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Win XP theme is available for Ubuntu/Linux Mint/other Ubuntu derivatives (GTK + Cinnamon)
Install Windows XP theme in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/13.10 Saucy/13.04 Raring/Linux Mint 16/15/14/other related Ubuntu derivatives (GTK + Cinnamon)Win Xp theme give a similar look to Linux desktop, this theme is available for GTK and Cinnamon. The aim of this theme to provide similar interface who just moved from Windows or want to move from Windows. Cinnamon version is made available by gmc85 and Gtk version is by BrahimSaleem. Previously I shared Windows 7/8 themes + icons take a look here. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change themes. Win-icons used in screenshots.To install Win-XP theme in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:Terminal Commands:sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/themessudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install win-xp-themeThat's itSource: Win-XPVisit on site http://www.noobslab.com
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Vous êtes ici : A land of history and legend | Castles on the Richard the Lionheart Way |
The Castle of Châlus-Chabrol
Castle of Châlus-Chabrol
The Castle of Châlus-Chabrol testifies to the power of its owners, who were all members of the most important families in France: the Sully, d'Albret, Borgia and, lastly, Bourbon.
A town soon developed behind the castle, around a priory (L'Abbeille). During the Revolution, the emigration of the Count of Bourbon in 1792 led to the estate being sequestrated and auctioned. The Count bought back some of his seized property when he returned and the castle remained in Bourbon family hands until the end of the 20th century. It included part of the living accommodation with a tower, a keep, the remains of an 11th century chapel and the main part of 17th century living accommodation.

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SDCC2012: Firefly returns to television for cast special
2012 marks the tenth anniversary of Firefly's debut. The sci-fi classic is often cited as one of the greatest tragedies of genre television, as it ran for only about a dozen episodes before cancellation due to low ratings.
The series was subsequently discovered by legions of fans who lamented that they didn't notice it fast enough to get the ratings up in time. Mention the show to almost any genre television fan, and you'll get a sad smile and a slow nod in appreciation for Firefly, famously cut short before its potential was even half realized.
A film - dubbed Serenity - hit theaters later. While the movie was excellent, it was not a mainstream box office success, and so the show did not see a true resurgence.
Today at Comic-Con 2012 San Diego, a panel was held in honor of the anniversary, which had seven members of the cast reunited for the pleasure of the fans. The panel was moderated by Jeff Jensen from EW, and saw the stars discussing their current work, and answering fan's questions.
Footage from this panel is slated to form the core of the television special, which will also feature footage from the episodes and further interviews with cast and creators.
The future show has been dubbed Browncoats Unite, a reference to the name fans have given themselves over the years, and will appear on Science, a minor television network originally dedicated to scientific documentaries, but which now seems to show anything slightly geeky.
"Firefly is a landmark work of science fiction and a favorite with our viewers," explained Science exec Debbie Myers. "Ever since it premiered on Science, fans have asked us to do something special to mark its 10-year anniversary. With this signature celebration, punctuated by Browncoats Unite, we will connect the minds behind this classic franchise with its legions of passionate fans."
The Comic-con panel included stars Nathon Fillion, Alan Tudyk, Summer Glau, Adam Baldwin, and Sean Maher, showrunner Tim Minear, writer Jose Molina, and the show's creator Joss Whedon.
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To the Editor:
The May 27 article by Michelle Caffrey headlined "Fatal Distraction" was very poignant and beautifully written.
(The article concerned how the Donato family is coping, a year after Toni Donato-Bolis and her unborn son were killed by an allegedly distracted driver, and their efforts against such driving.)
I don't know anyone related to the tragedy, but I felt as though I knew the family personally after reading the article.
I will pull over and put the car in "park" before I take out a cell phone or adjust the GPS from now on.
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ALLENDALE, MI -- Police say drugs likely led to a chain reaction crash involving three young people Wednesday evening, Dec. 12.
Ottawa County sheriff's deputies responded to the intersection of 68th Avenue and Sunset Drive at about 7:20 p.m. and found several vehicles with damage.
A 21-year-old Allendale resident, Jessica Ana-Marie Bosch, was taken to Zeeland Hospital for an evaluation. Her injuries were not serious, authorities said.
According to police, Nicholas David Avink, 18, of Allendale, was south on 68th Avenue, slowing to turn left on Sunset, when his vehicle was struck in the passenger side by another vehicle. The impact forced both into a third vehicle, driven by Bosch, who was waiting on Sunset to turn onto 68th Avenue.
Police say the second driver, whose vehicle allegedly struck Avink's, admitted to using inhalants "less than a minute before the crash." Her name was not released.
"She says she does not know what happened or how she hit the other vehicle," Ottawa sheriff's Sgt. Matt Wildfong said.
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Are you already in a bit of a lunch box rut, like I am? School has been back in session for 3 weeks now, and I'm running out of ideas, fast! Don't fret…I actually have a few fun posts this week on the topic of different school lunch ideas, and today I'm h... Click here to read more.


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Adkins is still basically Toby Keith manqué, another swaggering good ol' boy who occasionally comes up with a ditty that has a little wit to go along with the machismo. On his latest, tunes such as "Ladies Love Country Boys" and "Words Get in the Way" give the singer a chance to flex his sense of humor and display a touch for subtlety. But, with his rugged baritone, Adkins resorts to playing the bar-room bully on "Fightin' Words" ("I'm gonna exercise my right to give somebody a good old country ass-whuppin'") and even recycles the egregious "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" (originally on last year's Songs About Me).
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At 6' tall, I used to have a hard time finding sweaters with long enough sleeves. So I took up knitting to make my own sweaters.View all patterns by designer (107) »
This stitch pattern was perfect for a simple shell, and I couldn't wait to work it up in a yarn that shows great stitch definition. The texture is just beautiful and the pattern creates a natural wave to the bottom edge. Show off this shell all by itslef or pair it with its matching cardigan (Fir Cone Lace Cardigan #107)
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T.N. Watson, 82, of Amarillo died Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2004.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Memory Gardens Cemetery. Arrangements are by Cox Funeral Home, 4180 Canyon Drive.
Mr. Watson was born in Sunshine, N.M., and was raised in Graham. He was a graduate of Graham High School. He was a veteran of the Navy. He married Pauline McPhillips in 1947 in Pampa. He lived in Pampa and at Lake Meredith for many years before moving to Amarillo in 1997. Mr. Watson was a member of First Presbyterian Church in Pampa for many years.
He was preceded in death by a son, Tommy Watson in 1964.
Survivors include his wife; a brother, Harold Watson of Dallas; a sister, Beverly Hall of Arlington; and many nieces and nephews, including Barbara Storseth and Barre Storseth, both of Amarillo.
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Append Only
or read and comment only privileges
Let me start with
's note to me (
) in OldWikiWikiSandBox
about the read and comment (append only) access proposed for casual users of a modified
also supports
pages, ReadOnlyPages
?, pages that can be written if a password is provided, and assorted combinations like password-protected append-only pages.
I don't like the way
pages work - it's too easy for people to make errors. I would not suggest putting Append Only into
as it is implemented in
. I need to find a way so people can see the effects of their changes before committing them permanently. I've thought of clumsy approaches, but am open to suggestions. --
I agree - full access via
is better, much better.
But Append Only lets visitors comment in what would otherwise be a closed environment - an environment that was sealed into glass, read-only cases out of a concern that visitors should not be all be armed with full edit privileges. I noted that
's experience was that this was not a problem here at this
site of his, which is largely populated by software designers and engineers.
Append Only is a compromise under circumstances where the first-time visitor did not have access. I think that the ability to append to any page would help the regular users of the site - to whom, in my model, full site-wide
edit privileges were granted - to grow.
It would be my anticipation that the regular users would edit and integrate the comment into the appropriate page or at a minimum reply to the comment. If the users need to edit their comments, but this means more Perl, the comment could be displayed to the user in processed format with a choice to post or to edit the comment. However, I find working in this little edit window, that
provides, as I am now to be far superior to the edit window line editors that I used many years ago and still use out of habit on many BBSs that I occasionally visit now.
