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CD Projekt RED, developers of The Witcher 2, started off this year's gamescom with a bang, dominating the European Games Awards and then following up with a well-received presentation of the REDkit, the mod engine for their award-winning RPG.
"We have our own vision for RPGs, they should present an exciting story and give players lots of choices that really matter. The REDkit is designed to create adventures that way – mature, non-linear and engrossing stories set in vivid worlds filled with believable characters." – said head of the studio Adam Badowski .
In the business section journalists were able to see the Witcher 2 toolset – REDkit. The editor allows modders to create adventures in the world of Geralt of Rivia. REDkit gives players the power to create detailed environments and complex, nonlinear quests as they tell their own Witcher story. Starting from today, modders from all over the world can apply for an early access to the REDkit by going to thewitcher.com/redkit before 30/09/2012
The REDkit is not the only project CD Projekt RED is working on. The studio is developing two triple-A RPGs: one is an as-yet unannounced game set in a dark fantasy world, and the other is the recently-announced Cyberpunk RPG.
The Witcher 2 for PC earned dozens of awards and continues to impress on the Xbox 360. At the European Games Awards the Witcher 2 was nominated in 9 out of 22 categories and finally became the most awarded game during the European Games Awards ceremony. The Witcher 2 won 6 prizes: Best European Art Direction, Best European Game World, Best European Game Design, Best European Special Edition, Best European Character Design and, most gratifyingly, Best European Game.
Badowski continued, "The Witcher series is based upon the epic stories of Andrzej Sapkowski, and is inspired by the dark times of the Medieval era and the history of Europe. This inspiration gives the series its complex feel, and we're thrilled that it has resonated with players all around the continent. I'm very happy to see that so many gamers supported us and that we won so many awards. Thanks to all our fans!"
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"It's all about Frank ..." Top 5 Page for this destination Oak Park by shrimp56
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Well that's not quite fair!
There IS a lot more to the Chicago suburb than its legacy as the home and workplace of the famed American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. [1867-1959] During the 20 years he lived and worked in Oak Park he developed what is called the "Prairie School" of architecture.
My niece, who is an architect, came to visit, so we took her to see the home & studio. Pictures are not allowed inside and, for reasons of landscaping it is hard to get a full idea of the whole home/studio complex.
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A lovely part of Chicago I remember fondly! great page!
Thanks for illuminating the FLW tour in Oak Park for those of us not familiar. A true 'must see' when in the Windy City.
O I see you have new pages again. You Sally never will get tired of writing, which is good for all of us.
Thanks you, Sally, for opening my eyes on that special place... You have very nice pages!
I didn't know that place - thank you very much for sharing, I would love to visit it although this ban on photography haha, how to omit it? :-)))
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Release date: March 28, 2014
Written by: Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel
Directed by: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly,
Official website: NoahMovie.com
The poster for "Noah" boasts a bald, bearded, and brooding Russell Crowe standing menacingly and holding an axe. It's a far cry from the Noah you probably grew up learning about in church and Sunday School, etc. But this isn't your Holy Bible's tale of Noah and his Ark.
And it isn't just the rock monsters that set it apart. More on them later.
In this brand new "epic" take on the old story, Darren Aronofsky tries to set his tale of Noah in a different light than that of the Bible version. The film never mentions God by name -- instead it's "the Creator" -- nor does it ever mention religion or Christianity. There is still a strong element of faith, but this is more of a mythical take at telling a story without upsetting or offending any religious groups.
Russell Crowe plays Noah, a simple family man who begins having dreams that humanity is about to be wiped from the Earth because people are living in sin and have lost their way. So, Noah feels it is his duty to build and ark and save the only innocent creatures on the planet, the animals. But crazy or not, he gets the attention of the King, a way over the top Ray Winstone, who wants his people to be included on the ark as well. Good luck, dude.
Then, there are the rock monsters. In the Bible, and this movie, they are called the Watchers. They are angels who fell to Earth to help humans but were condemned by the creator. Oh, and they look like "rock monsters" as their punishment for their Earthly desires. It's a cool theory, but they feel like something more out of a J.R.R. Tolkein book. Compile their goofy inclusion with some other silly over the top moments and it's hard to tell if everyone is taking this too seriously or not serious enough.
Director Darren Aronofsky does his best to make the tale of Noah feel like a necessary story to tell, but it's clear that every step has been taken to avoid upsetting anyone. And let's be honest, if you're going to tell this story, go all the way. The film spends so much time trying not to offend any potential audience members that a lot of it's messages about faith get lost in translation between the source material and the message it wants to get across about faith, etc.
The first half of the movie struggles with absurdity as Noah conflicts with the King, providing some of the films more laughable moments. No, they're not supposed to be laughable, but they are. By the time the flood hits -- and it's impressive when it does -- you're ready for these characters to be cleansed.
Russell Crowe is fine as Noah, but he offers no sympathy to the role. The rest of the cast seems just as unsure about how to approach their characters. Emma Watson plays the adopted daughter of Noah and for the most part provides a few nice scenes. Jennifer Connelly plays Noah's wife, but never really leaves being a modern woman behind and get into character. And then there is Ray Winstone, who chews as much scenery as he can, but his character is so obvious and bland that it's laughable.
"Noah" is a big, bloated, epic flick from a visionary director, but deep down, there is a tremendous film here. But, it goes on way too long. With a running time of nearly 2 hours and 20 minutes, there is too much excessive fat after the flood, even though this is when the film begins to offer some of it's most promising scenes of conflict.
Running time: 2 hours 19 mins
Rating: Rated PG-13 for violence, disturbing images and brief suggestive content
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Is there any way (built-in or 3rd party application) to set per-device mouse sensitivity settings in Windows 7? Two mice behave differently and constantly need to switch sensitivities when switching between which mouse is in use.
If Moab's solution is not suitable, I suggest trying these two software solutions:
I am personally not inclined towards using Moab's because it has the "auto-nag until you buy it" (reminds me too much of spyware... and I know it will interrupt my workflow constantly).
I looked at screenshots for both and saw that "automousesw" has 4 super complex GUI screenshots and "AutoSensitivity" has ONE simple GUI screenshot:
"AutoSensitivity" is a no-brainer choice for me... (keep it simple stupid). I am downloading it now. If there is no update to this post... then I have either been killed by it... or it works as advertised.
See this app
For me Eithermouse works the best in windows 8.
It automatically switches settings when using touchpad or mouse. This way the speed settings get automatically adjusted.
From their website
That would be dependent on the drivers. I don't believe Windows has a way built in to do it at a per-device level, but many mice manufacturers provide that functionality when their drivers are installed. I would first make sure you have the manufacturer's drivers installed and not using the generic ones, and see then if there are additional configuration options available in mouse settings under Control Panel.


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TC TO JANE WELSH CARLYLE ; 24 September 1850; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18500924-TC-JWC-01; CL 25: 229-230
Scotsbrig, Tuesday 24 Septr, 1850.
Well Goody dear, this is to salute you at The Grange on Thursday morning, where I hope it will find you safe (and well-slept I should like to add!), and looking out upon Nature not "budding Percy,"1 but "decaying Jeannie," with a certain degree of quietude and hopefulness. You have done all that was to be done hitherto quite in the way one wishes; held to your own day &c independently of the Farrars, "tho' dreadfully poor"; taken in a judicious space for stay; and all the rest of it: in fact, if you can sleep and be quiet, all the rest will go along at its own rate in a tolerable fashion, and your little spell of country will do nothing but good. It will also be a pleasing feature to start with that you are not "using up Miss Farrar and she you,"—at least not quite at the beginning of the enterprize! I am sorry and angry the lazy Chapman did not come with your money; the blockhead—but indeed I suppose he is simply rusticating by the sea-shore yet, and will call in your absence, poor man! Write to me instantly, however, if you really have the smallest threatening to want money: here, or at Chelsea, or wherever you hit me, there shall money to the required amount set off by return of post; would that all else could go as sure as money can. Also assure yourself, poor little Goody, your private capital will not be drawn upon for that mysterious "improvement" at Chelsea, whatever it may be. No, I should think not. And oh my Dear, if you could but cease being "conscious" of what your company is to me;—the consciousness is all the malady in that: ah me, ah me! But that too will mend, if it please God.
