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San Diego 6-9 2016: My Windows 10 Support Class and my Hands-On PowerShell Class!After a lot of research and testing, my two-day Windows 10 support class is available. It's aimed at Win 7 support experts who want to update their skills without being bored to death in the process. (Did you know that Microsoft's whole plan for documenting 10 is a welter of blog posts? Eeek.) I haven't yet gotten the public class schedule arranged, but the MISAC folks, who've sponsored my classes throughout California in the past, have asked me to bring Windows 10 class and my two-day hands-on introduction to PowerShell class. We're coming to San Diego in early June and if Windows 10 or PowerShell are topics that you want to know, then I hope you will come join me for one or both classes!
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Vista is the most secure Windows that Microsoft has released, so there's lots of new stuff to learn, and much of it is good news for anyone looking to keep the bad guys away. But while it is good news, and we all say we want security, facing new security technologies sometimes means having to learn to do familiar tasks differently, which can be a pain. In some cases, it can be enough of a pain to cause someone to choose to deploy Vista later, and that'd be a shame; hence my new book. Administering Windows Vista Security: The Big Surprises focuses on the eight new Vista security technologies that I feel are pretty good when understood, but that could either scare away the casual evaluator or that are so subtle but nonetheless important that they might not be noticed. (And at 266 pages, it's a quick read.)
Find out more and read a sample chapter at www.minasi.com/vistsecbook.
Those of you who've heard me talk about Vista's BitLocker feature will know that I've been grumbling that Microsoft has omitted a central aspect to making BitLocker useful for enterprises: the part that lets techies store their BitLocker recovery passwords in Active Directory. But this week brought good news. Go to www.microsoft.com/downloads and search for "Bitlocker" and you'll find "BitLocker AD Guide." The puzzle piece has arrived!
By Rhonda Layfield, co-author, Mastering Windows Server 2003 Upgrade Edition for R2 and SP1
Anyone who's got to get Microsoft's new desktop OS, Vista onto a desktop is — or should be — looking into MS's new deployment tools as well. Of course, you probably already knew that, as it seems like every IT magazine I pick up has at least one article if not more on Vista's new deployment tools like ImageX, Windows Deployment Service (WDS) server (the new RIS), Windows Pre-Installation Boot Environment (WinPE), and Windows System Image Manager (WSIM).
As a Windows techie, that all sounded like big news and — even better — new toys, so I started to look into it, only to find mountains of white papers and a bunch of tools that whose documentation was, well, a bit uneven, if you know what I mean. Lacking a roadmap to Deploymentville, I figured I'd begin at the beginning or, rather, begin at the boot — the boot OS, that is. The process of putting an operating system on a computer has always suffered from a chicken-and-egg problem in that you can't run a Setup program on a bare-metal computer without an operating system, but the whole point of that Setup program is get the OS on the machine in the first place. For years, many of us have had to cobble together DOS boot floppies to get the whole Setup-over-a-network or apply-a-Ghost-image process rolling. I suspect you'll empathize when I say that putting those floppies together ranks up in the list of things I love doing somewhere below root canals. Therein lies one of Vista's unalloyed benefits: WinPE. In this newsletter, I want to explain to you what it is, where to get it, how to add an extra program to it and how to install new network drivers on it — something that I discovered that I had to learn before I could get WinPE to run on VMWare!
WinPE 2.0 is a scaled-down version of the Vista kernel that you could think of it as "Vista Junior." (If WinPE's not new to you, then you're probably a big Microsoft customer; volume license folks have been able to play with WinPE 1.x since XP days.) As an OS, WinPE has limited functionality, but you can do things like partition and format hard drives. It also contains a small set of utilities, things like netstat, ping, ipconfig, and chkdsk to name a few, and let's not forget one of Mark's favorites, netsh. WinPE is a simple OS, but it's the basis of most deployment scenarios as well as the platform for many recovery tools. Interested? Then let's get started.
First, you'll need a "technician machine," Microsoft's name for a system that can create WinPE images. A machine running Vista, XP SP2 or Server 2003 SP1/R2 will work just fine. You will need to install the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) or the Business Desktop Development tool (BDD 2007), both of which are free downloads from Microsoft. The BDD is really just a shell for Vista's new deployment tools, so if you choose to go with the BDD then you will still have to download the WAIK as a component of the BDD. There has been some talk about making the WAIK available only as a component to the BDD. As of Dec 26th I could still download the WAIK as a separate tool, but I can't guarantee that by the time you read this the that WAIK will still be available as an independent tool. Regardless of whether you choose to use the BDD or WAIK, you will need to ensure that the .NET Framework 2.0 and MSXML 6.0 are installed on your technician machine (both can be found in either the BDD or the WAIK) if that technician machine is XP or 2003. No need to add those to a Vista machine, as they're built into it.
You can find the WAIK at www.microsoft.com/downloads. Search "Windows AIK Windows 7" and it should be the first hit, but when I last updated this page (31 May 2010), the download offered a file named "KB3AIK_en.iso" that was 1,789,542,400 bytes. To use it, just burn the file to a DVD (it won't fit on a CD) using whatever burning software you like. (If you're running Windows 7, just right-click it and you'll see that Windows 7 includes an ISO burning ability built right in. If you're not running Win 7 and don't have any CD/DVD burning software, then you can either use the CDBURN or DVDBURN software in the 2003 Resource Kit, or Google "ISO Recorder" to find a very nice, free ISO burner for 2000 and later.) Once burned, use that DVD to install the WAIK on an XP SP3 or later system.
Important note: when WAIK's setup program asks where to install the WAIK, do not use the default. Instead, have the setup program put it in c:\waik. That'll make typing some command lines a whole lot easier than if you install the WAIK into Program Files!
Once the WAIK's installed, then open the Windows PE Tools Command Prompt by clicking on Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft Windows AIK -> Windows PE Tools Command Prompt. If you're running this from Vista, then be sure to elevate the command prompt -- don't click it, right-click it and choose "Run as administrator." Why not just use the Windows command prompt? Choosing Windows PE Tools Command Prompt ensures that your PATH environment variable points to everything that you'll need to create a WinPE image: some apps we'll soon meet named copype.cmd, imagex.exe, peimg.exe and oscdimg.exe. All commands must be typed in this command prompt.
Next, you'll create your WinPE build environment in a new folder. Type the following command in your Windows PE Tools Command Prompt:
copype architecture (x86, ia64 or amd64) C:\foldernameFor example, to create a WinPE build environment for an x86 machine into a folder named WinPE, type the following:
copype x86 C:\WinPE
Your new WinPE build environment will contain the following three folders:
oscdimg -n -h -betfsboot.com iso winpe.iso
That created the file "c:\winpe\winpe.iso," which is a standard ISO that'll fit easily on a CD. Burn it to a CD and boot it on a computer with at least 256 MB of RAM, and you'll see a screen like this one:
[Summer 2008 Update: if you download the 9 April 2008 WAIK -- the most recent one -- then you'll see a gray background rather than the blue-green one. Don't worry about it, it's a slighter newer "WinPE 2.1" with a more boring bit of wallpaper.]
