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quote: Read the article again. Its about HTC possibly buying WebOS
quote: You know, no-one takes either of you 2 seriously right?
quote: they make products that alot of people want, and buy
quote: The iPhone changed the industry
quote: Apple is steaming ahead like they are on a mission. RIM is fluttering and has been for years.
quote: it doesn't offer anything that isnt already out there for 2-3 years on other platforms
quote: you bought a Blackberry, you just might be a doofus
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annoying, insecure, immature, needs to grow up and much much more. oh known for walking around dancing and singing the most annoying songs ever
lalalalala, lalalallaa, dance dance dance, UNDER THE SEA.
"yeah C thats kelly for you"
"wow she is so horrid"
"yeah C thats kelly for you"
"wow she is so horrid"
von kittymatie 11. November 2011
A Big WHORE who will do anything for FREE.Kelly likes to stick big penis in her ass.
Kelly is a whore.
von Nick Valentine64 14. März 2011
An overweight woman with really bad hair. Some one who controls every move their husband makes becuase she is a narcassis and plays on the emotions of others. A lazy out of shape unemployed person who has nothing but hate and poison coming from her ugly mouth.
I dont know how he has stayed with Kelly all these years.
von thepretty1 3. Juli 2011
A lying cry baby she'll tell your best friends about stuff that never even happened. She'll lead you to think she's cool then, out of nowhere MEGA BITCH! She doesn't care how but, she wants her way. She's a flirtatious slut that has a horrible taste in style. If she makes a avatar it's always the UGLIEST thing. She's also an annoying scene kid. (:
"Have you seen Kelly?"
Yeah she's over there being ugly and annoying. :)
Yeah she's over there being ugly and annoying. :)
von whowutwhenwherewhy 18. April 2011
some bitch who is stealing the guy you like/ are with.
"wtf? shes being such a kelly!"
von mileybabee 25. Februar 2010
A fake, annoying, slut.
EW, look at her slutting around him, being all fake! What a Kelly!?
von jdfkjdfjhdsj 8. Dezember 2010
Another word for whore. She gets ALOT of guys, but that is because she is easy, and has huge boobies. Kelly's favorite activities are making out, checking out boys, and stroking guy's cocks. Guys only like her for her hoo-ha's, but we all know that her face is terrible. She is a horny-ass, weed smoking, white-trash, bitch. She gives blow-jobs and says "I love you" to EVERY one of her boyfriends. Her life goal is to probably have sex with 200 different guys.
God, she is such a Kelly
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Silverlight FireStarter (Part 8 of 9): Building Silverlight UIs with XAML Power toys
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The Microsoft Silverlight 3 FireStarter sessions took place in Redmond, WA on Thursday, September 17th. There was a stellar line-up of Microsoft speakers, including a keynote from Scott Guthrie and presentations from Tim Heuer, Brad Abrams, Karl Shifflett and other community leaders. You'll learn what's new and noteworthy in the latest releases of Silverlight and Microsoft Expression 3.
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Gov. Tom Corbett's attempt to privatize the state's lottery has been a shady undertaking that will most likely end up in the courts, state Rep. Rick Mirabito, D-Williamsport, told a group who gathered at a town hall meeting he hosted Wednesday night at City Hall.
He said a deal to make Camelot Global Services - a United Kingdom-based company - owner of the state's lottery was done without proper public discourse.
In fact, Mirabito said, more public input would have been needed to change a paint color on an historic house in the city compared to the push to make Camelot the lottery's administrator.
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State Rep. Rick Mirabito, D-Williamsport, addresses a town hall meeting Wednesday night.
"The whole thing wasn't done in an open and transparent manner," he said.
Further, he said he has concerns that profits from the company would be used to fund Canadian teacher pensions and company bonuses. Camelot's parent company is the Ontario Teachers' Pension Fund. A British newspaper recently reported that Camelot set aside $8 million in bonuses for 25 managers, while lottery ticket prices in the UK have doubled.
Mirabito, who said the state's lottery already is working and generating money for senior citizens, said Corbett's deal was a "closed-door, back room deal."
"It should have been vetted publicly because it's the public's money," he said.
Mirabito also said at the meeting that he supports
Second Amendment rights, but he's not sure if Pennsylvania should nullify federal laws on gun control - or any other issue that may be passed.
But states are realizing that they have power and can exert some muscle, said Dr. Anthony Cipolla, who pointed to states that have legalized marijuana in the face of federal laws against it.
Cipolla asked if Mirabito supports House Bill 357, sponsored by Butler County Republican Daryl Metcalfe, which would nullify federal attempts to register, restrict or ban firearms or to limit the size of firearms' magazines.
Mirabito said the bill was introduced just days ago and still needs to be studied.
"There's always two sides to a story," said Mirabito.
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Visual Studio Toolbox: Telerik JustCode
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There are a number of third-party vendors providing tools you can use to enhance your productivity when developing with Visual Studio. Recently, Robert sat down with three of them: DevExpress (makers of CodeRush), JetBrains (makers of ReSharper), and Telerik (makers of JustCode). Each had 20 minutes to show how their product can help you write better code faster. In this final episode of the series, Deyan Varchev of Telerik shows us JustCode.
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I could not understand this guy. His company needs to send someone who can speak better english. He may be a competent programmer (or maybe he is a marketing guy) but he can't communicate what his company's software is good at.
Really solid breakdown of what JustCode is all about. The video and presentation are clear and easy to follow.
Good demo and I thought he was easy to understand. Quite likely to buy this I reckon.
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Local waterways have the potential to foster what some call a "blue economy." Some view them as our greatest regional asset.
Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper is a not-for-profit group that works to protect water quality and promote public access. Executive Director Jill Jedlicka sat down with The News' Brian Meyer to discuss ongoing projects and challenges as part of the weekly "In Focus" series. Watch the full six-minute interview at BuffaloNews.com/video.
