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Some celebrities earn their fame for becoming media savvy, like Kim Kardashian. Others get their time in the spotlight for their combination of delightful charm and singing talent, such as Katy Perry. And then there's "True Blood" star Joe Manganiello, who told Metro in a Jan. 30 interview that it's rather odd to become " famous for taking your shirt off and growling in the woods."
But although he's not thrilled with the lack of fame for his range of acting chops, Joe is pleased with the recognition that his diet and fitness guide has earned. He wrote it based on his own years in the gym and in refining his diet to maintain muscle mass while burning fat, and it's entitled "Evolution: The Cutting Edge Guide to Breaking Down Mental Walls and Building the Body You've Always Wanted."
And Joe hopes that the book will inspire others to go beyond their self-perceived limitations to sculpt their own bodies and shed excess fat.
"When people finish reading the book I want them to put it down and run through a wall head first," Joe informed Metro.
However, Joe admits that he hasn't always been such a diet purist and fitness addict.
"I was drinking a bottle of whisky and smoking two packs of cigarettes a day," he recalls of the days when he received his first big acting job as Peter Parker's love rival Flash Thompson in the 2002 "Spider-Man" film.
"I knew I had a problem and didn't know how to deal with it. It destroyed every relationship I had, my career was in ruins, I was a mess. Every aspect of my life was completely bankrupt," he admits.
After hitting bottom, Joe recognized that it was time to change. And that's where exercise and diet came in. He started training and boxing.
"Cleaning up my act led to a better diet, which led to pushing myself further and further physically," Joe explains.
"I used to look at life as: 'What can I get away with?' After I stopped drinking it became: 'What can I accomplish?'" he says.
Now he looks forward to a good life - and that means hours in the gym and adherence to his high protein diet.
In his book, Joe provides a six-week transformation program based on what's worked for him. The nutrition element emphasized a high protein low carb diet. Joe believes it can make a dramatic difference for others.
"Now it's become about how good my life can get and how much can I achieve because things were awful for a while," he says.
What's next among those achievements? Joe and his brother Nick, who's also his producing partner, created a documentary based on a male strip club, reported Entertainment Weekly recently.
"People would walk out of Magic Mike saying 'I loved it but I wish there was more of the guys. I wish I knew more about them, where they live, who they go out with, what their lives are like.' So I knew there was a lot left on the table," says Joe about his inspiration for the stripper film.

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Consent versus Closure
Howard M. Erichson
Fordham University School of Law
Benjamin C. Zipursky
Fordham University School of Law
February 26, 2010
Cornell Law Review, Vol. 96, p. 265, 2011
Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1560035
Claimants, defendants, courts, and counsel are understandably frustrated by the difficulty of resolving mass tort cases. Defendants demand closure, but class certification has proved elusive and non-class settlements require individual consent. Lawyers and scholars have been drawn to strategies that solve the problem by empowering plaintiffs' counsel to negotiate package deals that effectively sidestep individual consent. In the massive Vioxx settlement, the parties achieved closure by including terms that made it unrealistic for any claimant to decline. The American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation offers another path to closure: it proposes to permit clients to consent in advance to be bound by a settlement with a supermajority vote. This article argues that, despite their appeal, both of these strategies must be rejected. Lawyer empowerment strategies render settlements illegitimate when they rely on inauthentic consent or place lawyers in the untenable position of allocating funds among bound clients. Consent, not closure, is the touchstone of legitimacy in mass tort settlements.
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Keywords: mass tort, aggregate settlement, Vioxx, civil recourse, informed consent, conflict of interest, settlement, class action, aggregate litigation
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Heyo! Just bought Syndicate a couple of minutes ago and am having trouble installing it. I hit the download button and once it has finished, i find it in my downloads. opening up the file though i am greeted with an error from the gamersgate downloader.
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it goes on to say i should check my internet connection and firewall. my internet is fine obviously lol, and i even went so far as to drop my firewall entirely. but the error remains :( I am using the same user name and password as the one i use for this website btw
any thoughts?? thanks for your time everyone!! :D
Syndicate is EA game, so i think Origin is required. You should create EA account, put serial key in Origin and download and play Your game through EA client. Your key should be find in "My Library", "My Shell", "Syndicate" and on the right side is "Show serial key".
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My observations from Thursday afternoon's light workout at Saints training camp:
1. Mark Ingram looks great
Here's how impressive Ingram has been so far. Colleague Mike Triplett led with the exact same observation tonight and we didn't collaborate. In fact, if I had to say which player has looked best of any player at camp, No. 22 might be the first that comes to mind. Ingram looks like he did during his rookie campaign, when the first Saints defender rarely, if ever, brought him down. If he can stay healthy, he's primed for a breakout season.
2. Kenny Vacarro looks great, too
The rookie from Texas is in terrific shape and has not disappointed. The more physical things get, the more impressive he is. Vacarro is going to experience his share of rookie moments, but he'll do so going 100 mph. He's one of those guy that looks like he could play all day.
3. Kenny Stills is the No. 3
Until further notice. Right now, the rookie from Oklahoma would get the first call in nickel packages. Veteran Steve Breaston likely will press him for the spot once he's acclimated to the offense, but Stills has a significant lead at this point.
4. Taking it easy
As usual, the Saints will be cautious with the players who are less than 100 percent in the preseason games. With that in mind, look for nicked-up veterans like Marques Colston, Seneca Wallace, Pierre Thomas, and Junior Galette to sit out Friday night's preseason opener.
5. Speed ratings
A debate started in the press room after practice Thursday about the fastest player on the roster now that Joe Morgan is sidelined. Saalim Hakim is the consensus choice. In fact, Hakim might be the fastest player even if Morgan were around. After Hakim, the leading candidates were Courtney Roby, Patrick Robinson, Jabari Greer and Kenny Stills. My money would be on Roby with Robinson a close second.
6. Who to watch
Here are the young players that I plan to keep an eye on tomorrow night: Vacarro, Akiem Hicks, Corey White, Kevin Reddick, Rufus Johnson, Eric Martin and A.J. Davis, though I expect Davis to be held out because of an unspecified injury.


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The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
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Clarissa, giggly with both fear and lust, had unlocked her privates and slept with Brian. However haphazardly, everyone I'd known was growing up. (13.2)
Susie gets awful snide when she describes Clarissa's sexual experience. Well, Clarissa, her best friend on Earth, has essentially betrayed her by not honoring her memory. Clearly Susie is jealous that others can experience consensual sex, while her only experience with sex was violent.
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To find a doorway out of her ruined heart in merciful adultery. (15.66)
Susie recognizes her mother's right to chose what she does with her body. She seems to see Abigail's affair with Len Fenerman as a healthy, necessary part of her grieving process and her process of self discovery. What do you think?
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What no one understood – and they could not begin to tell anyone – was that it had been an experiment between them. Ray had kissed only me, and Ruth had never kissed anyone, so […] they agreed to kiss each other and see. (16.17)
Ruth and Ray aren't going to let anybody dictate their path to sexual knowledge. But, they are both far less eager to actually have sex than the other people in the book. This undoubtedly has a lot to do with Susie.


