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Present: Procurement Officer, Office Assistant II, Joe Yates representing Three Deuces, Inc.; Mass Blackwell Jr. representing Three Deuces, Inc.; Mike Williams representing Byrd Brothers, Inc.; Larry Porterfied representing J.B. Coxwell Contracting, Inc.; Joe Adams representing J.B. Coxwell Contracting, Inc.; Craig Helms representing Roads, Inc. of NWF; Steve Duncan representing USDA-NRCS, Lance Sheffield representing ThomCo Enterprises, Inc.; and Ann Shavers representing W and W Enterprises, LLC. The meeting took place at 10:00 a.m.
The purpose of the
meeting was to open proposals for RFP-Engineering Services Navarre Fishing Pier;
and bids for the Sale of Property (2 acres), EWP-Project Package #5, EWP-CR182,
RFP-Engineering Services
1. Dyer, Riddle, Mills & Precourt, Inc. Proposal
2. Bergmann Associates Team Proposal
3. Baskerville-Donovan, Inc. Proposal
4. Volkert & Associates, Inc. Proposal
5. MRD Associates, Inc. Proposal
6. PBS&J, Inc. Proposal
7. Maintenance Design Group No Proposal
1. Wire World, Inc. $18,000.00 per acre
EWP-Project Package #5:
1. Three Deuces, Inc. $270,222.00
2. Byrd Brothers, Inc.with teaming partner W.P.R., Inc. $441,663.00
3. J.B. Coxwell Contracting, Inc. $821,154.40
4. W & W Enterprises, LLC Non Responsive
1. J.B. Coxwell Contracting, Inc. $134,233.20
2. W and W Enterprises, LLC. $135,199.34
3. Carter's Contracting Services, Inc. $149,008.00
4. Roads, Inc. of NWF $170,740.00
5. Cahaba Disaster teaming with W.P.R., Inc. $182,478.00
6. Three Deuces, Inc. $372,222.00
1. Carter's Contracting Services, Inc. $ 99,967.60
2. J.B. Coxwell Contracting, Inc. $156,957.39
3. ThomCo Enterprises, Inc. $159,002.41
4. Roads, Inc. of NWF $185,124.00
5. W and W Enterprises, LLC $214,271.20
6. Cahaba Disaster teaming with W.P.R., Inc. $236,020.00
7. Three Deuces, Inc. $492,222.00


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Stolen vehicle joyride--On June 3 at 5:47 p.m. at Broadway and W. Main Street. A man stole a vehicle from Stockton and drove it to the Bay Area, where he was involved in several hit and run accidents. He was subsequently caught in Los Gatos and booked into the main jail.
Auto burglary--On June 3 at 3:07 p.m. on Alberto Way. A purse was stolen from a woman's vehicle.
Fraud--On June 2 at 1:45 p.m. on Blossom Hill Road. A counterfeit check was deposited.
Commercial burglaries--On June 2 at 12:56 p.m. on Lark Avenue. A man stole some wine. At 11 a.m. a restaurant on Los Gatos Boulevard was reported burglarized. A third burglary was reported at 2:16 a.m. on Blossom Hill Road.

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Alexander County to vote on liquor sales next year
Published 11:00 AM EST Dec 06, 2012
Residents of Alexander County will vote in March on whether to allow alcohol sales.
The Hickory Daily Record reported the county board of elections on Wednesday set March 19 for the referendum on county-wide alcohol sales.
The county board of commissioners voted last month to allow the referendum. A group called Citizens for the Future of Alexander County urged the commissioners to allow the vote. The group wants beer and wine sales, liquor by the drink and ABC stores. It says alcohol sales would help attract business and industry.
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Ritola recalled from Grand Rapids
Rookie forward is emergency replacement for flu-bitten Downey
Saturday, 03.15.2008 / 11:34 AM ET / News
By Bill Roose - DetroitRedWings.com
|Ritola celebrates his preseason power-play goal against Tampa Bay in September. The Wings called him up on Saturday.
With Aaron Downey out with the flu, the Red Wings were forced to call-up Ritola from the club's Grand Rapids affiliate on an emergency basis.
In 60 games with the Griffins, Ritola has scored six goals with 16 assists as a left wing. But in the last six games, he has shined, scoring twice with three assists, which accounts for nearly a quarter of his 21 points this season. His plus-15 rating also leads the Griffins.
It is expected that Ritola will rejoin Grand Rapids later today and complete a rare double-header by playing for the Griffins at 7 p.m.
In September, Ritola scored a power-play goal in the Wings' 3-2 preseason win over Tampa Bay. In that game, he was cut under the right eye by a puck in the first period and did not return.
Downey is the third Red Wings' player to miss a game this week with the flu, joining defensemen Brett Lebda and Andreas Lilja.
Downey has two assists and leads Detroit with 97 penalty minutes in 48 games this season.


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Sharks Deliver Increased Ratings on CSN
Network Announces Additions and Modifications to Broadcast Schedule
Friday, 01.23.2009 / 10:58 AM PT / News
As the San Jose Sharks head into the All-Star break following their record-breaking first half of the season, more fans across Northern California are tuning into Sharks hockey on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area.
Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, the home of "Authentic Bay Area Sports," has posted significant ratings increases for its Sharks telecasts through the first half of the 2008-09 season. Comcast SportsNet Bay Area's Sharks ratings averaged a 1.3 household rating for the first half of the season (39 telecasts) – a 44% increase over 2007-08's first half. Approximately 31,500 households are watching per game.
In the last 10 games, the Sharks have averaged a 1.4 household rating. Additionally, the Sharks have achieved a 1.6 or higher household rating for 9 games this season (compared to zero games of 1.6 or greater in the first half of the 2007-08 season) and 18 telecasts have posted a 1.3 or higher household rating (compared to two games of 1.3 or greater in the first half of the 2007-08 season)
The key advertiser demos of Adults 18-49 and Adults 25-54 also registered increased ratings. Adults 18-49 ratings are up 125% and Adults 25-54 have increased 100%.
The Calgary Flames vs. Sharks game on Nov. 13, 2008, delivered a 1.9 rating, making it the highest rated regular season game since Anaheim Ducks vs. Sharks 1.9 on December 20, 2005.
In addition, the San Jose Sharks and Comcast SportsNet Bay Area announced today that the network has added two games to the Sharks 2008-09 broadcast schedule, which ensures that every Sharks game for the remainder of the regular season will be available to Bay Area television viewers.
"Comcast SportsNet continues to step up as a great partner of the San Jose Sharks and their fans," said Sharks Executive Vice President of Business Operations Malcolm Bordelon. "Our audience continues to grow and it's very exciting to know that Sharks fans will have access to every remaining Sharks game as the team continues this record-breaking season."
Comcast SportsNet Bay Area announced that they have added the Sharks March 12 game at St. Louis and their March 25 game at Chicago to the broadcast schedule on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area-Plus. Both broadcasts begin at 5:30 p.m. PST.
In addition, Comcast SportsNet Bay Area will make the Sharks March 28 game at Phoenix available in High-Definition on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area. The contest, originally listed as a Comcast SportsNet Bay Area-Plus broadcast, was also moved to the main Comcast SportsNet Bay Area channel.
Furthermore, Sharks games on April 2 at Edmonton and April 9 vs. Phoenix have been moved from Comcast SportsNet Bay Area-Plus to the main Comcast SportsNet Bay Area channel. The April 9 broadcast has also added the half-hour "Postgame Live" program to the listing and both the game and postgame show will now be broadcast in High-Definition.
"We're thrilled that more fans are watching Sharks hockey than ever before and we want to give them more hockey than ever before," said Ted Griggs, Vice President and General Manager, Comcast SportsNet Bay Area. "Comcast SportsNet is committed to airing every possible Sharks game and providing fans with comprehensive coverage as the team marches towards and through the Stanley Cup playoffs."


