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From: Niklas Andersson <niklas.andersson at dh.umu.se>
Date: Oct 28, 2006 3:56 PM
Subject: Job opening: IxD Professorship at Umea Institute of Design
To: sweden at ixda.org
The Umeå Institute of Design is a small, exclusive industrial design
department at Umeå University in north Sweden. During the last 10 years it
has been widely recognized as one of Europe's leading industrial design
schools and has a broad international reputation for qualified collaboration
with industry throughout the world. The three master programmes (interaction
design, advanced product design and transportation design) are international
and have students from more than 20 different countries.
Due to our expanding program, and a coming retirement, the Institute is
happy to announce that we will be seeking a full professor in Industrial
Design in late 2006 for the master programme in Interaction Design.
This coming professor will also serve as program leader and will thus be
responsible for maintaining and further developing the content and direction
of the program in our international network.
We will be looking for candidates with distinguished professional
backgrounds as well as broad pedagogical experience. The program in Umeå is
run in English and thus a fluent command of this language is a prerequisite.
Last day for application is November 13.
More detailed information and application requirements are available in the
attached PDF document.
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Whitest Kids U'Know to play Turner Hall April 7
The comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U'Know will perform at Turner Hall Ballroom, 1040 N. 4th St., at 8 p.m. April 7.
The Kids, whose self-named sketch-comedy show ran on IFC for five seasons, recently wrapped up work on their first movie, "The Civil War on Drugs." »Read Full Article
Darkness over the top - but in a good way
Justin Hawkins, frontman for British band The Darkness, had some choice words to say in a Journal Sentinel interview for those who think his glam rock group is a joke.
But let us examine some of the damning evidence at the band's Rave show Saturday, shall we? »Read Full Article
Fitzwater brings Piaf alive in Skylight's 'Onstage'
The music and life story of popular French singer Edith Piaf get under one's skin.
Singer-actress Leslie Fitzwater, who has brought Piaf to the stage several times over the course of her career, opened her one-woman "Edith Piaf Onstage" at the Skylight Music Theatre on Friday evening. »Read Full Article
First Stage's ambitious 'Promised Land' is a dream deferred
Ruth, an African-American girl in her early teens, is lost. Her father is long gone. Her overworked mother is rarely around. Her beloved brother is dead. It's 1969, and, while Ruth should be in school, she is watching TV instead.
In "To the Promised Land" - unveiled by First Stage Children's Theater on Friday night - playwright Jonathan Gillard Daly links Ruth's struggles with another coming-of-age story that unfolded in Milwaukee, where a young Golda Meir underwent her own journey of self-discovery. Daly places both girls in the same house on Walnut St., nearly 60 years apart. »Read Full Article

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NBC (Sat, Aug. 31, 9 p.m. ET)
Brace yourself for this concept: Fifteen real-life high school graduates reunite for their 10th class reunion. And that's not all! The plain Jane has now grown up to be a gorgeous model, the star pitcher did not make it to the major leagues, the shy person is still kind of shy. Yes, the show is the brainchild of the folks who brought you MTV's The Real World and, no, it is not watchable. After all, many of us went to high school. Many, many, many. Please pull the plug on these fake home movies.
Picks and Pans Review: Class Reunion
updated 08/26/1996 AT 01:00 AM EDT
•originally published 08/26/1996 AT 01:00 AM EDT


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Friars, Soldiers, and Settlers
A multimedia website describes the overland journeys of California's early explorer, Juan Battista de Anza.
Russian Dreams of an American Colony
Fort Ross on California's rocky coast contained an oasis of Russian refinement.
Lorca, American Style
In spite of generations of poets and translators' efforts to categorize Federico García Lorca, his talent remains untamed.
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A vicious fraternal war rewards Alfonso VI with the artistic and poetic treasures of al-Andalus.
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FOR THE FOURTH TIME IN 15 MINUTES, Lance Henriksen is about to be blown off his feet—and he couldn't be happier. On Fox TV's new series Millennium, Henriksen plays a brooding retired FBI agent named Frank Black, who uses his near-psychic skills to help cops track down serial killers including, in this episode, a mad bomber who has suddenly targeted Black himself. Now on the third level of a parking garage in Vancouver, B.C., where the series is shot, the actor makes yet another dash toward an exit door. Then...ka-BOOM!
After kissing the concrete, Henriksen, 56, slowly rises, a smile bisecting his creased face. "How was that?" he asks. "Do we need to go again?" Yes, they do, and Henriksen adjusts his knee pads, eagerly awaiting the next explosion. Childlike enthusiasm? You bet. "Lance," laughs actor Kevin J. O'Connor, his pal, "is always like a 21-year-old working on his first movie."
At first, though, Henriksen wasn't so sure about Millennium, TV's fourth-ranked show among 18-to-34-year olds. "I just wasn't interested in doing television," says the actor, a veteran screen tough with more than 40 films to his credit. "But it was so dark and well-written." Chris Carter, Millennium's executive producer and creator of The X-Files, says he knew from the beginning that Henriksen would be perfect as the taciturn Black. "Lance is not a small-talker," Carter says. "He's confident around everyone, but he's also a very private person." That's not to say that he doesn't need the occasional break from Millennium's grisly plotlines, which have included immolated bodies and victims whose eyes have been sewn shut. "You sometimes have to take yourself out of it," says Megan Gallagher, who plays Black's wife, Catherine, "and Lance is very good at that. One day we were waiting for a shot to be set up, and he started to do this impression of Elvis. He cracked me up."
Yet lightheartedness wasn't always Henriksen's forte. Born in Manhattan to a merchant seaman and his wife, a waitress, he was 2 when his parents split up. Traveling with his mother while she looked for work, he was more into movies than school. "I'd watch Kirk Douglas going upriver in The Big Sky," he says, "and would buy camping equipment just to put under my seat during the show. That's how real the movies were to me." His own reality was less captivating. Constantly switching schools, he barely learned to read. In eighth grade he dropped out and ran away from home. "By the time I was in my 20s, I'd hitchhiked across America maybe 15 times," says Henriksen. After a brief stint in the Navy, he took on odd jobs—as a shrimper, a fruit picker—but his minimal reading skill was never a handicap, he says, "until I got into acting."
He was 29 then and back in New York City when the marquee for an off-Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's Sea Plays drew him inside. Regaling the producers with tales of his father's seafaring days, he won a chance to audition. Henriksen convinced a friend to recite the script into a tape recorder, memorized his lines and landed the lead. Later, while attending acting classes, he taught himself to read by tirelessly poring over scripts. "It was rough," he says. "I could make out words, but there was no way I could put a sentence together."
About four years later, Henriksen won his first major film role in 1975's Dog Day Afternoon and soon found steady work as a heavy. "I was always the No. 2 bad guy," he says, laughing. Eventually he graduated into "the good guy that everybody [at first] thinks is a bad guy"—like the android in Aliens and Andy Garcia's cop partner in Jennifer 8. Offscreen he managed to reunite his father, a retiree then in ill health and living in a Florida trailer park, with his mother, a fraternity-house cook at Mills College in Oakland. They remarried in 1982.
Otherwise, though, his life was in turmoil. He and his first wife, Mary Jane, a waitress, divorced in 1987, six months after the birth of their daughter, Alcamy, now 9. Wary of commitment, he spent five years in therapy before he began dating Jane Pollack, a makeup artist, in 1992, when he was working on Super Mario Bros. "It was a gentle romance," says Jane, now an aspiring writer. "We'd date, have lunch, that sort of thing." The couple wed last year and remain inseparable, sharing a two-bedroom rental in Vancouver. (He and his ex-wife share custody of Alcamy.) "It's still a romance," Henriksen says, "not a fantasy."
