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Im just seperated with the mother of my 2 kids
I pray for her, lord please show her your Glory in ways that can not be mistaken. Send her Christian Fellowship. Heal the many wounds that she has. Make visable the wounds she doesn't know of, or understand. Heal her in the ways that only you can, bringing you the Glory. Please help her to forgive in ways that are only possible through you, giving her true freedom, and bringing you the Glory. Lord If it's your will I pray that you will reach her heart, leading her to know you, in your amazing timing I know nothing is imposible.
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Giannini Appointed Dean of SAGE
Gaetan T. Giannini, Jr., MBA, was recently appointed to the position of dean of the School of Adult and Graduate Education (SAGE) at Cedar Crest College. Giannini has served the College in positions of increasing responsibility since joining the faculty in 2005.
In 2011, Giannini—chair of the department of business, management and economics at Cedar Crest since his arrival at the College—was promoted to associate professor and granted tenure. He has been a driving force behind the implementation of many new programs and has served on a host of boards and committees.
During his first year at Cedar Crest, Giannini proposed and implemented the B.S. in marketing program, and several courses have been added to the business program under his direction, including Applied Public Relations, Marketing Research, and the Marketing Practicum. He also was a key figure in development of the Cooperative Education Program: Four-Year Accounting and Marketing Experience—a major academic initiative in the College's strategic plan with a tentative launch in fall of 2013—and in the department's successful efforts to achieve ACBSP accreditation for several degrees, including accounting, business administration and management.
"Gaetan has been a driving force in the creation and implementation of many important initiatives at the College since his arrival, and we anticipate that he will guide SAGE to an unprecedented level of quality and service for our adult students," said College President Carmen Twillie Ambar. SAGE launched in October 2011 with a wealth of academic programs, excellent support services, and a seamless credit transfer policy designed to help adults advance their careers.
Giannini said of this new opportunity: "I am excited about the growth prospects of adult and graduate education, and I think Cedar Crest is ideally suited to become a leader in the education of people dedicated to lifelong learning in the Greater Lehigh Valley and across the globe. The skills I've acquired in my business career will help me improve the already exceptional experience provided to adult students at Cedar Crest, and enhance SAGE's presence in the community by developing partnerships with businesses and community organizations."
Giannini has taught a host of courses at Cedar Crest College, including Applied Advertising; Applied Strategic Management; Power, Influence and Negotiation; and Writing for Management. He is a member of the President's Cabinet and the Master Planning Committee. Before joining Cedar Crest, he taught advertising and marketing at East Stroudsburg University as an adjunct faculty member. He was named one of the Top 20 Business People Under 40 by the Eastern Pennsylvania Business Journal in 2003.
Giannini has a great deal of interest and expertise in using new media for strategic marketing, including Facebook and Twitter. His textbook, Marketing Public Relations: A Marketer's Approach to Public Relations, published by Pearson-Prentice Hall in 2009, provides practical tips and techniques all businesses and organizations can use to bolster their marketing efforts. He wrote the study guide for the fourth edition of Pearson-Prentice Hall's Business in Action, and contributed as a writer to the book, Leading the Salesforce. He has also reviewed several books and presented at many conferences related to his field.
Prior to his work in academia, Giannini had more than 15 years of experience in sales and marketing, most recently as president/owner of Giannini O' Connor LLC public relations and marketing firm in Allentown. Much of his previous employment combined his knowledge of engineering and marketing.
Giannini earned his MBA with a marketing concentration from Seton Hall University, and his bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering technology from Temple University. He also earned a certificate in international business from the Institute of International Business at Seton Hall.


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Stocks Mixed, But S&P 500 Hits Five-Year High
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Major U.S. stock averages were mixed Friday as the benchmark S&P 500 Index worked its way up to a five-year high.
The S&P 500 climbed 5 points, or 0.3%, to 1,486, bringing its gain to 0.95% this week. Surprisingly bleak U.S. consumer confidence and a lagging technology sector weighed on the markets. Still, the S&P 500 is at its highest close since Dec. 26, 2007.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 54 points, or 0.4%, to 13,650. The blue-chip index gained 1.2% for the week and finished up six of the past seven days.
Breadth was slightly positive with losers outnumbering winners 21 to nine on the Dow. The most prominent blue-chip percentage decliners were Intel(INTC) , American Express (AXP) , Bank of America (BAC) , Pfizer(PFE) , Hewlett-Packard(HPQ) and Boeing(BA) .
American Express posted a 47% decline in fourth-quarter net income, as the credit card issuer incurred charges related to restructuring costs and other expenses. Adjusted earnings of $1.09 a share topped Wall Street estimates. Shares were off 1.6%.
Boeing shares slid 0.31% on ongoing concerns about the safety of the 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
General Electric (GE) was a blue-chip winner after the industrial giant reported good fourth-quarter results. Caterpillar(CAT) and DuPont(DD) shares also traded higher. AT&T(T) added 0.63%.
AT&T said Thursday it would record a $10 billion fourth-quarter charge related to its pension and benefit plans . After trading in the red for much of the morning, the shares recovered some, but fell again in the afternoon session.
The Nasdaq lost 1 point to 3,135. The tech-heavy index rose 0.29% for the week.
Most sectors in the broad market rose. Conglomerates marched higher as General Electric, the largest U.S. conglomerate, advanced. Utilities and energy were also up. Lagging sectors were led by technology, consumer-cyclicals and health care.
Volumes totaled 3.77 billion shares on the New York Stock Exchange and 1.85 billion shares on the Nasdaq. Advancing issues were outpacing decliners by a ratio of 1.9-to-1 on the Big Board, and 1.2-to-1 on the Nasdaq.
The University of Michigan consumer confidence index showed a read of 71.3 for January, falling from the final December print of 72.9. It was a big miss compared with the 75 level expected by economists and the weakest since December 2011.
"Escalation of the battle of wills in Washington surrounding the previous survey period saw both current and forward-looking expectations fall by the most in 21 months, and so far little respite is apparent in the current reading," Andrew Wilkinson, chief economic strategist at Miller Tabak, said of the consumer confidence report.
In earnings news, General Electric posted fourth-quarter earnings of 44 cents a share on revenue of $39.3 billion, compared with the average analyst estimate of 43 cents a share on revenue of $38.74 billion, as five of the seven industrial segments achieved double-digit earnings growth. Shares gained 3.5% on Friday.


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Barton McLean's latest release finds the composer/pianist/electronic musician presenting works that draw upon a variety of inspirations. These range from local to more exotic geographies, from field recordings to laboriously crafted computer sounds from customized software, and from live performances to overdubbed studio-wrought virtual ensembles. What brings these seemingly disparate works together is McLean's distinctive ear for timbre, and his delight in creating various sonic echoes and digitized instrumental doppelgangers.