Jedlicka: The water in Western New York is cleaner to this day because of the Clean Water Act ... [It] came at a time when the environmental movement started to take over, and environmental laws and regulations were put into place to help protect, restore and clean all of our water throughout our country.
Meyer: A lot of folks have seen some very visible signs of this. We saw a major dredging project along the Buffalo River.
Jedlicka: That is just one of many things that need to be done in order to protect our waterways. With the dredging project, that helps make progress towards the virtual elimination of toxics ... As recently as the 1960s and '70s, the Buffalo River was actually declared dead by the federal government. You can see just by the vibrancy happening right now and the natural regeneration that has happened, there has been tremendous progress. But we're kind of stuck ... with a legacy of industrial pollution that's locked in the bottom of our rivers and streams. And that is what we're trying to tackle right now.
Meyer: Your group is real big on promoting the blue economy. Tell us about that.
Jedlicka: The blue economy is not a new concept. It's just basically using the waterfront as a driving force for economic revitalization, and putting the water first, so to speak. The water will define how our region revitalizes and how it redevelops. Everything from ecotourism, to recreation, to fisheries, to actual wastewater management, industrial processing.
Meyer: Let's talk about RiverBend Commerce Park. What's going on there?
Jedlicka: RiverBend is a fabulous project that's actually hidden in South Buffalo. It's a prime example of the blue economy in action. RiverBend is actually a former steel manufacturing facility. About 20 years ago, it underwent a remediation and that became a barren brownfield. We've got brownfields all over Western New York. What we're trying to do in RiverBend, in partnership with the economic development agencies there, is, again, putting the water first – putting the river first ... We're creating an opportunity for both human interaction with the waterways and also ecological restoration of the Buffalo River. Riverkeeper has been able to bring in literally millions of dollars right now to help reclaim that former brownfield. [We're] about to restore the shoreline and also offer public access opportunities along the greenway.
Meyer: In another part of Buffalo, we have Hoyt Lake at Delaware Park. That's a very widely used waterway, but one with some problems. And Scajaquada Creek is there as well.
Jedlicka: The Scajaquada is another poster child for everything that we've done wrong to our waterways. Hoyt Lake and Scajaquada run through some of the most amazing cultural gems in Western New York ... But Scajaquada has been abused and altered for a hundred years ... It has issues with contamination, it has issues with sewer overflows ... The litter is disgusting ... Riverkeeper is helping to bring together partners and resources to actually make the change and make the improvements.


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I am doing something very unusual and also very nerve-wracking this week. I am packing for a family camping trip.
Camping was a fairly important part of our lives before the farm, even after we had kids. We have backpacks we can live out of for 3-4 week trips, if necessary, and lots of gear, like a water filter and a mini-stove, that are very impractical in any other setting. But, like mountain biking and seeing friends socially, camping is a hobby we gave up in favor of growing food every summer.
Our last family camping trip was Labor Day Weekend 2007. Our fancy backpack currently holds the propane tank for our flame weeder. The last time we used our camp stove was to scald turkeys and chickens. Using these tools in their intended setting feels very unusual to me.
Since summer travel is no longer an option for us, we have resigned ourselves to the idea that our kids will be viewing our great nation's parks and monuments during wintertime. They will have fond December memories, I imagine, of getting out of the car in a deserted parking lot at, say, Mount Rushmore, shivering at the overlook for two minutes, becoming hypothermic, and then scrambling back in the car to demand hot chocolate.
But I am personally not quite ready for that sort of trip yet, so we're heading to the desert for the weekend.
The packing is nerve-wracking because I am not a detail-oriented person. Even when we camped more frequently, we would sometimes (right, often) find ourselves with only two matches left in the box, or with plenty of peanut butter but no bread, or with some other difficult-to-remedy situation.
In case you're wondering, my lack of attention to detail is not limited to a camping situation. My kids more often use toilet paper than tissues to blow their noses. We sometimes sit down to homemade soup only to realize that I forgot to run the dishwasher and all the bowls are dirty. I lose my keys every other year. Don't be like me.
Being rusty at the whole taking kids camping thing, I'm pretty sure I'm going to forget any number of very important things. But luckily, my consistent lack of preparedness has made my family fairly flexible and resilient. I am pretty sure we're going to have a great time no matter what I forget.
I hope.
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Dr. George H. Leiner, associate professor of philosophy at Saint Vincent College, gave a talk at The Nietzsche Society on October 19 in conjunction with the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy in Philadelphia. The talk was entitled, "Nietzsche's Nihilisms: Active and Passive." "In this talk I addressed a common and fundamental misunderstanding of Friedrich Nietzsche's nihilism," Dr. Leiner explained. "In opposition to the widely accepted impression, the upshot of Nietzsche's nihilism is not that the human world of experience is in vain, that it is doomed to be devoid of all meaning, that it is a sentence to unavoidable and irremediable suffering. Quite to the contrary, what follows from a fuller understanding of nihilism is the possibility for affirming human life, even in its daunting finitude, joyfully embracing the conditions of life, taking up this opportunity to flourish. Properly engaged, they insight us, to take up the task of creating values which provide a framework of life within which humans may set goals worthy of celebration. This is the stance to which Nietzsche refers as 'active of nihilism makes it possible to see a wide horizon of human possibility spread out before nihilism.' In such a circumstance we are re-vitalized, steps are quickened, and we are prepared to take up life in all its fullness." "But, before we arrive at active nihilism, we must understand the general nihilistic insight," Dr. Leiner continued. "The nihilistic insight is the realization that humanity does not possess the ability to provide for itself definitive answers to our most pressing existential questions. In Nietzsche's view, this failure of some 90 millennia has not been because of our laziness, or lack of will or courage, or even because of any particular perversity, but rather is the consequence of our human finitude. We simply lack the tools to peer into the absolute. But, once the abyssal insight of nihilism has been made, what then?" "To find an answer, I examined three passages from Nietzsche's unpublished materials: the first, an early sketch of The Will to Power penned by Nietzsche in Sils-Maria in the summer of 1886, second, the Lenzerheide-Fragment of June 10, 1887, and third, a section entitled "Nihilism as a Normal Condition," written in the fall of 1887. I show that we can trace the development of active nihilism from Nietzsche's discussions of 'practical' and 'theoretical nihilism,' and his contrasting of active nihilism with "passive nihilism." What emerges from this study is the conclusion that Nietzsche's active nihilism is not something which must be feared or overcome, but rather that it may form the basis for an affirmative life of human fulfillment." "This project is the most recent upshot of my some 35 years of work with the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche," Dr. Leiner concluded. "I am a founding member of the Nietzsche Society, begun in 1979. In the past I have served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Society. I continue my work as the Book Review Editor of the Society's journal, New Nietzsche Studies. My current work in Nietzsche's thought dovetails well with my participation in the Stanford University Press translation project of the Kritische Studienausgabe (Critical Study Edition) of Nietzsche's work."


