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Epistemic modality is one of the three kinds of modality, which expresses a judgment about the truth of a proposition (whether it is possible, probable or necessarily true). The term "epistemic" was borrowed from Greek and means "knowledge, understanding". This study may be helpful both for students who study English and French as foreign languages (to apply the grammatically correct ways of expressing epistemic modality – modality of judgment) and researches that use scientific vocabulary for writing scientific papers (they will be probably interested in the sub-chapter describing impersonal constructions used in scientific prose mostly). The comparative study is performed on the basis of more than 500 examples that range from fiction, articles to scientific proceedings, aiming to present epistemic modality in nearly all styles. The work clearly shows that only the integral analysis of minimum two languages permits to make a unique and precise investigation of modality, this polisemantic, multidimensional, multi-functional - the most controversial phenomenon of English and French grammar.
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What's New in Visual C#
Various Compiler Improvements
Many improvements have been made to the C# compiler to remove inconsistencies with the language specification. Some of these improvements are breaking changes, but others are just software updates or enhancements. For more information about the breaking changes, see Visual C# 2008 Breaking Changes. For more information about the other bugs fixed in Service Pack 1, see List of changes and fixed issues for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta for Visual C#.
Visual C# IDE
Live Semantic Errors
Visual C# 2008 Service Pack 1 introduces Live Semantic Errors, a new feature that provides a more complete set of error information about your code. This feature detects expression-level errors that were previously reported only after a build. It highlights the errors with red wavy underlines as you write code. For more information about wavy underlines, see Editing Code (Visual C#).
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Couple of warnings.
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He's probably more interested in spamming us with the Islam stuff.
I reckon you should ban ALL links for new users, not just restrict them to signatures.
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why do you speek in this way my friends????
i take copy of MSDN data because it so interested and collect the all featuresof vs 2008
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Because passing someone else's work off as your own is plagiarism and generally considered a bad thing. It's good that you're inspired by Microsoft, but you shouldn't use that as an excuse to post their copyrighted material on other web sites, which can get the sites concerned in trouble as they're making money (indirectly, through advertising) off that material. Best bet if you want to keep the stuff is to save it on your own computer.
And the only other content generated by you is the Islam stuff. So so can maybe understand that you come across as a spammer even if that wasn't your intent. Perhaps if you want to redeem your image you can delete your signature for now (to reinstate it later) and start posting original content - answer other people's questions from your own knowledge, ask questions about gaps in your own, for instance.
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Health Inequalities Intervention Toolkit
This Health Inequalities Intervention Toolkit, developed jointly by the Association of Public Health Observatories and the Department of Health, focuses on improving life expectancy
and infant mortality rates, especially in disadvantaged areas. Based on local authority boundaries, it is designed to assist evidence-based local service planning and commissioning, including Joint Strategic
Needs Assessments. The Toolkit does this by providing information on the diseases, which are causing low life expectancy in individual areas, enabling good local priority setting.
The Toolkit was originally designed to support achievement of the national Public Service Agreement target to: "Reduce health inequalities by 10% by 2010 as measured by infant mortality and life
expectancy at birth." Although the PSA target has now ended, the Toolkit should still be useful to the NHS and local government, supporting planning to narrow inequalities in life expectancy and infant mortality
Life Expectancy Tools
There are separate life expectancy tools, one based solely on the former Spearhead areas, which were the focus of the life expectancy PSA target, and one for all local authorities in England.
Both tools are designed to support planning to help narrow local life expectancy gaps.
Spearhead Tool – Life Expectancy Gaps
The tool for former Spearhead areas was fully updated in April 2010 and made available for the first time as a web-based application within the intervention toolkit. The tool presents gaps in life expectancy between each former Spearhead area and England as a whole, based on data for 2006-08. An improved set of tables and charts are available which illustrate the causes of death, and age groups, which are making the greatest
contributions to these gaps. To access the tool click the Spearhead Tool – Life Expectancy Gaps button at the top of this page.
Spearhead Tool – Commissioning interventions
This part of the Spearhead tool was fully revised in 2010. To support commissioning decisions, it allows users to model the impact that systematically
implementing evidence-based interventions at scale can have on reducing inequalities in life expectancy and All Age All Cause Mortality between each former Spearhead
area and England. A new intervention illustrates the gains in life expectancy which can be made by lowering levels of high blood sugar. This supplements the
original interventions (increasing numbers of smoking quitters, lowering infant mortality, and prescribing antihypertensives and statins) which have also been
updated within this latest version of the tool. To go to the intervention element of the tool: (1) Click the Spearhead Tool – Commissioning Interventions button at
the top of this screen, (2) Select the former Spearhead area which you wish to model, (3) Click the Commissioning Interventions button.
A supplementary page with Frequently Asked Questions, pdf versions of the charts for each former Spearhead area, technical details underlying the tool, downloadable
data files, and links to further resources, can be accessed by clicking here
Spearhead Tools – 2003-05 and 2005-07 data
Earlier versions of the Spearhead Tool remain available so that trends can be considered. The 2009 tool (based on data for 2005-07) and the 2007 tool
(based on data for 2003-05) can be found by clicking here
New Infant Mortality Tool
The Infant Mortality tool contains data for Strategic Health Authorities in England and for those local authorities with high numbers of infant deaths
in the Routine and Manual (R&M) group. For Strategic Health Authorities, the tool:
Background data and charts of trends in infant mortality are also presented for those local authorities included within the tool. A link to further resources which may help address inequalities in infant mortality is also available.
To access the Infant Mortality Tool click the Infant Mortality Tool button at the top of this page. A web page with supplementary information, including
Frequently Asked Questions, the technical details underlying the tool, links to further resources, and downloadable data files, can be accessed
by clicking here
Health Inequalities Intervention Tool for All Areas
The existing Health Inequalities Intervention Tool for All Areas (2008) covers all local authorities in England, former Spearhead and non-Spearhead, and provides
information on within, as well as between, area inequalities. The tool provides data on gaps in life expectancy between the most deprived quintile of each local
authority and a range of comparator areas, including an analysis of the causes of death which contribute most to these gaps.
The tool also allows local authorities to estimate the effect on their life expectancy if certain evidence based interventions are increased. To access the
tool click the Intervention Tool for All Areas button at the top of this page.
A supplementary page with instructions, Frequently Asked Questions and technical details underlying the tool can be found by clicking here
Your views
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It is a late Friday morning, not long before Rosh Hashanah, andalready the tantalizing smells of exotic spices and frying onions arewafting from Marcelle Kadkhoda's sunny, compact apartment kitchen.
The Persian émigré, in her 70s, is wearing an apronand sensible shoes as she cooks for Shabbat, preparing the familyrecipes that have been handed down from mother to daughter forgenerations.
In a stainless-steel pot simmers a typical Sabbath dish,Abghoshet, a soup of boiled chicken, chickpeas, potatoes,whole onions, dried lemons and the turmeric that Kadkhoda buys in thebustling Middle Eastern markets on Pico Boulevard. The dish is servedin a bowl, over chelo (long-grained white rice), and eatenwith a spoon.
There is also a fancy rice, polo, with red beans, carrots,turmeric and cinnamon; a beef stew with chopped fresh greens; andgondi -- white meatballs prepared with veal or chicken, groundchickpeas, onion, cardamom, turmeric and white pepper. On this night,the gondi will be served as appetizers with baskets of Middle Easternbread (lavash, barbari, pita, sangak) andfresh herbs that are eaten delicately by hand.
The feast is a holiday meal that could be served on Rosh Hashanahas well as Shabbat.
As Kadkhoda cooks, her daughter, Janet, a tall, glamorous lawstudent in her early 40s, pours a perfect, golden cup of tea from thegold-plated samovar and seats herself on a pink velvet chaiselongue in the airy Beverly Hills living room. Before her, the coffeetable is laden with pistachios, golden raisins, dates, fruit,cucumbers and the rice-flour cookies that Marcelle bakes fromscratch.