The earliest completed piece, 1989′s Demons of the Night, explores the darker side of a summer evening in rural New York. Various dark denizens, real or imagined (we can't be sure!), are evoked by cackling saxophone and agitated synthesized glissandi.
On Concerto: States of Beingg (2009), McLean serves as piano soloist while the "Petersburgh Electrophilharmonica" provides a virtual accompaniment. The three movements – "Wonder," "Attainment," and "Tranquility" – each evoke a different stage of life or state of mind. The solo part is fluidly rendered and, given the subject matter, suitably wide ranging. The accompanying timbres are equally multifaceted in makeup, but generally favor echoing reverberations that trail the piano's attacks and bell-like sonorities. Magic at Xanadu is a showcase for McLean's electroacoustic prowess, particularly his facility with MAX/MSP (from which the work takes its title). Its blending of more atmospheric timbres with ostinatos crafts a work of variegated texture and intriguingly intricate formal design. More exploratory still is the live electronics piece Ice Canyons, which blends ephemeral wisps of melody with string pads and ambiguous harmonies blurred with glissandos.
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The Sacramento-San Joaquin deltas of 1772 and today
Remembering explorers past of this California water source.
When Padre Juan Crespi first sighted the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in 1772, he thought he would be able to walk around it.
The Spanish missionary and his party of 15 soldiers had been dispatched to find a land route from Monterey to Point Reyes, where Spain hoped to build a port. But 10 days into their journey, in the heart of Alta California, Crespi and his men encountered a maze of water, mud and swamp, instead of solid ground. It was the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, the largest estuary on the West Coast of the Americas.
Crespi expected the estuary to function like others he had seen, fragmenting into dozens of small braided channels fanning out toward the sea. Upstream, he figured, they would find a single channel to cross.
But this estuary did the opposite. As Crespi traveled upstream, the water spread out, and his hopes thinned. On foot and horseback for three days in March, he and his companions searched fruitlessly for a way through the tangle of channels.
"Crossing these rivers by boat or canoe would be apt," a chastened Crespi wrote in his diary. "Because if you do not, it's (necessary) to climb the mountains to the southeast and seek the path of the large river. To climb such a high pass certainly requires a greater number of soldiers and more provisions, which is why I withdrew."
Crespi was the first European to glimpse this odd California landscape, and the first of many to be confounded by it.
Sixteen rivers and hundreds of creeks converge from all over California on the Delta's vast central plain – all mud, tules and marsh – finally forming one mighty river that drains the state's whole churning belly. It's called an "inverted" estuary because its waterways unite before reaching the sea. The only place comparable is the Okavango Delta in Botswana.
When Crespi encountered the estuary, its floodplain extended 100 miles north and south, filling the Central Valley with a wealth of snowmelt, all of it destined to squeeze through the land gap later called Golden Gate. Within a century of Crespi's expedition, European settlers were trying to engineer their own logic into the place, trenching new channels and building levees to create some of the world's richest farmland. Today, the Delta is crossed by three state highways and hundreds of miles of railroad tracks and county roads. There are 1,100 miles of navigable channels, and 72 islands ringed by levees. Modern charts detail where to anchor, where to catch the best striped bass, where to find the most convenient bridges and ferries.
But the levees may be vulnerable to earthquakes. If they fail, the water supply would be compromised by a flood of salty water from San Francisco Bay. And rising sea levels could taint the water supply permanently.
The Delta, which still covers an area the size of Rhode Island, provides half of all the freshwater consumed by a thirsty state, serving 3 million acres of farmland and 25 million Californians from Silicon Valley to San Diego. Gov. Jerry Brown hopes to better serve them by spending $15 billion on a new water-diversion system. If approved this year, it would shunt a portion of the Sacramento River out of the estuary into two giant tunnels, 30 miles long and 150 feet underground. The intent is to divert freshwater in a way less harmful to imperiled native fish species, while protecting those diversions from floods, earthquakes and a rising sea. The tunnels would serve existing state and federal canal systems that begin in the south Delta, near Tracy, and divert water to cities and farms, mostly in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley. Another $10 billion would go to wildlife habitat improvements, in part to breach levees and restore tidal action to some islands. The state believes the proposed tunnel intakes would be far enough upstream to protect the water supply from disaster, at least under present climate-change scenarios. The intakes would also include modern fish screens, potentially preventing the extinction of the native Delta smelt, spring-run chinook salmon and other species that are being killed by the current water export system.
But after seven years of study, state officials acknowledge that removing so much freshwater upstream may cause "unquantifiable" water-quality changes. Meanwhile, critics say taking so much freshwater from the estuary could harm Delta farms and perhaps concentrate pollutants in a way that hurts the same fish that state officials hope to restore. The Delta continues to confound.
Forty-five years after Crespi turned back, Padre Narciso Durán came through with two small boats on an expedition led by Lt. Don Luis Arguello. They left the Spanish presidio, or fort, at San Franciso, which was established three years after Crespi's visit. Their trip through the watery maze began on May 13, 1817, and lasted two weeks. Durán, who kept a journal, came along to baptize Indians.
His party had a hard time from the start: They set out in a storm, and the boats became separated at the confluence. The storm blew Arguello onto the shore of the San Joaquin River, near its mouth. Durán and a second padre, in the other boat, took refuge for the night on a soggy mound of tules in the middle of the Sacramento.
When the storm finally quit and the boats were reunited, another challenge arose. It was snowmelt season, and the downstream current in the Sacramento River was so strong that it nearly halted their progress. Without wind, days of brutal rowing followed, with little upstream progress to show for it.
On top of that, the men experienced a condition that plagues Delta visitors to this day: They became disoriented.
Seeking to remain on the Sacramento River, the party soon encountered a variety of branching side-channels. They could not be sure which one was the river itself. Because the Delta was in flood, the true riverbanks and many of the natural islands were submerged. A gap in the trees that looked like a river channel might turn out to be a flooded island where a boat would quickly run aground. "The thick leafiness makes the whole river like a tree-lined promenade," Durán remarked.
The next day, May 16, they traveled only four leagues upriver. They also took a wrong turn and left the Sacramento on a side channel – a serious mistake, as any detour meant more labor for the rowers. Eventually, though, they got lucky and recovered their course.
Familiarity with this labyrinth benefitted the locals, who fled on rafts as soon as they spotted the expedition boats. The Europeans found two villages vacated, either because of the spring flood or because word had spread that the Indians might be conscripted as laborers in the Spanish missions.
Occupants of a third village "fled at the noise of the launches, leaving only two old women, more than 60 years old."
Durán felt obliged to baptize both women, "because it seemed to us that they could die before Divine Providence could arrange another convenient time when we could baptize them in one or another of the missions."
Durán, who was no naturalist, made no effort to identify important land features or tree species, and does not mention sighting any animals. But the Delta was teeming with wildlife in a way that is difficult to imagine today: Vast herds of elk and pronghorn antelope roamed here, hunted by wolf and grizzly bear. Giant tidal marshes, packed with tules and cattails, hosted millions of waterfowl. The maze of curving sloughs was a nursery for one of the world's most productive fisheries.
