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It's Thursday Peeps!
Thursday, September 12, 2013
And it took forever to get here! Or at least it seems it did. I'm having the week from HE** again at work. Project is all jacked up and I was almost in tears yesterday afternoon. No tears today though, just powering on though.
Yesterday's drive home was an adventure. When I left work I saw the nearly black clouds to the north but they looked far enough a way to not impact my drive home. Boy was I WRONG! On the west side there was a few sprinkles but the more east I went the harder it came down. By the time I got past The Strip on Dessert Inn Rd, the roads were starting to flood! I (and just about everyone else) had to slow down and move into the center turning lane in some places. The water was shooting back out of the manhole covers like the fountains at the Bellagio. I did make it home, but it took me over an hour (most days it's 30-40 mins). Here's a couple of pictures (taken out of car window while STOPPED at lights):
I won't complain about the rain. I love it and we need it. We need even more of it. We're like 2 1/2 inches below what we normally get by this time of the year and still way behind on rainfall over all.
Since it was rainy...I made chili for dinner last night. It was good and since yesterday was one of the coolest days of the summer, it seemed right to make. I had some 2% shredded cheese and a tbsp of mayo on top. Then 1/2 or so of some Slow Churned Take The Cake ice cream.
After hubby went to bed I watched Star Trek Into Darkness. Got to bed about midnight. I'm watching it again on my tablet while working out. It should take another day and half to get though it.
Dinner..again is up in the air. Have to see what we have at home.
OK..this is conclude my blog for today!
Have great Thursday (what's left of it) and on to TGIF!
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Awesome pictures! Been rainy here, too. So this morning with it black and weeping outside, I put on a big old pot of ham and beans. They smell so good. Corn bread is in baking, just waiting for his lordship to pull up in the coach and four! (Grin) Glad you got home safe. Hugs, Calen~
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The cost of flying an own little plane becomes more and more difficult for most people. Therefore, alternatives - such as power parachuting - are popular.
An interesting example is the Six Chuter P3 Lite - designed for the pilot who wants to fly within the requirements of the FAA part 103 Ultra-light Regulations. The 103 series is designed as a down sized legend with the same benefits of the legend airframe, but within Part 103 weight limitations.
Interestingly, equipped with a 360-400' canopy the climb and cruise performance will match that of a two seat powered parachute with a 500' canopy. The P103 UL meets the FAR weight limits even with fiberglass seat, making it one of the few truly legal single seaters on the market.
This model comes with several equipment packages and can even be built and certified as an SLSA for Sport Pilot training and rental. Upgraded with frontal bars, three blade prop and larger canopy an experimental or special light sport certified single seat is great for a training fleet, or a more cost effective option to pilots who mainly want to fly solo, but without some of the weight and fuel restrictions of the ultralight rules.
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I was trying to create a Billing Block a few months ago and it was quite tricky to find the right font. Let alone a free font that was available. Just about every movie trailer has one of these strange looking blocks of text and why shouldn't everyone! So in classic Video Copilot fashion, we have created a Free Font called "Credit Block" and a template just for you!
The perfect addition to your fake trailer!
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Installation: Put the font thingie in your font folder thingie.
Here are a few renders for an upcoming 3D model pack. These images were rendered inside After Effects using our very own Element 3D plug-in and populated the city by using the advanced array options inside the plug-in. And of course you can take advantage of the same amazing speed and performance of our OpenGL render engine.
These shots only use a 5 or 6 unique buildings but you can use as many as you want since the collection contains over 30 high quality buildings and skyscrapers. Another cool feature is that we are including day and night textures ready to go! This model pack will be ready to go next month with some more advanced tutorials.
Another cool thing about this upcoming pack is that we are including the 3D max files setup with VRay, the C4D files as well as OBJ and FBX with textures setup. So you can bring these models into your favorite 3D program and do even more advanced renderings.
If you wanted to get your hands on the new iPhone 5, "Congratulations", we have a free 3D model just for you! Along with this free model I also recorded a short tutorial that focuses on animating the screen and preparing the model for Element 3d.
The iPhone model is in the OBJ format so you can use it with any 3D program such as 3D max or Cinema 4D.
In this tutorial we'll use a technique called Depth Compositing to combine stock footage with 3D rendering and the use a Z-Depth pass. This method allows you to place 2D elements like stock footage into the depth of a 3D render. I also demonstrate how to export a Z-pass from 3D max, Cinema 4D and even use Element 3D to output a depth channel.
The stock footage are from Action Essentials 2!
Here is the example of using Depth Compositing from a while ago, I know the sound FX are bad, but hey, I mixed them in After Effects!
In this tutorial we will create a realistic set extension for the surface of a far away alien planet. With the help of the Matte Painting challenge we will be compositing the background along with adding 3D rocks with Element 3D and pulling out the Roto Brush tool. Big thanks to everyone that submitted a matte painting I had fun looking through all of them and I'll to post some of my favorites soon!


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Reported sightings of alleged unidentified flying objects in east Vancouver last weekend apparently still have everyone stumped.
Peter Davenport, the director of the National UFO Reporting Center, gave an interview to Seattle Weekly this week, saying he thought the peculiar object spotted Sunday night was the star Sirius.
He clarified his remarks Thursday, saying that was just conjecture after seeing raw video of the UFO. He now backs off that theory.
"I don't know what it was," Davenport said. "I don't believe it was a star. The object moved off. Stars don't do that."
Davenport was talking about the highly-publicized sighting of a saucer-shaped object hovering low in the sky over far east Vancouver just before 7 p.m. Sunday.
The UFO was seen by several residents, who live off Southeast 192nd Avenue, and reported to 911 dispatchers and, later, to the National UFO Reporting Center in Eastern Washington. The center, formerly based in Seattle, is now in Davenport, west of Spokane.
On the heels of that sighting were several residents who have since reported to The Columbian seeing the same strange object in Ridgefield and the Orchards area.
Eleven-year-old Joey Studdard saw a different object the night before from his backyard off 188th Avenue. Joey and his mother, Daphne, were outside on their deck Saturday evening when they suddenly saw an object with bright purple and red lights in the sky. Unlike Sunday's UFO, this object wasn't saucer-shaped.
"It was almost like a trail with blinking lights," Daphne Studdard recalled. "It was nothing like we'd ever seen before."
She and Joey also saw the alleged UFO the following night, but they said it moved only side to side and not up and down like the other object.
But just before you think we're being invaded by aliens, Davenport offered other earthly possibilities. He said the objects could be homemade devices, such as a kite with LED lights or a Chinese lantern. But, he stressed, the evidence is still too scant for him to hypothesize further.
Whatever it is, "I find it to be quite intriguing," Davenport said.


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Noted Poet Skypes into French Seminar Class
Last month, noted French/Algerian poet Patrice Aba visited Prof. Margaret Langford's French 495 seminar via Skype connection as he wrapped up a week's funded lectureship at Case Western University. He spoke about his life (and artistic inspiration); read selections from his book, Approches à Proches en Croche; and conversed with the seminar students in French. … Read More »


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Fresno State Cross Country
Junior (2005): After competing in only two races last year, ran a season-best 5K mark of 20:09.3 at the UC Riverside Invitational ... onws personal-best 6K time of 24:48 at CS Stanislaus Invitational ... at WAC Championship, placed 51st (20:47.4). Sophomore (2004): Ran in the final two races of the year (Cal Poly Invite and WAC Championship) ... had season-best 5K time of 20:04 at Cal Poly Invitational.