Look familiar? It kind of looks like a Vista desktop with just a command prompt window. But there's no Start menu, no taskbar, and pretty much no GUI. (Regedit does work, though, and it's sort of GUI-ish.) That's the main barrier to using WinPE — you've got to be somewhat comfortable with the command prompt to get anything done in WinPE. Nevertheless, it's a nice basic OS for doing a lot of things.
Now, in my case, I didn't have an extra machine around to try my WinPE on, so I ran it in a VMWare Workstation 5.3.3 virtual machine.
Important note: if you do this, then create the virtual machine of type "Windows Vista (experimental)." Choosing Windows 2000, "other," or something else will get you a virtual machine with a virtual NIC that Windows PE doesn't have drivers for and can't get drivers for — so you'll never get it to network.
It booted up fine — that's where the screen shot came from — but when I immediately checked my network status by typing ipconfig, I got a result of just "Windows IP Configuration" and no NICs. A quick try of the WinPE CD on my notebook yielded an ipconfig output that had NICs, so clearly I was facing a driver problem. VMWare's virtual machines have virtual NICs, and those NICs don't reflect any actual NICs; instead, they run an imaginary NIC called a "vmxnet" NIC. Installing VMWare Tools on a virtual Vista, XP or other Windows machine results in a folder c:\program files\vmware\vmware tools\drivers\vmxnet on that virtual machine that contain the drivers for this imaginary vmxnet NIC... but how to get WinPE to recognize those drivers, particularly as trying to install VMWare Tools on a WinPE VM failed?
And while we're modifying our WinPE image, let's add a program to it. The WAIK includes a tool named imagex.exe that is fundamental to most WinPE-related deployment scenarios, so I was a bit puzzled that imagex.exe wasn't already installed on the basic WinPE, but it wasn't, so let's also see how to add imagex.exe to WinPE.Now, when we created that first WinPE ISO, we just built it out from the default configuration supplied from the WAIK. To add things to that configuration and create a new WinPE image, we'll have to learn a few skills:
A look in the c:\winpe folder shows a large file called "winpe.wim." That single file is of a new type called a "Windows image" file, which as you can see has the extension .wim. WIM files are sort of Microsoft's answer to Ghost files, a method of capturing and storing an entire OS image to a single file, which can be deployed with a number of tools. The winpe.wim image that the WAIK supplies is the all-in-one-file version of the WinPE CD that you've already built. To change that image, though, we'll need to "unlock" it and expose the files inside of it. The imagex.exe program that I mentioned earlier will let us do that by letting us "mount" the image to a folder. Notice that the c:\winpe folder contains a folder called "mount;" it's empty and should stay empty. Its only job is to provide a kind of "alias" that lets us look into the winpe.wim image through the c:\mount folder. That'll be a bit clearer once we do it.
Return to your technician machine and the Windows PE Command Prompt, which should be at c:\winpe; if not, then cd \winpe to get there. Mount winpe.wim to the mount folder by typing
imagex /mountrw winpe.wim 1 mount
Note that if you didn't start your command prompt by clicking "Windows PE Command Prompt," then you'd have to type the path of imagex, and the command would be
c:\waik\tools\x86\imagex /mountrw winpe.wim 1 mount
ImageX is a topic for another day, but briefly here's what you've typed. "/mountrw" is the switch used to mount the winpe.wim file in a read/write format — if you forget to add the rw to the end of the mount statement, you won't be able to edit the image file. The winpe.wim is the .wim file you would like to mount. The number 1 is the image index number. The image index number is important because Microsoft's new imaging technology allows you to store multiple images in a single .wim file. The index number identifies the image within the .wim file that you want to work with. The default winpe.wim only has one index but you still need to include the number 1 in the mount command or it won't work. To find out how many images a .wim contains, type the following:
imagex /info c:\winpe\winpe.wim
Your available image choices will be listed, <IMAGE INDEX=1> is the image we are working with in this example. Finally, mount is the folder you are going to mount your winpe.wim image to.
Assuming that all went well, try looking in the c:\winpe\mount folder. What was once empty now has folders named Users, Windows and more but, again, they aren't really in the mount folder — imagex just lets us essentially put on "WIM goggles" and see inside winpe.wim through the mount folder. Now that winpe.wim's mounted, we can use a few tools to add things to the winpe.wim image so that we can then make and ISO and a boot CD of that image.
WAIK lets you load any add-ons called "packages" that provide additional functionality. More specifically, if you would like to include support for running HTML, WMI, XML or WSH scripts, you will need to add one or more of the available packages. There are 15 packages by default to choose from. To view the list of packages type the following:
peimg /list /image=c:\winpe\mount
You will see a listing of packages that look like this:
To add a package, say the XML parser support package (so you can run XML scripts in your WinPE) you would type the following:
peimg /install=WinPE-XML-Package C:\WinPE\mount\windows
OR you can use wildcards (*) for less typing:
peimg /install=*XML* C:\WinPE\mount\windows
To confirm that your package has been added to your winpe.wim, run the "peimg /list /image=c:\winpe\mount" command again, the packages you added should have a + sign in the Ins column, like this:
We're ready now to add those vmxnet drivers to our WinPE image. First, you'll need to get the drivers; here's how. Create a new virtual Vista machine from the Vista product DVD using VMWare Workstation 5.5.3. By default your virtual Vista machine will not have networking, but installing the VMWare tools into your virtual Vista machine will load network drivers, so go ahead and install the VMWare tools (from the VMWare menu click on VM and then choose "Install VMware Tools"). Now, after installing the VMware tools you should have networking on your virtual Vista machine, you can check this by typing /ipconfig at a command prompt -- if you have an IP address, you have networking. Next, from the virtual Vista machine that you just installed the VMware tools on, copy the entire contents of the C:\Program Files\VMWare\VMWare Tools\Drivers\vmxnet folder to a folder named C:\Drivers on your technician machine. To inject the VMware network drivers into your winpe.wim type the following two commands in your Windows PE Tools Command Prompt:
peimg /inf=c:\drivers\vmxnet.inf c:\winpe\mount\windows
peimg /inf=c:\drivers\vmware-nic.inf c:\winpe\mount\windows
OR, remember that wildcards (*) work, so typing the following works as well:
peimg /inf=c:\drivers\vm*.inf c:\winpe\mount\windows or peimg /inf=c:\drivers\vm*.* c:\winpe\mount\windows
As I suggested earlier, we'll want imagex.exe on our WinPE image. That's because imagex is a powerful command line tool that allows you to capture and apply images and, again, for some reason imagex is not included in a WinPE by default (which is why we have to add it).
As for getting imagex.exe into your WinPE, a simple copy is all that's needed. Imagex.exe is installed by default when you install the Windows AIK. You could choose to use Windows Explorer and browse to image.exe by launching Windows Explorer and expanding c:\waik\tools, where you'll see folders named x86, amd64 and ia64 -- there's an imagex for standard 32-bit systems, x64 systems, and Itanium systems. We'll copy the x86 version with this command:
Copy C:\WAIK\Tools\x86\imagex.exe c:\winpe\mount\windows\system32
That just copied the file to the system32 folder of our winpe.wim image, where it'll always be on the path and easily available from the command line.
