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Collimation or Straightening of Light RaysThen there's the issue of needing a lens that focuses light rays in as much of a telecentric manner as possible, especially with wide-angle lenses, says Richard Pelkowski, Product Manager of D-SLRs for Olympus. "When the light exits the rear element of the lens, the light rays are traveling straighter than they would have on a wide-angle analog counterpart from years past. Olympus needed to incorporate this telecentric design in its lenses made for digital sensors, particularly for the periphery of the image-pickup elements on the sensor. That way each pixel is capturing as much light as possible across the entire surface of the sensor, so you don't get vignetting or a darkening around the edges of the frame."
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Embattled dancehall Jamaican superstar Vybz Kartel will continue his stint in jail after his drug case went for trial on April 13 and one of his murder trails will be mentioned again for bail on Friday March 23. It was a bald headed Vybz Kartel that appeared in the Home Circuit Court in downtown, Kingston this afternoon to answer to a murder charge. Dressed in a navy blue suit and a striped tie, the Deejay was led into court by officers.
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Europe's Election Chaos Could Murder Stocks
The result of Sunday's elections should spell doomsday for Europe and the stock market too, given what is playing out in Greece. Before the voting began, the polls showed Greece's two mainstream political parties PASOK and New Democracy could garner just 38% of Parliament combined. With 60+% of the vote counted, the two had fewer than 35% of the votes in total. It appears there will not be enough votes to form a proper coalition, given the distance between the two mainstream parties and the protest vote winners on the fringe.
Now, don't get me wrong, because I'm no fan of austerity implemented during times of economic recession, and I have argued vehemently against today's popular wisdom in Europe from the start. That's because it seems too many folks have forgotten that it was precisely this type of activity that turned a mild recession into the Great Depression for the United States. Ben Bernanke knows it very well, but he is also served well by keeping quiet, since his expansionary efforts for the U.S. would have had more detrimental impact to the dollar if not for the hobbled euro, not to mention the tragic earthquake that struck Japan. Conspiracy theorists might also look toward the rating agencies, especially Standard & Poor's (NYSE: MHP), which seemed to turn up the heat on Europe at a conspicuous moment for the dollar.
The results of the election should ferry in friction for the European master plan. I'm speaking of the drastic change the Germans have engineered for Greece, modeling it after its own image, so that it might receive aid to emerge from the debt it is buried under. It's too bad though that the powers that be did not factor in the opinion of the Greeks who have been forced to swallow a swift disruptive change to their lifestyle, and all because of the poor management of their government.
Greek private sector debt was relatively small, and yet the Greek people are being asked to pay. Granted, the Greek government's budget math would have Archimedes turning over in his grave, but some of the austerity measures being forced down Greece's throat make little sense for an economy under threat of recession. Extending the retirement age was one thing, but firing thousands of public sector workers was mistimed and too immediate in its implementation.
The good thing about democracy is that it allows for the regular evaluation of government actions, and given Greece's desperate acceptance of every EU command, the government will now be overhauled. What this means is that perhaps a radical voice will eventually emerge from Syntagma Square offering courageous (some would say ignorant) disagreement. With the way things have developed economically speaking, the voice will carry credence as well, and possibly shape a better way for Greece. God willing, it will not leave it outside of the euro zone, but that worst nightmare has a good chance of proving true. For now, not much of anything will get done, given the disjointed polls.
The stock market will reflect this chaotic circumstance Monday, with Asian shares starting the slide already. As of late evening Sunday in the Eastern Time zone, the NIKKEI 225 was lower 2.6% and the MSCI Asia Apex 50 was off 2.4%. European shares seemed sure to follow as I scribbled late Sunday night. They certainly showed signs of it last week, when the SPDR STOXX Europe 50 (NYSE: FEU) sank 1.5% Friday. The Global X FTSE Greece 20 ETF (NYSE: GREK) gained 1.2%, but it should soon trade in its charge for change in for panic too. In France, where Francois Hollande was celebrating victory and declaring the end of austerity, the iShares MSCI France Index (NYSE: EWQ) might offer a similar decline to its 1.6% Friday fall. Unless, that is, investors believe Europe will stick together, but at the same time look towards the sort of creative growth initiatives I've been calling for from the start.
I anticipate a deep and dark red day Monday for U.S. investors as well without a certain reassurance from Germany. The American stock market tends to shy away from uncertainty, let alone chaos, sort of like the 1.4% decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average implied last week (SPDR Dow Industrials (NYSE: DIA) down 1.3%). Given that the probability of a Greek default has suddenly increased for those wearing blinders, and that the European plan could fall apart as swiftly as life in Greece has, you can bet on increased volatility in equities and a favoring of sell orders over the near-term. I reiterate, this should play out unless Europe can keep the funds flowing while easing on austerity. This will be the key, and we'll look to Germany to see if a door is opened.
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Rep. Chris Shays is still a congressman until the start of next month. But he's got no office and no staff -- just the technical authority to cast a vote in this unusually late lame-duck session.
When I met him for an interview this afternoon, it was in the basement grill of the capital's Republican club. "Welcome to my office," he said when I arrived at the table he was using for meetings.
Shays is still thinking a lot about the campaign he lost last month to Democrat Jim Himes. And he's not sure what he'll do next. He did say he'd be willing to consider working inside the administration of President-elect Barack Obama, but he said he hasn't reached out in any significant way for a potential executive-branch position. Shays said there had only been brief contact.
Much of his time now is being spent finding work for the 18 members of his former staff, he said.
A friend told him to take some time off to take stock, maybe a whole year. Shays said that after so long as a public servant -- with a government paycheck -- "that's not an option that's available to me."
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According to police, a woman was standing outside as her vehicle warmed up in the 1200 block of Holton Lane on Wednesday at approximately 6:05 p.m. She told police a man wearing a black hoodie sweatshirt with white writing and dark jeans stood in the front yard of a vacant house across the street and then took his penis out of his pants. He then stood near the front porch and began to masturbate in front of the woman, according to police.
The woman then got inside her vehicle, and later called the police.
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Gerbold Ollivander
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- "If you seek integrity, search first among the poplars."
