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Library JournalLickona, author of Raising Good Children ( LJ 9/15/83), views the school as a major force in responding to America's moral crisis. He defines values, discusses how they may be taught, and outlines the role of school and family. He emphasizes values as an important factor in the well being of a nation, family, and individual. His arguments are good ones. However, this is the age of diversification, political action committees, and special interest groups. Issues such as homosexuality, condom distribution, abortion, and AIDS call forth a number of opinions absolutely believed in with little tolerance for opposition, reasoned or otherwise. These aspects make a commonality or sharing of values a very difficult prospect. On a technical level, the lack of an index reduces the book's utility. Notwithstanding these criticisms, Educating for Character should be made available to teachers, future teachers, and parents.-- Federico U. Acerri, Wayne Cty. Regional Educational Svce. Agency, Mich.
Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibilityby Thomas Lickona
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Calls for renewed moral education in America's schools, offering dozens of programs schools can adopt to teach students respect, responsibility, hard work, and other values that should not be left to parents to teach.
Calls for renewed moral education in America's schools, offering dozens of programs schools can adopt to teach students respect, responsibility, hard work, and other values that should not be left to parents to teach.
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First off, I will admit that I only read the first four chapters of the book, and only because it was required for a class (had I been reading voluntarily, I would have thrown it away after the third page). However, those four chapters were enough to tell me that the rest of the book wouldn't be worth reading anyway. The way Lickona argues in favor of a universal moral sense suggests that he already knows exactly what it is, but we disagree on enough points there that I would hardly call his morals 'universal.' On one page he says that all sex by young people should 'be classified as abuse - of both self and other.' On another he suggests that questioning authority is an inherently bad thing, and another sign of general moral decay among youth. The evidence Lickona uses to back up his assertions is hardly top quality either. While he does offer some legitimate statistics on things like crime rates, he also tries supporting himself by citing poorly-designed research and urban legends such as Satanic Ritual Abuse (which was thoroughly debunked after intensive investigation by the FBI). On the other hand, the book is rescued from a one-star rating by the fact that, once in a while, the author does actually make a valid point. For example, he mentions several character education studies that have been implemented in some school districts in America and Canada that have been successful. While he does not go into the specifics of these programs (at least, not in the chapters I read), some of the improvements attributed to these programs are hard to see as anything but actual improvements - improved school performance, increased attendance, and lower rates of drug use and pregnancy among students. Lickona even quotes interviews from students in elementary schools with these programs who say that students overall are much more friendly and polite than in other schools they've seen. In conclusion, while this book does have a few good things in it, they are sandwiched in between way too much b.s. If you are looking for a guide to implementing a character education program in your school district, this is not it.


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This is the result of several days of carving and scraping...I don't know why it took so long this time. Pictures don't really do it justice as the image somewhat wraps around pumpkin.
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That looks like a pretty challenging pattern -- and no, the pictures never do jack-o'-lanterns justice.
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Agreed...it's a little fuzzy from this close up. I gotta take a few more pictures from some better angles.
Photographing in low light is insanely tricky. Do you have a shutter remote you could use? Anyway, other pictures in different lighting would be awesome. Carvings take on a different personality depending on your lighting.
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Much of the FTC's complaint against Facebook centers on a series of changes that the company made to its privacy controls in late 2009. The revisions automatically shared information and pictures about Facebook users, even if they previously programmed their privacy settings to shield the content. Among other things, people's profile pictures, lists of online friends and political views were suddenly available for the world to see, the FTC alleged.
The complaint also charges that Facebook shared its users' personal information with third-party advertisers from September 2008 through May 2010 despite several public assurances from company officials that it wasn't passing the data along for marketing purposes.
Facebook believes that happened only in limited instances, generally when users clicked on ads that appeared on their personal profile pages. Most of Facebook's users click on ads when they are on their "Wall" — a section that highlights their friends' posts — or while visiting someone else's profile page.
The FTC also alleged that Facebook displayed personal photos even after users deleted them from their accounts.
Facebook's agreement with the FTC requires the company to obey privacy laws or face fines of $16,000 per day for each violation.
"Facebook's innovation does not have to come at the expense of consumer privacy," FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz. "The FTC action will ensure it will not."
The FTC's commissioners unanimously approved the agreement with Facebook. The FTC is accepting public comments through Dec. 30 before deciding whether to finalize the settlement.
Facebook's stepped-up commitment to privacy wasn't enough to satisfy Jeff Chester, executive director for the Center for Digital Democracy, one of the privacy watchdog groups that prodded the FTC investigation. In a statement, Chester called on Zuckerberg and Facebook's board of directors to resign so that the company could hire more trustworthy replacements.
"They misled consumers and should pay a price beyond a 20-year agreement to conduct their business practices in a more above-board fashion," Chester said.
Facebook sought to downplay the gravity of the FTC's allegations, maintaining that it had already addressed most of the privacy complaints. Zuckerberg said the website has added more than 20 new privacy features in the past 18 months.
To underscore its commitment, Facebook has created two new executive positions — Michael Richter as chief privacy officer of products and Erin Egan as chief privacy officer of policy.
"This means we're making a clear and formal long-term commitment to do the things we've always tried to do and planned to keep doing — giving you tools to control who can see your information and then making sure only those people you intend can see it," Zuckerberg wrote in his blog post.
AP Technology Writer Barbara Ortutay in New York contributed to this story.
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Legal | Jury selection is set to begin today in Mount Clemens, Michigan, in the second trial of former retailer Michael George, charged with first-degree murder in the 1990 shooting death of his first wife Barbara in their Clinton Township comic store. George, 51, was convicted in 2008, but later that year a judge set aside the conviction, citing prosecutorial misconduct and the emergence of new evidence that might have resulted in a different verdict. [The Detroit News]
Retailing | Retailer Mike Sterling answers questions about DC's relaunch, noting his store saw an uptick in sales before the relaunch: "In our case, comic sales have been increasing … slowly, but steadily. And judging by demand for the new Justice League #1 and the interest we've seen in DC's next batch of first issues, we're expecting a bit of a bump in sales over the next few weeks. Whether that bump sticks, even as a slight net gain after the initial excitement over the new launches peters out and we see what the sales levels on these titles will actually be, remains to be seen. But I'm optimistic. My fear was that our upward store sales trend may have been derailed by DC cancelling everything and starting again, alienating the readership we were building, but for the most part that doesn't seem to be happening. But, you know, in six months or a year or so, we'll know for sure." [Progressive Ruin]
Retailing | Borders Group began liquidation sales over the weekend at 200 stores, discounting items 20 percent to 40 percent. As Publishers Weekly and Blogcritics chart the 40-year rise and fall of the retailer, PW's Jim Milliot looks at the effects the bookseller's bankruptcy will have on the publishing industry: "The trickle-down impact will affect everyone from manufacturers to agents. Borders accounted for about 8% of overall industry sales, a higher percentage in some categories. A downsized Borders means publishers are likely to receive smaller orders and in turn place smaller first printings, resulting in less business for printers. The likelihood of lower print sales, one publisher said, means that books acquired one or two years ago when Borders was much bigger will have a more difficult time earning the advance back and that less shelf space could mean lower advances." [Publishers Weekly]
Retailing | Tracey Taylor has details of retailer Jack Rems' plans to resurrect Berkeley, Calif., institution Comic Relief as a new store called The Escapist — a nod to the Michael Chabon character — possibly at the same location. [Berkeleyside]
Welcome to What Are You Reading?, where we talk about what comics and other stuff we've been reading lately.