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- Lead-organizer: Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS)
- 19:30 - 21:00
- Date: 18 Jun 2012
- Room: T-8
Aiming higher, unlocking tertiary education's potential for SD
Organizing partners- Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (USA, Canada)
- Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability
- Educational (sic*) Association for Universities and Colleges (UK)
*This is a typo on behalf of the UNCD it should be Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges
- Copernicus Alliance (Europe)
- Fondaterra ? Fondation Europ�enne pour des Territoires Durables (France)
- Global University Network for Innovation (GUNI, international)
- Korean Association for Green Campus Initiative (KAGCI)
- Promotion of Sustainability in Postgraduate Education and Research network (ProSPER.Net Asia)
- China Green University Network
- United Nations Environment Programme ? Environmental Education and Training Unit (international)
- Global Responsibility Leadership Initiative (GRLI)
- Conference des Grandes Ecoles (France)
- Conference des Presidents d?Universite (France)
Invited Governments
The Netherlands
South Korea
To be confirmed
United Kingdom
National Union of Students UK (NUS)
(Representing 7 million students in tertiary education in the UK, with an extended invitation to the European Students Union representing students union across Europe)
Latin American Continental Students Organization
Australian Youth Climate Coalition
Endorsed and supported by UNESCO
We also anticipate that the participation of UNEP will also include participation by The Mainstreaming of Environment and Sustainability in African Universities (MESA) Partnership.
IntroductionAiming higher, unlocking tertiary education's potential to accelerate sustainable development and the transition to a fair and green economy
Tertiary education plays a critical role in shaping the future, as political, business and civil society leaders are likely to be university graduates and will prepare the skilled workforce needed for a green economy. This event will emphasise the important role tertiary education plays in realising sustainable development and the transition to a green economy. Hosted by a collaborative of tertiary education sustainability organisations, in collaboration with numerous governments, we will answer:
? How can governments, NGOs, businesses and tertiary education instigate the necessary shift towards sustainable development and the transition to a Green Economy?
? How do we unlock the potential of tertiary education sector to transform society?
? What role should tertiary education play in creating and participating in the institutional framework for sustainable development?
? What funding and support mechanisms will need to be provided to ensure the success of tertiary education in sustainable development efforts?
Detailed programmeAiming higher, unlocking tertiary education's potential to accelerate sustainable development and the transition to a fair and green economy
The side event will make the case for the important role that Tertiary Education has to play in realizing Sustainable Development and the transition towards a Green Economy. It will also propose a constructive way forward so institutions are supported in this important role.
Tertiary education has an important role to play in the lives of young people and their future. The collaboration is therefore keen to build on the Bandung Declaration (The Tunza International Children and Youth Conference on the Environment, 2011, �9.3) It identifies access to green jobs as critical for achieving a sustainable transition to the Green Economy. It states that, "In the next ten years, as the world's population passes 7 billion, we need to provide jobs for more than 1 billion young people - employment that will both enable them to live productive and worthwhile lives and to contribute to the transition to a just Green Economy." Tertiary education organisations and institutions have an pivotal role to play in helping to make these young people's vision a reality and ensure that students graduate with skills for the green economy. They also have a role in the development of that "green economy" through research, innovation and knowledge exchange and the realization of sustainable development.
There are many examples around the world that have shown the importance of tertiary education in sustainable development efforts. Continued support for expanding these efforts is critical.
The side event will answer four main questions:
? How can governments, NGOs, businesses and tertiary education instigate the necessary shift towards sustainable development and the transition to a Green Economy?
? How do we unlock the potential of tertiary education sector to transform society?
? What role should tertiary education play in creating and participating in the institutional framework for sustainable development?
? What funding and support mechanisms will need to be provided to ensure the success of tertiary education in sustainable development efforts?
Governments and student bodies will be invited to respond to the questions in the months leading up to the Summit. The side event will bring the aforementioned organizations together to present proposals, declarations, recommendations and initiatives in an open forum, with the active participation and engagement of attending governments and other delegates.
It will showcase best practice of Tertiary Education Institutions across the world in research, innovation, knowledge transfer and education, to demonstrate the critical role the sector plays at a global level to realise sustainable development.
Structure of the side event and speakers
Consisting of a two hour format the event will present the case for the critical role of tertiary education in realising sustainable development by:
- Discussing how the transformation of tertiary education is an important part of its role in sustainable development.
- Presenting statements in response to the four questions.
- Giving an overview of recommendations/positions/ commitments relative to the themes of the conference and items already in the zero draft document.
Delegations from invited governments (see list organising partners for confirmations) and student bodies are invited to give short statements answering the above listed questions and join with our collaboratives and stakeholders in discussion.
The highlight of the side event will be a panel discussion including selected government representatives, student bodies and participating organisations. The focus of the panel is an open discussion presenting different arguments and evidence for why tertiary education is key to UNCSD objectives.
Indicative (2 hrs) programme outline
- 20 min Introduction by the host organisations
- 40 min Short Presentations by delegates from the governments (see list) and student bodies
- 45 min Panel discussion
- 15 min Summary and conclusion
Potential contribution to the outcome of UNCSD/Rio+20.
The talking points will be summarized in a 1-2 page handout that will be provided to delegates. The handout will give an overview of recommendations and commitments and suggest the support/resources required to be successful and empower governmental delegates to address specific points that are in the zero draft document or points that should be included in the outcomes document.


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LONDON—A nurse who fell victim to a prank telephone call seeking information about the Duchess of Cambridge has died, King Edward VII hospital said Friday. The hospital said Jacintha Saldanha took the hoax call by two Australian radio disc jockeys who impersonated Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles to elicit information on the duchess. Saldanha later transferred the call to the nurse caring for the Duchess, who is pregnant and was suffering from acute morning sickness. Saldanha was found dead early Friday. Police say her death is unexplained.


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Overwhelmed with choices at this year's Art Fair? No worries. Here's our guide to 10 must-sees.
Allison V. Smith
What New work from an old friend
Why You may be familiar with the work of Smith and not even know it. From 1998 to 2004, Smith was a staff photographer for The Dallas Morning News and has Texas roots that go back to her internship at The Dallas Times Herald in 1990. Our own Barry Whistler Gallery, which happens to be owned by her husband, is showcasing some of her recent works that show she's evolved with both a photojournalist's attention to detail and an artist's appreciation for the abstract. Her blog (accessible through her website allisonvsmith.com) lists her occupation as "photographer, dog mom & Willie [Nelson] fan," and we can all agree that it doesn't get much better than that.
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What Nordic sculpture by way of Wilshire Boulevard
Why Ambach and Rice, a Los Angeles-based gallery, will show Bas-relief sculptures in salvaged wood by van der Ende. And although it's always fun to take an art road trip to L.A., now that Dallas has a gallery such as Ambach and Rice making the trek here, you can use those frequent flyer miles elsewhere. Van der Ende is based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and his work displays a certain sense of whimsy. To see more, check out van der Ende's self-maintained website, where he proudly states, "I think visual artists should consider taking charge of their own (Web) representation as a natural part of their field. And why not? It's cheap, quite—but not too—easy and just plain fun!" This guy's gonna fit in great here.