In the model that I proposed, every page would be subject to editing by the regular users of the site and only the first-time visitors and casual users (who were not interested in edit privileges) would be limited to making comments. In order to encourage comments from first-time users, I would set up a
page to introduce themselves by posting a "comment" to describe themselves and their interests and a New User FAQ page where they could post "comments" to ask questions.
My thought is that encouraging interaction and the feeling of acceptance on the first visit (to an otherwise closed site) by a new user that will help build a sense of belonging. I view this as important to the expansion of the regular user base.
I am still struggling with my beginning point in the quest to employ pattern concepts to development of the
environment which was how to use a DiscussionGroupInTandem
. In the model that I propose, the discussion group would be operated in tandem with an adaptation of Wiki Wiki and would - for maximum coverage of the potential audience - be supported by both a listserv mailing list and a Web conference message base, that would be connected by a gateway to each other so that the messages posted would be shared. --
I've often thought that a Preview button would make Append Only pages work better for me; when I clicked Preview, I would go to a page that showed me how
would display my additions in HTML. By oscillating between Preview and
, I could refine my changes until I was satisfied. Then, when I pressed Commit, I could be reasonably confident that my bullets would really be bullets.
You might consider looking at the Salon web site (
), which has an interesting model for collaborative work. They ask for user IDs and passwords. When you add a note to a forum, you (and only you) can edit your note for a period of 24 hours; after that, it's cast in stone. Nice compromise, if you're willing to put up with the requirement for user IDs.
I like your idea of being able to switch back and forth between the editor and the view of what it looks like.
I took a look at the set up over on the Salon web site. Thanks for the pointer to that site.
There are several levels of security possible and they have chosen to let the reader into the site to read what is there (but not comment) on the basis of leaving the user's registration information. When the email address is confirmed (up to a two hour delay according to their note) as a real email address, the user then gets to make comments.
The confirmation process requires the real user to send a confirmation number back to the server that generated the request for confirmation. This is a method used by some mailing lists that I subscribe to.
My inclination would be to let the new users comment immediately upon leaving the email information. This is the way that many of the mailing list discussion groups have been able to operate without serious problems. --
P.S. I took the liberty of moving Jim Hebert's note on Apend Only to the next frame. Moving the note was consistent with my thoughts on how comments should be repositioned to fit the organization of the site as it evolves. -- J
Hello hello... guided here by a friend...
Perhaps this is too contrary to entire model of this system, but, with regards to how to correct the problems associated with
, why not issue userids and passwords to such a system?
Something tells me that the whole point of this is to avoid such a thing, so perhaps a better option would be a mod only for
pages, such as keeping additions to the Sandbox in separate entries for the first N days of their life, and then rolling them into the main text. Meanwhile, the system could build the Sandbox on the fly by concatenating those entries.
Then, issue the submitting user a randomly generated key that would allow them to go back in and correct their mistakes within N days. It could be something as simple as making random the name of the [file/db record] that each entry is stored in, and returning that to the user. Low overhead - the user would simply have to type in the name of the entry she/he wished to edit. Obviously, this capability is 98% present already since the cgi has the ability to fetch/save the entire Sandbox. The cgi already keeps track of the last-mod date, so doing the N day rollovers on the appended comments wouldn't require any new tracking of date stamps.
(I'm wondering if the fact that it's taken me a while to get around to submitting this is going to hose anything, but I'm sure this thing is much smarter than I give it credit for and won't obliterate anything posted in the meantime. Perhaps that's what that diff-looking thing I stumbled into at one point is...)
-- JimHebert
doesn't have logins per se, but it uses another mechanism (it's a secret) to distinguish writers from readers. That's what FishBowlMode
is all about. It's a lot like logins.
People without logins can visit and read all pages and can write publicly writable pages. People with "logins" can write all pages that aren't password protected, but they can only append to append-only pages.
Looking at this policy in light of the above discussion puts a whole different bent on this issue for me. I'll have to give it some thought. Keep those ideas comin'...
I didn't get off on the right foot. My thought about Append Only was that the first time users would have Append Only privileges on all of the pages in the site rather than full edit privileges. By Append Only, I was thinking in terms of the limitations of a class of users rather than a class of pages.
Those with edit privileges could edit the comments by combining them, moving them to a more appropriate place and/or integrating them into the main text of a page. So every page in my proposed scheme would be open to editing or appending depending on whether the user had
the site.
To append comments doesn't differ much from the posting of a message in a discussion group, and there are lots of such groups that I belong to where there has not been a need to screen who may do this. I was even thinking that the posting of a comment could be handled like the posting of a message to such a discussion group. In fact, the comments posted could be both appended to the page and circulated to the members of an email-based discussion group operated in tandem with the Wiki site. A message base on the web would be available so that the members could check on all of the new comments. In the case of a whole new page, it could just be loaded as a comment - and if my entry on the WikiWikiWishList
were granted, it would be circulated as text to the email list participants. I guess the subject line would be the new page name.
In this model, those with edit privileges could be encouraged first to enter their new thoughts as a comment and then in the same sitting move the comment on into the body of the page unless they thought that it worked better as a comment appended at the end of the page. This way, most of the new content would be available by email, in the web-message base and appended or incorporated into the appropriate page.
Many of the on-line participants among lawyers and CPAs to whom the site I envision
would be targeted are still back with email only access for various reasons. This way they could participate in the goings on by way of the email-based discussion group. They could by corresponding in the discussion group help develop the information relevant to the site. Those with edit or comment rights could copy such a message from the Web message base over to the appropriate page.
It would not be just the email-only user who would be using the discussion group to participate in the goings on at the Wiki site. Another group of discussion-group users can be found among those who are Web browser enabled but nevertheless still prefer to have new information delivered to their email box as it is published on the Web page rather than having to load up their browser, ride out and round up the information. --
Early wiki documentation suggested that text written in the first person should be signed and then subjected only to light editing by others, for spelling, grammar and brevity, much like letters to the editor of print publications. The same documentation suggested that third person writing was acceptable or even preferred, and that that writing would belong to the community and could be expected to evolve. In other words, one's signature is wiki's read-only mark. The interpretation of that mark is left to other humans.
Some CPAs, commenting on the
site (
) have concerns about both inadvertently inappropriate and maliciously editing of another's text. At the CPA side of the site, we have a "project" that incorporates a tandem "Comments" page for each contributed content page. That should help with the inadvertent changes. You might want to vist:
and select Internet Public Services from the hyper-linked outline.
Giving people the option of appending a comment rather than opening up the entire page for editing becomes an advantage when introducing concurrency control (collision avoidance) into a wiki clone.
Consider a wiki that provides both edit options. User A begins an edit. User B begins an edit [1]. User A saves. User B attempts to save, but instead is notified of a collision.
If instead user A begins an append edit, followed by user B beginning an append edit, both can complete saves, in either order.
[1] assuming no locking scheme that might prevent B from starting an edit
encourages thready discussion over document mode.
" --
The option I went with was to divide the page into sections of decreasing levels of restriction. You are allowed to freely edit anything at or below whatever your level is. Material above your level is read only. --
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—In their editorial comment1 on my study of laboratory testing2 for drug overdose, Snyder and Vlasses consider several important issues regarding the role of toxicology analysis. However, they misinterpret two points.First, they suggest that the eight drugs listed in Table 3 represent my conception of a group of drugs for which specific therapies are available. Their implication is that I endorse selective screening only for these substances in overdose patients. However, as noted in the text and in the legend, Table 3 actually lists eight drugs with known drug-specific therapies that appeared unexpectedly on toxicology screening in this particular patient population. Certainly, as Snyder and Vlasses1 have noted, unique clinical circumstances might dictate testing for a variety of other substances.Second, they state that I "discount the need for prospective assessment" of more selective drug screening. On the contrary, I clearly stated that
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"We actually have a picture of the moment we met," Glee star Jane Lynch, who plays the hilariously menacing Coach Sylvester on the Fox hit, tells The New York Times about a May 2009 San Francisco fund-raiser where she was a presenter and clinical psychologist Dr. Lara Embry was among those being honored.
