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Delicate_Flame 4 years ago#432
Ultima VII was the first RPG I ever played, but as a kid who didn't understand much English, I had no idea how to play it, and didn't get far.
Final Fantasy VII was the first RPG I really got into. Even then, I didn't know what an RPG was. I just read about it in a magasine, and I thought it looked cool, so I got it for christmas. I got to the first boss and gave up, it wasn't what I expected at all, with the turn-based combat and whatnot. I thought it was stupid. It wasn't until my friend wanted to see the game that I gave it a second shot and really discovered the story and the gameplay, and developed a love for RPG's =)
Funkyfetlock 4 years ago#433
Probably "Zork" way back in the mid 1980's. My favourite RPG came out not long after that in the late 80's "In Search of The Most Amazing Thing". Graphics were mostly just a few lines on the screen but the gameplay was still better than anything that's come since IMO. Graphics are way overrated these days. All that really matters is the gameplay.
They just don't make games the way they used to.. sigh.
While the vast majority of my favorite games come from past generations; there is no way for anyone to say they just don't make ____ the way they used to without sounding like a crotchety stoop-sitting old man.
Funkyfetlock 4 years ago#435
Lol perhaps you're right. I'm only 38 but already I'm turning into my late grandfather!
Seriously though there have been some good RPGs since - the Final Fantasy series has generally been good & Dark Chronicle was very good but I'm just a bit disappointed that nothing has ever quite lived up to the promise of a few of those early games in the 1980's.
I'm sure it's not just a case of looking at the past through rose coloured glasses either. I've been looking at some YouTube footage of some of those old games and desperately wishing I could dig up my old Apple 2E computer from whatever computer graveyard it now lies.
I largely blame reviewers. Games started to go downhill when they started giving things like graphics & sound equal importance to gameplay.
Funkyfetlock 4 years ago#436
Robot Odyssey! Now there's another great game from the eighties.
Sigh.. they really don't make games like that anymore.
Golden Sun for the GBA! What a game.
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Ginol_Enam posted...
Depends on how you want to count it. My real "first" was probably one of the Phantasy Stars and/or a Shining game. I had the Sega Channel on the Genesis, so I played a lot of stuff I wasn't very familiar with. The only reason I remember now what they were called is because I recognized them discovering them later. I didn't even know they were were referred to as RPGs, or what that acronym stood for.
lol you had a sega channel too. That's awesome.
Wow really
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Pokemon Blue, Pokemon does count since it is essentially an RPG.
First full size RPG would be Oblivion.
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My first console was the Atari 2600. I got it for Christmas many years ago and loved it. Adventure was the first rpg i suppose, even though Pitfall 2 was quite an adventure....What really got me hooked on video games was Nintendo. After Mike Tyson's Punch Out and The Legend of Zelda I have kept on gaming and stayed glued to what is going on in the gaming world.
Does anybody remember Nintendo Power? This is how I got Dragon Warrior! By signing up for Nintendo Power! Nintendo offered free carts of Dragon Warrior for subscribing to Nintendo Power.
I have never played a game like this at the time and after trying to get into this style of gameplay I finally realized the magic this type of game offers and completed it.
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CHARLES TOWN - Washington's Ryan Fleming showed a consistency throughout the season usually found in golfers much older or much more experienced than him.
The sophomore frequently found himself in the top five as he helped lead the way for the Patriots, including finishing as the highest-ranked golfer in the area at the Class AAA state match.
For this, Fleming has been named The Journal's 2013 Golfer of the Year.
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Washington's Ryan?Fleming has been named?The Journal's 2013 Golfer of the Year after finishing the highest of any area golfer at the Class AAA state meet and helping the Patriots win a second straight regional title.
As many times as Fleming's name wound up high on the leaderboard, you would think he's been playing for quite a few years. In reality, the golfer started playing in the third grade but took a long hiatus until his freshman year of high school.
"It was so fun. I hope I can get somewhere in golf," Fleming said.
Fleming was leaning toward soccer when he entered high school but decided to play golf to be with his brother Robert during his senior year. The links pulled him in, and he rekindled his love for the game.
He doesn't think the roughly six-year vacation hurt his talent too bad.
"You're not going to be amazing in the fifth grade," he laughed.
It wasn't as if he ever actually left the sport, though. It's kind of hard to do when you live right on the course at Locust Hill. Being able to just walk out on the course, especially when it's Washington's home course, helped Fleming throughout the season and helped him form realistic goals.
"My main focus was just not to get in the 90s," Fleming said, adding he was aiming for 70s and 80s.
He didn't always meet his goal this season, but Fleming knows part of that was his own fault.
"It was a struggle," he said. "It was in my head the whole time."
Every time he had a chance to get in the 70s, Fleming said it would stay in the back of his mind until he ended up with a higher score.
At the state tournament, Fleming shot an 81 on the first day to tie for seventh place and fired an 85 on the second day to finish with a 166 total and 19th place.
For his first time golfing at the state level, Fleming was proud of his score, though nerves got to him on the first tee.
He powered through to come away two strokes ahead of the next local golfer, teammate Dylan Mumaw.
As Fleming has matured in his golf game over the past two seasons, he's already beaten his brother in a way. Robert Fleming was named last year's golfer of the year as a senior for the first time. The younger Fleming has already taken the title as a sophomore, with only high expectations for the next two years.
"I want to try to win it next year for state," he said.
Fleming may have big dreams, but he still appreciates the smaller aspects of the game, like winning the title a year after his brother did.
"It's pretty cool following in his footsteps," Fleming said.
He and his brother play together constantly already so Fleming's goals will just give them more of a reason to hit a few balls. Fleming knows an area in his game he'd really like to improve anyway.
"It's mainly just my short game I need to work on," he said.
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I have the 9106 router.
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> I've got a US Robotics 9106 modem/router and I see it uses iptables and
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Just 23 years old, John Gassew has been arrested 44 times, mostly on charges of sticking a gun in people's faces and robbing them.
But in the eyes of the law, Gassew isn't an armed robber.
He's never been convicted.
Despite being called one of the city's more prolific, and sometimes violent, stickup men by police - they say he bashed a delivery man over the head with a bat, shot at a 13-year-old neighbor, and smashed in the face of a robbery victim - Gassew has been sentenced to jail only once, for a drug charge.
The Northeast Philadelphia man has become so confident in his ability to beat charges, police say, that he openly scoffs at the system. In December 2007, officers arrested him as he ran down a street, leaving behind a car that police said was filled with the loot from 21 robberies he committed in just one weekend.


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With the playoffs right around the corner, the Houston Rockets are in the thick of a tight race out West. Coach Kevin McHale has all but finalized his rotation as the regular season winds down.
