brothers matches as exciting as they were deadly? With supers being the sole method of eliminating enemies in the game, combat takes a certifiably different tempo. The prominence of environments is diminished in importance, and the minute-to-minute fighting is more about passively hoarding AP than actively engaging enemies in a perilous dance of survival. Getting hit is almost of little consequence, much less towards the extremities of each stage that keep you safely housed in. The tedious cat and mouse game from one-on-one stock or kill matches further exposes the seams in Battle Royale's approach, which could explain why timed matches that force a win state are the default choice. They all seem like small deviations at first, until it becomes apparent that the game has veered into a direction that discourages the incidental charms that define the format it's trying to play in.
Toughing it out in whatever game mode you choose unlocks some customizable elements to play around with, ranging from banners and icons, to minions that cheer you on in battle. Sticking with individual characters long enough gives you a host of small perks, and most notably, a single alternate outfit. At the very least, it isn't DLC, and Superbot's plans for such appear equally generous: two upcoming DLC characters will be available for the first two weeks free of charge.
You can play past the bounds of your couch provided you've got an online pass. Network play misses out on modern amenities like lobbies and replay support, but bears some notable features like season leaderboards and cross-play support with Vita players, of which you might see a considerable number because of the game's cross-buy perk. In our experience thus far, online play was relatively hassle free with only a drop or two to speak of. Here's hoping it holds up for those whose only multiplayer options lie in an Ethernet port.
From Parappa and Nathan Drake to the God of War himself, Battle Royale's biggest draw lies in its earnest representations of iconic characters. The game is quite successful at cramming a multitude of signature moves into its combination button-and-direction control scheme, and even more so when it comes to making these distinct elements feel at home. The results are often surprising, with combo-heavy characters like Kratos, Dante, and Raiden able to pull off the same strings you'd see in their respective games. Characters who've made a less seamless transition into the genre, on the other hand, have been given sensible playstyles to match their varied kit of moves.
Our biggest gripe is that these intricately conceived characters always seem to be at odds with the kind of game they're in. There rarely seems to be a moment when you're able to see a full combo through, and with the game's distinct style of player elimination, at times it can almost seem as if you're picking a character based on a single super rather than their overall toolset. At every junction, there's a flip-flopping identity crisis between its serious side and its casual origins that the game never quite resolves. It's clear that that the developers have the right ideas to make an interesting fighter--it just so happens that many of them have been implemented into an incompatible type of game.
PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale runs at a consistent clip that doesn't falter under duress. This might just have something to do with the fact that it was built with Vita crossplay in mind; it looks nearly identical across both platforms. Though it can still often look quite good, especially with the more creative stage mash-ups, an overall dissonance in style also prevents the game from realizing a cohesive, pleasing look; the disconnect between the ultra-detailed Raiden and hideously chibi Spike is just too ridiculous and off-putting to bear. The game also simply struggles to keep its characters and actions legible once the chaos on the battlefield intensifies.
With a more deliberately-designed fighting system, Battle Royale strives for the sort of cred you'd sooner find in an arcade than a living room get-together. The end result is a serviceable party game that shoots for the stars but ultimately comes up short of its competitive aspirations. In its attempts to take its format in a different direction, it has inadvertently skewed itself away from the fundamentals that would make it work. In the end, you can safely say that Battle Royale is indeed not like Smash Brothers, but it might have been better if it were.
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|The binding mechanism, multiple binding modes, and allosteric regulation of Staphylococcus aureus Sortase A probed by molecular dynamics simulations.
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|PMID: 23023444 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|Sortase enzymes are vitally important for the virulence of gram-positive bacteria as they play a key role in the attachment of surface proteins to the cell wall. These enzymes recognize a specific sorting sequence in proteins destined to be displayed on the surface of the bacteria and catalyze the transpeptidation reaction that links it to a cell wall precursor molecule. Because of their role in establishing pathogenicity, and in light of the recent rise of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains, sortase enzymes are novel drug targets. Here, we present a study of the prototypical sortase protein Staphylococcus aureus Sortase A (SrtA). Both conventional and accelerated molecular dynamics simulations of S. aureus SrtA in its apo state and when bound to an LPATG sorting signal (SS) were performed. Results support a binding mechanism that may be characterized as conformational selection followed by induced fit. Additionally, the SS was found to adopt multiple metastable states, thus resolving discrepancies between binding conformations in previously reported experimental structures. Finally, correlation analysis reveals that the SS actively affects allosteric pathways throughout the protein that connect the first and the second substrate binding sites, which are proposed to be located on opposing faces of the protein. Overall, these calculations shed new light on the role of dynamics in the binding mechanism and function of sortase enzymes.
|Kalli Kappel; Jeff Wereszczynski; Robert T Clubb; J Andrew McCammon
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Reports show a third of Florida senators are milllionaires, including Richter
TALLAHASSEE __ Florida senators pull in about $30,000 a year from the state, but most don't appear to be living paycheck to paycheck — including the one who represents Collier and south Lee counties.
More than one-third of the 40 senators — including state Sen. Garret Richter, R-Naples — have net worths topping $1 million, with 11 of the members' financial disclosure reports still under wraps.