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Junior (2006): Second on the depth chart in the 1,500-meters and third in the 800 and 3,000-meters ... competed at WAC Outdoor Championships ... member of indoor squad. Sophomore (2005): Owned team's second-best time in the 1,500-meter run at 4:39.42 and was third in the 800-meters at 2:19.39.
Buchanan High School: Was a four-year letterwinner in track and cross country ... MVP of cross country team in 2002 ... went to state meet all four years ... ran a personal best 5k in 18:58... ran personal best mile in 4:57.
Personal: Parents are Ramiro Delgado and Velia Sepulveda ... has one brother, Armando ... enjoys reading, shopping and going out with friends ... favorite athletes are Steve Prefontaine and Lance Armstrong ... ran cross country at UC Irvine as a freshman.
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Where Is My Span Plan Pen? Span Plan Happenings 2009-2010
Span Plan is now in its 41st year of serving the needs of the adult students population at Purdue. Over the years the program and services have changed and adapted with the times. In addition to the current array of services and programs (which can be found at http://www.purdue.edu/ODOS/spanplan/Welcome.html ) Span Plan has several initiatives in the works.
One of the major focuses for Span Plan this academic year is going green in whatever ways are possible.
- Span Plan has not sent the usual "first of the semester" packet to advisors and administrations, thinking that a more effective (and tree saving method) would be to send an email (assuming there is time to compose it!) with all the updated programming information. The glitch is, how will Span Plan deliver the customary and popular Span Plan pens?
- Student Services Computing has been designing web pages that will administer most of the Span Plan tutoring program online, saving not only paper and precious trees, but also much needed administrative time.
- Once the online tutoring project is completed, the next targets for online administration are the grant and scholarship programs.
After a hiatus of several years, the two adult student organizations are up and running again.
- Span Plan hosted an induction ceremony for Alpha Sigma Lambda last May. The organization now has active officers to assist in the administration of the next induction ceremony.
- PAS-Network (Purdue Adult Student Network) had their first call out in several years on September 16 th. The officers and advisor were very pleased with the turnout. The group plans to have monthly meetings alternating fun activities with educational seminars. The October meeting will focus on writing effective scholarship essays.
Span Plan will also be hosting focus groups this academic year. It will be assessing for the awareness level of the Span Plan Program among adult students, the effectiveness of its services and program, and to entertain any ideas for improvement.
Span Plan continues is long and rich history of providing services to the adult student population of Purdue and adapting to their ever changing needs.


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Meet Don Tillman. He's a genetics professor at an Australian university and while he's not exactly looking for love, he's looking for a wife. He's the narrator of Graeme Simsion's best-selling debut novel, "The Rosie Project."
Scrupulously honest, Don is above all rational. He's a scientist, after all, and follows the rules. But he knows himself – up to a point:
I am thirty-nine years old, tall, fit, and intelligent, with a relatively high status and above-average income as an associate professor. Logically, I should be attractive to a wide range of women. In the animal kingdom, I would succeed in reproducing.
However, there is something about me that women find unappealing. I have never found it easy to make friends, and it seems that the deficiencies that caused this problem have also affected my attempts at romantic relationships.
Don, who suffers from Asperger's syndrome, lives a rigorously circumscribed life. He prepares an unvarying weekly menu to save time and energy. His days– not unlike T.S. Eliot's Prufrock – are measured out in coffee spoons and precisely calculated increments of time. He embraces his condition:
"Fault! Asperger's isn't a fault. It's a variant. It's potentially a major advantage. Asperger's syndrome is associated with organization, focus, innovative thinking, and rational detachment. "
For Don, the realm of emotions is a foreign country. In fact, he believes wholeheartedly that "emotions can cause major problems."
While this belief is a clear impediment to finding a wife, Don puts his mind to the task, devising a 16-page questionnaire to cull unsuitable partners who drink, smoke or are vegans.
Then, along comes Rosie, a beautiful, bright, spontaneous woman who meets none of his criteria. Don rejects her for The Wife Project, but offers his services as a geneticist to help her identify her real father in The Father Project. It's a project that he strings along – little realizing why he is doing this.
Predictably, Don falls for Rosie although he has no clue that this is what is actually happening. He abandons his schedules. He breaks rules. He has fun. He realizes that while he doesn't fully understand love – face it, who does? – he does, indeed, love Rosie.
My schedule and social skills had now been brought into line with conventional practice, to the best of my ability within the time I had allocated. The Don Project was complete. It was time to commence The Rosie Project.
A lighthearted celebration of the human condition, "The Rosie Project" is at once funny and wise, endearing and entertaining. Readers will root for a happy conclusion to Don's Rosie Project.


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The company released a couple of teaser images showing an Arrandale mobile and Clarkdale desktop processor. Both are based on the same Westmere design, which includes one 32nm die with two Nehalem microprocessor cores, and another 45nm die with the memory controller and integrated graphics processor -- all in the same package. The new Core i3 and Core i5 chips will be able to handle as many as four threads at once via Hyperthreading, but only the latter will have Turbo Boost to dynamically adjust clock speeds as required.
Intel didn't get into specific performance and pricing details. However, we already have some idea of what to expect thanks in no small part to early retail listings, roadmap leaks, even a few unofficial benchmarks.
In addition to the new processor families, the company will unveil three new chipsets as well as seven chips providing Wi-Fi and WiMAX support. Systems based on the new parts will reach stores "early" next year -- a few of them probably right after CES.


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The Arnold Sports Festival is held in Columbus, Ohio, and offers sports enthusiasts a chance to see over 18,000 athletes in peak condition. This year the 2014 Arnold Sports Festival is held on February 27th through March 2nd. The monstrous event is also the home of the Arnold Classic.
It's here that many of the sponsored athletes work vendor booths, and "meet and greet" their biggest fans. These sports fans come from across the nation, and from other countries for the chance to see their favorite athletes. Even sports enthusiasts not as interested in bodybuilding often leave "in love" with one of the bodybuilding competitors.
Which IFBB Pro Figure athlete is not competing in the 2014 Ms. Figure International?
Many bodybuilding enthusiasts have favorites, but fan favorite IFBB Pro Figure athlete Nicole Wilkins, and 3X Ms. Figure International champion, is not competing in the 2014 Arnold Sports Festival. Wilkins is not participating in one of the biggest bodybuilding sporting events due to a previous shoulder injury. However, she will be in attendance.