Where Fashion Industry Gallery, 1807 Ross Ave., 214.220.1278
Howard Fonda and Mary Temple
What Two exciting voices from New York gallery Mixed Greens
Why Fonda's oils and colored- pencil works are bold and vibrant—his homepage offers an art manifesto of sorts that reads, in part, "Art is everything and nothing. Everything is everything and nothing. Nothing is everything and nothing." That may be so, but Fonda's excitingly colorful work is undeniably worth seeing. Temple, who has exhibited across Texas, contributes two handmade paper pieces, "Winter Light" and "Spring Light." In describing her work, she says, "Regardless of the medium, themes of trust, transparency and truthfulness remain in tact."
Where Fashion Industry Gallery, 1807 Ross Ave., 214.220.1278
Richard Phillips and Julian Schnabel
What Phillips' Negation of the Universe, and Schnabel's An Artist Has a Past (Puffy Clouds and Strong Cocktails) 15 Paintings Over The
Last Decade
Why Phillips' first U.S. solo exhibition will feature both old and new works. The Schnabel exhibit will feature 15 large-scale paintings—but really, is there anything he does that doesn't feel big? Schnabel spent a number of formative years in Texas, so make him feel at home, which shouldn't be hard since the guy's usually wearing pajamas anyway. Bonus: Taking in two of the artists at the same space will save wear on your Louboutins!
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Daniel and Dennis Blagg
What Sibling rivalry elevated to high art
Why While the Blagg Brothers may sound like a pack of bandits from the old Alamo days, they favor paint and brushes to Smith & Wessons (at least professionally speaking). You may see brothers and fellow artists Doug and Woodrow Blagg at the exhibit showing their support, but it's Daniel and Dennis' art hanging on the walls. Dennis concentrates on the wide-open spaces of the American landscape, and Daniel's work celebrates the faded glory of roadside America. On his website, Daniel says, "In this consumer society, we just run through stuff, and there's something desperate in that mindset. … What are we doing with what we have, and where is it going?" Well, we were thinking of buying a painting, and we think it would go great in the foyer!
Where Fashion Industry Gallery, 1807 Ross Ave., 214.220.1278
Andrew Holmquist and Michael Robinson
What More than paintings
Why It just wouldn't be right excluding a Chicago gallery such as Carrie Secrist: Not only are they presenting wonderfully bold artists, but these Chicagoans need all the visitors they can get (after this past winter, the extra body heat will help them thaw. Some of Holmquist's newest work, as he puts it, explores "a return to more concrete representation, but mix[es] recognizable content like palm trees, legs and beach towels into abstract configurations that confuse our understanding of them." Sure, why not? Robinson is a film and video artist who enjoys, as he describes it, "riding the fine line between humor and terror." That is evidenced nowhere better than his film still, The Dark, Krystle. Dynasty fans—prepare for a variety of brilliant-meets-creepy we haven't seen since the show was on-air.
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SLSJ and SECTION 27 are pleased to announce the SECTION27/Students for Law and Social Justice Graduate Fellowship Programme which will commence in January 2011. The Fellowship Programme strives to build the leadership capacity of recent law graduates who are committed to social justice by creating opportunities to work in a public interest law firm.
The Law and Social Justice Graduate Fellowship Programme will enable a recent law graduate interested in social justice to work in a public interest law centre for a year in order to facilitate a better and more sustainable skills transfer by exposing a graduate to strategic thinking on legal and social justice issues and how to use the law to achieve particular outcomes relevant to social justice in relation to the work of SECTION 27.
The successful fellow will develop research, writing and legal skills through conducting research on policy and legal aspects. The fellow will be expected to provide ongoing logistical and administrative support to the SLSJ National Committee by creating a link between the SLSJ and SECTION27 on an ongoing basis.
In so doing, he or she will also help shape a growing movement in leading students across South Africa to engage in legal and organising work to advance social justice and to provide opportunities for law students and legal graduates to engage in public interest legal work.
In addition, the fellow will assist SECTION27's senior management with a range of administrative and logistical tasks.
The Fellowship will commence on 24 January 2011 and end on 15 December 2011. The Fellow will be based at SECTION27's offices in Johannesburg for the duration of the Programme. The monthly salary is R10 000 on a cost-to-company basis (i.e. with no additional benefits and allowances). All recent law graduates and final year law students are invited to apply.
Applications will be accepted until Monday 22 November at 16:00 which must be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com.
All applications will be reviewed by a selection committee comprised of the incumbent SLSJ National Chairperson, SLSJ National Seminar Coordinator and two persons from the Equal Education Policy Research and Communications (PCR) Department.
No more than five candidates will be selected for an interview with the Executive Director of SECTION27, its head of litigation and legal services, its head of policy and research, and one member from the 2011 SLSJ National Committee. The interviews will take place in the first week of December 2010, after which the Fellow will be selected.
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- An example of a piece of writing no longer than 1500 words.
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- Participation in SLSJ activity;
- Knowledge of SECTION27's mandate and areas of work;
- Ability to contribute towards the work of SECTION27; and
- Commitment and ability to fulfil the one-year term envisioned by the programme.
If you have any questions about the Law and Social Justice Fellowship Programme, you may contact the SLSJ National Chairperson, Yana van Leeve at email@example.com.
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Launched in 2008, 11ST is Korea's largest online marketplace where customers and sellers can freely trade retail goods, ranging from clothing and food, to electronic equipment, without any barriers. From browsing to purchasing, 11ST provides customers with a secure, innovative, and reliable online shopping experience supported by SK planet's mobile-optimized technology. Averaging 20 million visitors a month, 11ST achieved more than tenfold turnover growth over the last four years, which is the fastest volume increase in the country's distribution industry.
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11ST chose Oracle over other vendors because it enabled seamless integration with its existing applications without any changes. Oracle Exadata also demonstrated outstanding data compression capabilities during testing, enabling the company to increase business opportunities and improve its bottom line.
"We were confident that Oracle Exadata and Oracle GoldenGate would support our business requirements. We were particularly interested in its high-compression rate and high-performing database platform, which enable us to expand our analytical capabilities and develop innovative marketing services that were not possible before," said Park Won, team manager, 11ST.
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Dermatology Center Of North Mississippi, P.A.
Welcome to Dermatology Center Of North Mississippi, P.A., a leading dermatology practice serving Tupelo, MS and the Greater Tupelo area for more than 30 years. We understand the importance of good skin care, and providing quality patient care is our highest priority. We offer professional service in all areas of general adult and pediatric dermatology. Skin care surgery is performed by our board-certified dermatologists with the latest techniques in our onsite surgical suite. We are always available to assist patients with their medical needs and cosmetic desires.
About John D. Burk, M.D. FAAD
Dr. Burk graduated from the University of Mississippi and received his medical degree from Emory University. After his internship and residency in dermatology at the University of Tennessee, he founded Dermatology Center Of North Mississippi, P.A. in 1980. Board-certified by the American Board of Dermatology, Dr. Burk is a fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology and a member of the Mississippi Dermatology Society.
