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I've been trying to set up a static IP address on my new Ubuntu build (12.04.3 LTS).
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Meetings feature Myers' sermons
Uplifting messages and testimony are being shared via video at a new Wednesday evening series at the Hilo Seventh-day Adventist Church at 162 Kapiolani St. Everyone is invited to the sessions featuring sermons on various topics by Pastor Ivor Myers. The series began this week, with focus on Myers' own testimony on growing his relationship with Jesus.
The Wednesday meetings start at 6 p.m. with a light, healthful meal, followed by a musical feature. Myer's sermon is then shown, followed by open discussion and a question-and-answer opportunity.
1n 1995, Myers was part of a four-man hip hop group signed to EMI Records. In that same year, he had an encounter with the word of God, walked away from the industry and is now pastoring the Templeton Hills Seventh-day Adventist church in Templeton, Calif., where he, his wife and four children live.
"As speaker/director of Power of the Lamb Ministries, Ivor and his wife, Atonte, have dedicated themselves to the spreading of the Gospel. Power of the Lamb Ministries seeks to uplift Christ as the only hope of salvation, and to connect people with the power of the Lamb to become new creatures in Christ," said spokeswoman Liz Toledo, of the Hilo church. "Ivor and Atonte co-host the 3ABN program Battles of Faith. As a result of their ministry, several other ministries are having a profound effect on many people.
"The series of video sermons featuring Pastor Myers and the followup discussions will provide a wonderful opportunity to grow and enrich your Christian walk. All are invited and welcome to share," said Toledo.

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Tap your toe to the best guitar pickers, banjo strummers and fiddle players ever to perform on a visit to the Grand Ole Opry. Since 1925 performing at the Opry has marked the epitome of any country musician's career.
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Flawless acoustics mark concerts at the Ryman Auditorium, the Mother Church of Country Music. The 1892 church-turned-concert hall has hosted singers from Elvis Presley to Elvis Costello and was the original home of the Grand Ole Opry.
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Listen to Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" and Billy Ray Cyrus' "Achy Breaky Heart" at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum while browsing collections of musical instruments, sparkling costumes and Elvis' opalescent car.
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A red neon guitar marks downtown Nashville's Ernest Tubb Record Shop. The small shop was founded in 1947 by the Texas Troubadour, Ernest Tubb. Buy Tubb's "Walking the Floor Over You" or browse shelves of CDs, ideal souvenir shopping and one of the 10 best musical things to do in Nashville.
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Before you return to your Nashville hotel, visit Tootsie's Orchid Lounge for a honky-tonkin' good time. Grab a Pabst Blue Ribbon, head to the dance floor and shake it up to the sounds of a live band. Broadway is Honky-Tonk Highway, with toe-tapping music day and night.
Browse concert posters advertising Roy Acuff, B.B. King and Bruce Springsteen at Hatch Show Print. Hatch still produces posters using equipment from 1879.
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Pass from one live music venue to another, listening to over 80 live performances in Tin Pan South, an annual festival of song writing. Up-and-coming writers share stage time with pros like Carole King, Art Garfunkel, Garth Brooks, Loretta Lynn and Donna Summer.
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A new device from Google has me fascinated and concerned. It's Google Glasses. This is what looks like a normal set of glasses, but off to the side and slightly above one eye is a lens which displays information into the user's field of vision. With these glasses you can access the internet, receive and make phone calls, take video or pictures or do dozens of other things.
From a geek point of view, this sounds wonderful. I can't wait to try them out.
But from a societal point of view, I have to wonder what affect it will have.
We've already seen people sitting in a restaurant while talking on the phone and ignoring others sitting at the same table. We've seen people in the grocery story checking out while talking on the phone and acting like the clerk checking them out doesn't even exist.
With Google Glasses, if we can not only be on the phone, but also be watching a movie, reading a book or doing research while walking down the street or the hallway, what affect is this going to have. We'll no longer smile and say "Hi" when we pass a co-worker in the hallway or a friend on the street. We're already losing some of our face-to-face communication. Will that only get worse?
Or is this a case of the positives outweigh the negatives?
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Christopher Denham and Brit Marling in Sound of My Voice.
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BRIT Marling is an unusual rising star, not least because she helps create her own material.
She co-wrote the screenplay for Mike Cahill's Another Earth, released last year, and did the same for Zal Batmanglij's Sound of My Voice, another drama with a touch of science fiction.
Blonde and statuesque, she bears a slight resemblance to Heather Graham - not just physically, but in her hippy-dippy manner as Maggie, who claims to have arrived in present-day Los Angeles as a refugee from a future war.
Though Maggie gets irritable when anyone questions her wild stories, her followers include two secret sceptics, Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius).
A pair of would-be journalists rather like the couple in Miranda July's The Future, they seem to think that they can fix their own relationship by exposing Maggie as a fraud. There are only three places this story can go.
Either Maggie is the real deal, or she's lying, or we never find out. In any case, anticlimax seems inevitable.
Sound of My Voice has the misfortune of getting a release at the same time as Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, a much more ambitious film about a cult, which has other issues on its mind than ''truth''.
But here, too, the focus on power struggle within an isolated group gives the actors a chance to show off their talents - especially when Maggie zeroes in on Peter's weaknesses and guides him to what Lorna sarcastically calls an ''emotional orgasm''.
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According to The Huffington Post on Tuesday, Rapper Juicy J has awarded a $50,000 "twerking scholarship" to a young woman who didn't even have to twerk for the hefty prize.
Back in August the Memphis rapper, who is currently topping the charts with Katy Perry, tweeted that he was offering a $50,000 scholarship to "the best chick who can twerk." While some wondered if it was a joke that went viral, Juicy J followed through on his tweeted word and partnered with Worldstarhiphop.com to launch the "Juicy J Scholarship Foundation" competition.
Juicy has now revealed the winner of the contest, and she earned the money without even having to twerk. That's because the rules of the contest said the winner did not actually need to dance on camera in order to get the prize.
In a video posted today on World Star Hip Hop, Juicy J surprises Zaire Holmes, a 19-year-old student at the State College of Florida, with the scholarship.
While Holmes may be a biology major, she scored big on reading comprehension when, according to a press release, she read the complete rules of the competition and realized that there was no twerking required. As the press release unequivocally stated, Holmes "did not twerk her way to the money," which was paid directly to the State College of Florida for her 2015 tuition.
Last August, the rapper announced the formation of what was originally deemeda "twerking" scholarship, though he later admitted entrants did not actually need to twerk and that he was merely going to give the funds to the college-bound recipient who needed it most, he told XXL.
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Investors whose holdings were caught up in the freeze of the Canadian asset-backed commercial paper market in 2007 will be closer to getting a payout if a court approves a plan by regulators to distribute about $60 million they have collected from sellers of the paper.
The two regulators, the Ontario Securities Commission and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, said on Thursday they have applied to Ontario's Superior Court of Justice to approve their plan to distribute the funds to investors who purchased third-party asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP).
The application is scheduled to be heard on March 13 in Toronto.
The paper was essentially short-term debt issued by banks and other financial institutions and collaterized by a mix of financial assets.
The supposedly safe, $32-billion market froze up in August 2007 as investors worried about exposure to U.S. subprime mortgages. With no buyers and sellers for the paper, the market seized up.
