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The NHL's 30 general managers are meeting in Toronto today, which undoubtedly will fan the flames of trade rumors as the league's April 3 trade deadline approaches.
But aside from the annual trade talk, there are some important topics that will be discussed in small groups today.
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Embellishment: Roughly halfway through the season [428 games] 25 embellishment or diving calls were made, more than twice the amount called last season after the same number of games.
That's a credit to the officials but it also serves as a red flag that players are flopping to get calls. St. Louis Blues general manager Doug Armstrong told NHL.com that he'd be in favor of slapping players with $10,000 fines for embellishment.
He might get an argument from Don Fehr on that one, but nothing there's no better deterrent than taking money out of players' pockets.
Olympic action: Speaking of the NHLPA it appears very little will stand in the way of the NHL returning to the Winter Olympics when they come to Sochi, Russia in 2014.
Some hockey people, like Capitals coach Adam Oates, aren't thrilled with the idea of the NHL interrupting its season to participate in the Winter Games, but others, like Caps captain Alex Ovechkin, are all in.
A decision is expected by the end of this month but it appears to be lock that the NHL will participate.
The U.S. management team is expected to include Ray Shero of the Penguins, Paul Holmgren of the Flyers, Stan Bowman of the Blackhawks, Dean Lombardi of the Kings, along with former NHL GMs Brian Burke and Don Waddell.
The Canadian contingent will be led by Armstrong, Lightning GM Steve Yzerman, Oilers president Kevin Lowe and Red Wings GM Ken Holland.
Coach's challenge: One topic that may get lengthy discussion is the idea of a coach's challenge similar to the one in the NFL. It has been proposed that each team will be permitted one challenge per game, although there is no firm guideline on whether the challenge wouldonly be used on disputed goals.
General managers are concerned that coaches will challenge penalty calls simply to give their penalty killers extra time to rest.
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EVERY once in a while, it is a tonic to immerse one's self in pure Canadiana.
And one can't get more Canadian than this account of a cross-Canada trip, undertaken in 1955, by the late Canadian journalist Bruce Hutchison.
Hutchison's account of his travels across Canada, from Newfoundland to British Columbia, was originally published in 1957, won a Governor General's Award for Creative Non-fiction and is now reissued by Oxford University Press as part of a series of significant titles of Canadian literature, thought and scholarship.
Hutchison served as editor of the Victoria Times and editorial director of the Vancouver Sun; his column regularly appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, for which he worked early in his career.
This entertaining narrative is a pleasure to read.
Hutchison depicts the impact on Canadian life and environment of what he calls the "Canadian revolution" -- the transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy, a process that was well underway by the mid-20th century.
Hutchison comments on the tendency of industrial civilization to promote uniformity and conformity, and wonders if Canada's particular regional cultures -- especially Quebec and the Maritimes -- will survive industrialization.
In these speculations he anticipates the work of the Canadian philosopher George Grant, who wrote about the homogenizing influence of technology.
Hutchison identifies a collective Canadian consciousness, an ancestral memory, which he evokes in the prose poems that precede every chapter. He writes stirringly, for example, about the lonely sound of a freight-train's whistle in a prairie night. …


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ORANGE – Tyron Jackson viewed the first ever Mr. Gay Orange County competition Saturday as something more than simply a pageant.
He saw the event as a way to further champion the causes of the gay community.
And, now as the newly-crowned Mr. Gay Orange County, Jackson, 28, plans to do just that.
Jackson, a lifelong resident of Tustin, emerged victorious among six contestants in the competition, which was held at the City Club in Orange with about 125 in attendance.
The event raised $4,700, which will go to AIDS Services Foundation Orange County and The Center Orange County.
Funds were raised from raffles, an auction of a seven-day cruise in Hawaii and from the contestants themselves, who were required to raise at least $200.
Jackson also captured the title of Mr. Community for raising $500, the most among the contestants.
"It's super exciting," Jackson said of his new title. "It shows that with heart and determination you can do anything. It's a big platform, but I can handle it."
Jackson receives a three-night stay at the Palms Casino and Resort in Las Vegas and an all-expenses-paid trip to Philadelphia in November to compete at the United States National Mr. Gay contest.
He wants to bring issues affecting the gay community to the mainstream and change what he calls a false perception of gays as engaging in a partying lifestyle.
"I had a lot of people who looked down on me for doing this," said Jackson, who works in education. "But I did it for me, not for them. It is a bigger issue."
The participants—who ranged in age from 20 to 28—competed in evening wear, designer underwear and question-and-answer categories and were judged on looks, poise, personality and community service.
"I would love to do it again ... it was awesome," said Martin Miranda, 28, of Fullerton, who was voted Mr. Congeniality. "People were just filling me with energy."
Contestants were rated by a panel of five judges, whichincluded the reigning United States National Mr. Gay, Adam Boyles of Huntington Beach.
Event organizer Tom Stephens plans on holding the event every year.
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Stephens, 48, said he was inspired to host the competition after a friend died from cancer last year.