Nicole Wilkins 1/22/2014
I am very disappointed to announce that I will not be able to compete at this year's Arnold Sports Festival due to a shoulder injury that will prevent me from training for the next 4-6 weeks. I originally suffered the injury in October and had to stop training most upper body movements for a little over a month. I was able to resume training about a week before the Figure International applications were due, and at that time I decided I was going to do everything in my power to get on stage in Columbus. Unfortunately, I never gave the injury enough time to heal, and it is at the point where I can no longer train like I need to in order to continue my prep. I expect to be fully recovered in order to resume training and defend my Figure Olympia title in September. I would like to thank everyone for their support and understanding during this difficult time, including Jim and Bob Lormier, my manager JM Manion, Fitness Management Group, the IFBB Pro League and my sponsors MET-Rx, 6 Pack Fitness and FitnessRx for Women Magazine. Most of all, thank you to my friends, family, and all of the fans for your continued support of me and all of the great athletes who will be competing at this year's Arnold Sports Festival. I will still be in Columbus working the Met-Rx booth, so please stop by and say hello if you are attending this year.
Who's competing in the 2014 Ms. Figure International?
Wilkins did not compete in the 2013 Ms. Figure International because she wanted to bring up her look for the 2014 Olympia. Although Wilkins is not competing at the 2014 event the 2013 Ms. Figure International winner Candice Keene is back to defend her title.
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Watch England live at City Square!
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Tickets for our unique outdoor event are available until midday on Monday.
Why not join us at the home of The Blues to cheer the Three Lions on together?
We're kicking off on Monday, with England in action against Samir Nasri's France. City Square will open at 2.30pm to make sure you are suitably warmed up.
City's Joe Hart, James Milner and Joleon Lescott are all likely to be in action against Les Bleus.
Not only can you enjoy the games while being entertained - but for everyone, there's prizes to be won!
A Play Station 3 will be up for grabs, the new Euro 2012 game will be handed out, as well as other EA giveaways.
There will also be the chance to get your hands on England jerseys and other team memorabilia, thanks to the City Store.
If this isn't enough to make you venture out, we'll have XFM's Gareth Brooks playing a live set and refreshments will be available from The Summerbee Bar, Blue Moon Café and Star Bar.
Just to top it all it off, free car parking will be provided at North Car Park.
Tickets are priced at £5 for adults and £3 for kids and are available now from the box office - advance purchase only.
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Building new digs requires a lot of decisions. To achieve a personalized, well-designed look, use these tips from Jseph Matava, design principal at Peninsula Architects.
Relationships. Consider the connection between the house and the landscape. An example would be to use existing trees to create a natural wall. "Think about how the garage or the lean of the house can move forward or move backward to create a space," Matava says. "Use basic elements to create a soft enclosure."
Orientation. Before you break ground, consider which angle or placement will suit you best — especially when it comes to the sun and your main living spaces, which should face south, east or west. "A lot of times people buy houses from books and they just drop them on properties," he says. "There's no thought process."
Details. "What story can you tell with a detail?" asks Matava. "Use whatever opportunities you have to carry out your theme." On the bridge in Gorman's home, a steel drop cap wasn't really needed, but it added visual strength. "You start with the big global view of the site and how things fit in, but those same thought processes go down to the smallest detail."
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Rewrite Absolute Value Equations as Linear Equations
Part of the Algebra II Workbook For Dummies Cheat Sheet
To work with an absolute value equation in algebra, you first need to rewrite it as a linear equation. The same goes for an absolute value inequality, which you rewrite as a linear inequality.
When rewriting absolute value equations or inequalities, you drop the absolute value bars.
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Tips and resources for managing lupus, fatigue, and memory problems.
WebMD Expert Discussion: Medication Management: Troubles and Tips
Most people with lupus try to live as normal a life as possible. But have you ever tried too hard? So hard that it sabotaged your self-care?
In the WebMD Lupus Community, lupus activist and patient Christine Miserandino recalls doing just that. She stuffed her medications into a chic, small purse when she got dressed-up for a wedding. When she went to the ladies room and opened her purse, out popped her pills -- all over the floor!
The lesson she learned, Miserandino says, is that she was trying too hard to be like everyone else instead of remembering that she has lupus. She no longer tries to hide her medication. Here are some other medication management tips:
- To maintain consistency and easier track of your medications, always go to the same pharmacy.
- Use a weekly, four-times-a-day pill case, so it only needs refilling every seven days.
Does Miserandino sometimes feel like an old lady with her pill case? Yes! But the benefit is that her life has been simplified, and she doesn't forget to take her medicines.
Not everyone with lupus needs to take medication throughout the day. Members of the community had other ways of dealing with their medication schedules. One woman, who takes medicine in the morning and the evening, has five white weekly pill organizers for her morning pills, and five blue organizers to hold her nighttime pills. She only needs to refill the organizers every five weeks.
Other tips from community members:
- Use stylish new or retro pillboxes if you only need to carry a few pills.
- When traveling, put your daily medicines and supplements into a handy snack-size plastic zipper bag.
- If you need to carry a medication, such as an NSAID to take as needed, fill up a container on Sunday that will last you all week.
- Always carry prescription medication, like morphine, in its original container.
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Andy Ansah played by Andy Ansah
Carl Caskey played by Stephen Rahman-Hughes
Chelsea Wright played by Karen Ferrari
Clyde Connelly played by Timothy Smith
Curtis Alexander played by Chucky Venice
Danny Sullivan played by Danny Husbands
Darren Tyson played by Darren White
Dean Boyle played by Michael Ryan
Don Barker played by Jon Morrison
Eli Knox played by Shane Lynch
Frank Stone played by Colin Parry
Gina Moliano played by Kara Tointon
Holly Jones played by Lamorna Watts
Jeff Stein played by Ray MacAllan
Jodie Stone played by Lucinda Rhodes Flaherty
Karl Fletcher played by Terry Kiely
Lee Presley played by James Watts
Naomi Wyatt played by Rebecca Loos
Nathan Woods played by Ike Hamilton
Nicole Caskey played by Cassandra Bell
Nikki Peggs played by Nina Muschallik
Ryan Naysmith played by Ricky Whittle
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Karl 'Fletch' Fletcher seems to have been at Harchester forever, he is Harchester's local boy made good. He first arrived at the club in the late 1970's as a young school boy. His father Jonny Fletcher, during the late 70's and early 80's, was Harchester's top scoring striker and the fans favourite. Young Karl was the clubs mascot and since a young age always longed to be a famous footballer just like his father. During the late 1980's Karl was signed to Harchester's youth team alongside Carl Caskey. By this time his father Jonny has retired football and long since departed Harchester. But this didn't stop Karl enjoying the best years of his life. He came up through the ranks at United as a striker with a real poacher's instinct.
During the 1990's Karl became Harchester's top goal scorer and just like his father Harchester's biggest star- more so in fact. In 1996, through Karl Fletcher's 35 goals, Harchester made it back into the Premiership. Karl's confidence was at an all time high, he got himself involved in drugs and suspended from the club for the best part of an entire season. During this time he found himself involved with Stephanie Jacobs (Harchester's lady boss) and her daughter Georgina at the same time. This revelation led to Georgina committing suicuide, to which Fletch felt no guilt for. He has always been quite selfish, he's looked after number one, he's a womaniser.