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News 12 First at Five; May 15, 2008
AUGUSTA, Ga. --- If you live in Georgia, your car insurance rates could be going up. That's after Governor Sonny Perdue signed a law giving car insurance companies the right to file for a rate hike without prior approval.
With the new law, insurance companies still have to file rate increases with the insurance commissioner's office, but the commissioner can no longer veto the rate hike. This is all set to go into effect on October first.
News 12's Gene Petriello spent the day talking to drivers. Most drivers aren't happy about having to pay more and neither is the Georgia Insurance Commissioner. He tells News 12, he's disappointed because there's nothing he can do about it.
People begged and pleaded about 15 days ago to News 12 to not have this bill signed, but Governor Perdue is closing the door on that debate.
"I certainly don't like it," says Don Autry.
"I hate shopping for insurance," says Robert Waldera.
But with no cap on the price, you just might have to like shopping around. Lawmakers tell News 12, more competition could mean lower prices.
"That is always taught to us in economic classes, as more competition comes, the prices go down. But, in the oil industry, that is certainly not true," says Don.
"You get what you pay for, that's my motto. If you go for the cheap rates, you're not going to get the services you need when you need it," says Robert.
"If we could find cheaper rates, that could be good," says Don.
"I don't see a reason for leaving somebody just because it's going to cost you a couple of extra dollars especially when you're getting good service," says Robert.
The more money you could be pumping into your car insurance, the more you have to worry about the companies abusing their new power.
"Some of the companies are going to take advantage of these people," says Robert.
"You're looking toward the same bill and then you get one month that's not the same. I think that's not right," says Patricia Brown.
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'Visual culture' and a growing preoccupation with appearance are spurring demand for cosmetic oral care products.
Over six in 10 consumers are making more of an effort to save money now following the economic downturn. At the same time product efficacy remains a crucial element in driving oral care purchasing decisions. These two factors are driving demand for affordable "at-home" alternatives to more expensive professional treatments at the dentist's surgery.
- How do The mega-trends apply specifically to oral hygiene? How is this likely to evolve over the next few years?
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Japan to Waive Tourist Visas For Indonesians
JAKARTA—Indonesians soon won't have to apply for visas to travel to Japan—and vice versa—as Japan looks to draw more Southeast Asian tourists ahead of the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.
"We're very delighted to hear Japan's plan to exempt visa requirements for Indonesian tourists," Indonesia Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said after meeting his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida in Jakarta. "We will reciprocate and start our own process to exempt visa requirements for Japanese tourists visiting Indonesia."
The plan, which will likely kick off next year, was first aired by Japanese and Indonesian officials in June but was formally announced during Mr. Kishida's visit Tuesday.
Officials previously said that the visa exemption would be granted to Indonesians who hold e-passports embedded with an electronic chip and who plan to visit Japan for less than 15 days. At the moment vast majority of Indonesians hold passport without such chips.
Japan is among the top five tourist arrivals to Indonesia, with around 500,000 Japanese tourists flocking to the country last year, according to Mr. Natalegawa. Indonesian tourists to Japan were estimated around 140,000 in 2013.
"We can expect the number of tourists, Japanese and Indonesian, to jump after visa exemption is implemented," said Mr. Natalegawa.
Beyond the immediate impact on tourism, the visa exemption is also a signal of Japan's efforts to expand ties with Indonesia, analysts said. The Southeast Asian country has vast stocks of coal, gas and minerals — important for Japanese companies — and in recent years has attracted billions of yen worth of Japanese investments in manufacturing, particularly automobile production.
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- Dr. Grazyna Kochanska and her colleagues at the University of Iowa told toddlers that they should be very careful with a certain toy.
- The toy was special and precious because it had belonged to the researcher when she was a little child.
- However, the toy was rigged to fall apart. Once that happened, the researcher would observe the child.
(By the way, the researchers did assure the children that the toy was easily fixed, showing them perfect replicas and reassuring them that it wasn't their fault and that toy was as good as new.)
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There are several points I would like to make about the budget talks in Washington. We do not have to pay off the debt. We only need to pay the interest, and Washington can control interest rates to keep the debt service manageable for a long time. Comparing the Greek debt to the United States debt is just a scare tactic. They have about 30 times our debt burden. I'm not saying we can run deficits this big indefinitely. At some point we will have too many dollars in circulation and inflation will make the economy unstable. But, we need to reset our priorities.
The number one problem with our economy is unemployment, and it really doesn't take a rocket scientist to see this. More people working means more revenue and fewer expenses. Counter-cyclical spending is a reasonable and long-tested means for getting people back to work. The debt problem will have to wait until our economy gets stronger. Spending cuts (austerity) will make the problem worse by reducing needed social services and increasing unemployment. Congress has taken its small government ideology to such an extreme point that they don't care who is hurt.
I'm not a lawyer, but my reading of the Constitution says that Congress is responsible for paying the nation's bills, not the president. Clearly, the constitution requires the government to pay its bills, but to make the president act unilaterally seems like a mistake, and it might be unconstitutional. I suggest two options. One, we take the debt limit law to the Supreme Court, and if they decide it's unconstitutional, which I think they should, Congress will be forced to honor its obligations. Two, we impeach those representatives and senators who refuse to act responsibly. If they refuse to honor their oath to defend the Constitution, that action, or inaction, is an impeachable offense.
If the government doesn't have enough money to pay for the services that we decided democratically that we want, then taxes will have to go up, and not just for those making more than $400,000. Median household income is about $50,000. We don't want to cut Medicare or Social Security. The refusal of congressional Republicans to allow tax increases is impractical and undemocratic. In other words, elitist.
Taxes on upper-income people used to be much higher than they are now, even higher than they were in the Clinton administration. They were about twice as high. The Bush tax cuts have to go. People who are successful really do benefit from the resources that society makes available. I'm talking about education, credit, electricity, communications, transportation, security, etc. This is what Obama was talking about when he said "You didn't build that": You didn't build that by yourself.
People who are successful really do have an obligation to pay society back for these resources they use that they didn't build. Obama said that's not class war, and I agree with him. It's the traditional liberal view of the social contract. Rights come with responsibilities, and benefits have costs.
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The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi softball team will travel to Arlington this weekend as they get back into Southland Conference action against UT Arlington on Saturday and Sunday.
The two teams will play a doubleheader on Saturday starting at 1:00 PM and a single game on Sunday starting at 1:00 PM.
The Islanders come into the game with a record of 16-28 overall and 7-13 in SLC play. The Lady Mavs are 20-19 on the year and 14-10 in SLC games.
TAMUCC will be looking to gain some ground in the SLC standings this weekend as they continue their quest to qualify for the conference tournament to be held on May 7-9 in Lake Charles, La. on the campus of SLC member McNeese State.
The Islanders come into the game led in hitting by senior Larissa Martin. Martin is hitting .322 with 17 RBI on the year. Freshman Alaina Byars has collected 28 RBI for the team to lead them in the category while Margo Hurdt is right on her heels with 27 RBI. Byars also leads the team in homeruns with six on the season.


