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British English
English as used in Great Britain, as distinct from that used elsewhere.
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2014 is officially right on the horizon, at least for the comic book world. As the first solicitations for the new year debut, we look at some of the biggest takeaways from DC's January 2014 previews.
We'll be honest, there was a shockingly high amount of news in this month's solicits, and it was hard to reduce it down to ten. Things like the Red Lanterns apparently now protecting Earth, like advancements teased in "Blight" and "Forever Evil," and even Zod's continued debut all narrowly missed the mark.
Here's the ten things that did make it.
The Forever Evil tie-ins sure do look like they'll be pretty important when all is said and done, at least going by their solicitations. This month's Forever Evil: Arkham War #4 casts Bane and a Talon named Cobb as "an all-new, all-deadly Dynamic Duo."
Now, chances are, these two aren't going to stick around Gotham once Batman and such are back, but it does present an intriguing idea. Bane has played the anti-hero role before, and he's also been known to think he can do a better job of keeping order than Batman. It'll be interesting to see how this develops
Meanwhile, over in Forever Evil: Rogues Rebellion #4, as teased at New York Comic Con, the Rogues are going to run headlong into Gotham City – pretty much the absolute worst place they could wind up.
The Batman Rogues and Flash Rogues have some awfully similar members (at least on the surface – the Batman villains tend to bite a little harder, sometimes literally), and it should make for an exciting showdown, not to mention a fun "who should have won" debate.
With James Tynion IV joining the writing team of the weekly Batman: Eternal that launches in February, it's not surprising that perhaps something had to give, at least for awhile. In these solicitations, another Scott Snyder protégé takes the reins of Talon #15, Marguerite Bennett. The issue is solicited as a special flashback issue to the 1920s, so it's possible Bennett is only on for this one issue.
While we know the team of Brian Buccellato and Francis Manapul are shifting over to Detective Comics in February 2014, we also knew at least Manapul was off The Flash a little earlier than that, with his final issue coming in October. There will be an interesting transition period, however, where Buccellato will still be writing the series. Well, kind of.
So, November was co-written by the pair, with art by Chris Sprouse and Karl Story in a Zero Year tie-in. December has an entirely new team, Christos Gage and Neil Googe. Then, Buccellato returns in January for an issue with Patrick Zircher.
So who is the actual new creative team on The Flash on an ongoing basis? That's still a mystery, but we should find out in the February solicitations.
Tom Taylor wrote an alternate Earth story that found him international success (especially digitally) with Injustice. In that series, Superman became the villain of the story, turning against anyone who stood in the way of his righteous cause. This set him directly against Batman in that world.
Now he's taken over as the writer of Earth 2, and he's telling a story where the new Batman of that world is being pitted against Superman and his "reign of terror." The problem is, Superman died, right at the offset of Earth 2. We don't know how this story will play out, but one thing is perfectly clear: Tom Taylor really doesn't like Superman, does he?
Joking aside, that's not nearly the most important Earth 2 news in these solicitaitons…
When Pandora's Box opened, the people of the New 52 Earth knew, as a certainty, that there were other worlds, what readers knew as the Multiverse. Now, in Worlds' Finest #19, another world will be revealed to our "main" Earth.
But this time, it's personal. The revelation will come from Power Girl and Huntress and it will be to Superman and Batman. Finding out you have another cousin, no less a daughter from another universe is bound to complicate matters – and seems to be swiftly opening the door for even more alternate Earths to emerge in the New 52.
This was another New York Comic Con announcement, but may have been lost in the shuffle a bit for most fans. Marv Wolfman takes over the book fully with Superboy #27, but that's probably the least shocking bit of news about the book. You see, this is a new Superboy, arguably the real Superboy.
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At the NYCC Superman panel, it was revealed that the star of the first two years of Superboy, who has been revealed as a clone of Clark Kent and Lois Lane's son from the future, will be taking a dirt nap, with the real son taking over as Superboy. It may all sound a little confusing, but we bet we'll get it when December and January come around.
The Green Team: Teen Trillionaires #8 is the final issue. The series was a take on a concept that had only ever existed in part of one issue, so three quarters of a year isn't too bad for an experimental series.
There are also a few series missing from the solicitations. Vibe, Katana, and Superman: Unchained all have no appearance in January. We've contacted DC Comics for clarification, and UPDATE, it turns out we were dead-on. Vibe and Katana see their final issues in December. January is a skip month for Unchained, so that Lee can complete the entire story with Snyder.
The aforementioned Tom Taylor's original alternate Earth story is back, as Injustice Year Two begins. There was a temporary outcry when December's solicitation said "Final Issue," but as Taylor promised on twitter, the wait wasn't long. With the first print issue (they've typically been made up of three digital issues) in January, that means we should see the digital series come back on a weekly basis in December 2013.
The series teases an external threat from "the edge of the galaxy" approaching Earth. It doesn't say exactly who or what, just that "fear approaches…"
Yes, we already knew that Detective Comics #27 would be a massive anniversary issue (the original Tec #27 was a certain Batman's first appearance), featuring the likes of Scott Snyder, Paul Dini, Brad Meltzer, Frank Miller, Dustin Nguyen, Neal Adams, and many, many more. And yes, we'd probably include it here anyway just because of those creators.
However, in John Layman and Jason Fabok's final story in Detective, they kick off a new storyline called "Gothtopia." The story then runs through four other series: Batgirl, Batwing, Birds of Prey, and Catwoman. It seems it'll be some kind of psychedelic story, and interesting to see the Bat-family go through that so soon after a Psy-war hits the Superman family titles this fall.


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J.P. Wiser's Gets Wise with ESPN
As preseason football heats up, North American Whisky brand J.P. Wiser's announced it is the Official Spirits Sponsor of ESPN Fantasy Football for the 2014-2015 season. In conjunction with the sponsorship, J.P. Wiser's will be launching its new marketing campaign, "Make the Wiser Call," as well as a series of television and online advertisements, each of which will be bringing to life a "play" from "The J.P.Wiser's Playbook." The ads, the brand says, will help "inspire and enlighten the everyday regular guy with ingenious ways to achieve their victories both on and off the field and suggest celebrating those moments with good company and a glass of J.P. Wiser's Whisky." On the heels of their U.S. launch last fall, this is the first major domestic sponsorship for the J.P. Wiser's brand.
"Before committing to this sponsorship, we of course looked into the key demographic of ESPN Fantasy Football fans and we found a lot of similarities with our J.P. Wiser's drinkers. They both appreciate quality time with friends and family and share that desire for competitive camaraderie, so this makes so much sense to us," says Richard McLeod, brand director for North American whisky for Pernod Ricard USA. "It makes sense for consumers, too. Together with ESPN, we're providing what players need for ultimate bro bonding."
ESPN Fantasy Football is the most popular fantasy football game, growing more than 23 percent in 2013, as compared with the previous year. This new alignment will help grow the number of J.P. Wiser's advocates in the United States by bringing new ads to the U.S. market. Beyond making fans laugh with its clever and humorous content, the ads will aim to engage with this large demographic to encourage players to give J.P. Wiser's a shot as an alternative to beer this football season.


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Some local families will have a bit more to put on the table this Easter Sunday.
For the sixth year in a row, Hickman's Family Farms donated 240 cases of eggs to the Western Slope Food Bank of the Rockies.
To show their thanks and pay it forward, the food bank held an Easter egg hunt and petting zoo for some local children.
The significance of the donated eggs goes beyond just proving food for families.
Last year, food bank of the Rockies served more than 28 million meals to families in need across the state.
On the Western Slope, more than 3 million pounds of food were distributed.


