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NOTE: My GSI has made a good point that the things in bspace chat are not intended to be made public, I agreed and took down the post...but i feel that this entry was quite magnificent have decided to put it back up along with some significant changes. All other persons names have been changed for protection of their identities and pictures I have posted are not accurately physically representative of them:
Ahh, it's been a while. I was supposed to post a post back in March on that silly little protest on...budget cuts, yeah it was probably about budget cuts but I got super lazy. The pictures are still in my memory card-BUT YOU'LL HAVE TO PRY IT FROM MY DEAD COLD FINGERS!!!!!
Anyways, if you're anybody-you've heard of that new fangled online network thingy for Cal classes called bspace (UC Irvine tried to make their own version called ispace-but apple shut that down quick). Teachers put up lectures, friend you, join groups that start with "I can get 10,000 people to...", share their favorite youtube videos (i'm actually not being sarcastic on this one...). They even have a chat room for the singles to mix. (Okay disclaimer time-yes they have a chat room, but it's not THAT kind of chatroom...please don't kick me off the blog...)
Sometimes the chat rooms are used in place of office hours-which if you think about it-is really convenient and everything there gets logged for the rest of your classmates to see and use against you ("OMG, did you see what that loser Joh asked? How can she NOT know about Kanye's newest tweet? Talk about weeeeiiirrddd.")
When the questions stop being asked is when the party begins. Last semester, a classmate who shall not be named but referred to as NEMESIS, bored to tears with studying for our test decided to engage in an epic battle of wits with moi. A match witnessed by our classmates of PMB150, some of which did not understand our mutual respect for one another and committed sepuku when he thought blood was spilled.
NEMESIS and I have engaged each other earlier this semester as shown below:
(chat edited, instead imagine that ugly monster picture stepping on that cute little asian girl picture-that somewhat represents the chat we had earlier this semester)
Tonight, they witness my resurrection:
(in place of chat, imagine the little asian girl picture throwing the monster picture into an undersea trench that immediately crushes it into a little ball)
I've thrown down the gauntlet...it'll be up to NEMESIS to respond and defend his honor or banish himself to...pre-med.
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i am trying to get a prepaid credit card but i got to have a bank account. all i want is a little spenting money to get a dog and a few other things without my hubby knowing. he thinks i dont need one and so does the in laws( they are on his bank account not me). Grrr but not going to get into that! he is thinking about going bankurcy over school loan of his. we have foodstamp (only way to get food now) and the little bit of money he makes working seasonal at lowes. we bhardly pay for my 2 yr old pull up twice a month ( potty training). plz if you know how or can help me out plz do ?!
Though I know this isn't what you asked, but if you can't afford food, how are you going to afford a dog? How are you going to pay off the credit card?
I would worry about getting a job and getting your priorities straight first.
Quoting JG86: Why on earth would you get a dog when you can't even afford groceries for your family? How are you planning on paying the credit card?
I would worry about getting a job and getting your priorities straight first.
Honey, do you know how much a dog costs? Food gets pricey, there are vet bills, dog licenses, chew toys, heartworm meds, grooming, etc. And that's assuming your dog is normal and doesn't require any special medications or food.
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At the 2 p.m. discussion, which is free and open to the public, Blaine also will talk about his new book, "The Kennedy Detail," which is available at Towne Center Books in downtown Pleasanton and will be on sale at the library event, which is hosting the library event.
Blaine was in the Secret Service in Texas when Kennedy was shot. Drawing on the memories of his fellow agents, he captures the energetic, crowd-loving young president, who banned agents from his car and often plunged into raucous crowds with little warning.
Blaine describes the careful planning that went into JFK's Texas swing, the worries and concerns that agents, working long hours with little food or rest, had during the trip. And he describes the intensely private first lady making her first-ever political appearance with her husband, after losing a newborn baby just months before.
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Blaine was assigned in November 1960 to the Kennedy detail and, for the next three years, traveled with President Kennedy all over the world.
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Wrong, this is Battlefront: First Assault. It's headed for the XBLA.
It's effectively a "market test" for the real thing...
Capturing the drama and epic conflict of Star Wards, Battlefront II brings the fight online. Attention to detail and scale make this game a joy to behold, with 16 incredible new battlefronts such as Utapau, Mustafar and the space above Coruscant, as well as the Death Star interior and Tantive IV, Princess Leia's blockade runner seen at the beginning of the original Star Wars.
Wrong, this is Battlefront: First Assault. It's headed for the XBLA.
It's effectively a "market test" for the real thing...
the market test thing is such a **** move tbh
Agreed. A series of Battlefront's magnitude deserves full attention, not a silly market test.
Well too bad we won't get either, since First Assault has been put on hold. Most likely will be cancaled :(
wait isent this the new battlefront thats abount to come out??
No,this is the cancelled Battlefront:First Assault.
They just shut down Lucasfilms game development section. They cancelled First Assault. Disney just outraged hundreds of thousands of gamers. We need to march on Disney and execute order 66 like they did with our beloved developing team.
Disney gave Dice the rights to the new battlefront game, and they're the guys that make the battlefield games, so I'm happy.
Purge Disney for their crimes against Empire
Little did you know how, in three weeks' time, you would be so much angrier than you were then...
I think they will just postpone it for a few years, maybe they want to merge it with the cancelled 1313 and use the story of episode 7-9
do you have to download gmes from mod DB? I'm new...
this ain't piratebay man. :P
ea have the rights to star wars games now and they will be making battlefront 3
seriously? they couldn't give it to a better developing company? it'll just be a star wars version of battlefield.