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In a remark widely derided as inane, Steve Jobs said that one of the goals when designing Mac OS X was to make it so attractive that the buttons would be "lickable." Silly as it may seem to admit, I think Apple hit the mark. The small red, yellow, and green buttons in the upper left corner of most windows really are as tempting as the sugary Candy Buttons we scraped off paper rolls with our teeth as children. And the ubiquitous throbbing aquamarine OK buttons appear to have been carefully squeezed out of a tube of Colgate MaxFresh toothpaste.
Even if you find the Mac OS X interface so attractive you're actually tempted to eat it, you may be interested in tweaking it a bit to make it even prettier and more productive. Begin by choosing Apple > System Preferences, then click Appearance (see the following figure).
Figure 94 Appearance preferences control not only the Mac's aesthetics, but also functional features, too.
There are two things you should know about Appearance preferences, right from the onset. First of all, changes to settings are implemented immediately. There's no need to "apply" or "save" your settings by closing the window. This allows you to quickly see the effect of your changes by switching to another open application, and to switch back to revert to the original setting if you don't like what you've done.
The second thing to understand is that not all applications are affected by Appearance preferences. If a developer took a "roll your own" approach to programming, his products may not rely upon the prebuilt tools controlled by Appearance preferences. The only way to tell if this is the case with a particular program is to experiment for yourself.
The Appearance pop-up menu affects the overall look of buttons, menus, and windows. Apple offers only the Blue and Graphite themes. To my tastes, the Graphite theme is so boring it should be called Corporate Gray instead.
Apple was more generous with the Highlight Color pop-up menu, which contains eight default colors, as well as the ability to choose whatever you like from a color wheel. I'm perfectly happy with the light blue default color for selected text and lists, but it's nice to have the flexibility to express yourself. If you really want to go wild customizing your user interface, check out ShapeShifter ($20 shareware), a program with more modification options than a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon.
To change the location where scroll arrows appear in windows, select one of the "Place scroll arrows" radio buttons. The default is to have the up arrow at the top of the scroll box and the down arrow at the bottom of the scroll box. The disadvantage to this arrangement is that the arrows are so far apart you spend a good deal of effort moving the cursor over the one you want. By grouping them together, you can go to one place regardless of which direction you want to scroll. Unfortunately, Apple places the scroll arrows together only at the bottom of the scroll bar. Download the freeware TinkerTool if you want them together at both ends. TinkerTool also allows you to tweak many other settings that are similar to those found in Appearance preferences.
The next set of radio buttons determines what happens when you click in the scroll bar. If you select "Jump to the next page," whenever you click below the scroll box in a vertical scroll bar, the application should reveal the next page in the document, just as if you've pressed the Page Down key on the keyboard. If you select "Scroll to here" instead, the application should reveal the page corresponding to the cursor's approximate position in the document. In other words, if you have a 10-page document open and you click towards the bottom of the scroll box, the last page appears. Since you can use Page Up and Page Down keys to move around documents a single page at a time, I prefer the "Scroll to here" method.
The "Use smooth scrolling" checkbox remains a mystery to me. When disabled, if you press Page Down, the screen immediately displays the next page in the document. When smooth scrolling is enabled, the next page sort of scrolls into view, but the effect is hardly "smooth" on my relatively powerful 1.8GHz iMac G5. Unless you're a fan of jerky screen redraws, turn this option off.
Select the "Minimize when double clicking a window title bar" checkbox if you want another way to make windows disappear. By default, most windows have red, yellow, and green buttons in their upper left corners. Click the red button to close a document; click the yellow button to minimize the window to the Dock (click its thumbnail in the Dock to restore it to full size); or click the green button to make the window shrink or grow, depending upon its current state. When this checkbox is enabled, double-clicking a window's title bar has the same effect as clicking the yellow minimize button. If you prefer having the window collapse into its title bar—as it used to do since the introduction of System 7.5 in 1994—download and install WindowShade X ($10 shareware).
The "Number of Recent Items" pop-up menus determine how Mac OS X keeps track of the applications and documents you open. Normally, Mac OS X automatically watches what you're doing and places the most recently opened items in the Recent Items submenu in the Apple menu (see the following figure).
Figure 95 Cover your tracks if you don't want your computing habits followed.
If you have nothing to hide, tracking recent items can be rather useful, because the Recent Items submenu gives you a handy way of reopening a recently-used application or document without the bother of locating it in the Dock or Finder. However, if you prefer never leaving a trail of digital breadcrumbs, choose Number of Recent Items > None, or choose Apple > Recent Items > Clear Menu to erase the current batch of items.
To fine-tune the appearance of text on screen, choose from the "Font smoothing style" pop-up menu. Mac OS X uses a technique known as anti-aliasing to trick the eye into seeing a smooth curve, when in fact a line is made up of square pixels in a ragged stair step pattern. Apple recommends medium smoothing for computers with LCDs, and standard smoothing for computers with CRTs, but you can experiment with all four options to find the one that pleases your eyes.
If you're using small font sizes in your documents and feel that the smoothing is actually making tiny text fuzzy and hard to read, choose a larger font size from the "Turn off text smoothing for font sizes" pop-up menu.


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Jake Peavy had a rough outing against the Cubs last May. Pitching in Wrigley Field, Peavy experienced elbow soreness that gradually grew worse and eventually put him on the disabled list for a month. Today the Padres ace is to face the Cubs at Peoria Stadium in his second game of spring training. Peavy has said he expected that the Cubs would acquire him in a trade last December, but he is now focused on preparing himself for the 2009 season.
After the game, Peavy will head to Clearwater, Fla., to join his teammates for the upcoming World Baseball Classic. He is to start against Canada on March 7, the opener for the U.S. team.
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Delhi: Woman consumes poison outside a metro station
"According to Shilpa's parents, she was depressed due to dowry harassment by her in-laws," said police.
New Delhi: A 25-year-old woman committed suicide by consuming poison outside a Metro station in the national capital, police said on Sunday. Her husband and in-laws have been arrested for alleged dowry harassment.
"Shilpa was found lying unconscious outside Dwarka Sector 12 Metro Station in the morning. She was spotted by a Metro security personnel," said a police officer. No suicide note was found. According to Shilpa's parents, she was depressed due to dowry harassment by her in-laws, police said.
Shilpa married Deepak, a tutor and a resident of Vishnu Garden in west Delhi, a year ago. "Deepak, Shilpa's father-in-law Yogesh and mother-in-law Usha were arrested," said the police officer.


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WWQR > Vol. 10 (1992) > No. 1
Article Title
Peer Reviewed
Examines Robert Penn Warren's responses to Whitman (especially Warren's poem "Empire") and argues that "it was Whitman against whom Warren
Copyright © 1992 William Bedford Clark
Recommended Citation
Clark, William B. "Whitman, Warren, and the Literature of Discovery." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 10 (Summer 1992), 10-15.
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3 Sonatas for Piano and Violin, Op.30 (Ries, Ferdinand)
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Sonata in C major (No.1)
Firenze: Giuseppe Lorenzi, n.d. (ca. 1820). Plate 369.
Piano part only. Violin part lacking.
This item forms part of the
Ricasoli Collection at the University of Louisville Music Library.
Sonata in F major (No.3)
Piano and Violin Parts
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First edition ?
Bonn: N. Simrock, n.d.[1811]. Plate 860.
contains pages 14-19, plus violin part (of no.3), of apparently the whole of Op.30 as published by Simrock (or perhaps, judging from the cover of IArchive's copy of No.1 of this edition, by L.Plattner of Rotterdam, with their name taped over Simrock's. Publishing title used: Trois sonatines doigtées pour le piano forté avec le violon pour les commençans.
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|Work Title
|3 Sonatas for Piano and Violin
|Alternative Title
|Sonatines? ; Sonaten für Anfanger
|Ries, Ferdinand
|Opus/Catalogue Number
|3 sonatas in C major, A minor, F major
|First Publication
|1811 (Simrock)
|Composer Time Period
|Piece Style
|piano, violin
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Simrock (I think...- not perfectly clear) first edition(?), plate 860, of sonatine (so described) no.1 uploaded to Internet Archive here (also piano part only.)
Either No.1 or No.2 (probably No.2, given that the LP description gives the work as "Kleine Sonata op. 30, Nr. 1, a-Moll"; the edition the performers were working from probably had the sonatas in a different order?) - took 8 minutes (7:46 actually) to perform. (WorldCat.)
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Madame Bovary
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Madame Homais is everything Emma is not – she devotes her whole life to her brood of oddly-named children, to her husband, and to his career. She's a character who's practically not even her own person; we don't know anything about her personal desires, likes, or dislikes (except for the fact that she loves the rolls Monsieur Homais brings back from the bakery in Rouen). She takes all her cues from her husband, and thus is perfectly suited to being the wife of such an ambitious and forceful man. The constant presence of Madame Homais right next door highlights Emma's own forceful disposition, and the power of her desires over her familial and social obligations.