Now that we've finished our changes, let's save them to our winpe.wim by typing:
imagex /unmount c:\winpe\mount /commit
The /commit switch saves your changes. If you forget to type the /commit, your changes will not be saved.
Now our changes are in the winpe.wim file, as a look at its "last modified" date and time will confirm. But don't re-type the oscdimg command that we did before — there's another step we've got to do to see that winpe.wim's image end up as an ISO. The oscdimg command that we did before said to take the files in the folder named "ISO" and assemble them into an ISO file. A look inside the ISO folder shows that there's a folder named "Sources" and, inside that, a large file named boot.wim. That is the WIM that is the WinPE image we'll create, not winpe.wim, so we need to overwrite that boot.wim with our customized winpe.wim to get our desired image on that ISO. Do that by typing
xcopy c:\winpe\winpe.wim c:\winpe\iso\sources\boot.wim /y
Now we're ready to make our final customized ISO! Type the following:oscdimg -n -h -bc:\winpe\etfsboot.com c:\winpe\iso c:\winpe\winpe.iso
The oscdimg.exe is the command line utility that tells etfsboot.com to look in the c:\winpe\iso folder for a file named boot.wim, when found convert the boot.wim to an ISO named winpe.iso, and put it in the WinPE folder. The -n option allows for long file names and the -b option makes it bootable or El-Torito compliant. If you are creating a bootable ISO for a ia64 architecture, replace etfsboot.com with efisys.bin. -h says to write any hidden files or folders.
You now have a bootable WinPE ISO called winpe.iso. Burn that to a CD, fire it up and you'll see that ipconfig yields good news, and the imagex command works. Congratulations, you've built your first custom WinPE system! You'll could now choose to connect to a server that has a Vista installation image using the net use V: \\servername\sharename command and download a Vista installation image, repartion the system's drive — WinPE is running now from a RAM disk and you can remove the CD if you like without crashing the system — or do any of a number of things. You've completed the first real task in building your deployment toolkit!
I hope you have found these step-by-steps useful and if you have any questions or comments on the WinPE information provided, please email Rhonda Layfield at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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"We're certainly keeping the date there and we'll announce what that movie is, I assume, in the next few months."
That was what Marvel President Kevin Feige said when asked about moving their untitled mystery film away from the May 6th 2016 date to avoid a showdown with Warner Bros.' Batman vs. Superman. Well, Marvel hasn't backed down, but we don't have to wait to find out the movie as THR reports it will be Captain America 3.
Not exactly the breakthrough reveal some were hoping, and not much of a surprise either as Marvel had already re-hired Joe and Anthony Russo to direct the sequel and begin plotting out the story. Chris Evans is coming back as Captain America, of course, although he's already looking towards the end of his contract, meaning we may see the groundwork laid for a "passing of the torch". This also would squash a prior rumor the date would go to the un-confirmed Guardians of the Galaxy sequel.
Is the threat of Captain America enough to force Batman vs. Superman to switch release dates? It may already have happened.

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Last Monday evening, Woodcreek High School in Roseville hosted a community resource event to raise awareness and educate parents about the modern life of teenagers.
Doug Dransfield is the parent organizer of the event.
"The high level of alcohol use and drug abuse by teens is very real in high school and seems to be the elephant in the room that few want to discuss," he said. "We wanted to have an event that promoted healing, health and safety. And I know we did just that."
Adolescent drug addiction expert, Jon Daily, Director of Counseling Services at Recovery Happens in Fair Oaks was a featured presenter about the drug culture and youth issues. He wants parents to know how much they do not know about their children's life which is a problem for the kids.
Indeed the internet creates uniform exposure to risky thinking and ideas. A recent headline in Wausau, Wisconsin features the uniform challenge of the young among us. Drug addiction does not discriminate; it also ravages high performing student-athletes who engage in drug use catching parents off guard.
According to Daily, the "not my child" mentality may be the biggest risk factor.
"The gap between what kids were dealing with versus what parents perceived is so wide," Daily said about the parents who attended the Woodcreek event. "[I am encouraged about] how these parents started to realize how [imperative]it is to look into their child's internal world more and into their external world less. The work as a parent is to see the stress, frustration, anxiety and depression years before it has to show up as cutting or drug use or grades dropping."
The life experience knowledge gap between parents and teens today is fraught with more risk as internet connectivity makes it very easy to embrace norms well below what is legal and safe. According to Daily, it was evident from the audience that kids were far more educated than adults on the latest trends of teen drug use when surveyed. "This leads to a wonderful dialogue," he said.
(Listen to the top three things parents can do to facilitate open communication with network-savvy youth-video)
Alan Baker is the Co-Chair of the Coalition For Placer Youth, a grass roots coalition in Auburn dedicated to educating and supporting parents, teachers, policy makers about substance abuse prevention for the modern child. "Today, as has been true for quite a while now, alcohol is the most prevalent substance our youth abuse, followed by marijuana, then tobacco, then prescription pills, and finally everything else added together," he said. "In terms of trends, it appears alcohol and prescription drugs are down ever so slightly in the last couple of years. This is offset with slight increases in the use of tobacco and marijuana."
Christy Crandell, co-founder of Full Circle Treatment Center, adolescent drug addiction intervention and recovery center in Roseville, was also a featured speaker at the event. "I am so impressed by the lengths that Woodcreek took to educate their parents about drug and alcohol use amongst teens," she said. "Being the parent means we need to be informed about what is trending with youth and take action when we discover drug use."
Woodcreek principal, Jess Borjon, explained that this community event was the result of Site Council parents who reviewed the results of the California Healthy Kids Survey last year and decided to do something to help parents address youth issues. "We hope that parents take away a sense that they can be proactive in their decisions about their family when it comes to drug and alcohol use," he said.
Parent Resources
- Banana Moments Foundation: Help for Parenting in the Network Culture
- Teaching tweens and teens responsible & safe use of texting and social media
- Woodcreek High School
- Coalition for Placer Youth
- Recovery Happens
- Full Circle Treatment Center
- Life Community Church
- Kids First
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- Teenage brains and the cyber-powered drug culture
- Digital natives tackle prescription drug abuse problem for youth
- Tips to avoid teen drug and alcohol abuse in the network culture
- Helping children say no to drugs requires face time, off line (Photos)
- A prescription for life in the social network without medication


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We had a nice time at the aquarium yesterday. It is worth $12 a person (goldstar discount), but not the $21 (aquarium price). There was also an additional cost of parking in the structure across the street for $7. We also received the an additional benefit of extended hours (close at 9pm rather than 6pm) by going on Memorial Day allowing us to leisurely stroll through the aquarium.