Houston basically runs a rotation that is nine players deep. You have the starters (James Harden, Dwight Howard, Chandler Parsons, Terrence Jones and Patrick Beverley) and four role players coming off the bench. Jeremy Lin backs up Beverley, Omer Asik backs up Howard, Jordan Hamilton adds depth to the wings, and Donatas Motiejunas adds size. Rarely anyone else plays.
These rankings are based on a player's importance to the Rockets. Each guy has a specific role for the team, and if somebody were to go down with an injury, the guys near the top would be nearly impossible to replace.
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Collectables is a reissue record label founded in 1980 by Jerry Greene. Greene was previously associated with New York City's Times Square Record Shop, Philadelphia's Record Museum retail chain, and the Lost Nite and Crimson record labels.[citation needed]
Collectables is the largest independently owned (and family-operated) reissue label in the United States.[citation needed] It maintains a catalogue of over 3,400 active titles on compact disc, with thousands of additional titles available on vinyl. It has released hundreds of recordings from the vaults of major labels such as Columbia, Atlantic, RCA, Capitol, Vee-Jay and others, making many available on CD for the first time. Genres found on Collectables include nearly every style of rock music, plus jazz, comedy, blues, doo-wop, funk, and many others.
Collectables publishes the Priceless Collection series of budget compilations. Many of the label's other releases combine the contents of two original LPs on a single CD.
The company also manufactures multi-CD compilation box sets sold exclusively through retailers such as QVC, Costco and Sam's Club.
Collectables is one of a group of companies, including Alpha Video, Gotham Distributing Corporation and the e-commerce website OLDIES.com, owned and operated by Jerry Greene and the Greene family.
Criticism of audio quality[edit]
The recording quality of early Collectables' releases is often criticized by audiophiles.[citation needed] Early LPs and CDs were often dubbed from scratchy records. Both Sides Now publisher Mike Callahan (in his book of CD reviews, Oldies on CD), regularly gave early Collectables' CDs low scores based on sound quality. Over the years, the sound quality has improved greatly on Collectables' releases. Since the mid-1990s, Little Walter DeVenne has remastered many of the label's reissues, and the company has also made extensive use of the in-house mastering and restoration services of the major labels from whom they license material.
The following artists have had at least one recording re-issued on the Collectables label.
See also[edit]
- ^ The Outcasts (Manhasset, New York) discography at Discogs
- ^ The Outcasts (Texas) discography at Discogs
External links[edit]
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> inevitably pegs out at 95% plus. One of these systems is a pentium 133,
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The value that results from the substitution of a given input into an expression or function.
The set of x-coordinates of the set of points on a graph; the set of x-coordinates of a given set of ordered pairs. The value that is the input in a function or relation.
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Dependent Variable
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A/D Converter Front-End Design Considerations
By Rob Reeder, (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Some key parameters to consider when selecting a transformer to drive a particular ADC are insertion loss, return loss, magnitude imbalance, and phase imbalance. Insertion loss is a guide to the bandwidth capability of the transformer. Return loss, also useful, allows the user to design the termination to match the transformer's response at a particular frequency or band of frequencies—especially important when using transformers with greater than unity turns ratios. We will focus here on magnitude- and phase imbalance, and how they affect the ADC's performance in high-bandwidth applications.
Figure 1. Simplified block diagram of the ADC front end using a transformer.
Consider the input, x(t), to the transformer. It is converted into a pair of signals, x1(t) and x2(t). If x(t) is sinusoidal, the differential output signals, x1(t) and x2(t), are of the form
The ADC is modeled as a symmetrical third-order transfer function:
Case—No Imbalance
Applying the trigonometric identity for powers and gathering terms of like frequency,
This is the familiar result for a differential circuit: even harmonics cancel for ideal signals, while odd harmonics do not.
Substituting Equation 7 in Equation 3 and again applying the trigonometric power identities,
We see from Equation 8 that the second harmonic in this case is proportional to the difference of the squares of the magnitude terms, k1 and k2, viz.,
Substituting Equation 10 in Equation 3 and simplifying,
From Equation 11, we see that the second-harmonic amplitude is proportional to the square of the magnitude term, k.
As a test of the validity of these calculations, MATLAB code was written for the model described above to quantify and illustrate the impact of magnitude- and phase imbalances on harmonic distortion of a high-performance ADC with a transformer input (Appendix A). The model includes additive white Gaussian noise.
The coefficients, ai, used in the MATLAB model are for the AD9445, a high-performance 16-bit, 125-MSPS ADC. The AD9445, in the front-end configuration shown in Figure 2, was used to generate the FFT shown in Figure 3, from which the coefficients were derived.
Figure 2. Front-end configuration of the AD9445 with transformer.
Figure 3. Typical FFT of AD9445, 125 MSPS, IF = 170 MHz.
The noise floor, second harmonic, and third harmonic here reflect the composite performance of the converter and front-end circuitry. The converter distortion coefficients (a2 and a3) and noise were computed using these measured results, combined with the 0.0607 dB of magnitude imbalance and 148 of phase imbalance at 170 MHz, specified for a standard 1:1 impedance ratio transformer.
These coefficients are used in Equation 8 and Equation 11 to compute y(t), while the magnitude- and phase imbalances are varied in the ranges 0 V to 1 V and 0 degrees to 50 degrees, respectively (the imbalance ranges of a typical transformer in the 1-MHz-to-1000-MHz range), and observe the effect on the second harmonic. The results of the simulations are shown in Figure 4 and Figure 5.
Figure 4. Harmonics plotted vs. magnitude imbalance only.
Figure 5. Harmonics plotted vs. phase imbalance only.
Figure 4 and Figure 5 show that (a) the third harmonic is relatively insensitive to both magnitude- and phase imbalance, and (b) that the second harmonic deteriorates more rapidly with phase imbalance than with magnitude imbalance. Thus, to achieve better performance from the ADC, a transformer configuration with improved phase imbalance is needed. Two feasible configurations, the first involving a double balun, and the second a double transformer, are shown in Figure 6 and Figure 7.
Figure 6. Double balun configuration.
Figure 7. Double transformer configuration.
The imbalances from these configurations were compared using a vector network analyzer on specially designed characterization boards. Figure 8 and Figure 9 compare the magnitude- and phase imbalance of these configurations with that of a single transformer.
Figure 8. Magnitude imbalance from 1 MHz to 1000 MHz.
Figure 9. Phase imbalance from 1 MHz to 1000 MHz.