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In Part One of our interview with Sun Microsystems' Chief Gaming Officer, Chris Melissinos, we explored Sun's commitment to games and the burgeoning role of Java technology in game development. Recently, we met with Melissinos again to discuss the latest advances in Java technology-based game-centric technologies.
Tell us more about Sun's massive, multiplayer game server prototype.
We see this prototype as the cornerstone of the compute utility model for network and online games, which means that game companies should no longer have to purchase infrastructure to provision a game online. Game companies should be looking at ISPs, ASPs, and carriers that implement solutions, to enable them to put their games on a network. They would then receive a monthly bill for the processor power, bandwidth, services, etc. that they consume.
"Middleware is playing an increasingly important role in the game developer world."
- Chris Melissinos,
As opposed to buying in-house infrastructure, which is a depreciating asset requiring massive up-front cost, the utility model reduces the expense of in-house infrastructure. You put your game on a network that is designed to deliver massively-multiplayer, highly-scalable game environments, and take away the pain of having to maintain a hardware and software environment.
The response from game companies has been overwhelming. We believe that this is how game companies will deliver their products in the future. As Sun CEO Scott McNealy used to say: "Nobody builds a power plant in their house to run their hair dryer. You just plug it into the wall." Don't build your own infrastructure, simply drop your game onto the network.
Sean Kendall, who teaches at Full Sail, and had defined some problems in using Java software for game development, now says that Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.4.x has resolved all of the issues. He said that you can develop a multiplayer, network game almost entirely using Java technology now because of the new APIs. Performance is no longer an issue. Any comments on this?
The Game Technologies Group at Sun has been working hard to assure that we're providing the APIs that a game developer needs to offer a high-performance game experience to their consumers. So, with the release of the Java bindings for Open GL, the Java bindings for Open AL, and a wholly-created API by Sun called JInput, we provide the core foundation for high-performance, cross-platform games. Developers can get C++ equivalent performance, and take advantage of all the programming features that the Java language provides, such as garbage collection and the avoidance of memory leaks that you get with C++.
Why doesn't Sun have a game box/platform -- something like Xbox and PlayStation, only better?
Sun does not compete with its partners. Microsoft manufactures the X-Box platform, but also engages in tremendous game development in-house. If you're a game developer writing for X- Box, you're also competing with Microsoft. We are not a content company, we are a technology company. We believe that the games industry is important to the progression of consumer device technologies and the network services that a consumer will come to demand of a service provider.
The games industry and the games market are vital to the growth of that, because that is where consumers are spending their dollars, by adopting technologies in game-related devices and engaging in game-related activities. We want to be the enabler of those technical platforms. When it comes to building a Java technology box, we don't need to because Java technology already runs on dozens of consumer devices, with many more to come! Why run on one box when we can run on all of them?
Tell us about the history and significance of the Java Game Profile?
"Game companies should no longer have to purchase infrastructure to provision a game online."
- Chris Melissinos,
In December of 2000, representatives from fourteen video game companies attended a summit in Santa Clara to discuss what was needed to turn the Java platform into a suitable platform for game development. We sat in a room for two days, 14 hours a day, turning the Java platform inside and out, and came up with a laundry list of what needed to be done. From that initial meeting came the specification for the Java Game Profile. We wanted to build a stack of APIs that would allow game developers to focus specifically and exclusively on those APIs.
Within six months of that initial meeting, we introduced the APIs into the Java Community Process (JCP), the largest submission in the history of the JCP. However, due to the size of the JCP, and the speed with which anything built by committee moves, we decided to release the core APIs to the open source community. The community has embraced these APIs, and is moving fast to develop the technology. We did not abandon the spirit of the Java Specification Request (JSR-134), we just shifted it from the JCP into the open source community.
What should developers know about cell phone games in Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME)?
J2ME and the MIDP 2.0 (Mobile Information Device Profile) specification on cell phones is a tremendous platform for building video games. Java technology is the standard for mobile games in the games industry. The issue now is: How do we continue to make better, more compelling games? MIDP 2.0 goes a long way to address the concerns of game developers. By using Java technology on multiple devices, we can more effectively tie into the Java technology on the back-end that the Game Technologies Group is developing.
What should developers understand about the challenges of getting their games on multiple channels?
It's not about getting your game on all of these devices, it's about getting your game content on all of these devices, two very different approaches. The first approach is: I will take this game, and I will try to shoehorn it into a cell phone. Well, a cell phone was never meant to run a full-fledged PC game. So, what about my PC game is appropriate to put on a cell phone? If I'm doing a driving simulator, there's no need to include the entire driving simulator on the phone, but the auto tuning and parts- trading component may fit quite nicely on the phone and I can carry a little bit of the game with me. I don't need a big-screen TV and a high-end audio system to do these activities. Learning to repurpose content to appropriately fit devices is the biggest hurdle that game developers face today.
Can you refer us to some online games that use Java software in interesting ways?
"Learning to repurpose content to appropriately fit devices is the biggest hurdle that game developers face today."
- Chris Melissinos,
Java technology exists in many more games than people realize. The Law and Order series of games by Legacy Interactive, for instance, are entirely built using Java technology and Java 3D. Games such as Chrome, that recently came out of Techland in Poland and published by Atari, use Java technology as the scripting language for their first-person multiplayer shooting game. It's getting rave reviews. Also, the Puzzle Pirates multiplayer on- line game, running on J2SE, just won the Technical Excellence and Audience Choice awards at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, California.
Anyone building games for mobile phones can not ignore the over 250 million Java technology enabled devices in consumers' hands. Games like Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, XIII, Prince of Persia, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and hundreds of other titles on mobile phones are being enjoyed by consumers thanks to the ubiquity of Java technology on mobile phones, and the creative developers who make the games.


