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IntroductionThe Importance of an Effective Materials Strategy The Changing Materials EnvironmentThe Shift to Formal Materials Data ManagementUsing CES Selector to Explore Materials and Processing Alternatives Vision for the Future
Dr Tim O'Brien of Fortune Brands Home & Hardware provided a case study on how they came to choose the Granta Design materials selection software solution at at Materials Strategy Open Seminar. Fortune Brands is a world leader in the home and hardware sector, with sales in this area exceeding $4 billion last year. Materials decisions can have multi-million dollar implications. And making these decisions requires consideration of engineering properties - mechanical and thermal behavior, corrosion-resistance, etc. - to be combined with economic considerations (e.g., raw materials cost, tooling cost, labor cost for different manufacturing scenarios) and, increasingly, environmental considerations.
Dr O'Brien highlighted why an effective materials strategy is becoming more important. For over sixty years, the sector's service environment has been well understood and only moderately challenging from a materials perspective. The 'palette' of materials options has been relatively stable and described by ample, high quality data. Raw materials costs (or at least trends in those costs) have also been relatively stable. Manufacturers have managed with an informal approach to materials data (e.g., looking it up in handbooks or on-line when necessary, storing it in hard copy or spreadsheets, and relying on expert knowledge).
This environment is changing rapidly. Raw materials costs are both increasing and volatile. Energy costs are rising. Global eco activism is changing consumer attitudes and increasing the focus on the toxicity and potential environmental impact of materials. Legislative responses to similar issues are imposing new constraints. From December 31, 2010, for example, the leaded free machining brass alloy that has been the core material in plumbing products for over 150 years will effectively be obsolete in California. Added to this, a "phase change" in the Chinese economy is shifting manufacturing, supply, and customer-bases.
There will be a greater need for 'scenario planning' - considering alternative product designs and materials and planning for changes in materials costs. New materials will, in some cases, become mandated - data describing these materials will often be less freely available. All of these changes, argued Dr O'Brien, are driving a shift from informal to formal materials data management.
They also demand tools to help us explore key manufacturing questions. Dr O'Brien demonstrated the use of analysis software to explore changes in the relative costs of different manufacturing techniques as the volume of the component being made increases. He is a long-standing user of Granta's materials selection software, CES Selector. He commented that, whenever he approaches a materials problem, he always has a few materials options in mind, but CES Selector usually suggests additional options. Past applications have included a component redesign that cut production costs in half and doubled performance on an important product line.
Dr O'Brien outlined a vision for how such software such as Granta Design's CES Selector should develop to support enterprise materials strategies. He sees cost as a critical focus, with a need to develop models that can combine materials and process costs and consider factory costs in different global regions. Such a knowledge base should also include different scenarios for future materials costs. If such an information resource could be easily enriched and refined by an individual company using its proprietary data, then it would provide the basis for a powerful tool that could enable rapid searches for "similar-to" materials - i.e., aiding the preparation of alternative materials strategies to meet different cost scenarios.
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2nd Open ParaPhrase Workshop 2012
Aug 25, 2012 09:00 AM
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ParaPhrase Workshop 2012
Rhodes, August 25-26, 2012
associated with Euro-Par 2012
Aims and scope
The ParaPhrase project (a three year FP7 STREP project started on October 2011) aims to produce a new structured design and implementation process for heterogeneous parallel architectures, where developers exploit a variety of parallel patterns to develop component based applications that can be mapped to the available hardware resources, and which may then be dynamically re-mapped to meet application needs and hardware availability.
This is the second open ParaPhrase workshop, following on from the successful HPLGPU 2012 on High-Level Programming for Heterogeneous and Hierarchical Parallel Systems (January 2012, co-located with HiPEAC, Paris).
The workshop aims to bring together researchers working on the various research issues covered by ParaPhrase and to discuss achievements, open research problems and perspectives in the area.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Advanced parallel programming models
- Methods for targeting Heterogeneous parallel architectures
- Refactoring techniques for parallelism
- Algorithmic skeletons
- Parallel design patterns
- Parallelism in functional programming languages
- Formal tools for parallel programming
- Efficient mechanisms supporting multi-/many-core programming
- Deployment and configuration tools for parallel heterogenous architectures
Paper submission
Paper ought to be submitted via email to:
- marcod {at} di.unipi.it
- kh {at} cs.st-andrews.ac.uk
- horacio {at} acm.org
Please start your email subject line with [PARAPHRASE WKSP] and include the three recipients. 10 page LNCS style papers are required. Accepted papers will be included in the Euro-Par 2012 Workshop Proceedings, published in the Springer LNCS series.
Program committee
Program committee chair
- Kevin Hammond
Program committee (tentative)
- Marco Danelutto
- Horacio González-Vélez
- Peter Kilpatrik
- Francesco Cesarini
- Sergei Gorlatch
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- Paper submission:
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- Acceptance notification: July 6, 2012
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This is a Baby Shower for a very dear friend of mine who loves the Movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and adores attending Afternoon Tea. When she learned that she was pregnant, she wanted a Baby Shower that was for the mature woman and was fun and fabulous.
I used DIY tutorials from the Martha Stewart website to create the long stem White roses used for the Centerpieces.
The mother-to-be also has an appreciation for Champagne, so I followed the lead of the "Small Kitchen College" blog on ideas for a Champagne bar. Shower guests were provided with Champagne and the Mother-to-Be and the younger shower guests were provided with Sparkling Juice to sip on. Guests created their own special cocktail by adding the fruit of their choice (Strawberriy slices, Lemon wedges and Rasberries), as well as Sugar cubes, Orange Juice, Pomegranate Juice, and Peach Nectar. And for fun, guests used straws to sip their Champagne/Sparkling Juice cocktails.
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Reds' Alfredo Simon gets moment to remember despite NL's loss in All-Star Game
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - It was destined to be Derek Jeter's night at the All-Star Game, not the Reds'. But Alfredo Simon took home a lasting memory.
The Reds pitcher got the thrill of facing the retiring Yankee star in his last All-Star at-bat in the American League's 5-3 victory Tuesday night at Target Field.
"It was big," Simon said of pitching a scoreless third inning in his first All-Star Game experience. "I faced Derek Jeter in his final All-Star Game. … I just feel happy. My family has seen me pitch in the All-Star Game. I'm really proud of myself."
Jeter, who doubled leading off the AL first, singled off Simon and went to second on a wild pitch. But Simon retired Mike Trout (lineout to left), Robinson Cano (strikeout swinging) and Miguel Cabrera (lineout to short) to get out of the inning.
What an experience in Minneapolis. Hopefully next year in Cincinnati is even better. #MLBAllStarGame2014 going to be a great 2nd half #reds— Todd Frazier (@FlavaFraz21) July 16, 2014
The Reds' All-Stars did not play a starring role, but it was thrilling nevertheless:
Todd Frazier acknowledges cheers during All-Star Game introductions. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
> Aroldis Chapman retired his two batters in the eighth, but had no strikeouts.
> Todd Frazier, runner-up in the Home Run Derby Monday night, walked in his only plate appearance and made a nice defensive play on a slow bouncer at third.
> Devin Mesoraco caught the fourth and fifth innings and struck out in his only at-bat.
> Johnny Cueto, who pitched for the Reds Sunday, did not play.
Chapman tweaked his hamstring while covering first base on a groundout but said he would be fine.
"I'm not 100 percent ready to run full speed," said Chapman, who first injured the hamstring before a game July 6 while warming up in the outfield.
"I will be fine," Chapman said. "I've been pitching through it for a while. As long as I don't have to run, it feels good to pitch."