The above figures clearly show that the double configurations have better phase imbalance at the cost of slightly degraded magnitude imbalance. Therefore, using the results of the above analysis, it appears that the double-transformer configurations can be used to achieve better performance. FFT plots of AD9445 using a single transformer input (Figure 10) and a double balun input (Figure 11) show that this is indeed the case; a +10-dB improvement in SFDR is seen with a 300-MHz IF signal.
Figure 10. Single transformer input, FFT of AD9445. 125 MSPS, IF = 300 MHz.
Figure 11. Double balun input, FFT of AD9445. 125 MSPS, IF = 300 MHz.
Does this mean that to achieve good performance one must couple two transformers or two baluns onto the ADC's front end? Not necessarily. The analysis shows that it is essential to use a transformer that has very little phase imbalance. In the following examples (Figure 12 and Figure 13), two different single transformers were used to drive the AD9238 with a 170-MHz IF signal. These examples show that there is 29-dB improvement in second harmonic when the ADC is driven by a transformer that has improved phase imbalance at high frequencies.
12. Single transformer input, FFT of AD9238. 62 MSPS, IF = 170
MHz @ –0.5 dBFS,
13. Single transformer input, FFT of AD9238. 62 MSPS, IF = 170
MHz @ –0.5 dBFS,
Single-transformer designs can achieve adequate performance if the design bandwidth is small and a suitable transformer is chosen. However, they do require a limited matching of bandwidth, and they can be expensive or physically large.
In either case, choosing the best transformer for any given application requires detailed knowledge of the transformer's specifications. Phase imbalance is of particular importance for high-IF inputs (>100 MHz). Even if it is not specified in the data sheet, most transformer manufacturers will provide phase-imbalance information upon request. A network analyzer can be used to measure the transformer's imbalances as a check, or if the information is not readily available.
% Matlab code to study the effect of magnitude and phase imbalance of input
% signals on the output
% Oct 19, 2005
clear all; close all;
% Error terms that can be set by the user
magnErrdB = 0; %in dB
phaseErr = 50; %in degrees
sd_noise = 100e-6; %std dev of noise
% Convert dB magnErr to voltage level
magnErr = 10^(magnErrdB/20);
% Coefficients
a0=0; %dc offset
a1=0.89; a2=0.00038; a3=0.0007; %coefficients of 1st,2nd,3rd harmonics
%to match AD9445 typical FFT
fin = 100; %input freq - does not affect calculations
t = 0:1:2047;
%Input signals
x1 = 0.5*sin((t/2048)*2*pi*fin);
x2 = 0.5*(magnErr)*sin(((t/2048)*2*pi*fin)-pi-(phaseErr*pi/180));
%Each differential signal multiplied by the transfer function
y1 = a0 + a1*x1 + a2*x1.^2 + a3*x1.^3;
y2 = a0 + a1*x2 + a2*x2.^2 + a3*x2.^3;
y = y1 - y2;
noise = sd_noise*randn(1,length(y));
y = y + noise;
% figure; plot(1000*t(1:80),x1(1:80),1000*t(1:80),x2(1:80),1000*t(1:80),y(1:80));
%Take the FFT
fft_y = fft(y/1024, 2048);
Pyy = 10*log10(fft_y.*conj(fft_y));
freq_axis = 0:1:1023;
% figure; plot(freq_axis, Pyy(1:1024), '-d');
% title('Frequency content of the output');
% xlabel('Frequency (Hz)');
% axis tight;
%Print fundamental and 2nd, 3rd harmonics
f = Pyy(101)
h2 = Pyy(201)
h3 = Pyy(301)
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The Wildlife Society of Orissa was formed in August, 1994.
It is headed by its President Dr. B.C. Mishra Ex-professor of Surgery. Mr. K.C. Mohapatra, Engineer is the Vice-President and Mr.Biswajit Mohanty is the Secretary. Mr. Ranjit Pattnaik is Director of Education and Awareness activity of the Society.All office bearers hold honorary posts.
They are registered under the S.R. Act,1860 and recognized by the Central Pollution Control Board for pollution control activities.
The policy decisions and action plans are made by the Executive Committee. The Secretary handles the day to day functions.The Society's primary objective is conservation of forest and wildlife of the state of Orissa, apart from pollution control activities.The Society works in co-operation with the state Forest Department.
The following activities are conducted by the Society:
- Collection of poaching and trade intelligence regarding wildlife products like skins,ivory,body parts and live species.
- Lobbying with the state government for changes in the forest and wildlife laws and to ensure their strict implementation.
- Carrying out mass awareness and education campaigns among local communities for habitat and wildlife protection.
- Legal action for various matters of public interest concerning conservation issues related to violation of forest, wildlife and environmental laws.
- Providing legal protection to various forest staff who face false complaint cases
- Intervention in cases of wildlife offenders in trial courts to ensure their conviction
- Local partner of Operation Kachhapa launched by WPSI, New Delhi which is a special project for protection of the endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles, thousands of which die due to illegal mechanized fishing on the Orissa coast.
- Documentation of important wildlife habitats and endangered species of the state through field surveys.
- Monitoring pollution hotspots in the state and lobbying for enforcement of environmental laws.
Orissa Stop Smoking Program
Wildlife Orissa is pleased to announce its support for the Orissa stop smoking program. Because preserving human health is just as important as preserving our environment – in fact they go hand in hand together.
We promote smoke free workplaces among all our employees and volunteers, because a healthy person can give more and do more to support our cause. We also note the damage that discarded cigarette butts and packaging can cause to the beaches and natural environment of Orissa.
We support any of our staff who want to quit smoking. This can be achieved through hypnosis, through nicotine patches, or through using electronic cigarettes in place of regular ones. We are able to provide free electronic cigarettes to any volunteer who requests them thanks to our partnership with the discount online e-cigs site buyelectroniccigaretteshere.co.uk. If you are a volunteer and wish to take advantage of this e-cigs offer please contact us through this website.
If you are a smoker please consider the environmental impact of your actions and dispose of your debris responsibly. Also consider the health impact of smoking on your co workers. Thank you.
More Information About Orissa
- Situated on the East coast of India, with a coastline on the Bay Of Bengal
- 9th largest state in India by Area
- 11th largest population
- Established in April 1936 as a British province
Culture & Entertainment
- Boasts a wide variety of tribal and folk music artists
- Home to a number of well known actors, including Anubhav Mohanty and Sriram Panda.
Sport & Recreation
Sport is a big part of life in Orissa. The government's Department of Sports & Youth Services is committed to what it described as the "relentless pursuit of excellence in Sports & Games" and was set up to encourage participation in a wide range of sports among young people.
In hockey, the Orissa Steelers are one of the leading teams in India and were winners of the Premier Hockey League in 2007, winning 10 of their 12 matches and scoring 29 goals. Winning the title was am especially great achievement considering that they were a relatively inexperienced team, having only first participated in the tournament in 2006.
