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Re: Would you say this is a cheater?phxs72 Mar 7, 2014 6:53 AM (in response to sdredger)
Could be or it could just be a stats glitch particularly if their data got corrupted and they had to be restored to a previous saved point. Those restores sometimes will screw up your totals.
Re: Would you say this is a cheater?Run_N_Gunning_Camper Mar 7, 2014 7:08 AM (in response to sdredger)
I have someone like that on my friends list. A 0.6 KD player suddenly became a 3.8 KD, had a 92% WL, and an average score of 16K. I reported the kid and I want to see how long it takes before he gets banned. His prestige icon also became blank.
Re: Would you say this is a cheater?phxs72 Mar 7, 2014 7:24 AM (in response to Run_N_Gunning_Camper)
The blank prestige icon is a sure sign of a hacked account.
Re: Would you say this is a cheater?shh_im_quiet Mar 7, 2014 9:24 AM (in response to sdredger)
Average score of 14k?
Try scoring 4,000 in one game. Play Domination and get into the noobiest lobby you can find. Just try to get 4,000 points (match bonus and operation exp doesn't count towards that number).
Then think about scoring 3x that, every game...
Come back and tell us if you think that person has a hacked account.
Re: Would you say this is a cheater?sdredger Mar 7, 2014 9:34 AM (in response to shh_im_quiet)
for the reasons you stated i assumed that must be the case, however nothing has been done about them, same as the people using the ripper, and the people with the hacked icons, the game is to easy to exploit for these people
Re: Would you say this is a cheater?xxphenomen4xx Mar 7, 2014 9:29 AM (in response to sdredger)
Not sure, but ive been getting roughly 6 to 10 thousand a game lately! ? It might be the fact that I keep getting the tango down achievement? I wish I was still trying ro prestige!
Re: Would you say this is a cheater?Bubbakush Mar 7, 2014 9:33 AM (in response to sdredger)
He also could of gotten dropped into a modded lobby I have a buddy that did and his average score was around 9k after lucky for him it was his first prestige so he was able to bring it down to a reasonable amount as to not get called a hacker or cheat. With how the game launched basically with modded lobby's and as far as I know haven't been fixed this whole hacking fiasco needs to be taken with a grain of salt


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The orbit of Venus is the most circular in the entire Solar System. In mathematical terms, the eccentricity of Venus is less than 0.01. A year on Venus lasts 223 days.
As Venus travels around the Sun, it ranges in distance from 107 million km to 109 million km. The average distance is 108 million km. This is 72% the distance of Earth to the Sun.
Venus can get as close as 40 million km from the Earth. This is called an inferior conjunction every 584 days, on average.
One of the most unusual things about Venus is that it rotates backwards from the rest of the planets in the Solar System. Seen from above, all of the planets rotate counter-clockwise, but Venus turns clockwise. Of course, Venus orbits so slowly that its day is actually longer than its year. A day on Venus lasts 243 Earth days, while its year is 224.7 Earth days.

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The Coalition's Holman Water Quality Stewardship Award celebrates
rivers, lakes, and streams and those who protect them by recognizing
some of our victories and honoring those who provide us with leadership
and inspiration along the way. All too frequently, individuals and
groups involved with natural resource conservation fail to celebrate
their hard-won successes. Too often, important victories are allowed to
be overshadowed by the next issue or threat. Challenges always lie
ahead, but the Coalition wants to take time each year to celebrate the
people who make our collective achievements possible.
The award is named for Bill Holman, who is currently Director of State
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I was struggling last week to find the right word to describe the reactions from the public and press seeing space shuttles flying to museums and not into space. The word is predictable.
Predictable pride in this true American icon, predictable confusion as to where our manned space program and NASA really are and predictable disgust when the reality of the situation sinks in.
I could go into lengthy detail as to how we found ourselves in the mess we're in - the inability to launch American astronauts on American rockets for years to come - but as I used to tell the shuttle launch team when confronted with a problem on launch day: "We are where we are. Let's figure it out, fix it and move on. We'll do the 'Who shot John?' later." But this isn't the place for explaining who shot John. Rather, it's an opportunity to offer a way to avoid future dead Johns.
How did we get here? Simple. Changing directions from Washington, D.C. Changes in administrations and congresses, all with seemingly insatiable appetites to establish their own plans for NASA.
How can we get ourselves out of this mess? Simple to say; difficult, if not impossible, to do.
We need to establish an enduring national space policy that transcends political influences, decades and hopefully even generations. Several of NASA's greatest accomplishments prove this to be possible, including the moon landing and the shuttle and space station programs.
An enduring space policy will benefit America tremendously. From the inspiration it gives ourselves, our children and future generations, to the jobs and technological advancements it creates, it is one of the best ways to plan for and get to the future.
Mostly lost in the debate last week were the true benefits NASA brings to the nation - technological advancements and many thousands of good jobs. Some have described the shuttle program as a jobs program. I challenge those who say this to name another program in America that isn't.
How do we get to such a policy? Again, easy to say, difficult to do.
Establish an international commission to define the policy. It must be one with true vision, not one based on stunts. Then, with the administration's and congressional backing, sign it into law. Do not just recommend such a policy, make it American law, changeable for only the most extreme reasons, and then fund it appropriately.
We, as a nation and a people, can do this. It will take courage and commitment, two traits often missing from our leaders lately.
What will happen absent such an enduring space policy? That, too, is predictable.


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1.1 This standard test method determines the biodegradation level of plastic materials exposed to laboratory conditions that simulate the environment found in the tidal zone. 1.2 The tidal zone, i.e. the part of the coast affected by the tides and movement of the waves, is the borderline between sea and land, frequently a sandy area that is kept constantly damp by the lapping of the waves. Stony and rocky shorelines also exist. 1.3 Plastic marine debris is frequently washed up in this habitat where it must be removed in order to restore the original landscape. 1.4 It is of interest to know the biodegradation behavior of plastics when exposed to conditions simulating this habitat, because this information can help in predicting the time needed for the biodegradation of the litter. 1.5 Biodegradation is determined by measuring the carbon dioxide evolved by the plastic material when exposed to a sediment kept wet with salt-water in a reactor, to simulate the tidal zone. 1.6 Marine fresh-water habitats are not considered by this Standard. 1.7 Reports shall clearly state the percentage of net gaseous carbon generation for both the test and reference samples at the completion of the test. Furthermore, in the laboratory reports, the results shall not be extrapolated beyond the actual duration of the test.
Plastic articles which are used in the sea, such as fishing gear, can get lost or left willingly in the marine environment contributing to the marine pollution. Such fishing products could therefore be made with biodegradable plastics, once biodegradation in the sea is characterized. Furthermore, it is of interest to know the marine biodegradation of bioplastics, in case of uncontrolled release. Specific laboratory test methods to determine biodegradation of plastics in different habitats are needed. As a matter of fact, the marine environment includes several different habitats where plastic products that are directly littered or arrive with fresh waters in the sea can end up. This standard will be used by industry, laboratories, and those who are interested in characterising the biodegradation behaviour of plastic products when exposed to the marine environment
Keywordsaerobic; biodegradation; marine; sandy sediment; eulittoral.