Janet urges a visitor to help herself as she explains that, in herhousehold, food is about more than just...food. Every Friday night,her extended family gathers for Shabbat: "For me, the meal symbolizestogetherness, sharing, the fact we are Jewish and we are blessed,"she says.
Marcelle Kadkhoda learned to cook by osmosis back in Tehran; norecipes were ever written down. Her father, Morad Shalom, was aneducated, well-to-do businessman who also published the firstPersian-Jewish newspaper. The family lived for a time in a suburb ofParis.
But by the time Marcelle was 12, her mother had died, her eldersister had married, and she and a younger sister had become thefemale heads of the household. Like most Jewish girls, Marcelle quitschool after the sixth grade and, instead, reigned in the kitchen.
There, stews were a staple of her repertoire -- one with eggplant,another with green beans, and a third with chicken, pomegranatepaste, prunes and walnuts. When she left the Jewish ghetto to visitthe open-air markets of Tehran, she knew that she must not touch anyfood lest shopkeepers force the "dirty Jew" to purchase the"contaminated" goods.
On Rosh Hashanah, families gathered in the courtyard of Shalom'sapartment building to listen to his Jewish wisdom. They brought largepots of food and ate their repasts, Persian-style, upon largetablecloths spread on the ground.
After synagogue the next day, the family enjoyed a special mealthat took days to prepare. The women would bring home the legs andhoofs, head and stomach of a sheep; they spent a day cleaning theanimal, shaving its head and scraping the hoofs with a razor blade.Then, they placed the meat in a vat with turmeric, onions, garlic andherbs, and boiled the concoction overnight.
By the time Marcelle married, in her late teens, Reza Khan, thefather of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah, was in power, and thenewlyweds were allowed to move out of the Jewish ghetto. The timeswere more progressive, and Marcelle vowed that her only daughter,Janet, would get an education beyond the kitchen.
The holidays remained traditional, however. On Erev Rosh Hashanah,there was the usual Persian-Jewish seder, with nine blessings overfoods such as brains and herbs. Apples and honey symbolized a sweetyear, pomegranate seeds represented fertility, and sheep's lungsindicated one's sins should be light as air.
On Yom Kippur, the break fast began with a three-minute boiled eggand a cold drink made with chopped apples and sugar.
Janet Kadkhoda, as a young woman, earned a bachelor's degree incomparative literature from the National University of Iran and wentto work in the university library. But in 1979, Islamicfundamentalist students tore down statues of the shah, burned theflag and ordered Kadkhoda to help close down the library. TheAyatollah Khomeini's revolution had begun, and Janet soon left thecountry for Israel. However, her parents were unable to follow suituntil 1983, when they escaped via the underground movement.
They fled on motorcycles, sometimes disguised in Kurdish dress,over the desert and mountains to Iraq. At one point, MarcelleKadkhoda's husband, Mansour, a diabetic, fell off his motorcycle andbroke his leg.
Mansour died in a car accident a year and a half after arriving inLos Angeles. Janet has married, divorced, raised her son, Allen (now15), worked as a library director and gone back to school to becomean attorney.
Marcelle, who speaks no English, remains a stranger in a strangeland; for her, cooking continues to be a link to her past and to herculture. She still makes her own cheese, yogurt and challah. "Cookinghas become my mother's purpose in life," Janet says. "It's one wayshe connects the family together."
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A few weeks ago Luis from the SF Mosquito Abatement team came to the shop with a Chrome "Hip Pouch" to compare to our similar products for his team of Bicycle Riding Mosquito Fighters!
The Pork Chop was up to the challenge, and they'll soon be riding with 15 new hip pouches. Take that, mosquitos!
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- Subjects:Science, Social Studies, Classroom Management, Teacher Tips and Strategies
Planning Engaging Units in All Subjects
"We're building and racing rubber-band propelled vehicles? What will we do at the Renaissance Festival next Friday? ...When is Mr. Jasztal coming in to launch rockets with our class? ...We will be simulating craters with flour, chocolate powder, and rocks? ...Who painted that, Leonardo DaVinci or Michelangelo?"
These questions and more have arisen in my classroom this year, generating a great deal of excitement by my students. By keeping these questions in mind, and tapping into their multiple intelligences, I have planned some tremendous units across the curriculum that address a variety of learning styles. Read the rest of this post to find some great resources and steps for planning superior units in any subject area!
Students learned about sword fighting and jousting when going to the (Tampa) Bay Area Renaissance Festival this past Friday.
They also learned about basket weaving, completing a variety of hands-on activities while at the festival.
During our force and motion unit, our class has constructed catapults... not from a list of instructions, but from what they have learned about them over the course of the unit.
When planning a unit, take these important steps:
- What will be the duration of your unit? (Is it a mini-unit or a longer unit? 1 week? 2 weeks? 1 month?)
- Determine important vocabulary.
- Determine essential questions that will drive your learning.
- What kinds of smaller or larger research projects can your students complete to deepen their knowledge?
- Are there any demonstrations you can complete towards the beginning of the unit? (I would not complete anything too "hands-on" or complex early on in a unit because you want your students to learn important concepts and work toward something.)
- What kinds of technological connections can your students make over the course of a unit?
- Determine what kinds of hands-on lessons or experiments will be involved towards the end of the unit.
- What important information will your students need to know for a unit test prior to completing the more hands-on, complex lessons? I give unit tests that students have to pass with an 80% before moving on to those lessons because I want to know if they have listened to the best of their capability.
- How can students express themselves artistically and musically over the course of the unit?
- Can students go on field trips at the middle or end of the unit? Which places nearby address the standards you are covering? If heading somewhere is not possible, can your students take a virtual field trip?
- Last, are there any other teachers whom you can collaborate with? I often collaborate with the fifth grade advanced level teacher.
Something Compelling About Multiple Intelligences:
Howard Gardner developed eight Multiple Intelligences that should, to an extent, drive instruction:
Education World has a great page about the different intelligences. Here is an overview of those intelligences, in my words:
- Linguistic: Some students enjoy developing as well as reading stories and have a sensitivity to the meaning and order of words.
- Logical-Mathematical: Students with this intelligence enjoy working with numbers. They also perform especially well when it comes to constructing models. With the catapults we are building, I listened to the vocabulary some logical-mathematical students were using- "Let's start with making this quadrilateral shape. We may try constructing a triangular pyramid. Or should we have a rectangular base instead?"
- Musical: To help these students, there are people who release music for educational purposes, such as Mr. Duey, Tim Bedley (Rockin' the Standards), and even the group They May Be Giants. FMA Live offers songs on their website as well, which covers force and motion standards in particular. School House Rock has also been an excellent resource for educators for over thirty years!
- Spatial: Spatial intelligence also comes out when students construct prototypes such as catapults and rockets. Students may also enjoy developing brochures (for example, of their own aquariums they are opening based on what they learned in a short oceanography unit).
- Bodily-kinesthetic: Mimes, dancers, and athletes fit in this category. Acting out a concept also fits. The game Science Diction that I have mentioned truly enriches bodily-kinethetic learners.
- Interpersonal: This is an intelligence where students perceive the feelings of other individuals.
- Intrapersonal: On the other hand, this intelligence is where students have a great understanding of who they are.
- Naturalist: This intelligence refers to the ability to recognize specific types of plants, minerals, and animals. Students with this intelligence are "in touch" with nature.
Knowing the intelligences of your students can help you to develop tremendous units.
A quick overview of my Force and Motion Unit:
- The key vocabulary for the unit includes: potential energy, kinetic energy, inertia, momentum, force, gravity, gravitational pull, friction, and velocity. I make sure those words are used when I introduce the experiments at the end of the unit.
- The main question for the unit has been: What is the difference between potential and kinetic energy? That is the main essential question for each experiment we complete, as students work with rubber bands, marbles, and air-propelling machines.
- The unit test has multiple choice questions, short response questions, and especially questions where students can develop experiments and sketch different concepts they learned. One question my students answered had them sketch a basic roller coaster design, labeling where there was potential and kinetic energy.