About Jeffrey C. Houin, Jr., M.D. FAAD
Dr. Houin graduated from the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in 1992, and completed his residency in dermatology at Louisiana State University in 1996. Dr. Houin is certified by the American Board of Dermatology and has extensive dermatologic training from Louisiana State University Medical Center Charity Hospital. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology and a member of the Mississippi Dermatology Society and the Louisiana Dermatology Society.
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Dermatology Center of North Mississippi, P.A. offers several product lines to encourage daily care of your skin. We have selected medically proven products from skin care lines that best meet the needs of our patients, and sunblocks and sunscreens that can be worn on a daily basis to block UVA and UVB rays.
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Keller Bill Promotes Corporate Irresponsibility, Says CSPI
Anti-Consumer Bill Would Shield Food Industry from Liability
June 19, 2003
Legislation that would shield restaurants and food companies from health- or safety-related civil lawsuits would deprive citizens of an important recourse and make those industries even less accountable, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). The bill, sponsored by Representative Ric Keller (R-FL), is the subject of a hearing today in the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
Frivolous lawsuits deserve to be thrown out of court, and frivolous legislation should be thrown out of Congressand the Keller bill is nothing but frivolous, said CSPI executive director Michael F. Jacobson. Representative Keller simply wants to preemptively take an entire industry off the hook, and make restaurants and food companies a special, protected classimmune from the scrutiny of judges or juries.
The legislation, the Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act, would bar any civil lawsuit unless the company at issue is not in compliance with a specific law or regulation. Food-safety and nutrition experts point out that no regulatory agency could possibly foresee every instance of injurious behavior.
Its ironic to see so-called conservatives so eager to wield the power of big government. But its entirely predictable for them to do so to protect big business, said Jacobson, who noted that Representative Kellers district is home to Darden Restaurants, the parent company of Olive Garden and Red Lobster. This bill has nothing to do with encouraging personal responsibility, and everything to do with encouraging corporate irresponsibility.


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Over 100 familes from 35 states and four countries met in Orlando, Florida on June 8 for the first Children with Diabetes event. Everyone had a wonderful time at Sea World and Walt Disney World® Resort, and even just sitting around the hotel swimming pool. We all learned how important support is in dealing with the challenges of diabetes.
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The City has applied for accreditation and completed the on-site assessment for the Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP). At the conclusion of the on-site assessment the City was found compliant with all 63 standards and is awaiting official approval of that accreditation from the EMAP Commission later this month.
Boston continues to deploy a cloud-based state of the art alert system, Alert Boston. Alert Boston allows citizens to sign up to receive emergency alerts via cell phone, work phone, text message, email, home phone and more. We continue to expand the applications, this year the City added street closures and trash pickup cancellations to the system. Boston uses Everbridge software, a robust and comprehensive emergency notification system.
The City of Boston's Emergency Management department oversees long-range disaster planning citywide and oversees departmental preparedness efforts as well. As part of a city-wide preparedness exercise, DoIT completed as assessment and developed its own Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP). In the event of an emergency, DoIT is prepared to implement a COOP plan and ensure that City services will continue to operate and mission critical applications will be available.
Our plan includes a comprehensive review of all applications and infrastructure managed and supported by DoIT. Systems have been categorized by Mission Essential functions. Mission essential functions are those activities and services that enable the Department to provide for the health and safety of employees and visitors, support the Department's mission, and preserve and protect the assets. In the case of an emergency, DoIT will focus on maintaining services identified as mission essential functions to ensure vital services are provided to the citizens of Boston. The COOP document has been circulated to all DoIT employees and posted on the department's intranet site. Formal training on the plan's aspects will be conducted in 2013.
Our co-location space is now part of our daily operations. We continue to expand our use of the space and are actively building backup infrastructure for critical City services. The space is fully equipped with servers, storage and network capabilities. Given the reliability of the colocation facility, Public Safety Departments have also moved equipment into this facility. In 2013, the Colocation will be the site of the new CAD system back-up. Furthermore, the City is in the process of working with the Boston Public Library to house equipment to back up their new integrated library system and storage.
DoIT has made improvements to remote access for city employees, to ensure they have access to our mission critical systems. In cooperation with the Commonwealth, we have deployed ASTRO25 Master Site Zone Controller to improve interoperability between state and local partners. The system creates the backbone to allow for the migration from a circuit switched infrastructure to pure IP based infrastructure.
We have an ongoing project to replace our 20 year old Computer aided dispatch system. This system will be geo-spatially enabled using location information based on the City's Street Address Master File. This will improve response of emergency responders; all addresses will be validated against the City's Master Address listing.
The Fire Department, in cooperation with DoIT has a capital improvement project to provide emergency power at all the city's Fire Stations. The Fire Stations are an integral part of BoNET. Ensuring sufficient and robust emergency power is a key focus area to provide reliable and resilient network connectivity.
During the last year, capacity for the power distribution units (PDU) at the Police Department data center was increased to better prepare for growing needs. As part of the construction work, it was discovered that not all equipment was supported by redundant power. Should anything happen to one of the PDUs, some equipment had no alternate means for electrical power to maintain service delivery. With the electrical upgrade, redundancy was planned for every equipment cabinet, such that each cabinet now connects to both PDUs.
As part of the electrical upgrade, it provided BPD an opportunity to fully test the process of shutting down the data center and restoring services at its backup location. DoIT coordinated the shutdown event and all preparation efforts. The shutdown event involved not only DoIT resources, but resources from BPD, EMS, BFD State 911 and Verizon. To successfully achieve shutdown and yet maintain 911 services, the backup center at BFD Fire Alarm was thoroughly tested prior to the shutdown event. At the conclusion of the event, BPD now owns a complete process document detailing various shutdown and restore requirements. Should there ever be an unforeseen outage, BPD is in a much better position to respond and provide sustained 911 services.


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Starting today, you can get $1 scoops of ice cream at any participating Baskin-Robbins store, such as the West Hartford and Glastonbury outlets. Single, double, or triple scoops in a cone or cup - sundaes and other specialty items not included. Any flavour is included, including this month's Feature Flavor, "Amazing Spider-Man 2(TM)", which is a red-and-blue vanilla-flavoured scoop with dark chocolate "webbing" swirled through and popping candy bits.
You can also enter the Amazing Scoop Fest Contest, which offers daily winners of posters or DVDs, plus three Grand Prize winners who get all the prizes plus a year of free ice cream. To enter, take a picture at the store with your scoops, doing your best Spider-Man imitation. Post the picture to Twitter or Instagram with the tag #BRHero - samples are at the information page.


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We love warm weather and all that it brings. Shirtless boys, scantily clad girls, watermelon popsicles and coolers full of beer. But what we don't love is using our usual eye cream in 97-degree heat to feel it literally melting off our faces by the time we finish our morning cup of coffee. That's why we switch during the summer to Michael Todd Rooibos Tea Gel Eye Treatment ($53), a cooling and refreshing alternative to heavier eye creams that just sit there on the skin in 100% humidity. Pop this puppy in the fridge for a nice blast of cold after a day by the pool or a night drinking on the beach.