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Your autosuggestion is working for you, when you're looking in the mirror and you can love the person looking back at you.
Your autosuggestion and the person in the mirror need to be united to achieve greatness in business and in life.
So what if you don't love the person you see in the mirror?
Is it possible to change the reflection? Fortunately the answer is yes.
The reflection you see in the mirror is made up of the past programming that you have been subjected to.
When you make the realisation that the programming was in the past. You can be leave it in the past.
A whole new program can begin as soon as you are ready to make some changes.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. W. Clement Stone
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The process of changing that reflection into one that is smiling back at you begins.Your autosuggestion becomes about seeing a confident person ready to embrace life and live it on your terms.
Of course it will not always be possible to surround yourself with the positive emotions.
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This is a process and it takes time to master.
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The process of doing this involves doing a positive self talk.
Something like this that empowers you to commence controlling your thoughts and power.
" I love myself and I am claiming the right to be loved and to be successful"or something to that effect.
Now comes the work associated with this.
The self talk needs to be repeated at least 400 times each day.
It has to be belted out with power and passion.
This is the fuel that will allow the positive emotions to surround you.
It's not easy to do, however the positive signs of the process working will give you enormous encouragement.
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All of these lead to an increased sense of self worth.
The autosuggestion flowing through your mind becomes about
making a positive difference with everybody you come into contact with.
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
Your mind is filled with vision, inspiration and a new found confidence.
The autosuggestion of fear, lack and failure has dissipated and hopefully
been completely reprogrammed.
It sounds easy to do. The most powerful things in life are often powerful
because of their simplicity.
When you consider that a powerful consistent self talk can make all of
the difference to the autosuggestion running through your mind. Then it's
certainly worth considering.
Try it and let me know if you begin to experience the above changes in your life.
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So i'm sitting here thinking about the new puppy i am getting in two weeks and all the fun things i can't wait to do with him but then i wonder can my lifestyle be too hard on a dog too young? Meaning this, i take my current GSD Sage to work with me every day. She gets to run around the jobsite while i work, whether she is following me or playing with another dog, i love it, she loves it, she gets tons of exercise every day. It makes going home with a tired dog that much easier. Plus it has really made us unseperable. Now, when Sage was a puppy i definitely tried to baby her as far as too much impact on her joints, whether she was running or jumping i tried to limit it, but with going to work with me she definitely was very active and physical at a young age. She is 1.5 yrs old. She only weighs 55 lbs which i think is a little small for even a female but she is healthy and at a healthy weight for her size. I would think she would be closer to 60-65 lbs at least. Her father was 95 and her mother 70. So with that being said, is it possible for a young pup to be too physical/active that they mess up their growth plates? i know that stairs and jumping and stuff like that will definitely have a negative affect on a young puppy but does just running around being a "puppy" have any bad side affects on their future growth?
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Virginians' Renewable Energy Wishes Being Quashed by Dominion Power
Sandwiched between several clean energy-happy states in the mid-Atlantic, Virginia is battling the shackles of overwhelming utility influence. Sixty-nine percent of Virginians support requiring utilities to generate a greater share of electricity from renewable energy. The Virginia legislature enjoys bipartisan support for clean energy and sees it as a path towards economic development—following the lead of neighboring Maryland, D.C., and North Carolina. Unfortunately, these facts are largely moot due to one company: Dominion Power, the state's largest investor-owned utility. With its immense influence, it calls the shots, and so Virginia is missing the boat.
According to a report by the MD-DC-VA Solar Energy Industries Association (MDV-SEIA),the economic potential for solar in Virginia would yield 10,000 jobs by 2020, totaling 30,000 by 2025 and add another $1.8 billion in private sector investment. Contrary to Dominion's PR team, the utility has continuously blocked efforts by the business and legislative community to enable market growth. Interest and citizen groups, trade associations and citizens alike are asking the decision-makers in Richmond to bring clean energy, jobs and rate stability by developing a local clean energy economy.
"It's not a republican or democrat issue in Virginia, it's about the utility" said Mike Healy, Chairman of the U.S. Solar Heating & Cooling Alliance and Virginia Policy Director for MDV-SEIA. "The legislature understands the benefits. It's Dominion that is concerned about the benefits of clean energy to their business model and ability to compete down the road. We need to focus on long-term benefits to Virginia ratepayers, not just to one entity or another."
While advocacy groups have made little progress in recent years, solar did see modest gains during the last legislative session. House republicans were instrumental introducing a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) pilot program, which helps nonprofits access federal tax benefits and third-party financing as for-profit energy entities. In theory, Virginia's political will and popular support should provide the opportunity for clean energy development. In practice, Dominion funneled over $244,000 to Virginia republicans and democrats during the 2012 election cycle and spent another $2 million lobbying through the revolving door.
The utility interference is blatantly obvious. As Ivy Main, vice-chair of the Virginia Sierra Club, pointed out, "Senators are using talking points that they get from Dominion,"
Healy added that "instead of adopting their business model to become more efficient, they have decided to fight against it. Dominion has a monopoly over their territory and the state legislature, it's not easy to fight a monopoly…but there are ways to do it."