We spent 5 hours at the aquarium looking at each and every tank. There are some interesting varieties of fish and coral that I have never seen before. They had quite a few different varieties of sea horses including a pot bellied sea horse. I enjoyed the regional tanks for Northern Pacific and Southern California. The shark exhibit is no Sea World, but there is a variety of sharks and an underwater viewing station. There is also a Lorkeet bird enclosure that you can walk into and get up close and personal with the birds. The aquarium has signs up saying not to hold them, but I saw several people with birds perched on them and the staff didn't say anything.
Beware the children. Every time I took a step there was a child under the age of 5 that was either beating on the glass of the tank, splashing water in the touch pools, running, pushing past you to look in the tank, or screaming. They were all looking for Nemo and Dory as well (Finding Nemo) which I found sad that their only reference for fish life is that movie. Note to parents who read this: please only take your child if they are well behaved. Those of us who choose not to have children do not want your screaming child around us.
Overall I enjoyed my experience and took some great photos. I may go back in a year or two but only if I can get this type of discount again.
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We took our granddaughters ages 6 and 8 to the Aquarium and had a wonderful, fun afternoon. Their favorite things were the otters, the seals and sea lions, the jelly fish, and the animal touching pools. They were underwhelmed by the "special...continued
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Best time to go...hardly anybody there!
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Despite the 8,000 little kids yelling "I found Nemo" every five seconds, the Aquarium is one of my favorite places in town. I took two kids from Guatemala, who had never even been to a zoo, let alone an aquarium and it was almost overwhelming to...continued
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TUCSON, Ariz. – The University of Arizona volleyball team will continue spring competition by participating in the 2013 Collegiate Beach Championships on Saturday. The competition will take place at Victory Lanes in Glendale, Ariz. and will begin at 10:00 a.m.
Arizona is one of five schools competing in the event. The Wildcats will enter four two-person teams in a field of 20 teams.
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This will be the third of four spring competition dates for the Arizona volleyball squad. The Wildcats will wrap up spring play next Saturday will a match at UC Irvine.
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In this customer service powerpoint, you teach your staff to manage emotions and deliver professional and personalized service. It includes the techniques and skills to:
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satisfy customers within difficult conditions
apply the five A's of service recovery.
Learning Objectives
To instil in customer service staff the importance of providing excellent customer service
To equip frontline personnel with effective customer service techniques and skills to provide service excellence
To manage and handle customer interactions and relationships
Introduction to Delivering Service Excellence
- Why do customers leave?
- Behaviours that turn-off customers
- What is customer service?
- Customer service vs. customer satisfaction
- What is excellent customer service?
- Characteristics of excellent service
- Benefits of delivering service excellence
- Customer satisfaction approach
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Earlier this year ELEXSO formed subsidiaries in their major markets: ELEXSO Inc. was formed in Sugarland, Texas (Houston), with Per J. Justus as c.e.o., Virgil Harris as vice president - administrative services, and Jerry Williams, Atlanta, as national sales director. ELEXSO de Colombia Ltda. was formed in Bogata with Javier Ucros as managing director and Camilo Ceron as customer service manager. ELEXSO do Brazil Ltd. was formed in E.S. do Pinhal in the State of Sao Paulo, close to the major coffee growing areas of Minas Gerais. The company's managing director is Christian Böge and the technical director is Valdir Inacio.
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Synopsis by William Silvester
Notes and links by Michele L. Worley
US hardcover edition: pages 378 - 385
UK paperback edition: pages 407 - 415
6 June
In which they go back through the tunnel towards the
Black invites
Harry to live with him,
Lupin becomes a
werewolf when the moon comes
out and Black transforms to a dog
to prevent him from attacking HRH,
Pettigrew becomes a rat and
escapes, Black goes after him and
is confronted by Dementors,
Harry and
Hermione run for help
but are caught by Dementors
as well.
Interesting facts and notes about the text of this chapter:
Harry finds out what lies beneath
a Dementor's hood when the
Dementors "guarding"
the school attempt to Kiss
him and those with him.
Pettigrew had dived for
Lupin's dropped
wand flew high into the air and
out of sight
Characters introduced in this chapter:
Characters returning in this chapter:
Black, Sirius
Granger, Hermione
Lupin, Remus
Pettigrew, Peter
Potter, Harry
Snape, Severus
(unconscious but present)
Weasley, Ron
Characters mentioned in this chapter:
Dursley, Dudley
Dursley, Petunia
(as Harry's aunt)
Dursley, Vernon
(as Harry's uncle)
Potter, James
Potter, Lily Evans
Settings and locations introduced or returning in this chapter:
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Settings and locations mentioned in this chapter:
Forbidden Forest
Exceptional character moments:
Sirius, covering the kids' retreat
from the werewolf -
particularly Ron, who at this point
is unconscious and isn't going anywhere. It's a question whether
Sirius or
Snape would have been more
outraged at the fact that Sirius
also saved Snape from the
werewolf in the confusion.
Harry, resisting the
Dementors to very nearly his
last breath to protect Sirius,
clinging to the idea of leaving the
Dursleys forever as the
happiest thing he can think of.
Animagus Transfiguration
Expecto Patronum
(still in effect though cast earlier)
(unidentified spells used by Pettigrew
on Crookshanks and
Ron to break free)
Links and Resources:
Bestiary, the
Wolfsbane Potion
Memorable lines:
"Are you mad? Of course I want to leave the
Dursleys! Have you got a house?
When can I move in?"
...his mother was screaming in his ears...she was going to be the last thing
he ever heard -
Strictly British:
This chapter begins immediately after the previous chapter,
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than it at first appears to be.
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The Big Blue (sequal to Ecco The Dolphin)
Do any of the "Older" Gamers here remember Ecco The Dolphin?
I played it waaaay back on my Sega Megadrive and loved it to bits
Now the original creators of that game are busy with a sequal to it called "The Big Blue"
The Big Blue, an underwater adventure game by Ed Annunziata — Kickstarter
I have backed this project on Kickstarter because I have fond memories of playing Ecco the Dolphin and would love to have another go with it with the current hardware available.
It's still in the kickstarter phase though so no guarentees that it will actually become a reality. But who knows, they might get enough support
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I'm not "older" but I remember playing Eco on my Sega. Never was one of my faves, but still wasted a lot hours on it though. Sounds kind of weird, but I suppose there were some real fans of the series, me however I am still trying to remember who in the world got me Eco now...
Also don't get the whole animals evolving because no humans, some of the best marine animals haven't evolved in a long long time. Only thing that would force an evolve in most of them now would be humans changing things...
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Phuket Cinemas
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Phuket Paradise Multiplex
The oldest of the Phuket cinemas is the one located in the center of Phuket town at Robinson's and Ocean Plaza. The Phuket Paradise Multiplex shows both English speaking as well as local Thai movies and they have the cheapest ticket prices of all the Phuket cinemas.
This Phuket cinema is not as popular anymore as before as tourists staying in Patong or one of the other Phuket beach areas prefer to visit one of the newer Phuket cinemas which are located closer by to their hotel or resort.