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An End to Alzheimer's?
Isolation of key genes at the heart of Alzheimer's disease has set off a frenzied race to find a drug to stop this cruel affliction in its tracks.
When molecular biologist Bob Vassar joined biotech giant Amgen in 1996, his mother was suffering from advanced-stage Alzheimer's disease. For years he'd taken care of her himself, since his father had died young. "Once she became incontinent I couldn't keep her at home any more," he recalls with more than a trace of guilt. In a nursing home, Vassar's mother slid rapidly downhill. In 1999, at age 78, she died-17 years after her diagnosis of Alzheimer's, which gradually but inexorably drains its victims of memory, judgment and reason.Vassar was helpless to stop, or even slow, his mother's descent into dementia. But unlike most Alzheimer's caregivers, he was in a position to help others avoid her fate. At Amgen, in Thousand Oaks, CA, he designed and implemented an ingenious method for isolating the gene for an enzyme called beta-secretase-a key culprit in the disease. "It was a high-risk project, and there was no guarantee we could get it," says Vassar. In fact, his group individually tested 860,000 gene copies before finding beta-secretase and publishing the discovery in late 1999.
With success came hope. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved three drugs for Alzheimer's disease, but these only temporarily improve brain function, without slowing or stopping progression of the disease. Other treatments are in advanced development (see "Bulging Pipeline" sidebar), but none has yet shown good long-term results. The discovery of beta-secretase, on the other hand, opens the possibility of halting the disease. "It's a huge leap forward," says Lennart Mucke, director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease at the University of California, San Francisco. Possession of beta-secretase (discovered, almost simultaneously, by three other drug companies) has now set off a frenzied race to find and test a drug to block the enzyme and stop Alzheimer's in its tracks.


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PIKE COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - Kentucky State Police are investigating a deadly crash in the Ferrells Creek community of Pike County. It happened on Tuesday afternoon.
Police say 55-year old Lawrence Fleenor of Prestonsburg, was driving on US 460 when the 2010 Jeep Wrangler he was operating struck a large boulder in the roadway. The boulder was in the roadway as a result of a rock slide that happened just prior to the crash.
Mr. Fleenor was transported to Pikeville Medical Center where he died.
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Archive for Thursday, September 20, 2007
First season successful for new pool
With the water drained and the pool winterized, the city is looking back at the Eudora Aquatic Center's opening season.
On average, the center's attendance exceeded Eudora Parks and Recreation Director Tammy Hodges original estimates, she said.
The pool drew about 300 people per day from July 7 until Sept. 3.
She originally predicted the pool would draw somewhere between 200 to 250 people per day.
"When August hit, everything died down," Hodges said.
The $1.4 million dollar center opened a month late because of construction delays.
Despite the postponement, people enrolled in all of the city's swim lessons.
About 170 people participated in the classes during the two-week sessions.
"With us running late, we had to knock out a first session of swimming lessons," Hodges said.
The pool brought in around $33,000, Eudora City Administrator Cheryl Beatty said.
"It did turn out well," Beatty said.
If the pool had been open for a full season, it would came close to breaking even, Beatty said.
The city spent about $67,000 for the pool and lifeguards over the summer. Hodges estimated the lifeguard wages accounted for about $49,000 of the total.
"That was because we kept the lifeguards and the concession people working for that month of June when the pool wasn't open," Hodges said
The city had the lifeguards painting fire hydrants and taking care of other odd jobs around the city while finishing touches were made on the pool.
The department also found aspects to improve on for the next season, Hodges said.
"I'm hoping that next year we can get the slide to operate at the normal rating that it's supposed to," she said. "Also we got to look at the buckets and why they are not dropping water quick enough."
The water slide has had issues generating enough water pressure to get swimmers down quickly since installation, Hodges said.
In addition to fixing issues with the equipment, Hodges has several theme nights planned for the next swim season.
Hodges also predicted the city will continue to teach evening swim lessons.
"I know that's why a lot of people were concerned why we didn't try to stay open to 8 o'clock like we did in the past," Hodges said.
By the next swim season, the city will have completed the recreation center, which was also part of a $3.8 million bond issue that built the pool, and concession facilities.
"Next year, we are going to have to wear armbands, or arm bracelets, with the building being open," Hodges said.
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|Glutathione S-transferase M1 and T1 genetic polymorphism in Egyptian patients with nonsegmental vitiligo.
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|PMID: 22681588 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher
|Oxidative stress and accumulation of free radicals might play a role in the pathogenesis of vitiligo. Glutathione S-transferase (GST) is a multigene family of enzymes that detoxify oxidative stress products. In this study, genotyping of GSTM1 and GSTT1 by multiplex PCR of 101 women with nonsegmental vitiligo vulgaris and 101 age-matched healthy female volunteers showed that only the GSTM1 null genotype (P = 0.04) was significantly overexpressed in patients with vitiligo. Analysis of the combined effect of GSTM1 and GSTT1 genotyping identified a significant association of risk for vitiligo with the GSTT1/GSTM1 double-null type only (P = 0.01; OR = 2.69; 95% CI 1.12-6.46). Age of onset of vitiligo was significantly earlier in patients with the T1 null genotype (P < 0.01) and those with the T1-/M1+ and T1-/M1-combined genotypes (P < 0.01 and P = 0.01, respectively). In conclusion, the GSTM1 gene and the GSTM1/GSTT1 double-null genotype may be a risk factor for vitiligo in Egyptian patients. Inability to cope with oxidative stresses because of GST deficiency may cause early disease onset.
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Briton Lewis Hamilton confirmed that he and McLaren have recovered their form when he swept to a dominant pole position in Saturday's closely-fought qualifying session for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix.
Driving with supreme speed and consistency, the 27-year-old Briton clocked a best time of one minute and 20.953 seconds to top the times ahead of nearest rival Frenchman Romain Grosjean in a Lotus.
Grosjean secured his front row starting position with a fast lap in the final seconds of a tight session to move ahead of third-placed defending drivers champion Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull and Hamilton's team-mate and compatriot Jenson Button.
Finn Kimi Raikkonen was fifth in the second Lotus ahead of championship leader Fernando Alonso of Spain and his Ferrari team-mate Brazilian Felipe Massa.
Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado was eighth ahead of his Williams team-mate Brazilian Bruno Senna and German Nico Hulkenberg in the leading Force India.
For Hamilton, it was a third pole of the year and the 22nd of his career.
On a hot afternoon at the Hungaroring, 25 kilometres north of Budapest, the track temperature was 45 degrees Celsius when qualifying began, with Grosjean one of the first men out.
