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The process will reveal itself soon enough.
I'm alone now, but never forever, I will indulge in a new endeavor.
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The Geological Society of America (GSA) urges scientists, policy makers, and the public to work together to reduce our vulnerability to natural hazards. GSA strongly supports government investment in research, monitoring, and outreach programs to better characterize the nature and distribution of natural hazards and their impacts on modern society, to increase hazards awareness, and to enlist the resources of the private sector. Geoscientists must effectively communicate and integrate their research and monitoring results into functional public policy, reach out to the private sector for mutual benefit, and work to integrate geoscience into scientifically sound educational programs at all levels.
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To facilitate implementation of the goals of this Position Statement and to increase the involvement of geoscientists in developing hazard policy, GSA recommends the following actions:
- Directly engage with land-use planners, emergency managers, response and relief agencies, and providers of critical infrastructure on every level, in order to best inform ongoing activities such as: hazard identification and modeling; hazard vulnerability development and maintenance; pre-disaster mitigation; situational awareness for responders during disaster response; and post-disaster decision-making during recovery and redevelopment. Direct engagement also allows us to provide the scientific basis for accurate and effective risk communication, understanding natural systems effects on the build environment and the potential cascading impacts of natural hazards, and to clearly delineate the limits of our ability to model and forecast natural events.
- Seek opportunities to effectively communicate the value of integrating geoscience with natural hazards policy to (1) international, national, state, and local legislative bodies and government agencies; (2) private-sector leadership, especially in the finance, insurance, energy, utilities, equity, communications, manufacturing, and investment industries; and (3) private developers, economic development corporations, professional land-use planners, chambers of commerce, and other local decision makers. GSA members are encouraged to work with print, electronic, and broadcast media in promoting the value of science-based approaches for addressing natural hazards; ideally, this could be done in concert with end-users of geoscience information (e.g., local planners or emergency managers), in order to demonstrate the value of the aforementioned direct engagement (including how geoscientific information can lessen the effects of a major natural disaster).
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There is a reason why I am calling this reason Easy Paella, and it is this: Paella Is Easy. For ages and ages I suffered from Paella Intimidation, which is the completely unreasonable fear of making one of my favorite rice and seafood dishes because, I don't know, it looked HARD. And then I bucked up and made it, and guess what? Not. Hard. Nope, it's one of the easier fancy dinners I have ever made...so fancy in fact that I now make it on regular old Thursday nights, because it's basically just a matter of tossing some rice in a pan with broth and white wine and some seafood and veggies and whatever else catches your fancy, paella-wise, and letting it all simmer together until it is done. When I think of all the paella I haven't eaten in my lifetime due to Paella Intimidation...well, let's not think about that after all. Instead let's make some! Read More & Get the Recipe
Baked Taco Frittata
Here's the thing about this baked taco frittata. I do love me a good omelet, and I wish I was one of those people who could make a good omelet. I'm not. I'm one of those people who try to make a good omelet, but end up making something that looks more like scrambled eggs with stuff in them. It tastes fine, but it's not very handsome. Which is why I think I love frittatas so much...especially the oven baked kind. No battling with your frying pan, just fluffy delicious eggs filled with scrumptious insides. In this case, chorizo sausage, jack cheese, taco sauce and crushed tortilla chips. Read More & Get the Recipe
Low Country Boil
The first time I had this ultimate Southern summer dish was with my husband's extended family down in South Carolina. (That was the time I had my first red-eye gravy, and my first Krispy Kreme doughnut, and not the first time I ever had grits but definitely the first time I had THAT MANY grits). One of the many, many things I love about my Atlanta-born husband is that I have been indoctrinated into Southern cooking, Southern music and Southern figures of speech. And this easy, spicy, relaxed Southern dish is one of my sentimental favorites. Read More & Get the Recipe
Cookie Sheet Clambake!