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My favorite topics to teach are the ones that I find most useful or engaging: Techniques of business problem solving, linking technology with organizations, and those that provide insight into difficult issues. For more information on my iteaching, see my teaching statement.
I am the recipient of the Harold Cannon Memorial Award for Undergraduate Teaching in 2005 and the Dean W. Warren Haynes Graduate Teaching Award in 2009. I am sincerly humbled and grateful for this recognition by my colleagues and students.
In 2012-2013, I will teach the following courses:
ITM601 - Business Systems Analysis: This MBA course teaches the activities and techniques used to analyze requirements, document them, and design a computer system to solve a complex business problem. Much of the student work revolves around a case study, which serves as the background for practice and developing competency in this critical area.
ITM415 - Overview of object-oriented design and development techniques. Students will gain exposure to UML, design approaches, database implementation and other advanced topics.
Visual Paradigm provides University at Albany with VP-UML, SDE-EC, SDE-NB, SDE-IJ, SDE-VS for use in educational purposes, offered by the VP Academic Partner Program.
ITM692 - Java Programming for MBA students. A fast-paced, concept-intensive course.
PAD624 - Simulating Dynamic Systems. The course uses a holistic systems perspective and computer simulation to examine complex business and social problems. See Prof. Richardson's course page for more information.
ITM330 - This is a survey course in the use of IT in business. We discuss all types of applications, from transactions to strategic, with lots of neat stuff in-between.
ITM200 - "Strategic Sustainable Systems" - an Honors College course.
In past years I have taught classes in Systems Thinking, Ethics, Database Design, Programming, and many other technical and non-technical topics.
Textbook information is available at the UAlbany bookstore website. More information on courses is available to students through Blackboard.


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Our mission is to promote relief of poverty, to bring joy, love, and hope to poor, sick, and needy Filipinos by sharing with them the love and blessings that God has given us.
Arms of Love is planning to raise an estimated amount of $10,000.00 this year on a fund-raising campaigns. It will cost our organization an estimate of $2,000.00.
The money raised will be use for:
a. buying school supplies for kids
b. help feed the children in different communities
c. buying food and giving away food baskets
d. conducting workshops and training for family
e. supporting children in their education through child
f. helping families in their health and medical needs.
g. shipping out of gathered in-kind donations to the
h. lending a helping hands to Filipinos (kababayans) in
Arms of Love is registered to operate as charitable organization in Alberta.
Be one of our prayer partners. Pray for the group's need and activities.
Share your financial blessings with the needy. Any amount will make a big difference. You may donate checks payable to "Arms of Love" and mail it to our home address. Donate online @ www.armsoflove.net.
Send in-kind donations to our home address or call us for pick-up. What we need (old or new) clothes, toys, school supplies, books, baby products, small household and kitchen items, medicines,non-perishable foods, etc. We'll gladly accept anything that you no longer use but can still be use in the Philippines. We will sort, pack and ship your donations to different areas and charities in the Philippines.
Share your time, knowledge and skill and help us pack boxes, organize fund raising event, pick up donations or anything you'd be willing to do.


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On (b) the External Legal Experts have advised that "effective monitoring by an independent body" of detention facilities could be carried out by the National Human Rights Institution, provided it is established in accordance with the Paris Principles. Cabinet has before it draft legislation for the establishment of the NHRI in accordance with the Paris Principles. This legislation expressly envisages, at Article 5(b), that the NHRI would monitor detention facilities.
The MOI signed a memorandum of understanding with the ICRC on 8 December 2011. The ICRC is conducting visits of all detention facilities and will be giving advice and assistance to the MOI in its reform efforts.
A new detention centre was opened in January 2012 at Dry Dock prison. This will be where all detainees charged with offences but not yet convicted will be held. The centre will be supervised by the Inspector-General at the MOI, moving to the authority outside the MoI in due course, as advised by the External Legal Experts.
On (a) and (c), further to the order of the Minister of Interior dated 22 December 2011, a new procedure was put in place whereby all those arrested must co-sign (with the arresting/supervising officer) a document listing the arrestees' rights. The checklist includes a box that reminds the officer that
(a) an arrest warrant must be shown to the arrestee (with a copy also made available); (b) the arrestee must also be given the right to call their lawyer immediately; and (c) family visits should be recorded and allowed in accordance with Bahrain Code of Criminal Procedure. The checklist is electronic and saved on a central system; the files and the police stations will be the subject of random checks by senior officers.


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If you're at all passionate about health, it's likely you will eventually reach the conclusion that you need to grow your own food. Hendrikus Schraven, founder of Hendrikus Organics, is a magnificent resource in this regard.
Doctors have been using your mind for decades to help you feel better. Also known as the placebo effect, using pills and therapies known to have no effect on the body can sometimes have a significant effect on your health and wellness.
While often overlooked, your dental health can have a significant impact on your overall health. It's difficult to achieve high-level physical health if your oral health is ignored.
The industrialized food system, studies have shown, is linked to greenhouse gas emissions, algal blooms, pesticide pollution, soil erosion and biodiversity loss, to name a few ecological troubles. Add to this a long list of social ills, from escalating rates of obesity to the demise of the family farmer and deadening of rural landscapes and rural economies across much of the U.S.
Governor Mark Dayton Issues Executive Order to Reverse Pollinator Decline and Restore Pollinator Health in Minnesota
ST. PAUL, MN – Governor Mark Dayton today issued Executive Order 16-07, requiring the state to take specific actions to reverse the decline of bees and other pollinator populations that play a crucial role in agriculture and food production. Pollinator populations, critical to our state's $90 billion agricultural sector, have been in decline in Minnesota over the past decade.
Today, Green America's GMO Inside campaign launched a major push - "Smucker's: Make PB&J Great Again" - to get The J.M. Smucker Company, America's iconic producer of Smucker's jams, jellies, and Jif peanut butter, to phase out the use of genetically engineered ingredients (GMOs) and transition towards organic products.
Olympic swimming fans everywhere are talking about cupping these days: a discussion brought on by Michael Phelps' and Cody Miller's purple-dotted shoulders. Olympic gymnast Alex Naddour has also been seen sporting the hickey-like marks, and many other world-class athletes admit to using cupping.
According to Reuters, sales of cupping therapy equipment rose by 20 percent in the three days following Phelps' big win.
Because "public-interest" groups cloak themselves with the feel-good mantle of protecting consumers, the environment, animals, etc., the motives of such groups rarely get questioned. But several recent developments show that all too often, activists put their own self-interest before the public's interest.
NGOs across Europe have enthusiastically applauded the decision by Italy's Ministry of Health on Friday to place a number of restrictions on the use of the probable carcinogen Glyphosate, one of the world's most ubiquitous pesticides.
LONDON — British MPs have issued a report detailing the damage to the environment wreaked by microbeads used in cosmetic products.
The report from the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee called on the the government to introduce a legislative ban on microbeads in cosmetics and toiletries.
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This evening, PFLAG National executive director Jody M. Huckaby will testify before New Jersey Governor's Commission on Bullying about the state's efforts to curb anti-LGBT sentiment in public schools. PFLAG was invited to appear before the Commission and talk about the effectiveness of New Jersey's anti-bullying law, and to offer our perspective, as an organization with a dedicated Safe Schools program, on improvements that can be made to the law.
Here is an excerpt from the testimony Jody will deliver later today.
"New Jersey's anti-bullying law, and the subsequent model policy proposed by the state, is, we believe, the 'gold standard' among such laws and policies in the United States. The Commission should be praised for advocating and successfully passing legislation that is comprehensive in its reach, inclusive in its language and thorough in the breadth of who the law is intended to protect and where that protection exists. Indeed, New Jersey is a shining example other states and municipalities should look to when considering similar measures."
"At PFLAG we know, however, that no matter how noble the intent of our words are, it is the implementation of that intent that either truly provides safety and protection for young people, or ultimately stops short of realizing its well-intentioned goals. Unless we back up policies with practices – and preparation – we risk allowing even the best of laws to collect dust on schoolroom shelves."
"There is no doubt that everyone – elected leaders, parents, educators and community leaders – all have a critically important role to play in advancing the intent of New Jersey's law and policy."
"It is imperative that state leaders clearly articulate to school administrators the need for placing their proposed policies into play. And it is equally important that, in each school district, administrators find the time and budget to properly train teachers, involve parents and foster community support for their policies. Indeed, it is not only important to do so, but, we believe, should be mandated, too. Our schools, of all places in our communities, should be the first to understand the importance of education. And educating teachers, students and other faculty will be instrumental in realizing the goals of this legislation."
"We cannot, in short, change our classrooms until we change the culture of the school community."
" . . . That is why PFLAG has a long history of working with parents, at the local level, who in turn work with school administrators to not just adopt policies – which this Commission has successfully ensured happens – but also to implement and enforce those policies, too. Through our Cultivating Respect program, we bring together communities and stakeholders in unique training sessions that explain how, on a day-to-day basis, we can make campuses safer and create an environment where every student can succeed. This program, which has been successfully executed in diverse states, regions and districts, makes a clear case for understanding that is in the best interests of students, and builds buy-in from parents, while reducing fear among students."
"PFLAG respectfully urges this Commission to consider mandating such trainings for state school employees, including as part of in-service trainings and other required activities for personnel who interact, on a regular basis, with students and their families. By doing so, you will ensure that your intention is not just well-received, but well-implemented, too."
"In short, the state must make every effort to bring together parents, students, teacher and administrators to better educate them about this important law and better prepare them to hold others – and themselves – accountable for its ultimate success or failure."
"There is no doubt that this Commission, Governor Corzine, the state legislature and others are enormously well-intentioned and committed to protecting LGBT students. For that, PFLAG and our families and allies applaud you. But there is also no doubt that, to ultimately succeed, everyone must take concrete steps to educate, implement and enforce. And it is no exaggeration to suggest that, indeed, our future, and the safety of our children, depend on our commitment to do so."


