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Black Butler: Why Did I have To Fall In Love With Ciel Ch.1
I sniffed the air and smirked. "So this is where Master Ciel lives, also where my dear old friend Sebastian has been."
I thanked the taxi man as he drove off. I walked up to lord Ceil's instate and rung the door bell. I waited a few minutes until a women in a maids outfit answered the door.
"Hello may I help you miss?" she asked.
"I'm looking for lord Ceil please." I said with a sweet smile.
"Alright. Please come in miss and will get him right now."
She opened the door wider for me to walk in. The lady lead me into a room that looked like a living room. I sat down on one of the couches as I watched outside the window.
I guess I got lost in thought when I was interrupted from someone's cough. I snapped out of thought and felt my face flush from embarrassment.
"I would like it if you didn't waste my time Miss." A young boy said.
"Ahh so you're the young lord." I said pursing my lips together. "Before we speak is there somewhere privet we can talk."
"Follow me young miss." The boy sighed and walk to a office like room. "Now then I don't think we have ever met and I have no clue why you're here. Would you kindly explain those things to me?"
I giggled at his forwardness and he just glared at me.
"Okay, Okay you don't have to glare at me. Anyway I just need to know if you have butler that's kind of tall with shaggy black hair?"
"What's it to you if I do." He snorted.
"Please master Ciel it's very important that you tell me." I said just as the doors swung open and there he was.
"Sebastian! Sebastian is that really you?" I asked smiling like an idiot.
"Sheena? Sheena what on earth are you doing here." Sebastian growled walking over to me.
"Sebastian do you know this girl and if so I need and explanation now!" Ciel growled towards him.
"Wait he hasn't told you about me." I giggled and walked over to Ciel and placed my arms around his shoulders. "So you don't know about me, is that what you're saying?"
Ciels face flushed a rosy red causing me to giggle even more.
"Sheena, knock it off right now before you hurt someone." Sebastian growled.
"I'm not going to hurt him." I said releasing my hold.
"Will someone please tell me whats going on?" Ciel hissed.
"He-he you're cute when you get mad young lord. I'm Sebastian younger sister."
I smiled and heard Sebastian sigh.
"Sebastian is this true? Is she your sister?" Ciel asked
"Yes young master it's true. Sheena is my younger sister and she should be back home." Sebastian growled.
"Don't be mean Sebastian. I missed you."
"So does this mean you're a demon as well?" Ciel asked me.
"Well not really. You see I'm a " Sebastian quickly covered my mouth with his hand.
"She is more human than a demon young master."
I growled and then licked Sebastian's hand causing him to release me. I glared at him but then I turned back to Ciel.
"So your names Ciel am I right?" I asked sweetly.


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Posted: February 02, 2013|
I READ and hear with increasing alarm comments about the proposed move of Stoke-on-Trent City Council's main office from Stoke to the planned Business Quarter in Hanley.
The Sentinel report on January 25 of the council debate quotes a councillor as saying "Listen to the heartfelt cries of significant swathes of the electorate across all wards of our city".
The problem appears to be that there has been very little debate among our local communities.
Last year, I went to an exceedingly poor public 'exhibition' about the plan. It was held in a small room on the top floor of the Mitchell Arts Centre – the display panels at the Mitchell now rest on some tables at the entrance to the Bethesda Street Library.
In my opinion, it's a farce, comprising as it does a few rather dated suggestions for what might be.
Surely such a bold plan merits a major consultation in one of the many, easily accessible, vacant properties of both Stoke and Hanley town centres?
The two-page advertisement in the same edition of The Sentinel smacks of a desperate attempt to get a message across, something that should have been done months ago.
The confidence of the business community, predominantly from the service sector, makes logical sense and is to be applauded but why is the diagram so obscure?
And what's this 'Public Realm' in the centre of Stoke and referred to in the text?
None of this helps persuade the community that this project is important, indeed vital, to the long-term benefit of Stoke-on-Trent.
If the city's authorities want to take the people with them, they must be much more communicative.
On a separate note, our local place names need to be made clear.
The diagram in The Sentinel advert doesn't mention Hanley at all – it's labelled city centre.