I should start out by confessing right here and now that I have never in my life been to an actual clambake. I think they involve things like digging a hole in the sand, and wrapping things in seaweed, and other feats that I know I am never, ever going to pull off. Not unless someone invites me to a clambake and tells me exactly what to do. I would make a great clambake assistant, I think. But since there are no clambake invitations on my calendar, and since I know they involve clams which I do love, I decided to take matters into my own hands and create my own clambake. INSIDE. With a cookie sheet instead of a pit. So with apologies to the clambake purists out there, here goes! Read More & Get the Recipe
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Happy Saint Patrick's Day one and all (or as my Irish mama calls it, The Day!)...it's finally here, and I know all of you are Irish today regardless of where your ancestors hail from. Mine hail from Ireland, which is why you won't catch me wearing any green today. My Irish grandmother Aileen alway said to me, "Kate, you should never wear green on Saint Patrick's Day because you don't need to - you have Irish blood in your veins!" I do eat all the Irish food around me though, including my mama's scones and brown bread, and of course the classic corned beef and colcannon. But if you want to mix things up a little on The Day, you could also do bangers and mash. These are just as much English as they are Irish, which introduces a little harmony as well. Plus they are easy and delicious, especially when you top them with a little onion gravy. Read More & Get the Recipe
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I used to be very wary of anything that combined seafood with my grill. Oh sure, I had all the stuff that's supposed to keep it from sticking to the grill like a magnet (yes, I have that grill basket shaped like a fish…somewhere…), but this particular recipe takes a different approach that makes it pretty dang foolproof. In this case, you are not putting your beautiful seafood right on the grill. Nope, you are putting them into nice little foil packets that steam your shrimp and scallops into perfection. Read More & Get the Recipe


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Story: Under certain radiation exposure this artifact opens a portal. Presumably the portal will lead to another artifact in the parallel world. Mission: Enter the portal and find the artifact in the parallel world. You will receive our new development, a suit that will allow you to safely get through the portal, and theoretically protect you from possible dangers in the parallel world. Once you have found the artifact, press this button on your suit and you will get teleported back to the Black Mesa laboratory.
Why did this mod got Greenlit on Steam? Seriously? There are tons of amazing mods out there, and this gets the spotlight?
Really? you push this crap to steam?
I remember when back in the day, "spiritual successor" of half life were fully fleshed out episodes with 15+ maps, done with good level design at hand and tricky (sometimes) puzzles.
And what is this ♥♥♥♥? You run down the ship, you run back, you kill so called "boss". That's all. 8-10 minutes worth of time at max.
And you push this short-♥♥♥ map as "official" steam release, supported by trailer? Like seriously?
Hell even today Doom community has fully fleshed episodes, even with cutscenes, (thanks to Zdoom engines and their deviraives like Zandronum (ex Skulltag)), some with dialogue routine (thanks to Strife dialog system), and modded up the butt with custom graphics, weaponry and sometimes game mechanics. Those worth far more.
Why does those don't get blowed up steam release? Is it perhaps that there's such thing as humble-ness and authors don't want to ♥♥♥♥♥ themselves up by such mediocre means?
Now, don't get me wrong - if something done good and it has it's potential - i'm fine with that - Action Doom 2 was a fantastic total conversion, and it deserved that large fame and spotlights.
This thing does not.
Because Half-Life: before is a short, regular, mediocre and boring half life map which wrapped in stand-alone "build" with loud words like "spiritual successor".
Ha. haha. hahahahahahahahah. Funny.
P.S. come to think of it, i should probably revive my Total conversion idea of turning hl:s into contra force sequel, if steam gives such mediocre projects spotlight - maybe i have a good chance too...or maybe, just maybe I need to think about consequences of such time-waste and concentrate on delivering real entertainment products which have better features standing for them.
It's not good or bad, but why did Steam have to take this? Why didn't they take They Hunger, USS Darkstar, Sven Coop, Afraid of Monsters: DC, or CRY OF FEAR?!