Regulators said the funds come from settlement deals that Ontario's securities watchdog and IIROC, a self-regulatory organization that oversees investment dealers and trading activity, reached with ABCP issuers.
CIBC World Markets Inc and HSBC Bank of Canada agreed to pay $21.7 million and $5.92 million, respectively, to Ontario's securities commission.
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During Sr. Mary Louise Sullivan's 10-year presidency, 1972 - 1982, the college grew further. Male students had been admitted in 1970.
Dr Joseph Romano received the first annual faculty award in 1973.
Male students became campus residents in 1975, moving into Counsel Hall. The first male president of S.G.A. was elected that same academic year.
Four new houses were completed in January of 1980 and students moved in before the Spring semester started. The Board of Trustees also approved plans for three more houses to be built by the fall of the same year. the new houses were an innovative solution to the ever-growing resident population.
Ground breaking ceremonies for a student center in November 1980 again attested to Cabrini College's growth. Representing the Widener Trust, Mrs. Dixon stated, "There was a long-time need for such services with the success in growing enrollment". Beginning the dig for the Widener Center are: Dr. Gavigan, chair of the history department, Mary B. Lynch, S.G.A. president, Sr. Mary Louise Sullivan, college president, Mrs. Edith Robb Dixon and Mr. F. E. Dixon, both of the Widener Trust.
Cabrini's silver anniversary was celebrated from Oct. 1981 to Oct.1982, marking 25 years of progress. "We made it happen together," Sr. Mary Louise reminded all in her final words as president of Cabrini College.
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Cabrini opens three student houses. (1980, Spring). Cabrini College Comment, p. 1.
Sullivan, M.L. (1982, April 25). "Reflections" delivered by Sr. Mary Louise at the Presidential Farewell. President's Newsletter, p.1
Sullivan, M.L. (1992). Coming of age. Comment, p.6.
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Bond issue:?Find the facts
October 20, 2013
Steve Velk, Minot Congratulations are in order to the voters in Wahpeton and Grafto....
I will be voting YES. Thank you for your letter.
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after the downtown facelift (on your dollar) be sure to tell business owners (as you admire the facelift) "you didn't build that". vote NO
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fact is our last new school vote was ignored. they bought a bldg. and made it into a school. is that the kind of civics we want our children to see? vote no and let's try to get representative government in minot. don't let oil take our money and our way of life. this is an oil cost the state should pay for. vote no.
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less money to those of us on fixed incomes. less for flood victims. less follows for churches and charity. our majority voted for kevin cramer. that is diabolical. lighting may well strike if they dare to say "tax and spend liberal". red city blues.
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the state has billions from oil and sales taxes. oil caused this need--oil money should pay for it because minot taxes are out of control already.
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Our vote will be no as well because you see valuations of houses have doubled in less than 6 years explain that one to me? In addition, there was a baby pack almost 5 years ago at Minot High School that wasn't address so these children will be going to school. In addition, when other communities about 6 to 7 years ago were experience growth pains, John MacMartin was asked this question would Minot experience this. He said no, and now we're being reactive instead of proactive. Why oh why do we keep paying more taxes? Even before the school bond passes, some people will already be paying almost $1,000 more each year...so now you want us to pay $2,000? I don't think so.
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Wasn't Vollmer who said that if they didn't need all the money, they wouldn't spend it or was the a misquote by MDN?
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3000 students, not the 1500 it holds.
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Our household will be voting no on this issue. Actually I don't know very many people who will be voting yes. The school system doesn't seem to understand that those of us who went through the flood are completely tapped, and we have nothing left to give. Many of us had to take out extra loans and second or even third mortgages to rebuild. Our property value doubled or even tripled from what we paid for our houses before the flood. Where are we supposed to keep coming up with all of the extra money that this city wants from us? It's time for us to come together and put our voice out there that we are tired of the taxes and we will not pay more!
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Go to the Minot Public Library and ask for November 22, 1969 issue where the whole plan for the 69 bond issue is laid out in a large , detailed article in the Minot Daily News. There was no lying about the plan of the 69 Bond Issue. Do not take my word for it - go and research it at the library by reading.
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Well Steve, Don't let the door hit you in the****on Dec 11 when you move out of town. Were are you moving to, Wahpeton and Grafton?
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"?Find the Facts" Yep, a good question that was not answered by this letter. unsafe===how? over- crowded====where and how? our schools have been using portables for years. Now we have some newbies moving in who will be moving out and they just can't have their kiddies in a portable? Until the school board is straight forward and honest, which they have not been since they lied about Minot High, my vote is no.
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Yes Mr. Velk...my NO vote will cancel your YES vote. See you at the polls!!!!
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In 1941, after their first child, John Templeton, Jr., was born, John and Judith Templeton purchased their first home in a cash deal, a twelve-year old, three-bedroom house in Englewood, New Jersey for $5,000. Five years later, they purchased a fifty-year-old twelve-room house at 124 Chestnut Street for $17,000 and sold the first home for the same amount of money.
That second house would remain his principal residence until he and his partners sold Templeton, Dobbrow and Vance, Inc. to the Richardson family of North Carolina in 1959. In February of 1951, while they were on vacation in Bermuda, Mrs. Templeton suffered a motor cycle accident on a highway and died in the hospital of her injuries.
During a hurricane season, Templeton purchased a summer house on Fishers Island in Long Island Sound for $18,000. The children spent six summers there with servants.
He would fly in to join them on weekends. His children would later sell the residence for $630,000.
In 1954, Templeton founded the Templeton Growth Fund, a mutual fund. According to the Templeton Foundation, "With dividends reinvested, each $10,000 invested in the Templeton Growth Fund Class A at its inception would have grown to $2 million by 1992, when he sold the family of Templeton Funds to the Franklin Group."
In 1956, Templeton co-founded the Nucleonics, Chemistry, and Electronics Fund with marketing consultant William Damroth. Templeton married his second wife, Irene Reynolds Butler, in 1958.
The next year, Templeton sold his consultancy firm to an insurance company owned by the Richardsons. This was the Piedmont Company. He sold his ownership stake in the Nucleonics, Chemistry, and Electronics Fund in 1962.
Templeton renounced his American citizenship in 1964. He moved to Lyford Cay in the Bahamas, which became his primary residence, in 1968. Templeton soon acquired dual British-Bahamian citizenship.
In 1972, Templeton established the Templeton Prize. The first recipient of the Templeton Prize was Mother Theresa in 1973. The monetary portion of the Templeton Prize always exceeds the Nobel Prize and is currently £1,000,000 sterling ($1,800,000).
His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh agreed to annually present the Templeton Prize, and did so through 2011. Since then, Dr. John M. Templeton, Junior, the Chairman and President of the Templeton Foundation, presented the Dalai Lama with the 2012 Templeton Prize; his daughter Heather Templeton Dill presented Archbishop Desmond Tutu with the 2013 Templeton Prize; and Dr. Templeton presented Monsignor Tomáš Halík with the 2014 Templeton Prize.
By 1974, the Templeton Growth Fund had $13,000,000 in assets under management. That same year, John Galbraith joined the staff. An account who had formerly worked for Templeton at Templeton, Dobbrow and Vance, Inc. not to be confused with the famous economist John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006), he approached Templeton about working for him again when the Piedmont Company moved west.