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The Story of a Visual Artist: Rusty Walker b.1946-:
Walker has traveled all over the world in his youth and continued traveling for his painting subjects for many years. Born in a small town south of Chicago, Danville, Illinois, he subsequently lived in Texas, Okinawa, South Carolina, Australia, Nebraska, California, and now Arizona.
Inspiration to become an artist
Walker's commitment to being an artist began when, at thirteen years of age, in a stop over in San Francisco on the way to Okinawa in 1959, he witnessed an artist painting on location and was forever fascinated. Walker states that, "I often wonder who that artist was. It may have been George Post. From that time on I was determined to be a full-time painter, committed to translating my visual experiences into art."
Artist's statement:
"I am inspired by a compulsion to paint, as a means to express the visual world in the somewhat optimistic way in which I see it. Although I am a hopeless romantic, rather than paint a fanciful or period type genre, I prefer subjects, that are real in today's world. The days of the female form, with long flowing white dresses by flowers, or while on the beach, belong to Sorollo and Sargent. I also don't see a cynical world. I see a world full of the character and potential beauty that is ignored enough to justify painting it for humanity."
Although in the past, Walker has been best known for his watercolors and the book, Transparent Watercolor, today he spends even more time painting in oils. "I moved more and more into oils as a medium due to the impasto I am looking for and the sometimes larger than life quality that oil permits. Most of my early work was oil on location." He describes his style as painterly realism, or subjective realism. "My painting is rather direct. I try to convey as much as possible with each stroke of the brush with minimal over painting." he states, "I rely more on the image sustained in my mind's eye than on any specific reference that I may have sketched or photographed on location. The translation of experience into art takes place for me when I can capture a quality of spontaneity and simplicity of statement. My wide range of subject matter is due to my interest in reflecting the world around me." He is, he describes, merely attempting "to convey the impression of timeless truths, whether it be a pure landscape, or nude, I have the same passion that I bring to the subject matter."
Walker admires those artists who stay true to their convictions. For example, "since the 70s, I have followed the work of such painters as Walt Gonske, Rod Goebel (his life sadly cut short) and my friend, Frank La Lumia, Plein Air Painting in Watercolor and Oil, Northlight Publications. I remain impressed that they never swerved from their original commitment to reflect the world on their own terms." Walker states with regard to this, "There exists no ultimate criteria for masterful works of art for the lifelong artist. For this reason I avoid reading critics of art. Each artist must develop according to unwritten, uncharted destinies that in the end prove to be true, sincere, and one hopes, unique visions of art for posterity. Although we may depend on sales to survive, quite unique in the world of the marketplace, painting with an eye towards the market is not for the true artist. One must paint from the depth of the soul."
Art Education
Walker's mother is Australian, and was a WWII war bride, and so when Walker's father retired from the military in 1962, the family sojourned in Australia and Rusty spent the next four years going to art college. He painted watercolors and oil landscapes of the indigenous ghost gums on location in Australia. "I sketched the laughing kookaburras outside my window. I painted in the Botanical Gardens across from the college and endured the alarming charge of black swans and swooping magpies, with their sour dispositions, one encounters along the Brisbane River."
From his time in Australia and even now, he combined his passion for the visual arts and music. The four years of his undergraduate work was also spent playing in music bands up and down the Gold Coast with his guitar and blues harmonica, going to school and hanging out with local musicians, including one of the Bee Gees. He subsequently graduated from the Queensland Institute of Technology (now the Queensland University of Technology) in Brisbane, Australia, and later followed by graduate studies in the United States. However, Walker cites his real education in art was from the artists he met along the way. His mentor-friendship with California Watercolorists Millard Sheets and Donald Teague, as well as Jade Fon, influenced his early development. The masters he most admires are John Singer Sargent, Joaquin Sorolla, as well as the American, California, and French Impressionists, and the early Taos Artists.
Artist in the Military
Walker was an Artist/Illustrator for the Strategic Air Command Headquarters (SAC) at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, 1967-1971. "This was during the Viet Nam war and it was surreal to play music as a musician in the evening, and after a gig go sleep for a few hours, and then put on a Class A uniform, go to work at SAC headquarters at 3AM, in crazy Nebraska weather. I started out as the director/illustrator at Data Systems Center, but shortly thereafter transferred down seven floors under ground to work in a vault on top secret illustrations. I would come in at 3AM to draw and paint top secret charts, graphs, text, and artist's interpretations. The work consisted of various reconnaissance and war activity in Southeast Asia for the the captain to deliver 9AM sharp to the admirals and general staff who were conducting the SAC B52 bomber components of the undeclared war. The general staff included Fighter General Joseph J. Nazarro, and in 1968, Bomber General Bruce K. Holloway. The briefings concerned sorties over various targets, SAM and MiG activity, and other top secret reconnaissance and information, now declassified. I held a top secret, "R" prefix, "need to know" clearance. Great experience. By the time I was honorably discharged from the Air Force January 1971, I was ready to do nothing but paint. So, I started at the bottom. Street artist. I even sold my work door to door at times."
San Francisco Street artist 1971-1974:
Walker began his fine art career in January 1971 by painting watercolors and large oils all on location (Plein Air) in and around the San Francisco Bay Area, Monterey, and the north coast. Rusty Walker and his friends Werner Jurgens and Dale Axelrod, all successful artists now, were among the first fine artists selling their art on the street in San Francisco. This was frowned on by the authorities, who sometimes let them continue and sometimes not, until Walker's artist-friend Dale Axelrod coordinated two ballot initiatives in the early 1970's allowing street artists to become licensed and operate legally in San Francisco and show their work, or play music, without police or merchant harassment.
Walker relates this memory, "The only talent I remember on the street besides us in 1971 was Robert Shields, the mime, who later became famous with Shields and Yarnell TV series. The painters I encountered on the streets of San Francisco were Jade Fon, Ken Potter and George Post. But, see, they just painted on location, being successful their work was in galleries. Dale, Werner and I actually braved the police by marketing our work on the streets, just like they did in Paris at the turn of the century. I set up outside the Ghiardelli square, Union Square, The Cannery, sometimes next to the human jukebox, Grimes Poznikov. One policeman let me continue when he saw my work. He said, 'Don't tell anyone I let you stay out here – the merchants don't like it, but your work looks professional, so you can stay unless I get a complaint.' We saw nothing wrong with painting on location and then trying to sell our work. It was an artist trying to make a living in the city, 1971-1974. By 1975 I was in galleries, but Dale had gone on to secure permits. The same permits that now protect the hundreds of street artists out there on Fisherman's Wharf today. So, I unabashedly admit I started at the bottom as a street artist."
Gallery artist, awards, one man shows and museums
From 1971 to 1985 Walker was a full-time artist, and later in Arizona until 1989, supporting his wife, daughters, Melody and Courtney, and son, Hunter, on his art. By the mid seventies his work was taking off and he was having sell out shows, becoming nationally known, winning awards at the American Watercolor Society and National Watercolor Society and exhibiting his oils and watercolors nationally in museums and galleries.
His early work was mostly on-location California scenes, including San Francisco cityscapes, and the unique concept he came up with called, "Hillsides," one of which is in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In the 1979 he discovered Taos and the Native American culture of four corners. I started painting the Pueblo Indians and Navajos that I met on location and at the Native American Ceremonies, like the dramatic Deer Dance, and the haunting Turtle Dance. All my mature life I have been a student of history, and so I have a high regard for the Native American culture.
European Travel
This subsequent success allowed he and his family to travel to Mexico, Europe and Morocco to expand his painting concepts. Walker has many location stories to relate, such as being surrounded by Berbers in Morocco, the risks of painting on steep slopes, in train yards and shipping docks, and painting in inclement weather. He documented much of this and the paintings of this era into book form and sent it to Northlight Publishers/Writer's Digest. The book, Transparent Watercolor, Northlight Publishers, was published he moved his family to Chandler, Arizona in 1985. Currently, his work reflects many of these same concepts that are from his own experiences.
Teaching and Art Education
While still an active painter, Walker began teaching workshops for Hewitt Painting Seminars, and Jade Fon Asilomar workshops and various art associations. This passion for teaching eventually led to full time teaching, then Director of Education, and Vice President/ Provost at what is now, Collins College in Tempe, Arizona. In 2007 Arizona Governor Napolitano appointed him a Commissioner on the Arizona Commission for Post Secondary Education. However, at 61 years of age, he retired from the education world for good and returned to his first passion of full time painting in October 2007.
Full time artist
Walker is currently a full time artist and is working on paintings from his world trips that feature the wide range of subjects that he prefers to paint: figures; animals, in particular, horses, cats and dogs; landscapes; portraits; boat scenes and seascapes; nightscapes, all ranging from European to concepts throughout the United States.
Walker Biography
Walker's biographical information has been listed in Who's Who in American Art since 1980, Excerpt follows:
Some of the awards and honors that he has attained include the following: American Watercolor Society, Emily Lowe Award, 1977; National Watercolor Society Traveling Show; Art and the Law, national exhibition, 1983, West Publishing company, and illustration in Encyclopedia of American Law; Leslie Levy Publishers: Posters.
Permanent Collections: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F. CA: 30x22 watercolor vertical: San Francisco Hillside Painting; Frye Museum, Seattle, WA, California collections:
Author, Transparent Watercolor, Writer's Digest, 1985; Featured publications: in Southwest Art magazine, July,1980, American Artist, magazine, October 1980. Publication, the book: Contemporary American Artists, Southwest Artist publishers.
Accepted artist at the 2008 American Juried Art Salon, exhibition at the Front Line Gallery and Gallery Notes: News of The Visual Arts. Member of the Oil Painters of America and the Portrait Society of America..
Medium: Oils and Watercolors.
Some noteworthy oil painting collections: President Gerald R. Ford collections; Betty Ford Treatment Center, Alta Bates Hospital; portrait of past president, Robert Montgomery. Bart Starr, former quarterback for Green Bay Packers; Dr. Jan Rosenquist, Midnight Mustangs.