Cincinnati native Josh Harrison of the Pirates - who starred at UC and Princeton High - went 0-for-2.
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Jeter soaked in the adulation from fans and players during one more night on baseball's national stage, set the tone for the American League with a pregame speech and delivered two final All-Star hits.
Trout, perhaps the top candidate to succeed the 40-year-old Yankees captain as the face of the game, seemed ready to assume the role with a tiebreaking triple and later a go-ahead double that earned him MVP honors.
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On a summer evening filled with reminders of generational change, the AL kept up nearly two decades of dominance by beating the National League for the 13th time in 17 years.
Cabrera homered to help give the AL champion home-field advantage for the World Series.
No matter what else happened, it seemed destined to be another special event for Jeter.
He received a 63-second standing ovation when he walked to the plate leading off the bottom of the first, another rousing cheer when he led off the third and about two minutes of applause after AL manager John Farrell sent Alexei Ramirez to shortstop to replace him at the start of the fourth.
As Frank Sinatra's recording of "New York, New York" boomed over the Target Field speakers and his parents watched from the stands, Jeter repeatedly waved to the crowd, exchanged handshakes and hugs in the AL dugout and then came back onto the field for a curtain call.
While not as flashy as Mariano Rivera's All-Star farewell at Citi Field last year, when the other players left the great reliever alone on the field for an eighth-inning solo bow, Jeter also tried not to make a fuss.
A 14-time All-Star who was MVP of the 2000 game in Atlanta, he announced in February this will be his final season. His hits left him with a .481 All-Star average (13 for 27), just behind Charlie Gehringer's .500 record (10 for 20) for players with 20 or more at-bats.
While the Yankees are .500 at the break and in danger of missing the postseason in consecutive years for the first time in two decades, Jeter and the Angels' Trout gave a boost to whichever AL team reaches the World Series.
The AL improved to 9-3 since the All-Star game started deciding which league gets Series home-field advantage; 23 of the last 28 titles were won by teams scheduled to host four of a possible seven games.
Detroit's Max Scherzer, in line to be the most-prized free agent pitcher after the season, pitched a scoreless fifth for the victory, and Glen Perkins got the save in his home ballpark.
Pat Neshek, a hometown favorite whose brother works on the Target Field grounds crew, took the loss.
The AL won for the first time in three tries in Minnesota; it lost 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium in 1965 and 6-1 at the normally homer-friendly Metrodome, where not one longball was hit under its Teflon roof in 1985.
Target Field, a $545 million, limestone-encased jewel that opened in 2010, produced an All-Star cycle just eight batters in, with hitters showing off flashy neon-bright spikes and fielders wearing All-Star caps with special designs for the first time.
With the late sunset -- the sky didn't darken until the fifth inning, well after 9 o'clock -- there was bright sunshine when Jeter was cheered before his first at-bat. He was introduced by a recording of late Yankees public address announcer Bob Sheppard's deep monotone: "Now batting for the American League, from the New York Yankees, the shortstop, number two, Derek Jeter. Number two.
St. Louis pitcher Adam Wainwright left his glove on the mound and backed up toward second, clapping along with the crowd of 41,048. When Jeter finally stepped into the batter's box, he took a ball and lined a 90 mph cutter down the right-field line for a double.
"I was going to give him a couple pipe shots just to -- he deserved it," Wainwright said. "I thought he was going to hit something hard to the right side for a single or an out. I probably should have pitched him a little bit better."
Jeter appreciated the move, saying "for him to do that meant a lot to me."
And Wainwright's unorthodox decision was endorsed by Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw.
"He knew he was going to do the right thing," Kershaw said. "He's a class act."
Trout, the 22-year-old Los Angeles outfielder who finished second to Cabrera in AL MVP voting in each of the last two seasons, followed Jeter in the first by tripling off the right-field wall.
After Robinson Cano struck out, Cabrera lined a sinker over the left-field wall for a 3-0 lead -- just the fourth home run in the last six All-Star games.
Jeter then hit a soft single into right off Alfredo Simon leading off the third but was stranded.
The NL, which still holds a 43-40-2 advantage in the series, came back on consecutive RBI doubles by Chase Utley and Jonathan Lucroy off Jon Lester that made it 3-2. Lucroy's run-scoring double against Chris Sale tied the score in the fourth.
The AL went ahead for good in the fifth against Neshek, the St. Louis reliever who grew up in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park and started his career with the Twins.
Josh Donaldson and Derek Norris hit one-out singles, and Trout hit an RBI double down the third-base line that was ruled fair by umpire Scott Barry. Because the ball landed in front of the umpire -- it was real close to the line -- it was not reviewable under baseball's new replay rules by Jerry Layne, the umpire monitoring on video at the Replay Operations Center in New York.
Jose Altuve followed with a sacrifice fly off Tyler Clippard that made it 5-3.
Next year's All-Star game is in Cincinnati.
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|SHADOW, oil on prepared paper, 82 x 61 cm, 1999
If you ever get the chance to meet Holly Spruck, you will not be surprised to find that she is an elementary art school teacher at the International School of Prague.
Her love for scatology and the ridiculousness of reality are childish qualities she expends no effort hiding.
And when confronted with her work, you find yourself, sink or swim, in swirling pools of emotional ambiguity.
Her first show in Prague (Radost FX Gallery, June 1998) left patrons unsatisfied. Invariably, when they decided on the painting that must be had, it was already spoken for.
All but one painting were sold by the end of the opening.
A later show (Hairline Studios, November 1999) was more of the same. The paintings had nearly doubled in price, but nary a complaint was to be heard regarding cost. Instead, the grumbles ran to the tune of "but I had my heart set on that one..."
Her success is hardly questionable. Her colors are bold, her stroke is unambiguous, her line is alive, her figures are characters you know all too well; the result? Cages, plush with story.
An aesthetic fullness that is inescapable.
|EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL, oil on prepared paper, 71 x 54 cm, 1998
At the show, one of her colleagues from the school remarked, "I had no idea..." Hardly an uncommon reaction. It is difficult to resist the empathy that rises in you, to protect yourself from the undeniable poignancy so playfully depicted.
A selection of Holly's work will be on display for the month of May at the Mala Sarka Gallery. The Mala Sarka Gallery is a project very close to the heart of it's founder and curator, Jana Jezkova.
In fact, it is in her home. The Gallery is currently a not-for-profit organization, but Ms. Jezkova has plans to give a 5% commission of sales to a worthy charity.
For more information about the Mala Sarka Gallery, please contact Ms. Jana Jezkova at (02) 20. 96. 04. 96 or 0602/780-579.
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Dvd Release Date: 1999-12-21
Genre: Drama,
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Duration: 1hr 30min
Set in the contrasting climates of a politically-charged Africa and the tranquil confines of an enchanting Roman villa, Besieged is a smoldering love story that bridges the gap between two very different worlds. Thandie Newton stars as the luminous Shandurai, a young African woman who has left her homeland, after having witnessed her husband's brutal abduction at the hands of an oppressive government. Disenchanted with her country, Shandurai surfaces in Rome at the home of an eccentric English musician, Mr. Kinsky (David Thewlis). Shandurai works as a maid for Mr. Kinsky in exchange for room and board while she studies medicine at the local university. The two have almost nothing in common, yet she hopelessly enchants him. The depth of his devotion will challenge the delicate balance between desire and sacrifice, sentimentalism and need, as old and new worlds meet and meld in this daring and inventive story.