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Ballet in three acts by John Cranko after William Shakespeare | Music by Serge Prokofieff
3:00 h | 2 intermissions
45 minutes before each performance (except premieres), there is an introduction in the opera house (in German). It is prepared and moderated by students of the institute of dance studies (Institut für Tanzwissenschaft) of Freie Universität Berlin.
Almost no other material has been so often adapted to the dance stage as that of William Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET. One of the most often-performed dance adaptations is the one by John Cranko. His version, created in 1962 for the Stuttgart Ballet, has gone down in ballet history. And with good reason: with his dancers, John Cranko constantly sought to portray real emotions, something he was famous for. He did not fear emotions and did everything he could to directly include these in his choreographies.
The feuding Veronese families of Montague and Capulet, the love scene before Romeo's leave-taking, and Juliet's eventual death – these are the powerful motifs associated with William Shakespeare's drama. In interaction with Serge Prokofiev's famous ballet composition, Cranko's masterpiece contains the premonition of future suffering as well as the beauty of a love unfulfilled. The stage design and costumes are being newly designed for the Staatsballet Berlin by the Stuttgart-based stage designer Thomas Mika.
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Beetroot Fritters with Lemon Saffron Yoghurt Recipe
By Yotam Ottolenghi | January 30, 2014
Here's something I'd be happy to serve at any time of day. An added bonus is that it doesn't involve that much work. The creamy sauce makes a harmonising contribution to the dish, but leave it out if you prefer, though in that case I'd add some crumbled feta into the fritter mix. Serves four as a starter.


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J.C. Penney stock ticked up Friday on some positive notes
J.C. Penney Co. stock was up 4 percent today after Bloomberg News reported positive comments about Penney's shops from Izod men's apparel supplier PVH Corp.
Bloomberg covered the ICR XChange conference in Miami where PVH CEO Manny Chirico said its Izod business at Penney is so far a "grand slam home run."
The Izod shops opened five months ago inside 700 of Penney's largest stores around the same time as the Levi, Arizona, Liz Claiborne and JCP shops.
Separately, Seeking Alpha had a positive report about Penney's fourth quarter using published reports from the hinterlands (away from Wall Street) about how traffic in Penney stores had picked up over the Christmas holiday.
Investor Matt James wrote in the Seeking Alpha report that maybe the Penney bear analysts who are expecting another huge drop in fourth quarter sales aren't correct. Who knows…but James made a good case.
He said he discovered "eye opening" reports quoting Penney store managers throughout the country. He included links to stories in 16 regional newspapers.
Plano-based Penney reports fourth-quarter results on Feb. 27 so it's going to be a while before we know for sure how the retailer did.
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Kettle with High Quality Stainless Steel and Smoke Finish
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How long do I have to wait to boil water again after the kettle shuts off?
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How do I remove the odd smelling odor coming from the water on the thermo pot?
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Does this electric kettle give any indicator at the end of the boiling process?
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Can I use lemons instead of citric acid to clean the inner container of my Kettle?
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By GenevaGal
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What a great little sleeve for my phone. The style is really classy and, as always, the materials are exquisite.
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By Oscar13
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Could not disappoint - color, style, quality all exactly as advertised. Bought it on sale so great value too!
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By shopaholic
from Woodhaven , Michigan
This is really a stylish case. Too bad it isn't at least 1/2 in wider and lined with a material that allows easy removal of a phone. Phones that have any rubber on them stick to the suede cloth. The case I was hoping to replace is also from Levenger. Still love it but just wanted a change. I'm going to pay close attention to friends and there phones and as soon as I see the perfect phone for this case , I'm going to make that friend an offer that I'm sure they won't refuse....
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Too narrow for my iPhone4 w/silicone cover
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I was sorry to have to send it back, because the quality and price were good. The service has also been good. I have thus ordered another phone case that I hope will fit. Both cases have been on sale, and I appreciate that.
Nice case, but for what?
By Aries4Pugs
from St. Petersburg, FL
Despite the review stating this case did not fit the iPhone 4, I bought the case anyway because of the great price. I have a n iPhone 5c, which is a bit larger than the 4, and not surprisingly, the case does not fit the 5c either. BUT I have managed to squeeze the 5c almost all the way into the case. If I can't stretch out the case enough for my phone, I may use it to hold coupons.
Bought because it's Levenger & it's GORGEOUS!!
By SpaceCoast
from Space Coast of FL
After reading the other reviews I bought this because the thing is GORGEOUS and because I know that it's Levenger quality. Apparently the dimensions are wrong for an I-anything (it doesn't fit my non-I smartphone, either and it's smaller!), but I figured for the price I could get this beauty and find a different use for it. I may use it for business cards, or a folding glasses holder, or for carrying AIR, I don't know. I just know I love it!