The morning had been dominated by paddock gossip about another controversy surrounding the Red Bull team who, it was claimed, had been told to remove a device that allowed them to adjust their front ride-height by hand.
The claim came from the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport which said also that the incident happened following the Canadian Grand Prix.
The opening session saw Hamilton on top with the two Red Bulls struggling to avoid an embarrassing early cut, Webber winding up in 16th place and Germnay's Vettel 17th ahead of Australian Daniel Ricciardo of Toro Rosso who had his worst qualifying of the year.
He was the leading driver eliminated ahead of Finn Heikki Kovalainen and his Caterham team-mate Vitaly Petrov, Frenchman Charles Pic and German Timo Glock of Marussia and the two Hispanias of Spaniard Pedro de la Rosa and Indian Narain Karthikeyan.
Hamilton was out in front fastest ahead of two other Britons Paul Di Resta of Force India and Jenson Button, in the second McLaren.
In Q2, Grosjean was out early again to go top before he was replaced by Raikkonen. Then Hamilton, in blistering form, shot to the top in 1:21.060, half a second faster than the Finn.
The final minutes saw some dramatic scrapping for positions before, unexpectedly, Webber was unable to beat the cut and was eliminated in 11th place along with Briton Paul Di Resta of Force India who was 12th.
Also out went German Nico Rosberg of Mercedes, Mexican Sergio Perez and his Sauber team-mate Japanese Kamui Kobayashi, Frenchman Jean-Eric Vergne of Toro Rosso and seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher of Germany who was 17th in the second Mercedes.
All this left Hamilton fastest again and looking supremely fast ahead of Vettel and Maldonado as they began their final countdown for the top ten shootout.
But when the final Q3 action began, Hamilton had to pull out of a fast lap when the back end of his McLaren appeared to twitch before he clocked a fastest lap to set the pace. After that it was down to the rest to try and catch him. – AFP
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A quick adjustment of the timeout values for key processes can greatly speed up otherwise laggy shutdowns in OS X.
If needed, you can reduce Dock clutter by hiding the icon for persistent background and helper applications.
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Services in OS X offer built-in and custom options to help optimize your workflow.
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The Baldwin girls' varsity soccer team is in the midst of a banner 2013 season.
The Lady Highlanders wrapped up the Section 4-AAA championship with a win against Ringgold earlier this week.
But it was their thrilling 1-0 victory at Bethel Park last week that provided an exclamation point to the regular season.
"The girls won (against Bethel Park) because they played with heart," said Caley Troutman, Baldwin's first-year head coach. "They set the goal to win the section at the beginning of the season, and they played to win at Bethel.
"They gave everything. The last 10 minutes, the defense and goalie Liz Spegar blocked shot after shot. A few saves were made off the goal line. They were determined to keep the ball out of our net."
Carly Baumann, a senior forward/center midfielder, netted the game-winning goal off a free kick for the Lady Highlanders, who posted 14 shutouts through 17 games in 2013.
"Defensively, Kelsie Balsam was a huge part of our success (this year)," Troutman said. "She also assisted on Carly Baumann's goal."
Baldwin and Bethel Park played to a 0-0 stalemate in their first meeting in September.
The Lady Highalnders also defeated and tied Mt. Lebanon, another South Hills rival, by 1-0 and 0-0 scores this season.
"I'm really proud of the team and how they are playing right now," Troutman said. "We need to keep it going into the playoffs."
Through 16 games, Amanda Grmusa, a senior midfielder, and Katy Pearson, a senior forward, led the Lady Highlanders in goals scored with 16 and 15, respectively.
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After years of analysing brain scans and treating patients, Dr Daniel Amen has discovered that there are many simple things you can do on a daily basis to boost your brain function. These daily prescriptions can also be the key to a better body. Here are just a few things you can do to get started:
1. Eat a good diet. Getting good nutrition is essential to good brain function and to a better body. A healthy diet includes lean protein, fruits, vegetables, nuts and healthy fats like olive oil. Studies show that your brain works better if you eat nine servings of fruits and vegetables a day.
2. Take daily vitamins, minerals and fish oil. Because most of us do not get all the nutrients we need from the foods we eat, Dr Amen recommends that everybody takes a daily multivitamin and mineral supplement. A daily fish oil supplement can decrease inflammation and boost blood flow to the brain and can help combat depression, which has been associated with being obese as well as many other health conditions.
3. Exercise. When it comes to the brain, exercise acts like the fountain of youth. It boosts blood flow, increases the brain's use of oxygen, and improves your brain's response to stress. It is the single most important thing you can do to keep your brain healthy and is one of the best ways to change your shape and improve your mood, energy level, sexual performance and overall health.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame told a US audience on Tuesday that the horrific slaughter of more than 800 000 people in his country two decades ago has taught people in the small East African nation that they "must ultimately be responsible for their own fate".
"If you wait for help to come, you will just perish," Kagame told students, faculty and others at Tufts University who came to hear him speak as Rwanda marks 20 years since the atrocity.
Kagame's rebel Rwanda Patriotic Front ended the genocide by overthrowing the extremist government of the majority Hutus that orchestrated the slaughter of the ethnic Tutsis and Hutu moderates.
"Twenty is not a magic number. But the milestone has helped to refocus Rwanda and the world's attention on the causes and consequences of the genocide," he said.
The slaughter was committed "with shocking efficiency" by an extremist government that hid "behind the excuse of a spontaneous outpouring of violent anger", he said. "To mask their responsibility and make justice impossible, they made millions of Rwandan civilians complicit in their crime, by inciting them to kill their neighbours and countrymen."
Kagame said the actions and inaction of the international community made the situation worse.
Out of that twisted reality, Rwandans learned a painful lesson on justice that gave rise to ad hoc courts like the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and later the International Criminal Court.
But Kagame said punitive justice is only half the solution and must be balanced with reconciliation.
"The ultimate goal is to repair a devastated social fabric in order for a nation to heal and begin to rebuild," he said. "This is true for Rwanda after 1994, as it is for other nations recovering from major conflict."
Kagame expressed hope that his country's young demographic may help Rwanda move past its recent history. About half of Rwanda's population of 12 million is under 20 years old, and those age 30 or younger account for about 71 percent of the population. These young Rwandans are unencumbered by the bloody past, their president noted.
Kagame seemed thrown off balance when a student asked him if he plans to run for a third term in office, beyond the current constitutional two-term limit.
"I think at some point we need to leave countries and people to decide their own affairs," Kagame said. "Why I'm saying that is because I'm asked when and whether I plan to leave office - right from the start of my first political term in office.
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"Our intention is to strengthen but actions will speak louder than words," Werner told the national press.
"We are playing better and better each week. Obviously we have made some mistakes in the past but our intention is to deliver, strengthen the squad and move forward.