This is not about demonizing Dominion; it's about helping them understand the opportunity at hand. Dominion can expand their customer base with the resulting economic development and stabilize what could be serious future fuel price fluctuation in a state that experienced a 20.3% electricity rate hike in 2009.
Virginians need to strengthen coalitions and communications in order to apply pressure within Dominion's territory. Change will require unified action from advocates, businesses, students and community leaders. Education needs to go out to Virginians and the General Assembly about what is happening in other places. The solar industry is now mature enough that the quantitative and qualitative benefits are now understood. Main believes that "it has to come from the bottom up," and views the recent PPA legislation as advantageous because it "helps churches and non-profits with large, dispersed congregations realize the benefits".
Northern Virginia localities and college students have applied steady pressure in support of renewable energy, but downstate rural republican counties have been slower to embrace the benefits of clean energy. In fact, the Roanoke Tea Party has a webpage about how renewable energy and the UN's Agenda 21 is a communist ploy to takeover America.
Reaching the opposition, strengthening support and applying utility pressure in Virginia will require issue framing and marketing. There is a great story in solar and Virginia republicans were swayed when they learned of the economic development potential. Grassroots messaging needs to improve and increase to make renewables more exciting, sexy and tangible. Increasing customer engagement with clean technologies will be critical to these efforts, and various state and business marketing initiatives have been successful using this approach.
Richard K. Sullivan Jr., the Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs secretary, believes that state wide community initiatives, such as the Solarize Mass program run by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, are "demonstrating the power of using community connections to catalyze wider adoption of solar energy and greater energy independence." In Maryland, wind energy supplier Clean Currents has used gamification to successfully increase awareness for renewable energy.
There is an abundance of tools available for Virginians to easily recognize this potential, but coalitions need to make sure their messaging is on target, delivering the best information to help.
"We need to become more organized as a collective voice," said Healy. "Together we can stand up to Dominion."
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A guest says:There is another way. It is called customer choice. Instead of subsidizing power and forcing one price fits all, allow choice. Make customer freedom legal. If someone wants to pay 2-10X for power from Mars, let them. User Pays. Use capitalism as intended, as a tool for price discovery. Do not presume that we know everything about power generation, that there is nothing new out there worth knowing or trying. Fools drove Hummers too, and paid $50k for the privilege. Users paid. Thanks to those folks, we all know that Hummers are overpriced junk. I think the same thing of Tesla motors. Others disagree. We don't subsidize Tesla so that all cars cost the same. Why do it with power? Early adopters pay a higher price for being first. Let them. Do not subsidize them either. NC raises prices on all to subsidize the political desires of the few. This enriches a few investors at the expense of the poor. Crony capitalism at its finest, corruption by any other name. They game the system, using government grants and subsidies, mandatory power buy back, and tax concessions.
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This is insane. Pushing renewables, which are expensive and unsustainable, over a tried and true utility like Dominion is like biting the hand that feeds you. You had no problem using their services to type this article, to see what you were typing, to feel comfortable inside that building when it was cold outside, did you? Diving head first into technology that is questionable at best, and driving workers out of business, is negligent. We have HUNDREDS of years of fossil fuels left, including the best thing to come around in our lifetime (fracking). Let's use them up before we start wasting our time with this nonsense.
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Aren't recip links still worth something? At least then, two related sites chooose to mutually share links... instead of a scammy way of trying to get a link but make it appear like it's 1-way instead of recip.
I don't bother with 3ways because that doesn't groove with the mantra "would I do this is the search engines didnt exist?"
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Possible the company who hired the linkers doesn't know they're 3 ways and is being told they're one way.
I think this is what's happening. One site seems like a legit company that is related to my topic, but their "seo people" or whoever they are keep submitting 3-way link requests to me, offering to link back with worthless sites. I forwarded the emails and an explanation of why I was unwilling to do this to the seo person and the company's email.


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Mike Elston will make the comparison, even if he doesn't see much of one.
When Notre Dame's defensive line coach surveys his position at training camp's conclusion, he sees a group with better depth and better trust. Even without Aaron Lynch, who quit the program last spring, Elston likes what he has.
"We're way better. It's not even close to last year," Elston said. "We have more experience. Chase (Hounshell) has more experience than the other guys had a year ago and he's had a spring with us. Sheldon (Day) is not like a normal freshman. He's been taught a lot of great things in high school and it's carried over. You don't think of Sheldon Day as a freshman.
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Hounshell and Day are slotted as Notre Dame backup defensive ends behind starters Kapron Lewis-Moore and Stephon Tuitt. Louis Nix and Kona Schwenke continue to rotate at nose guard. Jarron Jones and Tony Springmann round out the position as reserves with Tyler Stockton a likely scout team contributor.
In addition to Lynch, Notre Dame lost Ethan Johnson to graduation. While comparing this line to last year's group is difficult from the outside, there's no question the position is improved from Elston's first season. Back then Notre Dame had one senior (Ian Williams), one sophomore (Stockton) and no real freshman contributor.