And what is wrong with that?
Because they've been trying to turn battlefield into cod for years. It'll just be another FPS game with a star wars makeover instead of something unique like battlefront is.
xD That is hella ********. Battlefield has stayed Battlefield ever since it came out. It will always be better than COD.
I second this.
Battlefront III was from Free Radical and got cancelled.
It's called EA Star Wars Battlefront.
Yes I am quite aware thank you very much.
At the time of writing there was some confusion as to whether it would be a continuation or a reboot. It has since being revealed it is that latter.
As you may all know by now. Lucas Arts/ studio etc is being torn to pieces right now. Sources have told me that everyone needs to act right now. Battlefront 3 is a good possibility or something similar but only if Disney is convinced we want it otherwise the work done on it so far may be scraped. Please let them know
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Actively involved in the Des Moines community, Hatfield Clubb serves on the Board of Directors for Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines and Character Counts in Iowa. She is formerly a board member for the Greater Des Moines Convention & Visitors Bureau, Meals for the Heartland, the United Way and the Iowa Sports Foundation.
Hatfield Clubb was honored by the Des Moines Business Record as one of the newspaper's 2010 Women of Influence. She was part of a small group of Iowans, representing Meals from the Heartland that spent six days in 2010 as part of a goodwill trip to earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
Hatfield Clubb earned a bachelor's degree in business administration and a master's degree in education from the University of Texas-El Paso. Upon graduation, she was assistant aquatics coach at Washington and Lee University from August 1989 through July 1990.
In 1998 Hatfield Clubb was named associate director of athletics for student and academic services at Arizona State. In 2002 she was promoted to ASU's senior associate director of athletics and served as the senior woman administrator to the Pacific-10 Conference and the NCAA.
Hatfield Clubb and her family make their home in the Beaverdale neighborhood of Des Moines, not far from the Drake campus. She and Jeff Clubb, a native of Sigourney, Iowa, have two children, son Tristan and daughter Skyelar.
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Jean Baudrillard, Ph.D., French sociologist, cultural critic, and theorist of postmodernity, was born July 27, 1929 in the northern town of Reims. The son of civil servants and the grandson of peasant farmers, Jean Baudrillard was the first in his family to attend university. Jean Baudrillard was a university sociology teacher and a leading intellectual figure of his time. His early life was influenced by the Algerian war in the 1950s and 1960s. He taught German in a lycée before completing his doctoral thesis in sociology under the tuition of Henri Lefebvre. He then became an Assistant, September 1966 at Nanterre University of Paris X. He was associated with Roland Barthes, to whose semiotic analysis of culture his first book, The Object System (1968), is clearly indebted. He was also influenced by Marshall McLuhan, who demonstrated the importance of the mass media in any sociological overview. Influenced by the student revolt at Nanterre University in 1968, he cooperated with, Utopie, evidently influenced by anarcho-situationism, structural Marxism and media theory, in which he published a number of theoretical articles on the ambience of capitalist affluence, and the critique of technology. He became Mâitre-assistant at the University in 1970, and left the school in 1987. Jean Baudrillard taught at the European Graduate School EGS from its earliest period until his death on March 6, 2007.
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Jean Baudrillard's philosophy centers on the twin concepts of 'hyperreality' and 'simulation'. These terms refer to the virtual or unreal nature of contemporary culture in an age of mass communication and mass consumption. We live in a world dominated by simulated experiences and feelings, Jean Baudrillard believes, and have lost the capacity to comprehend reality as it actually exists. We experience only prepared realities – edited war footage, meaningless acts of terrorism, the destruction of cultural values and the substitution of 'referendum'. In Jean Baudrillard's words,
The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction… The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced: that is the hyperreal… which is entirely in simulation.
Jean Baudrillard follows in the tradition of sociologists such as Claude Lévi-Strauss in drawing a link between sociology and semiotics; however, he went far enough outside of the normal boundaries of sociology to no longer be called a sociologist in some descriptions. Jean Baudrillard always writes in a generally 'depopulated' manner about the 'mass' (a neutral rejection of specific meaning), for to discuss social categories is to engage in the details of simulcra: Baudrillard's is a grand theory, an approach that began with the Situationist critique of Marxism. Jean Baudrillard has produced a theory of economic consumption (and therefore production and exchange) that flows from a deconstructed semiotics, rather than finding in semiotics the objective root of a sociological situation, as with the structuralists.
The two books of Jean Baudrillard's post-Marxist phase, The System of Objects and Consumer Society (published in France in 1968 and 1970), examine the psychological imperatives of consumption in an advanced capitalistic economy. The first argues that meaning, not use, is primarily transferred through consumer objects and that the individual in effect buys a group identity and a metaphysical order with each over-determined purchase. The second contends that the individual – to the extent that he matters at all – merely fulfills the needs of the productive system under the illusion that he is servicing his private wants.
Jean Baudrillard's impatience with Marx bloomed into explicit dissociation in For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign (1972) and The Mirror of Production (1973). Here Jean Baudrillard announces not only that the sign prevails over social and economic activity, but that – in an improvement over Saussure – all alleged connections between referent (the real thing), and signifier (the marker for the concept of the real thing) have been definitively ruptured, if indeed they were ever obtained. In this schema, signifiers implode to interrelate arbitrarily, in and of themselves, with no necessary correspondence to anything beyond their own chaotic but sovereign permutations.
