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Ilene Swanson
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Ilene Swanson, of Issaquah, died at Providence Marianwood, Issaquah, on Jan. 15, 2010. She was 83.A memorial service is at 11 a.m. Jan. 23 at Flintoft's Issaquah Funeral Home, 540 E. Sunset Way, Issaquah.
A reception will follow.
Ilene was born Feb. 19, 1926, in Issaquah, the daughter of Joseph and Irene Malmassari. She was raised in Issaquah and graduated from Issaquah High School in 1944.
Ilene spent 25 years in the health care industry working as a kitchen supervisor. She was employed by The Issaquah Villa Care for 18 years and then by the Cascade Plaza Care Center.
She was preceded in death by her husband Melvin G. Swanson in 2000 and son Robert J. Swanson in 1997.
Survivors include daughter Carol Benn, of Spanaway; son James Swanson, of Issaquah; brother Roy Malmassari, of Issaquah; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
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Reunions Weekend brought a possible record number of University of Virginia alumni back to the Grounds over a sweltering summer weekend.
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"This is about the same number as last year, which was a record-setting year," said Jason Life, managing director of alumni engagement at the U.Va. Alumni Association. "We won't know until we count the final numbers whether we actually surpassed last year – it's that close."
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As his 20th and final year leading U.Va. comes to a close, President John T. Casteen III hosted a dinner at Carr's Hill for his classmates, who were celebrating their 45th-year reunion. Alumni from other classes met for dinner at locations in the Academical Village. All attendees had the chance to hear Casteen give remarks and enjoy a reception at his residence.
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Last night I dreamt that Ben Vereen showed up at my house with an object wrapped in a silk scarf. It was his Chicken George hat from Roots. He asked me to study it as an object, complemented the cleanliness of my home and asked for a cup of coffee. My kitchen suddenly turns into the set of the Tonight Show. It's the old school Johnny Carson version and I'm in Johnny's seat chatting with Ben. LaWanda Page is the only person siting on the long couch. The hat, glowed an etherial green but everything else was in shades of gray. I don't know what the hell could have happened after that thanks to my stupid alarm clock.
Yeah, I'll admit that I have a strong personality. I'm extremely passionate often bordering on dramatic. However, as much as I can love something or someone, it's rare that I hate anything. In my head, it's really difficult to come back from hate. I can get sick of something or someone in a minute, but hate is hard. I just don't give up that kind of energy easily. I HATE my alarm clock. I tried to like it, really I did, but I hate my alarm clock. See, because I am prone to dramatics, how I wake up in the morning is crucial. Honestly, I don't like to wake up. I prefer to gradually increase my level of consciousness. I've tried every alarm clock I could find. I tried the old school clocks with the two bells on top. I tried alarm clock radios but the buzzers were annoying and I slept through the music. Bird sounds,gentle winds, sea gulls and bubbling creeks did weird things to my sex dreams. Digital alarms left me feeling robotic.
After spending way too many hours shopping online I found the perfect alarm clock. It's shaped like a pyramid. Connect your pointy fingers and thumbs to form a triangle in the center and rest your wrists on your desk. Extend the lines from the tips of your pinky fingers until they intersect. That's how big it is. The owner's manual says that its deep mahogany cabinet is made from sustainable and eco-friendly woods, harvested by a magical hippy. Ok, maybe not the hippy part. Anyway, aside from its internal workings, it feels hollow and weighs maybe five pounds. Across the bottom of the pyramid in a slight concave channel there is a shiny silver bar. According to the brochure, its a "pure tone acoustic chime," easily adjusted by two thin, black elastic bands suspending it a quarter-inch away from it's resting place. Making a tight fist will give you the size of its face. The numbers are simple, the hands are black and live above an antique background. Even thought the clock is made of wood, the corners are surprisingly sharp. A big pointy pyramid isn't something I want next to my bed, the promise of "progressive awakening," cause me to turn a blind eye to that red flag.
That damn clock promised me all kinds of stuff. The first line of the introduction says that the overpriced piece of crap threatening to poke my eye out is actually "…a consciousness-raising tool." Later in the manual it promises to take me from theta to beta brain waves, increase my self-knowledge and improve my self-esteem by eliminating bad habits. I thought that if I can't find these qualities in a boyfriend, I should at least buy them in alarm clock form. The manual is the size of a cd case and is thirty-five pages of lies. It's not that I think the makers of the clock are malicious. They just didn't account for the resounding click the striker makes before it hits the "pure tone acoustic chime." It's not the peaceful, gentle tone of the gong that wakes me up. On NO! It's the click that gets me. It's the click that makes me want to hurl the eco-friendly,theta changing, consciousness-raising, eye gouging, over-priced piece of crap across the room. I make it a point to wake before it chimes, hoping that it's somehow a sentient being and I'm preventing it from fulfilling its destiny. If my apartment suddenly burst into flames, burning the house to the ground, I wouldn't try to save it. My alarm clock is unintentionally one of the most evocative objects I own.


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|The effects of isokinetic contraction velocity on concentric and eccentric strength of the biceps brachii.