- —Gerbold Ollivander's maxim.[src]
Gerbold Octavius Ollivander (fl 19th century) was a wandmaker who came from a long line of wizards who began selling wands in London in 382 B.C. He was the father of Gervaise Ollivander, and, through him, the paternal grandfather of Garrick Ollivander.[2]
Early life
Gerbold Octavius was born in or prior the nineteenth century, somewhere in Great Britain. He was born into the wizarding Ollivander family, who had been in the wand-making business since 382 B.C.[2]
Career as a wandmaker
- "My august grandfather, Gerbold Octavius Ollivander, always called wands of [fir] 'the survivor's wand,' because he had sold it to three wizards who subsequently passed through mortal peril unscathed."
- —Garrick Ollivander.[src]
Gerbold took up the family business in London, studying further into wandlore and becoming an accomplished wandmaker.[2]
Gerbold believed that fir produced "the survivor's wand", as he had sold wands of this wood to three different wizards, each of whom found himself in mortal danger and came out unharmed. He was also fond of saying, "If you seek integrity, search first among the poplars," which his grandson Garrick found correct based on his own experience with poplar wands and their owners.[2]
During the nineteenth century, at a time when wands made of silver lime were in vogue, the wandmaker Arturo Cephalopos claimed that the wood's reputed connection with powers of Divination was "a falsehood circulated by merchants like Gerbold Ollivander, who have overstocked their workshops with silver lime and hope to shift their surplus". According to Gerbold's grandson Garrick, however, Cephalopos was "an ignoramus" who predictably went out of business.[2]
At some point, he fathered a son, Gervaise, and by the 1920s he had a grandchild, Garrick. Both his descendants continued the family tradition of wandmaking.[2]
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Notes and references
- ↑ Pottermore - The Ollivander family are listed among the Sacred Twenty-Eight.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Pottermore wand wood information (transcription available here)


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It was a real pleasure to watch one of my favoriteTV shows again that I really enjoyed as a young boy. Great memories, even though you know he really didn't fly - what a hero for all mankind. I actually got to see George Reeves in person as a boy, he made a guest appearance of course as SUPERMAN at a function in Hartford, CT. What a neat and humble man.
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Decent Game at a Great Pricejaredbb | May 5, 2013 | Review of Mars War Logs - PC
Yes, the voice acting is sub-par and the graphics are not the hottest thing, but it's a good game for the price. The choices you make will influence the end-game outcome, and there is some decent replay-ability. The game itself is a gritty first-person action game with a weapon and armor crafting mechanic and cyber-punk themes. I saved at several points where there was a clear indication that the choices I made would effect the story and then went back an saw how things changed. The story itself is nothing spectacular, but it's good enough. Combat on Normal mode is easy to learn but may take several hours to master. Take the advice of the game and use the Tactical menu when things get chaotic and you should be able to fight your way through. If you stand still and button mash, you will die. Overall, this is a good game for the money and is a nice break from the main games in your stable. If you have reasonable expectations about the quality of games produced by a smaller independent team, then you'll enjoy the game.


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Aydın Doğan Center for Arts and Sciences, Afyon
Aydın Doğan Center for Arts and Sciences in Afyon is an independent private educational institution opened to serve gifted pre-school, elementary and junior highschool students with a view to help them discover their talents, develop and use their potential to the fullest.
Education provided is designed to reach out to children who are either totally unable or partially able to benefit from normal schooling. Specially-trained educators utalize special tools and programs to realise this mission.
The Center aims to develop and implement projects to meet the needs of the immediate community in areas of production, manufactoring, technology, the arts and sciences, as well as in services.
Project development includes, identifying with officials, the realities and problems of the community, providing proposals for their solutions, implementation of solutions, and finally writing evaluation reports. The aim is to provide learning-by-doing opportunities to young talents.
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Book signings in conjunction with the 350th New Jersey Anniversary
Macculloch Hall Historical Museum (MHHM) is celebrating the 350th anniversary of New Jersey with book signings by authors whose work explores aspects of the state's history. On Sunday June 22ndBeth Shaw will be available to sign and sell the book "Images of America: Mount Tabor" to museum visitors during touring hours 1pm – 4pm. Visitors may also wish to visit the second floor gallery exhibit "Made in New Jersey: A Celebration of Decorative and Fine Arts" which stars the Museum's collection of New Jersey stoneware, silver, and artists such as Thomas Nast, A.B. Frost and Edward Kranich.
Ms. Shaw will be available to discuss this book that she co-authored with Mount Tabor Historical Society members Michelle LaConto Munn, David Jones, Andy Pillsbury, Carol Pillsbury and Lori Brown. The Society took on the challenge of organizing a special collection of images for the Images of America book as a way of sharing the history of Mount Tabor with all area residents, past and present. "Mount Tabor" is a detailed collection of some of the photographs, maps and brief histories of this nearly 140-year-old community. The book offers a unique and organized look into the past lives of early Mount Tabor residents and founding families, from the early days of the establishment of the Camp Meeting Association through the transformation of the tent communities into cottage dwellings. Tucked in the heart of Morris County, an enclave of charming Victorian homes and unique public buildings clustered along narrow, hilly streets, the town pays homage to its distinctive past and embraces the community spirit of its founders. One of New Jersey's earliest permanent Methodist Camp Meeting grounds, Mount Tabor embodied the austere evangelical fervor of 1869. As early as 1891, the religious summer colony expanded its recreational activities, and by 1912 Mount Tabor was more summer resort than religious retreat. After World War II, most of the 350 cottages were converted to year round use, and Mount Tabor has become a viable community within Parsippany, welcoming people from all religions and backgrounds. Today, the unpretentious charm of its humble beginnings permeates the quaint community, and modern residents, like their forebears, are drawn to the rich spiritual heritage of good will and the delightful cottages that invite fellowship.
The mission of the Mount Tabor Historical Society is to preserve and restore the Victorian heritage of Mount Tabor, and to increase community awareness and participation in planning for its future – in harmony with its past. The Society maintains a growing collection of historic documents, photographs, postcards and memorabilia. We are pleased to display selected items in the Richardson History House, a Camp Meeting Cottage Museum which is open the second Sunday of each month from 12 to 4pm or by appointment.