Pressing Freudian and Saussurean categories into the service of a basically Marxist perspective, The System of Objects offers a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Jean Baudrillard classifies the everyday objects of the 'new technical order' as functional, nonfunctional and metafunctional. He contrasts 'modern' and 'traditional' functional objects, subjecting home furnishing and interior design to a celebrated semiological analysis. His treatment of nonfunctional or 'marginal' objects focuses on antiques and the psychology of collecting, while the metafunctional category extends to the useless, the aberrant and even the 'schizofunctional'. Finally, Jean Baudrillard deals at length with the implications of credit and advertising for the commodification of everyday life.
Jean Baudrillard argues in his book In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities (1983) that contemporary society has entered into a phase of implosion. He says that the old structures of class have vanished into what he describes as the void of the masses: 'That spongy referent, that opaque but equally translucent reality, that nothingness: the masses'. The masses no longer make themselves evident as a class (a category which has lost its force because of a proliferation of possible identities), they have been swamped by so much meaning that they have lost all meaning. They have been so continuously analyzed through statistics, opinion polls and marketing that they do not respond to enlightened political representation. They have absorbed and neutralized ideology, religion and the transcendental aspirations that accompany them. The masses have also absorbed all the old, modern categories which were once a potentially liberating force. According to Jean Baudrillard, the 'Law that is imposed on us is the law of confusion of categories. Everything is sexual. Everything is political. Everything is aesthetic. All at once… Each category is generalized to the greatest possible extent, so that it eventually loses all specificity and is reabsorbed by all other categories'.
The 'massification' of society has led to the old forms of analyzing society being abandoned. Jean Baudrillard presents a new method of analyzing society in his most famous book, America, which is written in the form of a travelogue. It provides an account of what Jean Baudrillard believes is the unreality of American culture. His method was to travel through America at speed, not allowing enough time to become bogged down by the 'depth' of American social reality. He calls this method 'pure traveling' and says that in this way the banality of American culture can display itself. The point is not to write the sociology of the car; the point is to drive. That way you learn more about this society than all academia could ever tell you. For Jean Baudrillard, America is a desert, a vast cultural void where the real and the unreal are merged so completely that distinctions between them disappear. People's whole lives are played out as if part of a film or soap opera. Despite appearances to the contrary, Jean Baudrillard is not making a moral judgment about contemporary culture, and he does not intend to condemn it. For Jean Baudrillard, the logic of good and evil is now so blurred that such an exercise is futile.
In his book The Perfect Crime (1996), Jean Baudrillard turns detective in order to investigate a crime which he hopes may yet be solved: the 'murder' of reality. To solve the crime would be to unravel the social and technological processes by which reality has quite simply vanished under the deadly glare of mediated 'real time'. However, Jean Baudrillard is not merely intending to lament the disappearance of the real, an occurrence he recently described as 'the most important event of modern history', nor even to meditate upon the paradoxes of reality and illusion, truth and its masks. The Perfect Crime is also a penetrating examination of vital aspects of the social, political and cultural life of the 'advanced democracies' in the late twentieth century. Where critics like McLuhan once exposed the alienating consequences of 'the medium', Jean Baudrillard lays bare the depredatory effects of an oppressive transparency on our social lives, of a relentless positivity on our critical faculties, and of a withering 'high definition' on our very sense of reality.


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Here's a composite view of the yard made from shots taken along the edge of the roof. It does a great job of showing the shape of the path. Some of the curves look sharper than they really are, which is just an artifact of the photo merge. We do want to slightly change the way the path interfaces with the step, because the landscapers didn't follow our lines. The step is supposed to extend beyond the path on both sides by about 6″.


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Dear JDate,
Each of us was encouraged by a friend or family member to look on JDate to meet someone. Sam would typically search for people aged 24-33. One day, he decided to change his age range to 23-33, and the first picture that came up was mine.
Sam liked the picture and profile, so he sent me an email. He introduced himself as Ryan Stein (his alias on JDate to protect his privacy) and sent me a picture. He explained that even though he was older than my specified age range (I had arbitrarily entered 24-30 as my range), he thought he'd try to write. He said I seemed like a mature 23 year old and that he was an immature 33. Then he said, "Here's a picture of me. If you're not interested, please don't feel the need to write back. We're both adults here, and don't worry, I think I'm very cute."
That message and his hilarious profile had me laughing right away, and I'll admit, I thought he was very cute too!
After a few emails and talks on the phone, where Sam continued to keep me laughing and where the conversation felt easy and comfortable, we decided to meet. (At that point Sam had told me his real name.)
We planned to meet at the ever-classy Second Cup for coffee on Friday, May 2nd, 2003. I had Shabbat dinner at my Bubbie's that night first and was going on vacation to Cuba the next day. I had been on lots of unsuccessful dates with other people from JDate and had just made up my mind to call Sam and cancel, giving him the excuse that I had too much to do, when my cell phone rang. It was Sam, and he was so charming and funny that I decided to keep the date and meet him.
We definitely liked each other right from the start -- we spent about four hours at Second Cup that night -- but neither Sam nor I were pushing to get serious quickly. We finally decided to date exclusively at the end of May, and the rest is history. We quickly fell in love and spent more and more time together. Not only did Sam constantly have me laughing (and still does today), but I am so impressed and inspired by his kindness and generosity; his amazing ability to connect with every person he meets and make them feel great; his incredible teaching skills -- whether with his students, the baseball teams he coaches or even teaching me; and our common sense of the importance of family.