Millennium, of course, is a dark departure from that happy home life, but Henriksen can barely hide his enthusiasm. He even designed gift jackets for his coworkers that feature the show's name down the sleeve. "That's not the way it's usually done," says a crew member as the star shows off his design on the set. Henriksen grins slyly. "You know," he says, "I don't do anything the usual way."
CRAIG TOMASHOFF in Vancouver
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The Many Homes of John Kerry
Netlore Archive: Forwarded email (complete with photos) purports to enumerate the millions of dollars worth of real estate holdings owned by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, including an Italian villa he supposedly sold to a Hollywood movie star.
Description: Forwarded email
Circulating since: March 2004
Status: Roughly accurate (see details below)
Email contributed by Cheryl, March 30, 2004:
Subject: John Kerry, man of the common folk.... he understands your pain, really... trust him - lol, yeah - right
The many homes of Democrat Presidential candiate, John F. Kerry.
Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania (Assessed value: $3.7 million)
Ketchum, Idaho ski getaway/vacation home (Assessed value: $4.916 million)
Washington, D.C - Georgetown area (assessment: $4.7 million)
Nantucket, Massachusetts waterfront retreat on Brant Point (Assessed value: $9.18 million)
Boston, Massachusetts - Beacon Hill home (Assessed value: $6.9)
oh, and he sold this estate in Italy to activist actor George Clooney, just before announcing his running for president. I guess he thought it might not sit well with the common man. ($7.8 million)
other foreign property ownership by John Kerry is unknown... because he denied repeated requests for this information.
Please e-mail to at least 5 people.
Analysis: Apart from one glaring falsehood namely that John Kerry sold an Italian mansion to actor George Clooney just before announcing his run for the presidency in 2004 all the facts and figures stated above were lifted directly from an Associated Press story dated March 22, 2004, and are presumably accurate. According to that article, the combined value of the properties then owned by the candidate and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, was nearly $33 million (in addition, the Los Angeles Times reported that Teresa Heinz Kerry's total net worth was $1 billion).
Please note, however, that all but one of the aforementioned properties were deeded solely to Teresa Heinz Kerry, or to the Heinz family. The only residence in which candidate John Kerry owned a personal stake at the time was the Beacon Hill brownstone in Boston assessed at $6.9 million. It was reportedly Kerry and Heinz's main residence.
By way of comparison, Forbes magazine estimated the total net worth of President George W. Bush in 2004 at $15 million. His 1,600-acre ranch near Crawford, Texas had been appraised a few years earlier at $988,353.
As to that Italian estate and mansion Kerry allegedly unloaded, contrary to Internet gossip disseminated during the presidential campaign by Matt Drudge, it was never owned by Kerry and/or his wife in the first place, let alone precipitously sold off on the eve of Kerry's presidential bid. According to the Boston Herald, the property belonged to Teresa Heinz Kerry's stepmother-in-law, Drue Heinz, who did sell it to George Clooney — in 2002. The Villa del Balbianello, situated on Lake Como in northern Italy, was reportedly used during the filming of both Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones and Casino Royale.
As of 2015, the Boston brownstone townhouse, still reportedly the primary Kerry-Heinz residence, was valued at $11,540,475.
Sources and further reading:
Five Kerry Homes Valued at Nearly $33M
Associated Press, 22 March 2004
Wealth of the G7 Leaders
Forbes, 26 February 2004
A Look at the Homes Owned by John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry
Associated Press, 22 March 2004
Kerry Unloaded Italian Mansion Month He Decided White House Run
The Drudge Report, 18 March 2004
Drudge Homes in on Error
Boston Herald, 19 March 2004
Money Talk
Warwick Boar, 11 November 2002
Town Near Bush's Ranch Gains Notice
Associated Press, 23 December 2000
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The New Yorker says you're so last week if you think ghost peppers are the hottest of the hot in the world of chiles. In the current issue, devoted to food, staffer Lauren Collins digs deep into the world of chile-heads where enthusiasts are trying to create the hot-hotter-hottest peppers in the world.
A little bit Orchid Thief, a little bit Bowl of Red, the story's a hoot.
Bottom line: Bhut jolokia, a k a ghost pepper, is a joke among hard-core heat-seekers. Never mind that Collins says "Gastromasochists have likened it to molten lava, burning needles, and 'the tip of my tongue being branded by a fine point of heated steel.'" The ghost rates a "mere" 462,400 Scoville Heat Units, the chile world's gold-standard heat scale. A scotch bonnet is 200,000.
She takes you into a world where the heat is on to burn hotter and hotter, as chiles with names like Naga Viper clock in at 1,382,118 SHU and the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T at 1,463,700 SHU.
The Butch T is the current Guinness world-record holder, but here's where Collins' story gets interesting: There are virtual side ventures in a loose competition worldwide to build a hotter chile, such as the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion and Smokin' Ed's Carolina Reaper.Two million is the holy grail.
And I do love that Collins has to resort to that most Texan of beverages, Dr Pepper, when she does sample the Butch T right in the garden. (Maybe she should have tried some Chobani yogurt; its unlikely success story is also in the issue.)
Locally, you can find lots of ghost pepper products at Loco Cowpoke Salsa Shop in McKinney, and FM Smoke House in Irving serves a ghost pepper soup. As for me, I'm still too chicken to even try the scotch bonnet. I sweat enough.


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Adenosquamous and squamous carcinomas of the duodenum are exceedingly rare lesions, only 5 cases, 3 of the former and 2 of the latter, having been reported in the literature. Three of the growths were peripapillary, and the others were localized in the suprapapillary segment of the duodenum. One of these involved the common bile duct by extension. The purpose of this communication is to review the essential features of these cases and to record an additional example of adenosquamous carcinoma of the peripapillary portion of the duodenum.
H. C., a white man aged 49 years, entered the Elk County General Hospital, Ridgway, Pa., on Feb. 24, 1932, with jaundice, fever and moderately severe epigastric pain of short duration. Roentgenograms showed what was interpreted as a defect, probably neoplastic, of the pyloric portion of the stomach. The symptoms subsided, and the patient returned to work at the
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A fire was reported in a plane at Logan Airport on Monday morning
Ground photo shows the Massport fire truck around the Japan Airlines plane.
Emergency vehicles surround the plane.
According to Boston Fire, after the plane landed and all passengers had left the plane, a mechanic was doing a walk through of the 787 plane.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Lifelong Staten Islander James McMurray, 76, of West Brighton, a loving family man and retired truck driver, died yesterday in Richmond University Medical Center, also West Brighton.
Born on Staten Island, Mr. McMurray graduated from McKee High School.
He had lived in West Brighton for 30 years.
Mr. McMurray retired in 1986 after working as a truck driver for many companies.
A motorcycle enthusiast, in his younger years, he was a member of the Staten Island Motorcycle Club. He also liked racing cars and had been a member of a pit crew for Long Racing of Staten Island.
Surviving are his sons, Thomas, Richard and James Jr.; his sister, Virginia Palladino; his stepchildren George Wilken and Charlene McDowell, and 11 grandchildren.
Private arrangements, including cremation, are being handled by the Scamardella Funeral Home, West Brighton.


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CYSTS OF the mesentery are rare and chylous cysts are extremely rare, so that the experience of any one surgeon or institution with this condition is necessarily limited. The history and the symptoms are usually varied and not characteristic; the physical and roentgenologic findings, although suggestive, are never pathognomonic. Consequently, the diagnosis is regularly made at the time of abdominal exploration or postmortem examination.