Today, Elston enters the season trusting all six contributors in his rotation, even if Hounshell is coming off spring shoulder surgery, Lewis-Moore returns from a season-ending knee injury and Day has yet to take a college snap.
Elston believes the relationship between coach and player has improved too. The position had its share of drama in the past 12 months with Lynch's departure, Nix struggling through spring ball and severe injuries to Lewis-Moore and Johnson. Injuries might pop up again, but Elston believes he's better tuned to his players and vice versa.
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These are few of the most expressive and surreal representations of the Universe, that impress, above all, through colors, combining elements in the most exquisite way. Space artists have few limitations that allow them to unravel scenes which are a great delight to the human eye. It leads our imagination to worlds we have never dreamed of seeing.
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Cubs not rushing Garza back to the mound
PEORIA, Ariz. – Maybe Matt Garza has finally learned how to slow down. This time the hyperactive Cubs pitcher isn't rushing to get back on the mound.
Garza made about 20 throws from 75 feet out on Sunday and hopes to push that range to 120-to-150 feet this week. But he isn't making promises or trying to speed up the rehab after straining a lat muscle on his left side during the team's first full-squad workout last month.
"I want to get comfortable throwing," Garza said Monday. "I want to build up arm strength. Once again, it was 24 days off, just under a month, and that's too much time for me to just jump on a mound right now."
Manager Dale Sveum thinks Garza cleared a hurdle by throwing with a little extra intensity and feeling good the day after. But there are several more steps before the Cubs can even think about adding Garza to their rotation.
[More: Jackson progressing after Monday start]
Garza has held out hope for returning in mid-to-late April. Sveum is looking at May 1 and thinking it could swing seven days in either direction. But the manager said "obviously it could be the middle of May."
Another variable will be Garza's right elbow. He still hasn't pitched in a game since last July after getting shutdown with a stress reaction. He's insisted that's a non-issue.
"My elbow was fine in December when I first started throwing. I wouldn't have started if it wasn't OK," Garza said. "But that was not even a thought when this happened. I was just like, 'Man, something awesome happened and now this happened.' But maybe that was the blessing in disguise. Twenty-four days off not throwing is more time for it to rest. So it's kind of a bonus, but not the bonus I wanted."


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Town Asks VDOT to Clear Drains after Minor Flooding in Occoquan
OCCOQUAN, Va. — Clogged drains in Occoquan could have contributed to some minor flooding Tuesday night.
As heavy rain moved through the region about 7:30 p.m. the Ballywhack Creek that runs alongside Tanyard Hill Road spilled its banks. The creek is known to flood.
No damage was reported to any public properties in the town, and it didn't flood for long.
"It was quick, and it receded fairly quickly," said Occoquan Mayor Liz Quist.
The town manager on Wednesday called the Virginia Department of Transportation to the town and asked to them to unclog storm drains.
There was also minor flooding on nearby Popular Lane which, along with Tanyard Hill Road, serve as gateways to the small town.
Occoquan flooded in 2011 when the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee inundated our area leaving many in the Holly Acres trailer park in nearby Woodbridge homeless.Send news and photos to Potomac Local
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Seriously?!! I saw the "minor" flooding. I'm fairly certain the people whose properties were involved, (land and.homes), don't think there wasn't "any damage". If those were my homes, I would be angry to be told by my mayor that this was "…minor and receded quickly", as if I could look away from my insurance reportable damage. It's a shame. The first serious (and yes, this is serious) issue, and.the.new mayor didn't represent her people.well. While she is not expected to have fixed the drainage issue in her brief tenure, it is.expected that she truly see the people who voted her into office, and their issues, no matter how "minor".
Clarification, as the photo shows, is that there was loss and damage along Union Street. Ballywhack Creek at no time left its banks. There was immense capacity left….if the water had been maintained in the creek by the County and LRPRA there would have been no flood. This is day 3 of my crews working here to clean up from a routine summer afternoon thunderstorm. My friends at Prince William County Storm Water Management and Lake Ridge Park and Recreation do not write, apparently have no phone, and certainly have not picked up a shovel! Union Street is eroding, trees are falling, the creek, itself, is at risk. I'd ask everyone who travels into and out of town and enjoys the view to pause and look at what the County and LRPRA failure to protect its neighbors may cost us all in the next few months.
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After his Penguins' remarkable run to the Stanley Cup, life's probably never been better for Pittsburgh's young phenom Sidney Crosby. If only he'd move out of Mario Lemieux's house.
("Back in my day, this was what we used for a Me-Space!" "God kill me now.")
So it seemed like a stroke of genius when his "If You See Crosby"* page on MySpace announced that he was helping raise money for a park… in Minneapolis… that was burned down… by gang members. If your BS alarm is going off like crazy, good, because it means you have a pulse.
The PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW has the story of a fundraiser that really wasn't, at all:
A message sent Monday from the MySpace page, "If You See Crosby," asked for help to raise $3,000 for Phelps Park in Minneapolis. In exchange for a donation, preferably sent via Western Union, "Sid" promised to send a "game-played, autographed stick," the message stated.