- I had students head home and research the science behind catapults, rockets, and roller coasters. This was a simple project, as at the very least, they had to write a bulleted list of five facts for each topic. They were also encouraged to print out experiments from the Internet and sketch a design of a catapult they could use for our catapult challenge.
- I found music that can compliment my lessons from FMA Live and Mr. Duey.
- At the end of the unit, students construct rubber-band propelled vehicles with CD wheels, catapults (mainly from their own design), model rockets they launch outside with an air-propelled launching machine, kites, and marble roller coasters, at the very least.
Do you have a Delicious bookmark? Mine is located here. Delicious is a "social bookmarking" website that helps educators to "keep, share, and discover the best of the Web". It is a website where you can develop different tags (categories) like "Physics" or "Oceanography", downloading a small component to your computer where you can click on a logo and save websites to your tagged lists.
Delicious bookmarks can help you to save website resources as you complete various units over the course of the year. If your computer crashed, you will not lose your links because they are saved to the Internet. Check out my links at my Delicious website to see the variety of website resources I use over the course of the school year with different units.
Utilize Others:
I am always willing to tell others that Beth Newingham, Angela Bunyi, Heather Renz, Laura Candler, and others have strengthened my teaching. It is always acceptable to adapt the ideas of other educators, especially if they have proved useful in instruction.
Focusing on Scholastic's Resources:
Take advantage of Lesson Plans on Scholastic.com. These lessons may help you take the next step to planning units. Also be sure to look at the Popular Themes for the School Year on this page to find theme-based lesson plans for each month of the year..
Although the following books are intended for a variety of different units, they have been some of the greatest resources I have purchased from Scholastic over the years. They are the perfect for enriching and challenging your students with hands-on activities:
- The Body Book includes printables of different parts of the human body that students can cut out, color, and create three-dimensional models.
- Coffee Can Science was written by Steve "Dirtmeister" Tomacek and includes experiments that students can complete with coffee cans in almost every area of science. Another book I have from the "Dirtmeister" has to do with using plastic bags rather than coffee cans.
- Although Every Minute on Earth by Steve and Matthew Murrie does not necessarily include hands-on experiments, it includes a plethora of intriguing facts having to do with several topics, including science-related topics. Scholastic Book of Firsts is a similar-type book with several intriguing facts!
- Teaching Science: Yes, You Can! offers a variety of easy teacher-led demonstrations and hands-on investigations for your students to complete.
- Reading Strategy Lessons for Science and Social Studies by Laura Robb includes practical, research-based lessons that teachers can use to help their students conquer enriching texts in these content areas.
Of course there are many more professional books out there that you can use, yet these are some of the resources that have impressed me greatly over time.
For math resources, which I have not discussed much in this post, I highly recommend anything from Marilyn Burns.
Hopefully this post has guided you in the right direction!
Renaissance Costume: It was a TREMENDOUS time two weeks ago! I am so grateful the fifth-grade teacher convinced me to take my class. It went so well with my force and motion standards; when my students constructed catapults following their short study of Leonardo DaVinci, they had a blast!
Next year, I'll be better prepared. I hope to acquire a great costume.
Peace, Victoria
Wow! I hope you guys have a great time! Check out my site.. I have many varieties of renaissance costumes that may help you in your work shop.. :)


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I got a blue(transparant xbox) with a ping/purple evoX logo in the top left.
And i want to install UnleashX dashboard.
I want to play psx and sega genesis games on it.
What do i need to do!
I am new to modding so please explain things to me.
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An American missionary is believed to have been detained in North Korea, according to human rights activists in Seoul, South Korea.
Robert Park is a Korean American who reportedly entered North Korea illegally on Friday. An activist aquainted with 28-year-old missionary is speculating that Robert was arrested by North Korea border guards or police.
"We haven't heard anything about him since he went there," said the activist, a member of the Seoul-based group Pax Koreana, which promotes human rights in the North. "But it's North Korea. We presume he has been arrested there."
About 25 members of Robert's church in Tucson, Ariz. gathered to pray for his safety over the weekend.
"We have to just patiently wait," Robert's father, Pyong Park told the San Diego Union Tribune. "Wait and see and hope for the best."
Robert last communicated with his parents on Dec. 23 in an e-mail.
"Know that I am the happiest in all my life," his e-mail read. "Incredible miracles are happening in the liberation of North Koreans right now ... We are going to see a big and beautiful change in Korea and in the World this year!"
Park is carrying a letter calling on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to release all political prisoners.
He told associates that he hopes to bring attention to the plight of persecuted Christians in North Korea. At least one South Korean ministry to the north tried to persuade him not to go.
North Korea has yet to acknowledge Robert's entry into the communist nation.
Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department is aware of the incident and says it is monitoring the situation.
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How did Harry Lyon-Smith, Illustration's MD, decided to give to WeForest.
Illustration invests every month 1% of their turnover for the restoration of our planet, targeting to achieve 1 million trees after 5 years. They planted first in Ethiopia and are now planting in Zambia.
A word from the CEO:
"There is no doubt in the minds of anyone who works at Illustration Ltd, that the global environment is under incredible threat from man's seemingly insatiable consumption and destruction of the very thing that sustains him. Being in business we are part of this consumption and although we try to minimise our own footprint, our artists are employed by businesses of all sizes around the world, some of whose products effect the environment. So by default it makes us complicit, as we profit from their commissions. There are many worthy and essential ways of helping the environment, but to our minds WeForest, and all that it does, cuts to the very essence of the problem. It is the way that we can most meaningfully and quickly help combat global warming and climate change, whilst helping recover lost habitats, societies and local weather patterns. Our 1% of turnover as an absolute pledge to the environment is a sort of self taxation and investment in the future, so we can still do what we love doing for many decades to come. We hope that after 5 years we will have funded the planting of about 1 million trees" • Harry Lyon-Smith.
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Name: AT-RT Walker With ARF Trooper
Collection: The Clone Wars
Number: N/A (Deluxe) (Exclusive)
Source: The Clone Wars (Season 3 Episode 3: Supply Lines)
Availability: December 2011
License: Hasbro
An ARF trooper in Captain Keeli's unit scouts the enemy's position on an All Terrain Recon Transport (AT-RT) walker. The ARF trooper drives the walker across the rocky landscape of Ryloth to gather information about battle droids heading toward Republic forces. The AT-RT can move quickly and is armed with a blaster cannon for assault missions.
There are quite a few The Clone Wars characters that completely shock us on why Hasbro has not attacked them for the basic figure line. Their platform for choosing characters usually is based upon how often they appear in the series of if they're part of a multi-episodic story arc, but sometimes there are just some characters that deserve to be part of the toy line based on how awesome they are or look. Captain Keeli fits this description perfectly. A very colorful clone leader, it's a shame that he hasn't been on the forefront of Hasbro's mind from the first time we saw him in the television show. Perhaps we can be temporarily satiated as we have one of his ARF Troopers via the Walmart exclusive AT-RT Walker With ARF Trooper Deluxe set, but we believe it will be counterproductive and just make you wish you had Captain Keeli even more. The Deluxe line (now called Class 1) really has some hits and a few misses. Hasbro heavily relies on including repaints and repacks in this sub-line. That's exactly what this set is, but it looks unique enough to be considered new.
In the Season 2 phase of The Clone Wars (red) line look, Hasbro introduced us to an excellently updated AT-RT vehicle in the AT-RT With ARF Trooper Deluxe set. This sculpt has been the standard going forward and thank goodness it has all the necessary features to be considered definitive. Repainted to look like one of the clones under the leadership of Master Ima-Gon Di, the included ARF Trooper in this deluxe set looks more like a maroon version of 2010's TCW Jungle Camo ARF Trooper (CW24) figure from The Clone Wars film released as a basic figure. The camouflage pattern is unique and catches your eye from a distance, but you'll be more impressed with the included articulation. Based on the original 2009 TCW ARF Trooper (CW10), the figure is the epitome of what a clone action figure should be. 100% ball-joints, the ARF Trooper is very amenable to the infinite array of poses you choose for it. We do have to note that it seems the molds at the factory level seems to have gone through a ton of use and the ball-jointed aren't as crisp and utilitarian as they're intended to be. In fact, the right ball-jointed wrists on our sample is thin and frozen in place. We're frightful that if we use force it might break. (We don't take risks.)