This report describes two cases of chylous mesenteric cysts observed at The Mount Sinai Hospital and City Hospital Center at Elmhurst, NY, in the recent year, for the purpose of illustrating the uncommon presenting symptomatology of one of these patients and reviewing the present concepts in the pathogenesis and treatment of these rare pathological conditions.
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—A 38-year-old Puerto Rican woman was admitted to the City Hospital Center at Elmhurst for the third time on Nov 1, 1965, with complaints of slow-growing
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Solutions for Chapter 33.4
Scheme of Checking only 5 Points Instead of 7 in Closest Pair AlgorithmClosest pair algorithm is used to find the length between two points such that the measured length is minimum length. In this algorithm, the divide and conquer approach is used that is the point set P is divided into two parts PL and PR by a straight vertical line whose x and y coordinates of points are stored in the arrays X and Y in the sorted order. Consider the figure given below:
In the closest pair problem, the assumption is made that in rectangle, there will be 8 points that is 4 in the left square PL and 4 points in the right square PR and there is no point on the line.
According to the idea given by Professor Williams on the closest pair problem, the points on the right side of left square and the points on the left side of right square are same that is two points are reduced. Now, there are total 6 points and for every point p, only 5 points have to be checked to find the closest pair.
So, only 5 points reside in the array Y' and it saves number of points that are checked every time reducefrom 7 to 5. This approach does exactly what closest pair finding approach with 7 points is supposed to do with less number of comparisons in each recursion.
Thus, this technique is subtle and there is no flaw in it.A simple thing that can be observed in this illustration is that the professor's idea is all about the reduction of the size of the problem, but to change the basic strategy that is used to solve the problem.
Hence, Professor Williams' scheme of checking only 5 points instead of 7 in the array Y' works enough appropriately for the closest pair problem.


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When buying dog t shirt, comfort has to be on the first place. Instead of focusing on the brand of the shirt or the color, comfort should be the main criteria. Because of this, the material from which the shirt is made has to be taken into consideration.
There are many different dog t shirts available on the market. Some of them are specially made for a season. Nevertheless, most of the dog t shirts are very stylish, so you don't have to worry much about what other people would be saying about it, if that is your main concern.
Some of the most comfortable t shirts are the ones that are made of cotton. Such t shirts can easily be washed in a washing machine. Some dog t shirts are unisex, and this way you don't have to worry if it is for a boy or a girl dog, especially when buying this as a gift to some dog owner.
Except from being made of high quality fabrics, dog t shirts are made in a variety of colors. Because of this, you can be sure that your dog will always be stylish and trendy.
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If looking for a cute dog t shirt that your dog can be wearing in any situation consider our Ian Polo Dog Shirt which goes very well with pants, especially jeans. It is very cute and reminds of kids t shirts. On the front, it has collar and buttons which gives to this Ian Polo Dog Shirt an authentic look. Thanks to its Velcro closure, it is very easy to dress it and undress it.
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The Red Lipped Snake is a small snake with a broad, obvious head and a short tail. The scales are in 19 rows at midbody and are dull; the head is iridescent when the skin is freshly shed. The back is olive to green-black above. The head is iridescent blue-black in colour.
The Red Lipped Snake occurs in the eastern half of the region, from South Western Cape to Zimbabwe and elsewhere to tropical Africa.
The female lays 6 - 19 eggs in leaf litter in early summer; these hatch in 61 - 64 days.
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JERUSALEM - Israel's greatest concern is that a Palestinian state on its border will become a launching pad for attacks against the Jewish state. They point to Gaza, where terrorist organizations are training and carrying out attacks against the population and Israeli military.
Israel's war against terrorism in the Gaza Strip might have slowed down the movement but it hasn't stopped it.
The shelling may be over but attack plans are going strong. It is one of the Palestinians' oldest terror groups. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, or DFLP, has ties back to Yasser Arafat.
Its goal is to unite factions to fight Israel and training includes placing land mines, shelling positions, and taking tanks.
Israel is aware that most terror training activities inside Gaza are influenced by terrorists in other countries. Money and guidance comes from Iran and Syria. Hezbollah in Lebanon also helps with battle tactics.
Inside Gaza, Hamas calls the shots, but the DFLP says it has leeway.
Hamas is giving the freedom of movement, and every group will initiate terror in its own way.
"We are defending the religion of Allah and that's why we will succeed," a soldier in the training camp said. "Israelis and supporters of Israel 'Americans or Arabs' won't escape our punishment."
The group recorded on video some of their attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers.
"We manufacture rockets and roadside bombs and we buy our medium and light weapons from the local markets," another soldier said.
Their Islamic beliefs encourage them to fight Israel.
"My acts will help me when I stand before Allah," a masked soldier in training said. "If I died for him and for Palestine, He will be pleased and I will be happy."
These Islamists have a clear message to the western governments pushing for peace in the region.
"Land can be liberated by the blood of the Martyrs only," a soldier stated.
The U.S. and others have pledged billions of dollars to rebuild the Gaza Strip after Israel's military operation. But many observers say the terror groups will get to the money first, leaving little for needy Palestinians who are tired of war.
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If only Bridget Jones had lived 10 years later. Instead of choosing between an uptight man in a horrible jumper and a sex-pest, she could have found suitable, balanced boys online, met her pick of them at the local Café Rouge, and lived happily ever after with the most appealing. Since her adventures in 1996, online dating has become the best way to find love, certainly for anyone over the age of 25 with typical British social skills – that is, they'd rather poke themselves in the eye with a dirty stick than approach an attractive stranger on the train.
Your first step to true internet love is choosing the right website. They're all different. Some are for farmers, some for golfers, some for beautiful people, some for people who wouldn't look out of place crewing a pirate ship.
To navigate you through the minefield, here are 10 of Britain's best:
1 Telegraph Dating (dating.telegraph.co.uk)
Obviously the best. Populated by fiercely intelligent, beautiful people with sensible political views; or, put another way, Telegraph readers. Average age is more mature than most sites, but there's a healthy smattering of younger daters, too.
2 Match (match.com)
Match claims seven million joiners in Britain since 2005. That's almost one in eight British residents, so it's clearly an exaggeration, but the site is still massive. So it's a good option if you want to meet someone from a different background, and have time to trawl through "millions" of potentials, mostly aged 25 to 45.
3 My Single Friend (mysinglefriend.com)
A friend writes your narrative on MSF, then you comment: "Can't believe you mentioned the charity work, the lottery win and the modelling." So, someone else shows off for you, plus there's less of a stigma because you didn't sign yourself up. Clever. With 8,000 to 10,000 new members every month, this is a cracker.
4 Guardian Soulmates (soulmates.guardian.co.uk)
Telegraph readers don't generally chase Guardianistas but Soulmates is a sensible choice for urban intellectual types, with an average age of 38 and more than 145,000 members (so they can't all be Guardian readers). Soulmates' profiles are about the wittiest, so it's certainly worth browsing this site to steal ideas.
5 Lovestruck (lovestruck.com)
Lovestruck.com matches urban desk pilots with people in other local offices. The site's new feature is an iPhone application that buzzes when one of Lovestruck's 40,000 members who fits your criteria is nearby.
6 Beautiful People (beautifulpeople.com)
You post a picture and members vote whether you're good looking enough to join. If you're a doe-eyed doxy who isn't looking for conversation, or a young man with overwhelmingly greased asymmetrical hair who pouts like an angry fish, this is the site for you.