Book signings with other New Jersey authors will continue throughout the spring, please visitmaccullochhall.org for dates. Admission includes meeting with authors, house tours, and gallery visits between 1pm and 4pm. In addition to book signings the Museum is also presenting a speaker series to celebrate the 350th anniversary taking place at 4:30pm on the second Sunday of each month through June. Tickets for Sunday programs go on sale from 1pm on the day of the program, no advance sales. House tours (regular admission applies) take place throughout the afternoon, the last tour ticket is sold at 3pm. Visitors can also enjoy the upstairs gallery exhibit "Thomas Nast Brings Down Boss Tweed," featuring the political cartoons Thomas Nast created attacking Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall, prior to the speaker programs. Also on display, "Controversies" presents challenging subject matter on New Jersey history topics and events which had national significance: medical experimentation, immigration, and the right to die. A second series of programs, related to the "Controversies" exhibit takes place on the first Sunday of each month through June. Visitmaccullochhall.org for more details.
Macculloch Hall Historical Museum preserves the history of the Macculloch-Miller families, the Morris area community, and the legacy of its founder W. Parsons Todd through its historic site, collections, exhibits, and educational and cultural programs. The Museum is open for house and exhibit tours on Wednesdays, Thursdays & Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m. Adults $8; Seniors & Students $6; Children 6 – 12 $4. Members and children under 5 are free. The gardens at Macculloch Hall Historical Museum are open Monday to Friday 9am – 4pm and Sundays 1pm – 4pm unless posted otherwise. Please check our website for any holiday closings. Call (973) 538-2404 ext. 10, visit our websitewww.maccullochhall.org find us on Facebook. Macculloch Hall Historical Museum, 45 Macculloch Ave., Morristown, NJ 07960. Macculloch Hall Historical Museum received an operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State. Macculloch Hall Historical Museum is a nonprofit educational affiliate of the W. Parsons Todd Foundation.
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Junior double for Marshall at Shenington
30 August 2010
A perfectly timed double victory at Shenington propelled Jack Marshall into the lead of the 2010 ABkC Super One Junior Rotax Championship.
In a weekend marked by changeable weather conditions both point scoring finals remained dry and resulted in thrilling dices for the lead. On both occasions Marshall managed to keep the nose of his Strawberry Racing kart in front of his rivals and despite a pair of top five finishes for erstwhile points leader Matt Parry Marshall vaulted ahead of him in the title standings before dropped scores are taken into account.
Marshall passed Parry for the lead two laps from the end of the first final and led home a train of seven karts all separated by less than two seconds. Newly crowned GP Plate holder Sean Babington took second from Parry at the death with Oliver Hodgson, Jack Barlow, series rookie Matthew George and Jamie Dzyra completing the lead pack.
Despite holding on to the lead from pole position in the second final Marshall couldn't shake his closest rivals and spent the entire race swapping the lead with Babington and Parry with Barlow, George and Steven Handford keeping a close watching brief.
For the second time Marshall made his move in the late stages, taking the lead from Parry on lap 19 of 22 with Barlow following him through. But despite a concerted last lap effort Barlow couldn't get ahead of his teammate as Marshall ran out the winner by less than two tenths of a second. Babington also took advantage of Parry's loss of momentum and grabbed third with Parry crossing the line fourth but still only six tenths of a second behind Marshall.
Handford, George and Levi Coombs finished fifth, sixth and seventh, all less than two seconds behind the winner with James Singleton, Dzyra and Shaun Pirie completing a top ten separated by a fraction over four seconds.
After breaking his 2010 victory duck in style Marshall will go into the final round of the championship at the 3 Sisters circuit in Wigan eight points clear of Parry before dropped scores are taken into account with Babington moving into third overall, 30 points behind Marshall.


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Two shows that were introduced to the world at La Jolla Playhouse in 2009 will be among those hoping their names are called when the 2012 Tony Awards nominations are announced Tuesday in New York.
But anyone who witnessed the rollout of those two projects back then might be surprised to find out which one has the inside track to Tony anointment.
The big-budget musical "Bonnie & Clyde" seemed to be on the road to a big Broadway future when it had its world premiere in La Jolla. But that show was blitzed by critics and avoided by audiences, and it lasted only a month after opening Dec. 1 on Broadway.
"Peter and the Starcatcher," meanwhile, had a comparatively quiet Playhouse run as a Page to Stage production. It opened April 15 to glowing reviews on Broadway, and last week it received nominations for three Drama League awards.
Still, don't count "Bonnie" out: The show landed three nominations for the Outer Critics Circle Awards, which honor both Broadway and off-Broadway theater. ("Peter" wasn't eligible for those awards this year because it ran off-Broadway in 2011.)
Unlike some past years, when both the Playhouse and the Old Globe had connections to shows in Tony Awards contention, this time it seems to be all Playhouse. Here's a bit more about the shows potentially in the running for the Tonys, which take place June 10:
• "Peter and the Starcatcher": This prequel of sorts to the "Peter Pan" story was adapted by "Jersey Boys" co-writer Rick Elice from a book by Ridley Pearson and the humorist Dave Barry. Alex Timbers and Roger Rees, who directed the Playhouse staging, did the same for Broadway. And Christian Borle, a star of the NBC series "Smash," plays Black Stache, as he did in La Jolla.
• "Jesus Christ Superstar": Des McAnuff, who spearheaded the revival of the Playhouse in 1983 and was twice its artistic director, staged this revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical to much acclaim at Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival. "Superstar" transferred to La Jolla for a pre-Broadway run late last year, with most of its cast intact. The Broadway production opened March 22, to mixed reviews.
• "Leap of Faith": While this musical wasn't developed at the Playhouse, its director is Christopher Ashley, the theater's artistic chief since 2007. Ashley took over "Leap of Faith" late last year from Rob Ashford (who directed the original production at L.A.'s Ahmanson Theatre in 2010). The show, based on the 1992 Steve Martin movie about a shady faith healer, stars Raul Esparza. It opened Thursday, amid rumblings in the New York media that the show was in trouble.
• "Bonnie & Clyde": The Frank Wildhorn-composed musical had another developmental production at Florida's Asolo Rep after its Playhouse staging, but never found its feet in New York. Still, it's possible the show could receive some Tony noms. Just won't do much for ticket sales.
• And one non-Playhouse-related hopeful: Although it closed in March, "Road to Mecca," Athol Fugard's meditative three-character play, had a mostly well-received Broadway run. The play was first produced in 1988, but this was its Broadway premiere.
Fugard, who has lived in North County for years, received an honorary Tony Award last year for his body of work. The Broadway staging of "Mecca" could bring him (and the cast and creative team) more Tonys recognition.