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I lost my last i-phone in part because it had a black case that sort of hid itself when I got off planes, etc. I thought that a bright and pretty color wouldn't get lost in the shadows. Possibly true but the i-phone really is too big for the case. You have to shove the phone in and getting it out is a major operation--there's no way to do it without pushing something and losing the call. I can't believe Levengers was so unprofessional--but I guess the sale price tells the story (although I hoped it was simply that no one but me wanted a peach phone case). BTW, although I'm beating a dead horse, the color is coming off the leather.
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I was so delighted to receive this phone case.The leather and color and design were perfect.Unfortunately, I had to return it as my Iphone 4 did NOTfit in the case. The case is too narrow at the top for a comfortable fit.
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There is a story in Texas that back in the 19th century a single Texas Ranger could handle just about any situation. Taking that premise, a new book from William W. Johnstone with J.A. Johnstone, follows Texas Ranger Hank Cannan after he is shot twice when tracking an outlaw.
Cannan makes it to the town of Lost Chance, located in the Big Bend country of southern Texas, where he begins to recover from his wounds. Once in the town he learns that Baptiste Dupoix, a gambler he really needs to arrest, may be more useful to him as a free man because there are other forces at work that threaten the people of the town, and the town's very existence.
Abraham Hacker has come to Lost Chance looking for gold like many others, but when he realizes there is none, he begins plotting to add to his already vast holdings and financial wealth. He sees that the land could be productive for cotton growing, if only he had a work force.
While Ranger Cannan recovers from his wounds — both those gunshots he took before he got to town, and more that strike him once he is in Last Chance — Hacker sends pistolero Mickey Pauleen south into Mexico to cut a deal with the powerful Mexican Sancho Perez.
A drought in Mexico had moved the peasants from their homes as they began migrating north, looking for a land where they could grow crops with at least a hope of making a harvest. This natural migration becomes forced when Hacker and Perez put their plan in place. Perez will round up the peons and drive them across the Rio Grande to Last Chance, where, like a plague of locusts, they will overrun the town and the nearby farms and ranches, ultimately displacing the whites who have settled the area. This will give control of the region to Hacker, who can then beginning mining the wealth from the soil using the back-breaking labor of the peasants to make him even more money.
It is a ruthless scheme and neither Hacker nor Perez have any compassion for the Mexican people they are using for their own gain, ruthlessly pushing them under brutal sun, without food or water. The people who are too weak, simply drop from exhaustion, dehydration, and starvation.
Meantime, Ranger Canaan struggling to regain his strength with the help of a beautiful, young prostitute, Roxie Miller, wraps his mind around the problem facing the town, enlists the aid of the gambler Dupoix, a old peg-leg sailor, Ephriam Slough, and town leaders as he sets up a defense that he hopes can hold against the hoards of peons and Mexican toughs headed toward town. The knowledge that his wife Jane is en route to Last Chance on the Butterfield Stage weighs heavily. Is he worried for her safety, or his own as this single Texas Ranger rallies a town to fight for their independence on Independence Day?
The cast of characters in this book is complex and each is well-drawn from Dupoix's grandmother Henriette Valcour, a swamp-living Louisiana woman some consider a witch doctor, to Abraham Hacker's concubine, Nora, a woman Mickey Pauleen covets as his own, and certainly to the tougher-than-nails Hank Cannan.
There is plenty of action, more than a few killings, and yet this is a story that moves along at a fast pace with a solid plot. Can the townspeople and Ranger Canaan hold off the thousands of Mexicans set to overrun them? How will the severely wounded Ranger even make it to the battlefield? And will the aspiring Abraham Hacker and the conniving Pedro Sanchez outsmart Cannan, or each other?
I read this book on July 4 — appropriate enough given the title and the day of the big showdown in Last Chance — and as I got to the pivotal moments in the book the fireworks started popping and booming all around the house where I was staying in Richland, Washington, making me wonder, just for a moment, if the battle for Last Chance was truly underway. ❖


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This weekend was VERY low key, which I totally needed to celebrate being done with this quarter of school. I now officially have 3 weeks off, just long enough to rejuvenate before my next classes start. Speaking of school, my grades are now official:
Anyway, this weekend we just kind of hung out with my parents, my brother and his new girlfriend Jen. Now, in the past I have scared a few of my brother's girlfriends. One deserved it and the other was scared of me because of that, hehe. But I'm his older sister! However, Jen is AWESOME and she gets along great with our family. Definitely an A+ as far as I'm concerned!
Friday night we watched movies with my folks. Ryan and Jen didn't show up till late and by then we were all tired. Which is why I'm so happy Dustin is able to take half days at work, we got up there around 4 and got to feel like we had a little extra time.
Sadly, the weather wasn't great this weekend. So Saturday we headed into town to check out Musky Fest. Yes, you read right. Hayward is the kind of town that has festivals for all kinds of things, muskies included. But I got to have a chocolate covered pretzel and ice cream AND see beagle puppies so I was a happy camper.
Saturday night we hung out at the house playing games. The first was Mille Bornes, which we didn't like because my parents totally dominated and my dad is a total sore winner. The second was Uno Spin, which I NEARLY WON till Ryan stole my win at the last second. SO MEAN!
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While this is no doubt true, El Salvador is also marred with poverty and suffering. Child labour is prevalent, as many young children need to go to work in order to survive, and often provide for their families.
Ever wondered where the tasty sugar of your can of Coca Cola comes from? Odds are it is from an El Salvadorian sugarcane mill, which openly uses child labour. Children as young as eight work for up to eight hours a day in hot sun, cutting sugar cane with huge machetes. It is dangerous work, and injuries, sometimes life threatening, are all too common. Other children labour in sweatshops making garments for western countries, climb landfills in order to collect recycling material to sell, and young girls risk physical and sexual abuse by working in the domestic sector.