This has got to be one of the worst mods I've played yet. The level of creativity displayed in this mod amounts to zero. You play as Andrew Winner, which is ironic because this mod is anything but a winner. Infact, it's a complete miserable pile of garbage. Story? There is no story. You just click 'New Game' and a boring cinematic is supposed to give you little to no idea what is going on, leaving you to guess the rest. There isn't many custom things included, either, which makes me wonder how this mod manages to add up to a whole 65MB. The only redeeming quality is the custom textures, which are barely noticable. It isn't even redeeming when it comes to this rubbish, now that I think of it. The level design looks like it was done by a twelve year old, who just started using the Hammer Editor and threw together three poorly crafted maps and called it a mod. The weapons are just the default over-used HD models from Half-Life. There's a custom pistol, but you won't actually really use it. There's only one instance of voice acting in this mod, and it isn't the best either. The subtitles look like they were typed up by somebody who doesn't even actually know English, and most likely typed it up using a keyboard they found in the trash - because that's all this mod is, I'm afraid. I'll save your time and I won't even comment on anything else, especially the gameplay, because there isn't anything to comment about regarding such. It's just point and click shooting. Bland, is all I can say for this.
- why does it take place on a ship in the middle of the ocean?
- why are there aliens?
- why are there hostile marines?
Sadly, this mod gets the Steam Greenlit?!
This mod's story ****** up the whole story...
Why does Xen aliens are already in the Earth? Aren't they should appear on the day where Black Mesa gone wrong?
Also, only 2 or 3 maps for this mod? Other mods at least 10 more but this??
A lazy mod, which contains bore, illegal story and 3 maps only. No just no.
Much great mod and this get the Steam Greenlit...
3/10-- Crap.
Greatest mod ever. Just kidding. IT'S THE WORST! Really a short horrible Half-Life 1 mod gets on Steam? What... i don't even... this tells you that it's before the Black Mesa accident or what does the word "Before" mean? There's only one map you can play and there are already Xen aliens. Yes Xen aliens. But guess what? It tells the story before the accident and there are aliens? Xen aliens never existed till the Black Mesa experiment happened. Oh and i didn't even try the mod because i knew it was horrible and the one's saying that this is "cool" or give it a 8/10 or more are just wrong. And i hope this isn't going to be an expansion pack to Half-Life 1 since that would be horrible.
1/10 - ********
I would have given this a higher score if it was just one level.
Once I got down to the second level, I was driven to madness fighting the boss. Did it REALLY need to follow you at a million miles an hour?
It was just absurd fighting the boss since everytime I died I had to reload a save from the first level and watch a painfully long cut-scene before I got killed again D:
It's probably me just complaining, but I've never gotten so angry at a half-life mod before.
Half-Life mods can be a dynamic Piece of work:Some may explain themselves overtime while others take the plot and hide it in plain sight. Some mods are good, Some are bad, Some are.. Utterly useless.
Half-Life:Before isn't what I'd call a bad or good mod, It does however really struggle to get off the ground and make a case to be called a mod in the first place..
Half-Life:Before is a short mod about a crystal, Which is believed to be the opening key to a portal of an unknown world.. In the mod, Gordon Freeman is after this Crystal to stop the military and an alien boss from getting the crystal.
The basic Half-Life weapons or HD pack weapons are all here with new sounds and physics:Jump damage will hurt you more then usual.. Gunshots disorient you and explosions shake the screen.
The overall mod took me about 10 minutes to complete and even after I did complete it, I had to play it again and after that, I haven't really played it again because I thought a mod from 2009 would appeal to me.. But Before? It doesn't excite a player long enough to enjoy what story or gameplay there is. This is a mod that only Half-Life mod collectors will enjoy.
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an absolutely amazing game! so much work has been put in (to the credits sequence) that it would have taken me 5 whole minutes to do it myself! this amazing mod (it's so amazing it should be standalone) features:
mega high-def models for 1 gun taken straight off of someone else's work!
no storyline!
a record of ONE map!