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Indianapolis 500
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Conor Daly arrived at the AJ Foyt Racing garage around 8:00 a.m. for his final fitting in the No. 41 ABC Supply Honda/Dallara. Four hours later he had passed two phases of his rookie test at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Daly passed his third and final phase –15 laps over 210 mph—during the afternoon practice. "Today was really cool, I really enjoyed my first few laps around here," the second generation driver said. "The car feels great, very comfortable to drive, easy flat all around every lap. It's crazy for me to think we have four more days of practice which is something that I'm not used to but it's really nice. I'm excited that we can keep working at it and see where we end up."
Teammate Takuma Sato set the sixth quickest time of the day with his speed of 223.363 mph in the No. 14 ABC Supply Honda. Sato ran 45 laps today. He ran the updated Honda engine which the crew installed last night because he had reached the 2000 maximum mileage for his first engine of the season. He was the quickest of the Honda powered drivers today.
"It was a very productive day," Sato said. "We made some changes and collected very good data from them and everything went according to plan. I'm happy to see all of the progress. It's nice to see that Conor got up to speed very quickly so we are able to go to the proper test plan for the two cars tomorrow."
Daly ran 37 laps in the afternoon practice and he reached a top speed of 219.044 mph.
"I was a little bit iffy on things like how does the car feel, what does it feel like," Daly explained, "but as soon as I got up to speed where you could really feel the downforce kick in, then it was fine. It was harder to go slower than it was to go fast. It's nice to go fast!"
For Daly, passing his rookie test quickly meant that he can now focus on preparing for qualifying for the Indianapolis 500. Practice continues through Friday with qualifications set for this Saturday.


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Superintendent Jim Morris is engaging the parents and guardians of Fremont Unified School District's more than 31,000 students with community conversations during a new weekly television show of that name.
"I think it's just another vehicle for parents to be informed and aware of what's going on in the school district," he said of the 30-minute show that features two segments per episode.
Morris said the idea behind the show was simple.
"We have community meetings and we may have 30 to 50 parents show up," he said, noting busy schedules interfere with people attending whether or not they are interested in the topic. "We want to reach all of them."
So, Morris decided, "Let's find a way to take the meeting to their living room."
"Community Conversations" aired episode six this week and is doing so weekly at 7 p.m. every Monday on Comcast Channel 26. A segment last week discussed "The Gifted in Fremont," the district parent community advisory group that supports the identified gifted and talented (GATE) students enrolled in the district while Monday's episode focused on how the school district supports new teachers and an African-American group at Washington High School that has made an impact on its male student population, helping to close the achievement gap.
Morris said topics discussed during the show come from a number of places.
"We try to do things that are topical," he said. "ÉWe put it out to all the schools and the principals, that if there's something they want to highlight that's happening.
Morris said each Monday a small cast and crew, including himself, tape the show for the following week but he is hoping to have it evolve by next year.
"We started kind of low tech," he said. "Our vision is eventually what we would like to do is have the technology available so they (viewers) can call in and ask questions."
Morris expects the technology that would allow for such capability to be available within a couple months.
He said this would be aided if a grant the district wrote to Fremont Bank is approved, which would also give them funds to secure a "formal place" to do the tapings.
"Any day now I'm expecting to get good news," Morris said. "We'll know by Dec. 1."
In the meantime, he is thankful for the handful of people who are volunteering their time to be a part of the effort, including Tess Melendez, retired principal of Chadbourne Elementary School, Water Garcia, a photographer and videographer for the school district, and host KK Kaneshiro, director of member services for the Fremont Chamber of Commerce.
"(KK's) really amazing and does this as a volunteer service to the district," Morris said.
Once she heard out about the opportunity through Garcia, Kaneshiro said she knew immediately she wanted to become involved in the effort which she does without her Fremont chamber hat on.
"I love it," Kaneshiro said. "It gives me an opportunity to learn some new things."
She also noted previous television experience, working on other shows since early 2000 for the school district and various other projects. She doesn't have children within Fremont Unified herself but noted people like her don't need to in order to tune in, referencing the direct correlation between strong schools helping maintain and increase property value and a strong community.
"Regardless if you have children or not, you still need to understand what's going on with your local school district," Kaneshiro said.
Previous episodes of "Community Conversations" can be viewed online at fremont.k12.ca.us/domain/4221 and are updated regularly.
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Quarry Court celebrates new garden.
Published by Laura Beckett for Halton Housing Trust in Housing and also in Communities
Quarry Court
Quarry Court, in Widnes, opened their newly transformed garden on Thursday 29th of May. The new garden was declared open by the Deputy Mayor Shaun Osborne and MP Derek Twigg, with Councillors Keith Morley, Robert Gilligan and Tony McDermott also in attendance.
Halton Housing Trusts' Quarry court, also celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and the Trusts environmental team planted a special bed to acknowledge the landmark. The garden transformation was finished just in time for summer and attendees inspected the new raised beds whilst enjoying the company of residents past and present friends and family.
Noel Sharpe, Executive Director for Customer Services at Halton Housing Trust said of the day; 'It's brilliant to see so many people celebrating the opening of the new garden. The transformation is really impressive, and it will be fantastic to see the garden develop over the coming months. It's important to us to ensure that our customers' homes and communal gardens look good and are well maintained to provide residents with an enjoyable place to live. Thanks to the hard work of the residents of Quarry Court and our own Environmental Services Team beautiful gardens have been created which will provide pleasure and enjoyment throughout the summer and beyond!'
Halton Housing and the Friends of Quarry Court would like to extend a special thanks to; White Moss nurseries in Widnes for their expert advice and assistance, Gary at G & N Steelworks and Tommy Hodgkinson, Stephen Smith and Anthony Fogg of Halton Housing Trust who worked tirelessly to ensure the garden would be completed in time. The work was funded by Area Forum, Halton Housing Trust and with money raised by the friends of Quarry Court group.
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Rajat Bose, rajatkbose.com, in a chat with ET Now, shares views on market outlook.
What is the call on markets right now?
5600 is a strong resistance level. What I have written in my outlook is that 5616 to about 5635, this 20-point range. Roughly 5600 to about 5640 is a range where lot of supplies are likely and if you observe yesterday's trading, you will notice that 2.8 million units were added to Nifty puts for June where we are coming close to resistance zone and especially a very strong resistance zone like 5600. If you see lots of put getting written, that means a bit of over enthusiasm. So chances of profit booking happening today. At the same time, it needs to be said that if the Nifty were to maintained above 5575, then bulls are definitely in the driver's seat. Of course the next resistance would be 5600. Suppose if there were to be some kind of profit booking, 5547 is at the first support level but the crucial support range would be 5508 to about 5485. Unless the bears are able to push it down below 5485, this is still a buy on dips market.