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Inspiring images of train stations. P.S., that's an indoor rainforest at the Atocha Station in Madrid. An indoor rainforest! -- Because I'm Addicted
The forecast says sunny so we're whipping up a pair of embellished shorts to frolic around in. -- P.S. I Made This
We just found out about this, but now we're determined to find every last urban geode around Los Angeles. -- Design Crush
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And if you like, but can't afford, the Isabel Marant high tops that have the whole of the fashion industry going wild, you might like these. -- Where Did U Get That
Digging the printed denim trend? So are we, and we're putting every last one of these on our wish list -- The Fashion Spot
These ideas for updating a dress that's just been sitting in our closet are brilliant. -- Could I Have That
A plain, white rug gets a colorful, graphic makeover. Incredible and chic! -- Design Sponge
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In early 1994, it was fair to say Everton had completed their fall from grace. The halcyon days of the mid 80's seemed a long time ago, and the Toffeemen were staring at the relegation trap door.
At this point their manager at the time, Joe Royle, pulled a master stroke. He sacrificed midfield creativity and substituted it with steel, utilising the industrious John Ebbrell, the tenacious Joe Parkinson and the brutal Barry Horne. The "Dogs of War" were thus born, and suddenly Everton became very difficult to beat, if rather unpleasing on the eye. They avoided relegation on the final day, and even won the FA Cup the following year, beating Manchester United in the final.
To move slightly off on a tangent, not content with possessing the aforementioned midfield grinders and a rugged defence, they supplemented this by fielding Duncan Ferguson up front, easily the hardest man ever to have played football. Big Dunc is one of my favourite players from down the years, and I used to enjoy watching him terrorise opposing centre backs. His off-field exploits were also legendary, the top episode being when two scousers made the error of selecting the Scot's residence as the target for a burglary. Unfortunately for them, Mr Ferguson woke up mid-incursion and intercepted the intruders. The giant striker managed to "detain" one of the burglars while the police arrived, and the foiled criminal subsequently had to spend three days in hospital to recover from his pummelling.
So how is all this poker related? Well, as you readers may have noticed, I have been having an absolutely wretched time of it over the last couple of months, but I've made a conscious effort to adjust my game while this bad spell continues. I think I've played very solidly over the last 4/5 cash sessions and have made myself difficult to beat.
Although the results have yet to come, I've found that when things haven't gone my way I haven't been losing much, which is a start. Clearly, there is a downside to this style as you won't get paid for your big hands, and can become slightly predictable, but I think on my current run that is a sacrifice worth paying.
Last night's cash game was a typical example. I ground away all night, ending up £60 down for the 7 hour session, despite not much going my way.
I ditched my short stacking to sit with £100 in the £1/£1 game which is sufficient, without being deep stacked. I got an early boost when Fluke overplayed his Omaha bottom set against my middle set on a dry board, but soon lost a stack against the Baron, when I was dealt JJ against KK when we were four handed.
I got my stack up to about £175 over the next few hours, before zapping the Hairdresser, who didn't have enough to get me off my set of Omaha Aces on a flushing board, and I housed up on the river. That was a chunky pot to get me up to about £250, but I lost about £100 over the final hour of Omaha, as I kept flopping 2 pair when we were three handed and running into bigger hands or decent draws which got there.
I was also dealt some supreme Omaha starting hands early on – AAKQ double suited, and AAKT single suited. I built reasonable pots with both pre-flop, only to see the flops arrive 6, 7, 8 with none of my suit, and I had to give up after heavy action. Very frustrating, but I didn't allow it to tilt me and probably lost the minimum on the hands, whereas before I'd overplay them.
Anyhow, in a way I'm satisfied, because in the old days I'd have lost £300 last night instead of the small loss I posted, and like I said I am becoming pretty difficult to beat.
Tomorrow night, I am playing a £100 deep stack tournament, which I believe has ten runners pencilled in. I imagine the cash game afterwards will be quite large.
I'll be packing the midfield with the dogs of war once again.
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Boone's Beef: NBC Bans Pickens Ad Saying U.S. Trails Iran in Natural-Gas Cars
Anybody watching the Democratic convention and its blizzard of energy-related commercials could be forgiven for thinking T. Boone Pickens is getting all the airtime he could possibly want.
But the oilman-turned-wind-power maven says NBC won't run his latest "Pickens Plan" ad. (It's apparently fine with the other networks.)
UPDATE: NBC changed its position and will allow the ad to run, the Pickens camp said.
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The ad says Iran is going all-out to put more natural-gas vehicles on the road, while "we're not doing a thing here." The Pickens Plan is to use wind power for electricity and free up natural gas for transport fuel. NBC says Mr. Pickens has to "prove" the U.S. is doing nothing; otherwise the ad is misleading.
Mr. Pickens complained to NBC that the network is "selectively applying the First Amendment and denying your viewers access to information that is important to their education and understanding of the issue of energy independence."
Let's see—what are America and Iran doing for natural-gas vehicles?
There are three federal tax credits in place to goose natural-gas vehicles, according to the industry's lobby. And President Bush's call for more ethanol and other "alternative fuels" does technically include natural-gas vehicles.
But there's not a lot of progress otherwise. The 1992 law meant to kick the federal government into buying alternative-fuel vehicles is almost exclusively used for "flex-fuel" trucks that can run on an ethanol blend; in 2005, the government bought fewer than 200 natural-gas vehicles. The natural-gas vehicle lobby says federal R&D funding dried up entirely in the Bush administration.
How about Iran, which already has lots of natural-gas cars and trucks? This summer, the Iranian government outlined its latest push—60% of new passenger cars and 80% of public-transport vehicles have to run on natural gas (or be gasoline-compressed gas hybrids). The Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition thinks Iran will wrest global natural-gas-vehicle leadership from Argentina soon.
Of course, Mr. Pickens says Iran's nat-gas frenzy is a ploy to hoard its oil and sell it for $120 a barrel. Not quite—the country just doesn't have enough refining capacity to turn the oil into gasoline, and subsidizing cheap gas for its drivers is killing the government coffers.
But T. Boone Pickens' latest ad does seem to make a valid point—for all the "energy independence" rhetoric, the U.S. still trails Iran, Argentina, Brazil, and even Pakistan in getting natural-gas vehicles on the road.


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Fall 2011: Opened with a round of 88 at the Triangular Invite to finish 18th overall...sits tied in 46th place entering the Spring rounds of the NSIC Women's Conference Championship...also tied for 50th in a field of 14 teams at the Mustang Invite with rounds of 88 and 86, her lowest round of the fall season.
2010-11: Received GPAC All-Conference Plaudits...recorded season-low rounds of 81 & 82 to claim third at the Palace City Classic...had three top-5 finishes on the year: Briar Cliff's Frommelt Classic, where Wilkinson shot a 86 for a 4th place finish...fifth place finsih in the 1st Annual Prairie Club Shootout...Tied for 15th to help USF take third place in GPAC conference tournament.