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- Produced by Massimo Cortesi
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GoldStar is offering a discount to Florida Grand Opera 'La Sonnambula' today only for its Friday, Feb. 15 at 8 p.m. show. The full price is $129 – $175. GoldStar price is $32 – $44, plus up to $14.75 in service fees. Sale are set to end on Friday, February 15 at 1:30 p.m.
Remember to arrive on time. There is no late seating at the opera. You have to wait for intermission to be seated.
Vincenzo Bellini wrote the bel canto opera La sonnambula (The Sleepwalker) specifically for one of the greatest sopranos of the 19th century, Giuditta Pasta. Now the Florida Grand Opera is staging La sonnambula featuring one of the most exciting young coloratura sopranos of the 21st century, Rachele Gilmore.
Florida Grand Opera 'La Sonnambula' will be performed at Adrienne Arsht Center – Ziff Ballet Opera House, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, 33132


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The Yonex Company has come a long way to bring players new and innovative technologies in their racquet frames to improve their game. Each Yonex tennis racquet is loaded with state of the art technology for enhanced performance. The RDS 001 Midplus is no exception; it features the Isometric square head shape for a larger sweetspot, Elastic Ti in the shaft for better control, Soft Grommet for comfort, and a lot more. With a 98 square inch headsize and 11.1 oz. unstrung weight, the Yonex RDS 001 Midplus is a spin friendly and maneuverable tennis racquet that also offers plenty of pop.
With its light weight, I was able to generate more racquet head speed from the baseline, resulting in more power and spin. I found a good amount of pop on my shots and was able to get the depth I wanted off my groundstrokes. I also found plenty of control on my shots, being able to place balls with ease. I was able to generate plenty of spin off my groundstrokes with the RDS 001 Midplus, while getting a good amount of depth in them. The 98 sq. in. headsize has a good sized sweet spot that was more forgiving on mis-hits and comfortable as well. With a head-light balance, the RDS 001 Midplus was still maneuverable despite its lighter weight. Though the racquet provided some power, I was not hitting my shots too long and the extra pop helped with clearing the net. From the baseline, the RDS 001 Midplus had a crisp feel that was great. With great spin, pop, and maneuverability, the racquet was a solid performer at the baseline.
At the net, the RDS 001 Midplus was maneuverable and offers a crisp response. My volleys were precise with a crisp feel. The midplus headsize offers some power that really helped with putting away shots. The midplus headsize also offers more forgiveness on reaction volleys, giving me some control over where the ball lands. I was able to get depth with my volleys and enjoyed rushing up to the net for an attack. With angled volleys, I needed to work a little harder to get them to land where I wanted them to. The consistent solid and crisp feel on my volleys were impressive. When hitting against faster pace shots, the RDS 001 Midplus was not very stable and that cost me points.
The easy spin generation of the RDS 001 Midplus from the groundstrokes carried over to the serves. I was able to generate fast racquet head speeds for greater spin production on my serves. With easy generation of spin, my kick serves were fantastic. The midplus headsize also added some power to my serves when I needed it. I found that I was able to serve a variety of serves, hitting each one with a good amount of control and placement. Despite the amount of spin and control the RDS 001 Midplus offered, I had difficulty hitting serves out wide. With a wide range of serves, I could set up some easy volleys for myself.
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The Yonex RDS 001 Midplus seemed to perform well on the court, appealing to a wide range of players. The spin potential, feel, power, and maneuverability was balanced enough and worked well. With fast racquet head speed at the baseline and on serves, players who like to generate spin will enjoy the RDS 001 Midplus. The comfortable feel on volleys and returns are also pleasing. Aggressive baseliners will find the spin potential and power to be impressive, although a full stroke may hit shots too long. Players looking for faster racquet head speed to produce more spin on groundstrokes and serves will find the Yonex RDS 001 Midplus to their liking.
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Proposal for an IRC Session
Francesca Ciceri <madamezou <at> debian.org>
Dear Publicity and Press Team members, I'm writing you because I'd like to start a new round of Debian IRC Sessions: similarly to last year [1] during these sessions, people from different Debian teams will let the attendees take a closer look at their work and at how it is organized. For this year, I've run a poll to ask Debian users and enthusiasts about their preferences: as you can see in the results [2] it seems that people badly want to know about your team! :D So, I'd like to invite you to join an IRC Session: the idea is to start with the new round of sessions the next week and have one session per week. Sessions will be held on #debian-meeting channel on irc.oftc.org. Time and dates are quite flexible but it would be great if they could fit as many timezones as possible. With regards to the type of session, there are no strict requirements: you can have a simple Q&A session, a more practical one (for example, last year the Perl Team showed how to package Perl modules), or just a plain talk about your work. For more information you can visit the debian-meeting wiki page [3]. Cheers, Francesca [1] http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110617(Continue reading)


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The Atlanta Winter Wine & Jazz Festival sips into town...
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Beat the winter blues! Enjoy live jazz music, wine tastings, wine education seminars, fabulous shopping and great door prizes at the historic Trolley Barn. The event benefits the Children's Restoration Network and serves as a prelude to Atlanta Food & Wine Month (April) and the Atlanta Jazz Festival (May).
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Recognition of Atlanta's Top Sommeliers
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I am not a risk-taker by nature. Most people would say that's a ludicrous statement. I am, after all, living in Senegal, Africa, on a one-year family sabbatical. I agreed, reluctantly, to accompany my husband, a self-taught architect, to a country where there are no building codes so he can construct an earth architecture house with no constraints.
Though he has researched this alternative building method with passion and aplomb, I realized early on in his presentation to us that this was really about a basic need to play with dirt, which appealed wildly to our two small children. He has always tended to color outside the lines, which to him were blurry to begin with, however, this particular divergence seemed to be the manifestation of a mid-life crisis, albeit an admirable one. Relieved that it hadn't involved a size two, twenty-two year old blond (my antithesis) or a long unquenched desire to play electric guitar (my nemesis), I agreed to support him. I heard the adventurer that I long to be say, "Sure, honey, that sounds exciting. Let's do it." What I was really thinking was, "over my dead body." And that's exactly what I envisioned: my malaria-stricken form, sweaty and prostrate on the bed, surrounded by my teary children reaching out to touch me one last time, their small fingers widening the holes of our faulty mosquito net. These macabre visions are unfortunately nothing new.
Where my husband sees the beauty and potential in the open flow of living something unknown, I imagine the thickness, the dark what-ifs that we may not have control over. I can't help it. As hard as I try to dive into life the way he does, I am more likely to be waiting at the side with an outstretched fluffy towel when he resurfaces. But I trust him, his instincts and talents, and so I almost always acquiesce to the bigger decisions in our lives, like moving to Africa. I credit myself with at least recognizing the value of being led out of my comfort zone from time to time. It's the smaller, seemingly insignificant choices that always pose the bigger problem for me, the ones that are my decision alone, that don't effect anyone else. I tend to be the one who sits on the sidelines and watches, who stays behind (because someone has to), or if I do go, to be the slightly resentful designated driver.
For this particular adventure, I volunteered to pack for everyone, not out of kindness, but because I was terrified of what might be forgotten should anyone else do it. My knowledge of Africa had been limited to insurmountable images of sick, skeletal children, flies buzzing at their sticky eyes, razed, burned villages, women in dire need of a sympathetic god. But my husband assured me that Senegal is a diverse, democratic and stable country where we would be welcomed, a country of progress and equality. Don't get me wrong. Everyone there is less fortunate by our standards, but tragedies are managed, and gorillas (both Pongidae and human) tend to exist in the more tropical regions of Africa, far from our arid and peaceful destination. Nonetheless, I wanted to be prepared. So into the suitcases went insect repellent, anti-malarial, anti-itch, anti-nausea, anti-diarrheal, sunscreen, vitamins, toilet paper (you never know), clothes, flashlight, candles, matches, enough peanut butter for a year, and several Burpee seed packets of our favorite fruits and vegetables in case I felt like gardening. All of this preparedness and reinforcements against the unknown gave me comfort.