Today's special guest is Joe Keatinge, writer and co-creator of the upcoming Image comic Brutal with Frank Cho. He's also the writer of the final "Twisted Savage Dragon Funnies" installment in April's Savage Dragon #171, drawn by Savage Dragon creator Erik Larsen, Billy Dogma's Dean Haspiel, Nikolai Dante's Simon Fraser, Parade (With Fireworks)'s Mike Cavallaro, The Transmigration of Ultra Lad's Joe Infurnari, Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation's Tim Hamilton and Olympians' George O'Connor. He's also executive editor of the PopGun anthology, he's got an ongoing series coming soon that he can't say anything else about and with his fellow studio members at Tranquility Base, regularly beats up on 13 year olds at laser tag.
To see what Joe and the Robot 6 crew have been reading lately, click below.
Brigid did a round-up yesterday of various holiday gift-giving suggestions, so I thought I'd follow suit with some that I've seen lately.
• The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is auctioning off original art by Paul Pope, Eric Powell, Gabriel Hardman, Tom Fowler, Dan Paosian and many more, as well as lunch with Chew writer John Layman in New York next week.
• I remember shoveling a whole bunch of quarters into the X-Men arcade game back in the day; my friend Mike and I beat the game as Nightcrawler and Wolverine. If you have an Xbox fan in your life, they too can fight the Blob, Magneto and more in side-scrolling action, as the game will be available on Xbox Live Arcade Dec. 15.
The PlayStation Network, unfortunately, won't get it until February, so you'll have to find something else this holiday season for the PS3 fan in your life. Joy to the world! The game will hit the PlayStation Network Dec. 14!
• Khepri Comics is selling Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon's Atelier, a comic they created to sell at conventions.
• Comics creator Ben Towle has a 20 percent off sale going in his web store, where you can purchase original art from books like Midnight Sun, signed copies of Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean and superhero commissions.
With the fall/winter convention season about to kick off, brothers Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá (Daytripper, Casanova) have taken that opportunity to work up a new comic just for the occasion. Flush off the conclusion of their critically acclaimed Vertigo series Daytripper, Moon and Bá have a new one-shot comic called Atelier that will be available from at New York Comic Con, Rio de Janeiro's Rio Comicon, and the Crack Bang Boom convention in Rosario, Argentina.
No word on the plot yet, but with successes like Daytripper and the recently re-released De:Tales under their belt, I'll take their word for it. For more on the book, head on over to their website.
Related: Shaun Manning talks to Moon and Bá about De: Tales and more at Comic Book Resources.
Hello and welcome once again to What Are You Reading?, where the Robot 6 crew talk about the comics and graphic novels that they've been enjoying lately.
Today's special guest is Ryan K Lindsay, a staff writer for comic news and reviews site The Weekly Crisis. He also runs a comic scripting challenge site called thoughtballoons where each week a character is picked, and every member of the site must write a one-page script about that character. He's also been known to throw a think piece up at Gestalt Mash and is hoping one day to have his many comic pitches drawn by people with pencils.
To see what Ryan and the Robot 6 crew have been reading this week, click the link below …
Let's get ready to drrrrrrrrrrrrrrraw comics! In one corner: Craig Thompson, author of Blankets and currently god knows how many hundreds of pages deep into his upcoming fantasy epic Habibi. In the other corner: Fábio Moon, one half of a Brazilian brother act with fellow cartoonist and Daytrippers collaborator Gabriel Bá. Witness the pulse-pounding power of these two extraordinary artists combined in "Blog War," a collaborative document of Moon's visit to Thompson's home turf in Portland currently told in words and pictures and spread across the pair's respective blogs: part one, part two, part three part four, part five. From photos of Craig with his shirt off to drawings of Fábio in a speedo to an all-star wine-bar meet-up including Thompson, Moon, Dark Horse's Sierra Hahn, Laura and Mike Allred, and Joe Sacco, it is indeed "the crossover event of the summer."
Down to the wire here, so let's do a round-robin of a few more cool items you can get at the San Diego Comic-Con this year …
• Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba are bringing a new limited signed giclée print, which you can see to the right.
• Buenaventura Press is having a going-out-of-business sale at booth #1734. Alvin Buenaventura will be there, selling the last copies he has of Kramers Ergot 7, Boy's Club by Matt Furie, The Gigantic Robot by Tom Gauld, original art and more.
• Gene Luen Yang has a new T-shirt he'll be selling at the show.
• Terry Moore is bringing The Complete Paradise TOO — "a 360 page softcover book filled with hundreds and hundreds of my comic strips and cartoons, from high school to SIP to all the Kixie strips and Plato and Lizzie the axe-murderer… all for just $30."
• Scott Morse will have a TON of items for sale at the show; you can find them here and here.
• Both Josh Howard and Humberto Ramos will have sketchbooks at the show. Sean Galloway, meanwhile, has a Spider-Man print.
"For all the bravado and, what you call it, callow youthfulness behind the idea of 'Do it yourself!,' at the end of the day, there's a time in your life when you absolutely can, and there's a time in your life when you're married and you have a mortgage and a baby or two babies and you need diapers and food and it's just like, 'I can't do that, I can't work for free anymore.' It's not like anybody's getting rich. It's not like 'Well, I need a BMW.' No — I need to pay my light bill. That's the reality of it. … So the idea was, let's go off, and just build up the bank and get to a point where we can do seven issues for free again. Luckily, we haven't had to. Luckily all three of our stars were in the ascendant and people at Marvel were really big fans of the work, and were excited to make Casanova an Icon book, so we're very lucky — nobody has to work for free, and we still own Casanova and still control it."
– writer Matt Fraction, in a highly recommended interview with GQ,
on the financial realities behind Casanova's more than two-year hiatus
Dark Horse sent over three new covers that you'll find when their next round of solicitations go live … first up is the cover for a new edition of Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon's De:Tales, which collects several of their short stories. The softcover is out of print, so Dark Horse is releasing it as a hardcover in October. If you like their Daytrippers series from Vertigo, you'll most likely like this:
Last week iFanboy's Talksplode podcast posted a lengthy interview with Brian Wood, who talked about all of his various "D" projects — Demo, DMZ, DV8 — as well as Northlanders. Close to the end of the conversation, he said that he plans to offer a money-back guarantee on the third Northlanders trade paperback, which is due in stores the first week of March.
"If someone hates it they can mail it back to me and I'll pay them back," Wood said, adding he'll share formal details on the offer soon. This trade collects several shorter arcs and single-issue stories from Northlanders — specifically issues 9 and 10, as well as 17-20. Issue 17, "The Viking Art of Single Combat," is probably the best issue of the series thus far, and the two-part "Shield Maidens" tale follows closely behind it.
In addition to giving fans a risk-free option for checking out Northlanders, today Wood also gave fans a good reason to check out DMZ #50 — he and Fabio Moon are doing a four-page story in it called "Little Plastic Toys" about cluster munitions, and he plans to donate his page rate for it to stopclustermunitions.org. The comic comes out this Wednesday.
I was a bit skeptical last month when writer Matt Fraction teased, "Just wait till we make the Casanova announcements." After all, we've been fooled before.
But if you followed Twitter over the holidays — the accounts of Fraction and artists Gabriel Bá and Fabio Moon, specifically — you saw clear indications that work has indeed begun on the long-rumored and much-anticipated third volume of the critically acclaimed spy-fi series.
"Hey, guess who remembered how to write Casanova today?" Fraction tweeted on Dec. 19. "Pages 1-6 of Casanova v3 completed and sent to @Gabriel_Ba e @fabiomoon. ho ho ho." Bá replied two days later with: "Pages 1-6 of Casanova v3 – [In] @mattfraction 's own words: 'Okay. That might actually sound like the most impossible thing of all time –'"
And just this week Fraction posted: "Writing more Casanova tonight. Rereading the whole series since the last time I proofread the issues." That was followed last night by, "It's as though I've set out to make Moon and Bá hate me and salt the earth beneath my feet" and the encouraging tag "casanovasback."