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For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls Love Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"Maria, I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee."
"Oh," she said. "I die each time. Do you not die?" (13.13-14)
Love and death. The two things that make any novel exciting, and they're tied together here. Come on, guys, we want more. What does it mean that you "die" each time?
Quote #8
"Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And I love thee, oh, I love thee so. Are you not truly one? Canst thou not feel it?"
"Yes," he said, "it is true."
"And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine."
"Nor any other legs, nor feet, nor of the body."
"But we are different," she said. "I would have us exactly the same."
"You do not mean that." (20.66-71)
Robert Jordan and Maria both feel that in some way they have fused into the same person, and are no longer separate from each other. This is the deep, profound truth which their relationship reveals, and of course it plays an important role at the end. We think it's interesting that Maria wishes they were exactly the same, though, while Robert Jordan wants them to remain different. She wants to be him, he wants to enjoy her, maybe? Hmmm…
Quote #9
"I love thee as I love all that we have fought for. I love thee as I love liberty and dignity and the rights of all men to work and not to be hungry." (31.96)
Maria now means to Robert Jordan as much as his cause and all the higher ideals he believes in. This creates a tension was not there before in his singular devotion to duty and his casual willingness to sacrifice himself. He's come a long way real fast. So much for not having time for girls.


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Ambow Rebounds as Investigation Shows Centers Registered
Ambow Education Holding Ltd. jumped in New York as the Chinese private education services provider said an internal probe found that its tutoring centers are legally registered and it doesn't expect financial restatements.
Ambow jumped 10 percent to $2.50 as of 11:10 a.m. in New York as trading resumed. The company slumped a record 27 percent yesterday before trading was suspended.
All one-on-one tutoring centers operated by Jinghan Yingcai Education and Technology Co., a unit of Ambow, are legally registered with local industrial registration agencies and tax bureaus, and the company is not aware of any pending regulatory reviews, Beijing-based Ambow said today in a PRNewswire statement.
Ambow tumbled yesterday after the company said Sept. 4 in an online statement that it started an internal investigation after China's state television reported a day earlier that its unit exaggerated training results and that the schools' registrations were incomplete.
Ambow has completed its internal review regarding the media reports and has no plan to hire third-party advisers to assist with any further internal review, it said today.


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Not only is Dirtbusters professional and affordable, but the cleaning staff is delightful. I have had the pleasure of meeting a few of the people who clean the building over the last few months and they have been wonderful.
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Model Jennifer Irene is an absolute stunner whom you
may remember lose sleep at night because you cannot stop thinking of since her Girlfriend Audition. Well neither could we, so we asked the Redondo Beach native if she'd answer some weird questions, which she did, with her trademark aplomb and vivacity.
If, like us, you can't get enough of the 5'8″ firecracker, she's currently a spokesmodel for VP Racing Fuels and social media nobility on the following sites:
Jennifer Irene on Facebook
YouTube: jgmodeltalent
Instagram: @jenniferireneofficial
Twitter: @jgmodeltalent
1. What's the strangest thing you've ever seen?
The strangest thing I've ever witnessed was a guy dressed in a Hello Kitty costume in a physical fight with another on The Las Vegas Strip! Definitely random and weird, but I found myself rooting for Hello Kitty.
2. What person (living or dead) would you duel, and what's your choice of weapon?
I would choose a light duel with Adriana Lima using our racing flags as weapons! Picture this: Adriana & Kia VS. Jennifer & VP Racing Fuels. That's a match I'd pay to see!
3. You're not the only one. What's the last dream you remember? What do you think it meant?
In a recent dream, I was messing around on some monkey bars in a bikini and I wouldn't stop laughing. It cracks me up just thinking about it [giggle]. I believe it means that my body is craving a workout and that I need to hit the gym (or jungle gym)…! [laughs]
4. What's your most embarrassing high school moment?
When I attended private Catholic school, I always got in trouble for rolling my uniform skirt too shirt. It happened so often that the dean had my parents' phone number on speed dial!
5. Thank you for being that girl whom every Catholic schoolboy dreams exists. What's the worst date you've had?
I'd have to say it was the time my date rolled up in a hoopty-doop of a car and asked if we could ride in my car instead. To make matters worse, he wasn't even 21 yet!
6. So we wouldn't be the guy batting furthest of his league in your dating history? Score! What's the hardest you've ever laughed?
You mean besides peeing my pants? It was when I was in college cheerleading and an African-American girl on our team, who was our best jumper, did a Russian and her weave flew off! The weave ended up flying into the stands!
7. What's a piece of pop culture you love but no one else remembers? (song, TV show, commercial, book, etc.)
Do the songs that I make up in the shower count? Because when I'm in my birthday suit and hollering in the shower, I tend to feel like I'm a pop star!
8. They shouldn't count, but you discovered our weakness for any answer that includes singing in the shower. Would you rather encounter a ghost, aliens, or Bigfoot? Why
Hmm, aliens! Perhaps they could take me for a ride on their ship! I do have a hobby for traveling!😉
9. They'd definitely abduct you, but the downside is their UFO is a hoopty, and they still live with their spore-parents. What's the most inexplicable attraction you've ever had to someone?
I like a little bit of a chase, especially when they don't give me as much attention as I want. It makes me want them even more. Kind of like the saying "We always want what we can't have!" Kinda like a bad drug.
10. What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?
Because I'm half Asian, the strangest thing I've eaten is bird's nest soup. It is pretty much a bird's spit with a jelly texture. It is believed to have a long list of health benefits.
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Brendan McGinley is editor round these parts when not writing comics or Cracked columns. You can say a neighborly hello to him on Twitter @BrendanMcGinley.
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An 18-year-old male is shot and killed in a homicide on the corner of Washington and Barnes Street in Lansing on Sunday afternoon.
It happened in front of Pocket's Pool Hall on the 100 block of Barnes Street.
The victim was shot and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
Lansing Police do not have a suspect in custody but they don't think it was random.
Officials are still investigating the motive, they believe one shooter was involved and possibly a vehicle also involved.
Stay with News 10 and WILX.com for the latest developments and check back starting at 5am for News 10 Today.