—Here has Tea come, summons to Tea; most unwelcome to me, who dined hardly an hour ago: and Tea done, here already is Garthwaite's Boy, my messenger to the Post: no hope of a long letter tonight! I am pretty well, and all is pretty well; let that suffice you for the present. No great misfortune has happened me, and all these tossings and tumblings will come to some benefit when once I am out of them.— Yesterday the weather grew bright again, and the auspices better: I rode to Annan, alone, and in 40 minutes, with decidedly composing sensations. But, alas, "Batluck" followed me to the Orient: No Scotsbrig Gig or any vestige of escort was there! I set out on foot in an angry rapid manner; and so held on, little comforted by the balmy silence of the country, and the Elysian afternoon; got here, safe, while they were at Tea: "No letter had come." I put it in along with yours, to whh the[re] is an answer today, when it from Dumfries is just arriving! All were sorry for me; they got me fried ham, did their very best.— Adieu, my Dear, I will write again tomorrow or next day, why should I scribble more just now. My respects to your noble Hosts. What is this of Lord An and Spain!— Be quite quiet Dearest; dinna gang to dad tysel a' abreed!2— I have got my clothes home, and will take care of the drawers. Have not yet written to Cumberland;3 but must. Adieu, God bless thee
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America's best and worst fast food and fast food alternatives is featured in the Consumer Reports Magazine | August 2014. For starters, the best fast foods include healthful choices such as some of the Subway Sandwiches and alternatives to fast food such as Rubio's Fresh Mexican Grill.
You can visit these chain eateries in Sacramento. Other alternatives to fast foods listed include Panera Bread, Chipotle Mexican Grill and Schlotzkey's. Most of these chain fast-food eateries and alternative to fast food eateries have branches in Sacramento as well as in other areas. You also can check out websites such as Best Sacramento Fast Food Places - Urbanspoon and Fast Food Restaurants in Sacramento, California with Reviews. One alternative to fast food are Vegan/Vegetarian Restaurants, Healthy, Organic, Sacramento. It depends on whether you're looking for healthiest foods, healthiest fast foods, cheapest fast foods, or are more interested in the service, cleanest surroundings, foods that are rated as tastiest, or foods to fear.
Consumer Report's list of healthful choices include Subway, Jason's Deli, Panera Bread, Corner Bakery Cafe, McAlister's Deli, El Pollio Loco, Rubio's Fresh Mexican Grill, Noodles & Company, Baja Fresh Mexican Grill, Boston Market, Pei Wei Asian Diner, Chipotle Mexican Grill, and Qdoba Mexican Grill. Recently there were articles in the news informing the public about an ingredient in bread used by various fast food eateries and some (alternative to fast food) restaurants that customers wanted removed from the bread. You may wish to see the article, "Panera to Remove Additives Like Wood Pulp from Menu." Or check out the articles, "Subway to remove chemical from bread - CNN.com" and "Subway to Remove Shoe Leather Chemical from Their Bread."
If you look on page 16 of the article, "America's Best & Worst Fast Food," published in the August 2014 issue of Consumer Reports, you'll find listings of various newer eatery chains. The article tells you the "chew over the results" from the magazine's latest reader survey. The article is divided into a section of healthful choices, a section on if you want more for your money, a list of regional gems, eateries with top service, and fast-food alternatives.
For example, for those who eat burgers made from meat, the article emphasizes that In-N-Out Burger does cook to order its burgers from premium chuck, ground by their own butchers, and buns are baked in-house. You can check out the article in the magazine. Check with your public library to see when the August issue reaches your local public library. Or get the magazine on a newsstand if you don't yet subscribe.
You should be aware that the list in Consumer Reports under the section on "If you want more for your money" includes the names of numerous fast food eateries where the food is relatively cheap. But remember when it comes to healthy food choices, is cheap really that much of a bargain? On that list, the magazine explains, only 22 percent of respondents thought that the meat offered excellent value. On the other hand, some of the chains mentioned in the article were judged better than average in terms of how much food the eateries offered for their money. Also, on page 18 of the Consumer Reports article is a section mentioned fast-food eateries with top scores for clean surroundings and also a listing of what eateries are at the bottom of the list.
Foods to fear?
Noteworthy in the Consumer Reports article is a section on page 18 on foods to fear with the calories listed. For example, under the foods to fear section, Burger King's Triple Whopper is mentioned along with the number of calories, fat, and sodium content. Check out the article for the answer if you want the statistics on calories, fat, and sodium (salt). That list also mentions other fast foods and number of calories, fat and sodium. For example, the large order of Firehouse Subs Sweet Thai Chili Pork Sub contains 1,541 calories, 95 grams of fat, and salt is a whopping 3,458 mg of sodium (salt), definitely not for those with salt-sensitive high blood pressure. If you have a health condition, choose wisely from the healthful food choices when eating fast food. Also, you'll find when checking out the Consumer Reports article is a section and listing of the taste champs when it comes to burgers, chicken, and more.
Interestingly, the vegan fast-food choices and alternatives to fast food eateries are not in the article. And one of the best vegan-friendly/vegetarian-friendly soup and salad bars has disappeared from Arden Fair mall. It used to be a substitute for the fried foods offered at the State Fair for many families, especially seniors looking for foods with little or no added salt, sugar, or fats to the raw foods. Unfortunately, even that restaurant used to salt the soups instead of letting the customer decide whether he or she wanted to add salt to soups or other foods.
With a rising percentage of the population with familial hypertension and/or salt sensitivity, eateries could offer food that's healthier. But most people come back time and again to fast food eateries for the taste, price, and service rather than for what the food does to their arteries at the moment. Again, it all depends how your genes respond to the variety of food you choose as to whether you consider a particular food healthy.
You might also check out on page 20 of the Consumers Reports article the section called "Battle of the Breakfast Sandwiches." Those foods are listed, with information about what's in those breakfast sandwiches at which fast food eateries, and a section on the bottom line of what the Consumers Reports magazine's testers preferred. The restaurants listed in the article on page 21 are rated, and an excellent guide to the ratings is included on page 21. What's great about his article is that you get a list for various foods of the price paid, the serving size in ounces, the number of calories, the total fat in grams, and the sodium content in mg for various breakfast sandwiches served at fast food eateries.
The ratings are based on a survey of 32,405 Consumers Reports subscribers who told the magazine about their experiences with 96, 208 dining experiences at 65 fast-food and alternative to fast food eateries. Foods included pizza, burgers, sandwiches, chicken, Mexican fast-food and Asian foods as well as what's known as fast-casual foods, which are a tiny bit more upscale as far as the chain eateries. Just remember the replies don't represent everyone in the nation who eats at fast food eateries. The basic bottom line score is about overall satisfaction from the readers.


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On Dick Linn's website there are two pictures of a flathead feed pump with gerotor type gears.
anyone know who makes this? pictures show box with part #587-09. Is this available?
I emailed vt-cycle in Findland, they make this pump, but it sells for 650 eros? Which would make it about $866.00 US.
I hope this is wrong as I don't think I could afford one from them!
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I like how sites like Amazon and Netflix use recommendation algorithms to figure out what kinds of other products I might be interested in. Does Groupon need to be trained to know what I like, or does everyone just see the same deal each day?
You can get personalised deals along with the city-wide "spotlight" deal (providing it is a different deal). You need to ensure that you have completed your personalisation information.
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I don't think their "personalised deals" are as sophisticated as Amazons recommendations etc but it's a start.


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James McAvoy is a dysfunctional cop who wants a promotion in the dark comedy "Filth." The life story of pinup icon Bettie Page is explored in the documentary "Bettie Page Reveals All." Macon Blair stars in the revenge story "Blue Ruin." These are among the films that premiere on demand from April 21 to April 27, 2014. (Check with your cable or satellite provider for a lineup of on-demand channels on your system.)
Here is a list of those movies and their on-demand premiere dates:
April 22, 2014: "Bettie Page Reveals All"(Same day as DVD), Rated R.