"We know that January is a challenging time and I don't want to say we've got x or y but, hopefully, the fans will be pleased with what we do accomplish."
Werner also reiterated Brendan Rodgers' stance that there is absolutely no chance of Luis Suarez being sold.
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"Absolutely not," said Werner. "He's a beautiful player to watch and, as a Liverpool fan, I hope I'm watching him for many years to come.
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I will be in Malaysia soon enough and was wondering if you can exchange British pounds there easily enough? I would prefer to take pounds rather than change into Dollars first, then Ringgit. I seem to recall seeing exchange rates for pounds at all the places in KL but not sure on the rates.
Also, I want to buy some TEVA sandals but I'm having trouble getting the ones I want in my size in the UK. I have small feet (UK7) and it seems all the shops sell out of these really quickly or just don't bother getting stock in. I could buy them online but you never know, I might even be a 6 (I really hope I am not). I guess they would be about the same price in Malaysia (?) which Is fine, it is more about size than price...
Could I pick a pair up in KL? If so, any suggestions as to where I go?
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Can't help with the sandals but there are loads of shops there so it shouldn't be much of a problem. Very big feet are usually more difficult to find shoes for than dainty small feet in Asia.
Sterling is still considered a major world currency (for some reason) and you always lose money when you change it, so no point at all in changing pounds into dollars first.
Money changers (as opposed to banks) have the best rates in Malaysia usually in my experience (which isn't all that vast). Check out several as their rates vary. Changing English pounds should be no problem. Scottish pounds ARE a problem though... I tried to change some in BKK once and had a great deal of trouble doing it. Banks seemed to consider them in the same way as they consider kyat or kip or dong...or monopoly money.
Managed to get them changed in the end (at a money changer) but got a much lower rate than for English pounds even though they have the same face value as English pounds in the UK.
Also, although 100 pound notes are regarded with great suspicion in the UK, you do get a better rate for them than 50s or 20s abroad.
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Yes. There are stores that stock Teva in KL.
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While in Malaysia, try to get exchange for Ringgit at those in Bukit Bintang area, especially at the front of Sungei Wang Plaza, and don't forget to compare the rate with Maybank and the other one next to the front entrance door of Sungei Wang Plaza. Those have the best rate in Kuala Lumpur.
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Thanks All,
Looks like I'll be bringing a wad of fifties with me then!
SBE... there is surely no 100 pound note in England!?? If there is, I have never heard of or seen one! I worked in a bank for a bit too
As far as sandals go, I will probably try to get them in KL if I can't find them here first. I guess TEVA is not the only brand out there.
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LOL you're right Christay. Sorry I meant 20s and 50s! I'm a Brit but live in the Euro zone where we have 100 euro notes (and 500 euro notes too, not that I've ever seen one of those).
To me 50 quid is not a huge note but none of the shops in the UK seemed very keen on accepting them when I was there last year. Everyone used 20 pound notes and a large stash of those would be quite bulky to carry around. Money changers (unlike UK shops) actually prefer 50s.
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SBE hi there can i know where n which money changer that u able to change in malaysia because i got few notes of scottish pound and i still not able to change it yet,,thanz
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Is there a risk to offering too many varieties of apples?
By Kevin Precht
How many new apple varieties do we need? Everyone up and down the fresh apple supply chain is asking this question. The consumer walking up to the apple table at her local grocery store sees a sea of red with a little gold and green and could name maybe one or two of the varieties without any help. The retailer deciding what to put on that shelf looks at the sales velocity of a few key varieties and wonders why he should carve up the table to make room for lesser-volume SKUs. The grower deciding what to grow looks at the risk-reward relationship between going with a new, unknown variety that has the potential, maybe, to be the star of tomorrow's apple category or bank on a tried-and-true, high-volume, commoditized variety—thousands of acres of which were planted last year by other growers.
So, have we already jumped the rail and settled on course to becoming another hyper-fragmented, European-style apple market? In the near term, it depends on where the economy is headed. If consumers, and by extension retailers and growers, continue to tighten their belts and hunker down, the risk-reward judgment of whether to buy, sell, or grow that new variety X suddenly gets overweighted to "risk."
In the long term, I believe we are going to see a lot of fragmentation, but maybe just shy of the European standard. The reason for this will hinge on the fact that specialization drives value.
Using the Washington apple crop as an example, in the 1970s a 40 million box crop was considered a monster crop. Today, a 100-million-box crop is small and 120 million would be a "large" crop. Yes, general consumption has increased. Yes, suppliers are developing more export sales. Yes, product quality and consistency is dramatically better.
Bigger than those things, though, is that consumer appeal of apples has expanded as the table transitioned from mainline varieties only to what it is today, a motley brew of traditional varieties representing 52.9% of category volume, high volume varietals comprising Gala and Fuji at a combined 36.2% share, and newcomers and niche regional varieties accounting for approximately 10.9%.
This is not a new concept. Just look at berries. Through specialization, in this case in the form of packaging (and more widespread distribution), berries have gone from a loss-leading minor category to one of the fastest growing items within the department. Like the roots of a tree spreading out to find pockets of minerals and water, the new varieties have enabled the apple category to tap new areas of demand.
Retailers themselves are looking for specialization in a competitive landscape. The ability to stock a predictable assortment of everyday varieties at a competitive retail price is basic strategy for an apple category. By layering over this one or a small group of new, niche varieties as specialty items, the retailer achieves differentiation between his display and his competitor's display, and therefore value in the eyes of the consumer.
Growers' desire to produce in a way that spreads costs of production but also enables them to supply the new areas of demand, and create a return to invest back in their operations. To do this, growers achieve unit cost reduction through varieties that are predictable to grow and have a large market. Yet, if they grew only these varieties, they would be competing purely on a commodity basis. Growers recognize that to achieve a sustainable return, specialization is needed. They therefore select one or a few of the newer varieties based on availability, suitability to their particular site, expected yields and returns.
The degree of change on U.S. retailers' shelves will slow during an economic recession. It is causing retailers to take stock of each variety's competitive advantages, and the strategic fit it represents based on demographic appeal, seasonality, and product attributes.
Yet, despite today's economic constraints, tomorrow's winners across the supply chain will be those who use this time to refine their assortments build specialization into their business models.
Kevin Precht is with the Cameo Apple Marketing Association. For more information, visit www.americancameo.com.


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It put North Haverbrook on the map.
It put North Haverbrook on the map.
I'm not backing the NFL here, but this blackout rule doesn't bother me much and it has at least some basis in reality and fairness: to have a full stadium experience (I won't argue whether that's really worth it these days). IIRC, the doesn't kick in until 72 hours before kickoff, it only applies to networks within 75 miles and it only applies to local broadcast/cable TV (you still get the game on Sunday Ticket). And, in most cases, local businesses will buy up the unused tickets to give to charity, and the NFL relents, and the whole issue is moot.