The Delta remains the most important salmon fishery on the West Coast, producing most of the wild-caught king salmon in the Lower 48 states. Yet it may not survive. There are 57 endangered species here, including steelhead trout and two runs of salmon.
Modern-day Californians are as oblivious to the region's natural wealth as Durán seemed to be. A January 2012 survey found that 78 percent of California residents don't know where the Delta is, or even what it is.
The day after baptizing the two women, Durán and his party reached their turnaround point. They hoped to find a place to erect a cross, "and there to end our quest and retreat downriver." After rowing upriver three more leagues, they pulled ashore to rest, where, by chance, they spotted some rafts in the tules and a village of Natives, "who came out at them armed with their customary fierce clamor."
Arguello mustered his soldiers to confront the Indians, who "calmed down, to everyone's relief, and said they had armed themselves believing we were hostile people." The travelers were invited to visit a larger village one league upriver, where they were promised fish.
But Durán and his cohorts, possibly disoriented, never found the second Indian village, and never got the promised fish. Exhausted and frustrated, they were ready to turn back. Amid the flood, they could find no solid ground to erect a cross. So they carved one on an oak tree.
The exact location of that cross is unknown today. But according to Durán's diary, they carved it about 80 miles upstream from the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, or approximately near today's state capital, Sacramento, where Gov. Brown weighs the fate of the Delta today.
Matt Weiser covers environmental issues for The Sacramento Bee and has written about the Delta and California water for 15 years.
The contemporary translation of Crespi and Durán's journals is by Alexa Mergen.
Do you have a source for this claim? I find it very hard to believe...
Also, it is correct that the California salmon fishery was closed for the first time ever, in 2008 and 2009, due to a population crash in the fall-run Chinook species. The allowed catch was gradually ramped up thereafter, and has exceeded pre-crash levels for the past two years. I'm not aware of any instance in which salmon were caught merely as a "symbolic gesture." A commercial salmon fishery definitely still exists in California.
A thought that has been kicking around my mind of late - What did John Muir think of the Delta?
Muir's preservation legacy in the Sierra is profound and I can't imagine any one questioning the importance his efforts to save Yosemite. However, from an ecologic and biodiversity point of view, one has to wonder what Muir, the naturalist, felt about what was occuring in the Delta during his treks to the mountains. Not to diminish the awe of Yosemite, but the Delta was a far greater powerhouse of natural wonder that witnessed it's dawn long before Hetch Hetchy Valley.
Muir married into the Strentzel family and moved to Martinez, CA on the Carquinez Straits in 1880. His trek's to the Sierra surely traversed lands actively being reclaimed throughout the Delta. He must ahve witnessed the decline of waterfowl, diminished salmon runs, and channelization of once free flowing Delta tributaries. Perhaps he arrived too late, but an argument could be made that if Muir demonstrated the same reverence and passion for the Delta and fought for it's natural state it may not be in the condition we find it today.
I have not been able to find any of his writings that address the Delta. Perhaps another installment in the series remembering explorers past of this California water source?
Brian: Excellent question! I have not come across any writing by Muir about the Delta. He does mention the southern periphery in one of his books, perhaps it was "My First Summer in the Sierra", where he talks about walking across the hills around Altamont Pass on his way to the Sierra, then down into the northern San Joaquin Valley, where he catches a ferry across the San Joaquin River. He mentions, as I recall, that the entire valley at that time was carpeted in wildflowers and high grass as far as he could see. You don't see that anymore!


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Scott Charles "Bam Bam" Bigelow was "a big teddy bear" to his friends, family.
By MICHAEL KRUSE
Published February 9, 2007
NEW PORT RICHEY - Longtime friends, family members and fans gathered Wednesday afternoon at the Calvary Chapel Worship Center to honor the well-known ex-wrestler who died last month in a duplex in Hudson.
They remembered him as Bam Bam Bigelow, the performer, a huge, agile physical phenomenon.
They remembered him as Scott Charles Bigelow, the man, a gentle, generous father, brother and friend.
"He wasn't just Bam Bam," said brother Todd Bigelow, 46, of Spring Hill. "Most people knew him as this big, mean guy, but that wasn't really him. He was a good friend, and real loyal."
"He was a big mush," old friend Ray "Bonz" Giles said. "A big soft guy."
"Scott Charles Bigelow," said Janis Remiesiewicz, his girlfriend for the last two years, "was my incredible journey."
Remiesiewicz found Bigelow's body around 10 a.m. on Jan. 19. There were no obvious signs of foul play or an immediate cause of death. The medical examiner hasn't finished the toxicology report.
The funeral was a couple of weeks ago in his native New Jersey.
It was a sad, early end to Bigelow's life after wrestling, which included a nasty, costly divorce, time spent in rehab for an addiction to painkillers, calls from creditors, three kids he no longer saw and a motorcycle accident in Hernando County in October 2005 in which he and Remiesiewicz were hurt.
But fans memorialized him online almost immediately. A quick count Wednesday on YouTube showed 19 Bam Bam tribute videos.
They remembered him as a headliner who wrestled with guys like Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant and Bret "The Hitman" Hart before knee surgeries and back problems forced him to retire for good in 2004.
"If you were a child, he was a comic book character come to life," said Mike Johnson, a columnist for Pro Wrestling Insider.
Older fans watched for his freakish ability to do cartwheels and a move called the moonsault even at 400 pounds.
And everyone knew the flame-pattern tattoos on his bald head.
But Wednesday's memorial wasn't really about any of that.
Photos that flashed on two large screens in the church showed Bigelow hunting and fishing, putting up Christmas ornaments, drinking a beer on the couch, signing an autograph on the middle of a green felt pool table and giving a thumbs up with that missing-tooth smile of his.
Veronica Horner and Tina Perkins knew him on the Jersey Shore and went out with him at the famed Stone Pony bar in Asbury Park.
"He always had our back and watched to make sure nobody was bothering us," said Horner, who now lives in Spring Hill.
"He would do anything in his power to be there for you," said Perkins, who now lives in Hudson.
Giles, 51, of Fayetteville, N.C., used to play pickup football with Bigelow in Neptune, N.J.
"If he hit you and you went down," he said, "he'd help you up."
Joe Lubischer, 44, of Hudson was on the wrestling team with Bigelow at Neptune High School. Lubischer wrestled at 129 pounds. Bigelow was a heavyweight even back then.
"Nobody would even practice with him," Lubischer said.
"But he had a heart of gold," he said. "He was like a big teddy bear."
Remiesiewicz remembered Bigelow as her best friend.
"My only true friend here in Florida," she said from the stage at Calvary Chapel.
She remembered him as her lover.
"No man has ever loved me more, "she said.
She remembered him even as a joker.