The documentary "Bettie Page Reveals All" is the exclusive, authorized film biography of pinup icon Bettie Page with her full participation. The movie includes never-before-revealed audio interviews with Page, as well previously unseen photos and archive footage.
For more info: "Bettie Page Reveals All" website
April 22, 2014: "City Baby"
"City Baby" marinates on themes of class, love, and friendship. Cloey and her friends, who are in their 20s, meander through their self-absorbed youth. Eventually Cloey's cruise-control lifestyle begins to collapse when a troubled relationship with a jealous boyfriend hits the skids, her ambitious best friend wants to move away and daddy's checkbook threatens to be closed. This is what growing up looks like when you're already a grown-up.
For more info: "City Baby" website
April 22, 2014: "Olympia"
In this sexy and stylish drama, a young actress enters the adult film world and prepares for a role that will make her a star. In Spanish with English subtitles. (Amazon Instant Video premiere.)
April 22, 2014: "Southern Belles"
Anna Faris and Laura Breckenridge play Belle and Bell, two trailer-trash Georgian zeroes desperate for adventure who hatch a nutty get-rich-quick scheme. Just as they are on their way to securing a nest egg, their plans begin to unravel when Bell falls for a handsome local policeman named Rhett Butler. (Amazon Instant Video premiere.)
April 24, 2014: "Filth" (Before theatrical release), Rated R.
Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson (played by James McAvoy) wants a promotion. He is clearly the best man for the job; the rest of his colleagues are just idiots. Annoyingly, there's been a murder and Bruce's boss wants results. No problem for Bruce. He's in control and when he solves the case and wins the promotion, his wife will return to him. No problem. But is life that simple? Is Bruce the man he really thinks he is? The tragic, hilarious and memorable answers unfold in "Filth." Also starring Jamie Bell, Eddie Marsan, Jim Broadbent and Imogen Poots.
For more info: "Filth" website
April 25, 2014: "Gambit" (Same day as theatrical release), Rated PG-13.
This movie is a remake of the 1966 British caper comedy which starred Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine. Starring Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz, this "Gambit" remake (written by Joel and Ethan Coen) centers on Harry Deane (played by Firth), a London art curator who enlists a Texas rodeo queen (played by Diaz) in a scheme to con the richest man in England. Also starring Alan Rickman, Sir Tom Courtenay and Stanley Tucci. This "Gambit" remake was released in the U.K. in 2012.
For more info: "Gambit" website
April 25, 2014: "Blue Ruin" (Same day as theatrical release), Rated R.
"Blue Ruin" is a classic American revenge story that follows a mysterious outsider (played by Macon Blair) whose quiet life is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. Proving himself an amateur assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family. Also starring Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves, Kevin Kolack, Eve Plumb, David W. Thompson, Brent Weizner, Stacy Rock and Sidne Anderson.
For more info: "Blue Ruin" website
April 25, 2014: "Next Goal Wins" (Same day as theatrical release)
This documentary follows the American Samoa soccer team — FIFA's lowest ranked team for 17 years — which had not won a single competitive game and scored only twice in nearly two decades. Dutch coach Thomas Rongen takes on the daunting challenge of leading the team to the grueling 2014 World Cup Qualification matches with the hope of finally winning their first ever competitive match.
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Light and Color - Filters
Product Type: Lesson Plan/Activity
Audience: Educators, Informal Education
Grade Levels: K-4
Publication Year: 2000
Product Number: EG-2000-10-64-MSFC
Subjects: General Science
Using a variety of color filters, students will observe the effects of placing one or more filters in front of a light source. They will observe that filters absorb some wavelengths/colors and transmit others.
Light and Color - Filters [118KB PDF file]
This activity is part of the Optics Educator Guide.


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Internet Security News and Legislation
There is no doubt that online, privacy and security are inter-related. Let's build consensus about best practices and technologies we support.
In an effort to generate discussion and interaction between our members about online security, we offer the following informative resources. We encourage you to send us your thoughts and views and let us know if you wish to actively participate in our advocacy committee to help represent the web analytics community.
Current Discussion Topic:
In some state laws, it is stated that web companies must report a security breach to users. As an organization, do you feel we should echo this suggestion? Send your views to the DAA Advocacy Committee Chair to begin a DAA dialogue.
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Current Federal and State Legislation
California Security Breach Information Act (SB 1386)
This bill, operative July 1, 2003, would require a state agency, or a person or business that conducts business in California, that owns or licenses computerized data that includes personal information, as defined, to disclose in specified ways, any breach of the security of the data, as defined, to any resident of California whose unencrypted personal information was, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired by an unauthorized person.
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Access information about data protection in the European Union.
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May 12, 2014From Seller: wonjun
Reima was a class-act buyer. Great communication, quick payment and confirmation of receipt. Thank you for your purchase!
Nov 26, 2013From Buyer: peepee-king
Spot on communication and received item promptly, thanks!
Item: Yuin OK2 - Sold
Jul 5, 2013From Trader: HeroicPenguin
Traded my Grado SR325is for Reima's iMod. Great communication and even helped fix something for me when he didn't need to. Great seller!
Apr 13, 2011From Seller: tenzip
Reima was great to deal with. Good communication, prompt action. Thumbs up.
Apr 8, 2011From Seller: Ikarios
Prompt payment and quick responses to PMs, making this a very easy transaction. thanks!
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I bought this dress for my wedding, but have since changed my mind. This dress is unworn and not altered.
Retail – $995
Silk organza strapless gown with allover clear beading at bodice, boning at inner bodice, ruched waistband, layered underskirts for fullness, hidden back zipper
Care instructions: Dry clean
Measurements: shoulder to hemline 56″, taken from size 2
Country of origin: China
Authentic product
Model's measurements: Height 5'10", Bust 31″, Waist 26″, Hips 33″, wearing a size 2 US
Fabric: 100% Silk. Contrast: 97% Polyester/3% Spandex
Lining: 100% Acetate
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- Terms of Sale: All Sales Final
- Original Owner:
- Has Original Receipt: Yes
- Location: 29403, SC
- Will Ship to: Anywhere at Owner Expense
- Payment Methods Accepted: Escrow.com
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Inspiration: Kobe Bryant, NBA Finals MVP
Kobe Bryant is a stud. Just the other day, Kobe lead the Los Angeles Lakers to the franchise's 15th NBA championship and earned his first NBA Finals MVP award. Winning a title is a great accomplishment and very uplifting. Here's Kobe accepting his trophy:
Now, if you're not a sports fan. No worries. Inspiration can come from all sorts of places. Josh Blue has Cerebral Palsy and he's still an amazing comedian. And don't forget the Italian Stallion Rocky Balboa. He might not be real, but the movies get me pumped up!
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October is always the busiest month for the BDC -- and this one was even busier than usual
Please note: I'm counting Sept. 29th and Sept. 30th as part of October. We were closed until 5 pm on September 29th to relocate the BDC.
We held the Grand-Reopening private function on September 29th, and got back to daily business on September 30th.
The BDC hosted 9 Behind-the-Scenes tours of our new facility, created a display of significant documents we have inside the new room, and I wrote an inordinately large number of Connections entries to highlight Archives Month for which there were 550 pageviews.
In addition, we coordinated 2 free-and-open-to-the-public programs and accepted a County Council proclamation on behalf of the AM Team 2010 for Archaeology Month.
Because a learning staff is a competent staff, we participated in several no and/or very low cost training opportunities in order to help us become even better stewards of the materials entrusted into our care.
99 people got a Behind-the-Scenes tour of our new facility during October.
We had a total of 42 people attend the Archaeology Month programs on Palmetto Bluff and Gullah Genealogy. The session on Gullah Genealogy, presented by archaeologists Carl Steen and Dr. Jodi Barnes, was broadcast live on the County Channel on Oct. 26th.
We also had 96 Research Room customer visits (with only 1 complaint).
I (and the Smithsonian Institution Archives) posted 31 days of blog entries about archives, management of archives, other archives, etc. Just click on the BROWSE BY TOPIC tag "archives" along the left hand column to see all 31 entries. There were 550 page views of Connections during October.
We fielded 15 e-mail or telephone reference inquiries.