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|The purpose of this investigation was to determine the influence of contraction velocity on the eccentric (ECC) and concentric (CON) torque production of the biceps brachii. After performing warm-up procedures, each male subject (n = 11) completed 3 sets of 5 maximal bilateral CON and ECC isokinetic contractions of the biceps at speeds of 90, 180, and 300 degrees x s(-1) on a Biodex System 3 dynamometer. The men received a 3-minute rest between sets and the order of exercises was randomized. Peak torque (Nm) values were obtained for CON and ECC contractions at each speed. Peak torque scores (ECC vs. CON) were compared using a t-test at each speed. A repeated measures analysis of variance was used to determine differences between speeds. ECC peak torque scores were greater than CON peak torque scores at each given speed: 90 degrees x s(-1), p = 0.0001; 180 degrees x s(-1), p = 0.0001; and 300 degrees x s(-1), p = 0.0001. No differences were found between the ECC peak torque scores (p = 0.62) at any of the speeds. Differences were found among the CON scores (p = 0.004). Post hoc analysis revealed differences between 90 degrees x s(-1) (114.61 +/- 23) and 300 degrees x s(-1) (94.17 +/- 18). These data suggest that ECC contractions of the biceps brachii were somewhat resistant to a force decrement as the result of an increase in velocity, whereas CON muscular actions of the biceps brachii were unable to maintain force as velocity increased.
|Daniel G Drury; Kristin J Stuempfle; Clifford W Mason; Julia C Girman
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|Title: Journal of strength and conditioning research / National Strength & Conditioning Association Volume: 20 ISSN: 1064-8011 ISO Abbreviation: J Strength Cond Res Publication Date: 2006 May
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|Created Date: 2006-05-11 Completed Date: 2006-11-09 Revised Date: 2006-11-15
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But on a recent clear fall afternoon, there wasn't a tanker in sight. Inside a control room, operator Ron Keraga watched computer monitors that did not blink. The only flurry came from the sea gulls, which perched on the railings outside and then left a white trail behind them.
"Like any job, there's going to be some downtime," Keraga said.
In this case, a lot of downtime. Dominion Cove Point terminal, originally designed in the 1970s, can import liquefied natural gas - or LNG - from up to 220 tankers a year. But this year only one tanker has unloaded here, back in May.
That's because the international trade in natural gas - and the rest of the energy business - has been turned upside down. It's as startling as it would be if rivers decided to run upstream.
As recently as four years ago, energy experts agreed that the United States would need to import LNG to fill the gap between rising U.S. consumption of natural gas and stagnant or diminishing domestic supplies.
But U.S. supplies didn't diminish or stagnate. Instead, oil and gas companies figured out how to combine horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques to tap vast gas reserves trapped in layers of shale rock.
Now Dominion Resources wants to reverse course. It is seeking permission from federal regulators to build $2 billion of new facilities so that it can export - rather than import - natural gas. Instead of taking liquid from tankers and warming it into natural gas for U.S. consumers, the company would cool and liquefy U.S. natural gas for shipment and sale abroad.
"There has been such a transformation," said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the likely next chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. "In my home state, until recently we were having pitched battles over whether to construct import facilities. Fishing folks against environmental folks against landowners. High-decibel stuff. And virtually overnight, we're not going to have import facilities but export facilities."
As U.S. supplies have surged, U.S. prices have slumped. Suddenly, producing companies are looking for ways to sell gas abroad, where prices are three to five times as high. And customers are lining up. Japan's Sumitomo and another Asian buyer have signed long-term agreements to buy LNG from Cove Point; those contracts include guarantees that enable Dominion to line up financing. In Japan, gas prices have run as high as $16 for a thousand cubic feet; in the United States, prices are currently about $3.70. Even after adjusting for the costs of liquefaction and shipping, it's a good deal for customers like Japan.
"This is a win-win for many people," said Donald Raikes, vice president of marketing for Dominion. "The gas industry is in search of markets, and the price has been pushed down for lack of markets."
"We have so much gas we don't know what to do with it, and it's unlikely that we can create enough demand for all the gas coming on stream," said Cherif Souki, chief executive of Cheniere Energy, which is spending $10 billion to add LNG export capability to an idle import facility in Sabine Pass, La.
Cheniere has its permit, but Dominion is one of 15 companies that have applications pending at the Energy Department to build export facilities.
Not so fast, Wyden says. He wants to be sure gas exports don't raise prices and hurt U.S. consumers and manufacturers.
Under current law, the Energy Department must decide whether an LNG gas export operation safeguards domestic needs and meets the public interest, especially for gas going to countries with which the United States does not have a free-trade agreement. Japan is one of those countries.
On Wednesday, the Energy Department released a long-awaited study, carried out by NERA Economic Consulting, that acknowledged exports would raise U.S. gas prices. But it said that in all of the scenarios it modeled, "LNG exports have net economic benefits in spite of higher domestic natural gas prices. This is exactly the outcome that economic theory describes when barriers to trade are removed."
Natural gas liquefaction dates to the 19th century, and the first commercial plant was built in Cleveland in 1941. Natural gas becomes a liquid at minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit. Storing it as a liquid has great advantages; natural gas in its gaseous state takes up 600 times as much space as it does when a liquid.
In 1959, the first specialized LNG tanker - a converted World War II freighter - carried LNG from Lake Charles, La., to Britain. In 1964, Britain began importing LNG from Algeria. Five years later, the United States shipped LNG from Alaska's Kenai Peninsula to Japan.
But until now, the U.S. focus has been on imports. Four LNG import terminals, including Cove Point, were built in the United States during the 1970s. Then imports fell because of the boomlet in domestic gas production following price deregulation. Importers also became locked in contract disputes with Algeria. Cove Point was mothballed.
It was bought by Dominion and reopened in 2003 as the United States started to import supplies from such places as Trinidad and Tobago. Today, Cove Point is the nation's largest gas storage facility, with rows of spotless storage tanks, each built like a giant thermos bottle with four feet of insulation to keep the gas cold enough to stay in liquid form.
The unwieldy nature of LNG facilities - both costly and time-consuming to build - makes the global natural gas market a peculiar animal, different from markets in oil or commodities such as sugar. Those prices are international; natural gas prices are negotiated project by project. Long-term, fixed-price contracts, rather than fluctuating spot markets, help give exporting companies the certainty they need to get financing for facilities and the special refrigerated tankers needed to ship the gas.
Eighteen countries have the infrastructure and resources to export LNG, and 27 can import it.