Of those whose updated reports were posted online as of Thursday by the Florida Commission on Ethics — forms were due July 1 — the average net worth is just under $4.4 million, an overall average increase of $352,000 from a year ago.
The 2013 Senate class is topped by President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, a co-founder of VITAS Healthcare Corp. and former Okaloosa County schools superintendent, who is worth $26.2 million.
Others who have done well in their professional careers include: Sen. Wilton Simpson, R-Trilby, who is worth $15.6 million; Sen. Jeremy Ring, D-Margate, $14.1 million; and Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, $12.2 million.
Simpson is involved in the family-owned Simpson Environmental Services and Simpson Farms. Ring has worked for a private equity firm. Brandes, who made his money in real estate, is also a shareholder in Bay Cities Bank in Tampa and Green Bench Brewery in St. Petersburg.
Republican Sens. Rob Bradley, Charles Dean, Greg Evers, Jack Latvala, Tom Lee, Richter, David Simmons and John Thrasher, along with Democratic Sens. Gwen Margolis, Bill Montford and Eleanor Sobel make up the rest of the millionaires club.
Five senators have seen their net worths grow by more than $1 million over the past year: Brandes, $1.84 million; Gaetz, $1.3 million; Simpson, $3.3 million; Simmons, $1.5 million; and Dean, $1.9 million.
Nine recorded their net worths dropping in the past year, with Ring showing the biggest decline, $971,297. Thrasher, Lee and Richter each also posted a net worth that decreased more than a couple hundred thousand year to year.
Sen. Darren Soto, D-Orlando, an attorney with more than $337,000 in liabilities mostly involving home loans, is the only senator to record himself as fiscally underwater. Soto listed his net worth at negative $32,351.
Soto listed his net worth at a negative $95,142 a year earlier, the only senator in the minus category at the time.
Dan Krassner, executive director of the public-advocacy group Integrity Florida, praised efforts by legislators this past session to make the disclosure information more easily available to the public.
But he said more details should be required regarding income from spouses, possibly having tax returns included among the filings — as some lawmakers already have submitted. And, he said, elected officials should further outline income that is linked to state money.
"Lawmakers that are on the payrolls of state government vendors should be questioned by their constituents to ensure the public interest is truly their focus," Krassner said.
This is the first year that the records are being posted online by the Commission on Ethics.
More than 38,000 state employees and elected officials were required to submit their disclosure forms by July 1. However, fines don't begin for late filing until Sept. 1.
As of Thursday, commission workers still were redacting information from five senators' disclosure forms before the forms could be posted.
The commission also reported it had yet to receive paperwork from Sens. Dwight Bullard, D-Miami, whose district includes an eastern portion of Collier County, and Jeff Clemens, D-Lake Worth, a onetime reporter at the Daily News. Others who hadn't yet submitted documents are Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, R-Miami; Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton; Maria Sachs, D-Delray Beach; and Kelli Stargel, R-Lakeland.
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'Outsourced' Producer Bob Borden on Stereotypes and Sensitivities
The producers of NBC's new comedy 'Outsourced' (premiering Thursday, September 23 at 9:30PM ET) have had to deal with criticisms that most sitcom producers haven't had to deal with. When the original pilot went out to critics, for instance, the show was lambasted for its jokes based on easy Indian stereotypes. But another issue came out that even critics couldn't anticipate: how the issue of outsourcing American jobs to foreign lands is still a sensitive one, especially given the continued soft job market.
But executive producers Bob Borden and Ken Kwapis have taken pains to tell anyone who will listen that 'Outsourced' is more a workplace comedy than anything else. "Cultural jokes won't carry the weight they do in the pilot, in terms of possibly offending people, because we'll have well-rounded characters as we learn about everyone," Borden told me earlier this month.
In our conversation, Borden, who previously worked on 'The Drew Carey Show' and 'George Lopez,' addressed both concerns about the show, some of the characters we'll see, how this is different from the 2006 movie the series is based on, and why there's more than one reason why he's hoping for a second season.
Were you kind of surprised at the tenor and tone of the questions at the press tour? Because we did ask you a lot of questions about Indian stereotypes and things like that. Were you kind of surprised at that?
No, you know what it was? It was just I'm not used to public speaking, and the first question threw me. But it shouldn't have because, you know, these are the obvious angles to write about, especially until you're really seen several episodes. So no, I wasn't, I just wasn't as prepared as I should have been for the first question. But after that, I felt OK. So when people ask about it, they're seeing a clip of maybe someone doing a joke or something, and that's what they're reacting to. And I have in my head all 13 episodes, so we're coming to it from different experiences.
Are you thinking that, people who've seen the show and think it's just going to be about Indian jokes have to be patient?
Well, I don't get too much of that, because maybe I don't get out very much right now. But no, I just hope people'll give us a chance, and when they see the episodes... I was just thinking about talking to NBC about putting up a scene online in episode 3, which is when we find out character Manmeet has been, has the lowest sales numbers and his job's in jeopardy. And we find out while his sales numbers are so low, it doesn't make sense, because he's always on the phone. And what Todd finds out is, the reason his sales numbers are so low is because he's flirting with women all over America and he's not making sales. And for him, this is like a fantasy. He said he's flirting with women from Fresno and Chattanooga and Mobile, things that sound exotic to him, but are anything but to us.