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Cosatu to intensify toll fightMon, 10 Dec 2012 6:17 AM
Cosatu said it will step up its anti e-tolling campaigns if government continues ignoring the opposition the system has triggered.
The trade union federation staged a Drive Slow on major routes in Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni on Thursday bringing traffic to a standstill.
Cosatu has vowed to hold bigger protests at the beginning of next year.
The federation's Dumisani Dakile said they intended holding a bigger protest next year if government does not act on its dissatisfaction with the system.
The Drive Slow initially started with a small group of cars but gained momentum and support.
Cosatu said that judging by the overwhelming support, Johannesburg residents are not willing to pay for e-tolls.


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MPC Increases Capacity in Vancouver, London
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MPC is to undergo significant expansion in the coming months. Capacity is set to increase in both the Vancouver and London studios. Vancouver to accommodate a number of recent project awards as well as ongoing work on PERCY JACKSON, alongside a 20% increase in film animation and layout in London. Vancouver's 45% increase in head count will boost the current Homer/Davie street studio capacity which recently completed VFX work for Jonathan Mostow's THE SURROGATES, and is currently working on Christopher Columbus' PERCY JACKSON AND THE LIGHTNING THIEF and Elizabeth Allen's RAMONA AND BEEZUS.
The office, headed by Michelle Grady, is perfectly situated to take advantage of British Columbia's generous tax breaks, which are understandably attractive to the West Coast US film industry. "We are pleased to see that the studios are continuing to bring top level VFX work to Vancouver and BC in general. Being a base just three hours away from LA, and in the same time zone really appears to be seen as beneficial by Clients."
Also, spearheading the Vancouver expansion is MPC Vancouver CTO, Nick Cannon. Excited by the challenge of his imminent move and the new horizon Nick explains; "Im really looking forward to marrying the best of MPC in London with the huge potential of the VFX community in Vancouver. The plans and projects in the pipeline are incredibly exciting and I have to say the lifestyle led by the team over there is very attractive, I'm really looking forward to substituting the London cityscape for the natural beauty of British Columbia."
MPC London is also undergoing expansion with extra seats having been added to the film animation and layout teams. The Wardour Street building is currently being re-fit to accommodate an 20% increase in capacity. The team is currently completing work on GI Joe, THE WOLFMAN, PRINCE OF PERSIA, PERCY JACKSON AND THE LIGHTNING THIEF, NOTTINGHAM, and the bulk of CLASH OF THE TITANS.
With these developments; MPC's recruitment team are on the lookout for talented individuals to work in each of their locations; and will have a booth at SIGGRAPH New Orleans where they will be interviewing for specific roles. To find out if you are eligible for an interview email; firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Whitmarsh: We're not giving up on 2013
22 May 2013
Under-fire McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh insists that his squad will resist the temptation to turn its attention to next season, claiming that it can still get to the front of the field in 2013.
McLaren has suffered a nightmare start to the current campaign, amassing just 29 points from the opening five rounds, and trailing not only its expected rivals, but also Force India in the constructors' standings. Its drivers, Jenson Button and Sergio Perez – both tipped as potential title contenders pre-season – have managed best results of fifth and sixth respectively, and currently languish tenth and eleventh in the individual standings, already over 70 points adrift of leader Sebastian Vettel.
Even as early as race three, there were rumours that the Woking team was considering switching back to its race-winning 2012 car, but Whitmarsh played down those suggestions, pointing out that there was a major upgrade due at May's Spanish Grand Prix. When that failed to have the desired effect, however, many believed that McLaren would decide to focus on next season, when a new engine formula is accompanied by yet more changes to the technical regulations, and 2015, when it begins a renewed association with Honda.
Whitmarsh, however, maintains that every effort would continue to be put in 2013, in the belief that McLaren can dig itself out of the mire and once again take the fight to the likes of Red Bull, Ferrari, Lotus and Mercedes.
"I think, every year, you have that dilemma of where and when do you deploy the resources that you have," Whitmarsh told journalists during a media phone-in, "There are some resources diverted [towards 2014 and '15], but we're not giving up on this year. Be assured that there is a big effort to develop this year's car and to restore McLaren to the level of competitiveness that we expect of ourselves.
"We struggle to give up. It's still early enough in the season, and we've got to believe that we can get up there and get some good results. We'll have to take stock of it later in the season but, at the moment, we're very determined to make our car competitive and provide the sort of results that we expect from ourselves."
While the unique nature of this weekend's Monaco Grand Prix offers a rare chance for McLaren to close the gap on its more competitive rivals, Whitmarsh admits that it is unlikely that either Button or Perez will be a factor. However, he revealed that, such was the desire to win in 2013, the team had probably not turned over the usual level of resources to next year and beyond.
"It's probably less than we planned because we've got to try harder on this year's car," he confirmed, "There's a lot of work to do for 2014 and 2015, undeniably, [but] we're going to be doing everything we can to win races with Mercedes this year."


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SEATTLE - For most, it's just Philadelphia at Charlotte. Another game between sub-.500 teams playing out the final weeks of the NBA's regular season.
For Justin Holiday, it's greatest day of his life.
"It's a dream come true. I feel totally just blessed. One, I've wanted all my life to be in the NBA. And two, I'm in it with my brother!" the captain of the Huskies' 2011 NCAA-tournament team said excitedly over his cell phone from Philadelphia on Monday.
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|Justin Dentmon
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11.0 ppg, 7.2 rpg
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|Quincy Pondexter
|Scored 10+ 15 times this year
|Nate Robinson
|Averaging 12.6 ppg in his 8th season
|Terrence Ross
|2013 NBA Slam Dunk champion
|Brandon Roy
Only played 5 games this season
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Averaged 18.6 ppg & 5.3 apg in March
|Tony Wroten
2.8 ppg in 32 games
That was the day the 76ers signed Holiday out of the NBA's Development League. The contract for the remainder of this season ends Justin's basketball odyssey from Seattle to Portsmouth, Va., to Aalst, Belgium, to Orlando, Fla., to Las Vegas to Boise, Idaho - and now, Wednesday, into the NBA. To Time Warner Cable Arena, to play against the Charlotte Bobcats, the team Michael Jordan owns.
Holiday will put on an NBA uniform for the first time inside the same arena where he took off his UW one for good. That was 24 months ago, after the last-second loss to North Carolina in the third round of the NCAA tournament in Charlotte that ended Holiday's career at Washington.