Dominion already has billions of dollars worth of tanks, boilers, pipelines and docks at Cove Point, so conversion to export is cheaper than starting from scratch. (There is a low-tech touch: a 1.2-mile-long, six-foot-wide underwater tunnel through which workers bicycle to get from shore to the receiving dock.)
Even so, by the time export terminals are finished, market conditions could be upended yet again. If private companies haven't been good at figuring this out, will the Energy Department do any better at recognizing the tipping point at which exports will drive up U.S. prices to unacceptable levels?
That's exactly what worries much of corporate America about LNG export plans. Energy experts doubt that all 15 projects awaiting permits will be built because of financing and market uncertainties. But if even half are built, the new terminals could ship 10 billion cubic feet a day of U.S. natural gas - equal to about 15 percent of U.S. consumption in 2011. The NERA report estimates that after five years, exports could raise U.S. prices by 22 cents to $1.11 per thousand cubic feet.
U.S. industrial firms worry about even steeper price increases.
"We're reluctant to say our concern is exports," said George Biltz, Dow Chemical's vice president of energy and climate change. "We believe in free trade. We export chemicals."
But, he said, the United States should use cheap natural gas at home to revive its industrial economy and then export manufactured products, capturing the value added at home. "Our view is we should export 'solid' natural gas. We should create goods and export the goods," he said.
"Some people say 'no exports.' People on the other side say 'free market, free trade, let us manage this.' Frankly, Dow is not at either one of those extremes," Biltz added. "We see the right balance somewhere in the middle because you have a massive competitive advantage here. Companies should not be deciding for the United States what's best for the country. We think that's a role government can play."
He said the Energy Department had to figure out the point where the appetite of foreign markets might endanger the cheap prices at home. "We're creating very inflexible 20-year contracts for natural gas. It's going offshore to Japan, China, pick your favorite," Biltz said. "At some point, you start changing the whole price structure in the country and lose that competitive advantage. No one knows where that point is."
Cheniere's Souki brushed aside Biltz's concern. "I'm really going to start crying for them," he said. "They pay $3 for gas, and the poor bastard in India or China who wants to compete has to pay $3.50 for the gas plus $3.50 to liquefy it and $3.50 to $4 for transportation. So foreign companies are paying 3 ½ times more than Dow Chemical is paying for their gas. If Dow still can't compete, it needs to revisit its business strategy."
As far as gas supplies, Souki said that "we're never going to have a problem . . . There are new discoveries almost every month." Even though natural gas prices are low, he said, supply is still growing because oil prices are high, and when companies look for oil they usually find gas, too. Hence, in places like North Dakota, large volumes of natural gas are being flared until pipeline infrastructure can be built.
Key members of energy committees in Congress are urging the Obama administration to exercise caution before issuing permits. "I've tried to say, 'Let's just step back here for a minute and think through the implications,' " Wyden said.
Wyden considers himself a free-trade Democrat, but he views energy as a separate issue.
"I believe you ought to grow things in America and that you've got to add value to things in America, and ought to ship them somewhere," he said. "But I also think that when you're talking about strategic national assets, which is what I think you have with natural gas, you should look before you leap."
The International Energy Agency forecasts that U.S. domestic prices will rise to $5.50 a thousand cubic feet by 2020, primarily because of growing domestic demand. With the high cost of liquefaction and shipping, LNG exports from the United States aren't a sure bet.
"This notion that LNG exports are a no-brainer is just not true," said Robin West, chairman of the Washington-based consulting firm PFC Energy and a former Cheniere board member, who expects that only a few export terminals will be built. "This fear that there's going to be this great big sucking sound for U.S. LNG and that [exports] will drive up U.S. costs is highly unlikely."
Even if they're not exported, the deep U.S. natural gas reserves have rocked the global market, squeezing out many big LNG exporters who had planned to ship here.
Qatar, the world's largest LNG exporter with the world's biggest LNG tanker fleet, had counted on the U.S. market. In its 2007 annual report, Exxon Mobil said that Qatar was building an export facility capable of shipping 1 billion cubic feet a day just for the U.S. market. In Texas, Qatar Petroleum took a 70 percent stake and Exxon Mobil a minority stake in the Golden Pass terminal, with a capacity to import 2 billion cubic feet a day, primarily from Qatar. Now the terminal is idle, and Golden Pass is asking the Energy Department to permit a $10 billion conversion to exports.
Qatar and other gas-rich countries - which only four years ago talked about forming a cartel modeled on OPEC - need to find new homes for their shipments. And they're doing that at a time when gas demand in Europe is collapsing, falling 9 percent below the levels of 2009, at the depths of the Great Recession.
Asia remains a major destination - and has kept global gas prices high. Demand in China is growing steadily, and its current five-year plan calls for expanding gas use. And Japan's appetite for LNG soared after it closed its nuclear plants in the wake of the tsunami that destroyed the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex. With new supplies coming online, however, even Japanese companies have been pressing to link their payments to the low spot price for U.S. natural gas at Louisiana's Henry Hub, the U.S. benchmark.
The decline in Europe has put pressure on Russia and its state-owned gas monopoly, Gazprom.
Russian gas pipelines - built in Soviet days - are still the principal suppliers to Europe. When built, they were criticized by President Ronald Reagan, who said they would allow the Soviet Union to blackmail Western Europe. In recent years, strategists and companies have worked to diversify supplies by building new pipelines from the Caspian Sea through Turkey. And Poland, heavily dependent on Russian gas, has been trying - albeit with disappointing results - to tap its own shale deposits.