Stoke-upon-Trent is labelled Stoke. Recently we heard that Hanley's major shopping mall is to be renamed Intu Potteries. There's also a possibility Staffordshire University may concentrate its activities in Stoke.
So, how about retaining all traditional six towns' names, call the Business Quarter the Potteries Business Quarter and the university The Potteries University? I'm sure that with the strong heritage of the Potteries name, there's scope to do something.

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Electronic Patient Administration system to be implemented
The Ministry of Health is implementing a pilot project that will see the establishment of the Electronic Patient Administration System (ePAS) in eight facilities.
Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson, says these include the four Centres of Excellence and four Regional Hospitals.
"The pilot project is funded through the National Health Fund to the tune of $50 million. This is a part of the National Health Information System Strengthening and E-Health Strategic Plan 2014-2018 for which we are receiving support from GNU Solidario. This will be a game changer and will bring greater efficiencies in our health care system while establishing that platform to advance the local and international health agendas," Dr Ferguson said.
The ePAS is among the priority technology solutions which will be implemented on a phased basis starting with the pilot phase. This is being done through a two-year memorandum of understanding signed in September 2013 with GNU Solidario, the lead for the community of developers for the GNU Health software.
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UCI Road Worlds: Tony Martin holds on to edge out Taylor Phinney and defend his time trial crown
German wins gripping two-man battle in the Netherlands, Pinotti crashes out with podium place in his sights
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Tony Martin of Germany has successfully defended his world time trial title in Valkenburg in the Netherlands this afternoon following a gripping battle with Taylor Phinney of the United States. Martin dug deep on the final climb of the Cauberg to see off the challenge of the American, who missed out on becoming the youngest ever world time trial champion by just 5.37 seconds.
Italy's Marco Pinotti had looked like he was heading towards a podium place but crashed out, suffering what appears to be a broken collarbone. Instead, it was Vasil Kiryienka of Belarus who claimed the bronze medal having set a benchmark time with more than 25 riders still to finish, although it would turn out to be 1 minute 44.99 seconds slower than that of the winner. Great Britain's Alex Dowsett finished eight, 2 minutes 26.06 seconds behind Martin.
As early as the first intermediate time check on the 46.2km course, it seemed evident that the 22-year-old Phinney who went through fastest, 4.37 seconds ahead of Martin, would present the greatest threat to the German's hopes of retaining the title he won in Copenhagen 12 months ago when Great Britain's Bradley Wiggins, not riding today, clinched silver.
By the second time check, however, a third rider was in the mix – Phinney's BMC Racing colleague, Pinotti, who had picked up his pace after going through the first checkpoint in fifth position.
The Italian, who had eased off the gas ahead of the Cauberg on Sunday's team time trial in which BMC Racing finished second to Martin's own Omega Pharma-Quick Step team, clearly had his sights set on challenging for the win today, posting the third fastest time at the second check.
His time there would be beaten by nearly a minute by Martin but was comfortably inside that set earlier by Kiryienka and Pinotti seemed to be heading towards a podium place.
However, his ride would soon be over as he crashed heavily on a left hand corner, his front wheel slipping on a white give way line on roads that were still drying out from an earlier downpour.
Pinotti remounted and tried to ride on, but shortly afterwards, following a brief discussion at the roadside with national coach Paolo Bettini, he pulled over and abandoned the race with what seemed to be a broken collarbone.
Meanwhile, the battle between Phinney and Martin for the rainbow jersey was ebbing and flowing. The German got the time he'd lost to the American in the early part of the course back with interest, and had and advantage of 13.26 seconds at the second checkpoint.
His title defence was back on track, but Phinney, who rode gingerly through the corner on which Pinotti had come to grief minutes earlier, got a big chunk of that back ahead of the third checkpoint, and the question of which of them would stand on top of the podium would be decided on the Cauberg.
That was the last of the three main climbs on today's course, which started in Heerlen and finished in Valkenburg, the summit of the 1.2km ascent, which has an average gradient of 5.4 per cent, coming ahead of a 1.7km flat section ahead of the line.