So it's just such a wonderful character scene between the two of them that, when people see that, the other question will be moot about stereotypes. It just won't even be on the table anymore, because we're fleshing everyone out. And you know, cultural jokes won't carry the weight they do in the pilot, in terms of possibly offending people, because we'll have well-rounded characters as we learn about everyone.
And some of it was pretty silly, the sensitivities, invariably, of white critics. A white lady came up to me and said "You have a joke about Indian food, are you worried about that being offensive?" And I thought, you know, my college roommate is Indian, and he's a doctor. And when he goes to India, he brings antibiotics with him. No, I'm not worried about making a joke about Indian food. So some of it, I just take with a grain of salt. And the others, I just hope people give us a shot and see a few episodes.
One of my closest friends is Indian. He's first generation American, and when he goes to restaurants, he asks them to "make it like my mom makes it." He says it in Hindi. Because they don't make it spicy enough for him.
Yeah, when I go out with my buddy, the same guy in that story, if we eat together, they make it white guy spice level. And we always try and tell them, "it's OK, go for it."
Do you think it's a matter of us as critics kind of scoping out what might be a problem and looking for it, and trying to anticipate the sensitivities, rather than just sitting back and enjoying it?
I think so. I think so. I mean, it's just, I understand it, it's just natural. This might be a story, this might be offensive to someone, so let's ask about it. We're not really hearing from the people who theoretically would be offended by it. And a lot of those people, obviously, we're all here at work together. So when something comes up, we talk about it. So yeah, I think it is critics anticipating and some critics maybe are actually sensitive to it and are worried about shows in the past that may have been a little stereotypical, not about Indians, but just other shows in the past. So I think it's a natural angle.
For people who've seen the movie version of 'Outsourced,' how would you describe this as different or similar?
It's similar to the movie in that it's a similar story, basic story, about a guy who gets outsourced around the world. But it's different in that I think we're more of a comedy, and the movie, which was quite nice, was more of a romantic film, or a romantic comedy. And we're more of a comedy, and also, I'm not held to, whatever, 90 minutes. We have hopefully a lot of half hours coming, and so we get to know the other characters better. So we get to delve into characters that didn't have much screen time in the movie, or weren't even in the movie.
Name a character that's in the series that we didn't see in the movie.
Gupta. Gupta wasn't in the movie. And he's, we're having so much fun with him in the series, but he wasn't in the movie.
He's the guy you're scared to get stuck in the break room with. And the idea also was to approach how some of the cultural stuff is very different, but an office is an office, and there's still the guy that will talk your ear off, no matter where you are in the world. And so that was the origin of Gupta's character.
And then the actor Parvesh (Cheena), who's so funny, brought so many different colors to it that now we're adding layers to him and maybe giving him an issue of anger management, which will be fun. Because we've all had the encounters where we're upset with customer service all the way around the world. Well, this is a guy who doesn't have much tolerance for some of the people who call for his patience. So it's a nice twist on things. And you know, one of the biggest differences, when you start to make these with the actors, you see what the actors can do and that inspires you, and you write towards that.
How do you guys treat the outsourcing issue differently, couched in the whole economic meltdown kind of way, as opposed to it being just a way for an American company to cut costs?
You know, we're not approaching it differently, because in either case, even if the economy had rebounded, we were using it solely as a point of departure. And people think we're, "are you going to comment about outsourcing, or what are you going to say about that?" And I'm like no, it's a way to get our character into a different world, and then from then on, we're not really dealing with outsourcing, because I don't want you to think about when this guy's going to go home, and how long is he there, and that kind of stuff. We want you to feel like he's with, in any good TV show, he's with his surrogate family, who are the workers at the call center.
When I wrote about the show, some of the comments I saw expressed anger that people were mining comedy from a situation that costs Americans jobs. Is this something you guys have been conscious of, or you're just saying, "Let the audience just get to know these people, and they'll forget all about it?"
Well, I'm saying... I would never phrase it that way, and I would never do it that way. And they're saying they're laughing at Americans out of jobs. No, this is a reality, and it happens, and this is what takes our character to this other world. No one's laughing at Americans losing jobs. And believe me, if the show didn't go, everyone here would be out of work. So no, we're not laughing at that, we're laughing at the cultural contrast and complex once he gets to India.
So what would you say to those folks, in other words? Or is it just a matter of people are just too sensitive about everything these days?
No, I think that's a legitimate thing, especially because most of those viewers, these are not critics that are usually saying this. These are viewers. And they hear the idea, and they might think the show's about outsourcing. Or they might think it's making fun of the predicament when that's not it at all. We wouldn't do that. It's our point of departure. It's our way to get our character into another world. And it is something that's happening. Most comedies don't have any reference point in the real world, quite honestly. Most dating shows don't. So we're taking something that's real, but it's really where we start, and that propels us, but no, it's the last thing on our mind is making fun of Americans out of work.
Talk to me a little bit about some of the other character types that people may recognize in the office, I guess it's taking place in Mumbai?