Debuting in June 2006 in Image Comics' 16-page "slimline" format, Casanova follows the timeline-jumping exploits of free-lance thief and espionage artist Casanova Quinn. The second volume, Gula, concluded in May 2008.
Pamela Mullin over at Vertigo's Graphic Content blog posted a teaser today for an upcoming project with a very impressive line-up of talent involved with it. That line-up includes Jim Lee, Rebekah Isaacs, Fabio Moon, Ryan Kelly, John Paul Leon, Lee Bermejo, Philip Bond, Eduardo Risso and Dave Gibbons.
So what is this mysterious project? Well, Pamela's staying quiet on the details, but my own investigations* have turned up the fact that it's related to Brian Wood's DMZ. No doubt Pamela will have more details soon.
It's a good day for previews over at the official Vertigo blog, Graphic Content. Pamela Mullins has posted some pages from Peter Bagge's Other Lives, which is due from the publisher next year. She also shares more preview pages from Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon's Daytripper, which comes out in December. And lastly, check out the cover to Joe the Barbarian #2.
Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon, who you might remember from such great comics as The Umbrella Academy, Casanova, Pixu and De:TALES, among others, have a new book called Daytripper coming out from Vertigo later this year — "a Brazilian slice-of-life limited series, featuring beautiful women, friendships, family and complete unpredictability," according to the Vertigo blog.
This book has been a bit under my radar; I haven't heard much about it beyond a little convention talk at some of Vertigo's panels this past year, so it's good to see it on the schedule and to see some preview art, which you can find at the link above.


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A 30-year veteran of the NYC jazz and studio scene, this is unbelievably Del Gatto's debut recording as a leader. You know him (and Lou Marini) as the prime sax soloists for the Saturday Night Live Band. Old friend Randy Brecker on trumpet, pianist/organist Ron Feuer, guitarist Joe Cohn, bassist Chip Jackson, and drummer Victor Lewis comprise this stellar ensemble, with SNL bandmate Steve Turre on trombone occasionally. Del Gatto is one of the warmest, most mature, original sounding tenor saxophonists you will ever hear. He's cliché free, cool, extraordinarily literate, and tuneful. He is also an intriguing modern mainstream composer as evidenced on half of the ten tracks. They include two truly outstanding cuts: the great swing groove with guitar/tenor unison and organ backing on the title cut, and the stealth, bitter shuffle "Long Divorce Blues" with a hefty tenor/guitar lead and "Sidewinder"-type two-chord organ accents. Perhaps an Arnold Becker theme song? "Ain't Too Hip (To Hip Hop)" is a simple, contemporary guitar/organ-oriented groove biscuit supporting three horns. Del Gatto adapts two famous standards, one, an extrapolated line on "Our Delight" called "Barbados Delight," edits the original Tadd Dameron line with three horns, a patented Turre solo and "Ornithology"-type solo from Cohn. The version of "Just Friends" as "And Friends" has Brecker and the leader jumping in and out of the melody, utilizing double stops, and a rambling, hard charging attitude. Standards include the "Seven Comes Eleven" bassline informing the hard swinging, three-horn "Caravan" with Lewis' always compelling drum solo, the well swung "I Thought About You," and 12-plus minute, modally vamped, improv stretched "My One & Only Love." Del Gatto is also a prime ballad purveyor as proven in his solid, lustrous interpretation of the interesting choice "Autumn Nocturne" and the piano/tenor only ice melter "You Don't Know What Love Is." Make no mistake that this is a wonderful document of Del Gatto's musical powers, using an attractive combination of instruments and great compositions. Del Gatto's definitely got it, and this is a strong candidate for jazz CD of 2000.
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Performance CreditsLew Del Gatto Primary Artist,Tenor Saxophone
Victor Lewis Drums
Ron Feuer Organ,Piano
Randy Brecker Trumpet,Flugelhorn
Joe Cohn Guitar
Chip Jackson Bass
Steve Turre Trombone
Technical CreditsJay Messina Engineer
Rick Wald Liner Notes
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SummaryPinball as addictive as any 1st-person shooter.
The GoodBoS is just plain fun as hell to play - although to truly appreciate it, you have to be of the scrolling-pinball generation (Dreams/Fantasies/Illusions, Epic, Extreme, etc.), and of course play it in scrolling mode. Each table is chock full of incredible graphics, special modes, dot-matrix video games (just about everything you can do with 2 flippers and a plunger), and funny random add-ons ("moo").
They did a great job of testing the game - it seems virtually bug-free. Even when events are activated in rapid succession, the animations and sound effects play out smoothly. The gameplay seems just about right for each table, but they have enough differences to make playing each one worthwhile.
The music is appropriate for each game, and the sound effects are very well done (even Duke Nukem returns with a few new quips).
The BadI'll just have to nitpick:
- Gameplay is almost TOO easy - granted, I don't mind playing longer than in other games. Ball "nudging" seems excessive; the ball visually changes course (also, the nudge keys are backwards compared to other games, but that can be fixed by the user).
- Since the music wasn't tracked, it's not very strong and doesn't change much (mostly 20-second loops).
- A better intro screen would be nice, with more info on the table rules.
The Bottom LineIf you grew a love of PC Pinball games out of the Pro Pinball series or similar, you can certainly give Balls of Steel a try but you may gripe about it having top-down graphics and not being "realistic" enough. But, if you're a fan of the classics', especially Extreme Pinball, you'll love it. With fast action and all kinds of different missions to master, it's about the most fun you can have in 2D.
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Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or any of its contents, and I'm not making any money off this.
Warnings: Slash, drabbles, language uselessness.
A/N: This is a redrabbled version of an extremely old story. Proceed with caution.
Fate's a bitch. Or life, maybe. There's no one else in the back of the library, not this late. Of all the people to come by, it has to be the one that's cruel enough to slither up to Neville's table, demanding coldly, "Get out of my seat, Longbottom."
Neville looks up. The desk is small and tucked away in the back – the only desk out of everyone's line of sight. The only one that's actually as quiet as Madam Pince would like the library to be. Neville sits here whenever he can, although he isn't egocentric enough to think that makes it his.
Draco Malfoy must think different. When Neville doesn't move, Draco's frown twists into a scowl – his gray eyes have heavy circles under them. It's late and he looks tired, like he should pick his battles better. Neville glances inconspicuously around Draco – Crabbe and Goyle aren't with him. They haven't been as glued together this year as usual. Draco repeats firmly, "Did you hear me? Get out of my seat, you stupid squib."
He wouldn't dare talk that way to Harry or Ron – not without backup. But apparently Neville doesn't get the same respect (fear) that other Gryffindors yet. It isn't fair – he isn't the sniveling, terrified bundle of nerves he was in first year.
He isn't a hero either, though. Draco looks ready to hex him. Neville glances dejectedly down at his desk, as if saying goodbye, and then he gets slowly to his feet. Draco takes the chair without saying 'thank you,' brushing Neville's shoulder as he passes. Neville shivers.
He pulls out the other, lone chair at the other end of the table, and sits back down. Draco looks up at him, disbelieving.
Neville reopens his book and continues taking notes, pretending he isn't unnerved. He isn't in first year anymore, and he doesn't want to put up with this. Draco scowls but doesn't pursue it. Without his cronies, Draco isn't much stronger than Neville. That's saying something.
At first Neville expects Draco to give up and leave; Draco seems to be waiting for him to do the same.