But despite turning all the possible scenarios over in my head, there was nothing in that suitcase to help me deal with the news that came on the night of my 44th birthday. Three weeks after we arrived in Senegal, in January of 2009, I received a phone call that one of my closest friends had died suddenly of a coronary emballism. She was 43. The tentacles of grief reached all the way across the Atlantic Ocean and I felt impossibly far away in my loss. It wasn't as if I could call all our mutual friends and say, "please tell me it isn't true," and cry on the phone with them. So I booked a ticket to return to the states for her funeral. I had to say goodbye, be with those friends and our memories of this wonderful friend that was taken so early from us.
My friend had been a Life Coach by profession and was the one person I always called when I doubted myself, which was a lot of phone calls. Our friendship had spanned almost 30 years and many trials and errors on my part. She had a way of taking my insecurities, dissecting them and holding them up for me to see as opportunities to learn and grown. She had been instrumental in showing me all the possibilities and advantages of moving to Africa, something for which I will always be thankful. During our last (and unbeknownst to me, final) phone conversation, I had made her a promise. For years, I had spoken about my dream of wanting to write, a dream that I had always put off, telling myself (and her) that I would commit to it when I had the time, perhaps when my children went to college (they are 4 & 5!). But she had had enough. In her kind and supportive manner, she told me it was time to get up off my butt, or rather sit down on it, and write! She told me that life was short and dreams were meant to be lived, not sit on some proverbial shelf gathering dust, waiting to be taken down and looked at from time to time. I thought of all the reasons why I couldn't possibly take time to write—kids and a husband to take care of, packing for our move to Africa—the list was endless. But in the end, I did promise that I would start writing . . . sometime soon. When she died several weeks after that last conversation, her words came rushing back. "Life is short." At her funeral, I promised again, and this time I really meant it, that I would write. And I have kept true to my words. I write almost every day and it's as if her spirit guides me. The words don't always come easily, but when I am stuck, I hear her say, "well, you can't just give up!" and so I don't. She is always with me in this way. What a wonderful parting gift she has given me, the courage to do what I have only dreamed of. Her gift has seeped into many areas of my life. I am less fearful, more optimistic. I life for the present.
A few weeks after I returned to Senegal from her funeral, we decided to take a short trip with six French friends to the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal's only functioning area of protected waterways. After surviving a four hour drive along the hot sand route to avoid traffic and vertebrae crushing potholes, I sat outside our hut reading and taking in the views while my husband and children napped. I heard laughter echoing from the river basin down below and decided to explore. Our friends had all changed into their bathing suits and were splashing in the river. Because it was low tide, there was an area of open shallow water and then a large part of basin lay exposed. I watched as they swam across the river to the delta and began to walk among the birds and close to a large cluster of dense mangroves.
Their distant voices called to each other and traveled up the slope, reaching me long after their words had dissipated. On a whim, I ran back to our hut, stripped and searched for my bathing suit. I would join them. Exhilarated, I pulled out all the clothes and reached the bottom of the bag and then searched through the second small duffle which I already knew held mostly food reserves. I sat down hard on the floor as the realization came: I had forgotten my bathing suit. I heard my friend's voice rise from within: "so what, don't let that stop you." Donning matching underwear and bra and a large beachtowel, I ran down the path, descended the rickety stairs and came to a halt. By the time I got there, my friends had already swum back and were lying on the beach, panting out their enthusiasm. "SOU PEAR" one said as he passes me on the stairs. "C'etait incroyable", it was incredible, another rasped, wiping droplets from his flushed cheeks before bounding up the stairs with the others. Oh, I thought to myself, I missed it. Maybe next time. As their voices faded, Africa and I were alone for the first time. I let the towel go and walked into the river to wet my feet. I couldn't see the bottom. The air was starting to chill and I was tired. (Dangerous, perhaps.) My book was waiting. It's just as well, I thought. Still, I couldn't help but take one last look across to the wide expanse on the other side. Was the shore near or was it far? The flat bottom of the river bubbled up visibly in the distance, birds hovered, some picking their way along the massive flats, mangroves swaying at the edge of the shore, waving to me. I looked back down at my feet in the water, inched in a little further. Sun descending. A small current swirling and chirping. Something darting between my ankles. Feet in the water isn't much, I thought. A small shiver. And I dove.


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New-ish Oak chef Richard Gras tendered his resignation on yesterday. Today, the Apheleia Restaurant Group named Brian Zenner as executive chef. Zenner was in the trenches at Oak with opening chef Jason Maddy. He got a break when Apheleia Restaurant Group opened Belly & Trumpet. Maddy moved on and Gras was hired last July. Apparently Zenner will still oversee Belly & Trumpet. I've reached out to Gras for a comment, but no response yet.
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The Swiss philosopher Henri Frederic Amiel once said that children bring a little bit of heaven to humankind. Yet, every day, thousands of children languish in the nation's foster care system. It is through no fault of their own that these boys and girls find themselves virtually alone in this great big world. They are innocents, after all, children who have been abandoned by or taken from families who could not or would not provide them with a safe, loving home. They are little people with no voice and with no one who can promise to be there for them for the rest of their lives – or even the next day. They deserve better.
The Heart Gallery of New Jersey, a unique not-for-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about adoptable foster children, put a face on children available for adoption. Co-founded by Najlah Feanny Hicks and Pim Van Hemmen in 2005, they brought together some of the country's most prestigious photographers who volunteered their time and talents to produce stirring images of more than 350 New Jersey foster children. Images that captured not just their beauty, but also their individuality and their spirit.
Their photographs appear on the HGNJ website and through gallery exhibits, in the hope that they will attract prospective parents and that the children will finally find permanent, loving families.
Nationwide press coverage including 20/20, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, Star-Leger, USA Today, and People Magazine publicized the plight of these children, culminating in more than 22 million hits on the Heart Gallery web site in less than three months.
Three years later, more than 150 of the children photographed have been adopted and are living with their "forever families". We are humbled by that.
But what happens to foster children who age out of care without ever having been adopted? Sadly, many of them will experience homelessness.
Did you know that 25,000 foster children age out of care each year without ever having been adopted?
Did you know that almost 40% experience homelessness?
Did you know that three out of every ten adults admit to a history in foster care?
We didn't know any of these facts when we formed the HGNJ but it quickly became clear that many of the children we met were teenagers.
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All right. We can all feel it. The sun beginning to warm up the air, the people becoming friendlier, men and women alike cramming treadmills trying to shed some pounds to prep for beach season--Spring is in full swing.
Why replace your cardigan for a blazer?
- It's young. A cardigan instead of a blazer is less formal, and it is a look associated with a younger, cooler attitude.
- To shake up the status quo. Everyone wears a blazer with a tie, but not many dare to be different. A cardigan change-up is a unique way to differentiate yourself while still being on point in style.
- Add some texture to your look. Most chunky cardigans are knit or wool, which will give a boring outfit an easy facelift. Adding a texture like wool or a thicker knit gives your ensemble some character which will set you apart from the masses. That being said, a wool cardigan works much better than a wool blazer in the spring.
Style point: Always leave the last button on your cardigan unbuttoned.