At the gathering, it was the good doctor who pushed to meet Lynch. "I said, 'I want my picture taken with her,' " Embry tells the newspaper. "I thought she was cute."
Both described the attraction between them as immediate, and the fact they each worked in highly disparate professions was not a roadblock. "It's not like she's marrying out of her species or anything," says Lynch.
Adds Embry: "I knew of her work, but not extensively. I was basically ignorant of it."
Now, Embry is fully aware of it. The two married last weekend, on Memorial Day, at the Blue Heron restaurant in Sunderland, Mass., in what was described as a jazzy wedding. Not that it was a direct route to say "I do."
Motherhood a 'Real Delight'After San Francisco, says The Times, Lynch, now 49, headed back to Los Angeles and Embry, 41, returned to Sarasota, Fla., where she practices at the Carter Psychology Center and raises her daughter, Haden, 8. Embry was also seeking visitation rights with her 10-year-old adoptive daughter, Chase.
Over the course of their long-distance relationship, however, the two discovered "we are both fascinated by emotional experience and are essentially hopeful people, but that temperamentally we express it differently," says Embry. "I tend to be more calm and reserved, and Jane is not. She's expressive and exuberant and gregarious."
Continues Lynch: "Lara's very patient. I move fast. I'm very impulsive, and we kind of process things at a different pace. So we've both had to step up in that area. I've had to slow down, and she had to get a move on."
As such, Lynch has had to adjust to being a mother to an 8-year-old. Embry says that to practice for an episode of Glee" on which Lynch was to do a takeoff of Madonna's "Vogue" video, Haden assisted – and the two (Lynch and Haden) often break into song and dance together.
"I'm almost 50, and I thought that possibility was behind me, so this is a real delight," says Lynch, who added with a laugh that when it came to her own biological clock, "I never even heard it ticking."
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Keep them on hand for weekly poker night or hand them out as favors at a casino themed party. Whatever the reason you turn to Shindigz for custom playing cards, you'll love the great prices and varied design possibilities. There are literally thousands of options between the hundreds of templates, many of which include built-in color and graphics choices. And if you can't find the perfect design even if that wide a variety, turn to our Create-A Playing Card Case option. The online system makes it easy to build a design from scratch, selecting your own font, background, orientation and colors. You can pick a graphic from our extensive library or upload your own. For a super-low cost, you'll get a regulation deck of cards stored in a white metal deck with your unique design on the front.
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The fear of genetically modified foods is reverberating through the Midwest.
On the front line of the attack on genetically altered crops is an insect-resistant corn called Bt, which until recently had been a favorite of Midwestern farmers.
But Bt is falling out of favor among many farmers, both because of the genetic furor and because farmers believe a decrease in infestation by a major crop pest makes its expensive, anti-insect properties less necessary.
"A lot of biotech corn is being stacked up in the warehouses," said Darrel Good, grain marketing specialist at the University of Illinois. "The seed companies won't be growing as much this summer."
Fear about the safety of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, has resulted in restrictions on imports by European countries and outcry in the United States. In the latest sign of the trend, anti-gene engineering groups asked the U.S. Agriculture Department on April 26 to improve testing procedures for genetically altered foods, contending that the products' properties could be transferred to other plants.
The Japanese government, meanwhile, accepted a proposal in late April to screen foods that contain genetically modified ingredients before putting them on the market. Last year, Japan bought 76 percent of its soybeans from the United States and 96 percent of its corn.
Closer to home, a USDA survey of farmers' planting intentions found that growers would plant only 19 percent of corn acreage with insecticide corn, down from 25 percent last year, in the major producing states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
Bt corn contains a gene from Bacillus thuringiensis, a soil bacterium. The gene helps the corn plant to produce its own insecticide to fight a major pest, the European corn borer, eliminating the need to spray the crop with chemicals.
"Certainly the biotech concerns are a factor in cutting back on insect resistant usage," said Stewart Reeve, a spokesman for the National Corn Growers Association in St. Louis. "Farmers in the eastern Corn Belt also were deciding whether it was worth spending $8 more an acre for the seed when the corn borer hadn't been much of a problem in the last two or three years."
Spokesmen for the two largest seed producers, Pioneer HiBred International, now a subsidiary of DuPont Co., and Monsanto Co., recently acquired by Pharmacia Corp., said corn sales were running flat to down, while soybean sales were flat to up.
The most important biotech soybean is herbicide-tolerant, specifically able to withstand Roundup, Monsanto Co.'s major all-purpose weed killer.
According to the USDA survey, farmers in the top eight soybean growing states - Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, and Ohio - plan to reduce planting of the herbicide-tolerant soybeans to 52 percent of planted acreage from 57 percent in 1999.
"It is clear that there has been no penalties in price for growers sell modified crops," said Good. "But there has been some premium prices paid for conventional grain - stuff grown on contract for particular customers."
Most elevators will buy any corn or beans, he said: "Don't ask, don't tell."
"This season will be an important test of farmer reaction to the biotech issues in Europe," said Mark Wiltamuth, an agribusiness analyst with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. "They are looking at grain market behavior and cost savings benefits."
Good noted that, ultimately, farmers would grow the crops that would give them the best economic advantage.
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TALLAHASSEE - A dozen members of a climate change advocacy group dumped 43,000 petitions for an investigation and a public records request at Gov. Rick Scott's office Friday.
Forecast the Facts, a group "dedicated to ensuring that Americans hear the truth about climate change," according to its website, wants to get to the bottom of whether Scott unofficially banned the terms "climate change" and "global warming" from state reports.
Scott has denied banning the terms.
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In the early '60s when I was going to high school in Tulsa, Okla., the city had its own musical lore. Songs like "24 Hours from Tulsa" for example, or "Take Me Back to Tulsa, I'm Too Young to Marry."
That's not to say that the songs were particularly good, or that I even listened to them much. Our music was rock 'n' roll, which in those days was still as young as we were. There was no such thing as FM on the car radio. Just Top 40. We drove the Chevy to the levee years before the song made a myth out of it.
As I flew there recently, I realized just about anyplace is 24 hours from Tulsa now. Swimming the channel from Lanai to Maui, you're 24 hours from Tulsa. The song was written before the world got shrink-wrapped by jets, cell phones and franchise commerce, before everywhere got turned into a different version of the same place.
It takes most of a day to get there from here; half that long to get back, thanks to the magic of time zones. I went back to visit my sister and my 91-year-old daddy, who lives by himself in a rambling brick house and still cuts his own huge yard with a mower that's not even self-propelled.
Tough, those Okies. In a lean, stringy, weather-beaten sort of way. My dad wasn't born there, but has logged enough decades now to have assimilated the place's Bible Belt zen: You look up at that big sky that's liable to throw any sort of weather your way. Then you deal with it.
I hadn't been back to Tulsa since moving to Maui 17 years ago. The place has grown. The broad interchangeable avenues with their malls, car lots and new box stores extend miles past the city limits of my youth. They reach out to engulf the nearby towns of Bixby, Jenks and Broken Arrow.
Between the boulevards are miles of big brick houses on large lots. Stately trees are everywhere, oaks, elms and maples just starting to bud during my stay. Spring was tentatively trying to begin in the city that was still not quite recovered from The Storm that hit last December.
It made the national news, bringing not snow, rain, sleet or hail, but ice. It didn't affect the roads so much as the trees, encasing the branches and limbs with a gnarly coating. The limbs didn't sparkle like crystal as in past ice storms, but sagged, weighed down until they snapped, by the ton, taking power lines down with them, leaving the place ripped and torn like a war zone.
It was eight days before some houses got their power back. Which in freezing temperatures became a life-and-death situation for some, a pushed-to-the-limits situation for all.
The cherry pickers and gigantic trucks were finally completing the clean-up when I got there. I never saw, but only heard about the towers of broken branches they collected, many stories high.