Sam and I knew about six months into our relationship that we wanted to be married. Sam's mother was away in Australia last year, and it was important to us, since we are both close with our families, that she be home in Canada to take part in celebrating our engagement. We knew she was scheduled to return on July 18, 2004, and as a result, I knew that the proposal wouldn't happen before then. Sam really wanted to surprise me and knew the only way to do that was to propose before his mother returned.
The week before her return, Sam and I went to play catch in a nearby park. Baseball is a big part of Sam's life, and so I wanted to learn to catch properly with a glove. I couldn't catch the ball if my life depended on it. Sam threw it a few times to me. I missed some, got hit a couple of times and was just about ready to give up when he said, "Here, try this." He threw a small black box to me (I thought he was goofing around and that it was his wallet). The only thing I managed to catch that day was that box. I was so surprised that I didn't figure out until I opened the box what was going on. At that point, Sam came over, got down on his knee and proposed.
The seven months after that day were hectic and wonderful, as we planned our wedding and our relationship continued to grow. We got married on Saturday, February 5th, 2005. The wedding was better than I could have ever imagined -- it was like a fairy tale. We have truly found our soul mates and perfect complements in each other, and the wedding was a beautiful celebration of that.
We are so grateful to have been encouraged to try JDate and to have found each other. It's funny what a small world it is -- Sam teaches at the same school as my aunt and we know some of the same people, yet for some reason, we never met conventionally, and it took JDate for us to find each other. I am forever grateful to Sam for changing his search criteria and sending me that email!
Shoshana & Sam
Richmond Hill and Toronto, Canada
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text: eBay bans 'intangible' items including spells, curses and advice Weird News 17 August 12 by Liat Clark shutterstock Haunted gypsy rings, a portal to the realm of the immortals and creepy 40s dolls that promise to "come alive" will soon have to find a new home, along with nearly 100,000 other products, after eBay announced it would be banning the sale of items classed as metaphysical.The online auction house announced the changes as part of a routine cleanup that will also see recipe and dieting advice lots stricken from the site. The decision, it says, is down to "a large number of misclassified items and eBay policy violations" that often lead to "issues that can be difficult to resolve". Presumably a few angry customers unable to get a love spell working have caused eBay strife over the years. One seller, magickandmysticism, promises to "offer my services not just for the compensation, but for the experience of mystical co-creation shared between two people -- that is something that never gets old." With a sales pitch like that, all the terms and conditions in the world can't protect some people from the disappointment that goes hand in hand with magickandmysticism's curse turning out to be a dud.Among the items that will be taken down and prohibited from 30 August, 2012, are "advice; spells; curses; hexing; conjuring; magic; prayers; blessing services; magic potions; healing sessions; work from home businesses and information; wholesale lists, and drop shop lists".Potions and tarot readings will also take a hit, and a community of buyers is up and arms at the prospect. A petition, "Don't ban our psychics on eBay" was published on 11 August 2012 and has so far gained 1,009 signatures. The premise of the petition is that eBay's perception of what makes an "intangible", and therefore unviable product, may not be the same for an entire community of people who regularly pick up charms and blessings on the site."What is alarming now is that the blanket term of 'intangible item' is being used to ban actual items," the petition organiser says in a letter. "What concerns me is your purposed selective enforcement of what you (eBay) terms 'intangible'. It seems you only have targeted those sellers who offer items of a certain occult or esoteric nature -- for instance, pagan beliefs and witchcraft."Don't miss: Hyper-real pencil drawings that look like photos Though the petition does not use the word discrimination, it does point out that the sales of items reflecting other belief systems that remain unproven are not in dispute. Most significantly, it singles out "rosaries, crucifixes or religious medals, all of which have perceived 'intangible' abilities and energies associated with them," and goes on to say that feng shui items, such as crystals, and magnetic therapy jewellery could also be seen to offer "intangible benefits". eBay spokeswoman Johnna Hoff has cleared this matter up, however, explaining that "items that have a tangible value for the item itself and may also be used in metaphysical rites and practices (for instance, jewellery, crystals, incense, candles, and books) are allowed in most cases".eBay's subjectivity, the petition goes on however, also relates to monetary value. According to the auction house, prices related to the items in question cannot reflect added value. Though as the petition points out, "the market determines the price and people will pay the price or they won't" -- value is entirely subjective, and always has been. It's how eBay works.According to a brief scan of the seller feedback results on eBay, it seems quite a few customers are happy with their products. Magickandmysticism, who is currently selling "Vampire Mistress Sex Spirit… Haunted Succubus Nymph Wife Girlfriend… Julianna the Vampire Mistress" for a bargain £80 (plus free shipping), has 100 percent positive feedback from nearly 100 buyers with one noting, "incredible energy output from spirit. Palpable. Unbelievably Awesome. Thank you," and another excitedly proclaiming, "Instead of a Pokémon collector. I feel like I'm a spirit collector". For the skeptics out there, seductive succubus' aside, zero negative feedback looks a little suspect on eBay. And when it comes to selling said succubus nymph on eBay, we're sure everyone is thinking the same thing -- the auction house should never have been enabling slavery and prostitution in the first place.Sellers might be able to get around the ban by adapting the wording used to promote items