Galbraith when to Lyford Cay to present a plan to open a network of brokers and dealers across the U.S.A. Within four years, the Templeton Growth Fund had $100,000,000 in assets under management.
Galbraith believed strongly that the Templeton Growth Fund would grow rapidly if Templeton did more than rely on word of mouth to attract investors and proved his point. Under his plan, if Galbraith succeeded in multiplying the assets under management tenfold in ten years, he would purchase management of it from Templeton, paying for it in three years. However, if he failed, Templeton would retain ownership and owe Galbraith nothing, as Templeton's biographer, Professor Robert L. Herrmann, explained in Sir John Templeton: Supporting Scientific Research for Spiritual Discoveries.
In 1978, at Galbraith's suggestion, Templeton established the Templeton World Fund. That same year, Templeton also brought in another future partner, Tom Hansberger, who helped him manage the Templeton Growth Fund, from an office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
In 1984, he made a commitment to donate $5,000,000 to the Oxford Center for Management Studies over a five-year-long period. This came on top of earlier donations that also amounted to $5,000,000.
This second donation and an agreement by the University of Oxford to allow the matriculation of twelve graduate students allowed the Oxford Center for Management Studies to transform into Templeton College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford that in 2008 merged with Green College to form Green Templeton College, Oxford's newest constituent college.
Green Templeton College (G.T.C.) is a graduate college. G.T.C. states it "has a distinctive academic profile, specialising in subjects relating to human welfare and social, economic and environmental well-being in the 21st century, including medical sciences, management, and a broad range of social sciences, including education, environmental sciences and social policy."
A Presbyterian elder, Sir John Marks Templeton served as a trustee of the Princeton Theological Seminary, the largest of ten Presbyterian seminaries in the United States, for forty-two years. He served as chairman for twelve years. While in the Bahamas, he founded the Templeton Theological Seminary.
In 1986, John Templeton's asset management operation in Lyford Cay and John Galbraith's marketing operation (then located in St. Petersburg, Florida) merged to form Templeton, Galbraith and Hansberger, Ltd. Six years later, Mark Holowesko, whom Templeton had hired in 1985, became Chief Investment Officer of Templeton Worldwide, Inc.
That same year, 1992, Templeton, Galbraith & Hansberger had $22,000,000,000 in assets under management. Later that year, the Franklin Group, Inc. based in San Mateo, California purchased Templeton, Galbraith & Hansberger for $913,000,000, of which Templeton received $440,000,000.


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- Attention! Exhibition
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The patience of the masters who can make wood listen is reflected today in the examples of kündekâri that adorn the most beatiful buildings.
With super-human patience and geometric genius, the artist creates a masterpiece in wood using a technique known as 'kündekâri' or tongue-and-groove joining. Easily moved around until the right fit is found, the thousands of tiny geometric pieces of wood eventually come together to stand the test of time. And for this reason the making of a piece of kündekâri does not tolerate even the slightest mistake.
The art of woodworking was highly developed in regions such as Northern Europe, and the Near and Far East where wood production was intensive. Implemented uniquely by each culture, it attempted to enhance visual richness by adorning buildings with wooden decorations.
Islamic art, too, frequently employed wood both in architecture and in decoration. Although Sasanian and Hellenistic influences are evident in the earliest examples of Islamic woodworking, Islamic art in time invented its own unique style. Wooden decorations were widely employed alongside other materials such as stone, tiles, bricks and plaster using different techniques. In both religious and secular architecture, structural elements such as doors, window shutters and grilles, cabinet doors, columns and capitals, eaves, ceilings, beams, brackets, railings and banisters were used as surfaces for decorative woodcarving. And inside these buildings, both portable and fixed items such as mosque niches, pulpits, podiums, Kuran racks, drawers, chests, private enclosures for the sultan, pendentives, lecterns, stools, and turban stands were made of wood and their surfaces decorated with carving. A wide variety of woodworking techniques was employed in Islamic art, including carving, lattice work, inlay, painting on wood, turning on a lathe, and, last but not least, tongue-and-groove joining or 'kündekâri'.
Şehmus Okur, the kündekâri artist who continues to employ kündekâri in several mosques today, describes the technique and its origins as follows: "The word kündekâri came into Turkish from Persian; its original form is 'kendekâri'. The first examples of this art began to appear in the Mamluk and early Seljuk periods. Kündekâri is a three-dimensional art. While there was only the art of wood carving in the beginning, in time geometric designs began to be incised on the surface of stone or wood to add depth. The designs were traced on blocks of wood from one species of tree and then placed side by side. Broad surfaces such as mosque pulpits, a stone wall, or panels made of wood were covered in designs created by this method. First traced and then incised on blocks of wood, the blocks tended to separate over time and deep cracks to develop between them. As a solution to the problem, the artists began to join wood of either the same or different trees by dovetailing without using either nails or glue, thereby creating very large surfaces. Kündekâri began to be employed throughout the Islamic lands in the periods of the Mamluks, Seljuks and Ottomans in the doors, pulpits, and podiums of its monumental works of architecture. For wood carving is an art that offers possibilities of the highest order."
Requiring great expertise, kündekâri is made by joining together tiny interlocking pieces of wood cut in the form of polygons or stars and decorated with 'Rumi' designs or palmettoes in relief. These pieces are then fitted together in an ornate geometric composition. Several different geometric shapes are used at once, including stars - to symbolize eternity - octagons, decagons and 'baklava' or lozenge shapes. In some examples, small plaques of various types of wood of different colors are placed among them to produce a composition that combines woodcarving with mother-of-pearl, tortoise shell and ivory inlay. Since the pieces are not joined using any adhesive substance, they do not separate with time. In some instances a 'structural frame', again made of wood, is added behind the joined pieces to enhance durability. The wood employed is that of trees that are not affected by heat and humidity under varying weather conditions, and the cracks and swelling that normally occur in wood over time are thereby prevented thanks to the air spaces left between the joined pieces. Keeping this in mind, woods such as walnut, boxwood, pear, cherry and mahogany are used for interiors, and ivory, teak, snakewood, wenge (African rosewood), balsam, mahogany, gold leaf, tortoise shell, silver, ivory, mother-of-pearl, rubies and emeralds for decoration. On the exterior, durable woods such as oak, mahogany, teak and ash, which are able to withstand harsh weather conditions, are used.
Appearing in the 12th century in Egypt, Aleppo and Anatolia, the kündekâri technique developed further in the time of the Turkish and Circassian Mamluks of Egypt. Highly refined workmanship employing inlays of fine strips of ivory and mother-of-pearl is striking particularly in these periods. And the kündekâri in the niches of the tombs of Seyyide Nefise and of Seyyide Rukiyye of Fatimid Cairo, on a chest in the tomb of İmam-ı Şafii, on the door of the tomb of Melik Salih Necmeddin Eyyub, and on the pulpit of the Ibn Tolun Mosque, all of Ayyubid Cairo, and on the pulpit of the Kayıtbay Mosque of Mamluk Cairo stand out as the choicest examples of the technique outside Anatolia. In Anatolia itself, the earliest example of kündekâri is the niche of the Alaaddin Mosque at Konya from the Seljuk period. Other matchless examples of kündekâri are found in the prayer niches of the Eşrefoğlu Mosque at Beyşehir, the Sungurbey Mosque at Niğde, the Taşkın Pasha Mosque at Ürgüp, the Great Mosque at Birgi, the Great Mosque of Manisa, the Great Mosque of Bursa, and the Zağanos Pasha Mosque at Balıkesir. Not only were tiny geometric pieces of interlocking wood joined together in the kündekâri techique, as if this were not enough, they were often minutely inscribed with chronograms as well.