Charmaine went to the PALMCOP (Palmetto Archives, Libraries, and Museums Council on Preservation) conference to learn more about preservation techniques for encapsulation, phase boxes, basic book repair, document repair, and care for photographs and negatives.
I went to the combined Society of Georgia Archivists and the South Carolina Archival Association conference at the very end of the month in order to keep my skills current. It is always a good idea to "test" what we do here against what other area archives are doing to share their holdings with the public.
Charmaine participated in 2 free online webinars sponsored by the IMLS dealing with how to use social media to tell our story offered with the public. (You may recall that the BDC was the recipient of a Connecting to Collections Bookshelf grant a few years ago, and I was the grateful recipient of a scholarship from Heritage Preservation to attend the IMLS regional symposium in Buffalo, NY last June.)
So adding it all up, the BDC touched the lives and helped meet the curiosity of 252 people plus however many unique individuals looked at this blog 550 times last month.
About the Author
Grace Cordial has been responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Beaufort District Collection at the Beaufort County Library since 1999. The Beaufort District Collection exists to acquire, preserve, maintain and make accessible a research collection of permanent value which records the history, culture, and environment of our part of the South Carolina lowcountry. Besides the research room, Cordial manages the "Virtual BDC:" the BDC web pages, the Online Obituary Index, two digital collections, a new BDC.BCL Facebook page, and the Connections blog.
Among her duties is to coordinate or present programs about local history, Gullah culture, and our coastal environment, including occasional instructional sessions about how to perform historical and/or genealogical research.


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Celebrating 40 Years of Title IX
UCLA Athletics continues its celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Title IX with a series of profiles of UCLA's Title IX 40. This group of 40 Bruin women were game-changers in the Title IX era. Next up are Olympic gold medalists and two-time NCAA champions Natalie Williams and Lisa Fernandez.
Natalie Williams, Volleyball (1989-92), Basketball (1991-94)
One of the finest two-sport standouts in history, Natalie Williams was the first collegiate woman ever to earn All-America honors in both volleyball and basketball in the same year.
Williams was named the UCLA Female Athlete of the Year in 1990-91 and 1991-92 (co-recipient) and was honored as the Pac-10 Female Athlete of the Decade (1987-96). She has been recognized as one of the 15 Greatest UCLA Women's Basketball Players and one of the 25 Greatest UCLA Women's Volleyball Players.
In volleyball, Williams helped lead the Bruins to two consecutive NCAA Championships in 1990 and 1991 and was named the NCAA Tournament MVP both years. She won the Honda Award in volleyball twice (1991-92 and 1992-93) and was the AVCA National Player of the Year in 1992. The four-time All-American and two-time Pac-10 Player of the Year is among the school's all-time leaders in kills (2,115), total attacks (4,263) and hitting percentage (.335). Williams was also a member of the USA Indoor National team in 1990-91 and from 1993-96.
Williams earned All-America honors in basketball in in both her junior and senior seasons and was a finalist both of those years for the Naismith Award. In 1994, she earned the Victor Award as the College Player of the Year. During her four seasons, she averaged a career double-double (20.4 points/12.8 rebounds), and her rebound average (12.8) is the highest in Pac-10 women's basketball history. Williams was a three-time first-team All-Pac-10 honoree and the 1994 Pac-10 Player of the Year.
During her senior season in 1993-94, she tied the school record with 25 rebounds vs. Arizona State, and four days later scored 43 points in a game at California, the second-highest point total in school history. She also set the school mark for most career double-doubles (68), season rebound average (1991-92, 13.8rpg) and career rebound average (12.8rpg). Her career points (1,813) and rebounds (1,137) are in the school's all-time top 5.
Williams' numbers could have been even gaudier had she not suffered a season-ending knee injury prior to the end of her senior season. She recovered from her injury, however, and went on to become a nine-year professional basketball player, ending her career as one of the leading scorers and rebounders in U.S. women's professional basketball history. Williams began her pro career in the ABL in 1997 and was the 1998 ABL MVP. After the ABL folded, she joined the WNBA and was selected by her hometown Utah Starzz as the third pick in the WNBA draft.
In WNBA history, Williams is the fourth-leading rebounder (8.3rpg), and she averaged 13.1 points per game with Utah (1999-2002) and Indiana (2003-2005). She was a three-time All-WNBA first-team selection and an All-Star selection from 1999-2001.
Playing for USA Basketball, Williams helped lead the U.S. squad to a gold medal at the 2000 Olympic Games. She also won gold medals with the U.S. team at the 1998 and 2002 World Championships and was named the USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year in 1999. Williams was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2004.
Lisa Fernandez, Softball (1990-93)
The greatest pitcher in the history of the sport of softball, Lisa Fernandez led UCLA to two NCAA Championships in 1990 and 1992 and helped lead Team USA to three Olympic gold medals in 1996, 2000 and 2004.
Fernandez played at UCLA from 1990-93 and was a three-time winner of the sport's Honda Award and in 1993 became the first softball player ever to win the Honda-Broderick Cup, awarded to the most outstanding collegiate female athlete in all sports. A four-time first-team All-American, Fernandez led the Bruins to two national championships (1990 & 1992) and two second-place finishes (1991 & 1993). She was also All-Region and All-Pac-10 first-team each season and Pac-10 Player of the Year during her final three years.
With a miniscule 0.22 earned run average, Fernandez went 93-7 in her career with 784 strikeouts. Her ERA ranks second in NCAA history, and her 74 shutouts are tops at UCLA and ninth in the NCAA annals. In her junior and senior seasons, Fernandez had the lowest ERA in the nation (0.14 in 1992, 0.25 in 1993), and she sported a perfect 29-0 mark in 1992. She tossed 11 career no-hitters, including a pair in the 1993 College World Series, along with two perfect games. She ranks second in UCLA history in ERA and fourth in wins and shutouts.
Fernandez was just as powerful at the plate, batting .382 with 15 home runs and 128 runs batted in. She hit .401 in her junior season but eclipsed that mark by more than 100 points in her senior campaign, batting an NCAA-best .510 with 11 homers and 45 RBI. Fernandez ranks in the UCLA Top 10 in numerous offensive categories, including sixth in average and fourth in hits.
Playing for Team USA, Fernandez was a three-time Olympic Gold Medalist, having led the U.S. to gold in the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games. In 1996, Fernandez shined in the United States' 3-1 gold-medal victory over China, recording the final three outs to earn a save. She went 1-1 with a 0.33 ERA in softball's inaugural appearance in the Olympics in Atlanta. At the 2000 Sydney Games, Fernandez pitched the U.S. to victory in both the semifinal win over Australia and the gold-medal game against Japan. She established an Olympic single-game strikeout record with 25 in a round-robin game against Australia and posted a 0.47 earned run average and 52 strikeouts. In 2004 at Athens, Greece, Fernandez was Team USA's top hitter and pitcher, posting a .545 batting average (12-for-22), which set a new record for an Olympic tournament. For the third-consecutive Olympics, she was also in the circle for the final out of the gold-medal contest, a 5-1 victory over Australia.
A Bruin assistant coach, Fernandez is beginning her 15th season on the UCLA coaching staff. With Fernandez on staff in 14 previous seasons, the Bruins posted a 649-178-1 (.784) record and claimed four NCAA Championships in 1999, 2003, 2004 and 2010. UCLA also won Pac-10 titles in 1999, 2002 and 2009. The program has been honored as the NFCA National Coaching Staff of the Year twice in 2004 and 2010, and Fernandez has coached seven Bruin hurlers to 13 All-American awards.
In 2003, Fernandez became the eighth Bruin softball player to be inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame, and this summer, she was enshrined into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.