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LOS ANGELES -- Esther Williams, the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolor musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 91.
Williams died early Thursday in her sleep, according to her longtime publicist Harlan Boll.
Following in the footsteps of Sonja Henie, who went from skating champion to movie star, Williams became one of Hollywood's biggest moneymakers, appearing in spectacular swimsuit numbers that capitalized on her wholesome beauty and perfect figure.
Such films as "Easy to Wed," "Neptune's Daughter" and "Dangerous When Wet" followed the same formula: romance, music, a bit of comedy and a flimsy plot that provided excuses to get Williams into the water.
The extravaganzas dazzled a second generation via television and the compilation films "That's Entertainment." Williams' co-stars included the pick of the MGM contract list, including Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalban and Howard Keel.
When hard times signaled the end of costly musicals in the mid-1950s, Williams tried non-swimming roles with little success. After her 1962 marriage to Fernando Lamas, her co-star in "Dangerous When Wet," she retired from public life.
She explained in a 1984 interview: "A really terrific guy comes along and says, 'I wish you'd stay home and be my wife,' and that's the most logical thing in the world for a Latin. And I loved being a Latin wife -- you get treated very well. There's a lot of attention in return for that sacrifice."
After Lamas' death in 1982, Williams regained the spotlight. Having popularized synchronized swimming with her movies, she was co-host of the event on television at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. She also issued a video teaching children to swim.


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Sheriff's officials say 51-year-old Craig Peitz, of Buffalo, vaulted on a hill, slammed into the snow crest and was thrown from the machine Saturday.
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By Kelley Lane-Sivley, Redstone Rocket StaffOctober 16, 2008
In the Army, materiel is more than just a different way of spelling. It is a different way of thinking about all the things Soldiers need to fulfill their mission. The organization that works hard to manage all of those things is in the process of moving to Redstone. The parts that have already made the move are hard at work.
"We have a number of functions here now," Ron Lewis, Army Materiel Command's deputy director for G-3/5 enterprise integration, said. "A lot of work is really being accomplished here out of Redstone. We're performing a lot of missions right here, right now."
Created in 1962, the way Army Materiel Command does business has changed over the years, but the job at its most basic has not. It is still about the needs of every Soldier.
"We get to have a direct impact on a day to day basis on Soldiers around the world," Lewis said. "We work across all the Army elements to ensure that everything is synchronized to make sure Soldiers have whatever they need to accomplish their mission."
AMC officially says its mission is to "provide superior technology, acquisition support and logistics to ensure dominant land force capability for Soldiers, the United States and our allies." But unofficially, AMC officials put it in much simpler terms. They define their job as providing everything a Soldier shoots, drives, flies, wears, eats or communicates with.
"It sounds corny, but when you really stop and think about it in a few words it pretty well describes what the AMC mission really is," Lewis said. "People at (AMC) are very dedicated."
The organization has many subordinate commands, including Redstone's Aviation and Missile Command, and numerous support and executive offices. Currently, the offices and functions within AMC are split between the Fort Belvoir, Va., location and temporary facilities at Redstone. Lewis acknowledges that having people who work together be geographically separated is tricky at times. They are also getting used to being farther away from other organizations that were nearby.
"The biggest challenge has been trying to get the battle-rhythm and the tempo set right between how we're performing those functions here and to make sure we stay linked and synchronized with what's going on back at Fort Belvoir," Lewis said.
AMC staff already has a move under their belts. In 2003, the organization moved from Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria, Va., to Fort Belvoir. The Redstone move actually involves two moves for much of AMC - a move into the temporary location and then another into the permanent facility once completed. They've had a chance to review what did and did not work during the Fort Belvoir move to make this one easier.
"The initial move to Redstone is the big issue. Moving to the new building will be a relatively minor process," Lewis said. "We've already experienced it before. We still have those plans in place. A lot of the lessons learned and processes of what you have to go through have been documented already."
Currently, more than 150 AMC employees are reporting to Redstone for work. Most are making their way to the former AMCOM Security Assistance Management Directorate location, building 7612, off Redstone Road. A few are located with Sparkman Center counterparts.
The people already at Redstone represent the first two phases of employee movement from Fort Belvoir. Phase three will bring employee numbers close to 450 by next summer. Additional work force requires additional space. AMC took possession of neighboring building 7611 last week.
"There are some minor modifications we'll do before we start moving people in," Lewis said.
Ground was broken on a permanent home on Martin Road for the organization last month. The 400,000 square foot structure will house more than 1,300 AMC personnel when it, and the BRAC move, are completed in 2011. U.S. Army Security Assistance Command will also be located within the facility.
AMC has the distinction of having the first female four-star general. Lt. Gen. Ann Dunwoody was confirmed by Congress this summer for a fourth star. Currently serving as deputy commanding general, she is slated to be AMC's next commanding general.