30+ hours campaign!
magic horizontally teleporting water!
the ability to get all the weapons within 5 minutes of playing!
pearfect speling!
a magic man with the abilities to: communicate words telepathically into your mind while talking, open futuristic boxes and address critical injuries just by poking, and teleport by loudly screaming!
and crashes the game for you!
this is a must have for anyone who has chronic bad decision making!
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not very good. i mean, its good-ish for a russian mod, but overall pretty bad. you get nearly all the weapons straight away, there is only one map, and no story. the download for the steam version is somehow 12x bigger than the moddb download. the boss requires little skill to defeat. you just go in circles and shoot it. and the credits look much more interesting than the game! i want to play the credits instead! i give it a six because it's not bad like some other mods, but still not very good. it's worth giving it a shot though, you might like it.
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In the upper reaches of Hell's Kitchen where solid dining starts to thin out, Totto Ramen's promise of authentic Japanese noodles can be irresistible. The slate-hued space is cramped and waits can be long, but for generous bowls of core-warming chicken broth teeming with housemade noodles, these compromises are insignificant. Owner Bobby Munekata, of Yakitori Totto and Hide Chan, keeps his menu short: Five soupy choices containing some exciting extras like springy homemade noodles, diagonally-sliced scallion shards, and Koji miso in one option; konbu nori and seasoned avocado in another. The extreme spicy bowl allows control over firepower by means of a searing chili paste, added to taste. Fatty slices of char siu pork, whose smoky grilled flavor graces most of the ramens, are paired deliciously with creamy mayo and a ball of vinegary white rice in one of a handful of starters. Behind the bar, where cooks wrap their heads in black towels and sling narrow baskets of noodles in and out of boiling water, you might notice eggs marinating in a dark brown sake-soy liquid; ask to add one to your bowl. Do the same for corn charred with Parmesan cheese, and don't worry about overwhelming your dishit's difficult to disrupt the delicious harmony of these satisfyingly rustic meals.Recommended Dishes
Totto extreme spicy ramen, $11; Totto miso ramen, $11; char siu mayo don, $5.50
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Am I the only one who's over the 200s?
Lauren and Austin 3/19/2010
Layla 8/4/2011
My beautiful family <3
I am now in my healthy weight range, but I started at 204 lbs, after being 240 at my heaviest.
It is sure sometimes hard to feel like you are surrounded by skinny girls, but remember a lot of us started at the same place you are now ;)
There is also a "Weight Watchers 50 plus to lose" group, where you can find other girls who, like you and me, have a bigger challenge to overcome :)
Good luck!
In love since 2001 <3
Samuel - Sept 15 2011
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1+ year working on #3 ^_^ My chart
Lauren and Austin 3/19/2010
Layla 8/4/2011
My beautiful family <3
I started at 204 pre kids.
I got to 226 during each pregnancy.
Lots of us have been there!
I started at 188 lbs and at 5'3 thats about 50 lbs overweight. I'm currently about 159 so still overweight but better than where I started. My goal weight is 130-140 lbs. GL!
There are lots of women on here who are over 200! I used to be. My starting weight was 223.4 and I'm almost to goal now. Good luck! Keep at it and you'll be in the under 200 crowd before you know it.
After losing 75 pounds, I'm sharing tips, tricks, before & after pics: www.justadotnotalot.com
Yes...anyone who has 50+ to lose (or has lost 50+) please come on over to the 50+ Board. We are a smaller group of gals but we are super supportive and understand some of the different challenges of having a bit more weight to lose.
Katie, Proud Canadian Mama
Amy Marie 05/07 & Lila Jane 08/09
I'm over 200 so don't feel like you are alone. I'm actually on the 50+ board as well but this one gets more traffic. I've also recommitted myself so I can understand how you feel starting over so to speak. I've lost 10lbs since I recommitted myself in August.