Fletch put all his problems behind him and hit form again when he struck up a fantastic partnership on the pitch with new boy Sean Hocknell, the pair became best friends. Off the pitch Fletch was quite distracted though, a rivalry with Harchester's new star to be and player manager Luis Rodriguez led them to betting their sports cars on who would bed the new chairman's trophy wife, Lynda Block, first. Luis got the girl and Fletch lost his sports car. Fletch did manage to bed one Harchester beauty during this time, canteen girl, Kelly James but Fletch is certainly not ready to settle down or even become a one-girl-man! After his best friend Sean gets married to money hungry Mica, Fletch starts to get uncomfortable at Harchester. His talent culminated in hitting top form and bagged 24 goals, this hot streak had not gone unnoticed and £5 million saw Fletch on his way to Real Mallorca.
After only three quarters of a season Harchester bought him back for a knockdown £2 million, as Fletch was desperately unhappy at Real Mallorca and Harchester at this time were at the bottom of the league and needed the legend to return. Fletch was very disruptive upon his return and caused upset in the dressing room by sleeping with, again, Kelly James who is now about to get married to Wes Kingsley. As revenge Kelly had Fletch's yellow Lamborghini crushed into a tiny small block!
During the 2000/01 season Fletch lost his form, and his confidence was shot to pieces when he found that he had a hard core Harchester fan come base ball stalker on his back. His close friendship with new team mates Eddie Moliano and Jamie Parker got him through this difficult time though. However Fletch bit off more than he could chew when he aligned himself with Victoria Baptiste and Prashant Dattani. He helped them gain control of HUFC when Lynda Block (now owner of the club) was struggling financially. The sweetener was the promise of becoming player manager. When Prash finally took control of the club Fletch was dropped as both manager and from the team selection. On the final day of the season Prash was found murdered in his office at the club, and Fletch was right in the middle of the line of suspects.
Fletch went through the darkest time of his life when he was arrested for murder and eventually found guilty of the crime. During this time he shared his first intimate liaison with Lynda Block, and the pair developed much love and support for each other. Lynda later owned up and confessed to killing Prash, Fletch was distraught. The first woman he had actually felt anything for had let him go to jail for a crime he didnt commit. In the lead up to the world cup Fletch was disappointed not to have been called up to the England side, but with the time he spent out of the game due to his trial and prison, and later his on-going feud with Lynda Block he was no longer on top form. Fletch managed to patch up his differences with Lynda and he finally confessed his love for her shortly before she was sent to prison and the unforgettable coach crash.
After the tragedy of the coach crash Fletch found a light at the end of the tunnel- Nurse Abi. They married. Fletch hit form again and became team captain under Alan Rothman. Fletch became responsible for the team and indeed the entire club as he was one of only a few people that knew about Patrick Doyles bet on the team being relegated. Fletch did all he could to stop this from happening, not knowing that his best mate Jamie Parker was working with Doyle.
The revelation of Jamie Parkers involvement and his subsequent death had a huge impact on Fletch and left him very bewildered. But this was short lived as Fletch soon had other concerns. After his wife Abi was shot in the siege she was left unable to have children. However Lynda got in touch from inside prison to inform Fletch that she had just given birth to his child! Fletch and Abi thought long and hard, and finally made a decision that they would take baby Louie from Lynda and raise him themselves.
Harchester went through a drastic transformation at the club. The sponsors Dream inc took control of the boardroom and made Pilar Hernandez chief executive, bringing with her world class and the biggest transfer deal in British history- Luke Davenport. Fletch was shipped out to Saudi Arabia in favour of the new striker. Whilst in Saudi Abi cheated on Fletch which marked the end of their marriage.
18 months on, Dean Boyle brings a very unfit Fletch back to the club in a last ditch attempt to please the fans. Fletch gets back up to a decent fitness level and settles into a long term relationship with Gina Moliano, sister of his old mate Eddie. His differences with the club and management would once again see Fletch out of a contract come the end of the season and he is still in desperate need of the money. Fletch decided to help Don Barker win promotion for West Ham back into the premiership by poisoning one of his team mates. Things go wrong and Gina ends up in a critical condition when she is poisoned. On the eve of the Play-Off final, Fletch walks onto an empty pitch for one final time to re-live his golden days at the club, before stumbling into a fight with Don Barker in the dressing room in which ends up in Fletch being killed.
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A couple of best friends experienced an extremely close call with death as a great white shark knocked them out of their kayak and into the water, off the shore of Plymouth, Massachusetts on Wednesday. The women, who kayak in the same place frequently, were taking in the view of the seals frolicking along the shore when the great white came from under their tiny ocean going vessel, knocking them into the water, according to CNN News on Sept. 4.
The women, Ida Parker and Kristin Orr, were only 100 yards off shore when a shark measuring about 14 to 16 feet attacked their kayak. The shark bit the boat taking a big chunk out of the kayak, reports the Christian Science Monitor today. These women were actually in the water with the great white that just attacked their tiny sea-going vessel. To try and imagine the state of fear they must have been in would be impossible!
Parker said she was looking at Orr when the shark came from under the boat and the bump launched Orr backwards. Then the jarring of the kayak as it was hit by the shark flipped Parker over backwards into the water. One minute the women were talking and the next minute "I just see a shark biting my kayak," Parker told the media.
The women's screams alerted the boats in the area and three of the harbormasters also responded within 10 minutes. The women were pulled up out of the water and into a boat and luckily neither received any injuries.
The same couldn't be said about the kayak, which was severely damaged with a huge bite taken out of it that "went across the kayak," reports the Assistant Harbormaster Stefan Gustafson. Both women saw the shark up close and knew right away it was a great white. The creature swam away and didn't stick around, which was lucky for the women, who are both in their 20s.
The shark was definitely a great white to put that size of a bite into the kayak. The harbormaster did not see the shark, but the bite in the vessel indicated it was one big shark. The State Division of Marine Fisheries confirmed it was a great white shark from the tooth fragment pulled out of the kayak that the shark took a chunk out of. The bite radius was humongous indicating the great white.
A Massachusetts State Police helicopter spotted a great white shark off Duxbury shore last week and radioed the beach to get everyone out of the water. That shark was just 75 yards of the beach when the copter caught sight of it. It was about the same size as the one that attacked the women's kayak, so maybe it is the same one. Over 1,000 people cleared out of the water last week when the shark sighting was announced to the people at the beach.
Gustafson said that the kayakers were "extremely lucky" and he didn't think anything like this would happen off the shores of Plymouth. The women were in tears as they were pulled into a boat and brought back to shore. They don't think they will get into a kayak again. Parker, who got the best up-close look at the predator, said:
"It was dark gray, pointy nose, big teeth, big eyes. It was like right next to me. It was petrifying."
The beaches in the area are closed and the harbormasters are scanning the water for any sight of the great white. It is very difficult to spot a shark from a boat unless the fin breaks the water's surface, said Harbormaster Chad Hunter. So far no shark has been spotted.


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When one buys a new smart device from Apple, a 1 m (approximately 40 inches) lightning cable comes standard in the box. Moreover, as a matter of convenience, most users will need at least one more cord for syncing and charging.
If the aforementioned is purchased from Apple, then an identical copy will cost $19. Alternatively, Just Mobile's AluCable Flat too runs $19; yet, it is anything but the "same, old thing."