They end up reading in a silence, in an odd sort of unspoken double dare. Eventually Neville falls asleep sitting up, and when he wakes up there's a green scrawl all across his notes, reading, 'Don't sit in my desk anymore.' Neville frowns – those notes took him hours.
Draco's on Neville's radar now – he wasn't before. It might work the other way around. He's been quieter, this year, or at least, he's been quieter to Neville. He doesn't snicker in Potions class as much or chuck insults across the Great Hall, not unless provoked. Maybe he's growing up, like Neville's trying to.
Or maybe the war's getting to him, like it's getting to everyone. The next time they're together is in Herbology. Suddenly Draco's a different creature – everything Neville does is wrong. Except that Herbology's the only thing Neville's good at. Draco tries to tell Neville that he's ruining their Fanged Geraniums. Neville got his first 'O' ever on these last year, but doesn't have the nerve to say it.
So he lets Draco ruin them, and he takes the blame, and he thinks he wants to make sure he gets partnered with someone else next class. Draco has warm, delicate hands, that look too aristocratic to be in the dirt. He lets Neville do most of it. With a deep-set sneer, he eventually lets Neville fix it, towards the end of the hour. Neville gets them a new pot and starts over, and Draco just sits back, muttering, "You clumsy idiot, you're going to fail us."
Neville shrugs and tries to look apologetic enough that he won't actually have to say sorry. Appeasing Draco is easier than fighting him. Obviously, Harry and Ron's techniques don't work – they've never struck peace.
The last ten minutes are close enough. Draco sits back and lets Neville grow their plant into something beautiful. In the next hour of Potions he's slightly less nasty.
They're sort of on a speaking basis. Neville runs across Draco in a mostly empty courtyard, trying to transfigure a rock into a shield. Transfiguration homework. Neville did that in the D.A. last year. It was hard, at first, but he managed.
He tells Draco to stop flicking his wrist so much – Draco turns around and scowls. Draco's always scowling – it makes him look sharper than he is. He hisses, "Fuck off," and turns back around.
When Neville tries to walk away, Draco growls in frustration, "How do you do this stupid thing?"
Neville walks back to show him – he sees that Draco looks around to make sure they're alone. Somehow, Neville's apparently still social suicide, even though his father isn't in Azkaban, there's very little chance he's a Death Eater, and he's semi-friends with a celebrity.
Neville demonstrates with his own wand and blushes when the grass erupts around the rock. He overshot. He tries again, and it works. His shield's lumpy and odd-looking, but it looks more like steel than stone.
Draco frowns.
Draco practices alone, most days. When he flies at all. The team doesn't seem too happy with him; he loses to Harry too often. Neville's sort of torn. He sees the pain on Draco's face with every loss, but he still wants Gryffindor to win. Badly. If he can't be something, at least his House can. He vicariously lives through it, and finds himself more patriotic than logic warrants. He doesn't even play Quidditch.
He was collecting more Gillyweed at the lake for some extra credit – if he can't pass Charms he can at least make sure to ace his best subject – when he saw Draco heading for the pitch.
He doesn't have anything better to do or anyone else to hang out with. No more than Draco does. He does his D.A.D.A. essay in the stands – looking up every once in awhile. Pansy Parkinson shows up for a bit – she leaves when she gets bored. There's a span of time where the stands are just Neville, and he watches.
Draco lands on the field still panting, painted in a thin sheen of sweat. He looks frustrated and disappointed, and his soft hair is plastered to his forehead, getting in his eyes. He didn't bother to change – his regular Slytherin pants and shirt cling to his lithe frame attractively. He looks simultaneously handsome and a wreck, and watching Draco ride a broom does strange things to Neville's stomach. He thinks he and Parkinson might not be that different – a sentiment Neville never thought he'd have.
Neville doesn't really meet Draco; he walks away in the same direction. Draco catches up to him, snarling, "Wrong team, Gryffindork."
Neville debates lying: perhaps saying he's gathering information for his housemates. Instead he just shrugs and awkwardly mutters, "Good practice."
Draco blinks like Neville just spoke Korean. Then he grumbles, "Get a life, you fag," and slinks off towards the change room. Neville watches him leave, blushing like an idiot.
In the next Herbology lesson, Neville pretends to be as stupid as Draco thinks he is, and sits back while Draco strains to fish writhing roots out of the earth. Draco's glare makes Neville's chest constrict. Draco isn't good at it – he works himself into a fury trying to pass. By the end of the lesson it looks like there might be tears in the corner of his eyes – Neville feels like they've suddenly switched places.
Draco gets detention for ruining their plant. He blames Neville, Neville doesn't stand up for himself, and Neville gets detention, too.
The sun is low over the glass of the greenhouse, distorted through the cracks all the dangerous plants have made. It glitters across Draco's face as he presses into Neville – there isn't any space between them.
"You're a fucking idiot," Draco drawls, and his fingers tremble as he holds Neville's sides.
Neville says, "Shut up," because he already ignored the first few meaningless insults. His breath is coming with difficulty – one of Draco's legs is between his. Neville's back is to the wall, and it doesn't feel sturdy enough. He thinks if they fight again they might burst through it – tumble clean to the other side. Neville's arms are around Draco's body, one against his hip and one over his shoulders. Draco's so thin and frail in Neville's arms; it's hard for Neville to understand we he used to be so scared of this boy.
Draco shakes his head, muttering, "No, I mean it – this isn't... I don't..." Neville shuts him up with a kiss – Draco meets him halfway.
They make out in the middle, Draco rutting forward just as fervently. His thigh rubs against Neville's crotch, and his fingers curl in Neville's sweater, and when Neville tries to pull back for air, Draco just follows him. Draco tastes like the cranberry juice he had at the feast: a flavour Neville never liked before. Now it's his favourite, and he soothingly rubs the back of Draco's neck while their tongues fight between them.
Neville doesn't know what this is, either. It's one of those things that just happened – another punch to roll with. When they finally separate, panting and needy, Draco murmurs, "You're nothing, and I don't even like you."
Neville looks at Draco like a sapling that can't take the sudden cold of winter, and he mumbles, "We should go out sometime." He thinks hanging out with Luna might be bad for his conversation skills.
Draco scrunches his eyes closed and leans his forehead against Neville's. He hisses, "I don't like you." It sounds like he's trying to convince himself.
It isn't new, but it still hurts.
Neville puts up with a lot of shit. Draco always leaves when they're done, and he gets furious whenever Neville tries to say something meaningful, and he calls Neville a 'filthy blood traitor' a few times. Neville shrugs off a lot and steels other times. They walk apart in the corridors and won't look at each other across the Great Hall, and once Neville gets pulled into an abandoned classroom so Draco can unload to him. He has so many expectations on him, apparently, and he isn't living up to any of them. Someone's disappointed and someone's in danger. He doesn't quite open up to Neville, just shouts generalities. He kicks a chair over, and then he falls to the floor, curling up and covering his face with his hands.
Neville wonders distantly if Draco has any real friends – if there's anyone else he can talk to. He looks like he's crumbling under Atlas' burden, and when Neville tries to be there for him Draco sneers, "I don't need you. Don't think you're special. I'm out of your league and you just happen to be there."
Neville does think Draco's out of his league. Draco's gorgeous, even when he's sad. He's intelligent when he isn't being petty, and he's funny when he isn't being an asshole. He's bringing up Neville's Potions grade, and he's stopped trying to physically push Neville around when they fuck.
He lies still and lets Neville take him, and he trembles when Neville pulls back, and he holds Neville tight enough to bruise. He stays with Neville longer every time, and he comes to Neville when he needs... someone.
But he's still an asshole, and Neville sits down across from him, mumbling, "You're full of shit, Malfoy."