But Europe is now adding LNG importing facilities. Just as important, it has recently used cheap U.S. coal for electricity generation. That coal, displaced by cheap U.S. natural gas, is replacing expensive Russian gas. Gazprom's share of European gas imports has dropped from half a decade ago to about a third. In response, Russia has renegotiated gas contracts - previously linked to the price of oil - and reduced prices to Germany, Italy and Poland. Russia's gas exports will drop 4 to 5 percent this year, Energy Minister Alexander Novak, according to the newsletter Petroleum Argus.
"The United States gave a gift to European importers, deliberately or not," said Fatih Birol, chief economist of the International Energy Agency. "It is making importers' hands stronger."
Birol notes that by 2015, the United States will overtake Russia as the world's biggest natural gas producer. In the past four years alone, he said, U.S. natural gas production increased by an amount equal to total Russian exports today.
That isn't stopping enormous wagers on LNG export terminals around the world. Chevron is the lead partner on three mega-projects in Australia. Exxon Mobil has a Sri Lankan LNG project whose cost estimate recently ballooned to $19 billion. BP is launching a $12 billion expansion of an Indonesia project targeted at Korean and Japanese customers.
Will they succeed or become white elephants? No one forecast the economic crisis in Europe or the tsunami or the surge in U.S. shale gas supplies. And then there's China, whose substantial shale formations are still waiting to be unlocked.
To get an idea of how abruptly assumptions have changed in a decade, consider the decision by Chevron and France's Total Gas and Power to back LNG imports at Cheniere's terminal at Sabine Pass. Each of the two oil giants guaranteed it would pay to import natural gas. Without the contracts, Cheniere could not have raised the money needed to build the import facility.
Today, the import portion of the facility is idle. Four tug boats gaze out toward the languid Gulf of Mexico. And Chevron and Total are each paying Cheniere about $125 million a year until 2029 - essentially for nothing.
Now Cheniere, heavily indebted, has attracted new money from investors, including $1.5 billion from the Blackstone Group, to finance the conversion of Sabine Pass into an export facility. Cheniere already has federal approval there and is seeking approval to add an LNG export terminal in Corpus Christi, Texas.
"Nobody saw it coming," Cheniere's Souki said. "Not their planning departments, and certainly not us. Nobody foresaw the shale gas revolution in the United States.


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let be realistic guys. MAM is a little drop compared to Flemish. Flemish is a giant and very advanced in Africa. Vaaldium has invsted 10 millions $$$ in Flemish to advance projects in Burundi and Uganda. BMO is involved in the financing too. Apparently Gold is visible in those countries and picked up artisanally. Potvin head of Flemish is very well respected and was involved wit Barrick. so what to expect out of all of this? Ithink we will rise close to 30 cents maybe 40 cents PRE CONSOLIDATION. DO not forget we have a done deal to buy a land with proven reserve in Quebec.
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years annual Painted Cities exhibition at the Carrie Haddad
Gallery in Hudson will show off the work of artists based
throughout our region, all the way to New York City. Painters
Dan Rupe (State Street House, pictured), Paul Chojnowski,
Tina Sotis, Bill Clutz, Bill Artim, Margaret Crenson, Seth
Nadel and Arthur Hammer, and photographer Joan Barker, all
share a common theme for this show, though their work varies
Among the most unusual works are those by Paul Chojnowski,
who, instead of painting in oil like his colleagues, paints
with water on thick paper, and then blowtorches the dry
remainder of the paper, resulting in a sepia-looking print.
Painted Cities will open at the Carrie Haddad Gallery (662
Warren St., Hudson) tonight (Thursday, Sept. 16), and will
run through Oct. 24. A reception for the artists will be
held Saturday, Sept. 18, from 6 to 8 PM. For more information,
call 828-1915.
favorite annual event is once again upon us: Larkfest attracts
vendors and buyers, musicians and music fans, and food vendors
and eaters from all over the Capital Region. Tens of thousands
attended the open-air fest last year, and organizers suspect
it will be just as successful, if not more so, this year.
A highlight of the event is the eba Family Stage, located
at the corner of Hudson Avenue and Lark Street, where magicians,
dancers and other performers entertain audiences of all
ages. On the other side of the street, Kids Fest will be
going strong all day, featuring rides, crafts, games and
As always, a plethora of bands will perform throughout the
day on the various stages and in various tents. Among the
talent will be Sarah Ayers, Bryan Thomas, the Sean Rowe
Project, knotworking, Coal Palace Kings, Super 400, Kamikaze
Hearts, Rob Skane, and many, many more. For a full schedule
of times and loactions to catch the acts, visit www.larkstreet.org/festivals.php.
Dont forget to stop by the Metroland table and play
trivia for prizes!
Larkfest 2004 will take place on, ahem, Lark Street in downtown
Albany on Saturday, Sept. 18, from 10:30 AM to 5 PM. Please
remember: Pets are not allowed unless they are service animals.
Dont be the one to get kicked out because you brought your
dog. For more information, call 434-3861.
either love him or hate him. One of his generations most
polarizing writers, Chuck Palahniuk has published six novels,
including Invisible Monsters, Survivor, and
Fight Club, the latter of which was famously adapted
into the cult-favorite film starring Brad Pitt and Edward
Norton. His writing is dark and matter-of-fact, and very
often deeply funny; his public readings have been rumored
to cause adverse physical reactions in onlookers. So far
its made 43 people pass out, Palahniuk recently bragged
of Guts, a short story due for inclusion in the upcoming
collection, Haunted. (Editors note: the number of
faintees is now up to 52.) Hes currently promoting the
paperback release of his 2003 novel Diary with a
reading tour that will bring him to the University at Albany
this week.