I started out at 227.4 (at 5'5")....now I'm about 193-195. I started in January, and I just haven't given up when I normally would have. I'm getting there slowly but surely, and you will too!!!


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Mr. Garg has over 24 years of experience in leading executive teams and managing companies across all stages of development and geographies. Mr. Garg incubated Tilera at Bessemer Venture Partners before founding the company in 2004. He served 4 years as the president and CEO and returned to Tilera in 2011. Under Mr. Garg's leadership, Tilera released the industry leading TILE-Gx family of processors, including the 64bit TILE-Gx72 - the world's highest performance, highest efficiency embedded processor. Since his return, Mr Garg has led the team in delivering global success through a well-defined strategy resulting in customer design wins (>100), revenue growth (>3x), and crisp companywide execution.
Tilera received the prestigious Start-Up of the Year award from the Global Semiconductor Association (GSA) in 2008 and also has been recognized as one of the Top 50 most innovative companies in the world. Furthermore, Tilera received the ACE Award for the Best Design Team in 2012 from EE Times.
Prior to returning to Tilera, Mr. Garg served as a Managing Director of Bessemer Venture Partners where he actively managed and advised investments in PA Semi (acquired by Apple Computer), Azanda (acquired by Cortina), K2 Optronics (acquired by Emcore), Berkeley Design Systems and Avnera. Mr. Garg has Asian international experience having lived in Mumbai, India for 3+years investing and managing a wide range of companies prior to returning to the United States.
Before joining Tilera, Mr. Garg was General Manager of the Security Business Unit at Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM), where he was part of the pre-IPO team, establishing Broadcom's first offices in Northern California. With executive management responsibilities for technical sales and field application engineering, he led his division from its inception to ~$500 million in annual revenues as Broadcom grew from a start-up to its peak market capitalization of approximately $72 billion while acquiring 22 companies during that time. Previously, Mr. Garg led the sales team at Synopsys, and served in engineering and managerial positions at LSI Logic, National Semiconductor, Bechtel, and Raychem. Mr. Garg holds a B.S.E.E. from San Jose State University and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University.
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The loaded Alinta Energy coal train from Leigh Creek to Port Augusta rolls through Stirling North behind V544, XRB560 & 8229.
The world famous Yorkey's Crossing near Port Augusta, SA sees a westbound 7MP1 Aurizon intermodal freight led by 6005 & 6029 wind through the 's' curve. The delightful backdrop of the Flinders Ran... (more)
The end of an era sees 8229, 8222 & 8258 work the final coal train 3FP1 out of the Port Augusta power station to collect its final load of coal some 270km away at Alinta's Leigh Creek coal mine.
NR46/109 (Ghan) approach Port Augusta with the Darwin bound Ghan rail service.
NR46 leads NR109 (Ghan livery) with the northbound Ghan service, seen at the famous Yorkeys Crossing S bend.
Last light in great conditions near Winninowie sees the loaded containerised copper ore train 9112S hauled by CLP16 & CLF5 en route to Adelaide pass the Flinders Ranges in the background.
"The Ghan" luxury passenger train rolls gingerly across the bridge at Yorkeys Crossing as the sun sets on their first day heading towards Darwin as the Flinders Ranges towers above.
Arrium minerals loaded iron ore train 9614S lead by GWA006 with DPU units GWA003 & GWA007 trailling, passes under the overpass at Lincoln Gap near Port Augusta.
Great Southern Railway's historic passenger service known as "The Ghan" is seen here with NR's 109 & 74 powering through Nectar Brook near Port Augusta in South Australia during it's long journey ... (more)
GM 46 was acting as the works pilot loco at Port Augusta in 1995. This loco was built as recently as 1967 and, I believe, still in service in 2014!