Perhaps the most visible of child labour in El Salvador, is children working in the marketplace. The kids can be seen selling goods and services in the streets, and in local markets, some as young as four and five. This work often includes running in and out of traffic, backbreaking work carrying goods, and working in the extreme heat. Education is expensive, and many poverty-stricken families cannot afford to send their children to school. Children instead spend hours working, their childhood stripped from them, in order to survive.
By volunteering through the Global Volunteer Network, Lauren McElroy of Washington, USA was able to visit El Salvador to see first hand how these people live, and to work for a programme that helps to give the children a break from that environment.
"One of my friends had gone to El Salvador the year before, and she said what an amazing experience she'd had, and that she was going back again," says Lauren, reflecting on her five weeks spent volunteering.
"I was just getting back into Spanish, so I was able to go. I knew that I could actually be able to talk to the kids, and I felt like that would make more of a difference."
Lauren volunteered with a programme called 'Angeles Descalzos' which means 'fallen angels'. The programme is for kids who work in the marketplace, many of whom cannot afford to go to school, and provides them with the chance to learn and play.
"We had a morning and an afternoon session. I taught some English, because a lot of the kids didn't go to school, and English is something that really they can only learn in school. It's really useful for them, because there's a lot more opportunities if you know English, both educational, and job opportunities."
The children come to the programme part time, when they are not working, and are able to come to this programme free of charge thanks to the support of volunteers.
The programme enables the marketplace children to take some time out, and provides an environment where they can be themselves and enjoy their childhood, as many of the children that Lauren met had been working as long as they could remember. "My friend Lisa who came with me is a theatre Major, so we did drama, which is really fun, just to try to get the kids to be a bit more creative and have fun. They don't have board games and store-bought toys like in developed countries. They are not really encouraged to be creative, and to just play."
The Civil War in El Salvador raged for over a decade. When it ended in 1992, it left around 70,000 people dead, causing damages worth over $2 billion. This put a huge strain on the already struggling economy, and left thousands of men, women and children alike maimed, injured and emotionally scarred. Although the war officially ended in 1992, it still has a massive impact on the day-to-day life of El Salvador's people. Many are still left suffering, coming to terms with war-related injuries and illness.
Lauren stayed with a host family, and was able to see first hand the impact of the war on families in El Salvador. "Their dad had been in the war, and he had been injured, and had just started to work again in a sweatshop in San Salvador, which is about a three-hour bus ride from Santa Ana where he lived. He would go there every week, and he would have basically day-long shifts, up to 24 hours, so he would stay there overnight and come back on weekends. It was amazing to see the sacrifice that he made for his family, and hear about his experiences fighting in the war and being injured, then recovering, and trying to get back into the workforce."
Hosting the volunteers also provides the families with valuable extra income. Lauren's host family could then afford to send two of their children to school. One has also recently been able to attend university, thanks to the extra income gained by hosting volunteers.
Volunteering in El Salvador also brought Lauren the obvious challenges, such as the language barriers, but these were quickly overcome. Other challenges were not so obvious. Learning about kids' lives that are so different from our own childhoods can be heartbreaking.
"When the kids are telling you their stories, you just want to be able to change everything," says Lauren. "I was only there for five weeks, and you can't change everything. Just knowing that you were going to leave, and they are going to stay there and still be having the same life, I think that was really hard, and one of the biggest challenges. To do what you can, and accept the fact that things aren't going to change overnight… you have to just let that be, and do what you can while you are there."
The programme, which receives very little government funding, relies on volunteers, mainly from foreign countries, to teach the classes. If it wasn't for volunteers like Lauren, programmes like 'Angeles Descalzos' would not be able to stay running. As a volunteer Lauren was able to develop friendships with these children, which is a totally unique element of travelling in a developing country.
"When you picture a country like that when you go there, you see these kids out there selling things, but you don't really have a personal relationship with them, so it just gave an incredibly different face and a different perspective on child poverty and child labour," says Lauren. "It was really different when you knew the kid, and knew about their daily life, and had a relationship with them, rather than when it was just some faceless kid trying to sell you something. I have much more compassion, and respect, and understanding of their lives, and what that's like."
GVN has several programmes in El Salvador, including teaching English to children from the marketplace, or children who collect rubbish at landfills for recycling. There are also community maintenance programmes, and the opportunity to work in an orphanage desperate for help.
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I realized that I had to go to another place to collect the key after I arrived the accomodation. The owner said that he already gave me the email to inform the imformation.but I have never get the email. I SWEAR!!
AND YOU HAVE TO PAY EXTRA as cleaning fee.
It has been pleasurable to stay in this apartment which allowed us to have a great holidays. The balcony opens on a quite street which is very pleasant for a meal in fresh air. The air conditioning is quite and effective and the glass sliding door sound proof. so city noises hasn't been an issue.
The gym is well equipped and with a sona room. The pool and spa were very cold (sept) and the BBQ out of order.
Make sure you address all your enquiries at Wundu as you are not clients of the building management team. We were supplied with linen for 2 even we had booked for 4 guests.
Overall, good value for money.
Close to transport and many parks, lovely bakery around corner and convenient store with internet.
Very clean & good location. Only problem was setting timer on oven as power had been off. (Push first two buttons and last together)
Would consider staying here again.
The apartment is very good situated nearby central station. We could easyly get to all places we wanted to visit. Everything we needed was there. But it was not very comfortable to get the key at a different place far away, where the lady couldn´t tell us the way to the apartment. It is only possible by going by taxi. Nevertheless we enjoyed our stay very much.
Das Apartment ist sauber und perfekt für 2 Personen, mit 4 Personen auch noch in Ordnung. Die Küche ist voll ausgestattet.