"That is not Sidney Crosby," Penguins spokesman Tom McMillan said Tuesday. "He does not have a MySpace page."
What? Then what's going on here?
Fans who received the fundraising plea were asked to send money to Stephanie Biddlecom, 23, of Minneapolis, a small-time professional wrestler known as "Cerise Keller."
In an interview with the Tribune-Review, Biddlecom insisted Crosby was helping her raise money to rebuild a playground destroyed by a gang. She said she met Crosby three years ago when his cousin began dating her sister. Biddlecom said she speaks with Crosby daily.
Well, that seems perfectly verifiable. Which is why Crosby has said… oh wait, he's said nothing. His legal representation, however:
A lawyer for Crosby confirmed her client has nothing to do with the site.
By the way, if your curiosity was piqued by "23 year old amateur wrestler," yes, so was ours. We checked out that Cerise Keller myspace page - link's right here - and let's just say we're not filing this post under "Hotties" and leave it at that.
But what, you might ask, about that poor park? Aren't the children the ones who are really suffering here? Well, uh, about that, funny story:
Phelps Park, an urban recreational center, needs no work and has not been burned down as Biddlecom claimed, Minneapolis park officials said.
"That's an absolute, 100 percent fabrication," said Obie Kipper Jr., a district manager with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board.
So lessee, young unattractive lady who feels like committing fraud but absolutely sucks at lying? I think we've heard this song before.
*That's a really weird title, by the way. It kind of seems like a play on Britney Spears' semi-clever "If You Seek Amy," but only kind of. What the hell?


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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan (1911 -)
Source: 1992
Contributed by: Zaady
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
That's the nice thing about this job. You get to quote yourself shamelessly. If you don't, Larry Speakes will.
. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.
Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
Source: (10 Sept. 1980)
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
Source: 1981
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Where others fear trade and economic growth, we see opportunities for creating new wealth and undreamed-of opportunities for millions in our own land and beyond. Where others seek to throw up barriers, we seek to bring them down; where others take counsel of their fears, we follow our hopes.
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Simple Definition of alchemy
: a science that was used in the Middle Ages with the goal of changing ordinary metals into gold
: a power or process that changes or transforms something in a mysterious or impressive way
Full Definition of alchemy
1 : a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life
2 : a power or process of transforming something common into something special
3 : an inexplicable or mysterious transmuting
Examples of alchemy
She practiced her alchemy in the kitchen, turning a pile of vegetables into a delicious salad.
The company hoped for some sort of economic alchemy that would improve business.
Origin of alchemy
Middle English alkamie, alquemie, from Middle French or Medieval Latin; Middle French alkimie, from Medieval Latin alchymia, from Arabic al-kīmiyā', from al the + kīmiyā' alchemy, from Late Greek chēmeia
First Known Use: 14th century
Other Occult Terms
Medical Dictionary
Medical Definition of alchemy
plural al·che·mies
: the medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy whose aims were the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for diseases, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life
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Gemalto NV finds itself in a delicate if not yet dangerous position, apparently caught in the cross-hairs of western intelligence agencies and nervous investors. Read More »
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Ever since Edward Snowden and his disclosures about the extent of government snooping, Silicon Valley's biggest corporate citizens have been uncomfortably dragged into the fight, taking a lot of flak for their too-close ties to law enforcement. But a recent crop of products have shown the companies making concerted efforts to distance themselves Read More »
The latest leaked documents from the whistle of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden are threatening to blow a hole in U.S.-Brazil relations.
Reports have emerged that the NSA hacked into the computer network of Brazilian state-owned oil giant–and potent symbol of the country's economic heft–Petrobras. Read More »
Atlantic hurricane season is about to peak. With forecasters predicting a higher-than-average number of storms for this year there is a strong possibility that Gulf of Mexico oil output will be affected, but U.S. gas traders don't fret the hurricane season so much these days.
Energy industry leaders believe the threat of cyber-attacks could pose as big a threat as hurricanes, but budget cuts are forcing training and information-sharing activities to be scaled back. Read More »
Shares of Booz Allen, the American consulting firm ensnared in the National Security Agency surveillance controversy, slumped Monday morning after one of its employees admitted to being the source of secret data leaks. Read More »
The overnight revelations about the extent of the NSA's surveillance program show that the Obama administration has been doing the same things for which the Bush administration got raked over coals, Faiza Patel said on the MoneyBeat show this morning.
"Nobody ever knew what the NSA was actually doing," said Patel, co-director of The Liberty & National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, "so in that sense, you know, it is sort of our worst fears confirmed." The thing that's difficult to understand, she said, is how this massive program actually helps to track terrorists. Read More »
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Kerbal Space Program Desktop by Timmon26Watch
©2013-2016 Timmon26
A little KSP inspired desktop I made. It might not be totally finished (could add some lander wreckage or something), but it's good enough to post. May update in the future.
now how do I go back?
now how do I go back?
Love it!