The weather, like the football fortunes of the University of Oklahoma or the latest basketball coach at Oklahoma State, is drama. That dome of sky over the plains holds Old Testament fury.
During my week there, there were tornado alerts, lightning that turned midnight white, rumbling thunder that felt like it was in bed with you, winds that ripped the roofs off warehouses and floods that put Broken Arrow roads under enough water to summon Noah.
The weather is also a good reminder that folks in these parts are still right neighborly. You can't help getting drawn into conversation, running the risk you're liable to start sounding like a good 'ol boy yourself before you're through.
I flew back to Maui on United Flight 3, nonstop from Chicago. That was long enough for two movies, two episodes of "30 Rock" and all the Sudokus in the in-flight magazine. There was still time left over to realize the visit had put me in touch with my inner cowboy as a different song of the region played in my mind.
It was Bruce Springsteen backed by fiddle, banjo, accordion and rollicking choir, singing "My Oklahoma Home" on the Grammy-winning Seeger Sessions CD, "We Shall Overcome."
The Dust Bowl lament describes the misfortunes of an early Okie, whose homestead, not to mention his hopes and dreams, all got "blowed away." Not even his Oklahoma woman is spared — "Mister, when I bent to kiss her, she was picked up by a twister."
The singer of the song winds up a "roam'n Oklahoman." But he takes heart from the fact that he's never far from the dust of home — "it's always near, it's up in the atmosphere."
It was a strangely comforting thought as United Flight 3 broke through the clouds before touching down softly on the Kahului runway.
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An interview is a two-way street; you navigate it as much as the person doing the interviewing. When an interview is going poorly, it doesn't have to end your chances at the job. Instead, it can be a window into how you manage missteps for the interviewing team, providing valuable insight. When faced with a blank moment in response to a surprise question, or you realize you have misspoken, take a deep breath and turn the interview around.
Repeat the question if you're blanking. Not only does this give you time to think about your response, but it also clarifies the question in case you didn't hear it correctly. Answer honestly and clearly, focusing on your skills and experience at it pertains to the job. Don't ramble as you search for the right words.
Acknowledge your error if you've misspoken -- stop and start again. State that you realize you didn't sound at all articulate with some light humor, if appropriate, and answer the question a second time. Often the human factor, especially when interviewing with teams that are seeing many candidates, makes you stand out as someone who is agile, a good communicator and able to realize an error -- all positive traits in an employee.
Apologize immediately if you commit a gaffe. In the surprise of the moment, you may forget or mispronounce an interviewer's name, misstate a critical statistic or forget an important point. If the issue is glaring, an acknowledgement isn't enough; apologize and move on.
Get feedback on your response to turn the interview in your favor. If the interviewer is frowning or looking at you blankly, check in. Use the moment to ask if the interviewer needs further information or detail, or if you've missed the point of the question. The interview is your opportunity not only to shine, but also to engage in a dialogue with the interviewer. If you can see something has gone poorly, don't let it slide.
Avoid awkward silences by using prepared questions if the interview is running out of steam. If the interviewer, who may be a manager, but not a seasoned interviewer, is clearly floundering herself, use your questions to steer the interview back on course. These types of questions show the research you've conducted prior to coming in for the meeting, which will redound to your credit.
Manage your body language. If you notice your leg is ticking up and down, or you're gesturing too much, stop. Take a deep breath and continue without the behavior. The interviewer may not notice the change. If she does, however, it may be in your favor. She may note that you are aware of -- and manage well -- any nervous tics.
- Use your thank-you letter or email to recover from the interview if you don't believe it went well, and you can't turn the interview around during the meeting.
- A bad interview can be a good thing if it helps you avoid a poorly run company.
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Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cureby Jim Murphy Alison Blank
This is the story of a killer that has been striking people down for thousands of years:tuberculosis. After centuries of ineffective treatments, the microorganism that causesTB was identified, and the cure was thought to be within reach--but drug-resistantvarieties continue to plague and panic the human race. The "biography" of this deadlygerm, an account of the diagnosis, treatment, and "cure" of the disease over time,and the social history of an illness that could strike anywhere but was most prevalentamong the poor are woven together in an engrossing, carefully researched narrative.Bibliography, source notes, index.
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Source: Valve
quote: The Windows Store is also the only "approved" source of Metro apps but given that this is Windows I am sure there will be easy ways to load Metro apps however you choose.
quote: I think the biggest problem Steam will have is that the Windows Store will be baked into Windows 8 and the Steam store will be completely unknown outside of gamers. How are they going to penetrate this market?
quote: I wouldn't be too sure about that. Microsoft is turning into a "Me too, Apple" more and more every day.
quote: Because by all indications Windows 8 for the PC is shaping up to be a massive flop. There's still opportunity for Steam here for sure.
quote: How so? Microsoft was selling smartphones and tablets, with its OEM partners, long before the iPad or iPhone were a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye.
quote: Wow, you're really on to something there. That must be why BUILD 2012 sold out in an hour due to wild developer demand for Win8 apps and product. That MUST BE why OEMs were stumbling over themselves to show off all sorts of slick Windows 8 devices at Computex. And SURELY that is why the Windows 8 Release Preview reached 1 million downloads in under 24-hours... http://www.redmondpie.com/download-windows-8-relea... I mean don't those landmarks just scream "massive flop"??
quote: I'm so glad you shared your kind wisdom with us.
quote: But for you to deny the extremely vocal majority who's clearly NOT enthused about Metro as a desktop UI? Come on man.
quote: Sure Windows 8 and its Metro UI will not be pleasing to a majority of PC enthusiasts. They oft prefer barren interfaces, graphically minimalist interfaces, and the ability to fully customize everything themselves. However, these preferences run counter to the majority of users, and the enthusiast community is quite small compared to the overall base of phone, tablet, and computer users.
quote: Hence the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, but the few like to cry foul that they're not getting their way.
quote: Since when did MS catered to those people though? Look if you want something pretty and flashing and easy enough for a 4 year old to use, Apple is down the hall.
quote: It's more than that and you know it.This is unlike any Windows OS before it, because Metro is there, and the desktop is still there.
quote: Microsoft has always catered to them. Remember, when the Windows GUI was slocked on top of MS-DOS many power users felt it was a huge step backwards and emulation of Apple's 1984 MS-DOS. Similar arguments were made back then -- Microsoft was turning its back on its true fans, while trying to copy Apple's mass market appeal.
quote: I guarantee you, no matter how much you villainize Windows 8, it will be more flexible/customizable than the rigid confines of OS X.
quote: But that's what critics like yourself aren't understanding.
quote: There should be a completely seamless interaction between Metro and the Desktop, across the board
quote: I see no reason why Metro and Desktop apps, for the PC version of Windows 8, be incompatible with each other
quote: throwing the PC and mobile OS together in a big jumbled mess
quote: And the older desktop apps are not touch friendly legacy mouse/kbd software straight from your beloved era of 1990s :P
quote: It's an absurd waste of screen real estate
quote: Forcing this environment onto the Desktop PC
quote: That's not what I mean and you know it :) I'm talking about Microsoft blatantly looking to mimic Apples vertically integrated platform of tightly controlled "app stores" and in-house services bundled into the OS. And bringing this to the desktop.
quote: Microsoft isn't exactly mimicking Apple here, alone. Linux, RIM, Verizon, and others had app stores long before Apple's iTunes App Store. Were they as successful? No, of course not. But to say "Microsoft is copying Apple" even solely on the basis of its adoption of an app-distribution ecosystem is silly given the amount of predecessors to Apple's App Store.
quote: Thats right, I am specifically ignoring the third party apps that sometimes did that in the early 2000's if you prayed right and had the right phone model version and serial number because those were goddamned lame and suitable for technically literate people at best
quote: I'm talking about Microsoft blatantly looking to mimic Apples vertically integrated platform of tightly controlled "app stores" and in-house services bundled into the OS. And bringing this to the desktop.
quote: I think the upgrade price of $39.99 is a steal for such a huge upgrade in usability.