or, alternatively, they could head to Craigslist where professor Kaye is free to continue selling lost love spells.In the meantime, we will be pondering eBay forum poster stinky*felix's philosophical question: "I think it is presumptuous to state that anyone whose communication may transcend our abilities is a liar. After all, wouldn't Moses and the prophets fit in that category?"Image: Shutterstock Edited by Olivia Solon Comments Never mind hocus pocus. EBay should ban second-hand child car seats and bike helmets. It's impossible to tell if a used car seat or bike helmet meets current safety standards or whether it's been damaged in a previous accident. Instructions may also be missing which means you could fit a car seat incorrectly, putting your child at serious risk of injury. Jake Aug 17th 2012 In reply to Jake If you really cared about your kids safety, youd spend that little bit of cash "saved" for the proper safety item.. stop being such a cheap ass father! PLA Aug 17th 2012 In reply to Jake Better we should landfill all those carseats and helmets after one use? felix Aug 18th 2012 In reply to felix Polystyrene and polycarbonate are both recyclable. Bike helmets are, in some sense, designed to break on impact to absorb the collision. In the process they usually crack. This damage isn't always visible when buying a second-hand helmet.Lest you wish to end up dead or brain-damaged you should always buy new. Jake Aug 18th 2012 In reply to Jake While I agree the safety helmets would be a little iffy, there is nothing wrong with buying a used car seat or other baby items. It many cases these are only used for one child. Car seats only fit the kid for so long before they outgrow it. You can look at the car seat to make sure it's working and you can always get instructions and more information by looking up the make online. My brother got a stroller/car seat combo used and less than half the price brand new when he had a kid. Other than a couple food stains on the fabric it was in near perfect condition and was a good mode. He used the car seat until my nephew out grew it and there was never any problem. JV Aug 18th 2012 Ministry of Magic is throwing down! No more magic for muggles. LHL2500 Aug 17th 2012 if Ebay are removing nonsense from their site I look forward to all the Bibles also being removed JonnyDee Aug 17th 2012 In reply to JonnyDee Those are physical objects, imbecile. Thomas Bangalter Aug 17th 2012 In reply to Thomas Bangalter Potions are also physical objects, moron. TheTourist Aug 17th 2012 In reply to JonnyDee But the Bible is legitimite.As a fictional book. yay Aug 18th 2012 If you ban voodoo dolls and spells then why not ban the sale of the koran and christian crosses. Just saying. Matt Aug 17th 2012 I'm no great fan of religion, but in a spirit of fairness I feel it necessary to point out to "stinky*felix" that there is no record of Moses or any of the prophets selling their "communications" to the highest bidder! John Hind Aug 19th 2012 Rats-- there goes my plans for posting a spell as an auction item to make oneself invisible while passing underneath any surveillance camera..... sepepper Aug 19th 2012 In reply to sepepper Is the spell bound to a special head-device made out of aluminimum foil, guaranteed to stop the New World Order Illuminati Society from spying on you? Because if so, I think I've got one of those at home. Quasar Aug 24th 2012 Oh, what crap. It's a service. If people want to pay money for it, it's their prerogative to do so. Unless eBay bans all services under "intangibles," then this is specific targeting. Kit Aug 20th 2012 Wouldn't the service provided by Ebay itself qualify as an intangible? Vog the Obvious Aug 23rd 2012 Rather than trying to define what is "tangible", surely a better solution would be simply to say that advertisers must be able to prove any claim they make about any item?Selling a charm on the claim it cures cancer is surely just as bad as selling a prayer on the same claim. In either case, if a dispute arises, the seller should just be required to prove that the claim is true and if they cannot the complaint should be upheld.Just like if someone sells a guitar as "owned by Jimmy Hendrix" they should be able to prove that it was owned by Jimmy Hendrix. John Hind Aug 28th 2012 It should stop selling The Bible, then... AL Aug 29th 2012 Reply to a comment Name Email Comment Submit » Latest on wired.co.uk


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Maya Lin
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News about Maya Lin, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Apr. 28, 2013
Architect and artist Maya Lin's latest work, showing at Pace Gallery, focuses on Manhattan and its surrounding landscape, environmental history and waterways; Lin says Hurricane Sandy was a wake-up call to not ignore nature. MORE
Nov. 29, 2011
Planned memorial to heiress and preservationist Doris Duke sparks controversy among long time residents of Newport, R I; minimalist art installation, designed by artist Maya Lin, would be in Queen Anne Square, park created by Duke in the 1970s. MORE
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Maya Lin to Lead Redesign of Smith College Library
The assignment would be Ms. Lin's first work on a college library, though she also designed the Langston Hughes Library in Tennessee.
April 8, 2015, Wednesday
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Maya Lin Wins $300,000 Gish Prize
The artist and architect won the annual prize, which goes to "a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind's enjoyment and understanding of life."
October 7, 2014, Tuesday
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Q. & A. | Maya Lin on Saving the Planet Through Art
The artist, whose site-specific exhibiton, "Platform: Maya Lin," opens at the Parrish Museum in Water Mill, N.Y. tomorrow, discusses how her work addresses climate change.
July 3, 2014, Thursday
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In Yonkers, a Shuttered Jail Becomes Part of a Budding Art Scene
The renovation of the Yonkers City Jail into an art space is part of a push by Mayor Mike Spano to develop the waterfront and make it a place where young people want to live.
April 16, 2014, Wednesday
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Maya Lin's New Memorial Is a City
After Hurricane Sandy, Maya Lin, the architect and artist, decided her new show at Pace Gallery would fix on Manhattan and its surrounding landscape, environmental history and waterways.