Martin, who had caught the man who started two minutes in front of him, Alberto Contador – the Spaniard, apparently stung by the ignominy, would go on to finish strongly – did enough on that final climb to ensure that Phinney didn't get any more time back on the final part of the course, although at times it seemed touch and go whether he would prevail.
In doing so, he becomes the third man in the past decade to successfully retain the title – Australia's Michael Rogers, awarded the 2003 championship after Great Britain's David Millar was disqualified, went on to win in 2004 and 2005, while Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland won back-to-back titles in 2006 and 2007 and again in 2009 and 2010.
Martin's win comes at the end of a tough season in which he was sidelined for several weeks after being hit by a car while training, returning in time for the Tour de France where he fractured his wrist in a crash during Stage 1. At the end of July, he took Olympic silver in the time trial behind Wiggins.
UCI Elite Men's World Champiship Time Trial 2012 Result 1 Tony MARTIN GER 58:38.8 2 Taylor PHINNEY USA 5.37 3 Vasil KIRYIENKA BLR +1:44.99 4 Tejay VAN GARDEREN USA +1:49.37 5 Fredrik KESSIAKOFF SWE +1:50.56 6 Dmitriy GRUZDEV KAZ +1:56.44 7 Jan BARTA CZE +2:12.49 8 Alex DOWSETT GBR +2:26.06 9 Alberto CONTADOR ESP +2:30.00 10 Adriano MALORI ITA +2:40.54 11 Andriy GRIVKO UKR +2:43.69 12 Svein TUFT CAN +2:56.24 13 Tanel KANGERT EST +2:57.13 14 Riccardo ZOIDL AUT +2:57.27 15 Sylvain CHAVANEL FRA +2:58.15 16 Cameron MEYER AUS +2:59.65 17 Kristijan KOREN SLO +3:05.29 18 Jérémy ROY FRA +3:08.16 19 Gustav LARSSON SWE +3:11.99 20 Thomas DE GENDT BEL +3:15.29
Absolutely fantastic finish, who says time trials are boring !
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19th September 2012 - 15:38
Decent result for a few unknowns. Germany now won both pro TT title's this year.
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Today, they finished most of the "infrastructure" of the balcony, and can not go any further, since the company who's making the balcony hasn't finished the stairs nor the railing. This morning they finished the balcony part. This is the view towards the garage. You can see the hole where the tree should grown through. This is with my back to the garage. At the end of the balcony is where the stairs will be placed. The dogs took very careful steps, in the beginning not trusting the handy work. But after 10 minutes they were already chasing each other on the balcony, and fell at home. The pillars were nicely finished, including cement in the color of the house and cottage, so it all blends in nicely. and here I'm sitting on a deck chair surveying our domain.... it really feels nice over here... The rest will hopefully be finished towards the end of next week, except the door, since there's a 6 week delay.


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Every eye has a blind spot .The blind spot is the hole in the retinal wall where the nerve ganglia pass though. This area of the retina contains no photoreceptors and therefore creates a black spot in every person's vision. The gap created by the blind spot is approximately 6 degrees of the total visual field, which is a large area, relatively speaking. We do not see this area in our normal functioning because our brain has a mechanism for "filling in" the missing information. The information that would normally be received by the blind spot is projected onto the other eye and the brain essentially "averages" the image (Lou and Chen, 2003).
The blind spot in physical structure and given the normal variances in human physiology, it would be expected that there would be little variation in the blind spot from person to person. However, there are certain conditions that could cause damage to the retinal wall, thus causing nerve damage to he photoreceptors, thus causing a blind spot. This damage may cause an additional blind spot in the visual field; of if damage occurs to the retina surrounding the natural blind spot, the natural blind spot could essentially be enlarged. (Windsor and Windsor, 2003; Hall, 2003; and Seddon and Kuijk, 1998).
There are several factors that can effect eye health, such as nutrition and general health. It is generally assumed that athletes have an overall healthier lifestyle that n the general public. They are assumed to engage in habits that promote good health such as eating more nutritiously, exercising and maintaining a generally higher level of health than the general public. It is therefore the premise of this study that athletes would be expected to have fewer eye-related health problems and that these problems would result in fewer visual blind spots or smaller naturally occurring blind spots than in non-athletes.