Pacific National Trans Continental service 5PM5 from Perth Western Australia to Melbourne Victoria, sits on the crossing Loop at Tent Hill (The first crossing loop west of Port Augusta on the Tran... (more)
Loaded GWA/Arrium loaded Southern Iron service 9612s is seen with unit GWA008 on the front and units GWA006 & GWA010 in distributive power mode on the rear, powering towards the Stuart Highway ove... (more)
Loaded GWA/Arrium Southern Ore service 9612s is seen gliding downgrade over Yorkey's Crossing towards Spencer Junction Yard Port Augusta with GWA units GWA008 & GWA004 on the front and GWA010 in D... (more)
SCT service 6MP9 climbs the top of the grade at Yorkeys Crossing between Port Augusta and Tent Hill.
SCT008, SCTxxx. the in line tanker and crew car on 3MP9 westbound as it begins its transcontinental journey across Australia.


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This season of UCLA basketball has been a pendulum, swinging freely from high to low as the clapper of a recently tolled bell. Nevertheless, this team has found harmony and forced us to once again consider: Can this team win a Pac-12 title?
The Bruins have risen from an early-season inferno that had head coach Ben Howland on the hot seat and are now on a seven-game win streak that has included a win over then-No. 7 Missouri and two consecutive wins to tip off Pac-12 conference play.
This team, which was highly touted as one of the best teams in the nation in the preseason, has gradually resurrected its hype as one of the nation's premier teams and an NCAA tournament-bound team.
However, before the Bruins can look that far down the road, they have to focus on the task at hand of winning their conference. That task continues this week with their first road games.
As this hot-and-cold UCLA team continues to work toward the program's first regular-season conference title since 2008, let's take a look at what they'll need to do to achieve that goal.


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Colin Firth has made a career playing against type
Type: Video | Date: Monday, Feb 9, 2015HitFix caught up with Colin Firth to chat about his upcoming film 'Kingsman: The Secret Service'.
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Colin Firth kicks actual butt in first trailer for Matthew Vaughn's 'Kingsman: The Secret Service'
Type: Post | Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2014Vaughn's working with Mark Millar again, and to great effect, it seems
Colin Firth plays a dirty James Bond in new red band trailer for delayed 'Kingsman'
Type: Article | Date: Wednesday, Dec 10, 2014Samuel L. Jackson leaves 'The Avengers' to go evil
Iron Man and Captain America see more action in extended 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' trailer
Type: Article | Date: Wednesday, Nov 12, 2014Newbies Ultron and Quicksilver also get more screen time
Kingsman: The Secret Service - Super Bowl TV Spot
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Type: Post | Date: Monday, Feb 9, 2015This one's got a sharp wit and a surprising amount of cheek
Colin Firth kicks ass in WonderCon sneak peak of Matthew Vaugh's 'Secret Service'
Type: Article | Date: Monday, Apr 21, 2014Fox surprises a full house with an action-packed preview for the Mark Millar adaptation
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD + Digital Copy)
Type: Event | Date: Tuesday, Dec 17, 2013Percy must find the fabled Golden Fleece, which has the power to save his world...and save us all


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SAN FRANCISCO – The injury to lefty Jeremy Affeldt leaves a noticeable hole in the Giants bullpen, and filling it takes an ensemble effort. In Friday night's win over San Diego, George Kontos stepped up with 1 1/3 scoreless innings and two strikeouts, as San Francisco's bullpen held down the fort and allowed the Giants to walk off with a 3-2 victory.
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Tesla (TSLA) has turned positive in AH trading after providing details (.pdf) about its gigafactory.
Tesla predicts the gigafactory will produce enough batteries to supply 500K vehicles by 2020, and that its output will exceed that of total 2013 global battery production. The company also expects the facility will drive down its per-kWH battery costs by over 30% within a year of volume production.
Facility construction is set for 2014-2015, equipment installation for 2016, and initial production for 2017. The gigafactory is expected to employ 6.5K workers, and require up to 10M sq. feet of space.
Tesla and its partners will collectively invest $4B-$5B in the gigafactory through 2020. Tesla will directly invest $2B.
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