If you are going to wear a chunky cardigan as a blazer, make sure you wear a shirt that you would otherwise wear with a suit. I know that oxford shirts are currently in style, but they are significantly more casual than a regular dress shirt. Because the cardigan brings a younger, more casual vibe, I wouldn't recommend pairing it with an oxford shirt. For best results, wear a shirt with a semi-spread or spread collar to compensate for the unconventional layering.
- Mix it up and give your blazer a break.
- A wool cardigan gets the green light for Spring.
- Leave the last button on your cardigan unbuttoned.
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what a weekend of disaster to fall upon the Japanese people and subsequently the world will also be effected via the markets. You just have to thank your God or whoever you talk to in the quiet of your mind, for the great fortune of being here in Australia. No such horrific tragedy such as we witnessed on our tellies, of walls of water literally washing away entire lives in the form of a tsunami have been visited on the good folk of the "lucky country" and yet we still have own special natural trauma in the usually form of fire, drought and flooding rain to deal with.
Well, our own PM, fresh from her historic and let's face it, patronising tour of the USA, has had to face her very own personal disaster and is now, I hope, "QUAKING UP TO REALITY" (pun intended).
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Can you believe that according to the latest Herald-Neilsen poll, Julia Gillard is now facing a 34 percent preference as PM behind the man that she deposed as PM, the now Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd, who is holding a lead over Gillard at 39 percent.
Polls, polls, polls I hear you say and yes the result is often about perception rather than reality and if this poll suits your bias then you would assume it accurate and true but I am sure the Gillard supporters don't agree.
With that said I do believe this poll is spot on because it is a tested theory and basically history repeating itself. Rudd was very unpopular when introducing a Carbon Tax and as a result opposed by the party because of his back flip on the ETS shortly after the then leader of the Federal Liberal Coalition, Malcolm Turnbull, was removed by his party for backing the extremely unpopular carbon trading scheme. Therefore one would have to expect that if you lied about bringing in another version of the ETS prior to the election, the carbon tax, and then expect a different result to that of your predecessor, you must truly be either very stupid, deluded or trusting greatly in the advice of others. So which is it Prime Minister, are you making your own mistakes or is someone else helping you to lose your job?
Is Bob Brown and his Watermelon Party destroying the ALP from within, by forcing such destructive policy or is it Kevin who is the real mastermind of this Shakespearean plot to assassinate Juliar?
I am sure there will be book made in due time but then again the winners are the ones who write the history books.
I guess the most obvious take here would be to remember the wise words of that great Spanish American philosopher, George Santayana….
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Chuck Lewis stops at the VFW Post on his way into Glasgow on Saturday, more than 900 miles into his cross-county Walk for the Fallen to raise $50,000 for wounded veterans.
It's going to take six months, but Chuck Lewis is walking the 3,300 miles from Everett, Wash., to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. He still looks like the Marine sergeant he was in 1974 and he is fiercely proud of the flags that deck his three-wheeled cart, big American and Christian flags, plus smaller ones of every branch of service and the black POW/MIA flag.
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BOSTON — When Massachusetts adopted its landmark health care law in 2006, the goals were ambitious and the potential solutions complex.
More than 90 percent of its residents already had health insurance, but the state hoped to cover nearly everyone by plugging as many holes as possible in its system, short of a so-called single-payer option.
What resulted was a state law that became the blueprint for the 2010 federal Affordable Care Act signed by President Barack Obama.
Now, as other states begin grappling with the intricacies of the federal health care overhaul, many are looking for lessons from the largely successful Massachusetts model as well as from its limitations and remaining challenges.
Officials from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, West Virginia and Rhode Island have worked with Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economics professor who helped craft both the state and federal laws, to set up their exchanges.
What are they getting in return? A guide to a law that has resulted in more people visiting doctors, more employees getting coverage through their jobs and an increase of insured residents to 98 percent, far above the national average, including virtually all children and senior citizens. That's an additional 400,000 people with insurance since the law took effect.
Other states would also do well to note the difficulties resulting from the law: a shortage of primary care doctors, which is expected to be an unintended consequence of the federal law, and an increase in the number of procedures that insurers were required to pay for, which raised costs.
Massachusetts' law, written for a state that is relatively richer and more highly educated than others, won't be a perfect fit for any other state, of course. But the experiences resulting from the law have played out on personal levels universal to all 50 states — in doctor's offices, at kitchen tables and in human resource departments.
Among those most directly affected were the uninsured who had relied on care from emergency rooms, the cost of which was borne by hospitals and taxpayers. The law's top objective was to get those people into health plans. A system was created to subsidize care for people earning less than three times the poverty level and design lower-cost private plans for those earning more.
The influx of new patients is good for those who finally have insurance, but it's been tough on doctors, said Richard Dupee, a 67-year-old primary care doctor and chief of geriatrics service at Tufts Medical Center. He said many have declined to accept patients on the subsidized plans because the reimbursement rates are not as good as private plans.
"If you nickel and dime the doctors, they are not going to take the insurance," said Dupee, who has been in practice for more than 30 years and teaches at Tufts University School of Medicine.
The state also faces a shortage of primary care doctors, Dupee said, making it harder for the newly insured to get an appointment. He said the bulk of his students are heading into subspecialties, with few choosing primary care.
Just half of primary care doctors were taking new patients last year, and average times for new patients seeking appointments with the doctors remained long — 45 days, up from 36 days the year before, a Massachusetts Medical Society survey found.
"If you are going to insure everyone, you have to make sure that you have doctors to care for those people," Dupee added.
Another struggle for Massachusetts has been its attempts to curb the costs of the law, said Lora Pellegrini, president of the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans. She faulted lawmakers for mandating that insurers cover more procedures and medicine, including hearing aids, oral cancer drugs and an assessment to help pay for the state's childhood vaccine program.
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Since NBM started this blog I've been a little confused about what to post. I've been posting finished pages, but that kind of seems a little pointless because you'll see the finished pages when the book comes out. I love the pencils that Rick Geary posts, but my pencils don't look anywhere near that good. They don't look like much of anything. And notes and scripts, well, I can't really imagine they're too exciting on their own.
So I'm thinking of something like a comic strip about drawing comics. Something like the extras section on a DVD. This is the first and I'll post one every week or so and talk about my process of drawing comics.
And I'd love some feedback, so let me know what you think. Also if you're curious about any part of the drawing process and would like to see a strip about it let me know. And it doesn't have to be just about this Turkmenistan book, it can be about anything really.
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My name is Diana Velasquez I am from Guayaquil - Ecuador and a huge fan of your website. In august my baby girl turned one and with the help of my sisters we made a beautiful party that I would love to share with you and your readers. Mostly I would like to share it with all your community since you inspired many of my ideas.
Owl theme party I picked out this theme because it is my baby´s room theme and i love owls and even my baby shower was an owl theme party.
I want to point out that my daughter´s outfit was also a beautiful owl dress with an owl hair band as well
Decorations were made by my sisters and I .
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The cake table was my sister´s Stephanie masterpice It took her a couple of days to make the fake owl cake she also made the cupcakes, marshmellows sticks, cookies and all the treats.
I got the tree trunks from the rainforest (my mother in law lives in the highlands and she got the trunks cut out especially for the party) the trunks add a perfect rustic touch to the theme
We served popcorn in traditional popcorn bags with an owl label that mentions Canguil ..which means popcorn in spanish and cookies for little kids were also in the bags with a label that said galletas
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We hadn't heard much hype about the release of Oops! I Did It Again: The Best of Britney Spears, Brit's third greatest hits album, which depending on who you believe, is either out next Tuesday (according to Amazon) or came out last Tuesday (according to AllMusic). Maybe that's because as far as greatest hits albums go, this one is a complete mystery—one of the most bizarrely assembled compilations we can remember from a major artist. Not that we expect Brit to really go through and personally handpick and order the tracklists for her own comps, but we expect something that at least follows some basic form of logic—even if it's just "Here's a bunch of my popular songs in a row, enjoy."