After a night of heavy drinking and general debauchery that
would put Bukowski to shame, we caught up somewhere in dreamland
with a wraithlike figure that may or may not have been Chuck
Palahniuk. The following is an entirely fictional account
of what he (it?) had to say:
am Chucks wasted life. You wanted me to say that, right?
see, sometimes I feel like Ive nothing to show for 42 years
on this dirty, infested hole of a planet. Sure, you could
make the argument that having written a pile of best-sellers
would be worth a shit, but no, that doesnt do it. And when
the screenplay-adaptation checks start rolling in, youd
imagine that it might come with some amount of personal
satisfaction. Sure, the moneys nice and allthe lunch meat
doesnt come out of a can anymorebut theres still something
there that makes me wonder whether its worth setting the
alarm clock in the first place.
now Ive gotta do another one of these tours, you know,
where I read from the books that the audience didnt
read because they already know theres a film version
coming out, and all that graphic stuff just works so much
better in celluloid, right? With any luck, I can make a
few of them throw up. . . . After that, his voice trails
off and the line goes dead. Even in our dream state, the
cell service stinks.
Chuck Palahniuk will read from his work this Tuesday (Sept.
21) at 8 PM in the Main Theater at the Performing Arts Center
on the uptown campus of the University at Albany. The event
is free and open to the public. Contact the New York State
Writers Institute at 442-5620 for more information.


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Does DELL Japan prefer Panasonic?
Here's a little photograph that I took this morning in the subway and that I found pretty amusing…the AkihabaraNews office is located near the DELL Japan HeadQuarters (15 minutes more or less) so here I am in the subway and I can see 2 people, apparently working for DELL on a PowerPoint Presentation…on a Panasonic R6 laptop !! Maybe they finally understood that the Panasonic computers are extremely nice and reliable,e specially the R6!
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Easthaven+, a new mod aimming to extend the play of Icewind Dale. A lot of fun extras have been thrown into the game for fun, as well as some extra RP characters, that are following their own campaign to rid evil or good from Easthaven, and the world that makes Icewind Dale. Modified weapons, monsters, spells, skills and characters are what this mod is all about. Easthaven+ brings all this and more into the game. With this as well, there is a set of game rules, allowing the player to reach higher levels, and see skill progression reach a new level (literally). Easthaven+ is in terms a free expansion for Icewind Dale.
The first public release and base for what is to come. Dark Character Pack, Monster Pack + Level 40 Game rules. v0.4 Please leave feedback and comments. The basic starters pack for Easthaven Plus. 6 new characters for RP. How ever 2 of them are monsters from the game. Troll and the Goblin. Also added Level 40 game rules. There is more to come, this is the basic setup and the foot in the door to what is to come.


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NARRAGANSETT ŌĆö Auditor General Dennis E. Hoyle released his audit report on Daniel E. Doyle, Jr.ŌĆÖs failure to repay funds to the both the University of Rhode Island and the state. Doyle, who has served at the Executive Director for the Institute of International Sport at URI since 1986, was audited after concerns were expressed to the Auditor GeneralŌĆÖs office about the unfinished state of the instituteŌĆÖs residential and coaching center, for which a state grant of $575,000 was given in 2007.
ŌĆ£I was asked by the Joint Committee of Legislative Services (JCLS) to do a grant review which was pretty focused on one grant for $575,000 which was to build the residential and coaching center. After release of the report yesterday, the speaker has forwarded my report to the state police for their follow-up.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£We knew the building has not been completed,ŌĆØ he added. ŌĆ£It is somewhat of a shell and doesnŌĆÖt have heating, electricity, or plumbing. We were provided with documentation of $163,400 of the $575,000 grant [from Doyle] that was in the form of cancelled checks, but we didnŌĆÖt view that as complete documentation.ŌĆØ
HoyleŌĆÖs report states that Doyle has not properly accounted for a number of financial statements which detail the operations and payments of the institute, although the audit itself was for the $575,000 grant only.
The report found that repeated requests for basic financial information on the grantŌĆÖs use were not completed, IRS Form 990 filings were consistently late, and annual independent audits of the InstituteŌĆÖs financial statements were not conducted.
ŌĆ£Normal financial accountability measures appropriate for an entity of the InstituteŌĆÖs size were not evident during the course of our review,ŌĆØ stated HoyleŌĆÖs report. ŌĆ£We noted various situations which we believe are indicative of a general lack of financial accountability within the organization.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£The Institute needs to significantly improve its financial accountability, particularly since it is largely dependent upon grants and other support from governmental and private organizations,ŌĆØ it continued. ŌĆ£The Institute should implement appropriate financial control measures along with routine oversight processes and procedures (e.g., independent annual financial audits).ŌĆØ
Doyle also owes $380,000 to the University of Rhode Island. He was first hired at URI on June 29, 1986 as Special Assistant to URIŌĆÖs Vice-President of Development, at the time Jim Leslie. His salary, healthcare and benefits were paid for by URI.
ŌĆ£On Aug 23, 1988, there was a contract between the Institute for International Sport as a non-profit, tax exempt organization and the state of Rhode IslandŌĆÖs GovernorŌĆÖs Office of Intergovernmental Relations,ŌĆØ said David Lavallee, Public Information and Communication Specialist at URI. ŌĆ£The state agreed to pay as part of that contract $175,000 for the performance of duties to run the Institute. This was the first contract that guaranteed the Institute money from the state.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£According to a verbal agreement which ran from 1988 to 2000, some of that money was supposed to come back to URI for reimbursement of DoyleŌĆÖs salary and benefits,ŌĆØ he added. ŌĆ£On July 1, 2000, we codified the agreement for the reimbursement process. That put the verbal agreement into writing. The contract basically said that all contract expenses, salaries, and benefits would be reimbursed to the university.ŌĆØ
The Auditor GeneralŌĆÖs report included statements on DoyleŌĆÖs failed repayments to URI.