The AT-RT looks great just like the ARF Trooper and Hasbro gave it a wonderfully decorated paint job. There are rams horns painted (one on each side) on the front of the carriage and while the vehicle has a gray body, there are plenty of different colors to accent it and give it some spark. The AT-RT Walker has six points of articulation. There are two joints in the walker legs and then the chin gun has two points of movement also. The back antenna is removable and the "cockpit" has been perfectly designed to seat the ARF Trooper is a very realistic fashion. We'd much rather get every possible version of the AT-RT before hasbro reissues another BARC speeder again for us. It's just a cooler vehicle. At $16.99, this set is appropriately priced. In an era where action figure are ranging from $8 to $10 each, it's comforting to get a miniature vehicle and action figure for almost the same price. We wonder what is going to happen to this sub-line however as Hasbro is having a hard time getting out all of the sets that were planned in this line. (To date, two are either cancelled or in limbo.) We're hoping we see the Deluxe line continue, but its future seems uncertain.
Assortment Number: 31708/31695
Retail: $16.99 USD
Market Value: Click here to check the latest prices based on listings.
Status: AT-RT Walker is a rework of the AT-RT from 2010's TCW AT-RT With ARF Trooper Deluxe set.
Articulation Count: 6
Articulation Details: 2 chin gun swivel joints, 2 swivel "hips", 2 hinge-jointed "feet"
Accessory Count: 1
Accessory Details: removable antenna
Date Stamp: 2010
Status: ARF Trooper is a rework of 2009's TCW ARF Trooper (CW10) figure.
Articulation Count: 14 points
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1st quarter
Redskins' ball
(15:00) 1st and 10 at own 20: First play of the game and the Texans are in man-to-man defense with eight men in the box. This is important because it is the worst-case scenario for the Texans. The Redskins run a play-action pass toward Zach Diles' side. Mike Sellers comes out of the backfield and runs into the flat, and before Diles can get out there and cover him, he is picked by Santana Moss, whose route from the slot basically consisted of running right for Diles. If the Texans had been in a zone, the play gains maybe 5, but instead it goes for 22.
(12:21) 1st and 10 at Texans 34: The Redskins run the exact same play as the first play of the game, but the Texans are in a different alignment and Pollard has the responsibility on Sellers, but Sellers still gains 10. Watch as Moss doesn't go out of his way to pick this time as he doesn't have an obvious target and doesn't want to alert officials to the pick if he were to go out searching for one.
(10:23) 3rd and 9 at Texans 23: The Redskins run a wide receiver screen that gets snuffed out, but let's look at two things here. The Texans are running what is called a "T/E," which has the DT occupying the outside lane while the DE loops underneath. You'll notice that Jesse Nading (72) realizes something is up and never loops underneath. Instead, Nading follows the play and comes closing down on the WR. The player who made the tackle was Kareem Jackson, who avoids the block by the slot WR and comes underneath to make a one-on-one tackle. Good defensive awareness by both Nading and Kareem.
Texans' ball
(8:54) 1st and 10 on own 24: Texans are in a five-wide set with OLB Andre Carter on David Anderson and the free safety lining up over Andre Johnson. Safety Laron Landry is on Owen Daniels, who is also in the slot. Matt Schaub sees that Anderson is in a one-on-one matchup and goes to Anderson on a quick out route that is stopped for a gain of two. The Redskins actually blitzed off the edge with their free safety and a middle linebacker ended up on Andre Johnson, but Schaub already had determined he was going to go after Carter.
Redskins' ball
(7:59) 1st and 10 on Texans 48: The Redskins hit the Texans with a play-action pass that is similar to a play that Kyle Shanahan ran with the Texans. The play action freezes any coverage from the play side as Cooley runs a route toward the middle of the field and then double moves Pollard back out to the unoccupied spot of the field for a long gain. The free safety is kept occupied by the outside WR on the other side of the field running a go route. The Texans utilize this same concept with Owen Daniels lined up on the strong or weak side.
Texans' ball
(3:32) 3rd and 2 on Redskins 47: Outside zone play to the left that Arian Foster cuts back inside for a first down. Two things to look at. Watch Brian Orakpo jar Joel Dreesen at the line of scrimmage and cut off the outside lane, which forces Foster inside. Also, watch the GREAT job that Antoine Caldwell does driving his player off the line of scrimmage, which helps open up that backside running lane.
(0:57) 2nd and 1 on Redskins 16: This is an inside zone that is run at the left guard with potential cutback lanes over the right guard or tackle. Watch Arian Foster recognize the cutback lane created by a great wash-down block by Winston and kick-out block by Dreesen.
2nd quarter
Texans' ball
(15:00) 2nd and goal on Redskins 5: This is the touchdown pass from Schaub to Jacoby Jones. Jacoby is lined up in the slot with Kevin Walter on the outside. The Redskins are in zone coverage, which is perfect for this play. Watch Walter run his "route," which is actually driving the corner to the middle of the end zone and then making contact with him before cutting inside. This is nothing more than a pick play where Jacoby is faking an in and then pivoting and cutting back outside to the open space created by the contact between Walter and the cornerback who is responsible for that area.
Redskins' ball
(9:46) 1st and 10 on Redskins 31: Lead play for Portis that opens wide up because Xavier Adibi basically goes brain dead. DeMeco Ryans flows to the outside lane and takes on the fullback, but for some odd reason, so does Adibi, which was clearly not his run fit.
Texans' ball
(8:15) 1st and 10 on own 20: This is a very well-blocked outside zone run to the left. Watch the footwork of Duane Brown as he is able to get out on the outside linebacker and turn him back inside. This is not an easy block, but Brown pulled it off. Also keep an eye on how the Texans handle the NT. Myers doesn't touch him an instead gets immediately to the second level on an angle as he tries to cut off the inside LB and keep him from making the play. RG Mike Brisiel is known for being maybe the best cut blocker on the offensive line and he does a great job of getting his head across the NT as he cuts him to the ground. Foster gains 11 on the play.
(5:02) 1st and 10 on the Redskins 39: This is a play-action bootleg starting left and heading back to the right, but watch Leach's cut block on Carriker as he heads down the line of scrimmage. This is done to create additional time to pass for Schaub in case Carriker isn't fooled by the play action. What is crazy is that Carriker doesn't seem to have any awareness of where the ball is as he gets up and continues to chase the running back. The pass is completed for a first down to Owen Daniels thanks to plenty of time to throw for Schaub.
Redskins' ball
(2:13) 2nd and 10 on the Redskins 37: This is the long pass play to Davis that got down to the 1-yard line. This is a very tricky play for the Texans to cover. Davis acts like he is blocking down on the strong side and then is able to get through the trash and into the open space on the weak side of the field that has opened up thanks to McNabb rolling the opposite way and having the WRs headed that way as well. Simply a misdirection play, which was a forte of the Texans offense when Kubiak teamed with Kyle Shanahan. Nice call and play design, kid.
3rd quarter
Texans' ball
(13:50) 1st and 10 on the Texans 37: Just highlighting this toss play to the right because Jacoby Jones does a terrific job of blocking Laron Landry and keeping him off the play.
(10:55) 1st and 10 on the Redskins 32: This is an outside zone play run to the right, but watch the adjustment by the Redskins, or maybe just DeAngelo Hall, on this one. As soon as he diagnosis run, he cuts right inside of Andre Johnson's block attempt and submarines Vontae Leach's block attempt, which blows up the play. I wonder if this is an adjustment by the team or just a CB trying to make a play.
Redskins' ball
(8:12) 3rd and 8 on the Redskins 10 yard line: This is a huge play because if the Texans can stop them, it forces the Redskins to punt and give the Texans good field position. Okoye will ride the outside track, which opens up the inside loop by Mario Williams, but the Redskins pick it up and stone it. Antonio Smith comes with a straight inside rush, while Jesse Nading fakes the pass rush and drops back into the middle of the field in a zone. If the "T/E" had worked and Mario had come free after McNabb, he would have had to get rid of the ball quickly and it wouldn't have been a first down. Instead, McNabb buys himself time until S. Moss is able to find a soft spot in the zone and makes the catch and runs for the first down.