April 28, 2013, Sunday
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Long After War, Moral Questions Linger
An Army doctor during the Vietnam War says his most difficult duty was navigating moral dilemmas that never seemed to have correct answers.
December 20, 2012, Thursday
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Baby Boomers Who Celebrate Birthdays This Week
Boomers having birthdays include Maya Lin, Sting and Susan Sarandon.
October 1, 2012, Monday
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A reader responds to an Op-Ed article, "The Forgotten Wages of War."
January 5, 2012, Thursday
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Newport, Despite Objections, Approves Maya Lin Project
Over the objections of a group of vocal opponents the city council of Newport, R.I., voted Wednesday night to approve the use of a small park for a permanent installation being designed by the artist Maya Lin to evoke the city's past and to honor the...
December 16, 2011, Friday
Maya Lin Project Approved in Newport Despite Objections
Some of the old guard in the old town are unhappy about the plan, which will honor Doris Duke.
December 15, 2011, Thursday
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'Storm King Wavefield'
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Solicitation in confession may be more widespread than believed, canonist says
Catholic World News - May 31, 2011
Noted canon-law professor Edward Peters reminds readers of the Homiletic and Pastoral Review that when a priest hearing confessions encourages penitents to sin, he commits not only a sin but also a serious canonical crime.
Peters argues that there is reason to believe that the canonical crime of solicitation--in which a priest "solicits a penitent to sin against the 6th commandment"--is not rare. He notes that solicitation does not necessarily mean that the priest/confessor is soliciting sexual favors for himself. There may be cases in which a priest's advice encourages the penitent to sin with another person or in solitude. At first glance such advice would appear to be very bad pastoral practice; Peters points out that it is also a serious ecclesiastical crime.
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How about when the Priest condones artificial contraception?!!


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Malaysia raises interest rates as economy surges
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Malaysia's central bank on Thursday raised its key interest rate for the second time since March, spurred by the fastest economic expansion in a decade in the first quarter.
Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is also finance minister, said gross domestic product grew 10.1 percent year-on-year, accelerating from a 4.5 percent expansion in the last quarter of 2009. It was the fastest growth since the first quarter of 2000.
The government is now targeting six percent growth for the full year, up from its earlier forecast of 4.5-5.5 percent, he said. This was the second increase to the forecast since March.
Bank Negara Malaysia meanwhile, announced it was raising its overnight policy rate - used by commercial banks to set lending rates - by a quarter percentage point to 2.5 percent.
The policy rate still remains low compared to 2008 when it was 3.50 percent.
Economists said the rate hike was widely expected and in line with moves by governments and central banks in the region to withdraw stimulus measures amid the global economic recovery.
The strong growth in the first quarter was above market expectations but not surprising given the low base from the first quarter last year when the economic shrank by 6.2 percent, they said.
"There are concerns that growth will now slow in second half amid uncertainties from the euro zone crisis," said Wan Suhaimi Saidi, economist with Kenanga Investment Bank.
The central bank may take a pause from raising interest rates if the global economic recovery is hampered, he said.
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Man robbed Satellite Beach credit union to pay for Disney cruise, police say
Cedrick Royce Swinson arrested in SUV with girlfriend, her kids
A 37-year-old North Carolina man was charged with carrying out a beachside credit union robbery after police say he told investigators he felt "pressured" to fulfill a promise to buy Disney cruise tickets for his girlfriend's children.
Satellite Beach police said the man, identified as Cedrick Royce Swinson, and his girlfriend drove overnight to Brevard County to take the cruise when he discovered the cash for his final payment on the tickets was not available for withdrawal.
"He claimed he had money in the bank but that he couldn't get access to it or that they had a hold on it," said Cmdr. Brad Hodge of the Satellite Beach Police Department. "He said he felt pressured to follow through with his promise to take (the girlfriend and her two children) on a Disney cruise and decided to rob the credit union."
The robbery happened about 10:40 a.m. at the Navy Federal Credit Union in the Atlantic Shopping Plaza at and Scorpion Lane and A1A in Satellite Beach, Local 6 News partner Florida Today reported.
Satellite Beach police, alerted by a bank alarm, and deputies from the Brevard County Sheriff's Office responded within minutes.
Witnesses told police that the robber walked into the bank and passed a note demanding cash and implied he had a weapon.
Hodge said Swinson then left the building and got into a white sport utility vehicle with his girlfriend and her 11- and 6-year-old children inside.
Satellite Beach located the SUV about five minutes later and conducted a traffic stop as it rode along the westbound lane of the Pineda Causeway. Officers, with weapons drawn, then took Swinson into custody.
Police also questioned the girlfriend but do not believe she knew of Swinson's plan.
"She was horrified and the children were upset. They drove here overnight from Charlotte for a cruise. They didn't know he was going to do this," Hodge said.
Swinson was taken to the Brevard County Jail Complex where he was booked on robbery, grand theft and driving on a suspended license charge, records show.


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In a quaint residential suburb of Cape Town in South Africa is where you will find the incredible Rondebosch Golf Club. The name of the suburb is Rondebosch and it has a business district, commercial shopping square (selling everything from baby room funiture to electronic devices) and the University of Cape Town.