ŌĆ£The July 1, 2000 agreement requires reimbursement of the salary and benefit amounts paid on behalf of the Institute,ŌĆØ stated the report. ŌĆ£While such use of the StateŌĆÖs payroll system was formalized in an agreement, we believe the practice is questionable and should not be continued or repeated. It affords access to State benefit programs that would otherwise be unavailable to Institute employees.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£Further, it puts the University in an unintended business relationship with a private organization by advancing funds thereby creating a vested interest in their viability in order to collect amounts owed,ŌĆØ it continued.
In recent years, the university has taken steps in trying to afford Doyle the opportunity to pay back his debt, but URI has yet to receive any money.
ŌĆ£It was in 2006 to 2007 when the university really started becoming concerned about payments and DoyleŌĆÖs ability to make good on repayments,ŌĆØ said Lavallee. ŌĆ£On July 8 2009, we developed a repayment process that was agreed to by the institute in principle. The DoyleŌĆÖs have indicated in published reports that they are good for their obligations.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£We issued a leave without pay to him in November 20, 2011,ŌĆØ he added. ŌĆ£That is a step we took to stop any more payments made through the university. WeŌĆÖve approached this in the way that we did because it was considered the most cost-effective.ŌĆØ
The Institute for International Sport has been praised by the state and URI for its successful work with scholar-athletes over the years. It has received approximately $5 million in grant monies from the state for a number of programs, and is recognized throughout the country for its World Scholar-Athlete Games.
ŌĆ£He ran some excellent programs for young people, and the mission was a good one,ŌĆØ said Lavallee. ŌĆ£The state leaders believed that too, and they heavily invested in seeing this thing succeed.ŌĆØ
The university owns the land which the unfinished buildings sit on, and do not know as of yet how they will recoup DoyleŌĆÖs debt if he cannot himself repay the university.
ŌĆ£Negotiations on acquisition of those buildings have to involve us, and we are actively looking at that property as one way to recover the obligations of the institute,ŌĆØ said Lavallee. ŌĆ£There are significant real estate issues that have to be looked at before we would do that.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£The Doyles have indicated that they are committed to making good on these obligations, so that could still happen,ŌĆØ he added. ŌĆ£We are still working on this, but weŌĆÖd like to see some good use of those facilities.ŌĆØ


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I woke myself up
released september 2004 by jagjaguwar (us), endearing (canada), aquarela discos (spain), p-vine (japan), and vicious circle (france)
Track listing: I Woke Myself Up/You Look So Alive/Swan Pond/Yer
Kids/I Left Town/No More/Dont Wanna Be - Liked By You/Dark Horse/The Wrong
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goodnight nobody
released september 2004 by jagjaguwar (us), endearing (canada), aquarela discos (spain), p-vine (japan), and vicious circle (france)
Track listing: Snow Falls in November / Sorry Part III / Last Night / No Money Makers / Tonight Is No Night / Dirty Feet / Dance All Night / When I Awoke / The Songwriter / Some Blues / Banjo / Good Night
Heart and Crime
released 2002 by Jagjaguwar (us) and endearing (canada)
Track listing: Wintermitts (3.81mb) / Too Much / Shivers + Crickets / All Their Broken Hearts/ Sending the Photographs (3.93mb) / I Broke His Heart / The Surgery Is Over/ Who Will Be The One? / The One You Love / I Love To Dance / It's Okay To Stare/ Oh These Walls.
Released 2001 by Jagjaguwar
track listing: Ce Charmant Coeur (2.07mb) / la jeune amoreuse / faites de beaux reves / don't ask / le piano / tue es malades / au contraire / pour toujours / penses donc (tu es seule) / Faites De Beaux Reves (2.08mb).
Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars.
Originally released by Tree/Julie's own Sappy Records. 2002 re-issued by Jagjaguwar (JAG57).
Track listing: The Last Time / Gone Gone (4.30mb) / The Longest winter / The Best thing for Me / In This Dark / Drums + Horns (2.83mb) / Dance Music / Au Contraire / Seven / The second Time / Sweeter
Who will Be the One / Too Much 7"
(Plumline 1999) Single on Plumline Records in April 2000. featuring Julie Doiron backed by the Wooden Stars. Recorded by Dave Draves at Little Bullhorn in Ottawa in October 1999.
Track listing: Who will Be the One? / Too Much
Do you remember what you said when you said you would not forget?
split 7" w/ snailhouse. released by Stereo-Type in 1998. Recorded at Rick's house may 1997
Track listing: snailhouse "what are your coordinates" side 1/ and Julie "second time" side 2.
Will you still love me?
Originally released by Tree/Sappy and Southern in 1999. re-issued 2002 byJagjaguwar (JAG56).
Track listing: He Will Forget (3.72mb) / again, again / stay now, then go / will you still love me in december? / for me.
Loneliest in the morning
released by sub pop.
Track listing: So fast / Dance Me / Sorry Part I / Tell you again / Explain (mp3 2.03mb) / Crying baby / Sweeter / Tonight, We Sleep / Mother / Love To Annoy / Creative Depression / Sorry part II / Condescending You / Le Soleil (mp3 2.52mb)
Broken Girl
Released by sappy/sub pop in 1996. re-issued 2003 by Jagjaguwar (JAG55). recorded at little-bullhorn in 1995 and produced by Dave Draves, and Rick White this is Julie's first full-length record which she recorded as "broken girl"
Track listing: Dance Music / Elevator Show (2.14mb) / Crumble / Soon, Coming Closer / August 10 / Taller Beauty / Grammy / Grew Smaller/ Happy Lucky girl / Sorry Story / So Low / Waiting For Baby (1.89mb)
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Nora 7"
released by sappy records in 1995. These tracks are now available on Jagjaguwar 's re-issue of Broken girl. recorded by Rick at stereo mountain 11/94.
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We split with pain
and sorrow, lost in
the anger caused by
my needs and your hate.