"He would moon just about anybody," she said.
But also, she said, he was a protector, and not just for her.
"The world could really use a guardian angel," Remiesiewicz said at the end, "like Bam Bam Bigelow."
Michael Kruse can be reached at email@example.com or 352 848-1434.


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If you love cooking outdoors then you probably own all the staples of a true outdoor chef: a portable grill, cast iron pans, a Dutch oven, and all the utensils–including a sharp set of knives–you need to prepare those fantastic breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. In this post, we will show you some simple grill maintenance tricks to keep your most important piece of equipment running smoothly throughout the year. When it comes to maintenance, your stove tops the list. Because if it goes down, you will end up eating sandwiches instead of chili. Here are some tips on getting the most mileage from your portable stove. Sure, the last thing you want to do after filling your stomach with delicious camp-side food is clean, but a little work after you eat will help go a long way in preventing wear to your grill.
- Know When to Clean Your Grates: Many people make this very common mistake and they end up with rusty grill grates. Do not worry about cleaning this part of your grill once you are done eating. Leaving the grime on the grates is the best way to prevent rust. You should use a wire brush to scrape your grates clean when your grill is hot and ready for cooking. If you scrape the grates when you finish cooking, you just leave them exposed to the elements.
- Check the Burners and Hoses: Every four or five times you use your grill, take a minute to check the burners and hoses. Make sure the burners burn cleanly, and that all the ports have flames burning in them. You can use a flexible pipe cleaner to help clear grease and other gunk from your burners. On a related note, whenever you fire up your grill, check the flame color: You should see blue flames with yellow tips. If your flames burn completely yellow, you are not getting adequate pressure from your propane tank. This can happen because of a bad regulator valve or burners that release too much gas. If your burners are cracked or misshapen, you will want to replace them. Whenever you check your burners, you should check your hoses too. Check the connections and inspect the hoses for cracks and other wear. You can prevent major problems down the line by replacing worn hoses before they completely fail. Here is a tip: if you think a hose has sprung a leak, coat them with soapy water, turn on the grill, and you will find the leak when you see bubbles.
- Clean the Grill: A little cleaning goes a long way whenever you use your grill. Save the wire brushes for your grates, and use a soft rag or sponge along with a mild dish washing detergent on this step. Wipe down the outside surfaces of your grill, then pop the grates out and clean around the burners and on all the inside surfaces of your grill. This will help prevent major grease buildup and rust down the line. If your grill has a lid, be sure to clean that as well.
- Oil the Fasteners: You can never prevent the fasteners on your grill from rusting over time. But a little oil can delay that process for years. After you clean your grill, thoroughly dry the rivets and fasteners on your grill, then apply a few drops of oil to help keep them from rusting over time.
And those are some of the simple steps you can take to keep your grill running in peak condition for years on end. In addition to the steps above, if you buy a grill cover to help keep it safe from the elements when you are not using it, your grill will give you years of satisfying campsite cooking. Want more great information, recipes, and giveaways from Camp Chef? 'Like' us and follow us on our Facebook page and check out our YouTube channel!


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Do I talk about my racial background? When I did copy-editing for an indie magazine focusing on black women's narratives, pretty much everyone focused on being black, on being part of the African diaspora. I didn't relate to that.
Should I talk about my sexuality? How I've been rolling it around in my head, trying to figure out where I belong, how I fit in – even though ultimately it doesn't matter?That it's more about love, compatibility, connectedness than it is about sex or gender expression?
Do I bemoan my educational background and the amount of loans its burdened me with? How I dread SallieMae and wish they would get swallowed up by the Earth and free me from my debt! That would, however, be really awesome.
What about my own internal processes? How my faith seems sated only when I get what I want, how I go into a tailspin when things don't go according to plan, the way I try to motivate myself with little success, the goals I wish I was achieving but am not? How lazy I am!
Should I mention my external happenings? Living at home in a cramped situation, working a minimum wage job with no real potential for growth, wandering through a city I don't like. Too bad my world won't change over night!
Identity is a complex arrangement of all these nuances and more, and is liable to change. I've gotten a new job, in a new city that I've never been to. I've started looking more seriously into what my next steps would be, wanting to continue my education, wanting to be more of service to the world. Attempting to look at my life with more clarity and trying not to be afraid of being more responsible.
I hope that my identity, how I relate to and see myself is ever evolving in a way that makes me happiest. There are many people who fear change, because they're afraid to leave behind worn labels, worn ways of seeing themselves.
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First Drive: Ford C-Max Energi
In terms of its powertrain, the C-Max Energi slots in slightly closer to the Toyota (TM) Prius Plug-In than GM's (GM) Chevrolet Volt. The total size of the battery capacity in the C-Max Energi is 7.6 kW, compared to 4.4 in the Prius and 16.5 in the Volt.
While the Prius will only take you six miles on electricity, the C-Max will do 21, which is still far behind the Volt's 38 miles. Once those all-electric miles are over, the Prius performs at 50 MPG, the C-Max at 43 and the Volt at 38 MPG.
The C-Max differs compared to the Prius by being able to operate in all-electric mode for its first phase. It does so by limiting performance a little bit, however, topping at 85 MPH.
The Prius sees its gasoline engine cut in at moderate acceleration, or if you drive near or a bit above 60 MPH. As such, the Prius really operates in "blended" gasoline/electric mode for 11 miles (6 of whom are electric), again compared to the C-Max's 21 all-electric miles.
Because of how differently the Ford operates, the "feel" of the acceleration isn't directly comparable with the Prius. If you force the C-Max into all-electric mode, it is obviously smooth, quiet and efficient, whereas the Prius will engage the gasoline engine whether you like it or not, at that point obviously performing like a regular Prius in terms of acceleration. You can operate the C-Max in that kind of mode as well, and at that point it smokes the Prius -- relatively speaking.
That said, the C-Max is no match for the Volt in terms of the sports department. Not only is the Volt much more powerful with its 111 kW main electric motor, sometimes helped by a secondary 55 kW electric motor. The Volt is also a relative sports car, physically speaking, where you sit low like in a Camaro or Corvette, and have a lower center of gravity. Simply put: The Volt is the sports car of the bunch, with spinning tires at every red light, and exceptional acceleration/response.
The C-Max is very spacious for five people. I would go so far as to say that all five occupants could be professional basketball players -- the American kind, not the North Korean. The doors are big, and the car itself is tall. This accessibility and space is one area where the C-Max gets top honors, and easily trumps the Volt.


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My Father,My Friend,My teacher,and now My Angel~ 04/21/1956-03/21/2011 You will always be missed. I hope to learn half of the stuff you knew.
~Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted~
I am very happy a pick my Giants made, while many are saying "who is Pugh?" Very happy.