I'm far more pissed with the blackout rules for MLB. I live in Las Vegas, I have the MLB.TV package, and I am blacked out from at least 6 teams (Dodgers, Angels, D-Backs, Padres, A's, Giants). None of those teams are within 300 miles of me, so I'm not driving to home games. And yet, I can't watch any of those teams, because (in theory) I should have access to those teams from my local cable network. But the cable cos and the networks like to bitch about retransmission fees and so I haven't seen the Dodgers all year.
The REALLY stupid blackout rule: Hawaii is blacked out from the Giants & A's. HAWAII !!!! I know there's kayaks in McCovey Cove every game, but I have yet to see any Polynesian catamarans.
I have 2 simple rules:
1) If the job is really terrible -- crazy boss, lousy environment, not enough funding -- it should be obvious within 30 days or so. At most companies this is a probationary period anyway. I've quit a couple of jobs quickly for these reasons, and I've found that HR (if not the boss) is generally okay with this. Act professionally, of course, give notice and all that, but It's better to cut ties early if you feel that you and the employer are not a good match.
2) Assuming I get past 30 days and still like it, I've always tried to make it to 2 years before trading up. I've found that after year 1, I'll get a bonus or a bump in salary almost automatically. Year 2 is when the employer starts to look for something more out of me, and also when I'll get a better idea of possible career paths within the company.
My experience is that job hopping is not a big deal as long as you have good reasons, and as long as it's not TOO often. Good reasons include relocation, a substantial (I'd say 25%+) bump in pay, or changing jobs to do what you really want to do. No one will care that you only worked 3 months at The Gap before finding a Web developer job.
Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier. Really any and all of his books.
Well, they did say "it is more important to focus on how things look from the top than how they actually are down below".
I'd say you follow the same process: inform them, wait 1/3/7 days or whatever, then go public. If you suspect the exploit is deliberate, informing the manufacturer isn't telling them anything they didn't already know. Or, maybe it IS telling them, since in the case of open source, the exploit could have been introduced surreptitiously by a developer who's long gone, and the current developers have no idea of the exploit's existence.
Caveat: if you suspect revealing the bug will cause blowback to you. If you think the NSA/FBI/CIA will come after you for threatening to reveal it, I'd say just go public immediately, and include major press orgs so they can't just silence you.
Minor quibble with this. SEAD is a combat tactic which assumes you're already at war and suppressing defenses to advance a specific mission. A no-fly zone is a strategic patrol. It tells the enemy that you have overwhelming air superiority within the theater, and it assumes the enemy isn't willing to risk testing the no-fly zone. In the past no-fly zones have been more or less declared and imposed, and actually SEAD missions were unnecessary.
To be sure, actually enforcing a no-fly zone could require SEAD missions, in which case, it's not so no-fly. But yeah, it's still a dumb idea here, and it could provoke a wider war.
Suppression of Enemy Air Defense (SEAD aka Wild Weasel) is a combat tactic intended to reduce friendly losses and improve the effectiveness of air strikes. That is, to kill more of them and less of us. How in hell does someone consider that "humanitarian"?
This is one of the most Orwellian pieces of doublespeak I've read all year.
No. Experts in their field shouldn't need to be taught how to understand your system; that's part of being an expert ( or indeed, even a professional).
I completely agree but how are we even calling this "expert" or "professional"? Do I need to educate someone, a "programmer" let's say, about the fundamentals of Java? About electronics? About physics? How to type? How to use the toilet?
Maybe that's over the top, but at some point, if someone claims they can do X, we assume a basic level of skill. To use a car analogy: cars basically all work the same way. The car dealer doesn't make you take a test before you buy it and drive it home. They have to make sure you have a valid license, of course, but licensure is not their problem, and licensure by the state assumes that the basics of driving are the same across different models of cars.
Since when did the car owner's manual teach the owner how to drive?
I work for an airline. We train pilots on our aircraft and our procedures. We certainly do not teach them how to fly.
All good ideas. I think a lot of people are actually open to change as long as they feel their skill and experience is being valued. Suggest that it would be good to simplify and modernise the process and find out what ideas Bob has and the challenges he sees in implementing any changes.
This is definitely true but I would also add "offer to help with the changes" (or find someone who is capable of helping). Outsiders may have good ideas about how to fix things, but anyone can be a critic. That can be annoying to the original maintainer who has to do the work, regardless of how much it improves the system.
Thus spake the master programmer: "Time for you to leave." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"


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A specialist in digital transmission, Micromega is a french HiFi brand founded in 1987. They notably invented the first HiFi CD player with a topside loading system.
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Excellent video, Tylor. Exploitation is a genre of horror I don't like talking about because it's so vague, much like horror itself. But now it's over and we can discuss and move on
No one has slasher or exploitation comments or what not....I guess we move on to the next topic, which will be..........zombies
Here it is: Zombies:
Zombies, indeed!
I apologize for the sound on this one guys, for some reason it's been worse than usual lately.
Alright, today's topic is Monster Movies. In this video, I do mention vampires but left a lot out because we will do a different vampire only video in a few days:
ANNNNND second entry of the day: Why We Love Horror Movies: Fantasy Horror. I only really focus on a few films here as I don't feel true fantasy horror should be in a category by itself as fantasy, the term, is so broad.
MoNsTeR movies.......
I love these flicks. Godzilla, King Kong, The Blob, Creature From The Black Lagoon.....the old Universal Monster Movies
Tried my best to mention some good titles, but I know I missed tons, since there are so many:
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The Creature Kills Tylor Well is not going to do a video on Fantasy horror. The genre is too broad and the specific fantasy films are ones he hasn't seen or he's just not that comfortable talking about like a pro. I feel it to be the weakest video thus far so we'll consider it a diet entry to the topic and just move on to bigger brighter things tomorrow.
Indeed, I'll do this video when I have more knowledge on the fantasy horror sub-genre.No use being an ignorant ass and talking about things you don't know. lol
Looking forward to talking about all the future sub-genres, however.Garden compiled a bit of a list and it's quite extensive. Lots of videos are coming, we hope to see it catch on and become a trend!
Alright kids, today's topic video is REMAKES!!!!
Also fun to note that towards the end of the video I have a scary encounter with a spider
soooo after watching said video I really wanna watch some freaking remakes!!!! I love remakes lol
My video on remakes may have to come either later tonight or hopefully tomorrow, but for some reason my videos have NO SOUND and keeps stalling. I have no idea what's wrong. Hopefully it will fix itself, though. lol
I'll post a link when it starts working right.
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While my laptop may be acting funky, the video uploaded fine it seems!
We We Love Horror: Remakes
I left so many remakes out I might make a second video in a little bit talking of the ones i left out
I've only managed the first video cause I'm going away today to see family but will get to them later So far I see I lot of passion for the genre. I've subscribed to your channel Garden (not seen any of yours yet Creature but I'll subscribe too ) I think I'll enjoy this little series toy guys are doing and even though I cannot make video responses I will leave my comments
Thank you, very much! Yeah if you can't make a video response, just add comments on here and on youtube and spread the word. This is a series that both Creature and I have enough steam to keep going for a long time
Well I'm glad you're happy? welcome to the site!