7 Classic Romance (dating.classicfm.co.uk)
If music be the food of love, then Classic FM Romance is the ideal place to find other music-loving professionals on your wavelength. So if you're passionate aboutPachelbel or mad on Mahler...you can start your search here...
8 Dating Direct (datingdirect.com)
Another industrially massive, utterly straightforward site. Like Match.com, this is useful if you're looking for someone outside your usual cultural boundaries, and favour the shotgun technique over the sniper rifle.
9 Parship (parship.co.uk)
Complete an in-depth personality test and get matched mathematically with similar people. This might leach out whatever romance was left in online dating, but if you trust in psychoanalysis, it's spot on.
10 Loopy Love (loopylove.com)
Are you too zany for conventional sites and looking for a similarly off-the-wall lover? The site claims more than 1.5 million "active" members, so it's clear that there are a lot of funsters out there.
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I want to change the MAX_LOW_MEM to 1520 MB, what other settings do i
need to change? I do not want to use HIGHMEM because the Fiber channel
does not support highmem. The card is 2 GB ppc. 1520 MB is enough. At
the moment card works with 1456 MB MAX_LOW_MEM. but setting the value
MAX_LOW_MEM to 1520 results problems. I believe there should be other
Ruksen INANIR wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am working on a PPC Motorola card, which runs Linux 2.4.22. The
> card has 2 GB onboard memory. But with use 1456 MB of the available
> memory. To increase the memory capacity i need to increase the
> used memory at least 64 MB. With CONFIG_HIGHMEM option all of the 2 GB
> memory can be used but, but the fc driver on the card has no high
> memory support, so this caused problems.
> Then i saw that the memory is limited to 1456 by
> #define MAX_LOW_MEM 0x5B000000 setting in pgtable.c. I tried
> to increase it by 64 MB but i could only increase the value of
> MAX_LOW_MEM by 47 MB (1503 MB) without CONFIG_HIGHMEM option.
> 1)Is there any other setting that i should set other than
> MAX_LOW_MEM to increase the usable memory to 1520 ? Do i need to
> change TASK_SIZE or KERNEL_START?
> 2)I knew that the addressable physical memory without high memory
> option was 1 G. How was it possible to address 1503 MB without
> CONFIG_HIGHMEM ? What is the max usable memory for 2.4.22 kernel?
> Thanks,
> Rinanir.
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Free Android apps chew through battery
The majority of people playing Angry Birds on Android downloaded the "free" version rather than paying $0.99 for the sans advertising experience. Is that a good deal? According to researchers at Purdue University, not so much. Using a tool they created called Energy Profiler, researchers found that free apps like Angry Birds and Free Chat eat up a lot of battery tracking users and serving up advertising.
"It turns out that both apps only used a quarter of their total consumed energy on gameplay," says Scientific American, quoting the Purdue study. "The other three quarters went to advertising. Things like user tracking, uploading user info and downloading ads."
In a similar vein, the researchers also found that performing a Google search in Android's default browser resulted in the device's 3G high power mode being activated for up to 7 seconds — the search itself happened almost instantaneously, but the phone remained activate for a good bit longer.
Interestingly, Purdue's Energy Profiler only runs on Android and Windows Mobile 6.5 (?!?), so they didn't test Apple's ever-popular iPhone.
Which raises the question, "Are free iPhone apps battery hogs, too?" I suspect, but don't know, the answer is a qualified, "yes." That is, a much larger percentage of iOS device users pay for apps rather download the "free," ad addled versions.
Further, if I were a researcher, designing a tool for the largest possible audience with the most need is probably where I'd put my effort…
What's your take?
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wife's name?
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go to England to study after his father's death?
6. How old was Gandhi
when he went to London?
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do after completing his studies in England?
8. Why did Gandhi
go to South Africa?
9. The "Indian Franchise
Bill" in Natal was intended to:
10. Who is the author
of The Kingdom of God is Within You?
11. From what text
does the Sermon on the Mount derive?
12. "Mahatma" means
13. What was Raychandra's
14. Why did Gandhi
return to India in 1896?
15. The Boer War
was fought between:
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contribute to the Boer War?
17. Why did Gandhi
go to India in 1901?
18. In what year
was Indian Opinion founded?
19. To what does
the term Brahmacharya refer?
20. Who was Jan Smuts?
21. Where did Gandhi
go in 1909?
Satyagraha means,
23. In 1913, Gandhi
protested a South African law that:
24. In what year
did Gandhi leave South Africa for the last time?
25. When did World
War I begin?
26. How did Gandhi
respond to World War I?
27. In what year
was the Satyagraha ashram founded?
28. What was the
effect of the Rowlatt Act?
29. What is a hartal?
30. In protest of
what injustice did Gandhi organize a hartal on April
6, 1919?
31. What event occurred
on April 13, 1919?
32. Gandhi first
organized mass "non-cooperation" with the British in what year?
33. Who was Viceroy
in March of 1922, when Gandhi was arrested?
34. What were the
effects of "non-cooperation" while Gandhi was in jail?
35. What did Gandhi
do from 1924-28?
36. In what year
was the Declaration of Independence for India published?
37. What was the
Salt March intended to protest?
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March and the subsequent wave of protests, what did the British
agree to do?
39. When Gandhi arrived
in London, how did the British receive him?
40. When he returned
to India after the Round Table Conference, what happened in Gandhi's
41. What events characterized
the years 1934 to 1938 for Gandhi?
42. What important
Act passed Parliament in 1935?
43. Of what religion
was Muhammed Ali Jinnah?
44. What did the
Muslim League demand by the late 1930s?
45. What was "Basic
46. When did World
War II begin?
47. During the war,
what were the Congress's actions?
48. What personal
tragedy did Gandhi suffer in 1943?
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did India achieve its independence?
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I don't think you should limit C++ to HLSL, especially considering the wide array of both 2d and 3d graphics libraries/engines/frameworks available. There's still OpenGL with GLSL, Allegro, SDL, SFML, Irrlicht, Ogre3D and so many more. And OOP is not just limited to C#/XNA. You can achieve that with C++ just as fine, and SFML is structured really well for OOP. Also, switching languages shouldn't be an issue. At a certain point in learning languages you can easily draw parallels between languages and it becomes progressively easier to learn new languages. Yes C++ does have to deal with memory, and C# being a managed language has the luxury to gloss over this. I don't think you should ever lock in to any language. I do however second your suggestion on Unity. It's a wonderful program and I only wish I had more time to spend learning it
First of all this just is my opinion. I'm not trying to limit C++ to anything at all. Though, I like to use it when I do "low level stuff"; making a custom direct3d rendere, interfacing with C or assembly, embedded programming, dll injecting... you get the point. When I sit down with a UML class diagram, containing hundreds of classes (maybe describing a game?) I tend to pull out the C#/.Net combo. I do admit this is a personal choice and it does reflect the fact, that I was schooled in C# and thought myself C++ on the side, acknowledging the limitations of C#/.Net in a unmanaged capacity. I know that C++ can facilitate oo programming just fine, but I do like syntactic and technological "simplicity" of C#, when I have to build bigger systems. Again, it could just be the fact, that C# was my introduction into programming. I was taught with very strict oo discipline... all the jazz; KISS, UML, design patterns and automatic garbage collection etc. Bit of a ramble there, and probably off-topic, but I think you know what I'm getting at
Haha of course! I was just adding my side to it as well to make sure the argument was balanced and so it didn't just seem like there was not particularly many reasons to pick C++ Actually, after reading this post and my conversation with you I think I'm actually going to pick up C# again and see how it goes. Of course I'm still mostly going to be working with C++ and SFML


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THE BONDSWOMAN'S NARRATIVE," a recently discovered manuscript that historians say may be the first novel by an African-American woman, could be destined for the smallscreen. HBO is in talks to acquire rights to the book, the story of a woman's life as a slave on a North Carolina plantation. The manuscript was purchased by Henry Louis Gates, chair of Harvard's African-American studies department. Warner Books will publish it with an introduction by Gates, who could play a significant role in its dramatic adaptation.