2009-10: Shot her season-low round of 83 and tied for ninth at the Lady Red Raider Invite...tied for sixth (85-86 171) at the Lady Tigers Fall Invite...tied for eighth (86-88 174) at the Nebraska Wesleyan Spring Invite...participated in all six USF tournament wins and six second-place finishes...helped the Cougars place second in the GPAC and earn a berth in the 2010 NAIA Women's Golf National Championships.
2008-09: Had two top-ten finishes: tied for seventh (87) at the Dana College Invitational and tied for ninth (90) at the GPAC Qualifier #3 in Fremont, Neb....tied for 13th (88) at the Hastings College Invitational (Qualifier #2) and tied for 12th (92) at the Briar Cliff Invitational...contributed to three second-place and three third-place team finishes and helped USF earn a berth in the 2009 NAIA Women's Golf National Championships.
Prep: Played soccer and golf for Rock Springs HS...helped the Tigers claim three conference championships and the Wyoming State Golf Championship...garnered all-state and all-conference golf accolades...member of Athletes for Literacy.
Personal: Has one brother, Dallas, and sister-in-law, Sarah...elementary education major...professional goal is to become a first or second grade teacher...SAAC member.
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The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge holds its annual Birding Festival during the height of the spring Neotropical songbird migration, when the greatest diversity of species are on the fly. Bird lovers delighted in catching a glimpse of the Swainson's Warbler and the Wayne's Warbler (a race of the Black-throated Green Warbler), two of the most secretive and least observed of all North American birds. Lucky visitors most likely caught a "peep" of the White-throated Sparrow, the graceful Great Egret and even the regal Bald Eagle. Other birds of interest in the area include the Wood Duck, Barred Owl, Pileated Woodpecker and Prothonotary Warbler.
The festival is part of International Migratory Bird Day. International Migratory Bird Day celebrates the incredible journeys of migratory birds between breeding grounds in North America and their wintering grounds in Mexico, Central and South America.
The FREE annual Great Dismal Swamp Birding Festival is open to the public and offers family-fun activities, such as guided bird walks, owl prowls, bus tours and photography workshops. Bird walks and bus tours require reservations.
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Paleo Eating
What is the Paleo Diet?
Paleolithic diet (Paleo diet), also popularly referred to as Stone Age diet, hunter-gatherer diet, primal diet or caveman diet, consists of eating a colorful variety of fresh, healthy, natural foods. We prefer to refer to it as the Paleo Lifestyle. The health benefits can change your life.
Paleo in a few words: Each meal should be mostly vegetables (fresh & colorful), a reasonable portion of unprocessed lean meat and a healthy fat. No Processed / Refined Stuff! No Grains, No Sugar or Artificial Sweeteners, No Dairy and No Legumes (beans).
Paleo is a nutritional plan based on the presumed ancient diet of wild plants and animals that various human species habitually consumed during the Paleolithic—a period of about 2.5 million years duration that ended around 10,000 years ago with the development of agriculture. In common usage, such terms as the "Paleolithic diet" also refer to the actual ancestral human diet. Centered on commonly available modern foods, the "contemporary" Paleolithic diet consists mainly of meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, roots, and nuts (allowed foods), and excludes grains, legumes, dairy products, salt, refined sugar, and processed oils (non-paleo food).
Modern processed foods containing mixtures of grains, refined sugars and oils, salt,and food additives are slowly killing us. The nutrientional benefits of Paleo eating help reduce the risk of a variety of chronic diseases.
Allowed Foods
Always try cooking meats with little added fat (ie broiling, baking, grilling)
* Beef, pork, lamb (trimmed of visible fat)
* Poultry
* Extra Lean ground (7% fat or less)
* Fish
* Any other lean cut (grass fed or wild caught always preferred)
Eggs (look for free range)
Fruits and Vegetables
Organic or Local always preferred, buy what's in season, mix up colors. Limit fruit if fat loss is your goal.
Fats are higher in calories. If you are trying to lose weight, you should limit their use.
Nuts – Unsalted macadamia, almonds, walnuts
Olive Oil
* Cofee
* Tea
* (avoid all sweeteners including artificial)
Paleo Sweets
* Nuts & seeds mixed with dried fruit & fresh fruits (with moderation)
Foods You Should Avoid
All Dairy Products
All Grains
All Legumes (beans, peanuts, soybeans, peas)
Starchy Vegetables (Potatoes)
Salt-Containing Foods (Bacon, Deli Meats, Hot Dogs, Pickled foods, Salted spices)
Anything processed, canned, or packaged
Soft drinks & Fruit Juices
Sweets (Candy, Honey, & Sugars (including artificial sweeteners))


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Fresno State Wins 11 Events at UNLV Invitational
The men's team collects six wins and the women's team takes five for a big weekend in Las Vegas for the 'Dogs
Bulldogs Regional Bound and Ready
Fresno State is sending 12 more student-athletes to the NCAA Preliminary Round than last year.
McKee and Bernard Take Home Top Honors
This is the second year in a row Meagan McKee was awarded the top women's honor.
Records Fall at Brutus Hamilton
18 Bulldogs competed in the Invitational Division.
Outdoor Season On the Back Stretch
Fresno State only has three meets remaining before the WAC Championships.
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2012 Outdoor (Junior): Competed in the javelin in nine meets ... finished fourth at the Western Athletic Conference Championships ... won the Stanford Invitational with 60.07m throw ... set personal record mark of 60.52m at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational ... has longest javelin mark on the team ... fifth longest javelin mark in the WAC.
2011 Track (Sophomore): Competed in seven meets ... threw a season-best 53.35 meters in the javelin on April 7.
Prior to Fresno State: Played one season of baseball at Fresno City College...team was the Central Valley Conference champions...played short stop and second base...played two years of varsity baseball at Clovis High School...senior year was named team captain and earned MVP honors...participated in the City vs. County All-Star Game...honored with the Tim Simmons Sportsman and Character Award.
Personal: Born March 22, 1990 in Fresno, Calif....parents are Dean and Betsy Oliver...has one brother, Dez Oliver...favorite athlete is Apollo Anton Ohno because of his hard work and determination...most admires his dad because of his work ethic and is a great role model...chose Fresno State for the construction management program.
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The Hollywood Reporter has reported that actor Tim Blake Nelson is in final negotiations to play Harvey Elder in Fox's upcoming Fantastic Four reboot. Nelson appeared in Marvel's 2008 The Incredible Hulk film as Dr. Samuel Sterns, the scientist who eventually becomes one of Hulk's fiercest rivals, The Leader. In the Fantastic Four, Harvey Elder is the alias to longtime villain Mole Man. According to the report, Elder will not yet be the Mole Man in the first Fantastic Four film. This sets the possibility of his transformation for sequels similar to Nelson's other super villain role in The Incredible Hulk.
After decades of superhero films, fans should be aware by now that studios hold different rights to specific characters in the Marvel universe. This isn't the first time a Fox Marvel actor crossed over to a Marvel studio film or vice-versa. Chris Evans, who originally played Johnny Storm the Human Torch in the first two Fantastic Four films, now stars as Captain America in the Marvel cinematic universe. While fans continue to pray for the day a unified cinematic universe forms, actors are free to portray whatever roles they desire even if it means playing two different villains.