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Definición de exclusive en inglés:
1Excluding or not admitting other things: an exclusive focus on success and making money the list is not exclusive
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- The uncertainties associated with large federal budget deficits warn against exclusive focus on the total spending done by government.
- The emergence of psychoanalysis in the early years of the twentieth century allowed psychiatrists to move away from an exclusive focus on psychosis to extend their influence over the much wider field of neurosis.
- Because of this exclusive focus on the results of our conduct, the theory forces us to consider the world from a perspective outside our own lives.
complete, full, entire, whole, total, absolute;
to the exclusion of everything else
1.1Unable to exist or be true if something else exists or is true: mutually exclusive options
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- Therefore, though we distinguish between the many causes of suffering, we do not see those categories as existing in mutually exclusive settings.
- In the past 25 years, traditional modes of exposition have continued to exist alongside sometimes mutually exclusive competing theories.
- A third option, not mutually exclusive with option two, is working to create political change.
incompatible, irreconcilable
1.2(Of terms) excluding all but what is specified.
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- It is an exclusive term as it is code for 'Christian' and the religious traditions outside of Christianity and also those of an irreligious bent are not considered at all.
- What's more, truthful statements again had fewer negative emotion words and more self-referencing and exclusive words than false statements.
- While this term is not exclusive to that era, there can be no dispute that theme became most apparent in these post-war, post-Monopoly years.
not including, excluding, leaving out, omitting, excepting, with the omission/exception of, except for, not counting, leaving aside, barring
2Restricted to the person, group, or area concerned: the couple had exclusive possession of the flat the problem isn't exclusive to Dublin
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- Their decisions are taken at faraway centres, and almost always adhere to a uniform policy framework applicable to all protected areas, thus neglecting issues exclusive to one area.
- Some games feature shooting, adventure and even racing elements all mixed up together and they do very well because most people are not exclusive to a single genre.
- Their language was unique and exclusive to their sole tribe.
sole, undivided, unshared, unique, only, individual, personal, private, single, especial;
2.1(Of an item or story) not published or broadcast elsewhere: an exclusive interview
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- The probe was prompted by an exclusive story published in yesterday's Guardian, which told of the alleged encounters and also of a plea by the girl's mother for justice.
- I wonder how much she got for selling the exclusive story, with interview and photo shoot, and if that actually netted more cash than the act itself.
- He encourages his reporters to unearth exclusive stories that will be of interest to the listening audience.
3Catering for or available to only a few, select customers; high class and expensive: one of Britain's most exclusive clubs
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- As a result, tennis courts are popping up all over the country - in exclusive country clubs and expensive condominiums but also in more accessible sports clubs and in shantytowns.
- This is a very exclusive and very expensive club which is also a place to be seen.
- Behind the curtain was an exclusive world catering to the upper class and the rich and famous.
select, chic, high-class, elite, fashionable, stylish, elegant, choice, special, premier, grade A;
restrictive, restricted, limited, private, closed, cliquish, cliquey, clannish, snobbish;
British upmarket;
North American high-toned, upscale
informal posh, ritzy, classy, upper-crust, top-drawer, top-people's
British informal swish
North American informal swank, tony
rare discriminative
4 (exclusive of) Not including: prices are exclusive of VAT
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- This is exclusive of VAT, delivery, plates and road fund licence.
- Of the $20 retail, about $10.55 ends up with the wine producer, exclusive of GST.
- Are the minimum policy limits inclusive or exclusive of interest?
An item or story published or broadcast by only one source.
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- The three media outlets that have broadcast or published exclusives about torture at Abu Ghraib - CBS, the New Yorker and the Washington Post - are, of course, not revealing their sources.
- Unlike many other TV journalists, he chases exclusives and aims to break the big stories, and as a result is in weekly contact with the political editors of Scottish newspapers.
- He is the unnamed source who 'has provided most of the front page exclusives on WMD to our paper' exclusives which have yet to pan out.
scoop, exposé, revelation, special, inside story;
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- Kamel didn't mention price, but said the exclusiveness of luxury companies separates them from the 'mad and undignified' products and practices of the mass-market consumer companies.
- The book's thrust is to get wine appreciation down to an approachable level from the heights of exclusiveness; to get people to try something different without much damage to the wallet.
- They display an intolerant exclusiveness, and a belligerent sense of supremacy vis-à-vis the other.
Late 15th century (as a noun denoting something that excludes): from medieval Latin exclusivus, from Latin excludere 'shut out' (see exclude).
Palabras que riman con exclusiveabusive, allusive, collusive, conclusive, conducive, delusive, diffusive, effusive, elusive, illusive, inclusive, intrusive, obtrusive, preclusive, reclusive, seclusive
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Unlike Most Schools, Illinois Banks On Lovie Smith's NFL ApproachSmith insists that coaching college football at Illinois hasn't been much different than what he grew accustomed to as coach of the Bears and Buccaneers.
Gruen: Little Learned At Media Days, But Lovie Smith Flashes His Polish, Doesn't Embarrass IlliniThere's a more capable face leading the Illinois program now.
Listen: The Starting Lineup With Chris Emma -- Episode 1A new audio feature with Chris Emma, debuting with Lovie Smith, Danny Trevathan and White Sox Dave.
Lovie Smith's Contract Approved By Illinois Trustees, Could Pay Him Up To $29M With IncentivesSmith will be paid a $1 million bonus if he remains at Illinois for three seasons and again if he stays all six seasons.
Report: Lovie Smith, Illinois Tab Louisville's Garrick McGee As New Offensive CoordinatorSmith recruited McGee to Arizona State in the early 1990s.
Baffoe: Lovie Smith At Least Brings Interest To Illini FootballIllinois athletic director Josh Whitman isn't messing around anymore.
Emma: Lovie Smith Is A Perfect Fit For The Fighting IlliniWhat seemed surprising at first makes so much sense now.
Gruen: Considering Circumstances, Lovie Smith Hiring Terrific For IlliniThe big challenge for Smith now -- assembling a top-notch coaching staff.
Emma: How Lovie Smith Became Illinois' Head CoachThe path for Smith to Illinois took some odd turns.
Lovie Smith Greeted To Hero's Welcome At IllinoisSmith was warmly received in his first public appearance on campus.
Illinois AD: 'Not A Living Room In America That Wouldn't Open Their Doors To Lovie Smith'"Lovie is just absolutely the right person at the right moment for our program," Josh Whitman says.
Bernstein: Lovie Smith Breaks Barrier At IllinoisSmith is the first black head coach of football or men's basketball at the University of Illinois.


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|USD Spotlights Creative Collaborations
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'Creative Collaborations: A Celebration of Student-Faculty Works' showcases the intellectual life at the University of San Diego and provides students with an opportunity to present their research and creative activities.
This year's event takes place Thursday, April 26 from 12:15 to 2:15 p.m. in the conference rooms A-D of USD's Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice. The event is free and open to the public.
The event showcases student and student-faculty research from a variety of disciplines including the natural and social sciences, engineering and the arts. More than 100 students will present posters and other materials in this celebration of USD's academic excellence.
The University of San Diego is a Catholic institution of higher learning chartered in 1949; the school enrolls approximately 7,500 students and is known for its commitment to teaching, the liberal arts, the formation of values and community service. The establishment of the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies will bring the University's total number of schools and colleges to six. Other academic divisions include the College of Arts and Sciences and the schools of Business Administration, Law, Leadership and Education Sciences, and Nursing and Health Science.