Created with patience and a supreme degree of manual skill, kündekâri is thus an art with deep meaning.


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With thin high clouds blowing east on a chill wind off the Pacific, Saturday's weather here in the Bay Area felt more like a raw November day than late April. It was sufficient improvement over Friday, however, that golf fans, young and old, came out in great numbers to the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic at Lake Merced Golf Club to see the ladies of the LPGA take on the challenging Rees Jones-designed course.
It should come as no surprise that plenty of fans came out today – these are the same Bay Area sports fans that used to collect "Croix de Candlestick" pins for staying to the end of extra-innings Giants night games at the famously frigid Candlestick Park.
Conditions at Lake Merced for Saturday's third round were tough, but fair. Unlike Friday's round, when heavy rains late morning and midday made it tough for the players who were on the course at that time, and later-finishing players had (somewhat) more benign conditions, the weather stayed consistently chilly & blustery for most of the day today, the winds dying down noticeably only as the last few groups were wrapping up their rounds.
Early moves by some relative back-markers were overshadowed by the match of the day, a showdown between American Stacy Lewis and Lydia Ko, the Korean/New Zealander teen who celebrated her 17th birthday during yesterday's round.
Lewis and Ko were grouped with Karine Icher, of France, whose 1st-round 66 is the low round of the tournament so far, but it was the Lewis & Ko Show all the way today, as the Frenchwoman made some early bogeys and dropped off the torrid pace her companions set in the third round. A pair of birdies on the back nine allowed Icher to recoup some of her losses for a T-5 position at the close of the day.
Ko trailed Lewis by a stroke at the beginning of the third round, but jumped out to a 1-stroke lead over the former World #1 with a pair of birdies in the middle of the front nine, at holes 5 and 6, while Lewis could only string together a succession of pars.
Lewis credited her caddy with keeping her on an even keel in the early part of the round, "(On t)he front nine he just kept telling me to be patient, be patient, be patient, because there would be birdie opportunities later."
Ko dropped a shot at the par-4 eleventh hole, evening the score, when she couldn't get up and down for par after leaving her approach shot short of the green despite a good lie and good position in the fairway. It was at this point that the contest between the two turned into a punch-counterpunch contest that kept their gallery on edge for the final seven holes.
Both players birdied the par-3 twelfth, Ko on an arcing 25-foot putt from below and left of the back-right hole position, Lewis with a much shorter, but tricky, downhill slider from the right. The duo split the next two holes with pars, Ko missing a birdie opportunity at the par-5 fourteenth when she duffed a chip from short of the green, leaving a long come-backer for birdie, which she missed.
At the 15th hole, a long par-3 playing into the wind, Lewis stuffed her tee shot to four feet for an excellent birdie chance while Ko left her tee shot short of the green and right. A deft chip and a long curling rollout gave Ko her fourth birdie of the day, rendering Lewis' short drop for her two almost anti-climactic.
The table were turned at the 16th hole, a 335-yard par-4 with a steep drop to the green from the end of the usable fairway. This time it was Ko's turn to stiff her approach to the front-right flag and leave herself a short downhill putt for her three, while Lewis's third was a 45-foot slider from the far end of the lozenge-shaped green. Lewis rolled the putt perfectly, with the right speed, and on the right line, to drop into the heart of the cup. Ko's delicate downhill 3-footer for birdie dropped in neatly, but Lewis's long roll was the star of the hole.
The 17th hole turned out to be the deciding factor on the day. Both Lewis and Ko placed their tee shots near the bottom of the fairway's steep downslope, but Ko was in the right rough and Lewis just near the right-hand edge of the fairway. Ko's approach was a bit too shallow to hold the green, and though it hit short of the center flag, it released and ran through to a foot or two off the back edge.
Lewis stiffed the difficult uphill approach shot, leaving herself a fairly simple 4 – 5 footer for birdie. Ko's chip from off of the back edge released and rolled past the hole, and all she could do was hang on for her par after Lewis sank her birdie putt to retake the lead at 10-under, which is where the round ended after both made routine pars on the par-5 eighteenth hole.
The rounds of 68 shot by Lewis and Ko were matched by a trio of other players – Jenny Shin, Hee Young Park, and Shanshan Feng, who finished the day 3rd, 4th, and T-5 respectively, but Lewis and Ko have opened a gap between themselves and the rest of the field, with Shin at -6 and the other two each a stroke further back. Sunday's final round promises to be similarly dramatic, with both players on their games, and light showers in the morning predicted to clear out by noon, leading to conditions similar to the third round for the leading duo.
The best of the Northern California-connected players in the field at the end of the third round was Michelle Wie, T-13 at 1-under. Monterey's Mina Harigae turned in a +1 round of 73 for a +5 T-40, where she is joined by Pleasanton-native Paula Creamer. Los Altos resident Juli Inkster, who at age 51 is in her last year as a fully active LPGA competitor, is T-48 at 6-under.


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This California couple wanted to create a fun, colorful beach vibe for an adorable 1st birthday and enlisted Allison Noelle Events for help with design and styling. Dad, an avid surfer, lined up his surfboards for a cool party backdrop. Isari Flower Studio created vibrant and youthful arrangements by mixing orange orchids, garden roses, dahlias, berries and echinacea with complementing aqua gems and fun beach accents. Dad's favorite beverage, Saint Archer beer, kept the adults' thirst quenched. Baby Jack's highchair was decked out with a boardshort banner, providing the backdrop for digging into his Smash Cake, which was topped with a surfboard and goldfish. BellaLuz Photography was the perfect pick to capture the fun and vibrancy of the moment. Fishing net draped the dessert station, which featured beach-themed cookies resting on a plate of brown sugar "sand", surfboard cupcakes to match the Smash Cake, and Goldfish marshmallow pops. Kiddos were entertained with a sidewalk Chalk station, oversized beach balls, a mini bounce house, and butcher paper-covered tables topped with beach buckets of sand and crayons. Guests took home beach pails with catch phrases "Hang Ten", "Beach Babe" and "Surfs Up" stuffed with goodies. The highlight of the party: A 10-foot tall custom made shark photo booth that provided a fun spot for everyone to stop and snap a few shots of the day.
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Having enjoyed George Bush's memoir, Decision Points, I was anxious to hear Laura's side of the story in her book, Spoken from the Heart. It was even better than I'd expected, and if Laura really wrote it herself, I'm impressed. It was a huge book, yet it didn't drag and I found it compelling throughout. Thoughts:
- I enjoyed Laura's tales of her childhood. It was surprising how much life has changed since those days: Laura mentions smoking and drinking in her youth (saying pretty much everyone in her town of Midland, TX did) — seems out-of-character for her! She also says that kids got their licenses at 14, and this leads into the tragic car accident where she was driving when she killed a classmate and friend. I felt so bad for her as she went through her thought process. She didn't visit the dead boy's parents, feeling that they would not want to see her. Yet she has felt guilty about that for years since.