Previous Title IX 40 Profiles
Karen Moe/Janet Coles
Terry Condon/Jan Palchikoff
Sue Enquist/Ann Meyers Drysdale
Evelyn Ashford/Anita Ortega
Carol Bower/Denise Corlett
Denise Curry/Sharon Shapiro
Jackie Joyner-Kersee/Dot Richardson
Florence Griffith-Joyner/Liz Masakayan
Kay Cockerill/Gail Devers
Kim Hamilton Anthony, Stella Sampras Webster


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Happen to catch Neil Patrick Harris hosting 'Fashion's Night Out' last night on TV? If not, you didn't miss much viewing wise, although the concept was pretty cool. The deal: get out in the big cities and get great deals on high end styles and a glimpse into the stylish surprising for the upcoming fashion season. NPH led the pack of raging, fashion-hungry ladies as they crowded the streets of NYC and bought croc-skin bags and white leather pant suits (this actually happened). And yes, I watched all 60 minutes of this. Read More
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Ansel AdamsAmerican, 1902 - 1984
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More than twenty years after his death, Ansel Adams (1902-1984) remains one of the world's most beloved and frequently exhibited American photographers. Although he was wide-ranging in his choice of subject matter-producing portraits, still-lifes, and commercial images-his grand panoramas of nature continue to define his career. While Adams is justly famous as a photographer specializing in these views, many of his landscapes simultaneously demonstrate his ability to capture nature's abstract forms. As a founding member of the influential, California-based Group f/64 during the early 1930s, which also included Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham, Adams espoused "straight" or "pure" photography, characterized by sharply focused and detailed images. He did not believe that the camera-a machine that produces pictures directly reflecting the visible world-was capable of creating abstract images. Still, in his 1935 instructional book Making a Photograph, Adams wrote that the skillful representation of nature involved "transcending the literal aspects" of the landscape. His desire to move beyond the straightforward depiction of nature is evident in photographs that employ elements of abstraction. The gelatin silver prints on view here explore the complex patterns of tree bark and stone, isolate stark shadows and highlights, and chart the haphazard yet balanced compositions formed by water and shifting sand. These aesthetic elements are further heightened by Adams's conscious choices to compress space or eliminate the horizon line. In his 1949 publication My Camera in Yosemite Valley, Adams declared, "Instead of looking at an object until it becomes 'something else' (which so many contemporary artists feel it necessary to do in order to escape reality) I find one must look at it until it becomes its sublimated self." The works presented here reflect this sentiment; Adams embraced the abstract in order to enhance our experience of the literal world. Transcending the Literal: Photographs by Ansel Adams from the Collection, 2008


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Use has in a sentence
- I indorse all your chairman has said to you about the union of England and America. [5]
- Neither any thing you have presented me, nor anything I have otherwise learned, has convinced me that he has been unfaithful to this charge. [7]
- Besides, what can you do with a morbidness which has its origin in fateful circumstances? [11]
- It has given you a nobility of which we did not suspect you. [9]
- Now for some years the divergence of society and politics has been increasing at the capital. [4]
- This is a yearning after beauty and ornamentation which has no other means of gratifying itself. [4]
- The letter she wrote ran thus: Your news of the death of Barode Barouche has shocked me. [11]
- They did the work better; a warrior has a soft place in his heart for a beautiful woman. [11]
- For thee her wooing hour has passed, The singing birds have flown, And winter comes with icy blast To chill thy buds unblown. [6]
- It has a wonderful transforming power. [4]
- He has a wonderful smile. [9]
- And with that womanly gesture which has been the same through the ages she put up her hand; deftly tucking in the stray wisp behind. [9]
- How the good woman of the house took them in and kept them has been briefly mentioned. [6]
- Her soul seemed withered, parched, torpid, like a corn-field on which a poisonous mildew has fallen; yet it had once been green and blooming. [10]
- With me, as with yourself, the long struggle has been one of great pecuniary loss. [7]
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Shipping Container-Inspired Homebox is a Tiny, Movable 3-Story Vertical Home
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- Homebox-Han SlawikHomebox is a radical concept inspired by cargotecture that involves literally flipping a shipping container on its side. Professor Han Slawik of the University of Hanover loves the concept of building with shipping containers, but thinks they have alimited potential and are costly to modify or repair. So he came up with a wooden version with the same dimensions, but rotated it from horizontal to vertical. The result is a three-story house with a tiny footprint that can be moved with the same transport system of shipping containers and be used as emergency, temporary or permanent housing.1
- Homebox-Han SlawikHan Slawik based his Homebox on the shipping container model for its transport capabilities, universal dimensions and usefulness.2
- Homebox-Han SlawikBut at the same time, wear, repair and maintenance of steel materials is costly, not to mention living in a steel box isn't very cozy.3
- Homebox-Han SlawikSlawik wanted to create a housing concept using the best parts of cargotecture, but wanted to be able to modify it easier, make it more efficient and make it more comfortable for the resident.4
- Homebox-Han SlawikHomebox has the same dimensions as a international standardized shipping container, but instead is designed to sit vertically rather than horizontally.5
- Homebox-Han SlawikHomebox is a three-story home with a kitchen/dining/toilet room on the ground floor, a bedroom on the next and a living space on the top floor. This top floor is the most private and secluded and also has access to the best sunlight.6
- Homebox-Han SlawikIn total, the whole home has only 14 m2 (150 sq ft) of living space and sits on just a 7 m2 footprint.7
- Homebox-Han SlawikIt's tiny and unfortunately about 1/4 of the space is taken up with stairs to access the different levels.8
- Homebox-Han SlawikBut what it looses for sake of its compact design, it gains in the ability to be useful for a number of applications. Because of its dimensions Homebox can easily be transported using standard trucks and global shipping methods.9
- Homebox-Han SlawikIt can easily fit into small spaces, unused land, alleys or even parking lots. Multiple Homeboxes could be grouped together to form a mini city or could be used by individuals who need to be on the move and want to take their house with them.10


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Permanent URL to this publication: http://dx.doi.org/10.5167/uzh-66737
Steurer, Marc P; Steurer, Martina A; Baulig, Werner; Piegeler, Tobias; Schlapfer, Martin; Spahn, Donat R; Falk, Volkmar; Dreessen, Pamela; Theusinger, Oliver M; Schmid, Edith R; Schwartz, David; Neff, Thomas A; Beck-Schimmer, Beatrice (2012). Late pharmacologic conditioning with volatile anesthetics after cardiac surgery. Critical Care, 16(5):R191.
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INTRODUCTION: The aim of this randomized controlled trial was to investigate whether volatile anesthetics used for postoperative sedation have any beneficial effects on myocardial injury in cardiac surgery patients after on-pump valve replacement. METHODS: Anesthesia was performed with propofol. After arrival in the intensive care unit (ICU), 117 patients were randomized to be sedated for at least 4 hours with either propofol or sevoflurane. Sevoflurane was administered by using the anesthetic-conserving device. Troponin T, creatine kinase, creatine kinase from heart muscle tissue, myoglobin, and oxygenation index were determined on arrival at the ICU, 4 hours after sedation, and in the morning of the first postoperative day (POD1). Primary end points were cardiac injury markers on POD1. As secondary end points oxygenation, postoperative pulmonary complications, and ICU and hospital stay were documented. RESULTS: Fifty-six patients were analyzed in the propofol arm, and 46 patients in the sevoflurane arm. Treatment groups were comparable with regard to patient demographics and intraoperative characteristics. Concentration of troponin T as the most sensitive marker for myocardial injury at POD1 was significantly lower in the sevoflurane group compared with the propofol group (unadjusted difference, -0.4; 95% CI, -0.7 to -0.1; P < 0.01; adjusted difference, -0.2; 95% CI, -0.4 to -0.02; P = 0.03, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: The data presented in this investigation indicate that late postconditioning with the volatile anesthetic sevoflurane might mediate cardiac protection, even with a late, brief, and low-dose application.