The name Rondebosch comes from the tree grove that was found on the banks of the local river, the Versse Rivier, called Ronde Doorn Bosje. When the Dutch came to settle in this area in 1852 these thorn trees were one of the first that were planted. By 1657, the area was used by the Dutch East India Company for some of their employees who were given free citizen status and land. It was made up mostly of white and English-speaking residents especially during the Apartheid period. It was only after 1994 when the population began to grow racially.
The Rondebosch Golf Club is considered as one of the prime golf courses in Cape Town and in the country. The view is magnificent when playing golf as you find yourself playing golf with the backdrop of the Table Mountain and Devil's Peak. Many golf aficionados who travel to South Africa make it a point to play at least one round of golf in the 18-hole course while their partners buy beauty products at some of the city's best stores…
The club was established in 1911 and celebrated its centennial anniversary last year, 2011. For a golf club to survive this long, it must maintain a high standard of maintenance and service. It should also be well-supported by its members and allowed to be used by guests. Behind the club's success is a tradition of non-stop improvement and service. The course itself is impeccably maintained, challenging to a serious golfer but friendly enough for guests and inexperienced golfers.
It is often chosen as the host venue for top golf tournaments. In the past, there have been 7 Sunshine Tours, the South African Ladies Amateur Open, and the Professional Ladies European Tour.
During a golf game it is not unusual to hear sounds of nature which are pleasant and not distracting at all. They are from the birds that have made the course their home.
In 1994, the club underwent a major renovation and now has some of the most fantastic greens in the African region. The main challengers to a golfer would be the Black River and other water sources as well as the wind factor. With the renovation, the drainage system was upgraded and the course is playable even during the winter months.
Other facilities are the Pro Shop, restaurant, bar, and function rooms for private parties and meetings.
Outside the golf club are several attractions like the Groote Schuur which is a mansion constructed in 1657 and is now the presidential home of South African leaders like Nelson Mandela when he was president and now President Zuma. The Rondebosch Fountain is another landmark in town which was made a national monument in 1964. It stands for the spot where the historical tree grove used to be.


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A leading asset management provider breathes new life into furniture and fixtures at University of Wisconsin-Stout while reducing cost, downtime and environmental impact.
New watershed improvement and protection projects in Tennessee will receive more than $600,000 in funding beginning in August.
Based in Quebec, the company is the first Canadian manufacturer to join the EPA program that encourages food retailers to reduce refrigerant emissions.
The company announced the signing with the British government moves the Peterhead Carbon Capture and Storage project to the next phase of design.
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Oregon Track Club Elite's Ben Bruce and Billy Nelson both advanced to Sunday's final of the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday.
Running in temperatures hovering just below 90 degrees, Bruce (8:40.85) crossed the finish line hand-in-hand with Dan Huling in the first semifinal heat. Nelson, a 2008 Olympian, made a late move to grab the fifth and final automatic qualifying spot at 8:47.08.
Elsewhere, former Lane Community College standout Tom Pappas is the Day One leader in the decathlon with 4,234 points. Texas A&M's Trinity Otto is second at 4,152 and Joe Detmer third at 4,142.
Pappas' marks: 100 (11.00); long jump (23-10); shot put (55-4 1/4); high jump (6-8 3/4) and 400 (51.60).
Curtis Anderson covered UO track and field for The Register-Guard from 1990-96, and again since 2005. He covered the 2012 Olympic Games in London, in addition to the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials in New Orleans (1992), Atlanta (1996) and Hayward Field (2008 and 2012). He is the winner of the Jesse Abramson Award, presented by the Track & Field Writers of America for excellence in coverage in 2008.


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(Apr 10, 2009) On April 7, 2009, Ireland's Minister of Finance introduced a Supplemental Budget in the Dáil Éireann, or lower chamber of Parliament, that leaves Ireland's low corporate tax rates of ten percent on manufacturing and 12.5 percent on most business income untouched, but sharply increases personal taxes and levies. (Department of Finance, The Budget, Apr. 7, 2009, available at http://budget.gov.ie/2009SupApril09/SummaryofSupplementaryBudgetM
easuresPolicyChanges.html#IncomeTaxhttp.) Income levies to be introduced apply to incomes in excess of the threshold level of approximately €15,000 (about US$19,850) and will be two percent on incomes of individuals up to about €75,000, four percent on incomes of individuals up to about €174,000, and six per cent on the incomes of individuals above that level. These increases are in addition to the income taxes that are already being imposed in Ireland. The Supplemental Budget will also raise the health levies to between four and five percent to pay for increases in health care costs, limit the already capped mortgage interest deduction to seven years, and raise the capital gains rate for eligible capital gains from 22 to 25 percent. (Id.)
On April 8, 2009, the Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Brian Cowen, delivered a speech in the Dáil Éireann in support of the budget. (Brian Cowen, Taoiseach, Dep't of the Taoiseach, Speech at the Dáil Éireann (Apr. 8, 2009), available at http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/index.asp?locID=605&docID=4337.) The Taoiseach began by calling it "one of the most critical Budgets in the lifetime of the State," intended to put the "country on a five-year plan to economic renewal." (Id.) The leader of the government noted that about 30 percent of income earners, or about 670,000 persons, would be exempt from the income levy, as would those persons who hold medical cards issued to persons unable to afford health care. He also noted that over a million persons would be exempt from the health levy and that the top one percent of wage earners would contribute nearly a quarter of the total yield from the income levy.