Twenty-five years after "Roots" became a national phenomenon, Hollywood is grappling with new ways to dramatize slavery and its legacy. On the heels of the Hallmark channel's "Roots" rebroadcast last month, a spate of projects have surfaced that may create a higher Hollywood profile for this difficult subject.
Wind Dancer Films has optioned Pagan Kennedy's new book, "Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in Nineteenth-Century Congo."
The book isn't about slavery, but it deals candidly with American race relations after the Civil War. It's the story of William Sheppard, one of the first black American missionaries to travel to Africa, who ventured to Congo to found an African-American utopian community.
Wind Dancer, producers of "What Women Want," will develop "Livingstone" as a big budget feature. "Hopefully you will get onscreen the scope and beauty of Africa," says Wind Dancer principal David McFadzean. "You also hope you'll get a sense of the size of this character, his remarkable life and impact." Wind Dancer director of development Roz Weisberg, will oversee the project with McFadzean.
Both books are repped by CAA.
As with "Roots," and more recent features like "Beloved" and "Amistad," Hollywood has typically depended on literary road maps for such projects.
As one of its black history month features, HBO has been airing "The Middle Passage," a French film based on a script by novelist Patrick Chamoiseau. Bestselling author Walter Mosley adapted "Passage" for HBO.
INVESTMENT HOUSE GOLDMAN SACHS remained tight-lipped Tuesday about reports that it plans to sink $1 billion into the magazine market.
If the bank were to invest a sizable sum in the magazine biz, either to start a magazine unit or prop up an already existing company, the financing would likely come from Goldman Sachs Capital Partners 2000 — a $5.2 billion private equity fund — according to a source familiar with the fund.
But it would also likely be less than $1 billion; previous investments by Capital Partners 2000 have generally been between $100 million and $300 million.
In recent years, a number of financial giants have flouted the risks of media investment, taking sizable stakes in media companies like the United Artists theater chain (Merrill Lynch) and Primedia (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.).
Goldman Sachs, which employs a division of bankers specializing in media, already has a stake in Village Voice media.
Goldman Sachs would be marshaling its investment in the wake of an especially rocky year for magazine publishing that saw industrywide ad revenues fall 4.9%, and ad pages fall 11.7% over 2000, according to the Publishers Information Bureau.
But that doesn't mean it's a bad idea, says Leland Westerfield, an analyst at UBS Warburg/Paine Webber.
Recent weeks and months notwithstanding, says Westerfield, the magazine biz "shows a predictable and stable level of cash flow profitability."
The technology boom and bust, he says, "has shown it's the dinosaurs of media that continue to dominate the planet."
SANGUINE IN THE HOPES that the next Tom Clancy may be hiding on the backlist of an obscure publishing house specializing in tales of warfare and national defense, Random House Inc. has fortified its military publishing program, acquiring the Presidio Press, an indie publisher of military history and fiction.
The Presidio Press will become an imprint of Ballantine Books. Ballantine will also absorb Presidio's backlist of 150 titles.
Founded as a mail-order publisher of scholarly military history books in 1974, the press gradually became a prominent trade publisher focused on books about WWII and Vietnam.
The Random House acquisition comes at a time when America is preoccupied with martial matters and studio slates are jammed with war movies.
Even before Sept. 11, however, military publishing was a lucrative genre, producing a number of writers who became fixtures on national bestseller lists.
In 1984, the Naval Institute Press acquired Clancy's first novel, "The Hunt for Red October," for $5,000. The book was later endorsed by Ronald Reagan, putting Clancy on the road to superstardom.
As Ballantine publisher Gina Centrello put it, "the demand for titles about military affairs seldom wavers among readers across all demographics and reading interest in the subject has greatly increased these past months."


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WOODEN: A COACH'S LIFE. By Seth Davis. Times Books. 591 pages. $35.
Rarefied subjects bring high standards. So when a title aims at the definitive profile of perhaps the most successful coach in major American sports history, who is already the subject of dozens of bio takes over the past five decades, the author is beyond the 3-point line with the last few seconds ticking down, his favored team behind by two points. This better be good.
Swish! Like David Maraniss with Vince Lombardi ("When Pride Still Mattered") and Peter Ames Carlin with Bruce Springsteen ("Bruce"), Davis gets to a fresh essence of Wooden through dogged pursuit of details woven into a masterpiece. He does not simply rehash the glory of the beloved Wizard of Westwood, the sainted Wooden who won 10 NCAA basketball titles at UCLA in 12 years from 1964 to 1975 while dispensing "Pyramid of Success" wisdom without ever cussing. There's plenty of that, but Davis does Wooden a favor by addressing or revealing flaws in the legendary man who died at 99 in 2010.
The first credibility test you look for in a Wooden book is the Sam Gilbert stuff. Davis takes on the stain of Wooden's career with a thorough chapter on the renegade booster ("Sam") and beyond. Yes, Gilbert's manipulative largess put UCLA on NCAA probation after the Wooden years but, clearly, he was even more active during the UCLA glory run. Davis agrees with former Los Angeles Times reporters Mike Littwin and the late Alan Greenberg, who concluded an investigative series with "(Wooden) should have known much more (about Gilbert). If he didn't, it was only because he apparently chose not to look."
Did you know Wooden often ran up scores by playing his starters deep into blowouts? That he was well known for discretely yelling at referees and opposing players during games? That he was a master of revisionist history, often embellishing? That Wooden "whitewashed" Jerry Norman from UCLA history by refusing to give his former assistant coach proper credit for coming up with the Bruins' famed zone press defense? Yes to all that. Such journalistic balance makes this comprehensive analysis score consistently.
Davis shows that Wooden's Midwestern work ethic holds from a humble Indiana boyhood to the dazzling run in L.A., the championships, the recruiting of Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) and Bill Walton and in all the famous quotes ("Be quick, but never hurry"). Early in his UCLA years, Wooden had to supplement his income with a morning shift as a dispatcher for a dairy. That first NCAA title didn't come until Wooden's 17th season at UCLA.
Davis, best known for his CBS television work during the NCAA Tournament, is a veteran Sports Illustrated senior writer and author. Some of his most poignant work here is in the prologue and over the last few pages, reflections on three meetings in Wooden's book-filled Encino, Calif., apartment from 2003 to 2009. The greatness of Wooden, the mystery reporters and lesser coaches have sought to crack for years, comes down to paying forward. Former players and others inspired by Wooden's words are the pied pipers. "Everyone wanted the old man's secrets, but he had no secrets," Davis concludes, "only seeds."
Reviewer Gene Sapakoff is a sports columnist for The Post and Courier. Follow him on Twitter @sapakoff.


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MOBILE, Alabama – Gentlemen, no pressure, but you have exactly one week to take care of business. Valentine's Day business, that is.
And the folks at the Mobile Museum of Art know what women want: an evening of wine, refreshments and discount shopping. The museum's Valentine Benefit Sale next Thursday, Feb. 14, will be the second of the museum's new Museum Nights series, with free admission from 5 to 9 p.m., dessert and a cash bar.