(7:28) 1st and 10 on the Redskins 21: This is a sack by Mario Williams, but watch his hands on this one. You might hear my talk about defensive linemen who use their hands well and this is a great example. The battle between offensive and defensive linemen is usually one by the guy who uses his hands well. J. Brown wants to get his hands on Mario first, but he doesn't want to reach and punch too quickly because if he misses, Mario can clear his punch and get around him for the sack. This is exactly what happens. Brown is never able to get his hands on Mario and Mario chops the hands of Brown and is able to get around him for the sack.
(4:01) 1st and 10 on the Texans 22: This is the TD pass from McNabb to Cooley. On the previous play, Xavier Adibi wasn't able to make a play while in his zone on a completed pass to Roydell Williams. This time, Adibi can't stick with Cooley in man-to-man coverage and Cooley goes for a TD. To be fair, I expect Cooley to be a beast with McNabb throwing to him this year.
Texans' ball
(1:24) 2nd and 12 on the Texans 47: Brian Orakpo gets the sack here, but Duane Brown does his job and locks up the speed rush by Orakpo and rides him past the pocket. The pocket isn't necessarily breaking down for Schaub, but he tries to run to the free spot on the right side of the field, which allows Orakpo to sprint after him and make the sack. I don't think that one will be on Duane Brown when they watch the film. Schaub could have stayed in the pocket.
(0:02) 1st and goal on the Redskins 6: You hear people fuss and complain about play calling all the time, but this game has featured some very good play calling, and this play is another example. These two teams work off of running successful plays and then countering off of those plays. They have also called a ton of plays that are based on misdirection. The Texans have Jacoby lined up at wide receiver on the right side of the field and bring Walter in motion to the left. Walter literally makes himself small as he sneaks back across the line and catches the pass from Schaub on the play-action for the TD. Of course, the DE could have blown that play up if he had more awareness and had blasted Walter as he tried to release out into his pattern.
4th quarter
Texans' ball
(13:16) 1st and 10 on the Texans 34: Play-action pass to Walter deep down the field works thanks to Laron Landry's concern over Owen Daniels. Daniels releases off the line from the same side of the formation as Walter and cuts right at about 10 yards. Landry sees this and follows Daniels rather than staying deep to give Carlos Rogers help with Kevin Walter. That was on Laron Landry and was a great read by Schaub.
Redskins' ball
(10:26) 1st and 10 at Texans 47: Cooley will come in motion to the side where Moss is on the inside and Galloway is outside. Moss will head up the field and then make a move toward the middle of the field to occupy the safety, while Cooley heads out to the sideline and goes down the field. Basically, the Redskins are flooding that side of the field and are trying to stretch the defenders as wide as they can on that side of the field so that Galloway can split the difference on a comeback route in the middle of that area. As you see, he is wide open for a 20-yard gain.
(8:59) 2nd and 8 at the Texans 26: Outside zone play to the left, but keep an eye on Santana Moss, who heads out to block Zach Diles. While Diles meets his block and sheds him fairly quickly, he tosses Moss to the outside rather than inside, and that allows Portis enough room to get to the outside as the containment between McCain and Diles isn't there. The result is a first down.
Redskins' ball
(4:22) 2nd and 5 at Texans 46: Right before the snap, Bernard Pollard comes charging in from the box all the way down to the line of scrimmage and is in the backfield to make a tackle for a loss on the end around by Moss. I highly doubt that Pollard freelances to this extent, so it is probably a called blitz to the week side in order to counter a play-action pass or a running play.
(2:11) 4th and 10 on the Redskins 34: We all know what a great play that Andre Johnson makes to tie the game on the TD pass from Schaub, but here are two things to pay attention to. Watch what a nice job that Schaub does to maneuver around the pocket to buy a little extra time, and watch Wade Smith's block on Orakpo as he's getting ready to get to Schaub. Secondly, look at how unaware Phillip Buchanon is as the ball is in the air to Andre. There was NOBODY ELSE even in the area for him to cover, so why wouldn't he have been helping his safety to double team the most dangerous WR in football? Dumb, dumb, dumb.
(13:55) 2nd and 3 at the Texans 35: This is an outside zone left, but I want to point out just how good the vision of Arian Foster is. We've seen him take run outside the the left tackle's block plenty against the Colts and we've seen him cut back inside, but watch how he reacts to what is a good-size hole that opens up between the left guard and center. Foster reads and reacts immediately and then cuts it all the way back to the right after he gets past the line of scrimmage. Foster has very good vision, but he also has the discipline you want at the RB position in this offense as well.
(12:07) 1st and 10 at Redskins 40: Just as I type that last paragraph, the Texans run an outside zone to the left and Brisiel and Dreesen do a beautiful job of opening up a cutback lane on the backside, but Foster doesn't see it and gets stopped for a gain of one.
Everything else will speak for itself, including Dreesen's terrific catch to set up the game-winning field goal.
It was very obvious that the Texans defensive line was conditioned to be able to play at a higher level later in the game, while the Redskins offensive line looked gassed.


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UNEP Showcases New Green Buildings in Nairobi
7 March 2011: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has provided details on its new green building at UN headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, which are part of the UN Greening the Blue Initiative.
The new buildings house the headquarters of both UNEP and the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), and are a central pillar of the UN's broader goal of reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The four buildings, which can accommodate 1,200 staff, feature solar panels on the roof spaces, automated low-energy lighting illuminating work-spaces, and energy efficient computers. Rainwater is also collected to supply the fountains and ponds, sewage is treated in an aeration system and recycled for irrigation, and water saving lavatories are been installed. To mark the inauguration of the buildings, UNEP, UN-HABITAT and the UN Office at Nairobi (UNON) have released a report titled "Building for the Future: A United Nations Showcase in Nairobi." [UN Press Release] [Publication: Building for the Future: A United Nations Showcase in Nairobi]


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Community Service Volunteer Opportunities
Ongoing Service Opportunities
Bethany House
Bethany House is a home for women and children who are in transition. Volunteers would be needed to read to the children, help stock shelves, prepare meals, etc. If interested, please contact Julie Chantra in Campus Ministry, (585) 385-8368 or email@example.com for more details.
Catholic Family Center of Rochester
Volunteers are needed for the various programs of the Rochester Collaborative for New Americans, which offers language and naturalization services to the many immigrants and refugees that call Rochester home. Opportunities include helping with Naturalization Workshops, English and Civic Classes, and Logics and Outreach Support. For more information, contact Kyle Tillotson at email@example.com.
CP Rochester
Monday-Thursday: Volunteers needed to assist with swimming, classrooms, adult recreation, soccer clinics. If interested, contact Tina Bennett at (585) 334-6000 x321 or email@example.com.
Up to 10 volunteers needed to sort, label, package, and distribute food. Please contact Jim at (585) 328-3380 x149.
Foodlink - Cooking Matters
Cooking Matters classes empower families with the skills to cook healthy and affordable meals. Foodlink is looking for volunteers to help share their love of food. Contact email@example.com or (585) 328-3380 to volunteer.
Friendly Home
Volunteers needed for a variety of tasks including recreation, room visits, gift shop, etc. If interested, contact Mary Graham at (585) 385-0219 or email@example.com.
Habitat for Humanity
Monday-Saturday, 9-4pm: 6 volunteers per house, need a full day commitment or volunteer in their restore. Contact Teresa Bianchi at (585) 697-2012 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Mount Hope Cemetery Clean Up
Landscape volunteers help with routine landscaping maintenance (such as mulching, weeding, raking, and planting) and special projects. Events are held every 2nd Saturday of the month, from 9 a.m. - noon, April through November. In addition, the cemetery hosts other cleanups throughout the year. Contact Maria Fisher at (585) 428-7736 or visit the Mount Hope Cemetery website.