Central Festival Phuket Cinema
The SFX Coliseum Cinema at the Central Festival Phuket shopping mall opened around 2004 and has been a popular Phuket attraction since it opened its doors. Not only is this Phuket cinema state of the art but visitors can also do some great shopping at the modern Phuket shopping mall in which it is located. If you are visiting this Phuket cinema with your girlfriend or wife then be sure to take the sofa sweet chair.
Patong Cinema
The Patong cinema is the SF Cinema City Jungceylon which is located in the massive and upscale Phuket jungceylon shopping mall. Tickets at this Phuket cinema are slightly more expensive then what you would pay at the other two Phuket cinemas.
This Patong cinema is becoming increasingly popular as most tourists don't want to travel all the way to one of the other two Phuket cinemas and they instead visit the Phuket cinema located at this wonderful Patong shopping mall..
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150 years of the iron road from Newcastle
Exhibition - including 'North East Focus' from the National Railway Museum, York.
Friday the 7th of July until - Saturday the 5th of August 2000
new exhibition
of the work of Robert
Stephenson will be on show September 2009
at Newcastle Arts Centre, 67 Westgate Road, NE1 1SG
The names of George Stephenson and his son Robert are probably best known for the locomotive Rocket built in Newcastle in 1829 at the worlds first locomotive works alongside what is now the Central Station. The performance of the Rocket as an efficient, reliable and fast steam engine proved the value of the steam train and established a new industry. However the Stephensons main concern was not the locomotive but the engineering of the railway.
The Rocket was built by Robert Stephenson & Co in Newcastle for the worlds first inter city steam railway, the Liverpool & Manchester, engineered by George Stephenson. All early railways were tracks to carry Coal from mine to ship but this new public railway was designed for the fast transport of goods between port and factory and passengers from City to City. The L&M was a great work of Civil Engineering that would have a massive economic and social impact by setting design and construction precedents that would spread world wide.
The Stephensons vision was not for more short industrial lines but for a national network that would rival the ship as the main form of cargo and passenger transport. Shipping and Shipbuilding was the main trade of the Tyne and it is therefore not surprising that the City of Newcastle was slow to embrace the idea of a line that would link the City to London and Scotland. In fact before the building of Robert Stephensons High Level Bridge there were 15 proposals for a new Tyne crossing, some of which would have by-passed the City. The Stephensons used their national and international reputation to promote the argument for the rail system that would link Newcastle to all points of the compass.
Typically Newcastle was seen by the various companies that built lines to the city as a destination not a hub and without the vision of John Dobson, George Hudson and the Stephensons, Newcastle would have been left with a number of unconnected Terminal Stations on lines at different levels across the City. To achieve one High Level system across the City and the Tyne was a major economic and engineering success for Newcastle which is well illustrated by John Storey's famous print. George Stephenson died two years before the completion of his sons work in Newcastle.
Robert was honoured by a banquet in the Station on July 30th 1850 to celebrate his achievements which included -
The London & Birmingham Railway, The High Level Bridge1849, the Britannia Tubular Bridge 1850 (Anglesey), The Royal Border Bridge 1850 at Berwick and the completion of the north east coast route from London to Edinburgh, and this show commemorates that 150th anniversary.
The Railways became the vital arteries of the Industrial Age, with its rapid economic and social change, for a hundred years until the development of electronic communication. The British rail network is once again undergoing a revival with faster trains and more passengers producing a political, economic and environmental pressure for development in a way that was not forecast in the 1960s when the railway was regarded as yesterdays technology.
The main part of this show is North East Focus an exhibition lent by the National Railway Museum to which we have added more than twenty historic pictures illustrating the Stephenson legacy. This is also presented as a feature on our web site.
North East Focus looks back at the last days of the steam railway in the North East 35 years ago with photographs that recorded the end of an era of industrial power, grime and exploitation. The romance of the snorting steam engine with fire in its belly and potent power was a motivation for these pictures, but the awareness of a new age of change and uncertainty sparked an immediate need to record these scenes. At the time they were taken some train spotters found these pictures hard to understand, you can rarely see more than a glimpse of the engine let alone spot the number ! This show breaks with the old narrow conventions of railway photography (to produce sharp well lit pictures of locomotives) by recording trains in context almost regardless of the light or the weather.
Stephensons Legacy Acknowledgements
Additional photographs by Malcolm Dunnett, Trevor Ermel, Bob Payne, W.B. Greenfield (Courtesy North East Locomotive Preservation Society), R.W. Swinburn, our thanks to Colin Ashton of Northumberland Print for the loan of Carmichaels lithograph of the High Level Bridge.
Picture research Ken Groundwater, Text
Mike Tilley, Photographic printing Trevor Ermel at
Monochrome,Digital Image restoration and printing Mike
Tilley at Newcastle Arts Centre.
When visiting this exhibition also allow time to visit the Central Station and the Castle Keep. The Keep built in the 11th Century is well worth a visit and a climb to the roof is rewarded by excellent views of the City, the Railway and the High Level Bridge. Admission to the Keep is £1.50.
Books - The High Level Bridge and the Central Station - John Addeyman and Bill Fawcett
North East Focus - the book of the Exhibition
Newcastle's Railways - Ken Groundwater
Worth a visit - The Tanfield Railway and the Causey Arch - phone 0191 388 7545
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Dead Dog Classic Stage Race is a 2 day, 3 stage amateur/professional bike race sanctioned by the USAC and will be held in Laramie Wyoming region June 23 & 24th, 2012. Road Race is Saturday, June 23rd, Criterium is Sunday morning, June 24th with the Time Trial beginning late Sunday morning, June 24th.
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Fifteen years ago, on Saturday the 16th of August, 1993, Ian Murdock wrote an email to the comp.os.linux.development newsgroup , announcing his upcoming Debian Linux Release.
"I've totally re-created the release, in other words, I haven't just made a few changes to SLS and then called it a new release," Murdock wrote on the SLS (Softlanding Linux System) mailing list.
The SLS was the first Linux distribution, compiled in 1992 by Peter McDonald, that consisted of more than just the basic Linux kernel and a few rudimentary tools. SLS did bring the graphic X Windows System with it, but caused a series of problems that led to dissatisfaction in the Linux community. About one month before the Debian release, Patrick Volkerding published version 1.0 of Slackware, which – unlike the brand new Debian – was a mere modification of SLS.
Murdock was concerned with transparency and freedom of his distribution in accordance with the values of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The Debian developer community grew quickly, and the project developed a sophisticated internal structure with a constitution, a corporate contract, and guidelines for the organization. Debian was especially admired for dissolving the packet-dependency. Security leaks were posted on public mailing lists, which increased the potential number of developers who could patch the leaks quickly.
Debian worked so well that an increasing number of commercial and non-commercial providers began to build their own distributions from Debian's packet-system. Ubuntu, one of the best-known Debian-derivatives, has since overtaken Debian in popularity, to the dismay of some members of the Debian community.
The distribution is also frequently used in large migration projects in the public sector.For example, Debian is the Linux of choice in Munich, Germany; the Austrian version of Vienna's Wienux is based on Debian; and the Spanish region of Extremadura uses it for its schools and councils with GNU/LinEx.