The sale includes about 400 donations, mainly from museum members, according to Paul Richelson, chief curator. There are collectibles, household items, cameras and sound equipment and Christmas ornaments. The sale fits well with Valentine's Day, he said, because "these are once-loved objects that can be loved again."
The first Museum Night tonight will be a gallery talk by Deborah Velders, the museum's new director. On subsequent Thursdays, other staff members will give lectures and tours, including Richelson, who will speak about prints and drawings and the revival of an interest in artistic printmaking.
The museum is at 4850 Museum Drive in Langan Park. For details on the Museum Nights schedule, go to www.mobilemuseumofart.com, or call 251-208-5200.


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Here's how RW members rated this race (1008 votes).
In short: Can't fault anythingIn full: Had a fabulous time. Everything I expected and more. A special thank you to many of the waiting spectators and runners who had finished who cheered me all the way to the line.Date of review: November 16, 2014
In short: Great race with personal touchesIn full: A great race. Stunning scenery, and some really nice touches - like when they announced people's names over the tannoy as they came into the racecourse. I know I'm a slowcoach, but as I crossed the finish line it made me feel like a champion.Date of review: November 16, 2014
In short: Big thanks to everyone for a fantastic event. In full: Did this event last year but it was even better this year. Great support from the spectators for much of the route. As last year, the organisation was spot on and the marshals and volunteers were friendly, efficient and helpful. Date of review: November 16, 2014
In short: Everything about this event was fantasticIn full: Everything about this event was fantastic, and I am very happy to have been a part of it. Everyone along the course (water/drink stations, marshalls, first aiders, spectators - and fellow runners) were encouraging and friendly, and made the day special. Well done to the organizers - they did a first class job! Date of review: November 16, 2014
In short: Great race from start to finishDate of review: November 16, 2014
In short: 11 out of 10In full: Excellent event. Massive thanks for a great marathon. From the event organisers to the great spectators, marshals were spot on, scenary and finish was fantastic, goody bag was grand. Date of review: November 16, 2014
In short: Brilliant day outIn full: Fantastic organisation, beautiful scenery and perfect running weather all made this an exceptional race , with a new PB as well. Congratulations to all who entered and a big thank you to the organisers.Date of review: November 16, 2014
In short: Loved it! In full: All the marshals and officials were brilliant - amazingly friendly, helpful and genuinely supportive despite having to be out for hours and hours (waiting for me!). You get some stretches without any spectators on the rural bits but mostly there are spectators and they were great.Date of review: November 16, 2014
In short: Must-do raceIn full: Great organisation, fantastic supportive marshalls, nice and flat (PB for me but it was my first marathon!). A great race and now I have the marathon bug I'll be back!Date of review: November 16, 2014
In full: My 5th time at Chester and 3rd time running a PB on the course. I come back every year as it is a fast course and well organised race. Apart from the course and marshalling it is the little touches like technical T-Shirt, great marshalling, personal greeting at the finish. It would be nice if they could flatten the hill at mile 24 and keep that stretch flat ;) Date of review: November 16, 2014
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Japan Backs UNDP Programme on Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
11 December 2008: The UN Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with the Government of Japan, will support twenty-one African countries in the development of their capacity to plan, implement and monitor flexible and long-term development policies for climate change adaptation.
Criteria for defining recipient countries for the US$92 million
programme include vulnerability to climate change risks and the
priorities of the Japanese Government. The Programme falls under the
"Cool Earth Partnership," and is part of the "Japan-UNDP Joint
Framework for Building Partnership to Address Climate Change in
Africa," which was established at the Fourth Tokyo International
Conference on African Development in May 2008.
Recipient Governments include: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gabon,
Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger,
Nigeria, the Republic of Congo and Senegal. Participating countries are
expected to start their adaptation activities in January 2009. [UNDP Press Release]


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The relative position and histologic anatomy of the parathyroid glands, from early fetal life up to advanced age, have recently been studied by Thimm.1 His material was quite varied: neck organs from over a hundred bodies, mostly adult; material from the eleventh and fifteenth year; some infants under 2 years of age (three prematurely born infants, sixth and seventh month); serial sections of three embryos of 3 cm. length, 5 weeks and 2½ months, respectively, and, finally, a variety of lower animals, laboratory animals, and others from zoological gardens. The work was done under the supervision of Professor Hansemann.Thimm found the anatomic position of the superior pair of parathyroid bodies very constant. The inferior pair, on the contrary, are often pushed laterally, seldom up or down, by swelling of neighboring lymph glands, tumor formation, and the like.In size the bodies measure 2 to 4
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We're so never moving on from this Clarkson classic, which was released on Nov. 16, 2004
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The "Stronger" singer says her latest effort may feature a high-profile duet
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A fruit that is on the verge or extinction. I know you may be asking yourself, is this some kind of sick joke? This is not a joke. Get your potassium now, before it's too late.
You: Can I have a bannana?
Person from future: What is a bannana?
Person from future: What is a bannana?
od uživatele SessileLover 27. duben 2005
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Can you define these popular missing words?
Something really crazy, out of the ordinary.
Yo, it was bannanas up in that club.
od uživatele dirtyfolk 23. červen 2005
An asian acting like a white person.
asian guy 1: I love me some barbaquin'
asian guy 2: what a bannana!
asian guy 2: what a bannana!
od uživatele datcracka 05. prosinec 2011
a monkey food that is grown on trees in lush green forests
that monkey ate thos bannanas!!!!!!!!!!!
od uživatele crusadermajor 22. duben 2008
Ask A Girl. To Suck Yo Dick
Man : Aye Girl You Blow My Bannana
Woman : I Suck Yo Bannana
Woman : I Suck Yo Bannana
od uživatele YanZe 02. listopad 2015
1.A made up word. Made up by anna.
2.A yellow, mushy, fruit.
Also see banana
2.A yellow, mushy, fruit.
Also see banana
Raychel ate the whole bannana in 1 minute.
od uživatele Leigh :) 24. březen 2003
A typical word for an asian trying to imitate or actually, phisically and mentally become one.
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Next time I'm standing in front of my closet wondering what to wear I'll try this white plus floral duo, they make quite the sleek pair! What will you be wearing this Spring?
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The nation's largest wireless phone company, which also has millions of FiOS Internet and landline phone customers, had 321,545 requests for customer information from federal, state and local law-enforcement agencies in 2013, Verizon Communications Inc. said this week in its first "transparency report."
Verizon did not say how much actual information it turned over to law enforcement for police investigations, only the requests.
The 2013 number was 24 percent higher than the 260,000 requests in 2011, which Verizon previously disclosed in a letter to then-Rep. Edward J. Markey (D., Mass.) in May 2012.
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He may have limited some of her songwriting subjects – especially those angry, brokenhearted ones – but Kelly Clarkson says her boyfriend has fueled her desire to work out.
"I would love to say that it had something to do with my work, but it doesn't," Clarkson, 30, whose new singing competition Duets premieres Thursday, told reporters during a conference call. "I have a boyfriend, and if I'm being completely honest, no one likes to be not toned when you are dating someone."
Having revved up her workout routine and by restricting her diet, Clarkson says the pounds have come off.
"I'm eating better and working out, but I've always fluctuated within 20 lbs.," she adds. "My whole life I've been like that."
Sharing a trainer with her talent manager beau Brandon Blackstock (the son of Clarkson's manager of five years, and the stepson of Reba), 35, offers added incentive.
"I tone whenever I want, and I chose to now because my boyfriend and I are both really into it," she says. "But we don't work out together."
"We did that once and I didn't like huffing and puffing," she continues. "I didn't like looking all red and gross, so I don't do that."
But it's not just the gym they have in common.