Super Lage, 5 Minuten zu Fuß von der Central Station entfernt.
Die Schlüsselübergabe findet an einem anderen Ort statt, funktionierte jedoch reibungslos und sehr schnell.
Der Vermieter "Peter" ist sehr freundlich und hilfsbereit.
Fabulous apartment, very spacious and clean, with a gorgeous view of the bridge and cityscape, lovely little touches by the host made us feel at home, very secure building and parking made all the difference I will definitely be booking this apartment again in the future
amazing views of sidney
Appartment is very good located and has space enough for 4 to 5 people (one bedroom for adults, the other bedroom rather for 2-3 kids). Great is tennis-court and pool on the rooftop with amazing few.
The price was rather high and for this, in our opinion all details shoud be perfect (like dishwashing machine must work correctly, all lights should work, no broken chairs).
Very nice spacious apartment with a fantastic view of Sydney. Great location. We really enjoyed our stay.
We stayed at the apartment in April 2015 (2 adults and 2 children) and found it to be excellent. Great location (handy to transport and also easy to walk into town and around), great facilities, spacious, very comfortable and very clean and tidy. The one negative was dealing with Peter and his office staff. When asking for clarification or assistance, they were very defensive and their general communication was not great. Once they sort that out, I would have no hesitation in recommending the apartment as a great place to stay.
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An old standby gets a new look when formed into rings to resemble life preservers. Place a little ketchup and mustard in separate resealable plastic bags to easily pipe fast, flavorful markings on the moist mini meat loaves.
- 1 egg
- 1 can (5-1/2 ounces) spicy hot V8 juice
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 cup seasoned bread crumbs
- 1-1/2 teaspoons seasoned salt
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1-1/2 pounds lean ground beef (90% lean)
- Ketchup and mustard
- In a large bowl, combine the first six ingredients. Crumble beef over mixture and mix well. Shape into six balls; flatten slightly. Make a hole in the center of each ball with the end of a wooden spoon handle.
- Place in a greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until meat is no longer pink and a meat thermometer reads 160°. Decorate with ketchup and mustard. Yield: 6 servings.
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quote: Silly silly silly, have you taken an undergraduate device physics course and understand KT/Q? Vt can't be lowered anymore at room temperature without excessive leakage as you will lower the barrier between source and drain. Anything much lower then 400mV and you can't turn the transistors off. Thus you can't just reduced the drain voltage as Vdd-Vt won't be enough to dry that lowK backend.
Thus to get good drive current and minimum leakage you need Vdd about 1 volt or so. Any lower and you get really low performing transistors. Of course in sleep/slow mode you can do all you want reduce Vdd but then you have this thing called SRAM stability to deal with.
High K / Metal gate is as close to having your cake and eating it to!
quote: SiO2 buffer layer, really? Think thru what you said. Today we can't support a thinner electrical thickness and control leakage. Now you tell me you need a layer of Oxide then add some thicker HiK and get a thinner electrical oxide then a nitrided oxide... Sorry is that HiK have negative effecitive oxide thickness? If you add a buffer of oxide then you negate all the benifits of having HiK helping your eletrical TOX.
quote: Extended halt power for core 2 duo is 22/12W (available in Intel's datasheet.) Believe the 12W figure is for the 2MB. Either way, yes, gate leakage can be more of an issue when not in standby, depends upon the design.
Anyway, all those figures are based upon the current conroe at 3GHz. And even if you increase the figure by the amount of core logic increase going into wolfdale, you still only get 50W. Either way, at this point it's all just speculation anyway. Intel's current figures are just based on simulations since silicon isn't at speed. So even if that was an actual roadmap, Intel wouldn't have lowered TDP on it in the least.
quote: I'm not involved in the process engineering, so I don't know exactly what method Intel's high-k process is using. Seeing as how it's a trade secret, I doubt anyone who does would post it. That said, what does the interface between dielectric and silicon have to do with electron mobility through the channel area? Part of the desirability of halfnium in my understanding was that it interfaced so nicely with silicon, the problem was always on the gate electrode.


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Compiling a collection of 60 short stories about life at Lake Tahoe was the creative idea of Meyers publisher Bona Fide books. It proved to be a good one.
Sifting through the hundreds of submissions was a gargantuan task but at the end of the day "Tahoe Blues: Short Lit On Life At The Lake" has just the right balance. There's something in it for everyone.
Launched in June as part of Lake Tahoe Community College's writers series, "Tahoe Blues" has since been a popular read with Tahoe residents and Tahoe visitors. It showcases our community, its people, culture, challenges and changes. Readers get an inside peek into our little corner of paradise from a variety of vantage points, some more familiar than others. Not every story will appeal to all but the vast majority will entice and intrigue. The unique nature of the stories featured in "Tahoe Blues" is key in providing a multi-dimensional view of lake life, adding interest, substance and style.
There's a lot of talent from Lake Tahoe and beyond wrapped up in 157 pages. Fifty-six writers in all contributed, bringing to the table a not only a variety of colorful topics but also diversity in writing styles. Stories are 500 words or less and are flash fiction or micro-essays. How will you know the difference? The reader will determine fact from fiction. Some subjects have universal appeal. There's love, romance, urban legends, illness, jobs and divorce. Others are rooted deep in the gritty Tahoe lifestyle narrated in vivid, living color and exposing mountain life in all of its glory; waxing skis, swimming in frigid alpine waters, shoveling snow; night skiing in the forest.
Chapters are divided into shades of blue, each one with a unique tone.