Cricket is a popular sport throughout the country and Orissa has traditionally contributed several players to the national side. Indeed, the president of Odisha Cricket Association, Ranjib Biswal, is also the national team manager.
Although watching and participating in sports are both hugely popular, sports gambling in India is heavily restricted. But despite legislation gambling is widespread both in person, and also online. According to recent surveys, just over 40% of internet users in India have admitted to visiting an online betting website to find more information about betting on sports, specifically cricket and horse racing.
However, many would be online bettors in Orissa face difficulties in actually placing bets, since the majjority of online bookmakers respect local laws and therefore do not permit players to deposit money from Indian IP addresses. There have been calls to legalize online gambling throughout the country in order to prevent underground betting shops and to make the transactions taxable. Likewise, casinos could become more of a common sight. Currently Orissa is not one of the states in India that allow land based casinos – these are limited to Sikkim and Goa.
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Wildlife activists flay Govt for dropping elephant reserve projects
Pioneer News Service | Bhubaneswar
Wildlife activists on Thursday blamed the State Government for falling prey to a plot by the industries lobby and withdrawing two elephant reserve proposals. Biswajit Mohanty, secretary of the Wildlife Society of Orissa, said the Centre had already approved of the proposals for South Orissa elephant reserve (ER) and the Baitarani elephant reserve (ER) but now the State Government has asked the Centre to drop the proposals.
According the wildlife activists, Orissa has more than 90 per cent of eastern India's elephant population, including a good proportion of breeding adult tuskers. The State's elephant population of 1,862 shall be seriously threatened by this disastrous move as mega bauxite and iron ore mines proposed to come up in these areas will find it easy to obtain clearance without an assessment of their impact on wild elephants, they argued.
The south Orissa ER was proposed over an area of 4,216 sq km. in Rayagada, Kandhamal and Kalahandi and the Baitarani ER comprising Keonjhar and Sundargarh spread over 10,516 sq km.
Meanwhile, according to the Wildlife Conservation Strategy, 2002, lands falling within 10 km within the boundaries of national parks and sanctuaries should be notified as ecologically sensitive areas but in Orissa there is a move to reduce them to five km from the borders of Karlapat Wildlife Sanctuary.
Similarly, an irrational limit of only 2 km has been proposed as ESA around the southern, eastern and western fringes of the Hadgarh Wildlife Sanctuary in Keonjhar district in order to enable the operation of chromite mines. There is another move to limit this area to only 1 km within the borders of the Balukhand-Konark Wildlife Sanctuary.
The Pioneer 3.8.2007
Kandhamal poachers operate with Arunachal tribals
Pioneer News Service | Bhubaneswar
The wild animal skin mafia operating in Kandhamal district has spread its network up to Arunachal Pradesh. This is evident after the Kandhamal district police nabbed two poachers near Baliguda and seized two panther skins, a leopard skin and a trophy made from a barking deer skull recently.
Moreover, the interrogations revealed that the poachers have a direct link with the hunting Lushiya tribals of Arunachal Pradesh. Lushiya tribals are also coming to Kandhamal forests for poaching of elephants, leopards, panthers, bear and deer.
The Pioneer 8.3.2007
Good news for State: Elephants on the rise
Saturday July 21 2007 10:22 IST
BHUBANESWAR: This could be one 'jumbo-sized' good news for Orissa.
A state still struggling to strike a balance between industrialisation and ecology has witnessed a rise in the number of elephants even in the face of intense mining and deforestation activities. Add to that the growing menace of poaching. The latest elephant census has put the total number of elephants in Orissa at 1862. In 2002, when the last comprehensive census was carried out, their number stood at 1841.
This is where Orissa has shown an edge. The enumeration has shown that male elephants have grown in number despite being target of the poachers. Their share in the adult population has grown from 27.3 percent in 2002 to 29.39 percent, registering a 10 percent rise. The latest census put male elephants' number in Orissa at 403 as against 369 five years back. Compared to them, the female elephant number too has risen but shown a relatively slow growth rate – from 939 in 2002 to 973 this year.
The number of adult bulls stands at about 300, which Mohanty says is a very healthy trend since they are the tusk carriers and are targeted by hunters.
The New Indian Express 22.7.2007
Port threatens Olive Ridleys in Orissa
By Krittivas Mukherjee
MUMBAI, June 8 (Reuters) – A port being built on India's eastern coast is a "killing field" of rare Olive Ridley turtles and other marine life, and should be shut down, Greenpeace said on Friday. It said the Dhamra port in Orissa state, being built by Indian conglomerate Tata group, is close to the beaches of Gahirmatha, one of the few remaining mass nesting sites of the Olive Ridleys in the world.
The group recently conducted a 40-day study of the ecology around the port site and came across more than 2,000 turtles, rare horseshoe crabs, crab-eating frogs, dolphins and snakes, killed by mechanised fishing boats.
The port site is not a turtle nesting ground, but is part of the breeding and feeding ground for many species and is intrinsically rich in bio-diversity, it said.
"The Tatas, who claim to be a socially responsible company, now have to decide if they want to place profits above environment," Ashish Fernandes, Greenpeace's oceans campaigner, told a conference. "We have an incontrovertible scientific critique of their project and we have sent a report to them as well."
The Tatas had earlier said the port would not harm the turtles and if it did they would not build the project, Fernandes said. The port's draught is 18 metres, which would make it India's deepest port. Its 13 berths can handle more than 80 million tonnes of cargo per year.
Hundreds of thousands of Olive Ridleys swim up to Orissa's beaches every year to nest, but their numbers are falling drastically, victims of government neglect and rapid industrialisation.
Reuters Net Alert 8.6.2007
Injured Tigress in intesive care at Nandankanan Zoo
Sampad Mahapatra
Tuesday, April 3, 2007 (Bhubaneswar)
A seven-year-old tigress, which had sustained bullet injuries inside Orissa's newly created Satkosia Tiger Reserve on Saturday, is now under intensive medical care at the Nandankanan Zoo hospital.
The incident has once again proved that protected sanctuaries are a happy hunting ground for poachers.Pellets from a country made gun had pierced her spine and hind legs at four places.
Since there's no animal rescue centre in Orissa injured wild animals are transported by road to the Nandankanan Zoo. Long hours of travel in narrow cages often lead to complications. This has once again brought into sharp focus the great need to set up zonal rescue centres.
Forest officials say the ammunition used by the poachers suggests that they were out to hunt barking deer and not big cats and they could have fired accidentally or out of fear.
Whether the culprits were deer hunters or tiger poachers is immaterial because the fact that there's a presence of poachers inside the tiger reserve is a matter of grave concern.