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My husband found a cockatiel trying to drink from our outdoor fish pond last year. After unsuccessfully trying to locate the owner, we began purchasing cages, feed, toys, etc. Then we got a "playmate" for her. Then we had babies. Lots and lots of babies. Well, I guess we're in it for the long haul now, but loving every minute of it while we try to learn about this fascinating creature! Our question is: now we are building an outdoor aviary (approx 8'W x 12'L x 8'H). What other birds are compatible with cockatiels that we can house in the same cage? Thanks - love this Web site!
Cockatiels are very compatable with several other types that include parakeets or budgies, grass parakeets, ringnecks or even conures. Several breeders we know have button quail in their flights.


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wow, come back from diner and we're winning by 15 and its gone like that
wow, come back from diner and we're winning by 15 and its gone like that
It looks like a D'Antoni game... build a solid lead and blow it.
I think the Knicks are gonna lose. Hopefully I'm wrong but that's my gut feeling.
Turn the game on and BD throws a hail mary straight up in the air?
Gotta kill the Melo iso now. They are waiting for it.
Every once in a while you see that same look on Woodson's face that you used to see on MDA's face. That 'what the hell are you guys doing out there?' look.
We have been outscored 19-4 in the 4th q
Oh god...
Reggie Miller memories
We scored only 4 points in this quarter... WTF?
i haven't been watching the game but i watched a 15 point lead disappear in the blink of a eye wow


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"A Five Star Life," which opens Aug 8 at Landmark Theatres in San Francisco, is the story about a woman who is a hotel critic for five star hotels. Maria Sole Tognazzi directs this film about a woman surrounded by opulence who must rate these establishments. We see our critic posing as a mystery guest with white gloves checking for dust on picture frames and crystal chandeliers, examining linens, looking under the bed, and making online evaluations. Everything goes into her ratings from service with a smile when being greeted at the front desk to a demonstration of the features of the room by the bell clerk.
The mystery guest is a woman, a woman without a life, in a five star life, that is, she is single, without husband and past the age for raising a family. Tognazzi shows the loneliness of Irene Lorenzi's life brilliantly played by Margherita Buy. She takes care of her sister's two girls from time to time and is still on good terms with her former life partner, Andrea (Stefano Accorsi). He even discusses his new girlfriends with her, and spends the night when she is at work in a luxury hotel and tells her his troubles. Her sister reminds her that she is not a spring chicken and needs to get attached even on the job when in Morocco, or Rome or Paris. Other inspectors who have a life usually quit to stay with their families.
"A Five Star Life" could just as well have been made a documentary so precise the director is in showing what an inspector must do when rating service. As Irene explains to one hotel owner, to get a five star rating the establishment must be extraordinary and everyone must be treated the same, even those who win a honeymoon from their relatives


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I tried this theme before and quite simple to manage. It is simple and easy for beginner to learn how to manage their blog setting.
I do like the responsive theme and how it displays on smart-phones. I also like the ease at which you can create child themes as I have done http://skeeterZ71.com
Haven't use any other version, so not able to offer a comparison.
I tried this theme before and quite simple to manage. It is simple and easy for beginner to learn how to manage their blog setting.
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Pros: This clean responsive theme is an excellent basis for your own child theme. Most of what you need is here.
Cons: Wish it had a 3-column blog layout option (currently 2-column).
I am building a number of websites on this currently. It lends itself to easy coding, though the IE8 issue raises its head for me too.
CSS I add, works fine in Chrome and IE9+ but in IE8 looks pretty ugly.
However, I really like this theme!
It's also very minimalistic which has some effects on features, but I'm adding them back within child theme.
More minimalist than Twenty Eleven. Good starting point....
I loved the simplicity of the design, but the color choice hurts my eyes. It's too white. I wish that it had a place to change the colors. Otherwise, I think it's perfect.
I second the issues with the IE Browser support. I don't agree with the previous poster below that this is now fixed. {Or may be it is fixed for IE 8 and ot for IE7).
A lot of people accessing my site from 'managed cloud' or 'corporate desktop' are on Windows Server 2003 clients - which only supports Internet Explorer 7.
I wish it would gracefully downgrade the user experience for these people (rather than render the mobile theme).
The serious problem with the Mobile theme on a desktop IE 7 is the lack of up and down scroll functionality!!!
Twenty Ten was great in its simplicity. Twenty Eleven was somewhat cluttered and filled with extraneous bulk. Twenty Twelve has gone back to the minimalist roots of Twenty Ten and taken things a step further by simplifying and de-complicating everything. Because of this it is a great parent for child themes. But that's not all. The extremely well documented theme files also make the theme an excellent starting point for people wanting to learn more about how to build themes and it sets a new benchmark for simplicity and minimalism where coding is concerned.
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I'm trying to decide if my mom is ISFJ or INFJ.
What do you think are the main differences to look for?
I'm trying to decide if my mom is ISFJ or INFJ.
What do you think are the main differences to look for?
INFJ and ISFJ are similar in the way that they often base their judgement similarly, their decision making processes are quite similar because they both share Fe and Ti, how about how they perceive the world is completly different making the 2 types often misunderstand each other, to give you an idea ISFJ's lead with a sensing function and have their intuitive function last, INFJ's lead with their intuitive function and have their sensing function last(this of course applying to the average INFJ), not only this but INFJ's have Ni and Se while ISFJ's use Si and Ne, what this results in is the way we view things can be quite different. an INFJ is very future oriented while an ISFJ might be focused mainly on present tasks, the idealism of an INFJ and well grounded nature of an ISFJ can be conflicting, INFJ's tend to be complex, imaginative etc while an ISFJ tends to be more practical, INFJ's are not the biggest fond on traditions while you may find some ISFJ's greatly following them, INFJ's tend to focus a lot on genral concepts and the main picture sometimes missing to much on obvious details while ISFJ's might focus to much on the details and forget the main idea, ISFJ's tend to rely more on past experiences then INFJ's, ISFJ's also tend to be overall easier to read and understand then an INFJ..here is all I can think of for now, hope this helped
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It's going to be hard to tell by just external apperances. Both more or less respond the same way when approached. ISFJ's and INFJ's are really really similar when it comes to interacting with friends and everyone else. This is because of Secondary Fe. They also both appear to be adversed to any kind of sudden or sharp change, because of Ne and Se being inferior resectivly. Telling apart Si and Ni is really easy to do on paper. In person, this is actually really tricky. Both are internal processes, and you have to pull out the persons internal processes to tell. This is hard for ISFJ's because they are notoriously bad at explaining how they feel and think inside. In some cases, they will tell you it is impossible, and they arent lying either. INFJ's are similar. They often have a hard time explaining how the feel and think inside. The tell tale sign though, for me at least, is if you are able to get the person talking. INFJ's once given the right level of coaxing are able to open up slightly, and explain things to you. In some cases they wont stop doing so.
Both are also really passive and adversive to conflict, so both will try to mediate situations that have gone bad. The difference is how they do it. ISFJ's will do it in such a way to try to make the other people around you look worse then you. INFJ's will try to make you feel better about yourselfs. Both will try to reason what the other person has done wrong, but INFJ's tend to be much more sympathetic about both sides.