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The summary below is from the full report titled "Cardiovascular Outcomes in High-Risk Hypertensive Patients Stratified by Baseline Glomerular Filtration Rate." It is in the 7 February 2006 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine (volume 144, pages 172-180). The authors are M. Rahman, S. Pressel, B.R. Davis, C. Nwachuku, J.T. Wright Jr., P.K. Whelton, J. Barzilay, V. Batuman, J.H. Eckfeldt, M.A. Farber, S. Franklin, M. Henriquez, N. Kopyt, G.T. Louis, M. Saklayen, C. Stanford, C. Walworth, H. Ward, and T. Wiegmann, for the ALLHAT Collaborative Research Group.
People with high blood pressure (BP) are more likely to develop heart, blood vessel, and kidney disease. Drugs that lower BP may prevent these complications. Drugs known as angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are thought to be best for preventing kidney failure in people with high BP and lower kidney function. Diuretics, also called water pills, are thought to be best for preventing cardiovascular disease (CVD) in people with high BP regardless of level of kidney function. How these and other BP drugs compare in their ability to prevent CVD and kidney failure has never been directly studied.
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31,897 people with high BP and at least 1 other risk factor for CVD. All were 55 years of age or older.
Participants were assigned at random to receive an ACE inhibitor, a water pill, or another type of BP-lowering drug known as a calcium-channel blocker. The researchers used a blood test to classify people as having normal, mildly reduced, or more severely reduced kidney function. They then compared the rates of CVD and kidney failure on the basis of participants' kidney function and the BP-lowering drug they were taking.
Heart and blood vessel disease were more common than kidney failure in participants with reduced kidney function. The risk was highest for those with more severely reduced function. Overall, ACE inhibitors and water pills were about equally likely to protect against heart attacks. However, water pills seemed more effective at preventing some other kinds of CVD, stroke, and heart failure. Calcium-channel blockers and water pills were about equally likely to protect against all CVD. Water pills seemed more effective at preventing stroke. These results generally held for all participants regardless of kidney function.
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Just keep on writing those articles about the rainy, moss-covered Pacific Northwest. As you've noticed, our traffic IS bad. We can never get to Starbucks for all those "lumber trucks carrying logs." FYI, even in Mendocino County the lumber trucks carry lumber…. (the long flat things) and log trucks carry logs… (the long, roundy things). And no, Portland is not Manhattan and there should be more bagel shops on the west coast. East coast transplants never think of themselves as provincial and yet they can be capable of making some pretty ignorant pronouncements, such as Seattleites praying to the gods of a famous home town coffee company. Oh, how little you know us! Not everyone slakes at the sign of the green logo, let alone prays to it ten times a day… News alert, some won't even cross the threshold! This is coffee snob central, the choices are many and people have their faves. But then how could you get to know us from a motel in the north end? Eeuw. Don't compare us to Santa Monica, don't diss our architecture, or make fun of our rain (which HELLO, Cali could certainly use). The orcas and Mount Rainier only show themselves to the worthy.
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By Sgt. Nathaniel FosterApril 11, 2013
In a time where phones have GPS systems that can take someone to virtually any spot in the world, many people may wonder why the Army still trains with maps and compasses.
Batteries can die, signals can disappear, and not every GPS device works perfectly. That is why on a chilly Oklahoma morning on March 27, 168th Brigade Support Battalion conducted its "Poker Ruck" at training areas around Fort Sill.
The Soldiers within the battalion competed in a land navigation challenge as two-Soldier teams.
This event was designated to foster team building and esprit de corps within the battalion while challenging the Soldier's abilities to navigate through a large area using a map, compass and terrain association.
"The event challenged the Soldiers with a physical competition involving their rucksack and distance," said Capt. Bryan Metcalf, S-3 Plans officer-in-charge. "The longest leg on the course was about three miles out."
The Soldiers navigated to 10 different points while carrying a 35- to 45-pound rucksack. The teams where given two points at a time. At each point the teams collected a sealed envelope containing a playing card. Once the team returns to the start point with the correct envelope they received their next two points. After the teams found all 10 points, they created their best five card poker hand.
"This has been something I thought of a long time ago, when I was a noncommissioned officer," said Metcalf. "But, I never had the opportunity to do conduct it.
"I have run land navigation courses before, but it was always where people go to their points, get their points and then they are done," said Metcalf. "I just incorporated a purpose, to go find their points with playing cards in a sealed envelope.
"I think it makes it more interesting," he said. "It gives the Soldiers something to shoot for."
Spc. Jessica Ingalls agreed.
"It was more fun than a standard ruck march since it involved thinking," said Ingalls, an S-2 analyst assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company.
The weather could not have been any better for an event like this, she said. It was also nice to get out and enjoy the fresh air.
Spc. Joseph Dees, an S-2 analyst assigned to HHC, said it was good refresher training.
"It was a great opportunity to brush up on basic soldiering skills with fun added in for good measure," said Dees. "With land navigation once again a part of the Warrior Leaders Course curriculum, it was a perfect chance for those of us preparing to go to be ready."
It was a great opportunity for the leaders and Soldiers within the battalion to break away from the classroom environment and enjoy the outdoors for Iron Horse Warrior Training, said 1st Lt. Sharonda Humphreys, the battalion's S-2 officer in charge.
"I feel like the S-2 section was able to use the land navigation for a number of reasons," said Humphreys. "The terrain association and the boots on ground aspect are all skills that the S-2 section uses for mission briefs."
For those card sharks, the winning team laid down a straight flush.
Metcalf said he was pleased with the Soldiers' reaction to the training.
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– NCAA Division II and CBS Sports Network have announced their regular-season television schedule for the 2013 football season and defending Gulf South Conference champion West Alabama will play Florida Tech in a nationally televised game on Thursday, Sept. 19.
The game at Pirate Stadium in Melbourne will kick off at 7 p.m. (CDT) and will be the first Gulf South Conference game in school history for Florida Tech.
"The positive momentum just keeps going," UWA head coach Will Hall said. "This is another thing that hasn't happened at UWA in a long time. It's great to have a chance to play on national television and to play in the state Florida.
"We know it will be a challenge to play an up and coming program," Hall said, "but it is a tremendous opportunity to showcase how far we've come as a program and to show people all around the country the good things that are happening at UWA."
The six-game Thursday night slate opens Sept. 5 and features seven teams from last year's championship field, including two national semifinalists. Teams appearing in this year's television package combined for a 102-30 (.773) overall record last season.
"This year's package of games offers a tremendous representation of Division II football," said Frank Condino, chair of the Division II Football Committee and athletics director at Indiana (Pa.).
Division II enters the eighth year of its partnership with CBS Sports Network in 2013, with nearly 25 percent of the division's football-playing members having enjoyed national television exposure during the course of the agreement.
"Institutions from seven different conferences, plus one independent, are represented this year," NCAA Associate Director of Division II Josh Looney said. "Over the past seven years, national telecasts have originated from 35 different Division II football stadiums, and we're adding five new venues to that list this year."


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Superconductivity: it's in the genes
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In the quest for ever-smaller electronic devices, scientists have long dreamt of building circuits up atom by atom. But finding molecules capable of conducting electric current has not been easy. Now, Alik Kasumov of the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides in France and co-workers have shown that DNA molecules act as ohmic conductors above 1 K and that below this temperature they can superconduct (A Y Kasumov et al 2001 Science 291 280).
Following on from the discovery that carbon nanotubes can act as electrical wires, Kasumov showed two years ago that these rolled up sheets of graphite atoms lose their resistance when connected to superconductors. Now Kasumov has shown that this is also true for DNA by connecting double-stranded DNA molecules to rhenium and carbon superconducting electrodes 0.5 µm apart. By cooling the electrodes to below their superconducting transition temperatures, the researchers observed so-called 'proximity induced' superconductivity in the DNA.
Evidence for electrical conductivity in DNA molecules has been inconclusive until now. Optical experiments have shown that a transfer of charge may be possible in such molecules. But the message from transport measurements has been mixed: some have indicated that DNA could be a conductor while others suggested that DNA is an insulator. Kasumov and colleagues have found that above 1 K, the resistance per molecule is less than 100 kilo-ohm, a figure that varies weakly with temperature and is an order of magnitude lower than previous measurements. Even at very low temperatures, the researchers found that DNA molecules can conduct ohmically over distances of a few hundred nanometres.
However, the physical mechanism responsible for conduction in DNA remains unclear and it is possible that the contacts act as strong dopants of electrons or holes. The researchers add that conductivity measurements could in turn help biologists to look for particular sequences of base pairs within DNA molecules.