"We both love music so we go to shows together," Clarkson says. "I am just more active with him."
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Nicknames: We take Cat Express cards, Gift Cards, and cash. We hand out change also. Our hours are 10:00 to 12:00
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Education: The Health Department named us the healthiest! We are not open on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Fridays. We are open all week in summer, starting June tenth.
My favorite tricks and treats are: Party Places are based on how big they are. A small room is ten dollars, while a medimum room is twenty, and a large room is thirty. If you want an extra large room, it will cost fifty dollars. After you have bought a room, you may want to reserve it for decorations. All rooms are empty, so you can put whatever you want in it. For reserving, it will cost ten dollars. Like, if you want a small room, it will cost twenty dollars. and Party Places: Cafe Room-20.00 Roller Skating Room-50.00 Lazer Tag Room-30.00 Nursery Room-30.00 Cafe Room-10.00 Theater Room-50.00 Libary Room-50.00 New Rooms can be added from time to time.
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What I love about my owners: Please, when you are planning a party, tell us how many hours or minutes you are going to spend there. If someone asks for the same room as you and wants a certain time, you will get an alert that you have only ten or fifthteen minutes left to be in the reserved room. If you are a VIP, or COTD, you can have the room for as long as you want. We hope this process is fair and if it isn't, please contact us.
My cat hobbies: After you are done with planning, we will reserve a place for you! Reservation cost 10 dollars, see does your cat do any tricks and favorite treats.
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Conference at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt am Main, June 23th - 25th, 2000
The issue of how, in a modern society, an individual may continue to uphold his bond to a community by contributing to its aims has recently been the focus of numerous intellectual discussions as well as scholarly studies. In general, processes of modernization dissolve established patterns of how to legitimately pursue one's personal goals without neglecting those of the community, on the one hand, and the ways in which the individual may render a true service to this community, on the other. These processes create novel conditions for establishing new individual and cultural balances within this tension between individual and community.
In intellectual debates considering the meaning and implications of these transformations, the relationship between the individual and the community has frequently been considered to be problematic. Processes of modernization generally result in a widened range of possibilities and an increased potential for autonomy. This development is perceived from two perspectives:
From the perspective of the individual, the disappearance of established means of serving the public welfare open up the question what new forms such a contribution should take. From the perspective of the community, other questions are prevalent: How should it distribute the potential for autonomy that has emerged -- at the same time balancing inequality and injustice which may be a result of that process? Should it leave these options to the individual, trusting the citizen's ability to make responsible use of additional resources now at his disposal? Or should it choose a more "collectivist" option, closing off these options to the individual in the name of the community?
In this context, intellectual debates providing interpretations of these processes play an essential role. They establish and reflect options and solutions available to the community. This leads to several questions: Are these debates advancing a true understanding of the crisis in which this community finds itself -- thereby opening up possibilities for successfully dealing with it? Or do these debates regressively conceal necessary reforms by inaccurately diagnosing these problems?
The United States and Germany have established quite different cultural solutions in balancing out individual interests and those of the community.
The United States have traditionally held the individual's interest in much higher regard than European countries, and Germany especially. The American nation-state did not emerge from a community that would already have been able to rely on a stock of common experience and traditions comparable to those of European nations. Individual duties vis-a-vis the nation-state are less numerous and less intense. How citizens will fulfill their duty to the nation is not similarly prearranged, the range of options available to the individual is wider than in Germany. Part of this tradition has been the difficulty to legitimize steps undertaken by the nation-state. Today, this is reflected in the relationship of individual rights and the welfare state.
In Germany, civil society has traditionally had an altogether different status. The Republic here emerged without a revolution, and the state grew powerful before it was provided with democratic legitimation. In keeping with this heritage, solutions for problems in the wake of modernization are usually sought on the state level. The strength of state regulation corresponds to a lack of civility. Citizens hesitate in identifying themselves with their nation-state, and there is a tendency to express political doubts by resorting to fundamentalism. Germans have less opportunity and willingness to define themselves what they, as individuals, consider the right balance between a dedication to individual and public interests. In this way, the political community closes off potential sources for renewing solidarity and a sense of citizenship.
We specifically invite papers that will analyse historic phenomena or provide a comparative view of the United States and Germany.
Abstracts should be submitted no later than 1 February 2000. A provisional title and an outline of the key arguments should be presented in no more than 500 words. The conference will be held in both German and English, i.e. papers can be read in either language. Should you like to attend the conference without reading a paper, registration will be necessary. We might be able to provide simultaneous translation for those not speaking German.
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Ford doesn't want buyers to think of the 2009 Flex as another minivan replacement.
Ford is hoping to sell the 2009 Flex crossover to stylish urbanites when the advertising campaign kicks off this year. Though the Flex is large enough to carry a family and all the related goods, Ford hopes to reach a trendy crowd with its new crossover.
Jim Farley, Ford's marketing chief, is behind the change in advertising. Farley came to Ford from Scion, so he is familiar with the more unique marketing strategy Flex will utilize. Ford marketers were already trying to figure out a new way to pitch the Flex, but Farley really helped shape the direction of the ads. He challenged the marketing team to find a better way to sell the Flex.
Ford is hoping to draw current owners of SUVs to the Flex in order to sell the loaded models. Flex will be priced from $28,995 and run into the mid-$40,000s when loaded with options. Current SUV owners likely spent more than that on mid- or full-size vehicles and shouldn't complain too much about the prices.
Flex is being billed as somewhat of an anti-minivan. The sliding rear doors were changed to conventional doors early in the development process. That switch freed up money to be spent on interior upgrades without forcing the sticker price to swell, as well as saving Flex from a minivan stigma.
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New York, NY, July 7, 2011 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today urged United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to withdraw and reconsider a biased U.N. report which unjustly concludes that Israeli soldiers used unnecessary force during a confrontation with Palestinian demonstrators at the Israel-Lebanon border in May.
A report issued by the U.N.'s Special Coordinator for Lebanon charged that Israel used excessive force when it confronted protesters that illegally breached its border to mark the so-called "Nakba Day," the term many Palestinians and Arabs use to refer to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
"This biased UN report blatantly disregards the imminent threat faced by Israel when protesters stormed its territory," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "We challenge any other member state of the United Nations, faced with 1,000 people attempting to breach its borders, to operate with the same level of caution that Israel demonstrated in reacting to this highly combustible situation."
In a letter to Mr. Ban, ADL noted that though Israel faced a clear violation of its sovereignty and a direct threat to its security, it made every effort to avoid violent confrontation. Moreover, the protesters were the first to engage in violent tactics.
"Israeli soldiers employed various methods such as calling out to the protesters to stop, and firing shots in the air to warn the demonstrators to halt their charge," Mr. Foxman said. "Moreover, Israel appealed to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon to intervene. It is extremely unfortunate that the protesters did not heed these extensive warnings."
The report's author, Michael Williams, himself rushed to judgment in the immediate aftermath of the incident, including being quoted condemning Israel's actions before the investigation began and saying Israel used "disproportionate force."
The League's letter also highlighted the fact that the Lebanese government successfully kept protesters away from the border several weeks later, on "Naksa" day.
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Dark Souls Review
Dark Souls isn't a game you play for fun. It's something you do to say you've done; like running a marathon or climbing Everest. You won't enjoy it like you will other games, but you won't forget it.
The online functionality is inspired, frankly, and anybody playing without it will not only struggle, but will also miss out on a unique sense of togetherness. Every decision you make in the game is based on a collection of pointers you'll piece together from everybody else. You learn from their mistakes, and they learn from yours. Dark Souls is a bastard, and you're all working together to beat it.