This is also not easy for people to do, but INFJ's and ISFJ's actually have pretty different "feels" to them. That feeling you just get by viewing a photograph.
Hope this helps.
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Here's a quick way you might be able to find out. I'm using the best (from what I see) of the ISFJ vs the worst (from what I've experienced) of the INFJ. This might help you.
An ISFJ-type is incredibly detail-oriented and sees all details up front. They will respond based on the five senses for the most part. ISFJs make fantastic executive assistants, accountants, and bankers. They are good at doing what they're told to, to precision, as long as they don't need to come up with an original idea for it. And they will follow instructions *well*. They won't be thinking about changing the status quo. If something works, ISFJs will stick to the plan.
An INFJ-type on the other hand needs to take in all the information. They might be slower to respond when a lot of details are thrown at them at once because they need to know *why* they're doing the job they're doing. INFJs are always looking at the bigger picture; the meaning behind the story. INFJs probably make lousy executive secretaries in highly stressful jobs (*ahem, me*). They must have time to think ahead, and they must have time to process everything before heading towards a new crisis. You can't give them too much at once or they'll shut down.
It's all elemental
We're trying to decide if my mom was INFJ or ISFJ.
My mom was a walking encyclopedia. When I was a kid, I NEVER had to look up anything. I could just ask my mother about it, and she would know... mostly on the subject of history... wars, royalty, etc. She would sit up in bed and read encyclopedias - recreationally - because she ENJOYED it. She knew the dates of historical events.
She loved to do crossword puzzles.
She studied the family history and knew the dates of birth, death and marriage of all her ancestors and usually aunts and uncles and cousins, too. I'm serious. One of my kids had to do a family tree to four generations and she had her side and my father's side memorized. She didn't have to look any of it up.
When she was young she knew the words to a thousand songs. She wrote them down in scrapbooks. She made photo scrapbooks with pictures and captions. She loved books in general... especially if they were antique.
She grew up during the Great Depression.
She loved antiques especially if they were ornate, and stone and castles and mountains. She collected valuable coins.
When she worked in a shoe factory, she said she was the fastest worker in her section. She seems to be competitive. She did exquisite handiwork with fine stitching and when she got older invested much time making quilts and other types of special blankets... heirlooms to pass on to her grandchildren.
She was extremely generous... sacrificing and saving up so she could be very generous to her kids and grandkids.
When I was little and I disobeyed her, she became vicious... name-calling, hair-pulling, hitting etc. She loved to make people afraid of her... she used to brag about it.
She was so intuitive she was almost psychic.
My sister thinks she was an N.
I think she was an S because she never understood me.
She wanted me to "pretend" I was happy.
She seemed to be all about keeping up appearances.
And her memory was so incredibly outstanding.
I just don't believe N's have a memory like that.
For years, I thought she was an ISTJ because she was so mean to me,
but when I asked her, she thought she was an F.
Oh, and whenever I wanted to do something but she didn't want me to,
she would say, "Give me ten good reasons."
Those of you who are Ni Dominant know what a nightmare such a statement can be.
Ten! I couldn't even think of three!
It's just the N or S we're not sure about.
Is there anyone here who thinks my mom was an INFJ?
Shes an very inteligent ISFJ, with a decent Ni.
It's all elemental
She sounds very ISFJ to me. Disobedience can an issue with SJs as well - they usually want order, and if you don't do it the way they want you to they get upset with you. They think you do it on "purpose."
I would say "I don't know"
She would start insulting my intelligence.
Intelligence is a big thing for her.
So INFJs might LOVE antiques too then?
Do they have a physical reaction to things they hate?
Saxophone music makes her throw up.
Really simple.
INFJs focus on the future.
ISFJs focus on the past.
she sounds isfj to me
I never had a physical reaction to something I hated. I think that's very, very Si or Se. If I have a physical reaction to something (which I do) I don't know why I'm reacting to it. Like old Mad Magazine comics and my father's old National Lampoon magazines gave me headaches, but I didn't know why...and even today I can't watch violent anime programs because I react the same way. Why? I couldn't tell you.
As far as getting angry with you when you said "I don't know"... that might have been your Mom. That could be an issue she needed to work out. She might've recognized your intelligence, but assumed you *should* know. Or, she might have felt intimated because you were actually smarter than her in some areas and she didn't like that feeling.
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First Look - Jean Paul Gaultier Fall/Winter 2013-14 | Paris Fashion Week PFW
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On January 17, 2011, numerous events were held across the U.S. celebrating the memory and dedicated service of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., our nation's most prominent civil rights leader.
This year also marked the 25th Anniversary of the holiday that was created in his honor.
Dr. King dedicated (and ultimately gave) his life for us in his effort to secure equal opportunity, freedom and justice for all.
Our nation's oldest civil-rights organization, the NAACP, claims that it not only upholds the high ideas of Dr. King, but that its efforts as a group are geared toward insuring that the dream of Dr. King continues to thrive so that we may all enjoy the benefits of living in a free society.
But today, Dr. King might not agree with some of the practices and recent actions taken by the NAACP, and elect to suggest a change of course in its operations in order to strengthen and preserve the image of the organization.
For example, the NAACP's outpouring of support for the recent decision by the State of Mississippi to release the Scott sisters from prison (who had been serving life sentences for their roles in an armed robbery that only netted between $11 and $200 dollars) under the conditions that one sister donate a kidney to the other as opposed to them being released because they were given unjust sentences does not embody the vision Dr. King.
Justice was not served in the case of the Scott sisters, and the environment (still) exists for this same unfair treatment to occur to someone else.
Another questionable incident surfaced when the Maine chapter of the NAACP held an event at the state prison in honor of Dr. King that included a meeting with black prisoners, and the Governor of Maine, Paul LePage (R), refused to attend the event because it was not designed for all prisoners.
This represents another action by the NAACP that fails to support the vision and principles that were embodied in the efforts of Dr. King during the civil rights movement to create an environment of equality, freedom and justice.
As the oldest civil rights organization in our nation, the NAACP has a responsibility not only to fight for equal opportunity, freedom and justice - the organization also has a duty to insure that its practices exemplify the very ideas that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood for.
Every human being on our planet is subject to having his or her civil rights violated at one time or another - and each one of us is entitled to having our civil rights protected and defended.
However, if we each took the time to look into ourselves and realize that our consistent refusal to work with one another across all ethnic and racial lines (including gender, religion and sexual orientation) is hindering our progress as a nation, we would see the benefit of making a more concerted effort towards establishing an environment that truly mirrors the ideas of equality, freedom and justice.
With this environment established, we would no longer need the protection or defense of our civil rights.
In short, we would no longer need organizations such as the NAACP.
Dr. King knew that America was a great country, but he also knew that America had yet to see her true greatness. In order for us to unlock the potential of this great nation, we have to first open ourselves up to the understanding that the greatness of this nation lies within each one of us.
Until we make the decision to come together and establish a foundation based on equal opportunity, freedom and justice, we will continue to see the unsettling practice of compromise and acceptance that continues to undercut the very principles that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood (and died) for.