The AluCable Flat is slightly longer then Apple's at 1.2 m (4 feet) in length and like its name is impressively flat (~2 mm in thickness). Moreover, this cable has covered both ends in colored aluminum for a fashionable twist and is available in the following three options:
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The Just Mobile's product results in a noticeably more attractive lightning cable. Of note, the aluminum-clad ends are slightly thicker than Apple's default faire and subsequently this author was unable to plug the lightning end into the small opening in his iPhone case. Nonetheless, this issue will affect only a small number of those with a similar case, while most users will enjoy AluCable Flat's novel thickness and appearance.
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What is a Sinkhole?
For most Floridians, sinkhole is a frightening word. Visions of homes being swallowed, interstates caving in and lakes being sucked dry often flood a property owners mind. While occurrences like this are rare, sinkholes more commonly manifest themselves as something simple, like a crack in a wall or a door that won't shut properly.
Although they can be seen as a destructive force, sinkholes play an important role in Florida's unique aquifer system by increasing ground-water flow. Our freshwater supply in the future is dependant upon adequate appreciation and conservation of sinkholes.
Types of Sinkholes
The color-coded map to the right shows various types of sinkholes and the areas that those sinkholes are often found in Florida.
Region of exposed or thinly-covered carbonate rocks. Broad, shallow solution sinkholes dominate, with less common collapse sinkholes in areas with thicker overburden sediments.
Region of incohesive, permeable sand ranging from 20 to 200 feet thick. Small cover subsidence sinkholes dominate, with less-common collapse sinkholes forming in areas with clayey overburden sediments.
Region of cohesive, low-permeability clayey sediments 30 to 200 feet thick. Abruptly-forming collapse sinkholes dominate. The size of these sinkholes depends upon the thickness and bearing properties of the overburden sediments.
Region of deeply-buried carbonate rocks. Overburden sediments are primarily cohesive clayey sands and interbedded carbonates in excess of 200 feet thick. Sinkholes are uncommon, but rare deep collapse types and small subsidence sinkholes formed in shallow shell beds or carbonate lenses are possible.
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This Memorial Day weekend, Budweiser Ribfest St. Louis is back, with the very best of St. Louis BBQ and local live musical acts. Located back down at Soldier's Memorial, downtown St. Louis, this is sure to be the only destination you will need.
Pork Shop, a downtown BBQ & garage sale; over 50 local residents will set-up shop for a one day downtown yard sale complete with Schlafly Beer, live music, and a pig roast. This is downtown also, at The Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust St., Saturday, May 24th at 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The live music schedule: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Rough Shop, 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.; Trigger 5 and 3:30-5 p.m.; Dock Ellis band
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Finance head to leave village
The turnover of Village leadership that began last week with the announcement of Manager Laura Curliss' resignation continues this week, as Village Finance Director Sharon Potter retires from her position. Her last day is Friday, Aug. 30.
Community Resources requests $656,000 to complete Center for Business and Education
At Village Council's Aug. 19 meeting, members of Community Resources requested that Council find a way to fund a financial shortfall so that the infrastructure for the Center for Business and Education, or CBE, can be completed next year.
Laura Curliss to leave Village Manager position
At Village Council's Aug. 19 meeting, Council unanimously approved a resolution that allows the Village and Village Manager Laura Curliss to enter into a settlement agreement that releases Curliss from her contract with the Village.
Curliss to leave Yellow Springs
Village Council on Aug. 19 unanimously passed a severance agreement that ends the Village's contract with Manager Laura Curliss, who will leave her job Sept. 28.
Antioch College Farm conditionally approved for continued operations
After hearing from many concerned neighbors at their Aug. 5 meeting, Village Council members unanimously voted to allow Antioch College to create a farm on its property as a conditional rather than permitted use.
2013 Village budget deemed on track
Halfway through the fiscal year, the Village of Yellow Springs 2013 budget appears to be on target, Village Finance Director Sharon Potter told Village Council at its July 15 meeting during a State of the Budget report.
MTFR seeks new facility; WSU land is preferred option
At its July 15 meeting Village Council approved a letter of support for Miami Township Fire-Rescue's proposal to acquire the former site of Wright State Family Clinic for a new fire station and Township administration building.
Food trucks, school approved
At their meeting on Monday, June 10, Village Planning Commission approved two conditional use applications, one for the continued use of Village BP lot for food truck vendors, and one for a Montessori school on Tower Court.
Village Council— Zoning gets more flexible
Village Council made a host of alterations to the Village zoning code during a special meeting Monday devoted to the current rewrite of the Village's central planning document.
Zoning code topic of special Council meeting
Village Council will gather at a special meeting this Monday, April 29, at 7 p.m. at Council chambers to consider the recently updated zoning code, which has been in front of Planning Commission for the past several months.


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The premise is instantly recognizable. Massive dazzling mobiles greet visitors above the entrance to this year's Philadelphia Flower Show, whose theme is ARTiculture. Hanging high over gardens of begonias, tulips and hyacinths are thousands of dried buds, stems, berries, and leaves in tightly packed blocks, held together in ovals and irregular shapes. They are framed in varieties of moss and wrapped like enormous bundles of sushi.
On the flower bed banks below are equally gigantic pictures frames, along with spheres swathed in swirls of brilliant yellow and red tinted twigs, flowers, vines and grasses. Massive triangles intertwine, spilling a carpet of moss onto a bank of purple.
These bold and vivacious statements are inspired by the mobiles of Pennsylvania-born artist Alexander Calder. He and his predecessors were sculptors, whose prized sculptures can be seen around the world. Calder's finely engineered mobiles and stabiles are displayed at such prestigious venues as the Smithsonian, the Philadelphia Federal Reserve, and along Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
The stunning suspended art and ground level garden forms are spanned six times a day by the imaginative moves of the group "Bandaloop". These talented dancers perform along the sides of skyscrapers, cliffs and other dare devil sites. Originating on the west coast, this troupe combines balletic dance with aerial dynamics to complement the beauty of their floral art setting at the Philadelphia Flower Show.
Fill your mind with artful garden ideas this week, while the Flower Show is in town. The show ends on Sunday, March 9. While spring has yet to arrive, stroll through acres of living art, and pick up some tips from expert, avid gardeners on how to paint your own garden canvas.
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Our annual events for all ages aim to build community and expand opportunities for worship and fellowship among all members, guests, and visitors. All are welcome to attend.
Martin Luther King Jr. Citywide Jazz Service in mid-January.
Interfaith Service for Peace
Annual Meeting and Potluck in late January
Black History Month Celebration on the 3rd Sunday, with presenters and guests from the Portland community
Lenten worship series, including Wednesday evening services preceded by Bible study and a potluck dinner
Sunday School Pageant on Palm Sunday (the Sunday before Easter)
Seder Dinner on Maundy Thursday
Good Friday service is followed by an all-night candle prayer vigil
Northeast Portland Ecumenical Vacation Bible School, a week of fun and faith-based activities for children from Augustana, Westminster Presbyterian, Grace Memorial Episcopal, Madeleine Parish, and Central Lutheran Church since 1992
Summer in the City outdoor neighborhood celebration, featuring food, crafts, music, and games followed the Jazz Service on the NE Knott Street lawn
Rally Day in early September, launching the Sunday School/Christian Education year
Augustana Auction in late September
Blessing of the Animalson the 1st Sunday of October
Reformation Sunday in late October
All Saints Sunday on the 1st Sunday in November
Intergenerational Advent Festival in late November, with treats, crafts, family yule log building
Rose City Mixed Quartet at the Jazz Service on the 2nd Sunday
Sunday School Christmas Pageant approximately 2 weeks before Christmas
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MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — The number of staffed forest fire lookouts keeps dwindling in Oregon, Washington and California as technology replaces human eyes.