I wish I could turn the
clock back and do it
all differently, but we
both know I can't.
All I can do is tell you
that you're still with me,
locked in a safe corner
of my heart. You never
died in me, and a part of
me will always love you.
In another world, I'd be
your wife. Not this world.
I'm sorry.
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LAS CRUCES — MVEDA welcomes back former president Steve Vierck as the speaker at its July 2 luncheon. Now the president and CEO of the New Mexico Partnership, the state's marketing arm for new business recruitment.
The meeting is set for 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on July 2 at the Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces, 705 S. Telshor Blvd. It will begin with a hot entree buffet. Luncheon cost is $20 per person paid in advance. Payment at the door is $25. The luncheon is open to the public, but reservations are required and registration closes Friday, June 28.


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*****es don't know about my DA3 gameplaying.
DAB do you know if asian steam unlocks this game early kind of like origin does?
As for steam, not a damn clue lol, but if you technically bought say via a Japanese VPN you could potentially get it like 12hrs earlier, but you take a risk there.EDIT: But I can say, for people who don't have Batman : Arkham City GOTY or Crysis 2 Max Edition, you can get each for �5 - plus others like Alan Wake Collectors Edition, Game of Thrones + GOT: Genesis and so on for the same price. Via Origin's store.Blatant Advertising is Blatant lol
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|The effect of protease inhibitors derived from potato formulated in a minidrink on appetite, food intake and plasma cholecystokinin levels in humans.
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|PMID: 20644555 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review
|Background:Protease inhibitor 2 derived from potato (PI2) is claimed to reduce appetite and food intake, stimulate the satiety hormone cholecystokinin (CCK) and lower postprandial glucose peaks when taken before a meal. However, current literature is inconclusive with regard to its efficacy and mechanism. Furthermore, the potential effect of PI2 on appetite motivational ratings without an immediately following meal has not previously been reported.Objective:To comprehensively test the effects of 30 mg PI2 in a minidrink on appetite ratings, subsequent food intake, and plasma CCK and glucose responses.Design:Minidrinks with or without 30 mg PI2 were compared in three separate substudies (A, B and C), each using a two-way, placebo-controlled, balanced-order, cross-over design and 23 or 24 subjects (mean over groups: body mass index 25.0 kg m(-2), range 22.5-30.7 kg m(-2); age 41.3, range 18-62 years). The minidrink was given (A) 120 or (B) 30 min before an ad libitum lunch or (C) 30 min before a fixed lunch. Study parameters were self-reported satiety (substudies A and C), ad libitum meal intake (substudies A and B), and (in an n=12 subset) plasma CCK and blood glucose in all substudies. All results were analyzed using analysis of covariance. Protease-inhibitory activity of the PI2-containing minidrinks was assessed under simulated gut conditions.Results:PI2 did not differ from control for any study parameters, in any substudy, despite confirmation of the inhibitory activity of PI2.Conclusions:In this study protease inhibition using PI2 in a minidrink at a dose of 30 mg, as commercially used, had no (functional) efficacy on a range of behavioral and physiological appetite and intake control measures.
|H P F Peters; M Foltz; E M R Kovacs; D J Mela; E A H Schuring; S A Wiseman
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REVIEW: The Road to Hell by Jackie Kessler
Dear Ms. Kessler:
I think The Road to Hell suffers from a mistaken identity. It is a book that would be better as a straight urban fantasy rather than trying to shoehorn into the romance genre. The ostensible conflict in this story is the female protagonist trying to maintain her relationship with her boyfriend and supposed true love, Paul Hamilton, a New York City vice cop. Problem is that Jesse's body can't stop responding to other men's touches. Her stripping joint is shut down. She's being tortured in different ways to come down to hell and save her former best friend who betrayed her. Everyone wants a piece of Jesse, particularly Hell where she escaped.
Writing a succubus turned human within the romance genre has it perils because if the construct is a couple (or a committed threesome), then one who plies her sex trade with glee has an inherent conflict with the genre construct. To that end, if the book wasn't meant to be a romance and if it didn't try so hard to sell the reader on the idea that Jesse, former demon and now stripper extraordinaire, was in love with and wanted a committed relationship with Paul, it would have been much more readable.
Jesse's first two sexual encounters were with men not Paul. In fact, when I started reading the book I thought perhaps Paul and Jesse had broke up. From the first chapter:
Watching Ranger transform from a blushing boy into a seasoned man sent a delicious tingle up my spine. Yum.
Stop that, Jesse. Don't get all hot and bothered by the nice customer. A friendly chat, a little drink in the mega-expensive Champagne Room, a private dance or two, clothing optional. No more.
Then, out on a date with Paul, Jesse encounters her former coworker, Daun, an incubus.
Invisible fingers stroked my tits until I groaned. He said, "I love a challenge."
"Flatterer." The ghostly fingers moved down my body until they brushed against my inner thighs. Wetness gushed against my panties, and I shivered in Daun's arms. My mouth opened wide as I gasped with pleasure, and Daun crushed his lips against mine.
I wasn't sure why Harris was with Paul. Her self proclaimed soul connection seemed sorely lacking when her body was entertaining several others. I felt that the self stated true love between Harris and Paul was an attempt to appease the romance hea-loving crowd. Paul, however, is one dimensional, prosy and boring. I could not for the life of me figure out why Jesse was with Paul. I suppose he represents the "good" and Jesse represents the "bad" but that type-casting leads to stale storytelling.
Jesse and Paul argue a bit over her over familiarity with other men, but Jesse tells him that he is unfairly jealous, after all, he was dancing with some chick who was not Jesse. Tit for tat, I guess. The creation of this emotional tension was contrived for me because Jesse's heart clearly wasn't in it. She is too easily distracted by the pleasures of the flesh and given her background, who can blame her. Problem is she is off professing that Paul was her one true love. The asserted devotion to one man seemed to be forced, no matter how many times Jesse chanted the mantra. The shoe simply did not fit.