Man,is very clear the Happynes emotion that this little kerbal is feeling.
MAN,i like "OOOOH SWEET",it is actually a pretty psychotic smile.
Man,i'am afraid.
another idea: the mun or bust ship from one of the two title screens
Idea:Flag next to him!And maybe kerbin in the background.
This is awesome!! Reminds me of some good failur-- I mean advancments in Kerbal Science. >.>


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Special Report
Music to Cynics' Ears
The National Council of Churches latches on to the Baker-Hamilton report. But contrast the NCC's tone to, say, that of the well-meaning Catholic bishops.
Ever in search of relevance, the National Council of Churches (NCC) has latched onto the Iraq Study Group report as a validation of its own chronic anti-war stance.
"The recommendations in the Iraq Study Group Report generally resonate with recommendations made by church leaders through the NCC," insisted a quick NCC news release. "While no set of recommendations can right all of the wrongs evolving from the Iraq war, this report does lay groundwork for an end to the war that all sides can find acceptable."
Well, not quite. Ostensibly, the Iraq Study Group advocates a return to "realism," stepping away from ambitious plans of democracy promotion, drawing down the U.S. troop presence in Iraq in favor of Iraqi forces, and attempting to entice Iran and Syria into negotiations, though admitting they are unlikely to be very helpful.
This is not quite what the NCC, as chief Cassandra of the Religious Left, has long advocated: quick and complete U.S. withdrawal, irrespective of the consequences for Iraq, the region and the U.S. The NCC's chief, former Democratic Congressman Bob Edgar, likes to boast that he served in the same U.S. Congress that refused aid to the drowning South Vietnamese government in 1975 as invading North Vietnamese troops were pouring south.
Congress's refusal ensured that all of Indochina would be Communist. The consequence was the 1.7 million victim genocide in Cambodia, tens of thousands murdered in South Vietnam, hundreds of thousands of refugees, and decades of police states, reeducation camps, and enforced poverty in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
But the war was over! This, for Edgar, and most of the anti-war left, was more important than the horrific consequences of the "peace." That the U.S. was defeated was an added benefit. In similar fashion, Edgar's NCC defines the "war" in Iraq as simply the intrusive U.S. presence. That a precipitous withdrawal may simply enlarge the war and the killing among Iraq's contending sects does not seem to seriously concern the church council.
Just as Edgar and the NCC of 30 years ago did not care about human rights in a Communist Indochina, they do not care today about human rights in Iraq, despite their much vaunted humanitarianism. They were never interested in the atrocities of Saddam Hussein, and they will not be interested in any murder or mayhem wreaked by Islamist forces in a future Iraq.
In its last condemnation of the war, released in November, the NCC portrayed the whole enterprise of overthrowing Saddam's dictatorship and building a democracy as a "lapse in moral leadership," underpinned by a "pattern of deception both in the arguments made by the Administration leading up to the war, as well as during the conduct of the war." It labeled all justifications of the war as "false or ill-considered," fueled by a "pattern of deception." Revealingly, among the NCC's litany of misbegotten rationales for the Iraq operation was the "desirability of planting a new democracy in the Middle East."
The NCC boasted that it had opposed the U.S. "invasion" from the start, along with Roman Catholic and other church leaders. "Our view of this war in Iraq is informed by our belief that war is contrary to the will of God, and an affront to God's creation," the NCC explained. It insisted that the U.S. overthrow of Saddam Hussein violated its member churches "clear ethical norms."
There was no mention by the NCC of any "clear ethical norms" violated by the Saddam regime, or by the insurgents and militias now committing mass murder in Iraq. Instead, it only focused on "what befalls a country that takes the path of arrogance, self-righteousness, and even hubris." The arrogant country in question is, of course, the United States.
THE NCC DRESSED UP ITS LATEST anti-war salvo manifesto as a "pastoral letter" from its General Assembly, striving for an ecclesial dignity that the document does not deserve. In a further reach for legitimacy, it also specifically cited the shared opposition of the Roman Catholic hierarchy to the Iraq war.
But the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops released is own statement on Iraq in November, quite different in tone and substance from the NCC's pretentiously titled "pastoral letter." The bishops called for a "responsible transition" in Iraq, commended the "heroic sacrifices" of U.S. military personnel, supported Iraqi democracy, stressed the importance of religious freedom, expressed specific concern about beleaguered Iraqi Christians, and observed that Iraq had suffered under a "cruel" dictator.
The Catholic bishops offered their prayers, both for the "suffering people" of Iraq, and for "our military personnel (unlike the NCC's studied avoidance of any possessive pronouns when describing the "occupying" troops). The bishops also referenced Iraq's "sectarian strife, civil insurgency and terrorist attacks." This is unlike the NCC, which referenced violence only as caused by the U.S. intervention.
Acknowledging past "miscalculations" in the war, the bishops also recognized "positive advances" such as Iraqi elections. Referring to their own "grave moral concerns" about the U.S. invasion, the bishops recommended that the U.S. military remain only as long as they contribute to a "responsible transition." That transition should include, they said, curbing terrorism and sectarian violence, fostering economic reconstruction, strengthening the rule of law, and further developing political structures that advance "stability, political participation, and respect for religious freedom and basic human rights." The NCC, unlike the bishops, never referenced the last two items.