No such luck with Oops. It starts with three of Britney's best, best-loved singles—"Oops," "Baby One More Time" and "I Slave 4 U"—and then…a bunch of album tracks that only real fans would know. Not that that's a bad thing, necessarily—it'd be pretty cool if more major artists released a non-hits Best-Of to expose casual fans to the discography beyond the biggest songs—but then why the first three singles? Why nothing off last year's Femme Fatale, which had some of her best album tracks yet? Why her cover of The Jets' "You Got It All," which wasn't even that good a song the first time around?
If this is indeed just a "Hey this person on the X Factor has a bunch of old songs!" cash-in, somebody needs to explain to Camden International Records (?) a thing or two about the art of the cash-in hits comp. And if you can only afford to pay for three hits, maybe next time don't bother at all.
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Since the Eastern Jin, parallel prose was used even for minor reports and notices; in the Tang, it became the antithetical form.
I'm confused about what this sentence is saying. Is it saying that in the Tang, parallel prose was not used?
I'm confused about what this sentence is saying. Is it saying that in the Tang, parallel prose was not used?
Without more context it would seem so, antithetical could have the meaning of incompatible here: parallel prose became the form that was the most opposed to the style used for the most common pieces of writing, instead it was used in rare cases for very particular literary exercises.
It is a version of antithesis*. In this context, it means that this form was only used for effect.
[edit] - expanding more I response to comment. Note that my understanding of Hegel is also not briliant.
In the context, the Thesis is the normal or main use of parallel prose. So, for the Eastern Jin, it is used in a range of writings, pretty much everywhere. The Antithesis of this is the opposing, meaning that for the Tang, it served as an obtuse or obscure usage, not the normal. Therefore, its use would have been for effect - to make something stand out from the norm.
Hegels use of this is to identify that over time, the Thesis and Antithesis tended to combine, counteract, merge to produce a Synthesis. The precise explanation of this i hte context would require a lot more of the writing.


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Rev. Charles (Preacher) H. Pierson, 75
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Rev. Charles (Preacher) Henry Pierson passed away on 12/30/2011 following a lengthy period of declining health. Preacher was born on July 28th, 1936 in Transylvania County and lived the vast majority of his life here in Brevard. He began his working career as a job offset printer at the Transylvania Times and then Ecusta. He was called to the ministry in the early 60's and pastored Blue Ridge Baptist Church, for 25+ years. He also served as pastor at Lusk Chapel in Spring Creek, Green River Baptist in Henderson County and Calvary Baptist in Sanderson, Texas. Preacher's greatest passion was his love for Christ and the proclamation of the gospel., followed closely by his love for Pat and his family and his unbelievable ability to never meet a stranger. He loved People and they loved him back. His faith in God shaped every area and action in his life. He had an unusual ability to communicate comfort and hope to folks during tough times. He was happily married to Patricia Guffey for 52 years till her sudden death in 2006. He and Pat raised five sons. Preacher would say, "we did the best we could with the boys." The fourth son, Terry, passed away in 2000.
Preacher is survived by Kenny, of Brevard; Jeff, of Hendersonville, and his kids, Ben, Kelly, and Haley; Randy and his wife Susan of Jackson, TN and their kids: Erin, her husband Adam Battershell, Lindsay, Gordon, Thomas, Claire and Maggie; Jud, the fifth son, his wife Meghan and their kids: Graham, Collin, Jamin, Spencer, Sawyer and Lilly, two great grandchildren, Tori Battershell, and Roman Pierson. The Pierson Legacy will continue.
Preacher loved "Blue Devil" football and served as the chaplain of the team for over 30 years. He also loved to fish and was especially good at showing up at your house at suppertime. We will miss his friendly smile, kind, comforting words, his ability to make us laugh and his gentle wisdom. Thank you for loving him as much as we did. He fought a good fight, he kept the faith, he now enters into his reward! To our great God be the glory for a life well lived.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday January 4, 2012 at 11:00am at Bethany Baptist Church conducted by Jud Pierson, Rev. Randy Pierson and Rev. Matt Collier.
Interment will follow at Blue Ridge Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends Tuesday evening from 6:00pm until 9:00pm at Moody-Connolly Funeral Home.
Online condolences may be left at www.moodyconnollyfuneralhome.com.
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Nov. 17, 2012
PHOENIX--- The Arizona State University wrestling team wrapped up its first of two duals of the day with a victory over the CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners with a final score of 29-10.
The Sun Devils kicked off Pac-12 play against CSU Bakersfield, where ASU improved to 23-10-1 in the all-time series against CSUB. ASU improved to 1-0 in conference competition and is now 4-1 on the season.
Matt Kraus started off the morning with a tough loss by decision to undefeated Timmy Fox by a score of 3-2 at 141 pounds.
Nathan Hoffer kept the momentum from his last week's undefeated streak with a major decision win (10-2) over Dalton Kelly at 149 pounds, improving to 5-0 and putting ASU on the board with four points.
The next match of the morning was true freshman Codey Combs, who won by 9-3 decision over Roadrunner Adam Fierro at 157 pounds to make it 7-3 in favor of the Sun Devils.
Parker Madl knocked off David Meza by decision with a score of 1-0 at 165 pounds, putting ASU up 10-3.
Blake Stauffer won by major decision 13-1 over Andrew Balch at 174 pounds, improving to 5-0 on the season, making it 14-3 at the midway point.
Sophomore Kevin Radford won by decision over Rueben Franklin at 184 pounds, 12-7, to set up back-to-back pins by the Sun Devils.
In first pin of the match, senior Jake Meredith pinned Frankie Hurtado in 1:28, improving to 5-0 on the season.
Levi Cooper followed Meredith's lead with a pin at 5:48 over CSUB's Sam Cervantes in the heavyweight match to put the match away for ASU and give them a 29-3 advantage.
At 125 pounds, Dalton Miller fell in a decision to No. 18 Tyler Iwamura in perhaps the most exciting match of the day with both grapplers taking their opponent to their backs several times throughout the match.
Shane McGough rounded out the match with a major decision loss against Ian Nickell at 133 pounds to set up the final score of 29-10.
The Sun Devils will then take on Grand Canyon University at 1 p.m. PT in the second half of the double header.
141 Timmy Box (CSUB) def. Matt Kraus (ASU) 3-2 CSUB 3-0
149 Nathan Hoffer (ASU) def. Jake Briggs (CSUB) 10-2 ASU 4-3
157 Codey Combs (ASU) def. Adam Fierro (CSUB) 9-3 ASU 7-3
165 Parker Madl (ASU) def. David Meza (CSUB) 2-1 ASU 10-3
174 Blake Stauffer (ASU) def. Andrew Balch (CSUB) 13-1 ASU 14-3
184 Kevin Radford (ASU) def. Reuben Franklin (CSUB) 12-7 ASU 17-3
197 Jake Meredith (ASU) def. Frankie Hurtado (CSUB) fall, 1:32 ASU 23-3
285 Levi Cooper (ASU) def. Sam Cervantes (CSUB) fall, 6:12 ASU 29-3
125 Tyler Iwamura (CSUB) def. Dalton Miller (ASU) 12-7 ASU 29-6
133 Ian Nickell (CSUB) def. Shane McGough (ASU) 11-0 ASU 29-10


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LG Optimus F3 gets shown on its way to Sprint, where it will be joined by the Optimus G Pro soon
Sprint is apparently getting ready to add two new smartphones from LG to its roster. The first one is the LG Optimus F3, the lowest-end in the Korean company's new F-series, which is supposed to be all about bringing LTE to the masses in a few affordable packages.