- I also felt sad for Laura, who always wanted siblings. Her mom did have 3 other children after Laura, but all died at birth. So sad, and a reminder at how far medicine has come since then. I think most if not all of those babies would have made it today. But, Laura and her parents were a close unit and it was wonderful to read about their long car trips, her mom's delicious cooking, and her mom's intelligence. She sounds like a woman before her time!
- Laura was just a normal girl, but her fortunes took a big upward slope when she married George Bush, Midland's "most eligible bachelor." I like Laura and I like the Bushes, but still it was amazing to read about the opportunities that come when you're around powerful people. When Laura is in the hospital having her twins, her dad visits and complains about his shoulder hurting. Immediately, a relative has him go down the hall for an x-ray that diagnoses cancer. Laura and the twins get to fly home on a private plane. George's oil job takes them on various overseas trips. When the elder Bushes are in the White House, both as Pres. and Vice-Pres., the younger Bushes get to go to State Dinners and other functions. George likes baseball, and so he and some buddies "pitch in" to buy a millions-of-dollars professional team. That kind of thing comes up all the time, and it's fascinating to read how the "other half" lives!
- Throughout, Laura offers insightful thoughts. When her dad develops dementia, he's asked who was the last president. It was George Bush, Laura's father-in-law — yet her dad had no idea. Laura pondered how fleeting our lives are: our memories, our moments — how four years in the White House and the millions of still photos and tens of thousands of hours of videotape that accumulate from the highest levels of a political career can just vanish amid the death of brain cells. George H W Bush was one of the most recognized men on the planet in the year 1990, and now, three years later, my own father forgets my father-in-law.
- I suppose it's natural that Laura would point out George W's best points, but darn! He seems like such a caring, decent guy. I felt the same way after reading his own memoir. Examples: one night, a teenaged Jenna was distraught over something. George went into her room to talk with her and would not leave until he started to help her feel better about the situation. Outside the room, one of Laura's staffers overheard them and began to cry, saying she wished she'd had a dad like that. Don't we all? Another time, the Bushs' springer spaniel, Spot, had a severe stroke. The night before they were going to have her euthanized, George carried her out to the South Lawn of the White House and lay down with her on the grass that she loved, petting her. She had been the only dog to be born at the White House (to George HW and Barbara Bush's dog), and to die there as well. I dare you to read that with a dry eye!
- Laura goes into the anguish George felt at going to war with Iraq. Of course now it's fashionable to say we went for no good reason, etc. But she speculates: what would the world be saying if we'd gone to war against Afghanistan in 1999? And yet, if we had, perhaps 9-11 would have been prevented. You just can't know, and George felt a HUGE responsibility to keep Americans safe after 9-11. It really changed both their lives.
- It's no surprise that the Bushes faced a lot of negative press. Laura tells how one of her daughters, in college during their White House years, told her that a Yale teaching assistant had told her, "I will only give you an A in this class if you tell your father not to go to war." Wow. Talk about pressure! Also, several authors, teachers, and poets refused to participate in arts events Laura arranged, thinking that they were making an anti-war statement by doing this. As always, Laura tells about these events in her gentle, gracious way: Most of us … are guilty of some kind of stereotyping, but I have always found it a uniquely distressing attribute in people who study and teach. For these are the people who have chosen as their profession the life of the mind, and they are the ones whom we trust to teach our children. They, who have had every educational benefit, should welcome different thoughts and viewpoints. But so many responded to a White House invitation with their minds closed. I can relate to this, as — sadly — it's often presumed that conservatives (Christians as well) have a simplistic, ignorant world view. I strongly object to this!
- Laura tells about some interesting faux pas: sometimes, they got bad info on foreign leaders they were going to visit. For instance, Laura was once told that a leader's spouse had been a teacher. She brought this up in conversation when she met the woman, who looked at her in surprise and said that she'd been an engineer. Another time, they were told that the South Korean leader loved to bowl, so they had a special custom bowling ball made for him as a gift. When they presented it, he had no idea what it was: he had never bowled before! As humorous as these anecdotes are, they're also a bit troubling. Made me wonder what else our leaders are messed up over!
- I enjoyed the parts where Laura told about White House facts, and the tour Hillary Clinton gave her when she was moving in. She spoke of the special bond among first ladies, regardless of party. Again though, media bias showed through: a media report said that the Bushes had been late to the White House tour, when in reality the Clintons were. And once when Laura gave a speech, a press reporter said, "if you hadn't seen her, you'd have almost thought it was Hillary Clinton talking" (this was said like that was a good thing). Laura struggled with the press's reluctance to admit that she had a voice of her own.
- So many details were given about Laura's various trips (75 countries while she was First Lady), and again, it was amazing to imagine the perks of holding such high office. Free trips, meeting all kinds of leaders and celebrities worldwide, etc. Laura speaks of having Prince Charles to the White House, and choosing various dinner guests they thought he would enjoy. Can you imagine someone holding a dinner in your honor and inviting people they specifically thought you'd enjoy? How cool — yet for the rich and powerful, this must happen all the time. She also spoke Christmas seasons, when representatives and other Washington higher-ups could invite friends, relatives, etc. to tour the decorated White House. I can't imagine living such a high-altitude life, but it's fun to contemplate.
This was such an interesting book, well-written and fascinating. I admire Laura and George Bush after reading it more than I did before. Recommended!


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The freshest Burgers and sandwiches in the west valley! The Blu Burger Grille is a tiny restaurant located at Parkwest shopping plaza. It is on the corner across from the Harkins Movie Theater. Blu Burger Grill is the west valley's fresh secret. The food rocks!
The menu is a unique one; your meal is your own custom creation. If you are having a burger; you start by picking your burger (choices range from Kobe beef to Veggie to Salmon to Portabella). Next, choose your bun or even just wrapped in lettuce. Then, add your favorite toppings including a variety of cheeses, veggies, and sauces. There are special ingredients to choose from including sautéed mushrooms, caramelized onions, green chile, ham, and even a fried egg, if you prefer.
Not much of a burger person? They have other sandwiches and salads. All the burgers and sandwiches are cooked to order and come with your choice of one side: a mixed greens salad, french fries, sweet potato fries, cole slaw, onion rings or zucchini fries.
Blu Burger Grille has a full bar and happy hour prices are Monday – Friday, 3pm - 6pm which includes $2.50 draft beers, $4.00 house wines, $4.00 well cocktails, and up to 40% OFF Appetizers. Also, if you bring your West Gate AMC Theater's movie stub to Blu Burger Grille at Park West, you will receive complimentary Buffalo Chips appetizer with the purchase of an adult meal. This offer is valid within three days of movie ticket purchase.
Don't forget to get dessert; their warm, doughy cookie with creamy vanilla ice cream is sinful.
Seating in this little restaurant is limited, but it is quaint and cozy. Blu Burger Grille is family owned with three locations in the valley. You can check out their website at www.bluburger.com and sign up for email specials. The family boasts "It is our continuous commitment to quality is what keeps our patrons coming back. So stop in and ketchup with the best!"


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Want to take a nap, but don't feel like you have the time? You are probably like a lot of Americans who find they are lagging in the late afternoon – tired, lethargic, irritable, brain turned to mush – sound familiar?