Draco winces like he's been punched. His back's to the legs of a desk, arms around his knees. He sniffs. He looks at Neville like he wants to know what this is, but Neville can't answer him.
Neville doesn't know, either.
They sneak out to the Hog's Head – Neville's ten minutes late with flushed cheeks and an apology. He stumbles into his seat – it's hard and lumpy. Adjusting, he grumbles, "I like the Three Broomsticks better."
Draco says, "I know, but I don't want to be seen with you." Neville shrugs off his winter robes and scarf, peeling away his gloves.
Draco doesn't ask what Neville would like to drink – a few minutes later two Butterbeers are shoved onto their table. Draco pays without hesitation. Neville mumbles, "Thanks." And he chokes on his first sip – ungraceful as ever.
Draco rolls his eyes. Neville lets the smooth liquid warm his skin, and then he works up his nerves – he puts his hand over Draco's. There's a bit of dirt under Draco's usually pristine nails – remnants of the garden. His grey eyes dart up, and he grunts, shakily, as though he doesn't believe it himself, "I think you're clumsy and foolish and unpopular."
Neville nods and says, "I know." Draco's a bitch, but Neville doesn't say that. Instead he says, "I really like you, anyway."
"I know." After a minute, Draco leans back in his seat, his fingers sliding out from under Neville's. He looks at Neville levelly, his handsome features frowning. Then he says, very slowly, "...But you're growing on me."
Neville grins. He hasn't smiled in a while, and at first it feels sort of strange. There's a war in motion, and nobody smiles.
Draco looks like he wants to but doesn't know how yet.
Draco's foot brushes his under the table.
For the first time in years, Neville thinks things might turn out okay.


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My Task Coach version is 1.3.34 which was not available as Milestone for selection.
When I add a new view using "Effort for one Task" it correctly displays the efforts of the selected task and all subtasks, but when I close Task Coach and reopen it, this view displays the efforts of all tasks, it does not remember the selected task.
My Task Coach version is 1.3.34 which was not available as Milestone for selection.
Sorry, I forgot to create the milestone.
This is actually a duplicate of #1126. A bit tricky...
No problem, I remembered it existed but it took me some time to find it again :)
A fix was made and checked into the source code repository of Task Coach. The fix will be part of the next release. You will get another notification when that release is available with the request to install the new release and confirm that your issue has indeed been fixed.
If you like, you can download a recent build from http://www.fraca7.net/TaskCoach-packages/latest_bugfixes.py to test the fix.
Because a fix has been made for this bug report, the priority of this report has been lowered to 1 and its resolution has been set to 'Fixed'.
Thanks, Task Coach development team
This bug should be fixed in the latest release of Task Coach. Can you please install the latest release of Task Coach and confirm that this bug has indeed been fixed?
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The makers of WhatsApp have celebrated a $16billion deal with Facebook by cracking open bottles of luxury Cristal.
After the deal was struck, the 55 super-rich employees decided to order in cases of the best bubbly the social network could buy.
Igor Solmennikov, an iPhone developer for California-based WhatsApp, posted this picture to Instagram showing just how happy his team were.
Staff pocketed a cool $345 million EACH, according to The Wall Street Journal.
WhatsApp have more than 450 million monthly active users sending 10 billion messages and and around 400 million photos each day.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of Facebook , said: "WhatsApp is on a path to connect one billion people.
"The services that reach that milestone are all incredibly valuable."
In a statement, Facebook said the instant messaging company was bought for £2.4bn ($4bn) in cash and £7.2bn ($12bn) in shares.
The WhatsApp brand will continue and its headquarters will remain in Mountain View, California.
Facebook recently reported record revenues of $2.5bn (£1.5 billion) from 757 million daily users.
In 2012, Facebook bought photo sharing social media site Instagram for $1b billion (£600m).


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The components of atmospherically attenuated target radiance and the path radiance emitted by the atmosphere are calculated to explain the fact that for certain meteorological conditions, properly calibrated thermal IR (infrared) data gathered from aircraft and spacecraft altitudes provide accurate temperature measurements of surface water bodies even when atmospheric corrections are not applied. Results show that although the 8-14-μm atmospheric window is far from being transparent (<50% transmission), the amount of atmospheric path radiance may be equal to the amount of attenuated target radiance. Errors in remotely sensed temperatures introduced by atmospheric effects are shown to be smaller than or of the same order of magnitude as those errors caused by sensor noise and the effects of applying a cubic convolution during the process of converting the TM (Thematic Mapper) data from A-tape to geometrically corrected P-tape data format
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Macquarie's Co-Head of Financial Institutions Departs
Macquarie's co-head of its financial institutions group, Andrew Hunter, recently left the bank to bring the curtain down on a 13-year career that took in a stint running its European operations, a person familiar with the matter told Deal Journal Australia.
His departure means Marianne Birch is now solely responsible for leading Macquarie's financial institutions group in Australia, which looks after banks, insurers, listed fund managers and diversified financial companies.
Mr. Hunter joined Macquarie in 1999 and moved to London four years later to head its European advisory business, with responsibility for advising managed funds and clients on major M&A deals.
He was promoted in 2008 to head up Macquarie's European operations covering financial, advisory and investment services across ten offices including London, Frankfurt and Geneva, before returning to Australia last year.
Mr. Hunter's departure marks the latest changing of the guard at major investment banks' financial institutions groups in Australia.
In June, Deal Journal Australia reported that Ed Eason was stepping down as co-head of Goldman Sachs's financial institutions group to join Commonwealth Bank of Australia as its new executive general manager of group M&A.
Separately, Japanese investment bank Nomura has announced that Michael Ullmer will become the third member of the advisory board of its Australian arm.
Mr. Ullmer, who joins James Strong and Rob Thomas on the advisory board, was National Australia Bank's deputy group CEO until he stepped down in August.
"We believe that Michael's decision to join Nomura's Australia Advisory Board is an important endorsement of our long-term commitment to this strategic market," Hiroyuki Nishikawa, Nomura Australia's chief executive, said in a statement.
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Flagler College students are completing another semester of classwork. Many will move on to a career or leave St. Augustine behind to go home for the summer. However, no matter where they go, professor Natalie Stephenson's design methodologies class will leave a legacy behind.
Stephenson's class spent the past semester creating a new image for St. Francis House, St. Augustine's only emergency shelter serving the homeless and less fortunate.
Gina Burrell, community/environmental activist, was honored at which she describes as "a semi-surprise 80th birthday celebration" on April 22 (Earth Day). Setting was the pavilion at Anastasia State Park. The honoree, surrounded by friends and family, is pictured in the middle wearing a blue blouse and a lei around her neck. About 57 attended the celebration.
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Lillian (Sis) Jennings recently celebrated her 90th birthday in the company of family members.
Five of her six children and their spouses attended the big event, and son, Jim, was with them in spirit. Also attending were Sis's brother, Jimmy Rogers, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. All gathered at Sis' home on Friday evening to enjoy cake and ice cream.
Saturday evening, Maggiano's Restaurant at St. Johns Town Center was the setting for a festive dinner in Sis' honor, where 20 members of four generations gathered to celebrate.
Cinco de Mayo
Bozard Ford Lincoln, 540 Prime Outlets Blvd., hosts a Cinco de Mayo celebration from 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday featuring an open bar and music by "The Dirty Gringos."
Tickets are $75, Purchase online at www.bozardford.com.
All proceeds go to support the Council on Aging, the St. Johns County Education Foundation and the Children's Museum of St. Johns.