"The Angora Monster" (Shawn Huestis) is in cobalt. It demonizes monster flames. "Growing larger the beast stalked trees forbidden from fleeing." "Scraped Clean" (Charlotte Austin) appears in the aquamarine chapter. It's softer in sound and feel, "There's an openness here that I crave, a sense of being scraped clean by the dry blue sky." "Desolation" (John Q. McDonald) shares sightings of meteor showers in midnight, "The summer sky wheeled silently overhead, sparkling with intermittent shooting stars, each one a glint of light always seeming to come from the corner of my eye." And then there's "The Time We Had" (Ryan Row) in slate, a bit darker in mood, "The homeless are also frequent patrons. One took a liking to me. He smelled like dirt and oil, heavy clothes."
Each of the nine chapters in "Tahoe Blues" offers shades of blue to explore. Dive in! There's humor, drama, angst, nostalgia, hope, dogs, bears and, yes, even ghosts. Short biographies of each contributor appear in the back and a beautifully designed cover, an underwater shot looking up to a ray of sun, adds a nice finishing touch.
Read it on the BlueGo bus, pack it in your lunchbox; take it to the beach. It's lightweight, easy to tote and sure to please those who love outdoor living and our beautiful Lake Tahoe.
- Gloria Sinibaldi resides part-time in South Lake Tahoe. Her short story "A Means To Survive" appears in "Tahoe Blues." She's a job coach, trainer and author. She contributes monthly to the business section of the Tahoe Daily Tribune.


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Tim Brown joins Allen indoor football league team looking for new identity
Talk about a complete purge. When we last heard of the Allen Wranglers, they were cutting ties with Terrell Owens. Now, not only are they without T.O., they're not even the Allen Wranglers.
Plano-based Championship Sports Group swept into Allen today and invited the public to "Name Your Team" during an afternoon news conference.
"[It's a] good opportunity for the community to get involved and get to pick the name of the team they support," Charlie Hildbold, vice president of operations, told neighborsgo's Jana Pruet.
Renaming the team is worth $5,000.
To stir media interest in the event, the team distributed packages of vacuum-sealed Hanes underwear that read "It's Time For A Change!" and a cross through the old Wranglers logo.
No kidding. Along with a new name, ownership is also on the hunt for a new coach. Negotiations are still ongoing to retain Drew Pearson, who signed on as a general manager with former team co-owner Jon Frankel, a team official said.
But the team still wants a name and it introduced Heisman Trophy winner and Dallas native Tim Brown as the team's general manager and a partner in the group.


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|Mapping Particle Charges in Battery Electrodes
The deceivingly simple appearance of batteries masks their chemical complexity. A typical lithium-ion battery in a cell phone consists of trillions of particles. When a lithium-ion battery is charged or discharged lithium ions move from one electrode to another, filling and unfilling individual, variably-sized battery particles. The rates of these processes determine how much power a battery can deliver. Despite the technological innovations and widespread use of batteries, the mechanism behind charging and discharging particles remains largely a mystery, partly because it is difficult to visualize the motion of lithium ions for a significant number of battery particles at nanoscale resolution.
Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and Berkeley Lab used synchrotron-based scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (STXM) at ALS Beamlines 5.3.2 and 11.0.2 to probe the charging and discharging dynamics of lithium iron phosphate (LFP), a promising positive battery electrode. By tracking the movements of lithium ions, one can decipher the process that ultimately limits the rate of battery charge and discharge. Previous work focused on either the behavior of a single battery particle or the spatially averaged behavior of the entire battery electrode. STXM gives a microscopic "lithium map" with a resolution down to 10 nm for hundreds of battery particles at a time. This unique visualization of lithium distribution across multiple length scales has generated significant insights into lithium-ion battery charging and discharging.
Researchers first charged commercial-grade battery cells to 50% full in 30 minutes, mimicking real world conditions. Then, the battery cell was immediately disassembled and the liquid electrolyte removed to lock in the lithium distribution. Next the battery was sliced into thin pieces about 500 nm thick using an ultramicrotome. Finally, the samples were brought to the ALS, where Fe L-edge spectromicroscopy was performed to determine the nanoscale distribution of oxidation states. In the charged, or de-lithiated state, the material adopts an Fe3+PO4 composition, whereas in the discharged, or lithiated state, the cathode material adopts a LiFe2+PO4 composition. Therefore, the local Fe oxidation state can be used to directly determine the local lithium content.
STXM couldn't quite resolve individual particles, especially those smaller than 100 nm; complementary transmission electron microscopy (TEM) was performed on the same regions to discern one particle from another.
Researchers analyzed and quantified the local state-of-charge of approximately 500 individual LFP particles over nearly the entire thickness of the porous electrode. Using the STXM lithium maps and the high-resolution TEM images, researchers found that LFP battery particles do not charge simultaneously. Instead, the locked-in lithium distribution indicates that only about 2% of the battery particles were actively undergoing charging. The rest of the particles were either already charged or were yet to be charged.
This simple observation has a significant implication: The battery particles actively undergoing charging (2%) carry all of the electrical current. In other words, the local charging current is about 50 times higher than the overall charging current. The researchers propose that such behavior is due to the high nucleation barrier that limits the rate at which LFP becomes de-lithiated (charged).
These results confirm a mosaic (particle-by-particle) pathway of intercalation and suggest that the rate-limiting process of charging is initiating phase transformation. Therefore, strategies for further enhancing the performance of LFP electrodes should not focus on increasing the phase-boundary velocity but on the rate of phase-transformation initiation. Moving forward, the researchers will apply this powerful combination of techniques to study other battery chemistries.
Research conducted by: W.C. Chueh, F. El Gabaly, J.D. Sugar, N.C. Bartelt, A.H. McDaniel, K.F. McCarty, K.R. Fenton, and K.R. Zavadil (Sandia National Laboratories), T. Tyliszczak (ALS), and W. Lai (Michigan State Univ.).
Research funding: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Sandia Truman Fellowship in National Security Science and Engineering; and Michigan State University. Operation of the ALS is supported by DOE BES.