"We are alarmed by the deteriorating situation of Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq," the bishops declared. The NCC never expressed specific concern about Iraqi Christians. The bishops said they are "grateful for [the U.S. military's] "heroic sacrifices on behalf of the Iraqi people." They offered prayers for "those who honorably serve our nation" in Iraq and for all Iraqis, who had "suffered so greatly under a brutal dictator."
In the NCC statement, prayer was unmentioned. Instead, the NCC promised what it prefers over prayer: further "bold and public witness" against the war in "public settings."
Whatever its merits or faults, the Iraq Study Group is not guided by reflexive hostility to the United States. In their statement, the Catholic bishops loftily still express hope for a democratic Iraq. But the NCC, while trying to align itself politically with the bishops and the study group, offers nothing but cynicism and spiteful contempt for its own country.
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I did some searches, but perhaps I'm not searching with the right keywords since I'm not finding what I'm looking for.
What I'm trying to find (if such a page exists somewhere) is a list of the WordPress database structure and an explanation as to their relation with other data in the database.
Granted, most of the tables/column names are self-explanatory,
post_title = the title of the post and so forth, but in the table
wp_post2cat I'm not sure what the
rel_id column is for.
I need this since I'm trying to write a database converter script for a site I'm redesigning that uses a hand-rolled blog which I'd like to convert to WordPress. Knowing which tables relate to what data will make it easy to figure out which columns match which WordPress ones. Unfortunately the hand-rolled blog has many custom columns and it's not based on any other CMS out there so it's a bit of a nightmare mapping everything out -- I have to basically go through the code of the site to see what gets put where at the moment.
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Mark Ruffalo Hulk
Powerful GPU; large screen
Eric Bana Hulk
Super heavy; trackpad buttons hard to press; HDD size could be bigger
Think a laptop is supposed to be a light and portable PC? Think again. The iBuyPower CZ-17 is neither of those things. With a carry weight of almost 11 pounds and dimensions measuring 16.9x11.3x2.2-inches, this thing is huge and friggin' heavy. Imagine lugging around a dumbbell in your pack all day and you'll catch our drift.
The CZ-17 is big and powerful and will also require an equally strong person to lug it around.
Aesthetically, the CZ-17 looks eerily similar to our MSI GT60 zero-point laptop except super-sized with a 17.3-inch display. The 1920x1080-resolution, LED-backlit monitor features a nice matte finish, which nicely diminishes glare. The TN panel exhibits a slight shimmer when viewed more than 45 degrees off-axis, a crowd of three people won't have issues watching a movie together on it. While the CZ-17's chassis looks an awful lot like the GT60 with its edgy contours and cut-off corners, it doesn't feature the zero-point's gaudy-colored LEDs. Instead, blue is the color of choice here. Everything from the speakers and trackpad, to the keyboard and various lines are laced in blue luminance. Only iBuyPower's beast logo on the top cover differs with its red hue.
Under the bright lights and within the belly of the beast lies a 2.4GHz Intel Core i7-3630QM CPU, Nvidia GeForce GTX 680M GPU, and 16GB of RAM. In terms of storage, the CZ-17 features a 120GB SSD and a 7,200rpm 750GB hard drive. This duo allows the laptop to boot Windows 8 in 26 seconds which is fair.
The CZ-17 traded minor blows with our GT60's slightly lower-clocked 2.3GHz Core i7-3610QM in our three CPU-intensive tests, but where it really stood out was in the graphics department. In our 3DMark 11 performance benchmark, iBuyPower's laptop performed an astonishing 95 percent better than MSI's counterpart. The gap only increased in our STALKER: CoP benchmark, where the CZ-17 simply decimated the GT60 by more than 112 percent. At first we thought we had made a testing error, thinking that a 680M couldn't be that much beefier than a 670M, but when we ran the benchmarks again, the same results came up. Playing Counter-Strike:Global Offensive and Dota 2 , performance on the CZ-17 was silky-smooth, consistently staying above 60fps with everything maxed out. It just goes to show you how Nvidia 's higher-end 680 GPU and refined 28nm Kepler architecture really do make a substantial difference in the graphics department.
In terms of battery life, the CZ-17 fell short of MSI's 15.6-inch laptop by almost 30 minutes, but considering the laptop has a larger screen, you can't expect the same power consumption. Regardless, in our battery rundown test, the CZ-17 lasted two hours and 40 minutes, which should be enough for most movies, provided you don't watch only Peter Jackson films .
One feature we didn't care for was the trackpad. On paper, it sounds great: Multitouch with touch-to-zoom. The problem is that the touch-to-zoom is super choppy and unresponsive and if you accidentally have a second finger touching the pad, it becomes confused. Luckily, we were able to disable multitouch with a driver update given to us directly from iBuyPower. The bigger annoyance actually pertains to the buttons below the trackpad which require a ridiculous amount of pressure to click. People with weak fingers should not apply.