This series debuted right before this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February. Back then only the F5 and F7 were members of the family, but the F3 has joined them since. And now it's looking like it's going to be making it to the US, and more specifically landing at the Now Network. Here it is in all its glory:
The Optimus F3 comes with a 4-inch 480×800 touchscreen, a dual-core processor, and a 2,460 mAh battery which is great considering the price point. It runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The F3 should become official in a few weeks, so stay tuned for that.
Joining this handset in Sprint's lineup will be the LG Optimus G Pro, already being sold by AT&T. This device will be released sometime before the end of June, and will bear the model number LS980.
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Mandatory Training for selected volunteers who are participating in Camp Braveheart: Hospice of Northeast Georgia's Camp for grieving children.
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Video from our recent participation in the 14th Annual Night of the Iguana with Make a Wish Foundation.
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Our Fall Paddle Fest last week was a hit! Turnout was amazing and the costumes ridiculous. This was the inaugural event of it's kind for this growing sport. Competitors came from all over the state for their chance at some dough, and proceeds went to support The Action Sports Foundation. ASF helps to do a [...]
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No. 23 Texas Tech Trips No. 25 Texas A&M, 4-3
Francisco Zambon won the deciding match to give Texas Tech a 4-3 win over Texas A&M on Saturday.
April 7, 2012
LUBBOCK, Texas - Two weeks down, two rivals in toe.
No. 23 Texas Tech (13-6, 2-0 Big 12) knocked off No. 25 Texas A&M (12-10, 1-2 Big 12), 4-3, Saturday night in front of 657 fans who braved the cold and wind at the McLeod Tennis Center.
"This was a tremendous day," said Red Raider head coach Tim Siegel. "I cannot say enough on how much the fans meant to us tonight. They truly made a difference in the outcome of this match."
The Red Raiders defeated the Aggies for the first time since 2008, snapping a five-match losing streak to Texas A&M. It was also the last time Texas Tech and Texas A&M would meet in a conference match, as the Aggies are in their last year in the Big 12 Conference.
"The way we battled back after losing a heartbreaker in doubles was incredible," added Siegel. "Every player on our team contributed. I am so extremely proud of Francisco to come through the way he did tonight. It was a great win for him and a great win for our team."
The win moved the Red Raiders into a share of first place in the Big 12 Conference with Oklahoma (12-3, 2-0 Big 12). This also marks the first time in the history of Texas Tech tennis that both the men's and women's programs are in first place at the same time this late in the season.
The evening started with the doubles play. The No. 28 Texas Tech tandem of Raony Carvalho and Gonzalo Escobar cruised past No. 30 Jackson Withrow and Junior Ore, 8-4. The Aggies answered with Colin Hoover and Alixis Klegou's win over Gabriel Wanderley and Jeff Bryan and No. 3, 8-4. The point was decided when A&M's Nial Angus and John Lewis just edged Rafael Garcia and Vitor Manzini, 9-7.
Klegou, who is ranked No. 29, quickly made it 2-0 for Texas A&M, as he dispatched No. 57 Escobar, 6-1, 6-2. No. 96 Carvalho gave Tech its first point of the night, as he stormed past Colin Hoover, 6-4, 6-2. Manzini then tied the match at 2-2, when he picked up a straight-set win over Angus, 6-4, 6-4.
Garcia then gave the Red Raiders their first lead of the night, after he upended No. 103 Lewis, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. But it was a short-lived leave for Tech, as the Aggies answered with a three-set win from Jeremy Efferding over Wanderley, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6.
That put the match in freshman Francisco Zambon's hands. Zambon took the first set against Jordan Szabo, 6-3, but Szabo answered with a 7-5 win in the second. Zambon answered in the third with a 6-3 win in the closing set for the victory and the match.
"I cannot say how well this team gutted this one out today," said Siegel. "Francisco really stepped up big today for himself and his teammates."
The Red Raiders return to action on Friday at No. 75 Oklahoma State and Sunday at No. 21 Oklahoma.
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Luke Siegel (center), son of Texas Tech men's tennis head coach Tim Siegel, threw out the first pitch at Saturday's Texas Tech-Oklahoma baseball game. It was a strike.


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The famous Christmas song Winter Wonderland was first published in 1934. The composer was Felix Bernard (1897-1944) and the lyricist was Richard B. Smith (1901-1935). Probably the most popular versions of this classic Christmas song, Winter Wonderland, were recorded to high acclaim by the Andrews Sisters and Perry Como.
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There is good news and bad news on the Chris Sale front. The good news is that once the lefty is healed and ready to go he likely won't need a rehab start. The bad news is the club has no idea when to expect him back from a left flexor muscle strain that put him out of action back on April 22nd.
Sox skipper Robin Ventura reported yesterday that his ace has played catch on back-to-back days. Not a bad start. But there is no timetable as of yet for Sale to begin throwing off a mound. Speaking to MLB.com, pitching coach Don Cooper gave his thoughts on the situation:
"We're not worried about if he throws when the time's up on the disabled list. First of all, we've got to play some more catch, and then we've got to get to a light sideline and get all that on track.
"Listen, the last few years he's had something and we shut him down. Why? Because we wanted to take care of him, and that's what we're doing right now. And when he's able to go, he'll be out there and really not one second before."
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Close the Lid Gently is an animated video made entirely from 2 home desktop scanners- one a photo scanner, the other a refurbished low end document scanner. Each has it's own texture and sees the domestic environment in it's own particular way, one scan at a time. The 'narrator' is taken from the sound of an instructional software disk, which accompanied one of the scanners. This piece deals with the deliberate misuse/re-purposing of commercial image producing machines for a slow, individual, low end, approach to the motion picture making process.
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Sexual Infidelity follows a troubled New York couple (Lucas Exclusive Roberto Vista and blondie Scott Matthews) through romantic troubles, infidelity and finally reconciliation. * This title is only available as part of our Lucas Collection Volume 1. For the same price, receive Sexual Infidelity, Back in the Saddle, and Shooting Stars!
Dean is a versatile performer who made his debut in our movie Sexual Infidelity. Since then, we reunited with this sweet and very professional native New Yorker on our 20th feature, Uncovered. Dean fills in his time between movies escorting locally, in New York City.
Unfortunately for us, Roberto is a very successful hairdresser in SoHo, and that career has taken precedence over the one in front of the camera. Fortunately for us, we discovered and got a few good movies out of him before he quit the business! Michael Lucas describes Vista as a "beautiful, dirty, cum-eating pig with a big, uncut dick who LOVES to fuck and get fucked." Reviewers used to give him praise, exclaiming, "Sex has a new name, and his name is Roberto Vista!" We would gladly welcome the opportunity to work with this versatile cutie again someday!


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Mensa has a new 3-year-old member. On Feb. 17, KTLA reported that 3-year-old Alexis Martin has an I.Q. over 160 -- the average person's I.Q. is 100 for comparison. Interestingly enough, the doctors that tested Alexis were blown away and they said that they couldn't even calculate the little girl's score because it was "so high." So what was it that alerted Martin's parents to their extremely intelligent child?
"From 12 to 18 months old, we'd be driving around in the car and she would recite her bedtime story from the night before. She didn't just recite them, she recited them exactly," explained her father, Ian (via KTLA).