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Join us on April 28th at 1pm as we travel to Youngstown for a behind-the-scenes tour and Q&A session at the Tyler Mahoning Valley History Center and the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor on Sunday, April 28th from 1pm-5pm.
The day will begin at the Tyler Mahoning Valley History Center. Located in an historic landmark building and the brainchild of the Mahoning Valley Historical Society (MVHS), the Tyler History Center was created to complement the Arms Family Museum site. Traci Manning, Curator of Education, will discuss the issues with the Arms Family site and the reasons behind expansion at MVHS. The discussion will be followed by a sneak peek of the newly renovated building!
The group will then travel to the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor to discuss the museum's major renovation with Dr. Donna DeBlasio and Dr. Marcelle Wilson of Youngstown State University. Dr. DeBlasio is the Director at the Center for Historic Preservation at YSU. Dr. Wilson is a part-time faculty member at YSU and the Director of the Aurora Historical Society. Each faculty member had a stake in the renovation and will share their knowledge and expertise regarding the matter. Bring your questions!!!
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A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by driving without due care and attention after a fatal road accident at Osmaston Road.
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It caused major traffic problems in and out of the city, as Osmaston Road has become a diversion route following the long-term closure of London Road while bridge works are carried out.
A diversion was in place along Ascot Drive and through Pride Park.
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Here's a stunning take on To Here Knows When from Rachel Zeffira, live at Abbey Road. Zeffira really excels over the backdrop of strings and woodwind. She performs for us tomorrow at Union Chapel and we're very excited indeed.
We're smitten with Rachel Zeffira's debut album and it was great to hear her join Radcliffe and Maconie on 6 Music yesterday for a chat about the record and more. She's in town at the Union Chapel in April for us and we can't wait. Have a listen to her 6 Music appearence below…
Excitement is really in overdrive for Rachel Zeffira's debut record. Rave reviews have started dropping in and Zeffira hit the Lauren Laverne show for a great session playing songs from The Deserters. Catch up on that one below, we have Rachel back for next April.
Rachel Zeffira is back with a solo record later this year, and she is also playing a very special, intimate show for us (only 100 tickets total! so be quick) on 18th of October. As a taster to both of those eagerly anticipated events you can download a song from her below. It's a real beauty too.
Yesterday we announced that Cat's Eyes' front woman Rachel Zeffira will be giving us samples of her solo debut with a preview show for us this October. Zeffira's album The Deserters is out December 10, you can watch the brand new teaser video below!


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Marketing to – and Connecting With – Your Next Billion
TV advertisers are watching as millennials and their family members—especially their parents—who have adopted similar socially conscious views increasingly populate prime demographics. One outcome of these increasingly "sustainability-supporting demographics" is that advertisers and corporate leaders are now actively exploring how they can persuade their global customer base that they "get it" too.
In the Rush for Social Media
Most agencies that guide the marketing world have been working hard these last few years to "get" how they can use social media. As a result, it is not surprising that many have missed the other major social movement that has erupted in the same time: social enterprise and social innovation. While social media can influence customers, if you need to add a billion new customers (P&G's goal) social enterprise, not social media, is developing the models to reach those numbers.
In the end, the "other social" oversight may be for the best since the knowledge and resources required to leverage the growing social enterprise movement actually exist at the intersection of companies and social enterprises. Corporate leaders must identify the problems they could step forward to address and seek out the most innovative organizations already solving those challenges.
To do that, they must first answer this question: Who is the most innovative social business already solving "our challenge" and how can we drive their solution to scale?
Then build partnerships with the innovators. Use new partnership models (like the one proposed in World Economic Forum: Where will the "Household Names" in Social Enterprise come from?) that shift resources from adding new social enterprises to the funnel and invest instead in scaling proven models that have the capacity to leverage corporate talent, technology and commitment.