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MoneyWi$e Week — Financial Planning For Seniors is being presented in a partnership between the St. Johns County Public Library System and the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants
The Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants (FICPA) is the professional organization for CPAs in the State of Florida, and public service is one of their primary missions. FICPA will be present a day-long program on Financial Planning for Seniors, at various locations throughout the Library System during "MoneyWi$e Week," May 5 through 12.
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The Ketterlinus class of 1957 held its 55th reunion April 20 and 21 at the Holiday Isle on St. Augustine Beach. A social was held on Friday night and a luncheon on Saturday. Jackie Johnson was emcee.
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In Person Workshops and Lectures
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Photo ©2011 Deidre Adams
Current In-Person Teaching/Lecture Schedule
Master Class – Working in a Series
June 30 – July 5, 2016
Fibre Arts @ the Winter School
Ballarat, Australia
Details and Enrollment
With Lisa's constructive sharing of her approach to abstract textile art, and her incorporation of strategies for developing my studio practice, together with detailed class notes, I gained so much in confidence during the four days of the workshop and was able to produce nine small pieces using her Intentional Piecing technique.
Subsequently, the additional course materials delivered via email have kept my learning, excitement and enthusiasm at a high level.
I now have ideas for extending the series begun in Sale, and have also commenced work on an additional series which may be sold in conjunction with a major exhibition in September.
Without a doubt, Lisa's teaching has been the impetus that has enabled me to now think and speak of myself as a textile artist and to embrace this challenge."
~Jean Haese
Available Workshops:
For a list of my currently available online workshops please see this page.
Workshops work best in a 5 day format in person but can be modified to fit into 3 days with less content.
Available Lectures:
- Always Working In a Series – Known for my long running series Structures, with nearly 150 textile paintings in the grouping, I will take you on a journey through both art history and my own artistic development. As I dive into the how and why of working in a series, I will dispel the myth that this means doing the same thing over and over again.
- Working 2 Full Time Careers without Caffeine – The answer to the most frequently asked question: how I work full time as both an artist and a software project manager and get everything done. Studio practices, time management and mindsets. This talk includes many images of the 250+ textile paintings I've made in the last 10 years.
Art Business:
- How To Promote Yourself and Your Artwork via Social Media – Big picture planning and small details on how to leverage social media as an artist.
- Time Management: The Artist and the Internet – If you don't know why you are messing around on the internet, how do you know when you are done?
How To Book a Workshop/Lecture
Please email me if your group would like to book an in person workshop or lecture.
Pricing for 2016 and 2075:
Workshops – $800 a day + all expenses, includes 6 hours of instruction, for up to 15 students.
Lectures – $550 + all expenses for a 1 to 1 1/2 hour lecture
Previous Lectures and Workshops
Other artists I know also found your presence at the meeting most pleasing and rewarding."
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FRCQ Board [Front Range Contemporary Quilters]
Master Class – Working in a Series
March, 2015
Fibre Arts Australia
Sale, Victoria, Australia
Master Class – Working in a Series
April, 2015
Fibre Arts Australia
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Master Class – Working in a Series
April, 2015
Fibre Arts New Zealand
Whanganui, New Zealand
Cutting and Piecing without a Ruler
April, 2012
Bluestone Fine Art Gallery
Philadelphia, PA
Gallery Talk
September 11, 2012
The Art Quilt Gallery
New York, New York
Always Working in a Series
November, 2012
Front Range Contemporary Quilters
Broomfield, Colorado


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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
The Accountant
Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
When Marlow meets the accountant, he's stunned:
I met a white man, in such an unexpected elegance of get-up that in the first moment I took him for a sort of vision. I saw a high starched collar, white cuffs, a light alpaca jacket, snowy trousers, a clean necktie, and varnished boots. No hat. Hair parted, brushed, oiled, under a green-lined parasol held in a big white hand. He was amazing, and had a penholder behind his ear. (1.42)
Okay, now picture yourself heading off to a camping trip in your prom gear: boutonniere, cummerbund, sparkly dress, maybe even some sexy heels. Pretty ridiculous, right? That's the accountant.
The thing is, he symbolizes the Company as it wants to be seen. He dresses elegantly despite the heat and the poverty of the black native African workers surrounding him, emphasizing the Company's professionalism. He's always immersed in his accounting books, diligently completing his work, which represents the Company's devotion to perfection and excellence.
Yep, this guy really is Employee of the Year—especially when his only response to the groans of a coworker is to complain about how it's hard to do math when someone's dying across the room. (True that. We can't even do math in the silence of a proctored test room.) His varnished boots help us see exactly how hypocritical and disgusting the company is.


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Congress candidacy resignation + no "open mind"ness in eGermark
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Notice the bullets in the sidebar for each child page. To me, the star is enough, the bullet is redundant. I want to remove it.
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Oklahoma City's Skirvin Hotel (hilton.com) stands out among its downtown sights. Currently managed by Hilton hotels, the Skirvin has longed served dignitaries and oil men passing through the capital. Opened in 1911, the hotel has been a fixture almost as long as Oklahoma has been a state. Following extensive remodeling work, it continues to rank among Oklahoma City's most luxurious downtown accommodations.
Origins and Early History
Four years after Oklahoma achieved statehood, William Balser "Bill" Skirvin opened the Skirvin Hotel, the largest and most ornate of its kind in the state. According to historian Bob L. Blackburn, Skirvin got the idea to build a hotel when a New York investor inquired about buying the land from Skirvin to build a large hotel. Intrigued by the idea, Skrivin went about building the hotel, himself. When it opened, the building was ten stories tall, with red brick in a Flemish bond pattern. The lobby was bedecked with English Gothic decor and inside, guests found a drugstore, cafe, tea room and shops. Two electric elevators provided access to the 225 rooms and suites, all with private baths and telephones.
Boom Years
During the heyday of the Skirvin, it provided the backdrop for much political debate. Skirvin donated one room to the Republic Party, but heartily welcomed Democrat guests as well, making the lobby something of a political arena. The Skirvin family moved into a five-room suite within the hotel and for many years, the Skirvin children kept dogs, racoons and hawks on the hotel roof. Guests to the Skrivin ranged from oil tycoons to ranchers, politicians to Native Americans of Oklahoma's 70 native tribes. Al Jennings, the ex-bank robber, made his bid to be governor from the Skirvin lobby.
In 2007, the Skirvin underwent extensive renovation following a period of nearly 20 years during which it sat unused and boarded up. The exhaustive renovation cost $55 million and included the preservation and restoration of original decorative elements, such as art deco tiling and wooden archways over the main doors. Since the renovation, the hotel has 18,500 square feet of meeting space. The hotel is 220,000 square feet, altogether.
Legends of Hauntings
The Skirvin's fame is not completely due to its prominence throughout Oklahoma City's history. Fans of supernatural lore and legend attribute alleged paranormal activity to a young mother who jumped from one of the Skirvin's windows in the 1930s, her baby in her arms, and killed them both. The popular and highly dubious lore suggests that the woman was a maid working for the hotel and having an affair with Skirvin. Though her name is unknown, many call the ghost "Effie."


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BlockHead -- visual calculator for whole numbers [ID:201]
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Keetmanshoop Travel Guide: 9 reviews and 17 photos
Keetmanshoop is regarded as the capital of the south
One place of interest that must surely be unlike anything you have seen before, is the quiver tree (kokerboom) forest 23 km north east of Keetmanshoop. On private land, these weird trees form an eerie, sparse forest amongst giant boulders and are best viewed just before sunset. The kokerboom is a member of the aloe family
Accommodation on the farm is offered in plastic igloos, not very comfortable and quite stuffy. A campground is also available, clean but very simple. The accommodation options in Keetmanshoop town are much nicer.