The Taoiseach claimed that despite the readjustments, Ireland will continue to have "one of the most favorable tax regimes in the OECD [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]." Yet, Ireland's tax rate for single persons without dependents is 20 percent on the first €36,400 (about US$48,170) and 41 percent on balances above that amount. (Irish Taxation 2009 and 2008, Finfacts Ireland website, http://www.finfacts.com/taxfacts.htm (last visited Apr. 8, 2009).)
Opposition parties have argued that the government should do more to reduce spending, but the Taoiseach has argued that additional unemployment-related expenditures caused by the economic crisis and the need to continue investing in infrastructure for the future make additional cuts virtually impossible. As it is, the budget does call for cutting €4.8 billion (about US6.4 billion) from the previous budget with further savings of €2.2 billion in 2010 and €2.5 billion in 2011. (Brian Cowen, supra.)
Corporations were not only spared in the supplemental budget, but also were offered tax relief for the acquisition of intangible assets including intellectual property. This incentive was created to stimulate the development of a "Smart Economy." (Id.)
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Four Winds Farm: Organic carrots, beets, radishes, parsnips, chard, kale, chickens and beef
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Since the 19th century, when Jesuits pastored Mexican workers in the New Almaden mining district near San Jose, to today's multiethnic parishes in Arizona, California, Hawaii, and Utah, we have celebrated the diverse cultures of God's people.
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Coach Glassman and Kate Foster - video [wmv] [mov] [HD mov]
How can I help Crossfit for Hope?
I live in Ohio near Cleveland?
So proud of you Kate! And the parents Lynn and Barb, the fruit didn't fall far from the tree in the Foster family! Now lets go give everything on "hope" and please donate!
Go get em in DC Kate!
I had the opportunity to meet Kate to night along with her family. Amazing girl. So great to see such a light of hope. Inspirational!!
Like a boss...Like a boss...
I was able to meet Kate and her family tonight in Washington for the Hope workout tomorrow. What an amazing inspirational light of hope she is!! It was great meeting you Kate!
Find a CrossFit gym and go do the workout. Or go to the hope.crossfit.com site and sponsor an athlete or a gym.
Kate - you are changing lives just by being you. Amazing, girl.
Our box is on it's way to a field to CrossFit for Hope in just a few hours....Thank you to EVERYONE who has worked on this. We are so proud to be part of Hope. Love & Stay Strong...From your friends at CrossFit 603
Show 'em what you're made of Kate the Great! We love you girlie!!!
Show 'em what you're made of Kate the Great! We love you girlie!!!
Hi guys, do you all count the bar I.e. A 20kg bar in the weight you say to push?
Love that kid. Great story.
Hope workout
I did hope yesterday after I worked on my snatch and c&j form for 40 minutes.
Hope 161. I was exausted when I started. Bad score I know.
Today I worked on bar muscle ups for the first time (been doing crossfit for a month now).
20 minutes of "practice" and then in 10 minutes I did 8 "clean" muscle ups. Very happy about this.
Finished up with 5 sets of 5 reps bench press at 205 lbs. Then 5 sets of 5 reps of dead lifts at 270 lbs. These were both 80% of my 1 rep max.
@12 Yes you do.
do crossfit be crossfit
Did Hope yesterday by myself. Just recommenced xfit after a way too long break. Don't know what I was thinking, could have gone to rec center all along. I've struggled with pushing myself by myself and obviously that is one of the awesomest things about xfit is the group encouragement and pushing each other. So I did Hope in about 35 minutes after warming up and subbed rowing machine for c2b and 75# bar for 2 35# DB's as I had no access to a proper bar. Way to long, but I still finished! And I was super gassed. But back in it! Now Ive just got to focus on being consistent!
Amazing Video. Kate is an inspiration to all of us and shows that we should have no excuses not to workout every day.
@Gary Roberts when can we expect to see another episode of Killing the Fat Man? Would love to have an update on how your doing soon!
I wish I was as awesome and tough as you!!! You're a very special little girl.
Thanks for sharing her story and giving me more motivation to keep pushing harder and make less excuses.
"Hope" as Rx'd
Score 233
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"HOPE" as Rx'd
118 - thanx to K for pushing me to keep going!
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Did Hope, but not as Rx'd due to shoulder problems
1 arm dumbbell snatches
box jumps
1 arm dumbbell thrusters
1 arm jumping pull-ups
259 reps total
Hope, as Rx'd 220. It was surprisingly difficult. Looking at the workout on paper was decieving.
Sorry for the double posting..my post didn't show at first.
@Tristan. Things are going great. There is one more episode to air that Sevan will turn in soon and then some more surprises after that. Stay tuned! Thanks so much!!!
Thrusters #75 12,11,10
Pullups 12,11,10
Box Jumps 12,11,10
Power Snatch #75 12,11,10
Burpees 12,11,18
Score 173
I have had the great honor to get to know Kate Foster's family by email (I am a leukemia survivor myself and we met on a blog that way). While I know I endured a great deal 18 months ago during my treatment I am humbled by the way this now 13 year old has dealt with both cancer treatment and loss of her leg with unbelievable courage and unwavering positive attitude. She is the "real deal" and someone from whom we can all learn about what is important in life.
Made up Front Squats
125 all rounds
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@#1 You can continue to help the cause of cure, prevention and treatment of catastrophic children's illness and injury all year long.
A webpage is being created for all of the CrossFit initiatives to make kids lives better, including this one. In the meantime contact email@example.com to support the Hope initiative.
Kate, you inspire me. Your positive energy is contagious. Thanks for taking the time to talk with us in DC.


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