Best of all, he's reunited with Jrue. The Sixers' all-star guard is Justin's younger brother by 14 months.
Tonight will be the first time Justin and Jrue have suited up together since March 24, 2007. That night Justin had 15 points, eight rebounds, and four steals, Jrue had 20 points, eight rebounds, and five assists, and their Campbell Hall High School in North Hollywood whacked Santa Rosa Cardinal Newman 70-34 in the California Division IV state title game. Campbell Hall went 33-1 in Justin's senior season, which was Jrue's junior year.
Justin headed to Washington after that game. A year later, Jrue chose UCLA over UW. He stayed with the Bruins for just one season before the Sixers drafted him 17th overall in 2009. Later that year Jrue became the first player born in the 1990s to play in the NBA.
Now, after a far more daunting and roundabout trek, his big brother has re-joined him in the, yes, City of Brotherly Love.
"I couldn't be happier. I'm at a loss for words," Justin said Monday as his dream was just turning into reality.
"I'm walking around thinking, `I'm really here!'"
Holiday is the ninth former Husky in the NBA, and second on the Sixers. Seven-footer Spencer Hawes has been torrid recently for Philadelphia. Justin Dentmon signed a 10-day contract with the Dallas Mavericks out of the NBADL last week.
So maybe it really is true that great things ultimately happen to great people, even if it sometimes takes a while. Holiday is one of my favorite recent Huskies. He's always conscientious and considerate, hard-working and understated.
And that's not even considering his hawking defense, his 7-foot-plus wingspan or his recently hot outside shooting that has the 6-6 guard in the NBA despite no one drafting him two years ago.
As Huskies coach Lorenzo Romar said in the spring of 2011, just as Holiday's long journey to the Sixers was beginning: "Justin Holiday has winner written all over him."
"I'm sorry I wasn't able to answer the phone earlier," Holiday said to me unnecessarily -- but characteristically --Monday afternoon.
I had left him a message an hour or so earlier, after Philadelphia announced it had waived former Gonzaga guard Jeremy Pargo to make roster room to sign Justin.
"I was at a community event for the team," Holiday said, apologetically.
No, he wasn't getting fitted for a new Armani. He wasn't plotting the ways he might make a huge, first splash in the league. Instead, he spent his first hours in the NBA pitching in with new teammates at an energy efficiency renovation project at Shepard Recreation Center on Haverford Avenue in Philadelphia. He shared the values of installing "smart" power strips, hanging compact fluorescent light bulbs and other forms of energy conservation.
"This is `Green Week' in the NBA, so I was with some kids showing videos on why people should clean out air-conditioning vents, change out light bulbs, do things that help the environment," Holiday said.
"They put me right to work. Hey, whatever they want me to do."
It sure beats busing through the winter across the Midwest.
Holiday is leaving behind the apartment he shared in Boise with a teammate on the NBADL's Idaho Stampede for the five-star Ritz-Carltons and Westins he'll stay in while with the Sixers. Tuesday he received the first of his $120 per diem, the daily meal money - distributed in cash at the start of every road trip - that is mandated to all players by the NBA's collective bargaining agreement.
If he impresses the Sixers, or another NBA team, over these final nine games of this season he could stick in the league for the start of next season. That would earn him at least the NBA minimum salary of $490,180 for first-year players.
As of Monday he hadn't talked yet to his new coach, Doug Collins, to learn what was expected of him these last two weeks and to get a feel for how much he will play. But he knows what will keep him in the league.
"I do know I need to continue to play the way I have on defense," he said, sounding like the protégé of Romar he is.
For sure, Holiday didn't travel to Charlotte on Tuesday the way he traveled with the Stampede.
His favorite road-trip story from the D-League: Flying this winter from a game in Los Angeles to one in Ohio, then riding on a bus to Iowa for a game. Then he and his team bused from Iowa to Indiana for another game. Then it was more bus to Sioux Falls, South Dakota for more of an eight-game road trip.
It only seemed like Hell and back.
Last fall he gave up hundreds thousands of dollars to play in the D-League. He could have returned to Aalstar, the team in Belgium's Division-I Ethias League for which he from August 2011 until last summer.
"I made a lot more money there," he said.
But he wasn't chasing money. He was chasing his dream. He knew the shortest route to the NBA was through the D-League, which has more scouts' eyes on it. Some NBADL teams are directly affiliated farm clubs of NBA franchises.
Belgium was a long way from the NBA.
Aalstar's home gym in Aalst, the Generali Forum about 20 minutes outside Brussels, seats 2,800. That's about one-fourth the capacity of UW's Alaska Airlines Arena. The team did give Holiday an apartment plus a car as part of his first professional contract.
"Oh, man, the car," he said. "It was a little Citroen. A little European car. It looked kind of like a VW Bug."
The Citroen, a French car, is known for being economical, for being good on gas - and for not being able to go faster than 108 miles per hour.
Hey, at least he got a convertible to cruise around Belgium in full-on bachelor mode.
"Yep," he said, "but the convertible top didn't work."
He shot and defended well enough in his year with Aalstar that the Sixers invited him onto their 2012 team in a summer league in Orlando. He was second on that team averaging almost 12 points a game. After league ended, he played in a second summer league, in Las Vegas, for Cleveland's team there. A numbers game led to the Cavaliers releasing Holiday early in their training camp. Portland signed him last fall.
"I came in late, at the end of training camp. They already had their guys," he said.
But the Trail Blazers saw enough of Holiday that they asked him to play for their D-League affiliate in Idaho.
Holiday averaged 17.3 points, 5.3 rebounds, 2.5 assists, 2.4 steals, 1.2 blocks and 35 minutes while starting 42 of 47 games for the Stampede. He was averaging 23.3 points in 15 games during March and leading the D-League in steals when the Sixers signed him. He caught scouts' eyes when he set a D-league record by having two or more steals in 16 consecutive games.
"I was just being aggressive," he says.
Abdul Gaddy and Aziz N'Diaye, Holiday's teammates on the 2010-11 Huskies, are at the same place now Holiday was two years ago. That was when Justin was departing as UW's third-leading scorer behind Isaiah Thomas, who was taken 60th in that year's draft and is now starring for the Sacramento Kings, and Matthew Bryan-Amaning, who is playing professionally in Europe.