Engaging Directly With Social Entrepreneurs
It is good news that the World Economic Forum is bringing Schwab Foundation social entrepreneurs to Davos. And the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship – the largest annual gathering of social billboardenterprise leaders – is happening again this year in Oxford, England from April 10-12.
I have written about the opportunity for companies to engage directly with social entrepreneurs. (A New Triple Bottom Line provides a good introduction.) Since social enterprises focus on opening markets across the base of the pyramid (BoP,) their models often represent the innovations needed to understand how commercial entities can grow their BoP markets. Companies who assume that their 'Global North' engagement models are going to work in these new markets are going to be a day late and a dollar or rupee short.
The Task Ahead for Marketing Chiefs
Visionary global CMOs are engaging now to understand and connect with billions of their future customers. Here are four reasons why every CMO should be doing the same.
1. Meet the designers of the engagement models of the future.
Whether you believe that the world ahead must include less consumption or not, your most effective marketing spend will need to be one that is less customer interruptive. Marketing expenditures are being redirected from TV ads to content and cause marketing, and other activities that depend on authentic customer engagement.
If you want to connect with your future customers globally, you will need to understand the engagement models that are evolving in their villages.
2. Share your progress in solving a globally recognized challenge with your stakeholders by embracing a sustainable innovation business model.
In order to persuade "sustainability and social good" customers of your authenticity, you need partners with intimate knowledge of what your current customers and even more importantly, what new marketing toolsthe next billion customers care about. You can't read about this in books posts or tweets. A good example is how Dow Corning sent its executives into the Global South as brand anthropologists. IBM's Global Citizen's Corp is another model with potential.
BUT you need to flip the requirements so instead of working with non-profits, your executives rub shoulders with the leading creators of the hybrid and low price/modest profit models that can scale to the next billion—your execs need to be their scaling partners.
3. Social entrepreneurs build sustainable models that become brand assets.
Claire Lyons, formerly of the PepsiCo Foundation and one of the designers of Pepsi Refresh, wisely advised CMOs to "stop propping up PR with dilutive dollars." Money spent for marketing and PR campaigns that require an equivalent or greater investment to create the next set of impressions is a perpetually dilutive effort. To build a social brand asset, the model must build capacity to continue solving problems as the spend decreases or ends.
4. Your window into entrepreneurs who must "innovate to live" can be opened through social entrepreneurs.
You can meet and work with leaders who are solving complex problems for broad populations by combining community leadership, technology, social marketing, silo busting, policy levers, movement building and partnerships in ways your organization has never considered.
Global corporations whose new customer goals are in the neighborhood of a billion must find models that operate in the neighborhoods where the next few billion customers live.
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* Manager John Farrell said before the game he is hopeful Jacoby Ellsbury could return to the lineup on Wednesday. He has been sidelined since Sept. 6 with a fracture of the navicular bone in his right foot. Ellsbury suffered the injury fouling off a ball on Aug. 28. If Ellsbury is ready to play Wednesday, Farrell said he would look to get him a couple of at-bats while playing center field.
* With an off-day Monday, Farrell said he was looking to get a few consecutive days off for Napoli, who also sat out Saturday's loss to the Blue Jays.
* Left-hander Felix Doubront, who is starting Sunday, is expected to move to the bullpen after that. But, with necessary downtime, Doubront would not be available until the final series of the season in Baltimore Sept. 27-29.
* The Sox have the best record in the majors in day games, at 27-14 (.659).
* The Sox lead the majors with an 86.3 percent success rate in stolen bases, going 120-for-139. That would be the best rate by an AL team since caught stealing has been recorded, from 1914-15 and from 1920 on in the AL. The Sox' 120 stolen bases are six shy of the team's best single-season record in the live ball era (since 1920), set in 2009 with 126.
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Kerry is talking about oil of course, and America's foreign dependence.
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Kerry knows his supporters are from Lalaland.
yeah but when the core of your party in the audience gets their science from "art bell", you gotta go with that line.
Ouch! What happened no "not alienating our allies" ???
No it isn't. And promsing magic new technology ain't gonna help any.
Heck, the man won't even allow drilling in ANWR.
Voila l'homage a Michael Moore.
Dude, its gonna be cold fusion for everybody!!!!