The quiver tree or "Kokerboom" is indigenous to the hot and dry southern part of Namibia. The plants are succulents and can reach a height of up to 9 metres in heightor even higher.... They have adapted to the extreme environmental conditions by storing water in their trunks. The tree only blossoms for the first time after 20 to 30 years and can reach 300 years of age. The wood is very light and spongy inside. And because the trunk and branches can be easily hollowed out, they were used as quivers by the bushmen (San people) who formerly lived in this area.
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Parents Panel: Coping with Seasonal Cyclers and Mood SwingsAugust 7, 2014, 6:36 am
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In the time it takes to prepare this hearty dish, you will have chicken on hand for later use. Orzo with carrots is a tasty change from the usual rice pilaf.
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Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a large Dutch oven or heavy pot, heat 1 tablespoon oil over high. Season chicken on both sides with salt and pepper. In batches, add chicken, skin side down, and cook until skin is golden and crisp, about 7 minutes. Flip chicken and cook 3 minutes more. Transfer chicken to a plate.
Pour off all but 1 tablespoon fat from pot and reduce heat to medium-high. Add onion and cook until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add tomatoes and season with salt and pepper; cook until beginning to break down, about 3 minutes. Stir in vinegar and return chicken, skin side up, to pot; bring liquid to a boil. Transfer pot, uncovered, to oven and bake until chicken is cooked through, about 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan, heat 1 teaspoon oil over medium-high. Add carrots and cook until slightly softened, about 3 minutes. Add orzo, tossing to coat. Add 1 3/4 cups water and bring to a boil; reduce heat to low and cover. Cook until water is absorbed and orzo is tender, about 15 minutes. Remove from heat; fluff pilaf with a fork.
Reserve chicken breasts and half the pan sauce and refrigerate for later use. Serve chicken leg quarters with pilaf and remaining pan sauce.
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Wrap up and refrigerate the extra chicken breasts and sauce you make tonight and use for a quick dinner later in the week.
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I bought a whole chicken and used the pieces after cutting it up myself (cheaper than buying separate packs, I found). I used canned roma/plum tomatoes. The meal took some time to make since I had to fry up the chicken in two batches, but it was really good. I''ve never made orzo like that before and it was great! Would definitely make again - would be a good dish for a dinner party.
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Built to bring along
If you want to bring music wherever you roam, this is the speaker for you. The Braven BRV-X connects to your phone, tablet, or laptop wirelessly, either with Bluetooth or NFC. Design to keep going, it keeps the music playing for more than 12 hours on a full charge. And it has a powerbank built in, so you can charge your USB-powered device while on the move.
A built-in noise-cancelling microphone makes it easy to take and make calls without distracting noise. For a complete music experience, combine two BRV-X units together for true stereo. All of this in a 1.5-pound package that's only about 9 inches long and 3 inches high, a perfect fit for your next outdoor adventure.


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If you are looking for a service you don't see drop us a line, we'd love to help.
We help you stay legal by filing your income & payroll tax forms and keeping up with your bookkeeping.
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Molyneux: Fable: The Journey E3 demo only four months old, better demo to be shown at gamescom
Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux has said that the E3 demo of Fable: The Journey came from when full development began four months ago.
"This project really only started… Well in earnest it started about seven months ago and we started coding about four months ago," Molyneux told OXM UK at E3.
"There's huge faults with this demo. The quality isn't quite there, and we haven't had enough time to fulfil all our ambitions," he added, referring to the E3 demo that shown.
But Molyneux's promised a much better performing demo for gamescom in Cologne in August, saying "our ambition is to give you something to play with.
"Because it already, rough though it is at the moment, it already feels pretty cool."
So hold until Germany before you say once and for all if it's an on-rails shooter. Which it isn't.
It's out next year for Kinect and 360.
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text: Notary Bulletin Hotline Tip: How To Perform A Copy Certification By Document Custodian By NNA Staff on May 05, 2011 in Hotline Tips In states where Notaries are prohibited from certifying copies of documents, there is an alternative procedure called a copy certification by document custodian. This procedure allows a person in permanent possession of an original document to sign a written declaration that a copy of it is identical to the original, and take an oath or affirmation before the Notary. The custodian's signature is then notarized on the written declaration using jurat wording. In essence, a copy certification by document custodian is an affidavit signed and sworn to by the custodian with a jurat as the notarization. Remember, the custodian, not the Notary, guarantees that the copy is an authentic reproduction of the original. Email Share 21 Comments Add your commentSu McMillan21 Jan 2015How can I get this form? I can't find it on the internet. Please advise as soon as possible. Thank you very much.Gloria Herrera26 Feb 2015Can you please provide me with a copy of this form?National Notary Association27 Feb 2015Hello Gloria. Not all states permit copy certification by document custodian or have statutory wording for this notarial act. What state are you commissioned in, firstname.lastname@example.com Mar 2015Does CA commission allow this?National Notary Association04 Mar 2015Hello. Yes, California permits copy certification by document custodian, except in the case of vital records such as birth, death and marriage certificates. Persons requesting certified copies of vital records need to contact the agency that holds the original record. PassportRenew16 Apr 2015Hi, I am in the process of renewing my passport in NY. I need to get the copy of my driving license, passport , marriage certificate and my permanent resident card notarized but I found out from my my bank that state of new jersey does not allow copy certification. Can I use the Copy Certification By Document Custodian instead and is it allowed in NJ ThanksNational Notary Association17 Apr 2015Hello. You would need to contact the agency you are submitting the information to and ask them if they would accept copy certification by document custodian as an alternative.AMY DENNIS30 Apr 2015so is there a form that CA notaries can order to use for Document Custodian?National Notary Association04 May 2015Hi Amy. We don't have a specific CA form for copy certification by document custodian, however we do have some general information in our CA Notary Law Primer, which is available here: http://www.nationalnotary.org/california-law-primer.Jaime15 Jun 2015The National Notary Association used to have CA Copy Certification By Document Custodian forms. I just found out last Friday that we are no longer supposed to use them. Why did you stop producing them? The form made my job much easier since I have quite a few people who need copies of passports, documents and other items copy certified by the document custodian.National Notary Association17 Jun 2015Hello. We previously offered the certificate because it was a common practice for Notaries in states that do not allow Notaries copy certifications (as is the case in CA with some exceptions) to suggest a copy certification by document custodian as an alternative. We discontinued the form because it we feel it's best for the Notary not to make this suggestion to the client, as doing so could easily broach providing improper advice. email@example.com Jun 2015The signer is requesting a certified copy by document custodian. Seeing the state does not offer a form; and the signer is requesting this type of notarization. Is this document okay, if i were to add the correct verbiage to the top of the document? http://www.totallynotary.net/images/2015%20Copy%20Certification%20By%20Document%20Custodian%20acknowledgment.pdfNational Notary Association07 Jul 2015Hello. Notaries should not recommend a copy certification alternative, make claims concerning the legality of the procedure or provide a form to assist the customer unless the Notary is an attorney licensed to practice law. However, if your customer presents a document with statements concerning the accuracy of a photocopy, you may then notarize the customer's signature.Jeffrey25 Sep 2015Does New Jersey allow use of the "Copy Certification by Document Custodian" form? Many of my Customers keep asking me to notarize copies of drivers licenses, passports, etc. Thank you.National Notary Association25 Sep 2015Hello. No, New Jersey does not authorize its Notaries to certify copies of documents.Maria02 Oct 2015Hello, I was just approached to see if I can notarized a California Copy Certification by Document Custodian, however after reviewing some of the comments it seems that it is really