The Medford Mail Tribune reports that of Oregon's 1,000 lookout sites, fewer than 20 percent have structures and 106 are staffed. The number is smaller in Washington state where only 30 lookouts are staffed. California has 50 staffed lookouts out of nearly 200 buildings available.
Advancements in technology such as cameras and aerial surveillance have replaced staffed lookouts.
Many of the structures are now rented to hikers.
But cameras can't replace human knowledge. Oregon Department of Forestry forester Dan Thorpe says human lookouts can provide information that cameras can't convey, like fire behavior, slope, and topography.
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Consider each $X_i \sim N(0,1)$. Then the random variable $Y=\sum_{i=1}^n X_i^2$ is a $\chi^2$ distribution with $n$ degree of freedom. Is there any probability distribution about a weighted sum of the square of standard normal random variables $Z=\sum_{i=1}^n w_i X_i^2$?
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Distributions of norm squared of multi-normal distribution had been extensively studied in radio-communication theory. See paper of S.O. Rice, "Distribution of Quadratic Forms in Normal Random Variables".
It is quite easy to find the characteristic function of $Z$, since $$ \mathbb{E} \left( \mathrm{e}^{i t X_i^2} \right) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{1-2 i t}} $$ Therefore $$ \mathbb{E} \left( \mathrm{e}^{i t Z} \right) = \left( \prod_{i=1}^n 1-2 i t w_i \right)^{-1/2} $$ Inversion in closed form is possible only in special cases.


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COP17 Daily: Friday December 9
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All week Damian Ryan, Senior Policy Manager, The Climate Group is providing a daily round-up of the news from the second week of COP17 in Durban, as well as analysis and live tweeting.
Friday, December 9.
As expected the final day of COP17 looks set to go into the early hours of Saturday morning – or indeed longer.
The day so far has been seen little information emerge from the ministerial meetings, although rumours reported in the press suggest that a deal is close. Talking to negotiators and observers on the ground, however, there appears to be far less certainty about the shape of a Durban outcome.
The highlight so far has been a loud, long and possibly illegal protest by climate justice advocates outside the main plenary hall of the conference centre. Calling for 'Africa to Stand' the activitists have been ringed in by UN security staff to stop interrupting negotiators.
While the group has entertained other delegates and observers with tuneful renditions of local Zulu songs, ministers are unlikely to be swayed far from their carefully crafted national negotiating mandates.
For everyone else it is a waiting game.
With luck final(ish) texts will be released in the early evening. In the meantime rumours and the occasional press briefing provide a drip feed of information.
I'll be live-tweeting as news unfolds tonight.
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General Comments We knew we were going to need a Herculean effort to come out and be successful against UCLA. They're such a good basketball team. They're very hard to beat. I don't think many teams in the country could beat them. We were fortunate enough today to get it done. I just can't say how proud I am of our guys. It's a joy to watch, as we've had our struggles this year, we've been up and down. To see things (perhaps) start to come together. I wish we had another 3 or 4 weeks left in the regular season as opposed to the post season, but it is what it is. We need to do the best job that we can to take this momentum into next week. Jon Brockman and Spencer Hawes were just beasts today. They were twin beasts.
On competing That's something we've been working on all year. We're trying to make that our identity. If you can compete and defend and rebound, you've gbot a firm enough identity to where you can play with most teams. I think this has been coming on. We just don't have a 10 or 11 game winning streak to confirm that.
On defending Arron Afflalo Ryan Appleby did a fantastic job. He got loose for a couple, but he might be the player of the year in the conference. He's gone off on a lot of teams. But you've got to give Ryan Appleby a lot of credit. They set so many screens for Afflalo and he can just turn and get his feet set and catch and shoot. With great size and a high release, it's hard to get to his shot.
On the team's response to UCLA's late game run We talked to the team at the halftime about getting stops and not turning the ball over. We didn't take care of the latter. We turned the ball over too much and let go of easy baskets. But then we regained our composure and we were able to get to the foul line. Jon Brockman hit four big free throws today. I think they're the best defensive team in this league. And when they really turn up the defense, it's hard to score. But our guys weathered the storm and really came together. I don't know if we would've been able to that a month and a half ago. It's always better, as I've been saying all year, to play at home.
On Justin Dentmon defending Darren Collison Justin was worn out at the end of that game. Besides Afflalo, Collison is probably the next big threat in terms of scoring. They go neck and neck as to who's most important on that team. Collison is their general, they're heart and soul in a lot of ways. Justin did a really good job of staying in front of him and not letting him run wildly.
On going to the tournament You just start all over. What just happened this weekend is great, but it has nothing to do with what's going to happen on Wednesday night.
UCLA Head Coach Ben Howland
General Comments: "You have to hand it to Washington, they really took it to us today. They out-rebounded us by 15, they defended us to where we only shot 31 percent, and they were outstanding inside. Brockman and Hawes are great players. I was proud of our comeback, I like that our guys fought back when we got down, but it's as disappointing a loss as we've had this season."
On offense and slow start: "We were not patient on offense. They were more patient than we were in their half court offense today. We started off bad with two turnovers and when you're playing a team as good as I think the Huskies are, you have to come out and have good starts."
On Alfred Aboya not playing due to injury: "Did we miss Alfred today? Yes, absolutely. He had some swelling, but it didn't get worse. We wanted to err on the side of caution."


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College Hockey:Wilcox rebounds from rough start as Minnesota completes sweep of Michigan
MINNEAPOLIS — Adam Wilcox and No. 2 Minnesota completed a sweep of No. 10 Michigan, winning 4-1 on Saturday at Mariucci Arena.
Wilcox allowed a goal on the first shot he faced. Andrew Sinelli fired a long shot that beat Wilcox in the lower right corner and one wondered if it would be a long night for Wilcox.
The Gophers responded with four unanswered goals and Wilcox stopped the rest of the 28 shots he faced to put Minnesota in the driver's seat to win the first Big Ten regular season title.
Similar to Friday night, the Wolverines actually controlled play early in the third, holding the Gophers without a shot until 8:37 of the period. The Gophers' first shot was a goal by Hudson Fasching while on a five-minute power play for a 4-1 lead.
That was the backbreaker, allowing the Gophers to coast the rest of the game.
The Wolverines had more close-in chances in the second, including 10 attempts inside the circles, but Wilcox was up to the challenge.
But goals have been hard to come by of late for the Wolverines.
"We had good chances," Michigan coach Red Berenson said. "We did not capitalize on our best chances. Goals are precious this weekend and we needed another one."
After Sam Warning tied the game late in the first period for the Gophers, Connor Reilly gave them the lead on a slap shot from the top of the left circle that beat Steve Racine over the glove on a transition play.