Much appreciated, UltraViolence!! We could both use as many subscribes/comments as we can get.
I second that, Tylor
new video on Vampires:
Here's the companion video to that,
Why We Love Horror Movies: VAMPIRES!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__An4vWr
This video is calling out all the fakers who refuse to watch the originals and classics and dare call themselves fans:
Sorry, Creature, I meant to say before that I loved your video
Alright, today's topic is werewolves:
All Awesome videos, Garden! I'll do my werewolf video later tonight, when I have good lighting.
Silver Bullet, An American Werewolf In London, and The Wolf Man are my Favorites.
On your 'calling out the fakers' video, I couldn't agree more. You can play Call of Duty: Black Ops w/ zombies and watch the Walking Dead, but are you really a zombie movie fan if you haven't seen, or have no will to watch Night of the Living Dead? The roots are important, and if you are a true fan, you will pursue the genre and research it from all possible angles, because that is what fans do.


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Young: Can Redding really afford all these theaters?
Two news reports about expanding hotel, restaurant, and entertainment facilities in the area have gotten me thinking about our strained economy.
In early February, the Redding Rancheria announced the first step in constructing a $90 million expansion of its facilities that will include a 10-story, 171-room hotel, a parking garage, two restaurants, a full-service spa, an indoor-outdoor pool, and a 1,600-seat multipurpose events center for concerts, meetings and banquets. A few days later, this paper reported that Turtle Bay Exploration Park is considering the development of a 91-bed hotel, a restaurant and a 300-seat IMAX theater on its campus.
Certainly there is irony in the projects' similarities. More interesting is the market necessary to make these endeavors financially viable. Both projects are looking to markets beyond the Redding/Shasta County area to be sustainable.
My thinking has been focused on the multipurpose events center and IMAX theater. Both are great ideas. But is it realistic to expect that each can be financially viable? And if assumptions about expanding markets are not correct for one or both of them, will these two new projects wind up threatening the financial viability not only of themselves but also of existing theaters and entertainment facilities in the area? A deteriorating economy will magnify the dilemma.
The question for Redding is not just what the community can support in terms of people attending performances at various venues. The question is also how much and where individuals' donations and time are spent, as well as how and where public funds are used.
Three examples come to mind.
The Cascade Theatre is a regional, nonprofit performing arts center. This 999-seat theater provides arts organizations suitable space for music, dance, repertory film, and theatrical performances. It has operated in the black since its restoration and reopening in August 2004. The Cascade's financial viability can be attributed in large measure to the large corps of volunteers that enables ongoing expenses to be kept to a minimum with only three paid staff. To cover costs, the theater must be 60 percent to 80 percent full for a performance, depending upon ticket prices, which in turn depend upon the fees charged by each event.
We also have the community theater group, Riverfront Playhouse, which performs in its own 92-seat theater that is operated totally by volunteers. Currently housed in a converted warehouse, Riverfront Playhouse has raised over 30 percent of its $2 million capital campaign goal, which will enable it to move to a downtown Redding location and double its seating.
And then there is the Redding Convention Center. Built in the 1970s, this multiuse facility can accommodate over 2,000 people for performances, banquets, sporting events, trade shows, meetings and conventions. Owned and operating by the city of Redding, the facility employs 10 full-time and six part-time employees. Its annual operating budget is approximately $2 million, of which about $1.2 million comes from a local hotel and motel occupancy tax, and the remainder comes from event revenues.
The financial viability of these facilities is a function either of (a) minimizing ongoing costs through donated time or monies or (b) gaining public funding for a portion of their ongoing operating costs. The former is true of the Cascade and Riverfront Playhouse. The latter is true for the Redding Convention Center.
There also are the theaters and auditoriums housed in local public schools and colleges. Their operating costs are sustained through their institutions' budgets which involve public funds.
And the Redding School of the Arts, a nonprofit K-8 charter school, is planning a $10 million to $13 million, 800-seat children's theater and community center on its new campus.
Resources are supporting a lot of performance space in Redding. Maybe it is inevitable that we have all these places, because every organization wants its unique needs met and believes there are resources to support it.
I liken it to Redding's version of the breakfast cereal section in a grocery store. Every cereal brand meets a specific consumer need. But is this the best way to be spending resources -- satisfying every need in a separate product?
In the capitalist market, the stronger businesses survive and those that cannot sustain a profit close or are purchased by a competitor. For those activities operated by and/or financially supported by nonprofits or government, priorities must be set and decisions made to keep expenditures in line with revenues.
Typically, economic downturns necessitate rethinking how resources will be spent.
This may be such a time for Redding.
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Grand Junction, Colo. (KKCO) --- It's almost time to get the books and backpacks out for school, but first, families took advantage of the last day off.
"It's pretty much your last day of freedom until next summer and spring break," said Sammy Weigart, an upcoming fifth grader. "Well you have to celebrate it!"
Some parents and children spent their mornings at Canyon View Park lounging in the shade, jumping on playgrounds and watching an adult baseball tournament.
"Just trying to sit out and enjoy the sun," said Logan Pinger, an upcoming ninth grader. "Enjoy it while I can."
Other families opted for an indoor activity and played arcade games at Bananas Fun Park.
"Bring them out for the last time because all through the whole year you have to realize that they're going to be in their brains, stuck in the school doing their thing," said Fred Aragon, who was at the arcade with his grandchildren.
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Electric vehicle service provider Ecotality announced that they will offer their smart charging services for free for the residents of the greater metropolitan areas of Chicago, Atlanta and Philadelphia.
The announcement is part of the company's expansion of The EV Project, a public-private partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy. The project aims to be the largest deployment of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure in history.
However, the service is available only to drivers of the Nissan Leaf or Chevrolet Volt – also partners of The EV Project – and those qualified will receive a free residential Blink wall mount charger as well as an installation credit of up to $400.
"With the expansion of this new market, The EV project is now in nine states and 21 major metropolitan areas throughout the country," said Don Karner, chief innovation officer of Ecotality.
For each city, Ecotality partnered with local utilities, suppliers and organizations for the project. Local utility Commonwealth Edison in Chicago, Metro Atlanta Chamber and Clean Cities-Atlanta in Atlanta, and Philadelphia Electric Company are with the project.
The EV Project was launched in 2009 and ECOtality was awarded a 99.8 million dollar grant from the United States Department of Energy, with an additional $15 million granted a year later. At present, the total value of the project is now approximately $230 million with partner matches accounted for.
"The EV Project collects and analyzes data to characterize vehicle use in diverse topographic and climatic conditions, evaluates the effectiveness of charge infrastructure, and conducts trials of various revenue systems for commercial and public charge infrastructures," the project's Web site says.