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".. beautiful cottages about a mile from PG Town, owned by a nice Brit couple -- delightful setting."
Lan Sluder, author of Fodor's Belize
Hickatee Cottages offers the best of both worlds: award-winning guesthouse accommodation in a lovely jungle setting, yet only a couple of miles from 'downtown' Punta Gorda (PG). Intentionally small and decidedly quiet, we have just six rooms, ranging in size and price from the Hickatee Den to our Honeymoon Suite.
Charlie's Bar is at the heart of our home, acting as reception, bar, meeting area, and restaurant serving breakfast and dinner. We have over a mile of nature trails on site offering good birding opportunities, regular sightings of our resident troop of howler monkeys, and assorted other critters.
We're family-run and love our job - if you can call living in the jungle and meeting great people a job! We're here to make sure you go away having had a great time, to help book tours and advise on activities in the Toledo District, so that you can best experience Toledo's nature, adventure, and rich range of cultures. Basically, if we can, we will...
Hickatee is off-grid and mainly solar-powered, so don't expect hairdryers, a/c, or cable TV. What you can expect is good old-fashioned hospitality, comfortable rooms, a low-key relaxed atmosphere, and personal service. We pride ourselves on giving excellent value for money, and we include wifi, use of bikes, Garifuna drumming lessons, and visits to Fallen Stones Butterfly Farm in our rates, along with other 'freebies'.
Read our reviews, or take a look at our Facebook page to make sure we are the right place for you, and then let us help you plan your Toledo experience.
"Hickatee Cottages is probably the best value for the quality of accommodations in the whole country of Belize."
Barbara Kasak, Barb's Belize
Is Hickatee right for you?We work very hard to meet and exceed our guests' expectations, but it's important that those expectations are realistic. At the risk of boring you, the biggest surprises have been:
- The reality of being off-grid: this means no hairdryers etc, no coffee makers in the rooms, and chilled drinks instead of cubed ice. We have sufficient battery power for fans and lights, but insufficient surplus to store your food / drinks / cosmetics in our fridge. Sorry!
- That our road is unpaved – it can get muddy, it can develop potholes, but that's the price you pay for a pretty jungle location, complete with resident howler monkeys.
- That we are a guest house, and not a boutique hotel or jungle lodge. Our value for money rates mean that we don't provide the full service some guests expect from a higher-priced jungle lodge -- we don't serve lunch, and the bar is generally closed from mid-day until 5.30pm, when we take our break. We're happy to stock you up with a cooler of drinks, and are on call for genuine emergencies.


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Occupational therapists develop activities, tools, and materials to help patients achieve independence and self-sufficiency. Clients include those who are limited by physical or mental injury/illness, old age, or developmental disabilities. Occupational therapy degree programs are now at the master's level. Most students complete 2 years of pre-requisite courses at Bloomsburg then transfer to a combined baccalaureate/master's degree OT program for 3 years. Bloomsburg students have been admitted to many different schools; there are 13 in Pennsylvania.
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So it's lunchtime and I thought I would take advantage of the beautiful day to eat lunch in Union Square Park. I was walking around, looking for a bench when I see a homeless man ahead of me, turning around in circles like he's confused. I walked by and he definitely turned, xfollowing me awkwardly. I kept moving, figuring he's just asking people for change, until I heard some disgusting, waste of space yelling "Grab her ass! Grab her ass!" I looked over and there was a huge group of teenagers, guys and girls, apparently ENCOURAGING THE TRANSIENT TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT WOMEN PASSING BY. They saw me looking at them and knew I had heard, which made them all laugh hysterically. Needless to say, my lunch was spoiled and I felt too disgusted to sit anywhere near these people, much less fish through my bag for my camera phone. Now I'm back in my office, eating lunch at my desk. I am so grossed out and furious about the whole thing that I can't even think straight. The guy didn't touch me, but I can't help but think the next girl in a skirt who walked by wasn't so lucky…
Submitted by Elizabeth
18 years ago, my girlfriend and I were walking past Dolores Park in San Francisco late one night when some man walked up to us and said, "which one of you am I going to RAPE first?"
My girl is from England and she said "pardon?", not really sure she heard him right. The asswipe repeated himself and I said to him "OH HELL NO MUTHAFUCKA!!"
It was crazy! My girl and I didn't even have to look at each other to figure out what to do!! We pushed him back, knocked him off balance, kicked and punched him where we could…..girl, that jerk managed to run off screaming obsencities at us. Both of us were shaking with anger.
I am a middle aged woman now with 2 daughters. I am very proud we were able to handle that ass hole. I pray that our actions stopped him permanently. Women, please remember that YOU ARE POWERFUL!
This jerk accosted me in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a Holla Back, Delaware. (Yet.)
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I have a lot of respect for some New York homeless guys. Many of them are very civil, even if you don't have money to give them. You can almost tell if the guy is really homeless or not by how he reacts to a simple "sorry, I haven't got anything." If he freaks out and starts sexually harassing you, he's probably just out begging because his wife won't let him back in the house.
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Walking up Madison Ave at 32nd Street, dude start walking right behind me and my friend.
"Nice, nice."
My friend and I ignore him.
I turn around.
"What did you say?"
"I said I like your ass."
"Don't say stuff like that. I don't like it."
I take out my camera, he keeps grinning and being dumb. I take a picture but he turns his head.
So I take another one.
"Check out your picture online. HollaBackNYC!"
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Working as a waitress, I put up with all sorts of crap from sleazebag men. Here is a prime example – luckily I had my camera/phone handy.
I could hear these two saying vulgar things and laughing as soon as they sat down.
Me: "What can I get you?"
Creep in the green hat: "How about you, sweetheart?"
Nauseating laughter.
So I gave them some of me – a big loogie at the bottom of their beers. Cheers, dickheads.
Submitted by Krystal.
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At New York City's barbeque festival this weekend, the guy in the yellow tee shirt came up to me—out of nowhere—and grabbed my chest, saying that his friend (the one in the orange polo) told him he'd pay him $100 if he did so. At first I laughed it off, but then got angry and realized that if he hadn't been a drunk frat guy, I would have gone straight to the police. Anyway, I did wind up getting him kicked out of the park, but I'd like to share this perv's photo with the world. Thanks!
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So I'm in London on business with some other girls from the office and I think it would be fun to dress up and go to a real pub and maybe meet a real Hugh Grant type (I know, not likely!).
On the way we pass these guys drinking in their front garden (which is full of flags for the soccer match) and they are giggling, belching and farting (yuck!!) cause they think that's funny. One of them makes a noise like 'Ooooo! Ooooo!' as we go past but I rise above it.
After we have a few Breezers outside (and no Hugh Grants were in there!) and watch the silly soccer its time to go back to the hotel but I see this lanky guy in shades who was part of that group looking at us and making humping noises. Then I see he is actually grabbing his crotch quite violently and jumping up and down! He's pretty drunk but I can just hear him shout stuff like 'play with me mansack!' and 'Eat it!'.
That was it – time to Hollaback at this jerk! I put my cameraphone on max zoom from across the street and walked by pretending not to look but I caught him still grabbing and shouting about his 'sack'. What a loser and it ruined my trip. At least I remembered I'm now empowered to Hollaback at asshats that can't keep it to themselves!
Submitted by Roxanne.
In a pub in Dublin, Ireland (where I'm from) and myself and some of my sassy friends are out having a bit of a girl's night. After much unsuccessful attempts to have a good time anywhere else, we went to our usual pub in the city centre. Walking down a few steps to the bar and some guy grabs my ass... so I caught his hand and put him up against the nearest post with my other hand on his throat and into his face asked what the hell he thought he was doing. He, the brave little hero he was denied it was his hand that had grabbed me – they always do that! So anyway, I shouted at him for a bit, then kindly let him go…
Later that same night, my friend was walking by a guy who put his hand up her skirt… so she boxed him in the face. His girlfriend saw all this and demanded the keys from him. He was sleeping in the rain that night.
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Love your site-hate with a passion ignorant asses who feel the need to harass me.
Usually its just annoying, Today it got scary…
Noticed that an old guy sitting on the train across from me was playing with his cell phone…
Then I noticed he was taking pictures of me, my legs, my chest, my face, back to my chest..gave him an "eat shit and die look" and moved seats…
Noticed he moved seats too-to get a better view, continued to take pictures and give me nasty lusty looks.
Got up immediately to get off at next stop-he got up too-still taking pics and acting like he doesn't notice me, now with a good 15 pics in his camera-sick bastard.
Get off the train, with heart racing and sick feeling in my stomach-hold back tears until I get home…just wish I had my camera phone and my mace.
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