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Mo Glow is the coolest part of PlayStation's Movember sponsorship
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The Xbox One's app line up was recently expanded by the addition of Vine. You can now watch inane Vine clips from around the world as much as you like, all sectioned into categories like "animals", "comedy", "science & tech", and "idiots who have nothing... >>
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If you've recently been getting errors with uphclean.exe it's recommend you unisntall and/or re-install any programs recently that may have generated this error. If this does not resolve your issue or you have not installed any program recently try recovering Windows back to a recent backup of Windows
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The School for Advanced Studies in the Arts & Humanities will be housed in the Weldon Library, on the main campus of Western University in London, Ontario, Canada.
The cost to enroll in The School is the regular full-time tuition fee paid by all students registered in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
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With Canada having rolled out new foreign ownership rules for the telecom sector, Egypt-based Orascom is moving forward with a plan to assume voting control of WIND Mobile which now has over 500,000 subscribers. The company will exercise an option to convert a 65% non-voting stake into voting shares. The move would see control shift away from Globalive Communications but it is expected to retain a minority stake.
"Orascom exercised a right they have always had to increase their voting shares," said Wind CEO Anthony Lacavera. "I see this as a big positive for Wind in that this will give them the confidence to continue investing in Canada and it positions us to lead the necessary new entrant consolidation."
The move would make WIND Mobile Canada's first fully foreign-owned carrier.
Orascom, itself owned by VimpelCom after being acquired last year, will need approval from Canadian investment authorities, something it expects to happen by the end of the year or early 2013. Shareholders will also vote on the proposal in November.
As for WIND Mobile's operations, Lacavera expects that there will be no changes to the business plan or to the company's management.
Read more: Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E. [PDF document] (Source: The Globe & Mail)
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Soon they will be able to put in enough cell sites to compete Canada wide, not just in the big cities.
Outstanding news.
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A Joan Carter of Mars story.
Joan Carter of Mars has secrets to uncover in the Temple of the Sun – holding a revolving prison that can only be entered once a year - if she is to have any hope of rescuing three Princes of Mars, from the fantastic ancient Martian North.
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Kristine Luken, member of Christian missionary group,who was stabbed to death in forest outside jerusalem, apparently by arabs, wrote of her love for Jewish people
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Published: 12.20.10, 14:14
The mystery of the stabbing attack near Beit Shemesh continued to swell Monday as members of the missionary organization CMJ, to which murder victim Kristine Luken belonged, expressed their certainty that she had died in a terror attack.
Kay Wilson, Luken's friend, told police after her escape from the attack that she believed it had been nationalistically motivated.
"We told the police that Kay is a serious and honest person who doesn't make up stories," Reverend David Pileggi of CMJ, short for 'The Church's Ministry among Jewish people', told Ynet. He said the organization would hold a memorial ceremony for Luken on Thursday.
Luken, who died at age 46, was born in Texas but recently moved to Nottingham, England, where she worked for the CMJ. She first came to Israel in 2007 as part of a Christian pilgrimage to visit holy sites.
On CMJ's website, Luken described the tour as deepening her understanding of the holy verse as well as her relationship with God.
The visit caused her to become a full-fledged member of the group, and she soon left her Texas home for England and began to tour Israel more frequently. "She would go for work trips and help develop our museums and centers in Jerusalem," Pileggi said.
"She loved Israel, the culture, and especially the history of the Jewish people," he added.
Luken met Kay Wilson last August on the CMJ trip to Poland. "I was their group's guide at the death camps and the Jewish community centers. They immediately connected with each other and identified with the story of the Jewish people, and became best friends. They both had a similar outlook on life and were very popular and funny, it was only natural for them to become friends. They also spoke of taking a trip to Israel together," Pileggi recounted.
But no one in the CMJ had been notified of Luken's visit to Israel apart from Wilson. "I suppose she didn't tell anyone she was coming because she knew that if she did, work would be found for her to do at the offices in Jerusalem," the reverend surmised.
Pileggi's main concern is that Kay's testimony be believed by the authorities investigating the mystery. "The impression I got from the police was that they weren't certain about Kay's story and did not believe her account," he said.
Now the reverend is fielding phone calls from Luken's friends, family members and associates. "Everyone is completely shocked," he said. "No one seems to be able to grasp this disaster."
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To: Jonathan Allen, City Manager
Lauderdale Lakes
via email
Hey Jon;
Still looking forward to our first meeting… Since I've heard the Miami-Dade ruling is due out any day now, perhaps we can meet down at the Broward County Jailhouse. I'll bring my bullhorn and the TV crews, you'll be in charge of securing some KY — or plan B … maybe your buddy/cellmate Corey Alston will have a ready supply of spittle handie (pun!).
So this morning, I have some questions regarding the "Clear Case of Cronyism On Display" — aka Vince Richmond's Driving Privileges.
As you are aware, back in Dec. 2008 during his DUI arrest, good old Vince refused to blow (well, he blows, but not in the tube-thingy). Seems that according to Florida Law (FS 322.2615), "The driver refused to submit to a lawful breath, blood, or urine test and his or her driving privilege is suspended for a period of 1 year for a first refusal." And the Florida DMV states, "In some cases, it might be possible to have your suspended license reinstated for hardship purposes, meaning to drive to and from work only. You'll have to complete a DUI program and probably have an ignition interlock device installed on your car for six months to two years or more."
Back in 2008, Vince worked for you right? So I am sure you were probably aware of his "transgression", which makes me wonder:
- During the ten days that Vince most likely lost his right to drive, was he (a) working and (b) driving a city vehicle?
- If the DMV ordered an "ignition lock" for Vince, would that have applied to Vince's city vehicle?
- Were there any emergency 3AM sprinkler issues that cropped up?
Now, onto the matter of cronyism.
- Can you explain to me what constitutes a "3AM sprinkler emergency"?
- Today, why is Vince taking home a taxpayer supplied vehicle?
- Who gave him official authorization? Is there paperwork to back this? Have you worn out the shredder (cough cough … I know you're just trying to probably save space by destroying public records).
- Can you explain to the residents why you haven't farmed out the lawn maintenance — saving the taxpayer about $400K a year?
And finally.
- Are we having fun yet? I know I am.
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Definition of cephalic in English:
Of, in, or relating to the head.
Example sentences
- It may pass over the clavicle and open into the cephalic, subclavian, or internal jugular.
- Brachial plexuses receiving a branch from the fourth cervical nerve are more cephalic with reference to the vertebral column and have been designated as high or prefixed.
- Pancreatic juice secretion occurs in three phases: cephalic, gastric, and intestinal.
Late Middle English: from Old French cephalique, from Latin cephalicus, from Greek kephalikos, from kephalē 'head'.
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What is your child afraid of? Original illustration "High Dive" by Norman Rockwell
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Each set of tattoos is customized with the child's initials and guardian's phone number so that a lost child can be easily recovered.
Over 2000 children go missing each day nationwide. Please secure your child.
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The Story of Child Safety and TattooIDPosted on Wednesday, August, 3rd, 2011 at 11:03 pm (No comments)
If you were to ask a teenager what his or her biggest fears are, I can guarantee most of your answers would consist of "failing school," or "losing my iPod." If you were to ask me what my biggest fear is, I would tell you "losing my little brother, Ilan." Ilan, age 5, is my biggest motivational factor I have had in my life, thus far. The image of his little fragile skeleton, blond hair, and brown eyes is constantly rooted in the back of my mind. Often, I take him outside to play ball or ride scooters, but sometimes I look away for a moment, turn back around, and he is gone. I go in a panic, run back and forth, and interrogate the other kids outside. Luckily, he does not wander far and I am able to catch up with him. Even though I get him back, I always wonder "what if?" and find myself picturing him going missing. How would I be able to continue living my life without feeling guilty and gloomy? This leads me to often think about missing children in general. Even on a recent trip to Sesame Place, there were missing child announcements over the loudspeaker, literally, every 10 minutes. I don't understand how parents are able to cope with the fact that their child just disappeared or was taken away. This is dreadful since I am only an older brother, and already, I feel the stress of having to worry all the time. Just imagine how hard it must be on the parents of the actual missing children. These aggravating thoughts have inspired me become active in the problem of missing children.
"According to the U.S. Justice Department, there are 1.3 million children reported missing or lost per year; almost 2000 children a day." Once I looked that up, my concern grew. I knew that there was a way that I could help.
My chance came during junior year of high school; I became involved in teen entrepreneurship. While thinking about what kind of business I could start, I considered the field of child safety. I knew that child safety was important, but it was a burden on parents and often restrictive for children. This laid the foundation of my very own business, TattooID (pronounced tat-too-eed). I began to produce temporary safety tattoos that have a child's initials and their parent's contact phone number. I am hopeful that these would make it fun for kids to be safe, and if they ever get lost in a park, such as Sesame Place, they would only be a phone call away from being reunited with their parents.
Now, I put a tattoo onto my brother every time I leave the house with him. Thankfully, it has not been necessary, but just knowing that there's that extra level of security eases my tensions. Through TattooID, I am not only offering tattoos, but I am also offering refuge for siblings, parents, and guardians everywhere.