$6/gallon at the pump will remove our dependence on foreign oil.
The question is not about oil supply, but oil supply AT THE PRESENT PRICE.
Raise the prices and watch people's habits change. Raise the price of electricity and watch habits change.
we will also get new technology at higher gasoline/oil prices. The economy value proposition shifts as prices go up…
IS Kerry promising us dramatically higher gasoline prices?
"we will also get new technology at higher gasoline/oil prices. The economy value proposition shifts as prices go up…"
Andy is right. The Saudi-problem is NOT that they jack up oil /energy prices so high. The problem is that that they can easily LOWER the price, while INCREASING supply, whenever a new technology starts to look competitive. They're the dominant supplier in a limited-market cartel, and they can economically crush new technology/competition.
The only solution is not economic, not technological. Impose a huge variable tarriff on Saudi oil, so the price to US users remains constantly high regardless of Saudi price cuts. New technologies will then compete to deliver oil or energy at the lower-than-import prices. Usually subsidies to domestic industry are preferable to tarriffs against imports, HOWEVER, since we aren't wise enough to pick which of several competing technologies will eventually prove best, we control the market just enough to protect all domestic producers, while allowing enough freedom of markets to evolve a survivor.)
This isn't news. John Anderson essentially ran on this idea in 1980 — with the fillip that the oil tax collected would ALSO offset Social Security expenses.
You ever hear of John Anderson?
(He's never heard of you, either…)
Since 1980 we have LOTS of new technology. Gene splicing. Superconductive ceramics. Computer improvements out the wazoo, and the internet. What do we have for energy? Oil, gas, coal, fission, hydro, wind, solar … Is there a single damn thing on that list that President Jimmy Carter wasn't thinking about — hell, that President TRUMAN wasn't thinking about? Now, somebody start mining Star Trek's dilithium crystals so we can extract the antimatter– that'd be a new technology to get excited over. But otherwise, invoking technology to solve the Saudi problem is a bit less effective, IMHO, than simple prayer. Because the laws of physics are inflexible — while God does the miracle thing at least once in a while…
Agree with Den Beste: oil dependence is a fact of life for the foreseeable future.
Saudi, or for that matter Arab/Persian, OWNERSHIP of that oil is very much NOT a fact of life we all have to settle for, however. We can take it whenever we want, and should remember that.
Agree with Den Beste: oil dependence is a fact of life for the foreseeable future.
Saudi, or for that matter Arab/Persian, OWNERSHIP of that oil is very much NOT a fact of life we all have to settle for, however. We can take it whenever we want, and should remember that.
Kerry won't insult or alienate our allies!
Except, of course, for the Saudi Royal Family.
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BETHESDA, Md., July 28, 2010 The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology last week named 10 scientists the winners of the nonprofit's annual awards. Another winner was announced earlier this year. The recipients, who will give talks at the society's annual meeting April 9-13 in Washington, D.C., are as follows:
Stanford University professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Axel T. Brunger won the inaugural DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences for his work in structural biology. Established this year, the award aims to honor the legacy of Warren L. DeLano, who embraced the concept of open-source technology, making his programs and source code freely available to prospective users and enabling researchers to build on his technologies. The award is given to a scientist for innovative and accessible development or application of computer technology to enhance research in the life sciences at the molecular level. Brunger's concepts and strategies helped provide the foundation of much of modern structural biology. The award consists of a plaque, a $3,000 cash prize and travel expenses for the recipient to present a lecture at the ASBMB annual meeting.
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Most Firewire devices won't work, or only provide limited functionality when funnelled through a USB adaptor.
I know for a fact that my Firewire DSLRs won't work through an adaptor, all I get is the equivalent of a remote drive. I can't control the cameras.
As a result I spent a long time finding an older Netbook that did have n ExpressCard 3/4 slot in order to control the cameras.
Hopefully someone else can confirm / deny this
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I used one for a while, but found the small firewire socket on the laptop couldn't take the constant usage and finally broke! I now use an Xpress card (with a 12V supply)
The cable 4 -6 powered firewire were available ex -germany (and the US) - I'll see if I can find the link.