At 15:20, Nate Condon made it 3-1 on a wrist shot from the top of the right circle. Vinni Lettieri earned his second assist of the night working the puck off the boards and finding Condon with space.
Warning tied the game at 17:46 of the first on a redirect of a centering pass from Kyle Rau.
"I thought the important goal tonight was our first one," Minnesota coach Don Lucia said. "Michigan came out and the first one goes in. We kind of righted the ship."
Minnesota is off next weekend while Michigan plays host to Penn State.
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On Jan. 15, 2014, the Edison Ford Winter Estates announced that author and artist Katie Gardenia will appear at the Edison Ford Shoppe. The date and location will be Jan. 18, 2014 from 1 to 5 p.m., at the Bell Tower Shops in Fort Myers, Fla.
"Gardenia started the Bubble Room Restaurant on Captiva Island. She also authored the wonderful book, 'A Bubble Moment,' of art, memories and recipes.
In addition, the artist side of Gardenia creates unique textile sculpture, steampunk art and jewelry. Using industrial materials (clock parts and machinery), Gardenia hand dyes her textiles with coffee and herbs to create her final art pieces." - Winter Estates
There will be a "Trunk Show" at Edison Ford Shoppe at Bell Tower Shops.
"The show will include a dazzling one-day exhibit of this talented lady's work. There will be a book signing as well." - Winter Estates
The Edison Ford is the winner of the 2009 National Stewardship Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
"Our estate is also an official project of 'Save America's Treasures' at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a Florida Historic Landmark and a National Register Historic Site." - Winter Estates
When it comes to the Edison Ford Winter Estates, it is open daily from 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
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So how do you know what's fulfilling for you to help you define your ideal career? The secret is – Values. Values are one of the first things I help my career coaching clients identify in order to understand what would be fulfilling to them. Values are your guideposts to fulfillment and the foundation of figuring this out. Begin figuring out what your values are right away. To figure out what your values are, you can ask...
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John Dearing, President of the Corvallis Secular Society, wages a bitter struggle to keep the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) from allowing religious symbols (to mark traffic fatalities) on our highways. ODOT currently says these markers, almost always a Christian cross, are hazards; crews routinely remove them.
Morbid superstitious types revere the place where someone dies. One kid made a public stink when his cross was removed, and now some want the crosses allowed.
Those seeking to put crosses on public land inevitably don't want non-Christian symbols allowed. Amidst this controversy, several have erected small signs of protest (usually a cross with a circle-slash over it) to "memorialize the tragic loss of common sense." Some Christians then remove (and sometimes ceremonially burn) those messages with which they disagree.
I like ODOT's current position: this is public land set aside for traffic; obstacles and eyesores present a hazard. However, if ODOT decides to allow memorials, they cannot discriminate. Any symbol should be allowed -- any symbol -- and this will anger fussy Christians. Also, memorials should not be limited to traffic deaths.
If ODOT goes along with this madness, I will consider erecting a monument to an event that affected me more than any death has: my complete and permanent loss of faith. I promise you that any such depiction would upset these Christians more than their crosses offend Mr. Dearing.
Reality struck on November 22, 1985, at the Tualatin exit off Interstate 5, just south of Portland. I had moved here from my home town of San Diego earlier that year, hoping to find economic opportunity. Little did I realize that I had been suffering a major emotional breakdown.
Things went from bad to worse, and I eventually slept in my car and learned to live on nothing. The fierce winter came early, so I sold the car, stuffed my writings and memories into an Army duff, stuck out my thumb, and headed south.
After enduring eight hours of 17-degree snow (with only a light jacket), someone pulled over. He was drunk, but I took that risk on chance of finding a better location.
He spun out recklessly on the ice, and spoke of his impending prison term. Then he placed a pistol against my temple.
That moment changed me forever.
Interestingly, I felt no fear: I didn't shit my pants or "sweat bullets" or the like, but felt only a wordless, pictureless awareness that is almost impossible to describe.
At once I knew my position in reality: I am a feeble organism, struggling to survive against bewildering odds. I might easily have died from exposure. Now this nut could close my eyes forever and to him it would be like going to the drug store.
All is not One. No God looks after me. I have no unnatural influence over any situations. All earlier speculations along those lines came to a screeching halt.
I dared not make the slightest move.
He put the gun down, laughed, and let me out, stealing the duff that contained what I had once called my life. As my art and my old memories sped away, I stood up -- alive, but not yet out of the woods.
Copyright ©2000 Cliff Walker; Portland, Oregon


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In touch with the earth from a tender age
Born, and shown here, in Evansville Indiana, my family moved to a small town in Illinois following the war. In the early 50's my father took a job with United Airlines in San Francisco. We lived in San Bruno, California. I attended grade school at Edgemont and Parkside schools and spent 4 great years at Capuchino high school.
At San Francisco State I reconnected with being "in touch" with the earth and graduated as one of the first grads in geology. My graduate studies were formally connected with San Jose State but I did most of my work at the Moss Landing Marine Laboratory on Monterey Bay. During this period I also taught several classes in oceanography at San Jose State and the Marine Lab and did a short stint teaching at Monterey Peninsula College.
Since 1971 I have been a member of the College of Marin's Life and Earth Sciences and Social Sciences Departments. I teach introductory courses in Oceanography, Geology and Physical Geography when I am not exploring how to use the Internet more effectively in my courses.
I am a Past President of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, having served as with the state-wide Senate for several years and as President for two years. One of my personal efforts during my years with the Academic Senate was the development of Senate and system-wide governance telecommunications.
With an abiding interest in the historical geology of Central California, especially Marin County's Franciscan rocks and the Point Reyes Salinian rocks, one might notice the geology resources on my home page and in our continually developing "To See A World Project". I am particularly excited about this project since it seems to embody all the potentials of being an on-line, living resource to the Internet community and ultimately like education itself, continually changing and malleable according to new observations and reinterpretations of how our world works.
After receiving my Master's degree studying the muds and "bugs" (forminifera) of the estuarine, San Pablo Bay portion of San Francisco Bay, I continue to have interest in the bay's natural history and associated politics.
I continue to pursuing the inclusion of technology into my classroom, contemplating the future of education and marveling in the fact that I am having the opportunity to experience this incredible revolution. Of course I am doing all this contemplation while sitting in my hot tub and having my body caressed with peacock feathers here in Marin. For this 60's kind of guy, I can still rejoice in the fact that the Internet developed from a defense department initiative related to survival in a nuclear war but see the potentials, if we can keep it from being elitist, for, perhaps, the ultimate democratization of our planet.
I have two grown children: Stephen, seen here in the Grand Canyon with the Vishnu Schist and Zoraster Granite behind him, is a major partner in a multimedia graphics design company. Stacey received her teaching credential from Hayward State and teaches in Livermore, California....a chip off the old block. I am a definitely blessed grandpa with two wonderful boys (via Stacey and her husband Craig) and a charming young lady who really likes pink (via Stephen and his wife Kim)!
And then there's Keeper who was keeping her eye on Franklin.
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"He said he was going back to Jersey, going to work for his dad, and making amends with family problems ... and spending holidays with his family," Mincey told KABC-TV.
Ciancia had been into a next-door restaurant called The Morrison several times, owner Marc Kreiner said.