quote: I dunno man, this is first time ever I see MS seriously going to pwn Apple in usability department.
quote: Since when was Microsoft competing against Apple in the usability of desktop OS's?
quote: Ya I also laughed hard reading this Reclaimer's troll post, especially after using Win8 RTM build on my Vaio. He's just a clueless idiot who has no real experience using Win8. I think the upgrade price of $39.99 is a steal for such a huge upgrade in usability
quote: And SURELY that is why the Windows 8 Release Preview reached 1 million downloads in under 24-hours... http://www.redmondpie.com/download-windows-8-relea...
quote: Windows 8 for the PC is shaping up to be a massive flop
quote: Pirks you are and always have been, a stupid troll and person in general.
quote: If that doesn't make him a troll, he's just some kind of mentally deficient person.
quote: The point was more along the lines of how is Microsoft going to stop users from tampering with Windows and doing whatever they please?
quote: That's obviously just your opinion and I'm sure it's shared by plenty but actual indications are that Windows 8 will be a bigger success than Windows 7.
quote: I think that will really depend on how much Steam is charging to distribute these apps.
quote: With the Windows Store being built into Windows 8, Valve's Steam is going to be competing against a built-in feature of the OS.It's going to be Netscape vs. Microsoft all over again. Microsoft pretty much cornered that market before it even began.
quote: Don't agree with their newest ToA/EULA and you loose everything "purchased", no thanks!


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Matthew McConaughey & Camila Alves Are Engaged!
It was a merry Christmas indeed for Matthew McConaughey. The actor rang in the holidays by putting a ring on the finger of longtime girlfriend Camila Alves.
McConaughey, 42, who opened up about his relationship with the Brazilian model, 28, in 2007, announced his engagement on his WhoSay account.
"Just asked camila to marry me," he wrote in a post accompanying a snapshot of the couple sharing a smooch in front of the Christmas tree. "Merry Christmas."
The couple have two children together – Levi, 3, and Vida, who turns 2 in January – and McConaughey told PEOPLE in 2008 that Alves was the woman he wanted to start a family with.
"I always wanted to be a father," he said. "It just took the right woman and the right time to make it happen."
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This should work, but to restore you'll need to copy them back to their
original location first. That is, I don't think you can restore
directly from the USB drive. Of course you would have to do that with
tape anyway. It works that way with tape, so I don't know why it
wouldn't with any other removable media.
Also, if the volume where the B2D files are stored has compression
enabled, then you should also format the USB drive as a NetWare volume
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Designing Nursing Leadership in Wyoming -
A Day of Dialog for the Future
Susan Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN
Susan Hassmiller, in her role as Senior Advisor for Nursing at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is tasked with shaping and leading the Foundation's strategies to address the nurse and nurse faculty shortages in an effort to create a higher quality of patient care.
Through a facilitated and interactive process, your perspectives and ideas as current health care leaders will be gathered to create a new vision for Wyoming nursing leadership. Read more about the convention and Susan Hassmiller in the linked brochure above.


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Oddly Enough
Work on sex life of rats, life as a badger honored at Ig Nobel Prizes
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Scientific research into how polyester pants affect the sex life of rats, what it's like for a human to live like a badger and how different the world looks when viewed through your legs was honored at this year's Ig Nobel spoof awards.
Recent Oddly Enough News
Indiana man accused of mailing dead skunks, raccoon to rival for job
An Indiana man who police say mailed dead skunks and a raccoon to a man chosen over him as school basketball coach has been arrested on stalking, animal cruelty and other charges, police said on Wednesday.
Food fight: British sausage thrower wins Black Pudding championship
This year's World Black Pudding Throwing Championships, a more than 100-year-old tournament centered around hurling blood sausage, was won by the first thrower. | Video
All-female cast in Brooklyn stages nude production of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'
NEW YORK To be clothed, or not to be clothed? That was a no-brainer for members of an all-female cast in Brooklyn who stripped down to celebrate their freedom of expression in a nude version of Shakespeare in the park. | Video
Bad parking job leaves car dangling from Austin garage
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The New York Rangers (20-16-4) defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs (22-13-5) by the score of 3-2 in a shootout, tonight. For a box score go to Yahoo! Sports.
…so that game took 10 years off my life. I cannot understand how this team can come out with so little emotion and passion in such a big game. Sadly it was way too reminiscent of earlier this season. But got to give them credit for hanging in there and slowly changing the momentum back in their favor and picking up two titanic points.
…and how did the momentum begin to change? With a fight. I find it baffling that so many fans still refuse to admit that fighting can be such a huge part of the game and turn the outcome the way it did tonight. Big props to Clowe for knowing the team needed a spark. The Rangers didn't have someone who could do that pre-trade deadline.
…also helps to have Lundqvist back there. These last two weeks, he has put the team on his back and put them in position to get back into the post-season.
…McDonagh doing his best "Irish Jig" at the blueline before scoring his fourth goal of the season. Didn't know he had moves like that.
…Zuccarello earned a ton of respect in my book tonight as he didn't back down from Phaneuf once. Heck, he even went after Phaneuf and called him "another way to call a cat a kitten" after the Toronto defenseman high sticked him in the face.
…i was dizzy by the end of the game after all those line changes. The new guys must be like, "what the hell is this guy Torts doing?"
…even I couldn't find a way to blame Del Zotto for Girardi failing to keep the puck in the zone leading to Toronto's tying goal.
…so apparently insomnia suits Boyle's game well. He was all over the ice tonight.
…a paltry 38% on faceoffs for the Rangers tonight.
…remember last year when Richards would bury those late game chances to win games? Now they glance harmlessly off the goaltender's pads.
…much better defensively than the last game, but still way too many breakdowns.
…Pyatt almost officially phased out of the Rangers line-up after just 4:51 of ice time tonight.
…i got to tell you, as soon as this game was over, I immediately started salivating about Saturday night's game on Long Island. I don't think these two teams have played a game this big against each other since the first round of the playoffs in 1994. Really hoping this is the defining game that resurrects this once great rivalry.
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Easier on the digestive system, as much of the work is already done.
I think it can be helpful to those with illnesses and compromised digestion, and many swear by juicing.
I personally don't juice, as I prefer to eat whole foods in their whole state, and prefer blended salads and stews to juicing if i wish to concentrate my veggies. if you have a blender, you might try that before you spring for an expensive juicer (the efficient one's are pretty pricey).
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No Retreat from Bishops on Defending Religious Freedoms
Good news! The Administrative Committee of the USCCB has released a statement on the HHS mandate that doesn't retreat a single step from the position taken by Cardinal Dolan, Cardinal George, Archbishop Chaput, and the dozens of other bishops who have condemned this gross violation of religious liberty. It should be noted that the bishops not only list all the reasons why the mandate is objectionable but also "thank" faithful Catholics and others of good will who have condemned it. The final paragraph is literally a rallying call to all Catholics and men and women of faith, to take whatever steps are necessary to have the mandate rescinded:
"Most importantly of all, we call upon the Catholic faithful, and all people of faith, throughout our country to join us in prayer and penance for our leaders and for the complete protection of our First Freedom—religious liberty—which is not only protected in the laws and customs of our great nation, but rooted in the teachings of our great Tradition. Prayer is the ultimate source of our strength—for without God, we can do nothing; but with God, all things are possible"
In addition, the statement addressed the attempt of the many in the media and the Obama administration to make the mandate about contraception. The bishops have refuted that tactic very powerfully. Their rebuttal deserves to be read in full:
"Second, we wish to clarify what this debate is—and is not—about. This is not about access to contraception, which is ubiquitous and inexpensive, even when it is not provided by the Church's hand and with the Church's funds. This is not about the religious freedom of Catholics only, but also of those who recognize that their cherished beliefs may be next on the block. This is not about the Bishops' somehow "banning contraception," when the U.S. Supreme Court took that issue off the table two generations ago. Indeed, this is not about the Church wanting to force anybody to do anything; it is instead about the federal government forcing the Church—consisting of its faithful and all but a few of its institutions—to act against Church teachings. This is not a matter of opposition to universal health care, which has been a concern of the Bishops' Conference since 1919, virtually at its founding. This is not a fight we want or asked for, but one forced upon us by government on its own timing. Finally, this is not a Republican or Democratic, a conservative or liberal issue; it is an American issue."