From NDTV.com 3.4.2007
'Forest tree felling should be stopped to save Simlipal tigers'
Pioneer News Service | Cuttack
While the entire country, including the Prime Minister is concerned over plummeting population of tigers, the Orissa forest department has officially undertaken a disastrous exercise to destroy valuable forests adjacent to Simlipal Tiger Reserve (STR).
The Wildlife Society of Orissa (WSO) in a letter to the National Tiger Conservation Authority and the State Chief Minister has demanded an immediate stop to all forest working operations in the areas within a 10 km radius of the Simlipal Tiger Reserve. The chief wildlife warden of the State has also been urged to stop forest working in these areas.
The State should forthwith demarcate and notify such areas as "ecologically sensitive areas" (ESA) under Section 3 of the Environment Protection Act, 1986, WSO secretary Biswajit Mohanty has pleaded.
Mohanty points out that the forest department has started cutting timber trees according to the approved working plans in the Baripada and Karanjia forest divisions. Many of these forests border the STR and are used by tigers for movement and hunting. Under this plan, green felling has commenced at Noto Reserve Forests.
This reserve forests are an important animal corridor adjacent to the core area of STR. The area is strategically located and serves as a corridor for movement of wildlife, including tigers and elephants, to the forests of Keonjhar and Balasore districts. It is the only bridge between the STR and Kuldiha Wildlife Sanctuary for Simlipal tigers.
From The Pioneer 13th March,2007
OTDC's plans for Chilka under ministry scanner
Statesman News Service
BHUBANESWAR, Feb. 7: The wildlife society of Orissa has urged upon the ministry of tourism to conduct a thorough and independent environment impact assessment for the proposed tourism development plans regarding Chilka lake and to protect the lake's fragile eco-system and wildlife.
In a statement issued here Mr Biswajit Mohanty, secretary of WSO, noted that the proposed tourism projects of Orissa tourism development corporation have many questionable aspects which may threaten the eco-system of the lake. Care needs to be taken as Chilka is a Ramsar site and the habitat of several endangered species including the Irrawady dolphins, migratory birds and Barkudia skink or limbless lizard, he said. The OTDC plans to make Chilka lake a popular tourist destination with a grant of Rs 556 lakhs from the Centre.
Noting that the OTDC has yet to carry out an impact assessment study to gauge the likely adverse effects of the proposed activities, Mr Mohanty said plans to buy fan driven airboats for dolphin tours will be disturbing the dolphins. Dolphin watching should be only allowed in country boats without any power, he noted.
There are plans to stop the feeding of dolphins by the visitors since it is wrong and amounts to the "baiting of wildlife". This will endanger them since they will not leave the feeding area which shall affect their ecology and breeding habits, he alleged.
He also questioned the move to set up steel watchtowers inside the water around the Nalabana bird sanctuary. The watchtowers will get corroded in a couple of years due to the saline water. The impact of the proposed activities like water skiing and the use of motorised boats needs to be studied.
From The Statesman dt. 8.2.2007
Ridleys back in death zone
Bhubaneswar, Jan. 22: The Orissa coast is once again dotted with carcasses of the endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles, thousands of which have been washed ashore after allegedly being killed by mechanised fishing
Dead Olive Ridleys have been spotted in large numbers at Gahirmatha, the Devi and Jatadhar river mouths, Harishpur, Chilika coast and Puri, said Biswajit Mohanty, secretary of the Wildlife Society of Orissa.
In the past 14 years, more than 1,30,000 turtles have been found dead on the Orissa coast, claims the wildlife activist. Last season, 9,000 turtles were killed while the figure till December 2006 was 5,753.
Chief wildlife warden Suresh Mohanty, however, claimed before The Telegraph that there had been no abnormal turtle casualty this year. Till January 10, only 1,029 dead turtles had been counted along the entire Orissa coast, which is comparable to the corresponding figure of the last season, he said.
Before 2002, around 15,000 turtle casualties used to be reported every year. The annual toll has come down to 3,200 over the past three years due to intensive patrolling by the forest department and the coast guard, he claimed.
The wildlife activist, however, alleged that hundreds of fishing boats from Kharnasi, Jamboo, Talchua, Dhamra and Kasaphal operate daily inside the marine sanctuary "without any restrictions". The turtle congregation is now breaking up and there is little chance of mass nesting, he feared.
Reports from Kendrapara district said the situation had worsened at Gahirmatha after the forest guards refused to go on patrolling duty following the arrest of a colleague who accidentally killed a fishermen last month
The Telegraph dt. 23.1.2007


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For the 2013-2014 school year Dorchester District Two grew by about 500 students.
Now DD2 is looking ahead at the 2014-2015 school year and expecting another student population increase by more than 600 kids. To accommodate these kids, DD2 held a Teacher Recruitment Day on March 15 something the district has not hosted in several years.
At the March 24 board meeting, Superintendent Joseph Pye congratulated the personnel department for organizing Teacher Recruitment Day, saying because of the event the district now has a pool of applicants to choose from to fill available positions. Many applicants participated in on-site interviews.
Pye said the school district is looking to fill up to 20 teaching positions to accommodate teachers who are planning to move on from the district.
Everybody was full-time interviewing and having a great time doing it, Pye said. Some schools with only two openings had 20 people visiting, so there was a lot of interest. We are hoping to get a lot of referrals for those positions too.
Despite a tight budget being anticipated for the 2013-2014 school year DD2 wants to fill those positions to accommodate the larger incoming class.
Part of the projected budget includes $1.3 million in expenditures for 20 additional teachers. If DD2 finds itself with more funds board members would like 10 additional teaching positions for growth among more resource officers, assistant principals and guidance counselors at some schools.
DD2 Public Information Officer Pat Raynor said there is a need to fill those positions because they will be available after teachers move on from their careers at the end of the school year. However, Raynor said it is hard to determine whether the district is having trouble retaining teachers. The Teacher Recruitment Day was really meant to reach out and give teachers the opportunity to apply, she said. It really does not play into retention, I dont think.
DD2s personnel department will release an official overview on how Teacher Recruitment Day went at a later date.
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I haven't had much trouble finding info on why fermented vegetables are good for you and how to make them yourself, but advice on buying them pre-made has been harder to find.
I picked up a jar of A-Grosik White Cabbage Salad at Whole Foods because it looked so delicious. It's imported from Poland, but obviously intended for export because the label is all in English. The ingredients are cabbage, carrot, onion, red pepper, cucumber, vinegar, water, salt, sugar and spices, no preservatives. Is it even fermented? Is it any better for you than Del Monte sauerkraut in a can? How can I tell by reading a label whether I'm getting something with any value as a probiotic?