Yeah, it's set in Mumbai. But some of the other characters, someone who's really interesting is Madhuri, who actually, honestly, I should know this, but I don't remember her from the movie. I think there was a really shy woman. But she's been fun to get to know, because she is shy, almost pathologically shy, but that doesn't mean weak. And she has this inner strength that's surprising to people when they get to know her. But she has, you know, when all eyes are on her, that's when she wilts. So we're having a lot of fun with her.
And we have an episode in which, our Halloween episode, she wants to go to the party, but she doesn't want to draw attention to herself, so she actually dresses as a lamp and stands in the background at the party, and blends in.
Someone else who's really quite different from the movie is Rajiv, the manager. And again, there, here's an actor, Rizwan (Manji), who's been around, and you may have seen him in things, but he didn't quite have a vehicle, a leading kind of vehicle like this. He has different levels. We start with him trying to get Todd's job. And we don't take that drive away, but we find out that he's engaged to this woman, and that he has to be a manager really to win the parents' approval. And so he's doing everything in his power to get Todd's job. So we have a lot of fun stories with him.
And then also, someone who's a big part of the series is Charlie, played by Diedrich Bader, who a lot of people probably know. And he's just so funny, and he is just, he is the opposite of Todd in many ways, in that he's sentenced to be there. Whereas Todd is trying to make this work, Charlie is just trying to survive. So he's having his food shipped over from home, and he's trying to hermetically seal, try to recreate America there while he's going to be stuck there.
Did you guys get to go to Mumbai and scout out locations?
No. We have someone that can scout them for us, and then, I mean, it's pretty amazing now with Skype now and everything that they can, you can have a video conference and they can show you stuff, and we can steer them one way or the other. If the show succeeds, then we'll be going to India on hiatus. But right now, it's more efficient to have 2nd unit shot there.
When you signed up for the show, did you have a fleeting moment in your mind that you might be taking a scouting trip to India?
Oh I tried to go. I tried to go. But I owed my wife a different trip. So I figured I was about to disappear into production, so I should try and make her happy, and we'll go to India if the show succeeds
So on more than one level, you're rooting for a 2nd season, you know, I guess?
Yes. No, we're excited to go. In fact, we even have our core group of people who are ready to go. But production-wise there was too much to do when you start up, you know, hiring the writers and everything.
You have Indian writers on staff?
Yes, we do. Well, we have American writers who are of Indian descent.
How close were the cast and crew to getting what the culture was like?
Yeah, I think so. I think they've all, all of our actors have been back. Some more than others. Some are more in touch than others. But the majority have family there and have traveled there, and do travel there. And also the writers as well. So we check sometimes. We were using some Hindi, and someone needed to call their mom just to verify we were saying it correctly. So yeah, that's a valuable research for us.
When you're coming up with situations, what has gotten caught by some of your writers where he or she might speak up and say "Hey, that's not how we do it, or this is how we do it?"
Well, someone referred to someone getting something from the fridge in their house, and there was a long discussion about you know, what economic level is this person? Would they have a fridge? We had a discussion about bathtubs. We wrote a joke set in a bathtub, and someone mentioned that this particular character would not have a bathtub. So little details like that have cropped up.
What are your thoughts about being in that Thursday lineup? Does it add pressure to you guys?
Yeah. I feel enough pressure anyway. So I don't feel more pressure because of it. I feel it's an honor to be on there, and you know, we have to hold 'The Office''s audience. That's where the pressure comes in. But it's a pretty amazing chance to get sampled by a lot of people. So that's really all you can ask for, too.
Besides Diedrich, any other familiar names we might see as guest stars or anything coming up in the first season, or at least the ones you've thought of?
Not yet. Not in the first season. We may have some celebrity voices that we never identify as callers to order products, but we're not really doing any stunt casting in the first season. Or the first 13.
So you're not going to be like 'Frasier,' where someone calls and then you put the voice in the credits later on or anything like that?
No, it's just it's more favors from people we know. So they do it but they don't get billing. And then it's kind of a game to see if you can recognize the voice.
Anything else you wanted to tell us about the first season, especially the first few episodes that people are going to be sampling, starting in September?
Yeah, we're excited about the, I might have mentioned this in the panel, that the 2nd episode back is our version of a sexual harassment story where Todd finds out that he has to cover sexual harassment, just to cover the company's butt in case they're sued. So he shows them one of those videos that we've all sat through dozens of times at this point at Warner Bros. and NBC, the sexual harassment video. But he's showing it in a culture where, in most Bollywood movies, the mainstream ones, there's not even kissing allowed. So the video he shows ends up harassing his workers, technically. He sexually harasses all his workers. And so he has to then...and there's a complaint lodged against him, and he has to find out what he's doing. And so it's a very interesting way into a traditional workplace story.


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A user will stop and ponder each option presented to him wondering "What is this? Do I need this?" And in that split-second, your offer can lose its grip on that user's attention.
Recommended for your web developers: Joel Spolsky's little book on usability, "User Interface Design for Programmers."