Pittsford Village Farmers Market
Volunteers are needed from 3:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. every Thursday from June 5 - October 16. Help is needed for setup and cleanup, directing parking, assisting with the welcome tent, community table, kids' activity tent, cooking demo tent, and more. Contact email@example.com for more information.
Rochester General Hospital
Volunteers are needed in a variety of ways including patient discharge, gift shop, etc. Contact Rick Palmiero at (585) 922-2927 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Ronald McDonald House
Volunteer are need to clean, cook, sort food, and other tasks that may be needed. Contact Kathy Keenahan at (585) 442-5437 x3 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Saints Place
Volunteer to assist refugees, while sorting through donations and delivering them to their homes. Contact Michele Quinn at (585) 385-6860 or email@example.com.
Salvation Army
Kitchen assistants, Thanksgiving and Christmas meals, Red Kettle Campaign, Angel Tree, Christmas Toy Shop Set-Up and Distribution of Toys. Contact Lindsay Kroboth at (585) 987-9500 x2318 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Spirtius Christi
"Speaking from the Heart" is a coffee hour during which refugees are invited to converse with Americans who are open to them and supportive of their efforts to express themselves in English. The group meets every other Sunday from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. at Spiritus Christi Church. Please Contact Karen Heavey at (585) 563-6829 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.
School 52
Volunteer in after school programs or volunteer within the classroom assisting teachers. Contact Bruce Pollock at (585) 218-0038 or email@example.com.
Volunteers of America
Volunteers help in a variety of ways at different locations throughout the Rochester area. Contact Nicole King at (585) 402-7204 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Upcoming Community Service Events
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About US
Two friends brought together by their passion for innovation, creativity and change founded Leti Games in 2009. Eyram and Wesley came from a background of accomplished and award winning video games development and were passionate to build a one of a kind video games development studio, in fact one of very few in Africa. Due to the lack of skilled people and video games development studios, Leti Games not only faced the challenge of building a company in Africa, but also a new industry in Africa.
Our vision is to create the next African Super heroes via comics and Games! Through that, we tend to create fun, challenging, multi-player and mind-blowing Games as well as valuable Mobile Content!
We believe Africa will make a salient contribution to the world of Game Development and Digital Media.
We are not only building a company in Africa, we are building a whole new industry in Africa!
The world wide game industry is estimated to be worth more than the movie and music industry combined! This is incredible for an industry that is less than 30 years old! Leti Games is strategically positioning itself in the global space in two ways:
1. We bring a unique African perspective: Africa is filled with great stories. There are hundreds of tribes, each with their own unique and mind-blowing stories and legends. From the Zulu of South Africa to the Massai of East Africa to the Ashanti of West Africa. Africa is full of stories begging to be packaged into content.
2. Focus on Mobile: Mobile growth has been phenomenal. There are more people in Africa using data enabled phones than computers. It has become the everyday tool not only for communication but also commerce and entertainment.
From 2009 to mid-2011 we focused on building our technical value. This involved building a base platform, building a few products on top of the platform and testing various distributions and marketing channels in Africa & the World in general.
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Education for Sustainability - what, why, how, whoMarch 12, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
West Oahu Campus, E 132
Education FOR sustainability (EfS) is different from education ABOUT sustainability. EfS is a transformative learning process. This interactive, hands-on workshop will introduce participants to the Learning Self which encompasses the knowledge, skills, attitudes and habits of mind that make it possible to live well within the means of nature. This participatory workshop will help educators understand that EfS is not just an add-on to an already full plate, but it is the plate itself.
"A sustainable society is one that is far-seeing enough, flexible enough, and wise enough not to undermine either its physical or its social systems of support." Donella Meadows
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Estate of Strangi, Section 2036, and the Continuing Relevance of Byrum
Brant J. Hellwig
Washington and Lee University - School of Law
Tax Notes, Vol. 96, No. 9, August 26, 2002
This report analyzes the potential application of section 2036(a) to limited partnerships employed for estate planning purposes, using the facts of Tax Court case of Estate of Strangi v. Commissioner as a guide. Particular emphasis is placed on the Commissioner's argument for inclusion under section 2036(a)(2) based on the taxpayer's control over the property transferred to the partnership, as well as the taxpayer's argument under the Supreme Court case of United States v. Byrum that the existence of the taxpayer's fiduciary duty to the partnership negates the application of section 2036 altogether. The report concludes that, because the essential facts of United States v. Byrum are lacking in the estate planning partnership context, the Byrum decision should not shield taxpayers using limited partnerships as a trust substitute from the application of section 2036(a)(2).
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MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Gov. Robert Bentley this morning helped kick off the annual Salvation Army Red Kettle drive.
Bentley called the familiar red kettles and ringing bells a classic symbol of Christmas and the work of the Salvation Army that of Christianity in action.
"This is a time when Jesus Christ was born. This is also a time that we should care for each other, love each other, take care of each other. That's what we are supposed to do as Christians," Bentley said during a press conference on the Alabama Capitol steps.
Captain Mark Gilliam of the Montgomery Salvation Army said the organization has seen an increase in the number of people seeking services with the economic downturn.
"Unfortunately, we are seeing more families needing shelter," Gilliam said.
But Gilliam said he believes the number of people willing to help is also on the rise.
"I find whenever there is greater need, there is also greater support," Gilliam said.
There was a sweet moment during the press conference after the governor opened his wallet for the kettle and challenged others to do the same. Two students from a passing field trip took him up on his challenge and ran up to the red kettle to donate a little cash.


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Wall Street Decline Takes Its Toll...
Adapting to Evolving Business Environments Is...
As Immunotherapy Revolutionizes the Cancer Treatment...
Quadruple Helices Appear To Have Role...
The potential to one day treat type 1 diabetes using transplants of insulin-producing beta-cells derived from pancreatic progenitors may have just crept a tad closer, if findings by a group of researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) can be verified. The team has identified a cell surface marker on a subpopulation of cells in the pancreas that appears to identify them as pancreatic stem cells (PnSCs), a cell type which has never actually been firmly demonstrated in human or animal tissues.
Current approaches to cell replacement therapy for diabetes involves the transplantation of pancreatic islets, which involves numerous transplant procedures. Although it is feasibly possible to derive insulin-producing cells from either human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) or induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), there are technical issues which have yet to be solved. What is ideally needed is a source of stem cells derived directly from the pancreas that can readily be prompted to differentiate into the desired cell type.
Research by Alberto Hayek, Ph.D., and colleagues now indicates that human pancreatic ductal cells that express the cell surface stem cell marker stage-specific embryonic antigen 4 (SSEA4) may represent this elusive population of PnSCs that has long been postulated but never quite isolated. The cells, located in the exocrine portion of the adult human pancreas but not inside islets themselves, also express ductal, pancreatic progenitor, and stem cell protein markers. Interestingly, the investigators found that SSEA4-expressing cells isolated from fetal pancreatic tissue additionally express a recognized marker of endocrine progenitor cells.
Notably, when the UCSDF team then isolated adult human pancreatic SSEA4+ cells and cultured them in media containing high levels of glucose and B27 supplements, the cells formed aggregate-like spheres and differentiated readily into pancreatic hormone-expressing cells.
"Accumulated evidence supports the concept that pancreatic stem/progenitor cells may originate in the pancreatic duct, where they reside in a quiescent stage," the authors remark. "We are first to identify SSEA4+ cells in the adult human pancreas with characteristics of pancreatic progenitors. Further clonal analysis would confirm their stemness.... The discovery of specific markers for the identification and purification of human PnSCs would greatly facilitate studies aimed at the expansion of these cells and the development of targeting tools for their potential induction to insulin-producing cells.
Dr. Hayek et al., report on their findings in BioResearch Open Access, in a paper titled "Is stage-specific embryonic antigen 4 a marker for human ductal/stem/progenitor cells?"