"So what is big is not always the Trout nor the Deer but the chance, the being there. And what is full is not necessarily the creel nor the freezer, but the memory." ~ Aldo Leopold
"The Greatest Obstacle to Discovery is not Ignorance -- It is the Illusion of Knowledge" ~ Daniel Boorstin
Packers picked "Twotone" Jones, or something like that.
Stan b & Elvis
I see that Aaron Rodgers just signed his contract extension. No details on the money though. Has to be 21m-23m a year. What's the deal RK?
Anti-intellectualism and fascism go together like bacon and eggs.
Looks like Rodgers got $110mil over 5 years. Riches deal in NFL history!
Our Aaron, Aaron Nola is pitching tonight against S Carolina.
Nola, who leads the SEC with 82 strikeouts, has lowered his ERA to 2.15.
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Packers signed QB Aaron Rodgers to a five-year, $110 million extension through 2019.
The front-loaded deal pays Rodgers $40 million in year one, explaining why GM Ted Thompson was so conservative with his 2013 cap. It's a savvy deal by Thompson, but we've come to expect nothing less. Rodgers is now under control through his age-35 season. Theoretically, he can hit free agency in 2020 at age 36. Because Rodgers had two relatively cheap years remaining on his old deal, the new contract is worth $130.75 million over seven seasons, for an annual average of $18.68 million; Joe Flacco received an annual average of $20.1 million. The Rodgers deal is widely being pumped up as the richest in NFL history, but in actuality it's very much not. Another steal by Thompson.
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Charlotte Kaiser: " The Problem Lies In The Talent."
Awesome 2nd pick by the Packers in getting La. RB via Bama, Eddie Lacy. He ran right through ND in the BCS Champ game.
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I recently traveled to Djibouti, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Vicki Huddleston and representatives from the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), and a colleague from the Department's Bureau of African Affairs. This was the first trip to the region by an Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs in at least the last 10 years, and a unique opportunity to see first-hand much of the assistance we have provided to the region. My visit reinforced to me the importance of the efforts of the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs in Eastern and Central Africa to train peacekeepers, combat piracy, support military reform, and eliminate excessive quantities of small-arms. These security assistance programs, overseen by our Bureau, support the State Department's mission to promote stability and good governance and set the stage for humanitarian aid and development.
DASD Huddleston and I began our visit in Djibouti where we met with the President of Djibouti and other senior leaders to discuss counterterrorism issues, the future deployment of Djiboutian peacekeepers to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), and maritime security. Djibouti also hosts the largest U.S. military presence on the continent, Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) at Camp Lemonnier, which is very active in the region.
Djibouti is a new partner in our Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) program and its implementing partner in Africa, the Africa Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) program. Through GPOI and ACOTA, we are helping to train and equip a Djiboutian peacekeeping unit. I felt it was important to see the GPOI and ACOTA programs up close as they are the single largest peacekeeping programs on the continent. I visited the Djibouti National Peacekeeping Training Center, which we are supporting, located in a relatively austere and difficult training environment. There I met with the ACOTA trainers, U.S. military mentors, and Djiboutian peacekeeping trainees and was able to see first-hand the commitment and dedication of the U.S. trainers Djiboutian trainees alike. Peacekeeping capacity building is one of our major contributions to further peace and stability in Africa because of its need for additional peacekeepers -- in particular in Somalia, Sudan and, more recently, Cote d'Ivoire.
Djibouti is also central to our efforts to combat piracy, as it is on the front line of maritime threats including piracy in the Gulf of Aden and surrounding waters. I was able to visit the Djiboutian naval base where I saw the patrol boats and the radar that we have provided to Djibouti to increase its maritime security capabilities.
In Kenya, I observed another vital contribution of U.S. security assistance -- the International Peace Support Training Centre (IPSTC), which is helping to build peacekeeping capacity in East Africa. The IPSTC is supported by the United States and several other international donors and the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom all provide staff officers. I was very impressed by the work that has gone into the IPSTC which hosts year-round peacekeeping training courses for military and civilian personnel. Our contribution through the GPOI program is helping to meet the growing global demand for specialized personnel essential to successful peacekeeping missions.
On the trip, I also met with the head of the East Africa Standby Force to discuss ways in which the United States can support the African Union's pledge to have their Africa Standby Force fully operational by 2015. They face many challenges, but this is an important effort and we will do our best to tailor our assistance to meet the goals of developing peacekeeping capacity in East Africa.
My last stop on the trip was to the DRC where I observed another facet of our security assistance. The Government of the DRC faces many challenges in its effort to stabilize the country as a whole, integrate former rebel groups into its regular forces, and professionalize its military. To this end, we have, with the international community, focused our efforts on post-conflict security sector reform. Our goal is to help the Congolese government develop a military that can break with its past and better serve and protect the Congolese people. As the DRC military has well over 100,000 troops, defense sector reform is a long term effort whose progress will not be seen overnight. But our efforts are proving effective, as defense sector reform has advanced in the eastern DRC. I was extremely impressed with the training facilities at Camp Base in Kisangani, largely built with U.S. funds, and with the Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) that we trained and equipped.
Finally, I observed another vital effort of the PM bureau: the removal and destruction of excessive quantities of military small arms and light weapons in the DRC. Since 2006, the United States has contributed nearly $5 million toward removal and destruction of excess small arms in the DRC, including more than 102,000 small arms and 315,000 tons of excess and unstable munitions. U.S.-funded Conventional Weapons Destruction programs are making a difference across the continent, promoting stability and mitigating threats to civilians.
While much work remains ahead, I am proud of the role that the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs has played in increasing capacity in Africa through our GPOI and Partnership for Regional East Africa Counterterrorism programs, counter-piracy efforts, and defense sector reform programs. My trip to Africa provided me an invaluable look into the excellent work that the Department of State and the Department of Defense are doing together with regional partners to promote peace and security in Africa.
Jitendra S. in India writes:
Respected sirs I wish to state that the hooch tragedy which has killed more than 150 people in Gujarat recently, I want to draw your attention about the another aspect of that accident, I want to remind you that as we all know very well that our state Gujarat is already on the hit list of terrorists and because of the liquor prohibition policy of our state govt. daily thousands of bottles in trucks of English liquor illegally made in our neighboring states and are supplied to our state. and whole of this network is operated by liquor bootleggers and mafias who can fall in to the hands of terrorists at any time and terrorists can supply a lot of poisonous liquor and can kill a largest number of innocent people any time and this will be comparatively easy and effective way for them.
So I want to request you to establish the responsibility that who will be sole responsible for the accident if it takes place. Because directly govt is only responsible to first implement the liquor prohi. policy then to allow mafias to smuggle liquor in to the state, the smuggling of liquor is not possible without the cooperation of corrupt politicians and bureaucrats therefore I request you to accept my this request as a PRL and give the right directives to govt. so any major accident can be avoided. Respected sirs I am giving you some more aspects of this policy so please consider my that letter also a request to you which is as follows:-
Respected sirs ,please consider the following points in the aspect of relevancy of liquor prohibition policy of Gujarat and direct the govt. to rethink over it.