Officially, the next stable version of Debian 5.0, code-named Lenny, will be released in September.
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DescriptionMartine is the title character in a series of books for children written in French by the Belgians Marcel Marlier and Gilbert Delahaye and edited by Casterman. The first one, Martine à la ferme (Martine at the farm), was published in 1954, followed by over 50 other books, which have been translated into many different languages.
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The video of a tigerfish catching a bird after leaping out of the water is a top Google search this weekend.
Images of the African tigerfish catching a swallow midflight after jumping out of a lake in the Mapungubwe National Park in South Africa are quite a sight to see.
Video: Watch tigerfish catch bird in flight
According to a new study published in the Journal of Fish Biology, the video is known to be the first record of a freshwater fish jumping out of the water and grabbing a bird in flight.
The study states that tigerfish can jump as high as three feet high when they want to grab a tasty bird for lunch.
Nico Smit, director of the Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management at North-West University in South Africa, told Nature.com, "The whole action of jumping and catching the swallow in flight happened so incredibly quickly that after we first saw it, it took all of us a while to really fully comprehend what we had just seen."
During the study, researchers reported that they saw at least 20 tigerfish jump out of the water and capture barn swallows, leaping into the air from various depths to attack the unsuspecting birds.
The tigerfish is known as a prized gamefish. The African fish are found in rivers and lakes and are fierce predators.
The little barn swallows don't have a fighting chance when a hungry tigerfish leaps out of the water. They have distinctive and ridiculously large teeth that will gobble the birds up in a seconds.
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The Feng Yun 2 spacecraft bus diameter was 2.1 m, and total height on-station was about 4.5 m. The major payload was a scanning radiometer with S-band and UHF data distribution. The two principal sensors were visible and infrared imaging instruments with best resolution of 1.25 km and 5.0 km respectively. A water vapor sensor was also carried.
The first Fen Yung 2 satellite was undergoing final checkout on 2 April 1994 before being mated to its launch vehicle when a fire and explosion erupted, destroying the vehicle, killing one worker and injuring 20 others. The operational satellites finally launched was stationed over 104.6E. China planned to put six meteorological satellites into orbit from 2002 to 2008 to offer comprehensive weather services for the 2008 Olympic Games. These included FY-2C in 2003 and FY-2D in 2006.
Gross mass: 593 kg (1,307 lb).
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Butterfly Wand
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Instructions:This spring project is easy to create. And involves minimal clean up and materials needed. When completed you can play make believe with your butterfly wands.
Popsicle stick
A pipe cleaner
Cone-shaped coffee filter
Colorful markers or crayons
Have an adult glue a pipe cleaner to a popsicle stick. Hot glue is the easiest way to do this. Let the glue cool off for a few minutes while the children decorate the wings. Open up a cone-shaped coffee filter at the seam. Decorate the coffee filter with markers or crayons. Attach the paper to the popsicle stick with the pipe cleaner. Bend the ends to form antennae.
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California Adopts First Statewide Green Building Code
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Taking effect January 2011, the nation's first mandatory green building code – dubbed "CalGreen" – lays out specific constraints for newly constructed buildings. It requires builders to install plumbing that cuts indoor water use by as much as 20 percent, to divert 50 percent of construction waste from landfills to recycling, and to use low-pollutant paints, carpets, and floors.
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Dr. David Gill
- Mockler-Phillips Professor of Workplace Theology and Business Ethics; Director of the Mockler Center for Faith and Ethics in the Workplace
First Year at Gordon-Conwell:
- B.A. (University of California, Berkeley)
- M.A. (San Francisco State University)
- Ph.D. (University of Southern California)
- Doing Right: Practicing Ethical Principles (InterVarsity Press, 2004)
- Becoming Good: Building Moral Character (InterVarsity Press, 2000)
- Should God Get Tenure: Essays on Religion and Higher Education (editor, Eerdmans, 1997)
- The Opening of the Christian Mind (InterVarsity Press, 1989)
- Peter the Rock: Extraordinary Insights from an Ordinary Man (InterVarsity Press, 1986)
- The Word of God in the Ethics of Jacques Ellul (Scarecrow Press, now part of University Press of America, 1984)
- David W. Gill, (2014) "Who Then is the Faithful & Wise Leader?" in Susan S. Phillips & Soo-inn Tan, eds., Serving God's Community. Singapore: Graceworks, 2014. pp. 67 – 84
- David W. Gill, (2013) "Eight Traits of an Ethically Healthy Culture: Insights from the Beatitudes." Journal of Markets & Morality Volume 16, Number 2 (Fall 2013): 615–633
- David W. Gill, (2013) "The Enduring Importance of Jacques Ellul for Business Ethics," Ellul Forum Issue 52 (July 2013)
- "Jacques Ellul & Technology's Trade-off" Comment Magazine Spring 2012, pp. 51-58
- David W. Gill, (2012)
- David W. Gill, (2011), It's About Excellence: Building Ethically Healthy Organizations. Eugene OR: Wipf & Stock, 2011. (originally published 2008 by Executive Excellence)
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- David W. Gill, (2010), "Ethics in the Workplace," Contact Magazine (Nov 2010)
Discipleship, Diversity, Hunger and Poverty, Immigration Ethics and Policy, Chrisian Education/Educational Ministries, Leadership, Health Care Ethics, Just War, Justice, Globalization, Race Relations, Political Ethics, Racial Reconciliation, Environmental
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Dr. Gill's vocational mission has two foci: "understanding and promoting the values and ethics of Jesus Christ in the life and work of the Christian community" and "building ethically healthy organizations in a complex, diverse, global marketplace."
Prior to joining Gordon-Conwell, Dr. Gill taught business ethics to MBA students at St. Mary's College and Seattle Pacific University. He served as the Carl I. Lindberg Professor of Applied Ethics at North Park University in Chicago and has also been a frequent guest professor of Christian Ethics for Regent College and Fuller Seminary. He was ordained at Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland CA. In 1977, he founded New College Berkeley, an innovative graduate school of theology and ethics for laypeople and think-tank for the exploration of connections between personal faith and values and public and professional life. He served New College Berkeley for 14 years in various roles including Project Director, Founding Chair of the Board, Professor of Ethics, Dean and President.
Dr. Gill is Principal of EthixBiz.com, an organizational ethics consulting business. He also co-founded and co-directed the Institute for Business, Technology and Ethics in Seattle, WA. He is the author of seven books and more than 200 articles, reviews and interviews.
Dr. Gill may be most widely known as a scholar for his work on the thought of the French sociologist and ethicist, Jacques Ellul. He is Founding President of the International Jacques Ellul Society and has spent significant time doing research in Bordeaux, France. He is also a member of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, the Society of Business Ethics and the Society of Christian Ethics.