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Stackner Cabaret Sings Six Decades of Tony Bennett Romance
Tony Bennett's successful career spans six, yes, six decades, with his first number one hit "Because of You" arriving in 1951. At age 87, Bennett scheduled concerts through February 2014, so his "Old Black Magic," continually conjures new fans. The Milwaukee Rep celebrates the legendary performer, the winner of 17 Grammy Awards, Two Emmy Awards and the NEA Jazz Master, in the musical revue "If Left My Heart: A Salute to the Music of Tony Bennett."
A trio of male singers give Bennett's immense musical oeuvre a sensual croon: the younger, Andrew McMath, a handsome version recalling Canadian Michael Buble, the soulful Rob Tucker, and a primal Eric John Mahlum, all debuting with the The Rep's Stackner. Accompanying the magnetic trio was Milwaukee's renowned Richard Carsey, who mastered the center stage baby grand piano keys with debonair flair as Muscial Director. And sometimes Carsey adds his versatile style to the production with a piano solo, or by participating in the light-hearted, yet timeless melodies.
On opening night, those first moments proved to be tentative in several numbers while everyone enjoyed the intimacy of the Cabaret, reliving memories from the music the audience could mouth the lyrics to. Individual songs are interspersed with notations and remembrances from Bennett's life, interesting while incidental to the production created by David Grapes and Todd Olson, with Olson directing the Rep's performances in Milwaukee.
While the revue's sets are themed, the first act's Crazy Rhythm collection proved highly entertaining with McMath tap dancing his way into the audience's heart during "Lullaby of Broadway." In this particular set, each performer on stage surrounded the piano playing percussion, along with Carsey slamming the keyboard cover, to intensify the energy inherent in the beat so the audience could sway in their seats. Or sing silently along.
"I Left My Heart" reminds people that Bennett performs as "A Singer in Love with Singing," an entertainer who believes, "the harder you work, the luckier you get." In the second act, the foursome rolled up their sleeves and hit their stride, singing their hearts out in tribute to Tony Bennett. The Quiet Set proved to be poignant, with the poetic "You Must Believe in Spring," and Tucker showcased in the tender "A Child Is Born."
In the romantic "Rags to Riches," the three used a castanet, wooden sticks and bongo drums in a mariachi flavored number before performing Bennett's signature song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." A song he performed when he rediscovered the music in an old drawer and stuck into his suitcase, the lyrics an alltime classic toast to the city by the bay.
And while the performance ends with the encore "Make Someone Happy," the audience was indeed ecstatic, they could have applauded and listened all night. Thinking of Bennett as the proverbial forever "Young at Heart,' with his additional success exhibiting under the name of the painter Bendetto, as founder of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, and a tireless charity performer christened with the nickname Tony Benefit.
Whether Bennett bases his music in Broadway, film, jazz, pop culture, or the American songbook, these lyrics and music remain fresh, revisiting the eternal glory of love and romance, emotions harder to discern in the 21st century, although continually longed for. The Rep's engaging, energetic and polished production will move the heart to rediscover that essence, the excitement of romance, because Tony Bennett will only be more beloved as he might sing, "As Time Goes By."
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It may be the last best chance for the Nebraska State Fair.
A constitutional amendment to divert $2 million a year in state lottery proceeds to the fair drew support Thursday from Gov. Mike Johanns, Lincoln Mayor Colleen Seng and former Gov. Charlie Thone.
Thone will serve as chairman of the committee to pass the amendment, which will appear on the Nov. 2 ballot as Amendment Four.
The Legislature this year voted to put the amendment on the ballot. The diverted lottery proceeds would be used by the fair to issue bonds to address building and maintenance needs.
The amendment also constitutionally guarantees that funds benefiting the environment and education always get money from the lottery.
It also was announced Thursday that a fund-raising campaign co-chaired by Johanns and his wife, Stephanie, raised $185,000. The goal was $135,000.
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Charles County, Maryland Sheriff Rex Coffey recently told citizens at a community meeting that if they ever had a chance to serve on a criminal jury, they should find the defendant guilty every time.