The Mensa member is only a 3-year-old but she managed to "teach herself Spanish" (by using an iPad) and she is also reading at the level of an average fifth grader. Her father says that she picks up words that she hears and she always uses them in her vocabulary correctly. They are always in the correct context says her dad... "always."
Young Alexis Martin isn't the first young child to be invited to join Mensa. There have been other toddlers inducted into Mensa over the years but Alexis is the youngest in the state of Arizona. This sort of thing is rare and Martin's parents know that their little girl is going to be very different -- in a good way.
The 3-year-old Mensa member won't be able to attend "regular" schools according to her doctors... and her parents are still playing with the idea of sending her to Kindergarten early.
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Humphrey Cheung from TG Daily was able to pay a visit to the Thermaltake offices in the City of Industry where he spoke to Marketing Director, Ramsom Koay about their Thermaltake Xpressar refrigerator case.
A video has been posted taking a solid close-up and hands-on look at Xpressar, view it over here. We actually only spoke with our Thermaltake contact yesterday and were told that some final tweaks and checks were being made and our review sample would be shipped out in the next week or so. We are really excited to see exactly what it can do.
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I know it's not "back to school," but doesn't it feel like it? After an extended holiday season, and even after a fairly slow last week, I'm officially back in the saddle with an intense few weeks on the horizon. Meetings, luncheons, networking events, all of it. While I'm not really a traditional planner gal anymore (it's all organized on Outlook and sync'ed to my phone), I'm often smitten by cool office supplies that make my desk — and me! — oh so happy. I mean, these push pins and paper clips? Obsessed. And, I already own this pencil holder, ruler and tape dispenser. Do you have any favorite office supplies? Comment below to share!
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I have that ABD mug! Thinking I need the rest of your round-up to spruce up my desk area, too. Thanks for the inspiration! Hope all has been great with you (and your growing family!) lately.
I bet having those gold and white folders would make me organized and more productive. Right? That will work?
I love post-its. I swear there should be a post-its anonymous. If there was, I'd be the first to sign up.
I great big puffy heart office supplies. I work in higher education so I sneak in a winter fix to "refresh" before the new semester starts in January
That mousepad is so cute!!
The mouse pad is super cute– these are all great!
I have at least three packs of those exact folders (from Target, of course)!
Loving these…I'm in the process of revamping a little corner for my home office and am having too much fun pouring over supplies!
For me it actually is back to school next week (college) so I am having to buy new products this week! Such a timely post!


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National Post · Jul. 27, 2010 | Last Updated: Feb. 23, 2011 10:41 AM ET
In this year's FP500 issue of Financial Post Magazine, The Independent Order of Foresters was incorrectly identified as one of the five worst performing companies, in terms of declining annual revenue, among Canada's 500 largest corporations. In fact, The Independent Order of Foresters' 2009 revenues substantially increased from 2008 to 2009. Financial Post Magazine regrets the error and apologizes to The Independent Order of Foresters.


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Tonight's episode of "Hardcore Pawn," at Detroit's famous landmark, American Jewelry and Loan, the pawn shop never without some sort of conflict, irate people, sibling rivalry and family drama is titled "Buy Baby Buy."
As the episode begins, a man and his son come in with a signed Justin Verlander jersey from his rookie year in 2006 with the Detroit Tigers, when he was named American League Rookie of the Year. It is framed and authenticated and after much negotiating with the young son, Seth bought it for $230.
Two women come in with two old Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse carved figures. They wanted $2,000, and Les offered them $550, as Ashley was protesting his purchase. Then Seth put his two cents into the conversation and claimed that they bought too much and sold too little.
Two guys came in to see Seth with their fantasy football picks and tried to sell him their team picks. They received Byron's fantasy escort out of the door.
A man came in with a Les Paul Gibson guitar signed by Ace Freely and completely authenticated. He is asking $10,000, but will take $8,500 for it. Les offers $5,500, as Ashley watches the deal fall through.
When two guys come in and start playing a piano that is clearly marked "Do Not Touch." Byron sends them packing.
The man with the guitar comes back to renegotiate. Les offers him $7,600 and not a penny more, and finally closed the deal. Les knows that he will double his money on the guitar, and his naysayer children will have to learn that before they take over the business on this episode of "Hardcore Pawn."


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Telstra HTC Sensation now out
Of course it was only a matter of time until the HTC Sensation made its way to Australia. And so it has. Just like we found out it would, the HTC superphone for Telstra has become available today.
You can get it from any Telstra store for free if if you go with Telstra's Freedom Connect plan that will cost you $79 per month. These details are also exactly like they were leaked last month.
Another option you have is to get the phone without a contract, in which case you'll have to shell out no less than $792 outright. That's if you buy from Telstra. You could just get a Sensation from MobiCity for $699, and it will also come without any Telstra-related bloatware. Your choice.
The HTC Sensation has a dual-core 1.2 GHz processor, a 4.3-inch 960×540 capacitive touchscreen with Gorilla Glass, an 8 MP autofocus rear camera with dual-LED flash and 1080p HD video recording, a VGA front-facing camera, 1 GB of internal storage, 768 MB of RAM, microSD card support, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 3G, GPS, and a 1520 mAh battery. The HTC Sensation runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread with HTC's Sense UI overlay.
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My name is chase and my favorite pokemon is charmander. i write alot and want more freinds.
My name is chase and my favorite pokemon is charmander. i write alot and want more freinds.
Bob says hi.
That was mean, someone locked my rpg. My brother said its was porbabbly my spelling so he edited it.
Chase instead of diablo
I locked it.
1. You posted in the wrong section
2. It's not up to standard. Look around the board and try again when you've improved it.
And don't post it again.
Up to standard? That's a bit harsh Ninetails, you could have at least asked/warned him before just locking it.
What is there to change?
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Just read other Role Plays that are active, read their plot summaries and posts, their forms and how people RP. Also remember that it is not Pokemon only.
I don't see anything wrong with it. i post this on a couple of pokemon boards and they liked it.
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Just look at other RP's
Your plot is scattered and confusing a bit. You pretty much throw people into nothing and expect them to go everywhere without direction. It's very small and simplistic. You also did not give a form, and your form given for your Charmander is severely lacking.
PD is different than other Pokemon forums.
it's the best i can do though. I worked hard on it. Can we just try it out, what harm whould that do? what do you mean differnt?
Chase instead of diablo
This forum isn't as friendly as Serebii or PE2K
Well I dont want any trouble all i want to do is rp. thast all
Chase instead of diablo
I know, which is why I said it was unfair for her to straight up lock it, she could have at least warned you or asked to improve. She left you with virtually nothing to think about.
Well ill try to make it better but i really dont think it should be locked right now. i just want to start rping and improve it along the way.
Chase instead of diablo
I mean, it's too quick for him to rejoin since he left.
omae wa mou shindeiru
Welcome, again.
Fallen Wings
People admire and respect their superiors, are repulsed and disgusted by their inferiors, and connect to their equals.
The extreme highs and lows in life get a strong reaction - Yet it the averages in life that most people connect to.
The class system is nothing more then different groups of people grouping with their fellow equals and feeling the sense of separation from their superiors and inferiors.
Try Dash, or me. I'm on a standard quality. Not too great, not too good either..
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Super Melancholy Irrational Living Entity. that's me~ hehe


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Giron, from Thousand Oaks, Calif., earned a spot in the 128-player men's singles draw after becoming the school's 11th NCAA Singles Champion and first since Benjamin Kohlloeffel in 2006.
Isner is also a product of the college game, as he played at the University of Georgia from 2004-07. He is the highest ranked American player in the world at the moment at No. 15.
Giron recently completed his junior season at UCLA and opted to compete on the professional tour full time.
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