"The ultimate goal of The EV Project is to take the lessons learned from the deployment of the first thousands of EVs, and the charging infrastructure supporting them, to enable the streamlined deployment of the next generation of EVs to come." – EcoSeed Staff


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MUNCIE - James "Jim" Allen Taylor, 73, passed away Saturday, January 18, 2014 at his home.
He was born July 27, 1940 in Bedford to James and Esther (George) Taylor.
Jim attended school at McKinley and Muncie Central High School. He worked for thirty-three years at New Venture Gear as a machine operator and oiler. Jim was a bass fisherman and loved to shoot pool.
Jim is survived by his loving wife of twelve years, Carolyn (Falkentein) Taylor; son, Todd Taylor (wife, Tammy); Luray daughter, Shauna Taylor, Muncie; step-son, Troy Coates (wife, Christy), Muncie; granddaughter, Crystal Ward (husband, Daniel); step-granddaughters, Brittney Turner, Victoria Coates, Dana Grove, and Kara Coates; great-grandsons, Christopher Upchurch and Brentley Ward; step-great-grandson, Alexander Coates; sister-in-law, Cathy Harper (husband, Richard); brother-in-law, David Falkentein (wife, Jill); cousin, Denny Bowlingl; and special fishing buddy, Don Gillentine.
Jim was preceded in death by his parents and grandparents.
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at Parson Mortuary with Minister George Davidson officiating. Burial will follow at Thompson Cemetery, Gaston.
Friends may call from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday, January 20, 2014 at the mortuary and one hour prior to services on Tuesday.
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They are good singers. But Please do not do the songs during tragic parts of the shows. Also should this ever happen again please don't have singing during the talking. The music would fit in great with no lyrics. Over all I did not care for it at all. But they are not terrible singers.


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Pie Gallery
The Dish
"Grandma Don't Hate Me" from Georgetown Dish
February 16, 2012
Grandma don't hate me but I may have found someone that bakes better pies. I know, it's borderline sacrilegious to criticize your grandmother's cooking and I don't take the subject lightly, but the pies from Georgetown's newest pie shop,
Pie Sisters
, are out of this world.
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Washington Post Going Out Guide
February 15, 2012
Before they opened a pie shop in early January, the Blakely sisters followed very different career paths. Alli, 32, was in finance; Erin, 30, who goes by "Bear" - a childhood nickname - was in fashion; and Cat, 28, who still works for the State Department, was a government contractor in Baghdad. Alli says the time apart made their common, long-held dream of selling pies more urgent. "You could hear bombs going off" when they were talking to Cat, she says. "We told her, 'Just come back here and open up a pie shop!'"
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The Pie Sisters aren't the first pie lovers in Georgetown. We loved our shout out in the Washington Post's article
Resurrecting a Slice of History
. Like we always say, tradition starts here!
"Working Women" on ABC 7
February 05, 2012
Right at the end of the Key Bridge in Georgetown is a new pie shop run by three sisters who are hoping to build a strong family business, one slice at a time. The Blakeley sisters--Erin, Allie and Cat--are the "Pie Sisters," Georgetown's newest boutique sweet shop. The sisters come from a long line of entrepreneurs in their family including their family an grandfather.
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Pie Sisters "Show Off Their Skills" on NBC Washington
February 04, 2012
Watch Erin and Alli show NBC's Angie Goff how to make one of their famous apple cuppies! Thanks to everyone at NBC for the great coverage! Still hungrey for more? NBC covered our opening in
Pie Sisters Get Ready to Dish It Up
Daily Candy "Gets Baked with the Pie Sisters of Georgetown
January 18, 2012
Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blueberries,
Baked in a pie.
Or perhaps raspberries, strawberries, or blackberries, depending on your preference.
Get your fruit fill
from the Pie Sisters of Georgetown, the new sororal sweets team in town. After years of taking special orders, the three Blakely sibs (who started baking in their mother's kitchen) have quietly opened their own brick-and-mortar shop.
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Washingtonian's Best Bites Blog "Takes an Early Look at Pie Sisters"
January 18, 2012
"Charming" is the word frequently used to describe Georgetown, though impossible parking and crowded sidewalks can detract from the allure. If you feel disillusioned, stray from the busy heart of M Street to a stretch just across from Key Bridge, where
Alli, Cat,
Erin Blakely
have set up Pie Sisters, a sliver of a shop dedicated to the namesake confection.
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(Holtville to hold a major event Saturday)…Earlier this month the cities Farmer's Market did not happen.
It was not canceled, just postponed. The Farmer's Market was rescheduled until tomorrow. It will be part of a car and bike show. The event is free to the public. Awards will be presented to the best bikes, motorcycles, cars and trucks. Live entertainment at Holt Park starts at 11:00 am Saturday. There will be a Holtville Bycicle Charro event, with all participants receiving a free bike helmet and vest. The County Sheriff's office will conduct free bike safety inspections, as well. And, there will be free CPR training from the Holtville fire department. The Holtville Farmer's Market and Street fair, Car and Bike Show starts at 10:00 am and continue until 4:00 in the afternoon.


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West Seattle schools: Chief Sealth's Link Crew mentors in trainingAugust 28, 2012 at 7:05 am | In West Seattle news, West Seattle schools | 3 Comments
The 300-plus ninth graders entering Chief Sealth International High School will have the campus all to themselves for the first half of the first day of school a week from tomorrow – well, except for their 70 or so mentors. Those students are who you see in our photos – all juniors or seniors, who will be back on campus today for their second day of training for the mentoring program known as Link Crew, which Sealth is using this year for the first time.
Last year, we covered Link Crew's West Seattle High School debut; this year, it's debuting at Sealth with the help of a grant the school obtained. That included covering the costs of training for the faculty who are in turn training the Link Crew mentors, who activities coordinator Sam Reed explains were chosen from about 120 applicants. This week, they're spending two days practicing the sort of team-building exercises they'll go through next week with the incoming Class of 2016:
As Reed put it, these students have been leading by example – and now, they will be leading by coaching. We talked with the Sealth senior who is serving as the group's president, Frank Wenn (right). He told WSB that he applied to "help out" and to be "more involved" with what's going on at school (not that he was exactly disengaged previously, as a football player [right tackle], baseball-team member, and International Baccalaureate program student). What message will he have for the freshmen next week? we asked. Frank said he'll tell them not to panic about suddenly being in high school: "You're not going to feel isolated. Everyone here is so friendly – it's easy to make friends." Frank and his dozens of fellow Link Crew mentors are working with five faculty members – along with Reed, they are Dean of Students Charlene Grisim, social worker Carrie Syvertsen, and teachers Kim Dinh and Luke Azinger. And even after that all-important first day of school on September 5th, the mentors will be touchstones for the freshmen throughout the year; maybe, a few years later, some of them will even sign up to be Link Crew leaders themselves.