Though the liquor prohibition policy is there in force in Gujarat but three times more liquor is being sold here compare to any other state of India.
Local gujarat govt. justifies this policy by saying that because this is the Gandhi's Gujarat therefore we implemented this policy here, on moral grounds. But today we have to think that who they are to say that Gujarat's Gandhi or Gandhi's Gujarat. Gandhi is the father of nation and whole nation is Gandhi's. Gandhi struggled for whole India and he never said that he is for Gujarat or Gujarat is for him so today we have to think that Don't we put question mark on his thinking by saying Gandhi's Gujarat.? And after all finally we have to think that Gandhi never taught us the lesson to move on morality by crushing humanity.
On the name of country liquor which liquor is being made and being sold here, millions of people are drinking that is made by car battary's acid, detergent soaps water, saltpeter(anum) or ( FITKARI),and Gud(brown sugar).Now it can be understood that drinking such liquor can be how much harmful. This liquor causes the liver diseases, tuberculosis, and other so many skin diseases also.
This is the totally failed and unsuccessful policy which violates our religious and human rights because we hindus think we have the right to worship our god Kal bhairav but we cant do so because liquor is required to worship the same god .but we cant get liquor because of this Islamic policy is implemented on our heads.
Respected sirs I wish to state that there are 5 crore people living in Gujarat state of India in which about thirty percent people consume liquor. Still the liquor prohibition policy is in force there. Due to this policy now you can imagine how a big number of people is consuming the poisonous liquor regularly and how big damage the society is bearing due to this policy.
Respected sirs, I want to say one thing about the liquor prohibition policy of Gujarat, that due to this policy the general public of Gujarat does not get any benefit but if this policy is demolished, and due to that the government gets the revenue from liquor business, by that money government can give at least one kg sugar every month to every poor or middle class family in the state, so I wish to state that please ask the govt. on the liquor pro. Policy, assessing the relevancy and profit and losses to the society . Because today the time has come to tell the people that this policy does not give any thing except the crime, corruption and diseases, deaths of innocents to the society. And only corrupted bureaucrats, politicians, and liquor mafias are enjoying this policy, Therefore we want your help in this regard.
Respected sirs once again I request you in public interest please accept my this letter as a PRL and do the needful but I request you to keep my name and my address secret to you only. because either party A sitting in power or party B sitting in opposition, no one want to demolish this policy because this policy is like a cow giving milk to them, no matter who is having turn today either A or B, tomorrow will be the turn of other.so both of them will not like that my voice should be heard by you thanking you yours faithfully: jitendra ahmedabad 63
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Nairobi, 20 November 2009 - As the whole planet starts gearing up to the World Cup in South Africa, more than 2,000 youth will gather in Nairobi to Play for the Planet from 21 November to 6 December.
The 'Play for the Planet: Play for Peace' competition, now in its second year, is organized by non-profit organization Mavuno Michezo with support from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Olympic Committee and Bayer East Africa.
It will bring together youth aged 14 to 18 from across Nairobi for a series of football games and environmental activities.
A total of 64 teams, eight from each constituency in Nairobi, will take part in the competition which will run on three consecutive weekends from 21 November to 6 December. Eight female teams - one per constituency - will also participate in the finals of the competition on 6 December. Winners will be awarded with trophies, medals and football kits.
The 'Play for the Planet: Play for Peace' initiative, first organized in June 2008, aims to use the power of sport to promote peace and reconciliation among Kenyans. It also provides a positive environment for interaction for young people who are one of the groups that are the most affected by hardship, violence, social tensions and other challenges in society.
It is hoped that by providing an opportunity for young people from various ethnic communities to participate in team activities, the initiative will help promote social cohesion and peace. It will also provide a platform for young people, particularly those on school break, to engage in constructive activities.
Through t-shirts and other materials, peace building and environmental messages will be conveyed to the youth as well as to the general public. The participants will also participate in tree planting and other environmental clean-up activities in their communities.
In June 2008, a few months after the post-election conflict that rocked Kenya, the first edition of the 'Play for the Planet' initiative brought together more than 300 children and youth for a three-month series of school and community activities on peace and reconciliation that culminated in World Peace Day on 21 September.
The matches in the constituencies will take place at the following locations: Starehe Constituency - Huruma Flats; Embakasi Constituency - Dandora Tom Mboya, Makadara Constituency - Makongeni; Dagoretti Constituency - Kawangware Primary; Lang'ata Constituency - Lang'ata High School; Kamukunji Constituency - Shauri Moyo; Kasarani Constituency - (TBC); Westlands Contituency - Hospital Hill. The venue for the grand finale on 6 December will be announced later.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (105 votes).
In short: Tough course but rewarding eventIn full: Great organisation and enthusiast marshalls got you up the mega-hill on both lapsThe ford crossing was a concern but managed well by marshallsGreat signposts and school facilities we all opened up so no queues at allWell done Crowborough!Date of review: December 1, 2014
In short: A tough course. Very well organised.In full: A tough course. Very well organised. Signs everywhere to help navigate around the school, etc, which was very helpful. Well attended race. Date of review: December 3, 2013
In short: Great race, good fun though first time so unprepared for "That Hill"!!!Date of review: December 2, 2013
In short: great marshals, lots of support In full: Organistaion and marshalling was first class and cannot be faulted, facilities at HQ were excellent, but I just couldn't find that race-day spark. Probably just me as I am on the way back from injury and took it as relaxed and risk-free as possible.Tough course with a nasty hill to climb which makes me want to give it another go.Date of review: December 2, 2013
In short: Great race, apart from that hill!!In full: Great race,would be nice to have it on closed roads and the hill felt alot steeper second time round!!! But overall a great race and will be back next year!Date of review: December 7, 2012
In short: Watch out for the hill - it's a killer!In full: People there are really friendly, everyone of all ages makes a lot of effort, definitely another experience that I will never forget. Crowborough is a calm town which more than satisfies me, and the support I was getting was more than what I feel I deserved :-)This 2 lap starts off with a nice relaxing downhill but at the 3rd-5th (and 7th-9th) kilometers when you go up the hill, one cannot run (it's impossible for me!), and should try powerwalking. Completing the race definitely put a huge smile to my face. Bring on the next time!Date of review: December 3, 2012
In short: Amazing marshalsIn full: Excellent challenging race. Crowborough should be commended by the efforts they put into this - they had marshals all along the course and I don't think I have ever had so much encouragement in a local race like this before.Date of review: December 2, 2012
In short: A very good route, friendly marshals, decent medal. I will definitely put this race into my diary for next year.Date of review: December 2, 2012
In short: Loved the ford!In full: The delayed 25th anniversary running of this race was worth the wait. Great atmosphere, attractive and mildly challenging course. The ford is great fun, and then there's the long hill climb which it is possible to do without stopping, but is a bit of an effort for a lumpy old -timer like me. I'll be happy to do this again.Date of review: November 20, 2012
In short: EnjoyableIn full: Great race but where are the results! It takes the edge off races when the results are slow to come in.Date of review: November 8, 2011
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7 Best Practices for Replacing Legacy Systems
In 2006, Canadian P&C insurer Desjardins General Insurance Group (DGIG) began a four-year journey to completely migrate its systems from a multiple-virtual storage/integrated database management system platform to a new Windows/Oracle platform. With help from consultant Blue Phoenix, DGIG successfully migrated to a platform that promoted the convergence of distribution channels and enabled performance and scalability improvement over legacy systems both on time and on budget.