Before you turn to the vending machines or a nasty energy drink that just postpones the crash, try a short nap instead. These naps are not only free, but quick and extremely effective, even more effective in fact, than naps of longer length.
In several studies, researchers found that 10 to 15 minute naps were the best to improve alertness and cognitive performance, (the opposite of brain mush), compared to naps 30, 45, and 90 minutes in length. 2,3,4, 5.
Now who doesn't have 10 minutes to improve their mental efficiency, productivity, and how much better they'll feel for the rest of the day? (Bathroom breaks can take longer, and everyone seems to fit those in regularly.)
Perhaps the best nap method is the Power Nap. You don't need a pillow and a blanket; you don't even need to go to sleep! You just need a comfortable place to lie on your back, put your feet up, and breathe comfortably.
One of the reasons power naps work so well is because the unique body positioning redistributes blood flow throughout the body. It also relieves tension in the shoulders and in the back. This, along with the restful breathing, results in an immediate increase in energy, the ability to focus, and a general feeling of rejuvenation. 1
Power Naps are easy to do. They don't take long. There are no dangerous side effects, and the results are amazing. Perhaps this is why power naps are the favorite among thousands of people who have used them to relax and recharge.
You can do power nap on your own, or you can follow along with a download to your mp3 player, i Pod, i Pad, computer, or other audio device.
1. The World Is Not a Stressful Place, Time for a Nap . . . A Power Nap, p.134. Michael Olpin Ph.D. Department of Health Promotion and Human Performance, Weber State University.
2. Journal of Sleep Research. 2002 Sep;11(3):213-8.The recuperative value of brief and ultra-brief naps on alertness and cognitive performance. Tietzel AJ, Lack LC.
3. Ergonomics. 2004 Jul 15;47(9):1003-13. Post-lunch nap as a worksite intervention to promote alertness on the job.Takahashi M, Nakata A, Haratani T, Ogawa Y, Arito H. National Institute of Industrial Health, 6-21-1, Nagao, Tama-ku, Kawasaki 214-8585, Japan. firstname.lastname@example.com
4. Clinical Neurophysiology. 1999 Feb;110(2):272-9. The effects of a 20 min nap in the mid-afternoon on mood, performance and EEG activity. Hayashi M, Watanabe M, Hori T.Department of Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-hiroshima, Japan.
5. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 1998 Apr;52(2):203-4. The effects of a 20-min nap before post-lunch dip. Hayashi M, Hori T.Department of Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan.
6. Six Minutes to a Better Memory – Health Tip – Real Age Health
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AmyJo Proctor
Power Naps should be a requirement for everyone. when I spend the 10-15 minutes to take a power nap at about 11:30 (that is when I get sluggish) it revives me and I get twice as much done in the remainder of my work hours than on the days that I "don't have time" for a power nap
I love these 15 minute power naps! I would request to download them and do it. Being in the stress management class I was the same way feeling like I didn't have time to do a power nap or any of the other techniques, but once I did them (especially the power nap) I notice I was getting more done.
this is by far my favorite exercise
I loved this article! I need to have my boyfriend read it, he insists long hour naps are best. I find more benefit from power naps. When I take longer naps, I wake up and still feel tired.
Megan Auton
I really enjoyed this article! I LOVE taking naps but I really don't have the time, and when I do, I usually take a 2-3 hour nap and wake up even more tired than before I went to sleep. I think it's great that we can be rejuvenated in just a matter of a few minutes and anywhere for that matter!
I have personally seen how well the power nap works and believe everyone should try it at least once.
I love that power naps are not actually "falling asleep" I always thought that which is why I never did it. But reading this and knowing that I can just lay down and put my feet up, breathing counts? You bet Ill be doing this more often! If not daily!! This is great!
I just did the powernap exercise from this website and it worked great! What I notice more than anything is the mental rest that takes place in addition to the body rest.
Preston Healy
I agree that power naps give you an extra boost of energy to last throughout the day. It seems to help when stressed to go lay down for 15 minutes and just relax and get things off your mind.
Devanie Webber
This is a great article! I didn't know that you didn't have to actually be asleep to have a power nap. I totally agree that they refuel your body because I rely on short naps to get through my crazy day.
Corinne Cannon
I tend to have a weird aversion to naps because I feel like I'm wasting time, but yet I always get tired in the afternoon. This article helps a lot knowing that even a short amount of time can help rejuvinate me. I'm excited to try!
I read this article because I am usually in need of a good nap. Who would have though a power nap would be so easy! Instead of sleeping for 45 minutes, im just going to kick my feet up and lay down for about 10 minutes and breathe.
I really like this article because now I know that a power nap doesn't mean I have to fall asleep. I can keep on going through the day if I just can close my eyes for 10-15 minutes.
I am a firm believer of power naps. My wife takes one every day at 3:30 and the difference in her mood and energy after is a complete 180. If she is cranky, just give her 20 minutes for her nap and she comes back a completely different person. I don't know where I would be without power naps.
Ashley Hancey
I really enjoyed learning about the power nap! I feel so much better after doing that excerise than taking an actual two hour nap and feeling grougy. Awesome!
Rosa Portillo
I never believed power naps really worked. When I actually tried it for the first time, I was AMAZED!!! I absolutely love power naps now! Great tool to use!
I really like the great information presented here! The power nap is just what I needed and I will recommend it to my friends.
Great article and very informative! I had no idea that you didn't even need to fall asleep in order for it to be called a power nap.
Weston Charlesworth
I had heard of this before and had never really tried it, I've heard that when you nap you need to make sure you don't do it in your bed as your body goes into full sleep mode. That personally helped me a ton, I'll have to try power napping with it and see how much more it helps.
Cameron Anderson
I have been trying to do this in between school and work. I've found on days that I do this, I feel much more rejuvenated and alert once I get to work. I don't feel like I'm overloading myself by going to school and then having to work for the rest of the day like I do on days I don't take a nap.
Jase Christiansen
I often take power naps and they have been one of the most effective things that I do to regain focus and to restore energy to my mind and body. I also like to stretch after my naps. Feels so good!!
I feel like power naps are way more beneficial and convenient, especially for a mother of two where its impossible to have both kids asleep at the same time, sometimes 10 minutes is all I get. Now I know that is all I need. :]
Kellie Aldridge
When I used to be exhausted in the afternoons all i would want to do is sleep, but couple hour naps always made me more groggy and sleepy then I was before the nap so I quit taking naps. Thanks to this article I will have to try the power naps instead. I really enjoyed this article.
Sean Bishop
I agree that simply resting can count as a nap. I do it often, and it really saves me some days. If I let myself fall asleep for a couple of hours, I definitely pay for it that night. Instead, taking a power nap is a form of meditation that's more for the body than the mind, I think. Lying down and breathing can just let everything stop for a few minutes. This obviously helps the mind, too, but unlike meditation—you can really just let everything go instead of focusing on your mind.
Jacob Jamsa
I know that the positioning the power nap has you in is the best. I work at a physical therapy clinic, and when we put patients in this position, they are much more relaxed and comfortable than someone who is in a flat laying position. Doing this exercise was great for me and i'm definitely going to continue doing it.
I love the power nap. i use it in my daily schedule to refuel my body
Jeremy Rushton
These had become a very beneficial part of my daily routine at the beginning of the year, as I had not been sleeping as much. Having a sick wife, left me with the responsibility of watching 2 young kids, helping her and working/going to school full time. These were a mind and body saver!