What underscores the good news of this statement's clear, precise, and passionate response to an egregious violation of religious liberty by the President was a Reuters story from yesterday morning suggesting the Administrative Committee was going to take a more conciliatory tone.
We at Catholic Advocate applaud the strong and unambiguous stance of our Catholic bishops and will continue to help rally loyal Catholics to tell the Congress and the President that their violation of our religious liberty will not be tolerated.


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Dr Vikki Abrahams received her B.Sc. (hons) in Immunology 1996, and was awarded a Ph.D. in Immunology in 2000, both from University College London in Immunology. She continued her studies as a postdoctoral associate at Dartmouth Medical School, NH, and then at Yale University in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive sciences in the field of Reproductive Immunology. In 2004 she joined the faculty in the Department. Since 2006 she has also been an Honorary Lecturer in the Maternal and Fetal Health Research Center at The University of Manchester, UK.
Dr Abrahams is a member of the British Society for Immunology, American Association of Immunologists, International Society for Immunology of Reproduction, Society for Reproductive Investigation, and is a highly active member of the American Society of Reproductive Immunology. Dr Abrahams is the Associate Editor for Reviews of the American Journal of Reproductive Immunology and also serves on the editorial boards for a number of other journals within the Reproductive Sciences field. Within the department she coordinates the Division of Reproductive Sciences faculty meetings and mentors Ob/Gyn residents, MFM fellows, as well as medical, graduate and undergraduate students.
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J. Christian Herr Award for Excellence in Reproductive Immunology ResearchAmerican Society for Reproductive Immunology
The Harold Behrman Award for mentoring students, residents and fellowsDepartment of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Yale University
Professional Service
NIH Scientific Review Group: Pregnancy & Neonatology [PN] (2015)
Editorial Board for Biology of Reproduction (2013)
Society for Reproductive Investigation (2013)
Editorial Board for Reproductive Sciences (2012)
The International Society for Immunology of Reproduction (2011)
Associate Editor for Reviews for the American Journal of Reproductive Immunology (2010)
Editorial Board for Placenta (2009)
American Association of Immunologists (2009)
Editorial Board for The Open Immunology Journal (2007)
Editorial Board for the Journal of Reproductive Immunology (2006)
American Society for Reproductive Immunology (2000)
The British Society for Immunology (1996)
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Hi everyone,
Yesterday, I went to the gym and trained very heavy, then went to our Kettlebell class last night, so I'm resting today. I will have a new workout up tomorrow.
Lately I have mentioned my love of chocolate. So, as a treat, I thought I would post a recipe for yummy brownies. These brownies are not exactly healthy, but can be eaten in moderation to supplement a healthy lifestyle without undoing all your hard work. I have made one adjustment to the recipe and have replaced the butter with coconut oil. Although, this does nothing to improve the calorie content, so beware of your portion size 😉 It's all too easy to get carried away.
I also left out the glaze for the top of the brownies and just garnished with coconut.
The ingredients are:
- 50g Plain Chocolate
- 40g Coconut Oil (or butter)
- 75g Dark Brown Soft Sugar
- 75g Self-Raising Flour (I made my own)
- 2 Small Eggs (beaten)
- 15g Cocoa Powder
- 25g Chopped Nuts (I used walnuts and pecans)
- Some desiccated coconut for sprinkling (optional)
Grease and base-line a 28 x 23cm (11 x 9inch) tin (or, like me, anything you have that resembles a tin)
Break chocolate up and melt with coconut oil in a bowl over a saucepan of hot water.
Stir in sugar and gradually beat in eggs
Sift flour and cocoa together and then fold into chocolate mixture.
Now add the nuts.
Spoon into prepared tin.
- Bake at 180 degrees C for 30 minutes
- Allow to cool in the tin before turning out.
- Cut into equal pieces (I got 8 ) and, if you wish, sprinkle coconut over the top (if it will stick).
Relax and enjoy.
I usually try to have just one, but sometimes I just can't help going back for more. This is not ideal and I wish I had more will-power, but my weakness is chocolate … who am I kidding here, my weakness is food in general :/ But I am trying like mad to reset my sense of hunger. For those of you who, like me, struggle to say no to that inner voice, try and keep busy! If you're out and about or focusing on something else, it totally works 🙂
Anyway, I hope you will enjoy this recipe and please share them with your family and friends (so you don't eat them all yourself). And I will see you tomorrow with a new workout.


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Charleston police are looking for a man who followed a Coming Street resident to his home and robbed him early Sunday morning.
The resident told police a man kept hassling him as he walked home after midnight Sunday and then robbed him of his iPhone and $51 in cash on his front porch.
Later that day, a man matching the robbers description tried to sell an armload of coats at a nearby grocery store. The Coming Street Grocery stores video camera captured images of him. Police think its the same man.
He is described as about 5 feet 7-9 inches with a stocky build and goatee.
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HIGHLAND TOWNSHIP, MI -- U.S. Rep. Kerry Bentivolio (R-Milford) has a second opponent seeking his 11th District congressional seat, and this time it's a candidate from the opposing party.
William B. Rosevelt, a Democrat from Highland Township, has joined the race.
The 11th District includes parts of western Wayne and Oakland counties and leans conservative.
Bentivolio, who was voted into office last November with Tea Party support after former Rep. Thaddeus McCotter resigned amid a petition forging scandal, also has a challenger from his own party, Oakland County Republican David Trott.
Rosevelt doesn't yet appear to have a campaign website or prior political experience.
"I have watched our politicians bring our government to a grinding halt, stymied by partisanship, special interests and forgetting the job for which they were elected," Rosevelt told the Oakland Press.
He's a 38-year-old former corrections worker.
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Penn State York proudly boasts its active participation in the Penn State International Studies Programs. We provide students with a variety of opportunities to study in foreign countries for varying periods of time—a week, a summer, a semester, or a full year. Our objective is to offer our students a broader education than can be obtained through classroom experiences.
As a Penn State York student, we encourage you to explore and take advantage of the programs offered through the University Office of Global Programs.
Study Abroad
Students who have completed the first two years of college may explore the possibility of studying abroad for a semester. The cost to the student is typically the same as it would be if attending Penn State. The major additional cost is transportation to the country.
Opportunities are available for you to travel to and study in a foreign country for a week, a summer, a semester, or a full year. Visit global.psu.edu to learn about the various programs.
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Holy Sleeplessness! No Wonder I'm Stupid…
Update: Which has nothing to do with a Steve Green sighting, but this still seems like a good time to mention that he has been seen. Which is nice.
Update: None of which explains the lack of dating intelligence on this cat. Hilarious story, but wrong. So wrong. (H/T The Corner)
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Shootin(g) Creek
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Shooting Creek is more than a body of water: it's the community that was, and maybe still is, considered the redheaded stepchild of Clay County. Despite the high-class shopping that one could partake in at the Shooting Creek Mall, my home community was not often the first choice for residency for move-ins when Clay County was discovered a few decades ago. Places like Warne and Tusquittee were more palatable for my home county's newest residents, unless you take into consideration the lake lots that dot the outskirts of Shooting Creek.
"Shooting Creek is the new Tusquittee," I thought to myself a few years ago when a doctor bought a lot on top of the mountain behind my house. Despite the time I've had to become acclimated to the idea of development, it still startles me and breaks my heart anew when I drive home at night and see the booger lights of summer homes perched on the ridges. Before the housing market collapsed, Shooting Creek was one of the up-and-coming neighborhoods of Clay County, but now the sound of a nail gun or bulldozer is rare. Like the Shooting Creek Mall, construction is all but closed for business.