Call me old fashioned, but I agree with Godin's purple cow thesis: the right way to capture attention, mindshare, word-of-mouth, buzz, and links is by having a remarkable product or service.
I'm a big fan of scattering great books around the office. It's a cheap way to circulate fantastic ideas. Here are three outstanding books to toss into the IT bat-cave: Software Engineering For Internet Applications, Joel on Software, and Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age.
Bureaucracy: Stewart Butterfield on Yahoo, Moishe Lettvin on Microsoft
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i have been looking at different choices in quilting as the way i have always done it is with cardboard templates which i cover with fabric, hand stitch together then remove the template, it is something i learnt as i went along and i would like to improve my technique and the correct way to do it as mine does not always look good enough. when i tried to download a free ebook my computer wont let me open the pdf file - well it opens but looks like wordpad, i do have adobe on my pc.
can anyone help?
I would try redownloading the file and make sure that you are downloading it as a .PDF. You also may need to update tot he latest free version of Adobe Reader.
And I think whatever wya you feel comfortable doing your quilting is the best way! There's no real wrong way to do it as along as you are happy!
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i can't help with the computer problem - but maybe muppin already helped with that ?
but i am sure there are some quilters out there who can help with the sewing part !
the method you describe sounds like preparing applique pieces ? or english paper piecing?
do you do other types of quilts? pieced? or mostly applique?
one thing, from your description - you say you cover a piece of cardboard with the fabric. you need to cut the paper accurately - if you want your fabric pieces to be accurate. also - how thick is your cardboard? the thicker it is, the more wiggle room your seam allowance has, and the less accurate your piecing will be. you need to make the template as thin as possible. have you tried using freezer paper - it is very thin, and comes with the advantage of being able to press it to the fabric to hold it in position while working - but still be able to remove it easily when done with the sewing.
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Thailand's oldest runner, Peng Perngsa, who completed four marathons and countless half-marathons and mini-marathons, died of natural causes aged 99 on Tuesday.
"Grandfather Peng" was pronounced dead at 0.45am at Chombueng Crown Prince Hospital in Chom Bung district of Ratchaburi province.
The elderly runner left behind a 89-year-old wife, one son and four daughters.
Grandfather Peng started running about 30 years ago when he retired from rice farming at the age of 70.
He has long been a symbol of the famous Chom Bung Marathon, one of the major running events in Thailand.
There are four major marathons in Thailand - the Bangkok Marathon, the Khon Kaen Marathon, the Pattaya Marathon and the Chom Bung Marathon.
The self-trained runner completed his first full marathon run, covering a distance of 42.195 kilometres, in the annual event organised by the Chom Bung Rajabhat University when he was 72.
At the time, he ran in the 60-year-old or older category and was the oldest runner in the event which attracted more than 5,000 runners every year.
Grandfather Peng made the news headlines the following day after he passed the finish line before half of the participants half his age.
Since then, he was recognised as the oldest marathon runner in the country who could not find other runners his age to match him.
"I eat Thai traditional food which does not contain too much fat, and I don't smoke and drink alcohol, or even coffee," Grandfather Peng told a Bangkok Post reporter in 2008.
When the retired farmer was in his 80s, he competed in almost every running event around the country, and completed four full marathons. As he got older, he only ran in the 10K mini-marathon because it was too risky for him to participate in a full, or even a half-marathon.
His best time for the full marathon was four hours, 20 minutes.
Grandfather Peng won many medal and trophies. At the age of 94, he was still taking part in the Chom Bung 10K mini-marathon. He completed his last run in that race in 2012.


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NEWPORT CENTER – An early morning fire destroyed a home on Gibbs Road Wednesday.
Firefighters responded to the structure fire shortly after midnight and found a fully engulfed home.
"It was a very long night," said fire Chief Kurk Flynn. Road conditions were slippery and icy and firefighters had issues getting sand. They obtained water from a brook near the fire station. "Unfortunately, most of the house was destroyed by the time we got there due to the location and the length of time it had been burning," Flynn said.
Nobody was home at the time. A Border Patrol Agent reported the fire. "You could see it from a long ways away," said Flynn.
For more on this suspicious fire, read Thursday's edition of the Newport Daily Express for Feb. 7, 2013.
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Tomboy (software)
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Tomboy 1.15.4 running under Ubuntu MATE
|Alex Graveley
|Stable release
|1.15.4 / March 13, 2013
|Preview release
|1.15.1 / March 19, 2013
|Development status
|Written in
|Operating system
|Mono, GTK+
|Notetaking application
Tomboy is a free and open-source desktop notetaking application written for Unix-like (including Mac OS X and Linux) and Microsoft Windows operating systems,[1] written in C# using Gtk#. Tomboy is part of the GNOME desktop environment, often for personal information management. Its interface is a notepad with a wiki-like linking system to connect notes together. Words in the note body that match extant note titles become hyperlinks automatically, making it simple to construct a personal wiki. For example, repeated references to favorite artists would automatically be highlighted in notes containing their names. As of release 1.6 it supports text entries and hyperlinks to the World Wide Web, but not graphic image linking or embedding.