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Around one third of all first year University students will not continue their studies in second year. Some students find it difficult to transition from one context to another and withdraw from their studies due to an inability to cope with the challenges and adversity in their new environment. On the other hand, many students are resilient and are able to effectively overcome significant difficulties they are faced with during the transition to or through university. Few studies have investigated the role of resilience in the success of university students with no research currently focusing on second year university students. Furthermore, few studies have examined the resilience of university students in terms of individual dispositional attributes and how such attributes contribute to the retention of students. The present research examined the resilience of 253 second year university students and several dispositional attributes expected to contribute to their resilience, including self-esteem, social support, Problem-Focused Coping (PFC) and Emotion-Focused Coping (EFC). Consistent with expectations, results from this study indicated that students with higher levels of self-esteem, social support and PFC predicted higher levels of resilience. Furthermore, students with lower levels of EFC were found to report higher levels of resilience. This presentation will discuss the challenges faced by students and how they can be helped to be resilient in the face of major transition. The results will assist policy makers and program developers to understand how individuals faced with adversity can adapt and survive.


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Upcycling has become a hip buzzword in the continued effort to be more green, or earth conscious. According to Wikipedia, upcycling is "the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value." Taking that into consideration, even toys can be made from what would otherwise be considered garbage.
Big Spring Environmental created a helpful list, complete with tutorials when required, of 20 toys you can make from trash. Some of the highlights on the list include a milk jug igloo that's large enough for children to play inside, a cardboard biplane, and a milk jug storm trooper helmet.
Another popular upcycling project is the art of creating children's play places from old furniture. Upcycle Us features a ton of really cool upcycling projects from everyday items, including children's play kitchen's and work benches made from cabinets and TV stands.
With these resources as a starting point there's no end to where your creativity and a full recycling bin can take you. Happy crafting.


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Situated in the centre of a nice park, the town hall takes up a part of the former Benedictine St-Martin abbey, monastery from the 11th century, abolished in 1797. The neoclassical façades date back to the period in which the abbatial palace was built (1763). Very nice Romanesque crypt from the 12th century.
The town hall houses a part of the administrative council services. Only accessible on weekdays. To be visited with a guide and with permission.
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The hyped designer duo Vena Cava have been makin' serious waves in the fashion community since their senior collection from Parsons School of Design. This dress displays the girls' infinite wisdom when it comes to dressing a female figure and highlighting the best and most wanted features on any silhouette. We're proud to continue the hype along and don this Vena Cava Synthesizer Dress ($575) around town!
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ATHENS, Ga.—The No. 35 University of Oregon women's golf team has completed three rounds of action at the four-day, four-round NCAA Championships in Athens, Ga. The Ducks teed off on the front nine in the morning session Thursday at the University of Georgia Golf Course.
The Ducks (301-295-297-893) shot 9-over 297 in the third round to take sole possession of 17th place overall in the field of 24. No. 1 USC (284-276-285-845) pulled even farther away from the rest of the field, while No. 2 Duke (286-289-287-862) created separation from No. 7 Purdue (289-289-295-873) and No. 3 Alabama (288-284-301-873) who are now tied for third.
Individually, No. 38 sophomore Cassy Isagawa (75-71-70-216) played another strong round to move up to a tie for 14th overall. Senior Hanule Sky Seo (79-71-73-224) recorded another eagle today after her hole-in-one in round two, finishing the day in a tie for 55th place. Sophomore Cali Hipp (76-75-77-228) and freshman Caroline Inglis (74-77-77-228) ended tied for 82nd overall after Thursday, while senior Avery Sills (76-79-84-239) also counted a scorecard.
USC's No. 2 Annie Park (70-67-70-207) regained the top spot on the individual leaderboard, while Mississippi State's No. 15 Ally McDonald (70-69-70-209) and No. 1 Stephanie Meadow (69-67-73-209) of Alabama are tied for second overall.
Complete hole-by-hole results are available through GolfStat.com here. The 17th and 18th holes will be live streamed here.
The Ducks will continue action tomorrow in the final round with an 8:25 a.m. tee time. A full recap with results will be available on GoDucks.com at the conclusion of the event.
Ducks Continue Play at Championships
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Once you step foot onto a Carnival cruise ship, you do not want to miss any of the fun. Every single night they will leave a Carnival Fun Times in your room. This is something that you don't want to lose or ignore. The Carnival Fun Times will be full of fun activities on and off the ship. It will also have important information. Bring along a highlighter so you can make the things you don't want to miss.
The front of the Fun Times always has the date and any important information on it. The days that you are at a port it will have an emergency number in case you have a problem. It also has the captain and cruise director's names. You can also find the sunrise and sunset time.
When you open it up, you will see a list of the top 10 things to do for that day. It will have the best shows and activities listed here. You can also see an area for gaming in the casino and dancing. These are great things to do on the ship. There is a small section with the kid's only activities.
On the next page, you find more information on great shows. It will also have other places to go during the day such as the shore excursion desk. The back of the Fun Times is full of information. It has the hours for the medical center and how to get a hold of them. It has where you can smoke and ways to call home. It also has the hours for everything going on during your stay.
The most important part of the Carnival Fun Times is the tear off slip. This fits in your pocket perfect. On one side it lists every single thing going on that day. It will have the times and what is happening. It has the shows, gambling, sales at the stores, and even raffles.
The back side of this sheet is full of eating information. It will tell you what hours every single place is open. It also has if you are going to dance casual or elegant for dinner that night. This is something you want to keep with you at all times.
The Carnival Fun Times makes sure that you have a great trip and don't miss out on any of the fun. Pay close attention to it so you have the best trip possible and enjoy yourself!
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Another new movie is coming to Lifetime this weekend. On March 14, Boston shared about this upcoming movie "The Grim Sleeper" which will air on March 15 on Lifetime. It is based on a true story of a serial killer.
This killer went over young women and a lot of them were prostitutes. Journalist Christine Pelisek actually helped make sure that these crimes ended up being talked about and that everyone knew about these victims. She was even used to help make the true crime movie.
The movie will actually follow the reporter who helped put the crimes together and figure out what was going on. The killings started in the 1980s and went on into the 2000s. He would find these women and normally just took them somewhere, shot them, and then dumped them. They did finally arrest someone but he has actually plead not guilty and has not had to go to trial yet.
Don't miss "The Grim Sleeper" on March 15 on Lifetime. After the movie, don't miss "Beyond the Headlines" which will show the true story behind the movie.
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Back at Work
By marchamilton on Jan 08, 2007
While I didn't read email last week, I certainly didn't go without using the web, albeit only via my trusty Treo 650. Rather than wait in what seemed like an endless line, I signed my kids up for ski lessons online one morning. I also purchased root beer extract for my son which was waiting for us when we returned home, somehow an item that neither mom nor dad managed to get during holiday shopping. I also kept track of the weather forecast for the next day, not really sure why as I knew I would be out skiing no matter if it was 40 degrees and sunny or 4 degrees and blowing snow, but it somehow felt good to know. Anyone who doesn't think the web continues to be a growth market for information technology hasn't been reading cnn.com.