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Today, I followed my neighbor's advice and sprayed Sprite on my Christmas tree because it will "make it live longer." I just came downstairs to find my Christmas tree covered in ants. FML
by Chuffy / 12/01/2012 at 1:01am / United States (Colorado) / Miscellaneous
Today, I was visiting my daughter, whose husband was still asleep at noon. I made a point of stomping around on the hardwood floor and speaking loudly to wake his lazy ass up. Turns out he's now working a 14-hour graveyard shift, and it has no negative effect on his shoe-throwing skills. FML
by mom / 12/06/2012 at 2:23pm / Netherlands (Utrecht) / Miscellaneous
Today, my boyfriend started watching The Big Bang Theory on DVD. Now he won't stop saying "Bazinga" every time he says or hears something that sounds funny. It's so annoying I want to feed him to the neighbor's dog. FML
by FUSheldon / 11/28/2012 at 12:15am / United States (Illinois) / Miscellaneous
Today, as part of my job as a swimming instructor, I had to help a teenage boy learn how to float. This involves supporting the person's back as they try to float. His boner stood straight up. FML
by julia / 11/30/2012 at 8:02pm / United States (Illinois) / Intimacy
Today, I had a presentation in French class. I was so nervous, the first thing I said when I got up there was, "Hola." FML
by SpanishInFrenchClass / 12/06/2012 at 12:35am / United States / Work
Today, my boss was telling everyone that he knew a guy who went to a college at which multiple people were shot and killed recently. Being extremely socially awkward and uncomfortable, I blurted, "That's awesome." Now everyone in the office is terrified of me. FML
by Adan / 12/04/2012 at 4:34pm / United States (Washington) / Work
Today, at school, I have to do a 45 minute presentation with a girl who has panic attacks so bad that she cries, runs out of the room, and sometimes passes out. This presentation terrifies her and it's a major part of my final grade. FML
by Murlocmurk / 12/05/2012 at 12:04pm / United States / Miscellaneous
Today, the battery cables on my car came loose, thus resetting my car's electronics to factory settings. The anti-theft system is now turned on, and I can't start my car with it on. Luckily, it turns off with a remote. The remote broke about six months ago. FML
by pdin222 / 11/29/2012 at 9:45am / United States / Transportation
Today, I've now worked on Thanksgiving, Black Friday, the weekend after that, and two days this week. My husband and son have had all that time off, and yet I've still ended up having to clean the dishes and the house after them on all of these days. FML
by bored / 11/27/2012 at 1:05pm / United States / Work
Today, as I was about to walk across the street, a girl in front of me who clearly wasn't paying attention to the traffic, almost got run over. I grabbed her arm and jumped back. She was fine. I fell and fractured my arm and wrist. FML
by williebees / 11/28/2012 at 12:43pm / United States (Texas) / Health
Today, I was mugged at gunpoint by a senior citizen. She now has a lousy $20, and I probably have PTSD. FML
by stillshakinggd / 11/28/2012 at 4:16pm / United States / Miscellaneous
Today, I went to Hollister with my grandmother. She immediately started yelling about the music being too loud, and ordered the staff to "shut the damn thing off". She was yelling at a bunch of mannequins. FML
by time to put you down, gran / 12/01/2012 at 5:53pm / United States / Miscellaneous
Today, I thought I felt something itch my butt as I sat down on the toilet. Sure it was just my imagination, I did my business. When I was done I saw there were 4 cockroaches crawling under the seat. FML
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Can You Spot the Problem With This Picture?
Is the lighting a little off, maybe?
Government officials in Huili, China, were so excited about the new road work they'd completed that they decided to publish a nice photo op of themselves inspecting the project. The results went viral! In all fairness, it's a really good-looking road, way too nice to actually besmirch with dirty feet. You don't want people to get the wrong idea about how to use it.
Fake photo fallout: Chinese officials embrace social media to explain mixup [Envoy/Yahoo]


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In implementing the Project for an Integrated System of Production Community Organization …the Key to Success!
Ocotepeque.- With enthusiasm and anticipation, residents of communities included in the project to implement an Integrated System of Production in Belen Gualcho have initiated the excavation works for the main connecting line that will be taking irrigation water to the vegetable plots located at the Celaque high grounds.
The two key elements needed to make the project a success are being provided by the beneficiaries: a heart-felt motivation from the part of the local Lenca men and women - that perceive the project as the response to improve their system of production and an open door to access competitive markets nationwide- and community organization.
Loading the tents to be used for their stay in the mountain.
As the project implementers, Project Global Village and MCA-Honduras have organized groups of 50 members (men and women) who will have to get through as far as to the border of Celaque National Park in order to initiate the water connection works and to open the channel that will supply irrigation water for an area of 18 kilometers. The project will benefit 250 men and 50 women farmers currently residing in the area.
Tents, food, medicines and technical staff will accompany the first group that will remain for five days in the mountain, before being replaced by a second one. " It is a total adventure " said Vidal Lanza, the Project Coordinator, explaining that before reaching the exact excavation site, the groups will have to travel almost 6 kilometers inside the mountain.
Community leaders loading the equipment for the camping sites.
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TC TO JOHN STUART MILL; 10 August 1837; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18370810-TC-JSM-01; CL 9:275-277.
Scotsbrig, Ecclefechan, 10th August, 1837—
My dear Mill,
Your Letter,1 which I remember well, does almost indubitably exist, safe in some repository about Chelsea; but so far as I can see it will be impossible to get hold of it, at least for some four weeks. My Wife, who has charge of all these things, is just gone with the Sterlings to Malvern: I do not, till she write again, yet know her precise address; but I fear at any rate there would be little use in applying to her; for the thing will be locked up somewhere, in some involution of security penetrable only to herself. It is very unlucky. I remember you spoke of Carrel's air of sincerity, of his precise determinate character, of a certain mild tone of dogmatism noticeable in his manner (like me, you said); for the rest, how practical he was, exclusively devoted to his metier de journaliste, so unlike the speculative Cavaignac and other Frenchmen in this respect. On the whole you gave me pretty much the notion of him that his medal did when I looked at it long afterwards. I do not think there was very much more in your account than I have here given. I doubt it will be all that we can recover for the present.
Your Letter has just come to hand at this late hour of 11 p.m.; and as I am bound for Nithsdale tomorrow early, not to return for two days, I write you this in great haste, rather than write nothing for so long.
I rejoice to hear that the Book2 prospers according to your mind. Go on getrosten muthes [cheerfully]. We shall see where we differ as you say; and find, I doubt not, that there is a very broad ground of agreement between us if we go deep enough to seek it. I suspect our present difference is a partially accidental one, originating in a twist of my own. I am conscious of a kind of semi-unreasonable aversion to spectacles3 altogether, of a kind of practical unbelief in spectacles. Multiplied errors that had well nigh killed me (this is literal truth) got into my hand by spectacles; on dashing the spectacles off, I found that it was all false, and that I was still alive. On the other hand, hardly any truth that I set much store by has happened to come to me by way of spectacles. Hence my feeling that way in part. Nevertheless I know withal that there are or might be spectacles. I am curious to hear what you say they should be, and how one may help his eyesight with them; I will read you even with interest and profit.
The Times critique did get hither; it is a helpful friendly sort of thing. I cannot get the Book swept out of my head nearly so clean as I should wish. What good is now in it for me? But the Future is all so blank, really aimless (so far as this world goes) and as it were both hopeless and fearless, one turns into the Past and fractions of it cling to one. I look upon the curse of all curses that man bears in this world to be self-conceit: how often does one cry bitterly to be delivered from it; and yet it is ineradicable; cut it down [as] you will or as others will for you, it springs eternal. The mythus of Lucifer4 is one of the wisest ever conceived. Ach Gott!—
My Brother brings news from the village how there is a talk of Sir James Grahame's5 coming over to this County, Hope Johnstone (just elected amid hisses) resigning in his favour;6 how in that case Ewart of Liverpool7 will be started against him, and an immense explosion will take place. Poor Sir James has got himself beaten in Cumberland as well as heart could wish.8 He would have stout resistance here too: but we have no statesmen (estates-men) as Cumberland has; and Buccleugh's tenants are all at rack rent.9 Whether Ewart or Sir James be intrinsically the shabbier mortal one would not undertake to say. I will tell M'Diarmid tomorrow to propose Peyronet Thomson, I think.10 Sir James's defeat yielded me a perceptible pleasure; and yet now, poor fellow, I am almost sorry for him, so signal was it.
When I leave this solitude is not certain; but perhaps it will not be many weeks. I was thinking of Switzerland had my Brother been returning; however he now writes me that that is unlikely. I feel decidedly better, tho' sad as ever. A Letter from you especially a long thick-written Letter will be very gratifying if your time allow. Good night my dear Mill.—Yours always T. Carlyle.