Some of the editing features supported:
- Text highlighting
- Inline spell checking using GtkSpell
- Auto-linking of web and email addresses
- Undo/redo
- Font styling and sizing
- Bulleted lists
- Note synchronization over SSH, WebDAV, Ubuntu One, or the Tomboy REST API [2] that is implemented by several server applications
Tomboy supports several plugins, including:
- Evolution mail links
- Galago/Pidgin presence
- Note of the day (disabled by default)
- Fixed width text
- HTML export
- LaTeX math (in the package tomboy-latex, not installed by default)
- Conboy is a Tomboy port to the Maemo platform written in the C language[3][4]
- Gnote is a conversion of the Tomboy code to the C++ language using the GTK toolkit
- libktomgirl is a platform independent library which allows software to read and write the Tomboy File Format [5]
- Tomdroid is an effort to produce a Tomboy client for the Android mobile platform.[6] "The goal is to be file format compatible and be able to sync notes with tomboy"[7]
- TomBox is a simple Tomboy / Gnote note viewing application that reads notes from Dropbox. Its available on Android, iOS and Windows Phone mobile platforms. "Introducing TomBox"[8]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Tomboy: Simple note taking". June 25, 2009. Retrieved July 5, 2009.
- ^ "Tomboy Web, A RESTful API for Tomboy Note Synchronization". 2014-08-23. Retrieved 2014-09-13.
- ^ Conboy
- ^ "garage: Conboy - Note Taking Application: Project Info". September 16, 2009. Retrieved September 16, 2009.
- ^ "libktomgirl: An implementation of the Tomboy File Format in C++". October 15, 2013. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
- ^ Tomdroid
- ^ "Tomboy Notes on Android: Olivier Bilodeau Releases Tomdroid 0.1.0". April 21, 2009. Retrieved January 3, 2010.
- ^ "Introducing TomBox". January 30, 2014. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Violent acts by teens grab attention, but examples being used by a local juvenile court judge are being judged as unfair by Superintendent Nikolai Vitti.
Circuit Judge Henry Davis in a guest column published in the Florida Times-Union on Thursday questioned the ability of Duval County Public Schools to protect well-mannered students from disruptive students.
This spring, Judge Davis told First Coast News in an interview, "What I find most terrifying is that kids are dropping out of school because of violence in the schools."
The judge's comments were related to a case he was hearing regarding a teen accused of beating another teen at the Oceanway School in March. The judge banned the accused student from attending local schools. That decision was later overturned by a higher court.
Vitti said the judge is well-intentioned but is using examples of violence not directly associated with schools.
"I think it is a bit illogical and irresponsible that children are not safe in schools when we cite occurrences outside school campuses," said Vitti.
The superintendent said he has invited Judge Davis to visit schools and see the students who are behaving and learning.
Several grandparents weighed in on the school safety while waiting to pick up children outside Kirby Smith Middle.
"Some schools have a little more problem than others, but overall I think pretty safe for students, " said Robert Price.
Wanda Wilson is another grandparent who agrees.
"It's pretty safe, my grandson goes here he never has a problem," said Wilson.
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Viewing convention Program information from 2005
Session Details
Thursday, 29 December
432. Ethnic Identity in Literary Onomastics
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Ethan Allen, Marriott
Program arranged by the American Name Society
Presiding: Amy R. Leal, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York
1. "Naming in Kiss of the Fur Queen," Joanie Crandall, Univ. of Saskatchewan
2. "Ha Jin and the Dilemma of Ethnic Articulation," Wenxin Li, Suffolk County Community Coll., NY
3. "African and African American Naming Practices in Eighteenth-Century Concord, Massachusetts," Elise V. Lemire, State Univ. of New York, Purchase
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Film Screening aboard The Edith May – Sunday 24th March from 6.30pm
posted on 6 March 2013
Artlands is thrilled to be part of Creative People and Places Swale and Medway and is pleased to announce that as part of the CPP programme of initial events aimed at getting out and about and talking to people we have arranged a pop-up cinema event on the wonderful Edith May. All the details are below and if you would like to reserve a free ticket – please let us know!
Pop-Up Cinema, organised by Artlands North Kent, 6.30 to 9pm, Sunday, March 24, onboard Thames sailing barge Edith May, Lower Halstow Dock, Lapwing Drive, Lower Halstow, near Sittingbourne. Contact email@example.com A free pop-up cinema event. The truly remarkable and acclaimed Terence Davies film Of Time and the City is both a love song and a eulogy to his native Liverpool, exploring memory, reflection and how a place can change and influence the people that live there. The inspiring film demonstrates an affinity between Liverpool and North Kent as it reflects upon the former's industrial past, sympathetically and creatively articulating a sense of place. Refreshments will be served, booking is essential via the email address above, parking is available and access onto the boat is limited.
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Saving Money
Saving Money will change your life! Learn how to save money on groceries by using coupons, find tips for how to save money, and recipes for feeding your family on a budget.
It doesn't matter if you are saving money on toothpaste or designer jeans. It is possible to live on budget and have great quality items and feed your family quality meals for less. These tips and tricks are designed to teach you about saving money, give you great Do It Yourself Ideas, Recipe Ideas for feeding your family on a budget and more.