Based on their experiences with what has been hailed as the largest successful modernization project done in both North America and in the history of the insurance vertical, on the following slides, DGIG and Blue Phoenix identify some best practices that may help insurers when replacing their legacy systems.
DGIG followed a management approach that relied on the accountability of those responsible and IT resources and involvement of managers and upper management, which ensured the mobilization of resources throughout the project.
Throughout the duration of the project, DGIG mobilized stakeholders by setting up interactive means of communication management committees, newsletters and master plans as well as during the transition period. DGIG also implemented change strategies (communication, transition and training plans), which allowed new business projects to be developed on the new platform before the end of the migration work.
DGIG applied extensive resources and timelines to assess the projects impact across the business. Legacy artifacts and logic were measured for relevance to future business goals and requirements. Business logic and relevant business processes were added to the project plan while those no longer essential either were refined or removed.
While extensive proofs of translation and concept were required to validate vendor technology, the process also identified aspects of the project that would require internal DGIG resources. It was important that DGIG resources maintain aspects of the environment during the project, and a straightforward process of delivery, testing, refinement and training was developed to ensure proper transition.
To prevent change requests during the late stages of a modernization initiative from delaying or derailing the project, DGIG imposed a three-month freeze on business project deliveries during the migration implementation period. During the various implementation phases, escalation management procedures ensured alignment around critical issues, which helped to avoid ambiguity and misalignment.
Cross-departmental representation was essential for DGIG when developing test cases/scenarios for integration and system testing. Testing was started early and involved end users. This proactive approach helped to reduce risk by identifying and solving unexpected integration challenges, underestimated efforts and undetected functional gaps.
According to DGIG, a core tenet of the project was the seamless migration experience for users. The requirements went beyond duplicating legacy functionality and business logic; the target system had to meet or exceed performance benchmarks of the multi-virtual storage environment. The solution architecture prioritized performance, paying specific attention to redundancy, recovery and database availability, which helped to enable the implementation of Agile software development and created opportunities for IT to deliver new, value-added services to the business.


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UnitedHealth Group lost 3.8% to $59.69 after the biggest U.S. health insurer stood by its full-year earnings forecast of $5.25 and $5.50 a share but warned of lower revenues due to changes in the sales relationship with a "very large" public-sector customer. Pepsico
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Skip to comments.3 people caught on camera stealing gun from store
Posted on 05/20/2013 11:50:28 AM PDT by Daffynition
HOOKSETT, N.H. Hooksett police are searching for three people accused of stealing a gun from a business.
Police said a woman and two men stole a 357 Sig Sauer semi-automatic handgun from Riley's Sport Shop.
Surveillance cameras show the woman reaching around one of the cabinets and removing a gun and knife.
Police said she then walked to the back of the store and cut off the security tag on another gun. She and the two men are seen leaving the store with a gun.
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Trayvon lives!
Won't be able to find ammo for it.
Yep! "Just cause somebody wears a hoodie doesn't mean they are a criminal"..Yeah OK, let's see Al Sharpton work the night shift at a 7-11 and some homies walk in wearing a hoodie. Let's see how long he can go before he pisses his pants. I use to do just that in the 1980s, work the night shift at a 7-11 in Freeport New York which is an almost all black neighborhood on the North side. I can't even count how many times we got ripped of when the "hoodies" walked in. Blatant shoplifting then they would slowly walk out out of arrogance, like a dare, or jumping over the counter to rifle the cash register or showing me their "piece" or a knife. We had an ax handle as if that would do anything, I would just let them take what they wanted then call the cops. I was freakin' nuts back then, I don't know why I worked there. And finally when I got some brains and decided to quit the owner was practically on his knees begging me to stay because nobody else was stupid enough to take that job.
Riley should have had his guard up! Any time a group comes in and splits up hanky panky is highly possible. You have to watch them even if it means hurting someone's feelings.
Hell, that may be where all the ammo is!
If they don't have background checks they're gonna be in trooouuubbble.
It's those two women on the left, isn't it?
quick arrest the gun shop owner for letting them steal his stuff
I carried, the cops knew it, the winos and other street people knew it, and if the company knew it they never said anything, it was a firing offense.
The store consistently scored at the top for inventory and cash control, we must have been doing something right.
I always figured that someone stealing from my shift was stealing from me.
Yeah see that's the thing, here in New York it's against the law to defend yourself. You have to get shot and killed otherwise it's unfair to the hoodie. If I shot him then he couldn't be immediately paroled to kill again. If this was a sane world they would make it mandatory that all store owners be armed! But noooo, they have to get killed because the rights of the maggot comes first.
"Anyone who recognizes the suspects is asked to contact the Hooksett Police Department."
I am not positive, but I think the one in the hoodie is Mark Edward Kelly (born February 21, 1964), a retired American astronaut. Kelly is known to be a crazy gun fiend and is known to be willing to break the law to obtain scary looking black guns.
Use Caution: This subject has also been known to use an unleashed pitbull, on public beaches and around small children and women, to brutally kill a defenseless baby seal.
There isn't enough money in the world to keep me in a place like that.
I carried a .357 Derringer in a boot holster while I was there, too!
LOL...... if there *was* any ammo...at least it would be tax-free. Yea New Hampshire!
On 05/15/2013 at approximately 9:23am Officer Syrek responded to Rileys Sport Shop in Hooksett for a reported Theft of a Firearm. Officer Syrek was told by a store employee that on 05/14/2013 at approximately 5:00pm two black males and one black female entered Rileys Sport Shop on Hooksett Rd. While in the store the female is seen reaching around one of the cabinets and removing a firearm. A store employee sees the male suspect with the firearm and takes it back. As the employee walks away the female is seen on camera reaching around the case removing a knife and a firearm. The female is then seen walking to the back of the store where she cuts the security tag off the firearm and then leaves the store with the firearm. The firearm that was taken was a 357 Sig Sauer semi-automatic handgun. The Hooksett Police is being assisted by the ATF and they are looking for the publics help in identifying the three suspects in this case. Anyone with information is asked to call the Hooksett Police Department at (603) 624-1560.