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Turns out that Johan Franzen's injury is more serious than he thought. Bruce MacLeod blogged today that Franzen will be out 3-4 weeks with an MCL sprain.
Aaron Downey or Matt Ellis will fill Franzen's spot in the lineup but will likely join the third or fourth line. Kris Draper, Dan Cleary or Valtteri Filppula will be bumped up to Franzen's spot.
My guess is that Babcock will want to give Filppula the ice time but since he's not quite as gritty as Franzen, Cleary might fit the role better.
Daniels did one of my pet peeves in the pre-game, mentioned Hasek wearing #39 in Chicago. Only problem: He didn't.
And Nick makes it 2-0!
Lang beaten on the draw by Zetterberg. Nice that he's not pulling a Bertuzzi on us.
And Nick makes it 2-0!Lang beaten on the draw by Zetterberg. Nice that he's not pulling a Bertuzzi on us.
Hahahaha, genius speech there, Clark. *thumbs up*
I haven't heard them say anything and nothing's come across my feed reader yet. I'd imagine something with his knee, maybe a sprain since he could put pressure on it but still looked to be in pain.
Another shootout. This is gonna be a long season.
Williams and Lang as shooters for Chicago? Ken and Mickey think so, we'll see.
How big is the ref's quick whistle now? That said, they always say that if you were in a position for the refs to decide it, you didn't do good enough.
Goddamnit, Lang.Wow, that sounds familiar.
Dude, you have no idea how much this makes me laugh. xDUggh. Poor Pavel, he was robbed I tell you, ROBBED! And for once, THIS IS NOT A BIASED STATEMENT!!!!!
Clearly would be a good choice. His heart combined with his gritness will equal goals for the Wings!
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sure. I was planning to create a thread about it next week afterI meet up with my mechanic to overhaul my suspension one last time. But basically here is what I ordered:
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Stock XI Struts/Shocks (from various vendors): $600
My experience with drop hats is that they work very well and offer those who want a modest drop without compromising ANYTHING and I mean it because in no way do these affect spring rate, shock rebound/life.. I have had these drop hats on my e30 with stock IS suspension and it is perfect. It dropped the front in line with the rear so it looks even (as oppose to the front being high).
It only took me this long to figure it out for an XI because I didn't realize the OEM spring perches between an I or an XI were actually the same P/N. The e46 AWD and RWD chassis share many more components than their e30 counterparts ever did so that is to our benefit i guess...
In any event, I encourage all those interested to refrain from buying anything until I report back to you with the results. That way you won't blow money on my simple theories.
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Like a carnival barker, the news media touts the exploits of NASA. One of the latest sideshows deals with NASA's claim to have calculated the precise age of the universe. What the news media fails to tell you are the underlying problems with NASA's cosmological age calculations.
A key component when evaluating the age of the universe is the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation (the oldest light in the universe). The earth was discovered to be bathed in a faint microwave radiation, apparently coming from the most distant observable regions of the universe. The CMB comes from all directions in space and has a uniform temperature of 2.73 Kelvin (degrees above absolute zero).
The fact that the CMB temperature is uniform presents a tremendous problem for the big bang models. There just hasn't been enough time for the exchange of radiation - light - to allow the temperature to become so uniformed. This is known as the light-travel-time problem.
Another way to look at the problem is that the visible universe is estimated at about 46 billion light years across, based on the cosmic light horizon. NASA has calculated the universe to be 13.7 billion years old, which is not enough time for light to have traveled across the universe.
In order to bridge the time requirement, NASA uses the 'inflation' scenario (see image A). With the inflation scenario, the expansion rate of the universe was vastly accelerated in an 'inflation phase' early in the big bang model. According to this scenario, different regions of the universe were in such close contact before the inflation phase took place that they were able to come to the same temperature by exchanging radiation before they were rapidly pushed apart.
Currently, there are several competing versions of the inflation model. Each version runs into its own set of difficulties. One difficulty they each run into is determining what physical mechanism triggered the inflation period. A corresponding difficulty is determining how to stop the inflation period once it starts - the 'graceful exit' problem.
Considering the inflation model being used is still in debate, How can NASA "precisely" calculate the age of the universe. How many assumptions can we make and still claim our results are "precisely" accurate?
FoxNews.com Happy Birthday Universe (Give or Take a Few Dozen Millennium), February 4, 2010.
NASA Press Release: RELEASE: 03-064, NASA Releases Stunning Images of Our Infant Universe
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"Um, thanks, but no thanks." or why I couldn't be a political candidateFebruary 5th, 2008
"Grateful Dead"[1] apparently reunited last night at the Warfield for Barack Obama. Here's one extensive review.
If I was a political candidate and that happened to support me, I'd probably say, diplomatically, "Nah, don't worry about it. I got it covered. Thanks anyway."
If you haven't guessed from reading this blog, I'm quite particular about my music. I'm not saying you can't like or be associated with the Grateful Dead, just that I'd have an issue with being associated with them. I mean, I'm viewing Obama differently already.
[1]How they call themselves that without Jerry Garcia, I don't know. I don't see Nirvana being able to reunite with Kurt Cobain, do you?


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Dear Anonymous,
I suppose that really depends on what the use for which you're trying to use it. Lip softener and protector? Probably not so bad. Screwdriver? You may want to consider a different medium. Unless the chapstick is really old, and the screw really loose. Then you got a shot.
Dear Sailor,
That's a tough question. And this is coming from someone who has done a lot of work in this field. But I'm going to have to go ahead and say:
Dear nate,
I mean, sure you can, but the second you do something like that, you are opening yourself up to an unstable aquatic system. I generally keep two seperate tanks - a development tank where I install my beta fish, and another tank where I keep my production fish. It's a little more work, but prevents a a serious disaster when everything goes wrong.
Dear Worried,
This is a tough area for me. On one hand, I like to think of myself as an open minded fish - I was a fierce objector to the FMA (Fish Marriage Amendment), support the First Amendment rights of all types of speech (and the equally important rights that state that your right to free speech ends at my front gate), and believe that frequent and honest exercises of personal expression are neccessary for personal and emotional growth as well as the sanity of us as a people.
On the other hand, come on - guys in skirts? This leads to one of two things: Full on transvestism (which is cool, but it doesn't sound like it's your thing), or you're one of those smelly hippys who think they're proving their mental liberation from the establishment belief that "wearing skirts makes you look like a fool" (plus you can hide your bong up there). I'm not saying don't do it, I'm just saying: realize that we have to live with the consequences of our actions.
As for why they don't make guy's skirt things - they do. They are called kilts, and girls pretend to think they're sexy until they have to go to the movies with the movies with a guy who's wearing one.
Dear Stewl,
That's disgusting! I'm a halibut, for god's sake, and carp is a completely different species! You ever fantasize about howler monkeys?
Dear prohibited,
Because I'm a fish, and not a dictionary?
Dear snorin',
What! This is a complete outrage! I mean, did the judges even read The Bible According To Cheese? If that doesn't tip the scales of the stupidometer, I don't know what does. Alltooflat deserves at least a. . . well, from your question, I can't really understand which direction we'd have to go to be stupider (more stupid?). But we totally deserve to go in that direction, whichever it be.
Dear Hating,
I'll back that shit up. And another thing - why is it every time I drink a glass of cranberry juice, I feel an irresistable urge to say the phrase "It's good for the urinary tract." I mean, that's true, but why do I say it every time? When I eat a hearty salad, I generally don't feel the need to comment "Man, am I gonna poop firm tommorrow, or what?" It's just with cranberry juice. One of life's little mysteries, I guess.
Also, I just reread your question, and the story part makes no sense at all. Your bottle of water stated that cranberry juice has 130% of your vitamin C RDA? Weirdest water bottle ever. Anyway, the 130% refers to a serving of cranberry juice having 130% of your Recommended Daily Allowance of Vitamin C (see this page for more information on your RDA for various other vitimins and minerals). RDA for Vitamin C is about 90 mg for men, so the amount in a serving of cranberry juice is probably about 117mg or so. I can make no judgements about cranapple juice, however.