Colton S.
I find that the power nap doesnt really help me, I do feel more rejuvenated after i take the 10 minute nap but later that night i can not fall asleep so it doesn't really help me.
Chris P.
I usually take one to two hour naps a couple times a week. I always wake up from them feeling just as tired as before. I downloaded and tried the power nap mp3, and I was quite surprised that it actually helped. I will definitely be doing power naps instead of longer ones from now on.
joel shumway
thank you for this information it is a good thing to know that all you need is ten minutes. maybe that is why after some naps I feel more tired , maybe I just need a shorter one. Also I work at 3 am on an assembly line and when we have a stoppage at work for ten minutes I find a place to lay down and take the much needed power nap.
Amy P.
I have always taken longer naps because I figured the more rest that you can fit it the better. I grew to HATE naps because I always wake up groggy and cranky. I think power naps may be an effective tool to recharge throughout the day. I am also an energy drinkaholic so I could defiantly use an alternative method to gain a little more power throughout the day.
Chase B.
I always feel tired in the middle of the day. I tried a power nap today, and I am more energetic and alert than I have felt in a long time. Hooray!
Tim Sondrup
I didn't know you didn't actually have to fall asleep to take a power nap and feel refreshed! I thought it was interesting how redistribution of blood flow can have positive effects on the body. And the great thing is, 10 to 15 minutes isn't long at all! A much healthier choice than energy drinks, for sure!
I will have to completely agree with this article. I find myself exhausted in the middle of the day, and if I just take a good 10 minutes to just lay down, not needing to actually fall asleep, then I feel so much better and can go throughout the rest of my day being more productive.
I love taking naps after class, while I'm doing homework, after eating a big meal, pretty much anytime. They always last way longer than 10 minutes and sometimes I don't get everything done in a day that I planned to. I'm excited to try this and see if I can cut down on my nap time.
Bronson Pace
After practicing the power naps i can feel an increase in stamina and focus.
Bronson Pace
I love these power naps!
Bronson Pace
This gives me the energy to push on through school and work. I love these power naps and I know they will be a positive influence in my life for years to come.
Richelle Johnson
I really learned a lot from this article. I usually am the type who think that taking naps are not in my schedule. I am always drinking energy drinks and not being able to focus because I still do not have the energy I need. This article helped me a lot and I am willing to give it a try!
Lacey Kap
I took a Stress Management class one semester and I learned all kinds of ways to relieve stress. We went over everything from meditation, yoga, power naps, visualization, breathing exercises, and so much more. My favorite by far was the meditation, yoga and of course the power nap! I feel as though I hardly have any time for sleep these days and I feel so rejuvenated after I take a quick power nap, way more then if I take a nap that lasts 30 minutes or more.
Tiffany S
I did this and now I am totally addicted and I love it! I do it for "me" time. It helps my attitude, my focus, my concentration, and my stress level. Amazing how fifteen minutes can make your whole day better!
Rachel Barker
I loved this article because I have always argued with my parent's that my power naps were very beneficial in the middle of the day. They did not understand that a 15 minute nap could keep me mentally alert. I showed them this article, leaving them speechless.
Athena Waltz
I really like power naps. They give you more energy and let you continue your day in a better fashion. I never argue with having more sleep.


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Dirschka, T; Radny, P; Dominicus, R; Mensing, H; Brüning, H; Jenne, L; Karl, L; Sebastian, M; Oster-Schmidt, C; Klövekorn, W; Reinhold, U; Tanner, M; Gröne, D; Deichmann, M; Simon, M; Hübinger, F; Hofbauer, G; Krähn-Senftleben, G; Borrosch, F; Reich, K; Berking, C; Wolf, P; Lehmann, P; Moers-Carpi, M; Hönigsmann, H; Wernicke-Panten, K; Helwig, C; Foguet, M; Schmitz, B; Lübbert, H; Szeimies, R M (2012). Photodynamic therapy with BF-200 ALA for the treatment of actinic keratosis: results of a multicentre, randomized, observer-blind phase III study in comparison with a registered methyl-5-aminolaevulinate cream and placebo. British Journal of Dermatology, 166(1):137-146.
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Background Photodynamic therapy (PDT) with 5-aminolaevulinic acid (ALA) or its methylester [methyl-5-aminolaevulinate (MAL) or 5-amino-4-oxopentanoate] was recently ranked as first-line therapy for the treatment of actinic keratosis (AK) and is an accepted therapeutic option for the treatment of neoplastic skin diseases. BF-200 ALA (Biofrontera Bioscience GmbH, Leverkusen, Germany) is a gel formulation of ALA with nanoemulsion for the treatment of AK which overcomes previous problems of ALA instability and improves skin penetration. Objectives To evaluate the efficacy and safety of PDT of AKs with BF-200 ALA in comparison with a registered MAL cream and with placebo. Methods The study was performed as a randomized, multicentre, observer-blind, placebo-controlled, interindividual trial with BF-200 ALA, a registered MAL cream and placebo in a ratio of 3 : 3 : 1. Six hundred patients, each with four to eight mild to moderate AK lesions on the face and/or the bald scalp, were enrolled in 26 study centres in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Patients received one PDT. If residual lesions remained at 3 months after treatment, PDT was repeated. Results PDT with BF-200 ALA was superior to placebo PDT with respect to patient complete clearance rate (78·2% vs. 17·1%; P < 0·0001) and lesion complete clearance rate (90·4% vs. 37·1%) at 3 months after the last PDT. Moreover, superiority was demonstrated over the MAL cream regarding the primary endpoint patient complete clearance (78·2% vs. 64·2%; P < 0·05). Significant differences in the patient and lesion complete clearance rates and severity of treatment-related adverse events were observed for the narrow- and broad-spectrum light sources. Conclusions BF-200 ALA is a very effective, well-tolerated new formulation for AK treatment with PDT and is superior to a registered MAL medication. Efficacies and adverse events vary greatly with the different light sources used.
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Great highlight reel. Thanks for the hook up Chris. Nader looks perfect of Fred's system. I love that we get him to guard Niang in practice all season pushing him further. Niang showing some range, love it. Naz..... Naz looked sick on a couple of those plays. I think people may be right in the fact we have underestimated what he can do. I can't wait for this next season!
Thx again for the video! Keep 'em coming!
I think Nader will really help Niang's defense this season.
Thanks for the vids.
It was a foul on Niang, but that flop by Naz and reaction from the fans/players was amazing. That's why I love the CCL. So much fun to watch them have fun.
Nader will be very helpful in practice this season and will give very good minutes off the bench in 2014 (I'm assuming Hogue at the 4 and Niang at the 5). Could even start in 2015.
Naz will be good off the bench this season. If he develops well, lets face it, he could start his senior year.
Nader seemed to be falling back on his shot. I'm sure Fred will work with him on that.
What really stands out to me about Nader is how cut he looks. Dude is 6'8 (correct me if I'm wrong) but he looks big and strong not a skinny 6'8. We might be small this year, but think about 2014 with Niang, Nader, and Hogue starting, throw in the possibility of Naz starting and we'd be a very big, physical team.