-Steven Gordon (CEO and Founder)
TattooID receives the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 Youth Award!Posted on Friday, June, 17th, 2011 at 10:25 am (No comments)
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Latest update August 24th, 2016 12:56 AM
The team is full of confidence, according to Manager/Player Terry Mathura as they already began vigorous preparations for the tour of Guyana.
Ontario Softball Cricket league (OSCL) team will join other North American sides to compete at the Guyana Softball Cup 111 which is set to commence on November 8 in Georgetown under the auspices of the Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA).
"I [am] definitely confident that our players will do well in Guyana; they have shown a lot of enthusiasm and determination to make an impression down there so we are in good shape," Mathura, the current vice-president of the Ontario Softball Cricket League (OSCL), related.
Canada will participate in the opening 20-over category and Mathura believes his group of boys is accustomed to play the longer version and that will certainly propel their optimism of bringing back the championship trophy.
He also reserved special mention to the GSFCA for their invitation and this wonderful gesture to get them participated among some of the top softball players and they are willing to maximize on the opportunity.
"We have been preparing very hard since the selection of the side with the players who are available because other senior players can't make it due to their work commitment and personal reasons, however, we have several players down in Guyana who would come to Canada and play in our league and we will use them there, while we must thank the GFSCA for inviting and hosting us," Mathura declared.
The side will begin their quest for supremacy against arch-rivals New York in the first set of preliminary round matches while the competition will conclude on Sunday, November 11 with the grand finale at the world famous and former international venue Bourda. Mathura also took the opportunity to say the team was selected based on the performances in the recently concluded OSCL various and annual competitions.
He will be accompanied by OSCL president Albert Ramcharran, who will perform the duty as the Communication Officer while Vish Jadunauth, another senior executive of OSCL, will be the team's coordinator. Other representatives from the league to be in Guyana will be Statistician Patrick Shivrattan and West End cricket coordinator Ryan Bhup.
He further mentioned that the OSCL wants to thank the different sponsors for making their trip to Guyana a reality and SWK for the uniforms. Meanwhile, the winning team will receive a monetary prize of $800, 000 and a trophy while the runners-up carting off $200, 000 and a trophy. Several individual prizes are also up for grabs.
The team reads: Devanand Ramsawack,Trevon Garraway,Ravin Babulall,Navin Bhup,Gavin Singh,Rayburn Gonsalves,Terry Mathura,Ryan Bhup,Rickey Mahadeo,Ian Gonsalves and Andy Persaud.
Notably, the OSCL 2013 Presentation Dinner & Dance will be held today Saturday, November 2 at Eastown Banquet Hall (Brimley Rd & Eglinton Ave) in Scarborough. (Ravendra Madholall in Toronto)
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Beware the Rush to Presumption
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 is generating numerous new regulations that will significantly affect the way Americans access health care. But a new study by Jerry Ellig of the Mercatus Center and Christopher Conover of Duke University finds that in 2010, in the rush to implement key regulations for the ACA, agencies sped through the process of regulatory analysis. When compared to regulatory analysis for economically significant regulations in previous years, the regulatory analysis accompanying the ACA rules was substantially lower quality and produced poorly substantiated claims about the ACA's benefits and costs.
In this respect, the ACA regulations resemble the Bush administration's first major homeland security regulations. Both reflected a president's signature high-priority issue, but both were accompanied by low-quality regulatory analysis that reads more like an attempt to justify, rather than inform, decisions.
Ellig and Conover produced three working papers and two short policy briefs analyzing the shortcomings of the analysis of the ACA regulations and recommend ways to reform the regulatory process to encourage the use of better regulatory analysis that improves rulemaking in the future.
"Christopher Conover and Jerry Ellig of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, in a trio of forthcoming papers, systematically examine every rule issued to date to create the new health-care entitlement...They conclude that 'the federal government used a fast-track process of regulatory analysis that failed to comply with its own standards, and produced poorly substantiated claims about the ACA's benefits and costs'—including an upward bias for benefits, a downward bias for costs, and numerous material omissions. Little wonder for a law that contains the phrase "the Secretary shall" 1,563 times."
- "Badly Written Bad Rules: New studies show the quality of federal regulation is plummeting," The Wall Street Journal, December 28, 2011
"Agencies are generally rewarded and expected to get regulations out rather than being rewarded for making the right decisions or using good analysis to make decisions."
- Jerry Ellig interviewed on The Federal Drive with Tom Temin, "Institutional problems get in the way of regulation analysis," Federal News Radio, January 3, 2012
"First, [the federal government] decides what it wants. Then it writes a regulation. Then it does an analysis to justify the regulation. In other words, a procedure of "ready, fire, then aim. This disoriented approach helped to bring about many of the more than 165,000 pages of federal regulations, close to 20,000 added in the past few years, according to the Mercatus Center at George Mason University."
- Tait Trussell, "How Regulations Work: Ready, Fire, Aim!" Front Page Magazine, January 5, 2012
"Based on the analysis produced for these regulations, we can't tell [how many Americans will benefit from the ACA]—and neither can the federal government."
- Jerry Ellig Q&A, "Affordable Care Act Study Shows Billions of Dollars In Hidden Costs," CNBC.com, January 9, 2012
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Research from these working papers utilized the methodology of the Mercatus Center's Regulatory Report Card project
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Political Wisdom: The Power of 41 Votes
Why are Republicans stalling financial regulatory reform legislation?
There's five reasons, writes Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic, including Democrats' current unpopularity and the GOP's "substantive objections to parts of the bill based on political philosophy and their understanding of the economy." However, Ambinder writes, the Capitol Hill bickering is more political jockeying as senators in both parties expect the bill to—eventually—pass.
"Voting to delay debate on a popular bill is not the same thing as opposing it. In the end, even Richard Shelby expects a good number of Republican senators to come aboard. By twenty points, Americans trust Obama to fix this situation more than they do Republicans. That will matter in the end. And this IS a big bill that WILL change a lot of things."
Perhaps the problem for Republicans is not that they oppose the Democrats' bill, but that they haven't proposed even tougher legislation, writes Matthew Continetti at The Weekly Standard.
"The great mystery to me is why Republicans are passing up the chance to argue that this bill doesn't go far enough. Why not embrace the Brown-Kaufman amendment to break up the banks, in order to show that the GOP stands against all massive agglomerations of power, whether in Washington or on Wall Street? The Republicans could raise Cain about the ratings agencies, who gave good scores to bad mortgages but whose oligopoly is not addressed in the Dodd bill. And they might ask why the Democrats want to end Too Big to Fail for the banks, but not for Fannie, Freddie, and GM."
While much has been made about the importance of the legislative process in writing sweeping legislation, Matthew Yglesias writes for The Daily Beast that Democrats are hoping that a swifter process—in contrast to the lengthy health care debate—will result in a better bill.
"It's a politically smart strategy, and in many ways it's a good strategy, but it carries with it some substantial costs. It means we're looking at a bill that punts on many of the biggest issues. It means that neither the broad public nor the narrower circle of policy elites and experts and semi-experts have a firm grasp of the relevant questions. And this in turn means that we've got a bill whose main premise is that we need to trust the same institutions and many of the same people who were arguably responsible for the crisis in the first place. Progressives are basically left to hope that Tim Geithner knows what he's doing. That's a big contrast with the health-care battle—in which the basic idea was much bigger than any one politician. The case for speed, however, is fairly strong and comes in three parts."
The bill also presents some tricky optics for Democrats, who have accepted their share of campaign cash from Wall Street, and Goldman Sachs in particular. Mike Madden of Salon writes.
"Still, Democrats have to watch out for some potential pitfalls along the way, or they could wind up missing what should be an easy political win.For one thing, big Wall Street banks — and everyone's favorite enemy, Goldman Sachs, in particular — have given huge sums of campaign cash to Democrats in the last few years, favoring them over Republicans by a wide margin that's actually gotten more lopsided this cycle, even as Democrats push new regulations on the industry," he writes, "People don't seem to be buying the GOP line that the reform bill will lead to permanent bailouts. (Michael Steele tried it again Monday, saying, "Senate Democrats stood with Wall Street," after the procedural vote.) This isn't the healthcare reform debate, where the GOP was happy to vote "no" over and over again; at some point, pressure will mount on Republicans to cut a deal and vote for something. Republicans didn't particularly want to talk about the politics of the vote Monday. "It isn't about the politics, it isn't about the messaging, it's about what's the policy at the end of the day," said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. Translated from political-speak, that usually means you're on the less popular side of a debate."
But with public opinion of Congress and its lawmakers taking a nosedive this year, this legislation is unlikely to bolster anyone's view of how the institution works, writes John Dickerson of Slate.
If Monday "sounded depressingly familiar, it's because it was. Don't worry: Legislation is still likely to pass. Despite efforts to make this vote seem dramatic, the real drama (and work) is going on behind closed doors—and Republicans, in the end, don't dare buck legislation that is so popular. (Despite the president's alarmist rhetoric, he has a list of a few Republicans who will flip in the end). Still, it's no wonder that the American people have such a low opinion of Congress. Even when senators are doing their jobs, they make it look ugly."