50yo, 5'3"
CW-125, part calorie counting, part transition to primal
GW- Goals are no longer weight-related
I get my fermented goodies from one of two vendors at local farmers markets. Perhaps you have a similar local vendor? Do a Google search and find out!
Or, worst case, learn to make your own? It's not hard, just takes a little time to let the fermenting take place.
I have read about making your own fermented foods. However, if my family sees the process, they will never taste it, lol. They like most (vinegar) pickled vegetables they've tried though, so I think so long as the fermented versions come out of a jar, they will be fine with them.
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FDA Drug Safety Podcast for Healthcare Professionals: New information regarding QT prolongation with ondansetron (Zofran)
Narrator: Welcome to the FDA Drug Safety Podcast for Healthcare Professionals from the Division of Drug Information. Today's topic: New information regarding QT prolongation with Zofran, active ingredient ondansetron.
This update is in follow-up to the FDA Drug Safety Communication: Abnormal heart rhythms may be associated with use of Zofran, or ondansetron, on 9/15/2011.
CAPT Patty Garvey, a US Public Health Service pharmacist in the Division, will provide you with additional information about this Communication.
Guest Speaker: On June 29, 2012, FDA issued a Drug Safety Communication informing healthcare professionals and the public that preliminary results from a recently completed clinical study suggest that a 32 mg single intravenous dose of ondansetron, marketed as Zofran, ondansetron hydrochloride, and generics, may cause QT interval prolongation, which could pre-dispose patients to develop an abnormal and potentially fatal heart rhythm known as Torsades de Pointes.
GlaxoSmithKline has announced changes to the Zofran drug label to remove the 32 mg single intravenous dose. The updated label will state that ondansetron can continue to be used in adults and children with chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting at the lower intravenous dose recommended in the drug label, a dose of 0.15 mg/kg administered every 4 hours for three doses; however, no single intravenous dose should exceed 16 mg. Information from the new clinical study will be included in the updated drug label.
FDA will evaluate the final study results when available, and will work with GSK to explore an alternative single dose regimen that is both safe and effective for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in adults.
The new information on QT prolongation does not change any of the recommended oral dosing regimens for ondansetron. It also does not change the recommended lower intravenous dosing of ondansetron to prevent post-operative nausea and vomiting.
As part of the ongoing safety review of ondansetron, FDA continues to assess data about the risk of QT prolongation and will update the public when more information becomes available.
At this time FDA recommends Healthcare Professionals be aware of the following:
- ECG changes including QT interval prolongation have been observed in patients receiving ondansetron. In addition, Torsade de Pointes, an abnormal, potentially fatal, heart rhythm, have been reported in some patients receiving ondansetron.
- The use of a single 32 mg intravenous dose of ondansetron should be avoided. New information indicates that QT prolongation occurs in a dose-dependent manner, and specifically at a single intravenous dose of 32 mg.
- Patients who may be at particular risk for QT prolongation with ondansentron are those with congenital long QT syndrome, congestive heart failure, bradyarrhythmias, or patients taking concomitant medications that prolong the QT interval.
- Electrolyte abnormalities (e.g., hypokalemia or hypomagnesemia) should be corrected prior to the infusion of ondansetron.
- The lower dose intravenous regimen of 0.15 mg/kg every 4 hours for three doses may be used in adults with chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. However, no single intravenous dose of ondansetron should exceed 16 mg due to the risk of QT prolongation.
- The new information does not change any of the recommended oral dosing regimens for ondansetron, including the single oral dose of 24 mg for chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting.
- The new information also does not change the recommended lower dose intravenous dosing to prevent post-operative nausea and vomiting.
- Adverse events involving ondansetron should be reported to the FDA MedWatch program at www.fda.gov/medwatch.
Narrator: Thank you for listening. The FDA is committed to keeping healthcare professionals informed of the latest safety information. A link to this communication, including the complete Data Summary, can be found at www.fda.gov/DrugSafetyCommunications. If you have drug questions, you can reach us at email@example.com.
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Michael Jackson the Filmmaker? MJ Was to Do Movie on Foster KidsSunny Chanel
Three months before Michael Jackson died, the superstar had committed to co-directing and financing a film about foster children. The drama entitled They Cage the Animals at Night was set to begin pre production after Jackson's run performing in London.
The B-movie producer, writer and director Bryan Michael Stoller had said about Michael that ,"he was very excited about making movies and wanted his hands on everything, from working on screenplays to producing, to writing the music." The two had been developing the concept for about seven years. The film would have been based on the 1985 book by Jennings Michael Burch, which was based on his life experience of being bounced around in the foster care system. Jackson had shared the book with Stoller seeing if he wanted to be involved a cinematic version.
"Michael told me often he felt like he grew up as an orphan, like a foster kid, because he never was in one home," Stoller said. "To him every hotel was like a different foster home. He said he used to sit in the window and see kids playing outside and cry because he couldn't be part of that." But "insiders in the Jackson camp" have claimed that wasn't any formal deal with Michael Jackson officially being involved. There is also the claim that Mel Gibson's production company Icon was to develop the project in the 90s but pulled out, alledgedly, after Michael Jackson's child molestation charges arose.
In the most recent attempt to make the film, Stoller said that Jackson would fund the film and do it as an "indie", hoping to take to the studios when it was done.