Gaddy and N'Diaye aren't expected to get drafted, either. Each is doing what Holiday did in 2011: heading to the Portsmouth Invitational in Virginia this month. The three-day tournament is a showcase for 64 players hoping to catch the eyes of NBA scouts and get at least a tryout: /ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=30200&ATCLID=208013673.
When I told Holiday that Gaddy and N'Diaye are going to play in Portsmouth next week he said, "I need to call those guys.
Holiday wants to tell them about all the scouts that will be there, and of all the agents that will be there, too.
Most of all, he can remind them they can get to the NBA this long way, too.
After Charlotte, Holiday and his brother will fly with the Sixers to Atlanta to play the Hawks Friday night. As if this week wasn't enough of a celebration for him, Friday is Justin's 24th birthday.
Justin expects to see his father Shawn, if not his mother Toya, too, at one of the next Sixers games to see this reunion of their sons. Their parents both played basketball at Arizona State.
"They're excited. I'm pretty sure my dad is going to at least one game," Justin said. "He's not going to miss this."
Then Saturday, the overlooked Husky from two years ago -- the guy who was playing in a 2,800-seat gym and driving around Belgium in a convertible with a broken roof this time last year - will suit up in Miami to face LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Ray Allen and the defending NBA champion Heat on ESPN.
"Yeah, I've already thought about that a little bit. I'm trying to take this one day at a time. But ... yeah," Holiday said.
"The last time I was there (in Miami's American Airlines Arena), I watching Jrue in the playoffs."
That was in April 2011.
"And now, here I am. I'm playing with him.
"It's hard for me to think `I've made it.' I haven't played yet," Justin said. "I still need to prove myself.
"But I never lost faith that this would happen. At all."
About Gregg Bell Gregg Bell is an award-winning sports writer who joined the University of Washington's staff in September 2010 as the Director of Writing. Previously, Bell served as the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He received a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000.
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United Tribes News'Culture Shock' music fest set for August 25
16 August 2005
by Jason Pretty Boy
This year it's a little bigger and a little better - more entertainers; more diversity; more support from the community; and it's gonna last longer.
The second coming of "Culture Shock," a music and entertainment festival, is set for Thursday afternoon and evening, August 25, on the campus of United Tribes Technical College.
The event debuted last year as an alcohol and drug free social and cultural mixer for area college students. It takes place on a stage near the powwow circle in the center of campus. There is no entrance fee.
The purpose is to display diverse entertainment talent, found mostly in the community. The mix of artists promises to blur the lines between traditional and modern world views and shake the boundaries between cultures and age groups.
Culture Shock line-up:
2 p.m. - Bobbi Rae Sage - Gospel and country singer from Mandaree, ND, the reigning Miss Indian Nations and a UTTC student
2:45 p.m. - Red Flesh - Cody American Horse, a rap performer from Standing Rock
3:30 p.m. - Annie Humphrey - Nammy award winning singer-songwriter from Minnesota who records with Makoche Recording Company, Bismarck
4:45 p.m. - Misfit Toys - Rock band from Mandan with lead singer Darla Sage from Fort Berthold
6 p.m. - Memoree Eagle - Vocalist from Fort Yates who sings a mix of R/B and modern melodies
- Maniac the Siouxpernatural - Troy Eagle Chasing, a skillful rap musician and self-taught beat maker from Eagle Butte, SD, whose recording work is perhaps some of the best hip-hop to come out of South Dakota
7:30 p.m. - V-Dubs - A proto-punk/funk band from Bismarck formerly known as the Funky Arabs, led by Kameron Ali and Ben Suchy
9 p.m. - Gypsy Foot - A seven piece jam group from Bismarck that combines elements of jazz, funk, Latin, blues, rock and reggae in its musical mission to "unite people from all walks of life through musical diversity"
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Wine lets you run Windows software on other operating systems. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows.
Wine enables Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris users to run Windows applications without a copy of Microsoft Windows. Wine is free software under constant development. Other platforms may benefit as well.
- Much better behavior of the URL cache.
- Improved GIF image support.
- More parser features in the shader compiler.
- Optimizations in JavaScript.
- Various bug fixes.
Install Winehq in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
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nine 0.3.4
Python 2 / 3 compatibility, like six, but favouring Python 3
Let's write Python 3 right now!
When the best Python 2/Python 3 compatibility modules – especially the famous *six* library invented by Benjamin Peterson – were created, they were written from the point of view of a Python 2 programmer starting to grok Python 3.
It is 2013.
Python 3.3 is here.
When thou writeth Python, thou shalt write Python 3 and, just for a while, ensure that the thing worketh on Python 2.7 and, possibly, even 2.6.
Just before Python 2 is finally phased out, thine codebase shall look more like 3 than like 2.
nine facilitates this new point of view. You can write code that is as 3ish as possible while still supporting 2.6. Very comfortable for writing new projects.
For instance, you don't type unicode anymore, you type str, and nine makes str point to unicode on Python 2 (if you use our boilerplate). Also, map, zip and filter have Python 3 behaviour, on Python 2, meaning they return iterators, not lists.
The author(s) of nine donate this module to the public domain.
To understand most of the intricacies involved in achieving 2&3 compatibility in a single codebase, I recommend reading this: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/5/21/porting-to-python-3-redux/
Using nine
In your code, start by importing Python 3 behaviours from __future__. Then import variables from nine, as per this boilerplate:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals) from nine import (IS_PYTHON2, str, basestring, native_str, chr, long, integer_types, class_types, range, range_list, reraise, iterkeys, itervalues, iteritems, map, zip, filter, input, implements_iterator, implements_to_string, implements_repr, nine, nimport)
Importing moved stuff
Next, we deal with the problem of importing moved names. For instance, instead of writing this to import pickle:
try: import cPickle as pickle # Python 2.x except ImportError: import pickle # Python 3 automatically uses the C version.
…you can write this:
pickle = nimport('pickle')
For variables that have been moved: In the argument, please separate the module from the variable with a colon:
name2codepoint = nimport('html.entities:name2codepoint')
Want StringIO? I recommend you build lists instead. But if you really need it:
if IS_PYTHON2: from cStringIO import StringIO as BytesIO, StringIO NativeStringIO = BytesIO else: from io import BytesIO, StringIO NativeStringIO = StringIO
Our coverage of Python version differences probably isn't exhaustive, but contributions are welcome.