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Tony Hawk´s Pro Skater HD Cheats
Options (Trainer)
Numpad 1: Set Timer To 999 Minutes
Numpad 2: Set Timer To 3 Seconds
Numpad 3: Add 50.000 To Score
Numpad 4: Unlimited Cash
Numpad 5: Instant Respawn
Numpad 6: Save Location
Numpad 7: Teleport
Numpad 8: Undo Teleport
- Unlimited Cash:
While at 'selecting skater' menu, press this hotkey and switch your character. All characters should have lots of cash.
- Instant Respawn:
While active, it removes the annoying time until you respawn.
Customize Hotkeys
Change hotkeys directly on the trainer/editor by selecting your desired hotkey via a drop down menu.
To save hotkeys press right mouse button on a hotkey and press save button on context menu.
A file will be created inside of the trainer/editor directory. If this file is missing or damaged the standard hotkey setup will be loaded.
Controller Support
Open 'Controller HowTo' tab at the trainer interface for a detailed instruction on how to use a controller. Don't forget to activate 'Use Xbox 360 controller' at the main page.
Windows 8 user and got a problem with opening a *.tmp file?
Right click on the file and select 'run as admin'
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On his deathbed, Robert Toombs is reputed to have said these final words: I would not blot out a single act of my life.
This is an extraordinary assertion for a man whose life is marked by a series of singular triumphs and an equal number of setbacks.
Born in 1810 just outside of Washington, Ga., Toombs was to become a major figure in antebellum politics in Georgia and in the early days of the Confederacy.
Intermittently from 1838 to 1844, he served in the state legislature until called to national service, first in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1844 to 1853 and then in the U.S. Senate from 1853 to 1861.
Toombs manner, alternately convivial and imperious, did not encourage political alliance, except perhaps for his fellow Georgian, Alexander Stephens, whose home in Crawfordville is now, like Toombs former residence, an historic site.
However, while Stephens went on to win the vice-presidency of the Confederacy, Toombs often volatile temperament may have lost him the bigger prize.
He had set his eye on the presidency but lost to Jefferson Davis, who nonetheless appointed Toombs as his secretary of state. The less-than-grateful Toombs, however, fought with his new boss and resigned from his new post within a matter of months.
After a stint of military service he procured a commission as brigadier general and served with the Army of Northern Virginia in a number of important campaigns Toombs returned to his home state where he resumed his stance as an outspoken critic of the Davis administration. In fact, his public opposition was so virulent at times that certain representatives of the Confederate media came close to calling him a traitor.
At the end of the war, he was back in Georgia in the imposing mansion in downtown Washington that he has purchased in 1837.
Built earlier in the century in the more modest Federal style with a two-over-two floor plan, the house was given a more impressive facade in 1854 when Toombs added a temple portico featuring four stout Doric columns.
At the time of the War Between the States, the Toombs House featured a ground-floor law office he had a very lucrative practice and dining room, two first-floor parlors with a wide hallway in between, and two second-floor bedrooms above.
This was the configuration of the house in 1865 when federal troops came knocking on the door to arrest Toombs as a prominent Confederate.
As the story goes, while the Yankees were at the front door, Toombs was escaping through the back. His escape route finally led to France where he lived until 1867, largely on money that his brother sent him, the profits from the sale of Toombs property in Texas.
Upon his return to the land of his birth, Toombs presented himself to the authorities; he was offered a pardon, which he refused. Thus, his suffrage was revoked, and he never again held any political office.
He did, however, continue to wield considerable influence. He became a very active trustee of the University of Georgia and a major player in the state constitutional convention of 1877.
Profits from his lucrative law practice allowed him in 1878 to build a large addition to the back of his house; in this new space, he installed his office and a formal dining room and butlers pantry, moving both of these out of the ground floor of the original structure to far grander, more commodious accommodations in what is now called the west wing.
Todays visitors to the Robert Toombs House enter through the ground floor, which now contains exhibition space dedicated to the owners biography and including some his personal items, such as his dueling pistols and ceremonial sword.
From this space, one ascends a side stair to the first-floor rooms with their lofty ceilings and period furniture.
Between the separate gentlemens and ladies parlors in the original structure, one passes through an arched doorway to the new rooms in the Victorian addition.
The house is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 to 4; adult admission is $5, but there are discounts for children.
For more information, call (706) 678-2226 or visit the house on the web at www.historyofwilkes.org.
To drive to Washington, Ga. the Robert Toombs House is located at 216 E. Robert Toombs Ave. take I-20 to Exit 172 and then Highway 17 north.
A recipient of the prestigious Carolina Trustee Professorship in 2008, Dr. Tom Mack holds the G.L. Toole Chair at USC Aiken. His new book Hidden History of Aiken County has just been published by The History Press (Charleston, SC and London, UK).


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Students teach about bat conservation
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Fellowship leads to publication, opportunities after graduation
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Tiny flies, big research
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Six courses traveled to tropical field stations in February
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To fully understand efforts to protect sea turtles and other tropical animals, it's useful to visit a place like Costa Rica and meet the people involved. It's even more helpful to be guided by experts in both the fields of biology and psychology/sociology, as a group of Cornell students were in 2011. Read More


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TRACK LIST: 1. Irreducible Complexity 3:39 2. Manifest Density 3:45 3. Save the Yuppie Breeding Grounds 4:02 4. Disillusioned Avatar 10:25 5. Disoriental Suite 11:46 6. Kuru 4:31 7. The Okanogan Lobe 7:36 8. Uncle Tang's Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 3:44 9. Blues for a Bruised Planet 4:35 10. Waylaid 5:33 11. Middlebrau 9:07 LINEUP: Denis Rea ñ guitars Alicia DeJoie ñ violin James DeJoie ñ saxophones, flutes Stephen Cavit ñ drums Kevin Millard ñ bass
Prolusion. ìMetamorphic Rockî is the sophomore release by the US band MORAINE, following ìManifest Densityî from 2009. The 11-track ìMetamorphic Rockî was recorded live at NEARFest, mixing the outfitís older compositions with new pieces of music, which are five in number. I will view the album as it is, without dividing tracks into categories according to their origin, because it presents new versions of the previously issued ones. I must also mention that the fourth track (see above) includes two more pieces in fact, Dub Interlude and Ephebus Amoebus.
Analysis. Whatís instantly striking is that, just like its predecessor, this album covers several styles, but does so in quite a different manner, overall representing just what its title suggests, and while some over-eclectic arrangements (few in fact ñ so few that they can easily go unnoticed upon the first spin) are detectable, there are no freakish constructions of abstract or, say, merely abnormal structure at all. On the other hand, unlike ìManifest Densityî, it doesnít contain any traditional jazz tricks ñ even the smallest hints of those. The other main thing that stands out on the first listen is that most of the compositions are positively complicated: full of changes in pace, rhythm, key and mood (which is even dark in places). Most of those, in turn, are highly polymorphic in structure, in particular Manifest Density, Save the Yuppie Breeding Grounds, Kuru and The Okanogan Lobe, but especially so the properly titled Irreducible Complexity, and also Uncle Tang's Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, both of which throughout have at once an incredibly dense, intense and complicated sound. Anyhow, the music is brilliant on all of the listed pieces and is heavily composed, to my mind. Regarding the older tracks, the new recording is certainly devoted to re-vitalizing their initial sound: by adopting strong folkish influences (those referring to Central Asia the most striking: just listen to Irreducible Complexity and Save the Yuppie Breeding Grounds), as well as some extra ñ emotionally positive ñ chamber rock inflexions. If one calls this stuff RIO, he/she will most likely find it to be closer to Samla Mammas Manna than to Univers Zero, let alone Henry Cow, with which Iíd agree, considering the presence of folkish motifs and the mood that prevails here, whereas overall the music is unique to my mind, as is practically everywhere on the album. Indeed, all of the above compositions often enter RIO territory, with the underlying groove based on repetitive, yet complex rhythms, the excellent live sound adding a lot of energy to the proceedings, I must add. Violin, sax and guitar arrangements are lively, virtuosic and irreproachable, provided by Alicia DeJoie, James DeJoie and Denis Rea respectively, and while the instrument of the bandís main man, Denis, is in the spotlight a bit more often than his bandmatesí ones, the latter use any opportunity to join it, intermingling in a complex, yet elegant, sonic pattern. Waylaid and Middlebrau both for the most part alternate RIO-evoking and more traditional jazz-rock moves, containing no heavy riffs or harsh guitar solos. Disillusioned Avatar for the most part develops unhurriedly. However, besides those with melodically pronounced arrangements (normally with violin and sax at their fore), it has a couple of sections where the music suggests Space Fusion, deploying a guitar as its main soloing vehicle. Finally, Blues for a Bruised Planet and Disoriental Suite are both mellower, slow-paced ñ yet still fairly complicated in places ñ pieces of a quasi jazz-fusion ëappearanceí, the latter full of colorations of Japanese ethnic music, albeit one of its segments only refers to the blues.