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- The committee shall meet three times during fall semester (September, October, November) and three times during spring semester (February, March, April). Additional meetings shall be called as deemed necessary by the president or a majority of the voting membership
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This is a simple recipe & a family pleaser & Low calorie. Nothing better than a great smelling soup simmering on the stove in the fall & winter days. This is a very good way to see the family gets their vitimans. When I first made this I didn't really know what to expect, so I made another meal as a back up incae the kids didn't like it.. Well to our surprise it was a hit and the whole pot was gone that night and the back up meal was saved for another day :)Submitted by: BECCACOATS
A perfect comforting soup for fall!Submitted by: FLYING_V
This delicious soup may be low-cal but it is not low-taste!! Its very easy to make and will fill you up!!Submitted by: MISTYGIRL1780
This is a delicious Autumn/Winter soup hearty enough to serve as a meal, yet light enough to accompany one as well.Submitted by: DGDEMERS
I tweeked this to lower calories and fat. My neice made this for me from Rachel Rays comfort foods cook book, and it was not bad cal or fat wise but I tweeked it anyway, so I could eat even more of it. It is really good and full of healthy goodies. Nice with toast or fresh bread on a cold night, or when you need comforting.Submitted by: WENDI_WA1
Butternut Squash, Pumpkin & Carrot Soup, only 80 calories per serving. Submitted by: CAMILLE-LEON
This vegetarian soup is hearty enough to eat as a meal. Pumpkin blends in with the vegetables, black beans and broth to add extra nutrition and delicious flavor which creates a nourishing dish the entire family will enjoy.Submitted by: BDNIXON10
Taken from the HomeMadeSimple.com. This is an excellent source of vegetables, protein and fiber in a Vegan Soup! Serve with crusty bread.Submitted by: PALMTREEGIRL1
Super easy and Vegan. The coconut oil used is actually a very healthy oil to use and studies suggest that it may actually boost metabolism. Submitted by: SUBPOPTART
Serve in small pumpkins as bowls! Perfect for fall entertaining!Taken from the following website: http://www.suite101.com/content/pumpkin-soup-in-pumpkin-bowls-a6620Submitted by: AUDEYGIRL
This soup is very filling, and it keeps well.Submitted by: DEAHENRICH
This is adapted from BH&G recipe in October 2010 issue, but replacing andouille sausage with crisped, drained bacon which keeps the smokey flavor but reduces the fat by over 14 grams, while keeping the fiber over 7 grams. I also reduced the amount of barley, and replaced chicken broth granules with actual chicken stock, upping the flavor quotient, and reducing the salt a bit.Submitted by: WARPED62
Deliciously easy soup made with items from your pantrySubmitted by: FITMOMMA24
Vegan, gluten-free, no tomatoes either! It's sooo yummy! I didn't include the chopped almonds and brown rice in the recipe calculator because my portions of those always vary.Submitted by: REVEBEV
Delicious! Original recipe called for 2 cups of pumpkin. I was thinking about leaving the pumpkin out altogether but it's simply delicious with the 1 cup in it.Submitted by: IMNENA23
Difficulty: EasyGood for:Lunch | Dinner | Puree | Low Carb | Low Fat | Special OccasionsSubmitted by: MORETHENAMOM39
Warms your soul with a hint of Indian spices - perfect for fall!Submitted by: CMK512
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From http://www.bunkycooks.com/2010/10/french-pumpkin-soupAdapted from The ex (Expatriates Kitchen) blogSubmitted by: SHAI55
This recipe was adapted from blog.fatfreevegan.com (see original recipe here: http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2007/12/roasted-pumpkin-and-garlic-soup.html)Submitted by: MRS_MORRIS
Modified from a recipe from the soup bible, this soup is creamy, filling, and packed with Vitamin A; a fantastic winter soup.Submitted by: DFORMED
Tastes like the tropics, Fall, and yummy carrot coconuts at the same time! Can adjust salt, and/or the carrots and beans. I like the add 2 cups cooked beans for lots of protein! (:Submitted by: THISTHENEWME
I love pumpkin soup in the winter. I thought I'd share this recipe because everyone in my family makes it, it's remarkably low in calories (despite the bacon!) and it tastes great!Submitted by: MISSAMIABLE
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EDINBORO, Pa. - Samantha Blazetic fired in 16 points to lead No. 9 Edinboro past Davis & Elkins 76-51 Wednesday in non-conference action.
Darche' Jackson followed with 15 points and pulled down six rebounds, while Renee' Brown chipped in with 14 points and six rebounds for the Lady Flying Scots, who led 47-13 at halftime.
Jorden Lykes had 11 points and four rebounds, while Victoria Lyles and Rachel Gostomski scored eight points each for the Lady Senators (5-4).
Davis & Elkins will host Wheeling Jesuit on Dec. 17 at 2 p.m. for a WVIAC matchup.
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CLARION - West Virginia Wesleyan used a stifling pressure defense Wednesday night, forcing 22 turnovers in an 85-65 road victory at Clarion. The game was a key non-conference win for the Bobcats, as Coach Jackie DeVane's squad raised their overall record to 5-2.
"That is the defensive effort we have looking for," DeVane said. "When you can force that many turnovers, it leads to a lot of easy baskets the other way. Not only did we do a good job with the pressure, we were efficient in getting out and running the floor and finishing on the offensive end."
Wesleyan led a first half defensive tussle throughout, carrying a 35-23 lead into halftime.
After weathering an early Clarion run in the second half, the Bobcats pulled away late for the convincing win.
Lydia Bridenbaugh led the offense with her second straight 30-point game, registering 31 points. The balanced attack had several ladies with big nights; Brittany Maxey scored 14 points, pulled down seven rebounds, and recorded a game high six steals. Danae Hill had 13 points, six assists, and three steals, while Jamie Kauffman scored 12 points and matched Maxey's seven rebounds.
"When we can that many girls involved, pushing the ball and passing well, we can be pretty effective," DeVane said.
Clarion falls to 1-5 with the loss. Emma Fickel led the way for the home team with 18 points, followed by Raven Jones with 13.
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Rick and Evelyn O'Connell have stopped their professional activities of exploring tombs and fighting mummies in order to settle down and lead a "normal life". This being Evelyn writing books about her adventures and Rick trying to pick up flyfishing while their son Alex supposedly is going to school. Supposedly indeed as Alex is in fact working at an archaeological site in China where apparently the mummy of the last emperor of Qin lays.
Evelyn and Rick in the meantime are getting bored with their settled life and wouldn't like nothing more than to have some action again when they're asked to bring an ancient artefact to China. They immediately agree and head off to be reunited with Alex to find out that the artefact in reality is used to bring back the emperor back to life. And that's all but good…
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Image and sound are exactly what you would expect from a recent blu-ray disc. Image is good with plenty of detail and hardly any compression errors. The DTS-HD track puts the viewer nicely in the middle of all the action and there's plenty of that present so you'll really enjoy this.
– My Scenes
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– Making of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
– From City to Desert
– Heritage of the Terra Cotta
– Audio Commentary
– Scene Explorer
– Know your Mummy
– The Challenge of the Dragon Emperor
Although the extras are quite standard, they're a nice deal as a total package and even add some fun for the fans with a couple of games and trivia. For a movie like this certainly not bad.
This is the third "Mummy" movie and Rachel Weisz isn't present anymore. I guess she had better things to do and right she was. Maria Bello who takes over as Evelyn doesn't manage to bring back the chemistry we saw in the previous movies and that can be said about the entire movie actually. Just like bringing back Indiana Jones for one last adventure that manages to bring down the entire series and is best forgotten, this third Mummy movie is stitched together by action scenes but little more.
As said before the cast has lost its chemistry due to the removal of Rachel Weisz, and Luke Ford is quite awful as son Alex. Not even Jet Li can keep up the defense of this film as his role seems to be little more than running around and doing some magic tricks now and then. No, Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is a Mummy that can best be left alone so it can pile up dust like a real mummy.