no recommended. Is this correct and should not perform the notarization. The company that I work for does business worldwide and is in need of this price of document. Please advise with your best response. Thanks in advance! MariaNational Notary Association02 Oct 2015Hello Maria. So we can better answer your question, can you confirm what state you are commissioned in (is California correct?) and tell us what type of document is involved? If you need a fast response, you can also contact our Hotline team at firstname.lastname@example.com for assistance. Thanks!Chelsea Duncan30 Nov 2015Does Indiana allow for this?National Notary Association01 Dec 2015Hello Chelsea. According to the Indiana Secretary of State's Notary Guide, page 55, "A notary public is allowed to certify or attest to a copy of a document. The signer of the document does not state anything about the document; only the notary does. You must carefully make the copy or oversee its making in order to make sure that the copy is true and accurate. The transcription and reproduction must be full, true and accurate. It is best to photocopy the document. A certified copy does NOT have to be made from an original copy unless specified. Personal appearance is required from the person requesting the certified copy.A photograph cannot be notarized. A statement about the photograph may be notarized though."firstname.lastname@example.com May 2016How can I obtain this form??National Notary Association20 May 2016Hello Kim. 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Cancer Health Center
Aromatherapy and Essential Oils (PDQ®): Complementary and alternative medicine - Health Professional Information [NCI] - History
In addition to topical antimicrobial uses,[4] aromatherapy has also been proposed for use in wound care [5,6] and to treat a variety of localized symptoms and illnesses such as alopecia, eczema, and pruritus.[7,8,9] Aromatherapy has also been studied via inhalation for airway reactivity.[10]
Studies on aromatherapy have examined a variety of other conditions: sedation and arousal;[11,12] startle reflex and reaction time;[13,14]psychological states such as mood, anxiety, and general sense of well-being;[15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29] psychiatric disorders;[30]neurologic impairment;[23]chronic renal failure;[24]agitation in patients with dementia;[31,32,33,34,35] smoking withdrawal symptoms;[36,37] motion sickness;[38]postoperative nausea;[39,40] nausea and emesis in combination with fatigue, pain, and anxiety in patients in labor;[25,26,41] pain alone;[42,43,44,45] and pain in combination with other symptoms.[22,23,25,26]
Published articles have described the use of aromatherapy in specific hospital settings such as cancer wards, hospices, and other areas where patients are critically ill and require palliative care for pain, nausea, lymphedema,[46,47] generalized stress, anxiety,[48] and depression.[49] These observational studies provide examples of the clinical uses of aromatherapy (and other CAM modalities), though they are generally not evidence-based. Subjects have included hospitalized children with HIV,[50] homebound patients with terminal disease,[51] and hospitalized patients with leukemia.[52] Aromatherapy has also been used to reduce malodor of necrotic ulcers in cancer patients.[53]
Studies of aromatherapy use with mental health patients have also been conducted.[54] Most of the resulting articles describe successful incorporation of aromatherapy into the treatment of these patients, though outcomes are clearly subjective.
Theories about the mechanism of action of aromatherapy and essential oils differ, depending on the community studying them. Proponents of aromatherapy often cite the connection between olfaction and the limbic system in the brain as the basis for the effects of aromatherapy on mood and emotions; less is said about proposed mechanisms for its effects on other parts of the body. Most of the aromatherapy literature, however, lacks in-depth neurophysiological studies on the nature of olfaction and its link to the limbic system, and it generally does not cite research that shows these links. Proponents of aromatherapy also believe that the effects of the treatments are based on the special nature of the essential oils used and that essential oils produce effects on the body that are greater than the sum of the individual chemical components of the scents.
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I know. It's been nearly a year since I posted anything. Ouch. Bad John.
What inspires a new post? Virtual memory. One of my favorite subjects, but unfortunately, also a common stumbling block on Windows CE, especially on feature-rich Pocket PCs. I've been debugging several stress cases recently that were impacted by virtual memory pressures and I thought I should remind folks about one common source of unnecessary pain.
When you build applications within Platform Builder or the Windows Mobile Adaptation Kit, the default thread stack is 64kB of reserved virtual memory (the physical RAM is committed one page at a time). This is a pretty reasonable limit for most things on an embedded device. However, when you build your applications in Visual Studio, the default thread stack is 1MB of reserved virtual memory. This is often much more than needed and consumes precious virtual memory real estate. Windows CE processes are limited to 32 MB of virtual address space, unless you employ specific techniques to allocate larger blocks outside the process space. If your application only has one or two threads this may not be a big deal, but if your app is heavily multi-threaded, you can very quickly run out of virtual address space on a CE-based device.
The better option is to set the default stack within the VS options back to 64k (see photo) and then allocate larger stacks only if necessary. The way to create a thread with a larger than default stack on Windows CE is to call CreateThread with the STACK_SIZE_PARAM_IS_A_RESERVATION set in dwCreationFlags and dwStackSize set to how large you would like your stack to be. That value will be rounded up to the next 64kB boundary. The physical RAM will still be committed just a page at a time as needed.
I'd personally like to change the VS default to a much smaller value, but that could introduce unexpected backwards-compatibility issues for folks that couldn't be caught at build time. I'm curious to hear feedback though of whether anyone targeting CE-based devices in Visual Studio is relying on the 1MB default? Or if you are changing the stack sizes already? Or just don't care since your apps only have a couple threads anyway?


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The logo is officially going to be redone with a little bit different direction (classier calligraphy)... But here was an example of the buildout with it. This is, without doubt, the most bright color I've ever used. Ever. So, there's that.
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For over 20 years, readers young and old have loved Hyman's illustrations of children's books, fairy tales, and folk tales--most notably the Caldecott Honor Book Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins by Eric Kimmel, and The Fortune Tellers by Lloyd Alexander. Her illustrations for Saint George and the Dragon, by Margaret Hodges, won the Caldecott Medal. (Ages 3 to 6)


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CoStar Group names 3 locals Power Brokers
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Spartanburg-based Spencer/Hines Properties Inc. recently announced Ben Hines, Andy Hayes and Guy Harris have been named 2013 CoStar Power Brokers by Co-Star Group Inc.
Hines, Hayes and Harris qualified as the top commercial brokers in the Upstate based on total sales transactions they closed during the year, according to a written statement. Their overall transaction volumes were compared to other brokers in the region.
Hines and Hayes received CoStar's top industrial awards while Harris earned the top retail award.
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Paul George hasn't been in panic mode. Nor have the Indiana Pacers.
Both knew it was only a matter of time before the MVP candidate, suffering a mini slump, returned to All-Star form.
It happened Tuesday night, with a 31-point eruption against the visiting Sacramento Kings.
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Ethanol Climbs as Overseas Corn Demand Signals Higher Costs
Ethanol futures climbed in Chicago as overseas demand for corn signaled higher production costs for the biofuel.
Prices rose along with corn after the Agriculture Department said sales of the grain for delivery before Aug. 31, 2013, were more than double the level a week earlier. In the first three days of this week, the department reported sales to China and unknown destinations totaling 1.28 million metric tons. Ethanol in the U.S. is derived from corn.
"It just followed the corn market," said John Janney, a vice president at Citigroup Global Markets Inc. in Chicago.
Denatured ethanol for May delivery rose 0.1 cent to settle at $2.154 a gallon on the Chicago Board of Trade. Prices have dropped 2.2 percent this year.
In cash market trading, ethanol was unchanged in Chicago at $2.14 a gallon and in the U.S. Gulf at $2.20, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Ethanol on the West Coast fell 2 cents, or 0.9 percent, to $2.29 a gallon and in New York the biofuel sank 3.5 cents, or 1.5 percent, to $2.235.
Corn futures for July delivery advanced 6.5 cents, or 1.1 percent, to $6.075 a bushel in Chicago, the first increase in three days.