Make sure you follow Passion For Savings on Pinterest to keep up with all the latest articles and recipes.
How to Send a Sliced Apple in your Kids' Lunch (Without it Getting Brown)
I know many people would love to be able to send a sliced apple in their children's school lunch, but because they will turn brown in a couple hours, most of us don't do it. Here is a way to slice an apple and keep it together in a way that will slow down the browning process to allow your child to eat it at lunch.
What you need:
— Clean Apple
— Apple Corer/Slicer
— Rubber Band
What to do:
— Use a apple corer/slicer to core/slice up the apple.
— Keep all the slices (and core) together and secure with a rubber band.
Keeping it together with the rubber band will slow the oxidation process which causes an apple to turn brown.
I know that this will be a hit with my kids as they love apples and it is such a great item to send in their lunch. Very filling and very good for them. You can also send a little cup of dip. Kids LOVE to dip food. Here is a recipe for an easy Apple Dip you can make at home with cream cheese and brown sugar.
This is also a great idea for picnics, road trips, or just about anytime you need to pack food. I know you can buy those little bags of apple slices at the store, but I don't like spending the extra money. This will work just as well for just the cost of an apple.
Make sure you check out our Saving Money Blog and also our How to Coupon Page for more tips, tricks and videos on saving money and using coupons.
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March 7, 2013 | 2:41 pm
Another idea is to place apple slices in a ziploc bag with a spoonful of lemon juice….Works like a charm every time!
March 6, 2013 | 10:37 pm
Love the idea but has anyone had any backlash for sending a potential" weapon" to school?
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Tina Fey Returns as Sarah Palin, Darrell Hammond is Donald Trump on 'SNL' (VIDEO)
But Fey didn't return for this 'SNL' take on the recent Republican debate alone. She was joined on stage by impressionist Darrell Hammond doing his classic Donald Trump, as well as the usual cast playing some of the other Republican candidates. But it was Fey and Hammond who stole the show.
"I just hope tonight that the lamestream media won't twist my words by repeating them verbatim," Fey said in character. She took a moment to acknowledge the elimination of one of "the world's great villains," Katie Couric.
In an uneven episode at best, it was great to see both Hammond and Fey back in these classic roles to provide some laughs. Maya Rudolph also returned, so that she and Fey could celebrate their pregnancies in some fun sketches.
How did you think Fey did on her return to 'SNL'?
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Hey, are you on facebook? I am as Mells Testa. I say that because if you are on facebook and am my friend, you have probably seen these photos before.
I am teaching Soy Wax with Paint over at Art Unraveled in balmy, Phoenix Arizona on Wednesday. Wow it's amazing how quickly we can move around this earth. I will be away for the next week and won't have a computer! Ah, joy.
I do have another Vid Prompt coming but it will have to wait till after my return.
That said, and because I need to have photos for every post, otherwise it is boring, right?
I turned 40 this week and am darned proud of it! No agist babble for me.
So as I have wishes and wants for myself, I would like to loose 5 pounds and recommit myself to walking for aerobic exercise. It was easy in Flagstaff with its miles of National Forest, here in Brooklyn it is much different. I need to start where I am though. So this is my second day of walking. I commit to 5 out of 7 days of walking each week. I prefer walking in the morning. I will loose the 5 pounds and have fun doing it.
Note to self: Get Danny Dreyer's Chi Walking out for the library.
Happy Birthday,
40 ain't bad,
isn't it the new 30?
and its just a warm up for 50
have a great week and fun walking.
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Artists M. River and T. Whid formed MTAA in 1996 and soon after began to explore the internet, video, software and sculpture as mediums for their conceptually-based art. The duo's exhibition history includes group shows and screenings at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Postmasters Gallery and Artists Space, all in New York City, and at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. In "New Media Art" (Taschen, 2006), authors Mark Tribe and Reena Jana describe MTAA's "One Year Performance Video (aka samHsiehUpdate)" as "a deftly transparent demonstration of new media's ability to manipulate our perceptions of time." The collaboration has earned grants and awards from Creative Capital, Rhizome.org, Eyebeam, New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc. and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
Diane Ludin at Upgrade! August 4
Upgrade! is delighted to have Diane Ludin for a second talk. Diane gave her first Upgrade! talk in July 2000. This time, Diane will present two projects: Memoryflesh 2.0, a Turbulence commission about the Human Genome and iBPE, her Patent database project.
An artist and writer, Diane Ludin has been using the internet as a resource since 1996. She draws together voices of intimacy, confession and fragmented illusion. Her collections focus on the changing nature of "embodiment", representation and communication as determined by publicly available information.
Bill Dolson - Heaven and Earth (launch)
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Heaven and Earth at Postmasters Bill Dolson is stirring up the Earth Art scene with some mega-scale project proposals. For this launch party he's enlisted a few of the gang to help with the realization. These include;Blackhawk (Peter von Brandenburg) Director, Vice President,Sally Beers, Director, Secretary/Treasurer, Liza Sabater, Media Relations - Founder, culturekitchen.com, Robbin Murphy, Development - Artist and Artistic Director of The Thing, Inc. Also seen at the party were, Zhang Ga, Mark Napier and Yael Kanarek.