Publication about this research: W.C. Chueh, F. El Gabaly, J.D. Sugar, N.C. Bartelt, A.H. McDaniel, K.R. Fenton, K.R. Zavadil, T. Tyliszczak, W. Lai, and K.F. McCarty, "Intercalation Pathway in Many-Particle LiFePO4 Electrode Revealed by Nanoscale State-of-Charge Mapping" Nano Lett. 13, 866 (2013).
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Current Altoona Area school board President Ryan Beers was pushing for clarity on administrative staff salaries years before his questions about raises prompted an investigation by the school district's solicitor.
Beers unleashed a new round of scrutiny last week when he told fellow board members that he was unable to find board approval for some raises dating back to 2007 that exceeded contracted amounts for several administrative staff members. Combined, the raises total in the tens of thousands of dollars.
The Pennsylvania Auditor General's Office also is conducting an audit of the district.
"If someone does their job above and beyond, then there should be an evaluation to show what the raise should be," Beers said earlier this week. "But someone shouldn't unilaterally change people's salaries, and that is what's happened."
He believes the raises might have been given unilaterally, perhaps by longtime district Superintendent Dennis Murray.
The Sunshine Law prohibits raises to be awarded without board approval at a public meeting.
Murray, recovering from shoulder surgery, did not return a phone message this week about the raises Beers questioned, but said last week, "I've never done anything with malice," and a former top assistant, Frank Meloy, defended him and criticized the current board.
The raises Beers questioned are for central office administrators and middle-management staff members who received increases sometimes more than double the contracted annual increases of 3.5 percent and 4 percent from 2007 to 2010. Of the six raises in question, one was for $10,000.
- In March 2010, the board approved confidential secretary Pam Waddell's salary as per an agreement for administrative staff laid out by the board and Murray - an "Act 93 Agreement," a 2010 board agenda provided by solicitor Dave Andrews states. However, where the administrative salary agreement called for a 4 percent increase, Waddell received a 23.8 percent increase, or $10,000, Beers said.
- Norm Miller was named assistant superintendent effective July 1, 2010, at a salary of $105,000. Beers' documents showed Miller's salary was listed by the district months later at $107,000 - an added $2,000 that Beers said the board did not approve.
- Christine Trybus received a change of assignment in 2010 from confidential secretary/teacher registry in the superintendent's office to confidential secretary in the assistant superintendent's office. Trybus' salary increases of 7 and 9 percent from 2008-10 and a $1,000 stipend rolled into her base pay were not approved by the board, Beers alleges.
- District Business Manager Michelle Krebs received a raise of 8 percent for 2007-08, when the contracted rate was 3.5 percent, and raises of 6 percent for 2008-09 and 2009-10, when the contracted rate was 4 percent each year.
- Prior to her promotion as high school principal, Patty Burlingame, then-assistant high school principal, received raises of 6 percent for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 school years. Contracted rates were 3.5 percent and 4 percent respectively.
- Lori Mangan, junior high school principal, received salary increases of 8 percent for 2007-08 and 6 percent in 2009-10, when contracted rates were 3.5 percent and 4 percent, respectively.
Beers said he also has questions on many other salary increases.
Beers' allegations prompted the board to direct Andrews to investigate the matter.
Andrews said only the board of school directors has authority to increase or decrease an employee's salary. Andrews turned over Beers' documentation to the Mirror.
In 2010, the board approved Beers' request for a base-pay study. It found that some of Altoona Area's non-union employees were paid higher than other comparable school districts and some others paid "well below," Beers said.
"Those raises speak to why we need [a base-pay] policy," Beers said.
Since the study conducted by HR Consultants Inc. was commissioned - publicly, Andrews said - the board has used its results for internal discussions of the base-pay policy that Andrews said might come to a board vote in time for the July 1 start to the new school fiscal year.
"You have to implement it gradually," Andrews said. "It's a significant undertaking, but it makes sense to do."
But Andrews said the board likely will not move forward with the base-pay policy until the members have input from Murray's successor, who could be hired by the end of the month. Murray is retiring in June.
Meloy, a former assistant superintendent and a district employee for 42 years, said there must have been a reason for the raises that are under scrutiny.
"You don't go years and years without a tax increase by giving out money for anything," he said. "I don't think anyone was ever overpaid."
The secretary, Meloy said, was paid extra because there were two people in Murray's office, then one left.
Murray was always a fair boss, Meloy said. "And knowing how he operated, there was nothing under the table."
"The board must have selective amnesia," he added.
Meloy said he attended many executive sessions in which Murray would "talk to the board about different personnel, and he would try to equalize them" with what others were paid in the district.
Andrews said Beers, district human relations director Margaret McMinn and "many board members have mentioned that it's better to have a structured system for determining pay ranges and gradations based on years of service, skills and position and setting rates that are comparable to competing school districts.
"You want to be competitive with other school districts - Hollidaysburg, Richland, Indiana," Andrews said.
The "exhaustive" study, Andrews said, compared Altoona to similar-sized communities with the same per capita income.
"There was a lot of comparative data," he said.
Andrews said he and board members have heard employees with higher salaries express uneasiness that they might not receive raises.
Despite those concerns, Beers said it is incumbent on the board to rectify the salaries that are higher than comparable districts and also those that are lower.
"But how do we implement the policy? We don't have that answer," he said.
With available funds, he said, "I would want to allocate resources to people on the low end."


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Now that the 2011 NFL Draft is over and the teams have selected their future players, we can start breaking down how each team faired.
Through all seven rounds, there were surprise and head-scratchers, but it was still a great weekend of football talk.
With all of the nonsense around the CBA, the momentary lapse into normality was a great moment but it didn't last long.
It's back to legal jargon instead of free agency rumors and court room battles instead of position battles.
Instead of whining, we are going to break down every team and how they did in this year's draft.
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