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love how this school is turning around it's reputation!
Comment by a parent — 10:10 am August 28, 2012 #
Funny, didn't know this program was still around. We started the same thing at my high school 10 years ago, not sure if it made a difference since it was only in my junior and senior years. It was fun to mentor a group of incoming frosh and hopefully make them less scared of high school.
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Alvanon Debuts Intimate/Swim Form Made Using Memory Foam
Technical fit form manufacturer Alvanon Inc., New York City, has introduced an Intimate/Swim Form
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Who made it?
The Buddha Machine was designed by Zhang Jian and Christiaan Virant in Beijing, China. They work together under the band name FM3.
In addition to the Buddha Machine, FM3 creates music for film, television, multi-media art exhibits and has an extensive discography on various labels around the world.
FM3 has been called "the most prominent experimental act in China" by US magazine Grooves. The UK magazine The Wire calls FM3 live sets "meditative," "soothing" and "engagingly intimate."
In 2004, FM3 was commissioned by the Louvre museum in Paris to provide a new soundtrack for the 1930s film "La Croisiere Jaune." The project concluded with three live performances at the Louvre Auditorium.
In 2013, at the invitation of the British Film Institute, FM3 performed a live soundtrack for the 1929 Alfred Hitchcock film "Blackmail" at the Shanghai International Film Festival.
The first-generation FM3 Buddha Machine loop player was named one of the best "boxed sets" of 2005 by the New York Times. In 2011, The Washington Post put the third-generation Buddha Machine at the top of its holiday buying guide for music lovers. "It's bliss," the paper said.
Here is what Wikipedia says about the band and the Buddha Machine.
And here is a short Vice Magazine documentary about FM3, our Buddha Machines and our live performances.


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Can you possibly find a few more opportunities to apologize for and excuse failure?
Segregation, immigration status, and poverty do not cause students to fail.
The public school monopoly, pop culture, and low expectations do.
Give parents a choice, not for a nearby magnet or charter, but for a private school - online or parochial. It won't save every kid, but it will give a significant number of them, those with parents who give a hoot, a fighting chance at life. To balance out the first amendment conflict, we'd allow a private gay-atheist-GLEE-teen-mom-MTV school as well.
Meanwhile, we need to reform welfare again, since the president is secretly trying to undo the gains we've made. Single mothers, I'm sorry, it is wrong for you to exclude the child's father(s) from the household, even if they don't want to be there. Kids need whole families; we need to quash welfare payments that encourage fathers to be absent and anonymous. Once you make a baby, it doesn't matter if you like each other, you have about 16 years of responsibility to see that child raised to reasonable maturity, including simple things like "Do your homework", "Turn off the TV and read a book", and showing up for church (or the pagan barn-raising work-party equivalent) early Sunday, and showing respect for others - something mostly reinforced by having a man in the home.


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A Report on the Distribution of Long lasting Insecticide Treated Nets in Zambia: October 2013
Power of Love Foundation's (POL) Project Mosquito Nets program provides long lasting insecticide treated bed nets to women and children vulnerable to malaria in Zambia. We would like to say a big "Thank You" to you for supporting this program. With your support, we were able to provide 1000 insecticide treated nets to women and children vulnerable to malaria in Zambia in September 2013.
Profile of Beneficiaries
Nets were provided to 1000 families in the Matero township in Lusaka, Zambia. The Matero Township is densely populated and most of areas are water logged and have sewer ponds. Due to the high prevalence of malaria in this area, we have been providing nets since 2009. The beneficiaries of the nets were children and families in Power of Love's pediatric HIV/IDS care program, women vulnerable to malaria in Power of Love's microloans program and vulnerable children who attend the safe park program and members of the community who are vulnerable to malaria. In order to reach the intended beneficiaries we involved several community organizations such as Churches, and government health clinics, to identify and distribute nets through their representatives.
A list of the organizations/beneficiaries with the number of nets provided is given below:
1. Kapiri-Mposhi (a rural area in Zambia with a high incidence of malaria): 300
2. Children and families in our pediatric HIV/AIDS care program: 350
3. Women in our micro loans program: 80
4. Families in the community of Matero (identified via Safe Park program): 65
5. Health Clinics (including Government Clinics): 85
6. Local Churches: 75
7. Community Organizations (e.g. Matero Police, Kwasha Mukwenu): 45
Total: 1000
Most of the beneficiaries were children who are HIV positive, children under the age of five years, pregnant moms, women who are breast feeding, and HIV positive children, and adults who are infected with TB. These sections of the population are most vulnerable to malaria as their immune system is compromised due to their HIV positive status, and because co-infection rates between malaria, HIV and TB are very high.
Distribution Activities
A few children played traditional Zambian games while waiting for the distribution activities to begin. Several local and Church leaders participated in the distribution activities. The distribution activities commenced with singing and dancing by the women and children present. This was followed by short plays about the benefits of using nets by teenage children. The area councilor for Lusaka, thanked the Matero Care Centre for organizing the event and the Power of Love Foundation and the Granny Connection for their support for this program. He said that he hoped that the provision of nets continues and thanked donors for supplementing the Goverments effort in the fight against malaria.A team from the Zambian National Broadcasting Corporation video taped the event for inclusion in the national news. A Nurse from one of the local clinics provided a demonstration on the proper use and maintenance of nets. She emphasized the need of using a mosquito net every night as was the best way to prevent malaria. She encouraged the participants to retreat the nets every few months and especially when the government clinics provide this retreatment kits free of cost. Finally, the Nurse underscored the need of keeping the nets clean and how to store them to prevent damage when not in use.
Impact of the Distribution
Provision of bed nets and education on malaria prevention and proper use and maintenance of nets goes a long way in eradicating malaria from the community. As a result of this distribution of nets, and proper use by beneficiaries we expect to see a marked reduction in the incidence of malaria and an increase in school attendance due to improved health of the children. Also, a post-distribution study will be conducted to assess the impact of the nets on the incidence of malaria and to determine if the nets are maintained (treated with insecticide) and used as required.
Need for Nets
Follow-up interviews with nets recipients indicates that the nets distributed over the last 2-3 years, are in good condition and are being used for malaria prevention by the beneficiary households. However, more nets are needed as there are several hundred households who cannot afford to purchase a net and are without bed nets in Zambia.
Request for Funds
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November 26, 2015
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO)- As efforts around the world are being taken to provide support to earthquake stricken Haiti, there's a way you can help right here on the Western Slope.
The Red Cross of Western Colorado is hosting a phone–a–thon and open house to get donations to the needy.
You can call with credit cards to donate money at 242-4851 or you can stop by the Red Cross at 506 Gunnison Ave.
They will be taking cash donations there and opening their doors to the public.
The event will be going on from 9 AM until 6 PM Saturday January 16th.
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