I know I would have liked this story so much more if there was no romance. If it was just Jesse– enjoying pleasure with as many guys as she pleased and kicking as much demon ass as possible. The forced and contrived romance and the lackluster characterization of Paul overshadows the detailed worldbuilding and tarnishes the charm of Jesse Harris.
Remove the romance and you remove interesting character motivation but some other motivation, maybe just the exploration of being human after being a demon and fighting off the various beings, including her so called friends, that are wanting her newly gained soul would have been enough. I'll never know, of course, what could have been. C-
Best regards
This book can be purchased in trade paperback. (no ebook format I could find)


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Krista Thompson "Of Shine, Bling, and Bixels" and thoughts on class and aesthetics
For the record: I now want to be besties with Krista Thompson, the 2009 winner of the David C. Driskell Prize and Associate Professor of Art History at Northwestern University. Her recent High Museum lecture, "Of Shine, Bling and Bixels: Toward a Post-Soul Art History," blew me away with its analysis of contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley's work and the ways in which it references both pop culture and Renaissance symbolism.
If you have seen portraits of hip-hop stars featured in VH1′s Hip-Hop Honors series, you are familiar with Kehinde Wiley's work. His portraits feature contemporary black male subjects — famous and not — in poses that replicate or give a nod to Renaissance-era portraiture.
Wiley's portraits, Thompson says, use a hyper-luminous light source. He often oils the faces of his subjects to bring out their 'shine.' Wiley then places them against backgrounds pulled from 1950s era wallpaper or 1990s Martha Stewart wallpaper patterns. At once, she argues, Wiley references both Hype Williams' shiny video aesthetic that ushered in the ice and bling era of hip-hop and American mass consumption and consumerism.
By posing these men against backgrounds of wallpaper, I think Wiley is also commenting on the ways in which we relegate black men to the background of politics and power, though they are in the foreground of contemporary pop culture. Thompson also suggests that the use of wallpaper — very domestic, very feminine — is also a way in which Wiley (who is gay) plays with notions of black masculinity.
Kehinde Wiley and the Renaissance
Thompson also tied Wiley's work to the use of light and sheen (or shine) in Renaissance Era portraits, particularly those from the Dutch school. As she explained, oil paint was a new medium in the late Renaissance. It appeared at the same time luxury goods were arriving in Europe from abroad. Painters from the Dutch school, in particular, used light and sheen to capture the opulence and sumptuousness of these new fabrics and products and wealth.
But the faces and flesh of white European male subjects? Shine and light were never used. Shine was used to emphasize objects, not people. Yet black and African subjects from the period were frequently portrayed as 'shiny.' I believe Thompson argues that this was a part of the objectification and 'othering' of blackness that was part-and-parcel of the burgeoning trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Classism, bling and Black Folks
What struck me, however, was a comment Thompson made in response to a question from an older, obviously middle-to-upper middle class black gentleman in the audience. He asked (if I recall correctly) about the ethics of hip-hop's conspicuous consumption culture of at a time when black folks are in such dire straits.
Thompson said, roughly: "We don't see a driver of a BMW as consuming in the same way as someone who's wearing a shiny watch, even if that watch cost $10." It is about, she said, who we think should consume and who shouldn't.
In many ways, bling and the related "ghetto fabulous" aesthetic are about visibility and asserting power through visual, material display. It's in contrast to values of restraint and a comparatively modest display of consumption that are hallmarks of middle-class aesthetics. It's expressed in the differences between Facebook and MySpace users. Among black people, it often plays out along generational lines.
Let me suggest that the bling aesthetic is a way for poor and/or urban black people to claim and stake visibility in a period when both white and bourgeois black flight rendered them silent and invisible.
Much of the visibility of the Civil Rights Movement — the 'soul' era if we use musical shifts as our markers — came from respectable Negroes: college students, preachers, prim-and-proper women of high moral character and community standing such as Rosa Parks.
I am stealing a point from feminist critic bell hooks here by arguing that the Civil Rights Movement was, in many ways, a movement of the black bourgeoisie. The goal was about access to middle-class mainstream (read: white) society and its trappings — equality of opportunity, rather than cultural transformation or revolution. When the movement stalled, thanks to the contributions of integration, bourgie-Negro flight and Reagonomics, poor and/or urban blacks disappeared, except in demonized forms ('Welfare Queen,' Willie Horton, etc.).
Enter hip-hop and its aspirational consumption patterns and conspicuous display. Looking rich is as important as being rich. After all, how fly can your $800 Louis Vuitton bag be if I have one too? (Don't worry about the fact that I got it on Canal St.) How fly can your $3,000 Rolex be if my $25 rhinestone watch is way blingier? I mean
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I'm Still Fly, right?
I think this is where my point ties back to those raised by Thompson in her lecture, and Wiley's work. Consumption on display is a way of asserting and displaying power and prestige — something which the aesthetic of bling at once adheres to and subverts.
More about Kehinde Wiley
- Kehinde Wiley's 'Black Light' series, the focus of Thompson's analysis
- A Q&A with Wiley by M.I.A. in Interview magazine
- Kehinde Wiley in New York Times Topics
- Kehinde Wiley's profile on ArtNet


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Coach Derek Robbins enters his fourth season at La Sierra University, the Golden Eagles men's basketball program has seen tremendous growth, with over 80 recruits trying out for the men's summer league team. This is truly a blessing for the interest in our program, and the chance to share time as coach, athlete and student. Coach Robbins is grateful to have this special opportunity to coach basketball at La Sierra, and he believes that you can compete in sports but at the same time, honor and glorify God.
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