GH is back with Art Dirt, this time as a podcast. Subscribe to the RSS 2.0 feed in your favorite podcatcher. Follow the link to see photos of the event.
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intelligent agent Vol. 5 No. 1 -- Special Issue: Artistic Virtual Environments
Christiane Paul:
intelligent agent Vol. 5 No. 1 -- Special Issue: Artistic Virtual Environments
Articles now available at http://www.intelligentagent.com
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Celebrating Turbulence's Networked_Performance Blog
Jo-Anne Green:
July 27, 2005
Celebrating Turbulence's Networked_Performance Blog
The networked_performance blog is now one year old. With 1,100 entries,
and 1,200 visits per day (and climbing), networked_performance has
become an important resource for practitioners, scholars and the general
blogosphere. Our Guest Bloggers have included Nathaniel Stern (South
Africa), Michelle Kasprzak (Canada), Régine Debatty (Belgium), Yukihiko
Yoshida (Japan), and Adriana de Souza e Silva (US); Luís Silva
(Portugal) will begin in September. Renowned author, Howard Rheingold
("The Virtual Community" and "Smart Mobs"), said "Networked Performance
(is) one of my favorite blogs about location-based experiments beyond
the usual boring stuff."
Helen Thorington and Michelle Riel have been guests on "empyre" this
month (http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/001078.html), presenting
their analysis of the blog contents, and they'll be moderating the
"Networked Performance: How Does Art Affect Technology and Vice Versa?"
panel at SIGGRAPH 2005 on Monday, August 1 from 3:45-5:30 p.m.
Beta Launch of Processing
Jessica Ivins:
Processing is an open source programming language and environment for
people who want to program images, animation, and sound. It is used by
students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and hobbyists for
learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals
of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software
sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is developed by
artists and designers as an alternative to commercial software tools in
the same domain.
The beta software for Processing 1.0 was released 20 April 2005 and can be
downloaded here. Bug fixes are being made as we head toward the 1.0
release. Processing is free to download and available for Linux, Mac OS X,
and Windows. Please help in releasing version 1.0!
Processing is an open project initiated by Ben Fry (Broad Institute) and
Casey Reas (UCLA Design | Media Arts). Processing evolved from ideas
explored in the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab.
Please visit our sister projects:
Wiring, a programming environment and i/o board for prototyping with
electronics and constructing physical machines and interfaces.
http://mobile.processing.org (coming soon)
Processing Mobile, a programming environment and library for writing
software for mobile phones.
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You Do Not Know What You Are Talking About #mtaa
Two performances!
Watch it live on-line here! http://mtaa.net/art/ydk
Saturday at 2:45PM Eastern Time and Sunday at 3:45PM as part of Filament Festival.
Two performances!
We, like you, have often wished while listening to a lecture, panel, speech or newscast to stand up and tell the speaker, "You do not know what you are talking about!"
The artists sit behind a desk with two laptops and two microphones before them. Behind them a projection screen displays the text "#mtaa" and a timer.
They announce the title of the performance, "You Do Not Know What You Are Talking About," and explain that for the duration of the performance, they will read any, only and all text sent to Twitter with the hash tag "#mtaa."
The audience is invited to start twittering.
MTAA need your tweets!
Watch it live on-line here! http://mtaa.net/art/ydk
ARTBarn, East
Artists MTAA are conducting an old-fashioned barn-raising using high-tech techniques. The general public group-decides design, architectural, structural and aesthetic choices using a commercially-available barn-making kit as the starting point.
The duo then conducts this 21st century barn-raising with volunteers — perhaps including you — on October 1, 2010 on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's campus. Will it be structure? A deconstructed sculpture? Some combination thereof? That's for the you to choose.


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Teachers Show up in Funny Places in Ohio SB 5 Arguments
Yesterday, the Ohio Ballot Board approved "official arguments" for and against Issue 2. Issue 2 is the referendum on Senate Bill 5, which would limit collective bargaining for public employees.
Official arguments are the explanations of the pros and cons of the issue that the state publishes for voters. In the coming months, you'll see these lists of reasons to repeal and keep SB 5 in ads in newspapers and, eventually, outside polling locations. They'll also be available online, at the Ohio Ballot Board's website. They will not, however, appear on the ballot itself. (To see what SB 5, a.k.a., Issue 2 will look like on the ballot, click here.)
Interestingly, teachers appear at the top of the official argument FOR Issue 2 (which means FOR SB 5), but don't show up until the second half of the one-page argument AGAINST Issue 2 (meaning AGAINST SB 5). See the full arguments after the jump.
This set of official arguments comes with a twist. The ballot board, which is chaired by Secretary of State Jon Husted, approved the arguments, but for the first time included a disclaimer that none of the claims in the arguments have been checked or endorsed by elections officials. State Senator and ballot board member Keith Faber called for the disclaimer to "eliminate the possibility of anybody being confused that somehow we have validated the claims" Faber said.
The board is working on the exact wording of that disclaimer and should have it ready in the next few days, spokesman Matt McClellan said. The full arguments, not including the disclaimer text, are below.
Argument For:
Argument Against: