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Amigurumi: Design Your Own Monster taught by Stacey Trock
Learn pattern design by doodling a monster and bringing it to life. Combine bodies and parts to create wild crocheted creatures your family and friends will love to cuddle.
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Your stress monster is very cute!
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He looks like my little bro when he's mad (or laughing hysterically. You would be surprised at how often that happens :P) His face even turns really red :D
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Doubles - Recorded a 4-3 record with Dontia Haynes... Defeated Felsenthal/Kindervater of Alabama, 8-3, in the prequalifying round of 64 at the ITA All-American tournament... Reached the round of 16 by beating Edlefsen/Geatz of Minnesota, 8-1... Posted a 9-7 victory over San Diego's Blair/Koristovic at USD's Surf and Volley Challenge... Advanced to the round of 16 at the ITA Western Championships with their 8-5 win over LMU's Cicenas/Raja... Had to forfeit to eventual champions from UCLA Francis/Kwinta due to injury in the round of 16... Paired with fellow sophomore Benedikt Stronk to score a victory over Arizona's Labrosse/Alcala, 8-2, at the Surf and Volley... Hooked up with Eugenio Romero, also at the Surf and Volley to beat Southern California's Wright/Loucks, 8-4.
As a Freshman (2003-04)
Doubles - Earned first doubles match victory (8-3) while teaming with Michael Coehlo against the University of San Francisco... Second-most wins for an SDSU team with nine... Had 12 overall victories, second behind Felix Hardt... He and Haynes tied for 10th place on the all-time doubles team winning percentage list with Alex Waske/Adam Webster (1999) with a mark of .750... Won his doubles match to lead the Aztecs to a victory over Pacific... Partnered with Haynes to record the only win for the Aztecs versus UCLA...Clinched the doubles point for the Aztecs in win over Yale... Won doubles (8-6) match in victory over No. 59 Middle Tennessee State... Dickhardt/Haynes overmatched Santa Clara's doubles team en route to an 8-1 victory... Part of an SDSU three-match doubles sweep of Air Force with partner Daniel Jung... Won his doubles match to help the Aztecs advance in the MWC Championships... Wrapped up doubles point for San Diego State in the MWC final versus New Mexico.
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First published as Hotels, Hotel Tycoon is a Monopoly-like game, in which hotel tycoons try to buy and build the best hotels in the world and compete for guests. The game caters two to four players, ages eight and up. An average game lasts about 90 minutes.
Players try to buy and build the best hotels in this game, earning the most money or bankrupting their opponents.
A successful hotel exists out of three components: the land it is built on, the hotel buildings and the entrances by which guests arrive in the hotels. All three components need to be bought separately with in-game money. Like in Monopoly, money is earned by players who end up on one of the entrances of your hotels, after their dice roll. The more luxurious the hotel, the more money a guest will earn you. Money you can use to build extensions to your existing hotels, buying new entrances or pay other players when you arrive at their hotels.
The game consists out of cardboard, three-dimensional hotel buildings, recreational grounds and entrance stairs that can be placed on the large gameboard. Just like in Monopoly, it is played with paper game money.
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Asmodee North America
Year: 2014
Players: 2 - 4
Time: 60 or more minutes
Ages: 8 and up
Weight: 1,380 grams
- gameboard
- 30 roofs
- 30 bases
- 30 hotel entrances
- 30 buildings
- 8 leisure facilities
- 8 title deeds
- money (in denominations of 5000; 1000; 500; 100; 50)
- 4 cars (in 4 different colours)
- 2 dice (one standard + 1 planning permission die)
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Average Rating: 4 in 2 reviews
This game is the greatest board game ever created. Much more fun than Monopoly. I don't know why MB only produced it for one year (1987), but I do know that some of my fondest memories are the times my brother, my cousins, and I would play hotels for hours on end, one game after another. I reciently bought a copy of the game off ebay and I almost couldn't wait until that weekend when my brother and I got together to play a game (I won!). A trully classic game. A typical game takes about 1.5 to 2 hours. Buy it and have fun!
If you enjoyed Monopoly, you'll probably enjoy this game as well. I always like this one a bit more. Sure, that may have been because Godzilla would occasionally grace the game board with his presence and having big cardboard hotels for him to knock over seemed a lot more fearsome than having him kick a hotel from Boardwalk to Marvin Gardens. Back to the subject though: this game really doesn't stray too far from the Monopoly formula (Roll the dice, buy some stuff, give dice to next player). The game varies a little in that since there are only 8 or so Hotels, you have to build additional entrances to each one and you don't end up with quite the monopoly situation and makes for a better chance of an evenly matched game. Much like Monopoly, this is usually a slow game taking between 2-2 1/2 hours to finish, and by that time everyone has lost interest. Another downside to the game is the lack of creative player icons; several different colored Limousines. While the Limousines are a good choice for a high stakes game like this one, I would have liked a Helicopter and Personal Jet and possibly some sort of large bird or possibly a VW Bus to inspire pre-game humiliation. Imagine instead of rolling to see who gets to be the Car or Dog you are rolling who HAS to ride the Ostrich. All in all this game is nice twist to an old formula but really just for the people who want to revive Monopoly without 'passing go and collecting $200.'


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Is Eating Pork Good or Bad for Your Health?
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A while back a student contacted me for facts on why people should not eat pork as she was writing a paper on the topic. I found it quite ironic that she was telling other people not to eat pork without understanding the facts herself. This got me thinking about the topic in general. Is eating pork 'good' or 'bad' for you?
Many people don't eat pork for social, cultural and/or religious reasons. Although there are a plethora of sketchy explanations as to why pork should be eliminated from the diet, many of the most commonly professed have not been substantiated by sound science. I personally haven't touched pork in over 10 years. It simply tastes too good and I have little or no control once I get started.
What most people don't know, however, is that pork is one of the most overly consumed meats by humans. Of all meats that we eat on a regular basis, pork is also one of the most difficult to digest. Just one serving of lean pork can take up to six hours to digest. Most people consume 2-3+ servings in one sitting and, oftentimes, more than once a day, which can dramatically delay the digestive process.
Furthermore, fatty and overly processed cuts of pork like bacon and ribs take even longer to digest yet they are the most commonly consumed. Eating bacon for breakfast, having a ham sandwich for lunch and pork chops for dinner several times a week is definitely going to cause major trouble in your digestive system.
The Real Problem
Pork is a problem when it is consumed in excess (more than one serving, twice a week). Excessive consumption of pork is most problematic because of the ways in which this slow-to-digest food affects the overall digestive process.
In general, foods that digest quickly (fruits and vegetables) are held in the stomach until slowly digesting foods are released into the small intestines. During this time, the quickly digesting foods begin to ferment which can produce gastrointestinal disturbances (gas and indigestion).
In the case of pork, consuming multiple servings in a day or even in a week can lead to a severe back up in the digestive system. This back up can make it difficult to absorb essential micronutrients from foods (malabsorption). Over time, undigested foods will putrefy in the stomach and small intestines leading to toxicity in the body. Again, this stuff happens when pork is consumed in excess.
The Solution
When it comes to pork consumption moderation is key—no more than one 3-ounce serving twice a week. Such a serving of pork is about the size of a deck of cards or a bar of soap.
Consuming lean cuts (tenderloin, loin center steak, or shoulder blade boneless chops) in moderation can actually be beneficial as pork is a rich source of protein as well as vitamins and minerals including thiamin, niacin, selenium, zinc and phosphorous.
Related Article: Reconsidering Pork as Part of a Healthy Diet
If you don't have the discipline to regulate your intake of pork this way, you may find it most beneficial to fully abstain from eating it.
RECIPE: Ground Pork with Manzanilla Olives, Minced Pimientos, and Capers
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Jason and Chris did a great job informing everyone exactly what the current situation is and how both Seattle and Sacramento fans are dealing with the situation. I highly recommend you watch the full 21 minutes but if you are strapped for time you can skip past what Mayor Johnson is saying as most of it is exaggerated and worded to make Sacramento and it's fans out to be the best thing that's ever happened to the NBA.
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The SAARC-UNDP-ILO regional workshop, Leadership and Development Challenges in Addressing HIV/AIDS and Mobility held in Kathmandu (23-25 June) agreed upon that migration per se is not a risk factor for HIV, rather it is the conditions under which people move that often makes them more vulnerable to HIV. Therefore, there is a need to integrate HIV/AIDS into policies and programmes for migrant workers and their families.
This workshop was initiated in the active leadership of Mr Hassan Shifau, the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Director for Social Affairs. A first of its kind, there were participants from 8 countries including officials from the relevant Ministries, stakeholders from Government, civil society, trade unions and the UN.
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I thought of introducing some oldtimer bloom via foliar feeding to plants that have just started flowering since a week before I wait to water them with nutes. I have sprayed them a couple of times with bio silicon earlier on (as well as watering with bio silicon) and they absolutely loved me for it and couldn't thank me enough it seems.
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A new technology from IBM will help prevent websites falling over when faced with increased traffic associated with popular personalities.
The technology, which is being introduced to support the IBM-run Australian Open tennis tournament, will allow the website to be scaled up or down depending on the players on court that day.
The technology works by examining tennis player popularity, historical data logs and volume of social media conversations (from Twitter and Facebook, for example) and uses this information to predict the effect on the Australian Open webite.
By applying this forecast, IBM's predictive cloud provisioning technology will automatically set the appropriate level of computing power required to cope with the expected traffic.
"We are committed to giving all our tennis fans an incredibly connected experience to the Australian Open event," said Samir Mahir, CIO, Tennis Australia. "With analytics we can help predict when demand is expected to spike, such as when a crowd favourite goes on court to compete. Predicting the (website) demand from fans ahead of time and automatically provisioning capacity, means we have a highly efficient solution that ensures our interactive tournament website is available for all our fans even during the peaks of our busiest periods."
While this is being rolled out for a tennis tournament, the technology would work not just for tennis but would provide a way for website operators to manage traffic that involved any popular event or personality.
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ANTEQUERA, Spain — Grand Blanc's Ashley Bauer shot 72 in the third round of the 13th World University Golf Championship to sit tied for third place entering today's final round.
Bauer, a recent University of Michigan graduate, was tied with Ana Fernandez De Mesa Siloniz of Spain and Ke-Hui Hsu of Chinese Taipei. They were 11 shots behind leader Catherine O'Donnell of the United States.
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Spectacular and varied lakeland landscape around Derwent Water
Download a '50 Things' wildtime trail map and put some adventure into your family walk this summer.
Derwent Water is often called the 'Queen of the Lakes', and as you canoe between the islands with your picnic at the ready it's easy to see why. The friendly staff at our shop and information centre on the Keswick Foreshore will help you out with local knowledge about canoeing, interesting things to see and walks to do.
At the south end of Derwent Water, the boardwalk across the wetlands makes the 9-mile circular walk around the lake a very pleasant leg stretch, with the chance to see otters and wetland birds if you're lucky. The jewel in the crown is Derwent Island House, open for five special days each year, as does Force Crag Mine - a hidden gem at the foot of a waterfall in the Coledale valley.
As Borrowdale winds the 7 miles from Keswick to Seathwaite, there are eight National Trust car parks from which you can start your adventure into the fells. Directions for iconic routes like Castle Crag and Cat Bells are in our Rangers' Guide to Borrowdale on sale from our shop and from our membership recruiters with their trusty Landrovers.
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So, you may ask, why did you actually try this out? Well, I have various products providing me with spam filtering and anti-virus and anti-spyware, but they're always a pain to keep updated, especially the anti-spam which is hosted on my mail server. Here was an opportunity to let someone else take the pain away, to let a security vendor actually do that they do best, cleaning up my email stream from all the things I wasn't interested in.
Setting up GFI Max Mail Protection was pretty easy though you do need a certain amount of tech-savvy to understand what you're doing. The hosted solution actually sits in front of your mail server and you need to change your DNS record to direct your incoming mail to GFI's servers. Your email stream is then cleaned and email then delivered to your normal mail servers for you to pick up. GFI Max Mail Protection has a whole range of different features that can accommodate infrastructures much more complex than mine, in fact, I only scratched the surface as far as features and functionality are concerned.
The spam handling functionality is pretty comprehensive, giving you the option, giving you options to drop, quarantine of deliver spam messages. White-list, black-list and even grey-listing functionality is fully supported and you even have full control of what happens to email to unknown email addresses. It even gives you the option to filter outgoing email in case your systems are compromised or your internal protection inadequate. That last one is a great option that can help mitigate against potentially embarrassing failures in your systems.
GFI Max Mail Protection is a great option for SMEs (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises) who may not have the right level of staffing to manage dedicated solutions; but it also scales to accommodate larger organisations. If you're looking for ways to protect your systems and users from threats that have the potential to damage your business, check out GFI Max Mail Protection.
I've not found antispam a problem to update, but I use SpamAssassin. A daily cronjob just runs sa-update and that's it. Same goes for clamav. Roughly 0 minutes a month spent on keeping SA and clamav up to date. SA is enormously effective, my personal mailbox alone last month was receiving up to 2000 spam emails a day (I've had the address for an awful long time), but very, very few of them actually make it to my IMAP client. Curiously, the day after the "Norton AV cockup" the amount of spam fell from nearly 2000 messages a day to around 150. I've only seen that happen when I've heard of major botnets being taken down, so I'm thinking perhaps these machines that were killed off may have actually been infected.
The problem with someone else filtering your mail is what if you have organizations who want to use TLS in enforcing mode – it breaks the end-to-end encryption because now (necessarily) you have a man-in-the-middle receiving email on your behalf. You can prise my MX out of my cold, dead hands 🙂
There are many good anti-spam solutions on the market these days, including open source products like SpamAssassin. That said, a good commercial solution will generally have better accuracy, a more robust feature set, greater scalability, and a source for technical support — along with the value of outsourcing for those customers that do not want the responsibility of setting up or maintaining their own solution.
To the point regarding TLS, the GFI MAX MailProtection service can offer TLS. This means that the SMTP conversation between the GFI MAX MailProtection service and the sending server, and the SMTP conversation between the GFI MAX MailProtection service and the receiving server, can be encrypted.
I'll agree 100% that a commercial solution will have a source for technical support and a 3rd party hosted solution allows you to not care too much about the administration of the server, but it's certainly not a given that a commercial solution will be generally more accurate nor more robust nor more scalable. SpamAssassin, for example, is used by some of the world's biggest ISPs – it scales well, and from what I've seen and comparing notes with friends, a correctly set up SA installation will generally beat the competition, especially with regards to avoiding false positives. (Many commercial solutions are in fact SpamAssassin plus support and/or administration).
While the GFI MAX offers TLS, that's not really the point that I was talking of – now you have an intentional man-in-the-middle, GFI MAX. The mail must hit their servers, be decrypted (it has to be scanned), re-encrypted and forwarded on to you. At some point the mail will be in clear text within GFI MAX's service. The whole point of TLS for me is that there cannot be a man-in-the-middle, so putting an intentional one in (however trustworthy they may seem) sort of defeats the point of having it in the first place. It may not matter for personal email, especially if you find GFI MAX's service trustworthy, but may be an issue for those who want to ensure that their mail really is encrypted end to end with no third parties seeing the content in plain text somewhere in between.


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SAN DIEGO -- The zombie invasion has begun. The source of the contagion has been identified as Petco Park, which is now overrun with hordes of flesh-eating corpses in a carnage-filled obstacle course.
If that sounds like a hoot to you, then you are likely a fan of AMC's deeply awesome zombie drama "The Walking Dead" and you are really, really bummed that you are not at Comic-Con right now for the show's buzzed-about panel.
"It's going to get insane very quickly," says writer Scott Gimple, getting fans in a lather about what they describe as the craziest season yet.
Comic creator Robert Kirkman added fuel to the fire, saying "all bets are off."
Rabid fans of Kirkman's monster hit were already riled up over the 10th anniversary of the comic books on which the TV show is based. Zombie aficionados, eagerly anticipating the return of the TV show this October, erupted as soon as the show's cast and creators took the stage for a highly-anticipated Friday panel.
Jocular actor Scott Wilson hopped on stage the way Hershel would have entered. Asked about his character's will to survive amid the carnage, he joked: "He really just wants to hold onto his other leg!"
The mild-mannered British actor David Morrisey, often greeted with "boos," defended the evil Governor, saying that "he's not a villain," but at the end of last season, "he went into trauma...a switch goes off in his head."
Of course it never pays to invest deeply in any one character as they are likely to get chomped on bigtime.
"Everyone's on the table pretty much every episode," warns producer Dave Alpert
"Expect the unexpected, you'll never get comfortable, so don't try," says Danai Gurira. The actress who came to fame as the badass warrior Michonne, hinted at the sharp plot twists that await us in the new season.
This panel was so hugely popular that some folks camped out all night and then sat in the venue all day just to make sure they score one of the 6500 seats in Hall H for the afternoon panel. Was it worth it? Judging by the roars and squeals heard during the world premiere footage from the new season, which looks even fiercer than before, the answer is hell yes.
For the record, however, if there were ever a real zombie apocalyspe, Kirkman says he's off himself.
Karen D'Souza is at Comic-Con this week. Follow her at Twitter.com/KarenDSouza4.


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Not Worth Fighting For
By elektrixx 11 Comments
This may be my rantiest and crappiest blog entry ever, but I don't care. I'm angry.
I've given in twice to fighting games in a desperate attempt to join in on the so-called fun, and once again I've been screwed. It was SoulCalibur IV earlier this year, and now it's Super Street Fighter II: Turbo HD Remix. Luckily in this case, not only was Street Fighter cheap by comparison, but the game itself has given me a strong warning about Street Fighter IV before I potentially make another big mistake.
Speaking of which, why don't I list all of Capcom's mistakes?
What the hell is P?
Were the original devs using an Irish controller?
What the hell is K?
Just tell us whether it's A, B, X or Y please? We shouldn't have to decipher clues just to find out how to do a move.
How do you Charge?
Why do they insist on keeping this function a secret?
Where's the run button?
It shouldn't be quicker to jump than walk, but then again, all you do is jump because the 360 D-pads are so busted.
I cannot do Zangief's Super move.
It either does the wrong move or he jumps. And yeah, I filled the bar too.
Why can't I go back out of the character select screen?
Why is every button all of a sudden the confirm button? I don't see the point in this limited functionality. You think they would fix this crap.
Why doesn't the character select screen fill my TV display?
Do they think we would just never notice? Jeez, this isn't like the Wii; people actually notice this stuff.
Why isn't the gameplay in true widescreen?
What the hell is up with that? This was one aspect of the promotion of this game, and it's all a lie!
I could've used the Microsoft Points to buy the rest of the Rock Band DLC that I want, but it's too late now. It's all my fault, but it will never happen again. Unless we're talking about the Super Smash Bros. series, FIGHTING GAMES SUCK.
Get angry.


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Short Interest in Low-Rated Companies Creeping Higher
Investors are increasing their bets that some sub-investment-grade companies will falter if rates start to rise.
The percentage of company shares borrowed in constituents of the Markit CDX North American High Yield index has risen 5.5% over the past month. That's an indication that more investors are betting against or "shorting" certain low-rated companies, the data provider said.
AK Steel Holding and RadioShack have attracted the most interest from short sellers in recent weeks, said Markit. When investors short stocks, they borrow the securities and sell them, betting that they can buy them back later at a lower price and profit from the difference.
Some 5.8% of shares outstanding are currently borrowed in the 92 publicly traded constituents of the index, which compares to a post-crisis low of 5.5% seen at the end of June. While far from the 8.8% of shares borrowed in May 2012, the targeting of high yield borrowers' stock for short sales shows investors' bearish outlook following months of buying.
AK Steel had 24.7% of its shares out on loan and RadioShack had 22% of shares on loan as of July 23, said Markit.
An AK Steel spokesman said the company "does not comment on market speculation or market activity" regarding its securities. A spokesman for RadioShack said: "As a matter of policy, we don't comment on trading in our shares."
On Tuesday, AK Steel reported a net loss of $40.4 million for the second quarter, versus a loss of $724.2 million for the year-earlier period. The company's bonds due in 2020 fell 1.5 cents on the dollar Wednesday to trade at a price of 89 cents.
RadioShack's lost $53 million in the quarter, compared to a net loss of $21 million in the year earlier period. Its net sales and operating revenues fell 0.5% at RadioShack from year-ago levels to $845 million.
Markit's data show how some sophisticated investors are wary that prices on low-rated debt have become too overheated. Yields on high-yield company bonds last week fell below 6% for the first time since June 4, according to a Barclays index.
Adrian Miller, director of fixed income strategy at GMP Securities, LLC, said high yield bonds have improved along with equities as investors take comfort from recent Federal Reserve statements that the central bank is in no hurry to wind down its $85 billion a month buy-buying program.
But Mr. Miller said that "market valuations are stretched" and "cash levels are building" among investors who are positioning for a potential drop in high yield prices that have run up in recent months. Their lofty valuation "exposes the market to downside risks" if GDP growth and earnings growth do not materialize, he added.


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Hudson Valley-born artist April Warren likes incorporating the region into her artwork, but she doesn't necessarily go out and paint plein air. Warren prefers to paint from imagination, creating "portraits of places" from things she feels while envisioning some place in her mind. Warren has exhibited both locally and nationally, and her most recent show begins this weekend at the Bakery in New Paltz.
What: Works by April Warren
When: 7 a.m.-7 p.m. daily
Where: The Bakery, 13 N. Front St., New Paltz
Price: Free
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i don't play board games very often these days, but one game i've had the opportunity of playing many times is pictionary. i suspect you've played this game as well. a variant on pictionary can also be found in the game cranium.
inevitably, when i've found myself among a group of people who have decided to play pictionary (because most board-game playing in my experience is fairly spontaneous), people immediately find me, being an illustrator, an attractive teammate. my profession makes me, in their minds, a first-draft player. i draw for a living! surely that will give their team the extra advantage needed to carry off the win and subsequent trash-talking rights.
it probably comes off as modesty, but i quickly find myself protesting by telling them that, in fact, pictionary is a game for which my skills are not very useful. it works like this: the first skill involved in pictionary is in quickly associating an icon with a word or symbol. in this regard, i'm probably no better qualified than anyone else, except perhaps on the more obscure words that don't lend themselves to obvious icons. take the word "woodsman" for instance. immediately, any player will draw "-- | --" on their paper to indicate first/second part. for the first, the most rudimentary trees will be drawn, each looking like the Christmas-tree icon we all know. being correctly guessed at, the draughtsman will proceed to the second part and everyone's favorite stickman will quickly appear on the page. the word is put together, and the point scored.
now note that there is little i could have brought to the table to improve the situation. instead, i am often a liability to any team i am on for a simple reason: pictionary requires me to "dumb down" my talent and draw simplistic icons. i would have to fight my natural inclination to draw a brawny man in a plaid shirt and caterpillar boots carrying a large axe in one hand and a tree trunk slung over the shoulder, complete with intricate root system, dirt clods hanging from it, and a fleeing squirrel leaping away from it, utilizing full chiaroscuro and sfumato, to boot. the everyday folk—those who always like to tell me, "i can only draw stick figures," are in fact in a position to humiliate me in pictionary, even on the obscure terms.
now if the term "corinthian column" showed up, i might be at an advantage since while anyone could draw a column and score half, getting that top part would be a breeze for those who could quickly draw acanthus leaves and such.
but i imagine "corinthian column" is not likely to appear any time soon.


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Marketing Communications Manager Cover Letter Sample for Employment
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Cover Letter express your potential to fulfill the employer's needs and refer specifically to the qualifications.
Cover Letter Template
Knowing how to write a letter is an important skill you'll use in applying for a job, business, school, and personal relationships to communicate information.
Contact Information:
[Your Name]
[Today's Date: Month, Day, Year]
[Hiring manager's name]
[Hiring manager's company name]
[Company address]
Dear Ms./Mrs./Mr. Employer:
(Be sure to determine the formal designation (Ms./Mrs./Mr.) of the person you are contacting. If you're not sure, call the organization to confirm.)
First paragraph:
Say what job and where you saw it advertised. For example: In response your advertisement in the Times, I am applying to the post of (Job title – Marketing Communications Manager).
Middle paragraphs:
The body section explains your qualifications, experience and expertise, for example: Please find attached a copy of my resume. As you will see, I have an education degree and 10 years' expertise leading … After that impress the employer with reasons why you are better suited than competitors. Example: I am ideally suited to this post because…
Final paragraph:
Finalize your cover letter by thanking the employer for considering you for the job position. Include information on how you will follow-up. For example: Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to meeting with you to discuss my application further.
Yours sincerely,
Your name
Enclosure (your resume)
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When you're sending an email cover letter, include a Subject line (include your name, job position, e.g. Marketing Communications Manager) that enables the hiring manager to recognize who you are and the job for which you are applying. Include your contact information in your email signature, and don't list the employer contact information. Start your email message with the salutation.


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From: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpJYNVhGf1s
Recruits of the Night's Watch at Castle Black, under the watchful eye of the cruel master-at-arms, Ser Alliser Thorne. It looks like Jon Snow has already broken Grenn's nose, and is about to take on Pyp.
Behind, you can see the Wall. Built against the sheer face of Magheramorne quarry, the stone wall was painted white up to a certain point, and it looks that they've tinted this to give it an icier appearance.
The Westeros network consists of several different sites, including a forum and a wiki, for all your A Song of Ice and Fire needs.


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Definition of G and T in English:
G and T
(also G & T)
A drink of gin and tonic.
Example sentences
- The least we can expect after a hard day is a G and T on our way back home.
- I am going to have to see what this reads like when the G and T has worn off.
- I prefer my lemon squeezed onto a piece of fried fish or into my G and T!
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Cliburn Competition: First three performers Tuesday
FORT WORTH—The second cycle of solo recitals continued Tuesday at the Van Cliburn International Competition, at Bass Performance Hall.
Nikita Mndoyants (24, Russia) began the day. Amid so much playing to impress, he again proved an unassuming, thoughtful musician. He had plenty of technique, though, as well as expressive savvy, for two unusual works: a G-sharp minor Prelude and Fugue by Sergei Taneyev (a slightly older contemporary of Rachmaninoff) and Six Pieces by the Armenian composer Arno Babadjanian.
Luca Buratto (20, Italy) has nimble, powerful fingers and good interpretive instincts. But he tends to over-project, as he often did in a Bach C minor Toccata and the Schumann Noveletten, and he needs to work on clarifying textures. He was on more congenial ground in the Bartók Sonata.
Giuseppe Greco (23, Italy) sounded like a serious contender for the semifinals. You could argue that his Chopin Polonaise-fantaisie and Prokofiev Eighth Sonata flirted at the edge of over-interpretation: the climax of the former heated up to Prokofiev intensities, quieter music of the latter as perfumed as Chopin. Again, fortissimos were a notch louder than they needed to be—even Prokofiev, himself a great pianist, was no banger. But, start to finish, this was deeply felt music-making.


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Favorite Lunch Recipe: Tomato Mozzarella Sandwich
This sandwich is so simple it hardly needs explaining, but here, for the record, is how I make my tomato and mozzarella sandwiches. Do you ever make these? If you've never had one, now is the time; tomatoes are in high season! I used a fresh Black Krim tomato (so sweet, so juicy!) from my garden, and some very fresh mozzarella, packed in water.
Tomato Mozzarella Sandwich
Olive oil
2 slices bread
1/4 small tomato, sliced
4 thin slices mozzarella cheese
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/2 clove garlic (optional)
4 leaves fresh basil (optional)
Heat a 10-inch skillet over medium heat and coat lightly with olive oil. Place 1 piece of bread in the skillet. Lay two pieces of mozzarella cheese on top of the bread. Lay the tomato slices on top of the cheese and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place the rest of the cheese on top of the tomato and top with the second piece of bread.
Check the bottom of the bread; if it is looking golden, flip the sandwich. Place a cast iron skillet on top of the flipped sandwich and cook for an additional 3 to 4 minutes to finish melting the cheese and toasting the bread.
Option: Rub both pieces of bread with the cut half of a clove of garlic before assembling the sandwich.
Option: Add a few leaves of basil in the center of the sandwich with the tomato.
Related: Tastes Like Summer: The Perfect Tomato Sandwich
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By Staff Sgt. Tanya ThomasSeptember 22, 2010
RAMADI, Iraq (Army News Service, Sept. 22, 2010) -- Members of the Iraqi Police here are schooling up on counter-improvised explosive device techniques thanks to a week-long course taught by explosive ordnance disposal Soldiers.
The class, taught by a team of Soldiers with the 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, offers six recent Iraqi Counter Explosives Team course graduates a refresher course on EOD fundamentals. The class includes demolition procedures, protection of buildings from blasts and fragmentation, and moving objects with ropes.
The primary mission of advise and assist brigades is to advise, train and assist Iraqi Security Forces, which includes army, police and border patrol.
"We're going over the basics," said Spc. Tyler Wend, with the 731st Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company, and one of the course instructors. "This is important because they need to be able to sustain their country on their own and learn how to (counter IEDs) without us being there."
The class, which began with instruction on how to properly tie knots, offered the Iraqi Police a condensed version of the U.S. Army EOD course. Training became more complex and comprehensive on the second day, as the Iraqi team practiced countering simulated IEDs.
"This is a somewhat 'down and dirty' version of (the yearlong U.S. Army EOD class)," Wend said. "We're teaching the same principles."
The sergeant major with the Ramadi EOD said the class was challenging and allowed his team to make mistakes during training so that they do not make mistakes when the scenarios become real.
"We'll learn from our mistakes and continue to train," he said, as he thanked the 731st EOD team for hosting the class. "We need this information. It's very beneficial."
The platoon leader, 1st Lt. Karl Wagner, said training was especially important to him on a personal level and that the Iraqi Police are members of the Army team.
"I feel that they are part of our EOD family," he said. "They should have the same information (about countering IEDs) that we have so that whenever we leave (Iraq), they can still keep doing their job and keep this country safe. This course is designed to help them protect their lives in the future."
Wend agreed, saying he hopes they use the training to protect civilians who can't protect themselves from the threat IEDs.
This class is scheduled to finish Sept. 26, and the 731st EOD team plans to train another group of IP EOD students right after that.
(Staff Sgt. Tanya Thomas writes for 4th AAB, 3rd ID, USD-C)


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- Overview
Table of Contents
- Special Member Functions: Constructors, Destructors, and the Assignment Operator
- Operator Overloading
- Memory Management
- Templates
- Namespaces
Time and Date Library
- Retrieving the Current Time
- Time Differences and Time Zones
- High Resolution Time Measurement and Timers, Part I
- High Resolution Time Measurement and Timers, Part II
- High Resolution Timers
- Summary
- Online Resources
- Streams
- Object-Oriented Programming and Design Principles
- The Standard Template Library (STL) and Generic Programming
- Exception Handling
- Runtime Type Information (RTTI)
- Signal Processing
- Creating Persistent Objects
- Bit Fields
- New Cast Operators
- Environment Variables
- Variadic Functions
- Pointers to Functions
- Function Objects
- Pointers to Members
- Lock Files
- Design Patterns
- Dynamic Linking
- Tips and Techniques
- Five Things You Need to Know About C++11 Unions
- A Tour of C99
- A Tour of C1X
- C++0X: The New Face of Standard C++
- C++0x Concurrency
- The Reflecting Circle
- We Have Mail
- The Soapbox
- Numeric Types and Arithmetic
- Careers
- Locales and Internationalization
High Resolution Time Measurement and Timers, Part I
Last updated Jan 1, 2003.
Standard C++ inherited the <ctime> time and date library from C. While this library offers many useful time and date facilities, it doesn't support a high-resolution time measurement. The POSIX standard defines extensions to this library which are capable of measuring time in microseconds (millionths of a second) and even nanoseconds (billionths of a second). Let's see how they are used.
Measuring Time
First, let's look at a quick reminder. In standard C and C++, you use the time() function to obtain the current timestamp. The time is represented as the number of seconds that have elapsed since The Epoch, or 1/1/1970 at midnight. In a typical 32 bit system, time_t will rollover in 2038. However, as more platforms are gradually moving to a 64 bit time_t, this time bomb so to speak will have disappeared by then.
POSIX defines a fine-grained time measuring function called gettimeofday():
#include <sys/time.h> #include <unistd.h> int gettimeofday(struct timeval * tv, struct timezone *tz);
If struct timeval looks familiar, it's because I discussed awhile ago when I explained non-blocking I/O using select(). Its declaration is repeated here for convenience:
struct timeval { int tv_sec; /*seconds*/ int tv_usec; /*microseconds*/ };
struct timezone is declared as follows:
struct timezone { int tz_mniuteswest; /*minutes west of Greenwich*/ int tz_dsttime; /*dst correction type*/ };
The actual resolution of gettimeofday() depends on the hardware architecture. Intel processors as well as SPARC machines offer high resolution timers that measure microseconds. Other hardware architectures fall back to the system's timer, which is typically set to 100 Hz. In such cases, the time resolution will be less accurate.
The following code listing displays the current timestamp in seconds and microseconds:
struct timeval tv; struct timezone tz; gettimeofday(&tv, &tz); printf("the current time of day represented as time_t is %d and %d microseconds", tv.tv_sec, tv.tv_usec);
Using Timers
A timer is a resource that enables a process or a thread to schedules an event. A program uses a timer to ask the kernel to notify it when a certain amount of time has elapsed. There are two types of timer: synchronous and asynchronous. When a process uses a timer synchronously, it waits until the timer expires, usually by means of calling sleep() or a similar syscall. Sleeping means that the process is removed from the kernel's scheduler for a certain amount of time. POSIX defines four different functions for sleeping, each of which measures time in different units.
sleep() causes the process to sleep at least nsec seconds or until a signal that the process doesn't ignore is received.
unsigned int sleep (unsigned int nsec);
If sleep() hasn't slept nsec seconds, it returns the number of seconds left. Otherwise, it returns 0. sleep() is mostly useful for polling a certain resource in fixed intervals of time. For example, a mail client that polls its mail server every 10 minutes can use a loop that contains a sleep(600); call. This is also the most common syscall for sleeping.
usleep() causes the process to sleep for at least usec microseconds:
void usleep (unsigned long usec);
usleep() causes the process to sleep for at least usec microseconds. No signals are used in this case. Most implementations use select() to implement this function. It's equivalent to calling:
timeval tv; tv.tv_sec=0; tv.tv_usec=usec; int select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, &tv);
nanosleep() offers a resolution of nanoseconds:
int nanosleep(struct timespec *req, struct timespec * rem);
The struct timespec is declared as follows:
struct timspec { long int tv_sec; /*as in timeval*/ long int tv_nsec; /*nanoseconds*/ };
nanosleep() causes the process to sleep at least the amount of time indicated in req or until a signal is received. If nanosleep() terminates earlier due to a signal it returns -1 and rem is filled with the remaining time. nanosleep() offers the highest resolution (theoretically, up to a billionth of a second) although it's the least portable of these four functions. This function is mostly used in real-time environments, allowing a process to sleep a precise amount of time.
In the second part of this series I will discuss interval timers, a facility that delivers signals on a regular basis to a process.


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Cadillac Takes Gamble On A $63,000 Hotrod Station Wagon
Horsepower-crazed drivers tend to buy sports cars with sleek bodies, big engines and not much room for luggage, lumber from the home-improvement store or even passengers. But what if you want all of those qualities in one car?
Cadillac hopes gear-head soccer dads and hot-rodders with a practicality streak will be shopping for something like its CTS-V sport wagon. The company just rolled out the car, which looks a lot like the standard CTS wagon that went on sale last year. The main difference — and a significant one – is that it has a 556-horsepower V8 engine. It's also available with a now-rare sport feature: a manual transmission.
With more than double the power of a standard CTS wagon, the V version may be the fastest grocery-getter on the market. It is almost sure to be the fastest car in the drop-off line at your kids' elementary school. That can be quite a distinction. I recently saw a local woman picking her kids up in a Maserati, but anyone driving the V Wagon needn't worry because it can accelerate from zero to 60 mph in four seconds. At $62,990 it is also about as expensive as, well, maybe a used Maserati.
Cadillac is rolling the dice on this car because historically, most U.S. consumers haven't considered station wagons to be sporty cars. A few years ago Audi, Dodge, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo and Saab offered souped-up wagons, but now most of those models are gone, in part because of scant demand. So Cadillac has the advantage right now of being nearly the only high-performance sport wagon on the market. Dealers are taking orders for the V Wagon, which is scheduled to reach customers late this year.


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Is It Right To Eat Plants?
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I recently read this article about plants having a nervous system and are able to feel pain. Is it right to not eat animals, but to still be eating plants?
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Even if it weren't right to eat plants, it would still be better to be vegan.
"Raising animals for food is grossly inefficient, because while animals eat large quantities of grain, soybeans, oats, and corn, they only produce comparatively small amounts of meat, dairy products, or eggs in return. This is why more than 70 percent of the grain and cereals that we grow in this country are fed to farmed animals.
It takes up to 13 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of meat, and even fish on fish farms must be fed up to 5 pounds of wild-caught fish to produce 1 pound of farmed fish flesh."
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Plants can react to stimuli (like leaning towards sunlight etc) but they don't have a nervous system and they don't have nerve endings which are the receptors to pain.You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
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Police to patrol Vermont state park
There's going to be a greater police presence at a Vermont state park.
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There's going to be a greater police presence at a Vermont state park.
Park officials say an increase in nighttime noise and activities has prompted the initiative at Lake Bomoseen State Park in Castleton.
A contract is in the works with Castleton Police, who will be hired by the park for a summer fee of about $7,000. There will be one officer on duty, who will conduct a seven-hour foot patrol throughout the park.
Castleton Police Chief Bruce Sherwin says in previous summers, the police would only drive through the parks.
The patrols will mostly happen in the evening time and on weekends in response to noise issues regarding drinking parties.
The park will be open Memorial Day weekend.


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Ang Lee has gone in about eight different directions in terms of genre. His resume includes "The Ice Storm," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," Hulk," "Brokeback Mountain," "Life of Pi," and this delightful Jane Austen adaptation, starring Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, and young Kate Winslet. "Sense and Sensibility" took home the Oscar for Adapted Screenplay for the story of the Dashwood family, a mother widowed and left in difficult circumstances after her husband has left his fortune to his first wife, instead of his current one. So Mrs. Dashwood (Gemma Jones) and her daughters Fanny, Marianne, and Elinor (Harriet Walter, Winslet, Thompson) have to find a way to survive in a world ruled by men and the rules that seem to create obstacle after obstacle for them. Unfortunately, given the era, they are viewed as "unmarryable," since they have no fortune and no prospects. »
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Status: RecruitingPhase: N/ADiagnosis: Pediatric Kidney Tumor, Pediatric Wilms' TumorNCT ID: NCT00898365
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DFCI Protocol ID: 06-159
This laboratory study is looking at kidney tumors in young patients. Collecting and storing samples of tumor tissue, blood, and urine from patients with cancer to study in the laboratory may help doctors learn more about changes that occur in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and identify biomarkers related to cancer. It may also help the study of cancer in the future.
Conducting Institutions: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Children's Hospital Boston
Overall PI: Elizabeth Mullen, MD,
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They waited in the rain with the kind of excitement usually found at Apple product launches.
Hundreds then surged forward as the doors of the new Los Gatos Library opened to the public for the first time Saturday, a moment that captured the enduring importance of repositories of treasured information to community life, even in the Age of the App.
The 30,000-square-foot, two-story building quickly flooded with bodies -- toddlers, teens, civic leaders. Its inviting interior -- slate floors, wide-open spaces and floor-to-ceiling windows -- surely would have found favor with the late Steve Jobs had he built a library.
Rather than offering the latest in fashionable gadgets, however, the library will provide something far more lasting: aisles of soft-page books revealing ancient tales and important histories. There are also corners for reading and reflection.
"We are the community's living room," said Los Gatos Library Director Linda Dydo, noting that the building even has a fireplace.
The Internet, she said, has only made libraries more important to people of all ages. Dydo, who recalls debates early in her career about whether libraries should line shelves with the suddenly popular paperbacks, said the venerable institutions have remained vital by staying current.
The new library, for instance, houses complete databases of newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias as well as technical information such as programming languages C++ and Java -- the kind of material few could afford to own on their own. The library is outfitted with 30 shiny iMac desktop computers that also run the Windows operating system for digital discoveries. It also offers e-books.
"Libraries are always early adopters of technology," said Dydo, eyeing one of her staff walking quickly, iPad in hand.
The institution's relevancy could be seen in the faces of residents huddled outside, awaiting the opening ceremony and first chance to roam the roomy facility.
And it was evident in the $18.4 million the city committed to building the structure, 20 years in the planning, and the additional $2.1 million raised among residents to pay for much of what went inside.
Silicon Valley Leadership Group CEO Carl Guardino, who spoke during the opening ceremony, noted that the community mustered the resources to build the library during tough economic times -- even as other communities closed libraries or reduced their hours.
The new library, while certain to be a tranquil oasis for stretching the mind, is not meant to be tomb-quiet. There are rooms aplenty for meetings and discussions.
"Nobody 'shushes' you. Nobody follows you around," Dydo said. "You can come in with your bottled water and Snickers bar."
The library, located next to Town Hall on Main Street, houses a large children's area, gathering space for teens, computer bar, technology lab and outdoor patio. It was also built with solar panels and "smart" building technology that enables staff to reduce energy costs by monitoring power usage throughout the building.
"Libraries are evolving," said Los Gatos Mayor Steve Rice, who noted that the town of 30,000 had long ago outgrown its 1960s era library, cramped and outdated in every way.
"They have become community gatherings," he added. "They are at least as relevant today as they were" in the predigital days.
Indeed, a group of teenagers waited impatiently for the speeches to end before bolting ahead of the horde as the doors opened. The teens immediately set about exploring every nook of the library, mapping out new territory in their lives.
"It's just amazing," said 16-year-old Ethan Arns, a sophomore at nearby Los Gatos High School. He, like his buddies, has a deep appreciation for books -- the paper kind -- and plan to spend hours and hours every week in the library.
Shailaja Venkatsubramanyan, though, initially wondered what role a library would play at a time so much is available online. Her skepticism vanished the moment she and her husband and two children walked into the library.
She envisions their kids -- ages 7 and 4 -- spending a lot of time in the new facility.
"When you think of places to hang out -- other than the mall, there is nowhere else," said Venkatsubramanyan, an associate professor of management information systems at San Jose State University.
While her son and daughter are as tech savvy as any Silicon Valley children their age, they do have a preference for nondigital books.
"They love to feel the texture" of books made from paper, Venkatsubramanyan said.
"My little one loves the smell of books. That's something you can't get with a digital book."
She added, "My kids will grow up here."
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African Light Defeat Amasa FC in Brikama
Friday, March 07, 2008
African Light football team defeated Amasa in the ongoing U17 tournament organised by the Brikama and Kambeng sports committees.
The game, which was played at the Brikama multi purpose mini Stadium in Brikama, featured a very interesting performance. The first half ended 1-1. African Light came out in the second half and applied a lot of pressure and got the wining goal from a penalty kick.
After the game the Head Coach of African Light, Sheik Ebrima Khan, expressed happiness at his sides win.
In his remarks the Coach of the defeated side, Sulayman Ceesay, said that despite his sides loss they can still bounce back in their remaining games.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Religion Quotes
How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"Our Father, thank you for letting me see this New Day. Thank you that you didn't allow the bed I lay on last night to be my cooling board, nor my blanket my winding sheet. Guide my feet this day along the straight and narrow, and help me to put a bridle on my tongue. Bless this house, and everybody in it. Thank you, in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ, Amen." (1.11)
Momma is pretty serious about this religion thing. She prays, she goes to church, she memorizes Bible verses—the whole shebang. But does she instill these values into Maya?
Quote #2
It seemed that the peace of a day's ending was an assurance that the covenant God made with children, Negroes and the crippled was still in effect. (3.5)
Religion can definitely be a comfort for the disadvantaged. Even if no one else does, God loves people who are not white, able-bodied adults.
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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come. (4.18)
So Maya has a religion all her own. What is the God that Maya describes here? Does it have anything to do with Momma's religion?


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More than two thirds of the UK own a mobile phone. This is supported by a network of transmitters and receivers that requires the installation of base stations around the country. Because of their size, location or design these base stations and their masts can have a significant visual impact on the area, there are also general concerns frequently raised by the community about possible health related issues.
National Advice
National advice on the planning considerations for masts etc is given in the National Planning Policy Framework (Section 5). In addition, the Government has recently updated the Code for Best Practice on Mobile Network Development in 2013 and this sets the standards for operators to follow.
Advice from Birmingham City Council
Birmingham City Council provides advice for considering the siting and design of base stations, masts and equipment in Chapter 8 of the Birmingham Plan 2005 (page 21). A Supplementary Planning Guidance Note on the Location of Telecommunication Equipment (mobile phone Infrastructure) is also available, as is a summary of that guidance.
Access to Telecommunication Applications
You can find details of Telecommunications Applications by going to Planning Online
Masts and Equipment Register
Every year theMobile Operators Association provide us with a list of all telecommunications equipment located in our administrative area. The latest one was issued in October 2013 and is available below.
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News 12 at 6 o'clock, August 27, 2009
AUGUSTA, Ga.---South Carolina's own Darius Rucker is the latest big name act that has the James Brown Arena complex back on the good foot.
"It has been on the good foot since the first day we came in," said Kayla Ott with Global Spectrum Management company.
Kayla has spent the last year looking to draw in the crowds.
"People don't come to the Bell and the James Brown Arena to visit," said Kayla. "They come here for the shows."
In less than one year's time three shows have sold out. More than 300,000 people have come through the complex. That number is more than 100,000 people than the year before.
"This is just the beginning," said Monty Jones who is General Manager. "This is just the start of what we have to come for this year."
Steve Harvey, Bill Cosby and the Gaither Vocal Band are coming to an arena near you.
"We're going to have some more announcements coming up," said Monty. "It's going to be some big stuff that hasn't been here before or in a while."
The coliseum authority took a $200,000 gamble on a management company to get people back in the seats.
"It was a challenge," said Kayla. "Nothing is really easy in this economy these days, but I'm a firm believer that if you bring shows that people want to see they're going to buy there ticket."
We're told there's a "big announcement" coming within the next two weeks. Monty says we all know at least one of their songs, and that the show will likely sell out.


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I know.....there sure are a lot of these. But I'm CRAZIE enough to always try to make each one be different. :)
More "Halfsies" :)
Flowery ones.....
And "baby" onesies.....
Hold on.....not too many more left. ;)
So adorable. I love that you do each cookie a little different. Shows how much you care!
The halfsies are my favorite! Those flowered ones are a close second.
These are my favorites! I love the colors on these - they are so cute!