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As I mentioned on previous occasions, I don't take too kindly to people trying to make me pay once for a game and again for its soundtrack and, as a matter of principle, I rip my soundtracks straight from the data files I paid for rather than pirating the officially separated versions.
This time, it's Desktop Dungeons. Unfortunately, this is a relatively recent Unity Engine game, so the only tool I've found which will extract the audio is Unity Assets Explorer.
Thankfully, it'll run just fine inside Wine, so I wrote a script similar to what I did for Cave Story+.
So, here are the Linux instructions for extracting your Desktop Dungeons soundtrack from the game you bought:
- Download Unity Assets Explorer 1.2 or newer
- Use it to open
- Extract all of the
- Load them all in your music player and manually delete the ones which are sound effects. (You should be left with pairs of
- Download the following script and install the packages listed in the Requirements section
- Place the script in the same folder as your
.oggfiles, run it, and wait.


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Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (WRDW) -- Fire crews say a mobile home is a total loss after a fire broke out early Thursday morning.
It happened at Barton Road around 3:50 a.m.
Crews say three people were inside the home at the time of the fire, but they all got out safely.
The fire is under investigation and there is no word on what caused it at this time.


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Pleistocene Park and the North-East Scientific Station
The North-East Scientific Station (NESS) and Pleistocene Park are scientific organizations located in the north of Siberia, 5 km from the town of Chersky (Yakutia)
Established in 1977, the North-East Scientific Station has become one of the world's largest Arctic research stations, providing varied opportunities for study throughout the year in various disciplines such as ecology, climate change, arctic biology, permafrost studies, hydrology, limnology, geophysics, atmospheric physics, and others. NESS has 3 laboratories with modern equipment and the ability to welcome up to 50 researchers at a time.
Pleistocene Park is a major initiative that includes an attempt to restore the mammoth steppe ecosystem, which was dominant in the Arctic in the late Pleistocene. The initiative requires replacement of the current unproductive northern ecosystems by highly productive pastures which have both a high animal density and a high rate of biocycling.
Experiments with animal reintroductions were begun in 1988. Currently, Pleistocene Park consists of an enclosed area of 16 square kilometers that is home to 5 major herbivore species: bison, musk ox, moose, horses and reindeer.
June 19, 2016 — Reports from Wild Field
Wild Field is developing.
July 9, 2015 — Opening of The Pleistocene Park Foundation
The Pleistocene Park Foundation has been registered as a non-profit organization.
May 12, 2015 — Photo report from the Pleistocene Park
Pictures taken in the Park on 12th of May 2015.


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Argentina slideshow
Champions League: Guardiola handed Barca return with City
Barcelona will face Manchester City in the Champions League group stages, meaning a reunion with former captain and coach Pep Guardiola. More »Omnisport - 15 hours ago
Champions League: Pochettino relishing bow
Mauricio Pochettino is relishing the opportunity to cut his teeth in the Champions League when Tottenham make their return to Europe's top table. More »Omnisport - 1 hour 53 minutes ago
Football: Ronaldo named UEFA Best Player in Europe for second time
UEFA has named Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo as the Best Player in Europe for 2015-16 at an award ceremony in Monaco. More »Omnisport - 15 hours ago
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England's tour of Bangladesh will go ahead, despite security concerns in the South Asian country. More »Omnisport - 8 hours ago
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Issue No.01 - January/March (1991 vol.8)
pp: 35-42
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/54.75661

The use of object-oriented programming to simplify the design and implementation of CAD systems is discussed. The three features common to all languages that support object-oriented programming data abstraction, inheritance, and runtime-function determination are examined. Examples are given to illustrate the advantages of object-oriented methods. How to build an embryonic CAD framework and when to use an object-oriented language are addressed. Object-oriented databases are defined.

Wayne Wolf, "Object Programming for CAD", IEEE Design & Test of Computers, vol.8, no. 1, pp. 35-42, January/March 1991, doi:10.1109/54.75661