I'm so excited to see Naz this season. He has great size, a good looking jumper and he is strong (how much weight has he put on). Obviously its CCL so I'll temper expectations but at 6'4 200+ lbs he should be able to get into the lane pretty easily.
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Your cylinder can be thought of as a rolled up rectangle, with height $8$ and width $8\pi$. So your distance will be $\sqrt{(8^2)+(4\pi)^2}.$
Edited: Misread the problem in the first go. Since the ant will end up on the opposite side in the bottom, he is going "down 8" and "over $4\pi$."
Hint: you can cut the cylinder with a vertical line and unroll it to make it flat. Now what is the shortest path? How long is it?


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When Jewish congregants left the synagogue after Passover prayers, masked men were waiting. They handed out leaflets ordering the city's Jews to provide a list of property they own and pay a registration fee "or else have their citizenship revoked, face deportation and see their assets confiscated." The man whose name appears on the leaflets, Denis Pushilin, chairman of "Donetsk's temporary pro-Russian government," denied any connection to the leaflet or its distribution.
The leaflet begins "Dear Ukraine citizens of Jewish nationality" and states that all people of Jewish descent over 16 years old must report to the Commissioner for Nationalities in the Donetsk Regional Administration building and "register." The leaflet even described which documents Jews should provide: "ID and passport are required to register your Jewish religion, religious documents of family members, as well as documents establishing the rights to all real estate property that belongs to you, including vehicles." A registration fee of $50 was also required.
Olga Reznikova, 32, a Jewish resident of Donetsk, said she never experienced anti-Semitism until now. "It's serious. The text reminds me of the Nazi fascists in 1941."
The Jewish community in Donetsk issued a statement saying the leaflet "smells like a provocation." Chief rabbi of nearby Dnipropetrovsk, Shmuel Kaminezki boldly stated, "Jews will not do what the letter says."
Michael Salberg of the Anti-Defamation League, said it's unclear whether the leaflets were issued by the pro-Russian leadership or a splinter group. But he said the Russian side has used the specter of anti-Semitism in a cynical manner. Russia and its allies in Ukraine have issued multiple stories about the threat posed to Jews by Ukraine's new pro-Western government in Kiev."
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Melanoma is a deadly form of skin cancer because it has the ability to metastasize (spread) to many sites, including the brain, lungs, and liver. On September 4, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Keytruda (pembrolizumab) for the treatment of melanoma following the results of a clinical study led by UCLA researchers. The drug has been termed a "game changer" by principal author Dr. Antoni Ribas, a professor of medicine in the division of hematology–oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. In addition to UCLA, the research was conducted at 10 other sites in the US, Europe, and Australia.
Keytruda was tested on more than 600 melanoma patients who metastatic disease throughout their bodies. During the early testing, many of the patients had significant long-lasting responses; therefore, the study was continued and the FDA granted the drug "breakthrough therapy" status, which allowed it to be fast-tracked for approval.
Keytruda is an antibody that targets a protein known as PD-1, which is expressed by immune cells. The protein inhibits the immune system by preventing its T cells from recognizing and attacking cancer cells, explained Dr. Antoni Ribas. He said, "For patients who have not responded to prior therapies, this drug now provides a very real chance to shrink their tumors and the hope of a lasting response to treatment."
For a number of years, when using immunotherapy to fight cancer, the strategy has been to boost the immune system so that it could kill the cancer cells. However, the method has had limited success because PD-1 prevented the immune system from becoming active enough to attack the cancer. The drug stimulates the immune system to a level in which in can attack the malignancy.
Judith Gasson, senior associate dean for research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, noted that scientists have long hoped to develop an effective and lasting immunotherapy to fight cancer. She explained, "We have long believed that harnessing the power of our own immune systems would dramatically alter cancer treatment. Based upon work conducted over the past two decades, we are beginning to see the clinical benefits of this research in some of the most challenging cancers."
As a rule, approximately 1 in 10 patients respond to previous immunotherapy drugs. However, some of those who responded, however, exhibited long-lasting benefits, which sustained researchers' interest in the method as an effective mechanism to fight cancer. Dr. Ribas noted that the response and duration rates for Keytruda were much greater than for previous drugs, Ribas noted. In the new study, 72% of the patients responded to the drug and their tumors decreased in size. Overall, 34% of patients showed a measurable response; their tumors shrank by more than 30%, and did not re-grow. Dr. Ribas said that Keytruda has the potential to be used to treat other cancers that the immune system can recognize, including cancers of the lung, bladder, head and neck.
Two survivors' stories:
Kathy Thomas, 59, of Torrance, California, was diagnosed in September 2011 with melanoma that had spread to her liver and was invading her left breast. She underwent several rounds of treatment that were unsuccessful and her condition was worsening. "I lost weight. I threw up nearly every day," Ms. Thomas said, adding, "My hair was thinning. I just had no strength at all. I was so sick I had to use a wheelchair." In 2013, Ms. Thomas met with Dr. Ribas in 2012. She was initially skeptical of the therapy; however, she overcame her hesitation. She explained, "I decided I wanted to survive. I wasn't going to let this disease beat me."
Since her enrollment in the study, the tumors have shrunk. She has regained her strength and her appetite. She is out of her wheelchair and walking normally again. In addition, she experienced no side-effects from the treatment, and she travels monthly to San Francisco to visit her grandson. "I just enjoy life now, really enjoy it," she said.
Tom Stutz, 74, of Sherman Oaks, California, was diagnosed in June 2011 with melanoma that had spread to his lung, liver, and other areas. He felt his condition was hopeless; however, he decided to enroll in the clinical trial anyway. He explained, "I wasn't eating. I was on oxygen. I couldn't walk. When I went into the hospital at the end of May [2012], I didn't think I was coming out." However, Mr. Stutz soon started feeling better. Today, he is no longer on oxygen and walks several miles every day.
He said, "It's the little things that make me happy now. I'm very appreciative that I get to get up in the morning, go into my backyard, and see my garden. I'm able to be with my children and grandchildren, go on vacations with them. I was close to the end of the road, as far as you can get to the edge of the cliff, and I was pulled back by this treatment."
For the past three decades, the incidence of melanoma has been increasing. In the US in 2014, an estimated 76,100 new cases of melanoma will be diagnosed, and nearly 10,000 Americans will die from the disease this year. According to the American Cancer Society, melanoma accounts for less than 2% of all skin cancer cases; however, it is responsible for the vast majority of skin cancer deaths.
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You may have noticed that we've been busy working on a big topic recently: Improving UI responsiveness by reducing the amount of DOM elements created for each desktop widget.
Those additional elements were necessary in older browsers to allow for fully-featured rich user interfaces. Now we can take advantage of native features in modern browsers while trying to implement graceful degradation in older browsers and discontinuing support for some legacy browsers.
Every desktop widget now consists of just one content element. Before, each widget consisted of at least two (often even 3-5) DOM elements and their corresponding JavaScript object representations. So the new element or object count is significantly reduced by about 3:1.
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If you don't have the time to migrate your applications, you can still help us out by testing the framework's demo applications in your favorite (modern) browser.
We're planning to merge the diet branch into master in about two weeks. Anyone currently using the master branch is strongly encouraged to test their application using diet before this time to prevent any unpleasant surprises.
Since these are major modifications including some API changes, they will be published along with a next major release qooxdoo 3.0 this summer.