Dear Aye,
I'm so flat, when I turn sideways I disappear.
I'm so flat, I whistle when a stiff breeze passes by.
I'm so flat, they chose me for a website devoted to being TOO FLAT.
I'm so flat. . . nope, I think that's all I got.
Dear Deadeye,
Well, you dropped the ball already when you ignored the original letter from the friend. Regardless of what your personal preference re: the outcome of the situation, you really have to meet these things head on. By ignoring it, what you've done is (a) made sure things would be uncomfortable for a long time, and (b) assured that there is no way you will be able to finagle a hot three-way with your female friend and your fiancee or (even better) your female friend and some anonymous stranger. So do yourself a favor and disabuse your self of that hope (and don't tell me it didn't cross your mind, because who are you fooling?).
Should you tell the guy what's up? What do you mean, should you tell him that his girlfriend has had a crush on you in the past? Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. But be sure to phrase it like this: "Yo - your girlfriend, like, totally wants me. She said so." </sarcasm>
Don't be an idiot. If you tend to err on the side of not feeling human emotions like "regret" and "guilt" (fish don't tend towards this sort of thing. The whole idea of 'spawning' is an inherently unromantic one, and doesn't lend itself to candlelit dinners or giving a tinkers cuss about my egg repository), you should tell your fiancee (you know, the woman you plan to marry) about the letter, and the fact that you feel uncomfortable spending time with your not-quite-a-lesbian lady-friend. If you don't think the future Mrs. Deadeye Dick will be the better off for knowing (which is generally what my intuition tells me, but what do I know?), keep your mouth shut about the entire thing. If you think you're too uncomfortable to hang out with them, take off your panties and be a man. The strong, silent type. Stiff upper lip, and all that.
Dear Frustrated,
Dude - 71% of the earth is already covered by ocean, and a recent study shows that the sun is getting hotter year by year. I give Ben, Ken, and Ton 3, maybe 4 more years until I'm the editor of this poor man's Cockeyed.com, and they're the hacks doing the grunt work and answering the phones. Call me a krill-smelling advice-monkey will they? I'll show them!
Ummmmm... Sorry about that.
Dear Nick,
First of all, I'd like to congratulate on your effort. It will serve you well in a future I'm sure will be full of precise calculation of the area of circles.
As far as your query is concerned, I really think that's more of a philosophical question as opposed to one that just touches on the humdrum mechanics of rote learning. Let's for now take as given that the process of learning a large body of data is a simple one - this assumption we'll give ourselves. The interesting question comes when we posit whether or not it's indeed possible to hold an infinte amount of information (since pi isn't ever going to stop going out. A superficial examination of the question might suggest that the answer is "No, don't be a nitwit: The human brain (seat of cognition and memory, as proven by a host of experiments [ranging from the clinical to the gruesome]) is a finite object, with a (huge but) finite number of interconnections. Such a physically constrained object could not possible contain an infinite amount of data!"
But frankly, I'm not sure I buy this argument. Sure, it has all the hallmarks of a winner (pseudo-scientific jargon, vague reference to questionable research, disrespectful and casual dismissal of your opponents side of the debate based on his being of obviously lower intelligence), but what about this, smart guy: A figure can be conceptualilzed and expressed mathematically that has a finite area (or volume) and yet an infinite area (or surface area). Could we not imagine a memory system that is fractal in nature, with data being encoded in the trace of an infinite coastline as opposed to the interconnections of the structure within (or at the very least imagine a information storage system that is in some way analagous to this type of structure)? Huh? Could we not?
Of course, I have been hitting the bubble pipe a little too hard these days. Man, my fins are so real.
Dear thomas,
Definitely not. If I had time to work on a web page, do you think this place would be in the state it's in now?
Dear Death,
Well, I have a lot of friends whom are interested in breaking into occupational fields where the bar to entry is pretty high. Mind you, most of them are visual artists and writers, with the odd actor thrown in there every once in a while. But I can only imagine the situations are pretty muc analogous. Some of them have succeeded, and some have failed. Those that have succeeded have definitely had a few things in common, and I'll impart those attributes which, while they may not be sufficient, definitely seem to be neccessary to acheive success in tough-to-enter jobs:
Dear Upsidedown,
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Innovation and Humanity
Writing about innovation, business strategies, technology, science and future trends in marketing and communication is something I cannot keep separated from my personal interests and passions. These "things" are not disconnected from my professional life: together with competencies and skills, they represent the foundation, what's needed to nourish it, to make it thicker, more dense and more genuinely authentic. Talking about Innvoation strategies or any professional topic without unveiling something personal would make this blog a mere business presentation or just another message among millions out there. Thankfully we are all different. What we are cultivating in our hearts in terms of ideals, dreams, sacrifices, goals, expectations, etc., is what makes us unique, it enriches us bringing direct benefits to the people with whom we are interacting in our professional and personal life. I usually go to buy fruits and vegetables directly from the farmer and while talking about my job with the owner of the farm (an eighty years old man) he told me: "University degrees are important, but what it is far more important is that behind the titles there is a good person, a person you can trust, a sincere and honest person that is passionate about what he or she does." He's a great old man! Why am I telling all this? Because I'd like to share with you two causes that need urgent and active support. One is AnimalAsia which aims to stop bear farming in China. The other is Savethedogs which fights against the massacre of stray dogs in Romania. Why am I asking this? Because I believe that caring for animals has the power to improve us as human beings. The compassion that leads us to act and to defend their rights becomes a great example of civilization for the whole community. Because Innovation that grows in our heart brings us further. Even in the business.


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Mozilla released an update to Thunderbird last week (version 3.1.10). This update addressed security issues. So my understanding is that 10.04 Ubuntu should receive the update. But my Thunderbird installation from the Main repository has not updated. Why not?
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Health and safety is the most important concern for the UVM community. Students should NEVER hesitate to get help for themselves or for a friend over fear of "getting in trouble." "Got Your Back" serves to give "amnesty" for those students involved in an unsafe alcohol or drug "detox" situation.
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We in the Office of the Dean of Students are deeply concerned that, in a medical emergency involving alcohol or other drugs, students may refrain from calling for help because of fear that doing so might subject them to disciplinary action. To address this fear, we have set forth the following protocol for addressing possible disciplinary consequences when medical emergencies result from the use of alcohol or other drugs.
- Any individual who seeks medical assistance on behalf of another student during an alcohol or other drug-related emergency and specifies "Got Your Back" will meet with staff from Alcohol and Other Drug Services to discuss the incident, but will not be subjected to disciplinary proceedings through the University's judicial process for possession or consumption of alcohol or other drugs.
- The recipient of medical attention will not be required to resolve the matter through the University's judicial process if she/he agrees (1) to participate in a health referral with the Office of Alcohol and Drug Services, and (2) to comply with any possible recommendations set forth by that Office.
- If an individual or representative of an organization hosting an event calls for medical assistance, this act of responsibility will alleviate any judicial sanctions against the individual or organization that might arise from the possession or consumption of alcohol or other drugs. This will apply in isolated incidents only and will not excuse or protect those individuals or organizations that flagrantly or repeatedly violate the UVM Alcohol and Other Drug Policy. Similarly, failure to call for medical assistance in an alcohol or drug related emergency will be considered an "aggravating circumstance" and may affect the judicial resolution against the individual or organization if violations of the University Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities have occurred.
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2009: Was sixth in the 400m dash at the UW-WSU dual meet in a season-best 1:01.33 ... also ran 26.70 in the 200m to take seventh vs. WSU ... ran the 400m hurdles for the first time with a season-best 1:06.59 at the Ken Shannon Invite ... indoors, ran three races at the Husky Classic including the 60m, 200m, and 4x400m relay ... 26.57 in the 200 at the Husky Classic was a season-best.
2008: Competed in a variety of sprints events as a freshman indoors including the 60-meters, 200-meteres, 400-meters, and 4x400m relay ... most frequent distance was the 400m, where she ran a season-best of 59.75 at the UW Invitational ... ran the final leg on UW's 4x400m relay at the UW Invitational, which finished in 3:53.50 ... redshirted the outdoor season, competing twice unattached.
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