When in doubt, use the source!
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Peavy Vyper 75 power sponge question
Just got a Peavy Vyper 75
great deal end of old series shop keen to get rid.
Now I already have VIP3 and like this so I have some idea about the Peavey.
My question
The power sponge does not seem to do very much.
It has a minimal affect on the timbre of the tone. But does not affect the volume at all.
Its not really a biggy as I just turn down the post gain, but still you want your stuff to work properly and knobs to do real stuff. Not just spin aimlessly
The firmware is 1.58. I do not have any handy midi cables for firmware upgrade and besides midi scares the pants off me. I just like string, fret, pickup, amp, and bleeding ears.
Cheers to anyone who can shed light on this.
St John
I have the same amp. The power soak thing is a gimmick, and nothing more. It changes the sound a very very very tiny bit, but really it's just another knob that's just kinda there.
What the **** is the point of an attenuator on a SS amp? I mean seriously, what's all that about?
Cheers Dylan,
I wish I could map the sponge knob to do something useful!
Hi Cathbard
The sponge things is handy in a practice setting allowing some of the more distorted tones to be played with a better feeling for the dynamics of the tone. I use it a lot on the VIP3.
Also without a functioning power sponge the master volume is only just on at half to one and is loud.
And the master volume goes all the way to '13' !
To anyone else
Am I losing anything by using the post gain to control volume?
Cheers St John
I bought the Vypyr 75 initially because I thought the power soak could help me set the tone I wanted then just attenuate it for night time use. As a few others have said the dial really does bugger all. Minor change in tone and no noticeable change in volume. I bought the smaller Vypyr in the end...
@StJohn999: Using the post gain to control master volume will affect your sound but whether you are 'losing' anything is up to you. I like to set my volumes pretty high and then roll back the master volume because this keep the tonal integrity in tact; at least in my opinion :)
It's worth noting that the VIP-3 is just a much more dynamic amp in general, regardless of the sponge.
Use the post gain to set your channel tone and relative loudness where you want it. Use the master volume to control the volume.
Thank you all for the feedback
Also I have found a use for the sponge knob.
During sound-check when you reckon your level is good
Whoever is doing the sound check: 'Can you turn down the guitar a bit...'
Me, 'Sure mate..'
reach down move post gain down a minuscule fraction, then make a show of dialling back the power sponge knob
How's that mate?
Uh yup okay I suppose...
Awesome a genuine (bullshit) use for the power sponge on the vyper75
Cheers everyone
St John
You're cranking a SS Vyper into power amp distortion? Are you out of your mind?
Cheers Cathbard.
The Vyper 75 seems to be the easiest way to get from fret to nose/ear bleed for low dollar outlay.
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The Governor's Foundation for Health and Wellness, through its Healthier Tennessee initiative, announced the launch of an innovative, web-based "Small Starts" tool to enable Tennesseans to make small changes in their everyday lives that can lead to improved health.
"Drastic changes in diet and physical activity are usually overwhelming and hard for people to maintain," Governor's Foundation for Health and Wellness CEO Rick Johnson said. "But making small, simple changes in your daily routine can, over time, add up to a big health difference. Changing your day a little can eventually change your life a lot."
The Small Starts tool, available on the newly enhanced www.healthierTN.com, offers a choice of more than 60 small, personal health challenges that encourage physical activity, healthy eating, and tobacco cessation.
Small Starts is simple, and easily accessible on desktops, tablets or smartphones, so participants are more likely to use it consistently and have successful results. Each small change will function as a gateway to bigger change, and over time, to healthier behaviors. Users can track their completed challenges and stats, and share their participation and achievements through social media.
Tennesseans who sign up to participate in Small Starts during the first five weeks of the program, Jan. 23 to Feb. 27, will be automatically qualified for the "Fresh Start Giveaway." They are also eligible for bonus entries each time they share a Small Start using the web-based application.
Each week during the giveaway, three eligible participants will be drawn at random to win prizes including fitness gear and gift cards for health-related products and services.


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Historical Perspectives
Written by: Julia Hardy
In both the Japanese and Southeast Asian cases, meditation for lay Buddhists was encouraged for worldly reasons: to ease stress, promote psychological well-being, improve one's personal life, and so on. According to critics, these are the values that were extended to the West along with the new Buddhist meditation movements. The potential for psycho-spiritual peak experiences was also touted along with these new Buddhist practices. Robert Sharf, one of the most vocal critics of the "Protestantization" of Buddhism, does not deny that unusual experiences may occur for Western practitioners of meditation, but he does question those who equate these experiences to those described in the ancient texts.
Sharf also points out that the elaborate visualizations of deities, which some Westerners consider to be central to Tibetan and other Tantric Buddhist practices, are quite different from what some have been led to believe. Usually the practice consists of recitation of texts that describe these deities in great detail. The texts are recited very quickly, and often without comprehension or conscious thought. Sharf argues that there is no time or inclination to visualize within this context, and adds that his personal inquiries have confirmed his opinion.
Romanticized descriptions of Tibet have been another target of scholarly criticism. Portrayals of Tibet are often reminiscent of Lost Horizon, the 1933 novel by James Hilton that was turned into a 1937 film by Frank Capra. Lost Horizon depicts Shangri-la, a utopian land in the Himalayas (populated primarily by Caucasians, rather than Asians) run by "lamas," where the occupants never seem to age. While sensitive to the many cruelties associated with the Chinese invasion of Tibet, Donald Lopez and others have criticized a Western tendency to romanticize Tibetan culture and religion, pointing out that Tibet was never the utopian world that some have portrayed it to be. Even the former head of the Tibetan theocracy, the Dalai Lama, while objecting to the Chinese takeover, has also been clear in stating that there was a need for many reforms in Tibet.
All of these scholarly criticisms are vital to contemporary understandings of Buddhism, but critics must always be wary of seeming to continue Western attempts at intellectual dominance, as Western-influenced interpretations of Buddhism within Asia are, in turn, criticized by new generations of Western scholars. They must also be careful to avoid seeming to criticize all forms of Buddhism that have been exported to the West, potentially casting aspersions on the legitimate and sincere along with the spurious. It is also important to recognize that Buddhism has changed and adapted to different historical times and different cultural contexts many times in the past. Both the changes, and the criticism of the changes, are necessary and compelling aspects of the evolution of tradition — a process that is itself a worthy and often neglected object of study.