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Yichang was even more sophisticated than Chongqing and Wuhan was the best of them all.
The food options are excellent, one night we ate al fresco at a plush restaurant, the other at a local food market & it was hard to chose which food was better- except one tasty chicken dish contained the entire chicken!
We got a ferry across the Yangtze for 10p & the sky line was fairly New York-esque!
This part of China is definitely what you would call a hidden gem!
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Local sidewalk artist and U-M grad David Zinn – whose fun chalk pictures appear at the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, among other community events – is releasing a new collection of photographs of his street art, called "Lost and Unfounded," and Common Language Bookstore (325 Braun Ct. in Ann Arbor) will host a book launch party on Saturday, December 7 at 4 p.m.
The free party will offer drinks, small bites, a chalk-friendly indoor "sidewalk" for inspired artists, young and old, and the chance to have Zinn sign your copy of "Lost and Unfounded."
The book is Zinn's first, and while his work usually (albeit briefly) appears along Southeast Michigan streets, photos of Zinn's work have been viewed all over the world, courtesy of Huffington Post UK, msnNOW, Upworthy.com, Street Art Utopia, and the Cheezburger Network.
A press release states: "Zinn has been a freelance illustrator for more than 20 years and a sidewalk artist for 10. He specializes in improvised anamorphic (3-D) creatures that interact with real-life environments. His recurring characters include flying pigs, sword-wielding mice, sheepish dragons, and a stalk-eyed green alien named Sluggo."
"Lost and Unfounded" is a limited edition book that will be sold at select Ann Arbor stores. Visit www.zinnart.com for more information.
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Concerned with the investigation of murders and deaths linked with foul play within the city of Los Angeles.
Cole works the desk from the Central Police Station. His partner in Homicide is veteran Detective Rusty Galloway. The captain of the department is James Donnelly.
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Cole starts to work in this department following a harrowing stint investigating murders on the Homicide desk with Rusty Galloway, to find that things can indeed get even more vicious in Los Angeles. Cole is specially requested by Chief Detective of Vice, Roy Earle in a promotion from Homicide. Cole works the Vice desk at the Hollywood Police Station. His partner is Roy Earle, the senior Ad Vice detective. In Vice, Phelp's has two commanding officers in the department, Captain Lazarus Cafarelli and Lieutenant Archie Colmyer. Vice is said to be the most glamorous of all the departments.
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He was born to a San Francisco family; both his father and grandfather had run a shipping company. He attended Stanford University. He married a woman named Marie and has two daughters with her.
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Dunn starts working as a Police Officer in the LAPD at the same time as Phelps. Since he is new to the police force, Dunn has little to no experience in law enforcement.
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A central character in L.A. Noire. Bekowsky is Cole Phelps' partner while he is assigned to the Traffic desk, and later Rusty Galloway's partner on the Homicide desk when Phelps is promoted to Vice.
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It's amazing that you are still on this trip! It does feel like a long time since we parted in Budapest. Since we last saw you we've been to Switzerland and back for almost a week of skiing with a family in the church that lives near Geneva. This family also greatly appreciates visitors and fellowship, as they are without a French-speaking congregation their part of the country. Thank you for your words about the isolated brethren in Europe and other countries. That is one of the big lessons we are learning here in France--how extremely blessed we are in the United States (even with small congregations that might be a little spread out), and how important fellowship and assembly is for all of us!
It's good to hear about the possibility of more help with the TESOL program in Ukraine. Let's get it rolling! You are in our thoughts and prayers for the remainder of your trip. Thank you for all that you both do, for the Church and for others.
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Stefan has taken an interest in possibly going to Ukraine to help with the Vinogradov program. We may very well have four now helping. We need to get everyone talking and get this project organized. It seems like a year ago that we had seen the Harper's. After being on the road a full three weeks one thing blends into another.
Our Bible Study is scheduled for 1:30 PM. Bernt goes out to pick up one of the ladies at the local train station. A total of three people arrive from Boras. Their names are Deborah, Matilda and Leo. With the three Saxin's and Bev and me we have eight present.
The Bible Study went very well. I had written to the Saxin's about subjects they thought would be of greatest interest. He gave me five which included grace, wisdom, what is truth. We zeroed in on Wisdom, Understanding and Knowledge. It lent itself to a good study of scriptures in Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, James. It also lent itself to some good discussion.
Afterwards, Olga Saxin prepared dinner and we talked some more. We have thoroughly enjoyed being with all the people we have visited. They all said that they looked forward to meeting again. I was going to come back in March, but don't see how I can. But, I'll probably be back through here in July. Time goes by so quickly anyway.
As mentioned, my Internet connectivity this past week has not been the best, so these reports will probably not get posted until Bev and I get to Oslo on Sunday. We probably will get a hotel Sunday night, regroup and make our last four visits starting bright and early Monday morning. We're wondering about the weather report for heavy snow in Norway.
The darkness is a BIG thing and do affect your outlook. It doesn't get light until mid-morning and about two-thirds of the way through my Bible Study it was starting to get dark. Then the night goes on and on and on and it's not really that late.
After dinner three of us went into Gothenburg for a visit. Afterwards I called up to Norway and a brand new person receiving the Good News wants to know more about the Church and further involvement. He will meet us at the Oslo bus station at 2:15 PM. I cannot get over how good the train system is in these countries, but how bad the train connections are BETWEEN the various Scandinavian countries. We will take the bus at 10:15 from Goteburg to Oslo.
The evening ended with Olga making Gl�g. It's a warmed up wine that you put hazel nuts and raisins into. Like a hot toddy. Tasted nice. Afterwards to bed and prayer and thoughts about the rest of the trip.


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An Essay on the Production of Youth Prostitution
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Youth prostitution is more multidimensional than one might guess from its most typical depictions. This essay is designed to raise the profile of some of its less prominent aspects – aspects which are not unknown exactly, but which are under-recognized and generally ignored in the context of legal analysis. Many of the most challenging dimensions of youth prostitution are eclipsed by an ideology which fails to grapple with the complexity of youth agency and the consequent position of youth in law. The result is that some kids are left inadequately served and others are utterly unknowable. My principal aim in this essay is to illuminate some gaps in the prevailing conception of youth prostitution and bring some different tools to bear on youth prostitution as a legal problem. The essay will view the matter from an angle not of criminal law in which offenders must be identified but of private law in which economic choices are made against identifiable background conditions.
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- 1 package (14 ounces) coleslaw mix
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- In a salad bowl, combine the coleslaw mix, tomatoes and cheese. Add salad dressing; toss to coat. Chill until serving. Sprinkle with green onion. Yield: 6 servings.
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