Oddly enough, I didn't catch my first fish in Shooting Creek, but I wish that precious rite of passage had happened there. When I was young, its waters were all but empty, but my grandpa's stories of freshwater trout fed my imagination and I satisfied myself with a collective memory of bounty. I spent many childhood afternoons tromping through the cow pastures with my brother until we reached our destination: a bend in the creek right next to a tree with a large hole in its trunk. I was afraid to stick my hand into its cavern, and I would fearfully imagine the terrible creatures that must have called it home.
Just the other weekend, I rode down to the creek with my dad in his Gator, and we took a few minutes to count as many fish as we could. There's a considerable amount more now that the locals who live near my house have grown older and have given up the activity. While there, we placed bricks and other materials to help prevent erosion and keep the banks in good shape. Preservation is important to me; I like imagining that my children will spend their summer vacations using a favorite rock as a pillow as they lounge on the creek's banks, and maybe I'll be there when they triumphantly bring forth their first fish from the waters of the generations before them.
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Tate City, by Analicia Ashe
Tate City is a ten-mile walk from my girlhood home, but it's an hour's drive in my dad's '83 Ford wood truck. I can't attest to the sign's veracity, but I doubt that the population is considerably more than the number allowed. Like so many places in Western North Carolina, it has been discovered by city folks and out-of-towners, but I am practicing sharing this place with an open heart. As someone who identifies as Appalachian, it's hard for me to see people who move-in and try to change the culture of the area. What bothers me is that I know we, the out-of-towners and I, witness a different community; where they see convenient campgrounds and bathrooms with plumbing, I see the place where my grandfather's family logged during the Great Depression.
My paternal grandparents are avid outdoors people and would bring me and my brother camping with them whenever they could. We never stayed in the campgrounds towards the entrance, and I never wanted to; I loved running wild and splashing and swimming about without an audience. It amuses me that what we used to do is considered primitive camping. Jack, my grandfather, would bring us there because he has a rich connection to this place. As a child, he lived in one of the logging camps with his parents. He was six when they moved there, too young to log, but he has lasting memories of how the men would drag the logs out by horse because there were no roads. And even if there had been roads, who could have afforded a truck?
Conditions are considerably easier nowadays; there's a road that goes for miles and stops a mile or so before the old homestead, so I have to push back the sea of tall grasses to get to this place. I like to go there alone and daydream about what they—my great-grandparents, the cabins, my grandfather—looked like at that moment in time. I picture my great-grandmother coaching my grandfather to walk after polio had ravaged his legs, and the smile of exhilaration they both must have had when he was finally successful in taking his first steps. I send her a silent thank-you because I know I would not exist if it weren't for her determination and an ability to imagine what no one else thought was possible.


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Mobile overflow shelter for Erie's homeless is full
City churches have been operating a mobile overnight overflow shelter this winter for Erie's homeless because the shelters funded by Erie County are regularly filled.
But the mobile shelter is now full, too.
The shelter, currently hosted by First Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, 250 W. Seventh St., had 46 people on Wednesday.
There are only 30 beds.
"We used blankets and pillows and found them a place on the floor," Mark Alexa, housing specialist for Erie County's Department of Human Services, said Friday.
Alexa said the mobile shelter, a new project launched in November, is in "desperate need" of additional volunteers to operate it.
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church opened the first overflow facility in its gymnasium on Nov. 25.
The shelter then moved to Church of the Covenant's community room in late December.
The shelter -- open seven days a week from 7:30 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. -- has been staffed by more than 40 volunteers from a variety of area churches and organizations.
"We want to guard against burnout," Alexa said. "We have a couple of regular volunteers, some who are working 12-hour shifts. It's a burden on a church to ask for this type of commitment seven days a week."
Officials with Erie's Home Team, a mix of social-service groups and government agencies, on Friday asked the community to volunteer for the mobile shelter for as much time as they can spare.
No experience is necessary, coordinators said. Training will be provided.
Those interested in volunteering for the overflow shelter are encouraged to visit the website for Get Connected, an online project that helps pair area residents with nonprofit groups and volunteer opportunities.
The project -- found at http://getconnected.unitedwayerie.org -- is a free service coordinated by the United Way of Erie County and the Nonprofit Partnership.
Alexa is hoping more churches will participate in the overflow shelter program.
A third church, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2216 Peach St., will take over hosting the mobile shelter on Jan. 21.
A truck from Community Shelter Services, 655 W. 16th St., will move beds, blankets and other items from Church of the Covenant to the new host church.
Alexa said he'd like to operate the overflow shelter through mid-March.
The mobile shelter is funded through $20,000 in donations from the United Way and the Erie Community Foundation.
Alexa on Friday said "we'll probably run through the $20,000 just in laundry services."
"We're hoping bigger places in Erie, maybe the hospitals or the Scott (Enterprises) hotel chain, could volunteer their services to us for a week or so," Alexa added. "We'll even drive the laundry over to them. What's 10 more loads of laundry when you're doing 1,000 a day, or whatever their volume is."
Money donations, to help offset the cost of utilities, and supplies such as clothing, bedding, cots and toiletries also are needed for the mobile shelter, officials said.
People can send money or drop off items at the United Way's offices, 420 W. Sixth St., or Community Shelter Services.
Alexa estimates there are more than 1,500 homeless people in Erie County.
"Without this (mobile overnight shelter), people would be walking the streets all night, going from place to place trying to keep warm," he added. "This is extremely essential."
GERRY WEISS can be reached at 870-1884 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNweiss.


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NIAGARA FALLS – Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's visit here last week brought a lot of excitement to the tourism industry.
Its premier tourist feature was saved with a deal allowing the Maid of the Mist to stay in business.
Its largest natural resources – Niagara Falls State Park and the Niagara Gorge – will be part of a new plan to draw ecotourists to the city.
The most blighted areas of its downtown will be targeted by a state-run development challenge.
And tourism marketers in Buffalo and Niagara Falls have pledged a more coordinated effort to market the region.
But for all the hoopla that accompanied the governor's visit here, few details have emerged about how the supposed tourism renaissance will actually take place.
Be patient, state leaders say; specifics will emerge as part of a calculated effort to dole out the $1 billion pledged to the Buffalo Niagara region.
That effort will include the formation of advisory committees that will decide just how the strategy is implemented. The important point, leaders here said last week, is that Niagara Falls is finally a large part of that plan.
"As proposed, it would have a profound and transformative effect on Niagara Falls," said Christopher J. Schoepflin, president of USA Niagara Development Corp.
The strength of the plan, leaders said, is its focus on what some have called the low-hanging fruit of tourism development.
That is, making the best use of the two most underutilized yet promising areas of the Falls – the waterfront and the downtown core.
Plans call for the state-owned waterfront land north of the falls to be used for bicycling, hiking, fishing, rock climbing and even zip-lining.
A "reprogrammed" Niagara Falls State Park would make it a lot more fun for the growing segment of outdoor adventure tourists, officials say.
"There's a recognition that there are a lot of activities that should be not just allowed, but encouraged and marketed," Mayor Paul A. Dyster said.
Details are uncertain, but leaders say initial discussion includes the hiring of outside vendors who specialize in those activities.
Much of the potential activity is likely to occur near the new Maid of the Mist storage site at the ruins of the Schoellkopf Power Plant, which is connected to the upper gorge land by a largely unmarked hiking trail.
The Maid will finance enhanced access to those trails, and a boat storage platform could serve as a public observation deck when the boats are not in service.
Leaders say the plans will finally give the public more access to the wonders of the gorge, which are typically overlooked by the travelers who flock to the falls.
Those changes will give way to a new emphasis on the urban core, where the most valuable but vacant properties will be targeted for redevelopment.
Plans call for the state to acquire the parcels and hold a design and development "challenge" among world-renowned companies, with the prize being a state subsidy for the project.
No specific properties have been publicly identified, though the challenge is expected to focus on areas within a few blocks of the falls.
"The place where [tourists] get their first impression of what the region is like is downtown Niagara Falls, because that's where people are walking out of the state park looking for something to do," Dyster said.
State Sen. George D. Maziarz, R-Newfane, said the city and the state need to target those areas for attractions.