Sgt. Burke
Hooksett Police
Glad they didn't do this at the class III counter.
even nicer if you don't pay for it. Probably not used to paying for anything. Maybe they thought this was like an 0bamaphone
Thanks for the link. It clears up, whether there was more than 1 gun stolen.
That gun is already in Boston doing its due diligence.
LOL! Awesome! Yeah I moved out last year, best thing I ever did. I grew up there but I just couldn't take it anymore. I grew up there, then lived out in Long Island in the '80s for a while then moved back in '94 until last year when I couldn't take Bloomberg anymore and moved out for good. When he issued his decree demanding landlords provide the city with all the tenants who smoke, I said that's it, I'm outta here and I don't even smoke. That is Nazi sh*t "Send us ze list with all ze Juden in your apartments!"
It's a city run under despotism now..Liberals think tyranny can't happen in the US? They don't need a 2nd amendment? Maybe they should move to NYC and tell me that again. He dictates every single aspect of your life. The food and smoking part is just the tip of the iceberg, the media doesn't report half of what he does. It's like North Korea, it really is, but without the starvation and you can leave, but you have to pay if you want to leave with the 10 billion tolls they got. Everything else, the despot dictates everything...What you can own, if you can run a business (which he can take away from you at any time) what you do in your spare time, and what you do in the privacy of your own home. Every week around monday he bans something. Last week I think it was electric scooters.
There should be film of their car when they went through the Hookset toll plaza.
Yes, 2 Amish looking guys in Hooksett, NH...(I think they aren't residents of the town!)
Probably too stupid to even know what kind of ammo is required for that pistol.
Obamas children. All they can afford with their welfare checks are Hi-points. So they gots to steal.
That is 1 of the most difficult ammo to find. Those morons probably think it was a .357 Smith & Wesson.
The pictures looked decent, maybe they will get caught.
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"Don't think of puppets as little instant people," advised master puppeteer Bil Baird in a February 1963 LIFE profile on he and his wife, Cora. "They have to be more than people, or less, or sharper, somehow more exaggerated — and then you just can't beat them for kidding human pomposity and sham."
Here, in recognition of the Bairds' pioneering work with marionettes and other fancifully manipulated creatures — work that inspired the likes of the late, great father of the Muppets, Jim Hensen himself, to create a universe from wood, felt and string — LIFE.com celebrates the Bairds' brilliance with a gallery of photos from a U.S. State Department-sponsored tour of India in 1962.
(Baird dropped the second "l" from his first name when, according to LIFE, "he joined a nutty club in Chicago that required all members to have three-letter names.")
And while the photos themselves provide a sense of Bil and Cora Baird's creatively intense and whimsical lives, writer David Scherman's words, from the article the article, "Puppets Puncture Pomposity," add flavor to the portrait of this charming Greenwich Village-based couple, their two kids and their family-run entertainment business.
If you suffer from creeping conformism, acute squareness or an overstuffed shirt, an evening with Bil and Cora Baird, if you're lucky enough to fall into one (they're never planned — they happen) is a sure cure. If you play the one-string bass, the steam calliope or the sweet potato, it will help but it's not mandatory. If you don't dig music, don't go. But if you do, you're likely to hear a major American folksinger sing a bawdy folksong, either along or in harmony with the indefatigable Baird or a minor movie star, or eat a gourmet meal suddenly produced by Cora, or shake hands with a newly made puppet that looks suspiciously like a newly arrived guest, or get stuck in the elevator with a lovely dancer and a fat man playing calypsos on an accordion.
Like any good puppeteer, and he is he best, [Baird] is carpenter, electrician, artist, actor, athlete, poet, and plays most instruments, some very well, some awful. He is surprisingly dry-eyed about his wooden proteges, some of which may take him and his staff hundreds of hours to make: "People often ask if we love them, or feel like their parents. God, no. They don't command love in their own right. They're nothing if we don't operate them. Besides," he said, in a nonsequitur that somehow made sense, "I always give them blue eyelids."
One final note: You know the trippy "Lonely Goatherd" marionette sequence in The Sound of Music? Bil and Cora Baird made the puppets, and were pulling the strings in that scene. There's immortality for you!
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Congratulations to the Santa Clara Hot Rods U9 competitive soccer team for winning the Copper Division at the 2013 District II Fall Cup on November 10th. The boys won four games over the two-days of competition starting on Saturday, November 9th. The Hot Rods tied their first game 1-1 against the Pajaro Valley PV United 04B White Team, then defeated the Scotts Valley SVSLV Knights 04B Team with a convincing 3-1 score. On Sunday they beat the Aptos Tied 04B Team with a big 4-1 margin, then beat Pajaro Valley in a close championship game 3-2. Congrats to the players, coaches and parents.


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"The experiences of women may not be easy to portray in the aggressive world of videogames. If such a game is made - and I hope it is - it will be because its creators demanded to be heard. It will be created because women made it." (Source)While the vast majority of video game titles are designed primarily by men, women have been a part of video game development since the earliest arcades. Here are some of their games: [more inside]
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In the many projects, developers usually may not consider much about the various non-functional feature from the start. They frequently focus on functional requirements only and skip the non-functional requirements until the project goes into QA phase. I've seen that a lot of problems n the heavy load condition were found in the late phase of development and these drove development crazy. I think an important reason why the such problems occur is that there are no easy way to verify the non-functional requirements(especially performance) in the middle of projects.
nGrinder was created with the goal to make performance test cost 0 from birth. I can observe many people install and use nGrinder in their own PC. In this case, it is difficult to say that the performance test cost is 0. It would not be a very low cost because you must provide enough PC machines for agents and prepare prerequisite like Java.
However, if someone in your organization already installed nGrinder to be shared by whole teams, it would make dramatically decrease the difficulties in performance testing. When other people already installed nGrinder, what they need is simply to open a web browser. I can say the cost of performance testing is 0 practically. NHN operates nGrinder in that way. NHN all developers is able to log in nGrinder instance automatically using SSO if they type only http://ngrinder.nhncorp.com simply. Then Just typing server target URL in the front page makes the performance testing started.
Problems found by nGrinder can not be found easily in the other ways. These issues might be discovered only when the user traffic is flooded after release projects. However, it's very easy to find such a problems through nGrinder. The following is the feedback we got from nGrinder user in our company, NHN.
When we used Performance Center, we took times to get the feedback due to complex procedure incluging reservation. Howver with nGrinder we can get the really fast fail and fast feedback. It was a lot of help in improving development speed.
Is not that what you already saw somewhere else? TDD? It is exactly same with TDD if we replace Performance Center into a tester, performance into function and finally nGrinder to JUnit in above sentences.. It's just like finding the better solution by step by step development. I'd like to call this Performance Driven Development.
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Mikoto and Kuroko get in trouble for using their powers in the dorm. Their punishment: pool cleaning duty! Later, Kuroko finds herself feeling frisky after accidentally ingesting a powerful aphrodisiac!
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