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Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon marks its 25th season with its Silver Jubilee Concert Season. Youth Symphony, Youth Orchestra and Youth Strings will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at the Craterian Theater, 23 S. Central Ave., Medford, and at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, in the Music Recital Hall on the Southern Oregon University campus, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland.
Tickets cost $10, $5 for students and seniors, and are available at Larry's Music in Medford and Paddington Station in Ashland. Tickets for the Medford show are available at the Craterian box office, 16 S. Bartlett St., at www.craterian.org or by calling 541-779-3000. Tickets also will be available at the door.
Youth Symphony, directed by Cynthia Hutton, will perform Johannes Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" and John Adams' "Short Ride in a Fast Machine." Violinist Elana Cooper — YSSO's 2012 Concerto Competition — will play Belgian composer Henri Vieuxtemps' Violin Concerto No. 5 in A minor. Composed in 1861, the piece consists of three movements: Allegro non troppo, Adagio and Allegro con fuoco. The second movement borrows from an aria in Andr� Gr�try's one-act opera "Lucile."
"The work does not seem to be played often," Cooper says in a press release. "The beautiful melodies have grown on me, and I have come to love it. I am excited to share it with everyone in the Youth Symphony and in the audience."
Youth Orchestra will perform arrangements of Hector Berlioz' "March to the Scaffold" and the finale of Brahms' "First Symphony."
Youth Strings, conducted by Faina Podolnaya, will play arrangements of works by Henry Purcell, Sheila Nelson and other composers for string ensembles.
Cooper, a senior at Ashland High School, has performed with YSSO for 10 years. At AHS, she has studied with music teacher Gerry Par�. She's studied privately for 11 years with Podolnaya. In addition to YSSO, she's played with the Siskiyou Violins, the Rogue Valley Symphony, the Jefferson Baroque Orchestra and in ensembles at AHS.
She has participated in Britt Festivals' String Quartet Academy, Marc O'Connor Fiddle Camp, the Advanced Suzuki Institute at Stanford University and the Bowdoin International Music Festival. She's worked with several artists presented by SOU, including Frank Huang of the Ying Quartet and Matthew Denton of the Carducci Quartet.
Hutton has served as music director of YSSO and conductor of Youth Symphony and Youth Orchestra since 1995. She is an associate professor of music and director of bands at SOU and a member of RVS and the SOU Faculty Brass Quintet.
Podolnaya has served as an associate conductor since 2000 and leads Youth Strings. She studied violin performance at the Soviet Conservatory of Music and taught at a music academy in Kazakhstan.
The Youth Symphony and Youth Symphony Alumni will present a gala concert Dec. 18 at the Craterian Theater. The Silver Jubilee Concert Season will include concerts in March and May at the SOU Music Recital Hall and Craterian Theater, with extra shows set for the Performing Arts Center in Grants Pass.
Call 541-858-8859 or see www.ysso.org.
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text: Great Lakes Educational benefits could follow Lake Ontario marine sanctuary designation By Payne Horning • Aug 8, 2016 Great Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary Shipwrecks are a big draw for divers and tourists in the great lakes. Now – for the first time in 20 years -- more communities are getting help in preserving and showing off their underwater treasures. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is expanding its national marine sanctuary program. For Oswego and other communities on the Great Lakes, that designation would bring federal funding and a boost to tourism Farmers helping to limit algae in Great Lakes By Veronica Volk & Elizabeth Miller • Jul 2, 2016 Elizabeth Miller / Great Lakes Today Summers along the Great Lakes include fishing, boating -- and dangerous algae blooms that can shut down beaches. These blooms are caused by excess phosphorous, a lot of which comes from farms. Now some of the region's farmers are testing agricultural practices that could reduce harmful runoff. Duane Stateler and his son Anthony run Stateler Family Farms, one of a handful of demonstrations farms across the country. Over the next five years, three farms in Northwest Ohio will test different practices to find out what reduces phosphorus runoff. Shipwreck discovered off coast of Lake Ontario By Veronica Volk • Jun 30, 2016 Jim Kennard A schooner that sank off the shores of New York in Lake Ontario almost a century and a half ago has been discovered. Underwater explorer Jim Kennard says he and his colleagues Roger Pawlowski and Roland Stevens were canvassing miles of lake bottom with a remote control video camera when it happened. "All of a sudden you see something and the adrenaline kicks in." Lake Ontario national marine sanctuary application nearing completion By Payne Horning • Jun 7, 2016 Jason Smith / WRVO News Oswego County Administrator Phil Church is a shipwreck diver and photographer in his off time. These days, he's bringing his hobby to work. Church is coordinating an effort between Oswego, Jefferson, Cayuga and Wayne counties and the city of Oswego to have the southeastern part of Lake Ontario designated as a national marine sanctuary. There are only 14 in the world and Church said Oswego has a good case to join that list. Worst of the worst Great Lakes invasive species: Sea Lamprey By Angelica A. Morrison • Jun 4, 2016 Angelica A. Morrison / Great Lakes Today The sharp scent of chemicals bites the air as Jason Krebill wades in a creek and pulls out two slippery, slimy, parasitic creatures. He's holding dead adult sea lampreys, one in each hand. They're about two feet long, with suction-cupped mouths, lined with nearly a dozen rows of sharp teeth. Like a vampire, the sea lamprey latches onto its prey and sucks the blood and nutrients out of fish in all five of the Great Lakes. Krebill, a biological science technician with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is a part of a team whose job it is to control the invasive species. Schumer continues to push for developments at the Port of Oswego By Ellen Abbott • Jan 15, 2015 Corey Seeman / Flickr Over the past several years, Sen. Charles Schumer has been able to secure federal money to help with upgrading facilities, including the improvement of rail lines and even dredging the Port of Oswego. He calls the upgrade of the port one of his "pet projects." Schumer has been advocating modernizing the port for several years and says when all is said and done, he expects the job impact to be in the thousands. USGS commissions, christens new research vessel By Gino Geruntino • Aug 8, 2014 Gino Geruntino / WRVO The United States Geological Survey has added a new research vessel to its Great Lakes fleet, which will help monitor the health of Lake Ontario. The new boat replaces a boat that was in use for fifty years and was finally decommissioned a couple years ago. The Research Vessel Kaho, which means searcher or hunter in Ojibwe, was commissioned and christened in Oswego Wednesday morning, even though it's been in use since last year. Offshore wind energy faces setbacks in Great Lakes By Julie Grant • Jul 1, 2014 Martin Abegglen / Flickr The United States is not yet generating a watt of energy from commercial offshore wind. A couple of years ago, it looked like the Great Lakes might lead the nation. Pennsylvania was among a handful of states working with federal agencies to speed up the process. As recently as a couple of months ago, construction of a wind farm in Lake Erie, off the Ohio shoreline near Cleveland, looked promising. But now some are sounding the death knell for any wind development in the Great Lakes. Upstate communities tackle pollution in the Genesee River By Kate O'Connell • Feb 7, 2014 Center for Environmental Initiatives Community members from across western New York came together in Rochester Thursday to address the issue of pollution in the Genesee River, and create an action plan for the immediate future. The summit, run by the Center for Environmental Initiatives, was spurred by a new study which suggests human activity along the Genesee River Basin is having a direct impact on the water quality in Lake Ontario. Asian carp could pose real threat to Great Lakes ecosystem By Gino Geruntino • Nov 5, 2013 Gino Geruntino / WRVO The threat of Asian Carp entering the Great Lakes has been talked about for years. While the potential of the invasive species on the lakes has not been fully determined, environmentalists are concerned the fish could hurt the lakes' ecosystem. Dave White, with New York Sea Grant, says big head and silver carp have been detected very close to the Great Lakes, so the risk of a flood introducing them into the lakes is always present. Should a ship be deliberately sunk in Lake Ontario? By Gino Geruntino • Oct 4, 2013 Vlad Litvinov / Flickr The possibility of deliberately sinking a ship in Lake Ontario will be discussed at a seminar Saturday at SUNY Oswego. Dave White, of New York Sea Grant, which is hosting the conference, says sinking a vessel along the shoreline would create a tourism spot for recreational divers and also provide a habitat for fish. Struggle for federal dredging money continues in upstate cities By Kate O'Connell • Sep 2, 2013 Kate O'Connell / WXXI Shipping lanes and ports along the Great Lakes are big contributors to the economies of upstate cities. Federal funding to remove sediment and keep these shipping lanes open is available, but funds are limited and some of the smaller ports struggle to secure the money to dredge shipping channels on a yearly basis. And, difficulty freeing federal funds has led one company to take matters into their own hands in western New York. Floating USGS lab continues monitoring of Great Lakes By Ashley Hirtzel • Aug 14, 2013 Ashley Hirtzel/WBFO The Great Lakes Fishery Commission estimates that more than 40 million people in the U.S. and Canada depend on the Great Lakes for food, drinking water and recreation. A state-of-the-art research vessel, called the "Muskie," is currently making its way through Lake Erie collecting data samples for the U.S. Geological Survey. Great Lakes restoration funding roundabout continues By Kate O'Connell • Aug 5, 2013 International Joint Commission A federal program dedicated to environmental restoration and cleaning up of the Great Lakes has escaped a massive budget cut. A committee in the U.S. House of Representatives has voted to amend a bill that looked to slash the program's funding, partially restoring it to $210 million for fiscal year 2014. The House bill originally aimed to cut 80 percent of the program's budget, from nearly $300 million to just $60 million for next year. A House committee has since revised that figure from $60 million to $210 million. Research torpedo away: vehicle collecting data on Lake Ontario By Ryan Delaney • May 16, 2013 Ryan Delaney / WRVO A small cylinder armed with research equipment is bobbing through Lake Ontario this week. It's collecting data from a seasonal temperature barrier known as a thermal bar. Groups hope for post-election focus on environment By Catherine Loper • Nov 13, 2012 Vladimer Shioshvili / Flickr While environmental issues did not play a prominent role in this year's presidential election, some activists were cheered when the president mentioned global warming in his election night speech. And one area group says this is a crucial time in determining how the federal government will focus on issues of climate, pollution, water levels and invasive species. The Great Lakes Week By John Weeks • Jul 25, 2012 John Weeks discusses the events of the 1984 Great Lakes Week. This festival included Native American storytelling, water sports, film screenings and concerts.WeeksThis essay describes the activities and goals of this free (and now extinct) celebration. Weeks explains how each citizen should be well aware of the history and uses of the 193 mile-long Lake Ontario. Voyage studying plastic in Great Lakes sets sail By Daniel Robison • Jul 13, 2012 Daniel Robison / Innovation Trail/WBFO Until now, scientists could only guess at the amount of plastic waste in the Great Lakes. This week, a team of researchers sets sail to conduct the first-ever survey of plastic pollution in the world's largest fresh water system. "You really have to start with, 'Is this even an issue in the Great Lakes? [With] 35 million people living around the Great Lakes, all the plastic you see blowing around, common sense is that it's out there," says Sherri "Sam" Mason, professor within SUNY Fredonia's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.