Of course, this criticism may not matter because this extremely heavy laptop is clearly best used as a portable gaming desktop (i.e., with a mouse). If you were hoping to buy a light and portable gaming laptop for on-the-go play, you should definitely look elsewhere; however, if all you're looking for is something to lug in your car when you drive to the nearest LAN party, the CZ-17 is certainly a solid solution.
$1,799 , www.ibuypower.com
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|Stitch.Efx 2.0 (sec)
|ProShow Producer 5 (sec)
|x264 HD 5.0
|12.4 (-4.8%)
|STALKER: CoP (fps)
|70 (112.8%)
|3DMark 11 Perf
|Battery Life (min)
|160 (-14.4%)
Our zero-point notebook is an MSI GT60 with a 2.3GHz IntelCorei7-3610QM, 12GB DDR3/1600, two 500GB Seagate 7,200rpm hard drives, a GeForce GTX 670M, and Windows 8 64-bit.STALKER: CoP tested at 1920x1080 with Ultra settings, Tessellation, and contact hardening.
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|Nvidia GeForce GTX 680M 4GB
|17.3-inch, 1920x1080 LCD
|120GB Intel 330 Series SSD; 750GB hard drive (7,200rpm)
|Optical Drive
|8x DVD+/-RW
|Ethernet, VGA, HDMI, eSATA, 4- in-1 card reader, 3x USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0, audio in, audio out, headphone, mic, 3MP webcam, built-in Bluetooth, 802.11b/g/n
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Origami Stargazer Lily by nirnaethedhellenWatch
©2010-2016 nirnaethedhellen
My version of a stargazer lily made for my friend. ; )
I'm sorry.. I'm going to need a tutorial for this.
Pretty please?!
Pretty please?!
do you have a model still for it?
yeah, i think i have it somewhere. if you want, you can send me a message with your email and i'll send you what you need to make it.
an exceptional piece. did you color the paper for the model?


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recently my current u-lock (krypto something or other) has started to do some funny things, like the key gets stuck in there, etc.
so i am in the market for a new lock, what is the very best u-lock i can get?
note: i ride a road/and a track bike. so i dont need something thats really long/wide.
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LWRC REPR Drawing colored by shank117Watch
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Trying out my New Art Tablet for the first time and decided to colorize the REPR drawing so we can put it on a tshirt at my job hope you like it its my first time with the art tablet. Tshirt slogan will read "Do not Fear Death... Become it!"
Haha, I found the photo you used for a reference. Great picture; love the actual rifle as well.
yeah i hated that i used so much of the original as a reference but it still came out different with my badass reaper in the background
Turned out damn well. I wish I had the skill you do. I can sketch but I need advice on how to do colouring and editing WELL. Any suggestions?
you got me on editing i used to be able to with photoshop but then a virus took it out but i never used it much i just lowered the contrast makes the image sharper after you scan to bring it close to the real drawing and as for coloring look at some digital tablets they run about 100
I've heard Bamboo tablets are good, I've used one at school but as for what 'model' I have no clue which and how much I should spend to get a decent one. I don't want to spent like 160 bucks but I really don't want to get one that is cost effective but limits me or has terrible alignment (for lack of a better word).
a little late(been playing way too many games lol)
pretty freaking rocking buddy, think the colors look great on this one. that tablet should be an awesome tool for you going foreword, sure looks it!
pretty freaking rocking buddy, think the colors look great on this one. that tablet should be an awesome tool for you going foreword, sure looks it!
im just trying to decide what drawing i already have up that i should colorize with the tablet im haveing trouble choosing im thinking one of my red dawn drawings would be cool with all the action
That's a good start, loving that painterly vibe of it.
Damn you picked up that tablet pretty quickly. Very well do ne
man this looks frickin' amazing. awesome job!
I would have thought you were going with Cerakote finish on the rifle and Multicam or AOR on the soldier.
na for a tshirt i was told i need to keep it simple so the gun is black as death and the soldier is in od with coyote tact gear so he can go from sniping Charley in the jungle to sniping Tallies in the desert
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After yesterday's cuts it appears that Craig Tatum and Wilkin Castillo will be the catching tandem at AAA. It seems like Chris Denove will be the main guy at AA and Devin Mesoraco will be the man at A+. I saw posted yesterday that Dayton will have Jordan Wideman and Kevin Coddington along with part-time catchers Kyle Day and Humberto Sosa. That would seem to leave a lot of guys unaccounted for with only a few spots. Anyone with any info on whether any of these guys are still around and if so, where do they play?
Jake Long, Peter Cech, Jason Bour, Chris Kroski, Brian Peterson, Kory Feiner, Eddy Rodriguez
I'm wondering if Kroski and maybe Peterson could end up sticking with the organization in an instructional capacity even if they aren't on a roster. I've heard a few good things about Kroski and his work with young pitchers, but I really don't have a ton of knowledge on the matter. I always thought that Jake Long might be a sleeper.