It is going to be another exciting year at Sun, with new web tier solutions including the second generation Niagara 2 processor, new x64 and SPARC servers, and a host of other exciting developments. Stay tuned, and always remember, skis and rocks don't mix (luckily, the cuts and bruises were limited to my face, and my marathon training is still going quite well).


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When you consider the players the New England Patriots have lost combined with the players who are unavailable due to injury, it would seem to spell disaster for the AFC's most dominant franchise this decade.
Think again.
Continuing Bill Belichick's reputation for plugging in relatively unknowns and succeeding, the 4-1 Patriots are again at the top of the AFC East and are one of the best teams in the NFL this season. Many of the names have changed from last season but the one constant has been veteran quarterback Tom Brady, who has kept the Patriots among the elite with a cast of unknowns.
The Patriots jumped out to a 4-0 start this season despite missing key players tight end Rob Gronkowski, running back Stevan Ridley and wide receiver Danny Amendola. But the absence of those players and an off day by Brady finally caught up with the Patriots this past Sunday when they lost an ugly 13-6 decision to the Cincinnati Bengals.
Brady saw his streak of consecutive games throwing a touchdown pass end at 52, missing the chance to tie the NFL-record of 54 owned by New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees when their teams meet Sunday at Gillette Stadium.
But there should still be plenty of intrigue between these two quality teams. The Saints and Brees have been running roughshod over opponents as of late, improving to 5-0 on the season after thumping the Chicago Bears on the road on Sunday.
But the Saints and their precision passing offense are coming up on their toughest challenge to date when they face the Patriots stingy defense.
The Saints have been able to take advantage of mismatches on tight end Jimmy Graham and running back Darren Sproles in these first give games but that may not be as easy against players like Patriots cornerback Aqib Talib and safety Devin McCourty.
New England ranks second in the NFL in scoring defense having allowed opponents just 14.0 points per game. The Saints offense is averaging 26.8 points per game to rank ninth in the NFL.
There probably hasn't been an offense hit harder by defections and injuries than the Patriots. And it has hurt their offensive production. A year ago, New England had the most explosive offense in the NFL, averaging 35.0 points with Tom Brady in command. But the unit currently ranks 24th in the league averaging just 19.0 points per game. The dip in production is in direct relation to the talent Brady has to work with. He has yet to play a down this season with Pro Bowl tight end Rob Gronkowski, who has been hindered with wrist and back issues dating back to last year's playoffs. Stevan Ridley has been out and Danny Amendola just returned to the lineup in a limited capacity last week. The pedestrian state of the offense was never more obvious than last week when the unit failed to score a touchdown and Brady completed just 18 of 38 passes for 197 yards and rating of 52.2, which was his lowest since December 2007. The Patriots strong offensive line looked worn down, allowing Brady to be sacked four times and hit eight times by the Bengals. But the Patriots are looking forward to some help against the Saints with Gronkowski expected to make his 2013 debut. It won't be soon enough for the 36-year-old Brady who is struggling by his standard, ranking 22nd in passing rating at 80.5 and his 6.18 yards per attempt is 31st in the league.
Although Bill Belichick's reputation is that of a defensive guru, his offenses have been the story here as of late. But that has shifted this season with the defense now carrying the team. The Patriots defense does give up some yards but the unit gives up very few points. New England has allowed just 70 points through five games, which is the third-fewest total points allowed in five games in franchise history. It seemed likely they were about to take a step back Sunday with the loss of star defensive lineman Vince Wilfork for the season a week earlier, but the Patriots defense played well enough to win the game. They held Cincinnati to just 13 points on the road. But it might become more difficult if Tommy Kelly can't go due Sunday due to the knee injury he suffered against the Bengals. That will put even more pressure on rookie defensive tackles Joe Vellano and Chris Jones along with the linebacker corp. The Patriots still have one of the most solid secondaries with with Aqib Talib and Devin McCourty leading the way. They have the size and athleticism to deal with most receiving threats.
One of the reasons the Patriots have gotten off to a strong start is because of the consistency of their special teams. Punt returner Julian Edelman is still one of the most dangerous in the NFL, capable of taking one back if the opening is there. He has the highest punt return average of anyone in NFL history at 12.9 yards per return and he is one of just seven NFL players to average over 12.0 yards per punt return. And punter Ryan Allen is proving to be one of the most precise punters in the game. He dropped four consecutive punts inside of the Bengals 10 and five inside of the 20 on Sunday. Kicker Stephen Gostkowski is also reliable. He was responsible for the Patriots only points last week, converting both field goal opportunities. He also sent all of his kickoffs into the end zone. If there is a question mark right on special teams it's at kickoff return. Leon Washington could be out with an injury, which might mean Devin McCourty is left to handle the kickoff returns.
November 30, 2009, Mercedes-Benz Superdome
If the nation was looking for a sign the New Orleans Saints were for real they got it against the Patriots in this late-season matchup.
Saints quarterback Drew Brees ripped apart Bill Belichick's defense en route to a 38-17 that improved New Orleans to 11-0 on the season.
Brees completed 18 of 23 passes for 371 yards, five touchdowns and no interceptions in the game that solidified the Saints as a legit title contender
The Patriots were simply no match for the Saints explosive offense which averaged a whopping 9.6 yards per play. Wide receiver Marques Colston led the way with four catches for 121 yards and one touchdown and Devery Henderson caught three passes for 116 yards, which included 75-yard reception in the second quarter when the Saints exploded for 21 points.


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One night after defeating the Minnesota Wild to take a six-point lead over the Calgary Flames in the standings, the Detroit Red Wings are looking forward, with the chance to leapfrog the Nashville Predators tonight.
The Wings currently sit at 89 points with 74 games played. Nashville is two points up after 75 games. A Detroit win in regulation would put the teams into a tie, with Detroit having fewer games played.
The Los Angeles Kings and Colorado Avalanche both have games tonight as well. Colorado is currently tied with Detroit but has played one less game. The Kings are one point up, also with a game in hand. Losses by both, combined with a Detroit win, would vault the Red Wings from eighth place to fifth.
The Wings will have to make due without Dan Cleary, however. Cleary left Friday's game early after re-injuring his groin and is not expected to play tonight. Defenseman Derek Meech will skate on the fourth line, as he did when Cleary was originally hurt.
Jimmy Howard is expected to get the start.
Game time is 8:00.
Here is our chance to take over fifth in the standings. I have a good feeling about this one because we played last night which keeps the pressure up vice having a few days to get distracted by the golf course etc.
Dallas up 4-1 with 150 seconds left in regulation. Should the Kings go on to lose, the Wings stay in sixth place. Detroit is one point back of Nashville with a game in hand, one up on LA (Kings have a game in hand) and two up on Colorado (Avs with a game in hand).
Excellent game. Jimmy Howard proved his metal in that shootout, heck in the whole game even. I've always dreaded shootouts when Howard's in the net, he's just not been that good this season. Lets hope tonight was a new start for him in this aspect of the game. If he plays like that, the Wings surely have a great all around pro net minder.
Dan Cleary
Credit: Clark Rasmussen
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