"He was kind of a quiet guy, came in mostly by himself," Kreiner told the Los Angeles Times.
The attack at the nation's third-busiest airport began around 9:20 a.m. when the gunman pulled the assault-style rifle from a bag he had carried into the terminal, which serves such airlines as Virgin America, AirTran, Horizon Air and JetBlue.
Airport police were running after the gunman within seconds of the first shots being fired, Chief of Airport Police Patrick Gannon said.
The airport was locked down and its normally packed roads were emptied of cars. Across the U.S., aviation officials stopped LAX-bound flights from taking off from other airports, causing delays around the country. Some Los Angeles-bound flights that already were in the air were diverted elsewhere.
Throughout the day, an estimated 1,550 scheduled arriving and departing flights with around 167,000 passengers were affected, according to the airport. That included 86 arriving flights that were diverted to other airports.
After the first attack police, unsure whether the gunman acted alone, escorted travelers out of Terminal 3 as they searched for other possible shooters.
Pugh, who had fled onto the tarmac so quickly he had left his ID behind, was briefly handcuffed until it was determined he wasn't involved.
Rainer and her son were escorted to safety two terminals away, but they left behind their baggage, which included her son's oxygen and feeding tube machine.
Some travelers arriving for flights were held several miles away for hours. When the airport slowly began to reopen late in the afternoon, people by the thousands, many wheeling suitcases, walked down the middle of the four-lane ring road fronting the terminals.
Hernandez, the officer who was killed, was one of the TSA's behavioral detection officers who are stationed throughout the airport looking for suspicious behavior, said J. David Cox Sr., national president of the American Federation of Government Employees.
Friends and neighbors remembered the Los Angeles man as a doting father of two and a good neighbor who went door-to-door warning neighbors to be careful after his home in the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles was burglarized.
"It's devastating because he was such a great guy," Kevin Maxwell, a friend and former TSA co-worker at the airport, told KNBC-TV. "All he talked about was his family. He was very proud of his son, who played football."
He also had a daughter, Maxwell said.
"No words can explain the horror that we experienced today," TSA Administrator John Pistole said in a message to employees Friday.
Pistole said he planned to arrive in Los Angeles on Saturday to meet with Hernandez's family and the injured employees.
President Barack Obama called the head of the Transportation Security Administration to express his condolences to the families and friends of the dead and injured TSA officers.
In all, five people were taken to hospitals. They included Hernandez, Ciancia, the two wounded TSA officers, and a person who suffered a broken ankle during the chaos. A sixth person was treated at the scene for ringing in the ears from gunfire, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
Among the people evacuated from the airport, more than dozen were treated for minor injuries such as twisted ankles, exhaustion or stress.
It was not the first shooting at LAX. On July 4, 2002, a limousine driver opened fire at the airport's El Al ticket counter, killing an airline employee and a person who was dropping off a friend at the terminal. Police killed the man.
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The iHeartRadio Album Release Party will bring Pepsi and Ed Sheeran fans a first listen of his new album X (pronounced multiply). The album will be released on June 23.The event will feature a live performance and Q&A with Sheeran where he will discussing his upcoming album.
Sheeran recently performed on the finale of the tv show "The Voice" finale. He performed his single "Sing" and in a duet with finalist Christina Grimme on "All of the Stars.
Sheeran will headline his first North American arena tour which kicks off at Seattle's WaMu Theater on August 21st.
The iHeartRadio Album Release Party with Ed Sheeran will broadcast on-air as a 30-minute special across Clear Channel Contemporary Hit Radio and Hot-AC stations. The 60-minute stream online across station websites and iHeartRadio on Monday, June 23.
Pepsi and Clear Channel will also share a sneak peek into the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Festival lineup where Sheeran will be announced as the first released performer
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Company to demo Ricoh TotalFlow™ Production App at GRAPH EXPO 2011
West Caldwell, NJ, September 6, 2011 - Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, today unveiled a first-of-its-kind iPad app designed specifically to help grow commercial printing businesses. The Ricoh TotalFlow Production App is a business development tool that helps commercial printers increase sales of high-value services via iPad-driven marketing presentations that guide face-to-face selling. The app also helps these businesses operate more efficiently by providing online supplies ordering, service requests, user manuals, on-demand video training, and an up-to-the-minute media/substrate guide. All of these services, tailored within the app to the specific Ricoh production printer(s) a customer owns, can help sharply reduce costs.The app in actionConsider a customer eager to order 5,000 identical postcards promoting a new venture. That's a low-margin, low-return campaign for the print/marketing services provider and the customer. Ricoh's app helps foster the conversation between the PSP and the customer about the value of customized, and even multi-channel campaigns. The salesperson can use a presentation, video and white paper in the app to counsel the new client on the value and ROI associated with variable data printing (VDP), personalized images, QR Codes, personalized landing pages (pURLs) and more. "The growing list of tools contained and accessible through the app help make the commercial printing business owner/salesperson a true business consultant able to sell more services of higher value, and deepen the customer relationship," said Tim Vellek, vice president, Production Printing Business Group, Ricoh Americas Corporation. "The app's self-service capabilities help Ricoh customers get more satisfaction and return from their production printers. An app like this is unique in our industry, and it's a platform we're building on." Other scenariosMaximizing uptime. A Ricoh Production Printer has reached the point of requiring preventative maintenance. The operator, using the Ricoh TotalFlow Production App, contacts Ricoh service and a call is placed. For those customers who take advantage of Ricoh's Trained Customer Replacement Units (TCRU) program, the operator can click through a video tutorial of the parts replacement procedure right on the tablet, leading to increased uptime and printer availability.Printing innovation. The owner of a chic new restaurant has a fresh graphic design concept for a menu. The commercial printing salesperson finds her an exotic new substrate from the iPad app's Media Guide to complement the design. The customer is delighted with the suggestion, confident it will distinguish her business. To help drive successful profit- and reputation-making scenarios like these, the Ricoh TotalFlow Production App aggregates a broad range of multimedia content, including original material available only through the app. The Ricoh TotalFlow Production App is available for free to any registered member of the Ricoh Business Booster resource center, a value-add program available at no cost to any Ricoh production printer owner. Ricoh will demo the Ricoh TotalFlow Production App next week at GRAPH EXPO 2011, the largest graphic communications exhibition and educational conference, in Booth 2600. The conference runs Sept. 11-14, 2011, at McCormick Place South, Chicago. The app is available today on the App Store.Find out more about the TotalFlow Production App and Ricoh's full line of products, services and solutions for production print environments, please visit http://www.ricoh-usa.com/RPPAbout Ricoh Americas CorporationRicoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., the 75-year-old leading provider of advanced office technology and innovative document imaging products, services and software, with fiscal year 2010 sales in excess of $23 billion. Ricoh's fully integrated hardware and customizable services and software help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents. Ricoh Americas Corporation, directly or through its network of authorized dealers, markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America. Information about Ricoh's complete range of offerings can be found at www.ricoh-usa.com. Visit Ricoh and see the demos at GRAPH EXPO Booth 2600.###© 2011 Ricoh Americas Corporation. All rights reserved. All referenced product names are the trademarks of their respective companies.
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