Study Questions:
1. What is meant by the "Protestantization" of Buddhism?
2. How has the hegemony of Western religious thought change Buddhism?
3. What about Buddhism has become popular in the West? How does this differ from the emphases of Buddhist monks?


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May 6, 2016
PARIS (AP) - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will have to defend himself in a French court on charges of aggravated pimping.
Judges investigating the case in the northern French city of Lille decided on Friday to go ahead with charges of aggravated pimping in a group - rejecting prosecutors' calls for the case to be dropped on the grounds of lack of evidence.
Frederique Baulieu, one of Strauss-Kahn's lawyers, said her client committed no infraction.
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According to the French language Apple blogsite MacGeneration (Google translation), if you're still using a Mac with Intel GMA950 or GMAX3100 integrated graphics, which includes a passel of MacBooks sold from 2006 to 2008, you're out of luck when it comes to installing and using OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. While the minimum hardware specs for Mountain Lion presumably have yet to be finalized, several lists of what likely won't miss the cut have been floated in various reports.
Possible hardware to be left behind according to various reports would include:
- 17″ 1.83 GHz Core 2 Duo iMac (Late 2006) – discontinued 8/7/07
- Mid 2007 Mac mini – discontinued 3/3/09
- Late 2006 MacBook
- Mid 2007 MacBook
- Late 2007 MacBook
- Early 2008 MacBook
- Late 2008 MacBook White – discontinued 1/20/09
- Early 2008 MacBook Air – discontinued June 2009
One list even suggests that late 2008 Aluminum unibody MacBooks, which were sold until late spring 2009 and have Nvidia Integrated GPUs, could be on the bubble.
Reportedly, basic system requirements for the first OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview are:
- 64-Bit Intel Core 2 Duo processor or better required
- Ability to boot into OS X 64-bit kernel
- Advanced GPU chipset required
- Internet connection required to download and install OS X 10.8
As best I've been able to discern, my 2.0 GHz late 2008 unibody MacBook—which has 4 GB of RAM installed and a NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics processor unit—should (just) make the cut, but any MacBooks released prior to late (ie: mid-October) 2008 probably won't, along with Late 2006 iMacs, MacBook Pros released prior to June 2007, the Mid-2007 Mac mini, the original Mac Pro and its 8-core 2007 refresh, and late 2006 and early 2008 Xserves.
If this pessimistic assessment is correct, the MacBook model that was discontinued in January 2009 won't be supported by Mountain Lion. By the time OS X v10.8 goes public, that would amount to 3-1/2 years to obsolescence for those machines, including five revisions of the MacBook that can run OS X v10.7 Lion being thrown under the bus, more like just three years for the original MacBook Air that was sold until June 2009. However, MacBooks which still feature the last refresh of the original, pre-unibody plastic MacBook form factor that was manufactured in early-to mid-2009 and was upgraded to an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M IGPU should be able to run v10.8.
MacFixIt's Topher Kessler notes that developer release being seeded to Apple's Mac developer community contains a provisional list of supported devices that will be able to run Mountain Lion:
- iMac (mid-2007 or later)
- MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, 2008), (13-inch, early 2009 or later)
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, 2.4/2.2 GHz, mid-2007 or later), (17-inch, late 2007 or later)
- MacBook Air (late 2008 or later)
- Mac Mini (early 2009 or later)
- Mac Pro (early 2008 or later)
- Xserve (early 2009)
However, for folks who run (relatively) older Mac hardware, it's generally not happy news. "Legacy" support seems to have gone by the wayside in the Apple world, even though roughly half the personal computers on the planet are still running Windows XP. It's also ironic that some Mac users left out in the cold by Mountain Lion may well be able to run Windows 8 in Boot Camp or Parallels emulation.


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May 6, 2016
The school recycling program, "Feed the Bin", has rolled out to every school in Pitt County. All 36 public schools and three private schools are involved.
"Feed the Bin" started as a pilot project in 2007 through a partnership between ECU, Pitt County solid waste and recycling, the city of Greenville, Waste Industries, and ECVC.
The program has received more than $38,000 in grant money this year to bring all of the remaining county and city schools into the program.
The program gives students the opportunity to learn about recycling through educational presentations.
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April 6, 2014
EDC staff will present at the 2014 National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Conference, held in Boston, April 2–6. EDC presentations will focus on topics including big data, STEM learning for young children, and out-of-school programs. This year, EDC is also launching a new STEM learning website and introducing new science curricula at special events during the conference.
Learn more: http://ltd.edc.org/join-edc-nsta-2014


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December 30, 2011
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the friendly skies out of Wenatchee. SeaPort Airlines announced Thursday they will start air service to and
from Yakima and Portland March 1st. The service includes three non-stop flights from Wenatchee to
the Palm Springs of Washington and the Rose City.
Phillips said officials there are ecstatic at the announcement, but that doesn't blunt the need to push
forward on runway extension plans, or discount another airline offering service in the future.
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If you're an Italian American you probably have a long list of mis-pronunciations, made up words and funny sayings that your Italian family uses regularly. I know we do! So when my friend Maria introduced me to her new apparel line Che Pecat I LOVED it! Che Pecat (pronounced kay Pa-cod) is a play on Cape Cod (here in Massachusetts) Just ask an Italian who doesn't speak English to repeat "Cape Cod" for you and "Che Pecat" is what you'll get. Che Pecat is also an abbreviation of "Che Peccato" which more or less translates to – What a Pity. Che Pecat's slogan? "It's a Pity you can't be here!" Read about how Maria came up with the brand here.
So check out Che Pecat and maybe I'll see you there this summer. We'll be there the first week of August. If you've never been to Cape Cod…. Che Pecat!
*Che Pecat will be at the Boston Gift Show at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center March 27-30.


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I'm a binky too.
Which of Santa's Reindeer are you?
Like Comet you are always happy. Nothing seems to get you down and you can always put a smile on people's faces
Snowman Name
Your Snowman Name is
Bling-Bling Cold-Bottom
Oooooh, Bling-Bling! Lots of sparkly stuff!!!
I have to say, I totally agree with your reindeer name!
Oooh I like bling-bling
Awwww! We're both Cupids!!!
I love Baby Snow Dancer! I can just see you having a little faerie dance in the snow.