Not everybody subscribes to the same train of thought, though. Certain morons take great pleasure in abusing the system. In front of an NPC at the start of the game I found a sign that read: 'Try attacking'. Clearly the scribe of said message had done the same and pilfered some sweet-ass armour from the corpse, or something. I decided to do the same. Bad idea. You give him a few whacks of your sword and he flips out, relentlessly attacking you until you die. "Well I won't be doing that again!" I chuckled to myself, but that didn't matter, because even after dying, this NPC continued to chase me around the area, and as he was much, much stronger than me, he killed me over and over again. The only solution I could conjure up to solve this problem was to restart the entire game. Which was obviously a complete ballache.
As you move about the world, you'll see the ghostly outlines of other players going about their business. Dark Souls is a lonely experience, but these phantoms are a constant reminder that others - other real people, just like you - are going through the same thing. Inspect a blood stain on the floor, and you can watch the last few seconds of another player's life, possibly making a mental note not to let the same thing happen to you. If you're in a human form, you can even summon other players to join you in your world, which can be helpful when tackling harder areas.
It can't be ignored that the game is plagued with countless show-stopping bugs. I can't say whether the 360 version suffers from the same issues, but the PS3 version crashed on a regular basis. Once every couple of hours, in fact. Although inadvertently, this is something that contributes to the hellishness of the experience. As does the fact that you can't pause the game. Now I'm all for giving players a challenge, but not letting me nip off to the loo in the middle of a dungeon? Ugh.
Dark Souls is very much a gamer's game, and if you're going to have any fun with it, you need to go into it with precisely the right frame of mind. Even then you might struggle. It takes a precise kind of person to really enjoy what the game has to offer. Games journalists happen to fulfil the criteria for that type of person, and so the game has been seeing some impressive reviews. True, there's much to praise here: the innovative use of connected features, the expertly designed environments, the huge amounts of satisfaction you'll reap from downing a particularly fearsome foe, but you really have to work for your fun. The amount of investment required to get even the slightest return will put off all but the hardiest of players - but if you're one of them, I salute you.
Dark Souls isn't a game you play for fun. It's something you do to say you've done; like running a marathon or climbing Everest. You won't enjoy it like you will other games, but you won't forget it either, and you'll be damn proud of yourself for seeing it through to the end.


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Actress Maheshwari married Guntur based businessman Jaya Krishna on September 18 2008 at Tirumala. Maheshwari is the niece of Bollywood actress Sridevi. Here are the photos.
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GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, MI – If the world does end after Dec. 21 as the Mayan calendar suggests, at least Grand Blanc Parks and Recreation will have already money for another pavilion.
An End of the World fundraiser is planned for Dec. 5 to raise money toward $300,000 needed to build a second pavilion on the north side of Creasey Bicentennial Park off of Grand Blanc Road.
"The Mayan calendar says the world will end Dec. 21. We just thought we would get a head start and encourage people to give their money to us since they can't bring it with them," said Parks and Recreation Executive Director Kae Eidson with a laugh.
The event will take place at 6 p.m. at the Elks Club, 7177 E. Maple Ave. Tickets are $50 per person and include hors d'oeuvres and wine tasting.
A silent and live auction begin at 8 p.m. The fundraiser also includes live entertainment, cash bar and a celebrity mixer.
After grants and cell phone tower funds covered the first $100,000, Parks and Recreation department staff still need to raise $200,000 for the pavilion, Eidson said. Since there is no infrastructure on the north end of the park yet, $100,000 of the cost would bring power and a sanitary sewer system to that portion of the park.
The north side of the park has four soccer fields, so the pavilion would be a nice addition, Eidson said. Summer weekend reservations for the other large pavilion on the south end of the park fill up by mid-February each year, so there's a need for a second pavilion, she said.
The Parks and Recreation Master Plan already includes the pavilion on the north end, as well as a playscape next to the pavilion, a restroom/concession/maintenance storage building, one more soccer field and two multipurpose fields.
The End of the World party, however, will just fund the pavilion. The hope is to have construction on the pavilion start in July of 2013, Eidson said.
Those interested in attending the party can get tickets at the Parks and Recreation office, 360 E. Grand Blanc Road, or online at www.pavilion2.com.
"We just think it's going to be a really fun night of socializing," Eidson said. "We're hoping the community will come out and support this project."
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Putting Your Favorite Cold Remedies to the Test
In case the hacking, coughing, sneezing and nose honking you're hearing from everyone around you wasn't enough indication, cold season is officially in full swing. And despite successfully sending a man to the moon and creating computers the size of a peanut, science still hasn't discovered a cure for the common cold, so we are forced to wallow in our misery and our snot and wait for it to pass. But ask your mom, your friends, your colleagues and your dog, and they all have an opinion on their version of a foolproof cure. But before you go chugging a carton of orange juice and standing on your head for two hours while holding a live mouse in your mouth, we spoke to a real-life doctor about which of the more common remedies are actually worth a damn. Dr. Guy Lin, an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist based in New York City and a member of ENT and Allergy Associates, went down the list of miracle cold cures and gave us his expert opinion on which were helping, or hurting, you on your road to recovery. Still, Dr. Lin points out that these aren't actual cures, "they're supportive therapies. The body, ultimately, is its best vehicle for getting better and the other supportive therapies around it just facilitate it." So, really, you just have to suck it up.
"Teas are extremely helpful. They're hydrating, they're soothing and they lubricate the voice box," Dr. Lin says. He points out that hot tea, as well as hot water with lemon and honey, are therapeutic, and any excuse to consume more liquid while you're sick (an absolute must) is helpful. However, regarding the supposed antioxidants in green tea working to expedite the healing process, Lin is quick to shoot it down. "I don't think there's evidence for it," he says.
Chicken Soup
Again, Lin says the hydrating and therapeutic benefits of chicken soup are beneficial. "You're just hydrating. I think as long as the therapy isn't doing harm, it's encouraged. So whether it's tea or lots of liquids or chicken soup, it's all hydration. The body needs extra fluids when you're sick." He also points out that eating healthy, natural ingredients and protein-dense foods, like chicken, are beneficial to recovery.
Raw Garlic/Ginger
Lin sees benefits to eating garlic and ginger, but not for the magical immune-boosting powers many people believe they have. "There is power in our diet. There is some evidence to suggest that we don't need as much calories while we're sick, and I think that raw, natural ingredients, especially when we're sick, probably have some healing and therapeutic effects. So garlic and ginger fall right into that category," he explains. "They're not heavy in calorie content and they're natural ingredients straight from the earth, so I think that's actually very helpful."
Salt Water/Hydrogen Peroxide Gargle
While Lin doesn't see anything wrong with salt water rinses, he says you would get more benefits from nasal rinses. Like neti pots? "A neti pot is probably less intensive than a rinse. A neti pot is something that, with gravity, the salt water goes in one nostril and comes out the nose." Instead he suggests using a nasal rinse, which looks like a small squeeze bottle. "A sinus rinse, for instance, would be a cleansing agent for the sinus cavity that you self-direct with a bottle." However, he warns, "There's a lot of press recently about neti pot use and a very rare amoebic brain infection." A contaminant was found in tap water, so Lin suggests using distilled or boiled water. As for the hydrogen peroxide, he says, "It can be a little irritating—there's some wound healing data that shows that hydrogen peroxide can delay wound healing. But if you have some form of virus or bacteria in the throat, it may be a little toxic to them, so it might help from that standpoint." Just be sure to dilute it and follow the gargling instructions on the bottle.