Conclusion. Moraine has made creatively quite a big step forward already with its second release, showing theyíre one of the most promising modern bands to look out for in the future. Highly recommended! I would have rated ìMetamorphic Rockî as a complete masterpiece as well as included it in my personal chart of 2011 if the album had at least two thirds consisted of new compositions. Yes, Iím pedantic in this respect, and none of the bandsí discographies that are featured on this site contain compilations, unless those that consist for the most part of previously unavailable compositions. Everybody goes crazy :-) in his own wayÖ
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I've been reading through documentation, and I still can't find a reason
why notifies weren't sent out to ns2.myvemma.com when it was defined as a
CNAME. They were only sent out when it had an A record. In both cases,
it had a NS record.
Bind 8 seemed to have no problem sending notifies to a slave server that
was defined by a CNAME record. Does anyone know if this is an official
Thank you,
-Raiden Johnson
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 [email]email@example.com[/email] wrote:
> > Possibly having your NS records as CNAMEs (which you should not have)
> > is not doing you any favours ...
> >
> > Could you rewrite this as:
> >
> > ns1.myvemma.com. IN A 220.127.116.11
> > ns2.myvemma.com. IN A 188.8.131.52
> >
> > web01.myvemma.com. IN CNAME ns1.myvemma.com.
> > web02.myvemma.com. IN CNAME ns2.myvemma.com.
> >
> > and see if that helps? Are the NS records for zone
> > subnet188.8.131.52.in-addr.arpa also ns1/ns2.myvemma.com?
> >[/color]
> This did it!!! Ronan, you are my hero! =P
> But seriously, why should this have mattered? Why would this version of
> BIND (past versions seemed to have no problem) not send notifies to slave
> NS if they are defined by CNAME instead of A records?
> (I shouldn't press my luck here, since it's all working, but I'd still
> like to know. =P)
> Thank you!
> -Raiden Johnson


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This free online training course will help anyone to learn effective notetaking skills. You can complete it in your own time. You will receive a certificate of completion when you're finished.
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Guest Voice of Eric Compton: Why I want Erie to win snow contest
I have always been a baseball nut, especially when it comes to statistics. I even wrote a children's book, "Baseball Stats," about 30 years ago and am hoping someday someone in Hollywood finds it at a yard sale and turns it into a major motion picture, ala "Moneyball." (In a blatant attempt to lure Brad Pitt to star in it, I would promise Angelina Jolie the role as Mrs. Casey Stengel.)
But these days, with training camps not set to open for another few days, my mind has turned from pennant chases to a race that all of Erie can get behind: the Golden Snow Globe race to finish No. 1 in the competition to be the snowiest city in the United States. If the contest involved only side streets, Mayor Joe Sinnott's team, whose colors are white with white trim, would have already clinched the title. But this race involves all of Erie, and as usual there are the formidable contenders of Buffalo, Syracuse and Rochester.
As of this writing, two-thirds of the way through the season (think Aug. 1 in baseball terms), Erie has already gone over 108 inches and holds a decent lead on Buffalo. Grand Rapids, Mich., is third, with Syracuse suffering through an offseason -- it's 25 games, er, inches, behind, in fourth place. As for Rochester (and really, can you really believe a town named after Jack Benny's butler could be considered a serious contender?), that city has really struggled this winter, lollygagging in fifth place with a mere 69.6 inches. With that city being chased in the standings by Michigan burgs (Ann Arbor and Detroit) and one in Ohio (Toledo), fans in Rochester are calling for the meteorologist to be fired.
There is a slight catch to Erie's lead: The contest is only open to cities with populations of 100,000 or more, and our fair metropolis is right on the cusp, with a current U.S. Census count of 101,047. In this do-whatever-it-takes-to-win game, I would not put it past Buffalo partisans to pile into their station wagons in the dead of night and squire away a couple of thousand Erie residents, thus disqualifying us from the competition.
Erie would then be forced to fight back with a baby boom, which of course is conceivable (OK, bad word) since we can't get out of our houses anyway because snow is blocking all the doors and windows.
One note of caution: In a big game with such high stakes on the line, Erie cannot go into a prevent defense. Coaches Tom Atkins and Linh Truong, from the WJET-TV weather team, must keep attacking. Blizzards are a dime a dozen, but it's slow and steady to win the race. Two to 3 inches a day not only increases our total, but also takes valuable time off the clock. We cannot rely on prayers that storms hit us and miss the other contenders.
Down the homestretch of the winter season with our backs to the wall, we need Erieites to bring portable hair dryers out to Presque Isle State Park and try to unfreeze as much of Lake Erie as possible so we can maintain our home-field advantage of lake-effect snow.
Syracuse might claim that these tactics are unfair, but the locals there knew the rules before the game started. You cannot blame the officiating in this one. Go watch your No. 1-ranked basketball team. We'll watch the snow pile up on our side streets and be the ones smiling in April.
ERIC COMPTON, a freelance sportswriter and sports-radio host, celebrates his eighth year in Erie this month after moving here from New York City.


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This is a discussion on Possibly unintended side-effect in BIO_nread0 - Openssl ; Hi,=20 I wrote an SSL layer over a custom network layer (IOCP on Windows, poll() on UNIX) for my employer, using the non-copy functions BIO_nread and BIO_nwrite. I am aware that they are not "official", and in particular lack documentation. ...
I wrote an SSL layer over a custom network layer (IOCP on Windows,
poll() on UNIX) for my employer, using the non-copy functions BIO_nread
and BIO_nwrite. I am aware that they are not "official", and in
particular lack documentation. So it doesn't make much sense to speak
about bugs, as there is no defined contract.
Nevertheless I think there may be an unintended side-effect in
BIO_nread0. The problem occurs when calling BIO_nread0 while there is no
byte pending in the BIO. Then, at cyclic buffer boundaries only (or so I
think), a byte gets "swallowed". I think the behavior stems from the
following code in bss_bio.c (version 0.9.8g, lines 299-305):
if (peer_b->len =3D=3D 0)
char dummy;
/* avoid code duplication -- nothing available for
reading */
return bio_read(bio, &dummy, 1); /* returns 0 or -1 */
I didn't follow the implemenation completely, but in the same file, in
bio_read we get to (lines 216-218):
BIO_set_retry_read(bio); /* buffer is empty */
if (size <=3D peer_b->size)
peer_b->request =3D size;
.... and then somehow this "requested byte" disappears, if we are at the
cyclic buffer wraparound - by "disappear" I mean that the next call to
BIO_nread0 will jump this byte. Note, that I am not sure about the
mechanics. All I can say is, that if I call BIO_nread0 on an empty BIO
then I get 1 byte lossage every 16KB.
When I wrap my code like this, everything works fine:=20
if (BIO_ctrl_pending(pNetworkBio)) {
ret =3D BIO_nread0(pNetworkBio, (void *)&netwBuffer.buf);
So maybe the assumption is, that people do not call BIO_nread0 if there
is nothing pending in the BIO. But looking at the source, and especially
the comment (line 303 above) it seems to me the author just wanted to
avoid code duplication and *did not* intend any side-effect.
On a similar note I would like to ask if there are any plans to make
this interface official. I personally think it's an important interface
for any high-performance application. =20
Please comment,
Michael Keller.
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