While this Sheriff's statements are an extreme example of the type of difficulties a Maryland criminal defendant may have in obtaining an unbiased jury at trial, there are many factors that can influence the perspectives of prospective jurors long before they are called to jury duty. Our Maryland criminal defense attorneys are experienced at selecting jurors that will provide our clients the best opportunities at trial.
Sheriff Coffey told the attendees that, "when you get the opportunity to serve on a jury in Charles County, listen to the evidence and then find them guilty."
He was not concerned about wrongful convictions - at least not in his jurisdiction: "That crap don't happen in Charles County. It's real simple -- if we don't think you're guilty we don't arrest you to begin with."
Notably with regard to his point on the subject of the relationship between guilt and an arrest, Coffey undermined his own argument for the jury to convict every time when he acknowledged that it only requires probable cause to arrest an individual. He is correct to state that probable cause is required to arrest someone, but he is flat out wrong when he equates the standards for arrest with the standards for conviction. For a jury to find an individual guilty of a charge that the State has brought, the jury must be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt - a much higher standard.
Continuing, Coffey even went so far as to say that anyone who testifies or argues that someone is not guilty is lying:
We don't just arrest people who are innocent. It's probable cause it's a lot more than that. I can't say it enough: You get in that courtroom and those defense attorneys start giving you this crap about how this person's innocent and never been before the court before ... and for some reason the only ones not allowed to lie is the police officer. Everyone else is in there lying.You see the stupid stuff that goes on. He [a defendant] had his whole family come in and lie for him. We told the truth and the jury says not guilty.
He concluded, "When you get a chance to convict someone, do it! Do it! Because I'm telling you jail is a lot nicer than it ought to be," Coffey said.
Sheriff Coffey's comments are directly opposed to the protections that all criminal defendants are provided, both under the Maryland Declaration of Rights and the United States Constitution. As the Sixth Amendment provides,
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed . . . .
Similarly, the Maryland Declaration of Rights, as part of the Constitution of Maryland, provides language that shows Coffey's error in even more elegant language:
Article 20: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.
Article 21: That in all criminal prosecutions, every man hath a right . . . to a speedy trial by an impartial jury, without whose unanimous consent he ought not to be found guilty.
Article 23: In the trial of all criminal cases, the Jury shall be the Judges of Law, as well as of fact . . . .
His words also could undermine a criminal defendant's right to a fair trial, in that not only was he speaking to a group of individuals who were potential Charles County jurors, but his opinion was published in the local newspaper. As a respected official elected specifically for the purpose of handling crime in Charles County, Sheriff Coffey's misleading statements about what to do with those people that his office arrests could carry a lot of weight with an individual called upon to act as an impartial juror. That juror, who very well may have voted for Sheriff Coffey, will inevitably weigh Coffey's inaccurate statements when judging the credibility of one of his subordinate officers, or when determining the defendant's guilt or innocence. To preserve your right to a fair trial, contact an attorney experienced in leveling the playing field in the courtroom.


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Just to find the infromation quickly you may run the archiving task in Report mode and check the report .
Actually the number may or may not be accurate. If you see the licensing guide (or read that forum post), Enterprise Vault mailbox archiving is licensed per user, not per archive or mailbox. The number you will have obtained there is the number of mailboxes which are currently enabled for archiving and have a policy applied. Group mailboxes and resource mailboxes (if you are archiving these) would therefore be counted in the query you have just run, but would not count towards your license total.
So, if you know how many non-user mailboxes are being archived, then remove this from the total above and you should have your answer. If there is an easy way of identifying these (i.e they are all in a particular provisioning group, or are all 'hidden' or all have disabled accounts) then the query may be modified to work in your particular instance.
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I am looking for an adventure specifically for 4e that is much more about the environment being the enemy than monsters. For example party needs to go from A to B. What they need to do at B is easy but the actual journey is tough because it's through a swamp (or desert or some other harsh terrain). There still would be combat encounters but they would be more incidental.
Thinking about old "Expert Box" style games like Quagmire is the only one I can think of at the moment which does this.
Thanks in advance!