"I think the emphasis needs to be on attractions – on something to do," Maziarz said. "Hiking, biking, fishing is one thing, but look at the [Canadian] side. People want to see an Imax theater, a zip-line."
"I'm not saying we all need to be honky-tonk on every corner. But look at Nik Wallenda; the exposure we received, that's what people want to do."
The new plans are good news to those who struggle to market a destination whose few attractions are far outnumbered by those across the river in Canada.
It's a long time, coming, too, they said, referring to the recognition that – decades after our industrial jobs began to dry up – state leaders see tourism as a significant driver of the regional economy.
"We're proud and happy to have a seat at the table," said John H. Percy Jr., president and CEO of Niagara Tourism & Convention Corp. "For the longest time, tourism always has been a gray area and sort of a misunderstood and underestimated industry. It's like a whole new day to see the focus being put on these initiatives."
Plans also call for Buffalo Niagara to develop a more coordinated marketing strategy that aims to draw Canadian shoppers and other international tourists to Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
Marketing dollars for the entire region need to be beefed up, said officials who pointed to Pittsburgh and Cincinnati as cities that outspend Buffalo Niagara in promotions. Niagara Falls' marketing bureau has been hobbled by the casino cash dispute between the Senecas and the state, and Visit Buffalo Niagara receives its funding from the Erie County budget.
"There's an increasing recognition that we need each other for something in the tourism field," Dyster said, referring to the Falls' tourists and Buffalo's cultural attractions.
The Falls' largest and most successful tourist feature, meanwhile, will remain largely unchanged. The Maid of the Mist will upgrade its boat engines and restroom facilities and offer more online ticketing, President Christopher M. Glynn said, but the rider's experience will remain the same.
"It's going to be seamless to the customers in the summertime," Glynn said.
Leaders appeared relieved that the company was able to sign a deal with the state that grants permission to build a new boat storage facility at the power plant, a year after it lost its Canadian operations.
"They have the culinary school, and they're trying to build on that," Glynn said of the city. "They didn't want to let the boats get away."
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Lighting Console Evolution
A look at the latest products in lighting control for mid-sized churches
By Jim Kumorek
September 11, 2013 11:58 am EST
Tags: console, encoder, fixtures, LED, lighting,
In technology, products and options are always evolving, and lighting is no exception. With the LDI and WFX shows just around the corner, we contacted the main players in lighting consoles to see what they've introduced over the past year that would be of interest to the house of worship market. Not every manufacturer took the time to respond to our request for information, but here are the highlights from those who did.This is just a quick tour of what manufacturers are saying about their newest products; we can't come close to hitting upon all the features and benefits of each. So make sure to visit the manufacturer's website for more information, or visit their booth at LDI or WFX this fall to get up-close and personal with these products.ChamSys MQ60 | MSRP: $8,300The MQ60 is designed for controlling theatrical fixtures, intelligent fixtures, and LED fixtures, as well as video. It supports 12 Universes of DMX, is quick and easy to program, has a full-featured cue system, offers advanced media server support, fixture morphing and cloning, LED pixel mapping, a built-in media engine, a powerful PC show editor, and a built-in uninterruptable power supply to keep your console up and running through power glitches. http://www.chamsysusa.com - (866) 261-6955ETC Eos Titanium | MSRP: contact your local ETC dealerFor larger scale venues, like production-oriented churches, ETC recently introduced the Eos Titanium (Eos Ti) console and Eos v2.0 software. Ti is now the flagship of the Eos line, with new hardware and features to make designing and programming even easier. Ti has integrated, articulating, multi-touch displays and backlit keys. Ti includes a larger multi-touch encoder display and dedicated pan and tilt encoders, plus four pageable encoders. The desk features 20 user-definable buttons, motorized faders, and multiple USB and video ports. Ti uses the common-sense Eos programming syntax familiar to so many church lighting techs. The command line is fully integrated with direct selects and new "magic sheets," allowing seamless work from the keypad and the touchscreen controls. Magic sheets allow users to define customized interactive live/blind displays. http://www.etcconnect.com - (800) 688-4116Jands StageCL | MSRP: $1,995The Jands StageCL was designed to control today's LED-based lighting systems. Listening carefully to the market, it was clear that many houses of worship utilize LED lighting fixtures, yet only get a fraction of the flexibility LEDs offer.The StageCL is equally suitable for LEDs and conventional lights. Each of the 12 channels provides discrete HSI control with an encoder for Hue, and Saturation paired with an Intensity fader making it easy to achieve the exact color you want. As you turn the Hue and Saturation encoders, an LED on each channel displays the color you're creating. So intuitive, volunteers with no lighting experience grasp it quickly. http://www.jands.com - (416) 255-9494 (distributed in the United States by A.C. Lighting)Lehigh Rendition Pro | MSRP: $7,999The Rendition Pro console provides fully integrated control of conventional lights, LEDs and moving lights. With the addition of LCDs, four encoders, and direct selects, the Rendition Pro enhances the popular Rendition series consoles with increased hands-on control of moving lights. The console also features 24x10 pages of master faders with LCDs. Optional fader wings are available and can be combined to provide up to 240 master faders. Wings are available in either 2x12 or 2x24 configurations and connect via Ethernet for local or remote application. http://www.lehighdim.com - (610) 395-3386
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As General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Peter Heathfield, who has died aged 81, was at the heart of its leadership during the miners' strike of 1984-85. He was a member of the NUM's so-called troika, along with its president Arthur Scargill and vice-president Mick McGahey: of these two, Heathfield was closest to Scargill, and their partnership provided the basis on which the union's president fought his battle. While the relationship between Scargill and the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, determined the outcome of the strike, which changed Britain's political climate, Heathfield's role was crucial to its conduct.
When the Conservative government announced its intention to close 20 pits, Heathfield backed Scargill from the start of the strike in March 1984, and, like his president, rejected a coalfield ballot. Yet everyone who knew Heathfield believed that he harboured inner doubts about Scargill's strategy. However, Heathfield's loyalty to Scargill, and the men on strike, was total and unremitting, whatever his private thoughts. The end result – a return to work in March 1985 with no new agreement with the National Coal Board (NCB) – left Heathfield in absolute despair, a condition of mind from which he never really recovered. In 1992, at the age of 63, he retired early from the general secretary post of a severely depleted NUM.
Heathfield was an active Labour party man, a local councillor in Chesterfield, and in 1963 was only narrowly beaten for the parliamentary candidacy in the old Ilkeston constituency. Heathfield spent 18 years working at the coalface before being elected to a full-time union post in 1966. He then made rapid progress, becoming vice-president of the Derbyshire NUM in 1970. Three years later he was elected Derbyshire area secretary, the top post in the region, and when Scargill ran for the NUM national presidency in 1981, Heathfield was tipped as a serious challenger – but stood aside to avoid any leftwing competition against Scargill, who was 10 years younger.
Heathfield was a man of immense charm, with remarkably few enemies either on the left or right of the political spectrum. In his trade union he was always seen as a realist and a pragmatist. He is survived by Sue, three sons and a daughter.
• Peter Heathfield, trade unionist, born 2 March 1929; died 4 May 2010


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About 1750-1850
Museum no. W.222-1922
The inro is a container made up of tiers. Japanese men used them because the traditional Japanese garment, the kimono, had no pockets. From the late 1500s onwards, Japanese men wore the inro suspended from their sash by a silk cord and a netsuke (toggle). They originally used it to hold their seal and ink or a supply of medicines. However, it rapidly became a costly fashion accessory of little or no practical use. Most inro are rectangular with gently curving sides. Makers used a great variety of decorative styles and layout. On this example, the maker has spread the decoration over the entire body. As a result, the inro often cuts the decoration at unusual or unexpected places. This design shows 115 monkeys, many of which are dressed like human beings and engaged in human activities. It is a remarkable achievement given the small scale of the decoration and the use of the makie (sprinkled picture) technique. This involves sprinkling gold, red and brown powders on to a prepared lacquer surface to create the design.